. /I*? *ue •- - 'v': «r Oept eynb er sixth -1*® -O^x for t -iS i-li.-.roai strike to begin* was annoimced by X-rewx i < 31 1 ,r*;*i ..i-w^ of tile 3ro tn irboof of Railroad Trainiaefi« one night have thought that in the strike outbreaks cT the past months, we had seen just about the height of labor troutu Sj ws .night nave imaginefi there couldn’ t be much mo re* But a railroad strike ■■■, u?. ^ 4 ^wrt ^r1raa% cap the climax. agree ... . %y \ e reached through Government mediation*#*#® st,«pK stepping in# pad that promise* fee po stpon strike. The latest v. .onocement of the union leaders is - th i.t they'*il d slay issuing the strike ^rder, modav’s railroad crisis xas comes after a series of futile conferences in C1 ev ei a ' d , between tee union leaders and the railroad exe'ativea* The rock on which the negotiations Fort lately, in nsthing is likely to happen. An ‘/ashington comes the word, -the labor mediation board four.: o-V is a d e.. nd *or increased pay - a twenty per cent raise. They cc l^n’t come to any agreement on that. s:^ - 2 -i'i' & T',--*.1 _ obro t • a ire repress;;lied, in viie oiii'ce tlii’ea.'t - the trainraen, tV.e locomotive engineers, the firteeii, the switchmen * s xSt union of oTorth America, and the ord er of Railway Co .•'actorc* They have two handrel and. fift^ thousand members, the men ran the trains,r Their a tribe plans are compr ehen eiv e, The Brotherhood leaders are laying „ -1 a detail'd, program of strike strategy - to stop the railroad 3 if the J m&nd for a ix-ta^c twenty per cent increase is rot uet fight . Ttie fight is postponed, of course. Gloomy skies and flurries of rain caused promoter Mike Jacobs to put it off - not until tomorrow, but until Monday* The weather nmn promises bright skies for Monday night. So Champion Joe Louis and Challenger Tommy Farr are taking it easy over the weekend, trying to keep themselves in that proverbial pink*o£3*0»ii£fc£ew Meanwhile, interest switches to another brawney gladiator of the thudding gloves - Max Schmeling. The news had it that Schmeling would fight Joe Louis next June, and see if he could knock him out once again. But today Promoter Jacobs spoke up and said Schmeling may go into a fight with Louis much sooner, this fall - on Columbus day. And that date is okay with Max. But don*t jump to the conclusion that a Louis-Schmeling fight is a sure thing for October twelfth* /a question arises. The old question - money. Jacobs said that Max could have the Columbus Day fight if he would take the regulation twelve and a half per cent of the gate. That's what challengers are allowed under the Boxing Laws of New York State. To this Max replies with another figure - thirty per cent. He says he was FIGHT - ,2^ promised that and argues he»s entitled to it. Having beaten Louis, he should have fought Jim Braddock for the title. But the bomber got the bout# instead. Max has the idea that he is the rightful cheunpion and therefore is entitled to better than a mere challenger^ twelve and a half per cent im&jK ' I-hB :-efcn having a gruesome epidemic of what sm are called *■ tor’s., murders, teni of them, the victims dismesBi'bered, Today a man was arrested, and th.. stor; tecomes still more siniste*, *ii**»^r and fantastic. The prisoner //as f'.raerly employed in a Hospital, worlred for fifteen years as a helper in the operating room. He fancied himself a great ’..and at surgical instruments, hragged of his Icncvleige of anatomy.^He was discharged from the Hospital, and d eclared it was because the Doctors •were jealous of his talent at surgery. He stole a set cf surgical inst3?umerite al«» when he left, so tie Police .-ray. Such is the suspect under arrest tonight for the f lev T-lmnd fe rso nur^ers, and they say he talks in a r/ild, irrational .v,^ In to imagainatlon comes a nightmare - fantasy of a possi :le killer m-r1 nith hsocs hallucinations of surgical skill, k;lvc te>' V/y delusions of the operating room* ^~3flNQt:0-s.