A2sm& Z v- i l How goes it everybody? How goes the world tonight?_ the meaning of what!s in the news. " 111 |M"1 '"llTir I wish I could tell you the meaning of things in Austria right now, the precise state of affairs in Vienna. But I can»t. Communications with the troubled City on the Danube, are cut off, after that wild revolutionary outbreak./ Rumours aplenty, and startling facts — how can we piece them together? Hot so easy. Well nigh impossible. We will have to wait for our newspapers tomorrow morning to give us their definite and decisive headlines. Last night when I made the surmise that there would soon be a show-down in Austria, and that it would come like the crack of I 1 : ; S a pistol — well, I little dreamed it would come so soon, so swiftly, so much like a pistol shot. I made my surmise of some drastic move on the basis of the harsh and bitter measures that Dolfuss was taking against the Hazi terrorists. And sure enough it was those harsh and bitter measures that were the immediate background for today s events — several Nazi terrorists executed by the decree of the Little ! : 1 11 11 i Dictator1s government * Now le^s try to picture the wild revolutionary outbreak AUSTRIA - 2 of today. It was just before noon in Vienna. Hear dawn over statelyt splendid old city of the Danube was drowsing ' in the quiet of a summer day. Then suddenly it happened — the revolt, the Nazi Putsch* The conspirators stuc^e right in the middle of things, in the very heart of the government. With carefully xxz timed secret moves, and before anyone knew what was happening, they suddenly captured the headquarters of the government. And they seized the heads of the Dolfues dictator­ ship, Dolfuss himself, the aged President Hiklas, and Vice- Chancellor Ameel Pey. Thus, with one swift stroke the heads of the Anti-Nazi regime were in the hands of their enemies, and along with them the lesser members of their cabinet. And with that death and turmoil were let loose, in Vienna. The Police and the Heimwehr, (the Austrian army,) whirled into action. But they were operating under a drastic handicap, with the Nazis threatening that if they were attacked they would immediately kill the three heads of the government who were their prisoners. Then followed reports that Dolfuss and his cabinet had resigned. Then there were rumours that the Little Dictator An STRIA - 3 Rad bead wounded. Following that the word indioated that the Bazl Putsch had failed completely. And later came the rumor that Dolfuss had been killed. And it seeme as though it might be true. If this jus true — Dolfuss killed — it suggests a terrifying picture of tlie Nazis carrying out their threat by it^Bsaering the heads of the Austrian Government. But we don*t know yet if this is true - - nobody knows on this side of the water* We’ll have to wait for tomorrow’s papers. troops iri Vienna. And today this liklihood seems more and more possible. A successful Nazi revolution in Austria would be a heavy blow to the policies of I~ - - - Dolfuss has held various conferences with the Italian Duce* In fact Mussolini was so eager to keep the good-will of the regime in Vienna that he invited the wife and children of the Little Dictator to pay him a personal visit at his summer home. And we can hark back to that meeting near Venice between Mussolini and Hitler. The Blackshirt ruler of Italy got a promise from Hitler to curb the activities of the Austrian Nazis. Last night X mentioned the possibility of Italian There is one surmise now — that just as the German Brown Shirts were getting out of HitlerTs control, Brown Shirts have got decidedly out of all control so the Austrian Hence, the day of terror in Vienna SAAR Tnere * & one still smaller territory of this world in a state of disturbance just now. The Kazi attempt to assassinate the Police Commiesioner of the Saar Valley merely makes a confused situation more confused. Herr Machts is a German, but a refugee for the Nazis. He is now Police Com­ missioner of that valley of coal mines which both Prance and Germany want so badly. The Saar district used to be a part of the Kaiser's domain, its people are Germans and it was naturally expected that the Saar would vote to become German again. They are going to have an election next January to decide. The election* eering campaign has been under way for some time. The recent violent ructions in Germany have made an unfavorable impression on the people of the Saar, who in addition are Catholics and don't like the Anti-Catholic tendencies of Hitler's cohorts. Now on top of it all comes the attempt to assassinate the Police Commissioner. The Nazi authorities in Germany are eryins out hastily:- "We didn't have anything tc do with it. We Emphatically disapprove." They realize from the way things are going the Saar Valley, with its rich mines might vote in favor of the French in the coming election. Right now the disputed district has'a most peculiar status. It's under the government of the League of Nations. Itfs real ruler is an official appointed by the League, and an interesting ruler he is. He is Jeffery Knox, a red-faced jovial Britisher of/flfty, who plays no favorites between Germany and France. He has two German servants and a 'French cook. The Socialists of the district, who are pro-French, like him better than the local Nazis, for Jeffery Knox has a motto: MDo unto Hitler as Hitler does