LQWKIL TKO^A c broadcast ? or LITERARY VIGIL-^ SATURDAY, NCVEL'.r-ER 1, 2 930 IATRC I ’fi; standing here shuffling my fiay's sheaf of news dispatches, and they certainly are a grand assortment. Lots about focttali of course; more startling news about those head hunters in Formosa; a rumpus in Scotland over golf; a fight in Mexico, one hundred men against one; oil excitement in Oklahoma; America has jumped ahead of all the world in commercial aviation; and a picturesque coronation story from Africa. Let *s see - here*3 that $25,000,000 vehicular tunnel under the Detroit River. It was opened today. The International News Service says that President Hoover sat in the wire room of the White House and touched a telegraph key that threw open this new tunnel between Detroit and Windsor, Canada, 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 That o i I v e I I I to !c! y out about I ast night, the one that has been on a rampage c!own in Oklahoma City, is still running wild. . The International News Service says^if it can’t be muzzled, the existence of the whole city is threatened. /,/SlIn^”i *ve .ICO.OCO barrels of crude oil a day are shrieking and roaring into the air and spraying the City. Cver an area of 50 blocks, no fire can be started, no trier. Is cooked, not even a match lighted. A single spark would be enough to start a wild conflagration that would wipe out the city. And Oklahoma City, according to the new Literary digest Atlas, has a d oouI ation of 185,000 people. It’s the A largest city in the state, with Tulsa running it a close second. Lven the trench helmets vv o r n b y t h e oil company workers to protect their heads from fal I ing rock--even those helmets are fire hazards, for the friction of a bit of rock on the metal could strike off a spark. The best oil experts in the Southwest are trying to put a giant cover r j j Page—---- ^— ^ . OIL - 2 over the well and get the gusher under control, hut believe me -- it’s going to be some job. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10' 11 12 13 14 15 16 I? 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 EQSmA Page H e r e i s f* ' ' Ta>t/ s t a r 11 i' nr" "• A According to the United Press, 108 women have committed suicide in one tiny v i I I age sag: on che Islancs of Formosa. They are members of that tribe of head hunting aborigines who have been in revolt against the Japanese and who massacred Japanese sett I ere , Amen , women and children u a p a n. soldiers are v i I I ac es an nese soja now sweeping uown on A'> strongholds. ihe head hunters k have / abandoned all hope. Ihey know they can't w i n bo their women have committed / suicide and the men have resolved to fight it out with the Japs untiI the last head­ hunter is dead. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 here is a modern Horatius at the bridge. down in Mexico, according to an associated rress aispatch, Nicholas bernal has been tiqhtina 100 men sincle hanaed. This lone^ warrior barricaded himself in a uunicipal building and waged a ioloody baxtle tor 29 hours. Yes, and he wounded 30 of his pursuers before a bomb blew him to bits. The fighting occurred because Bernal, G<- commander of ilitia, ordered the people of xxh the town ot dan Pedro to surrender their rirearms. Page __ _ IRELAND The International News Service tells us that the greatest Irishman in Ireland is dead- the 0'Mahoney of Kerry, the O'Mt-honey wefd call him, the head of the oldest clan in old Erin, 0'Mahoney was 80 years old ; and to the end of his days he wore the Irish kilt, and never did he forget that he was a direct descendant of a long line of Irish kings. In London, on the other hand, it's a wedding we have to tell about R eg en cy H y at t H ou se i REBKCCA WEST Rebecca West is married. Miss West is one of the most brilliant woman novelists in Europe* She was very much in the headlines of the newspapers of the world not so long aro when she came out with a hot blast to the effect that a British husband was a blooming nuisance. According to the New York Evening Post, after remaining a spinster for 37 years she has slipped and married a London banker* So now Rebecca West has a nuisance of her own. Now, in Scotland — 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 SOLE Page Hoot fnonl A wave of excite- le n t is sweeping like a be o t c h rn i s t over the links of the boyaI ana Ancient C 1 u b of O' a i n t An dr e ws * Ac cord i n c t o he International hews oervice the members of xtas this famous Scottish golf club are so excited that they are forgetting their oatmeal and their evening's eveniing. Ihe trouble is this: a number of British