FLOOD —n <3 a/ / picture -- a big bus crammed with passengers caught in the swirling waters* Terrific rain storms in the upner Rio Grande Valley. A deluge overwhelming the countryside. Near Wilcox, Arizona, a bus was bumping along, the heavens teeming, the road underwater. Ahead the driver could see that the flood was deep in a railroad cut. He stopped his bus on high ground, on a hillside, waiting for the water further down to drain away. Suddenly there was a terrific roar, and a deluge swept down the hill. Something had broken loose further up. The raging torrent engulfed the bus^ Twenty-eight passengers, They fought their way out, all except two sisters who were trapped inside and drowned. Some tried to battle through the water to higher ground. Three of these were swept away and lost. The other^clambered on top of the bus, and were safe stayed until the water subsided. The floods have brought danger and damage for many a mile along the Upper Rio Grande. The -ark Horse won - that is, if you can have a dark :0rse in an air race. Benny Howard 0f Chicago. Hever heard of hiffl? He's known well, enough in the world of planes and pilots, but net anywhere else. He flies transports regularly. And, he designs his own planes. He was the first to land, swooping onto the Cleveland Air Field after a blazing flight from Los Angeles, But that didn’t necessarily make him the winner, because the various planes had started at different times. Boscoe Turner came in next. Maybe he was the winner? Yes, it took some tall calculation to figure it out. Benny Howard made the long flight in eight hours and thirty-three minutes. That put him twenty-three second ahead of Roscoe Turner -- showing how close it was. A regular neck-and neck finish. When the winner was declared, the two ladies in tne race hadn’t shown up. Amelia Farhart and Jacqueline ^ochrane still flying. There was tragic disaster at the very take-off. One after ail other the ± kk nine planes hurley themselves into the air. The last one was Cecil Allen, Trans-Pacific ing in a new type of ultramodern speedster. A plane like bi.r with wings, a flying bullet. He disap-eared in the east seemed to be going all right. A few minutes later word came - crashed and killed. During the day, reports came thick and fast. Two racers landed in rapid succession at Wichita, Kansas -- within a few minutes of each other, Roscoe Turner and Royal Leonard, Eoscoe took on one hundred and fifty-six gallons of gasoline and five gallons of oil. The yearly story of daredevil speed adventure in the Bendix Trophy race from Los Angles to Cleveland -- flashing swift- tff- ness. £& sa prologue to A ' a * the Cleveland Air Races. BAJNDIT A telephone call buzzed today at the Kew York headquarters of the Q-men. And there was an instant flare of aotiyity. Alvia Karpis^the^last of the big shot public enemies!— that’s what the telephone call said. a car with an Oklahoma license had driven up to an apartment house on East Twenty-Second Street -- in it a man whom they thought was Karpis. He ha<2 gone into the house, and now was in one of theapartments. So there was a swift dash of G-men and city detectives to East Twenty-Second Street. They had their submachine guns ready, ready for the public enemy. They found the man with the Oklahoma license had gone to an apartment on the fifth floor* Did the G-men and the detectives hurry upstairs and go busting in? They did not. Brains is the better part of rashness, with so desperate a killer as Alvin Karpis, known as "Old Creepy,” A push at a door where he is would bring a stream of machine gun bullets crashing through. So they used brains. They noticed it had started to rain and that the Oklahoma car had its top down* So it was pla and smart to flash a telephone call up to the apartmen BANDIT - 2 «it'3 raining, you'd better put up the top of your car." it worked, but how? The supposed Karpis came down ail right — G-men and detectives with machine guns ready to receive him. But he turned out to be nothing but a humdrum, inoffensive Oklahoman on a trip to New York. Just a few faces exceedingly red. But it's an instructive indication of how unceasing the manhunt is wasKii'.ayoi. "her, sre plenty of ceremonlee in the \7hite House these days, &ft 'r all ‘-^ose oil] a Congress passed in its ru*h to get home. hills for the President to sign, and there is commonly a bit of ritual at the Waite House when he puts pen to paper and inscribes the monher that makes a bill a law. moday it was the Guffey Coal Bill, which creates a little H.R.A. in the coal industry, regulating working conditions The Sponsors of the bill were 'there", together with sundry distinguished guests. And among those present were a battalion of cameramen, newspaper