POLITICS Where are the Presidential candidates tonight? Governor Landonfs campaign special is rolling through New Mexico to the refrain of ’’California here I come.” A spectacular move in the most bitterly fought campaign in a quarter of a century. Governor Landon is invading territory which President Roosevelt evidently considers so safe for Democracy that he’s not even going near it. The closest he went to the | Pacific Coast was Cheyenne, Wyoming. California has been | Democratic ever since those dramatic last moments in November 1916. Until those crucial returns from the Golden Gate came in everybody thought Ex-Justice Charles Evan Hughes was the next president of the Uniteo States. Many you will remember how California put Woodrow Wilson back in power. - California and Hiram Johnson. Now the Republicans ar' convinced that an appearance by the Kansas governor in Los Anglees will give him n such a majority in Southern California that tbe Golden State will return to a the Republican fold. From the back platform of his train as it stopped in Aibuquergue, Mr. Landon took occasion to issue a challenge to Mr. Roosevelt. ’’The country demands to know,” said Mr. Landon, PO III TICS - S ’’whether It’s your intention to revive and perpetuate the whether we like it or not.” And then he added:- ’’The President must tell us specifically whether the views of his son James as expressed in Gardner, Massachusetts, are his own.” And that put the finger on what ^aines Roosevelt said over the weekend about changing the constitmtion and reviving the N. R. A. The President meanwhile had a day crammed fall of business at the White House. With one hand he had to attend to the volume of affairs of State that piled up while he was touring the West. With the other hand he was making plans for his oratorical dash into New England. While his rival is invading territory consid­ ered safe for the Democrats the President is carrying the fight into the region which the Republicans claim as entirely their own. Mr. Roosevelt will leave fo- Rhode Island tomorrow. From there he goes to Connecticut and Massachusetts. -------------------- ——— POLITICS -3 As lie expects to sake a whirling tour of Pennsylvania, parts of Ohio and Indiana next week he will be cn the stump until right up to the election* SUPREME COURT One of the first dramatic measures of the New Deal was the so-called "Truth fenl Securities Act1'*. It was the new law designed to compel promoters to tell all when they floated new issues of stock. This was also one q £ the first measures . to be attacked. The standard bearer of was a Wall ^ A Street broker, J. Edward Jones. For, a couple of years now, MKk* Jones has been at loggerheads with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Not in so many words, but in effect, Mr. Jones told thejcommission to go Jump into the river. The Commission didnTt feel like doing it, ^so they've been arguing it out in the courtsf^friie first engagement was a victory for -'*5^3iSi?Jones. The Commission had summoned him to appear and tell them all about a certain issue of securities that he had floated Mr. Jones withdrawn his registration of^ with the Commission^ Nevertheless, said the Commission, "We'd like you to tell us all about it.” Said Mr. Jones: "I'll be hanged if I do.” It went all the way up is the courts, reaching finally the higest tribunal. Last spring the Supreme Court in a six—to***three opinion said^^bsif Jones did not have to SUPREME COURT - 2 testify since he had withdrawn the registration of the stock in question. But the justices didnTt say whether or not they thought the Act was constitutional. All in all, it was considered a defeat for the Commission. Today, J. Edward Jones appeared before the Supreme Court again,. legal luuhiiicaliti'esj ha aoited'-feho Coupfr fro1 say th«i% the Coi—i»aion liudwmsj auPhurlly te nnmprl hlw ■■tn-rcgi stor^^e^uri tiTm The Commission had obtained an injunction in the lower court forbidding Mr. Jones and his employees from using the mails to* sell securities that were not registered. Mr. Jones wanted that injunction dissolved. In the lower courts, the S.E.C. won all.along the line. The Supreme Court today merely declined to -review the case. So Mr. Jones and the S.E.C. are now what you might call "Even Steven." However, there*s one thing to be noted. The highest tribunal has not yet expressed an opinion whether or not the "Truth Securities Act" is constitutional. That*s a question which may come up later. SUPREME COURT - 3 Another ruling in Washington concerns the much vexed electj|Wl power question in the south. • Two southern utilities companies have protested against the Government»s granting loans to municipalities to help them establish publicly owned electric systems in Texas and Alabama. The District Court dismissed the appeal of the utilities companies for an injunction. So they applied to the Supreme Court foy a review of the case. The nine justices made no decision but declined to pass on it until it has come before the Circuit Court of Appeals. In other words, it will not go over the head of the Court of Appeals. An interesting fact in this litigation is that the attorney for those southern utilities companies is Newton D. Baker President WilsonTs Secretary of War. If you deal with chain stores or own chain store stocks, another of today's Supreme Court rulings will interest you. The State of Colorado has a law regulating the operation of lunch counters in drug stores and in the Five and Ten. This was attacked by the chain stores as unconstitutional. The federal court in Colorado dismissed the action and today the Supreme Court SUPREME COURT - 4 declines to review the proceedings. But there?s a point of more general interest in a case that comes all the way from Oregon. That1s one of the states which has a law against criminal syndicalism. Under that law, a prominent west coast Communist was arrested, convicted, $nd sentenced to seven years in the stated* prison, he appealed, claiming that the statute against criminal syndicalism violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which provides for free speech and free assembly. Also, the Fourteenth Amendment, since he had been deprived of his liberty without due process of law. The Supreme Court of Oregon upheld the law. And that’s the decision which the United States Supreme Court t*0U) a question of considerable political moment. SPAIH - t Sy-Qpc e Whatever you call them, the defenders of Madrid have d”hh* little to encourage them today. There * s no question about the capture of Oviedo by the Rebels, t£ie "ixJuW.ng of the Asturian miners who maintained that desperate three months * siege of the city. The defense of Oviedo by the Rebel garrison is being hailed today as second only, to the defense of the Toledo Alcazar, Around Madrid, the government militia stands almost literally with its back to the wall. They are now holding the last line of defense outside the city, itself. The onslaught of General Franco1s Rebel army is comparable to that of an ✓ irrisistible machine, moving gradually but inexorably over its opponents. The latest action of the Madrid government recalls that of the French in Nineteen Fourteen^ when the army def ending Paris was rushed to the front in taxicabs^ to turn the vast German tide at the Battle of the Marne, In Madrid today taxicabs are SPAIN - 4 also being mobilized. For some time the government has been using big double deck buses to carry reenforcements to the front. The cabs are being held in reserve as a last, resource.' The members of every union In the capital have been notified by their leaders to hold themselves In readiness for a final desperate defense. SPAIN Some time ago I mentioned that an American aircraft factory was being established on English soil to manufacture Vincent Burnelli all-wing monoplanes for 'the British government. So I was Interested to learn last.night that John Bull is heavily in the market for planes of American manufacture. But what interested me a little bit more was the source of the information. It came from Germany. It came in a short wave news broadcast. Officially, it was sponsored by the Hitler Youth Organization. In other words. It was an official message coming through government sponsored sources, in a broadcast directed specifically and avowedly for American and Canadian listeners. Tltet same German neWs bro^dcast^welt with%much gusto orkthe latest advices from Spain,\the increasing triumphsXof the R\bel fo\ces. And it wa\ interesting to note that the Ge describe\he Re^ls as^Spanisfr^NationalWts." As thfe^German vFasci^,tI cal\ themsVlves ^ETatlonalVSociaiists^i^, the kinship an^Vsympe^thy is thus openly avowed. government forces V \ \ N ' \ sru*. the ernment ^ 3 T DISASTERS From three parts of the world come stories of disaster, earthquake, storm and fire. In northern Italy, terror stalks abroad while fresh temblors continue to shake the country side. In one region almost the entire population is camping in the open, t Walls are tumbling, houses jn one crash alone, seven members of one family died, seven out of eight. ip , Communications are interrupted, a great power house crippled, The worst of the terror today seemed to be centered at Vittorio in northern Italy. Xtts there “that Italy won a great victory over Austrian troops in Mineteen Eighteen, Today, the countryside trembles while the earth*continues to shake. Virtually every house in that town has suffered. Several streets are im­ passably blocked, masonry tumbling, timbers crashing to earth. In all the afflicted territory, laborers reinforced by Fascist militia, are working might and mama to rescue the distressed and to A restore order. From further south comes a story of terror that might have been far worse. ThereTs nothing more awful and terrifying than ! DISASTERS - £ a fire at sea. So the port of Palermo in Sicily was convulsed with, news that flames had broken out aboard 'the motor-ship BULGARIA, one of the star luxury vessels of ItalyTs mercantile marine. The VULCANIA, on her way to New York^ was only forty-five miles out of Naples, when the air over the Mediterranean crackled to the sounds of a call for help* The flames had broken out in the third class quarters. The call for help brought several vessels to the rescue. Every seaport on the Mediterranean was agog with the news. For two hours the flames raged. But the crew put them out unaided^ just as a torpedo boat destroyer, two fire boats, a Trans-Atlantic liner and two freighters reached her side, ready to render d&A* When the VULCANIA reached Palermo, It was learned that four of the crew had perished. One of them, a / had per i terror musician, jumped overboard In feersw and was drowned A * The fire has given rise to an investigation by the so authorities. The aamqa&iaga eruption of those flames soon after the VULCANIA had left Naples, has aroused the suspicion that this mysterious blaze may have been started by a fire-bug DISASTERS - 3 J . The storm tragedy occurred right at our own doors. in our own waters. Nineteen of the crew of that Canadian sand-sucker are at the bottom of Icy Lake Erie. Only seven out of twenty-six survived to tell a harrowing tale of suffering. In that furious gale, the ship overturned^absolutely-- without warning. So says the Captain who is one of the rescued. nIt was the most terrible night you could possibly imagine,n he declares. nI had given the signal to man the boats and at that identical moment a fresh blast hit us and we capsized like a flash!" That’s the second major disaster on the Great Lakes this season. EKINS Just about forty years ago, a famous character created a. sensation by going around the world in eighty <lays. He was, of course, an imaginary character, but old Phileas Fogg has been discussed every since as though he had been a real living person. One description of his creator, Jules Verne,, reads: ,THe cleverly exaggerated the possibilities of science .11 'That is the way highbrow literary critics used to put Jules Verne in his place. It might be fun one of these days to take a few hours off and enumerate the number of Jules Verne's so-called exaggerations which have not merely come true but been far surpassed, some of them even in his lifetime. As a matter of fact, he didnTt die until two years after those history-making experiments of the Wright brothers at Kittyhawk, North Carolina. As for his "Around the World in Eighty Days", the phrase now is, "around the world in eighteen daysl ^1 And today it * s no piece of ingenious literary imagination. Bud Ekins of the NEW YORK WORLD TELEGRAM and Scripps-Howard papers, finished his exploit shortly before noon^ today. His actual elapsed EKINS - S time from the minute he left the World Telegram Building on the evening of September Thirtieth, to the minute he returned today, was eighteen days, fourteen hours, fifty-six minutes, fifty-seyen seconds. At the moment of his return he was ten thousand miles ahead of his rivals. Leo Kieran of the NEW YORK TIMES and North American Newspaper Alliance and Dorothy Kilgallen of the EVENING JOURNAL and Universal News Service, are still waiting in Manila for the tail end of the typhoon to die down and let the CHINA CLIPPER take off for Guam, Wake Island, Honolulu, and the U.S.A. They’ll be along by and by. One of the outstanding things about his journey is that anybody who has a mind to, and five thousand dollars to spare. can follow in his footsteps. LORD MAYOR In London there is a most stately and dignified personage who right ±x now is officially - non-existent. His name is Sir George Broadbridge, which sounds substantial enough. Nevertheless, Sir George Broadbridge is officially in a condition 1&*£L of non-being. He got that^w*# when he was elected Lord Mayor. fpT. SBSt although elected, he is not Lord Mayqr - he is non-existent. That sounds a bit complicated,.but it works out this wayT- According to ttiose venerable traditions- which the British cherish so highly. Sir George Broadbridge, with al-l—«oyts=e^ stately / A ceremony^, was chosen to be London’s next Lord Mayor - succeeding Sir Percy Vincent. But Sir George won’t take office until % lv-a$ November ninth. Meanwhile, Sir Perc^ rounds out his term in a blaze of festivity. Tradition makes- it exceedingly bad form for Sir George to be seen any place where Sir Percy is present, I suppose the the dignity of the of the coming Lord Mayor would diminish Now, as Sir Percy A. " A attends a round of public entertainments. Sir George is not permitted to be at any of them". As Sir Percy is seeh everywhere. LORD MAYOR - 2 ?1 it follows that Sir George is seen nowhere. He is in seclusion, f^xr all public purposes - non-existent,***^ This will continue until November Ninth, when he will blossom forth in full splendorous reality - at his induction as the new Lord Mayor, with an elaborate parade and with the ancient ritual of the Lord Mayor’s banquet. But meanwhile. Sir George Broddbridge may be broad, V if not a bridge - but he is non-existent. And I better make myself non-existent, and 1 xT'xtyy\) SO LONG UNTIL Mggj*v - V j