Hr ■c. <r /^ zf3? ^yw, Z A te Hi.ght now Fairbi*ri'-:e-t Alaska, is all set for the arrival of jqm airi li*r,e. A ski sMp, not fro a the south £m± but from the Horth, frc:s the horth Pole, ^The Soviet plane that took off from Mo scow - esterdai scared over the IT o rth Pole at five forty-five this morning, Pew York time*J And if flew through a raging polar cliszarc’, the icy gale of the extrernest llorth* hast reports picked up at Home said that all was well with the crew of six aboard the plane* But they are bucking strong head-winds, a gale of sixty miles an hour, and it may | be nine or ten o'clock tonight before pilot Levanevsky brings ■ at Paxr^S. a* ^ ^ OJlc^Q0l^ vvtfvO. ■^P yYjT^hexe seems some doubt as* to the u.ltirt.ate destination f&a*xJL , ^*&£yWs£/ijL. of the Yesterday we heard it was headed for Few York A $u£ ttUTimtt- a stop at Chicago. Today the Soviet representative i ^ (7* declared that the destina bion of this latest Forth Pole hop v/& s Cal if c mi a. A Soviet Across-Tbe-^rc11 c PIighf, afte t those i\b several previous ones, is no surprise* So if we want food for aston!shment let * s 1 ook at another ang 1 e cf aviat.ion* Airp 1 ane production this year. It m^st be surprisingly large, with all tl-J. t . . , . c - . , - - c f ., surpri "l-is ■■■ c- l.-- *' /,.. - :* . • w va. +--..i v^\ t-.t tuic ix Ca vy-cz'i* i«"., f^ieh, •.. \ , '.n,' a s tu^ ;• cf vv^rld $v iati'o;.., ’"‘L^ f i .■ . . •■■ ?, ...fe -Air s JL suit* ^•r^C ..etic::. i cr t V. «• pi»^t »-: x atjtatA v. .t'.i- * £> ou\%' $*. »•. f i.v # perc- ur. t cf rrcvicus cct e. It « \i\ tvu^ht th&t . crc twta; tv - tLrvc thou sun plunks wau’U- be built, ’Now \\v that the actuality i» onl\ a lit'Ic r* tl.-j,: vUx thou^ua*^, Wliat * s the rout'on| Oulu utor«*;.«• - tl.-.-. t * « the auawei- givtsn* Tnsteao of tuir,inf , .t great tnu.'bur h of pim«fe the arming nwtiomr. heve been build ing huge ijunntit l«« or ui rpiuuo eec * ions, wingp, fuoiJ.?'*gt-r umi motors, and then stowing th«u away so that they cun bo u one mb led quietly when needt.4. Aviation cold ato rage. It’s not easy to get a line on the amount of o’-oosi t: on to the appointment of enator lack to the Supreme Court. Opponents of the Administration are loudly denouncing the idea of putting a red-hot New Dealer in the highest tribunal. Yet, what sort of ctatesman did they expect the President to appaint?1^fhere1s also sarcastic comment on the strategic cleverness of the hite House move -- naming a Senator when it’s so much the tradition for senators to stick together and support each other."^That highest Legislative body is called the number one Gentlemen’s Club, and it has been a rule for the Senate to give three cheers for any honor bestowed upon a Senator. Still the Gentlemen's Club idea hasn't worked so perfectly this time. The Senatorial cspirit de Corps sagged a little bit yesterday when they refused to confirm the appointment ol Hugo clack instantly and unanimously. Instead the appointment was sent through the routine, meaning, sent to the Judiciary Committee for consideration. CCUKT , Today, however, the naming of Senator Black was pushed along. It 4true that, the Iudi ciary Committee will not meet and discuss the appointment until next week. But today Chairman Senator Ashurst appointed a sub-committee, which quickly met and just as quickly put its okay on the gentleman from Alabama as a Justice o-f the Supreme Court. The next thing will be for the Commit-tee-as-a-whole to act and then the Senate will take a vote.^ There’s A>me report that the law makers may call Senator Black up for examination, and question him in determining his fitness for the high tribunal. Such is the rumor. There’s no stigma attached to the questioning xxssbffiEMiM. procedure. Both Justices Cardoza and Stone were called up before the tenate before their appointments were confirmed. 11 1 I I ! rAF CHIPS ,!ae o • r;] to lend American wai-stiip# to Brazil has c-.en - ut cff -- te.-.-.porarjly. I don’t know how far the United —f^te.s .'OVo rnTrient was affected by the nrotests and corcyla 5 nt.s, but of these jckrs there were many. The Government at Bueno r^* rer- was most polite about it, but also decisive. The Ar-ventine said that for the U. S. A. to lend a flock of obsolete wareraft to Brazil was against the spirit of the Naval treaties. moreover, it would provoker'*a Naval race among the South American Republics. In the United States too there have been complaints. Senators and Congressmen have attacked the plan on various grounds. One of threse - that we should mine our own business and not butt into the affairs of other Nations. From Germany there comes a denial -- No, the American-Brazilian plan has nothing to do with Germany. The U. S. A. was not proposing to lend warships to Brazil as protection against aggression by Germany a German peril. This follows reports that the ourpose of the United States Government was to arau the South American Republic against a possible attbck. from abroad, oith Germany prominently mentioned. .iny..ay, the whole thing has been delayed. secretary of State Cordell lull announced this today and used the v/crd -- postponed. The :tete Department is postponing that loan of I?-- - warships to Drazil. CHINA g battle of Shanghai is raging^ythe elash exneeted for severa1 days» Thus far it1s been mostly an artillery duel and that's about the most sinister thing that one can imagine. An exchange of heavy cannon fire, barrages of big-caliber shells in a huge teeming City of millions. The Idikado's guns placed in. the area of the Japanese ^concession blasts^Wat the Chinese Shanghai, And the name of thuflt section A j tion has a familiar ring ring to those of us who remember a few years back — Chapel, That's where the savage fighting took piece in the former battle of Shanghai several years agoTI^Chapei is a crowded district, typically oriental, characteristically Chinese, The Chinese are' holding it with heavy forces of troops, and today scores of shells landed and exploded in Chapel, fires flared into the sky. Chapel is burning in many places. pT) Q The Chinese artillery&i^^nig at the Japanese positions in their concession, .jntf tnat*s a part of the City too. hells exploded among houses ' c f; eun duel in a aiArtHLG? - ine classic burning of Troy , and fires flared, (4 QtfriAA 9iMW* --The el®--1 - - re Imaflre y e •- • •• " ' - "•••' ' *' : ' :. t .- * ' ; ;;• :. 1/. ' f 0-1*1: ers- */T'r.e V. S. S k erE:vento lender "■'•"■.re'.;- t. the .-■ ■ ri c; r c ^noes-si ‘ 1 n the Int ern• t:. o v .n 1 set. • Xes- er.t* -^J^J^vyryO verier-r= and Europeans are on euard- int-err.; i •* iv™ ^ a-Lt t r o o r s :, l e r c I i dtt a r? a e c. : a t r o X A ^ IriTRC TO Tit. JOHN£TC>! A couple of years ago, wiiile on a trip through Virginia and h'est Virginia I cacie upon a fabulous place in the mountains. It was a moonlight night. Before me was an immense white building that looked as t .ough it might have been a palace created by the Genii of the Arabian Knights. Surely, more nagnifieent than the palace of Alladin. It stood In the midst of a seven thousand acre park. Three golf courses, swimming pools and lakes, two hundred and fifty miles of horseback trails. It seemed unbelieveable -- high up there In the Allegheny fountains, at ’.'hite Sulphur Springs, west Virginia. The fairy-like palace I had come upon in the mocnlight'turned out to be "The Greenbrier” one of the most beautiful hotels in the world. The Lord and Hester of Greenbrier, the gracious and genial host, a man of international fame In his world, Mr. L. R. Johnston has just dtopped in to see me, just dropped In from a fishing*trip to Cape Vincent, on the St. Lawrence River. I believe he has met more famous men than almost any man I know. Just off hand Mr. Johnston can you think of a yarn about someone whom we have all heard of? 1 i/... " INTRO ""0 t.-m. JUIiMBTON - 8 MR. tTQIlIT:STQII: How would it be if I told you about two men you all know? I used to see a good deal of John D. Rockefeller Senior and one day "/ill Rogers joined us, kill and John D. went out on the links and played a game of golf together. Will kept telling stories to John D. stkaixfc and he had the richest man in the world shaking with laughter, so much so that John D. Rockefeller sat down at every tee and laughed and laughed until the tears came into his eyes. Finally John D. said, "Will, either you have to stop telling stories or I’ve got to stop playing golf." Last ;eck the barber of Newport v,as crevved with boats, ev :r^thing from chugging motor launches to palatial yachts. Imagine a torpedo running vile’ in that crowd of gala craft. A huge, hurtling miesle on the loose. "hat * s what happened today. The most prominent craft in Newport Harbor was Vincent P.st or * s much publicised yacht, (.he Noumahal, aboard which President Roosevelt has gone on fishing vacations. And the Noumahal was narrowly misc-eu by the torpedo on the loose. The runaway missle charged right by the yacht kept on going and hit the shore so hard that it climhed plowing through the lawn and broke a fence at the xai Hamilton H Fish Webster summer home. fuch was the power and impact of the torpedo. No, it didn*t explode. It was - dummy, such as is used in target practice by had Submarines. Itbeen fired from an underwater s draft and somehow had taken a runaway route through Newport Harbor, Those ponderous missies race along at twenty knots and have enou, h impetus tc drive them eighteen thousand yards, miles. Even a torpedo hits hard enough to rip a boat apart* J '■ ia^/ine ah-'t that wild torpedo rni.^.t ha.ve cone a I. c.v(J_,ort narcor a v;etk ago a/cid the bcata that thronged the cup races. BOXING ItTs good advice to be told use your head. It’s trie brainy thing to do. There* s a report that Tommy Farr is going to use his herd. /ell, he may need the combined sagacity of half a dozen philosophers when he gets into the ring with Joe touis week after next. But Tommy, they say, is going to use his head for son thing else than thinking. Ee will | cattle to victory, if and but -- mostly but, He will imitate the billy mat and butt Joe Louis into oblivion. He’ll go into ~ / the rtxx ring with three fists, his head l>eing one. they say. All of which seems to perturb the Brown Bomber not at all. He remarks that it is going to be a rough fight, and that he can be plenty rough himself. And if there’s to be any butting, he has a head which he can use for something else besides thinking. That seems reasonable, because nobody has yet susoected the tan-colored eheirm of using his head for the deeper meditations^sH&d-—Jo® Louis is no ohakes^earean Gene Tunney. So the if and but turns out this way -- if there’s to be any butting the chamn will do his share of it. BASEBALL fi’he perm&nt races in the major leagues are not so hot i as the middle of August comes on. The cubs are well out in the front in the National League, and the ^anks are making a runaway of it in the American. All the suspense lies in individual compe­ tition, players running races for individual records. And the key man of it all is Joe De Maggio. | First of all there1s the race that Ban Francisco Joe is running against Babe Ruth* s mighty home run record in 1927 when ] the bambino hit slx£y for the season. This morning, Friday, August the thirteenth, the figures showed that Di Maggio had hit thirty- : four in one hundred and two games. Ten years ago Ruth hit his thirty-fourth home run in his ninety-seventh game. And on August the thirteenth the Babe had piled up a total of thirty-six. Bo Jolting Joe is sliding behind the pace once set bythe^ busting Babe. There's drama in tho e individual competitions — the brilliant Joe DiMaggio competing against the historic record set by Babe Ruth and fighting it out in 3 present-day competition with the Bambino's old team mate. Iron Horse Lou Gehrig. BASEBALL - £ Why am I so baseball minded today? Perhaps it’s because I myself am scheduled to participate in an epic game over the weekend, a return game between our Dutchess County Nine Old Men and a scintillating aggregation headedy by Gene Tunney, Heywood Broun, Westbrook Pegler. Among the players on my Pawling - Quaker Hill team will be Sir Hubert W'ilkins, beard and all, to give the House of Divid tough; Ted Shane, the homorist; Colonel Stoopnagle of Radio fame; Captain Frank Hawks; former Attorney General Bill Donovan — with Catherine Cornell as the umpire. 11 ; ; 'j i i r !! i Joe DiMaggio and Lou Gehrig would laugh themselves to death if they could see that game. It will be broadcast by the N. B. C. And by the way here's one about Walter Johnson, of Rochester New York; not the famous Walter Johnson, the legendary pitcher. The Rochester Walter Johnson, is a catcher. He was up before a Judge on charges of being intoxicated when the autoliobile acci­ dent happenedl nl'm going to send you to jail decreed the judge, two weekends in stir for you - two Saturdays and Sundays.*' "But Judge," pleaded Walter Johnson in tearful alarm "You can't do that. I am the catcher on the Oddfellows Baseball £• L*. J.L - team, and we have a couple of games scheduled for the next two Sundays. How can the Oddfellows play ball without their Catcher?" M. The Judge thought it over and brought all his legal wisdom to bear on the question. Then he handed down another decision ,fThe Catcher,’' he declared,” -olays an important position in a ball game. So I will not penalize the Oddfellows for your misdeed. Therefore I sentence you to Jail for the next two Saturdays, but not Sundays, "Thank you, Judge," cried ./alter Johnson with fervent gratitude. TCSedT V te* i rurryid-^l-^ yn 1 .'l 44# > W f'Tlirwn fem'l te1 Oat .SO LONG UNTIL MONDAY. ft i