-T CHINA The news from China brings a drama of a personality. It’s a grave International incident that has the statecraft of the World worried and anxious this evening. But it*s also a story of an individual. ^A powerful automobile left Nanking, the Chinese Nationalist^* Capital, and today went speeding on the road to Shanghai. On the Radiator of the car flew a British flag. In the rear seat was the British Ambassador to China, SlXXXSgll Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugesen^ For weeks his has been just about the most difficult diplomatic post in the World, of Great Britainfs vast Far Eastern interests as Japan strikes at China. Number one British diplomatic post Just now. Yet he*s a career man, without wealth or great CHINA - 2 inherited position, without the backing of great fortune and family. He's the younger son of a younger son. And you know what that means in England, where the eldest son takes the titles and the estates, sir Hughe’s father, as a younger son, went into the church, sir Hughe himself as a clergyman’s younger son, to# went into the diplomatic service -- at the bottom, in 1S08. Nothing was heard about him for eleven years. Then in 1919 he was a secretary of some sort or other, attached to the British Delegation at the Versailles Peace Conference. Seven years later we hear of him as Counsellor to the British Embassy at Brussels. Four years later he was made Minister to one of the Baltic Nations. Then he became Minister to Persia. Just a year ago he was raised to the rank of an Ambassador and sent to China. That certainly was working up from the bottom. Moreover, at fifty-one, he’s one of the youngest of British Ambassadors* In China Sir Hughe appeared in the headlines last February In an odd and dtaXi disturbing way. At Nanking — kis daughter was shot. Mix An Embassy party was out riding, the CHINA - 5 Ambassador *s daughter cantering along. They were passing a Chinese drill ground, and there was the cracking of Rifle practice. A stray Chinese taut bullet hit the Ambassador*# daughter as she sat in the saddle. She wasn’t badly hurt, and Sir Hughe announced — the incident was closed, it served to illustrate the fact that China can be rather a dangerous place. Sir Hughe found that out again in startling fashion today. The Ambassadorial car was whirling along the road on its way was stepping on the gas. For there was urgent reason to get to Shanghai fast. The presence of the Ambassador was needed at once. The Chinese were being defeated by the Japanese today. ^As the car went speeding along, they noticed an airplane overhead, a Japanese War Plane,and then they saw it was diving. They had no misgiving — because wasn’t the British an to Shanghai. At the wheel a British Colonel, xxt expert driver. and the International settlement was standing at arms, afraid of a rush of beaten Chinese soldiers. flag flying on the Radiator of the car? The plane swooped low. There was an outburst of machine gun fire. flHTNA ~ 4, th« oar. TWO shots hit the British Ambassador. He sank back, gravely hurt. The Colonel at the wheel stopped the car instantly, afraid It had been damaged and might be wrecked. He got out to look at It. As he stood on the road he was knocked unconscious by a terrific explosion. Another Japanese plane had dropped a bomb, wxmx a sky torpedo. After being Knxk±n machine-gunned the British Ambassador’s car was being bombed. Others in the car went to the aid of the Colonel. He revived quickly, jumped back to the wheel and drove a mad race to the Hospital. This evening word comes from Tokio, regrets, explanations. The British Ambassador’s car, say the Mikado’s officials, should have had a British flag spread across its entire top as it drove into the War zone. Flying on the Radiator the British colors were not recognized by the Japanese Aviators. They thought the big car held Chinese Generals on their way to Shanghai battle. And so they attacked it. CHINA - 5. in London the atmosphere at the Foreign office is tense. His Majesty*s Government announces_they will take appropriate action. Admitting that the shooting of the Ambassador was undoubtedly unintentional, an accident, still it*s a grave International incident. Some believe that London will demand an indemnity from Tokio. If the Japanese yielded to such a demand they might lose face -- a serious thing in the East. Tonight the eyes of diplomacy are fixed on a Shanghai Hospital, because there’s a difference between these two things, the shooting of a British Ambassador and the killing of a British Ambassador. What is the condition of Sir Hughe Knatchbull -Hugesen this evening? Serious, The Doctors say — abdominal wounds. There are plenty of prayers for his recovery because if the British Ambassador should die from Japanese bullets the peril of that Japanese-British inc would be doubled and redoubled. Even without it ther ominous conflict of interests between London and Tokio Far East :,e: fill of f'JTitanafcr is h. joajor ever^t in the Spaniai. rivil " >r, strategic tut lot's net loot at its deeper and more »«+«» grin, sidelight* ^ wo officers of the Santanr’er d ef eri se vent tc the ret el line.: as eni o caries tc offer the surrender of the City* Tc the Franco '‘ommander they declared that Santander was willing tc yield - tut on one condition. There would he a surrender, if the Rationalists would guarantee - not to shoot women and children. . ^'That is not done ty the NationalistsB was the answer they received. Co the CiAy surrendered on that one condition - no shootir, of v,omen and shilrtren. iMffPWWttfctf TiT« sifelicit on the merciless ir.human 1 ty of s ^ivir war, c^*s,s£‘ ^ahist aikxMX. c laes ’•TEDDING I suppose I must be a sentimental soul, because - what do you think caught my interest on a visit to the National Jewelers Show In New York? No, not the glitter of diamonds and blend of rubies. I took the longest look at a display of mere bands of gold, which were of various shapes and designs. They circlets on the finger which from time Immemorial have signified ta^bonds of matrimony. Ancient Egyptian wedding rings, and ancient Greek also. The display was put on by J. R. Woods and Sons, Wedding Ring Manufacturers, and I talked to one of the woods experts who told me the ancient Egyptians originated the wedding ring. The pharoahs considered the circle as the symbol of eternity, and the ceremonial ring on the bride's finger promised love and happiness But it was the ancient Greeks who found the proper finger on which to wear the ring, m their early beliefs, the Athenians of ole thought that from the middle finger a special were - wedding rings, an arr;ajji illustrating the history of those without end, eternal vein ran directly to the heart* Therefore, the Wedding Ring ’ffECDDING- * 2j> be8t be worn on the middle finger, the heart finger - where it could replicas of historic wedding rings one especially caught the imagination, a hand of gold that once had graced the finger of Mary, ^ueen of Scots, her wedding ring.- It was found in the ruins of the Castle in England where she was beheaded. It was given her by Darnley, the first husband she married in her tragic reign as a Scottish Queen. Darnley was killed and she was accused of having connived at his assassination. The deed was plotted by Bothwell, and then she married him. Years late^^at the time of her doom in an English Castle, she still had Darnley*s wedding Bing, which was found long, long afterward amid the Castle ruins. be most effective as a charm. There at the Jewelers* show in the WaldorJ Yes, I'm afraid I'm growing a bit sentimental on the subject of wedding rings At Calhoun, Missouri, a stick-up robber was in Jail today* y € talked ir, t c the Sheriff's Office and surrendered, say in & "I st i-ave teen crazy when I robbed the Bank,w And he handed over the money he had snatched in the stick-up - three hund r ed and fifty dollars. He * s no traveling: mobster^ whirling about the country on hold-up raid z. 116*8 Charlie Hill, native cf Calhoun, born and brought up there, everybody knows him. His father used to ran tine general store* His mother, one of the moot highly respected widows of the town. nevertheless, Charlie Hill Kakx walked into the itizens State Bank, where everybody knew him - friends. He pulled out a gun and held up the astonished Cashier, who said - / Vo* ia4~ eih^£u " "Why Charlieor something like that* A rut Charlie was dead in earnest with the pistol pointed, he scooped up all the money in sight, and made a getaway. The town of Calhoun was astounded, few hours later, Charlie, the fleeing fugitive, came to his senses and realized what he had done. Co back in ten he came, right to the office of tHe Sheriff, and said - "X must have been crazy.” "GW At Paris, liisecuri, 1/rs, Lillie McMorris is HouetLctLe:3: ir the hoare ox' Jadgs Crawford, Mrs, McMori/i & is 'a 6 eterroiiiec character, a woman of action. So what did she do, when she noticed something at the window^ booking in - a. ^Peeping T obi , n ^hat would any wornan of powerful character do - with glimpsing eyes prying into her privacy, Mrs, McMorris grabbed a gun, and opared fire. She blared away at the "Peeping Tom.w ^hattHZJtx Shattered the window, and shot - a cow. It wa- the neighbor^ s fine Jersey cow that had sauntered rate the 'back yard 'and was looking in the window* end that, should be r; lesson to cowst_