CUBA 3S> j U x . f^X~\^ (EiJfa.Sji tib^ndZi 'Wv he political ettle Is not Polling quite so fiercely aid ny American friend in Havana telephones .ne tliat^^S this afternoon presented a spectacle of a qiiico, peaceable city* The sight of tvo great destroyers bouncing up and. 1 o:< n in kx the harbor flying the Stars and Stripes, has had a magically quite ting effect. The streets of th city are being patrolled by the military and they have obtained such effective control over the students, the A.B.C. and the other rioting elements that this afternoon the trolley cars ca is out of the car barns for the first time in several days and resumed their regular service. What made thines still more normal and agreeable was the much needed reopening of grocery stores and restaurants, Th^- tvo destroyers kavs in Havana harbor are the Taylor and the Claxton. A third, Sturt event, was sent to Siin Orient©, on the south shore of the island. Bach of the destroyers carries in addition to its regular personnel, a detachment of fifty marines armed .-nd equipped for expeditionary duty. The* f«» > r ;-1 o-^j., !_^ q 00 doctrO'yopr; which &T^—rtr,t any, too roomy vc 3 0o1l - at ben4-^.—fifty l nn fii,,- i i,, n' ,, . ?nuH-t be omriirr»% :aie co^mandinf: officers of the Taylor and the Claxton went ashore' in Havana this morning and had a conference with Ambassador Sumner - elles. With the Ambassador they then went to the palace to meet Cubafs new president. Doctor Carlos iianuel dtCes;p4hes. There is some tall of labor troubles and Communist agitaxlon in tne interior of the Island, There are reports that the Communists element^are exceedingly influential in the A.B.C,, the political secret society which has been one of the factors in. the dethroning of Machado. But the business of re-organizing the ‘-overnment at ore sent is tho first consideration in official circles. From. Washington we learn that those three destroyers of Uncle Sam will remain in. Cuban waters until it is obvious that life *„.? property are completely safe. Washington announced that C uba - c the -ole purpose of sending these warships to the scene of the trouble was i or thr morel effect they would have upon the rioters. pUi pose evidently nas been already achieved to a considerable extent, ehf my American triend in Havana telephones me, just the sirnt of those grai#J ships produced ihiaxpriax a profound impression in the streets of Havana. Another thing we learn from Washington is that the Cuban government rai.ses no objection xkaiRXRX whatsoever to the presence of those destroyers in their waters. _ 0<Msi -the Gr-ua*u>o But although things are quieter this afternoon. yesterday evidently was a terrific day throughout Cuba. The New York Evening Post tonight carries a striking account by Gus v&V Reno ~£& jl i & xj *. of the san uinary scenes the t" 't **wlmessec d i isTti®® • Sire 3txxnXnrxxEvEnirixn£ux In ractidally every city triumphant revniutionx revolutionaries were paying off old scoreo against tn« oxj.iCj.sls who had persecuted them, especially the detested Porra, the strong- armrt squad v;hich President ^achadc had organized and which is said CUBA - 4, to nv- commit tod m'ny a terrible political murder. over the Islana th. r- v.- s a •' ^nhunt for surviving members of the Porra. I Tn- Evening Post account says: f,From balconies and roof tons men i I and v/onen loo-ed on the killings and indeed a fiesta spirit 33XH¥xiiKd pervaded the massacre of the Porra^ M0bs rushed through ^ the streets, piilagins and wrecking the homes of hostile persons.M And the dispatch adds: ’’Car* filled v/ith members of the A.B.C. dashed -..round running the quarry to cover, while the army and police i aided the A.B.IT. in the extermination of the secret police. Some Havana newspapers estimate the number of Porristaafc and others thus killed throughout the island in the last few days as high as three hundred and fifty, while seven hundred and tv/enty — five have been wounded, many of them fatally. At the same time mobs were wrecking the homes of officials ox the Machado government and even of those known o be Machado sympathizers. In soar eases the .?n hunt took place over the- rooftops of Havana City. N.5.C. f FOLIO CUBA Trl! 1 ’ ’ ' an echo the Cuban revolution in New York late t . o . is afternoon. - .enty triumphant Cuban students stormed the of nee of T,n Cuban Consul General in downtown Nev; York. All | thea tih. nt*. a '<ciS tne biy marble bust of former President flachado --ith vhich th«y wished to express their dis-esteem of that hapless magnate. They broke in the oor of the Consullate, knocked the Consul General about a bit, and seized President Machado*s bust. As they left the build in.• they encounter-d a li eu tenant, a sergeant, and tvelve patrolmen of the Nev; York police force. -ith the utmost politeness on both sides the police took the bust of General dacha do away from the revolutinary sympathizers and returned it to Consul General. But when they got it info the Consul General*s office that official decided that as Machado was no; president any longer, ano probably never would be ag? ‘ - he did not want the old bust anyway. When the celebrating students^o^ic? there was no obi pp ti o-n to th^ ir having the bust, th y Cc idan' t eitnei . So now"there* s°Gne superfluous ex-prefident^loose in New York and anybody Tit- it. No arrests, no casualties, not even any can have it ho v,ai wounded fe<lin s. n . b . c . ROOSEVI XT Things are hiarnmin in Washington today — President |j 1 Roosevelt is back on the job at his desk in the • Mte House. Having I set la ■-•- •' Cul : n probleir Mr. Roosevelt is xsxng giving most of his attention o Niro and the rest of his program for industrial recovery. Incidentally, one industry which .signed the code today under the j blanket agreement was that of the countryfs umbrella makers. Governor Pinchot of •Pennsylvania told the President how urgent it was that the codes of the coal and oil industry should be settled as uickly as possible. Officials of the N.R.CU Administration are busy iron!. • out differences that have cropped up in that connection. It is hoped that not only coal and oil but the steel code will have been settled by Friday. On that day hearings will bewin on the code of the automobile industry, the last oi the big five. Tomorrow the President will hold his first Cabinet me a tin i n several weeks. Among those present t* ill be members of the Executive Council, th•" super—cabin t> ec: iis sohietiines called. I? 1 j N.r.0. hearings at Washington on the petroleum code, under the £J*X,R.A., have developed certain sharp differences ■within the industry. One element favors, another opposes, Government fixing of prices on petroleum products.^)Those who oppose, believe they are standing for the true interest of consumers and of the industry. They believe price fixing \ means excessive prices for the consumer to pay, with ultimate results unfortunate for both the industry and the National Industrial Recovery program. during the hearings before General Johnson, a statement was made by Joseph R. Pew, Jr., Vice President of Sun Oil Company, setting forth briefly the anti-price-fixing view. To this view the Sun Company strongly adheres, and in response to many requests I am going to present the substance of what Mr. Pew said. Here it is: "Wartime price fixing led the nations into an epoch of inflation whose consequences, after fifteen _years, are felt in il II ! § SB I 1 I ! m universal depression and distress^. Whether undertaken by government or py business; whether in coffee or rubber, tin OIL - 2 * or wheat, cotton, or what you will, it has meant ultimate calamity to the industry and disaster^ to the people that relied on it. "Govemmentally fixed prices are bound to be high enough to sustain inefficiency, while efficiency is gorged with undeserved profits. Skill, research. Initiative and inventiveness, when prices are fixed high enough to give a profit even to the least efficient^ lose their incentive. Yet research and investigation, leading to improved processes and increased recoveries, have meant more for Conservation of petroleum resources than all the lav/s that have been passed or proposed. Take away the competitive urge, and you paralyze the motive for these activities and confiscate the means by which they have been carried on. «One must hesitate to estimate what all this would cost the consumer In immediate prices, or the community in iapmgr impoverishment of an irreplaceable resource. Government- made prices, taking .care of the laggard, the waster and the incompetent, would breed.mona laggardmore wasters, more. incompetents, to be protected by ever higher prices and heavier burdens on the consumer. That would mean a decreasing demand, and still higher prices to support a decaying business. Any temporary gain from price-fixing would be artificial, while the reaction would leave us worse at the end than we were at the beginning. The momentary relief could not possibly compensate the later distress. "Paying excise taxes of^ just about seven hundred million dollars a year, the oil industry is already for the greater part a mere tax-collecting agency. If, next, the prices of both its raw materials and its finished products are to be fixed by Government, the industry will v/ell-nigh have been converted into a public utility — no more, no less. We have been proud to proclaim it the most individualistic, independent and courageous of industries. Must we be deprived of all opportunity to cultivate these virtues? OIL - 4 "Honest, reputable competition will insure the consumer a square deal and a fai^rice. The anti-trust laws are still in effect. They will be the consumer* s shield against unreasonable prices under a system of fair competition; but '■ V. i . : if M it : with government-made prices, high enough to give inefficiency I a profit, the consumer would pay unfairly inflated prices. The first consideration in this industrial reKovery activity is more employment, at better wages; to banish fear; to increase buying power; to give every man a chance to live well, and to feel secure in doing it. As its contribution, the oil industry must raise wages all along the line, including, of course, the army of people in distribution. These are the prime essentials in the Government*s splendid plan for industrial rehabilitation. To their full accomplishment, we unreservedly pledge ourselves." There ends Mr. ^ew*s statement of the case against Government price fixing. My sponsors, the Sun Oil Company, have W1 shed their view, understood by all of their friends, ano. I I: 1 !