n ---------------- -——— -■ *" - -r:UNac b: o il b ?o adc a r t - *7/z i/r r: i , • > GEP,:iTA?IY Good Evening Every^ o-dv: r-rl - 1’’’■'.it ;l^n ''ii "cooriiy 1. ‘ cvon mops se rious today. / spe-cit..l :'ispot-'-h t.o tliNov 'idrlr iv^ning Post rcports - tdat political rioting ebatinued in : pite oi*' tn doclsration of aartial lav v - f:. Ivral 'let o. tors hi £ in-Berlin. Meanwhile Labor Union Lead a arc meetinv in ,s ci confernnce. Thebe’*- seems'considerable likelihood of a general strike being called all over Gernany. ' The fir -1 ’action o'* th Von. P&pen military dictatorship in Prussia was directed against the Communists.*. A dispatch to the Indianapolis Times from Berlin says that Von Pape and his Junkers are determined to destroy the Communist party, utterly throughout the Bepublic. At the ss time heTs proteeilin vrith vov rity ■* . V J '’or ‘ li ^ ■ : "17 1. The effect# of this 1 ' to dra ' f ci 1 Democrats and Communist workers closer together. Hitherto there hi h V i Igl = ’ left wings, • A r Ffn?’*^illeit ^ otnd ' Pofti-ri 1—«— Grn:--:iiY ~ s persecution from the Berlin Government is making them more friendly than ever to each other. Th: government today threatened if a general strike ir; called, te a-^veuta every x±zk stril : loader in Rnfe the country. The police closed the publishing offices of^the Bed Blag, "hicli la tha puhlicati an of th: Co^nfunist party. Tvra deaths have rsuit: d fa:: poll tier 1 riots since martial lav: was established One man was killed and several wounded when the police fired on a death Communist meeting in Southeast B ’ 1 ’n last night. Ano ther^'teaisfciE was recorded in Saxony. Communist meetings are being rigidly forbi 'den. Chrue:llor Von Pap n wde it ’vacs n today that his £ 2 □ mil hip, a r. y ~ It ’■ ■1 ^ ^ be e: y - ct 1 to la.s t ”or v consderab 1 "'hi 1 . Th w -n.r c c 1 a. ’v ' a b t • : an polio a a ■ id ’sorb ar s in the \ Ruhr district. Ninety people have been arrested for distributing leaflets. Th pov V ■ hold in G s w i„ eg- •u.bo TTon Pr.pcn govcrnniont GEHIIAHY - E J:cda„-' is ,acve absolute tb'..n that of any previous goveaaimont in tho iC.li nb: oj story. It in ^raatar than that held in the days of tli." lat - Ilaisei'j yreal- a tli-- n that held in t‘a: days of Bismarck. OTTAWA T'hi.:? i. Mg Auy Ao^Xl Canada and especially for its capital,Ottawa. The Imperial Economic Conference opened today in the beautiful stone parliament buildings. This is the climax of months of planning. A ggi ■&& dispatch to the Nerark Slews describes it as distinctly s business meeting. Three was little of the traditional British pomp and pageantry. Nevertheless there were red coat d Eoyal Canadian Counted Police out in the great court. And foot guards escorted the Earl of Bessbrough, Governor General of Canada. SszixS&ssbrmughvnpanEd Lord Eesslfrough op ned the A session with a message from King George which told the delegates that they are opening a new page in history. Stanley Baldwin, the head of the British delegation, moved the election of Prime Minister Bennett of Canada a.: chairman of 1 a conferance. Thr aovement to establish a unit'd trade front throughout the British Empire was quickly set on foot, xhis is believed to 1:ode i • "- tt littl' good for Uncle oam. A... th*-. •:’r' time OTTAWA - 2 t4k it liras revealed, that thcr W a tentative Kgzxwm.': agreement between A* the steel industries of Canada and Great Britain, This agreement may cut d eply into exports from the United States, Most of the structural steel, for instance, that Canada is using comes at present from the United States. In fact, practically all o^ it. Under this new agreement a large volume of this will be imported from Great Britain instead of the United States. Ths Tanning and Leather industry of Canada and Great Britain hav also perfected an agreement to divide up the Canadian market between them. After the Governor General had opened the session the conference was addressed by Prim Minist r Bennett. He was followed by Stanley Baldwin. Meanwhile all Europe has its eye on Ottawa, A dispatch from Stockholm to the New York Sun relates that the conference is being scannedx with particular attention by Or!'TAV/A - o % tne Ssasiixaiix Scandinavian countries. Ttiexr existence as csxporting nations depends so extensively upon British trade that any restrictions will cause something close to & dismay, Denmark most of all. There are 275 delegates to the conference from all parts A. of the wide-flung empire of John Bull. In making his preliminary address Mr. Bennettthe Prime Minister of Canada^ made an out and out