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Lowell Thomas Broadcast,
for the Literary Digest,
T^1,T*eday. November 19.1951
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It was announced today that Jimmy
Walker, New York's debonair Mayor, will
leave i»Hx$k>tx*aRx8 tomorrow night for
Ca I i torn i a .
But this time it's no gay vacation
for Jimmy on the sunny shores of the
Pacific. He's going out to intercede for
Tom Mooney--that same Tom Mooney who has
been in prison these many years.
The International News Service
axplains that Mooney, himself, and his
mother have made a personal appeal to
Jimmy Walker saying that as things stand
the prisoner's only chance of being
released is through the good offices of
the Mayor of New York.
J i mmy ’ Wa I ke r is said to be a c I os e
personal friend of Governor Rolph of
California. dirBfflje believes Tom Mooney
to be innocent of that bomb explosion on
Preparedness Day, in San Francisco. And
looney and his mother believe that
Jimmy!s pleadingApersuasion wi I l ao a
long way wit h ^ Go ve r n or
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In 'mashington Dino Grandi
Italian foreign minister,has
completed his negotiations with
President Hoover. Everything is said
to be 0.K .
The nssociated Press declares
Grandi had a long talkrwith
that
Mussol i ru on the trans-At I an tic
telephone, and the uuce said 11 Splendid I
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The black-shirt dictator gave h \ s
approval to the diplomatic conversa
tions that have been going on and
announced that his government aa
en+irely agrees with Uncle Samfs
attitude on international questions.
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In Kansas u M~ y a crowd o "f
lad i e d had an idea which was just small
and ordinary in the beginning. But
it grew by leans and bounds, until now
itrs a mighty big thing and mighty
beneficia I too .
At the women1s city club the
officials asked each member to
contribute a quart can of fruit or
vegetable for the benefit of the
unemployed and the needy. As the canned
goods came in they stacked it all in a
corner of one of the rooms of the club.
It v/as a nice tidy heap,
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guessed how bic it was destined to
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as club members drooped in and saw the
stack of canned fruits and Vegetables
they felt an impulse to add some more
and they did. It’s one of those
cases where suggestion is a p o v/e r f u I
i nf I uen c e .
And that increasing stack of
canned goods was a powerful suggestion.
The women just kept increasing the pile.
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until it grew into a mountain. The
campaign was called off today because
thousands
thousands of cans of
fruit and vegetable have been collected
A truck was filled for a first delivery
and tonight the unemployed and the
needy in Kansas City are starting to
eat up that mountain of canned goods.
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A super-g over nr’Rnt is planned for
Chicago.
The International News
Service
reports that the scheme got
under wayvl’o erect what they call a
super-government, which will take over
the
work
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a number of departments
that didn't seem
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be running any
too efficiently.
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a
pomance of rubber is told in t he
new Literary Digest, that came out today
-- rubber, synthetic rubber. Of recent
years there has been much talk about the
fulfillment of that old dream of the
industrial age -- the creation of
artificial rubber out of common products
around us.
With the death of Edison, it was
announced that in his laboratories they
had succeeded in making rubber out of
goldenrod. Right after that,word came
of the creation of snythetic rubber by
another and very different process.
In this,
only the
simplest materials are used. You take
coal , common coal , and put it together
with I irciQstpne and water, and presto
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The New Literary Jigest calls it a
Fairy Tale of Fact, and that certainly i
an apt description.
The story begins at that great
raid-Western fortress of football, Notre
2ame. Twenty-five years ago, long befor
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Rockne and the Four Horsemen, Notre Dame
was just an obscure mid-Western
university. It wasnTt even dreaming of
its great football days to come.
On the faculty was a young priest,
the Reverend Julius A. hieuwland, who was
devoted to Chemistry. He spent his days
in the laboratory, stirring up odd
elmixtures in test tubes and retorts. He
passed acetylene into a solution of
copper and salts of ammonia, and the
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a curious g as,
Ever since then Father Nieuwland
has been fiddl ing around with that
curious new substance which he had
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He found that he could take
that strange gas
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turn it into a kind of oMj) fwa“y-ear
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the oil 3H^€h
into a highly elastic material
r e s e mbI ing rubber.
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At tin; noint che Du ost. ■ eo1 c offered the co-operation
of their engineer; , ' nc the drive for e real artificial rubber
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under way.
The literary Digest quotes the United Press in saying
that now it has succeeded. As yet the new substance cannot be
used for automobile tires.
And now comes whst is always an interesting question.
V/ho will get the money? The new snythetic rubber promises to
be worth a great fortune. But Father Nieuwland will not get
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nickel of It. He explains that he Is a member of the
Congregation of the Holy Cross, a religious order devoted to
poverty.
Father ITieuv.lfnd has taken the monastic oath of
poverty.
..'hatever is earned will go to the Order of which he
is a member.
FANCHURIA
The President of China has girded his ancestral
sword end is going to the wars. General Chiang Kai-Shek, head
of the N- tionalist government at Nanking, announced today that
he was on his way to the battle front to take charge of the
fighting against ^anan.
They say ..that all China is shocked by the crushing
defeat which the Japanese have inflicted uoon the army of
General Ma, whom the Chinese have been hailing as their savior,
At Shanghai, cables the International News Service, there
was something of a turmoil today when 15,000 children abandoned
school and thronged into the streets to collect money for the
fighting forces in Nanchuria. They invaded stores and stopped
pedestrians and automobiles. They caused a wild traffic jam
in the main street of Shanghai, until the police took a hand
and straightened things out.
The United Press cables a statement issued by rrime
Minister Briand of
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France today. As acting president of
the League of Nations, Briand declared
that if the United States would
intervene in the Manchurian embroglio,
why that would bring a peaceful
solution. nThe League of Nations is
talking over the idea of declaring an
economic boycott against Japan.
In Washington the Japanese ambassador
called upon Secretary-of-State St i m son
twice today and explained the Japanese
viewpoint concerning the big battle
yesterday. He declared that the
Japanese attacked and captured the city
of Tsitsihar only as a means of breaking
the military power of General Mah
Ghan-shan. He promised that the
Japanese
retreat from the city as
soon as the Chinese army had been put
out of comm i ssion.
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li'hen explorers from this
continent set forth they usually carry
two flags. And this holds true of
many foreign explorers as well. They
carry the flag of their own country,
and the flag of the Explorers Club of
New York. Perry did this, so did
Amundsen, so did Byrd, and so have a
host of others.
Sir Hubert Wilkins, although an
Australian, has carried the flag of the
explorers Club on six expeditions. I
have just attended a picturesque
ceremony when Sir Hubert returned the
flag to the Explorers Club. It was
covered with Lhe grease and grime of
his submarine, the Nautilus, and it
was the first flag ever carried into
the Arctic Ocean by submarine.
I have just seen the motion
picture film record of the expedition.
I was doubtful as to what they might
show. But I was wrong. They are the
most eerie, the weirdest, the most
unearthly pictures I have ever seen
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u n I k 0 anything ever m ad e. They v/ e r e
taken from the submarine under the
Arctic ice pack.
The scientific organizations that
backed the WiIkins-EI Isworth submarine
expedition say it was a great success
in spite of the various mishaps that
occurred to the Nautilus at the start.
Captain Wilkins has been busy
assembling the data that he brought
back from the North. So far he has not
told his story on the air. But tonight,
he has consented to do this for the
first time, for the benefit of the
friends of the Literary Digest.
And now, just for a moment,
you're going to hear Sir Hubert give
his first radio talk on the first
submarine expedition into the Arctic.
He will tall of one incident on his {jssMX
journey. Of course, it would take
hours for him to tell the entire story
which is one of the mo st dr ama tic in
the entire history of exploration.
Sir Hubert Wi Ik i ns:
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Scarred and dented by tusks of
ice, with propellers saw toothed and
maimed, one blade turned over I ike a
half closed hand, the "Nautilus" was
sunk until her eye-ports dipped into'
the Polar Sea. .,e were stretching
caution to the limit as half cr ipoied
we nosed ’ eneath the icefloes. Capped
by amethyst tinted icicles we played
hide and seek at the bottom of Arctic
Pack. ..e were terribly awed by the
grinding crunch of the ice upon the
deck and on our own weak shoulders we
seemed to be bearing the full weight of
the frozen mass.
