Lo-'. I"1 I’horn as Broadcast for Literary Digest BriO ay, October 17, 17 0. Intro. I’ve got a startling thing to broadcast tonight, v. \ n imnt. 1... voile ar "ft..r f.h richest ’ n in . !'■ v ..ges. c . n '' ' • ' im, • n if you sec ■-'hi, notify tie authorities, hot only is he the richest •• -m in the ’eorld, but he also Is the most mysterious. Hov. v ill you knov him if you see him? hell, he is Mr. Togo, but that’s not his right name. His right name 5s not known. ' His nationality? That’s unknown too. Tall or short? May be. Thin or fat? Maybe. Light or dark? Maybe, also. The police have never seen him. And they’ve never found anybody eho has seen him. According to a s; iecxul despatch front London +:o the New Xork Lvenin » 1 of Scotland Yard have picked ip ha1 r. Togo to flio United States. • ! kin . c ntrols ••• vart t n ' o : rru ; ‘lin;;: • 11 over tee .1 v . !. ir- ' 1;. , or.. . v II ■ cy, c ■ e • has been almost impenetrable. V ' 'I’.' letory ' . n n:—He oealt in c. ruge. He procured it illegality from chemical factor! s in . - its ai- . H ^ Is.: vilec b c int e sti , . o Mr. Togo went to the Balkans. There he organized vast poppy farms, opium being derived from the poppy. There are Balkan valleys that rere formerly yellov with corn, that a-e nor r ‘ ‘ h o , thonHs ' o Hr. To-o, Tien Hr. .o • rent to Bur-f: y, • er hinge are not !-.oo ; tric-t. Thr rr H -u' r. ; a a r.: actories tc tv;rn H o r-les into "o'ir . -^i n l,C' t con vol of the ■ Torld ’ • Hrir smug i ing ring. }. ■ ■ r -)'-j are •' th'miser •• r cent, and re hes built up a fabuloi ' rtun , ; ; a • In -parts of the v'orld he hay huge investments and bank accou its p ’ ■ * ncveT’ ^-Ga^s erson Ly. Ie ai or ’' ' ' 1 ' ^ ;:r-, a- va. t corps of ag' nt.. . Bis \ n n .no\ Bin on „ ; 3 ,r< ’o , hi' orders come clo’n the line from one . out to uno ther . H ot , ho is s - id to be ri^ht h/ v*e in midst. Right here in America. Bo if you happen to sec lr. Vo r, '••her-.: nr ;e end eescri tion I canf t 'ive y } . hy, just call the nearest corj. Flash V.ell, Lr• To o -lay have vast v-ealth but there are many vho lost what little they had today. Wall Street hit the toboggan again. Mr. Cozzens of the International News Service, >hcn th?t there - s a. floor of selling from t1-" open in;: pong this morning right Vovn to market closing time this evening. The bears unloaded, on a vast seal . Am ‘lean Can and y ed States Steel each fell 5 points. General Motors md the hizh grade railroad stocks rent at the lowest orice in three y 3■' rs . Autos Anyh , lere's a bit of cheering news from . # it concerns the economic ctepr • ion. A •' - 4 - k : '■ he. .. is on ov- the • , acoom ni :c: hi •• ' 1 ’ •' i.o uy car*.- . '- sales, aiccording to th' lie'.'. York Even ins Post, have been phenomenal. Is thi. an in ice vion that the era of bac bur? ness is i an 5nc in Bn land? If 'J'- is—that’s ’ iport; ni ‘"or itV ' she.'e vorld . Lit, divest Or o ’ - j • ' • " h i- bankorr co-- s to bat •. ' J-h remark that v;e have a ioae of debt hanging around our necks. I don11 n ' e1 s thinkin abou buy in: things from ice boxes to baby carriages on the instalment plan or not. ■cl', so far as most O', us ar concern: , if ee coul nft .uy things on the instalm: rh e n, there 1 r’U.!.6n! t be much buying. And by trte- - *v , there* s an article of rea 1 imoortr- nee on this oinJ'. in this week* s Literary . . ti T ! s ! c ■ '1 • hi - th me rican •• c< pii 1 tl ir in ti imenl ■’r nts just as they did when tim< s wer« better. Tb: s is certainly good news. It sho s b the r at Am rican i:ri { j , i i ■■ £ucces s ull; < t ■ ■ t /1 business degression* The Direst quotes a number of authorities vino all emphasize the point that instalment buyin. "as no hearing on thr recent depression. One of those s 'hr. A, . . Duncan, of Baltimore, head of one of America’s , ;prst finance oom ni e, and in th • Digest he iv- s e,n impressive array of figures shov ing that re ecuIs not have real prosperity aishout the instalment syvtrra, contuctec, a" esmra- , on a ’--use and sour 1 bu ainess basis. Ana all these financial currents and croc:: curr nts have a big meaning in in burly burly af ol' ic:: gust no- . election The Dam.ocra,ts arc a • in more and more optimistic about ttr-ir chances in tin eu-reaching 1 cti< n. T1 £ th. ist of ■ oil ical article in the iJev: lord -venin : Post by one cJ> its Washington cor r ■ pondenv.°.. until r can fly the Democratic lenders c, re iro she eying : .gain of 56 seats in Congress, h',-a vould giv< th i control. Now they’re prophccying '''--•ind 1 -:rV :v;-liv..c. Tvu? i.eptVMicans "■■mi1. y .r,- oir. to lose bit el rove- . 15 ‘ th' • ry t loss that any responsible loader will concede. The -Wee York Evening Post is. • n independent Republican 'aper, but it admits there is unusual pessimism in Hepublican quarters But there i.: no pessimism in one section of borib Bnoric . Gold Rush Anoth-r old stampede is on. Prospectors and adventurers car 'ht by the told favor, ore racin through t • Canadi-m v.-ilde-aiess on foot, by canoe, anr by airplane. One prospector declares his samols ass y 080 to th ton. That'; pretty ■ ch, hoc? there i rg pl< ees - in Alaska j . or example - ahere ore that only runs 80b to the ton • • n min( < 1 • : ' >ro vit<. ' he ne\ *ol< si cl : is 3 n tli" of art of : royaon C' 1.1'a ..idtaCiiCV.tUl nc a. la Lal-, not f- •* from th famour Pproupine- country in Northern Ontario. The Ontario Government* aecor' in to th lie lor .vrnin orl( , has issued a statement to th effect that th gold striae is -7- genuin , anr 700 clai ns have a3.r‘/:ady been s taked. Brazil Bov n in ioutli America, on the other hand, there are some people vho may find theneclvas in th ‘rip of famine. Peder• 1 authoritics in Brazi1 are try in v- to starve thf rebe! s into submission. They've throen a blockade of varrhior along the coast at points where the rebels have been expectin'; to bring in food and supplies. Captain Levis Aancey, the trans-Atlantic flier, .just back from a pood -a ill f lying tour of Couth America, says that the tou he.ct place m all the world to kiy, is over the Andes. According to the Nov fork liven in Pov t, f ancey said it " as necessary to keep at on altitude of about 18,000 feet to avoid- the hazardous up and da n sir currents. Yancr.y also tolc about one landing ho made in Gfeilc on his ood will tour uhere he was arrested and loehed up. Chileans thought he had come dov n to start a revolution. Rumanian C Indio Tb it boy c n fly, but hov. about those Ru.aani n millions that flev; away? One of thf biggest swindles of the century ha 5 - just come to light. During the late rear the Austrian army built a certain tunnel through the mountains. Just before it uas finished they had to move to another front and abandon it. After the mar that particular territory became a cart of Rumania. Then a Rumanian engineering firm rot a contract from the. government to build a tunnel between two certain towns. They said it you lb take seven years. And seven years later, says the N. Y. limes, they took the government offici?Is to see their completed tunnel. It was the same one built during the war, and all they had done was to make the entrances look ne\ . The f-ovf 1 ’nment paid thorn ive an a 1 w ± mi 13 ion ol_:.'. rs • -O- F; But one of tb-- eiirineers 1 t th' cat. out of the bag. . hit celebrating; t.b- s- indie be imbibed too freely and grea talkative. The engineers .an., thmanager of the construction firm are nov: in .jail. But the five and a half million — well, no one seems to ::;nov, what has become of that. Bus solini From home comes an announcement tonight that Premier i.tussolini v.ill attend the wedding of the ainof Bulgaria and the Princess uiovanna of Italy. It is to hr- celebrated at Assisi on October F5th, and th to nonce of the Dictator vill make th- festivities complete. i.'us sol ini announced ’.as t night at a meeting of the Fascist Grand Council that during the met few years 84 Fascists living abroao nave been killed, 93 disabled, and 189 subjected to physical attack—in other words, beaten up. Explosion Thirty-three people ’vero injured in the city of i>o. Angeles today. An infernal '.nachinc , a. comb, caused a terrific explosion. The fourth ’loor of a buil ;in;; in the garment manufacturing district v;as completely wrecked, says the interns.tional feus; Service. Police are work in.. on the th- ory that the bomb was planted by garment workers con- r:tee with a recent L o s An r e 1 e s s t r-ik e. A rock Two trains of the Big-4 had a head-on collision today in Cleveland. Three werr killer and -‘our injured. Two non were scolded to death. A fireman on one o * the trains, according to an Associat d Press account,declared th re was m warning. 511 saw the headlights of the ■ncoming locomo tive,: aid h; , 51 and a moment later c mo the crasy. - 11 - News Item of the Day This afternoon I was talking to the Science Editor of the Literary Digest. There is one of his weekly features that I alv/ays devour - the one headed: "How Common Things Work". For instance, in this week’s Digest, the subject is lightning rods. I imagine that most of us are interested in lightning rods, because e are nervous about lightning and because there used to be an epidemic of farmer joked about them. Well, that article tells in a brisk and fascinating way the theories and facts about lightning rods— knowledge useful to all of us. I dropped in to congratulate the Science Editor, and found him clipping an article out of the New York Telegram. Handing it to me, he remarked: "How about this for your News Item of the Day?" Well, here it is: A scientist worked for years and solved a small scientific problem, v.-hich certainly didn’t seem to amount to anything—merely another piece of Interesting knowledge. But the solution the scientist found has suddenly turned out to he worth millions. Three years ago. Dr. Horace Stunkard Head of the Department of Biology at New York University, became interested in the CRYPTOCOTYLE. Tha^s the tv/o dollar word invented to describe a tiny parasite. He^ a nev/comer in this country— is the cryptocotyle - came over here about a hundred years ago. He made the trans-Atlantic voyage in the shell of a snail, buried in sand that was used as ballast in the hold of a sailing ship. The parasite spread. From time to time it was found in sea gulls, also in small seals and in fishes. Dr. Stunkard was interested in the cryptocotyle because so little was known about it. The Doctor1s task was done. He had unraveled the life story of this parasite, and was prepared to dismiss the Cryptocotyle from his mind. He had had his fun. Then another scientist used the Doctor’s laboratory for an important investigation. He was studying a mysterious something that recently has been killing off silver foxes. There are thousands of fox farms engaged in the production of valuable silver fox fur. It has become a mighty important industry, with investments running into millions. The nev; malady attacking the foxes had already caused a loss of over half a million dollars. It was threatening the whole silver fox business. The study of the disease involved a microscopic search for possible parasites. Just by luck, the learned Doctor happened to look into a microscope at organisms that had been found In a three hundred and fifty dollar silver fox. And tbre, as he peered into the tube, he recognized his old friend, the strange parasite, the CKyPTOCOTYLE, whose life history he had unraveled for the sheer scientific fun of it. "V'Jhat do they feed the silver foxes?" he asked. Fish, w-as the reply. They fed them fish of a certain definite size, too large to be packed as sardines, too small for the regular market trade. -14- That made them cheap. And the principal fish of that particular size was the Gunner. which the Doctor had found to be the final home of his cryptocotyle. "Well, don't feed the foxes that kind of fish any more," said the scientist. His advice was followed, and the strange disease disappeared among the foxes. That meant a saving of millions. And it all started out of a scientist's curiosity about something that didn't mean anything practical, out of a scientist's irresistible Impulse to find out the unknown. We seldom hear about men like Dr. ^tunkard, but we are all mighty grateful to them just the same. And thanks to another miracle of the scientists' laboratory - the radio - I am able to tell you about it. Radios By the way, in addition to your radio, there are 13,478,599 others in the United States. Of q figure as big as that thirteen million doesn*t mean much to us, but from the Department of Commerce in Washington comes news today that the number of radios is increasing at a tremendous rate. A United Press wire from the Rockies tells us that in one of the most thickly populated counties of Colorado there are more radios than there are clocks and watches—in fact, there are ten radios to every clock. New York has more radios than any other state, about 2,000,000 of them. California comes second, and Illinois third. That*s a lot of radios, bringing entertainment, bringing the news. And Ifll drop in again tomorrow evening with the latest flashes from the ends of the Earth, for the benefit of any of those 13,4.78,599 radios that happen to be tuned in. Qmdnight.