L“ i* ^ b0WuC0 0111 BliOA^CAbT AUg. 24y 1932. AVXAAIO a Good EveningEverybody: Aviation news is coming so fast it almost seems as though the ^telegraph tickers were stuttering to get it out.. In the first place, both the planes that 'were racing for Oslo, Norway, had to come down. Thor Solberg and Carl Petersen, the boys who took off from Floyd Bennett Field yesterday —- well, I am sorry to say, they crashed at Placentia Bay last night. Their huge sesquiplane cracked up when they were only fifty miles from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, On top of that a dispatch to the Pittsburgh Press adds the information that their rivals in the race, Clyde Lee and John Bochkon, were forced down at Burgeo, Newfoundland. This place is three hundred miles away from Harbor Grace, Lee and Bochkon , you may recall, were theboys who started in a smaller but faster plane from Sameqf Vermont, They were better off than their competitors in the&s race to Norway because they were able this morning to1 continue their flight to Harboi Grace, where they landed at twenty minutes past eigat. Both planes, it ADD AVT ai IO^ _ £ seems, gsaifog met with storey weather, rain and. fog. 'In fact, the visibility was so poor that persons on the ground had difficulty in identifying them properly. All this makes it evident that Captain Jim Mollison, the Scottish trans-Atlantic flier, behaved like a cagey Scot in deferring his return trip to England until he got Doc Kimball,s O.K. on ttsw weather conditions. Incidentally, I am glad to be able to tell you that there were no personal injuries. The big sesquiplane of Solberg and Peterson was hopelessly wrecked and apparently there is no chance of their continuing their flight. Lee and Bochkon, from all accounts, will be able to go on. Then there is another plane wreck to report. This happened to Langdon S&i Post, a member of the New York Legislature, who was making an airplane tour, campaigning for the Boosevelt-Garner ticket. Mr. Post and James Elkus, in whose plane Mr. Post was touring, were wrecked trying to make a landing somewhere in the Ozarks. — ADO AVI ai ION - 3 There is a somewhat dramatic side story to this accident. Mr. Post, comparatively a novice in politics, made a brilliant record in the New York Legislature in a vesy short time. In point of fact, more intelligent observers declare that Langdon Post was one of the few members of that curious body who exhibited both intelligence and a serious sense of responsibility ,vs- to the people who elected him. To put it bluntly, Langdon Post, though his reputation is not yet national, is a without affectation but with a plentiful supply of brains. Con- sequently, his friends^ Tammany^hsw^ just refused him renomina­ tion for his job, and apparently the plane in which he was riding crashed just in time for him to get the bad news. Political editors point out that obviously Langdon Post was turned down for renomination by Tammany to discipline him. He was the only Demo­ cratic member of the Legislature to vq.te for the inquiry whicn resulted in the charges for the removal of Mayor Jimmy Walxer. 'lift The human touch to the story of the crash of Solberg and Peter senfconcerns Petersen.^^w-t^aw The news of the A A .ADi) AVIA- l XCM _ 4 wreck did not come through until after had waited anxiously lor twenty—nine hours. When the newspaper men went to her, carrying the information that her husband was uninjured though wrecked, Mrs. Petersen, who has the tftvnJlca picturesque first name of Hjojjtrdis, exclaimed over and over again: "It’s a miracle! It1s a miracle! I thought surely they were gone, I eouldnft rest, I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t eat,11 And she added, ’’Well, he’s safe and that's all I care about. I don’t care about the old plane ,w Q^r^- 2 ^- J ! ^ axs .:' On the other hand, tis* flying family A yv cnKri ^ Hutchinson arrived safely at St. John, StaignMnii: New Brunswick. A All tkfe eight passengers and crew of thete* giant Sikorski amphibian were making ready today to take off on the second lap of the is* flight to Europe. The - 3 ecGnd--lap-w-i:ii-be to-eitri-e logjbeg uSias,ey Nc^eui^land,^i>r^bwrntb^i»> It took the Hut chin- sons only six hours to fly from. Floyd Bennett S±Kid Airport on /l % Long 1,1^ to St. »»n. ~ ^ ^ TEETH Vvhile we are flying around over eastern Canada this evening in the news, here!s an appropriate item. Nobody can say that the Canadians are not a progressive oeople. X don’t know I that anybody would ever want to say it. But at any rate, nobody ,tir would get far with the statement. Here, for instance, is a man in Montreal, who’s teeth­ ing for the third time in his life. A dispatch to the Toronto * Star relates that heTs a cook on a grain-carrying ship. He’s only forty-tv/o.years old. Twelve months ago a dentist extracted all that were left of his second set of teeth, the teeth you and I use if ‘We have any. The dentist made a set of what we call, in the States, store teeth for the shin's cook. But he had only had them ' -t in his mouth for a month when a third crop began to sprout. The cooking gentleman now can boast of nine new teetn. li it weren't for that dispatch to the Toronto Star, I’d say that was surely a Tall Story. LONDON From London comes the blsx news that John Bull is face to face with two serious strikes. And this crisis is looming just * t as Ramsay MacDonalds government is celebrating its first birthday. h special dispatch to the New York Evening Post reports that one of these strikes is impending in the textile industry. This industry in England is located almost entirely in the County of Lancashire of which the city of Manchester is the center. If this strike occurs it will involve no less than 400,000 workers. A vital meeting is now being held between employers and leaders of the unions. The second strike concerns the omnibus drivers and a conductors of London* The company wanted to put on a cut in wages. This the bus drivers and conductors refuse.4 to accept* So far, says the New ¥ork Evening Post, ita John Bull's government has kept it*s hands off both disputes. Of course the textile strike threat in Lancashire is much the more serious of the * two. From all asm* accounts there seems little hope of peace at the eleventh hour. Both sides have dug themselves m. Violence is already reported from one district. Public sjnspathy is with the LONDON - £ sti’ikers. On the other hand there is something to be said for the employers. They have been trying to get the textile workers to accept wage cuts. But even with those wage cuts the Lancashire manufacturers would be unable to meet world competition. Economic experts believe, as a matter of fact, that the day of Lancashire o supremacy in this field throughut the world is past. There are no z' less than 63 million spindles in England, These spindles went a long way toward making a prosperous empire until the World War. It is now estimated that £5 million of these spindles will have to be scrapped before the industry will be on a paying basis. And this news ought to interest textile manufacturers and workers in the U.S. k, j BERLIN There * s an ominous note in the n#w# from Germany today. Another dispatch to the Neiv Yoric Evening Post has it that the rumpus over the death sentence of those five Hitlerites in Silesia is loaded with dynamite. The dispatch says that today it"feo!c on the proportions of one of the most serious threats to the authority of the State since the rebellion of the Fascist leaders in 1923. Hitler and his followers are vory far from taking this sentence lying down. The lawyer for the condemned men has announced that he will not ask for a pardon. He will demand a retrial on the grounds of self defense. On the other hand the legal advisers of the Von Papen which Hitler has called the guillotine say that the action of the Hitlerites is a direct threat against ja the government. They describe it as a denial of the principsi that the State and the State alone has a right to hand out justice. Secret conclaves were being held today in all Hitlerite headquarters. It is generally believed that this situation will BERLIN * There's an ominous note in the n#ws from Germany today. Another dispatch to the New York Evening Post has it that the rumpus over the death sentence of those five Hitlerites in Silesia Is loaded with dynamite. The dispatch says that today it^bok on the proportions of one of the most serious threats to the authority of the State since the rebellion of the Fascist leaders In 1923. Hitler and his followers are vory far from taking this sentence lying down. The lawyer for the condemned men has announced that he will not ask for a pardon. He will demand a retrial on the grounds of self defense. gex&zxmmvbj — On the other hand the legal advisers of the Von Papen which Hitler has called the guillotine say that the action of the Hitlerites is a direct threat against & the government. They describe it as a denial of the principal that the State and the State alone has a right to hand out justice. Secret conclaves were being held today in all Hitlerite headquarters. It Is generally believed that this situation will FAM b •riiiiViL ^ell, the law is using tear gas on those Iowa farmers.A dispatch to the Baltimore Post from Sioux City, Iowa, reports that deputy sheriffs laid down a barrage of tfc* gas bombs along the highway near Council Bluffs, Iowa, today. This they did with a hope of driving off the picketing farmers. It happened just about the time when a group of fifty men broke the seal on a freight car at Danbury, Iowa. From this freight car they drove a herd of squealing pigs back into the stock- yard pens. In no uncertain terms they ordered the owner to "laad em up and take em back horae.,f ■:* This is the second time in two days that the strikers have into a freight cai and released live stock. A The report says 11 strikers 11 but, as a matter of fact. It is not definitely established whether the men who did this were striding farmers or sympathizers. The barrage of tear gas was laid down after the pickets had stopped several trucks and automobiles, jumping on mi FARM bTtam _ 2 tiie iunning boards of tine cars and jerking out the ignition kKX&x iieys. Others opened the hoods and tore the wiring of the automobiles loose. The tear gas barrage forced the pickets to retreat and traffic was resumed. Then a dispatch from Omaha, Nebraska, reports that there were one thousand pickets alosing about camp fires all night long. And they succeeded in blocking a considerable part of Omahafs live stock and produce supply. That is, such part of it as normally comes from Iowa. They flogged down trucks carrying hogs, cattle and produce, and their campaign already has TTwawmigoi resulted in a minor victory. In Lincoln, A \ : Nebraska, creamery owners ra&ied the price of milk froa $1.40 a hundred to $1.30. Nevertheless, the farm strike continues to spread The dairymen of Wisconsin will hold a meeting on the second of t* September to decide whether they will join the strike. The milk producers of Minnesota will get together at Farmington In that state this coming Saturday, to decide the same question. FMM BxRIK^ - 5 6 And, by the way, it isn't only in the land of Uncle Sam that farmers are asserting themselves. Here's a dispatch ' from Paris relating how fifty French wheat farmers invaded the floor of the Produce Exchange in the French capital today. They came in fuming and blusterous,They announced their conviction that all wheat traders were thieves. And that was one of the mildest things they said. All business on the Paris Produce Exchange was fe&M±± halted for quite a while. Finally, the gendarmes were called in. They cleared the floor and arrested two of the fifty invading farmers. Naturally, the farm strike^ the government's of the middle western states in what is generally called a tough spot. The governors of Iowa and Nebraska are txkxHgxxf&guC'Ctn Eh seriously considering what they can do to fend off the violence which everybody fears is inevitable. Sheriffs in Iowa are swearing in extra deputies. Governor Charlie Bryan of Nebraska ordered the state sheriff to advise all county sheriffs to deputize men uo uphold the law. COAL STR-Liti In. the coal fields of southern Illinois there are symptoms of a state of war. A dispatch to the Indianapolis Times relates that an array of ten thousand miner pickets left Staunton, Illinois, today in motor cars to invade the coal band of Staunton and' at the head of the procession were eight hundred automobiles and trucks draped with flags. Leaders of the strike say that before they are through they will have two thousand cars carrying no less than twenty-five thousand men. In Benton, Illinois, which is the first stop on their march, the sheriff has organized about a thousand special Illinois and five officers of the national guard arrived at Benton. They are holding a conference with states attorneys from three of the southern counties. fields. They were proceeded by A the municipal deputies. The /V -I.r Wo __ r> —fiiflvj Jfl r,No stri kers are coming into Franklin County.” The The dispatch continues that the mareh was conducted COAJj aKlilt) - 2 with military precision. The army is divided into companies^ commanded by captains. These captains are responsible for dicipline among the men. * ADD COAL STRIKE Drama was Injected into the march of the miners •..hen the caravan was halted this afternoon half way between Coulterville and Pinekneyville. The procession of 13,000 miners was confronted with 500 deputy sheriffs armed with machine guns. They Saw set up^ia1 machine guns in the middle fib' UyitljL of & highway. Other deputies stood by xitk riot guns, tear \ \ gas bombs and pistols. The miners gx gave the deputies what we know in these parts as a Bronx cheer. This aroused the laughter of hundreds of spectators who were standing by, Illinois deputies apparently don*t like a Bronx cheer any more than New York coppers. So as they couldn* t do anything: to the miners,who had offered no violence, they took it out on the spectators and started hustling them from the scene. At latest reports there were no casualties^ T*" RESCUE ^ -LhereT s a story in tonight's papers that reminds # Be of some of the thrilling scenes of the great American melodramas of twenty-five years ago or earlier. You know, the'ild homestead", "Uncle Josh Spru#ceby," "The Eleventh Hour" and others. You know the sort of thing I mean?, the scene when the heroine or the little chee-ild was • i saved from the buzzsaw or the express train, literally at the eleventh hour. This story^eea&a l&r a dispa^oh. 4* ms. £. k . 'src -*. Elvira, for an airing. Not far from, home, she was attracted by the glistening tracks of the interurban railway. She put Elvira on the ground for a nap and began to play with the stones The lake Shore Electric Limited, bound for Toledo, on the ritta.-of-way, came »h±i!zi^* around the bend at fifty-five miles an hour with M) l > RESCUE - 2 Bill Lang at the controls. Bill first noticed Lelia when lalookcd like a spot on the tracks. He thought she ?jas a package. As he approached, he saw the package was a baby. Bill jamed on the brakes. The car trembled, then slid on the rails. Bill used his sand lever desperately. The speed of the car hardly checked . ~f3e c-***£-J Ai tc ^ h* tn^ ^77 lau^LiC^Cl^1 C^# stuck l o»».by his eyelashes^ he climed out on to the fender. out his right arm and with one frantic lurch scooped the child up on the fender. Leila’s head was cut x±±^h±iy . Her arm was injured. But — she was alive. And a thrill like that puts me so much in need* of my second wind, that I’m going to H 1 II i and sajf!lSo long until to-morrov/.