amateurs have accepted invitations to play in golf tournaments in the united States during the coming months. In spite of all the Scotch jokes, the/ are going to dig down into their own kilts and pay for their steamship and ra i I road tares; but when they land here, some of them expect to have buckwheat cakes ana sausages at a friend's house occasionally. oritish ciolfers in the past, and that of course includes ocottish, have competed as members of teams, and had their traveling and hotel expenses paid by the clubs they represent. (hat's all right, says the Koya I ana ancient GOLF - 2 Club. But now it i& a matter of an unattached golfer competing as an individual, and the question is raised: Can an amateur accept private hospitality, and still be an amateur? So this old question of when i s an amateur not an amateur is causing lots of excitement in the British Isles, Well, let’s follow that one with a note about automobiles. Isn’t there a story about a Scotchman who bought a car? At'T (J L'-O BIL h S Anyway, dispatches from Detroit say that automobile manufacturers will feature three principal innovations in their 1931 models. According to the New York Evening World, these are the front drive, the midget car, and the multiple cylinder engine. The coming season will find not one or two, but several sixteen-cylinder ca-s on the market, while two companies are bringing out twelve-cylinder models. Now we can all take our choice - we can go to either extreme -- something snappy in a dozen cylinders or so -- or a neat little bus that can be packed alongside a baby carriage. Well, I guess those little ones won’t hit the pedestrian as hard as the big ones FOOT-bALL Last nig;ht I mentioned that there were just eleven undefeated bif football teams left in the co^stry. But tonight, ah well, some of those eleven got banged in the nose this afternoon. Of the eleven undefeated, Cornell is oft the list. Columbia gave her a licking today. Dartmouth is off because she only tied Yale. In the South those fighting Georgia bulldogs were held to a tie by Florida, But the biggest rumpus down that way was the game between Alabama and Kentucky. Both had clean slates. But Alabama won and that puts the Kentucky colonels off our list. Among middle western champions, 'Kansas got walloped by Pennsylv-nia, Notre Dame trounced Indiana, and Northwestern walked all over Minnesota. In the Far West, Washington State and Oregon were last weekfs only survivors and their scores are not in. So the undefeated teams tonight are Fordham in the East. Alabama in the South. Notre Dame and Northwestern in the Middle West and the scores from the Far West are not in. Four survivors out of eleven so far UNEMPLQYMSKT Here’8 enoou rafr emeat in a dispatch from the International Kews Service* A hig soap manufacturing firm has informed Colonel Arthur Woods, head of President Hoover* unemployment committee, that it will furnish employment the year around for 10,000 employees in the attic m , x eight manufacturing plants in America and Canada* That means steady income for about 50,000 people. Yes, that’s encouraging, and so is this,* ^OKUGAWA There is one man who refuses to become alarmed about the status of this dizzy old world. He is a distinguished Japanese nobleman, Prince Tokugawa, president of the House of Peers of Japan, Next to the Japanese Emperor himself Prince Tokugawa is the most important man in Japan, He has just arrived in America, bound for Washington to see President Hoover, whom he knew years ago in the Par East, "Of course things are not so good all over the world,” said the Prince, ”but why get excited about it? It will be taken care of. It has happened before, you know -- after all, the world is not coming to an end, not just yet awhile,” There’s an article in this week’s issue of the Literary Digest which is about one angle of business and finance, and it certainly tackles an important 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 IQKUfiASA - 2 Page. question. You’ll he a r people saying, i "I bought this stock as an investment." Well, that Digest article tells you just what the difference is between - *•' -vt investment and speculation. It is a keen analysis, the sort of an article that all will want to read who have money to invest. It expresses the hope that many saddened gamblers wi I I become sound investors - and then tells how they an make that change. Si: ■: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 » v---| ■w- ——■ ■ There's big nev:s\ in far away r.byssinia. -t, I I day the tribesmen have been gathering, stalwart b I a.ck men, decked out in b a r b a ric fin er y. And right now in a strange old cathedra! in the capital city of Addis Ababa, the successorlto the throne of "Solomon is knee line at prayer. He and his queen will pray all night. Then, at dawn, he v/i I I be annointed with oil brought specially from the Garden of Gethsemane in the Holy i_and. And Ras Tatar i and his wife, V/aizeru, will take their places on a throne of gold, and they will be crowned with dazz'ing crow'ns of gold, diamonds, emeralds and sapphires. rtas Tatari,the new Emperor of Ethiopia, is a small, dark man, and the queen is a large dark woman. Amid barbaric and imposing pomp, he will become King of Abyssinia, Lion of Judah, and King of Kings. 