L.T. - SUttOCO OIL BROADCAST 8/18/S2. BIRDS Good Evening, Everybody: The first thing that struck my eye in the papers today v/as a new scrap between John Bull and Oncle Sam, The New York Sun ssSSSSStfe it's a family scrap and anybody can get in. It all started in the Manchester Guardian, one of the most important newspapers in the British Islands^ A correspondent wrote in roasting the late Joyce Kilmer for the poem thai. he wrote about the trees. jotx&sx He said Kilmer showed his ignorance about Ornithology the ^5 word wteirofe- me a ns^he“ science of birdsar,^^e-&^©u=^isfe' Robins, said the critic, do not nest in trees as Joj^ee Kilmer had bess doing. A r In answer to that another correspondent wrote in to the Guardian and said the American robin. isn*t a robin at all. He added that the American gray squirrel isnft a squirrel either. The American squirrel is a rat. V.ell, the story goes on to say that the English can pull our legs at peace conferences and do us in the eye in BIRDS - 2 disarmament treaties; they can call us Uncle Shylock, but they carusoi say TskxsA cur robin is not a robj^in and our gray squirrel is a rat —- A To settle the dispute the New York Sun sent a reporter to the American Museum of Natural History. There the curators of the Department of Mammals and Ornithology settled the dispute. First of all, the American rob^fin is the ’American rob|fin. Just because it isnH an English robjfcn doesnTt mean jrwr-8-C+\ that it isn1! a robjffin. Whatfs more, noAAmericanAwould want it to be an English rob^in because our birds are larger and stronger. As for that libel on our gray squirrels, the truth is that squirrels and rats aren't even relatives. Scientifically speaking, they are further apart than cats and dogs, ho, will the readers of the Manchester Guardian please put that in their pipe and smoke it* ALBANY j The latest news in the case of Mayor Jimmy Walker is tnat niS lai5yers BOt a fresh injunction today to stop the Sovennor fron removing him. That makes two injunctions on the Governor SEJn&jmxs&piucxXE from two separate Justices of the Supreme Court^^By the time they get through with this, there ought to be plenty of work for the lawyersj Bi-Tri*r:T— fees? A The lawyer who got the latest injunction for Jimmy is J. J, Glynn, whE&=dts a nephew of jfeirSmith. A* f ' I Governor Roosevelt has intimated that he would not be bound by these court orders. He claims that as chief executive of the state his powers are clearly defined by the Constitution. A / As such they are above any court ruling. Ihe present action, tty. brought by Mayor Walker’s lawyer, will be a test of the^Constitution Meanwhile., the proceedings in the executive mansion at Albany were dull and long drawn out. The Mayor's principal lawyer harangued the Governor in motions to dismiss the charges ALBANY - S against the Mayor. He argued each of the fourteen charges one by one with long, long, long speeches. At times he spoke quite sharply, if not rudely, to the Governor. Mi’. Roosevelt had overruled many of counselTs motions, saying that he was not bound by the same rules as a justice of the Supreme Court S&u¥t#e£Ja& reply in effect was that in that case the Governor cannot commit counsel for contempt. Accordingly, this lawyer spoke his mind as he would not dare to address a judge. cuJ At one time he alluded to Judge Seabury «afr* the Investi- A gating Committee as snoopers. This got Judge Seaburyrs goat and he jumped to his feet. The Governor merely smiled and ordered the offensive word deleted from the record. <7 FARM STBIKE inat farm strike out in Iowa is spreading still further. The Iowans have been joined by farmers in both South Dakota and Nebraska, A dispatch to the Louisville Times reports that the opposing forces came to blows today. The Sheriff of Union County, South Dakota, was seized and his weapons taken away by an xf angry crowd of four hundred striking farmers. Yesterday the farmers retreated in the face of organized force. But today they sam gained the ifpper hand. They attacked tex there \tn.e: a group of twenty deputy sx sheriffs at one point; ana were fist fights between the farmers and the officers on several highways. The result was that live stock and produce shipments were completely halted. lights are going on between farmers and law officers in many parts of the troubled area. Then there1s trouble in Christian County, Illinois. A coal miners'- strike this time. The Governor has ordered the national guard I to be in readiness to go to the scene of the trouble. Two long caravans of 4,000 union miners started a march on Taylorville, FARM STTxIK: £ Illinois; their object is to induce union miners who are workirg on a new low wage scale to quit their jobs. The sheriff of the county has a guard of a thousand armed civilian deputies organized, in case of violence. The striking miners $±ax protest that they hope to stop operations throughout Christian County by peaceful methods. There*s a gentleman in Kentucky who