L»■£*., SOKQCQ.---- MONDAY. SEPTEfrlRRR 20 . 19Z7 GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: 11 y © seen an amazing sight today. The city of Bew York, which boasts nothing can surprise it, was in a state of bewilder- between three hundred thousand and half a million, swooped upon little Old Hew ¥ork and fairly turned it upside downy/ The Bew J York cops, whose boast it is that they are equal to anything, had to surrender and let the men of the Legion have their will with Father Knickerbocker. The cops are accustomed to Dew Yorkers who are afraid of their police, and jump sideways at a word of command. But the men of the Legion weren*t taking orders from anybody* They sat down on street car tracks, captured busses, clanked cow bells, and fired off blank cartridges and firecrackers. If the citizens of flew York attempted any such orgy of prankishness the Black Marias would be packed. To make confusion more confounded, some of the Legion­ naires produced whistles louder than those of the flew York merit ar y of American Legionnaires, estimated anywhere Traffic cops. took charge of the traffic, and set it moving all LEGION - 2 over the place. When the cops protested, groups of cheering Legionnaires picked, them up on their shoulders and dropped theni gently on the sidewalk, wWhat can you do with a bunch like that?1* said the police, ^nce or twice the prnaksters came near causing a panic, as when somebody dropped a torpedo down the elevator shaft of one of the principal hotels. And — a Texas Legionnaire rode a horse into a hotel lobby. And four others ran a motor bike race in the lobby of the Grand Central Station. All day the streets of Manhattan resounded to the strains of martial bands. To get down to the serious side, if there is a serious ; / sided the Convention listened to speeches from several magnifi- coes this afternoon, including Governor Lehman of flew Xork and Mayor LaGuardia, both ex-officers and Legionnaires. The meat of the Governors speech was a plea to the Legionnaires to bend their efforts to war upon intolerance and defend liberty. Mayor LaGuardia siad: "Twenty years ago we T/SGIOi\l - 5 marched to the rhythm or TMake the World Safe for Democracy*’ Tomorrow we’ll march In the army of peace to the ryhthm of ’Mind Xour Own Business”1. Secretary of War Woodring congratulated the Legion for their support of neutrality and for refusing to be led astray by foreign propaganda. % LEAGUE Let's take a look at the meaning of today's big diplomatic headline The United States agrees to collaborate with the League of Nations on the subject of China." What kind of collaboration? Well, an American representative will sit on the Advisory Committee^What's the Advisory Committee? It's this way - several days ago the Chinese representative to the League of Nations, Dr. Wellington Koo, handed in a Chinese protest against Japan, demanding that Geneva do something about the Japanese attack. Whereupon - the international statesmen appointed a committee to advise the League in the matter, study the Japanese-Chinese War and suggest a course of action* represented on this Advisory Committee, and today accepted. Thus, our representative will take part in the business of limited. He won'tbe a regular member of the Committee, he won't vote - he'll merely present the American viewpoint as the Committee formulates Its advice. This is the same sort of collaboration that the United States gave the League of Nations The Washington government was Invited to be advising, strictly limited to advice. And he^s still further LEAGUE - £ in Nineteen Thirty-Three - in connection with the Japanese attack on Manchuria. The American representative will be Leland Harrison, United States minister to Switzerland, and it was he who today informed the League of Nations that Washington said - Yes. CHINA By this time tomorrow uight, the City of Nanking will probably be one mass of ruins. Ai Sfr won’t be the first A time. As recently as Eighteen Fifty-^hree? the ancient capital of the Ming Dynasty was destroyed when it was captured by the Taiping Rebels. Under the Ming emperors, who rebuilt the the city xn the Fourteenth Century^, and made it a place of great magnificence, Nanking was famous as a place where beautiful paintings, beautiful pottery,^ beautiful silks were made. Latterly, it has been chiefly a factory town as well as the seat of government, the center of the war munitions industry A in