L-T-. - StJHQCQ, TUESDAY JULY £1. iaF.fi. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: The dominant place in the news tonight is taken by Spain, but the news from Spain is brief. Events of tremendous importance are happening over there, but we can tell little about them - we don't know. It's a crisis of historic significance - whether the land of Cervantes becomes conservative Fascist or swings to red radicalism. But that question not be answered tonight, we haven't even the material for a guess - because the wall of censorship still hides the Iberian peninsula from the outside world. The government of Madrid allows only its own ^ dispatches to get out of the country, and these reports claim vie tory . to "bo ihey tell of government planes bombing and machine-gunning rebel troops, chasing them away. Still, from Madrid's own accounts of its own susssxxks success in many places, it's clear that the mill i.ary LEAD 2 Fascist revolt has the whole Spanish nation in its grip ~ with left wing government i* control maintained chiefly in the great cities of Madrid and Barcelona. I^hiey had to suppress an outbreak today^The radical authorities are calling ^ upon the Socialist workmen to rush to the defense of their regime, and from various places comes the word of proletarian battalions fighting against the military rebels. ^The insurgent side of the story chiefly comes from the frontier - the French frontier. From this source we learn that the rebels are in control in the provinces of northern Spain, such as Navarre. They conquered the important city of San Sebastian today, after b-stte fighting^y American Ambassador Claude Bowers, by the way, is vacationing in San Sebastian - in the thick of it. The rebel radio, with the insurgent commander. General Franco , at the microphone, cries "victory", and calls upon the government of the left wing to submit. There are rumors and reports of w&tnzmx mutinies on warships, the storming of for.ts, with estimates of casualties in the tens of thousands. But the true facts of the desperate. LEAD - 3 bloody crisis in Spain must be summarized with the words tonight we don’t know. SOVIET FLIGHT I ran into some interesting sidelights on one of the big nevts stories of the day through the Explorers Club this afternoon. Aviation enthusiasts all over the world, tonight, are talking about that tremendous Soviet flight that has been going on without benefit of publicity. The latest is that the Soviet flyers are attempting to smash the non-stop long distance record. Their hope is to fly seven thousand, five hundred miles without coming down, in an immense, sweeping polar circle. And they have already covered somewhere between a half and two-thirds of that distance. Today the greatest of all living authorities on the Arctic regions, Vilhjalmur Stefansson at the Waldorf, told me about the route they’re taxing:- Moscow north to Franz Joseph Land, then to some of the recently explored islands of the Arctic Ocean, across Northern Land, then across the mouth oi tne Lena diver, into Siberia, to the Bering Sea country, along Kamchatka,^ SOVIET FLIGHT - g and around to Inner Siberia to Irkutsk on Lake Baikal. ^ niembers of the crews Pilots Chikaloff and Baidukoffj Kavigator Bellakoff. 4_ Dr. Walter ^ranger, I the President of the Explorers Club, renowned Central Asian explorer, referred to the extreme differences in temperaturd*over ■ ! there — incredibly hot in summer, unbelievably cold in winter. j And Stefansson told us that not long ago a new low temperature was recorded in Siberia. Until this new low, the- record drop \ for the mercury had been noted at a place called Verkoynosk, almost on the Arctic Circle in Siberia -- ninety—four degrees above in the shade, in the summer! ninety-three degrees below in the winter. But now, two hundred miles south of the Arctic Circle, they've recorded s ' ------ - ^---r tllan that> at a place called Oimeken. Stefansson, who has always contended that the Temperate Zone is, colder than the Arctic. Be said he suffered more from the heat in the Arctic regions than hofhaq. from the cold —- a hundred in , WILT FLIGHT - 5 the shade, with mosquitoes so toad that if you reached out blindly with your hand, you could grasp a dozen or more. And thatTs the region over which Comrades Chikaloff^ •aft Baidukoff and Beliakoff are passing tonight on their sensational attempt to break the world’s non-stop long distance flying record. COMETS Each year about eight comets are visible to the astronomer and his telescope. Each hundred years about twenty comets flash brightly enough to be visible to the naked eye. How often then, two comets smp » visible to the naked eye on the f same night. It’s one of the rarest things in a.a'tronomy. It happened in 1852^ It will happen again tonight. take- m if - - reltleT-*e""q< Maybe this should be called' amateur astronomers' night, because both of these eccentric iwuUtfl1^ of the sky were discovered, not by observatory'astronomers with their mighty telescopes, but by amateurs. Peltier’s Cornet^ wbb Ala covered juet nine -week ege, on May Fourteenth, by Dr. Leslie Peltier of Delphos, Ohio. * Tonight it may b^seen in the Northeast near the oonste«llation Cassiopeia^ if you kno* where that is. It will be large enough, when you look at it_one-tenth the diameter-of the full moon. But, to the unaided eye it will be a mere luminous blur. COi^TS -2 ofiAy toa %ta' thirty-five million miles away* It's 1his isn’t the first comet discovered by that amateur astronomer, Dr* Peltier of Delphos, Ohio* Six years ago he picked out another one — although a couple of pro- ressional astronomers in Germany spied tk. it about the same time* For comet number two tonight you will need the acutest of eyesight, f.1 i mi ta • It will be ---- - visible for a short time M*«5**W* aftey sunset^ a faint nebulous patch of light in the ?