Gr haoo, in South America, has for a long time been — war. This evening it's peace. Paraguay has agreed to stop fighting and it is expected that over the week-end Bolivia will do the same. through a T^i-National Commission have been trying hard to bring about peace. Now, at last, that Tri-National Commission seems to have got somewhere. The truce, which Paraguay has accepted, and which Bolivia, no doubt, will accept, will call off .the battle in the Grand Chaco while the Tri-National Commission works out forms of permanent peace. The United States, Brazil, and Argentina working AUSTRIA i; On© Oi. the recent rumors concerning Austrian affairs I comes right out into the open today. Franz Winkler, who used I • h 11 to be Vice Chancellor of the Vienna G-overmnent accuses Prince if Von Starhemberg of being on the payroll of Mussolini. He declares!" that the Prince, who is most powerful as commander of the Austrian Heimwehr, got a million dollars from II Duce. He adds ||[ n f| further, that Prince Von Starhemberg is also getting funds from |j| the Vatican* Italy denies this, but admits a lively interest in keeping Austria separate from Germany. G-gftMAlff V.'e-ve heard a good deal about the way the German Nazis are constantly being irked by .foreign correspondents in Berlin. And these newspapermen from other countries i i / don’t always write what Hitler’s men like to read. Another I1 .. ......... - I 11 I f j 1 flare—up is reported today, this time1 a little more disturbing than, usual. Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda, is threatening to exp ell the Italian newspaper correspondents ^in Germany. This Is the more significant in view of the recent str&in-^a^ relations |j [1 between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy* The Italian newspapers have been printing some exceedingly, critical articles about Hitler. In a recent public declaration Herr Goebbels took a tone of high and mighty scorn! "Deep In our forests", he wrote, "we Nordic barbarians ' ^' h];| . It : I m f| (1 !i ■■I if) ! f fl : m.e rely 1 a.ugh. • ** fhis was a shot at the Italian habit t ...ntlqne 'tena^of _Romg and the Northern barbarians^- Well, Herr Goebbels may laugh, but .lust the same ^ he.s annoyed enough to give the Italian itowspaper correspondents GERMANY '^2 three days to mend their v/ays. if they don’t send home more favorable stories about the Nazis, they’ll have tcTteS*^ cr^Jt Tt&tLjLtL. r 'to T^v»^v STRIKE Yes, wool Joins cotton. The Union leaders have ordered 200,000 woolen and worsted workers to Join the cotton strikers tomorrow night. Many thoughtful people today locking back, looking back to the record, at pages of history. The New England states are the most thickly populated in the country, Rhode Island first, then Massachusetss, Over a wide area there is little faming, little cattle raising. Most of the workers earn their living in the textile mills. Some of the greatest labor upheavals in our industrial history have occured in that Mew England mill section. Desperate strikes in textile cities, such as Pawtucket, Rhode Island; Menchester, Mew Hampshire, Mew Bedford, Fall River and Lowell, Massachusetts. In the past, they have had martial law more than once in, this section — and the same thing now may happen all over again — only this time the trouble is spread out far mo^e widely, with the recent swift growth of the textile industry in the South, Georgia, Alabama, and the Carolinas. in many places the mill workers shop in company stores Play in company playgrounds, and live in company house , || ^ 1 STRIKE - 2 that always one of the touchy, feverous spots 1 „ eny strike. Meanwhile, with the great strike declared, there's no word fron, President Roosevelt. The Chief-Executive is silent. But this is nothing new. During the long steel and coal disputes the President didn't do any talking. And during that violent and bitter longshoremen's walk-out and general strike on the Coast, Mr, Roosevelt was silent, until the trouble was settled. They say he believes that official statements from the head of the government would only magnify the importance of a strike situation. He prefers to work in quiet. And just now he's a seclusion at his home on the Hudson, around the comer from where I am speaking. Of course the position of the government is one of central strategic importance. The controversy is becoming more bitter around the Federal Relief administration, with Harry Hopkins, the Relief Director announcing that his bureau will feed people in the strike areas, according to their needs, whether they are strikers or not. Against this the mill owners are raising a violent protest. They declare it means the tax-payers of the country financing the s.rike. Im oi ■ r> * > A Y Y.-s, that bi, est strike is nri ^ 8nd r‘itht alonr with it CMfaS ^ ,0r ',y:v- 1't ^ if will be our biggest L.bor || Dsy — -'t ior.pt since 19fe9. And her- we have a vivid indication of how radically our Labor Day differs from Enrone's festival of the workers, vsiv n°y. Over th-re May Day is an occasion for class strife and revolutionary outbreaks. By way o.f contrast, let»s look at the advance news about our own Labor Day, next Monday. With the textile strike headlining the newspapers, we no-'p of a biL boom in the travel business, with a land-office sale of tickets for railroad, .steamship, airplane and hotel reserirrfions, and all the adjuncts for a big ho 1,1 day. iravel experts in New York and Chicago tell a story millions who Will dasr' out or the city to the green countryside, and of nthp-p millions of folks from the country who will journey to poo rv-i o pi tv sights ___ »■»'< TH p Chicago dpntury of Progress exnects a. real record breaker. In a )p v’ York harbor, it looked 11 Ice all th» vaudeville t r o o n s i n th e w ^ r1 on the move, wxrn mountains of lurgage nileri along the steamshi » piers. The .automobile clubs of the • country, sens^ n* a bore parade of Labor Day motor travellers. Issued a warning today, su^^estln? that drivers take the less freementeri roads and thus cut down the congestion on fee main highways. —it a e if e4.-1 vq » Blue P^eeeo labors uliL'I' <**** —i-*-*— §ms& a ■ If you take it all as a barometer of business, why Labor Day this vear is eas=scsaai \ A PICTPhb Re-ne^r th»t mural nalntln. making satirical fnni of the New that created such a sensetion at he Westchester Institute of Fine *r*s in Tarrytoen, New York? There were retorts of people falling all over each other to buy it, » rofnior boom. Well the boos has burst,and the picture is worse off 'pijiknZ then that. Today a young; ^fru’gg»«i» walked into the galleries < A and threw fiRsinf acid on that painting, destroying it completely. We is under arrest and is described as an alien, a Russian. But you can tel 1 how he fells about American politics. Anyway the painted attack on the New Deal is just a smear of acid now. 5 ^ was a pup. aft©, when v/hen Jim F^rlfey harl hair on his head, You,,; th1^k th«t spinach would ;iu*st as soon grow on an - s '• ny flowing tresses on the smooth and polished dome of nur smooth and no]ished Postmaster-General. But I Ml bet that when Jim. v , hs a Xi11 ] e hoy, he end ] otm '. eurls, Anyway there was a tim.e • • ■ e had a luxuriant cron a*ri’rhHfttrwdt adorninr his classic Poosevpi t.r xt. vo5s taken twenty years ayo, and scows Jim In a hr snbn,'■ i nni rnptn, s sth M inr broadly* Ht s head is covered^ densely no malated with hair. No wonder he's smiling broadly. brow. Woo remerahers wh er$ Why President Roosevelt, There's to prove it^ a hichn^e th-t used- to belong to President suitable inscription on the hack of* tvi f~> oho to* r a < 'h nnd y a ve I- f-n the Postmaster-General. These J1 rr< t « rtepK , and reed .the i-ht, whim somebody noti^ert the olct-nre, on the presidential inserintien on the heck. Th e in s c rn' n t if in r e a d s: irp-pnspnted to Jim? in memory of his hair* by Fr a n y i. i n J)., P o o s pve l. f *11 I aon.t know if the President considers th^a .pke on Jlni. ~~~ bUt pulled a good one on Colonel Marvin McIntyre, oi-esioential SReretery.. 1 r,e' 'l°■v ■'>l1 r House- secretaries organised a m}f-1 *ter 8nd sanr a, program over BBC. As soon as they were through* the President, who was listenelng, called the studio and asked for Colonel McIntyre, Disguising his voice, Mr. Roosevelt. tolJ the Colonel he. wanted to offer the quartet a contract. Who are you,11 asked the Colonel, And the President reoilad that, be was the advertising manager for a well-knovm brand of laxative. And then he hung up. f That makes the President of the United States nuite a practical joker. He would have been a great pal for a certain g olA fellow who lived several thousard. years ago. 11 p, rehaenloeists have found evidence of the earliest f practical joke on record. They dug it out of the nuns of -b |j ancient Greek cj tv of Corinth wh»rc they found a trick wine- 1 bottle. The neck;extends s0 far down into the bottle th.et even when the bottle is full? no one can pours# I KwQcn-.VjM,T 01***^^^***^ ^~f~”S'^** Tt v'nc 811 8- '1nke on anJ thirsty Xorinthlan, who? seeing that bottle of wine, tried to nour himself a drink. |1 I - 1 H » I ■. 'SB rill I f i 1:1 I it . Qi 'ms :ff,V;7: 'f v. y ■: . . ,.f | j In I’j i l: i I 11 I 1 Ml The speed boys of the skies went at it today when the PenCliX Tr°-nby ^nte-stents flashed their way *om the Coast to Cleveland. That's an interesting prelude to the in;., Cleveland Air races, a preliminary streak from Los Angelas whirlsig at Cleveland. Yes, they opened their throttles wide today. And the winner? Wlzy Dug Davis of Atlanta, Georgia His time didnlt corae anywhere near the record. It took him all of nine hours and twenty-six minutes for that jaunt almost across the continent. But; that1 s plenty fast. One of the favorites-to-win was Roscoe Timer.^ A gas leak nut his plane out of commission before he got going. Well the cross-continent overture is finished, and all across mom provides a inning for the aeronautical r :7 ls set for the v/eek-end dizsy "doings at Cleveland TENNIS A lot of us have wondered -- how about the professional tennis player? Does he make enough to component for the loss of the Simon Pure glory of his amateur status? Cynics would ask — does he ’make as much as a professional as he made as an amateur? Let’s take the case of Ellsworth Vines, one of the most brilliant players of the days following the Tilden era. (le represented the U. S. in last year’s disasterous attempts to seize the world crown at Wimbledon. There was something of a row about it, with charges that the American racket-elingers had been burnt out by too much tennis. Then Vines turned professional and joined the Bill Tilden troop. He’s in a big tennis pro match at the Convention Hall in Asbury Park, Hew tonight. Does he get ten or fifteen bucks a night for it point of view? Not so badly. A checkup of his earnings shows that his first year as a tennis pro has made him more than a hundred thousand simoleons -- plus balls and racquets. How have things turned out for him from a financial T ‘ A IS 2 professional enr^ement with Tilden in Madison Square Garden they handed him a cheek for seven thousand dollars and he could hardly believe his eyes. He ^ot married, gave his wife a three thousand dol lar auto lobile for a wedding ore sent and out the rest in the savings bank. He has saved most of the hundred thousand he has made, and expects to put enough aside in the next several years to take care of his old age, which, of course, is a long way off. No, he is not a tennis bum. He may turn out to be 4 tennis million-aire —almost I hope I don-t show it too much, but I ■m nervous this evening, I've got something on my mind. I'm broadcasting at the Rhinebeck Fair, the grand agricultural extravaganza of Dutchess County, right here in President Roosevelt's own homw neighborhood. The President was here yesterday looking over the cowe and chickens — and I suppose admiring Bobby Laned en * s sheep and world famous trained sheepdogs. 1*11 bet he thought they looked fine, not Bobby, but the sheep and the dogs. I’m not nervous and agitated because I*m at the Rhinebeck Fair. I would be if I were at the auto races here tomorrow. But these agricultural surroundings are familiar and home-like to a would-be farmer. And then, I spent the afternoon going over the news in the oldest hotel in this country, the Beekman Arms at Rhine- heck, founded in the year 1700, before Geo. Washington was born. Two hundred and thirty-four years aid. What has me worried and bothered is that same old trouble — that bear cf mine, named Mudist. A stack of letters have come in asking for her. froffl klnd folka wllliag to giTe my bear Hudiet a home. But most of them are from email boys. Here-a an example from Jackie MacDonald. Donovan. Pennsylvania. Jackie’s handwriting isn’t so good. "Please. Mr. Thomae." he writes, "send me the bear. I hope it will come «uick. I am ten year? old. I am going to start a show in ray taok-yard." I*m afraid it wouldn’t do to give Jackie or the other ten-year- olds that bear, because she looks as if she might eat a couple of little boys for breakfast. Then along came the volunteer firemen of Pawling, Hew York* They said they’d like to borrow Hud 1st. They're holding a fireman’s carnival, and wanted to put the bear on display, because she1 s about the only kind of nudist they’d be allowed to exhibit at their carnival. I said "all right. ^ The carnival is scheduled for this week-end, and the firemen were due at my house to get Hudist this afternoon. X suppose right now they’re trying to get her out of her cage and take her away. mhat 10 what's disturbing my mind right now. X wonder whether she's clawing them and chewing them. The very i ~ Pawling firemen makes my thought of Hudist eating a couple of Fawn k voice tremble, __ ......................... .... bathihg beauty Here.a a ridiculous anticlimax that follows that sprightly bit of controversy on Long Island, He, York. A beach club, as you may have read in your favorite newspaper, planned a spectacular pageant, and announced that a share of the proceeds would go to St. Joseph's Hospital at Jar Rockaway. he Hospital is a Catholic institution, run by the Sisters of Saint Joseph. The seaside festivities consisted of a heauty contest. One scintillating feature was a pageant called: "The Bathing. Beauties of Hi story,n and in this, Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans, was shown as a bathing beauty. how Joan of Arc is a canonized saint. So you can see it was all a bit out of keeping with the ideas of a convent. So the Sisters of Saint Joseph promptly announced that they would refuse their share of the proceeds. They said they didn’t approve of beauty contents and least of all, of Joan of Arc as a bathing beauty. You may have heard about Well, the hospital apparently didn't miss much. That grand seaside pageant was held, the accounts figured up, and now it turns out that the hospital's share would have been just five dollars and twenty-two cents. It rained all d jy when the BATHING beauty beauty contest and beauty pageant was held THEATKB Every Geetion of the country I euppoee has its summer theatricals, as in Abingdon. Virginia, for example. But they have a new idea down there in the shape of the - Barter Theatre* iou get in by bartering a ff_o cash. Most of the box office receipts that the actors take in show-up later, on their dinner table. It's an apple pie for a ticket to a comedy success of last year, a couple of pork chops for "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and a hunk of Leiderkrang for a "Midsummer Might's Dream". One old lady, who has become an inveterate theatre- .1 - s / goer, attends each week and buys her ticket with a couple of jars of pickles - - pickles for Peter Pan. Well that certainly sounds like a good idea here at the Rhinebeck Fair* Somebody might offer me a pumpkin to start broadcasting. Or they might offer me a herd of cows, a load of hay, 0£ the whole Fair to st££j Well, I will, right now! For a couple of days — and SO LONG UNTIL MONDAY.