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FRIDAY. DECEMBER 26, IQSn
HOCKEY
Here's some news straight from ^tuiker Hill. It's
about a big hockey game. Hockey is fairly rough at best, and
the game last night bet we en the Boston Bruins and the Philadelphia
Quakers was just about the roughest on record. The climax came
when both teams
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other with their f'ists, A story on the sports page of the Lew
York Evening '"elegram tells of the wild scramble there on the
ioe--eyes were blackened, an^ noses flattened out. The police
butted in arid that only made the battle bigger and better. The
referees went to the aid of the cops and they got swatted too.
When it was over, there were as many black eyes and swollen jaws
as you might have seen at an old time battle royal.
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I 1 I I bet the fellow in this
next dispatch is going to get hi ms e I f
a spei I ing book and start in from the
beginning:--c-a-t, cat; r-a-t, rat; and
go right on through to T-h-e-r-m-o-p-y-l-a-e,
Thermopylae. HeTs a kidnapper out in
Kansas City, and they got him because he
wasn’t so good at spelling.
The Associated Press informs us
that the police had him do a bit of
writing, and he misspelled two words.
He wrote s-t-r-e-a-t for street. And
when he came to the word curbing., he
spelled it c-u-r-b-o-n. Well, those
two same words were misspelled in a
letter which had bee n sent b y the
kidnappers dun demanding a ransom. The
evidence was so strong that the bad
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-611, we won1x ^ee Abe Mart in any
more, and we wonTt listen to his homely
philosophies. Because Kin Hubbard, the
creator o"f Abe iviarti n, is dead. Mev/spaper
readers all over the country are familiar
with the daily cartoon of the old
homespun wise man standing there against
the vil I age pump and propounding some
gem of hayseed wisdom.
The Hew York Sun informs us that vtwv
Hubbard always said he got Abe Martin’s
peculiar philosophy from an old, small
town livery stable. Vu'hen xHu bbar d was a
shipping clerk out in Logan Bounty,
Ohio, he used to stop in at that livery
stable and listen to the wise remarks
of the old fellows hanging around there.
He never forgot their sage sayings- andAtv
Embodied them in the personality of ^be
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!oday!s tashion note from 'Paris
states that next year the styles wiIi be
colonial. No, don 1 rt think that this is
a return to the hoopskirts and powdered
wigs of fear t ha ash i nc:ton T s days . when
those Parisian designers of fashions say
coI onia 1’ they 1 re thinking about the French
colonies in ^sia, Africa, and the South
Seas. Mnd what they expect is that the
ladies will be wearing the Lor ocean
burnoose, the Anamite umbrella hat, the
sari from Pondicherry, the hula-hula
skirt from Samoa,
the birthday clothes
of the Sengalese.
The Uniteu Press tells us that the
reason for all of this is that there's
going to be an international colonial
exposition in Paris, and the Parisian
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SAi-j SALVADOR
A political note from the Central American republic of
San Salvador comes next, and it strikes a new note. It tells
of a la-/ running for president, and that's an oddity -•* especially
in San Salvador.
They say they're going to have a Free Election down
there and, according to the hew York Sun to the surprise of
everybody a woman has been entered as one of the candidates. It
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even surprised the lady. She is Senorita Ayala, and she's a
suffraget of the fiery Mrs. Pankhurst School, She announced that
she was going to run for president, but she never expected to get
her name on the ballot, "’he government, however, said it was
going to be a Free Election, and listed the Senorita among the
other candidates. Political experts in San Salvador say she
hasn't got a chance. Victory is predicted for the mail who has
control of the army; for the man who controls the army is the
man who gets elected ip Central America. idu can bet your
last bunch of bananas on that.
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has taken up the reins of/§^vernment.
The people have been rioting against
him, and he seems to be trying to use
the iron hand. He has suspended tfsap
parliament in his tiny country and,
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f'Qh, i c.r Jif romantic Rangoon more
news came in today regarding a native
uprising xhat is causing British officials
in Burma a lot of sleepless nights. Troops
c.re being rushed up the Irravi/ady River
from Rangoon and Mandalay. An important
British official has just been killed
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police are reported to have won.seed ‘fhe
villagers have fled from their homes and^
Jaken,^refuge in the hills and jungle.
