§fe.turdayt Npy, gg. _ Page. Good Evening, Everybody:- In Pittsburgh today an airplane came falling out of the sky and landed with a tremendous crash in the very 4 5 6 7 8 9 ■ 10 12 i 13 14 15 17 18 19 20 21 22 I 23 25 heart of the crowded city. Some unseen hand of Providence guided that falling machine in its wild descent. sfe^. A few feet one way or the other and it would have landed amid the thronging people in the streets. It was at the mid-day lunching time, and the sidewalks were packed with pedestrians, and the roadways were jammed with automobiles. And-^4tpa%- we^N-4^JaA^e==fee-err~g~^»iajor tragedy. As it was, the plane smashed down on the roof of Mechanics Hall, Pittsburgh’s old exposition building. It went right through the roof. One man [nside the building was hurt. The Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph relates today that there were no further casualties. No, the aviator wasn^t injured. He was high above the city in a heavy fog when his plane got out of control. There was nothing else he "-31 5M AiRPLANE could do. He just stepped out into space. His parachute opened, and he came floating down. he didn’t float right down to the ground. He had a sI inht mishap. He came down among the buildings of Pittsburgh, right alongside Mechanics Hall. His parachute caught on a projection, and was left hanging with his feet tfeatr a few inches from the sidewalk ±n=^gggd=f-5T~trcne- -inters — - ■ — ’*•'- "Vw ^ — — — Lady Luck s* ■rs al^ i ttsburghtjJ^. ]| ii| ! \ 1 I 1 m I 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 UNEMPLOYMENT GAMES Page The New York Evehing Post this afternoon prints an editoriab »afssteis&~\the first few lines go like this:- "A footbal I game was played Thanksgiving Day between Boston College and Holy Cross. It was staged ostensibly for the benefit of the unemployed. The receipts were 75,000 dollars. But it is announced that the game resulted in a deficit of 21,000 dollars . " And then the editorial goes onto wh-tota explain# why the expenses for running the game came to 21,000 dollars more than the money taken in at the that each college had a guarantee of 30,000 dollars; they were supposed to receive that mucn for allowing their teams to play football for the unemployedj^that ate up 60,000 of the 7 Shaken in at the gate., 1}] !§ ■ !' 1 !i , : i it i I i ill i TTWEMPLOYMENT GAJj-ES - 2 adds that various elaborate expenses used up the balance and produced a large deficit. The Uew York Evening Post editorial makes the point that so far as the unemployed are concerned, they are just where they were before — unless the jobless men and women are to be asked to make up that football deficit. Then the editorial continues:* "The game at Boston, "is not the first instance of the sort, a fact which makes it advisable for all other colleges staging games for the benefit of the unemployed to adopt the somewhat humiliating procedure of assuring the public that they are not pulling off a trick for the benefit of their athletic treasuries," Out in the southwest Texas Christian and Southern Methodist played to a tie. The Yale bulldog rubbed the Princeton Tigers nose in the turf 51 - 14, The Army mule got stubborn today and pounded Notre Same 12 to 0. Stanford came across the continent and demonstrated Pacific Coast football to Dartmouth, 32 to 6. winfBALL SCORES Penn State trampled Lehigh 31 to 0. 40,000 saw the Purdue boilemakers trim the North- western wildcats 7 to 0. Michigan 16 — Wisconsin 0. Minnesota 19 — Ohio State 7. Tulane brushed Louisiana State 34 to 7, leaving the Green Wave the only unbeaten, untied major team in America Cajf ^ (^tJxJndS^ Arv- ^;,<fy' jO - *>■ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 I 5M Page___^_ is 3.n In this week's Literary Digest article which tells of romantic adv6n*tures# yo□—cou 1 cfr pos^»^g^7rcrhT^r—efaipfc. Imag i neV aflfh i p Cf th^Vikl^.^old. A those sma one of V\boats such as those historic craft in which the Soandanavian pirates roved the seas and were the terror of the world. Now suppose that if a Viking boat like that were to turn Christopher- Columbus-minded, a ship of the Norse sea-raiders sailing along the same course which Columbus took on his memorable voyage of discovery. that's a thing to stir the fancy. in Well, the Literary Digest teI Is of some interesting things about a Viking of 1931 who embarked on just that sort of voyage. He built himself a duplicate » of the craft in which the historic used to sail. The Literary Digest tel Is us what it looks like. It has a drago n T s head rising high above the prow, a blue-eyed dragon with a long DIGEST - 2 red tongue eticking out between horrific teeth. The etern la a <3 ragon 1 8 tail. In thia tiny craft Captain Gerhard Folgeroe of Norway sailed from his native country to Spain, Then from Spain tx he followed the route of Christopher Columbus to the West Indies — then to New Orleans and up the Mississippi River to Minneapolis and then