L.T. l -UNOCO - THURSDAY T M pv ^, ;1Q_^ CHACO That war in the Grand Chaco in South America has finally aroused the nations of the world. Hitherto, they've been leaving it to the League of Nations. But now the Powers are acting of their own initiative. The first serious gesture comes from John Bull, in the shape of a stern note to both battlers. London says to Paraguay andTIlilivia: "There must be no bombing of towns that have no military importance. And what is more, prisoners of war must be treated humanely." This is vivid evidence that the conscience of the world is awakening to the fact that the fighting in the Grand Chaco has turned into a series of atrocities. munitions of war. It is on the cards that Uncle Sam and John Bull may get together to stop shipment of war equipment to ti** South American countries. The President has announced that he is now preparing a message to Congress on this • subject. This is a reply to the proclamation of the Commission of the League of Nations that this Grand Chaco War would have been over long ago if the big nations had not supplied both Bolivia and Paraguay with munitions. Great Britain1s protest about atrocities today It may bring about a worldwide CHACO - 2 ill significant, because most of those munitions came from British factories. The agitation against salesmen of war has awakened a good many sensibilities. For instance, the Clergymen’s Pension Fund in England has decided to sell all the stock*# it owns in the A > ^vO-vdCfed. great Vickers armament firm. V^Wk^and parishoners don’t want ml ; i their pensions to be paid out of money earned through j$|! i I the sale of deadly weapons to war makers. III And up speaks a woman member of Parliament with an awkward question. She wants to know why the' Vickers firm advertise* in Germanin^tead of British iiawpapers. The heads of the Vickers firm admit£*£ they this because German papers have a greater circulation in South American countries. i I TliFit ~Bnn» Hnnll:- a soothing reply- The big armament makers certainly appear to be on the spot today. Never has the agitation against them been so pointed. I so closely aimed. FASCIST Page Mussolini. Another country gone Fascist - Latvia, the tiny little Baltic republic on the border of Soviet Russia. It was a bloodless revolution. The Fascist-minded members of the government claimed they had discovered a plot for a Socialist rebellion. The same technique, you will observe, as In the stroke by which Germany became Nazi almost over night. The announcement of that plot was the cue for martial law in Riga, press censorship, seizure of Socialist headquarters, arrest of Socialist leaders — in fact the usual routine in these iU political strokes. "Ifuture”, decrees the Latvian government, nno other party but the Fascist will be permitted in Latvia", a land whose population is not larger than that of Philadelphia. England, on the other hand, is taking Fascism more H I fl I ]i II ! I SHI 1 lightly. A serious minded member of Parliament saw a real menace in the activities of Sir Oswald Mosley and his Black Shirt followers. He proposed an act of Parliament to forbid the wearing of Black Shirts, Blue Shirts, Green Shirts, or any other kind of political uniform. This was a bit too much for the sense of humor 1 of the House of Commons. The British Parliament just laughed che FASCIST - 2 bill down. No! Placid, portly John Bull is not taking kk* this show cf the Shirts too seriously, which is indicated by still another instance. Hitherto, the British Fascist leaders have been stealing a leaf from the book of the American Communists. They have been inviting martyrdom, staging mass meetings in public places in such provocative fashion that the anti-Fascists would attack them. But under an order from His Majesty's home office, all Fascist meetings will be protect­ ed by large squads of bobbies. There's a faintly comic note to this, because Sir Oswald Mosley has spent thousands of Pounds not only drilling but arming and equipping his followers for conflict, -----------------0------------------- And that's all something for Mussolini to think about - if he can get his mind off his seventeen year old son's brand new pilot's license. The boy trained eagerly to become a skipper of the sky. The enthusiastic Black Shirt Dictator was on hand to watch the final qualifying flight. When it was all over he FASCIST - 2 slapped the lad on the back with a shout of BRAVO, BravissiinoJ This is a reminder of the emphasis on aviation in Fascist Italy **- Muspolini's own shill as a speedster of the sky ~- the Balbo Flight -- the policy of the Italian government to maintain a great armament of the air SAAR FOLLOW NAZI A lot of runny things are going on In and around the district of the Saar. The Chairman of the Commission of the League of Nations which now governs the district, says he has information that the Nazis are getting ready to anticipate the election which is to take place about a year from now, fch* election A. A in nhicta the inhabitants of the Saar will decide whether they want to become French, Germander stay as they are. In short, there