Jj.j , wumOww U-L jli K j U juUwu^Wi^J. - lr /: l/:: ; Good Evening^ Everybody: The first bit of news that struck ray fancy today was a story of a dance. Not the sort of dance you may think about, however. The performer was Mother Earth, who shook up the entire far western part of the United States. In "act, you mi :ht say that one-fifth of the soil of this count ry joined in the performance*— a. * A description in the Newark News reports that xsiaxxsxTErex clocks were stopped in cities as far apart as Sait Lake City, Utah, and Fresno, California. Chandeliers and pictures -ave an imitation of swinginr oen alums. Pots and pans and crockerlr*^ did fandanyos on their shelves. However, no lives were lost, and there was no substantial property damage. But there wet anxiety aplenty. For upwards of an hour the telephone wires of every newspaper 01 flee in five states were blocked by terrified people wanting to know what xnat was what. The quake affected the states of Washington, California, Utah, Nevada, in fact practically all of Western Ar■ ricax from the Canadian to the Mexican borders. and from the Pacific Coast xo t±s» Great Salt Lake Seismologists - that's the twelve letter word that Dr. Vizzibelli uses for an earthquake shark - seismologists tell us that Nevada the most severe uart of the shock. But A even though no serious damage was done, the dancing of the earth was so violent that in the observatories of several universities the needles were shaken off the setenographs,' i"lri'i:h !■ Arii .ire^i-mTrr.atfMr^the instrument that records quakes. The only money loss reported was suffered by Mayor Ed Robcuts of Reno, Tht divorce capital*? mayor has A J-iXL.riJJ _ 2 frequently expressed himself that five cents is plenty to pay for a glass of beer. Mayor Roberts was in his house x±i when the qualce came. He was pouring out a bottle of beer which he had brewed for himself. At that moment the earth shook^the burgoma^isterial house quivered and the beer was spilled all over the dining room table. Mayor Roberts says that was too much. 5a:"It cost me a nickel to A. make thftj'bottle of beer* but it will taken take twenty cents to i^rrm^3S35ssfe<»tablecloth. _ The excitement kept up in Washington today over the b#Eg>r bill. It was a dingdong fight in the House of a K Representatives, with the arys doing everything they could. using every '*££. of parliamentary device i-rrT^-y A to ham- stir ing the wets. The Brooklyn Times Union reported that the first move of the day came near wm- defeating the beer measure. The dry lieutenants sprang an unexpected gag on the beer champions by moving an amendment to strike_ out the enacting sot clause, the clause which would make the bill effective. They sprang this just at the time when the wets on the job were in the minority because most of them had not yet shown up to punch the time clock. It was only by delaying the vote that the beer advocates were able to string things along until the Democratic whips were able to enough wet Congressmen to outnufcber the drys. corral liMk BEEE - £ The jorce of it v as that a couple of Democratic wets from ^ev. York tried to spring a trap on the drys, but they themselves fell into a trap the prohibitionists had prepared* The beer champions emerged from that first bout victorious but panring. The second round as fought over an amendment to lower the alcoholic content from 3.2 per cent to 2.75 per cent. A story to the Pittsburgh Press points out that this was one of the main lines of attack planned by the drys. It was defeated by a vote of one hundred and twenty-four wets to seventy-five drys* Then there was an amendment aimed at preventing the return of the saloon, also to protect states that want to he dry. There was no vote on this because it was ruled out of or ter • f Ah, here*s some late news. 'The Beer will was passes, laoe teas afternoon. ”he tdl wets won by a vote of &30 to c - o i-hat _______ | means the vets have won tneir 2.2*^ seer so - ar as • - —- Representatives Is concerned, j the New i'ork -s ■Lii. __ On top of this V.or3.d 'lelegram tonight carries a story proclaiming that a n e-igantic liquor trust covering the entire territory of the United States has been formed to control the supply of ............. ... In in I1 Baasfcaaa^ rhu-y • A?;.. i»HTrT=~spT-f^] liquor /^ pp - i hi , j-irnTf-l Pm ( 11 « TOn»iMji"il"-fH’rJg-l70^t~^w-TCt 7viioj«^T'Pm ■»eaifa.-jfea„‘4in,£^ The World Telegram points out that this idea has often been outlined by fiction writers, but never has come to pass. It is described as an insolently clever scheme worthy of the late John W. Gates. The World Telegram claims sources to have reliable information from a variety of that this conspiracy is already partially in effect in New fork City. Of course, I am sure none of my listeners would break the prohibition laws of their country. Nevertheless, as a matter of news, I think have to pass on wo you the information that one effect of this trust is that the price of liouor has been raised for the wise men of Gotham, at any rate,-------- . iff fru^l X j X s.Ui-i. RETAKE ---- iiumh HT'MI On top oi this 17-.a^ the New ^ork ViOrld Telegram tonight carries a story proclaiming that a gigantic liquor trust covering the entire territory of1 the United States has been formed to control the supply of m ~i Tin-Win ill] hr 0 .L.