L,T. - SUNOCO OIL BROADCASTj Juiy 8, 1932, WAR DEBT Good Evening, Everybody; Something happened today in Europe that few people ever expected to see. The war deb^- question was settled. |Germany has finally been relieved of all but a shadow of the heavy burden of reparations. ThatTs the gist of Deby Conference in Lausanne, agreed today to postpone further I payments of war debts until prosperity returns.^) This will not ^ affect the debts owed by Europe to Uncle Sam. But they hope over there that in the meanwhile the United States will take some similar action and scale down the payments due us from Europe. However, Congress as well as both our major political parties, has expressed itself as flatly opposed to any reduction of Europe's debts to us. The best they can hope in this respect is a further moratorium on it. The nations represented at the International December 15th when the next payment becomes due. WAR DEBT - The report of the agreement was greeted with cheers in Lausanne, also elsewhere in Europe as soon as the news was telegraphed. The House of Commons in London, applauded lustily when the information was read aloud there today. ' ' ' • T V -;'1 • This agreement ended the expectations that were born of a postwar hysteria of a golden dermail goose that would discharge golden eggs for seventy years. The U, P. report to the Buffalo Evening News adds that the World War really ended at Lausanne today. It ended when Edouard Herriot, Prime Minister of France, emerged beaming from the conference of statesmen, and shouted: "C'est fini! c»est finiJ cfest fini!” «ItTs done! ItTs done! ItTs done!” So saying, he seized a blonde German woman and a brunette French woman, hugged them both and kissed them with enthusiasm. Both were reporters covering the conference. The K3SH crowd in the street roared its approval. Th se negotiations had lasted so long and there*! been so many deadlocks that the world haf finally come to despair y settlement. The Allied powers had ■-i & 1-nfi/m-imcinTr WAR DEBT - S of sixty-five billion dollars for the cost of the war. Today Germany agreed to pay 64S million 140 thousand dollars. Just one cent A forty conferences over this question. These 640 g±3db±±]gjg million odd dollars which Germany is to pay will be used for a European Reconstruction Fund. Germany is not expected to begin to pay until / ,A prosperity is restored. settlement upon us^ On the one hand it is expected that it may have a favorable effect on the collection of American short term private credits from Germany. This means the credits that have been extended by ygg private individuals and not b^ Uncle Sam as a nation. But on the other hand, William Simms, Scripps Howard Foreign Editor in Washington, declares that the agreement ioasEkKit knocks into a cocked hat all hope of ever collecting the eleven billion dollars which the, Allies owe the United States. on the dollar of the fantastic sum originally asked> JU-^SWi. In the last twelve years there have been no less than Opinions are divided as to the effect of this The cheerfulness created throughout Europe by the FLYBKS Well, XTm glad to be able to report that Jim Mattern and Bennett I Griffin have been found. They landed safe, sound and only slightly A. bruised on Soviet territory near the Polish frontier. 1 U.P. dispatch to the Pittsburgh Press their machine was wrecked. The boys certainly had tough luck. After beating the record of Post and Gatty as far as Berlin, after completing half the third lap of their schedule away ahead of time Jbheir, attR Steering gear jammed and they had to make a forced landing in a rainstorm. The nev/s came after Mattern and Griffin had been apparently lost for 37 hours. They were ahead of the record when they crashed. But now thereTs no hope of their breaking the record this time, or even of continuing their flight. They went to Minsk and from there^^oi^rain for Moscow. A I 4 Mf: j 11 m I j;:; l| F f II ■I II ■ ancey Maanwhi 1 eie^the U,t>,A. Captain ^Btet Yancey, the Hew York-to Rome flier, reported missing. The story tcmgau from Cheyenne, Wyoming. Yancey was making a long tour in plane. He had A. already covered 6500 miles through 19 states. On Thursday Lay he had r Xowii from Rapid City, South Dakota, and landed on the Flying-V Ranch at Newcastle, Thursday afternoon. At 4:30 p.m. he started to fly the S00 miles to Cheyenne where he should have arrived by 7:30^ Fears for his safety were increased by the fact that he was flying with a broken hand. According to one report he had devised a mechanical contrivance to handle the plane and has come eye to eye -^Liv^jwvc Bsert Yancey Is a e with disaster^ffift^Htimes. He narrowly escaped death three years ago on his good will flight through South America. On that occasion his ship was forced dovm and burned on a lonely island in the West Indies I I f\0 'HvJ*, Lateran autogyro identified as that of Captain Yancey was seen flying over a town in Wyoming, not far north of Cheyenne. So