CUBA }-, * - 4 - More excitement in Cube,, But not political this time. The whole north shore of Cuba is in a state of terror. The oldfr-oltf; West Indian story of the hurricane. Residents along the waterfront have moved to high ground fearing a tidal wave may accompany the storm. Shutters have been fastened over shop windows and business is at a standstill. The Radio-Marine station at Palm Beach has picked up a distress call from a British freighter that has been disabled by this storm and is helplessly drifting ashore somewhere off the coast of Cuba General Johnson’s office in Washington has sent out a warning against NBA racketeers. Some smooth gents have been putting one over on the good folk of Omaha# Two men have been canvassing Omaha homes signing people up for some sort of an NBA agreement and collecting two dollars a head. They even went further and said they would return every month for an additional one dollar monthly fee. FORD Henry Ford still playing sphinx. He still maintains his silence and has them guessing as to his attitude toward ERA. Rumors are that he will break his silence and tell all tonight. And that what he will have to say will be sensational. But these are on&y rumors. At present he is away off from nowhere in North Michigan in the woods CANADA From time to time we have heard that there is talk of some sort of a Dominion Recovery Act in Canada, one more or less like Uncle Sam's, Well, Prime Minister Bennett, recently returned from London, sat on that idea today. He said "Nothing Doing!" Prime Minister Bennett delivered a discourse before the Montreal Board of Trade in which he declared that the present Dominion Government is opposed to the NBA idea of compelling industry and business to raise wages and reduce working hours. Mr. Bennett states that Canada i» the fifth largest exporting country in the world and consequently has to maintain her position as such. Being obliged to compete with every other country, he thinks Canadian's cannot afford experiments in arbitrarily raising wages and cutting down working hours. PRESIDENT Vincent Aster’s yacht Nourmahal has anchored at Fort Pond Bay, off Mont auk, at the far end of Long Island, Tiro of Uncle Sam's destroyers are anchored close by. The? „ are there to protect the President of the United States, who is aboard the yacht. A radio message from Steve Early says that the President is having a real rest for the first time since March Fourth NATY Secretary of the Navy Swanson has just signed contracts for twelve new warships for Uncle Sam »— destroyers and cruisers. One of the thirty-nine new men-o-war to be constructed will be named in honor of Admiral Moffett, Chief of the Naval Air Service, who perished in the Akron disaster. SECY, WALLACE Secretary of Agriculture Wallace issued a statement today which contained an important observation •p. concerning inflation. "Inflation,” says Mr. Wallace, "doe^ not increase foreign demand for surplus American products. Also, it does nothing toward adjusting the supply of farm products to our home market.” In fact the Secretary of Agriculture said that the increase in speculative farm commodity prices may even make the adjustment of supply and demand more difficult rather than less difficult. He says further that if the low prices of farm produce are permitted to continue indefinitely there will be serious danger of genuine food scarcity and of the swinging of the pendulum to painfully hi^b prices DUBLIN There is astonishing news from Ireland tonight. The RepiihUAtran army, hitherto important source of De Valera’s strength, abandons him and Issues a manifesto saying that the Irish Govemtent (meaning De Valera} is temporizing in the dispute with John Bull AUSTRIA j ty I Three brown shirt Nazi strongaim men who released one of their nates from an Austrian jail in Innsbruck the other day, are now safe on Italian soil. Austria will not ask for their extradition; but Chancellor Dolfuss is planning prison camps for any Nazis he catches. { Hitler has put on another show at Nuremburg. The beautiful old city was crowded by hordes of shrieking. flag-waving Nazi*.! The Chancellor made a violent, inflammatory / speech, saying that as Chancellor he will continue the fight against Germany’s enemies until they are utterly destroyed. HITLER BOOK There is quite a hubbub concerning the publication in America of Adolf Hitler’s Biography. Protests have been nade by Jewish organisations,---made to the publisher. But hitherto these protests have succeeded only in whetting public curiosity. Now these protests have grown into actual threats. The conservative and fraous old Boston publishing house of Houghton Mifflin, which is about to issue "My Battle", as Hitler’s book is called, have received letters warning them that if they persist,their magnificent Riverside Press will be bombed. So today the Boston police have thrown a strong guard all around their Beacon Hill offices in Boston and their plant in Cambridge HITLER BOOK There is quite a hubbub conoerniiig the publication in America of Adolf Hitler’s Biography. Protests have been raade by Jewish organizations, made to the publisher. But hitherto these protests have succeeded only in whetting public curiosity. Now these protests have grown into actual threats. The conservative and fmous old Boston publishing house of Houghton Mifflin, which is about to issue "My Battle", as Hitler’s book is called, have received letters warning them that if they persist,their magnificent Riverside Press will be bombed. So today the Boston police have thrown a strong guard all around their Beacon Hill offices in Boston and their plant in Cambridge NORMAN DAVIS Nortofin Dav is ’ e return to Geneva lias once more set afloat rumors connecting disarmament with war debt settlements. However, Mr, Davis denies statemaits recently attributed to him. In a radiogram from the ship on which he is hurrying back to Europe, a radio message to tide State Department, he tells Secretary Hull that he Informed reporters debts ar** not in the scope of his present mission, adding that he had enough trouble negotiating disarmament without mixing it up with the debt question MANCHURIA Some news comes from the Manchukuo front which has ominous possibilities. Ellery Walter, who is traveling in Asia, cables me that the Soviet government has been increasing its military forces on the frontier of the new state. The Soviet troops are now tvd.ce as numerous as those of the Japanese. Walter says the Manchukuo government is preparing a diplomatic protest. It is said that within the last two weeks sixteen specific accounts of terrorism, believed to be committed by thefjr.P.U., the nussian Secret police, have occurred within Manchukuo. The tension, says Walter, Is electric,and a clash is expected at any moment. <E3 Ellery Walter xx also informs me that peasants seem to be fleeing from Russia in large numbers. He says large crowds of them are arriving at Chichihar and Harbin every day. They are running away to escape tremendous famine In Siberia, a famine due to the fact that the Red army is seizing the harvest. The report the refugees bring with them is that forced collectivisation in agriculture feXx is proving a failure. mllery Walter A great American newspaper is going to celebrate its hundredth anniversary on Saturday. That paper is the New York Sun, one of the greatest journals in the world and long celebrated among other things as the nnewspaper manrs paper.11 On this occasion, the Sun, the paper of Dana and Laff&n^ oY Mitchell and Lord.and other great figures in the newspaper world, will issue a special section of forty pages. This special section will show not only the development of the newspaper art and industry, but will reproduce important happenings in the world during the last century. What Is still more Interesting, the Sun on that day will re-publish some of those great stories that helped to make it such fascinating reading during all these decades. There you will find, for instance, the famous description of the Sullivan- Mitchell fight written by Arthur Brisbane, no?/ the great Panjandrum of the newspapers. There also you will find Julian Ralphfs brilliant account of the great blizzard in. 18ff. Will Irwinrs extraordinary feat in describing the San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906.— A feat he accomplished at a distance of three thousand miXes while that great disaster was going on, will also SUN - 2 be re-printed. For eight days Bill Irwin never left the offices of the Sun. He wrote that magnificent story entirely from telegraph bulletins and his extraodinary knowledge of San Francisco. G'ther accounts of newspaper achievement will be Frank Ward 0Galley’s report of the Passover Parade. The poem nNoah anf Jonah anT Capfn John Smith” which has been chosen as the best contributed by Don. Marquis while he was conducting the Sun Dial, the column now being written by Hi Phillips. And Hi Phillips ”Calvin Coolidge” will also be reprinted. Incidentally, the only advertisments in this special section of Saturdayfs Sun will be of firms that are more than one hundred years old. NBC AIR RAGES Commander Frank Hawks arrived baok in Chicago at Cwtiss-Wright Airport, at 4:20 this afternoon, completing a 5000-mile flight from Chicago to Los Angeles, up the coast to Seattle, and back to Chleagp. He left at two o’clock yesterday morning. On this tremendous flight he was maktng better than £00 miles an hour, in his Northrup Monoplane, driven by 700 horse power, 14 cylinder, Wright Whirlwind motors. The Curtiss Army Hawks - a squadron of them - came in this afternoon to Chicago from Selfridge Field over in Michigan, and put on a big aerial show, including dives of 350 miles an hour and hair-raising aerial combats* Speed Manning dropped out of an auto-gyro at an altitude of 2p00 feet, tumbled over and over through the air for approximately two miles before pulling his rip-cord and opening his parachute. How would you like to try that? Tito Fsleoni did some of his upside-down flying, and we(re all set for the air races and Gordon-Bennett baloon race tomorrow AIR MAIL Uncle Sam's economy program Is goirg to affect the air mall service. Owing to the reduction of funds appropriated by the Post Office Department, next week will see the suspension of air mail service on some of the short runs: between Los Angeles and San Diegoj New Tork and Atlantic City; Albuquerque and ElPaso• BASEBALL A huge crowd assembled in Boston today to watch the Braves play a double header with tte Hew York Giants. They say there is terrific excitement in Boston. The astounding Braves have climbed to within five games of the League-leading Giants, and much depends on today's encounter. At the end of the ninth inning in the first game, the score was nothing to nothing, but in the tenth the Giants banged out a couple and won the game. -t0 3. JU in IOH i>ERI il '6 There is another game I wish I could have attended - that Junior World Series game at New Orleans. The finals in the American Legion XHXX Junior League began today between teams of lads from Trenton, New Jersey, and Chicago. The promoting of these games is one of the finest jobs ever done by the American Legion. There is as much keenness over these boy*s games, even among adult fans, as over the Major Leagues. The lads play fast snappy ball in thoroughly professional manner, because they have excellent coaching. The game is still going on. At the end of the 5th inning the score was 3 to 1 in favor of Chicago ;.<3 SRQi: iVJ.i iUIIiSA Isn't) it curious how some people earn their living? That remark is an old bromide, but as true as ever* For instance I have just heard from Victor Berge, the famous pearl diver. He writes me from Borneo that he has again been diving for pearls and pearl shells, but that the price of pearl shells has taken a dive. He tells me that in his spare moments he has been visiting some of the savage tribes of Hew Guinea who produce a weird drumming sound that is famous in the South Seas, a soand yourll hear no where else on earth. Victor Berge has discovered the secret. They take five and ten cent pieces, cover them with wax, and attach them to the skin of a drum. By heating the was they can change the sounds coming from their drums, making them wilder and weirder than any drums on earth. L.T CONVICT ilapart ingenious plan to w**-* escape ^tried by a convict out at San Quentin penitentiary, California, This man walked into the office of the prison distributing officer. He was carrying what looked like a stock of dynamite, a battery and wires. He handed the distributing officer a note reading: "You get a truck and drive me out of this prison. One false move and I will push button and blow us both to bits. I am better dead than this way anyway.,f Well, the distributing officer took a d e sperate chanc e. He di v er ted th e e cm vie t1 s a 11 e nt ion for a second and swung on his jaw, knocking him out - cold. When the convict was searched they found his so-called dynamite was just pieces of broomstick wrapped in oil paper* So, now he is in solitary, where he111 have plenty of time to think up more bright ideas ..NOTHXM& (Ending) If you have heard this one stop me;- I heard it in the Hall of Science at the lorld,s Fair today "A scientist is a man Ao knows a great deal about very little, and who goes on knowing more and more about less and less hh M until finally he knows everything about practically nothing." "A practical business man is a man who knows very little about a great deal and who goes on knowing less and less about more and more until finally he knows nothing about practically everything.” And now I,ve arrived at the moment when, so far as this broadcast is concerned, I might as well know nothing about nothing because it fs time for me to sing out my Friday refrain of so long until Monday. (Or maybe we*11 meet at the Air laces.)