_ii^OATGAST /OR ThZ LTTKRARY m.-s-T "--'i, S^S^nSR SC, 1931 RAj .-iAz-TIS..^ Good overling, Everybody: It looks as if the next month or so is going to he a lu::f time Tor it-1-;sraen. It was announced today that the International Conference on Debts and Reparations is ncw definitely scliedalod to meet on January 20th, at Lausanne, Switzerland. The United Press reminds us that the League of Nations Council meets at Geneva on January 25th, and that the world Disarmament Conference is scheduled to begin on February 2nd. Ore- t Britain today took the first steps for summoning the Debts and Re1orations conference. The Associated Press cables that London today sent telegrams to British diplomatic representatives in various countries, instructing them to make lormal nronos-1s for the conference. It is recognized on all aid « In Europe that Uncle 3am hold:, the key to thot rroblem of debts end reparations. But ■■ord comer: tonight that hashington is not going to send a representative to the big now-wow. And that Will be a blow to the chancelleries of furore. Today in Mexico the new religious Uwj^nt into effect, and it's a drastic Iaw^ It I imits the number of Priests allowed to serve in the churches. In the Federal District of Mexico City only one priest is allowed for every 50^000 people. That means that will have to get along with 25^01 ergymen. That allows one priest to each of 25 churches. Mexico City has more than 25 .So, ------- churches, saw many will have to do without cIer gymen. The United Press wires that tie so churches will/Abe kept open- They will be in charge of committees appointed by^ p ar i sh^ f3^^Bss^s=. MexiccMAecclesiastical leaders are protesting that the new law xxi violates the agreement between the church and the Government and they say they wi II carry the case to the courts. I 111 mxkmmrxx MAuami-BiA 3 page_ In Manchuria the regiments of China are ret i r i n g--p I odd i n g their way southward to the §reat Wal I. The United Press reports that the Japanese are dr i v i ng toward Chinchow. lasft §k i rm i sh i ng is^going on here and there. The Chinese are asking the question - "Why should the Japanese keep on fig hting? " The International News Service cables that t h of f i c i a I s profess to be mystified. They say that their soldiers have been ordered to get out of Manchuria as fast as they can go. \4hjy then, should the Japanese keep on waging war? 1 2 3 4 5 S 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 5M Page. The big tax controversy is blazing fast and furious tonight. Political leaders are discussing the statement made by under-Secretary Mills of the ]reasury Department, who is aoting as mouthpiece for the administration. Mr. Mi Ms had a few sharp things to say about the Democratic tax program as outlined by Representative Rainey of Illinois, the Democratic leader in the Lower House. The Associated Press quotes yvvLzSl& under-Aecretary as declaring that the ideas propounded by Mr. Rainey are wholly inadequate. Mr. Mills argues that there is little profit in soaking the rich, because the larger incomes are not there. He gives figures to show that a heavy tax on the higher i n go rnes would not produce enough cash to be of any great help in paying up Uncle Sam T s deficit. On the other hand, it is p o i n c e d out that Representative RaineyTs cax program is largely his own. The Democrats have 1 II 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page_ It's always fun to get an inside s I an t on things, ©specially an inside slant into the great and peculiar game of politics. The new literary Digest, which comes out tomorrow, gives us a peak into one of those odd corners where wheels are turning, wheels about which most of us tanow I ittle. It all concerns the dramatic presidential campaign that we are now approaching. The Digest editors in canvassing the situation, give us the opinion from many sources, that President Hoover is sure to be renominated. Well, there's nothing new or startl ing about that. teEss* But the Literary Digest goes on with a glance at the forces inside the Repubf ican party that are working against the President. We are told that an anti -Hoover Republican organization has been set up in Washington. The head of the anti-Hoover organization is a personage H ■33-31.5 M ! DIStSI Page - ^ 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 15 14 15 16 17 18 19 whom many of us will remember# No we wonT t remember him as an anti-Hoover man. He is none other than Horace Mann of Tennessee, who was one of Mr. Hoover’s doughty champions in 1928. He directed the successful Hoover campaign that broke the solid South. ste^te^we all know how good friends are liable to fall out. Horace Mann, who battled for Hoover in the last campaign, is now one of the stalwarts of the anti-Hoover forces. He had a fal I ing out with his chief. The friendship of 1928 has turned into an