is piling up an almost Biblical record as a father, His wife has just given birth to his 54th child. A dispatch to the i<^x±3^osd3t±ass3. says this proud A ^ father is fix sixty years old and a coal miner. He is described as a lean mountaineer. He has been married twice. He has eighteen children by his first wife, including triplets and twro sets of tYfins . By his second wife he has sixteen including only one pair of twins. The latest addition to his family is a healthy boy. And that’s what you might call some record. BOY Evidently the west has not yet lost its glamor for the young idea of America. A young man left his home in Windsor, Connecticut late yesterday. He is fifteen years old and he decided he was going big game hunting. He wanted to find the wild and wooly regions, to get him a wild buffalo for his dinner or maybe even a grizzly. Unfortunately, says a dispatch to the this fifteen year old adventurer did get very far. He was picked up fifteen * JandU miles from hom. At his side a 32 calibre revolver and a bowie knife. He had Indian moccasins on his feet. On his head an old army hat. In his knapsack he carried 'tetcie. enough paraphernalia to set up housekeeping a sympathetic Connecticut policeman found him, listened to his story and took him home. There the young man decided that griddle cakes and syrup were better for breakfast than liTTrl In Ifni n or grizzly, especially If he mmml couldn't find 4 the buffalo. RICH MEN An interesting feature of the political campaign is that several rich young men are taking up politics in a big way. ihere is Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, popularly known as Sonny Whitney. He is fabulously rich and among his posses­ sions is one of the most ftmous racing stables in the world. It is estimated that he owns more than two million dollars worth of horses. what a lot of horsey we used to be A able to buy out west for one-tenth of that! Well, at any rate. Sonny Whitney will be the Democratic candidate for Congres^&» the First New York District. Another rich young man will run against him on the Republican side. That is, Robert L. Bacon, Young Bacon has been in the House of Representatives already for several sessions He is the son of the late Robert Low* Bacon, one of the partners of the house of Morgan. And still another rich lad in New York, wh» has flung his hat into the political ring. This is young Trubee Davison, son of another Morgan partner. He is already Assistant ADD RICH MEN - 2 Secretary of War In charge*^ candidate for the Republican nomination for New York, SfeTte* aviation. He is a tire governorship of al-n. the west? there is another young man of means who wants to be governor. This is Ingalls of Ohio. He resigned his job as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, likewise in charge of Aviation, to try for the Republican nomination for the governorship. Not only tried, but got it. In addition to being rich himself, he married into the enormously wealthy Harkness family. PROSPERITY The big business leaders to his Economic G©»gre3» are A \ whom President Hoover has summoned hopeful of smashing up tlm hard times and bringing ' The Scripps-Howard newspapers today all carry interviews with the foremost of them. And all of them speaic optimistically. In addition s from v^reports^y to which there were xfcMdfiK in all the^papers^from various parts of the country of more people going to workplants reopening and xii , \ ©£=aa increase iat production, TALL a Tall Story of a new kind. It's right in the fashion of the day. Statesmen and other ueoole are A " A sounding tne^nobe of optimism. And the habit is spreading to the Tall Story Club. This item was sent in by John C. Stradling Hatboro newspaper, and reads as follows: '•An old Bucks county farmer was asked when he thought hard times would be over. MVelX,1 he said, ‘I've lived through a gooa many such days as these and I've noticed that they about last out three pairs of pants, I'm on ny third pair now and the Vy seat Is so thin, if I sit on a penny I can tell whether it wa heads or tails, so I think v/e're near out of the woods.'" ox Hatboro, Pennsylvania. It ±* a clipping from the local pretty BALLOON suppose most of you listened, in last night to H.ac. that exciting broadcast from Switzerland when Professor Piccard A* went up into the stwtosphere in his balloon. It is pleasant to be able to announce that Professor Piccard landed safely in Italy. He came down at a place called Desensano on Lake Garda A , ^ at the foot of the Alps. He and his assistant crossed the Alps from Switzerland, at an almost incredible height. They went higher up from the * I earth than any living thing has ever/g**ti». Itestimated that they*reached an altitude somewhere between ten and eleven miles above the surface of 4mr==owft- planet. The dispatch to the Boston Traveller says that these two explorers of the ether handled their unwieldly craft almost Midi, like an airplane. They were first observed