bid for a trade tariff agreement between Canada and the United Kingdom. Said Mr. Bennett: "We will propose that the Unit ed Kingdom shall extend the principal, of her present tariff preference to natural products. On our part we are prepared to make the necessary adjustments in our tariffs to secure the advantages which we believe will come,** "We propose*"he said further,"that the United Kingdom shall have free oUL entry into Canada for such of her products whiote will not affect A Canadian enterprise. n BOLIVIA Well? things are still hot in South America. A state of s^ti’ge v^as decreed today throughout the entire Republic of Bolivia. The country was in a high state of excitement. There’s a growing demand among part of the population for war with Paraguay i over the disputed territory of Gran Chaco. There were public demonstrations all over the country by both workers and students. The government of Bolivia continued to receive offers of men, foodstuffs and nurses from all over the Republic, The President of Colombia sent the Prescient of Bolivia a note expressing the hope that a conflict would be avoided. The Cabinet instructed the Bolivian delegates to the Washington A conference to return home. JAPAN Here!s new light on the China-Japanese situation. It seems that the province of Jehol, rrhere conflict has "been reported among the Japanese and the Chinese, is rich In coal and oil. Uncle Sam!s officials In Washington are quite alarmed over these new military movements In that province. They are afraid It may mean more expansion in Asia on the part of ±kx Japan. The State formal comment. The province of Jehol lies just north of Peiping, the ancient capital of China. It is between the territory occupied by th e Japanese last winter and China proper. It is crossed by the Great Wall. The Japanese deny that they are going to attack the province of Jehol. Their account of the operations last week was that a detachment of two companies was sent to Cha>Yang* purpose of the expedition was to free a Japanese officer vho had been captured there. In spite of this denial there1s considerable anxiety Department had only meager official reports and about the situatioh. BONUS C The Board of' Commissioners of the District of Columbia today ordered the Bonus Army to 1 - -ray flir PT rl i let nf Superintendent of Police fieiiasiinass. The Board instructed General Glassford^to see to it that the order is carried out^ Of course, this will not affect those members of the Bonus Army who are making their headquarters on theVirginia side of the Potomac. The Interstate Commerce Commission handed down today a decision of first Importance. This decision approves what is known as the Four Party Plan for the Eastern railroads. That means all of the Eastern railroads east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio River, hut not those of New England. consolidated All these roads will be/jdxxtdEd into four systems, the New Fork Central, Pennsylvania, the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Chesapeake and Ohio. twenty huagry frightened, coal miners were huddled A* underground in Indiana mine today, waiting for national guardsmen to re sc t. A f i sp tea to the Chic ago Drily News relates that theco tunny uiners ar? Imprison--d in that minr by unf—thoiss-£mt- unemployed Union »iner-». The Union members are picketed around /v the rt aft mtn . e f '• h. y t’-s non-Union ion to come out. The m"n usdergrounl have been trapped since yesterday morning. At thet ti-n th y ntor -1 th^ mine in spite of warnings' from the Union pickets. They are entirely without food. The to tt? County authorities have not intervened because they \mre afraid. Three companies of the Indiana National Guard, one of them commanded by Governor Leslie of Indiana in person, are advancing on the troubl torn district. The -‘he-iff of the Couiihy is on record as saying that the first miscue will cause trouble. The picketing Union minors are inviting ar 5t. T1 y y - are! gry. i haven»t jobs, so igl ‘ as n 11 get arrest 1 and let the state feed us. There are already a hundred and eight prisoners in the Co-'..j-'il . !