MllMik JJLQMA5 jjRo AD CAST Fo TIIE LITERABY DIGEST SATURDAY,, JU.ME 13. 1.93.1 INTRO GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY; Well, the week-end situation all enrer the world is pretty much the same as it has been. Mot much trouble - .and that’s good ne.a, England is stixl going through a political crisis. The Labor party .and the Liberals are having a scrap, and if they are not able to get together and establish harmony, why, the Labor government will fall, and. then England will face the prospect of a general election this summer .and the uncertainty that goes with it. The Mew York Sun in reviewing the news for the week statee that the next three days will tell the tale, and will decide whether the British political situation, is goiing to go on as it is, or whether there will be a big bat Me at the polls. Tonight it * s still in the lap of the Gods. In Germany the cabinet of Chancellor Bruening is having INTRO - 2 ^ ■ • ■ — ...— . | * • | • ' trouble. There is opposition in the Reichstag. The Germans are indulging in a lively scrap over foreign policy and taxation. In Italy( of course, the hig quarrel is still on - the quarrel between the Vatican and Mussolini. But it seems to be quieting down. In Spain they are getting all set for those national elections that come in about two weeks* A new Spanish parliament will be elected. This Is the first general election for Spain under the new republican regime, and it's got the Spaniards talking in Cafes all the way from San. Sebastian to Gibraltar, In France all is quiet along the .©i: e. The new president has been inaugurated and along the Boulevard a they're locking for something new to talk about. The correspondent of the Sun tells us that all Kurope is a bit excited about the visit which Secretary Mellon, is going to pay to the various old world capitals soirietime next month. Much of the agitati on over there is still due to the war debts, those debts which European owe to Uncle Sam, and .all the states- INTRO - 3 men are eager to hear what Secretary of the Treasury, Mellon, will have to say on the subject if he has anything to say at all* YEMEZiiEU Page___ -.3______ Qtfr This isnTt a South American revolution that comes along in this next dispatch. everything seems to be entirely parliamentary -- thus far. The Congress of the Hepublic of Venezuela has made a formal request to the president of Venezuela, asking him to resign. The Congress politely but firmly requests the president to get out. The president of Venezuela is doctor Juan Baatista Perez, who recently succeeded General Gomez as president. The United Press comments upon the fact that Gomez for 20 years was the strongest dictator of South America. He ruled with the old and famous iron hand. He resigned not long ago, saying that he was getting too old for the job of president. ____ yoetor Perez—eucrcceded him and -it wasnTt long before he began to have a—b+t o f tr oil Ift 1 ft § Reports o-f r e v o I u t ion ap~y movements in Venezuela have been com through on and off, and now the Venezuelan Congress is- up on its hi-nd— legs and-trying to hand the president his hat. VENEZUELA - 2 But it looks as if General Gomez, the hard-fisted old dictator, i? still very much in the picture, even if he isn’t the president. The International News Service states that Gomez has ordered President Perez to step down, And so it looks as if Doctor Perez is on the Venezuelan I I : | | toboggan. I (aANQill Page S ,/-s 3 ! 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Over in London the section called _ — —- Last L n d , tl - e A district of poor people, ■tte^uo^ckney s, brick laborers, truckmen,^^ ja&Eii ^Kingsley Hall is a place of refuge for those who are destitute. Vie! I, the humble feast End and the poor surroundings of Kingsley Hal I are going to have a new inhabitant this summer. A man from a far off country will visit England, and he will take up his quarters in the shabbiest slums the great British metropolis can provide, acftSt^he is one of the most famous men in the world. He is fv.ahatma bandhi, the holy man and leader of the Indian Nationalist party. He will attend a great conference to decide the future of India, and he will be just about the most important personage there. Every eye will be turned to the frail meak Hindu whose non-violence and long suffering has made more trouble for the B r i t i lion than a few dozen warlike hard fighting tribes. The other Indian members to the «-9-3I 5M *F £ANQH1 Page 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 <■9.31 5M conference will live in good hotels and will keep up the dignity that is customary^to statecraft and diplomacy.i At a similar famous conference on India last falI London was dazzled by s the bejewelled magnificence of the ^ Indian princes who attended as delegates, e but it is altogether characteristic of s bandhi that when he journeys to London as the hero of the hour, he will live in the poorest quarter of town, among the humblest of people, among the poor, the disinherited, among waifs and beggars. There is just one thing that seems to be bothering the little holy man. The Associated Press reminds us that he lives largely on a diet of goat's milk. He has his own private flock of goats which are milked daily, and he is afraid that in London goat's mi Ik may be hard to get. You are not likely to see a flock of coats wanderino around Piccadil.ly circus^o-n One rumor is, that just to make sure,Gandhi will procure a supply of American condensed milk, which apparently he thinks the next best thing to goat's milk. aQumiis Page 10 11 12 13 14 15 J 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ThereTs no surprise in this next dispatch. It tells us that Columbus was born in Genoa. Of course, any school child can tell you that. But just the same there!s been plenty of discussion about where ColumbusAwas A born, just as there's been about who wrote Shakespeare's plays. The most important expert on the subject of where Columbus was born was Columbus himself. In his letters he wrote repeatedly that he was a native of Genoa, and that ought to settle the case. But some people thought that maybe I the letters weren11 genuine or that Columbus had reasons for not telling where : he really came from. The New York Sun tells us that a commission appointed by the city of Genoa has been traveling through Spain, and looking up all the records that have any bearing on Columbus. They!ve now made their report and dec!are that there can be no doubt but that Columbus was a native of Genoa. SM £QLU^£US_- 2 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 | 11 12 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Page They made a close study of the letters in which the great discoverer declared that he was a Genoese* And they find that these letters are unquest ionably authent ic. Examination disclosed that a letter wr itten by Columbus to the Genoese ambassador was on paper which must have come from the same sheet as another letter which he wrote to his son Qiego. And in these two letters were phrases that were exactly al ike. The commission also reports that the Spanish experts who are in charge of the original manuscript pertaining to Columbus are positive and unanimous in the certainty that the discoverer of America was indeed born in the old sea-port town on the northwestern coast of Italy* 25 <931 5M Page 1 1 2 3 4 8 i 10 j CL AlI is quiet in Roubaix tonight. And where is Roubaix? Well, I looked it up in my Literary Digest atlas and found it is an important town in the textile district of northeastern France They've been having exciting times in Roubaix -- something that looked very much like a young revolution. Thousands of workmen are on strike in the French textile section. Arrd the n 12 13 1 14 15 10 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 authorities at Roubaix refused to allow the strikers and the communists to hold any parades. And pretty soon exciting things began to happen. A mob of communists and strikers fortified themselves in the street. a They threw up barricades in the good old fashion of French street fighting. They tore up the pavement and gathered stones and bricks., a proceeded to feu strw^fc* The gendarmes, on foot and on horseback, came charging. But they were met with showers of stones and bottles, and were driven off. Again SM Page SIR-LKE an d again they advanced, but were beaten back. Apparently there wasn't any r l i 1 at gun-fire. I suppose t he gendarmes were being careful. Anyway, they weren't able to do much, and the communists and strikers held their barricades and could^Rst be driven ^offL > * " ’ A Finally, as the Associated Press reports, the police withdrew their forces, and tried to figure out some more strategic method of defeating the r1oters. And that was the end of the trouble The communists and strikers, having won a glorious victory, thought they ought to celebrate it -- and they did. They deserted their barricades and adjourned to the cafes, where they drank toasts and sang songs of tr i urnph. While they were engaged in these festivities, the g e n d arm as quietly demolished the barricades. They succeeded in catching several of the rioters. One of them was a big powerful SIR1KE Page // fellow who put up a e^eSsemm^f i ght. It took 12 gendarmes to drag him down and cart him away to the police station. ■ 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 B1QI Page There seems to be some comp I icated labor trouble among the coal miners of est©rn Pennsylvania* The United Press states that ten thousand miners are out on strike. Two Labor Unions are ope rating^and they don't seem to be on good terms with each other. Today one group tried to break up a meeting held by the other group. I he next thing you know a free for all fight was on. Two men were badly beaten up. The presence of strike breakers makes the trouble al I the more comp I i cat ad. There was an attempt to wreck a train carrying sixty strike breakers from GIeveI and to New Kens ington. A railroad tie was placed across the tracks. The train was then bombarded by striking miners who had a stone throwing bee. I he windows in the coaches were smashed and three men were hurt. State police troopers charged the strikers and there was a lively fracas along the raiIroad tracks. <9-31 5M Page L2 ni£££I 2 3l 1 4 Step to rwc r d ladies and gentlemen, and witness a great sight* uo you want to see a comet - yes, one ot those giant luminous wanderetsin the heaven3- 5 6 7 a 9 10 11 do you want to see that comet being shivered and shaken and blown to pieces? Well, it you uo, just take a look at page 27 ot this week!s Literary digest, ihere you will see two pictures. One shows a comet in its natural healthy torm with the tail shooting out behind 12 13 14 15 16 it in a straight line. In the second picture you see that same comet bent and twisted, its tail something like a wreath or smoke clown by a gust ot wind. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 The caption under those pictures in the uigest tells us that the two photographs were taken through the great telescope ot the Yerkes observatory. Ihe comet hasn't any Taney name ~ jusc a number. ltTs cal led I908U, <..nu ent pictures show the heavenly visitor on two successive uays. onX one day it was a trim, neat <’•31 SM w 6 I l behaving c o m e x • dux x he next a a y 2 ix was a shabby looking sight, baxtereo what hix that ..ell 3anu bedraggIed• 4 comet? AT h a x1s an interesting cuestion• 5 ihe uigesc answers bw telling us 6ot & new theory which has been ticureu oul by ur i..ar is or the U naval Research Laboratory. i .ie Liigeet ruotes ®froi;i jcience Service, anci tells us that 10 ur. i/.ar i s believes that comets are sometimes 11 broken u.) by great outbursts of ultra­ -violet I i .it shoot inn from the sun. ltfs a case of sun spots Vhen there are a 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 SM lot of sun spots Old Sol sheds simply a 16 flood jt ultra-violet light through 16 space, and this hits the comet and tears 1 its x^asK spread in tail to pieces. 18| For example, that comet which is sh o w n of shaoe on the same da in the Digest p i ctur^^^?/^s^nt out great magnetic s t o r m ^o n the 6 a r c n ; and be connected magnet ic st ->rmj are supposed to with 3 Uil spots too Anyway, it 1 SiotSrgr^j^Sl^^matiaUI-v-rfiTtitp before our eye'S^ fascinating bit t ; h at ana the Page /6^ 11 2 3 i 4 5 6 : 7 8 9 ; 10 11 12 131 14 15 i 16 i 17 181 19 20 2! 22 23 24 <«ell, they do seem to be piling up a lot of trouble for Scarface Al Capone. They r ve got him under several i nd i ctment s. fche last one is for a conspiracy to violate the prohibition t vo-ejkL>2 \ law. ASixty-eight henchmen of his are under indictment too. The International News Sergice gives us some large figures. Ihis last indictment against the Big Shot charges him with five thousand separate offences for a period of ten years. I he king of gangdom and his mob are charged with manufacturing and selling S75#000 worth of U forbidden brew a day. That comes to more than tiro bill! iwW seven hundred mill ion A do I lars worth a year. And they say it's mo stIy profit. Scarface Al and his sixty- eight henchmen are I i abIe to get two years in jail and a ten thousand dollar fine each. If that happened it would be a total of one hundred thirty-six years in jaiI and six hundred eighty 25 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 10 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1 aAEQfclE Page- !L thousand dollars in fines. Yes, sir, those figures are large alI right?and the impression to be that the government is going the may lord of the gangs in a big way break his power. seems after an d i i .~r— ,.t **-31 5M COPS bomeoody has been picking on the cops out in Denver, and it's what I call a cruel practical joke. As the United Press telxs us, a man called up the police headquarters out in my old home town of Denver, Colorado, and the man said in an excited voice; "'They are going to put a man on the spot in a few minutes right here.** The next thing the riot squad car was speeding along to the address the man gave them. There they saw a figure waving wildly to them, "They have taken him for a ride"! the man shouted, "They just raced by and they're off down the street. That way! Here's their license number," And the cops in the car grabbed the license number and off they went. Then, for the next half hour the riot squad, with pistols drawn, and a machine gun ready, toured the ncighborhood ^hey drove up and down ih* and right and left. Finally the police captain in command phoned headquarters COPS - 2 to give 3- ‘eneral alarm for the hand its car. Over the telephone he read off the license number he had been handed by the stranger. "Say, who * s been kidding you?" inquired the sergeant on the other end, "That’s the number of your own car." The practical joker had sent the heroic cops of the riot squad chasing after their own car, and all Denver is having a hilarious laugh. And at Des Mo ins, Iowa, a couple of cops thought they were being kidded COPS - 2 to give a reneral alarm for the bandits car. Over the telephone he read off the license number he had been handed by the stranger. “Say, who * s been kidding you?" inquired the sergeant on the other end. "That's the number of your own car." The practical joker had sent the heroic cops of the riot squad chasing after their own car, and all Denver is having a hilarious laugh. And at Des Moins, Iowa, a couple of cops thought they were being kidded. Tne Iowa story, as the United Press passes it along, relateo tnat a young »rian walked into a police station at Des Moines and asked for a place to sleep. "What's your name?" asked the cop. "Goodnight", exclaimed the young man. "Hey, don't get so freshJ I asked you what’s your name, you sap." "Why, Goodnight", retorted the young man. By that time the cops were hot under the collar. They were fingering their nighsticks ominously as the young man added innocently "Yes, Goodnight. That’s my name, Johnny Goodnight." The cops looked at each other and figured it was a horse on them. Well, I guess I'll follow the example of that young fellow in the Des Moines police station. I'll say what he said -- that is, goodnight, and. SO LONG UNTIL MONDAY.