TKOLAS BROADCA^ FOR THE LITERARY DIGEST
''IjVRSD AY, I<CVjGylBER 13, 1930
ARMY AitD RAVY
Here's hot news for you football fans. As all of
you will recali, there hasn''*'. been an Army-H&vy game since
192?. "’he last gridiron battle between the two was won by
West Point, and *hen relations were broken off. Papers every
where carried columns about it, Senators and Congressmen
entered into the discussion. It developed into a national
af'air and an apparently hopeless deadlock, nut today, out
of a blue sky, came a flash from West Point to the effect
that there will be an Army - Navy game this year after all,
i. e. - if a date can be agreed upon. It will be for the
benefit of the unemployed, and probably will be played either
Saturday, Wovemoer 29th, or December 13th, This will be great
news for all football fans. So much for that.
Eow, here's one about two fellows who had a close
shav e
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started yesterday over Long Island, came
to a c!r am a t i c end t h is morning.
J o h n
Donaldson and Edward Leimer were trying
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they had been uo IS hours when the gasoline
tank caught fire. Donaldson made an
smergency landing on a cement roadway,
and the two men escaped from the blazing
olane v/i t h not more than two seconds to
spare. Let’s see. I said they were up
altooether 16 hours. Well, that means
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that endurance flight fell just
384 hours short of its goal.
kidnapping
Fro •• Do s Angeles com©s word of st
1c id napping
plot. Here is the
the police got wise to it. A man
named Gilhou sen was arrested for a robbery committed last
September. When he confessed, he not only admitted his
connection with the robbery, but he told what he knew about
the plans of some other crooks who had already pried money
cut of two Los Angeles citizens by threatening to kidnap
them, unless they forked over - which they did, he told the
police that now the kidnappers were iraming a really big
stunt, a series of kidnappings on a land office scale.
An'" one of the victims was to be Harry Chandler, publisher
of the Los Angeles Times, and one
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o T the b e s x k n□wn men In the .. e s t.
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de teccives were assigned x o puard him.
/,t the same time, the publisher, himself,
got a tip from underworld sources that
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the gang was after him.
well,
the poIice broke up the
plot, and the .-.ssociated Press states
that now they are hot after the kidnappers
who are led by a notorious western
character, named iviorr i s w.o I I , ^fr7!F=t=s^
generally referred to in the da I itornia
Underworld as the Phantom bunman.
PERU
That South American volcano is shooting off again.
.Lhi s time it s oactr in Peru where twelve people, among them
two Americans, have been killed, and several more injured,
when Indian miners went on strike and oegan rioting. All
this happen ©3 way up in the Andes Mountains at some copper
mines, that are owned by Americans. A general strike is
threatened for the whole country, and the Peruvian government
has declared martial law in the capital and in the copper
mining districts. Two hundred soldiers have been rushed to
the mountains. According to the United Press, all tne
foreigners have been hurried down to the coast,
^ho se copper mines are up in the air literally as
well as figuratively. They are right up in the tops ot the
Andes, three miles above sea level, ^he miners employed by
the
Americans
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Indians, The only way they can
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such a high altitude — in such thin air — is by chewing coca
leaves, t rom which cocaine is made. It Oucks thei'i up,
well, that old story of trouble in South America
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reminds
me- of a line I read in the new Literary Digest. The
editor of the Topics in Brief page quotes it from the
Springfield Union, and
it says "South America’s greatest need
just now seems to be a revolution to end all revolutions. ^
HAVANA
Yes, and that remark might be applied to Cuba, too,
A late dispatch to the International news Service says that
rtudent rioting has broken out again in Havana, Students
have been raising cain in Cuba for some weeks now. After
12 hours of street fighting, with six people killed, the
mounted police quelled the riot
SAND INO
rtiid they are
again down in Nicaragua*
That oellige rent hombre Senor Sandino is back in the Nicaraguan
Jungle as full ot fignt as ever. His representatives in
Mexico, says the Associated Press, have issued a statement
that two sons of Sandino’s principal lieutenant have been
killed in a skirmish with Uncle Sam’s Marines. In a previous
fight, Sandino, himself, was wounded, but now he is back at the
head of his men waging another campaign of guerilla warfare •
I don’t like to report so much about fighting but there also
is a hint of trouble from Poland
POLISH
Cur own recent Gloction ssonis li^cs
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tiddly winks beside what the Poles are up against. They’ll
have to decide whether they’re for or against the government
of marshal! Pilsudski, and he’s a hard boiled Polish citizen.
