jd#Xs. -^SUfoQQQ* >VBDKESDAY. 29, larv?, GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: The Washington protest against the fashion in which, Japan's generals are waging their war in China has Been answered. The reply was forwarded from Tokyo by Ambassador Grew. And, the note won't be made public unless the Japanese Government wishes. The Japanese are growing restive under the barrage of charges that are being made against them in foregin countries. They say, it's propaganda, deliberate falsifications put up by the Chinese. One of the Mikado's officers who has been visiting the United States orotested against certain photographs that have CHIBA - 2 been published here which purported to be pictures of Japanese soldiers using the body of a dead Chinese T.r,i,-ij.fr for practice in sword and bayonet work* On the _Cfaine3e front the most sensational event of the day wa s an a 11empt to dynami t e the Japanese crui ser Idzumo at anchor in the Whangpoo River; A squad of five desperate Chinese, literall y a suicide squad, tried to place a mine under the Japanese warship. They left one of their number on shore to pull the switch when they had the mine affixed to the hull of the cruiser. But when they were only three hundred yards away from man . the warship the on shore got nervous and pulled the switch too soon. It blew the suicide squad to tiny fragments. And the D explosion was so powerful that sailors £ Augusta, were shaken out of their bunks. NEWSREEL MPN FOLLOW CHINA -----1 f; Four Americans got a taste of being targets for Japanese bombs and machine-gun fire today. They cameramen photographing that war for the newsreels are f m Eric Mayell of Fox Movietone; Arthur Menken of Paramount; Rudolfo Brandt of N.E.A*, and Escorted by a Chinesejofficer, they were on their way to the I li. u battlefront, near the North Station in Shahghai. A couple of Japanese planes swooped 4ew» from the sky, dropping bombs and spitting a storm of machine gun bullets. The newsreel 1! ;jl I i| HP nil i v % ±® adjoining field. The planes kept circling around and men and the Chinese officer jumped out of their car and ran to an ji pff II f dropped a bomb two hundred yards away from them. They finally ran to a dug-out, the Japanese pilots machine-gunning them every foot of the way. ' 1 -thy .Jaijnngw*- I 1 ioi^udon. ^ -toe- tber^tnal •r which- i t- 'han«* 1 »—Jftavy'_na EUROPE ^Germany has given Premier Mussolini a more magnificent send-off than was ever accorded to any visiting potentate. The wind -up was a parade with twenty-five regiments of Hitler's army, more than an army corps While he was on the train, the British Cabinet came to a new and astonishing decision. John Bull, France and Italy had already ironed out their disagreements about the patrol of the Mediterranean. ItTs to be a three-power patrol, and the naval expsrts of the three countries have completed all plans. But now John Bull is prepared to go even further to make his peace with the Duce. "We111 recognize your conquest of Ethiopia if—» his hundred and fifty thousand Italian soldiers from Spain, leave his Spanich Fascist ally. General Franco, in the lurch. Along with this offer goes the implied threat that if the Duce Yes, there’s a large"if". If the Duce will withdraw does not accept those terms, the French frontier will be ope for reenforcements for the Spanish government armie NOBEL There's a rumor current in northern Europe today, that the Nobel Peace Prize, the prize founded by the inventor of dynamite , will probably be awarded to our old friend, IAT&C /V-> Mahatma Gandhi^ There's both irony an<Fa pectaiar fitness in that. Mr. Gandhi has < proved himself dynamite to the British government. And his contribution to peace has been to keep large portions of the Indian Empire in an almost continuous uproar. However, if he gets that peace prize, which amounts to something like forty thousand English Pounds, or two hundred thousand of Uncle Samfs dollars, the advocator of fee®* ought to be able to buy himself quite a number of those loin cloths Another possible candidate for that peace prize is a British general once famous as a successful warrior. Marquis Baden-Powell,. long before he became a marquis and before he A founded the Boy Scout Movement, was celebrated during Boer War for his successful repulse of the Boer attacks upon Mafeking. But his later honorary titles came to him prin^ipa y because of his Boy Scout work. LAWYERS That convention of lawyers in Kansas City has become one of the most tempestuous in the history of the Bar Association. It's all about the New Deal of course, and the Surpeme Court. The contest for one chairmanship for example, was decided according to the opinion of the various candidates about President Roosevelt's Court Reform Plan. Also the opponents of the New Deal were today hailing the report of Chief Justice publishing the report of the Conference of the Senior Circuit Judges denied that the Federal dockets were clor ed up and that there was any need for fifty more judges. But this afternoon Attorney-General Cummings acclaimed Mr. Hughes* report as a victory for the administration a capitulation as he put it. For, that Conference of Senior Jud es did recommend the appointment of sixteen additional Federal Judges.’ ^v/hat we've been urging all the time, smd Attorney General. Mr. JusticG Black is in our midst once more and still the silence is arittoct deafening. The New associatf^the A Supreme Court declined to say yes or no whether, he was or had A ever been a member of the KIu Klux Klan.^One of his most eloquent replies to reportorial question was the r 'narks "I sure would like some ham and eggs.*1 ttel&Y Ik^he we when he landed in Norfolk^he was greeted by enough reporters to get out a round dozen newspapers, "I certainly am gratified by this recdption#,, said Mr, Black, To the photographers he .vas mos-^ accessible, beaming upon them as he said: "Get all’ll? ^you want." But when it came to answering the charges against him he said just this: “When I have any statement to make, I will ma^e it in a way that cannot be 3B±xj?»i: misquoted and so all the public can hear it." Thereat a reported asked:" Does that mean you’ll make it over the radio?" Said Justice Black: "You may draw your own conclusions." Incidentally the National Broadcasting Company has offered the Justice time on the air whenever and for as lo g j > j-i-aoviiri f? the i'lwB.C* and saying as he wants. Mr, Black repJ-ied th^ BLACK- £ he would notify the Company later whether he would avail him­ self of the offer. Apparently Mr. Black expects to assume the duties of his office and be one of the nine Justices who are on the Supreme Bench when the court reconvenes next Monday. He said to reporters. M¥ou may reach me in Washington, probably in my office in the Suoreme Court Building.” As for Mrs. Black, the only thing that seemed to worry her was the problem of fin ing a place to live in Washington. thorgersen As ^he football season comers on, there1 s one angle that strikes ire as significant. I've had occasion to remark before — that of all the commentators on sports there* s one who is in the most favored psoition of all to make both an intimate study and get a nation-wide view. As sports commentator on a news reel he studies the nation*s football games by scrutiniz­ ing miles of film. He sees all the big games, in every section, each week — in film. So — why not utilize this unique facility for snorts reporting, and nut it on the air? I talked this over with my Sun Oi}. sponosr, -- also my colleague Ed Thorgersen, sports commentator for our Twentieth Century Fox Movietone News Reel. So, twice a week— we* 11 have Thorgersen giving us two minutes of snorts flashes, on this program, during football season. Yes — and he*11 cover the World Series for us. hold - up The hustling but peaceful City of Midland, Michigan, ,as goins about its business ^ usual today. But suddenly, shortly before noon, shots resounded through the streets. In two minutes the business section of Midland, looked and sounded like Coffe*ville, Kansas, in the days of the James brothers and the^^Mt»^^pgang. rtre was in full progress, daring, desperate A a . * 4 bank hold-up James boy ever attempted The President of the bank was just about to leave his office for lunch^xb* with his young daughter. As he was going to the door^ a ska sawed off shotgun was suddenly poked in his chest and he heard the gruff words: "This is a ho3-d-up? Take it easy!" But that bank president ** the easy kind He grabbed at the gun, the robber pulled the trigger, and the banker was wounded in the arm but only slightly. Thereupon, second robber fired at the cashier of the bank and wounded him seriously. Some half a dozen customers stood by aghast and was helpless. The two robbers fled from the bank, empty-handed, and rushed to a car out on the street where a confederate keeping guard. Then the customers of the bank found their voices and shouted. In one of the offices above the bank was a dentist, F.L. Hardy. V»'e don’t know how good a dentist Dr.Hardy is, but he’s a resourceful fellow and turned out to be a good shot. Hearing the shooting, he grabbedautomatic rifle Ilf m that he uses for deer hunting and rushed to the window. Taking careful aim, he worked the lever of that automatic and poured shot after shot at the bandits’ car. The consequence was they lost control as it came to a hill down the foot of Maine Street. The three robbers jumped out, tried to seize a truck, and shot a man. ktxtfcx.