are rumors of one of those swift Nazi political strokes. The Chairman of the Commission says there is a lot of suspicious activity on the part of the Hitlerite followers ftolng" *'m close to the borders of the Saar. On the other hand, the French have moved a lot of troops into the adjoining region on their side of the border. Paris says that*s just for the usual maneuvers* ■But- maneu-velj? are taking place so close to the Hit Hi II m P II 1 itii *•: ; I 11 ffjtijh 1 1 Saar district BELGIUM S^-oJL There is sad news from Belgium — another mine disaster. Tragedy piled on top oT tragedy. It follows after an explosion in a coal mine two days ago. Forty-two lives were lost. And today again, in that same mine, while rescuers were in the deep coal pits bringing out the victims of the former explosion **— another terrific blast. And it Is believed that fourteen of the rescuers have been added to the casualty list. It happened in the mines at Mons, tiiat historic place where the British first encountered the Germans in the World ^ar -- where Kitcheners First Hundred Thousand were battered into swift retreat by the gray-green hordes of the Kaiser. So at Mons today they are not saying how dreadful the war was. i^or are they remarking happily that everything is so perfect in times of peace. But let’s look at this cheerier aspect:- Coal mining is undergoing a great transition the world over. iE±±sxijsjakxxt rct . gium — ‘ 2 ~ Bo til rninei s snd. ni n© o'.vrisi s ©.r© rn.3icxng 3.n citt©iiipt to ©liniiriB.t© these staggerins; catastrophies when giant explosion sweeps from one end of a mine to the other, killing every living thing beneath the ground. In this country these accidents have been largely eliminated, by the spreading of white rockdust throughout coal mines, dust that is nonexplosive. And then^ too^the Sun Oil Company has developed a special grease called Coalkote for the elimination of explosive dust on coal. fes, the whole world is moving to make coal mining sxftsrx safer immigrant One of 'tiie rnesiiest rstcke'is on recoil is revealed in the story of more than forty Polish women and children who, at New York have been put aboard ship, on their way to their homes. They tell how sharpers are operating in Poland, with the old magic lure -- the United States, Land of Promise. These sharpers tell their dupes that if they go to Cuba and stay there for a year they automatically become American citizens. The price -- twelve hundred dollars for a voyage in dirty cattle boats to Cuba. So hundreds went from Poland. And now, bitter disillusion* They have found that residence in Cuba does not entitle them to enter the United States. They must return home. It’s a pitiful story. Hoboed of their life savings. « mBiilfirmwiin SILVER Well, the silverites are calling it the greatest victory since Eighteen seventy—three. That was the year when silver was demonetized. It wasn’t money any more, and gold stood alone. The <1 president, in going silver, plans seventy-five-twenty-five ratio __ that Is, the metallic basis of our money to be seventy five per cent gold and twenty five per cent silver. The new money scheme isn’t settled in all its details yet, the Committee is still at work. The odds are that the silver plan will go through. Its larger meaning is that the government will have a larger stock of precious metal against which to issue more money, a kind of metallic inflation. Of course everybody is remembering William Jennings Bryan today, the great Commoner who in his memoj^sd#^ attempts to rise to the presidency announced himself ready to stand or fall by silver. He fell, politically - but silver remained, and now is climbing back Into our money. I can imagine what cheering there must be in the western states today’. When I was a lad in Colorado I heard^my elders talk ff I I ; i! i if Hi II I! m || i 1 if about the "Crime of Seventy-three", by which they meant the SILVER - 2 demonetization 01 silver. And I can remember that it was almost than a western Congressman^ life was worth not to be strong for more vwj£tA&. This news from Washington will probably mean the revival YM awi of many an historic old mining camp. iSra=sgga3= Tt^c~"w picture of old A 4 ghost cities in the mountains coming back to life, and the sound of II I III il i stamping mills raising the echoes in the canyons once morel There seemn to have been olenty of complaints against the NBA in the course of that Clarence Darrov/ investigation of the workings of the new industrial dispensation. What kind of comolaints were they? That seems to be the crucial point of the matter. John F. Sinclair, the member of the barrow board who resigned in protest, declares that ninety per cent of the complaints arose out of nothing more than misunderstanding .of the codes — meaning that the codes themselves were not at the bottom of the comolaints, but misinternretations of the codes. That's why Mr. Sinclair is orotesting-so loudly against the majority reoort turned in by Darrov/. Just what is in that resort has still not been made public, but it is pretty well understood that it recommends that tx either the NBA should be scraoped outright or the government should olunge iar more deeply into the control of business and take virtual command of American industry. Mr. Sinclair's statement bristles with peppery jibes DARROW - 2 against the way Harrow conducted the investigation. He describes Harrow’s way as high-handed, claims the investigation was carried on in a hodge-podge fashion, and adds that the report was got up in a sloppy one-sided way and was based on peewee information. Violet words for Clarence Harrow who with his committee is holding forth in the Gridiron Room at the Willard Hotel in Washington, with the veteran criminal lawyer sticking by his guns When we had word from Europe a little while ago that there was an international spy ring operating in the United States, it caused us a bit of astonishment - also when we heard spy rumors in connection with the passage of the American fleet through the Panama Canal* At the same time, Vfe might have remembered that we have an espionage affair in our o?/n army - a corporal . charged with an attempt to sell important military documents. We are reminded of it by new military proceedings down in Panama. Corporal Robert Osman is being tried for a second time. Last summer a court martial found him guilty of communicating military secrets to the Communists. But that trial has been set aside and a new trial ordered. It is under way now, with Louis Waldman, one time Socialist candidate for governor of New York, acting as special counsel for the defense* That gives the affair something of a radical color, especially as the counsel for the defense is emphatically making the point that the corporal1s political beliefs should not influence the verdict of his sekx innocence or guilt. PRISONER Ten years ago Giuseppe Santora was convicted of murder and sentenced to twenty years in tne New Jersey State prison. He 'became a model prisoner, a trusty. As the years went hy the prison authorities ceased to Iceep any particular watch over Giuseppe Santora. He was such a perfect prisoner. Then one day, several months ago," the model convict escaped. It wasn't much of an escape. He just walked out to freedom. Tonight he is hack in prison. And this is what he tells his fellow convicts: "Gee, it’s good to eat regular.,t Yes, Giuseppe Santora, returned of his own free will. I He had founs freedom a di sappointment. He didn't eat so regularly. So he went humbly to the home of the warden and begged timidly: "Can I come back?" Yes, he could J So the former model convict is back behind the bars, eating three meals a day, and I'll bet he'll pick up right where he left off -- being a model prisoner, a member of the prison club once more. An old story, but it's worthwhile to know that these PRISONER familiar legends actually happen every so often. The classic of the escaped convict who voluntarily returns to his old prison home. His old Alma Mammy. ROBLES I suDpose every parent has been thinking about the doubt expressed in the Robles case. Many say that the girl couldn* t have lived in that hole dug in the desert for nineteen days. They point to the blazing heat by day and the sharp, bitterly chilly nights of the high plateau of the tainted Desert. The little six-year-old girl, however, sticks by her story. Well, I suppose any parent would look at it this way: How could a wee little girl like that tell whether she had been there nineteen days — or nine, or two days? CABMERA Another kidnapping sensation, Along the roads of Mew Jersey a man may be seen running, while three motorcycle doing the running is a big guy, a towering, titanic, garguanthan guy. And he trots along on feet famous for their resemblance to by state troopers with machine guns. He!s afraid of being gang of snatchers eager for a victim, although Camera would be a lotta victim for any gang to snatch -- that vast Venetian,that interminable Italian. They»d have to .dig a Mg hole in any Arizona desert to hide away the3r4*i machine state troopers with guns follow him. The fellow fiddletts. Yes, iMs Fiddle-Feet Camera himself, guarded They say he has received threatening letters from a And that's the latest kidnapping sensation. They say it's a pressing matter — maybe a press agenting matter accidents ^ di . ng You loaow hov*. parents say to their children: "Now, Johnny, Q A be careful when you cross the stree^t^Susie, get the policeman to take j£ou across." But that* s just a piece of ancient history, or it should be according to a report given out by the New York Police Commissioner. He hands out figures to show that for the past dozen years the number of children injured in street accidents has been decreasjj^all the time, while the number of traffic accidents to adults is increasing just as steadily. to in the future it will be the children warning the parents: "Kow be very careful mother, when you cross the street;" and mind what I tell you Daddy • ^ the policeman take you across!" Well, I guess I111 be going now. JIMMIE:- oe careful when you cross the street, Lowell. L.T.All right. I will, and — SD LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.