DOOLITIliE TT — ~7~ h £*. . />' 'Cv ? I’ra thinking tonight that the most ironical name in this country is attached to a little fellow who is one of the world1s aviators.. Imagine calling Jimmy — Doolittle, when he does so much• After years of making the sky a m& playground for' his flashing stunts,. Jimmy turns up today with a real wonder-flight, /it1 s' dazzling enough to break hddiei hickenbacker1 s coast-to-c^st record. But Jimmy broke it with a few fancy He broke the record toy four minutes \r and fifty seconds, HiclE ntoacker made his record by flying from. Los Angeles to thefbewark Airport, Jimmy Doolittle did it from Los Angeles to Floyd Bennett field in Hew lork City. That* s further east than|l:iewa.rk, eighteen miles farther. On top of that Jimmy flew two hiindred and fifty extra miles, as a result of having run into fin unexpected and exasperating tragi-comedy of weather* It%* one of* those dinner-and-breakfast flights. dinner last eve ling in Los Angeles and breakfast this morning in Hew York. LI even hours and fifty-nine minutes £*$ the: &i.f He had Mrs. Doolittle along and Robert Adamson, who ■ - .■-ifSSfSSBHI DOOLITTLE - 2 helped him with the ^*reless. His plane was a Vultee Transport, with Wright Cyclone engines. That’s all fine, tout what atoout the weather? The weather reports were most favoratole. Fair weather from the Pacific to the Atlantic, with one slight exception, Jimmy was told he’d run into some clouds in the neighborhood of Burtoank, California. And that was correct. He did run into those clouds; climbed through them, and didn’t see the ground again until he hit the Atlantic coast. Across the continent and didn't know it was there. It was one long streak of bad flying weather all the way. He had to fly blind, toy instruments. lee formed on the plane, dangerously, Jimmy had to climto to sixteen thousand feet to get out of the ice-forming condition of the atmosphere. And sixteen thousand was tops for his heavily-loaded plane, loaded with gas. He flew at that ceiling elevation all the rest of the way. Then a dramatic toreak - toreak in the clouds. They saw sea shore toelow. Yes, the clouds broke just as they hit the Atlantic Coast. They were in clear weather now, and they headed DQOLITTUS - 3 north for wew York, The detour to the South caused that extra distance of two hundred and i'ifty miles, Jdut still Jimmy broke the record, Jimmy Doolittle, huh? Jimmy Do-much. His wife says - Jimmy Too-much } There was just one ray of light at Flemington today to break the fog of handwriting, and that was when ^^^anu^cture^1 oV ^ /V A the jgj-ddlewesty appeared on the witness stand. His appearance is swiftly explained when the detail is added that he manufacturers baby thumb guards. This of course harks back to the testimony of Betty Gow, that she found baby Lindbergh1s thumb guard on the highway, not far away from the house, a month after the kidnapping. It has been a moot point - how that tell-tale■object could have been lying there for so long, while all thC* hunting and sleuthing was going on. The defense has been intimating that it was placed there long after the kidnapping. The manufacturer from the west was there to identify the thumb guard. The defense has been maintaining it could not have remained so long in the open without.the metal parts of it rusting. The manufacturer testified that his thumb guards were rust-proof. Then defense attorney Reilly, in his questioning^ insinuated that the manufacturer from the west himself might have placed the thumb guard in the driveway. lo which the manufacturer replied, ss to go strewing ti very quietly: it was not his business to go strewing the highways with the articles he manufactured, .4 s* J 1 LIK33BERGH - 2 Beyond this, it was the same old handwriting argument, with more expert testimony, accusing Hauptmann of having written all the ransom notes. The State is piling up reams of expert opinion indicating that the Bronx carpenter was the kidnapper. Another hit of handwriting information comes from Baltimore, where two graphological authorities, Samuel C, Malone and Arthur P, Myers, make the statement that they were prospective witnesses for the Hauptmann defense, and they were in line to ( testify that Hauptmann did not write the ransom notes. There was only one hitch* The two experts declare that after they had examined the ransom notes, they refused to testify. The reason they refused was - that they believed Hauptmann nad written the notes. Attorney Reilly says the reason they quit the case was because the defense had no fund s with which to pay ■chem. Meanwhile, tho se witnesses nave arrived from Germany • relatives of the deceased Pisch, the dead man on whom the Hauptmann defense is trying to pin the guilt. They are a brother, Pincus Pisch, Mrs. Pincus Pisch, and Hannah Pisch, a sister. They were accompanied by a German nurse, presumaoly the nurse who LIKDBERGH - 3 ■M -T !'ttp attended Isidor Piach in hie last hours. It ie not sure that she will be called upon to testify. './ >» m As I see It, the result of the Saar points to some broad general meanings. Plenty of people vail te.i.1 you that f; jshe Fascist dictatorships in Europe do not have the support of <#?- the people, that it is merely the ■adyi^ration of liberty and tar free elections that make a population seeia to support a \ dictatorial government. The question is asked: ,fHow could human beings deliberately vote away their freedom, their rights£ff You can answer a good deal by pointing at the Saar. Here the election was perfectly free. The League of Nations authorities crv-SfL, running it v/ere certainly not anxious to have the Maxis win. 7, /he £ ______________________________ jthe Saar overwhelmingly votes itself into the powers^ of ... -e Hitler’s iion dictatorshipJ/ Of course the coal mine vally i_s ZZ&nJQj German and the people i&l-gtefc be ^sq^ected to prefer union with A A Germany. If a mere majority had been sctHt^d at wouldn’t mean x ,|Sta. so much. But here in a free election hardly oneNP^rson out of ten voted to xeep clear of the Iron Regime of the Maxis. xSline out of ten ere against the mild League of Nations regime and in favor of the That ninety percent vote/In a significant way^resembles ■wr,1 saalaw^i those overwhelming majorities scored in elections in the Fascist ^Accustomed as we are to close elections, tka: with sixty oercent a huge majority — we aye accttatcrmea" think of tnose Fascist elections as farces based on coercion. one cannot help feeling that tnose immense, almost one hundred percent majorities are based, not on force, but on some new and the anti-dazis clearing out of the country before Hitler comes in. Germany to give the minority a break nd not x’orce its opponents to leave their homes. But the ajpeal is not liKely to have much effect. The Saarlanders are staging wild celebrations. They are not doing any great v_ol^nce to the anti—Hitlerites _ outside of taking control of the local jolice force ^Iread^ ‘and jutting anti-dazi policemen in their own jails. Other anu here we nave the free Saar election going the same way*$o more powerful kin^ of persuasion. The election^ aftermath was ■- an exodus under wa; /> precisely what was to be expected — an exodus under way. Premier Flandin of France has issued an appeal asking v dazi opponents have gottaa 'word that they^better leave the b-n-iT-h. 3 I country. And the exodus crt\ <aJZ though there’s a waiting time oi a fey; weeks. The &aas£m will turn the Saar over Germany A ^ in March, A usual rumours of utseh and plot. Vvord flashed of Communist conspiracy to seize the valley. The international police jumped in cuickly and found there vvaiPnist much to An optimistic notC^ s unded from Berlin, It was obvious that the clearing up of the ^aar uestion by removing an aggravating p. int of dispute would help peace and harmony along , and|Hitler himself sounds the peaceful note. Immediately after the election figures were ublished, he vent on the air and told the people of the Saar that a fifteen year wrong had been cleared up. I!Your vote," ne proclaimed to the Saarlanders, "is a step toward peace. After your return Germany has no territorial demands on France,” _ -- -———— Taey ^hTtler is so, elated that he is likely to take Germany back into the League of Nations as a gesture of victory and good will. RUSSIA Reports of something like a minor revolution come from far off Russian Turkestan, near the Afghan border. It concerns that problem which the Soviets have frequently found so difficult - the collection of grain from the peasants. Mohammedan peasants of Turkestan refused to surrender their iisioC quota of grain to the Communist gatherers. The police went to enforce ssi the collection. They found themselves faced v/ith rifles and machine guns. They called a regiment from the nearest Red army garrison. There was bitter fighting. Finally, the Reds beat the Mohammedans. The defeated peasants escaped across the border Into Afghanistan, where they are safe from the executioners xi|xx±ks of the Communist secret police. That grain collecting party, which turned into a battle. cost two thousand lives, an equal number of Mohammedan peasants and Red soldiers — ycf~ 7 r ■■ ■■ ' ■"* " OIL Along the old caravan route across the north Arabian dsert, oil is flowing, Since the days when history was dim and young, the strings of plodding, swaying camels carried silks and spices across that waterless sea of sand - now itfs oil, not oil by ancient caravan - oil by modern pipe line. At the town of Kerkuk, In Iraq, east of the River Tigris, they are celebrating today. With the young King of Bagdad presiding over the ceremony, they are opening the most romantic pipe line in the world. It has been under construction for two years, with American engineers directing the job. The distance isjtwelve hundred sandy desert miles. It taps the rich Mosul oil field, piping petroleum under the historic rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, all the way to the Mediterranean shore of Palestine, to the seaport of Haifa. EightyQfive thousand barrels of oil a day will be poured through the capacious pipes laid on the floor of the desert. And