■u* *- • JI jj .i i , . 4 K : : Good dvcnin;;, everybody: ‘dha.t oarthqua-cn in Greece seems to be likely to have consequences more startling than -.ve dreaded of. A dispatch ro alia this evening asserts that some geologists believe the^ peninsula of Chalcidici raay become an ee r; i n r i island. 'liie sinkin ' movement of the earth continues. Shocks have been recorded ever since the violence of the first qua re *?s=i--- A throughout Macedonia. bo one important itsatEi aftermatn ox Vmich me a and draw ne * / chart s JUl A As the relief i.'Qr ,ors investigate rumen more and more bodies. that is more, pfeoff are spreading ^ A ^T^LTth^ ^^sTmlSVe to get busy another feature of this news is that the total 1 * -* -A 4 TTf-', ^ - t nroaching^five hundred. number of «a>» p ople ho nave died,is approacni L buildinps, they find One o. is patch i'rom Z rlin today carries considerable meaning. Germany ill stay away from the World Disarmament Conference until she receives one definite assurance. ‘Stoat assurance thrt no power will question Germany’s right to.-i)■11 '■ tri" ''ii \izzs&* Also any agreement to disarm shall A- ^ be applied to Germany equally with other powers. Bo said Germany’s Foreign Minister today, '-:-- ^ Q g ci suggestion on disarmament to th.e Conference at J iava tonight: lS3«==Efea=*fc*. that the world’s ar.ej^riEcroise^ bo divided into two groups. One of these in each count cy. taLcr-C' »wuulu be a police force A to maintain internal order. The other a defense force large enough ;o protect each country against aggression from the outside. This suggestion was made to the World Conference today throuah Jncle Cam’s delegate Hugh ailson. -i .i -' i . quiz j . I.cin o r* 1,o fixco v qs gvoq qo g disastrous than previous accounts indicated. The latest GLS\i? figures lw±t»irb* that at Least three hundred people were killed and twenty-five hundred injured. According to a dispatch in trie Brooklyn Times Governor Beverley estimates the property damage m* anywhere from hai^wgin^ thirty fifty million olLars. gTTTPWKECK 1 One of the dramatic — * tragic stories of the day, is that '9f the wreck of the steamer Nevada on the Pacific coast. A dispatch to the Indianapolis ^imes records that the Nevada « the inhabited island of Anatigmak in the Aleutians Tuesday night* There was a thick fog. The Nevada rammed her nose full speed into the rocks and immediate^ the lights went out. For forty-eight hours the crew and passengers waited mel* Oregoi freezing on the beach. The steamel* Oregon Maru appeared and tried to rescue them. After losing one of her lifeboats she abandoned the attempt. Then the Dollar Liner President Madison appeared on the scene. ASM3he washable to rescue wswi three men. Thirty-two seamen and seven Chinese passengers were drownedm TfcLt. And the death of William Robertson, the radio operator, will probfebly be a classic sea story for many years to come . When the Nevada crashed Robertson locked himself in his cabin. H after hour he continued to send messages for help. He died at kis post while km he was trying to repair his sending app which had been broken by the pounding waves an i Vm. •'cvi; t Union or Russia continues its campaign to Ce-meat friendships - ith other nations. If not exactly friendships^ they’re at least agreements not to fight, the latest T-wwa"hO '*!V t reported is between Russian and France. It is an agreement; that neither country . ill commit an act of aggression against the other. It also outlaws any declaration of v ar between tii two countries. Another clause is that nif a third power undertakes aggression against either France or Russia, the other party guarantees to maintain strict neutrality. Fur thermo r > , each promises to refrain from propaganda against the other; also to refrain from intervening irdw the internal affairs of the other country. From -tor.'u• com s ih* nev s that the Pope has issued another hnc/ elical against the government of Mexico. His Holiness reyectm once mor e his protest against that he called deplorable,outrageous, wicked laws which he says oppress the liberty of the Church in. Jexico. I both Yankees avid Cubs ./c-'re ;-vas no^brll gahie today because on their way to Chicago for the third gam , ^u' most important news about this event is that the weather man promises ideal weather ^ I > jj : *-L-J_ i.ie a awhile in the little ..oriel Ct ries at the Kupnert ktuXtmi-, ^tauiua in Newark, the Minneapolis Killers today - on the thi ;amt . The Millers defeated the Newark Bars two to on' . -hr ga. o went ten innings. Bach of the three runs scored .. as a horac . •. 4<'i-al t- oe7i\n 4n until 4h.<* inniiijiy. This gives Minneapolis a lead two to one over Nev/ai k. popular iho nane of and flamboyant ex-Mayor Jimmie altev of He* York cropped up in the headlines again today- •laiis as a result of a decision of the Appellate Division of tne supreme Court vhich reversed the opinion 01 til(' lov/Gr court, ihet means, the Appellate Division considers that an election for mayor of Ner York should be helu November 8th. the case still has to come before the Court of Appeals, . hieh is the court of last resort in New York &±X 3 C ft ate. All this sets the political pot boiling furiously in New York City. It may mean an open declaration of war on the Tammany riger by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. It seems to be definitely decided that if New York must vote for a mayor November 8th, Tammany will put up tne gay and gaily clad Jimmie for election. His chief opponent Will be tne present actin’ mayor. Judge Joe McKee. The details of what this implies in New York ; ■ -- - — > : politics probably v;on*t interest the fol.is outside New York very uach, except in so far as it means a te^ffic’1^^ ^ with Governor uoosevelt bsifecte? one end of the ^ A rope. n.iJ jj | * Tiv iev;s of this decision evidently put new life into hayor Jimmie >W;seiHr,Prr-. A dispatch from the new Italian liner, the hex, at Gibraltar, brines the information that the Y A A is on his tocs^over the prospect of running for re-election in hovemb r. Where v.as ti, fir: t man born? »here dirt the human race origim- r.»v Tt+tTTujlL* questio-^^"Scientists all over the ■rorl have been trying to answer it for several thousand years. it dispatch irom norae to the Cleveland Press today says that there's a professor who thinks1 he's discovered the secret. He is Professor Leo Probenius - that's a nice monaker - Professor Probeni-js of the University of Frankfurt. The news cone out because Professor Probenius had an interview today with Pr mier Mussolini, II Duce hiraself, Professor Probenius was received by the august one on his return from a long exploration in Africa, Well, the dope is, according to Professor Probenius, that the human race was born in Africa* ^Professor P 111 I 11 mi mi uriiv^d at this conclusion because he founa traces at Fezzan in Wne Province of Tripoli, which sere 14,000 years old. In that part of Africa there used to be primitive men who worshipped the sun and tilled th lr . n tings in religious ceremonies. It was a $ot idea belnu a: kins in those days, but it wasn't healthy. A AVIATION When a man does K spectacular feat that startles the world, his name usually Is In the headllneT/we^^^t^^. wse* And then - what becomes of him? Back In 19E4 four crack flyers of the Uni ted States Army Air Service made the first circumnavigation of the globe by air. They were hailed as the Magellans of the skies. -7 Lieutenant -he-g-AmoltH ■f'jwa-Toimo o oeo. Well, I ran into one of the world fliers today, Leslie Arnold. He is now one of the executives of Transcontinental and Western Air, the so-called nLindbergh Line** that has planes shooting back and forth on regular schedule from coast to coast, i asked hi* how the depression was effecting aviation, and he replied that the air lines wSSl carrying more passengers than ever before. during the past three months -ted broke* all records. To further bear this out he added that TWA, the Lindbergh Line,is starting a new daily service tomorrow between Detroit and Indianapolis. The primary purpose of this is to enable Detroiters trip to Los Angeles in twenty-four hours. LLOYP, b Oh yes, and I encountered another gloom chaser today, rty tiiuia on the screen. But you wouldn*t recognize a gentleman all seen A because he doesn!t wear those celebrated horn-rimmed glasses,^ agas Harold Lloyd.rzJie sails tonight for Europe 1 h ^ to wi-tne»> the uncanny phenomena of German, French, Italian, yes A and Scandinavian sounds He told me that they take an American film, and ndub intt as they call it, the sound* of a foreignspoken by some one else, so perfectly that, why, youM think Harold Lloyd himself spoke every one of the languages used at the Tower of Babel* /? \ If you don't think Sarnid^Iil'Jyd an antidote for just try and keep a straight face while you are watching that latest film of his. .*oyte=ersafv~ a™***. I laughed and laughed, well. Just asheartilyf night when I exploded wib laughter and couldn't even say Se sag A severe "lood reported from northern Mexico. In fact, r dispatch to the Washington Daily News declares that itT s the most disastrous flood in the history of that region. ^ev-..r-al small villages were entirely swept away. At least seven lives were e ?! reported lost. All traffic is paralyzed between nexico City and Juarez, uririirfa right across the Rio Crande from ^1 Paso^^ The telegraph wires between Juarez and the interior are down. j..' \J XJ+. V/ :l’ -"' s ; stoi’y about a policeman. Patrolman bill hittac ..er of Union, lew Jersey, was called out todar to chase a gang of five bandits. He took his official car and scooted as fast as it could go for Springfield New Jersey. As he went through Springfield several of the coppers of that torn jumped on his running board to help. The bandits* car wan in sitht by this time. As they got outside Springficla they abandoned their motor and ran into a wood. Patrolman -hittac ■ x* end his Springfield helpers went after them. Just as they were on the point of saying: ,!Tnro</ up your hands they hear a a motor start^ back on the road. They beat it as fast as they could for the road. »men So was the police car. - they got the.re the bandits were gone; ■t1 -J It isn't or-ten that I let a story of a funeral get into this broadcast - but don't be afraid. This is not gloomy. V Lb isx the tale of a funeral which was postponed because, as the story in the New York World Telegram^ says - the - corpse - was - indisposed. A Mr. oullivan, 42 years old, left his home in Brooklyn July 25th, after bidding his wife a fond farewell. Mr. Sullivan did not return on the evening of July 25th, nor on the evening of July 26th, nor on any subsequent evenings whatsoever. In short, Mr. Sullivan just didn't return at all. Last month Mrs. Sullivan read in a newspaper that a body of a drowned men had been taken to the morgue at the Bellevue hospital. In the dead man's pocket was a union card bearing the name of Daniel Sullivan. So Mr. Sullivan's sist r identified the body as that of h r brother, ao did several friends. > o eid Mrs. Sullivan. All arrangements were made to holo. the funeral services today.. x 1 0n nor ay 1:0 the fun- ral the sorrovving widow stopped off at s - ’-ell, a place of refreshment which used to be one of t . favorite haunts of her late husband. Just as she was mx>fXEjafzKKx ordering her - ham - cup of coffee, what do you suppose was the first object that struck her eye? Yes, you messed it. It as Mr. Sullivan. Mrs. Sullivan screamed and exclaimed: "But.you*re dead." Mr. Sullivan A* denied it. Then, says the story in the t or Id Telegram, Mrs. Sullivan urged Mr. Sullivan to come home. Mr. S; and again I am noting the to rid Telegram - Mr. o.ulti "n pr ef en ed vdiat diplomats call the status quo. In short. Mrs. Sullivan sought Vm police lieutenant, ant, be-:,ed him o please do something about it because it was going to be such^ a nice funeral. Said the lieutenant. "Lady, I'm sorry, there's nothing in ^tw, la-.s ^ Mew York by which you can punish a man because he ain t JURY DUTY Here's a chaste item to which I'm indebted to my friends on the Jersey City Journal. And it's quite an amusing illustration of life in our courts of law, William F. Clifton of Harrison, K,J,, has been on a uetty s1ury in the Hudson County Court House. His two weeks* service would he up tonight. He has sat in a number of In those two weeks he has been a juror in a number of cases. It was discovered today that he has not been able to hear one single word of all that was said at any of the trials on which he has served. The gentleman has been deaf for several years. STUDENTS Qj Here's a little thrift story for you. It comes from Madridjin a dispatch to the Newark News. A A couple of Amherst graduates attended the International Jh- Radio Telegraphic Conference^*. Madrid. One evening they decided to form the Amherst Club of Madrid. ) A first annual dinner at the Palace Hotel. it They realized that nothing would make ik* perfect ^ ifuxt Ctnjxfx*j>a& but a message from ex-President Calvin Coolidge* So they ^ /v long cable to Mr# Coolidge asking him to send them a suitable message of greeting. Knowing Mr. Coolidge* s'habits they informed him that as delegates to conference they had the * privilege of sending free messages from Spain to the United States, also getting free replies, ^^they hinted that Mr. Coolidge need not spare any words for economy*s sake. -Saffie story goes that the dinner was a great success. There were speeches humorous, ifeax and speeches sentimental, were songs rendered with gusto. But the Mg moment was the reading of the message from Mr. Coolidge. STUDENTS - 2 But let me look at the time, I mustnH make this broadcast too long. Oh well, after all, it’s a message from ji ^£$JLr} u*cy>Jt ident.. 8=^ Here is Mr* Coolidge*s messaee^o tb« an ex-President first annual dinner of the Amherst Club of Madrid. It reads ✓ as follows: "Greetings.B Well, Mr. Coolidge teaches me ; © &12C? arij: "Tunryfl, ymt n4^ least-^s^AM' say s-l-u-t - Monday <