EARTHQUAKE ^ ' A' Disaster in Chile, an earthquake that has brought death and destruction in the southern part of the Hepublic. Six of the southern provinces were shaken up - a region four hundred miles long and a hundred miles wide.alaag-the^Jaeifie, Q Q c S “fcr1'" O'-f ""'fe Ho- ^ ..... jS ^ r q q 0 — The most lethal part of the shock was reported to have struck the city of Concepcionj the third largest in Chile. First reports had it that two thousand poopie had been killed there, forty per cent of the buildings shaken to the ground. That report came from a ham radio operator. Apparently none of the large broadcasting stations were operating. A later message from another ham declared th*fes^*0 report about Concepcion was exaggerated. Even this afternoon it was impossible to make wma a rough estimate of the •aruae* damage done by the quake. Apparently the communication system uO the darspoooi of the Chilean gpvernment has broken down. Afc-ieaslH {l&ficial reports are so fragmentary they tell almost nothing. But it is known that the Talcahuano zone, which lies two hundred and fifty miles south EARTHQUAKE - 2 of tne capital has been placed under martial law, and that tells its own story. The city of Concepcion is the center of % Talcanuano. naval base there We?wan badly damaged. li»hen a oulletin of the quake reached the government offices in the first thing done was to send out squadrons of military planes, big ones, bombers, bat thoyoaFrie* relief A ^ hatp iirrbctt^ qjP bombs. President Cerdo of Chile then ordered a A special train which he boarded for the stricken zone, accompanied by forty doctors, seventy nurses* and carrying mcdioal eupplioe* All day airploneg were taking off eonstant-ly--from Santiago and. e-th-eg- nea-tham-e-i-r--befle» for the--territory shaken by the temblor- As regoi^ts . Jto'^come in, it i§x<feared that may be even "'as severe as the^one that hit tile same ten years kiliring sisfe hafiidr'fd people il] 1 ADD EARTHCUAKE ¥sith President Cei’do in the south, his foreign Minister, Dr* Ortega, took the helm of state at Santiago. His first act was to broadcast a statement £a over the radio. He told the Chileanos that all reports about the earthquake had been exaggerated, casualties not nearly as heavy as rumored. On the flew other hand, an official observer in an airplane.over a place called Parral, in the center of the earthquake zone, and Parral seemed to be nearly destroyed. An airplane which landed at the city of Chilian is supposed to have come back to Santiago with the news that ten thousand people had been killed there, eveiy house in the city destroyed except five, Chilian, a place three hundred and twenty-three miles south of Santiago, has, or rather had, a population of forty-five thousand. Seven of General Franco»s s fighting aviators got ambitloos today. They appeared over the harbor where Uncle Sam-s cruiser OMAHA was waiting to evacuate refugees. A Motor launch of the rs cruiser OMAHA was on its way from the breakwater to the ship, carrying off Colonel Cheadle and Commander Cogswell, military and naval attaches of Uncle Sam *s r-mbassy. TI b Franco planes started bombing the OMAHAfS motor launch. They dropped fourteen bombs altogether, but the closest they got was one which landed fifty yards from the boat, But-thot-wasift11 al-3?■Uiey^ge*. every warship in the foreign fleet anchored thereJ There was a French cruiser with three destroyers, & British cruiser, our own OMAHA, and the destroyer BADGER. Every one of them started from the aircraft guns of They received a terrific A which soon made their getaway. ^Ton the French frontier, a French anti-aircraft battery brought down a large German bomber, whxch crashed into- battery brought down a flames. After they the French and the Spanish Side of the Pyrenees, French villages being marked, with German names. A s for the w ap itself, «Knn new a la goiae-what^ of am 191 g^ar-^Miaasi.what wo loarney: yesterday^. Franco with his armies ma& busy encircling Barcelona, with the obvlows pngpoea 'to cuttsisg off the escape of refugees trying to get to France* fl In the^uVGTTtw of the Catalonian capital. Republican troops were still making a desperate last stand. But it seems to be in the nature of a rear guard action to protect the retreat* aJZQ * niPLCMATIC 0 So®© months ago, Franco was quoted as saying that he had a list, a card index of two million enemies. These enemies, he is supposed to have said, would receive due attention and punishment after thearmioo-frftvo filially surrendered •to®—idTna 1’iThere is a report from London today that the British and French governments will unite in a protest. They will call upon the Nationalist chief to^ pTr^8TnTyTEv^nr>QKEdiEy±iayteT,gTiteTOa:gR3£s±|^pare his enemies* WILLIAMS One bit of news about that Spanish business comes by way of Greenwich, Connecticut. J0hn Bull has got a card up his sleeve, a trick to prevent Fuehrer Hitler and Duce Mussolini from doing any land-grabbing in stricken Spain. The author of this story is Wythe Williams H-V, 5, onee feppArrf m pjj correspo: ^correspond ent in Europe, and now editor of GREENWICH TIME#. irope, anc Williams says that the English are getting ready to A lend Franco a huge sum to lay a stymie to Hitler and Mussolini. At its lowest estimate, says Williams, this British loan will be a hundred million dollars. With this money. Franco will be able to pay the Duce and the Fuehrer in cash, and will not have to repay them with land or with leases on certain portions of Spanish territory, which amounts to the same thing as a land grab' iU says this was decided at a special meeting of the British Cabinet last week, at the instance of Prime Minister Chamberlain. ITALY FOLLOW CERMSAHY And this is what happened in Italy today. In the morning Luce Mussolini was in conference for two hours with last MondayTs reports that sixty thousand reservists had teen called to the colors. Then there were also reports* but these were not confirmed, that Mussolini had concentrated large numbers of his troops at Genoa and £pe*ia. From those places they can be whisked over to Spain or to the French frontier, at a moment’s notice. withdraw h: France migl Balear: this repori "could not 1 aggressive not remain indifferent, it would be\a new violation of the King Boris of Bulgaria. Second, the Italian government confirmed ITALY FOLLOV, GERMANY - 2 ^ 'A ,idit m ^«j,«?aaa»trft4m-a--nrrQ fcaioh-Italy couia »-*v «not»hor»" wup^ir^fe avert-more threatening language w*# issued to France in Rome, it appeared in a semi-official paperj called ^Diplomatic Information.Tt Wiat makes it important is that it showed signs of having been written by Mussolini himself, The gist of the warning was that if either France or Russia interferes in Spain, Italy will intervene openly ftERMY A curious bit of news comes from Berlin. Nineteen of the crack trains on the German state railways have been cancelled until further notice. The government has cut out that many of the fastest trains connecting the principal cities of the Reich. That so finds indeed strange as the Germans have alY/ays been as proud of their railways as we have in America, especially their crack express trains. One explanation has it that this is a consequence of the tremendous movements of troops and materials that were necessary last year while Hitler was anschiussing Austria and busting up Chechoslovakia. That made a terrific demand upon the rolling stock of the Prussian state railv/ays. Also the fortification of the Siegfried Line along the River Rhine, As a result, railway cars are xtaiiKd sadly in need of repair. That, at any rate, is the story. RIOT Another riot in India. *e=«»0ne of those religious rumpuses, a fight between Hindus and Moslems. It happened at Bareilly, a city in the united provinces that you Btay^foavy read about in wsssarf Klplingf^=^®«m»* Before the riot was stopped, six people were killed, ninety injured. British troops finally restored peace after Btany people hed been ■otebbod on* fires started all over the city. FRENCH PLANES We’ve been hearing a great deal about foreign purchases of American airplanes. Hitherto it hasn’t been official. Today the announcement was made by the French Embassy in Washington. .Ihe-fimbaa gy t ^ mission of French air experts is now negotiating the largest order of fighting planes ever placed by any foreign government in America. The French attache admitted that before the negotiations are completed, it might, mean the purchase of six hundred fighting ships in America. In addition to that, the French have already placed one order for a hundred pursuit planes with fcfce Curt is-Wright, gMBARGO A Pennsylvania Congressman wants to compel President Roosevext to explain his actions to Congress. It's all about the Spanish embargo. It seems a trifle late in the day to get excited about that, with Franco praefcicQlI ji in Barcelona «and that But Republican Representative Van Zandt of Pennsylvania doesnTt think it’s too late. He wants a special joint committee of Congress to be named and *<& summon Mr, Roosevelt to appear in person and explain his foreign policy. In the Senate meanwhile. Democratic Senator Reynolds of North Carolina was shooting firecrackers at the President. He was exorcized because of that twenty-five rnixlion dollar loan to China. "Mr. Roosevelt has started, an undeclared war aEainst Japan,.' says Senator Reynolds. And he added* "The United States is again pulling Britain's chestnuts out of the fire in the Par East.’1 WAGNER ACT The scene is all set now in Washington for the fireworks over the Wagner Ajt, the Labor Relations statute. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts opened the ball by offering amendments to Senator Wagner's measure. It is no secret that those amendments were not only dictated but actually drawn up by the legal department of the American Federation of Labor. The idea is supposed to be to meet some of the bitter criticisms that have been hurled at the way the act is working out. Business men kicked because the Labor Relations Board wouldn't allow them even to express their opinions* So one of the amendments permits employers "to express opinions on matters of interest to their employees or to the public but, provided that such opinions are not accompanied by acts of discrimination# or threats." Another amendment would allow employers to ask the Board to conduct elections among their employees. A* present elections can only be instituted at the re*uest of the employees. mkerc a*»e- eight ^ffieadmea**-^Scthe*-' el^deaigneA- ftRDLATOflR Today in the affair of Jules Brulatour Mew York ? police and investigators of the District Attorney* s office made further efforts to find the pistol with which the multi-millionaire was wounded last Saturday. So far the search has been quite futile. The next step of District Attorney Tom Dewey was xx an order for Brulatour's arrest. The charge against him, the unlawful possession of a gun. Hope Hampton, Brulator’s wife, appeared at the District Attorney's office for questioning. She was accompanied by three maids. As soon as she reached the office, she was promptly taken before the grand jury. gOODRY (pronounced Oudri^ as romantic Here is one of tho«?p 036 stories about industry I- *ramatU as many a fiction tale of adventure. It begins with a young man of brains, a prophet without honor in his own country;- Eugene Houdry, high honor, graduate of French eagineepfaCT* scientific schools**, born into the steel TF business in France. He became interested in gasoline, m started experiments and hit upon a process which meant enormous advance in the extraction of gasoline from petroleum. Due to the somewhat nebulous status of the development from a commercial standpoint, oil interests in his own country and other European nations decided against the attempt to carry the idea to eompl o-n j | h j yl) , . . . . t f f* nnrer TBfiT^»— turned him down. Harold Sheets of the old Vacuum Oil Company, now Vice-President of Socony heard of the work and after investigation brought Houdry to America to develop the process. -Following Vacuum* s merger with Socony it was decided that Houdry should seek additional backing. I—loarneii'^heflia foots byniho wey from an article in the February issue of Fortune Magasine., Fortni'g nm' f.ed oil H To cut irnilDRY -2- the story short the young Frenchman finally went to Philadelphia, met Arthur Pew, Sun Oil Company Vice-President in charge of research, Sm Fortune stogy continues: "Hendry says he talked to Mr, Pew for twenty minutes before they struck a bargain. Pew remembers forty minutes." Perhaps we can split the difference and settle for thirty. At any rate, Houdry moved Into the laboratory of the Sun Oil Company at Marcus Hook. Today thirty- five million dollars is being spent in new plants by Sun Oil and Socony to extract gasoline by the Houdry process. goes on to another dramatic episode. At the iia^teenth Convention of the American Petroleum Institute in Chicago, Arthur* Pew was scheduled to read a paper. "He is no spell—binder,n says Fortune, A sturdy man, six feet tall, big* quiet and abrupt, shoots his words out as though they came from a gun. Arthur Pew What does that mean to us? The story in Fortune met an unexpectedly large audience at that meeting last November. The main show was over, leaving the decks clear for the technical fflen who usually read their papers to each other. But when Arthur Pew got up to speak every chair was taken,^the aisles were jammed HOUDBY -5- n His paper had a formidable scientific title. But, everybody listened spell-bound, no coughing, no scraping of chairs. A'nd, Fortune adds, nwhen Pew finished the room was dead silent.n There were only a few questions. The truth is that the oil men were not talking but thinking. Arthur Pew had dropped a bomb shell. "If he has called his shots right," says Fortune, "there will be a change in the entire oil industry." What it means to the motor ✓ g’ car driver is that the quality of gasoline will be improved in spectacular fashion. Its octane rating, tha^s what keeps the knock out of your motors, will be sensationally higher. Motor builders will be able to turn out cars to travel faster and farther on a gallon of fuel. Whatfs more, the aviation industry will profit too. Airplane engines need a hundred octane gasoline. pj4Jz QJ$ » will be much cheaper to manufacture by the new process. “F" • ^ It is doubtful whether pure Houdry gasoline will \ 7 ■I appear in the dealer1s pumps before 1940 when the present-plant building programs are scheduled for completion. But^prior to xk this, as the production is increased the benefits to noted in increasing anti-knock characteristics. motorist will be noted in increasing --- -