over Desenzanc^about two ofclock this afternoon. That is, S o’clock European time. They remained station®^ about two and a half hours, being then not at a height of^more than 10,000 feet. As Professor Piccard told you himself last night, he was not trying for any records and he didn’t make his strange 4 ADD BALLQOM - 2 flight as a stunt. He went to make scientific observations and upon coming down he reported that his spectacular journey had been eminently successful. He was in constant communication with us , 'if' earth-bound mortals by radio. The dispatch says further that Mrs. Piccard was overjoyed, as you may well imagine, when American newspapermen tut- told her her husband had landed safely. A In addition to Prof. Piccardfs, there are a number ofother aviation projects pending^ J. R. Mollison, a Scottish flyer, started from Ireland early today on a proposed round trip flight to New York^ Mollison is called the Lindbergh A $■■.'< PtMKL of England. He is flying in a plane so small that he laattrhardly get into ftp plans to land at Hayv^y Newfoundland A ~ ^ refuel, and come to New York, after which he will try to get back to Ireland within three days. ba^by prare-aoth p-lemo^ Then those two ladies who have been flying over Long Island for riinety-^ix hours, trying to break the women’s ADD BALLOON -- 5 endurance record, are still up in the air. Strong wind and rainstorm are making things decidedly uncomfortable for them, but according to last reports they were still flying around and around and around and around over the Curtis Airport. *nd from the way the wind was howling around my oerch, hi,eh up in the Empire State Building, this afternoon, I don’t envy them. ' ~ A Tf they are still up at this hour tomorrow, in wrhat the papers have been calling their flying boudoir, or their flying kitchen u fv* 4 ette, they v^ill have broken the record, which is 123 hours. Then today, an aviator, my friend Cartain J. Errol- Boyd to be precise, advertised in the New York papers for a oas senger game to pay eight thousand dollars for a trans-Atlantic r flight. Out of the profits. Captain Boyd hopes to finance him­ self for a flight around the world. / MONTKBAL There!s going to be quite a celebration in Montreal <&b ***** weekend. will be the annual air pageant race f estival A A at the St. Hubert Airport. Planes and crack aviators from all over the<1’1Sa^s|rwill be in the Canadian metropolis. Fifty of them will leave Mew York Saturday morning. Uncle Sam is sending some of fighting planes to, The Navy will dispatch «t squadron of marines from Ouantico to pay the respects of Uncle Sam to his northern neighbor#. The army will also be represented by a squad^ Some of the best known flyers in the United States are included in the list of those who plan to take off from the fields near New York on Saturday. The military^naval planes are expected to feach Montreal Friday. td ^ The Canadians piruiiBW# a real three ring A A air circus. There will he fancy aerobaticsj, military manaeuvors. sham battles In the air and &osm speed events. OTTAWA It looks like Uncle Sam f' ^ '6&-ciUt*j < l A ^ British Imperial Conference at Otto^va. It was fearen that A A preferential agreements between the various British dominions might mean the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars to business interests in the United States. "Slcf-A dispatch to the Montreal Star Indicates that Uncle San^s nephews apparently have won their fight against excluding \k. 3 , the kise of Un±t:ed=S^fe^0» products in branch plants of Uncle A Samis factories throughout Canada and Great Britain. United States industrial concerns have invested Dollars a billion and a half in Canada alone. These would be seriously A TA * *S* affected if the use of products and ^ A ^ completely forbidden. V\si^xh-^ ^ - . wja s—- - kjL^y .4 LOTTERY I i A United States Senator and six other individuals were indicted today by a Federal grand jury in Hew York for eus operating B ■' ill a lottery. The Senator is James J, Davis of Pennsylvania, who was formerly a cabinet member^ ^ is now a candidate for re-election, tvet-a-y Se is named in two indictments charging him vrith operating and A J conspiracy-to-operate lotteries for the Loyal add Order of Moose. JT QnJUs? W«JL^he In other indictments the^Eagles also mentioned. lVvrestern Union Telegraph Company has sefcsaa been indicted as a corporation.^ Among the other men indicted is C0nrad H. Mann of ■Kansas City. Mr. Mann is a personal friend of President Hoover, and a leadertm Republican politics in Kansas City. He is also President of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, a member of President Hooverfs I = Unemployment Commission, and a high official of the Fraternal ^rder of Eagles. The Hew York World-Telegram which started the investigation declares that at least five million dollars had been obtained from the _rrl sale of lottery tickets^ Only two hundred and twenty-five thousand was paid out to prize winners.