^O.i^LL-T.H2j^^gOADCA^T FOR THE LITERARY DTGFRT FRIDAY, AUGU c TJ1. 1931 "fILKINS GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY: In the icy waters of the Arctic, less then 700 miles away from the Forth T'ole, a cigar-shaped hull is nosing its way along this evening, through floating masses of ice. And that’s a thing to make us wonder and admire. I’ll tell you, that men V/ilkins certainly has spunk and determination. He’s ur there on the edge of the ^'olar ice-^ack getting ready to take a dive under the frozen surface of the Northern sea. Of course we all know the series of mishaps into which Sir Hubert Filkins has run. At best, that adventurous project of making a voyage to the North Pole under the ice is enough to give a fellow the creeos. No, you won’t want a submarine that’s liable to go wrong when you’re out to try that sort of trio. But Captain "/ilkins submarine, the Nautilus, has been ^laying funny tricks ever since he left these shores on his way across the Atlantic and then north to the Arctic. It seamed so nitiful that it was almost laughable when that North-Pole-going WILKINS - 2 under-sea craft broke down in the Atlantic and lay wallowing in the storm and then had to be towed oart of the way across. I sucrose rlenty of us v ere surprised when Sir Hubert Wilkins didn’t stoc right there. But he continued on his way north just the same; end then he had more trouble. The engines broke down and the whole apparatus went wrong in general. But he oatiently made repairs as best he could and keot on to Spitsbergen, to the northern-most ooint of civilization from which a dash into the Arctic would have to be made. No, I wouldn't have blamed him if he had decided to wait until next year and got his boat into better shape before monkeying around with the ^olar ice-neck. But that’s not Wilkins, I never knew a man who had so much iron determination. You can see it in his face and he’s a man to stick to a job until it’s done. Well anyway, tonight Wilkin, in that submarine which has broken down so often, is pushing his way through the northern ice, far uo there at the top aE of the world. Tonight he’s well to the north of Sr itzbergen. The WILKINS - 3 International News Service describes how the Nautilus has been c?reiurly trending itt way through laner of ooen "vaster smon.^ dense flocitin^ masses of ice. Several tunes as the submarine rushed along she was confronted by towering walls of ice. Once or twice she got tangled un among the frozen masses in such a way that she hrd to duck under a bit, she had to submerge partly to get free. Vilkins himself in a wireless dispatch to the Eearst newsraoers, explains that the ice has been thick enough to make diving difficult. But he thinks he’ll be able to do it soon. He's going to try to work his way to a free srace, and then -- well, it will be the first time that an undersea craft has ever dived under the ice-pack of the North. He may be under the ice now and what a drama there is in that thought. ’Vilkins tells us that he intends to make several short dives under the ice and see how it works, before he attemnts any really long journey beneath the frozen surface of the rdar sea. He’s going to give his craft a good tryout. I don’t know v hat is in Sir Hebert’s mind. The season ’7ILKINS 4 is already late for a trio on to the role, and it may be that he intends to use the tail end of the present summer season for study end practice so as to be prepared for next summer, and weit until then before he attempts that almost unimaginable trin under the ice to the North "^ole. Many think this is what heTll do, but you can’t tell. ’Vilkins may spend a few days in practicing diving under the ice end then even with the season drawing to a close, he may go right ahead, make a long dive under the frozen sea, and start for the North Pole. Because Sir Hubert Wilkins is a man of surprises. LINDBERGH ,1 ell, t~±e Lindbergh ^lane got Into motion today. No j it vxldn t fly. It vv s towsd by a ship. Tho wstsns oft the island, ox hetoi m the Kunile group were too stormy for the safety of a -lane afloat on the surface. There was grave danger of It being wrecked by the high seas. So a Japanese steamer towed the Lindbergh monoplane to a safer snot 15 miles away. That is, to Muroton Bay, Shimushiru Island. There, the Associated Press relates, it was hauled onto the beach. Colonel Lindbergh is working on the motor. He and 1,'rs. Lindbergh hope to be able to take off tomorrow and continue their voyage southward to Tokyo. The United 'oress draws a ^icture for us of Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbers’h sitsIng on the sandy beach of Muroton Bay while her famous husband worked on the motor. They say the young wife cast homesick glances across the sea. ouch is wedded bliss in the family of a famous aviator. Naturally there are bound to be a few forced landings. CUBA Page 6* The Paris of the West Indies, the