antagonism for 1932. Some think that the former Hoover leader and the forces that he has lined up, will support Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, or Senator 20 21 22 25 24 25 Johnson of C a I i f or n ia^o rt^e nomination. However ,/tne Baltimore Sun^decl arjs£ that what the anti-Hoover forces really hope for is the nomination of either RKBsiBlKiai former President Codidge, or Ambassador Dawes. Neither 11-23.31 »5M 2 3 4 : 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1 U-23-3N5M Page 54 of - h t?se genii emen , h ow evsp^ S6©ni izo be inc! ined to take any part in the mo vemen t to block the President. And the principal interest in the anti-Hoover movement in the Republican ranks is that it gives us a glimpse of some of the less known angles of the huge game of national politics. BOMB Page 9 Two -bombs exploded today, at Easton, Pennsylvania. They went off with a terrific roar in the local postoffice. Two clerks were killed, three others were injured. The second exploded as it was being examined by an explosive expert from ■bixe Dupont Company. liand. was blown off and he is not ex­ pected to live. This is a result of what seems to be an anti-Fascist plot to killhalf a dozen prominent Italians in this country. The International Mews Service tells the story of how two young men walked into the postoffice at Easton, and passed six packages over the counter to be mailed. One of the packages was addressed to the Italian Ccnsul in Mew York, another one to Gene Pope, a wealthy Mew York contractor and owner of several ItaXian-American newspapers. The third was addressed to Editor Falbo of the newspaper nIl Progress©.n The others bore the names of other Italians. After handing in the packages the two young men left the postoffice. A little later one of the clerks became suspicious and started to open one of the parcels. That v.as when the terrific explosion - "took place. The other five pieces of mail are being examined 1 2 3 4 5 6 ? 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Page. tonight. They too are believed to contai n bombs intense po1ice activity. Officials of the Postoffice Department flew by airplane this evening from Washington to Easton. A widespread search is being conducted for the two men who mailed the packages. I n New York^the police are guarding the men whose lives were threatened by the bomb plot. The Associated Prpss declares that the authorities are on the supposit ion that the outrage was the work of Anti-Fascist radical s* w4to--eookod~up t~he—ter-rori~st —boffl-b—p-4-et-— 25 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ll2J-3l-5M Page. // Something of a iew York po I i t i caFi^iday gambling in the political clubhouses. I f tii; Samuel Seabury, counsel for the Hofstadter Committee, which is investigating political corruption in New York City, sent a message to Governor Roosevelt. This message contained formal charges against Thomas M. Farley, sheriff of New York, and four of his deputies. tv ir. Seabury declares that the charges are sufficient reason for the Governor to remove Sheriff Farley from office. The United Press points out that the sheriff is one of the big men of Tammany Hall. Charges against him concern the amount of money he has made, 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page Tnere’s one interesting point to be observed in the report on homicide presented before the American Association for the Advancement of defence today. Doctor Kenneth £i» Barnhart, of Birmingham Southern College, offered a series of figures telling the amount of homicide in the various cities of the country. Wfthat'one interest i ng point is that the amount of killing in the communities seems to vary with the rate of illiteracy. For example, the illiteracy rate in Birmingham, Alabama, has decreased, and right along with it the number of kill ings in the city h as^ d ecr eased . Otherwise, the report, as given by the Associated Press, confirms the old fact tha^t it’s not the big industrial cities of the Uorth that are the most homicidal. New York and Chicago are way down on the I i st. Chicago ranks 40th. New York ranks 78th. The city with the highest homicide rate is Memphis, U'23-3I -5M HaCdlfililk - 2 Page----- L3L ____ Tennessee. Atlanta, Georgia, comes second. If you take into consideration the population of the American cities, Chicago and Hew York, with their gangs and racketeers, have comparatively few murders, as compared with other communities in the country. oes not paint that the United States is the most ty as dec I ar i ng ited Press murderous country in the world, 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 £Q!sO I hesitate to repeat these hard words said about the ladies today’ but when two prominent people come out with solemn pronouncements about women on the same day, I suppose that's enough to break into anybody's news co I umn. 8 One of the celebrities is a man. He is William McFee, the author. He violates the tradition foT-~~vi~g1~tr3Trg by not speaking sweet words about American women. He says they're like Rolls-Royces with Ford motors. They have beautiful bodies, but not so much horse power te=^»&head Of course, one could point out to the famous author that there are plenty of men who instead of having horse * power in the head, have donkey power. The other celebrity is a I mo st^ • « V# fS V _ — Madame Louisa Tetrazzini^ ra'sec* her ^£^^oice and uttered a few warnings to American women. She said they were trying to i! Efl&O 11 12 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 U'J3'3l*5M Page. do too many things that are only suitabIe to men. The United Press quotes her as declaring that women have their own part i cu I c.r "fields o*f endeavor, and they shouldn't try to monkey around with such matters as big business, or law, or affairs of state. I suppose she might have included weight lifting, wrestling, and prize fighting. The smiling Tetrazzini said that women should limit themselves to two things, homes, husbands and domestic _ . • • life, and such, and secondly, art. Her idea seems to be that woman can be A. a great success at the game of love, and she can also be a great success in the arts. She points out that she h erse I f made five million dollars out of art, and that seems to be a pretty good argument. n iil:l 1 rv" 1: 2! 3 4 5j 6 ' 71 8 9 10 | 11 12 13 14 15| 16 17| 18 19 20 ! 21 22 23 24 25 ll23,3U3M Page /io s take ourselves for a moment Let' into a small, curious world, a world that seems like a pi ace of shadows, where people I ive I ives that no longer real ly exist. It is a famous home for old l 1 ve It i s a musicians and singers. And just how odd a place it is comes in a cable printed in the New York Sun. When the composer, Verdi, died he left most of his money to the founding of a home for old musicians and singers. He endowed it with the royalties of some of his most famous operas, operas I ike Rigoletto, La Traviata, and Aida. In the years that have elapsed, these royalties have piled up. They now support a large institution over in Italy, an institution which gives shelter to what is probably the greatest gathering of operatic stars and musical celebrities the world has ever seen. They have all grown old; their day of glory is past. They range all the way from veteran fiddle or cIarinet pIayers in the orchestra to composers and singers who were acclaimed by many an audience. OPERA - 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 171 18 19 20 21 22 n £- Anri "t n g y 8.11 livG in "ths p8sii* They keep up the manner to which they were accustomed in their brighter days. ... Ii The composer who wrote a couple o*f operas years ago will scarcely bow to the director of the orchestra who conducted those operas. The orchestra conductor himself ignores the trumpet player who played under his direction. The prima donna of fifty years ago keeps her distance from the singer who merely sang sma I I pa rts. And t he smal I - part singer won^t talk to the soprano who never did more than sing in jthe a™ chorus.___ ~V-0-odtr. The old artists maintain their rank with all the haughtiness of their br i I I iant youth. They st i I I seem to think they are living their days of glory and are entitled to all the social respect }| and distinction they once enjoyed. M 23 24 251 •5M £LJL! I-* .X !■» . Page, Let s take up a hot weather item. Yes, I know it's wintertime, and it's pretty chilly all over the country, but just che ScUiie cnere's a heat wave on in one particular locality. I mean it's pretty hot under the collars of the citizens of f/.iami, Florida. They are denouncing California. They claim that California has done them wrong. The cause of the controversy concerns what some Californians had to say about the climate in Miami. The fair city of Miami is threatening to prosecute the Long Beach Press-Te l egram out on the Pacific coast. It is charged that the California newspaper printed incorrect, false, foolish, absurd, and malicious information about the temperatures at Miami on December 23rd. In its weather report that day the Press-leIegram printed that Miami had a maximum of 44, and a minimum of 16. That m i ni'nurn ^ does seem to be a b i t chi I I y • ' at Uami are described by the United Press as being ll jjiSi! 1 m U-23-3!-5M CLIMAT" - vio t under t.:.' ^ - • * ILt: suj that i or Miami temperatures to vary in >ue o.< ;• t rora ‘ta to 16 is so Californian that it’s hirhly ah. ur 7. I suppose some >f them, are muttering that California m y be like that, but uh uli not Florida. . ei-he - it may be e nart of ray job to give my u.?iulon ‘n the controver sy, tut uh uh not me. ..hen it’s an argument t;v.t the respective merits of the Florida climate and the California cliiaate, all - have uo say io 0 LOMG Iv'TIL TOi CBr 0' .