that seems to relieve fear for his safety. WILLIAMS It’s curious that the day on ’.vhich Captain Yancey breaks into the news in this fashion the pilot who flew his ship on the NevrYork to Rome trip should also be in the headlines. On that trip to Rome of course Captain Yancey was the navigator and Roger Q. Williams was the pilot. Well, now Roger Williams is planning an ambitious flight of hts a new kind. He' M going to try for a new- world distance record in a plane carrying a crew of three with one passenger. The flight he plans is from New York to Athens, Greece, a distance of 5200 miles. In addition to its crew and passenger the plane will carry 500 pounds of mail for Rome and an assorted cargo for various European cities. Roger Williams hopes to start within three weeks. His crew and passenger have not yet been selected. l SUBMARINE They^found that simken submarine off the i'rench — <-*v* coastAwarly —by --di-nt~&f—uoi-ng—eeapla-ne-s -and—sea-e^ft^ They discovered the Prometheus lying in a deep hole on the Channel bed in 246 feet of water, A telephone in the submarine which had been released automatically, was found floating on the surface, and led to the discovery of the wreck. sinking of the Prometheus was due to mishandling of the controls by Inexperienced members of the crew. This had caused the divii. - compartments to be flooded before the hatches could be closed. The submarine filled with water almost instantaneously. She went down by the stern In 37 seconds. The Commander of the noise he rushed up on deck and felt the ship literally sinking the six other men who were with him onA%«©— The two fishermen who saved these seven survivors from the Prometheus, were the heroes of Cherbourg today. They rescued Two French Admirals said this afternoon that the tells that he was below at the time. Hearing a A, under his feet. He was imaedia-tel-y blown Into the water with A ——~ SUBMARINE - 2 the submarine sailors just as thea® were on the point of A exhaustion. PERU Well, there’s another young revolution in Peru. In ohe city ot Trujillo a force of rebels led by an unidentified Commander, engaged the Federal troops in a battle that lasted ten hours. At the end of the battle they were vietori** and A seized the city. federal troops, a warship, naval and military airplanes have been ordered out against the revolutionists. Meanwhile martial law had been declared throughout^tfee—eeun&gy for a period of thirty days. Rgbed-s -ha v pos^ -ef—eivi-l—gua -in-o-tbeji -rebel s have boon ki-lledj but -the cxaot ^ Qe: c .nnt- -- POLITICS It looks as though there will be plenty of political parties In th:’ forthcoming campaign. Just as the Prohibitionists have adjourned in Indianapolis, here comes news of another convention. This time In Cleveland, Ohio. According to a United Press dispatch to the Brooklyn Times, this latest convention is composed of AmericaTs leading intellectuals and liberals. leading intellectuals and liberals are ass^embling in Cleveland for a two day convention which will begin tomorrow. It is under the auspices of the League for Independent political action. America^ leading Intellectuals and Liberals are satisfied with neither Herbert Hoover nor Franklin D. Roosevelt. The probability seems to be that America's leading Intellectuals endorse and -Liberals will/±ntradME® the Rev. Norman Thomas who is the /V A candidate of the Socialists. America's leading Intellectuals and Liberals are under the leadership of Professor John Dewey of Columbia. America's leadin- intellectuals and literals have a program which was drawn POLITICS 2 with the assistance of a M mere hundred economists and experts of the Government. AmericaTs leading intellectuals and liberals are emphasizing unemployment, taxation, the tariff, power, public utilities, agriculturid^ international relations, banking and social legislation. America^ leading intellectuals and liberals feel that neither of the two major parties has any social planning in its platform. But America’s leading intellectuals and liberals must not be confounded with the Liberty Party whose headquarters are in Kansas City. The so-called Liberty Party has also been making eyes at the Socialist candidates. But to all these embryo parties the Socialists themselves say in effect - Run along little boys, and fly your own kites. The Socialists don’t unite with any other parties. They play their own game. Meanwhile from Norwalk, Connecticut,comes another POLITICS S political proposal. The Chairman of the platform of the Farmer Laboi' Party Is on a vacation In Norwalk, and he took occasion to make known the fact that he is rigging up a plan to unite the Farmer Labor Party with the Prohibition and the Liberty parties. The Chairman of the Farmer Labor Party has written to Senator Borah of Idaho, asking if he would accept the presidential nomination of the combined party. He also wrote to former Congressman Upshaw, presidential candidate of the Prohibitionists, Likewise