unto others." He treat the Nazis in the Saar as the Nazis treat the Anti-Nazis in- Germany* Brown Shirt uniforms are forbidden. Nazi newspapers are under the tann. Every day Jeffery Knox gets up early , reads all the papers, and decides which ones;he will suppress. But he’s determined not to get narrow-minded about it, so every day for two hours he listens to Nazi propaganda from Germany on the radio. During some recent celebrations it was forbidden ____ . Nevertiieless, to fly flags representing any political party, the Socialist flew the red flag from the top of their headquarters. The Nazis went to Jerry Knox with € loud protest:- "The Socialists are flying a red flag," they complained* "Yes," he replied, "But the red flag is not a party flag— itrs a national flag." "Which nation," they demanded "Zanzibar,” he replied Zanzibar has no flag, but the Nazis didn’t know it m Bill Nye was a famous humourist. Gerald Nye is a famous Senator. I don*t mean to imply that there's anything humourous about a senator — least of all about Senator Uye. He^jlong since got rid of those yellow shoes,, with the^ bulging, bulbous toes which he wore when he first came to the .Senate; also that hair-cut* as if somebody had put a bucket on his head and clipped around it. While he was waiting to be confirmed in his Senate seat, and a battle was being fought about .whether he should be let in or not, one of his political enemies sent him a milking stool to sit on while waiting. .This was a dig at the bucolic, hayseed rusticity of the young Horth Dakotan. But that was a long time ago. Since then they have learned to take Bill Nye's cousin seriously. He has been an insurgent fighter and a demon investigator whose gift for raising Cain is always . threatening some new rumpus. So now when he comes to bat with a new drastic plan for revising the N ra it's a good thing to see what he has in mind. Senator Nye blasts forth with a loud denunciation of the gYS B NBA as it now stands* "I favor it," he declaims, "insofar as it eliminates child labor and sweat shops and provides for a minimum wage* But in all other respects it has failed," So he * s going to offer to the next Congress, a bill pro— 1 ? viding for a brand new set of codes for the industries. His plan is for the industries to have fair, practical agreements, but he wants these agreements to be arrived at with hearings before the Federal Trade Commission. He wants the Anti-Trust Laws to come back to life with greater strength and vigor than ever, and calls for eight special Federal courts to be set up to consider com­ plaints and check the growth of monoply. The Senator believes that with Courts of Complaint like those. Little Business will keep its eye on Big Business. This is just an advance notice, and we will hear plenty more about the Bye plan for a new BRA *±*h when Congress gathers again. AVIATOR The trans-Atlantic flying season this summer has not been as lively as usual, only a couple of ocean £ flights attempted, and with no spectacular success. Not so much excitement, not so many breathless, nerve—shattering thrills until right now. The trans-oceanic season comes to life with a bang, as into the dull and humdrum aviation It: | HI news leaps a bedazzling figure. He is one of the mightiest men I of sky-soaring adventure — the Black Eagle, Colonel Hubert Hubert Fauntleroy Julian was Commander-in-Chief of the Harlem first bounded into big headlines several years ago at Abyssinia, Emperor of Ethiopia, and King of Kings. we were told with a blare of trumpets that Colonel look at the record," as Al Smith iays. The jnindbergh of the coronation of His Majesty, Haile Selassie, Monarch of fauntleroy Julian. The black cloud Colonel is now out to make to Harlem the supremest flight of them all, a non-stopper from Abyssinia We were .nd he's likely to perform prodigies. "Let's Abyssinian Air Forces. Maybe you' 11 remember how when the AVIATOR -2 magnificent ceremonies of the Ethiopian coronation came to a climax, the Black Eagle capped the climax* In front of the royal throne of the King ©f Kings stood the Abyssinian Sky Fleet, consisting of one plane. With a dashing fling the Black Eagle jumped into the cockpit and took off, with a roaring of the motor and a blaze of glory* A few minutes later, not far from the imperial throne, the plane came down with a mighty crash, and the Black Ea.gle crawled out of an intricate mass of torn fabric, wings and struts. That looked bad enough, but later revelations made it look worse. It appears that the Abyssinian Air Fleet had originated in this way:- The Kings of Kings, on a visit to London went to Self ridge Ts Department Store and purchased a small Moth plane, and had it shipped to Abyssinia, At royal ceremonies, coronations and the like, the plane was wheeled in front of the imperial throne and there it stood, never intended to fly, but merely to be looked at by admiring Ethiopians. It was in no con­ dition to fly safely AVIATOR -3 Colonel Hubert Pauntleroy Julian, the Black Eagle, who is a real flyer and not just a Kiwi, didn't know about this. And that is how, in one magnificent exploit, he reduced the Imperial Abyssinian Air Fleet to splinters, right before the eyes of the King of Kings. In consequence of this the Black Eagle was banished by imperial decree from the Land of Ethiopia. He returned to America, still clad, in his Abyssinian uniform, which was wonderful to behold — blue tunic, faun trousers, epaulets, ^old braid, and a variety of violently gorgeous hats, helmets, feathers and plumes.. He simply blinded his friends and sold them irfry—« on the idea of an All-African Trans-Atlantic flight. And they kieked-in with'enough money to buy him a plane. He took off with great ceremony — and landed in a Long Island swamp about six miles from the flying £? field. Whereupon in Harlem a lot of cooks, Pullman porters, and ebony beauties went looking for the Black Sagle to get their money back. That compelled Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian to AVIATOR -4 lay low for awhile. But now he's in thaiimelight again. He has just sailed for the Land of Ethiopia* He seems to have his scared things with t&s Harlem backer^, and with the King of Kings, Otherwise how could he be undertaking his present project of a flight from Africa to America, from Abyssinia to Harlem? ARMENIANS Sing Sing h.as nine new inmates today; The grim doors of the New iork State Prison have closed upon the Armenians convicted of the murder of the Archbishop Leon Touriaa in his church last Christmas. Two of the convicted men are under -a sentence of death, which they are appealing. The seven others are condemned to serve from ten to twenty years. According to the finding of the court, they are members of the secret Armenian revolutionary or­ ganization, the Tashnag, which opposed the murdered Archbishop because he supported the Soviet regime in Russian Armenia* gAFETT Congratulations to the Safety Legion of Jersey City I They have been tackling a job splendid and useful every- where. The Police Department started' it. They organized the Safety Legion and built up a membership of twenty-nine thousand. All pledged to do their bit to reduce accidents. And how well they1 ve succeeded is told by the figures. In three months the number of accidents in and around Jersey City was cut by forty percent. So, congratulations ks from Sunoco to the Safety Legion of Jersey City It’s cool, foggy and damp in these parts, and it,s a relief to reflect that the Weather Man promises that the East will be spared from that Mid-Western heat wave. Yes, the records certainly have been falling, charred and burnt up by new blasting spurts of heat — Vinita, Oklahoma, one hundred and seventeen degrees above, Chicago one hundred and five. two degrees above the previous record. St, Louis w&ich had never /\------- -— before seen the thermometer go above one hundred, watched it climb to one hundred and ten. The flaming weather has taken more than seven hundred lives in twenty-two states. Ponds and lakes have dried up with fishes and turtles baking in the sun. Gandy factories have closed, because the sweeties melt to syrup before they can be rushed to the refrigera­ tor. Farmers have been chopping down trees so the cattle can eat the leaves — the grass is burnt up. And here’s one detail that seems something like poetic justice. A thermometer factory has closed shop because the beeswax they use for etching the glass just melts away, and drips like hot candle-grease. WBATHEK - 2 Yes, Mother Mature is running a high fever, not only here but In the Old World too, la Soviet Russia heat and drought are devastating the crops. Children have been mobilized to comb through the wheat fields and pick up every grain that the threshers drop. In Poland the drought has been broken by rain storms and floods. In Prance it16 the same story with drought followed by fierce rain and hail storms, which are playing havoc in the wine country. And that same contrast of the dry and the wet comes from such widely separated parts as Japan and Mexico. In Hungary a freak storm sucked shoals of fish from the River Danube and dropped them over the country, while the rain poured down and lightening blazed. The North Atlantic chimes in with a heat wave that has caused a mysterious absence of icebergs, ----------- -- 0 ——------- In Holland the weather report is four hundred and fifty-nine degrees below zero. Thafe a cool breeze for youJ It blows out a laboratory. Dutch scientiete report that they WBATHSR - 2 Y# b # Mother Mature Is running a high fever, not only here but in the Old World too. In Soviet Huesia heat and drought are devastating the crops. Children have been mobilized to comb through the wheat fields and pick up every grain that the threshers drop. In Poland the drought has been broken by rain storms and floods. In France it1 e the same story with drought followed by fierce rain and hail storms, which are playing havoc in the wine country. And that same contrast of the dry and the wet comes from such widely separated parts as Japan and Mexico. In Hungary a freak storm sucked shoals of fish from the River Danube and dropped them over the country, while the rain poured down and lightening blazed. The North Atlantic chimes in with a heat wave that has caused a mysterious absence of icebergs. ------------ ---------- 0 ------------ *--------- In Holland the weather report is four hundred and fifty-nine degrees below zero. That's a cool breeze for you: It blows out a laboratory. Dutch scientists report that they ESTHER - 3 laave eucoeeded in producing the most intense cold ever measured -- four hundred and fifty-nine below. So today’s report is record breaking heat and record breaking cold. Prom extreme to extreme — and SO LOHG UNTIL TOMORROW. r