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The end of that bandit hunt
in the Southv/est seems to have been
one of the most startling bits of
melodrama in police history.
The United Press wires that
the two yotM Young brothers who had
killed six police officers in Missouri,
stood face to face and fired shots into
each other. They were trapoed in a
house at Houston, Texas. They had
sworn that they'd never be taken alive.
And so they seem to have made a
suicide pact and killed each other.
The International News
Service reports that there was an
exchange of shots between the two
desperados and the officers who had
trapped them. Then the police heard a
voice from inside cal 1 ing:
Come on in.
?/e are dead.
The officers took no chances,
however, but drenched the place with
tear gas. tVhen it was over they found
the two bandits, one dead, the other
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The Associated Press explains
that the Houston police got a tip that
the two bandits were in a certain house
Then swiftly followed the climax and
the end.
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Perhaps the most interesting
event in Congress today was the
introduction of a bill to consolidate
the Army and Navy Departments. The
bill was entered by Representative
Byrns, Tennessee Democrat, who
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just one Department of National Defense.
It would be headed by a Cabinet Minister
and would have un der-secretar i es
representing Army and Nar'y and Air
f o rces.
Representative Byrns declares
that the consolidation of Army and Navy
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economy ana i
in both the Senate and +he House of
Representatives the law makers went
pounding ahead on orograms of taxation,
tariff^ and the gigantic finance
corporation which President Hoover has
proposed to thaw the frozen credits.
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(They say that President Hoover
has asked his friends not to do anything
in particular about the Republican
norn i na, t i on • ^)
Some of ‘them seem to be in a mood
to start compaigning for the President
and tw make an effort to secure
delegates that are to be elected tc the
Republican National Convention. But
the President wants af I such activities
p os t p o n e d .
The United Press wires that the
White House is ignoring a lot of private
taf k among the Republ jeans to the effect
that they don!t particularly want Mr.
Hoover as the Republican nominee fer
1932.
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putting somebody else up as the R
Republican candidate. The political
wiseacres are still mentioning Ambassador
Dawes and
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dr ^ Johnson of Cal ifornia^;
and some of them donTt seem to be able
to drop the idea that
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possible to induce Ex-President Coolidge
to run agai n^)
But President Hoover ios reported
as not h«xws paying much attent hon--a*
to all that. He is devoting a! I of his
attention to his reconstruction program,
which he is trying to put through
Congress.
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In .Washington today the
Japanese Ambassador handed the State
Department a formal expression of regret
for that attack made by Japanese - r r
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at Mukden.
The United Press quotes the
Japanese Ambassador as foI lows:
"Acting under instructions
from my government in Tokio, I have
expressed to the Secretary of State its
sincere regrets for the unfortunate
occurrence in Mukden."
The Associated Press wires
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Secretary of State Stimson said
he was glad the Japanese Government had
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the apology has not yet been formally
accepted. Further reports from
Manchuria will have to be received
before Washington will consider the
matter closed.
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^Tonight the Japanese Army in
Manchuria is,march i ng southward toward
the Great Wat I of China. The soldiers
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town of Shanhaikwan, and if they take
the city, why it will be the first time
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disturbance have set foot on the
territory of China proper.
Manchuria is regarded as an
outer province. The real China of the
ancient celestial Empire begins just «-
north of the Great Wall. The town of
Shanhaikwan stands at ’■he point where
the Great Wall meets the sea.
The United Press wires the
opinion that t!"ere will be heavy fighting
when the Japanese do advance into what is
strictly Chinese territory. Heavy
fcr ces of Chinese troops are massed ready
to give battle.
At Mukden a force of Chinese
piregu I ar sold iers raided, a prison and
released a whole bunch of Chinese bandits
ttvsirfe' were being held by the Japanese.
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Upon b^+FFg-'-^e+e^arSff^ the bandits started
out to do a bit of plundering. They
clashed with Japanese troops who killed
130 of thp ou 11 aws.
In the/vcity of Harbin, which is
under Russian influence, a group of
Chinese Nationalists and students went
on the rampage and attacked Russians
and threatened other foreigners.
There was a battle in which four
pe r son s are reported to have been
killed. Th_ere has-been a good deal of
bad f ee I i n o'sHlififeSfi^febetween the
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Martial law is in effect tonight
throughout the Republic of Honduras.
A revolutionary movement has broken out
down there in the Central American
Repub lie.
The International News Service
explains the trouble by saying that
several hundred men were discharged from
their jobs by the United Fruit Company.
The men didn't like ti it and they
promptly proceeded to start a revolt.
The trouble spread. A group of rebels
raided a town but were beaten off by the
Federal garrison and the last reports
indicate that the soldiers of the
Government have driven the Revolutionaries
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An agreement has been formed
between Soviet Russia and Roumania on
subject of the disputed province of
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This is a rich stretch of
agricultural territory which Roumania
took from Russia at the end of the World
War. And ever since it has been a bone
of contention between the Roumanian
Government and Soviet Russia.
