^ J PrUATEMALA Z( o K3^ fji' i ©pop ts^'ws.v© bfeen finm-i n/T 4-U-™ iragmentar^ xeports'have been coming through oi' a revolution in the republic oi Guatemala. A strict censorship is strangling the news coming out oi the little Central American Republic, bur details ol wild doings have been filtering into our own Paneuna Canal Zone. These paint a picture of student revolt, a quire familiar picture in Latin^distS^bances - and also of a rift in the ranks of the Guatemala an gmc army, dissatisfaction and fighting among the soldiers. The story of ferocious happenings begins with e. certain General Paaiiua, candidate for the President^ and said to be head of the revolutionary movement, hevolt and sedition flared among the students. The government struck back, arrested and executed several of the indent revolutionists, they also executed Bernardo Alvarado Tello, former director of the University of Guatemala. ».ith this a fiery demonstration started, a parade of students who were joined ey vvoiauxien and iormer aimy officers. The police opened fire. The students fled to the University buildings, where they barricaded themselves in, xKmdXHgxiiiK sing! g for General Padilla. I Guatemalan national antnem and cneeiing GUATEMALA - £ Oovernment troops opened fire on the university buildings and tossed | hand grenades Then came a thundering intervention. There was a boom- f m ' w ing of cannon from Fort San JostT, which guards the city. The soldiers!' there fired their artillery in the air, as a demonstration. Then another burst of cannon fired from a different direction* It was from another fort. Fort Matamoros. The soldiers there were out of sympathy with the government and they thought that Fort San Jose was bombarding the insurgent students in the university. And so Fort Matamoros turned its artillery on Fort San Jose and biased away. iit this point, the soldiers besieging the university tnought tney were being bombarded, raised the siege, and got ou^ J / of the way j it~ A. * The government, greatly- surprised at the behavior of Fort Matamoros, sent official spokesmen to find out what was tne , matter. Those spokesmen were received with loud shouts ol Viva General Padilial” Meanwhile, nobody seems co know what has happened to General Padilla. There are rumors tnat he has been executed. | i'i 1 11 IS i i'j -...... J --------------------------------- —----------------- --------- --------- ------------------ ftUAl-LMALA - 5 that he is in jail, that an army of farmers from the outlying districts xx is marching to rescue him.. And there^ a statement ' issued hy the authorities which declares that the general has signed a pledge to support the government. Anyway, the grand panorama of the world*s events is sharply punctuated by a vivid theatrical tale of riot, shooting, bloodshed and shouting from a corner of Central America - another Latin-American revolution! mam I: have brougnt about a curious episode in South .America. The stories of graft paid in connection with munitions sales involved General :4 Belloni, former chief of the army of the Argentine. And now the Argentine Minister of War has written a letter telling the general that if the storyjthat came out in Washingtion is true, he ought to shoot himself. But it is not liAely the General will follow the suggestion, so JEx a court martial is being summoned to try him. : I 1 1 1 r p i There was fast action today at Geneva, where the League ! of Nations is preparing to welcome a new nation into its ranks. It is Afghanistan, deep in the secluded spaces of Central Asia. There seems to be some sort of -mysterious attraction, because the League is setting a speed record admitting the Afghan - the appiication for membership was received from Ko^l/and a I N I i committee instantly appointed. Today the Committee passing on the application is in session, xhey must be~&g3g&«S to take the big fellow ) brown witn the turban^into the family. / f Maybe 11*3 because Afghanistan is such an interesting country, a bizarre assortment of mountaineering tribes in the rugged for biding land next door to the towering peaks of the Himalayas, Or maybe it's because of the singular strategic position cf the country as the world's most important bulfer.state, not a soit cushioning buffer, but something more like a bristling porcu^bn^- between the Turkestan territories ol tne old Russian Bear,^pai* t red Just now, and that fabulous troubled sub-continent, British India. PERSIA, Sometime a2o we heard how *£» Riza Khan, Shah of Persia* oaid a visit to Kemal Pa&ha, Dictator of Turkey. , hi s The Dictator of Turkey is noted, for modern reforms especially concerning women.dnd now we hear that Riza Khan is putting through a whole series of femininistic ciupiges. He has A forbidden Persian women to wear the veil* the age-old veil of Islam. He let his wife visit Europe all by herself, which shattered Moslem nrecedent. And now his daughter has been presiding over a congress of Persian suffragettes, who are clamoring for the vote and the abolition of the harem. up a few ideas in his chatty conferences with Kemal Paeha, the But 3ust to keen up the old tradition that "East is East, and West is West", the story comes along telling how Shah Riza Khan follows the old Oriental tradition of personal justice It would seem that Riza Khan, Shah of Persia, picked Turkish Dictator. In a nubile square, he took his riding whip and lashed a criminal with his own hand. AUSTRIA In Austrian official circles they are repeating^that Nazi- Germany is continuing to put up money for the Austrian Mazis exiled in Yugoslavia. 