—i horn as Broadcast - Moveiaber £ 5 , 195£ Good Evening, Everybody:- \The latest on that ticklish war debt question is that Uncle Earn will say to Europe: "We would rather you paid up as promised on December 15th,’1 J This announcement came late this afternoon from the White House. A dispatch to the Brooklyn Times Union reports that President Hoover has turned down the appeal of the European Nations for another Moratorium on the $1£5, 000,000 installment due next month. ^This announcement followed on that histone conference yesterday with President-elect Roosevelt and discussions today > I t? ii‘y-bc?cry t- ? jHgflbfcg -4he latea-fc-oci -tha tr-werg- busiiiy s'!" ci 1’ L0T l I u ii_’ciryii1* 15e 1 wti«ii Presicieiit;—keov qj - » and M^r^i3«r>frcvoxij 'fQ& tot-day af^c^i'noonMr, A Mills, the Secretary of the ireasury, called on Governor Roosevelt and invited him to another conference. This A. A invitation Governor Roosevelt declined. Reports on yesterdayfs The Republican papers, however, such as the stand-pa#i* I'iew Tork but refused Lo commit himself on the issue, or to join in any recommendation to Congress: - Thus putting the matter squarely The Democratic papers such 'ir a satisfactory session. as the New York Times A- X up to President Hoover to settle r- he time being. A large part of Governor Roosevelt’s time in Washington today was taken up by conferences with Democratic leaders. President Hoover also discussed with the leaders of Contress the re-establishing of the world war debt funding commission. ihe Democratic leaders intimated that the President nad not received much encouragement. A dispatch to the Hew York ’World Telegram declares that vice --president darner and all the principal Democrats are urging dovernor Hoosevelt to refuse any concession and delay any action by the Democrats^ until March 4th J*\ ■^n r^kj Adoii Hitler, the head of the German Fascists, seems to be oat of luck in his efforts to form a cabinet. A dispatch to the hew fork Evening Post announces that ^Litler \ XKXUKnfid reported to President von Hindenburg that he was unable to 4 WsnT> any government A be sure of a majority in the German parliament.y On the other hand hitler told the President he would be willing £ to form a government xmi similar to that headed by ex-chancellor von Papen and the militarists, the cabinet which resigned last weekj {^ 3 yw The Po3t^^^!*S^in^rprets this as meaning that A all of von Hindenburg 1 s attempts to save the bare iorm oi parliamentary government seem 'to have slipped up. It is obvious that Hitler has no chance whatever 01 obtaining anything like a majority in the newly elected German parliament. MacDGN^LD A serious change in the British cabinet was indicated m London today* A o.ispatch to the New Yorh Lvening Post says that Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald has been suffering for some time and has been under medical care. The principal trouble is with his eyes, the trouble he had before, w X The dispatch continues that Mr. MacDonald can carry on by cutting down the volume of the work he does. At the same time, many of his colleagues are prophesying that his term of office cannot last much longer, ^ Correspondents, of course, are speculating upon his Dossibie successor, iron all accounts, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald’s resignation will make the choice of the next prime minister exceedingly difficult for England. ^ ^ TRQTZbiiY Hearing the description of the travels of Leon /I I'rotzsky, you would thin:c he was dynamite or even worse. j '. s a matter ol fact no case of dynamite was ever handled so gingerly as this fireiy little Communist with the whiskers. Everywhere he goes xnn h r rfymtn ipeav through lines of police A A with strong body guards of secret service agents. In France), the government thought it had to protect him from assassination by so-called White Russian refugees. The police received many letters indicating that he was in danger not only from Russian Czar 1st fugitives but also from Communists> who consider him a traitor. V.hen he arrived in Denmark today, the usual escort of police met him. In addtion to that, Trotss.:y has a body guard of five secretaries. The Danish cops hustled him from the dock to the train ano. locked him in a compartment. Even so. the former, much-feared war chiex oj Joe ^ovi e o seems to be nervous W&ZrtSi 1/iA t JAPAU a story from Paris indicates Japan has been making overtures to Prance and has but firmly A. snubbed, ror some time a report has been current in the French capital that the Japanese were making overtures for a new Franko-Japanese alliance, also a large loan. This rumor has been formally denied by both the French and Japanese governments. Nevertheless the report persists that the land of the Mikado needed to borrow money and thought Paris was the best place to get it. Both the French foreign office and the Parisian bankers apparently were cold to the idea. ... * IT^LY Uncle Sam appears to be responsible for a friendly approach between France and Italy. A dispatch to the B ew York Sun reports that negotiations have been opened between those two countries under the auspices of the U.S.A. The purpose of the negotiations is to bring about a truce in navy building. They’ve been tryirfg to get King Alfonso to sign SL<Aj|’"’" of Spain, ^^he p have been doing this are not the Republicans, but abdication , _ his/appixsLatiHK from the Throne of Spain, the "people who Monarchists. A delegation of these including several of Alfonso’s former ministers, met him in France recently. ■Ehey urged him to quit in favor of his younger son Juan, and to sign a manifesto announcing the fact. His former most Catholic Majesty’s reply was:-fc*sfeft&e**. - nothing doing^. f0OTBALL DAY IT LOOKS L-f-jGs/TOMORROW IS GOING TO BE ANIsSt&P FOOTBALL ^ /1WD COLDy^BUT NOT COLD ENOUGH TO PUT ICICLES IN f'OUR WISHERS, THERE WILL BE IMPORTANT GRIDIRON BATTLES ALL OYER THE COUNTRY* MOST OF THE SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS H^AVE BEEN DECIDED* NEVERTHELESS SOME OF THE GAMES LEFT TO BE PLAYED THIS WEEK PROMISE TO BE AMONG THE MOST EXCITING OF THE SEASON* FOR INSTANCE* / S/JfV ONE STORY THAT SAID A HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE WHO CAN’T GET TICKETS WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT G^AME OF GAMES* THE ONE AT PROVIDENCE* RHODE ISLAND, THE CONTEST OF TWO TOP FLIGHT* CH AMPIONSHIP TEAMS: BROWN VERSUS COLGATE* NEITHER HAS BEEN BEATEN THIS YEAR* AND COLGATE HASN’T EVEN BEEN SCORED ON* THERE WILL BE A NUMBER OF BIG TRADITIONAL GAMES SERVED UP WITH THE TURKEY TOMORROW:- PENNSYLVAN IA AND CORNELL IN PHILYj T ENNESSEE-KENTUCKY AT KNOXVILLE f ALABAMA VERSUS VANDERBILT AT BIRMI NGHAM j SEVERAL MORE ON THE PACIFIC COAST; AND IN THE G^REATER NEW YORK AREA THE PIGSKIN FRAY THAT WILL A GREAT CROWD IS THE GAME TO BE PLAYE >£[i7 BETV/EEN TWO POWERFUL* HARO FIGHTING TEAMS* CARNEGIE TECH AND NEW YORK UNIVERSITY* I’M GOING TO THAT ONE* *//#/# « ,1 •** BES 3 E W I i j Hi One interesting arrival in the USA today was Dr William Beebe ~ --- w u A 101. 'a^ *v-<sw<, 0v' -■’ »'-?ri-T(in. i ■,-r-iir, i i.^. ijr4 Beebe returned from ' ‘ij9m v;hat the hev -Lork >. orlc Telegram the Soundless Drowned A ji >£ Valleys of Eonb^Such Island4• For it was that island ^E«^yvvvAjuA^u^ ^ a, in the ©Qi'ybbmsMT that Dr. Bee>e went dov/n _ hO ^ nf tihii niTh 111 1 in 1 than any man had ever *mhim before --taae=e»*sa-. h A jA. /\^W>vv 2 .^ •tmra to tell the iia tale. it was a dangerous? as v.ell as epoch-making, e 3 fcpof»ertfr». The name of that part of the ocean into which Dr. Beebe descended is Challenger Deep, and he admits that its mountains and valleys are as treacherous and unpredictable o^udbt^ ....J ^ as the volcanoes that (-.>rvc* then -ard? many thousanci years ago A A Only a thin wise of cable connected -SB* Beebe v,ith t^ie ^.-tring Hi world and enabled him to telephone messages to the surface. lhat burglary at Columbia University^ New York, of which you have been hearing so much, bids fair to become one of the most famous crimes in history. Intrinsically the thing stolen, a manuscript, is an extraordinary choice for a thief. But, of course, the manuscript being in the hand^^^Sir Walter Bcott himself,^^df^he famous novel "Guy Mannering", is practically priceless. This theft is causing criminologists to recall two other similar exploits. The first of these was the lifting of the famous Gainsborough portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire by a gang of crooks in London over forty years ago. It took years of search and after that months n recover the lost Gainsborough. On a par an with that, in fact/even more daring robbery, was the stealing of rv 1 ri'Iour, Leonardo de Vinci^from the Louvre in Paris. xhe theft of this Sir Walter Scott manuscript which of course, belongs to J. Pierpont Morgan, and was loaned by him to is so far completely baffling to /V ^ w ■.■-y-i.- - £ both, professional and amai-eur detectives. xcaxraqcdLxxiiiR A story 1;. the ^ew fork Sun today reports that the police are hunting abroad for the thief. The robbery actually was effected about a month ago. The news only came out recently because the University authorities didn*t make it public before. 4 / sYVLddasi l^^-Z ’ NIGHT FLIGHT HAVt YOU EVER MADE A NIGHT FLIGHT IN A GIANT MODERN A^l RPLANE, I MEAN ON ONE OF THE REGULAR COMMERCIAL LINES, IN A PLANE SPECIALLY EQUIPPED FOR NIGHT FLYING ? WELL DON'T MISS I Tf IT'S AN EXPERIENCE THAT MAKES YOU GLAD TO BE ALIVE IN THIS F^AST MOVING, I NCRED/BLE AGE, I HAD DONE CONS I DER ABLE FLYING IN YEARS PAST, HERE AND IN OTHER COUNTRIES, I HAD FLOWN AT NIGHT, AND IT WAS RATHER ^ QUEEN ISH BUSINESS, ^ BUT I HAD NEVER MADE A LONG NIGHT FLIGHT IN A MODERN AIR LINER OVER A LIGHTED AIR LANE UNTIL LAST NIGHT, AT MIDNIGHT I BOARDED THE PLANE IN CHICAGO, SHORTLY AFTER DAWN, THIS MORNING^ BEFORE BREAKFAST* WE LANDED AT NEWARK AIRPORT AND !ERE ON OUR WAY IN TO NEW YORK, NO ARABIAN NIGHTS MAGIC CARPET EVER HAD ANYTHING ON THAT, EVERY SEAT ON THE PLANE KMS TAKEN, O^NE PASSENG ER HAD COME THRU BY AIR FROM TEXAS, OTHERS FWM THE PACIFIC COAST, AND SOME CHANGED PLANES AT NEWARK THIS MORNING TO FLY ON TO NEW ENGLAND, ****■ ONE MAN EVEN CHANGING PLANES TO FLY SOUTH TO THE CARRIBEAN AND SOUTH AMERICA, ^ WE FLEW THROUGH SNOW STORMS, THE NIGHT V/AS INKY BLACK, BUT WE WERE NEVER OUT OF SIGHT OF THE WHIRLING BEACON LIGHTS ALL ALONG THE ROUTE F OM CH 1C AGO TO NEW YORK, WHEN WE FLtW OVER CLEVELAND, OHIO, ABOUT 3:30 A • M, THE LIGHTS FROM THAT CITY MADE IT SEEM AS BIG AS LONDON, PARIS, BERLIN AND ROME ALL PUi TO GETHER, THEN WE CLIMBED TO OVER TEN THOUSAW FEET AND FLEW THE R E3T OF THE NIGHT AT THAT ALTITUDE, WE SAW SUNRISE FROM TWO, MILES IN THE air , I COULD TALK ABOUT THAT FLIGHT FOR THIS HOLE F I FTEEN MINUTES, IT WAS CO MFO RTABL E, AND I NaPl RI NG, MXKK W INE HUNDRED MILES IN A LITTLE OVER SIX HOUR^, WAT AN ArHQ ________ ^ ' /})D FLIGHT. A LITTLE . j A\ OUT F POM CLSVELAND9 AFTER IVE HAD CLIMBED TO T EN THOUSAND, AND WERE WHIRLING EAST O/ER P E NNS Y LV'AN I A, WITH THE LIGHTS OF YOUNGSTOWN AND AKRON IN PLAIN SIGHT TO THE SOUTH A ND WEST OF US, THE ATTEN DANT IN THE PLANE HANDED ME THE CLEVELAND PL A I NDEABER, THE MORNING PAPER. THE FIRST STORY THAT CAUGHT MY EYE TOLD ABOUT THREE JEWISH LEADERS FROM PALESTINE WH 0 HAD JUST ARRIVED IN THIS COUNTRY. AND HERE'S THE GOOD NEWS THEY HADt THEY SAIDt THERE IS NO UNEMPLOYMENT IN P ALESTINE. EVERY MAN HAS A JOB. SO IT DOES LOOK AS THOUGH T HERE IS ONE COUNTRY FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY. THESE THREE RABBIS SEEM TO THINK THAT THE JCXKZMXMXXXXXK PALESTINE EXPERIMENT I S TURNING OUT TIP TOP AFTER ALL. AND THAT'S GOOD NEWS w I NOEED Wednesday .V HIGriWAY romci it /,.- 'Wlitm That new high speed Jersey highway between Jersey City and Newark vri iml m b> , of fiwi-rr'My throvra open to the public, ^ ju i—iroppmied—tTO= A *«a. The ^ev. lork oun points out one benefit that will accrue from the opening of this marvelous viaduct. It will increase travel over the air lines, iit least so tne champions of air transportation believe. It wl-ir* mak^ motor travel between New York and New Jersey This spectacular piece of engineering wiid-hi© away with all grade crossings and all draw bridge delays over the Passaic £nk#-< so much Quicker that air transportation brought within Ar thirty minutes of downtown Manhattan. and Hackensack hivers. A test highway be*** sho ui^that mail trucks can cover the twelve miles between the General Post Office in N w York City and the airport of Newark in less than £9 minutes. —— ADD HIGHV va Y The Gtate of ^ew Jersey has spent PI million dollars on "this ounea y^usto^t^ SI million dollars to save motorists S5 minutes. The authorities declare it is the most expensive strip of motor k± roadway ever built. To construct it required 88,461 tons of structural steel, 20,000 more than it took to build the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River. j! i" H ;; j. j !, j ____ _ ___ llj WALKER Well, here is Ex-mayor Jimmy Walker of New York in the nev/s again. That autobiography which he is supposed to be writing in France is exciting quite a £ood deal of curiosity. they do say that some politicians are shaking in their rubber-heeled shoes. It is said furthermore that the Honorable Jimmy has been offered for the first serial rights of the autobiography the neat little sum of 50,000 smackers. An editorial in the New York limes ventures the guess that rhe offer does not come mx from the magazine of which the Honorable Alfred E. ~raith is editor. It is also pointed out that just about two hundred years ago another famous American was engaged in writing t±m, , ^ a* in France^ 'thfrr* benjamin Franklin. Someone has made the observation that between the autobiography of Jimmie V.alker and that of old Ben Franklin there will be all the difference that there was fcniw between the exploits of Cleopatra and the home life of Queen Victoria. r jix » j If you want to see a bunco of curious and eager children you ought to take a. look at the foui’th national pet show which is on at Madison. Square harden. New fork. The exhibits include everything from a. mosquito fish to a whixe Burmese elephant. Animals, birds, and fish from every corner of the earth are on view. And the exhibitors range from three years old to sixty-three. ihe mh noises would remind you of a three ring circus. There are roars and squeals and yells, the chattering of monkeys, the trumpeting of the sacred white Burmese elephant, and the loud squawking of tropical birds. ik The mosquIto fish the smaliest exnibiu,1eos thc.n one-quarter of an inch long, It does tr- come from abroad. Its home state is the waters of Kouth Carolina, ^hen there are aquariums with tiny Siamese fighting Usn, also a little fish from Haiti snich swims backwards^ Jl - u. - -r - .