/est.- It^ ninety-three million miles away**llll-lDiscovered only fo\ir days ago by an amateur astronomer in Japan, Sigura Kabo* Tonight, the night ** of the two comets, is a good time to reflect on the interesting fact that in the history of astronomy some of the significant observations discoveries have been made by non-professionals - like the doctor in Ohio, and the amateur stargazer in Japan. mrnzir-mQMAZL. STRIKES PAGE— It»s always good news when strikes are settled. just heard that the strike in the R.C.A. plant at Camden, New Jersey is over. And here Is a Joint statement by *5*^^ T ^ D „ Eewis, President of the Amerioan ^odoratien of-Eabor and II 1 m I General Hugh Johhson, issued a few moments ago. It reads:- I HVie have been in touch with the negotiations in connection with the strike at the R.C.A. Camden plant from the beginning. At the outset, David Sarnoff, President of the R.C.A. stated the policy of the company to be the principle of the Labor Relations Act, now the law of the land. Throughout the period of the strike he has maintained this policy without deviation. In the settlement reached, which we regard as fair to the Onion and the Company, Mr. Sarnoff has shown a forward-looking attitude toward labor, while at the same time protecting the interests of the Radio Corporation of America." v.ortL, Texas, v.as in sorrow today. Fort Worth is shedding breat crocodile tears. Fort Worth and Dallas always were rivals, and this centennial year of Texas independence has sharpened the comp-^ication between those two Metropolitan Texas cities, which are only thirty miles apart. Dallas was able to outbid every other Texas city for the privilege of staging the centennial fair. But Fort Worth decided to have a fair and raised its banner with this slogan - "Go to Dallas for education, come to Fort Worth for entertainmentAnd Fort Worth imported a itew York beauty impresario. Down there they put a ten gallon hat on him and dubbed him Billy the Kid hose. They also imported his girlies - a Broadway high-stepping, high-kicking chorus. So Dallas, with all its educational fervor, had to meet the musical comedy challenge, and put on a beauty show of its own. So you can imagine Fort Worth’s grief and anguish today, when that Texas tornado hit the Dallas Fair. And just about blew the scanties off those girls. Today Dallas spent tne hours picninfc up the «.reckafce. clearing up the rubbish, after the black funnel shaped cloud swooped TORNADO - 2 dov.n on the town and knocked everything galley west. Thirty persons injured, a million dollars’ damage to the whole city. The Fair was battered to the tune of two hundred thousand dollars. Decorations ripped to pieces, illuminating signs went flying, pinnacles and steeples inaocked over. The elaborate stage setting of a pageant, "The Cavalcade of Texas”, was flattened out by the blasting wind. Ligntning struck the dressing rooms for tne actors but the rain put out the fire. But is Dailas discouraged? Not at all. Tornadoes or typhoons, Dallas raises a windblown eyebrow to Fort Worth, BLACK LEGION No\., whnt. :<ina of madness is coming out of this Black Legion? Are we living in a nightmare hearing about this ^reported confession of the black hooded executioner? The Detroit prosecutor tells us story ascribed to the trigger man for the skull and cross-bones. Itfs to the effect that the Black Legion killed a man, a negro war veteran, t just for fun. They JSB* wanted to see how it felt to kill. And the murder v/as committed as entertaipment at a Black Legion drinking party. This story is somethin! f-fcTFnfnr-** * -Tn.'l I s it true? Suppose it isn’t true. Suppose it's just somei ? related teyfc by the supposed executioner. V/hat kind of 'Mtc \ individual would it indicate, an individual whose imagination would run to bad dreams like that? And suppose such an individual were prominent in a hooded order? Take today’s Black Legion story as you like, with any amount of truth or falsehood^ And *t±±t it’ nightmare. BREVITIES Now for some brevities, mere one-linejlterns, bits of news that can be told in a sentence. But they're that sort of f brevity in which a few words fact carry you away on a trail of reminiscence and imagining. Take this one, a business notice;- [ Complete up-to-date furnishings for four rooms have been ordered from an American firm by the Maharajah of I'iepal for his palace. ^ m Nepal, of all places - not only one of the most exotic of oriental principalities, but also one of the few forbidden kingdoms left on earth. Itrs really forbidden. You simply cannot go there. xaXxxxxx xax xax % xxatatxxxf x xaLaLAxx3cX3cxXTTxxxi»<[yy3rYarg**»yYxxx±xAxx. Nepal is on the northern frontier of India, next door to Tibet, mighty usefuly as a buffer state. Hence, the British have willingly left preserve its semi-independence, have, in fact, rather encouraged Nepal to keep aloof, stay apart, and preserve its status as a forbidden kingdom. It is reckoned that in the last fifty years. BREVITIES - 2 less than tv,o hundred Europeans have entered that nermit prin­ cipality. I myself have been one of the lucky ones allowed to pass the prohibited frontiers into Nepal. There in the steep uplands, where the Himalayas begin, life drifts along In the Asiatic ways of old. yet even into this forbidden kingdom mode mini ty pokes its nose - at least into the palace of tne Maharajah. This potentate. His Highness, Shum Shere Jung Bahadur Kana, is quite a person - far famed as a tiger hunter, with the nerves of steel and a dead-snot eye in the face of a yellow striped lord of the jungle. Arthur Vernay of New York, patron of The American Museum of Natural History, is the only American I imagine who has seen much of him. Vernay is on his way tnere now* The Maharajah of Nepal is a chubby little fellow with a drooping mustache and a soft voice. He speaks English perfectly, but with a lisp thatfs ratner like a mild case of hiccoughs. Ana he wears glasses - does this king of the land of Tigers. Personally, he likes western ways. So now he has decreed that four rooms of his BREVITIES - 5 oriental palace^shall be done over in up-to-date American fashion, hence the^order for household furnishings placed here in the U.S.A. by the renovmed tiger hunter^. $& hih His Imperial Highness, Shum Shere Jung Bahadur Rana, Maharajah of Nepal. Now another commercial item - the sale of a book - a rare book, an old book. A volume published In Fourteen Eighty-Six - written by a nun. The authoress was the lady abbess of a medieval nunnery In England. ta^WhatTs the imaginative angle to that? Strangely enough, it takes us to the following:-) * another bit of news today, - The American Olympic athletes got their first glimpse of Europe today. The liner MANHATTAN put in at Cobh^ Ireland on TfTKxjyryrxii ^nri then continued^ts way to Hamburg. Vne Olympic athletes will reach Hamburg on Thursday, and will make the four-hour train trip to Berlin on Friday. • ith this, we learn that there's one sport in which the United States will not be represented, a sport that will make many Americans VTTIES - 4 regretful - polo. This horse loving land of ours has not been able to get together an Olympic ±s polo team. S0 the tars and ^tripes won't be represented.when the ponies and riders clash in the Olympic chukkers*-^ ftvc K k < *^0 4 In Berlin the Olympic Committee today drew slips of paper out of a hat3 or something like that, and decided who was Here's what concerns to meet whom, and when.x&®x£jjapcxs/ythe Americans: They'll first meet the enemy on the soccer field. The American Soccer Team will start the ball rolling for Uncle Sam. They'll meet the Italian teamj^Js^artHhe ball roll!ssc^ni. Sttn l the But what has this Olympic sport* news to do with that nun of the Fifteenth Century, the lady abbess of a medieval M convent? Why, she was the first sports writer in the Englj^ntr language. I got this odd bit of information from Dr. A.S.W. Bosenbach, the International book collector, as he was preparing to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. He tells me that the first English volume on sports ^ the Book of Hawking and Hunting, written by the pious nun. Dame Juliana Berners, in Fourteen Eighty-Six. In it we learn that the saintly abbess herself was a mighty angler. She always went out fishing, and with her own devout hands kept the nuns of her convent supplied with fish on Fridays. She wrote the first English book on sports. This rare li in I? !! . 11 t i"; i!i I i volume. Dr. Kosenbach told me, is now in the United States, . 1 y bought by an American collector^ -h-; by -rhn i 1 In the Philippine. Islands two estates have been seized by the government - foreclosure, payments overdue. Thatrs a brief leral item from Manila, It doesn't sound interesting, until we notice the name - Aguinaldo. His two large estates have been foreclosed. He's aging now, grown fat and soft, and cuts the figures of a bankrupt landowner who over-extended himself. The day was when &n±K.Rii&sxwax Aguinaldo was something fai different the^S^young guerrila fighter with a bolo in his hand, revolting against the Spaniards, then maieing himself a jungle terror to the regiments of the U.S.A. He cut a fine figure as a fighting RRE7ITIES » 6 utaiij then cin ec^hciliy fine figure cts a man of peace, reconciling his people to American rule, giving the hand of friendship to his conquerors and held in honor by them. Now it appears that the great Philippine fighter cherished large landowner ambitions. He bought two great properties from the Philippine Government — on credit. But he hasnTt been able to keep up the payments. HeTs a hundred thousand dollars in arrears. So now his estates have been foreclosed. The great Aguinaido — Just a man carrying a mortgage, with the sheriff after him. But these brevities are getting long — so SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.