CHINA £3 J / 'J ' — J L -* ^ It is possible that future times may consider today to be one of the most ominous news days in recent history. This - based on the fact that perhaps the most menacing development of these scientific years is bombs from the sky falling upon cities*»3^/ ^ * civilians, military theory that wars may be won by aerial terrorism, bombs shattering the morale of a population. All moral forces are lined up against this horror of air attack, — Ktut^XHKXBK^ in the end all will be decided by the question - yTt does it pay? Ljfr shown that sky terrorism does not break the a morale of people, but only makes them more bitterly determined to fight - mm unrestricted air warfare will be restricted by failure, ff it is shown that ruthless bombing can, win a war, A then heaven help the worldI VO / let’s look at China.(The Ja£ Japanese have answered the worldwide protest against the bombing of Chinese cities . TtJty tfhey answered it in words - announced that the bombing is to be intensifie!df^?hey answered it in deeds -- today Japanese war planej A once more bombed the great city of Canton, now a city of devastation.)The Japanese themselves say they're doing it to state of mind, as good as saying bring theChinese to another s, - •siuh', CHINA - 2 break their morale. Will it work? Will the bombings of Canton produce another state of mind? It is these questions which give a sinister cast to other news from China. There are strong reports today of dissension among the Chinese leaders, reports of a possible split between the Central Chinese Government and the war chiefs of Canton. For this two reasons are givenl^ First: the Canton generals are said to be angry with the way Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek withdrew his own divisions of crack troops from the Chinese defeats at Suchow and Kaifung. We ’ve heard it reported Jubilantly from China that in those Japanese drives they’ve not been able to capture the powerful nucleus of the Chinese array - the crack troops had escaped and were still in the field. But today’s news pictures the Canton generals putting another interpretation on these successful escapes. They say that Chiang Kai-shek refused to risk his own personal divisions in the crisis of battle - those well trained oddiers wfxwkiwh on which his power depends, since the power of any Chinese war lord depends upon his own personal army. They*** accuse# CHINA - 3 Chiang Kai-shek of withdrawing his own military units and leaving mere recruits to face the Japanese - sacrifice troops. RPP% only certain defeat for theChinese. The word is that the Canton generals are now waiting for the battle of Hankow and if Chiang Kai-she^ once more £ kxhx ± jb refuses to risk his personal army, they’ll withdraw from the war - Canton will secede and make peace with Japan. That’s the first charge. And the second comes still closer to the point. The Canton generals are said to be enraged because Chiang Kai-shek will not send any of his air force to protect Canton against the Japanese war planes. H9 keeps his sky fleet for the defense of his own territory. Canton kx sent its « ra air force to fight in the common cause, and is^wsw^left defenseless. And they now demand that the Generalissimo come to Canton's defense in the sky. Will he do it? If he doesn't, will the Chinese stick together? That, they say, is the situation the Japanese are working on with their aerial terror. They’re bombing Canton mercilessly to widen the split between that southern part of China and the Central Government. Aerial frightfulness in the CHINA - 4 hope of malting Canton break away. That's today's contribution to the discussion of whether in the wars of the future they'll figfeix find it effective to bomb civilian populations with ruthless horror. And if they find it effective, they'll do it A rchbo J^ -. 4 - ^ «4u^^£^e-vwJli^-J 3S~X~0S** ~£&1 ^C€XVV\^W^ flying laboratory^iande4=a# Wake Island today, tO having flown iom that remote speck »f—isn4 from Honolulu. ^ A. A *ls$ 0 % lha»^complet^ the second hop of the flight which the oil ''vs^Lri ffilT^t^gie^ye^i'Chard TtrrcrKhol^ and his five companions are making to the jungles of New Guinea to explore and make scientiffc studies for the American Museum of Natural History. MATTkOTTI It’s odd how interesting bits of knowledge come in the news a long time afterward - after a headline event. Take that celebrated and sinister affair in the early history of Italian Fascism - the murder of Matteotti, the Socialist deputy. He was threatening an expose of Fascist corruption, and was kidnapped and killed. Reams of bitter controversy were written about that event, which almost caused the downfall of Mussolini. Yet, there*s one bit of detail I don*t recall having seen until today. It comes with the news from Rome of the death of MatteottiTs widow. The obituary notice relates that she was a sister of the famous baritone, Tito Ruffo, who sang so long in our own country and with such renown. IOWA ^ Todayss count of the vote oast yesterday In Iowa puts accent on such vindictive words as - reprisals, punishment, feud, vendetta,^ It was by no means a contest between a Roosevelt man and an anti-Roosevelt man. It was - perfect New Dealer versus not so perfect New Dealer. Senator Gillette, seeking renomination, supported the President most of the time, with not so many exceptions. But there L was one great and outstanding exception - txt the court fight. 4oted against t&e White House atxtempt to \enlarge'sKhe Supreike Cou\t and that issue was the biggest and most bitterly fought of all, \ \ V \ \ \ ' the hardest F.D.R. defeat at the handd of Congress, So the cou batrtle was toe dominant item in all the talk that the miglrt seek reprisals against icp Democratic opponents, and out to be\t them Iri the prllaaries. The President said repeatedly that there would be no reprisals, although that never did quite down the supposition. He declared emphatically he was keeping entirely out of the Iowa primary fight - no interest in it. Nevertheless, there was a decided New Deal interposition, by Harry Hopkins, the Relief IOWA - 2 Administrator. He declared outright for Candidate Wearin, in the attempt to snatch the nomination away from Senator Gillette. -A 1-1 'pratesir?- the ehaygo fthat the A4iaift4^t,pa^<»y was using- hie relief monc3r--power"^ori■ puirLleafr »uc.posea>—tieir Deal i»epr4oaie. And James Roosevelt, son of the President, also spoke up for Candidate Wearing But let’s look at today's count in the contest between perfect New Dealer and not so perfect New Dealer• ^Senator Gillette wins overwhelmingly, nearly two to one, fifty-eight thousand to thirty thousand. And there’s an instant jeer for Harry Hopkins. Administrator It was the first time the W.P.A. .tried his hand in an election fightj. Fingers burned? The whole hand badly blistered^ line- for seme —eindolences—frcrm~~Jim Farley-y-whe—didn’t do co wel-l— in the- Penncyivania primaries Naturally, today's Iowa count was received with loud cheers by various Democratic senators, who have not been such perfect New Dealers and who might feel themselves marked for reprisals - If any. All who opposed bhe President in the court fight, are much encouraged to observe.that the Gillette opposition in political disaster. has not ed IOWA . - 3 The Republicans^ Jubilating - hailing trie Iowa result as a New Deal defeat. And they point to the way the figures add up on both sides. Democratic and Republican. The G.O.P. nominated former Senator Dickinson by a large vote. His Republican opponent also got a large vote. The total fox~ both candidates is more than a hundred and seventy-six thousand. The total Democratic vote for both x candidates was around eighty-eight thousand, about half. Yooj that aoeme—eause f qp -G.O^, optimism of* tht> ’ j neatly lwitre"««=uiiny Reyubllcaii pr-imetry—votoD ae Demoeratfrs^ However, it was pretty much the same thing two years ago. Many more Republican primary votes than Democratic. Yet, on election day the Democrats won out. Today Republican leaders explain all that by saying that two years ago was presidential year, with President Roosevelt invincible and sweeping everybody in. And therefs also this - today’s Republican |aai primary preponderance is a bit larger than it was two years ago. So today’s figures leave jtmwx the Iowa senatorial election, if not in the lap of the gods, at least in the lap of the farmers. 1 CONNECTICUT Connecticut?s political scandal flares anew today with an order to arrest five former members of the legislature. The charge against them is violation of the Corrupt Practices Act, a charge that already had involved a former lieutenant-governor.and a whole string of personalities. The prosecution claims that there was lobbying and conspiracy to defraud -the city of Waterbury/4* of millions of dollars. The five former members of the legislature are accused of accepting gifts of stock as the price of their votes in passing a bill. The bill called for the installation of a^kind of sterilization equipmen-; all over the state WAGE-HOUR Ji tX% ^ 4«W There*® a compromis^^^committee^on the Wage-Hour^^l^ with the South winning a point. ^There has been southern opposition all along to the establishment of a national minimum wage scale, the contention being that there should be lower rates of pay in the South, where the wage scale is lower all along the line.^ A joint committee of Senators and Congressmen is deliberating to produce a bill satisfactory to both Houses, and today the southern members of the joint committee won a half-wayThe, compromise provides that there shall be a nation-wide minimum wage of twenty-five cents an hour the first year, and thirty cents an hour the econd year. But above that all increases are to be determined y Advieory Boards for each industry — -urVrt r*V "1 1 molro possible to establish special wage rates for the south. Moreover, there's to be no time limit on the final increased would bring the minimum wage up >4 indefinate. /f to forty cents an hour. That's the compromise the southern legislators are willing to accept -- so that when the Wage-Hour Bill comes back to the Benate and House for a final vote, there won't be any southern opposition and filibustering. MQNB¥ Here's something for a guessing contest* How much money is in the United States, actual cash in circulation? It happens that we don't have to guess, because today the Treasury Department gives us a report, right down to the last penny. The total of money in circulation amounts to six billion, four hundred and sixty seven million, a hundred and thirty-nine thousand, niBB hundred and eighty dollars and ten cents* Divide that by the number of people in the country, and it figures an average of forty-nine dollars and seventy-four cents for each of us. The President proposes a fifty thousand dollar reward in the Flordia kidnap case* Today he suggested to Senator Glass that Congress put up that much money in the deficiency Bill - reward for the arrest and conviction of the kidnapper. mm KIDHAP There's a report that a five dollar bill Included in the Florida ransom money has been identified. This is stated in the MIAMI DAILY NEWS today, i'he story is that two men In an automobile paid a gas station attendant near Jacksonville with a five dollar bill, has been recognized as being part of the ten tafiaT thousand dollar ransom vainly paid for the return of five-year-old Jiteesgly Cash. The report says further that the two men in the car were picked up by G-men near Tallahassee. What explanation they had to give is not known MCGRAW-BOMAVENTURB Unfortunately I didn’t hear my friend, Upton Close,last night, but I believe he mentioned that X was at the college of the Franciscan Friars, St. Bonaventure, he referred to it as the Alma Mater of the famous John McGraw, titan of baseball, Goliath of the New York Giants. You baseball fans will recall that his nickname was "Muggsie" McGraw. But in his old age, on his last trip to Bonaventure, the little Napoleon of Baseball, the man supposed to be hard as nails, grew sentimental, and his last request at the college of his youth was that his friends stop calling him "Muggsie." Another thing I discovered on my jaunt to the West was that my associate and friend, Sydney Kent, President of Twentieth Century-Fox, was a few miles away, in Cleveland, addressing a great Labor Union Convention. william^Green, President of the A.F* of L* remarked that it was the first time a Captain of industry had xalksm voluntarily come before the Labor Unions, at a Convention, to discuss ways of promoting better relations between Capital and Labor. MCGRAW-BONAVENTURE-_g_ President Green suggested that this might well be the omen of a new day in the Labor world* Among other things, Sydney Kent stated that the motion picture industry had gone through the last depression, and will go through this one with less damage to Labor than any other major industry CIRCUS Here’s something that would-be the unhappy ending of a gi eat American story — if the greatest show on earth were to be switched to a railroad siding and sold at public auction. That was threatened at Pittsburgh today by the President of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus, frpeaitcr several weeks ago, told the assembled circus people that a crisis was at hand. Hefs asking the sixteen hundred employees of the big show to take a twenty-five per cent cut. They are objecting to this, and he told them today they had two weeks to the circus business, and gave them a bit of family history to explain, b© said that during the last depression his uncle, John Ring ling, had to put a burden of debt on the circus, and now another depression has come along. So, said he, the wage cut was accept it, why then in two weeks the greatest show on earth would John Ringling North, whoi kvv gw-irad—ugl' thtw program think it over normal times in necessary to keep things going. If the circus people wouldn^t come to an end. "It will end up," said he, "under the auction hammer on some railroad siding,” Today, near Hock Hall, Maryland, four boys were out in a sailooat on the Potomac. The boat capsized, and into the water they went. Three could swim more or less, but Bobby .couldn*t swim a stroke. Be floundered in the water, helpless. The shore was three hundred feet away - he couldn’t possibly reach it. He oaildn’t even struggle to the capsized boat and catch hold. The other three boys tried to help him, but they couldn’t. They yelled for help, but there was nobody around - nobody in a boat, nobody on the shore. Not a thing alive on that shore - save a dog, and the dog didn’t know what to do. Be was a Chesapeake Bay retriever, woolly, something like a setter. . It was Bobby Collier's dog, Betsy. She was jumping around, jittery-with excitement. Betsy knew that something was wrong - but what? She didn’t know what to floundered in the water he saw Bobby's dog Betsy there on land do. Bobby was drowning,^the three other boys couldn't frantic, one of them did the only thing he could. As he and he yelled in despair: "Betsy, come and save him." And Betsy DOG - 2 seemed to understand that - she now knew what to do. The Chesapeake Bay retriever plunged into the water, and swam with the power of her breed. She reached her master. Bobby was so far gone that there was only one thing he could do before lapsing into unconsciousness. He stuck his arm*i. through Betsy*s collar, and )am was wedged there. Whereupon, Betsy swam to shore, with her strong feet, and dragged the boy with her - dragged him on to shore* Then help came. Bobby Cull it?*- was quickly resusitated - alive and well tonight. cp 3- £- *<-+-- .Si m . II I Jr