The controversy has been a constant
source of^ trouble, but now it has been
sett led.
The International News Service
cables that Russia and Roumania have
entered into a non-agression pact. They
have agreed to respect each other!s
territorial rights and promise to settle
any disputes between them by poaceful
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of t Sie Trees. He i s f u I
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He wants people to renew
shady woodlands, which civilization
so apt to destroy.
It was in Africa that Captain
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1 think I 1 I l take Lime out and turn
the microphone over for a minute to the
fLan of the Trees, He is full of ^burni ng
enthusiasm for trees,
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the shady woodlands, which civilization
is so apt to uestroy.
It was in Africa that Captain
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among the natives known as nThe hen of
the Trees,n a society of tree-pIanters.
Recently he has niade a world-wide tour,
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stands 500 feet high. Then to India, and to Ceylon, where
there are tribes of tree worshipers, and where the Captain
worshipped along with them.
And finally, to Palestine, where they planted twenty
million trees, each of which evoked a thrill in this knight of
the bows and branches.
Well, I*® getting a bit enthusiastic over this myself.
In fact there is nothing I like better than to be in the shade of
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the old apple tree./ ^ could never equal the fiery exhultation of
the Man of the Trees. N
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see If you can guess his nationality.
RICHARD ST. BARBE BAKER
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There is a romantic background to this remarkable world
movement which lirst came into being in the heart of Africa In 1922,
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when. In response to an appeal that was made to them, African
Tribesmen banded themselves together to stop the oncoming desert
by tree-planting. When they could not think of a better deed to do
they used to come round in the evening to my camp and plant little
Mutarakwa or Pencil cedar trees.
The story of how these one-time forest destroyers
have saved their forests and planted many millions of trees has
fired the Imagination of youth the world over. Other countries
are now turning their attention to tree planting. In Palestine
the lien of the Trees have planted twenty million young Jerusalem
pine and cypress during the last three years.
People are beginning to realize that tree planting
is a touchstone of true citizenship. By planting a tree man is
forever safeguarding the future.
Sometimes I'm asked, "Where did you get your great
love for trees?" I believe I got it from my father. As young
as three years he started planting things. In his playroom at
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this early age he planted three apple pips in three ittie
pots. Month by month he watered and tended them.
Radio is doing much to stimulate interest throughout
the world in the cause of trees, You hav'e your own great
.ambassador here, in Mr, L
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Whole nations, as well as tribes, may be brought together
in this great melement based on beautifying the world by the plant
ing of one of uod1s loveliest creations — the tree.
I am glad to be back here in Mew York. It feels quite
like comim! home again. And I am looking forward to meeting
many of you in the course of my tours dur ng the next three
months.
I bring greetings to Tree Lovers from our great
brotherhood — men of the trees throughout the world, and wish
you 1 n your n1anting, prosperity.
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Now let see - boomalatcha, XfsiKki
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kal ikawh i ck-kawhack-kazam .
Those noble sounds are printed
in this weekAs Literary Digest. No,
it isn’ta case of a printer gone crazy.
I'll just quote another line from tha4r.>.
Litenary Olgesl article to indicate what
it’s all about:
"The more goofy forms of the
college cheer have been losing their
populdrity among the undergraduates in
recent years."
So it's a case of the dear
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of the raspberries.
The Literary Digest ta^es us
to an art i c I e by Westbro ok Peg I er in the
Chicago Tribune. Peg I er has quite a bit
of fun at the expense of t hose weird
and fantastic s ho uts which used to be
cons idered a lofty expression of the
RayxRKhxRay Rah Rah spirit.
We are told that the college
students of today are becoming more and
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more sophisticated* They s.re growing
somewhat ashamed of those old college
yells. For example, taking take the
traditional yell of Georgia Tech. Here's
the way it goes:
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ala vivo
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Boomv get a rat trap
Bigger than a cat trap*,
They say that the smart and
sat i r i ca I young stud© of tod ay doe sn 11
get any big thrill ovtr the collegiate
spirit when he howls anything like that.
He is also inclined to lift an eyebrow
when he hears anybody howling the
college yell of the University of
Illinois, which g oes:
Qsky-wow-wow, skinny-wow-wow*
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Westbrook Pegler as dec* aring that he
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In fact, there seems to be a general
decline of the older forms of Ballyhoo.
This was to be observed as early as the
World War, when the soldiers, instead of
singing inspiring pa t r i otic anthems.
pr eferred to yodle such irreverent ditties f
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As an illustration of this sort
of thing, the Literary Digest gives us
avvrmafc anecdote v/hich tefestbr-oote Pegler
relates:
"A young English lieutenant,
leading his men out of the I ine after a
hard time, was much embarrassed when he
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professional Pol lyannas, a morale^ officer,
who demanded, "Lieutenant, why donTt your
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broke into a lugubrious wail of the
forbidden song:
"Tyke me over the sea,
wTre the Germans canTt get at me. Ow,
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the same spirit which is making the
col lege I ads of today turn t hei r noses
up at such goofy .rjon,sense as
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