gay city of Havana, is under heavy guard tonight* The government is talcing strong measures to prevent a revolutionary outbreak; in the city. The United Press reports scattered firing in various parts of the Cuban capital. Just who is to blame for the shooting is not made clear. Meanwhile, fighting is still going on in various parts of Cuba. The reports of the situation are contradictory - the government claiming it has the trouble well in hand, and the rebels declaring that they're making progress. But Cuba was not the only place in the Western Hemisphere where fighting occurred today. New York also was the scene of a battle, a running battle between two bandits and a hundred or more policemen. As a result five are dead tonight, several others are dying and a dozen more are wounded. Late in the afternoon a payroll robbery occurred in upper Manhattan. The two robbers fled north to the Bronx, then along the Boston Post Road, back to Manhattan, around the Polo Grounds, along Broadway and over to Riverside Drive, leaving a trail of dead and wounded. In the end both robbers and the driver of their taxi were killed. An extra edition of the New YorkAmerican refers to it as one of the worst outbreaks of its kind in the history of New York, in recent times. ENGLAND Page 7 And now for another tangle, purely political. The threads of British politics are all snarled up this evening. Those financial problems we heard about lastnight are as per­ plexing as ever. There were rumors today that the Labor Govern­ ment would resign. The indication seemed to be that the cabinet of Prime Minister MacDonald was about to step out of power. But this evening the International News Service tells us that the Labor government is holding on and that Prime Minister MacDonald has called another important meeting of the cabinet for tomorrow. ______ a.-^DFi ,e have pome more news about Gandhi this evening. That frail little Holy man ol India certainly does seem to have the faculty of making the world sit ur, and take notice. He's always in the headlines. The Associated Press reports that the Secretary for India in the Government of London has ordered the Indian viceroy, Lord . ill ingdon, to get busy and come to an understanding with Gandhi. The Mahatma has been claiming that the British Government in India has not lived u^ to the agreement it made with him some time ego and a lively controversy has been going on. As rs® a result of this Gandhi has refused to go to London end attend the big conference that is to be held on the subject of India. But annarently the British Government is eager to have the Holy Man take pert in the r-roceedings. Lord /tillIngdon had planned an extensive t ur of India. And a veceregal tour in the lest word i® in 1 •' rl- circumstance panoplied elephants and the carpet out at every station. But the Secretary for India in London hoe told the noble lord to ctneel the elephants and the red carpet and get busy straightening out matters with the Mahatma. And so the viceroy has put off his tour. He has Ena called a vice Regal Council to meet at Simla, the summer canitsl of India, tomorrow. And this solemn council is scheduled to find some way to satisfy Gandhi so that he will withdraw h*. s refusal and go to London and attend that forthcoming conference on Indian affairs. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 X Page. The Brazilian embassy in Washington announces today that an agreement had been signed according to which brazil ro i ng to do and the united States a bit ot swapping. They are going to swap coffee tor wheat. The quantities of merchandise involved are not named but brazil is going to give the United States Government a big load ot coffee in return tor some ot that mountain of v;heQt which the Federal Farm uoard has stored up. I he Associated Press adds that this coffee announcement falls right on the heels ot a statement in V.ashington that the Grain Stabilizing corporation, which has control of the harm Board wheat has been authorized to negotiate with The Chinese Government on the subject ot gram. The idea is to sell to China 17 million bushels o t wheat tor the relief ot millions ot people who are facing starvation is the result ot floods along the Yangtse river. 