through the various waterways across the continent to New YorV, It ax was a 15,000-mile voyage in that little cockle-shell, adds the New York Herald Tribune. The Captain is the only man in the worls who has ever sailed the Atlantic Ocean twice in an open boat. Captain Folgeroe is here with me now, i'll ask him to tell us something about the viking sailing along the old trail of Columbus Yo-ho, Captain, spin us a yam. tor CAPTAIH FQLGER035 I want to talk about the weather* t * weather. it took ua 59 days to Bail In our Viking boat from Spain to the West Indies. We had two days of good weather, and 57 days of bad. n etormed nearly all the time, and that's no fun when you're in a small open boat. The worst of all came when we were 1,000 miles east of Porto Rico* We hoped we wouldn*t run into any hurricanesa Ait we did. The sky was black, and the wind came screaming and roaring* There were four of us in the boat, 3 sailors and me* Our boat pitched so badly, and the waves swept over us with such power that we had to lash ourselves to the pumps and one man to the rudder. The water poured over the sides* All we had were hand—pumps. They were not enough to keep the boat dry* And besides, we were tired, played out. We had been pumping day after day. The boat didn't leak, but there was no way to keep the waves from coming over the sides* There wns H feet of water in the boat. We had to stand in it day and night We couldn't sleep pntt CAPTAIN FOLGEROB - 2 We had our food and water packed in air-tight tins, . ' ■ .; fir " "• ;• tut the waves beat down on the boat so hard that salt water got into our dried fish and spoiled it. And sea water got into our water tanks. We knew that it the weather continued to be bad we would be left without food or drink. When the hurricane was over we found ourselves still alive and afloat. And the weather did become better. We made port all right, with five gallons of water left in our tanks Well Captain, being a Viking eeerae to be a great life if you don't weaken. There'e a lot more newe here tonight. They eay a huge plot haa been foiled in Hungary, bud ape at is in a virtual state of seige tonight. Strong forces of police are patroling the streets, and guarding the houses of cabinet ministers. One hundred .and fifty arrests have been made. The International Hews Service describes the plot as an attempt to place Archduke Otto on the throne of Hungary, The young Archduke Is now in school in Belgium, The rumors are that the royal conspiracy in Hungary had the support of Fascist leaders in Austria, and the Budapest police claim that the Royalist move had considerable support in the Hungarian array, although it has seen supposed that the array was all for the present government. Tonight strong detachments of police have surrounded HUNGARY - 2 Page----- //_____ o described as the headquarters of the Royalist movement. It is supposed to be the site of a secret arsenal in which thousands of rifles and machine- guns are said to be hidden. It is also rumored that^two field pieces, cannon, are tucked away in thd^-town. ua MCHURIA Today was an exciting one in the important capitals of the world. Japanese officials declare that the American Secretary of State has made a public announcement to the effect that Japan intends to take all of Manchuria and that the Japanese Army is running amuck. To this supposed statement, cables the United Press, the Japanese have replied with some strong words. The Associated Press explains that apparently there ha s b e an ami sund e rat and ing. J apan e se n ews ag enc i es hav e incorrectly quoted what the Secretary of State had to say. In Washington a spokesman for the State Department denies that Mr. Stimson made any such remarks about Japan. He never said that the Japanese intended to take all of Manchuria or that the Japanese army had run amuck. The whole thing seems to be a case of Misquotation, Meanwhile the Japanese Army has not taken Chinchow, In fact the regiments of the Mikado are retiring from the neighborhood of the oity. The International *ewe Service cables that six train- MANCHURIA - 2 loads of soldiers consisting of half 0f the Japanese forces before uhinchow arrived in Mukden today. They had withdrawn from their positions near the city. The Japanese military leaders in Manchuria that they are pulling their troops out for strategic reasons and not because of any political motive. The diplomats in the Par East are said to be bewildered by the sudden withdrawal* In many quarters it is believed that Japan has yielded to the opinion of the outside world. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Uver in Paris today a few black eyes and swollen noses were to be seen. I suppose whenever anybody showed up with a shiner or the marks of knuckles on his countenance his friends said: "0UI, 0U I , Q YOU WERE AT THE PEACE_ ivi L _ T I h G LAST is I G H T, T HE Q I S ARM AM ENT 8 MEETING, i HE MEETING TO PROTEST AGAINST 9 WAR"? 10 11 12 13 14 There has been a buzzing of gossip all da/ in Gay Paree concerning that grand demonstration in favor of peace that was held last night iaxHE&Kxaf and resulted in one of the most 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 magnificent free-for-all fights that the French capital Has ever witnessed. T-h q —p pe-s-s— ; 0 p. -|_0.~g——v ~j~V f-fr—C*0 t 0. I d S a b O U e —BrT-e—a -f ew §4 van—a~ a4fe-i-p-r- The meeting was held by the International Disarmament Organization and a huge crowd was gathered. Among those oresent were a number of hecklers They had a few things to say from time PIS ACE :£EET BJ G - 2 to time, and when they did the battle was on, Piets flew. There ,aa clawing and scratching. Furniture was broken over heads. The meeting hall was wrecked. The Associated Press describes how Senator Borah addressed the great Peace demonstration. The Senator spoke from the United States, His speech was received through the loud speaker. The Senator's voice didn't cause any particular disturbance because nodody could tell what he said. In the first place It was in English and in the second place the static was so bad that it was just so much cackling and sputtering -- % just static. Then the remarks of the Senator were read, translated into French, They were received with a stem of booing and jeering. Another distinguiehed speaker was former American Ambassador ’ ought on. He aroee and addressed the Peace meeting. He began by saying that he brought a greeting from mlllione of PTC ACE MEE^DJG - 3 Americans, united to aid in the peaceful solution of international divergencies. And right in the middle of that praise-worthy sentiment the trouble began again. A fist-fight started just, below the speaker's stand right under the Ambassadorial nose. •’’wo Frenchmen whaled away at each other. The uproar was so terrific that the Mr, U) l £&~ Houghton couldn't go any further -and- his peaceful remarks. So he sat down. Monsieur Heriot, former Premier of Prance, also tried to make a peaue-loving speech. The Premier had just declared that"the spirit must prevail over the brute Force of the world His remarks about the spirit were £Ji££_iiLLliA£_r_M 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 Page /y~ interrupted by a group of men who yelled "NONSENSE". The gendarmes appeared and threw them out. That provoked a *Rg tremendous racket. There was battling all over the place. A—Ea4^#^-ftr co of ^ndar-w^s -w-e-ve- co work- and- by-u-s-H^ fu >4—v-e r-y—peacefu+ means-prod ucod a—tefft|aor-ar y— phj i et. The next one to be howled down was iviadame Louise ..eiss, who was a member of Premier Laval's party on his trip to the United States. After that a storm of cat-calls greeted Herr Joseph Joss, a member of the German Reichstag. A solemn moment came when Viscount Cecil Che (wood, one of the orime movers the League of Nations arose to read messages from ^avid Lloyd George, The British National v»omen!s Council^ and the archbishop of Canterbury. These peaceful messages were received with wild howls. T w o lines formed, and former Houghton and Lord of poIicemen were American Ambassador Cecil, with his messag # es ill ? § j from Lloyd George, the British xh *« m * s National Wome nT s Council, and t he Arc hbishop ot canterbury, were esc or ted out of Hal I , under heavy guard. One amazing thing was that the microphones got every bit of the tremendous turmoil. The peaceful proceedings were to be broadcast far and wide in the interest of disarmament and national good-will. In the excitement nobody thought of turning off the mikes, with the result that the riot was broadcast over the ether waves to the entire world. Thousands and thousands of lo/ers of Peace were listening in hoping to hear soothing wor,!s of international good-feeling, anc all t n e y heard was one of the most unholy noises that ever come the radio.po-n, Reoresentatives of £8 47 oif f e re n t countries were there to express their peaceful sentiments and they howled and roared in 47 different languages. The United Press reports that nearby, another meeting was he I o • ptca HE MEETING - 6 wasn't a disarmament conference. it was an anti-di sarmament conference. It was a gathering of trench Nationalists and they weren't, talking Peace. I euppoee they were pleading tor war. The war meeting went oft with the utmost order, tranquility and peace. I ajppose one delegate arose and said "MONSIEUR, I HAVE THE HONOR TO DENOUNCE PEACE, I ADVOCATE WAR" and the other delegatee responded "GUI, GUI, THA’r IS CHARMING OF YOU, Y DEAR FELLOW -- '"HERE IS NOTHING TEAT WE DISLIKE MORE THAN PEACE. LET'S HAVE WAR*. They a ay that the only thing that might here disturbed the tranquillity of the War meeting was the fact that the noiee from the peace Meeting was so terrible that the people at the War Meeting couldn't hear themselves talk* Well, after that about all I can do is salute that warlike Dove of Peace and say. SO LONG UNTIL MONDAY