| I I | have been glad to pass it on to you. v-nT'rr~ Another step in Uncle SanT s attempt to meet the crime problem was set in motion today. The Suh—Committee of the United States Senate appointed to investigate rackets^ held its first neetinp at the Bar Association Building in Nev; York City today with Senator Copeland of Hew York in the chair. The first important witness was Edward Mulrooney, formerly Commissioner of Police in Hew York City, and as everybody agrees, the best head that Father Knickerbockers Finest ever had. (Mr. Mulrooney is now Chairman of the New York State Alcoholic Severeee Control Board.) Mr. Mulrooney told the Senators several things that ma.de them sit up and take notice. One • hin he said was in effect that professional criminals never would be deterred from oursuine their profession until ihe state has tne courage to follow thf example of John Bull and of Canada,sno treat violent criminals with the satoininex cat-oT-nine-tails, Mr. Mulrooney LBAP - 2 pointed out to the Senators how effective the lashing of men who commit crimes of violence has proved in Canada particularly. Cut of hi a quarter century experience on the ilew York Police force he mac© it clear that about the only thing ruffians really fear is physical pain, Mr, Mulrooney admitted that his suggestion was some­ what Upopian, Said he: "I doubt very much whether the New York Legislature would pass such a law. But it certainly would have a most salutary effect. On the subject of kidnapping he told the Senators it was useless to lengthen the terms of imprisonment. The sentences should, he said, be shorter rather than longer. He suggested; Gut down the penalty for kidnapping and substitute the cat-o-mlne-tails spread over six months, the culprit never to know when he1© going to get it or how many strokes at a time. .And he added that such whippings would be better if done in public. Another reform he suggested was the establishment of a central federal police bureau similar to those which exist in several aro :.n countries. *ie also spore of the necessity of s i isle no to which confirmed criminals should be exiled, something on tli order or* the Devil* s Island which is maintained in the Caribbean Sea by France* The reason for this, said Muir coney, was fctxxaxx we should have a plac-. on which to confine criminals where 11 I tha t I [1 neithor their friends nor relatives can obtain access toi^otv»i# Du r 1 s t^ ■•i t 0 e creiTrnrp—crP" Gt-grte, — rl:-.cr lia-e ;| df-^r-tr^d : ■ 1 no.v^< ■ - to—Irry—s-tu-y "of this subject, t - qd a leer a- •Awong, iri t gtiF' ,—Mamfe/e-thr.ir to'-bo eollcct St h will bjor V-£rm*—y-HCO'I Qf itfr—ami- ^uluiK".!: ——(*&&&- of — t'.iw C^m1 ^i11 '"ulj.'.iwy. I ! ill': Briti m Govr '-nun-nt is ^oin • at that revolutiona ry movement in India with a firm hand. Evidently Lord Irvin, the Viceroy, is determined to end the rebellion once and for all, if oossibi . dr . Gandhi^s in .jail, so are his wife, her friends and A many of his followers. And a wireless from Bombay, via London, informs uis <xhat at Chittagong the British sentenced Sruya Sen. A \ one of India’s most dangerous revolutionary leaders,to death. Nov, ? bit -'f romance by v;ay of chanye. My friends EOfANC; on the Jersey Journal tell me that on the Supervising Board of the Conservetion Camp at Sussex, ^ev Jers-ay, is a ranger named Eric - laming• nanger Fleming recently sent a poem entitled. ”Jordan” to a newspaper out in Nebraska v/hich accepted and printed it. In the same issue that carried. Ranger Fleming1 s poem was a verse entitled "Geminisccnee*” written by Margaret Pendleton of West Virginia, Hanger Fleming read &isr. Pendleton*s poem and Miss Pendleton read. Ranger Fleming * s poem, and the reading seemed to strike a sympathetic between them. - At any rate, they got into communicafLon”ind^fe7~weeks later Miss Pendleton informed Mr. Flemirr- thet she was coming north. He_asked her to meet him in Mew York, exulaininu tiist he- could.n*t get ^away from oi.j Joo for more than x one day at a time. Well, R,-. nger Fleming an. Miss Pendleton met. On the very day th . , . - • - - rot a aarriage license and within a week they were r m ; h li: li hi married, Am now tlvy are living happily ever afte* in New Brunswick, New Jersey^ rT'\-cJ^>L Jer sey Journ* 1. ----------- ---------------------- - : IM. .Y -noth r ci't\c\ : t swijnrnin; the English Chann -1. Zimmy, the celebrstrd legless swlmj r from the United States, coated himself with an inch of grease and slipped into the water at Dover, 112 " i-vtwyw England, at hair past one this afternoon, Sordid it without anv A flare of trumpets or presr-agentry whatsoever. The weather’s good and the Straits of Dover remarkfely calm. And Siatagdlx Zimmy hopes to make the twenty miles to Calais, France. The last thing L* ‘ ^UNOCO OIL BROADCAST - /\b/:- ' Go- cl Evenin ' ? Bv erybody: You^a be interested to le^rn that Jessie oost.. llo, uhe thirty-two year ole v/iGow who has been on trial all these weeds at Salem, Massachusetts, on a charge.of murdering her hush an a, was acquitted this afternoon. The case went to the jury about noon today and after two hours1 deliberation following their lunoh, tb y came back into court and said the crucial words: "Hot Guilty." II That ends a case which has absorbed the attention not only if Massachusetts, but of the entire country, one of those spectacular triiIs apparently so dear to the heart of newspaper readers in the U.S.A., one of those cases in which courts of justice are turned Into show* places and arenas for tn*■ activities of soo sipsterb 3BRn±a:i±s±s psycholo its, novelists, camera an<» all sorts of exhibitionism^ ^ H.B.C.