1 the CHINA Yes, ana dreadful scenes are reported from the flood districts O j . China, The Ysngt 'iiver is still risinc-. The great city of Hanlco \\ if flooded — its streets are under water, and the belief is growing wierd end wild among the Chinese that the city is doomed to destruction by the resistless rower of the river. Hankow is a great industrial center together with its sister cities of Vuchang end Hanyang. It has a population, so the Associat ed Trees tells us, of nearly a million, and this has been swollen by hundreds of thou ends of refugees. Stark terror reigns among the racked end kx - crowded inhabitants of the city. Hundreds of thousands are fleeing. Yesterday the flood waters of the river receded a bit end that encouraged ho"e. But today they are rising again end the Chinese peoole believe that Hankow is doomed. In 7T- shington it is announced that an American Red Cross fund of *100,000. hns been sent to China for flood relief, 1100,000. esn do a lot of good in China. Red Cross officials have word thet the situation is desperate end one of them declered that the present Yangtse floods may so on record as the worst calamity that the iv or Id has ever known. Perhaps the greatest in the long thousands of years of Chinese £ history. digest ;hile the floods are raging in Chine, the political situation over there is Just as complicated as ever. in fact, - : ■ (r' '■ ■, , - h' ' ' -I.: Chinese oolitic; e :: so very complicated that if somebody comes along end makes them a bit simpler, why thet chan is doing us a big favor. It seems, according to this week’s Literary Digest, that it's all a matter of money, that is, economics. And that brings the high-falutin* entanglements of affairs in the Far '“aet right do n to solid, e- rth. The Literary Digest roes to the Far East for its information. It givet us rn analytical study by an expert who belongs to a nation that should have a pretty IlifiESI - 2 Page_ good insight into affairs in China. He is Doctor S. Washio, who writes in the Tokio rtesfcspaper called the Icaaa-Eafii±i£. He is quoted in the Literary Digest as tel I ing us how weird events for the past few years in China are based on a series of financial changes that are going on. We think of Communism in connection with China. Yes. there's plenty of Communism over there, but the Japanese expert tells us that the Chinese Nationalist movement is based distinctly on Capitalism. It was planned and financed by Chinese f-rrronfcfcl interests A centered at the treaty-port of Ningpo. And these capitalists have been running the Nationalist party ever since. Their leader is the money-master T. V. Soong, who is Finance Minister for the Nationalist government of General Chiang Kai-shek. The anti-foreign angle of the Nationalist movement, so we are told, is Capitalism. No, it isn^ Communism fighting against Capitalism. It’s i i ; !' 1 ; 13 14 15 16 17 20 21 flifiESI Page. Chinese capitalists in a battle with the financial interests of the Western powers. The Western nations have had a strangle-hold on Chinese commerce, and that’s what the powerful group of Chinese capitalists want to break down. Wei I > how—c~oirte that- the Chinese, pgjrrt*I is-ta-htt^e—b-ecomir^sg power Tu4^ The Literary Digest tells us that China is slowly becoming industrialized. The people in the rural districts are more and more depending on factory-made products. In consequence the Chinese financial interests that are organizing the industries of the country have become fabulously rich and powerful. And the Communist movement in China has simply made them richer. With the Communist bands on the rampage in the interior, people with money have cleared out and sought safety in the cities along the coast. They have brought the ir money with them, and this money has gone into the banks controlled by the great Chinese finaneiers. I 6-16-31-5M CHINA Page 16 There is a large and well-organized revolutionary movement on foot in China right now, A separate government has been set up at Canton and is holding off the forces of the Nationalist authorities. So the present political situation in China consists principally of a big battle between two rival groups of financiers Page. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 Page. ___ _____ ’efight weeks, n ovv v c—ga t ^ t o— K It seerns to be a case of__well I was ab^out to say r0u9^but should^h* rough on Mayors ^at Edgewood, Iowa. Folks out there don't seem to be able to keep M^ors^on "t be„ jo# . I ong. i=h:ey-! v e~tT£rd T: wb-* i n ^ and n ow^fe^e y 1 va -goto—--^ I'll bet you Edgewood is a fine progressive I ittle city, but somehow the Mayors of Edgewood seem to have a way of chucking up their jobs. H J. C. Amling was Mayor of Edgewo od^^’ut he resigned last month. He got into an argument about the Fourth of July sale of firev/orks and walked right out. i 1 So Edgewood had to find a new Mayor. Fred Dennis was the lucky candidate, but now he's out. The trouble was on account of a carnival company. The Wayor told the c ar nival people t h at they couIdn11 put up a merry-go-round in the publ ic park. but the edgewood J ommere i a I Club said the opposite. They told the carnival company, "Don!t mind MAYORS - 2 him -- he’s only the I.'ayor. Go right ahead and rut ur your merry-go-round. ” iind :o no.., ■ r the International News Service tells us, His Honor Hayor Dennis sryS> "Go ahead and find yourself another Mayor." And he walked right out. And just to keen the ball rolling, it’s time for me to walk right out - I mean:- SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW,