j li 2 I i : ^ I T r^- * "'r -'.r-.0 <• • :. t r ’ wit" ?»£-.ry ^■ -si —Tuesday, h i8,y 193 q , PaSe .. n i xro-g | ycer i ne plant blew up out in urafton, Illinois, today, but that’s n 0 t nin g compared to the explosions that e ‘ s a l en ed in the head I ines from Europe. In Hungary everybody is uo in the air over the report that th^Trchduke A Otto will arrive in Budapest day after tomorrow and demand the Hungarian throne C-xo is the son of the former Bmoeror WvSijL. A-A— > MJTX^Q Karl, the man who succeeded old i-ranz Josef as emperor of Austria Hungary. Otto will be eighteen years old on Thursday, says the New York -vening Sun, and the royalist party wants to make him K inr. of Hungary, ; i»~ - ■ 1 - 1 - ■ - ill. ;! ' y ~ ^ 1 ., - inn*'."" | 11 1 n to Trim 11 ia corro k i, i u V1 1 C 1 VP n - I he Hungarian prime Count Jethlen, says if the ^3 minister, royalist party i ns i st$ on put t i n c Otto on the throne, it v: i Hun gar y <> T h i n g s ar e st ill p o p p i n g mean war in 25 FOREIGN - £ s GermanyfMuniciTial elections have just taken nlace ell over the country, and Handsome Adolf Hitler and his Fascist followers have been chalking uo victory after victory,/ William T'hilI’o Simms, foreign editor of the Scripps Howard newsnerers, says the results of these elections were even more sensational than the recent elections tO' the Germen Reichstag. From Italy the As oeiated Prers cables that Mussolini and his counc:1 of ministers hrve emrutated 1? per cent of the salerias of all state employees. That means, army and navy, police, school teachers, and. ci vil service vorkers. And over in Snein the t strike in Barcelona seems to be more violent then ever. According to late disnatches from the International News Service, soldiers end rolice were fighting the 200,000 striker f today with orders to shoot to kill. Four oeonl© sre deed, several score vnunded, and 500 arrested. In England things sre felrly serene excent for some parliamentary troubles. The International News Service ssys dissension and dissatlsfrction are brewing in Parliament. FORET GN - 3 And at the Round Table Conference, the Maharajah of Alwar, one of the most powerful ruling nrincee of India, made a, sreech asking for a United States of India. There are dispatches from everywhere about strikes, revolutions, and threatened war. Scientists recently told us that the earth is 1,858,000,000 years old. As an editorial writer of the Nev. York Times put it, at that age it ought to be old enough to know better. ill :% ■ V Page. ji! I h r. t 3 a I v c. t i o n A rm y u o n f e r e nee o ve r in London, the one where i told you t he sp i r it of perce an d good-will reigned, seems to be up to its eyes in trouble. They are having a grand rev/ over the 3owe r s of their leader, the c: en er a I . Until now the ^ e r s o n a a poin t e d successor to uenerc I Booth has been aAdictator ?'Che faction headed by Commander Evangeline Booth, i ns i sts that this policy according to a United is all wrong. Press dispatch, one of the leading newsoaoers of London calls this the i fn q s t s e r i c u s crisis the Salvation r»r m y has ever faced. D _ 'y\M^rr 25 The uoston-American tells us the t ^eyor Curley of the Hub has done en extraordinary t! ins. He has taken out a $100, OO'O life insurance policy in order that a trust fund for the poor may be established after his death. Nathan Straus Jr., the philenthrO'pist f who has been using stem shovels on his country estate, has given up the steam shovels end is hiring men in order to rrovide a few more jobs. Governor Rozvelt has announced nlans to invite the governors of six other Eastern states to meet with him to discuss -problems of unemployment. U-p in Ontario, a United press dispatch informs us, that the International Harvester Company of Canada is loaning money, without asking any interest, to employees whom they have been obliged to ley off. On the other hfnd across the river in Detroit, Henry Ford tells us thct he ir going to srend $60,000,000 ip enlarging his factories. LEVI ME Here are the facts in that strange story about Charles -eyine. He * s the men who flew the Atlantic with Clarence Chamberlain; the man who made that amazing solo hor from Paris, to London without having been taught to fly. And now he is under arrest in Austria on a charge of trying to counterfeit French money. News dispatches about the affair have been oust ling. Levine is accused of trying to dunlicate French two-franc nieces -- coins worth about a dime each. And why anybody should want tO' fake such chicken, feed is a mystery. But here Is a disnatch from the Tienne correspondent of the ^ev York Evening Post with a statement by the Chief of the Austrian Criminal Police. He says Levine went to a Vienna engraver and psked him to reproduce French two-franc nieces -- that is, on one side of the coins only. On the other side of the coins he wanted the likeness of his own and his wife's faces, He also talked about reproducing Page. one f r an c an cl f i f t y c en t i m e p i e c e s v; o r t h 5 cents and 24 c e n t s 3 ii each. He told the engraver he intended to use the coins as advertising tokens. The engraver realied that he would have to consult with the bustr i an mint— authorities, sb # Levine made an engage­ ment to go with him to the mint. However, ALevine was about to board a train for Italy, he was arrested. The /Austrian police, after putting 12 Levine in ts.t nt jail, e x am i n e d his 13 23 baggage, and found some gambling chips, also letters which showed that Levine wanted to buy !CG,00C similar chips. Levine swears up and down that the counterfe i ting charge is nonsense. He says it is al i an d that he JL L c. 1 the Germ e.ns can the engrave r m i 4- t 1 25 s m UiiOL£_IO!v, Page 1 ;eI I, well, herels old Uncle Tom and 2 Sc Eliza in xhe news. Did. you know that 3 the story of Uncle Tom 1 s Uahin was 4 most ly taken from real life? Yes, Uncle s Tom and Eliza Qat- I Ved e Harr i et Beecher dtowe^ book, but they 7 iactually lived and were real people, a The story of their lives was simply 9 changed around in the novel. A scholar 10 out in Kansas, Dr. Henry Fellows, who 11 is a poet and an educator, has just 12 given out an account of Uncle Tom and is Eliza. According to the United Press, i 4 Dr. Fellows had a great uncle named Levi is Coffin and his Uncle Levi actually is befriended Eliza and Uncle Tom. 1? The doctor tells us that Uncle is Tom as a slave had a cruel, i 9 hard-hearted master, just as the book sosaia. Then ^.escaped. But Simon Legri?e •A 21 and his whip.xxii well, they had nothing 22 whatever to do with Uncle Tom's death. a. 23 He died of pneumonia as the result of exposure when he was slipping and sliding 25 over the ice with the blood-hounds buying behind him. 1 UNCLE TOM - P The doctor also tells us that Eliza jurmed from cake to cake on her way across the ice, but not with a baby in her arms as the book says. Then she lived the remainder of her days in Canada, The real Uncle Tom and Eliza never knew each other at all. And there never was any Simon Legree. And here's another note out of the world of romanc e. wmmmt, HUSSEIN One of the most Picturesque men of our time had passed on. The Associated Press dispatch informs us that he died in exile from his own country, on the island of Cyprus out in the eastern Mediterranean, He was a king, and for a number of years he claimed the title of Cl&iph or spiritual head of the Mohammedan world, Hussein, King of the Hedjaz was his name. Hussein was the Arab!an monarch, who, with the aid of his four sons, started the Arab revolt against the Turks during the W >rld War. He died from old age, and possibly from a broken heart. For a time I was associated with his army and Ms sons, end he was indeed one of the most interesting personalities In the Orient, He was reputed to be the oldest living descendant of the prophet Mohamet, end a direct descendant of Mohamet through his daughter, Fatima, Hussein was an old man even at the time when he launched the Arab revolt beck . n 1915 and v.hen Colonel Lawrence was helping him* He was famous in Arabia for hxs terrific temper, end also for his epigrams. Once he remarked HUSSEIN - 2 about Great Britain:- "She is the great sea in which I, the fish, swim." And then referring to the immense size of the British Empire he added: "And the larger the sea the fatter the fish." He had a -nerticular hatred for the nhonogranh, and looked uron it as an invention of the devil. Hussein was a man of severe and sim-le tastes. If any of his officers drank anything stronger then rose water he had them, beaten in public His favorite method of travel was by mule back, and he had a stable of mules, fnm South America, Australia end Abyssinia But his favorite was the Missouri "Hard -tail". tliifc LOST ^LANE Herefs a flash: Six airplanes of the Pacific Air Transport coErany are fighting e snow torm somewhere in the mountains of California. They are looking for another plane that Is said to have vanished in the storm. A passing motorist heard a terrific crash in the mountains. And according to the International News Service the plane hasn’t been heard from since. Next comes en item which may interest you who ere married or thinking of getting married. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 i ■ 22CE Page___ Have you ever heard people say that marriage is going to the dogs and divorces are increasing in this country so rast that itTs something awful? Did you believe what they said? If you did then just I i sten to what the Department of Commerce has to tell us. Four and two tenths per cent more [8K* people were married in 1929 than in 1928. Divorces in the same period increased^, too, but at a much slower rate. This week's Literary Digest c i ves these encouraging figures {bout marriage, and matrimony certainly seems to be in need of encouragement these days. i Ill *> J ■ NEWS ITEM ,'e' ve a I read s Tot of dueling stories. You know the -Yind where somebody gets scratched on the arm, and honor is satisfied? Or where the two duelists fire forty nine shots at each other end nobody is hit? Well, the Associated Press cables one that to my mind is the final clnsrie, and I just can't keen from ricking it as the News Item of the Day. Over in Hungary, Count Hermann Seim and Count Ludwig Wentheim got into an argument about something or other. At any rate honor had to be satisfied. So, they met on the dueling field with swords. It was all formal and stately, with seconds, r referee and a shycicien - ell the sta-e wops. The two Count? started in. Thrust and nerry, thrust end narry, ?i->, swish, the swords whi^ned the air. Eut in the heat of the fray both dropped their swords. They started at e-eh other with fists flyng. Then It was sock in the nose and ranch in the jaw, biff, bang, zowle. I can just see those two counts chucking down their swords ?nd ffoing at It with their dukes* Veil, such a thing had never been seen on the Field of Honor before, and the bystanders were horrified to think Ill &- t NE’E'S - s of the disgrnce of fighting with fists. The seconds nulled the two ougilists apart, and dusted off the swords. Then they made the boys start noking at each other with their share* blades again. Suddenly the physician stenned in and examined Count wenthelms tmlse. Hah! It wfs beating too fast. Fah ’ The duel was stonned. Honor was satisfied. Hov;f s that for a dueling yarn? EXHIBITION nell, here you are, ladies end gentlemen. Step end see the funniest looking mice that ever nihcled a piece of cheese. What color ere they? Why lavender. Yes, lavender mice. And over there are the rabbits with hair like the Tibetan yek. Yes indeed, Angora rabbits with hair four inches lon<*, and next are the Siamese cats that berk like d>gs end mynah birds from Indie that can talk better than parrots. And listen to this, a canary that whistles the "Star Spangled Banner". Where ere these wonders? Why, at the National Pet Show which h«f Just ooened in New York. Right this wry ladles end centleraen. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page ^L l L£H1 ^ Have you heard of the Moochi dance? i\ot Hooch i , but hoochi. ever in Europe they've gone crazy about it, and now it's invading this country. They're dancing it furiously in London, ;«_ul—Leu Paris and on the Riviera. It was first danced in America at a her York society gathering last week, and now it's spreading. I haven't seen it but they say it's something of a pub I ic menace, because it's wilder than the Charleston. The Moochi comes from darkest Africa- It was inspired by the war dance of the Zulus. The New York Cun describes it as a frenzied performance. In some ways it resembles the Charleston. 7/ith every step the foot is turned outward, as in the Charleston, but it is twisted back only half way. But the swivel effect of the Mooch i is entirely different from the old shake and shiver of the C h ar le s ton . The step is wild, but the music makes it wilder. The tom-tom beat predominates. ,U'I< KOOCHI - 2 with a maddening boom-boom-boom. That music is altogether wild end Zulu. And along with the drncing there is singing. The Moochi songs begin with Zulu words. And those words are Oosela ! Oosala ! What they mer-n I don't know, but I hone it's nothing shocking. Well, the N. B. C. timer here at my elbow is doing a regular ^ulu war dance, and he's singing Oosala Oosels, trying to let me know that the time has come for me to roochi Moochi out of here. So, Oosala Oosala, end, SO LONO UK7IL TOMORROW NIGHT.