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
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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
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of Scotland Yard have picked ip
ha1 r. Togo
to flio United States.
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'I’.' letory ' . n n:—He oealt in c. ruge.
He procured it illegality from chemical factor! s in
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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 ‘ ‘
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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'
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of the ■ Torld ’ • Hrir smug i ing ring.
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hes built up a fabuloi ' rtun , ; ; a • In
-parts of the v'orld he hay huge investments and bank
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, 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
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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
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# it concerns
the
economic ctepr • ion.
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: '■ 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
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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
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us ar concern: , if ee coul nft .uy things
on the instalm: rh
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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
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in this week* s Literary
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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
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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
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‘ 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
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example - ahere ore that only runs 80b to the ton
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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*
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in to th
lie
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a statement to th effect that th gold striae is
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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
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- 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
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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.
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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.
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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.