China, ^ence, the Japanese decision to destroy it. The Nipponese made it clear this afternoon that they’re in earnest. The proclamation of their Naval High Command had given foreigners until noon tomorrow, which means actually midnight tonight ^ Eastern Daylight Saving Time, to leave and be safe. This afternoon a squad of war planes appeared over Nanking, raining destruction and death upon hundreds of civilians. flniii Li ~limil is the only foreign m embassy that will CHI :; a - 2 comply with the Japanese warning to quit. The French, German and Italian envoys are awaiting instructions from home. The representatives of Britain and Russia will stay where they are. The Chinese consider the departure of our Ambassador Johnson as an unfriendly act. Helps the Japanese, they say. Meanwhile, Admiral Yarnel} started evacuating Americans on beard our gunboats. At the same ti e, he sent a counter warning to Vice-Admiral Hasakav/a, the Japanese commander:- See to it that no bombs fall near American vessels which will stand by so long as there are any Americans left in Nanking I Such was the gist of his warning. Only seven Americans :- two newspapermen, five missionairies, and four women are in Nanking tonight. SPAIH The Valencia government received a sever’d setback today, a diplomatic defeat. Hitherto, Spain has had a seat on the Council of the League oi nations. Today the League Assembly at Geneva declined to reelect Spain. Naturally, the news was greeted with cheers by the Nationalists and chagrin by the representatives of Valencia. Hard and sanguinary fighting went on in the Iberian Peninsula today. The government forces in Asturias stood their ground in a desperate effort to turn back the invading Franco troops. The Rebels are equally desperate in their attempt to mop up that province before winter sets in. So far they have failed, though nothing but the approach of v/inter can save Asturias which lies sandwiched between tv.To regions in the hands of the Nationalists — and is also between the sea and the on­ coming columns of Franco. In Italy, newspapers were boasting that so-called volunteer pilots of Franco*s air squadrons have shot down no fewer than four hundred Loyalist planes since tne .. - ^ SPAIN - 2 beginning of the war. There was a sensation at Bordeaux in France. The authorities brought to light a plot to steal a Spanish submarine which had tied up at Brest for repairs. The idea and turn it over to the Rebels. The police discovered the plot in the nick of time and frustrated it, though one man was killed In the attempt. The men responsible for the plot were not Nationalists but As a result of that plot, the French secret police have arrested agent of the Spanish insurgents In Paris. Trouble is reported from British East Africa. The natives of the Mount Kilimanjaro region, in Tanganyika Territory, went on a rampage. The rioters destroyed large stocks of coffee, raided pl.antation buildings, and set fire to them with bombs. The territorial police marched in and arrested a hundred of the rioters. uttered In Boston, the Secretary of State, Mr, Hull, some pregnant warnings to the world at large. But more specifically he spoke to governments which claim they need to practice violence and wage war in order to get a larger share of the world1s resources. He didnft mention any names, but N-d we need look further than the dayTs news for the A to countries ijjg whom Mr, Hull,s remarks were directed. "If they would only unshackle their trade," said our Secretary of State, "the raw materials for which they clamor would flow to them naturally through economic channels," Mr, Hull made these remarks.in a speech before the A Boston Conference on Distribution. "Times are serious," he warned, "and the shadow of war darkens the world. The economy of great parts of theis upon a war basis rather than upon a sound economic basis. If this is continued," he added, "it will result In less production, less consumption, ever increasing doles and lower levels of existence for the people." BLACK I We are^y going to have to wait long for the climax in the drama of Mr. Justice Hugo 4. Black. On October fourth, just two weeks from today, the Supreme Court of the United States 1 will begin its first session of the autumn drama. And that will bring about an interesting complication which may end in ■ muddle President Roosevelt will have no opportunity to meet the man whose nomination to the h^p^fcourt has caused him so much embarrassment. The President start for the Pacific Coast Wednesday and won't be back until October Sixth. Mr. Black won't return from Europe until one day or at most two, before the opening of the court, Other members of the august tribunal will be there before him. Mr. Justice Brandeis is already In Washington, and Chief Justice Hughes will be there shortly,. Pi> i— U.lImaa he I itj S. T»for anlwiiiii llf* l ir» nonl nr mia-t- a«T^ + r»l A resolution, adopted by an organization in Pennsylvania, approving highly of Mr. Black, is probably one that he doesn’t welcome warmly at this time. It was adopted if by the Annual Otate Klorero of the Pennsylvania fi §1 1 KU IClu* Sian. SI liiliiPfPHnHi BLACK _ 2 W i A^L The Pennsylvania Kluxers expressed themselves as^npyil ■iivi-fciig tr ^ n Black1 s appointment I d the Supreme Court, HOUSING The Honorable Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, has been on the warpath today, ft- wwmQn the subject of housing, providing adequate dwellings for people of low incomes. Early in the history of the New Deal, Secretary Ickes as head of the Public Works Administration, undertook a housing program for which Congress allotted some jch hundred and thirty-four million dollars. The P.W.A. has been panned^ because there were so few visible VmiglUfe results. Mr. Ickes today replied vehemently to criticisms. He laid the blame b £ x ± x on labor unions, land owners and construction firms. It was they, he said, who sabotaged the P.W.A. Housing Program, delayed it by what he called "collusive practices." The occasion for this statement was the opening of the conference to put into effect xxHKXxk the new Housing Act, sponsored by Senator Wagner of New York and passed by Congress at the last session, a housing and slum clearance program to cost a cool half billion dollars. M RHE\fITIES In Charleston, V,est v Irgi.nia, a gentleman was shot and killed for singing a hill-billy song. The burden of the ditty v*as nDaddy, Sweet Daddy.” i*he head of the household died not long ago, and his daughter was much distressed ove the bereave­ ment. The constant crooning of "Daddy, Sweet Daddy”, increased the lady*s sadness. Her nephew remonstrated with the singer who replied; MI*li sing it as often and as loud as I want to.” The next thing, he knew, he didn*t know anything, because he was dead. Tonight the nephew is accused of having shot him. A dam burst today in Wyandotte County, Kansas. "H was a million dollar project built by the W.p.A. Damage, but no lives lost. A curious sort of clue led to an arrest in New xork today. The body of an ex-convict was found in Brooklyn. In one of his pockets a detective found a boox oi matches and on it the name of a cafe at Coney Island. The detective investigated and found that t ie dead man iiad been at the cafe until about halx an hour before he was killed. He learned also that at the cafe the ex-convict had had a quarrel with another man over a cigar­ BiaaB ............ - BSSSifil ette girl. And tnat has led to an arrest. BREVITIES - 2 In Singapore, the crew or an American ship hit on a plan of their own to avert a strike. Their grievance was not against the captain or the owners, but against the shipts cook. The food they said, was all right, but it was so horribly prepared they couldn*t eat it. ^o, some members of the crew suggested a sit-down strike, out there on the equator, but they were over­ ruled. Instead of that, the crew invoked their statutory rights to draw their rations and do their own cooking, ^o off the Malay Coast they all became sea cooksl A turbaned Hindu calling himself Prince logi appeared in the police court of Hew Haven, Connecticut. He was charged with fortu e-telling. The judge asked him what his method of pro­ cedure was. His Xoga Highness replied:- "I find out the date of people8s birthdays, loot them up in the book, and then tell them what's going to happen.1’ The judge became interested and said:- "■Let* s see that book. What does it say about your birthday? What day were you born on? The Prince as he handed over tne boojc, replied:— nMay Nineteenth. ” The judge looked up May nineteenth and smiled BREVITIES - 5 broadly as he said:- ,!lt say that you*re going on a journey. The court finds you guilty but suspends sentence on condition that you leave the Sate of Connecticut.n That was his journey, and now I111 be off on mine — and SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW