IS LAMPS L.T"— Hww. VUn).^ '3^ On the map/ Micronesia looks like a lot of pepper sprinkled on the Pacific Ocean east of the Philippines* It looks as if it might take a microscope to find Micronesia* -Well, the prefix, "Micro" Is derived from the Greek meaning little and they are little Islands, swarms of them, a string of archipelagoes of the South Seas* They are a long belt iff liBlamlm to the north of the Melanesian Island groupr^ and e# the Polynesian Archipelagoes. Melanesia and Polynesia are split up between’England, Australia, France, and the United States. Wefve got phrt of Samoa, Micronesia is controlled by Japan. That’s what brings the world of South Sea Islands into the news tonight. The League of Nations is demanding an explanation from Japan* The Mikado’s empire holds those numerous islands under a permanent mandate wi'inwiBninw from the Le^gue^granted after the war. Japan has since withdrawn from the League. That, In itself, makes Micronesia a ticklish subject* Under the League of Nation’s mandate, the island^4s* not supposed to be fortified* Todayj‘3^£g T inj[irie^-i™™1*1 *rnfi!cft« public the fact that Japan is spending a huge sum of money building naval harbours and airports for sky ISLANDS - 2 fleets on various volcanic isles and coral atols* The supposition is that the Admirals of Tokyo are planning to create strategic bases, especially in the Carolines, from which to dominate the whole romantic expanse of the South Sea Islands. A glance at the map will make clear the strategic importance of Micronesia. One thin string of islands leads almost due south from Japan to the strung out clusters of Micronesian Islands. And these form a dominating fringe and border stretching to the north and northwest of the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Archipelago, the New Hebrides, the Fijis and Samoa. (Kingsford-Smith, could tell us something about that Pacific geography, having just flown over it all the way to California. Yes, they lock like pepper sprinkled ^on the map, but they maybe pepper blown into somebody’s eyes.) mimmatmFyWJfWgi MOHRO CASTLE The Morro Castle is in the courts again today. Captain Warms appeared at the New Custom House, to stand trial for negligence. Proceedings against the Captain of the ill-fated ship were based on facts dug up by Dickerson Hoover, Assistant Director of the Steamboat Inspection Service. HeTs a brother of J. Edgar and Hoover, Chief of the Department of Justice Investigators, leader A in the manhunts for Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd. Captain Warms pleaded not guilty, and is bringing the evidence of his brother officers to support him. If he is found guilty, in the present trial, he will lose his seaman1s license and would also be subject to indictment before the regular courts on charges of criminal negligence. HUEY LONG The Supreme Court says it!s O.K. to go fishing for the Kingfish. The highest tribunal of the land puts Huey Long on the spot for a half a million dollar lawsuit. Today Chief Justice Hughes and his eight associate justices ruled that Huey will have to stand trial in that whale of a libel suit brought against him by General Samuel T. Ansell. Last year the Kingfish took the \ Senate floor and started discussing the way they were investigate^ his election activities in Louisiana. General Ansell was special counsel for the Senate Committee that was doing the investigating. Huey took advantage of congressional infinity and called General Ansell a thief and a scoundrel and charged that he had "practically1* forged his appointment as Judge Advocate General of the United States army. That in itself left no redress for the General, who is a graduate of West Point and of the Law School of the University of North Carolina. His army service culminated when he attained the highest legal rank in the War Department. He could not sue in the courts because of that congressional immunity. A speaker on the floor of the House or Senate can say anything he likes, without danger of arrest or suit for libel. Huey Long, - __________ U . ~ ' .'' ■ ■ ■ ~ I HDEY LONG ■ 2 however, went still further and distributed printed copies in pamphlet i } : I f form of his speech denouncing General Ansell. That was the slip-up. The General sued, claiming half a million dollars libel. The Kingfish still claimed immunity, argued that his congressional rights covered the printing of what he had said on the Senate floor. The case went to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Ansell^s right to sue was upheld. The Kingfish carried it still higher, to the Supreme Court of the United States, and today the verdict was handed down. Huey Long canbe sued, not for what he said in the Senate but for printing and distributing copies of what he said SUPR5?ffi COURT iTO The Supreme Court handed down another decision today — of large industrial importance* It concerns one of those cases in which the highest tribunal of the land is passing upon the validity of many of the innovations put into force to bring about recovery* This time It's a case of fixing a minimum price, a minimum price which milk distributing companies pay to the milk producers, the dairy farmers* A milk company sued, claiming it could not make a profit out of the margin between the minimum price it had to pay the milk producers and the price at which it had to sell to consumers. The company claimed that it was unconstitutional ik IrmirTltfiji to fix minimum price U.s, th< But the Supreme Court today ruled otherwise, handed down a c decision that the minimum price law was constitutional, even if the small companies couldn*t make the grade* The court upheld the law as a recovery measure and claims that It does not « violate the rights of private business ELECTION Tonight is zero hour for the election. st of us have made up our Hinds how to vote. I suppose the President's daughter Mrs, Anna Batl* has but it USsISfe do her any good. She is over twenty- one all right, but a Republican woman candidate has challenged her right to vote Hyde Park, She declares the President's daughter was <yv\. 6V. ant of town at registration time, and -failed to go through the *A formalities entitling her to vote. You will be able to get at least one election return early in the day tomorrow. For years New Ashford, Massachusetts, has been the first municipality to turn in its count, and the town TlSe. Teusvy. is determined to maintain that distinction. Twenty-four voters have A been instructed to get to the polls by a quarter of six tomorrow morning, so that the election result of New Ashford can be counted and returned by six A.M. RUSSIA Soviet Russia Is still trying to^5J*r\ndustry by means of the A* firing squad. There have been several instances of late Sftl* where i 1 misdoers,ttfcna either through fault or neglijence/were executed. And now comes a case of a Russian train wreck that occurred some weeks ago. Two trains collided and were reduced to a mass of tangled metal. Luckily, only one life was lost, but with a heavy destruction i of property,and railroad service was tied up for days. Lives don’t count so much In Red Russia as the progress of industry. So the train men were brought to trial, a station master and two switchmen. They said it v/as an unavoidable rtrrHnrrfcmrtej but that didn’t count. A A It was found that the station master had once before been implicated in a train wreck. And the two switchmen had been expelled from the Communist Party in the Ukraine for getting drunk and Renouncing the red regime. So the word comes now that all three have been shot. But the Soviet way of running their juu I ul ITT combinj^ifc*^’ ^1“ politics and industry, goes beyond the mere punishment of those who are delinquent either politically or industrially. We heard some time ago how the actions of Soviet citizens abroad were to be visited upon their families in Russia - the old principle of hostages. This . a . m RUSSIA - 2 Is one of the most severe laws that has been applied to Red Industry* It has not been Invoked heretofore, they say. Now the first instance of its enforcement has come about, A young Soviet sailor deserted his ship In a foreign port. He has been ordered to return, but refuses. So his family is to be punished, their property will be confiscated and they will be exiled to Siberia. If the sailor returns, he will be shot, and meanwhile his family suffers ALEXANDER The other night I told how a sweetheart of one of the conspirators in the assassination of King Alexander had revealed the story of the school for killers, in which student assassins had used a dummy of King Alexander for target practice. That melodramatic lead is now followed by some more purple melodramatics„ The woman1s story has been confirmed by the confessions of three Croatian terrorists, ^confirmed with flamboyant trimmings. themselves were pupils in that school for assassination, on a secluded farm in Hungary. One day, several months ago, presumably Alexander, a man came to the terrorist farm, a representative^they declare^ of the leader of the Croatian revolutionaries. Dr. Anton Pavelitch* He brought with him a number of black and white balls. He chose fifteen young men from the class in terror. He divided them into three groups of five. Each group had to draw a ball from a bag containing four white balls and a black one. Each one who drew a hlack ball also drew the murderous assignment to kill the King. Three assassins were chosen, just to make sure. Four These three plotters have told the French police how they while they were shooting target practice*, at an effigy of King ALEXANDER - 2 others were selected to act as assistants^ to do advance work in preparation^for the three who had drawn the black balls. One of tie plotters who ha o now confes sendee lares that he was the special assistant assigned to the actual assassin*,who was killed just after he had committed the crime. The plotters were packed off to France by different routes. The supreme leader of the Creation revolutionaries sent still another man along, a personal emissary of his, to act as a coach and see that the deed was done. What defense had these terrorists to make? They declared they were acting with all right and justice. They were merely KXROitl executing a court decree, a terrorist court decree. They explained that months ago a trial of King Alexander was held in that school on for assassins^ that terrorist farm in Hungary, and the monarch of Yugo-Slavia was formally condemned to death. This flamboyant story merely completes the picture which has been painted sketchily all along - a picture of fantastic melodramatics worthy of a cheap scary fiction serial, lying behind the most sensational political crime since the World War SPEARS Imagine an Hawaiian without a ukeleXe, a Mexican without a sombrero, an Eskimo without a kyawk, an Englishman without a king, a Frenchman without a triangle, a German without sauer­ kraut, an American without a grievance, or Gandhi without a • loin-cloth. No, the imagination isn#t powerful enough for that. And then, going on to Africa, can you imagine a black tribesman without a spear? No. Every African motion pictureaMos from Carl Aakley to Martin Johnson cries out.In protest. An African warrior must have a spear — or how could he be an African warrior? Nevertheless, that’s another old tradition on its way out. At leasl in one part of the Black Continent. The Governor of the Province of Kenya has ordered the warriors of the Samburu tribe to abolish their spears. The reason is that it’s a tribal law among the Samburus that a youth connot be admitted to manhood until he has dipped his spear Into an enemjr’s blood. Naturally, when a spear is dipped into an enemy's blood it's likely to hurt the enemy, and the British have laws against homicide. To make matters worse the Stagllxh young tribesmen have killet^Englishmen «a-ai.(vwaB SPEAES -2 occasions. For a long time the authorities have been trying '± the- to put a stop to -a-—youth going out- —speariag somebody ■ jtts-t- pe ho can—beewno a full* f ledgeji-* warrior*—Many- pines have been imposed but .they have done little good. The young men of the Saraburus gladly pay the fine for the privilege of jabbing somebody with a spear. So the Governor General has decided that there’s only one. way to stop the ritual- murders as they are called by the British, and that is by abolishing spears. So the Samburu tribesmen will have to eay nOero^byow to- their < beatiHgk spears into plow shares, I suppose. The Governor’s order has been signed, and the pen is mightier « than the spear. ¥ o o t ano t hwr-*ld- n- is owito way-out^ an*" I’m. 50 -h&Na-UMTIL TOMOIIIWW. 1 FISH Of course we all know that Englishmen will not be slaves, also that Englishmen must have their kippers for breakfast.- in other words, the airplane and fish. A \v So far as not being slaves is concerned, there1s the defense of His Majestyrs realm, the King1 s navy. His Majesty^ j^orse guards, and also the Royal Flying Corps, Britain is prepared to meet attack from the sky, her squadrons of war planes wheel and swoop high above the London fog, and incessantly the flotillas of* big bombers go out for Why bombing practice. Obviously, they donJt fly over London when they drop their tons of explosives, nor over the sylvan villages of Kent and Surry. Neither do they bomb the farmers1 fields^ They fly out ^-v\ to sea, over the ^ ^ i■ m i m ,\ m'i■ ■ there are no ships around^ and bomb the deserted waters, with giant^explosions. That seems fair enough, but now along come the British fishermen. The haanflly sea farers who provide the Englishman with his kippers for breakfast. And they are raising a loud holler. They point out $hat happens when the bombs burst in the scares the fish, A few minutes of bombing practice and the fish ; .•26 for miles are driven and go scurrying over to the coast of France. A A FISH - £ And there the fish are caught by the French fishermen. That makes the English fishermen^*«=®t What would be fried fish in an English A A cottage becomes filet of sole marguery over in France, The Air Ministry is considering the fishermen's complaint. It's all rather perplexing. The bombers will have to have bombing practice - and they can hardly bomb London. Of course they might go over near the French coast and bomb t^he waters there, and thereby chase the fish back to England. But would that make the French fishermen sore! mirght kick up another World War Ctfu bh^iirrrHjrft* d * uuL ufl that problem of the airplane and the fish. tne ij . su uauit uu ■y» j'-k e* f VA b ORTS- m m n ' ry V* ^'.jM-igsaaaani The word from England today is high prices -- high prices for windows. People are paying as much as five hundred dollars for watching privileges at one window. With five people crowded at a window, that would be a hundred dollars a look. They’re doing a land-office business selling window space in houses, office buildings, hospitals, or any sort of place that fronts the street down which the wedding procession of Prince George and I rincess Marina will pass. Of course, all the royalty of Britain and a glittering assortment of potentates from many other countries will be on parade, Considering the huge quantities of royalty and other dignitaries that will be visiblp from those windows, the price won’t come so high. At a hundred dollars a person, it might average ten bucks for a king, five for a royal prince and about fifty cents a head for dukes, cabinet ministers and lords of the admiralty; and a nickel a piece for so^e twenty thousand liveried coachmen. And now, home James, and, 30 LONG UNTIL TOMORROW