and newsreel. When everything was set, the President’s signature made the coal-field if, R. A, a law of the land. 3o that ends that - except for one slight question. "What will the Supreme Court do about it?" The President hopes that the high justices will uphold the Guffey Bill. ETHIOPIA in London - cash contributions pouring in to help Ethiopia. The Abyssinian Legation put out a sign that reads: -Donations for the Ethiopian cause are gratefully received." And in response gifts are pouring in, all the way from a shilling to five pounds each. The British Cabinet is going to delay a bit, pending a full study of the American neutrality law. London hoped for the support of Vmshington in holding Italy back, but if the Americans are com- mitted to all-around neutrality, wfee London won’t get much help, in A applying economic pressure — sanctions. In Astrfcshyge -- the cabinet today voted nNo Sanctions". The ministers are instructing their Australian High Commissioner in London to back up the British Government in trying to keep Italy from going to war, but -- no sanctions. Australia is against be England’s taking economic measures that would^likely to draw the empire into war. Addis Ababa - the Emperor Haile Selassie calls his people to rally to the defense of their country. In his own newspaper the King of Kings issued a heartening declaration, sayi g ETHIOPIA -2 pla„es can't destroy the country^aQks can.t cUmb a in the Mediterranean, Italian submarlnes are getting ^ sixty of them ordered to be in snic end ^ ^ t»pic and span trim for naval manoeuvres. 0 I Today soldiers liste d to the whistle of bullets and the striek and burst of shell. Bullets passing Just over their heads, shells bursting Just behind them. it was a sham battle war games. Mussolint^determined to make those big manoeuvres on the Alpine front just as like real war as is possible, without killing anybody. The racket and pandemonium of rifles, machine guns and cannon firing blanks — not realistic enough. The Italian leaders decided to get their soldiers used to the close proximity of the deadly hail of missiles in modern warfare. It would help to keep them from getting panicky when the real thing came along, that funny feeling in the pit of the stomach that comes to men under fire the first time. So today, in the Alpine war games, waves of troops advanced in the face of real shot and shell, actual *± rifle fire. Bullets streaming from machine guns, cannon pounding away with shattering high explosives. The fire was directed over the heads of the advancing line. Riflemen, icachine-gunners and artillerymen took careful aim to come close to the men in the ITALY -2 attack, as close as possible, without hitting them. It certainly was a complete novelty in great military manoeuvres. And it must have been flaming excitement. a bit bursting of bad aim, stray bullets, shellin the wrong place, and somebody would get killed. The news doesn’t say whether anything like that happened. ^ -Wn. A new blazing bit of drama to show how dealy earnest Mussolini and his modern legions are vrEDDING There's a royal wedding coming, which may turn into high drama. It's the wedding of Don jua^ the Prince Qf Asturias, tow and Princess Maria de la Esperanza, to be solemnized at Home in October. -he Prince of Asturias, son of ex-King Alfonso, is "he former Crown Prince of Spain. They say Alfonso may take the occasion of the wedding to .renounce his claims to the Spanish throne, and pass them on to his son. Spanish Royalists are urging Alfonso to make this renunciation. What difference would it all make? That's the crux of the whole matter. They say the ex-King has just made a visit to the eighty-seven year old Don Carlos. Who is ^on Carlos? Back in the last century, there was a dispute over the Spanish crown. One branch of the iroyal family won out. The other was beaten. The defeated party was called the CarXists, The present Don Carlos is the heir to the Carlist' claim, a claim that still has supporters in Spain and divides the Spanish Royalists, So now the supposition is that King Alfonso, has madd peace with him. The id sa being - that both Alfonso and the Carlist pretender should up their claims and pass them to Alfonso's heir, thereby '.TSDSII n G - 2 uniting the Spanish loyalists in support of the Prince of Asturias. These are the surmises and rumn-r-^ + rumors, that paint the picture of a dramatic denunciation of royal rights at the forthcoming wedding in Rome. FRANCE Informa* Ion wanted - about the Queen of Spades. The French police •« at it. To be sure, they are well acquainted with the Queen of Spades. They've questioned her often. Have investigated her extensively. The only trouble is. the more they question and *he more they investigate, the less they find out. All they know is, that the C^ueen of Spades is a beautiful brunette, charming, cultured, well traveled - one of those international characters that baffle and mystify. The detectives of the Paris Surete know one other thing about the Queen of Spades - that she has swindled the French government out of ten million dollars - she and her gang. They declare outright that she is the mastermind of a huge smuggling ring working from Havre. The ring operates with false customs A declarations, forged import licenses, and other tricks that beat the quota system for foreign goods allowed to come into trance. Y/hy hasn’t the Queen of Spades been arrested? Way haven’t her smuggling operations been broken up? That indeed is question. The Police have never been able to get anything definite on her. "hey know what she is up to, but con never pm FRANCE. - 2 anything on her. And why not? That's the fascinating part of it. nlhe suave detectives of Paris shrug their shoulders and murmur, "The Queen of Spades has many friends." They say the beautiful mystery woman has in her power, not only obscure customs officials, but also high personalities. She controls men of lofty station and great political influence, not only in Le Havre, but in Paris. Hot only in Paris, but also in Hew York. They do her bidding and protect her. That's how she piles up crooked millions, that nefarious enchanting Queen of Spades. Two Americans under arrest in China, charged with being spies, fhey are described as Julius Lemclce of Michigan, and Eugene Brinson of Georgia. in China their address is Shanghai. Lemcke is said to have lived there for a long time, Brinson a newcomer. The story aDout the arrest of the two men takes us to a mysterious character. (There are always mysterious characters in spy stories. That’s to be expected. You don’t find plain, simple folk, open and above-board, engaged in the dangerous, sub-rosa work of espionage.) At Hankow, the great city far up the Yang-ste River, the Chinese High Court has imposed a sentence of fifteen years on Joseph Walden. Whether or not that is his real name is unknown. He says he is a Frenchman, but how true that may be is also unknown. Little or nothing at all, in fact, is known about this Joseph ’Walden, whom the Chinese put on trial as a master spy. He doesn’t talk, not even in the face of fifteen years in a Chinese prison, which has a sound of doom at its darkest. During the trial he kept his lips pressed together, saying nothing. But what about the two Americans? The Chinese accusation# against them is this — that they tried to help the master spy escape from jail. During the course of Walden’s trial, the two Americans plotted a jail break and tried to get him out. So say the Chinese, who promptly arrested Lemcke and Brinson. As American citizens they were turned over the American consul, and are likely to be brought to trial before the American Consulate Court at shanghai RAD IQ. There ire all kinrt 3 cf babies in this world, including sugar babies and cry babies. Mow - Badio Baby. sai3ed on radio. Engineer Darlington of Schenectady oegan by wiring little Jean's cradle with a microphone, and when she was heard to cry, Le touched a button, which turned on a phonograph in the baby's room, a lullaby, which crooned little Jean to sleep. Now she's five, and goes playing around the neighborhood. Papa is an ardent radio amateur and has his own sending apparatus. Jean always pulls a wagon with her. And in the wagon is a special loud speaker. When they want her to come home they just broadcast, and the loud speaker blares the call to her. Being an obedient little girl, home she trots. The engineer says that when little Jean gets big enough to go to the store, she will pull the radio wagon with ner, and they will broadcast to her what things to get. "Mary had a little radio and every place the radio went Mary was sure to go" - only her name is Jean, From the radio baby - to the Radio Magic Eye. E. T. Cunningham, President of R. C, A. Victor, .ells me aboa......uis latest witchcraft gadget It’s a follow-up to the Magic Brain of RAP ic - 2 last ye'.ir, which just about does the thinking for you in picking out short wave pro-rams. how, the Magic Eye will wink at you and tell you when you're tuned in right on any station. It's a cathode ray tube, which glows with a greenish fluorescence. It gleets from a set something like a green eye. As you tune in and come to the most sensitive spot in the station's channel, the green eye narrows. Something like a wink. And so it will be like this?—* When you tune in just right on a news broadcast,^the magic eye will wink. You know, one of those skepticalt doubtingt winks, and. SO LONG UNTIL MONDAY,