,. broadcast for tee lttebaby ptgept TUESDAY , DECEMBER 30, Iggp PAILK0AD8 Thf,t big railroad merger we have been hearing rurnoi'-s 8bout, has jurt teen definitely announced. President Hoover told about it ohis afternoon. He said that executives of the big eastern railroads had just come to an agreement according to which the railroads in the eastern part of the United States will be merged into four big independent lines. These are the Pennsylvania, the New York Central, the Baltimore end Ohio, end the Nickel Tl£te. According to the President's statement which was sent o\it tonight by all the Press Associations the weaker lines will be combined with the stronger ones. The result will be lower operating costs, and in the long run lower rates for old John ^.Public, The next step will be for the merger to go to the Interstate Commerce Commission for its approval. This is big news and the New York Stock E'change responded immedietely. Railroad shares took a wuick jmnr.. New York Central and B. & 0. went up six points. And Railroao sharer, were not the only ones that went un. The whole market took an upward trend. So maybe veUl be able to wish each other a ss-'-r rru.- Kev. Year after al'. - ; •;': srz. r 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 L1I- 3 Page_ HereTs some news ITve been waiting f or, well, since Th an k s givin g Q ay• 11 * s about football. Of course the thirtieth of December seems a trifle late for any hot flashes about football. Many all- American teams are selected each season. "“V-oq Nearly every^newspaper picks its own-- with the aid of experts, of course. Well, from all these AI!-Am erican teams itTs almost necessary for someone to sum them alI up and select the final A I I -Americ an of the AI I-Am eric ans. And this fal Is right into the field of the Literary Digest. Just as the Digest sifts the news and gives us both sides of the important news of the day, so also does the Digest give us a final All- American team simply by bal anc ing the ooinions of al I the experts. The Digest i takes the different selections and p~u*fe-&s t hem together and adds them up, and out of the comes the team of teams. In other words, the Digest selects the players who got the most votes from 11 It if ill III! fl s I I 11 «? Ill it HI 1 KUHM - 2 . Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 <^V4. 25 ! the experts- And that gives us the final super A I I-Atner i can , ap=- 2 tel=©as± i t 0 ome s ne ar- § tvlnf erf ifrECfe., AI I-Ame r4 -can -as we~‘ ‘ ' I've been waiting for the Digest editors to announce the results, and they showed them to me this afternoon. It al I appears in Literary Digest which comes out a day earl i er this yetek on account of New Years, just as it came out a day ahead last week because of Christmas. The Digest editors have taken, as the basis for their final selection, the 12 All-American teams which they considered- the most important. One of the interesting points they discovered right off the reel was that the experts who picked those 12 All-American teams were unanimous in picking only players. Who were the two? Well, you will all guess the first one easy enough. Y 0 S, they alI picked Carideo, the great ;Notre Dame quarter back. (Parke Brown,tk tel |sJ me (Jarideb pronounces it that way ! 1 i ill 1 | $ J ii 1 Hi f 111 I !i 12-1-30-SM w YV'v*}--*-''1 lii - l aiS£. - 3. Page. 5 A and not Carideeo) Who was the other man wht^waa picked all twelve teams? Well, he was a Southerner. Thev all Q o i ngton , of Alabama, for a position at tack Ie. After that the selections were wide and various. Ben Ticknor, of Harvard, at center on 8 out of the 12 teams. Regarding al I the other positions there was wide disagreement. ButAto read the names of all the men on the Literary Digest team, TEhe process of elimination sifts it down to the f o I lowing: taers* ENDS: Fesler of Ohio State and Dalrymple of Tulane. TACKLES: Sington of Alabama and Price of Army. Woodworth of Northwestern and Wisniewski of For dham. Ticknor of Harvard. GUARDS: CENTER: QUARTER-BACK: Carideo of Notre Dame. u a i p R<'nk'c5' Schwartz of Notre Dame and HALF-BACKS. ^JJvckeri; of Southern Calif FULL-BACK: Macaluso of Colgate. . L-LI- j —Al££ • ~ 4-. Page (o Only three of these men were on the Digest’s Alt-American team last year. These three were Fester of Ohio State, Ticknar of Harvard, and of course t he irrepress ib I e^Carideo, es^siesipaesSasatta*. The new Digest prints a handsome series of pictures of the members of this mighty team of teams, and a— interesting article telling how the team was