(.where the elephants bring those great
teak logs etTfeSgef the Burma forest.
Burma, by the way is one of the most
fascinating and glamorous countries in
the Qrient. It is inhabited mainly by
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One of the reasons why the British have been able to
rul1© as lonp as they have in Burma is because the various races;
the Karens, the Was, the Chins, Kachins, and so on are unable to
unit.e against any enemy. They have no national feeling, and they
would as soon be under the British as anyone - in fact most of the
peoples of Burma prefer the British and quite often a Britisher
tabes unto himself a Burmese wife. The women of the country
are particularly lovely.
Usually the white man leaoes his Burrr.ese wife behind
when he gets ready to retire and say goodbye to the Orient, But
before he has a chance to leave sometimes his little, dainty
Burmese lady goes into the jungle and brings bach a deadly secret
herb. She slips a bit of if in his tea - and then with great
pomp the white man is buried within sound of the temple bells
of the Pagodas on the Hoad to Mandalay, But ^urma is a gorgeous
land, just about the most charming on earth. If you ever
tabe that voyage around the world be su’'e an'"1 make a side trip
yp the Irrawady Kiver on one of those sid e**wheelers that go a
chunkin’ from Rangoon to Mandalay
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from radio listeners wh i o h t e 17s tor i e s
of curious hapnenings, strange tales
that have never been printed, the news
that never gets into the papers. Here*s
one from Clarence P. Wilson, of Brookline,
Massachusetts. Mr. Wilson tells of the
time when he was working with & government
survey party down in the Arizona desert,
hear the Mexican border. He was out
chopping some wood at dusk, when he saw
a polecat right in front of him. He
backed away and pulled out his gun and
fired several shots at the animal. Then
he went back to camp.
The next morning he went out to the
place where he saw that polecat and there
it was, dead, but it had not been hit by
any bullets. A few feet away from it was
a gr eat big r a111 e‘
w i th its head
shot off. The polecat had been bitten
by the ratt I esrtsife. And it was a small
tracedy o f na t ur e.
Appa r e n 11y the
raft I esaftv had been d i sxur bed by tne
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wood chopping and had blamed it on the
polecat and had struck the animal. Then
when iv'r. Wilson fired he hit the rattle^*
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Now for a question out of the
weekly questionnaire in the current issue
of the Literary Digest. The Digest ■nqiEi
asks: - -'THEN DID CONAN DOYLE PLAY THE
DETECTIVE? In other words, when did the
creator of Sherlock Holmes play the part
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4 know that Conan Doyle had done a
Sherlock Holmes, act in the famous Slater
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case in E n g I an He did a maa n i f i cen t
bit of amateur s I euthing^and proved that
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the man Slater, who had been sentenced to
prison for life, was innocent.
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result of OoyleTs subtle work the man
was released.
I t u r ne u tot he digest story just
to read once more about the ingenious
way by which Doyle proved the innocence
of an innocent man. It makes a great
detective story. But that Digest article
csve me a surprise^ ©cause i c Told of
another case in which Doyle had played
the real-life detective. ^nd the story
is a strange one.
The Church of England pastor of the
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parish of Great Wyrley was a Parsee.
of that curious Persian race in India, the fi rev/or shippers, the
followers of Zoroaster. 7/ell, it is a curious thing to have a
Parsee for a pastor of an English parish. And the Parsee pastor
was married to an Englishwoman. It was a strange situation and
it provoked a lot of bad feeling in the parish of Great Wyrley,
The Parsee and his wife had a son, and that half-caste boy was
accused of being the guilty person in a curious crime wave.
Somebody was maiming the horses in the parish, slashing the
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ho rses with knife.
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they blamed the half-caste boy
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was sent to prison.
