L.T. 50K0CQ. MOIsDAY t KOyRT/riFfi 7, 195B. GOOD EVESING EVERYBODY: We shall soon be hearing the glad tale; in the words of W.S, Gilbert: "The Duke and the Duchess As they trav©L through the land With their Hej Jerry Hoi And their Hi Jerry Hoi, When one says Duke and Duchess in America, one means of course only one Duke and Duchess:- The Windsors. The land through which they'll be traveling with their Hey Jerro Ho and their Hi Jerry Ho will be the Duke's own land, over which he once reigned as King, England. At least that seems to be the implication in tydings that come from what is described as a source close to Buckingham Palace. A royal fatted calf is to be slain. The prodigal Duke and his Duchess are to be welcomed back into the bosom of the royal family. Appropriately enough, the first leaf of the olive branch will be extended on Armistice Dafr. On that day the Windsors will receive a visit from the Ex-King's brother and ,lister-in-law. WINDSORS - B the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. It Is generally understood that the barriers between the Duke and his family haven®t existed because of any choice on either side. Tney’ve been imposed by the government, but now the excitement about the abdication has died down, and the Duke® s marriage to the woman he loves has long been an accomplished fact. People in England who ought to know say that the visit of the Gloucesters to the Windsors will be followed next year by a visit by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to England. If that happens and the Duke is received in accordance with his rank, that will indeed be a triumph for the lady from Baltimore SPAIN Tb.e Spanish. Nationalsit armies have won the civil war. So says General Franco. He made this positive statement to James I. Miller, Vice President t£ of the United Press for South America* Sounds liie a strange boast in view of another United Press dispatch from Barcelona which reports that the government armies made what Is described as a daredevil drive across the flooded watefs of the Segre River. They went over the top before dawn this morning near Laruda, north of Ebro front. They claim to have captured several villages in key positions, and several hundred pri­ soners -- also threatening Franco1s line of communications. In such fashion the Republican generals offer a concrete answer to Franco^ claim that he has won the war. Anyhow Franco has an explanation; He says the rank and file of the Republican forces have long since kw tired of fighting. They are kept in the field only by virtue of the persuasion and threats of their officers. Along with this calim of victory. Franco announces his program for Spain;- He aims to bring the country back to a position SPAIN - £ approaching that which it held three hundred years ago, as a world power. ^It will be a land of peace and plenty ,11 Franco prophecied. "Capital will be respected, but at the same time it will be strictly regulated, forced to realize its social obligations. Capital will be put to work so as to provide employment, energy and prosperity:. The Rebel chief added that there will beno such liberal democratic government as we enjoy in the United States. The national life will be dominated by the state. In other words, a totalitarian regime. Not, however, that of either Nazi Germany of Fascist Ita^y. It will be a variation of Fascism more suitable to the Spanish temperament. (More) SPAIN - 3 Victory for the Rebels will evidently be followed by plenty of executions. Szxxkss Franco said: t!Criminals and their victims cannot live together*" People who contribute an element of foiaentation and deterioration should not be returned to society but I believe in redemption through the penalty of labor." ^And herefs one ominous addition he made: "We have more than two million persons card indexed with proofs of their crimes and names of withesses." Two million people apparently who are due for punishment when, as and if Franco wins that war! A member of the Republican government charges that Mussolini’s withdrawal of Italian troops from Spain is phoney. The who makes the charge is the Foreign Minister of the government at Barcelona. He saic that the Italian division which had been sent back to Italy has been replaced by a new division attached to Franco’s armies, a division called the Green Arrows SHOOTING Once again a pistol has been fired in Europe, the object of thw attack fell gravely wounded, and the consequence may be a critical international episode. The scene of the shooting was Paris. Tr.e man who was snot was Third Secretary of the German Embassy. It was a boy who shot him, a seventeen year old Polish Jew. After he was arrested, he declared* MI did it to avenge my people.” It is reported that the wounded diplomat is sinking rapidly. One bullet hit him in the lung, another in the stomach. He has already undergone two emergency operations* As might be expected, the Nazis are making the most of this crime. It was reported to Hitler and the report from Berlin is that he is in constant personal communication with Paris by telephone, inquiring into the corad it ion of tne wounded man. Foreign Minister Bonnet promptly expressed the extreme regret of the French government. From what correspondents report, tnat young Jewish fanatic has done a grave disserv-ce to axr ^ ews who are left In Germany. .It will probably / ! result in measures against them ydiarsher than ever. It will also sharpen Nazi feeling against all foreigners, 1 HOLL Secretary of State Hull has sent a message to the London Committee for the Relief of Political Refugees. The Committee had asked the State Department whether the Secretary believed Jewish refugees from the Sudeten parts of Czechoslovakia should be included in the scope of the Committee*s work. Hullfs answer todjsiy was: nXesln i m f . xplqstion The Nazis are not alone in believing that the explosion on that German ship in California was no accident. The German Consul General in San Francisco declared last week that a hole was blown in the steamer VANCOUVER by anti-Nazi conspirators. Today, the District Attorney at Oakland, California, sals he agreed with the German Consul General. The Oakland Prosecutor ax had been making an examination of the ship. And he says his inspection shows conclusively th$t the explosion came from outside the vessel. Meaning — bomb! SOUTH MERIC A There were prompt reactions in South America to the radio speech made by Sumner Welles, Under-Secretary of State. The speech in which he served notice that Uncle Sam stood by the Homroe Doctrine and was determined to protect the entire western hemisphere from any threat of a ttaek. A transcript of Welle1s speech was featured prominently in the important South American newspapers. They laid particular emphasis on Welles* promise that the United States would cooperate in defense of the western hemisphere. i CMADA Our neighbors, the Canadians, are going to join in the move for bigger and better armaments. The 0f two provinces of Canada today made public their attitude on this question. Yesterday was the opening of peace week at Ottowa, organized by the League of Nations Society. Premier Hepburn of Ontaria and Premier Pattulo of British Columbia sent messages to meet the occasion, messages which may have been a surprise to pacifist enthusiasts. Hepburn of Ontario said: f,We do not serve the cause of peace by continuing to live without adequate means of self-defense.” And he added: "We cannot maintain our self-respect as a nation by cowering between the paws of* a lion or beneath the wings of an eagle." Meaning, obviously. Uncle Sam. Said Premier Pattulo of British Columbia: "If youngsters of Canada are taught that they must not fight under any conditions, while youngsters of other nations are taught and trained to fight, I am afraid that the future will not hold out very hopeful prospects j for Canada." [JN-A?£jiRXCA.NIuM Another startling accusation vias made today before the Dies Committee on Un-American activities. The man v.ho brought the accusation was J.D.MatthewSj who appeared before trie Committee several weeKs ago at the first hearing. He was the man who said that Shirley Temple was, without her knowledge, a stooge for the Communist Party. Today Matthews declared that a case brought before the National Labor Relations Board had been dropped after a hundred dollars was paid to a Communist lawyer. It was a case concerning the payment of thousands of dollars in back wages to the employers of the Consumers Research Company at Washington, New Jersey. Matthews was Vice-President and Assistant Treas ser of that Company. Matthews also told the Committee that Earl Browder, head of the Communist Party in America, had once tried to obtain diplomatic immunity for funds sent to America by the Soviet government. A miifciii I ^he State Department pflEfr answer that there is no such thing as diplomatic A immunity for money. wly-to ttawir familwn anrt-their sUiW*. I K. ELECTION Along with these earthy affairs of the day we have a X celestial phenomenon occuring right now* If any of you who happen to be listening have a window facing east, you will see the raoon*M\ ellipse. Old Girl Luna in fact has been darkened by the shadow of the sun for «iaw»st the past hour. Unfailingly interesting to mankind, those of moon and sun which mankind used to regard as signs of terror and supernatural portent- “tp vwp wv nine. And now — the lunar eclipse this evening - Election Day tomorrow. Why? Because at a luncheon at the New York Advertising Club today politics was the theme of the noon-tlaae broadcast — politics with a dash of astronomy. Postmaster-General '•Jvwi Farley talked, discussing the New York State election — just as Republican Candidate Thomas E. Dewey did last week. And then. In honor of the forthcoming eclipse, we called upon an astronomer* who was present —Charles Federer, President of 'b&Jl and a star-gazer^formerly connected with the Hayden Planetarium. Astronomer Federer made an apt remark that tomorrow a number of i ti A candidates '5 political^*±±3x1^ will go into eclipse, while this evening it« only the moon. He pointed out that the lunar eclipse will last for an gLECTIOK - 2 while political eclipse is likely to last a good deal longer. Then he made this philisophic observation — that astornomers know fha^s going to happen. They for tell things with the greatest accuracy, while politics is so very different — you never can tell. It»s odd, he remarked — that we do know accurately about things so far away, the moon, the sun and the planets, the stars, millions of miles and miles away; while we know so very little about things that will happen right here at hand, here on earth, this nation, this state, city or county. The vexed question of gold is going to have still another inning before the Supreme Court of the United States. Of course the Court settled one phase of that problem yiears ago, soon after Congress adopted the resolution that took the country off the gold standard. At that time the court put its okay on the reso lution, turned thumbs down on those who tried to fight it. And now the question comes up in a new form and a curious one at that. years ago, the St.Louis Southwestern Railway sold an issue of bonds. Those bonds were payable in five ways. Either in dollars, francs, pounds, German marks or Dutch guilders. .a. In Nineteen Thirty-five, th«* railway was reorganized. Thereupon A the Guarantee Trust Company of New York, which was trustee for some of the bondholders, diexad demanded that they should be repaid in Dutch guilders at Amsterdam. Now of course the guilder today is worth seventy-seven point seventy-eight cents. So if the femkx bank* s demand were to be honored, the owners of those bonds would get nine and a naif million dollars for securities with a face value of only five million dollars. The District Court and the Circuit Cdurt of Appeals decided against the bank. Both those courts ruled that if those bonds had been repaid in guilders, that resolution of Congress which cancelled the gold clause would have been violated. Today, the Supreme Court of the*United States consented to review', the cabe#-^ EARTHQUAKE In one part of Japan the total number of earthquakes during the last few hours was no fewer than eighty. In Tokyo there were fifty separate shocks according to the recording instruments. But the regions up the coast were shaken even more. Only a few peoplelost their lives* though the damage to property is considerable. iwias O^ne of tne best of the Gilbert -and Sullivan operas, Bi'he Gondoliers”, t^.s a plot in which two brothers are 1-ing of Bars tar ia» King, not Kings, It isn» t known which of them is the rightful king, so they both hold the job. At Canisius College at Buffalo, New Xork, there are two brothers who are in a somewhat similar position. They’re twins, so much alike that they provide headaches for the professors. They’re both taking the same classes. The dizzy profs are unable to tell whether it’s the same brother who always knows the right ansers or whetherboth of them are doing their homework. But there's still another side to that problem at Canisius. The Freshman were voting for class president. When the votes were counted, each of those twins received fifty-eight vot s. Their nearest rival got only fifty-two. That put the freshmen class in a spot. They settled it in true Gilbertian fashion. Both twin brothers are President. Each is half a president. And if they make different decisions they are sure to be half right. And if they crack a joke will each be a half wit? and SO LOfJu UtvTIL TOMORROW,