< rulli van, , • jail "rhich h;. s eells for 1~:0U.'TD One part of the United States where Ird like to be is North Platte, Nebraska. The Round Up started there today. s This round up celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the first round::up::sxxz: shov; of that kind ever held anywhere in the world. Anybody who knows the V/est or the history of the West will remember that the first round up was founded and organized by Colonel Willia:i] F. Tody, the great scout Imo ~m as Buffalo Bill. The round-up at North Platte will last until the P4th. The first ./as organized by Buffalo Bill at North Platte in 1880. On:- cF the f atur of this North Plr. tt- round-up will be a great night pageant-parade called tho"Oregon Trail." For this they have constructed a prairie stage eight hundred feet long thr e hundred feet wide. Th:y have a mixed chorus of mixEsbc sixty voices, a.n orchestra of 100 pieces, and numerous actors. us, cowboys, cowgirls, pioneers, bronco busters, 3 .H th' colorful f igUros that go »o make ex i ound—up are ^rov<d.j.ng the historic torn o- North Platte. Thr crack riders o^ -ho country ROIHD UP - £ 0U\£ -tLfu-iX'b the most shillful ropers and bull-doggers compete. A A. North Platte, as you know, was for thirty years the gcyiaaneM home of Buffalo Bill. He called his home Scofrts1 Best Ranch. There from time to time he was visited by famous people from all ov r thr world. % The round up which he first organised in 1382 bhe foundation of the Buffalo Bill V/ild West show, which subsequently became sar famous in ev' ry nook and corner of the world. WOUEff There are going to be S50 women taking part in this year’s Olympic games at Los Angeles. 38 girls are already in says rigid training on the Pacific Coast. The story.that they are all determined to prove that the Greeks who had a word for it were wrong when they barred women from the Olympic games. Women A* throwing the discus, vfomen running hundred-yard dashes, women fencers, women doing everything. ^ One of the picturesque dE±Ega±as;:ts delegations is that from Japan. The Japanese girls are dressed in their native costumes. The one pronounced to be the most beautiful woman on the spot so far is Mademoiselle Yvonne Godard, 24 year-old French swimmer, ^aiemoiselle Godard is the girl who had her first taste of watermelon when she reached Los Angeles. She announced that watermelon is one of the most mysterious things she’s ever seen. Another beauty comes from Sweden. The youngest competitor comes from Holland. She is only 14 years old and she will compete in the hundred meter breast stroke swim. CLOTHES Those of my listeners who are men may be interested to know that during the past three years they’ve been buying only an average of 38 hundredths of a suit of clothes a year. This is reported today by the International Statistical Bureau. From 19F4 fain, to 1S26 used to buy half a suit a year. aqai-ooQu But the last two years men seem to have been wearing their old clothes a bit more St<s. tv industriously. Incidentally it^--^^bt^%^fcitha4^£^p^is getting less and less of the family budget for his needs. " of ?!?.: N-:-:v: Tor" Pop goes the Weasel today, but in a distinctly minor key. One small lone animal of this breed had the entire business district of PI ‘ Ln p \t —cl for gev-ere-1 The cni.im.1 v:as fiost obs rv: 1 In a dross shop. One r' 1 i whe-4-e- described as a stout woman, was the first him. She grew pale and grabbed the saleswoman^ arm and - kac t said: TTDo you see what I *•.?" -o which th Cle k replied: "Madam, w A> I do.” The ■ upon they rushed out into the street rand loft—fee» “ . ’ • ” SL““ ‘a~ Well, Mr. Weasel soon pot tired of the •ted ' , - N t V / . ' »- v A : . rtor : '■ T;, , —t-—i— ^ v\^L I r-v ^ ’ J-' J .-• leaked, "n'7 x li . -i--' a—--- aGmOm+r lie lati f White Plains give no instructions as to ~i' c * 1 o o ■ h .1 a . " 1 hoi;: s 'y ' h ' i. ot : l - 2 LL-y Somebody suggested that maybe they ought to catch the 1. '■ full cIV ru3ai- 4-i■~a —«■—^—*--*4 bought a rat t:r- ^ md tried to -t£jj ^Jg^xjlv7, A -- —r—d.“Jl‘ t -——*- "" 7 “ ". 'L ~ r !‘ ----- -r-r ?he* police called reinforcement s. The Chief of Police of li!.t rr Plalnc t Then ther-e vas spectacle V an 'afire troop of store to store in pursuit of do r 'a:' 1. T1 traffic jam pot worse, and the crowd grew, The Chief hi The weasel finally Was rounded up in a shoe store •>. c: , ;V, it. in shoe—}-;o^ ’tith th crowd ch- erinp lu, tily, the Chief led his police back to headquarters. There w: ih gre e^ co - t ’ ' ling the ■■■ .1 - ' .d -g “ * ^ a ’ .‘d of ' t . Just as ch^ - •.• j,)1 1 c - m - n ''' sii.ng , i uhMe s o'' o ■, to the surface , ..id WEASEL — 5 suddenly out popped the weasel, out of the box, out of the tub, and out of headquarters. And the story in the New York World Telegram * * relates that the weasel is still at large. At any rate, so said the police, who also intimated that they didnf t want to hear any •V more about weasels. So, pop goes the weasel! And --SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW,