I 2 4B ■ 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 2 SM ftttrlo j SMidlMlO!! iSiSSLIIIH^lterary Dlgest - Page--------------- __ Good Evening, Everybody: 4?, v The investigation of the stock market went along in full swing today at Washington. Percy Rockefeller! a •r • * nephew of John D., took the w itness stand before the Senate Banking Committee. The nephew of the Oil King has been mentioned as a prominent bear operator, one of those short, sellers who are supposed to be beating down prices in the Stock Exchange. But Percy Rockefeller told the Committee that for the past five or six weeks he has been on the other side of the fence. He has been long instead of short. He admitted that he had done some extensive short selIing in the past, but of late he has not been a Bear -- he has been a Bui I. Another witness was Matthew C. Brush, a veteran Wail Street trader. His name appeared on t he I ist of short sellers that was given out yesterday. He testified that he had been o*n both s ides of the market -- both ! ong and short. The Chicago Evening Post quotes Mr. Brush as declaring that he started to 1 2 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 3-l-32 5M l SAStiiEieieM - 2 Page. sell short in the spring of IS30. And it also came out that a brother of his is the real person behind the American Brush Company, listed as a short seller. The committee is trying to get at the people who are represented in the list of short sellers by various corporation names and other camouflage. Senator Norbeck, of the Banking Committee, declares that he is not satisfied with the testimony given by Richard V/hitney, the head of the New York Stock Exchange. He claims that Mr. Whitney’s testimony has not been frank. Senator Watson of Indiana comes forth with the charge that international banking interests have been beating down the stock market for the purpose of handicapping the economic recovery in this!: country. His idea is that certain foreign interests want to keep American business bad for the purpose of forcing a cance I I at ion of the war debts. M W* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 BELALIH m Page. S m I hey Here are some prize winners, are healthy prize winndrs, they— have -d-ene—t H e m-o st—fo p—t-he—on-e v-e-nt-i-e« | e4 —i44-n-es-&—a-nh---- the—p-p om o t4-on- ^-t- p u b I i c he«-HHr* Each year the United States Chamber of Commerce Health Conservation Committee holds a contest, with—the-—e-o^p-er-at-i-en— o-f- the-4cmeT^rearfv-P «-h-l4- &-H-e-al-th— rtes-ee-i-a-t-ierK an-d—the—hat ion a I Hoalt-h—6-ounc i I S c or e s of cities all over the country enroll, and each one tries to outdo the others in the way of improving public health. vwecis- awarded. There q iven in each of several -am-eng—t-h-e- Then the honors are six prizes groups of cities. This year, s4-x— b - p 4- t ?-&6- in the group of cities with 500,000 populat ion or over, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, took first honors. In cities of from a quarter of a million to half a million, Rochester, New York, took the first prize. Among six prize winners in cities from 100^000 to 250,000 people New Haven Connecticut, comes first. I ' 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 fiA* i, h££Llh---2 i Page. II And Athe group of SO.OCDto IQO’OOO ma kes population, Evanston, Illinois the best showing. 20,000 to 50,000, p e o p I e- — Brookl ine, Wiass achu set ts . And in communities of under 20,000, La Salle, Illinois, take s t he ea®&-. T ha t gives 14 \ ino i s t-w o ~w-i-nf) er e-of- f HPS'fe—prMzes* ¥ifh4"e~h—sp-e^tks w^e l I fop the^ k...rt-ha-fc-ris be ] n g do-Be- t~e pr omo4e ^u-b lri^e- hea I th in the mun ici pai it ie s of -the^ g^eat m i d-western st ate-. Cons i der-in-g m i nor pp^i ^e-s as we I I as St at e comes f i r st !, i:!|! li \ | is I • 1 1 li !| T hen- fo I—I-©w—hew J ep-sey an d Ga l f^fom i a *. 3 ■ i ' - - 1 2 3 4 5 3 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 f?£rio | Z§LL---tL±&&y.^-&lZZL'zz Page, A ; ! Every once in a while I get into a fine jam over the pronunc i at ion of the name of some town which I've missed in my travels. For instance, night before last I mispronounced Eau Claire, Wisconsin and I sure did hear about that! Well, here's another I may slip on, and it's from Wisconsin too. It looks like an Indian name -- W ssxm Wausau, Wisconsin, where the folks vote 131 for the 18th Amendment and 1204 in favor of repeal. ,. I vyonder jf tKjs next town is named for Genera"! Smedley Butler? At any r ate it's Butler, Pennsylvania, where the vote • ♦ _ now stands 971 dry, I',869 wet. Here's Shenandoah, but not the Shenandoah you are thinking of. This is Shenandoah, Iowa. And it's dry. 239 for continuance, 147 for repeal. Kirksville, Missouri, is another in the dry column. 243 for things as they are; 212 the other way. Shades of Bismarck -- I mean Bismarck, North Dakota, 144 dry, 527 wet. Billings, Montana, says 206 dry. ) ' ;i T: I ii f I II ill 3-1-32 5M $ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 2 SM Page ____ l&L'L-z.-Z. 1 728 wet. There ?«pe cjuite a few Springfields in this country. This one is the big industrial city in Ohio. 2,076 dry! 4,480 wet. Newark, New Jersey, conies along with third report. 1,962 for the Amendment; 19,280 for repeal. Phoenix, Arizona, where the sun shines all the time and the tall cactus grows and the folks wear trick cowboy outfits on dude ranches;A-- 602 for continuance, 1,599 for repeal. Great ScottJ I beg your pardon, I mean fast FjlCjL Scott, Kansas. And it's dry. 268 for the 18th Amendment, 178 the other way. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 iJAEAE Page SH 7 Here-^-s—a-—b4t—©f—eomme -4-©—44 af f-©e t -4h-at—Gene-r^e- l—Ar-ak i— fa I low . —but —t ha t 4fve -totks-avai—fn—- latran -are- not- s-urxi-r 4sed -or—eH-o-p-fe-arg'g4a= arbeut-' what—th-e—G e ner al —ha-d—t-o—say-i-—An-d- that-^—s-x-pt-ai-r^ i&special cableto the * ."v \ Chicago Daily News, ^Ts-^e^auKe—t-he~-hh§4 p-an-k- i-n-g -m44-i- t-a-r-y—e-f f i c o r ^ me-ne-l-y- sa i-eh w-ba-t—morst—of—t-he—Jap anese—peopl e -f eet to-h-e—rf^±rt=an ust^. Aetyway^/Gen er al Araki,i^^^^s Minister of ./ar. in the goyennmen.t at T o k i o ? ^tth4^^com=es=^ttt=viFf^^ a plain,! unvarnished declaration that Japan will not tolerate the interference of either • ♦ the League of Nations, the United States, or Russia in the Manchurian tangle. He explains that Japan intends to transform Manchuria into what he calls a paradise, meaning that the men of Nippon intend to exploit it in a modern industrial way. And so he says to the rest of the world "Hands off.1 " 3*1*32-5M Kfi-BLQ-,S—E,Al£-lE&fid_.H£2ILL MOk*:: i gg n Page ><* Today, here in Chicago, Colonel Robert Isham Randolph was appointed director of operations an d m ai ntatnanc e of Chicago's 1933 World’s Fair. Colonel Randolph is a notable citizen of the windy Q i t y u« ; ^ u ^ that groujo have been f is a former Assoc i at i or* A o f He 1 is head of the Secret 6, influential citizens who ghting against crime. And he President of the Chicago of Commerce. The appointment of Colonel Randolph is just another sign that Chicago is determined to make that exposition a spectacular success# v Vfe H /^the re—i s --one -e^uest^i o n^-t-ha^p-op s—m-te- the m-Tnd -~o3— e^ery--t^a-vLe4er“-who^-a-o^es— C4vi ea §o--t h&s e d a y-s> - W-har t— ab out t-h at- W-Gtr l dJ s F a fr—for I 93 S?-~ k/^ Perch ed here^ above Chicago, on the 42nd floor of the Morrison Hotel I can look out of my windows and see for miles and miles in all directions. And from one of them I ca.n see a number of strange buildings, in the dist anc e, a I on g the lake. Sir Hubert Wilkins and I asked Leonard Hicks, the six-foot-two ieELQIS_EAlE Page,. ^ manager of the World's tallest hoteli what the buildings were. He replied, "Why, they are part of the Wor Id’s Fair/' Later on I talked to Mr~ Rufus Oawes, one of the tv/o famous Oav/es brothers; Charlie, of banking. World War, peace treaty, Vice-Presidentia I, Ambassadorial fame, being the other. When I aaskad Mr. Oawes if the Fair was going to take place in 1933, per schedule, I could see his hair bristle. He said it most certainly was, and then he took me on a tour of the Fair grounds. In a few minutes’ time he had demonstrated to me something we all ought to know. They are working withstrang§, bewildering, dazzling lighting effects. Everything at the Fair seems to be in key with modernistic architecture. And here’s one thing that appealed to me: They are making the streets out of a soft material that m ak es you feel as thouch you a.re v/alking on grass or carpet. Did you ever go to a World's Fair and tramp around for a few hours? fitZrh 1 Page. sd Your feet give out first. But t hey are fixing all that for the Chicago Fair. I hen too, they have filled in the Lake, made lagoons, islands, and laid out the Fair grounds for three miles. Instead of spending money recklessly, now that times have changed, they are trying to make every dollar count. They are depending more on ingenuity and imagination. A-n-d—H-H——t-h at t-he- Jee—varStl-y—mor-e—i n te res-t-ffvg—as- a -resu 11—of—thrt-sr Then there's another thing that's going to help. Chicago has many giant hotels now, like the Mcr risen here. There will be lots of room for visitors to the Fair, jus-t—s——i-s—ge4-n-g~td- b-e—hodr-s—of—poem—for—a. T-l—ttve—fo-T-k s ~w h-e- eome—to- S-tffR RV © We have often heard the remark: "The day of the successful WorldTs Fair Fas passed.TT I half way bel ieved that. But since l!ve seen what has been 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ffORLDlS-EKlE. Page____ /f accomplished so far, I have changed my mind. I he recent Colonial Exposition in Paris was an immense success because it was so utterly different. And the Chicago World's Fair in 193 3 will be a success for the same reason. I'd come across the continent just to see the night lighting effects they are going to have in the courts and above the laqoons and on the wal Is of these extraordinary modernistic buildings* 3-1-32 5M Page__/ - 2 . 11 12 A vivid story of the terror of the tropica! j u n g I eA c o m e-s - w r t h t *&e -ne a*f ^.the death of a young American scientist in the wilds of Ecuador. He was Thomas V/alsh, Junior,^ a graduate of the University of Illinois. He was a chemist who for a couple of years had been doing metallurgical work at the great Cerro de Pasco copper mines of Per u. There were two young Americans down there in South America who were 13 14 17 18 19 23 25 great friends, Tom Walsh and Harold Ford, a West Virginian. Walsh wanted to get a Phd. degree and decided to do a bit of research for his thesis. And he picked out a romantic kind of research. « • He and his Friend, Ford, decided to explore the headwaters of the Paute River in southern Ecuador. That’s a . • wild and almost inaccessible region, inhabited only by a few fierce tribes. It was last November when they left civilization and started up the Maranon River. A United Press dispatch 3-1-32-5M iliiNfiLE - 2 Page______/j* to the Cleveland Press tells how for days they traveled with a party of Indian porters. Then when they had reached the wildest part of all, they sent the porters back. They made the final dash alone in a boat which had been shipped to them from New York. The boat had been constructed to be strong enough to buck the rapids of the river. For two weeks they navigated through the swirling waters, amid jagged rocks. Then, when they were in the wildest depths of the jungle the boat was caught in the treacherous rapids. It was dashed against the rocks and smashed to pieces. All supplies were lost, and the two young Americans were left a thousand miles from nowhere with only one rifle and a few cartridges. They were trapped, buried, in that green inferno of the tropical forest. They started out to struggle their way t h ro ugh the co untless miles of jungle. Week after week they toiled along. One by one they used their L JUNGL£ - 3 Page /^ I r I precious cartridges to shoot game. Then their last bullet was fired! and after that Bfedi they had to I i ve on the strange fruits and herbs and roots of the jungle. They were growing ill and weak. Every day they felt themselves nearer the end. After five weeks Tom Walsh 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 collapsed, and Ford was not much better off. They were sure now that they could never get out of that green inferno, but each sat down and wrote a note to the folks at home. They agreed that if either survived he would del iver the message written by the other. Tom Walsh was too weak to walk any farther. He begged his friend to leave him Me there and go on alone. Ford refused. He lay down beside his friend, and so they remained for one 21 long night of terror. In the morning 22 Walsh was in a coma, and then in a little 23 24 25 while he died. Ford buried him in a shallow grave in the steaming jungle, and then struggled JiJfilLI - 4 £ 1 2 3 4r 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 3-1-32-5M Page. on alone, carrying the note that his friend had written. Five days later he was found by a friendly Indian, sm# Xn a native huf^was nursed back to health and strength. Then he made his way back to civilization. And the first thing he did was to send to the parents of Tom Walsh the note which the young scientist had written on that last day deep in the heart of the green inferno. Here’s the way the note reads -- "Mother: I am making Ford go on for aid -- can’t move -- God save us -- please help Ford marry Clarissa -- he is your son now." And so the tale ends on a note of melancholy romance. Clarissa is a girl in Oh i o ^ and it was she who was in the thoughts of the two young men trapped in the toils of the green inferno. Page___ Ux i SJttiUGS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Kerens a slight bit of goofiness from a oistinguished Englishman on the subject of U • S. A* t— g~gy—i ,f~ ^ g-o o f y - b e e a us e w ha t - e l s e t y ou^' expects • a -^Q-y-TEa^fc; a United Press dispatch to the Chicago Daily News, gives us the important information that Commander J. M. Kenworthy, former Labor member in the House of Commons, has a few things to say about American stenographers. The distinguished gentleman has just is returned to deal!' old London from a 14 15 16 17 18 visit to these shores, and he doesnrt seem to have had a good time with the stenographers over here. I suppose that!s because he insisted on dictating to them instead of taking them out to 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 dinn er . Commander Kenworthy Ts comment is that American stenographers are great at making dates but they are not so good when it comes to spelling. The girts that he employed were always making a hit with good looking men and i Page. dating them up for dinner and parties. But when it came to spelling, the nifty stenog might spell "promotor" with an "er" on the end instead of an "or." And she might even commit such a social error as to s pee I i "honor" h-o-n-o-r, instead of h-o-n-o-u-r, as the English spell it. If you leave that "u" out, that's enough to break an Englishman's heart. Anyv/ay, the Honorable gentleman claims that the American stenogs are expert on dates but not so hot at speI Iing. Wej I , my own spelling is sometimes not so but here|s something that I can sKtxick spell with great fluency. It's s-o, so, l-o-n-g, long. And it's So long unt i I we take anothe-t. turn with the news in New York on Monday. •* ,