I..T. SUNOCO - AUGUST a. Gootl Ev'enlng, everybody tonight the beautiful city of Havana lies tragic beneath the tropical sky. The day was one of terrified quiet. Streets were deserted. Soldiers and. police of the Machado regime toured the city from end to end, all day, with rifles ready, bayonets fixed* I spoke by ocean telephone today with an old friend of mine now in Havana, who gave tne a first-hand account of the dramatic events that occurred last night. For a lont time Cuba has been seething with unrest. A strike was on in Havana, with two hundred thousand men involved in the walk-out. I hen suddenly a rumor 1 rifted around the city, a rumor that worked like an electrical discharge in a tense atmosphere. President Machado, the report stated, had resigned. Thr wo d spread like wild fire. People told each other with flashing eyes that the Dictator vho ruled so long with a mailed fist, had iinally stepped down from his throne. There was a wild movement in the streets. Hundreds of Cubans who for years have been bitterly opposed to the Jachado government, started a celebr-tion. They went marching, shout ^ia‘ in ; and cheering to the pradoHand gathered in front of the presided CUBA - 2 palace, "Machado has resigned i," they shouted and cheered l But Machado had not resigned. The rumor was false. The dictator gave an unexpected answer to the crowd in front of his palace, the throng that was cheering his downfall. He called his military forces, police and soldiers, '"hey came hurrying to suppress the demonstration. There were a few skirmishes, some sporadic shooting, and then the troops Blazed away with their machine guns, Ycur morning newspapers told you what happened, A hall of bullets streamed into the rioting crowd, > My Havana friend told me on the telephone that forty people were killed1^ He himself saw seventeen bodies heaped up in the morgue. They were piled like players after a football scrimmage. After the blaze of the machine guns Havana lapsed into a deadly quiet of terror all day today. There was ^hush in hotel lobbies and the usually boisterous bar rooms. Today the food supply was running low. Many stores were shut. Business of every kind today was paralyzed by the CUBA - Z widespread strike. Soldiers went around and with threats of violence Tisde stor-Koepers op-n their shops, ^hey tried to persuade strikers to return to work. Several American newspaper men, especially photographers, were roughly handled by soldiers and the police. arriving tcicLfry j Steamshi. s^xrr±VEa^\t th< port, turned right around again and steamed out without leaving eith r cargoes or passengers. The Havana waterfront *1 ' ml ►W v O mb * dese ted. A In f.i effort ^.o meet th menacing situation. President •^achad today demanded and ot from his Senate a declaration of rr.arti-1 law for thirty irys. Th* enerr.1 feelln*, hov/ev r, is that if th- A. .C., as th- elements opposed to the ~ov ’nn-nt are called. can hoi out a id 'eep up their resistance, the Dictator will probably res: *n. If he .or: , la. t ni ht's tragic rumor ' ill have come true. N. ^.C. FOLLO . CUBA The flare-up in Cuba is of acute Interest to Uncle F-m. At the summer hite House it v.as said that the President is ho; eful th' t Cuba x can solve its ovm problems. Mr. uoosevelt hr s instructed Ambassador f limner V.'ells at Havana to trv ici it more rrediation see if h* can’t brine the rival Cuban factions o corse arr^nnement. A ibassaior V eils called on President I Macho lo todnv and; s 'sent d a peace proposal which includes the tempor* ry retire rent of the Machado ••ov- rnment. The latest in ' ! ce tlons r r- tout f re * s lit tle li c lihood of the United States int rvenlng act the Cub- n t’ n *le, N.b.C. BALBO \ , l Tills afternoon through the balmy skies of the Azores a fleet of airplanes came winging. *es, Balbo has landed 1 '■ - ^,'1 r*1^ *^ s s^y flotilla has made the j'ump from Newfoundland across r the Atlantic. They soared aloft at dav.n today. and by three o’clock New ^ork time had covered the twelve hundred miles to the Azores. They didn’t land all together in one formation. As they reached their destination they divided into two groups. General Balbo with fifteen planes came down in the harbor of Ponta Del Gada. General Pellegrini^ second in command, landed with nine planes at the port of Borta not far away. They.crossed the ocean coming and going, and now all jfc1' that remains is the hop to the nearby mainland of Europe and back to Rome. NBC : ________ ^ . 