±xm At that moment. Dr. Hardy brought one of the bandits m I r down with a bullet in his head. The other two running desperately, made one effort after another to commandeer private * cars. Dr. Hardy winged one of them in the arm,end he was captured by the sheriff. The third man escaped. HOLD-UP - 3 1^- Ur • Haidy is as wiih Tais drilling Hiacti^n© as he is at drilling with a rifle 1*11 have him look at my molars the next time I go out to Mich—ee—gan. ll ! VEG A little more than a year j year a?o, Alejandro Vega thought he was in clover. He won a hundred and fifty-nine thousand five hundred and fifty-nine dollars through a lucky ticket in the Epsom Derby Sweepstakes. Since Alejandro had spent most of his years at sea as a ship's pantryman, that was ind^T^*^' Tonight, Alejandro is in jail at El Centro, California. He neglected to s lit his winnings with Uncle Sam. Uncle's collectorsof the Internal Revenue Bureau demanded sixty-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-four dollars. That's what you're supposed to cough up if you are lucky enough to draw one of those Sweeps tickets. But the former ship's pantryman didn't merely neglect to divvy with Uncle Sam, he declined, said he was a citizen of Mexico and that the money was salted away where Uncle couldn't get at it. uulji Uo hundi id aud fuity nnr So, when he tried to slip over the border and return law stretched out and to dear old Mexico, the long arm of the nil landed poor Alejandro In the calabozo. etherwI-Jii *hn —4ad' VEGA Xow, according to all accounts, Alejandro Uncle Samspent all but ten thousand "Life is real, life is earnest. nfrrv Longfellow once remarked. MACFADDEN Benarr Macfadden, publisher of LIBERTY, PHYSIGIAL CULTURE^and a^ns-h rt-p -------- _ .. a non-stop flight from Newark to Miami. He*s sixty-nine and the oldest licensed pilot in America, Before he took off, he told the reporters all about the exercises, the running, swimming, weight lifting, he practices^ to keep fit, the diet that he follows, and so forth. To nourish him on his flight he took nothing but pineapple juice, honey, some water, and two raw carrots. Then he turned to Frank Conklin of the NEY» YORK WORLD TELEGRAM, and said: "Don11 you wish you could be as hale sjb A as I am when you are as old?" Mr, •^was taking off cm his Stinson monoplane for Frank Conklin replied: "I Don’t know about that. Mr. M.acfadden, As a matter of fact, I'M only five months younger than you. and I don't follow any of your rules I eat what I please and when I please. I smoke twelve to fifteen cigars a day and take a drink whenever I feel like It. All I can say about your system is that you seem to me to have MACFADDEN - 2 missed a lot of fun.Tt Mr. Macfadden took one look at Conklin in silent disapproval, climbed into his plane, and took off for Miami. Incidentally, Mr. Macfadden made that twelve hundred mile flight from Newark to Miami in eight hours and six minutes CASTLE Our sympathies are besought for Mrs. Frederick McLaughlin. AS Irene Castle, she was the darling and idol of the New York theatre. Today, she is in a sad plight. She brought suit for divorce against her husband. Major Frederick McLaughlin. And the cruel Chicago court awarded her only seven hundred and fifty dollars a month alimony. «I just canH get along on that," said.lfea* McLaughlin. nI lay awake all last night trying to A. A figure out how I can make both ends meet. It1 s simply terrible. Already," says Irene Castle McLaughlin, "I’ve had to fire my social secretary and I only have a maid two days a week. After figuring all my necessary expenses, including schooling for my son Billy, it comes to seven hundred and nineteen dollars and thirty cents a month." As Lewis Carroll once wrote;‘■'A Vv __ _ / "The time has come, the walrus said, to shed a little tear. vA' ■ r A;