WEATHER L-l. - ,Su~^0 - maVii With nearly a thousand people dead from the heat, what's the word from the Weather Bureau? More heat. The comparatively cool weather that came as such a blessed relief won't last long. It's only a short breathing spell, just enough to give us strength to meet the new hot wave. Early in the day, we heard many reassuring things: - Ice covering the top of Pikes Peak. In New Jersey a hail storm so plentiful that a motor car skidded and turned over. But — this afternoon comes the distressing information that those rains in the west have come to an end. There may be local showers in North Dakota, parts of Minnesota, and Wisconsin and Michigan. But no real rain is in sight, not enough to save the crops of the heat baked northwest. Already the country’s farmers have suffered a loss running close to half a billion. WTiat the next hot spell will do the Eord only knows. Naturally, this is increasing Uncle Sam's burdens. An official announcement has just come from the summer White House at Hyde Park. Temporary field headquarters have been set up in Bismarck, the capital of North Dakota. That's the center of the WEATHLR - 2 hottest heat area. From there the government's officials will direct the job of supplying work and relief fo some seventy-five thousand families, workmen and farmers. They'll be given em­ ployment on reclammation projects and flood control. Local re­ lief in the Dakotas is also busy: projecting a huge system of waterways and dams. The idea, to establish huge artificial lakes h ® which will supply water in times of drought. From the headquarters of the A.A.A., we learn that fifty- nine additional counties have been declared emergency areasj mostly in Kentucky and Georgia. Tugwell, Resettlement Administrar tor, says that no fewer than two hundred and fifty thousand people in Alabana, Georgia and South Carolina are in need of immediate help. President Roosevelt also had a meeting at Hyde Park with representatives of the eastern states. The business on hand was, oddly enough, flood control. With them the President was discussing means of averting such disasters as the floods after the spring thaw which rasied such havoc in Pennsylvania, New York , Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Ohio, West Virgini a and Mary 1and. -- WEATKrE - 2 Well, tie effect of this last heat wave is so serious that employers are considering closing down their plants and offices in case the latest predictions come true. From Detroit comes the information that the executives of General Motors have sent out word to the heads of all their sixty-five branches that they v/on’t shut down their plants unless the employees wish it. But if the workers do find a continuance of the torrid weather too much for them, they’ll be allowed to quit and go i home and wait for more tolerable conditions. One more fragment of that scrap of paper known as the Versailles Treaty, torn up! Thrown* into the wastebasket; this time without warning. That report came to light this afternoon in the shape of an announcement in the House of Commons, during the Great War the island of Heligoland stood in the North Sea a menace to British sea power — an impregnable submarines, fortress, a haven for raiding ggfryfc-rftdTmCT;. At that time the Britons were savagely criticaL of the late Marquis of Salisbury for having given Heligoland to the Germans in trade for part of far-off Samoa in the balmy South Seas, For the Germans promptly made that once crumbling island of massive chalk cliffs and sand into a place of steel and concrete and mighty cannon. When the World War was over most Pfople supposed that England would take back Heligoland. Instead of that the British contented themselves with dismantling the place with a German promise never to re-fortify. HITLbR bince that time and up to today nobody thought much of Heligoland, bo it was astonishing when a member^notified the Foreign Office that he would today k question the Tr asury Bench on the subject. The answer was delivered by v+vmm+w Viscount Granbourne. Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Lord Cranbourne confirmed the report, said the government had made inquiries. The result of those inquiries was a belief that the island in the North Sea was tm being re-fortified. Thereupon the member asked: "Is it being re-fortified by the leave of His Majesty’s Government?" To that Lord Cranbourne replied; "It isn’t being re-fortified by the leave of anyone.” He added *** information that makes this business sound all the more serious. The re-forMfication is being don®* under the utmost secrecy. Heligoland, once a popular summer resort is entirely barred to visitors, we have that on the word of the British government. i&t Ihe probabilities' are^we will be faring a -t ^ ’ I'VW m ’ -bOi «L about within the next few days. I -41 AUSTRIA Internationally speaking, the topio of the hour is that pact between the two chancellors. Hitler msbcS** of Germany and Schuschnigg of Austria. To state the case mildly, it has not allayed anxiety in European foreign offices, I mean of course the foreign offices of the nations that were known as the Allies during the Great War, It has made the democratic nations particularly suspicious. Nobody seems to doubt that this pact was made with the consent, probably the actual approval, of Mussolini, What the French and English see is an alliance between the three dictators, even though the Duce*s part in it may be sub-rosa. And the grapevine intelligence is that Admiral florthy. Regent of Hungary, is also secretly in on the deal. In short, itfs what the international prophets have been fearing and predicting for some time past, A revival of the old Dreibund, the Triple Alliance. But this time It's a different sort of Triple Alliance. For the Italy of today is not like the Italy of nineteen Fourteen. Twenty-two years ago u, W - Rome was highly sympathetic to British influence. Jhere's no AUSTRIA - 2 such feeling throughout the peninsula in Nineteen Thirty-Six. The report that Poland is complacent to the revival of the Dreibund seems strange. Poland owes her present existance as a nation to the Allies. But in international politics there*s no such thing as sentiment or gratitude. Poland, though not out and out Fascist, is a dictatorship. Apparently all the dictators are becoming convinced that if they don’t hang together. they’ll hang separately BASTILE Ahile you are listening, the authorities of LaBelle, France are sleeping uneasily, if they're sleeping at all. Within a few hours from now begins the big French holiday of the year. To it will be just July Fourteenth. To the French it means what July Fourth is over here: Bastile Day, anniversary of the storming of the grim prison which Louis the Fourteenth made a place of horror — memories of Camille Desmoulins haranging the mob from a tavern table. To the cells of the frowning Bastille the autocratic Louis Ovatorze sent his enemies. Through its massive masonry portals went many an innocent man who had of­ fended somebody close to the throne — perhaps the fascinating Madame de Maintenou. There they languished and were forgotten. Few ever came out again. People disappeared from their homes d and simply vanished. And — we hear that such thing is not z unknown today in certain countries. When the passion for personal liberty spread across the Atlantic from America to France, it was the Bastile that stood as a symbol of everything most to be hated, everything tyranlcal. | ; Freedom was really born in France on July Fourteenth, BASTILE Seventeen Eighty-Nine, when that infuriated mob broke in ■t.Thwhai. ttheyr 11 be celebrating in France a few short hours from now. Why should trouble the dreams of the prefects^of.^oadgl^and even of Premier Blum and his Ministers? With political conditions as they are today, that celebration may easily turn The battle at Nice last night was a fair symptom of what may follow. It is remarkable that the three cornered fighting between ten thousand Communists, Fascists and police killed nobody. But in the hospitals on the Riviera there are fifty-five wounded to serve as a warning. Until today, the government had reason to fear tnat the peasants might pick on Bastile Day for tne beginning of their long threatened strike! But the Cabinet has been hard at work to establish terms of peace, more pay, better conditions. farm laborers. BASTILE - 5 So in Paris at this moment, and in all other big cities - . x. ii and froiT: Calais to Marseilles the gendarmes, troops, mobile guards, are lining the boulevards and manning the open squares where some 1956 Camille Desmoulins might start trouble. OWENS One fine spring day Charlie Riley, track coach of the Cleveland Junior High School, Bas watching a crowd of youngsters playing tag. He noticed that one of them never was caught, never was "it". He observed also that the lad had an unusual pair of legs, developed beyond his years. What's more, he used them with % phenomenal, natural skill. So Charlie Riley said to that boy: "Son, why don't you come out for track?" The boy looked bashful and replied: "Don't know, sir; didn't think you'd ?/ant me." Said the coach: "You report for practice tomorrow morning." This evening all America is talking about that boy, fox* he is the negro known as Jesse Owens. Yes, that was the beginning of the career of the young brown speed urchin who won three events in the Olympic trials at the Randalls Island Stadium and busted two. Olympic records doing it. iNd^/been looking through the record*^ and unless I’ve slipped up, there^Tbeen no such athletic wonder as Jesse Owens since the grand, old Carlisle Indian, Jim Thorpe. Like Thorpe, Owens is amazing versatile") He not only broke the world's record for OWENS - £ two hundred meters around one turn, which he did in twenty-one seconds; he also turned in a mark of twenty-five feet, ten and three-quarter inches for the broad jump, negro youth seems to be an interesting person in many respects. Hefs not only a really great athlete, but ai artist oi considerable ability. He models in clay and is majoring in ceramics at Ohio State. ■y-ewag swift—ofeen he won his first intercollegiate race he sent his prize, a gold rntch, back to Charlie Riley, the coach who had first taught him. in Alabama. ftKxtx ‘Bw^n^is family moved north when was four years old. His name really isn*t !TJessen at all. His initials are t!J.C.n. When his first schoolteacher asked him what his name was, he replied: "J.C. Owens." The schoolmarm stuck it down as "Jesse", and "Jesse" he has been ever since even to his parents and six brothers and sisters. He has worked his way through Ohio State. During his freshman year, he pumped gasoline and patched tires at a OWENS - S filling station. After he showed distinction as an athlete, a negro representative got him a Job as page boy in the fax Ohio State House, •nine's captain of the Ohio State* track team, the first negro ever to be chosen for such an honor. Thanks to JesseTs achievement in that sizzling heat. Uncle Sam's Olympic Track Team will have fifty-six men instead of fifty-eight, the sensational negro won three places for himself. The Committee claims that the athletic team which will sail for Germany on Wednesday is the strongest that any nation has ever assembled for the international games. The delegation will be complete in every line, two hundred and seventy-seven altogether.--'^ EYSTQN Way out west another world's record went blooey, m September last year Captain George Eyston of London achieved the remarkable feat of driving a car three thousand miles at an average speed of a hundred and forty and three-quarter miles an hour. Not wanting anybody to bfeak the record, he decided the best way to keep it safe would be to go out and break it himself. And that's what he did. Over the sun-baked salt flats at Bonneville, Utah, he roared along fo the same distance at a rate of a hundred and fifty miles an hour. Three thousand miles at that speed. Those hard baked salt flats on the edge of the great salt desert, are ideal for whirlwind motoring. The course is the gleaming white dry bed of an old lake, a ten mile course, fast, hard and immune to the danger of crumbling. At latest reports. Captain Eyston was still driving. Having broken one reord he's out to break another an endur record. TOBACCO Most of us can remember the day when our maiden aunts and the Baptist minister used to assure us that "them as uses tobacco will sure meet a bad end.” V At Jamaica, New York, there* s a young man in jail through just that cause. Tobacco road was the road to prison for young Frederick Patten. Since he's apparently an ordinary and quite decent Young fellow, how could that happen? This is how he explained it to the magistrate. He went^o work on a farm belonging to his ^aunt near Versailles, Indiana. He was to work on shares, plus his board and lodging and two plugs of tobacco a week. On such .A. x terms he worked long and faithfully he said, but when auntie cut his tobacco allowance from two plugs to one a week, that was too much. Or rather, it wasn't enough. Frederick decided to help himself. Eight little piggies went to market with Frederick driving them. He sold'the piggies, came to New York, get a job in a garage where he Was working quietly and industrious ly. Auntie found out where he was and swore out a warrant. "What have you got to say for yourself?" said the magistrate. TOBACCO - £ said Frederick: "Them pigs was Just as much mine as her-n." Said the magistrate: "What's her'n ain't your'n." So Fred­ erick is left in Jail to chev. over his predicament until he meets auntie in the Indiana court. And it certainly looksjas though what’s her’n ain’t his’n. And ---------- SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.