1'he Vienna newspapers are .declaring that the German Council at the Yugoslav city of Zagreb has just made a payment of a hundred thousand Marks for the Austrian Nazi refugees who are being kept in detention camps. This, declare the Austrians, is the third hundred thousand Mark payment that the Berlin government has forked over. And the allegations continue that the Nazi exiles are drilling and goose-stepping with a feverish activity, preparing for some putsch or other in the future -r also that they are getting to be a bother ana a nuisance for tne surrounalng Yugoslav population. ’ u i^r ..'-’aav-'isamm STBIKE Joim Bail is lacing a huge coal-mine strike. A hundred and olio us and thirty-seven^welsh miners are scheduled to walk out on Monday, unless the government finds a way to siggp step in and make peace. The miners and the mine owners agreed to submit the case to the arbitration of an impartial committee. That looked nice and peaceful, but the real dilemma came popping up when they started to name the members l££ the arbitration committee. Ihe bosses and the workers have not been able to come to an agreement of any sort on that score. So it 'StPitroy-^niinerg* strike, unless His Majesty s government intervenes LINDBERGH An indtctraent was returned in Mew ^orlc today against Hauptmann, the Lindbergh suspect. Hauptmann,is now Indicted in Mew iork State for extortion — this, while Sew Jersey is working up a case against him for kidnapping and murder. So here* s the way that most celebrated case of the day stands to work out if Mew Jersey has the evidence on which to try him for kidnapping and murder. He will be turned over to that state to face the more serious charge. * And if they convict him in New Jersey, the indictment for extortion will be dropped. But New Jersey does not amass sufficient evidence to put him on trial for the kidnapping and murder, or if they do not succeed in convicting him on those capital charges, why then he will have to face the music of the New xork indictment of extortion, and be tried for taking, the fifty thousand dollar ransom money from Lindbergh. Meanwhile, the extortion charge is being drawn more and more tightly/ around the orisoner. New York police today announced that they have found still more ransom ijoney in Hauptmarmis garage plenty more, They had to dig and ransack with all kinds of elbow grease to |i; ! : i i r * ! i i I i £ uncover that first batch of fives, tens, ana twenties, rung from the distracted Lindbergh. And ever since, day after day. New ^ork cons have been continuing to dig and delve. ■‘■here's one suggestive angle to that treasure trove of criminal money. A rood deal depends on how much of that original fifty thousand dollars they succeed in finding in Hauptmann1 s nossession. If they can trace only part of it to him, the nolice will surmise that he didn't get i^kll —that the money was split — accomplices. But if they do trace virtually the whole sum to Hauptmann, why then, of course, there was no ' -"■ p V split, and the assumption will be that /he had no accomnlices, one I I r man job, did it himself — that he was alone either in only getting W the ransom, or in both the ransom-getting and the kidnapping* In your newspapers you will find graphic descriptions, pictures in detail of the scene that was enacted in Hew York today ---the public appearance in the case of the glorious and tragic figure of Lindbergh under the eyes of battalions of reporters and the lenses of batteries of cameras, the Lone Ea,.le appear© before the Bronx County Grand Jury today and told — brought 11 -- ISiisSGiL- t '*? s-srffil back into bitter memory the story of how he paid a fifty thousand dollar ransom for the return of his infant son — the \&J2y- baby that, when the blood money was oald was lylrtg''* The Grand Jury proceedings were secret —as they always are — behind closed doors* When Lindbergh reappeared faJk on. he looked pale and shaken, the man never known to grow either A amid the perils of skies above oceans. A ROBBER There' e a tale of futile crime and ignominious romance behind the recovery of a batch of etolen money in Chicago, A young woman led the windy city cope to a safe deposit vault, where they recovered nineteen thousand dollars. It all goes back to a railroad cashier in New York, one Clifford Smith, who disappeared with thirty-five thousand dollars of the railroad's money - also with the young woman, who now figures in the Chicago episode. He fled west with her and they lived in Chicago. After several weeks, she left him, disappeared with most of the pilfered money. Then he disappear­ ed