1 HowT s that for a title? The Abyssinians claim to be an ancient Semitic people, and the king traces his descent from King Solomon and the ^ueen of Sheba. Yes sir, it’s Page------ . __ o h H o X h X 2 . / NLkS 1IUA Page 5 6 7 8 9 I 10 11 j 12 13 14 big nev.'s in Africa tonight. Yesterday, however, while magnificent preliminary ceremonies were going on, a sad event took place, a melancholy downfall out in Abyssinia. I am picking it as the hews Item of the Day. The royal court was out at the flying field. Ras Tafari has an air force consisting of one plane. And it was to take a big part in the coronation ceremonies tomorrow. An aviator was also among those present. And what an aviatorJ He is Colonel Hubert Fautleroy Julian, the Black Eagle. Well, the Black Eagle 15 is a Harlem negro. He was the dark 16 horse in the trans-Atlantic race, which 17 Lindbergh won. He took off from the 18 East River, and fell into the mud flats 19 of Flushing Bay. Then he planned a 20 fl i ght from hew York to Africa, which 21 never took place. The Black Eagle flew 22 planes, and made parachute jumps, and 23 cx cut a grand aviating figure among the 24 colored folks of Harlem. Recently the 25 Slack Eagle went to Abyssinia to show the 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1ILM " 3 • Page__ flusky ;-vas Tatar i what a colored man could do in the air. And did he show them? I Ml say he did. He made parachute jumos to the intense astonishment of everybody. once he hopped out and landed right at Has Taf ari f s feet. N at ur a I Iy he bee ame a m i g ht y her o with both r oy a I t y and populace. Thai:Ablack boy jest naturally waltzed right into the hearts of everybody in Abyssinia. Wei I, yesterday Ras Tafari and his nit arie s si it is EE am mb were at the flying field, and thousands of tribesmen were gathered around. Over there stood the Abyssinian air force of one plane. The Black Lalgle was seized with an inspiration. Now was the time to do something spectacular. Did he hesitate? Uh-uh. Not he. without asking nermission, he jumped into the plane, gave her the gun, andtook off. He got up a hundred feet or so, and then the plane began to wabble. Down it came like a rocket. Crash! Bang! Presto! 'What had been the Abyssinian air force was now just kindling wood and old iron. ftmmiHixmcEiii - 4 *. K: p ^ .11 Page 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 | 20 21 | 22: 23 ; 24 25 From out of the debris crawled the Black Eagle, uninjured, grinning from ear to e ar. fas Ras Tafari, amperor of Ethiopia, Lion of Judah, and King of Kings, mad? He was. He was hooping mad. And he ordered the Black Eagle i gnom i n i ousIy clapped into the Addis Ababa jail. Then he thought of the expense it would take to feed that big boy from Harlem. He ordered the Black Eagle into instant exile. But the Black Eafcjle was stoney broke. He didn't even have enough loose change to start a little game of Ethiopian dominoes. Americans at the coronation raised enough jack among them to get him away, and he was led to the railroad. The Black Eagle departed with his w i n gs clipped, claiming it was all the result of the jealousy of a French flying officer in Ras Tafari 's service. I CONCLUSION Bobbed manne ■ s are the ord er of the day in American society, Emily Post, who has gained fame by writing a best seller on the subject of etiquette telis us that we are just as polite today as we ever were even if cur manners are bobbed, In an International News Service interview Mrs, Post says, "we just haven’t time for those long, tiresome formalities. Anyway", she adds, "it’s every bit as polite to say a simple goodnight as it is to make a long, afxected speech or stand in the doorway for half an hour hat in hand,11 Now, that's a real relief to me. When I dash into your home with the evening’s news I usually find there is so mu^h to tell that I haven't much time left. But along comes Mrs, Post to my rescue with informaticn that boboed manners are 0, K. so, goodnight