The scrunching of the heavy
ice was a sound unearthly, fearful,
like the ripping of calico in giant
strips. Like earthquake shocks. Vie
trembled with fear.
But as we looked through the
portholes our fear gave way to wonder
and admiration. Our sxeel bow moving
stealthily, was disturbing the mighty
ice cakes and releasing from beneath
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them showers of oearl like bubbles.
Light striking through, made the clear
ice look like a mass of diamonds set in
opal. ..e were in a veritable alladins
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Small b'ack fish were startled
from their ioeholes. Their gills
fluttering, tails lashing they backed
away. Shrimos and orawn-like creatures,
large and small, sprang off their tails
like kangaroos in a nightmare. Sea
fleas and other things that looked like
cockroaches with waving horns, fled from
our vision. Alone, passing unconcerned,
were jellyfish. They looked like
miniature airships drifting in starlight.
Then as we plunged up from
beneath the pack, the ice slithered from
our sides like thin avalanches. With
the hatches open we were free in the
wind again. i*e breathed deeply of the
cold exhilirating air.
But all on board felt a strange,
unnatural tiredness. In those preceding,
minutes we had Iived ages in a new
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world. A world such as no human had ever
seen before. It was glorious and
wonderful. No matter how long we live
ve shal I never •forget the strangeness
of these scenes nor will we give up
hope of returning to view them once
again.
I have no time tonight to
describe them in greater detail.
Perhaps some day I might be permitted
to tell you the whole story from the
lecture platform.
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And by the way did you hear about the King of
Houmenie getting a b 1 r ceye? ±t has been officially announced
that King Carol failed to preside at the opening of the
Roumanian parliament because he had a cold. That's the
official account - but here's the inside story, ar cabled by
a news correspondent in the Balkans:
They say that King Carol had a fist fight with his
brother, Prince Nicholas, and His Majesty got the worst of it.
The cause of the row was the marriage of Prince Nick to a lady
not of royal rank. The King has been raising caln about it,
end the rec-ort is that Prince Nicholas went to the royal palace
to have the matter out.
The trouble began hen King Carol reminded the Prince
of his royal dignity and duty. Prince Nicholas said, "Phat
do you mean, royal dignity and duty? What about Madame Lambrino?
And what about Madame Lupescu?”
He reminded the King of the King’s own scandalous
romances, which have been the talk of the worlo*
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It was all very distressing, and it
was still more distressing when the
royal battle of words turned into a
battle royal of fists. The King and the
Prince went at each other. The result of
the battle was never in doubt. Prince
Nicholas is a powerful chap, and he has
been studying boxing for the last couple
of years. By the time the officers of
the royal household had jumped in and
stopped the scrap, King Carol had a
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At Council Bluffs, Iowa, a
man has been doing a lot of figuring.
He is C. V. Gustafson who used to be
the city cierk, and is a shark at
f i gur es.
Last Sunday an Omaha newspaper
told that Dr. Leopold Bauer of Austria
had deposited one shilling in the Bank
of England and announced that in his
will he would leave i n struct i on’s the
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shilling
remain in the bank for
fifteen hundred years and draw interest
during all that time.
Of course, there's no telling
where the Bank of England is liable to
be in fifteen hundred years, but never
mind.
When former City Clerk
Gustafson of Counci I ^ ^about
this - vte\\, t hat f s when took pencil
and paper and started to figure.
The Associated Press relates
that he worked so hard and so long
that
at Iast he has doned
out
The
answer . He tells us homuch t hat
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shilling now worth twenty-five cents will amount to in fifteen
hundred years at an interest rate of five percent, compounded
semi-annually. Here’s how much.
Four thousand fifty-one octilions, five hundred and
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three hundred and eleven quintillions, seven hundred and seventeen
quadrillions, seven hundred and sixty-four trillions, eight
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hundred and ninety-six billions, three hundred and nine millions,
five hundred and ninety thousand, three hundred twenty-three
dollars end twenty cents.
hell, now just let me get my breath long enough to
say - 30 LONG UNTIL TOIIORROY..