Then Conan Doyle came upon the scene. And he used the
detective methods he made famous in the person of Sherlock Holmes,
He solved the case and proved the half-caste boy innocent, and had
him released from prison. And if you'll turn to your ax* new
Literary Digest you’ll find a fascinating detective story related
there aoout that episode in the life of ^he creator of 3herlock
Holmes.
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For the News Item of the Day i 1 ve
pieked what might seem at the first
glance^a hit of society news, ltTs
about clubmen. but the club happens to
be the Caterpillar Club, and that, as
you know, consists of aviators who have
had to make parachute jumps to save
their lives.
The New York Sun informs us that
the Caterpillar Club now has 826 members,
it seems to be quite a popular club,
because new members are joining at a
rapid rate. 55 new members have joined
the club since last August.
Well, therers a tremendous amount
of adventure packed into that mention of
55 new members. It means 55 parachute
^Duspsin jumps made in the nick of t i m e^_~
in the last desperate momenta of danger.
For example, out in Hawaii there was a
regular parachuxe jumping party. a big
t?rmv transport plane went wrong, and in
it was a cargo of student fliers.
Everybody went over the side, and parachutes
were seaxtered about rtt the hawai i an sky.
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All six men came down safely.
Then there was Captain due Ison,
an air mail pilot. His plane got into
trouble near Cleveland. ^nd when he
decided to jump he found he didn't have
his parachute strapped into place. It
was on the seat beside him, and it was
opened. It was just a loose bundle of
cloth. ..ell, he managed to push it out
of the plane and get it fluttering, and
he held on to one rope and jumped. He
oot clear of the plane, all right, but
found himself tangled up in the parachute
lines in such a wayfetFat he was hanging
head dow malar d! And that's no way to
land with a parachute. He managed to
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METKOR
©member that meteor swarm that swept through our
skies last Kovember? And then that big meteor that came
flaming down to earth yesterday out in Idaho? Well, the
scientists tell us that the Christmas meteor was just a big
straggler drifting along on *he tail end of that Kovember
meteor swarm.
Meanwhile, no traces of yesterday’s giant meteor have
been found. Scientists think it may have burned up before it
actually hit the ground. At least so the International Revs
Service reports.
Rear Philadelphia they ha*4 a meteor that turned out to
be no meteor at all. A fa mer in a field heard a whistling
sound and just as he ducked he saw something hit the ground in
a cloud of dust. He
telephoned
that a big meteor had fallen.
An expert hurried to the spot
and
found that the meteor was
nothing more than a monkey wrench that had dropped from an air
plane. The airplane was flying at an altitude of some 10,000
feet they found. The boys will have to be more careful about
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d ropping meteors
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that. If you got crowned fey a monVey
wrench dropped from two miles in the air you would think you
were hit hy a meteor -- and the effect would be the same, so
they tell me
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I don't know what we can do about
this next bit of news* It concerns the
misbehavior o
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a planet* British
astronomers are said to be thrown into a
veritable scientific conniption because
the tiny planet Eros has strayed from its
regular beaten path. In fact, the
wandering Eros is said to be millions of
miles off its course. Yes, and, according
to the International News Service, itls
much nearer the earth than it ought to
be. Maybe itTs heading this way.
Y/e I I , I think Mil aash out now
and have a look for myself. If Eros does
get fresh and bump into Old Mother Earth,
I suppose we TII all be taking a winter
h oI id a y—c r uis e along the Milky Way with
Professor Einstein for our guide. But if
the wayward planet
misses us on his
mad careen through space, I hope you1 I I
be on hand at this hour tomorrow evening.
MM not be here, because the editors of
the Literary digest have very graciously
suggested
that I have my postponed turkey
d inner at home on the tar in tomorrow. j^no
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thatTs where Mm bound for now. My
place tomorrow night will be taken by
Ben adams, who many of you a Iready know,
ne is one of the editors of the Digest,
and heTI I be here tomorrow night with
a! I the latest news.
Mil be oif now. So, so long and
good night.
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