too, leaving a note saying he intended suicide. The officials of the railroad for whom he worked also had a communication from him, in which he declared he was on his way to Niagara Falls, "to jump into the gorge," as he phrased it. He hasn't been seen sine s* The police have found the young woman and she told them what she had done with the money. She took them to the vault where she had six safe deposit boxes. They opened the six boxes. Four of them contained nothing but cigarettes, a ™i" ^HJujMMaasiwrvv: RQ33ER - 2 msig^zino and a pistol* In tli© otliey tiisy found thousand dollars - what was left of the money, indeed a story of futile crime and ignominious nineteen Yes, it is romanc e. vom The Jiret Lady of the Land la busy today opening the Hew York Herald-Tribune'e Fourth Annual Conferenoe on Current Problems. This la a satherlng of women from all over the country, together with representatives of women's olubs in Paris and London. The ladies are going to solve the current problems, not the currant in the fruit cake, nor the current in the creek down in the hollow hut the current of history. A whole list of most distinguished speakers is scheduled to emit a long and rapid current of talk, h'efore the current con­ vention at the Waldorf-Astoria, where Mrs. William Brown Meloney, editor of the Sunday magazine of the Herald-Trihune, is swimming with the current, not against X hope. ----------------- 0 ------------------ By the way the president will he on the air again next Sunday night from ten to ten thirty. But now about some other Presidential matters. H awaii The President said !'yes!I but « yes out the Secretary of Agriculture says "no". President hooseveit had his affirmative say in the course of a iestive, flowery, friendly speech of greeting. Secretary isailace of the department of Agriculture has his negative say in n 1 ill | I: 1 I I |l I || I I connection with a hard-headed matter of buying ana selling. It all concerns Hawaii, Sugar planters in the paradise of the Paciiie have iiled suit against the Department of Agriculture, They complain that Uncle Sam is not buying enough sugar from them. The Hawaiian sugar quota is not big enough, not as big proportionate!; as the quota *±iigt:wat allotted to the sugar growers within the United States, And they advance one spectacular argument, T$ey claim that j - f f Hawaii is necessarily and essentially a part oi the United States, I : I ; and they support that argument with some spectacular proox. They T/s.a. prove it by tne President of the hiroseli A A „e all recall how the President made that festive trip 1 i ill j | I I I I I I ! ’ I to itasa±± Honolulu, where he was received with magnificeht enthusiasm , Of comse the President made a speech in response to r hi- lie said beautiful frienaiy ovations. ^ things about one paradise of the Pacific, and he overflowed with 11 ; HAWAII- £ r a real hooseveit cordiality when he declared - that Hawaii is an integral part of the nation. So now the sugar planters have picked out that friendly phrase and are using it to bolster up their contention that they are entitled to as large a sugar quota as the sugar groers within A L The Secretary of Agriculture, however, responds drying} that the Presiuent was making a speech at a welcoming party^and that doesn*t count. It is just a lot of love and friendship, ^nd the Attorney oeneral’s office confirms this with the ruling that Hawaii has never been incorporated in the Union* 1 FARLEY Tiiere nave Deen criticisms about government officials who also 1 occupy positions in their ov.n political party. This has been leveled ' at Postmaster General Jim Farley, who is also the Chairman of the My Democratic National Committee and Chairman of thenDemocratic State Committee.* Well, I suppose the critics will have some more criticisms to make, because today the Democratic State Convention at Buffalo reelected Postmaster Jim as State Chairman. So he still stays Postmaster General and double Chairman. I II 1 1 || if?, fiMMMI r-te-sw is Bin t.^sy *s.> »f ^ ^ *• “ fiptiT- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^,. •*-. . TiiS 6«!K*‘ :>« rJ» f.,%^. r>* -^. g .. %... £r^rir- nir T.- s®*® >tv^. -T '5 *3t bf WAr: r.hfct IT ^^:_£afcr?^ rBsifEs.t.iim^ art “t .- - ^ -n^t - t.lh® c'StDffi&T-r Kl.rio of forwal , H' ? 'I T'-ot <r^\x friendly birr becau vit> th® *'>^r c> -x *■ The harJ-hlttinr, a os. ,< jrft deTOt-^d frier.c > :. ' eel ^r. — &l?o l#rl.on« of «nAmi#s>. F® -: s sin5 of outspoken, opt-sbourinf st^liwMrt Amies nss:A at hiJB, but also like hiw. They* 11 race at M» while he’s n* and like fiin whe® hefs out. And now they s&y he may be in ayatn -- some other iob, secretaried by the vigorous and * bvi «. w « v invi coran ng young lady named "Robbie." Well, there should be a nWe for a brawny fellow who can work like a horse, roar Uke a Hon. fight like a wildcat, forty-eight hours at a stretch, or fifty ^** k H ^ v -,. -, w *. vN^v», Xv'v ? — ^ x'^ '-^^4 »,Xv, X$.±%^ -ft :\ > ; % \ •.> :-i V^ - k _-: rx- i* fe# x &:•..t t ** X'k* # xC' " ^ xar: %,v ’5*,, .4 Ir T* : r r rsf t r 3^ v *- ic :::: v: