IX? WELL T HO El A l .' BhOADC^iLT ^UKUSt 4. L9EE Good Evening, Everybody:- There was a tearful scene in the Hew York Stock Exchange today. Brokers were weeping all over the place. Ho, they weren*t weeping for their sins. I wonder -----. Do stockbrokers have any sins to weep for? The deluge of tears was caused by something else again, and the ominous word is bomb, two bombs, the kind loaded with tear gas. It was about noontime. A broker happened to look up at the ceiling and saw a cloud of smoke spreading from the air-cooling ventilators. That was when the weeping began. Brokers with streaming eyes dashed out of the building. Several hundred of them, together with clerks and other employees, poured pellmell out onto Kail Street. Then the police arrived; the emergency squads with gas masks. They climbed to the ventilator shafts and found that two tear gas bombs had been placed in the onen pipe of the ventilating system. Just who played this little trick is a mystery. Lieutenant Hewmann, lead oj the police barb squad, declared that it looks like the work of somebody who knows the Stock Exchange building SrOv'K I-XCHANGI t- exceedingly 11, somebody, oie cay surmise, v.ilh a curious grudge or a wild and woolly sense of humor. I’bfr—outo 1 ^ f,y 3^r i-rtportr-nce i-^ e^-r-’fliicii.iulhl wui Id. The tear gas was so strong and plentiful that the Stock Fxchange closed down for the rest of the day. That suspended stock trading all ov r the United States. As tomorrow is a Wall Street holi 'ay the Exchange is not open until Monday. The last prices on the big board before the bomb exploded are the final prices of h- Exchange today. Just twice before has the Stock Exchange b en compelled to suspend after a day of trading had begun. One was the day : n th- false less of the armistice came,'and the other was the announcement of the real armistice. Those .ere joyful occasion* , but today mas a time of weeping, oceans of tears. Just for the sake of variety, let's go on to a few smiles from that s me great '*inancia 1 institution. It was announcea today that salaries of the employes of the Stock Exchange were raised ten per cent. N.E.C. AnJ that brin s as to our familiar and cheerful girl fd end NI-IA. She's getting along finely. Her cheeks are blooming like trie rose. General Hugh Johnson the Administrator of Nira gave out a statement today that the progress on the various codes was ahead of expectations. The codes for the cloak and suit industry and foi~ electrical manufacturing were sent to the President today for his * approval. Tne General added that the steel code might be ready- in a 7*Teek or ten dayp. Robert R. ^amont. President of the American Iron and ^teel Institute declares that the members of the steel code have already -one beyond anything that can be justified by present conditions. Re means this in connection with maximum hours of labor and minimum rates of pay. He adds that the members of the steel code "cannot go any further." ma-il oode about trn jr jjuiir bonn & bl i," uf cont^rev y-'jy^—i"S" nun1 bein'* , NIKA - £ General Johnson has issued a call for patience. He asked consumers not to boycott or discriminate against firms that are not yet members of Mra -- until a reasonable time has elapsed. ¥es, as I remarked, Nira is a blooming and buxom young woman these days. From all over the country come cheery messages from firms and industries eager to display the Blue Eagle. F. E. Williamson, President of the Hew York Central declares that his railroad has added twenty thousand employees to its payrolls since May, an increase of about twenty per cent. The D. L. & w. has taken back its compulsory holiday orders. That means an increase of six percent for about two thousand employees. Four thousand other workers will go from a three day week to a five day week. The Chesapeake and Ohio has taken on an additional nine hundred working men. I have a telegram from Paul Morris, director oi Playland Westchester Amusement Park. Hu tells me that the National NIFA - 5 Association of Amusement Parks met in Rye today and adopted a code. The Amxiseraent Park workers will get shorter hours and an increase in nay, and there is likely to be an additional employ­ ment of help. A dispatch from Washington says that complaints have come in charging that grocery stores are cutting down the hours they keep open, it is said that they are cutting the store hours so that they can reduce the number of employees to be added to the payrolls. Kira officials say they will request General Johnson to issue a statement concerning these complaints. ELECTRICAL SHOW o For the first time since 19LS ^ew York again will see an electrical exposition.. Four years1 progress in the electrical and radio industries will he on exhibition at Madison Square Garden from September 20th to the 30th. The special feature will be the latest radio and electrical safety devices for passengers traveling in airplane. f.B.C. COAL STRIKE ihc Pennsylvania Coal Strike is a prominent subject of vD Ujnst^o ^:-&D consideration at tha- siiMiiieT "hite Souse, ana has been eettine its A sriare of the presidential attention. The President is said to be hopeful that the strive will soon be settled satisfactorily. He is in constant touch with. General Johnson, Recovery Administrator in Washington, who Is dealing with the code dispute. The ^resident, they say, had also been in direct touch with the officials of the industry. It is pointed out that the government cannot take any decisive.action in that coal dispute, until tha industry has been brought under a satisfactory code of fair competition. :.'ILK Preside-it hoosevelt ■■.ms asked today to take a hand in the mij.s striKe in upstate ^ew Xork. A group of dairyman petitioned the President ,o handle the situation himself and fake over the po/,er of the state authorities. There’s been a good deal of trouble about that milk strike ‘n ^ew York State. There have been fights and skirmishes between thr farmers and state police. HOLLYWOOD iiie rnovle stride in Hollywood is in the news tonight wit'n ructions i nd disturbances. Film producers claim that the strikers have been damaging round equipment and film negatives, ih President of the International. Brotherhood of Electric Workers is meeting the studio orkers in an effort to bring order out of chaos. He proposes that the studios take the men back at the old wage scale provided they join his electrical brotherhood instead of the international Alliance of Theatrical Stage employes which called the four thousand men out on strike. They say that the trouble is slowing up the production'of thrillers and love dramas and what not out there in Hollywood. N.E.C. LA GUARDIA The politic.',! situation in New York City is a \ 1 good deal clearer today. Fusion!sts finally found a candidate. The elements trying to get together to oppose Tammany Hall have been doing quite a bit of wrangling, but n(w they* ve selected their candidate, Major Fiorello La Guardia, the fiery little Italian who has long been a familiar figure in New York political campaigns and the House of Representatives at Washington. / CANADA Canadafs credit seems to be as good as Uncle Bam s. W© just had a loan enthusiastically overs^hibed, and now word comes chat Canadafs Dominion loan issue of seventy-five million dollars has been overscribed in London to the tune of four hundred million* Canadian ministers who have just returned from the World Economic Conference claim that this successful loan is one result of that Economic get-together which didnTt seem to produce so much result* They explain that the Economic Conference did have the effect of bringing the British Dominions closer together. Louis Sherwin STRIKE Rapegs of lee tooublo-Eikewt be from ■ Eug-ef*^. 4t Strasbourg in Alsace, -- a general strike of the building trades has begun. There have been serious ■<3 ’’ disorders. Several people have been wounded* Late reports in the Paris papers declare that the French authorities have arrested two armed German agitators who are said to have been busy stirring up the l«b»r trouble. Schoonmaker AUSTRIA It looks as If an international protest might be Injected Into that controversey between Germany and Austria. The controversey is becoming exceedingly loud in^loud speakers. The Nazi spokesmen are saying it by radio. From Munich violent denunciations are sent skimming over the ether waves for the benefit of the Austrians. These denun­ ciations tell what the Nazis think of the Austrian government, which is hostile to Hitler. It is said that this kind of butting into Amg Austria’s affairs is a violation of the Four-Power Pact, and the Versailles Treaty; hence the possibility of an international protest on the part of England, France and Italy. Schoomnaker GANDHI ■ It^s a year for Gandhi — a year in jail. And as usual with Gandhifs jail experiences, it*s a curious affair. The British released him, "but made a condition that he refrain from political activities and remain in the State of Poona. He refused both conditions and went right back into prison to serve one year BAUD There^s been a change of plans up there on the stormy coast of Newfoundland v/herv th.. big Italian air fleet is still waiting. General Balto nas decided on a change of course. Instead of flying across the North Atlantic to Ireland, the air flotilla will take a more southerly course and wing for the Azores. The weather in the North Atlantic continues to be bad and there seems no sign of a change. will start August 10th. AviATor.r Nc" 1 '•'•onder' Is this next bit of ae^s an illustration of the or sayinr - box quickly passes the riory of the v.orld? it t-I.ls of an interesting luncheon that’s to be hell in Sew York on fonday, A get-together of ocean flying aviators. They are men no -arnea spectacular acclaim luring these r:cent years of transoceanic fliers. Everyone was for a while the hero of the air. Hov; many of them are remembered not . Let’s go down the list and. try our memories out. Among the, guests will be Captain Jim Edsllison, Janes Pattern, Clyde Pangborn, Captain Courtney, Clarence Chamberlain, XHfcarr: Roger t. hillians, Lei'is Yancey, Captain J, Errol Loyd, Bert Acosta, George Neville. Admiral Byrd has been invited, also George HaMerman, and Captain Pitsmaurice - also Dr. Kimball, the weather man. Each man in that list made a ere*: t oc' an flimht, end caused his name to ring across' the continents. Hov: many do vre remember? N.B.C. 'Eiaus Helen wills Moody did not play today. The doctors told hej. oO tc.ke a rest. There is something wrong with her back. It seems that she sustained an Injury some time ago and it became aggravated today. Her place in the Wightman Cup Matches was taken by darah Palfrey of Brookline, Massachusetts. Sarah, pinch-hitting for Helen, did pretty well. She won her game beating Peggy Scrivin of England. And, Helen Jacobs beat her opponent. She defeated Dorothy Hound in the first match. This was a surprise because Miss Round is the girl who in London issk won the only set that Helen Wills has lost in six years of match-play at Wimbledon. Julian Myrick, Chairman of the Committee that is G^Ji GtJl running the matches, ttrid me this afternoon that Mrs, Moody’s a Af, physician will tell her tomorrow whether she can get back into the game or not. NBC BALL GMB In ray sheaf of news items I find a dispafeh from the Summer White House at Hyde Park which 1111 read it in its terse brevity: Poughkeepsie — ^faite House reporters covering President Roosevelt at Hyde Park went out on Main Street today and started to play baseball. People were surprised. The cop on the beat walked over and asked, 1 What* s it all about?1 The scribes showed him a telegram from Lowell Thomas challeng­ ing them to a baseball game for the coming Sunday — the winning team to get a keg of beer.” Well, well, so those Summer White House scribes are practicing. They'd better practice bucking a freight car, if they intend to get anywhere bumping into Casey Hogate at second base. Casey, who is the publisher of the Wall Street Journal, weighs 250 pounds, and as a second baseman he covers a lot of ground. Bumping into him on base paths is like colliding with a Burmese elephant. BALL GAME - 2 The Summer White House line-up reads like Who*s "'ho Among the Political Correspondents. The Captain is J. ^ussell Young of the Washington Star, who al*9e plays first base and talks a game that would terrify Babe Ruth. Then ' Stevehs^of the Associat^Sft- a Field — Gus Terry, Wall Street Journal, First Short Stop; there is Francis SteveniT of the Associat^eer Press in Center A Charles Hurd, lew York Times, Third Base; Ed Lockett, International News Service, Substitute; Dick Blasdell of Columbia Broadcasting Company, Substitute; J. Fred Essary, Baltimore Sun, Right Field; Tom Healey, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Catcher; John Herrick, Chicago Tribune, Second Short Stop; and Fred A. Storm of the United Press, Catcher and Left Field. The pitcher for the correspondents is Mike Hennessey of the Boston Globe who is an old-time Big League v/ baseball player. The reserve pitcher is Edmund Be Long of the New York Sun. The team has two ringers, George Drescher and Gus Generich, who are Presidential Secret Service men. f.oK 3 A li L - o The game will be played on the grounds of the famous Pawling Boys School, on Sunday, at four-thirty, and we will see if those scribes know the difference between a baseball game and a presidential election1 JOHNPON A patnotle story conies as an afterrasth of the suicide of Hajor Archibald Johnson, ;hu son of Senator Hu»k Johnson of California. hajor Johnson hed & close and inseparable friend — Dannie, « huge Great Dane . They v;ere always with each other. The log v/as never happy save In his master’s company. It was Dannie who found the body of hajer Johnson and set up a mournJui hov;liny that brought servants and nei<- hbors hurrying. Dannie’s mast* r v.as buried last Wednesday. Yesterday they found Dannie in a field near tin: Johnson home. The Tafcg dog was weak and failing. V.i th mournful eyes he seemed to thank those that tried to help him, but there was no help. This morning Dannie died. ifE The do- to follow his master. /v N.E.C. 1 I heard an odd story about those dog races where the competing greyhounds chase an electric rabbit. It seems that in one race there was a slip-up and one of the dogs caught the rabbit, pounced on it, and took a good big bite into the electricity. The dog got a shock — and ever since then they can!t persuade that greyhound to chase another rabbit. It was his last race, and itfs my last news item. I ; and SO LOilO UNTIL MONDAY.