k- ^irmaIi i.Hlot Bean ^urford of the airmail staged another thriller toda/* Two v/eeics ago his plane becacie waited down with ice on one way nast« Bean had to oail out over Pennsylvania« Bhis morning he left Kewark Airport with a valuable cargo for Pittsburgh# Cnee more the ice began to form on his plane. Heavy sleet and fog obstructed his vision, and the encrusting ice grew thicker and heavier for a whole hour he talked backwards and forwards over his radio set to the airport at Hewark. Finally he said he'd have to turn back. Head quarters said: "Ckay 1 Come a 10115." Then suddenly his radio went deed, that direction finding apparatus, and no more was heard from him. For five hours ne flew around in that fog unable no locate tne airport. Meanwhile telephone messages came in to police stations all over new Jersey telling of the roar of an airplane motor. These came from every part of the state as the lost aviator wandered blindly. It looked like catastrophe. Airmail - 2 Suddenly, for no apparent reason, his radio started functioning a36in. In a 3 iffy he got his bearing and landed safely back heme at liewark. Treasury Thai} morning -- after foaling, aud a couple of questions• Uncle Sam. is still rubbing hie eyes after the President's message outlining that collossal budget* And today a barrage of questions were fired at the Secretary of the Treasury: "What are you going to use for money?" Or, perhaps more politely; "How are you going to get it?" Hr* -,nrgenthau seems perfectly confident of being able to raise the cash v/ith complete ease* Though he admitted he had made no plans, yet. He was unable to say what kind of securities would be offered in return for that breathtaking amount of cash. Hr. Llorgeutheu declares today:-- "The reaction to the president's budget message was exceedingly good," To beck up this statement he pointed out that the financial markets yesterday afternoon were going along smoothly, quite undisturbed by these staggering figures* However, the treasury has one plan already mapped out-- 1 Treasury - 2 1 that it1!? going to get busy on the job of collecting acme eight » hundred million do Here in unpaid taxes. m Slams Stern word^ f end I ou.^ht to maize my voice stern a* I utter t-aenu Secretary lakes, in hi0 capacity as Public Works Administrator, 451 res warning to property owners who are trying to profiteer on slam clearance projects. Hr. lokes sternly declares: "Where ver owners and speculators attempt to yack up value'3 of real estate property, the housing projects in such localities will be abruptly cancelled. The funds intended for tnose projects will be transferred to other areas or communities 'line 1’ews i‘ro i Washington, i‘or ine-b LTooers. The House of heprese tattves after wrangling about the liquor tax bill agreed on a graduated charge ranging from four to forty cents a gallon :-n wines, according to the percentage of alcohol. There was a fierce argument over an amendment to put an embargo on all liquor iraports from France. men it came to a vote the motion was squelched. The House also approved a tax of two dollars a gallon on all distilled spirits. V-: I DJimiWIlWIIWBl Liens The Lioiis are coming bacic to the cage? What cage? The cage in which they ha^re to study, There will be a whale of a reception for the Lions including three cheers and a tiger at the Pennsylvania Station in new York, Sunday evening. The winners of the Rose Bowl game. the Columbia Lions will receive a roaring welcome from tne more studious owls led by the -cell^giet^ Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. And—wo**'-b ttre Liens-be tcr-^h-e—g t u-di-eu s ^ur^u-i-t-»f-~Mhe4^~-oh o o p Sk L-jump rv Here,s the way this next story ends:- And/when the clouds ox* snow had settled, Coshy Smith was the winner. He Is twelve years old. He was in the hospital until today but he won the ski-jumping contest This little human interest sclimax at the Sunoco winter sports competitions here at Lake Placid today. The Sun Oil Company, in connection with its gathering of Sunoco dealers, offered a whole series of trophies for ski-jumping* bob-sled races, skating races, and so on. .JSvents d^-—-.tffimey were thrilling to watch. Hut the real heart throb came when little Cosby Smith, the smallest boj^ made a ski jump of fifty-two feef and took first place in his class. jdarly in the winter the lad had a bit of hard luck. He was coming out of his yard on his sled, when a^?ruck hit him. He v/ent the hospital gravely injured and week after week he stayed in the hospital. But he got well — and how! He was discharged from the hospital today, went straight into the Sunoco ski-jumping event, and brought home the bacon. Fire A big scare in .boston today • So big that for a while t;.e .iSan ca 'ital tViougnt it was in for one of those terrific conflagrations. Flames v/ere discovered in the new bleachers that are being built at Fenway Park. That’s where the Boston Red fox hope to win so many ball games with those new players bought from Connie hack. After raising havoc with the bleachers and grandstand the flames jumped the street and raged through dozens of garages and frame buildings. It was the first five-alarm fire that Boston has seen since the Back Bay station went up in flames five years ago. In spite of a terrific rain the fire got out of control, Bvery man in the department was on the job. Incidentally it was the first day that Boston’s new fire commissioner Bdward McLaughlin wa ;= on duty. So it was a test of his mettle. The fire was reported under control by four o’clock tnis afternoon t Flood Southern Caliiornla today was galvanized oy a rumor - a melodramatic rumor. It Is, that the disastrous 1 1 ood was not entirely due to the rain. Dame Rumor has it that the real cause of that disastrous flood was the dynamiting of a dam. The police are d L .ng into the story. So far they have nothlrg. y: mm&aKxapM ^ a-ic^ t yh^t. ^tcMc^yy^ - /f ^ f. Intro to Strom Some of you may have noticed that I enjoy relating tales of adventure. *'.rell, I have just run across one of them, ur here, an adventure once featured in all the headlines of the newspapers of the v^orld. In fact Erhling Strom’s achievement entitles him to rank with the greatest mountain climbers of all time. He’s a young Norwegian. An athlete, a good looking rascal, -- -- and single. In winter he’s here in the Adirondacks skiing. In the summer he has a camp in the Canadian Rockies. ..hat was the great mountaineering feat that he accomplished? Some of you may remember that he and three eomranions conquered I.'r, McKinley, the highest mountain in North America. It was called the Lindley expedition. It had only been scaled once before. Alfred Lindley of Minneapolis organised this second expedition. Two Alaskans were in the rarty. It was a year ago last May. The only rarty ever to scale both of the summits of the highest mountain in North ■America. ie- ks and weeks of skiing over glaciers and crevasses. Intro to Strom - 2 Drew Pearson wes with them one moment and the next moment disappeared through a hole in the snow. They rescued him from the bottom of a deer crevasse. I'd like to repeat the thrilling story of the Carre cosmic ray scientific exredition which went part way ur> the mountain, behind them to study the cosmic ray. Carre and Koven who were frozen on McKinley. Strom is sitting beside me tonight, and -L,ll see if T can get him to describe one incident in connection with that conquest of It. McKinley, something that haroened when they reached the top. By the way, Strom in ads ition to a Norwegian accent has his own rarticular way of speaking. He stammers. But his friends don't mind; neither does he. So don't let it worry you when you hear him in a moment. There is one place where he doesn't stammer, and that's on skiis. I’m sure he would be more at home even if he had them on right here in front of the mike. ’:ow about it I.'r. Strom? Yeu are rights Mr* Thomas, my best medium of expression is a pair of skiis* The reason I wanted to olimb McKinley was because when first I looked at that huge mountain* cots red with snow from top to bottom* X thought; "What a grand thing to get to the top and skii all the way d own* * hew about that incident; We were all four stand­ ing on the summit of McKinley* That is there were four — — and then, there were only three. Lind ley* Kaeys and X turned around and found that Brew Pearson had rani shed* He had fallen eff the top of McKinley! Met all the way to be sure! McKinley is 20*300 feet high* But between the time when the four of us stood there talking together and when we turned around he had fallen more than a quarter of a mile* We looked everywhere. But no Pearson* Then* far below we heard a faint to ice* And looking down the mountain* on a snowy plateau a quarter of a mile under us we saw a figure moTing* ns looked about the size of a fly, and he was waving ypR ERLK STROM - 2 Sure enough it was good old drew Pearson — -- still alivel fortunately the place he had gone down was not absolutely perpendicular; and it was covered with enow. He had gone tumbling, crashing and rolling for more than a quarter of a mile. We made our way down cautiously, cutting steps as we went. At one point we picked up Pearson*s binoculars, a little farther down we found his camera, then his gloves, and then hi a goggles. A few hundred feet farther we found his knapsack, split open. — — everything strewn in all directions. And when we got to the bottom we found him with one eye swollen shut, and the other so bloddy he couldn't see out of it; his nose moved over on his xace. his ear all cut. and he was battered from head to foot. Although in terrific pain he just laughed about it. He hurt in so many places that he didn't know which hurt the worse. Next day he suddenly said he believed his right arm pained more than anything else. So we cut off layers of coats, sweater, shirts and underwear, and there we found a large hole FOft JERL3S 3TECM - 3 also at all the way through his forearm* He had fallen on hie loe pick, and that had made the hole. But he Just laughed about everything* He surely was one tough AlaekanS ?ollowg Strom I ^ure wi^'h you could, hear Strom -ell the story of thet entire expedition. It's a knock-out. Ee ought to be invited to tell it before every club and every college and prep school in America. And the way he stammers simply makes it all the more delightful, because of his rich oenoe of humor. Italy One bit of news cane today from concerning that closely guarded conference between Premier Hussolini and Sir John Si;;:on of England, The third day of their conference. The subject they’ve been discussing was the Duce's ultimatum that the Lea :ue of Hat ions be reformed* Today Sir John Simon issued a statement that no reform of the League can be considered until the disarmament problem has been disposed of Bayonn e, Jn>. nee In France most anything brings a cabinet crisis. rhls time itrs that ban.: tallure. The collapse of that municipal pawn shop oank in Bayonne. The dope from Paris is that the latest government, the one headed by Camille Chautemps, is headed for the rochs. Up to now it was sailing smoothly. But now bank-bust, government bu s t. It has been found out that several Cabinet members were connected with that Bayonne financial institution run by the mysterious Russian. In response to a request from the Prench prefect of police Scotland Yard had all its machinery geared up for a manhunt for Stavinsky, the Muscovite mystery man, out they found no trace of him in the British Isles. Bo today the Prench gendarmes sent out radio messages to all ships bound lor South America asking the ships' captains to be on the lookout for the fugitive pawn shop banker. The matter was brought up in the Chamber of Deputies today. And was the Government's lace red? Crash An airplane flight from i^raxice to B^ypt came to an uxitimely end today. The plane belonged to Miss Evelyn Frost, believed to be a native of St. Louis, She has been living in Paris. With her was an English aviator. The plane dashed into a high tails ion wire. Then came the flare and the finish. Carnival /ell, the King and ^ueen are on ice - not that anybody is nutting the royal monarchs in the ice box. They are going to be crowned on the ice at the Ice Carnival. The great event of the year up here in the Adirond&cks will take ■place tonight. It is the annual frosty extravagajasa at Lake Placid, the grand winter festival among the snowy mountains un here. On the ice sheet at the Olympic Arena a throne has been erected and pretty soon with the blare of trumpets, the King and %ueen will make their royal progress across the slir-ery surface. The King might fall down. The King might have a frostbitten nose. But the Q,ueen -- ah* that is some­ thing else. You knc. ho well the ladies rlay their marts in any stately socirl affair. The Queen of this year's Adirondack Ice Carnival is Ellen Mason, wife of Frank Mason, vice-president of the National Broadcasting Company. She has been selected to be the royal lady of the ice, the frosty Queen. Once the two monarchs are crowned, the coronation ceremonies will include a highland fling danced on skates to the Carnival - 2 tune of ba^-ripes. A highland fling on skates ought to be an amusing flip-flop but seven young women skaters from the ’Vinter Club at J ontreel have come to Lake Placid to do this Caledonian war dance and they're not likely to bum" on the ice. Anywayf a King and Queen will be crowned. Probably a bedraggled King, but certainly a lovely Queen. a- LaOuardia - Ending Brand new municipal reform in flew York. The fire- eating flame-con suming LaGuardia is in good form. He is answering a few letters. Every new mayor is deluged with thousands of epistles containing advice, appeals, and knocks. So today Iv'ayor LaGuardia called in his secretaries and told them how to answer all those letters. A one-word reply to each. And here ere his formulas To those ho have advice to offer the one-word ansv/er is: "Thanks. * For tho:e who want something the word is: "Regrets." And for the knockers the word is: "Baloney." And, for me the words are: "So long until tomorrow."