0 iy GERMANY i:I'' -f'-t1 t In \i,t souabble between Germ my and Austria Is tiu-1 the -az'F indtinmr' - l o . that they are oin their b-st o deep enthusiastic Hitlerites in Germany rOL a*** activities against the Austrian Government, And - o it s e .r th t hi Le Hitl r turyied down the protest of France ' , ale an acceptable answer to Rome, Anyway, uyeat Britain has notified Berlin tost ±jtx His Majesty's Government considers that what Berlin said to Rome filLtlf 1 and is . ‘ ci y . H.3.C, MUSSOLINI Here’s something about Mussolini’s teeth — and I suppose the reflection is that you wouldn't want the Duce to bite you. noctor Fiperno, Mussolini’s personal dentist, is in Chicago to attend the centennial dental Congress. He was asked about Mussolini's teeth, and he said the Duce has strong teeth -- powerful bicuspids. He's a good patient and he takes it. That is, he takes it fro® the dentist, not from political enemies. He do- an'i seem to feel pain, ms commonly reads a book while the tooth doctor is drilling at his Napoleonic molars. N.B.C One of the strangest shipments ever sent on any railroad has just been accepted by the Canadian National Express The shipment consists of forty-four boxes of pine moth borers. all in the cocoon stage. They have just come over from England. These teonma nave been infected with a parasite, a kind of A n bug that is death to pine moth borers. The plan is for the parasites to be spread far and wide and thereby help in the destruction of the pine moth borer which is ruining the forests. V- j, HEARSE It seems th' t out in California a hearse is on the rampage. Not a Hearst -- a hearse. The Sheriff of San Bernardino County has asked the police to be on the lookout for the ominous vehicle. A forme: employee of an undertaker disappeared with various things th;tdid not belong to him, a traveling bn;, articles of clothing, a revolver, and last but not least, the hearse. 1 ARIZONA I* looks t 'n Arizona, as It has all alona — not climaticly oi cour } • ut ith V k spect to prohibition. I learned directly by telepiione i re Phoenix that votin today as rather light. Polls will rc-!aain oi'n late. Early returns indicate that it's a walk-over for repealj Arid that Arizona is the twenty-first state to turn thumbs do n on prohibition. course, that was all expected. The drys weiu not able to get enough signatures to their petition to have the names of dry candidateSMprlnted on the ballot. Th' ir only hope is ro attack the election in the courts. N.B.C FLORIDA It s ode. some of tne ti*icks the vieather Man plays. Up here in the dorth v/e*ve nad sum', mighty-hot weather this summer. At while dov.n in Florida it asn*t nearly so hot. ^liami beach the hi he si temperature r* 'is ter d this summer v.as ninety-one degrees. On th** sane day the th rmoraeter in Nevf York hit pne.hundred. And : f vou :on*t believe that i t1 s cooler in ” lor id a than in ‘*e.. Yorh, ju t ask th- liiami Oharabrr of Commerce. liiami Chamber of Commerce. op :: i ; a One of the summer's events that has had people in the shov, business talking, concerns the tuneful subject of opera At the Hippodrome in New York during this off-season, an operatic troupe has been holding forth — and doing capacity busir.esa. They've b*-en packing the huge Hippodrome, which holds six thousand people. What*5 the answer? Why, low prices, grand opera with the tickets priced from twenty-five cento to a dollar. At dinner at the Hotel Gotham last night I was talking with J. Leslie Kincaid, the Manager, and a c uple of theatrical men, who told us that the opera at the Hippodrome was no eye-opener for the* Moguls of the show business. It indicates th; t the public in large American cities will respond to operatic music pretty much as the people of Germany, France burope or Italy. They will go in droves, the pric« s are low, as in DISPATCH Dev. York. FI Tty cl illdien from a Jewish orphanage in Brooklyn went to Far Rockaway Beach this afternoon for an outing. Most of them went bathing. Suddenly a sand bar gave way and fifteen of the tots were hurled into the surf. Bathe.s, lifeguards and several policemen rushed into the water and dragged nine of the youngsters out. Police of the Far Rockaway Precinct tell me that one was drowned, and six are still missing — believed drowned Five wore taken to hospitals, suffering from submersion. The New York Yankees lost a chance today to reach first place in the American League. After taking a double header from the hashington Senators yesterday, the slugging Yankees lost 5 to 1 in the Stadium here at New York this afternoon. Washington has a f-game lead. AX--"Alt It seems thet the Ax-Man tried to get a job and ..a; turned down. The Ax-Man is my old Alaska friend, Emil Hurja, "ho won’t mind iny telling a neat one which is going the rounds. I t , Hurja is reputed to be Ax-Man for Postmaster General Jim Farley. In more dignified phraseology he is called the I Irector of Personnel -- which