His mustaches are fierce and his words are fiercer. He says
his government is going to carry that election, and he
pointedly ad^s that his political slogan is:
"Parliamentarism
with a Revolver. ** So it looks as if the Poles might be going
in for both bullets and ballots.
' hey are trying to say it with bullets in Ireland
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.in attempt was made to assassinate
i i I i am Gosgrave, the president of the
Irish free State. A report to the united
3ress from QubI in says that several
"evolver shots were fired into his
iutomob i I e as he was driving to his
country home. He usually has an armed
guard with him, hut on this occasion he
i tin T t, and the would-be assassins
apparently knew about it. ^nobody in the
automobile was hit.
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have been moved 0u“ of a I ange section
of the city. It is feared that there
wi I I be a further shifting of the
earth. between sixty and a hundred
people have been killed.
There is a hill in Lyons, and
it was densely populated. Suddenly
there was a landslide,
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crusher anc’ o peopj£e buried. rescuers
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slide brought houses si n d v/ a I Is do w n
on top of the resc 1:c r s • f iocn litlop e
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This a.T c e p noon I was ta I
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Richard Duffy, the Koreign Editor of the
Literary Digest, and he said to me:
"You know, you've got a weakness for
color, especially oriental color. Well,
here's a piece.about that Round Table
Conference in London. Those rajah
fellows must look like a circus parade."
We I I , Mr. Duffy was r ight , and I 'm
picking the bit of news he handed me as
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the News Item of the Day.
The British Government gave a
midnight
last night, at
Lancaster House, in honor of
the
Indian
princes who are attending the r^ound
Table Conference.
T , p r ob a b I y the re
was a murky fog hanging over old London*
Through the fog comes an endless stream
of purr i n g I i m o u s i n es . b u x of c s e
st ep *t he I or ds and ladies of the Br i t i sh
Empire, t he I
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£■ n f © v - i i n v r o ■ .’ns, sin d L heir j e w els; the
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legendary f i gures--Ramso./ MacDonal d,
V.inston Churchill, the Earl of Reddinc
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Sir Austin Chamberlain, Lord Allenby of
Armageddon, 3yng of Vi, and so on.
And from one car descends an Indian
prince and his lady. He is the Gaekwar
of Saroda, famous in India for his
immense oalace, ' is bushels of uncut
jewels, and his panoplied elephants. A
few minutes later, from another car steps
a tall Rajput king, the Maharajah of
Bikaner, famous for his tact, his lavish
entertainment, and his Camel corpA .one of
the most soectacular fighting organizations
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in the world. And here comes another
resplendent Oriental potentate, the
Maharajah of Kashmir, famous tiger hunter,
an f ruler over one of the most beauciful
regions in the wor I d , the f a.r — t ameo
Vale of Kashmir•
ut the Associated Press co rrespondent
tells us that the Indian women -sstsa
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outshone even the sultana and rajahs and Vhans. ^hey were
dressed in gauze of gold and in draperies of ivory silk
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encrusted with silver threap. No wonder Mark Twain said that
India is the most gorgeous human spectacle on earth* A vivid
splash of Indian color has indeed been transported to foggy
old London for this Round Table Conference
KARACHI
In the meantime, this weekend will see the final
wind-up
o i that other conference which has Deen ^oin^i on
in
London for the post month, the Imperial Conference, the one
attended by all the premiers o* the British commonwealth of
nat ions.
There is a timely, up-to-the minute article about
this Imperial Conference in the new Literary uigest. In the
center of the pa^e is a vivid cartoon from the Montreal Daily
Star, showing a family of lioos representing Australia, South
Africa, Canada, and other parts of the jtunpire -- each lion with
a bene in his mouth, each ready to start home. The title of
the Digest article is "The Shipwrecked Imperial Conference".
One-fifth of our fellow numan oeincs on this planet are
citizens of the British Empire, and this article in the Literacy
Digest gives a vivid account of what happened wnen they tried
to get together and talk about their family problems.
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shop that specializes in war ^edals.
it!s near the famous old bowery. in it
you will see scores of dec ora’cions
earned oy brave men. These medals are
from many wars, but ot course, the wor1d
,iar predominates. far heroes, broke
and in need, come in ana pawn or sell
the decorations they won with their
courace and their blood.
in the new York evening .,or I d the
owner ot this pawnshop tells something
about the market price
or
medals. ihe
German iron cross,tor instance^is the
most in demand, and brings the best
prices. he can't get enough iron crosses
to rill the demand. ihe trench croix de
guerre comes last. tew people want to
buy them, and they brine a small price.
£vury nation that Tought in
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the .or Id ,.ar T inures among t hes=^r
22 medals tor sale in th&L >awn shop ^-^e very
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24 /!: c r i can w a. r decor a t ions a r e f o r s ale.
'Tin e xxx r e a s o n V because it's against
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the law. Plenty of men come into the pawn shop and try to
sell American medal a of heroism, but the pawnbroker cannot
buy them. "Why", says he, "I've even been oftered a
Congressional Medal of Honor," A man is sure hard up when
he has to hock a Congressional Medal,
And here's
a freak item:-
ragpicker
A New Jersey ragpicker fell asleep in court just as
the judge was about to sentence him, uourt attendants tried
to wake him up, but he wouldn’t stir. Doctors found he
has sleeping sickness. Once beiore according to the New York
Evening World he had an attack and didn't wake up for sixteen
we-:ks. ’’’he law states that a man joudduc must hear his sentence.
If the ragpicker is in for another long nap he may not hear
his sentence f or quite a while
A n-w motion picture house has just been opened
in Sudbury, Ontario, That's up in the land where the snow
Gets a bit deep at times, and I saw an odd item in Variety
today which says that the new movie house will have a space
reserved in the rea^ for dog sleds. The movie tans have to
travel miles over the snows, and when they want to see and
hear a talVie, they just hitcn up the old dog sled and mush
in over the trail to Judbury, and park their huskies and
malamutes in the special parking place for dog teams.
But just lean your eye against this next news
story about slang *’rom the New York Sun,
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Seventy-five thousand words are
knocking at the door. That is,
new words
are trying to squirm their
way into J:he New Standard Dictionary. TEST
lot of them are going
to get m too--esoec i a IIy the Iatest slang
and the Iatest wisecracks. The man who
has the say about which words are going to
crash the dictionary gate, and which ones
will get the clammy eye and the cold
shoulder, is Dr. F
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of the s e vent v — f i v e thousand new e xp ress ion
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are scientific ter m s, and he t n i n k s that c:
lot of these ought to be satisfied to grab
off a place in technical dictionaries,
v/here they \vonft block traffic for us
ordinary non-technical folks. ^ue he s
all for letting in the si an g an d t n e
wisecracks. Incidentally, the word
"wisecrack" is already in the New Standard
Dictionary. So are the words "racket,
racketeer, bootlegger, and speakeasy1'.
The gangster term "put on the spot is
trying to get in, but hasn't made the
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grad e. Tne "time” tnat a convict serves, WMich is popularly
calx d "the stretch", is in. But the phrase "doing time" is
one of the seventy-five thousand terms still on the outside
lo king in.
"'he other d ;y George Bernard Shaw used the expression
"get away with it". Dr, Vizetelly brought that phrase in out
of the cold quite a vhile ago,
"I guess this about finishes ray evening's ramble on
the air, and "I've done my bit", Lr. Vizetelly tells me that
I'm "0, K." in using that slang phrase. He also says that
it's "jake" with him if I now say that I'm going to "puli
my freight" and "beat it". So,
SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW