LOWELL 'HICL'-AJ BRCA^Ao^ FOR LI^-ARV DIGEST ^I’ESLAY, LOVELLLL 4. 19:30 Y/ell, I suppose you a-e all sitting on the edge of your chairs, waiting for the election returns. So, here are the latest results - as I see them. The Republicans have won a sweeping victory - so they say. And according to the Democrats, its a grand Democratic landslide. You drop your ball O't and take your choice. Anyway, while wefve all been balloting, the old world has still been whirling dizzily .and the news ^lashes have been spinning in over the wires anc over the air 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1 OIL Page ThereTs a mighty forlorn young man down in Oklahoma City today* Or, most or us would be it we were in his shoes* He is Fred Morgan, owner of that fabulously rich oil well, i ha t wen t wild last week. That gusher blew not only oil -- but it also blew all of Iviorpan's hopes to blazes. A story from the North American Newspaoer Alliance says xhat Iviorpan had been prospecting in oil for several years. Then three mon'chs ago he came to Oklahoma U i ty and took up a three-acre tract of land. He struck oi I 6000 feet down, and immediately saw himself on easy street, we I I was t > nfr i nvf- ut ch% rate of A /V iii3,000 reo-rh-h -3-f_alJ an hour. Then trouble broke. terrific gas pressure I blew oft the top. .-ind before it could be muzzled, b200,000 worth or black crude oi I had been sprayed over Oklahoma City. But that loss is only a drop in the bucket. The people whose iproperty was soaked by the gusher are up in arms and they're filing suits for 25 damages. Hard luck, t>ut it's one of the breaks in the game. In oil you make a milli n or you don't, and here's hoping Fred Morgan is a philosopher. in these cays, oil is what gold was a few years back, hut gold mining isn't entirely out of the picture yet. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 i Page A famous old gold camp of California is coming back to I ife. I he name of the town is Bodie. it's in the heart of the high Sierras. 70 years ago it was a rip-roaring wide-open camp, full of orosnectors, saloons, and dance halls. In fact, it was famous for its dance hall ladies and its two-gun men who shot from the hio. n rod need—i I I i on (to t tars f oonrfs.t i o-n lae arreT I e +d tfoe gr.ea L- f- not u n es_ '^^^4 f ^hn hrart'? Qnd t h*- L e la, la^afxuids . I hen gold clayed out, and Bodie became a ghost town . Now, the Los Angeles Times, nrospectors have discovered that gold still exists in the old shafts and ore dumps. New capital has been brought in. The tom is coming to Iife. More prospectors are flocking in. Tourists come flivvering across the desert to see what a gold-rush tov/n looks like. Prices are going up. liverything is booming. Bodie, the ghost town of the high Sierras, is a ghost no longer. Like the Hindus, it is here 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ? i. GCIL2 Page again, reborn, in a new incarnation. Tamer, perhaps, but still a picturesque n o I d c am o . & IIIS.’IKG WO!, Ali A wealthy woman has mysteriously disappeared up in Maine, She is Hiss Alice Davidson, £1 years old, a member of a prominent Pittsburgh family. The International Kews rSf says she was at her summer home in haine with her mother and sister, and was last seen crossing a bridge a mile and a half from the house yesterday noon. Two hundred people and an airplane are now searching for her. I hope that the news tomorrow will tell us they have found her - just as the news today tells of a near tragedy that turned out all right The members of the crew of the 3eiyo Maru, that I told you about last night, were rescued today by .another Japanese ship in the North Pacific, The Seiyo Maru lost her rudder Sunday, She was helpless. Many ships answered her dist ress calls. a late dispatch tod ay from the Associated Press states that she has been abandoned and has been left drifting near the Aleutian Islands, off the coast of Alaska, There's nothing so cheerful to hear about as the saving of people who are in peril at sea. But there's another item today that has a different mood and feeling. Ai^DREE From Stockholm comes an amazing echo of a tragedy long past. You recall the Andree Polar Expedition that all the world has been talking about. You have read how Andree and his companions se+ out for the north Pole in a balloon in 1897, and disappeared, and then jus+ a few weeks ago the bodies of the unlucky voyagers were found, how the "nited Press cables that, ten old photographic 0 films were found with *he bodies, and they have been developed. The negatives are in good enough condition to permit the printing of a number of pictures. The best is a snapshot which the explorers took while their balloon was making tne forced landing which resulted in the death of all of them. Those films are 33 year : old. Eut here’s one that’s threatening and grim chi :, a .bubonic plague has broken out in China - up in northern. China where the germs ot this dread disease always lurk. The Chinese in those provinces,, says the Associated Press, are sending frantic messages to an American physician. Dr, Percy Watson, begging him to return and help them fight the disease, nr, Watson is a medical missionary from Minnesota who has devoted his life to fighting disease in the Orient, especially bubonic plague. China seems to be having more than its share of bad luck these days, but it's not *he only part of the world where there's trouble. Take Arabia, for instance. You can count on these Desert bedouins to raise a disturbance at regular into rv al s 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 \rt7 0„^L__G02Po Page. . . V.'ahabi tribesmen, wi la .-.rabs of The desert, are on the warpath out in jPalestine. late dispatch from the International News Service says that ten inhabitants of a village on the edge of the desert were kilied today when bedouin raiders swept pan-# -"&=£: the ^ A blue. ihey came out of the desert from the hills of fwoab and iransjordania i They looted the village, and made off with 600 camels bexore the british heard ox it ana could get busv with their airplanes, their armored cars, and their Camel dorps. Those raiders who sweep out of the r-.rabian uesert are about the cleverest brigands in the world. lhis morning I received a letter from Cornelius r°nne or ^Imhurst, Illinois. He is a radio fan and ne tells me thi.t he served with ^Menbv pit ^ rnu thr t he was a member of the famous Imoer I camel Corps. I hat letter brings up so many memories ot the days when hrange and I were fellow campaigners in Palestine^ ; nu Trans j‘or dan i a ^mr.h " nr 3 - 2 What great ^ el lows were those men 0 ' the Camel Corps. They were Australiana, Hew Zealand ers, and Engiish, Welsh and Scott 1 ah yoemanry. Part of their time was spent chasing Arabs who were in league with the Turks Page o 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 j 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 /i the movies, have been having; "their troubles lately. You've heard how the talkies have affected the exoort of films. Naturally, a Hollywood talkie in English was a hit mystifying in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, or China. So, the motion oicture companies have hac! to make talking films Bin in various foreign languages. And in some cases, evidently they haven't been so hot. A United Press dispatch tells us that recently an i1!H.§E-Lj£.sLO-made talkie in French was shown in Paris. It was very ser ions , but the dispatch says the Parisian audience nearly died laughing. The reason was that the actors talked such funny hrench. One had an Americ an accent, another a Spanish accent, another a German accent, and so on. The American producers had hired actors v/ho could spes.k hrench, but what kind of hrench--ou la la! But that isn't all. Many talkies in foreign languages are made b you substituting a sound strip on the edge of the film in a foreign language for an - 2 criminal Sn -<:1 i a>i souii*i strip. Well, foreign movie audiences ..ave 'be ;.'! reading tr.e lips cn the screen, and the lips are tai'/ing English, while tne so ;; s are in French, Spanish, Italian, or German.. You see how it would work. The lips are making the motions for "yes, yea", while the sound is "oui, oui". Or the lips are saying "here’s to your health," while the words hea d are "geaundheit". Films of that kind have recently been hooted in both Paris and Madrid. i»ow, as for hoot in *, cat calls, and mocking laughter, here Is one we can cheer about. L&QI^LL Page 1 New York University has announced its 2 willingness to play any other team, 3 anywhere, for the unemployment fund. Joe 4 Williams, brilliant spo rt i ng v/r it er for 5 the Scripps-Howard nev/spacers, tells about it in his column tonight. He adds: 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Tr Foot ball in most of the bigger colleges is a million dollar business11, and 'r:Ehere is something extr aor d i n ary about an economic situation that cEoen sees mi I I ions of dollars spent on football while weary men trudge the streets looking for jobs." Mr. V, i I I i am s suggests that Harvard and Princeton forget their petty differences, and that Army and Navy do likewise, and play oost-season games for the benefit of the unemployed. These names might earn a million dollars, and others that would he equally big drawing cards could be arranged in other narts of the count ry • *_■ u k~ .. r 1. i 11 *1 *' t * r * a c c j i sounds.—I i k-e—&—Sir and—i d e c- —s-d—her e 1 e i n^-——44-te—oo I I eg on vv i I I——i-t over^.-----[her-e—v- i l-l——t sw i —m—every— p art.. as c,f t h(j—c- -'r!.' rw—r t ■ f i- e e •) d -rrf t !r: c □ o r c ■■•n LOVE This next one strikes an old fashioned note, or maybe it's the newest fashion. If tells us about the modern pirl, or maybe it’s the ultra modern ^irl — anyway, what she is looking for is home, husband and oabies. Accord in,* to Dr, Phyllis 11 an chard t psychologist at the Philadelphia "hild Guidance Clinic, has been making a study on the subject o "new - iris 'or old". And she has come to the conclusion that the ultra-modern girl wants a judicious mixture of love, wo k and play. hut love comes first. Well, I don't bl une the ultra-modern irl one bit. I suppose mos* of us would prefer love an* scenery. But we have *■ o work -- worse luck l All o'* you know about ♦he bloomy dean or St. Paul's Cathedral in London, He's that important churchman over in England who is always saying such pessimistic things. He has advanced an idea that there should be t ,vo kinds of marriage, ne p«rmanen+ and to last r life, the other ternpora y and to be dissolved whenever the parties wish. Well, Urs, Inge came right back at that, and said that her distinguished husband was all wrong. She declared that there is only one kind of LOVE 2 sarria e that is worth while, and that is the old fashioned permanen* kind ft 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 Page I met the street a famous old sea captain on this eveninp--C an t ain William Barnes from Scotia □Tr Barnes A is past 80 and as salty as they make them. He has been everyv/here. I asked the 0 an tain v/hat was the most interesting item in the Hew York papers. He glanced through them, said he didn'^ care a wormy salt-soaked sea biscuit for al I the election nev;s. He nicked a dispatch from the other side of the globe. Here it is: Out in Manila they've been enter taining a strange company of guests. A fleet of out-rigger canoes out into the harbor. And in them were a hundred and fifty-tw’o Mores. They had naddled six hundred miles, all the way from their homes on the Island of Sulu. That's one of the southermost islands of the Phillipine archipelago. And this is the stormiest time of the year out there, i.ell, those fv.oros are famous sailors. In their frail out-rigger canoes they make almost i n c re dible voyage; on the broa.d exnanse of the Pacific ucea.n. And in dn 25 LILACS. Page times gone by they v/ere the Vikings of southern seas. They raided long distances along coasts, killing and looting. They are Mohammedans, and were the terror of the Christian F i I i p i n o s . we I I , those Moros came to town, just as the old time farmer used to come to town to see the sights. They p ad died rs across 600 miles of stormy sea to ^ee the wonders of the big town. Once upon a time the arrival of More canoes in Manila harbor would have been a signal for a panic But this time there was no panic, just a rousing welcome. The city spread itself to entertain those Moro visitors. A fleet of automobiles drove them around to see the sights. Then the Moros sailed awry again. They v/ere on their way to northern Luzon, 200 miles further on, on their way to hunt sea turtles. iURILLi Page Her e 1 s anot he r cleeo dark mystery from Z, 000 turtles were let loose on Michigan Avenue today, says the International News Service, and nobody knew where they came from. Suddenly they were swarming over the si dev/a Iks and jaywalking through the traffic. 8 Each turtle had an orange-coIored stripe 9 and a number on his back. The police 10 cal led un the aquarium. No, they had 11 lost no turtles. They tried the Lincoln 12 Park zoo. Another no--their turtles 13 were al I nresent and accounted for. 14 '«e I I , maybe the turtles were ootential 16 soup. But ih&l idea was squelched too. 16 The nearest restaurants knew nothing about 1 them. I he Humane Society came to the 18 rescue, and stored them in a garage. And 1" if nobodv comes to claim them, the turtles are going to be dumped into the Chicago 21 River. And if they belong to you and 22 if you go to claim them, you npobably will be thrown into the U h i c e. go River too* 24 25 LOaORY In Fr'iiice tliere is a man who has had a tra^io downfall. He is Inaudi, the famous memory expert. Inaudi has one o ■' the greatest memories on record. By a mental calculation he c n work out the square root of a row of sixty figures and d0 it in five seconds. jaut the other day a curious thing happened to Inaud i the man who can memo) ize anything. He forgot his 0’«i birthday, lii a wife gave him a knitted necktie, and he asked her what for? She aaVed him if he couldn’t remember what the day was. He couldn’t. Then ehe told him it was his birthday. Whereupon the great Inaudi was so chagrined so the story goes, that he announced he is going to retire, and no longer make any pretence to being a se* memory expert Well, it’s storming and pouring rain outside, and there won't be any election night bonfires or parades in this neighborhood,, hut, all the same, there is something elec* ric about the spirit abroad in the 1 and on election ni.’ht. And I'm going to do just what all of you are doing plunk myself down next to a radio, and lis^oi to the late election returns. Well, I hope your favorite candidates are all winning - GO EhlGHT