^ c^_.^^_ l , is ^ g i";ri 1 in the sky flashed today when, the French authorities got a message. Tlie word flashed across the clouds:- "V/e*' like to have perinission to fly over French soil, to land in - r an.c e if nec essary, We ’ re hav ing 3 eriou s crio tor trouble. " That request coming through the ether was from the super Zeppelin, the von Hindenburg, returning from her maiden trip te South America, She has eighty-two passengers aboard. In a later wireless flash Drr l.ckener, the skipper, tells that one motor out of four has stalled, and they can’t get it going. And at the same time the von Hindenburg is buc k in g h eav y he ad w ind s ov e r th e U ed i t e r r an e -an „ The Germans claim that on her outward voyage the von Eindanburg took a long way around, to the north, to avoid filing over French soil. With the bitter tension existing between France and Germany, she hadn't been able to get permission to fly over France, But all of tha+ was changed today. "Ship in difficulties" — that old cry on the sea or in the air, changes everything. "he French Government immediately wires its errniscion. ZEPPELI.N - 2 "We'll tfo anything we can to help," said Paris. The latest is that the von Hindenburg is riding safely and will land tomorrow, in France. W TT « . ^ ^ "cd' -r* '' 1‘!ie Le of KaM.as, Gres* Britain came ti a - ' ’ -■ ■ ■'I* ^ ^ 5-• * ion s apy-in at Italy*. i?orei >-?i -'aa.ret ary An-t-wiii —- -** oy^. ■_ • t t,"? 11 in.-:' ■vcr^ — a'Dout poison "as. Ks j declarsn * -e reaonls sUo .v that Italian sJiips have carried two / iiund ret t d n s ,f i ead 1.. cH emic al s ( thro a, h the Su ez Canal, 1 That of course does not say that Mussolini's men iLave actually been using toe poison gas t'-,~t vas ship red. But it isn't to be assumed that they took the. stuff to East Africa to kill off insects., '"hat is the charge of the prosecution. 'What does the court say? .And That c c e s the defense say? The c : u rt la f-is case is the L . ague of nations - that is the League jurists - o have passed on the case. They turned in a report - that the League has no jurisdiction in the quarrel about gas. It K.xv isn't the League' s business. It all comes under the heading of the International Agreement of Lineteen Twenty- Five., the agree r.ent not to use deadly chemical s in warfare. The League report suggests that the accusations against LEAGUE - £ Italy shall be referred to the powers that signed that anti-gas treaty. Italy signed it. So did Ethiopia. And so, by the way, did the United States. In fact, the prohibition against gas was drafted by the late Senator Burton of Ohio. What does the defense reply? Rome? Mussolini says no% reply at all. He won11 give any accounting to the League on the alleged use of gas in East Africa. He wants to submit the question to another sort of judgment. He declares he is willing to let the International "Red Cross pass on the matter. There was one party to these proceedings today who wa "irlghfy^d'irttrba interested in the discussion, in fact, didn*t want the discussion to take place. France, of course. Premier Flandin is still stubbornly trying to focus attention not on Ethiopia but on the Rhine. The French declare that if Hitler goes ahead and builds fortifications in the Rhineland, France will appeal to the League of Nations for penalties against Germany, drastic penalties, penalties with teeth. Meanwhile, there seems to be little prospect of an-e*/--** LSA3UE - 3 Ethiopian settle -.eut. The Italians are H riving at top speed, a cliina+ic attempt to sweep away Ethiopian resistance and swiftly occupy the country - aid give the League of Nations nothing to talk about. HAILE SELASSIE rue or uot true? In the international crisis the question loc-,3 important. it concerns whisVers, famous whiskers, Haile Selassie’s whiskers. Is the minor true that the King of Kings has shaved c^f his beard, the bes+ known beard in the world today. George Bernard Shaw has a renowned crop of spinach, there’s Supreme Oourt Justice hushes, and Ahe young Italian Air- Marshal halbo, the explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins and others with notable bushy adornments. And, there’s Santa Claus and the Smith Brothers. But for the past year no set of whiskers has been so famous in newspapers and newsreels as the stately black beard of naile Selassie, the Kegus iiegusti. King of Kings, Lion of Judah, Emperor Ethiopia. 'There is no confirmation of the rumor that he has shaved em off. The first report care from the Italian side. Today's wo id from ^ ome add 9 insistent and prec ise-sound ing details. The Italians say they know about it, because a native Ethiopian saw ihie hing of Kings, shaved, smocth-faced. This Ethiopian told an Askari in an Italian native regiment. The soldier told his officer; the officer ->old ^ re oorter -uid the reporter told the world. Further oetails HAiLob SisLAoai.^ - 2 skij --, 3 - ^-13.B4»is zot a. aUave and is flssing in dispruis©, because of a trap set for him oy a warlike Gal las. This sounds mere plausible, as the Gal la people are a subject race, and hate their Amhara overlords. Always have. There have been consistent reports of Gal la uprisings against the defeated Ethiopian armies. So the question of Haile Selassie * s beard is of international import an c e - indicating danger to the life of the Emperor, one of the prine figures in the world crisis. it also bears upon the possibility of a general uprising of the subject peoples against the Ethiopian government --a thing for which the Italians have been hoping. M SLA, ii. FRU:- MEC^A Euad Hamzeh, minister of Foreign Affairs for King Ibn Saud, visited the famous American University at Beirut, Syria, Fuad Ham z eh was accompanied by Sheik Abdullah, Baud ian Minister of Defense for holy Kecca. So impressed was the Sheik from the Sacred City of Islam, so impressed with what he saw of American education at Beirut, that he at once entered his son lioharnraed, and his nephew, Abdul Aziz; and, even more remarkable, he entered one of his slaves as a student. Other aheiks and Saida from the City of the Kaaba, hecca, are sending their sons with Mohammed, Abdul Aziz and the slave, to that great American school in Bei rut, 'This little item interests me because it reminds us of what an important part that university plays in the life of the Hear East. There are few universities on earth whose influence is greater than the one presided over by Bayard Dodge at the foot of the Lebanon Mountains, at the eastern end of the M ed i t erran e an . PIR^ST C-Hi xiacp in nineteen Twenty-Five, 'uid Six, the British formed a world-wide rubber combine, to put up the price. The product of the tropical tree jumped to a dollar and twenty- three c en t s a pound. And what could the Americans do about i t? Our land produces most of the things, needed for modern life - but not the tropical plant that gives rubber. Great Britain, with her vast equatorial empire, was able to manipulate a stranglehold. It looked that way - until one particular American aro se and said, "ho " , He was a big- sho t in the rubber industry, one of those rugged characters. He had battled his way up in the rough-and-tumble school of business, and was never known to shirk a fight - Harvey Firestone, Born on a farm, his first job was - clerk in a coal company. Then he hit the read selling patent medicine - nostrums that would cure everything from a pain in. the big toe to innocuous desuetude arid cerebral strabissmus. After that, a. job with a firm of carriage makers - but the firm went broke. FIIU - 2 r'iien came the startling news - in nineteen Five. The increni'Dle report - that a certain Henry Ford, building those new-fangled automobiles, planned to turn out two thousand cars a year, and sell them at ■c’ive hund red dollars a piece. All of those flivvers needed rubber tires, and Harvey Firestone got FIRESTONE - 3 the order. That started the tire rolling in a big way. The firm grew into a live industry. Today Harvey Firestone stands - one of the last at the old-time pioneers in business. ■'V This, then, was the man who set out to break the British stranglehold on rubber, the international price-raising monopoly. His idea was — if we Americans can^t grow rubber In our own country. 11 i ill : i let* s find a land where we can. He looked up the tropics and selected the v^est African Republic of Liberia - that odd nation founded by former black slaves from the United States. There Firestone leased a million acres, and planted rubber. It was a bold experiment. There were international complications. There were industrial complications. It was a struggle for the worlds supreme market 1^ rubber - because out of every four pounds grown in the world, three pounds are consumed in the United States. How has the adventure turned out? Well, we hear today - about Harvey Firestone. Not the industrial pioneer himself but his son, a Vice-President of the Company. The younger man has just returned from a trip to Liberia. He went out there to FIRESTONE - 4 study the rubber experiment. He reports - fifty-five thousand acres intensely cultivated. A production - second or third largest in the world. He announces that as a result of his inspection - they are going to build a million dollar fact' .y on the African coastPort Elizabeth, Liberia. That indicates how the adventure in rubber iucA turn«4^out. A A GOLD . here’s tne glint of rolrf in the news tonight, a cheery 1 ~» ileo a melancholy glow. The cheer is - “hello". The melancholy is - "goo^-bye". In California, it's "hello J ey stone I" The old Keystone £o 111 mine, one of the fabulous ore deposits of yore. They struck olJ in Eighteen Ki^ty-One and took seventeen milli n dollars out it, hen for a long time it lay idle, a deserted mine. Now Keystone is going back into operation again. Explanation? The hi-h pri^e of gold, and new mining methods. " ..nopah - th-.re are legend a or gold and silver aroand that name. Recently, a couple of fellows are dig, ing a ditch in their Tonopah, Nevada back ^^rd. ’''hey struck ore worth from thirty-five to sixty dollar© a ton. Then, a hundred feet xx away from that strike, two other felloes took a lease, and found a vein of ore. ' od ay' © nev/s tells of a regular gold rush. They struck pay dirt firty feet from the main business street, fifty feet from the -at 1 er "’heatre and fr in the fonop ah hire Department. ■ y.. goi’en melancholy good-bye comes from Alaska. Any of us who have been up there in the ol*^ sou i dough country , GOLD - £ will feel regret at the news. The Juneau Ferry and the Juneau ferry!) —It seems to symbolize all the rough northern romance of the Alaskan mining camps. In Eighteen Eighty—Seven# when saloons in Juneau and blow a fish horn, signalling - the boat is going. In gold rush days, the miners crossed in endless numbers between Douglas and Juneau, their tarek* bags full of the precious dust. The blackjack game on the ferryboat was a saga of kkKus the north - ten dollar gold pieces for chips. The boats crossed during forty-eight years, without a mishap. But now the supreme mishap has occurred — a bridge. Thatfs what licks a ferryboat. Two hundred and fifty thousctno dollar span has been built across the channel so the Juneau Ferry and Navigation Company is Navigation Company has gone out of business. What A Captain John Martin rounds of the going out of business - auctioning off its one boat! BASEBALL As the opaing of the baseball season draws near, the newsman Is inclined to talk about the star palyers in the big leagues* But let's not do that* Let's talk about the managers * 7 ^ Phat's suggested by a remark of Quentin Reynolds, sports writer He says that the managers are much more interesting than the players. You can't escape the memory of John H* MeGrew, the most vivid and picturesque of them all* A rollicking Irishman at times, but cold-blooded in baseball. And his successor Bill Terry is something like that too — cold-blooded* A Jolly fellow Bill, but he'd fire his best friend if he thought it would help the team. Last season he put one of his pitchers to work as a bat-boy — because the pitcher had failed to obey orders. For hard-boiled discipline, take Rogers Hornsby. He A believes in it and can'Toree it. He thinks he can lick any man on the club, and doesn't hesitate to try* He's so strict he won't let a player read a newspaper in the clubhouse* Says If a bad for the batting eye. ^ Micky Cochrane, of the Detroit world champions, goes in for the subtle thing pyschology. qUentin Reynolds, in BASEBALL -E reefcrlai Collierf s^iW«<rici^| tells how Micky 1 I took drastic psychological measures with School Boy Bowe# The School Boy was in a pitching slump* Micky said -« "That !■ guy's too good-natured, too easy-going to get the best out of his am* He needs something to jar him and jangle his nerves•' So Cochrane told the other members of the team not to talk to the School Boy, never say a word to him, never answer a question or even make a remark about the weather. The silent treatment I School Boy Rowe stood it the icy, silent chill for two days* Then, half wild, he sent to Cochrane and demanded- that somebody should speak to him, give him a warn word* Cochrane put him, in to pitch that afternoon. and the angry, nerve-strained School Boy tossed a shut-out* After that — they talked to him plenty. flow — -le^-a-have -the -sidrant treatmont-right gnnft-wft: -UNTIL- TOMOKBOF; PQLF.TS & ^ odd thing - a family incorporating itself. Everybody in the clan, cousins, nephews and in-laws, turned into a corpora­ tion. That has been done by the Polet family of Seattle. Polet, Incorporated, has fifty-one members. The head of the concern is -s Alphone LaSalle, known around Seattle as nthe singing chefn. When he cooks waffles, he warbles. This curious corporation had its inception with a mournful ceremony, the funeral of Michael DeCaro, a baritone of the Chicago Opera Company. DeCaro was related to the Polet family, one of the clan. And when he died they remembered how he 1 owed his success to other people!s money. To complete his operatic studies and get his chance in the world of song, he had borrowed from people outside cf? the family. So at his funeral the Polets said - "that shall never happen again." They decided to incorporate themselves as a business concern to finance the musical talent of anyone connected v/ith They are putting up an initial fund of five hundred dollars, and will chip in and increase it - ! 1 ! |j i for the greater musical glory of Polet, Incorporated.