to Colonel Webb, the candidate of the Liberty party. If this sort of thing goes on, the ballot we1!! have to vote on next November will be about the size of an ROGERS Will Rogers of Oklahoma is being made the target for brickbats today. I mean V/ill Rogers, the schoolmaster, - not Rill the gwa-chewing, rope throwing jokester. i Schoolmaster. Rogers won tha^primary for Congressmen-at-large by a large majority. He led twenty-five candidates. Thousands of people voted for the schoolmaster because they thought he was the humorist cowboy philosopher. So now his political opponents are accusing him of having changed his first name deliberately so that he would be mistaken for the comedian. They point out that his name originally was^Willie. -tvcb /' Schoolmaster Rogers denies the soft impeachment, 4**/ a ”1 changed my name from Willie to Will because Willie * ^ i is a sissy name, and I didn’t like it”, Schoolmaster Rogers. One of his opponents is planning to iile a protest. A ... . GOLD Out best they are making a desperate effort to revive the good old gold rush days of *49 and ether yeard i^--the-l-fir9tf--ee»tua?5fc. According to a United Press dispatch to the Baltimore Post, at least 10,000 men and women are diligently panning the once famous gold streams of California. They are attracted, of course, by theAchance in a million of striking the a bonanzaMost of them wene* drawn from the ranks of the unemployed. Many are eking no experience in the use of pans, rockers, and sluice boxes, are having their labors for nothing. Nevertheless, Californians output of gold has been increased by almost two million dollars in one year. Apropos of this, Randolph Walker, an editor and motion picture executive, is in Washington trying to im assist the government in grub- stanking the unemployed. Rannie Walker, who once ran for Mayor of Denver, Colorado, wants the Government to start thousands of the jobless on their way to the Rocky Mountains. A out a meager living from fifty GOLD - 2 He suggests that the President shall rawfel mobilize trucks. tents and supplies the army and navy for this purpose. On the other hand, Colorado’s Commissioner of Mines describes this idea as a delusion. Between 8,000 and 10,000 persons today are whipping the streams of Colorado to <Xs~\*4- A* a froth placermining Cowmiagtoncr. ftet u VJ'OLCLy a J. fYi.lJ.pp IV/il^ o OX CCXUIO WX V^VJ-L.O/X CtOtVJ OW acermining for gold. A states-^te-Coloyade-MXaee^, wedding City clerks all over the United States report that weddings fell off considerably last month. But herets one couple Y/hom apparently nothing could discourage. In Albion, Michigan, there was a wedding in which the bride and groom were both 77 years old. Furthermore, they were members of their wedding party. They had six ushers and matrons of honor, I donH know which. And all of them Over-Three-Quarters-of-a-Century Club. the youngest 4-ix maids or are the A BAT Did you ever hear of bats going on a bat? Here's a tale of some bats that did exactly that. Furthermore it was a bat that cost 3,448 dollars. The story comes from White Plains, New York. The prisoners there have been kept awake for nights by a lot of these^flying creatures. When they killed one that had a wing spread of 18 inches they decided it was too much, so they complained to the sheriff. The Board of Supervisors decided to put in screens. And that's where the $3,448 ritHix cornea A- in. SNOW PLOW Itfow lor an item to cool yon off. Or are you hot? The trustees of a township in Ohio oersoired for thirty minutes today. And what do you think it was that troubled them? A snow plow. The township*s snow plow has been in storage for eleven years. The storage bill is one hundred and eighty dollars. Well, paying for a snow plow in weather like this seemed to the trustees too much like paying for a horse after it is dead. They wrangled and wrangled; and finally decided to postpone the discussion of the payment of that bill until snow flys.. A vi. i ¥/h.at do you think of* a Bishop1 s wife who captured a burglar? Well, it happened in Buffalo last night. The Right Reverend Cameron Davis, Episcopal Bishop of the Western Now >York~ Diocese returned home yesterday evening with Mrs. Davis. As they got inside their front hall they heard a noise upstairs The Bishop went to the telephone to notify the police but Mrs. Davis woe^hipstairs to investigate. A As she opened the door of her dressing room she saw a young man inspecting the toilet articles on her dresser. What did she do? She told the young man to get out of there and walk ahead of her downstairs. What did the young man do? He did as he was told? And when he made p motions to open the front door and walk out Mrs. Davis told him to stay right where he was. What did he do this time? Once again the young man did as he was told. He "waited right there until the police came. Evidently being a Bishop’s wife lends to your voice sm & x authority that not even a modern burglar can withstand. an