> .... . ^nT11. The %orld Telegram points out that this idea has often been outlined by fiction writers, but never has come to pass. It is described as an insolently clever scheme worthy of the late John W. Gates. The World Telegram claims sources to have reliable information from a variety of that this conspiracy is already partially in effect in New lork City. Of course, I am sure none of my listeners would break the prohibition laws of their country. Nevertheless, as a matter of news, I ±h±nk have to pass on ro you the information that one effect of this trust is that the price oi lieuor has been raised for the wise men of Gotham, at any rate PRBBIDEHT EOQVKR President Hoover ~*Slx3k~ his Saturday afternoon#-] /f< sail from Savannah, Georgia, with Mrs. Hoover and a party of guests, in * government inspection boat^ The President plans to drift along a week or ten days, stopping wherever the fish are biting best. IitleFadden There s quite a teapot tempest in the Republican delegation to the House of Representatives from Pennsylvcnia., The secretary of that delegation used to be Representative Louis i^cFadden, one of the important Md and influential Republican leaders in Congress. && his abortive attempt to impeach President Hoover last week - an attempt that failed by a vote of 561 votes to eight - has cost Mr. McFadden considerable prestige. On the evening after he had offered his resolution to Congress for the impeachment of the President^ the other members of the Pennsylvania delegation a asked him to give up his job as secretary. Mr. McFadden refused. So today the delegation calmly voted him out arid elected his successor. BBRLIN An ominous bit of news comes from Berlin today. D-p,,'Alfred Hugenberg, chief of the Nationalist Party5 has set on loot a sensational campaign for the revision of the debts that Germany owes abroad. What makes it a: serious is that the debts involved are not the government debts but the private debts. if Dr. Hugenberg’s campaign becomes effective it will mean a loss of at least twenty million dollars a year to creditors of the German Republic in the United States. By the same token a story by the foreign editor defaulting on debts becomes the fashion in Europe^ America stands to lose some fifty thousand million dollars. For that is the A disnatch to the New York Sun reports that of the Scripps-Howard newspapers points out that if tsd nvestors have staked in Europe^ banicing on the godd faith of European governments. JJLUkMULyJj. Uncle Sam Is facing a tariff war from still another part oi the globe. And that is, Bermuda. The Colonial government 01 those islands Is planning to place a prohibitive tariff on all food products in the United States. Thai will throw the business to Canada. Michael Most of the civilized world today is chuckling wij:h but not at. His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince Michael of Routnania. A special to the ^ew fork Times reports that a sculptor had been busy doing a bust of His youthful Royal Hirhness. One of the rooms in the palace was assigned to as a studio. the sculptor/ When che royal servants entered the royal studio today they found that some malefactor had defaced the^statue, had, in fact, bust Its nose with a hammer. Immediately there was a royal investigation. All the officials of the royal palace were called on the carpet and there was the deuce to pay. In The midst of the investigation IHfli ia. X ^ tine eleven year old Crown Prince walked in on the investigators and this is what he said to His royal father: "That was me, papa. I ©tetr»«sr off that nose. It was ar=d=e3&i=sasis=&-nose." A- A A A historic inquiry developed the fact that his eleven year old royal highness zess, not the first art critic A in royal circles, ^^4. /l. It1to all right for Santa Claus to abandon his Q £%^ m ^ r... w Jujid-UO reindeer and o modern, says Uncle Sam, but he mustn’t go too modern. A Philadelphia organization had planned to have St. Nicholas, as the Germans call him, arrive in an airplane and land plump in the middle of william Penn’s city at the corner of Broad Street and Olney Avenue tonight. But Uncle Sam’s inspectors of the Department of Commerce turned thumbs down on the scheme. So Santa Claus escorted by three military planes, will have to land at an aviation field just like -Tp* ___ you or I. There’svgoing to be a great celebration in Philadelphia tonight. One of its features will be a speech by no less a magnifico than Mr, Jimmie Foxx - you know, the Foxx with the two x*s in his name, and all those home runs in his the star first basemen of the Philadelphia. Athletics. j J-Li'*-i'll iiii- J ^Z£ut,t Here1 s another story from Philadelphia 3HBS^3S3^8S9SS Ihe proprietor of a restaurant in that city gave a lunch recently to eight ragged children. The story in the Philadelphia. Evening Ledger says they were chosen Uy a public school teacher from the poorest families in the neighborhood Well, those children had creamed chicken, potatoes, peas, and ice cream, all they could eat. All but one had their plates as clean as though they were expert window cleaners. But there was one exception. The proprietor of the restaurant asked this little boy why he wasn't eating anything. He looked up solemnly and saids 111 don't like your cook.n Well, the point of the story is that the cook happens to be s famous blue ribbon chef who has been head of the kitchen in several of the top notch restaurants in rfew York City and Philadelphia, and h±xx is known to scores of the moot fastidious conns:sseurs isf in the country• But he wasn t gooa enough for that little boy. TALL /YCn^eXz ££l g Irfc *»<r^ifeer3^r^fega».j tA,Paul Olinger^T^- LaAAJ^K.f • wJao- QQgtt^lSiUtee a S iiqqcq AaBifaagei^ The other night, writes Brother Olinger, I gassed up w^dx-Waocxr and started home. The old traoc bus went so /v /> Last that in fifteen minutes I was in bed^ass*# fast asleep. Some time later I was awakened by a noise outside. It was the noise of the exhaust, which had just caught up with the car For sometime a ghost mystery has been puzzling the police and inhabitants of Hewlett, Long Island. A woman living alone in an apartment house of that town had been a sinister plagued and terrified for two months by/m^e&txxiguuK nightly A ^ visitor. After each of his nocturnal invasions the ghost would leave threatening messages. On one occasion the lady of the house came to grips with him and the ghost xxsedc viciously bit the lady. Sometimes he would come in by the fire escape, sometimes through the bathroom window. More than once the maid as well as the lady of the house was terrified. At other times mysterious noises of an alarming kind were heard. The police set a special guard on the apartment but still the mysterious intruder could not be scared away. Late yesterday the mystery was solved. The ghostly visitor turned out to be a man living in the same apartment nouse, a man described in the New Fork Herald Tribune as one of aristocratic appearance who shares a home with his mother and three sisters. The police nailed him by a painstaking U-D-Uw-LQ _ £ Investigation, checking on the movements of every soul who lives in that apartment house. So last night the arrest was made and another ghost was laid. Here1s a story about the four bears - I mean four - one? two, three, four bears - not forefathers. A story about the four bears which has a different ending; from the More 0 famous one of the three bears. This one comes from Benton, fiew Hampshire, A dispatch to the Jersey Journal says that two Bentonians, one a father of nine children, and the other a father of six, spent two days trailing a mother bear with three cubs. Usually it's not considered quite sporting to shoot mother bears and cubs, but when you have fifteen children in two families, sportsmanship has to take a back seat. At any rate, they trailed those bears for two days and finally came up with them. Mother Bruin put up a terrific fight, as terrific a fight,that is, as a mother bear can against high powered rifles. Well, the ending is sad for the bear children, but not so aratfli for the human children. Hot only will tiiose a hunters* families have bear steak for dinner, but the State of New Hampshire pays a twenty dollar bounty on bear hides, and that will provide the fixins MQQKSHII'jE A case of an Intimate sort came up a New York City magistrate’s court. The defendant was a She'd lady. She explained to the judge had a few wee spots of the moonshine and, as she puts it ,fIt made me feel scrappy.” In fact she felt so scrappy she was Inspired to hash her dear sister s£ over the head with a club, As a result of this her sister spent a month in the hosoital, But the sister refused to press any charge. Said ® ftPC—3»ttO=33 th«Laffectionate woman ©£=£23#* hseo- bashed oindp tbit head: "She’s my sister, aras-I love her, and Christmas is coming /V i. in i lemin^ton, iMew Jersey, a snow storm provided a bit otnnexpected . A story in tne Trenton Times relates that the youngsters of Flemington were having a grand snow ball fight. Presently they got tired of peppering each othr and were looking out for some other targets. Well, it so happens that a circus is in winter quarters on the FXemington fairgrounds. Just as those boys were looking for a target, out came a large and rather sleepy looking African elephant. Well, you can imagine what happened. You blame can hardly/sxj|K££ a crowd of active boys excited over their first real snow storm in two years for picking on the elephant. Mr. Elephant took the first volley of snowballs calmly. "'hen the second came he started to blink his eyes. At the third round that elephant got mad. He turned around and spectators held their breath expecting him to charge the boys. The boys had scattered in various directions. The elephant saw an innocent automobile parked at the sidewalk and decided K . * ' -fi,±x&£'£UUy X _ • this vms th enemy, picked the motor car up in his trunk, brandished it about in the air, gave it a good shaking and then threw it over the wall into a neighborlmg yard. uf course, the automobile was demolished^but the exercise pacified the elephant and he followed his trainers in most docile fashion back i«to his quarters,