selected. You'll find it in the new issue that comes out tomorrow. JOFFRE I’vi-. a britl disp&tch here which has a bit of cheering news fnr you. it will bring gladness to the hearts of millions of reo'"le in this country. Marshal Joffre, as you know, has been desnerately ill, and the hero of the Marne seemed to be listening to the last bugle call. The doctors were obliged to amputate one of his legs, and little hooe seemed to be left. But an International News Service dispatch has come through stating that the doctors now declare that all hope must not be abandoned for the old Marshal. And th's is the first time that the physicians have said an optimistic word. They tell us that the Marshal rallied v/ell from his operation, and contrary to all their expectations he seems to be improving. If the improvement continues he may still get well. The hope they express is slight. But it is hoae. C'-vO n There seems to be -wv, p’^T'^v Page. il 17 22 OvV a rowAbetween those two old partners, Austria and Hungary. In Austria there are a lot . crwc^S-- of ancient treasures whichAbelonged to theAempire, and Hungary now claims part of these. The New York Evening Post says that Hungary demand s, among other things, the sword of Charlemagne. This sword was used in the coronations of the old kings of the Holy Roman Empire. It was an antique 900 years ago. It is said that in the year 1,000 the Emperor Otto found the sword in the tomb of Charlemagne. '^o “-Ap-WM r. ^ -r__ tteo£ L^L- 1 III SI 1 1 23 fiiiiMA i '*vSs~ ^ '-• ^(y I ) Page. 1 A. c o ma s further n e ws 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | ni 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 regardin g t he b i g battle th at has been raging in the^jungle for nearly a v/eek. As usual it seems to have ended in a victory for the British i troops. Hi If tribesmen in Upper Burma, along the Irrawaddy River, have been up in arms against the British. Tommies had to be rushed to the scene after 500 fierce hi Ilmen stole through the jungle and tried to surprise the government troops. But the soldiers caught them napping. A hundred were killed and the rest were driven away in a desperate encounter. Gunfire was heard for 30 miles, and, according to the International News Service, even part of the jungle was reported to be in flames• British authorities bel ieve the back-bone o1 the rebellion has been broken. 121-30-SM Page / o r\ c ci; e a loo k a x t h i s ne x t cl i s pate b 1 fee I i i ke s i ng i ne out k i p I i ng 1 s I ine - ( 0U nil c A BEiTTER kiAN jHAN I Atv., G U rl G»v u I u , - only x x s k x I 1 d c H e . n g e GungaOin to /.krishna Sharnba. ,3e i I , * * ^ris hna o ham ba is a peasant out in India, ana he was plowing away in his field with that funny implement - a crooked stick ■scfcozy iv'ijc "a 7 wh i oh tney /V a p low, -vh'-W^ i he 10 t i rst th i ne Akr i shna oh amba knew a t i c:er 11 was stalking him. J hat tiger must have 12 teen a man eater. /.krishna ohamba had 13 no chance tor a getaway. He stood his uj ground bravely. He picked up a sharp 15 stick and as the tiger sprang at him he t h r is st it be t w e e n t he o p e n j a w s o f t he brute. The tiger roared and snarled w i t h pain a n d ra q e, its mouth h eI a open 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 th at stick. I t attacked c ne man wicn by its claws A krishna 8hamba tought as we I I as he could, butAt^^g^ was on top o t h m# just then neighbors ran up w 11 h axes and ssx>li)c»xxx«xxxg killed The tiger ell, any man who faces a -■ J- ' - c; • s . cha r g i ng Benga 1 tiger ana sscsfeew a s - i 0 I1GE2 2 . // Page. my idea of of wood between his jaws is a hero, and al I 1 've got to say is-- you're a better man than I am, Akrishna Shamba. •■ell, when I arrived here in front of the mike a few minutes ago I hadn't quite made up my mind which of my pile of dispatches was the most interesting bit of news I had seen today. But I think I'll have to pick that story of Akrishna Shamba and the tiger. Of course it makes a double appeal to me because I've spent a lot of time out in India where Master Stripes is a daily topic of conversation. In fact, he's so much in the public mind out there that tii«is$sssB3»_a whole c’-tTYWJZ "Wvts string of funny storiesAabout tigers. i Here * s one of them an d it's at the of the babus. The babus are those half- Europeanized Hindu clerks who are found in offices all over India* They speak a curious, stilted English, and one of their peculiarities is their love for red tape and their reluctance to assume expense Il££3 - 3. Page ZX any respons i b i I ity at any time. There is a famous story told out there. You’ve heard it of course. But it's worth repeating. You see, the average babu will do nothing on his own initiative. te1egramArece i ved by the Divisional Superintendent of the railroad at Lahore. It came from some babu at a station down the line and it read."- TIGER DEVOURING STATION MASTER. WIRE INSTRUCTIONS. Wei I, ist 1 s too bad Akrishna ShamfeaAto shove that sharp stick ■* bf his in the tiger's mouth. ClTVC'TIC-rr In my look through the new Literary Digest that comes out tomorrow, in the weekly £uestionaire, the third question from the too firea my curiosity. The question asked wes:- ’.THERE ARE REAL DRAGON? TO EE FOUND? I y first reaction was:- there ain’t no such animal. Dragons only exist in fairytales and in old Chinese legends. But, I was wrong again. The new Digest tells us that strange reoorts keot coming in concerning live dragons on the remote island of Komodo which lies a bit to the east of Java and Sumatra. So an ex-edition under the eusnices of the American Museum of Natural History ivent over to Konodo to have a ioolc for those dragons. Did they find them? They did, and they collected fourteen, three alive. They are not giant monsters like the enormous prehistoric rle^eo saur. .lU^GUOiia - Page . / 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 i9 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 an £i & O' o ff 4 i h e s e dragons are only about ten fee l long. ihe y really are huge lizards, perhaps tr.e l ast s ur v i v0r s of the age of giant rep-ciles. 11 ell, thQ» dragons of /A live in cave-like hiding places below the thickets of the tropical jungle. They are ferocious creatures, anu the sc i ent i sts who 4 nvest hgaTetssaw one or them swaI lowing half of a wild boar at orf» gulp. So, maybe the old Chinese were right in their legends about dragons. Chinese hscsi navigators have been sailing past ch i s island for centuries and xkkr the ramous dragons of China may be the dragons of Komodo, enlarged and twisted a uit as the stories about tnam passed into Chinese folklore and literature* 12-1-30 5M 1 3 4 i 5 si i 71 8 9 10 : 11 12 13 u 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 i 24 25 L<.‘. n i n i was a big n i ght top tne ricieirL sport or wrestling. They p u l o n a. 3 e r i as o f a t ivia d i son Uc,re Garden ^b^ween ^the p^derous (axskaSKKWsx pacr;odciw, as the sporting writers c a i I l r ie t w o a nd t iir e e hundred pound wrestlers. And there was a tremendous thumping and bumping as beef landed on beef. The sporting pages as usual devoted a few lines to tne x hm combined tonnage of the wrestlers. I forget just how many tons those mighty men weighed in one grand total. Jim Londos, the gripping * Greek who the worldTs champion, met a A — hefty Hungarian named Holuban. Holuban had all che best of xhe wrestling,— except that he d I dn11 win. bounced the Greek all over the place unci I c he Greek looked ready tor che ash can. Then Londos seized Ho Iubon and whirled him around like a dancing dervish until Holuban was practically unconscious. Then Londos pinned fc**„shou I ders co xhe mat.;,' But the match that caught my eye 'VR^FTLTNG - 2 was one between a Japanese named Taro Myaki and an Italian who had the go .c ole Italian name of Garibaldi. The New York World tells of some peculiar happenings that took nlace in the struggle between those two giants. Taro Ilyaki was always sneaking jiu jitsu holds on Garibaldi, and jiu jitsu holds are against the rules. The referee cautioned Taro L'yaki, but the Jan just couldn’t get awry from his jiu jitsu. Then Garibaldi thought he would add his argument to the referee's and try to convince Taro Myaki that jiu jitsu holds were all wrong. He ^ust decided to enforce the referee’s argument. Garibaldi swung his fist and landed a haymaker riffht on Taro Kyelei's nose that almost knocked the Jan cockeyed. The referee anrarently thought Taro had it coming to him, and he made the two mastedons kee- on wrestling. Their match finally ended in a drew - but with the Gargantuan Garibaldi still glowering at the big boy from Moron. .ti.nd th s ringf the final bell, and winds up my evening* wrestling match with the news. Unless Londos, Holuban, Ts.ro f.'yaki , Garibaldi, or some other rachyderm falls on tor of me in the meantime, 1*11 be back again tomorrow, honing to damn a heedlock on ' ' olitical disratch from Eurore, a half Nelson on some imrortrnt news from Washington, and a bit of jiu jitsu on a fantastic tale or two from Asia. Anyway, SO LONG UNTIL TOKORLNV.