means that he is Postmaster ' Farley Ts rig at ..and m<r n in handing out patronage, Jobs for deserving Democrats, The story got-s that Secretary of Interior Ickes is not disposed to pass out Jobs in his department according to the usual rule of political strategy. This has annoyed some Dem­ ocrats who fought bravely in the big battle and feel they deserve a jo: . As an experiment Ax-IJan Hurja, who didn,t know Mr. Ickes personally, got a 1 tier to him from Postmaster Farley. The letter recommended Mr. Hurja for a job in glowing terms. Lmil Hurja then went to tne Secretary and presented the letter, appealed for the job -- and was flatly turned down. That*: the yarn they are telling around Washington, although ray good friend hull Hurja says it isn’t true, and I’ll take his word for it. ...... E lliot i-ooerv: et Somebo ly tried to hoax billot Roosevelt, the President1s son, A package •'* <r him an-; his bride arriv 'd at their Los Angeles Hotel wi h forty-five ollar: d ;e on 1 . Before paying the charges the desk cler • asked r'oung Roosev It about it, "Nothin-’' loin’", he s*. ’ '. -he police vvere called -md t y fou x :£x the forty-five loll'r packa contained • rbl* s rapped ?n cotton. niiP MIRA And no, It seems that Htra Is in the newspapers. Of she's b<'cn in the v.1ih bells on for quite a while,no*. i^is 1 it’s txv case of th< .'sjpauers getting together and formulating a code. It was submitted to General Johnson today. Th. code >rovL Irs for th Eimin elimination of child labor under r' \t • a, ■ ..e her- “ si*ov v.ork doer not I nterfere vith school. 'Ah'te collar orkor ^ / t a forty hour week. An I suppose that applies to workers in the business and .editorial office^ But the ’orty ho ir w . > does not apply to anybody ho rets thirty-five dollars a Week or wore. Officials aade It cl-ar thi t nothlnr in the code must int rf^r^ t i'h th* ri-*ht of fr* e s *rech as :Uoranteod in the v0n: ' I *utf n. T'i - : i; t b- no contract or licensi-ie pi^^ions which ouh prevent newspaners from bein^* puVlished freely and without restraint, according to the princlol* °f tIl‘ freedom of the . V.illi m Gr nt, ^resident of th*: American Federation NIRA - 2 Labor announced today that he is considering a plan whereby the entire membership of the A, F. of L, will be recruited to check violations of the liira codes. The Foreign steamship lines announce that they are cooperating with Hira. They point out that industrial prosperity in the United States means better business for them. The Harrison, New Jersey, works of the R.C.A. have increased the number of people they employ by eleven percent. Working time has been cut to a thirty-six hour week. This is a temporary arrangement to remain in effect until the code for the whole industry has been approved. William F. McGrady, the chief laoor advisor to General Johnson today flew by airplane to Uniontown, Pennsylvania, to address thirty-five thousand striking coal miners who did not return to work yesterday* Twenty thousand strikers are back on the job, but plenty of them held out because they didn't und er- stand the agreement which was supposed to end the strike. The job of Chief Labor Advisor McGrady, was to explain it to them. Bid he succeed in convincing that mass meeting of thirty—five KIRA - 3 t tiiou8strikers? He did* The men have agreed to go back to work tomorrow. f N.B.C. JUSSIS*® ADD NIRA Kira seems to be along ^^Sl^nada. Canadian ^ A ^ / industries are demanding something like our own recovery program The movement began with the clothing manufacturers who are petitioning the Canadian authorities to sponsor a code which will guarantee proper dealings and fair practices* O' sherwin NIRA PKQNUNC rATTOM I have always felt considerably at ease with that girl Nira until today. In the morning* s mail came a scathing denunication from Marcus Brayer of New York, who lambasts me as follows: *1X,11 ask you most respectfully to stop giving me a pain in the ear with your pronunciation of N-I-R-A. The T,i" comes from ’’Industrial” and I believe the best pronunciation would be T*neara,nand not MNTra” as you slaughter it, giving me a good stiff pain in the ear, not to mention the neck. Well, that does make me a bit self-conscious when I pronounce the name of the young lady whose bright eyes sweet smile are supposed to charm the country out of its troubles. But just the same, I think my pronunciation is pretty near right. 'ara” is near, but NIKA is nearer. L.T. Katherine ti. Jack of Trenton, New Jersey, sends me a verse about Kira. Here it is. What do you think of it? Bira, hfore you came, days were dire-a. But now, you’ve brought our hearts’ desire-a. So our praise of you will never tire-a. And, SO LONG UNTIL TOUIKE-A.