we hear that airplanes will fly regular patrol routes, over the old caravan trail, now a trail of oil pipe. They will scout overhead for a spot that leaks, easy to detect - black oily splotches on the glinting yellow face of the desert. And the sky OIL - 2 patrol will spy out not only leaks, but also maurading Bedouin. The wild nomad of the desert Is a mischieveous soul. And ± can imagine some of the old scoundrelly sheiks I have known finding no more hilarious fun — than cutting the great pipe line, and v/atching the oil spout! Sheiks like boys on Hallowe’en. Young King GhazI of Bagdad talks English, plays tennis, likes to wear English clothes. Last year the more fanatical Arabs started a whispering campaign, saying he planned to marry an Englishwoman. The young lord of the old realm of Haroun al Raschid was too wise for that. He spiked the rumor by marrying his second garwirg cousin. Princess Alija, He had never seen her, save when her countenance was hidden by the traditional veil of Islam. But when he did, he was pleased, for she was comely to behold. That was all as it might have been in One of the Thousand and One Nights. Now, another night, another story, may be added, as the King of Bagdad dedicates the pipe line carrying oil along the cara\an route of the desert. Oil from the Garden of Eden. I don’t usually mention birthdays. But congratulations are in order today to America’s second ranking general in the World War, ueneral Robert Lee Bullard. He’s seventy-four. MONKEY From India, land of strange stories, comes one of the strangest I've heard. An English vaudeville actor was traveling with a couple of trained monkeys in Bengal. One day he went into the forest with his monkeys. He didn't come back. The monkeys did, and they were chattering excitedly. The police looked into the matter and the two monkeys led the way into the woods to a place, where they found the actor - stabbed to death. On their way back to the neighboring town, the fellows with the monkeys stopped at a me wayside Inn for some food. Two strangers entered the place and as they did, the monkeys went wild. They jumped at the two men, attacking them fiercely. The police intervened and arrested the two - searched their homes, and there they found a watch and bits of jewelry belonging to the murdered actor, and some blood-stained clothes. The trial will take place with the two monkeys as central figures - another of those singular criminal cases for which India Is famous. tw: / ' COFFIM From Prince Edward Island, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, comes story - relayed to me by Ben Deacon of the Canadian National Railways. It concerns one Charles Coughlin, who forty years ago left his home on Prince Edward Island and after wandering about finally landed in Galveston, Texas, He died there and was buried. On September eighth, nineteen hundred and one, a terrific West Indian hurricane swept the Gulf of Mexico, and caused that historic calamity 4^ the southwest* known as the Galveston flood. The wind blasted at a terrific velocity of a hundred and thirty-five miles an hour, and swept the raging waters over the city. The churning torrents washed out the cemetery, where Charles Coughlin was buried, swefct av/ay the earth and the coffins, which floated away on the Gulf. Recently, a floating coffin drifted ashore at Prince Edward Island. Upon examination, they found a plate with the name of Charles Coughlin, the same man who had left his Prince Edward Island home those long years ago. Wind and current had carried the coffin from the Gulf of Mexico off Calveston^all the way around in to the Atlantic and up the coast to the Gulf of St.Lawrence. An unusual way for a local boy to return home. DEMOCRAT'S Which, party ie better off — the Democratic or the Republican!? Of course, I mean, financially better off. The Republican National Committee proclaims a real G,0,P, triumph, when it announces that the deficit incurred in the course of the presidential election two years ago has not only been cleaned up, but that there is a surplus of a hundred and eighty-four dollars in the pot. This political financial victory has excited shame and humiliation in the Democratic ranks. For while the Democs-its won the election in the terms of votes, they are way behind so far as the dollar is concerned. The Democratic national Committee is Five hundred thousand dollars in the red. So now Jim Farley, Chairman of the Committee, asks a philosophical question, "If so many people vote Democratic, why can't some of them pay Democratic? Whereupon, he has started a drive to raise the needed half million. Today the word is that a list of five hundred prominent members of the Jeffersonian Party has been drawn up. Only the most distinguished Democrats are on it, I wonder if A1 Smith is one. Gee, it must be fine to be on that list * Each one will be given the honor of donating a thousand dollars to get the Democrats DEMOCRATS - 2 out of the red. What an honor ’ That will wind up the deficit, broadcast - and, SOLONG UNTIL TOMORROW. And this winds up the wmmmmrnm 3— ■