kj-lt.Jj.UNOCO BROADCAST,,AUGUST 15. Good Evening, Everybody:- d * Th.e most amusing tiling I*ve run across in many a day is a story that came this afternoon, right from the French Riviera. It includes the names of enough celebrities to sound like an item about an all-star revival or something of that sort. But the hero of the tale is a monkey, — a monkey named Bubu. It seems that Bubu spent a joyous afternoon at one of the most fashionable tennis clubs on the Riviera. And by the time Bubu had had his fun, that tennis club looked it had been slapped by the tail of a typhoon, ^nd the celebrities? Well, the dispatch to the Pittsburgh Press, says that Bubu upset many things including an old tradition that whiskey precedes fun. Bubu, it appears, had his fun first and his liquor afterwards. When Bubu showed up at the tennis club, among those present were Maurice Chevalier,^Fanny Brice, one of one Dolly sister, Maurice deKobra, the author, tne Princess MONKEY - 2 Sherb«.toi f, three Italian princes, sevenxeen Russian princes. four barons, one marquis and a couple of gentlemen. tennis match was In progress, when suddenly, Bubu, who Is monkey, <3b a]g^RarE^xgxgtexx±ja bounded to the middle of the court as calmly and gracefully as a young cyclone. He rushed up to the net. thumped himself on the chest,t\nd let out five piercing yells, and grabbed a tennis racquet. Two women fainted. Three Russian princes, who had never before been known to take exercise, jumped a brick wall <$ six feet high. Bubu swung the raquet and kept on swinging until he hit himself on the head. This annoyed him. He let out a yell and made a rush for a table at the side of the courts. Two more women fainted, Peggy Joyce decided it was time to powder her nose. Maurice Cheveliar, who was hiding behind a concrete pillar, saw an exit that nobody was using then, so he did Bubu then gratoed a box full ol tennis balls. He started to pitch to everybody. He threw^curves, 3 ] A ___ fisek?■ aand some right down the groove. iwo more 1 I ! * MQNiCKY - 5 women fainted. Tennis windov/s, off the heads throwing all the balls balls were bouncing off walls, through of the guests. When Bubu got through away, he went to work on the raquets. He smashed £±v» of them against a bricK; wall and decided it A was time for a drink. When the gendarmes arrived, escorted by a squadron of the Bubu .was sitting at the bar, sipping a* <*>tfc~«**K*<* whiskey and soda. It turned out that he had escaped from a GypsJ camp near Cannes. '~^-WVK cr~VML^~7 OTT&M Affairs seem to be coining to a climax in Ottawa, The chances lor an agreement between Great Britain and Canada are more hopeful, although a dispatch to the TJoaSsessi Star \ indicated that the delegates have encountered a snag on the subject of wheat, John Bull today offered the Dominion of Canada preferential tariffs on wheat, copper and lumber. He asked in return to be given preference on textiles, leather, iron, steel and coal. If this offer is accepted, it will mean the loss of a hundred million dollars a year in trade for Uncle Sam. Canada has been a good customer of the United States on all the items mentioned. The snag teJiiaufr wtii-crfr. they are talking^is that Canada asked Great Britain to put an embargo on imports of wheat^from Russia. This was refused by the British delegates because they feared •Wwfflk it would injure John Bullfs trade with the Soviet government. Russia has cut her imports from the United States to one-tenth of what they were two years ago. England has OTTAWA - 2 benefited by this. Prime Minister Bennett of Canada and Stanley Baldwin, leader of the British delegation to the Imperial Economic Conference, todayr cm this agreement. They A ' < hopet^ to finish these discussions tomorrow and to have the agreement completed by Wednesday so that it can he signed Thursday^ n II m u lli I;: : 11 ■ ! i IS 1 _______ I GERMANY Uncle Sam, as well as several foreign governments, are watching affairs in Germany with much concern. Diplomats and foreign officeifs are anxious over that duel which now seems to be raging between President von Hindenburg and Adolph Hitler. Williams Phillips Sims, Foreign Editor of the Scripps- Howard papers, puts it that since Hindenburg refused axon the chancellor's lob,.Hitler to-day is in a rebellious position. A w State Department officials in Washington consider that Germany today tv It is pointed out that if Herr Hitler backs down and accepts a subordinate pooitio* in the cabinet, his hypnotic power over his fire-eating followers will be gone forever. Hitler has risen to power by playing the roaring lion and shax eating his meat raw. If he turns into a lamb and laps milk from the President's hand, his leadership will be weakened. On the other hand, if the President 7>rields and accepts Hitler as the chancellor on his own terms, the aged and beloved field marshall will lose his prestige and popular- .TfilLBRSAK condition amounting almost to a reign of terror is reported in a dispatch to the Cincinnati Post, from Granite, Oklahoma. More than twenty convicts escaped from the reformatory at Granite. They fled through the southwest, causing oanic as they went. They stabbled and kidnapped business men. They entered homes and stole motor cars. * As twenty-three of these convicts dashed out of the reformatory last night, they shot an eighteen-year-old boy who was passing by. At the latest reports, only four of them had been captured. l/yyO jle. ^GZZLZlr f2sU*&-C> i -j^crzrn) /^7 /' J ' 3 ' 2 . *“ £. INTRO TO dr . y.TSHART e There is an item in the New York Sun tonight to the effect that a serious food shortage threatens in Russia. And it so haDDens that an old friend of mine, and a famous man, Dr. Alfred Wishart, has just returned from Russia. The Doctor is sitting here with me. Well, Doctor, how did you find Russia, this time? INTRO TO DR» Vi- 1SHAET 8 There is an item in the New York Sun tonight to the effect that a serious food shortage threatens in Russia. And it so happens that an old friend of mine, and a famous man. Dr. Alfred Wishart, has just returned from Russia. The Doctor is sitting here with me. Well, Doctor, how did you find Russia, this time? f?nR DR. V.T SHAHT To the outward eye there are some changes for the better in i-he streets and buildings of Moscow. Not so many in Leningrad. But the appearanceof the people has not changed. They still are shabbily dressed and seem sad and serious. They afe enduring privations for the sake of what they regard as the greater good, the building up of the major industries. Food will be scarce this coming winter and a reduced coal production. Unless checked, will seriously cripple industries and transportation. The one thing that impressed me profoundly this summer as it did two years ago was this - If the American people were as loyal to American ideals and institutions, as willing to make sacrifices, many of the political and economic ills that afflict us would soon be exterminated. r BUSINESS An optimistic note for business men was sounded today of Cleveland by a famous economist. He is Colonel Leonard P. Ayres - the same Colonel Ayres who made -tiam. charts for the Literary Digest that Well, Colonel Ayres told a reporter for the New York Sun that business has improved already, but, he adds, trade barriers are impeding recovery. The government should remove those barriers. declares Colonel Ayres^ .•U—t* o>\, Then there is encouraging news from Boston. The New England Council has been getting up a list of business improvements throughout that part of the country. This compilation was made public today. It shows that some textile mills have more than doubled^production in the last^^i weeks. Others have resumed operatioxi after A shutdown. In Massachusetts, Pihode Island and New Hampshire hundreds of employees have been put back to work. One mill* at Providence put 650 more looms into operation. Shoe factories In New Hampshire are running at capacity. Similar stories come from Maine. Silk mills, smelters. ADD ijUc'i.-iLSS - £ hat factories, are running once more. Factories that turn, out office furniture equipment, sardine canneries, range factories, luggage factories, are increasing production.^ And that isnft all. _________ 0 ___ ___________ _ From San Francisco comes the information that employment throughout California increased in July. V HOOVER Political observers are talking today about that economic conference which President Hoover has called for next week - the conference of 150 of the country *3 business leaders who arenas Mr. Hoover puts it* to map out a concerted program of action along the economic front. / The political ob- A / servers see in this move a shrewd political device. It will not only bring the President in contact with the foremost business men of the country. It might even bring several of them to his support. Such is the gist of a dispatch to the New York Evening Post. The conference is to cover a wide range of subjects. The story points out that it is in conferences such as these that President Hoover is at his best. At such times he speaks without restraint, ksxsl has command of a wide fund of information and discusses with vigor and ^oest' effect. In such meeting^ the President makes his most favorable impression. This week is taking a rest^ hoover - £ Even if the President has gone fishing it looks as tho the Presidential campaign is well under way because, today, the Rep. National Committee opened its offices. The Republicans have taken an entire floor of the V.aldorf-Astoria in New York, TAXES An intelligent idea came today from Syracuse, N.Y, The mayor of that city announce? that the unemployed man who owns a small home will not be sold out for delinquent taxes. Instead, he will be given work by the city at the rate ^■<Ci £&?- of $4 per day until he has worked^Ms^-ta-ffiOiL affe * This new plan will help hundreds of small property owners. These have been in a peculiarly unfortunate position. Being home owners, ohey were declared not eligible to be helped out of the funds available for the jobless. ."It is they," said *» the Syracuse mayor, "who are the real Tforgotten men1 . fog. any ■ 1. c a 1, h e 1-p r11 ALBANY Late this afternoon the trial of Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York before Governor Roosevelt in Albany became lively. A so-called mystery woman was brought into the case. She seems to have been involved in a 0,000 stock transaction with Russell Sherwood, the mayor’s #uch ciscussed but missing financial agent. Sim The mystery woman came into the spotlight while Walter Herrick, a former Park Commissioner of New York, was on the stand. She was presumably a friend of Mayor Jimmy and was in Havana at the time of theideal. (^Mr. Herrick testified that he paid $>£0,000 to Russell Sherwood f<jr the purchase of a certain stock in behalf of this woman. ) The Mayor’s lawyer wanted to strip the mystery away, as he put it, and place the lady’s name on the record. But this was not done. Another oratorical explosion resounded throughout the hall when Mr. Walker’s lawyer tried to have all the charges surrounding the Mayor’s connection with Sherwood struck from the records. The lawyer claimed these v/ere private affairs. This brought an angry reply from the Governor. It looks as though this trial would drag on several^days, HORSES hftua ^ ~^V'pyn. Then here»s a story of a gallant young lady. =Sfr®ri±*e*v name is Esther Janes, and sheTs only eighteen years old. There was a fire last night on the premises of the Metropolitan Driving Club in Boston, a $150,000 fire which destroyed the club house, the stables and 44 of the horses. All of the horses would have perished^ ■£©-s»4rkfe?!*^ if it had not been for the pluck and coolness of Misa Esther Janes. She led st- ten of the terrified animals through the smoke and flames to safety. And if youfve ever seen horses frightened by fire, you will realize what a feat this was. There was a crippled night watchman, 77 years old, on the place. One panic stricken horse almost prevented his^ escape, but nrrfu>- the nerve of the young lady came to iix» rescue too. STORM That storm in Texas is still rampaging across the state, and has left in its wake 22 dead Texans, scroes of injured, and more than a million dollars damage. Whole fishing settlements were destroyed. Boats were swept out to sea. Houses were unroofed, Streets of several towns and cities are flooded with wreckage. Hospital wards are cluttered. Even the airport at Houston was destroyed. The storm was reported to-day as having reached the neighborhood of Abilene, in west Texas. £CUIBR£.L , <TjL- aJ2y , Here1 s a nutty Mstim £iQm V^ashington, D.C.l ^=£sr AX f\~ M * about «*« squirrel and an important offcial of Uncle Sam’s /v * ifirttw government. One small Ion* squirrel is costing this official hundreds of dollars. He locked up his house and went to Vermont on a vacation. As soon as he left, the squirrel moved in. Ap- tt S z - h parently he got in through the chimney, Bttt=tecdbitj; he couldn’t get out. So he tried his way back to freedom. A One of the neighbors passing by sa the squirrel in the window. This neighbor had been asked to keep his eye on as much things. He found that the sauirrel had raised/gsraragh havoc 4 in that house as a whole colony of beavers. Window- casings and door frames were chipped and i-mawed beyond repair. Furniture was damaged. Shades and curtains destroyed, carpets ruined. That squirrel had been working with his teeth night and day for two weeks. The moral »£==£hatefcaSbgc* seems to be ^ ' ~^<Xy ; l&Uijg . ^eve*n>len4ry^fu^uis€b=»*iound-~rt“f-“y/;'w*>^ aaKay-ancl—shut -^our-^x^vi s r , in—ca s s—any-—s o u i r r e 1 s oome -to— cai-i-* p m vi/ Here’s a morsel of nev.-s that ought to please people ^ Danbury, Conn,, or anywhere else where they make hats.. If you’re the sort of person who likes to go around bareheaded. youSd better be careful. The gobbelins wLsi. get you if you CM hr don’t watch out. This is my opinion. A dispatch to the S. ^ Louisville Times says it comes from an eminent French doctor. Toulouse This doctor, whose name is^&sjbaisxE, says that if you h r*un around too long without a hat you get a screw loose, Aoolories A to Milt Gross, but the doctor’s name really is iTstrensren' Toulouse. People who don’t wear hats, says Dr. Screwloose, I mean Toulouse, are likely to become criminals, commit suicide or organize revolu- 0 ^ Seh tions. s&m=stcvm. explains the doctor, may cause increases in crime, U suicide and rebellion. He declares it is noticeable that in the summertime drivers who do not wear hs.ts are a menace to traffic. "The sun excites certain brain cells. It hk makes others numb, and thus upsets the mental balance," so says Dr. Toulouse. LkJt icjt ^<2 - -ht K- — .