IMUiNS Good Evening, Everybody:- Page__ Today half a dozen giant airplanes went roaring through the sky and dropped bombs. But they were food bombs. And the beneficial barrage from the air took <ThJr\ orw~v{ place i n A£tea Southwest. The Associated Press wires that the villages of the Zuni and Navajo Indians in western New Iviexico are snowbound. The Indians have been trapped by the heavy drifts and are in sore straits for food. So six big Army bombers went to the rescue. In l(ii racks where they usually carry deadly missiles i s of hi '----- -(Awj—'ifcoy ^ ^ i 1 ki . -i-i gh e xp I os j ve9 they pfow had bonib«£tefce=ttp mibs^na of food. They flew over the snowbound villages of the Indians and dropped those rnissi les, which went flashing down toward earth, not death- dealing, but life-dealing. To the | nd i ans^ 1 indeed manna from Heaven. Page. This next sounds al arming -- at first. It 's about a band of raiders on the warpath riding across the border into the United States. The Associated Press tells how a large party of Mexican horsemen conducted the invasion. But they seem to have been merely robbers. On Saturday night there was a gun battle at Devil's Pass between several Mexicans and five American border patrols on the lookout for horse thieves. One Mexican was killed. The same border patrol was on guard again today when they observed the approach of horsemen on the Mexican side. Two patrols were sent for re i nf orcem en ts , and three kept watch. In a skirmish the Mexicans crossed the border and forced the Americans back. When the re-enf o rcem en ts came up they found nothing but hoofprints. The raiders had d isappeared. It is believed that they were a Sang of robbers -- probably the same that crossed the river la.st Tuesday, > Bfi-BHiLS “ 2 Page_ -3 terrorized a town and stole a few cattle. Just another of the sl ight disturbances that crop up along the border, now and then. SMLSQiSS Page__ In Chicago a group of thirty men are sitting around a table trying to straighten out the tangle in which a great industry finds itself. They are «x«y nine railroad presidents and twenty-one labor executives. The railroad presidents are proposing to the labor men a wage cut of ten oer cent, which will invol one million nine hundred thousand Union members. The labor heads are considering the wage cut. Both sides are trying to work out some plan to benefit both the railroads and their empIoyes. The United Pi^ess wires that the labor rb ha ve put th A A 0. K. on the attitude taken by the railroad presidents thus far« However the Chicago Tribune today declares that the railroad presidents have i i .I • tentatively responded toAUnion proposals in a way that the Union leaders consider unfavorable* The Chicago Tribune specifies 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 BAlLSfii'QS Page that the railroad presidents have said "ncTto a proposal to have|a commissfon study the feasibility of a six hour day- It is further stated" that the /V. railroad presidents would give the Union men no assurance that employment would necessarily be increased, and were indefinite about guaranteeing that a certain number of men would be kept on the job. ’//hen thisreport was taken to the members of the conference, they merely declared that they had nothing to say, and it is pointed out that the proposals and counter proposals thus far are merely tentative. flii&Sl Page. Here’s an interesting game. Let’s take a del lar bi I I and match it up against various commodities -- milk, wheat, cl othing, and so on. Let's see how big that dollar bilI is && compared with these different necessities of life. In this week's Literary Digest there is an article which gives us the various dimensions of a dollar. generalAsize of that bit of green stamped paper is half again as big as it used to be. The Literary Digest quotes the News Bureau of Boston as giving us a series of figures compiled by Professor Irving the Ya1e economist. Fisher, n& ..show /N. that the dollar today is worth just about a dollar and a half, as compared with buy as m the s4=WGrt::er0TT of 1926. That is, you can ch for onTAfe^:tociSr^s‘l^^«<. 81.50 in 1926. V But thatT s not the most interesting Part of it. That!s not the game of matching up that I mentioned. The Literary Digest goes on witn an elaborate and illuminating set of tables based on a "tabulaliion of prices published jn the Weekly Financial Digest of E. F. ' Hutton and Company. This list gives us the value of a dollar in terms of various c ommod ixies, and you'll find a surprise or two in those figures. The value of a dollar differs greatly. Fa—t=he terms of1 Page------ JZ-- it is of course worth more than it was in the boom period, but in some cases it is worth less. And then in that same chart we can compare present values with those of 1913. That Literary Digest tabulation certainly deee strikes home to those of In most cases our money the counter, a-nd - I Page. 10 [ ill I 12 131 14-I 151 16 17 ial 19 sol 21 22 23 24 25 "an.*, Another C3.se conies 3lonc| o*f 3 n American diplomatic official attacked and beaten in a foreign country. This time it's the distant, strange land of Abbyss i n i a. The American minister to the African capital of Addis Ababa is Addison Southard} ~to ^ The Associated Press cables that the American minister was driving along in his car when there was a slight accident. One of the wheels ran over the foot of an Abbyssinian woman. She wasn't hurt badly, but naturally she let our a loud Abbyssinian howl. It's no fun to have an automob i le come bouncing on your foot^-^t The Abbyssinian police came up arrested the American minister's chauffeur . That started an arcp ment which ended in a scuffle. The American "joister was hit and knocked downl. j-cef oJ j_ -tcA-o. .’v,3'"I_„ : nhten ^=»»-Athe State Department Ato straighten aut. and , 1 [ 2 3 i 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 f ; 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 SM IRIfia-IQ-E^li Page___ £ Abyssinia is still off the beaten track, even though Ame r? can'M i n i sters do get beaten there. It so happens that one of the few American travellers who has visited Abyssinia, a nd I don't think he got beat up, is sitting beside me. Who is he? Well, what American's name is synonimous with the word travel? a Who has been telling us more about foreign lands for the past forty years than any one else on this continent? Whose distinguished profile, pointed beard, sun helmet and all, are known in'mot ion picture theatres the worid over? 1 ♦ • Why* Burton Holmes, of course* Who else could it be? ivir. Holmes has been presenting his travelogues in American cities for thirty-nine years, without a break. And that!s a record. But as he sits here across from me, he looks as debonair, and as fullof high spirits, and as young, RETAKE 'HMn'tiT -r-—-... t^Y4A ’ ' 5^1 /^7 n 'f 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 * 15 j ) 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 31 SM ium_ . Page__ Y Abyssinia is still off the beaten jj! track, even though Atneri can Ministers do get beaten there. It so happens that one of the few American travellers who has visited Abyssinia, a nd I don^t think he got beat up, is sitting beside me. *1 Who is he? Well, what American’s name is synonimous with the word travel? : Who has been tel I ing us mor e about * foreign lands for the past forty years than any one else on this continent? * Whose distinguished profile, pointed beerd, sun helmet and all, are known in'motion picture theatres the world over? • • Why, Burton Holmes, of course* Who else could it be? ivir. Holmes has been presenting his travelogues in American cities for thirty-nine years, without a break. And that1 s a record. But as he sits here across from me, he looks as debonair, and as full of high spirits, and as young; Page as he did when I first sat at his feet at Orchestra Hall in Chicago nineteen years ago. he is the dean of all travel lecturers, and he has pex kept pace with the changing times. There is always something new in his annual series. A year ago it was his travelogue on the remote land of Abyssinia. This year he is doing something even more unusual. r>e istelling us about a city that might be called the m<3 t romantic and bizarre of al I the cities of the earth -- I mean Hollywood. He—has fcr ave I o guo ~on—ilo I I y w oo 4 b-hat •hrkan tak-gs^ H-nd—the Mr. Burton Holmes, how under the sun did you happen to think of Hollywood as a travelogue subject? And what sort of a place is it, I meetn uaiierneat-h he=_ su t f a o, II Page_ Well, Lev; e I I , from Abyssinia to Hollywood is a long jump. but both are fantastic places. And in its way! Hollywood is every bit as fascinating for the traveler as the capital of Abyssinia. And to most of us Hollywood is as unknov/n as Addis Ababa -- and how different. Abyssinia is a land of Ethiopian complexions., Hollywood is where the schoolgirl complexion is the rule. In Addis Ababa all the local hair is black;in Hollywood it is for the moment platinum or blonde. I n Ho I I y wood even so c ommonp I ace a thing as a visitto the barber shop becomes an event. The barber shop usually puts on an all-star cast. The f i rst time I dropped in to be beautified there in the next chair was Clive Brooke, in another Willie Collier, and in another Jac k Mu I ha I I • A face th at is not wo rid f amou s attracts attention on the streets of Ho | | y woo d. E-s-iU 2 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1 Page. /X After New York I think that Hollywood is the most interesting place in Amer ica in w hich to I ive. The thing I like about it is the Peter Pan qua! ity of the place. The people of Southern California simply refuse to grow up and take life seriously. Nowhere does life seem better worth living than in Hollywood. I had a number of compl imentary things I wanted to say about Lowell Thomas and his news broadcast. But he shakes his head and says, "It just isn't allowed." So, Lowell, where do we go from here with your nightly news caravan? What country is our next stop? 25 : 2 3 4 5 0 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 jiA£AM ^ > tXo, / ^ ^'P^- o<_ Page__i3__ An alarmist note is sounded today by W i I 1 i 8- m Phil i p S i mms , the to ret gn editor of the Soripps-Howard newspapers* He quotes a high diplomat at Washington as declaring th at the sit uation in the Far East is ready to blow up with an explosion that may rook the world. They say that information has come along i nd i cat$St that Japan and Russ ia may have ^ - - - - ^ a war in the spring. Russia doesn’t want war, the story goes, but the Japanese general staff does, because it believes that the situation in the Far East favors Japan and thcmf the forces of the Soviets are at a disadvan tage * T his s t a t e of a f fair s is bI a me d on the failure of the great powers to enforce the peace treaties in the Far East^to put a stop to the aggressions of Japan against China. 1 2 3 4 5 0 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 IEQIZKI Page___ On the island of Prinkipo in the 1 Sea of Matnora, just out from Constantinople, there lives an exile who today received bad,news. But he seems to have expected it. He is Leon Trotzky former war leader of the Soviets. received a report from Berlin that the Central Political Bureau of the Communist Party at Moscow has decided to demand that Trotzky!s period of exile shall be | extended for two years more ^ A correspondent of the Associated Press interviewed the former partner of Lenin, and Trotzky indicated that he had expected all along that he would be kept in exile from Russia. Well, Trotzky has ‘been living on that sleepy old Turkish island for some time now, writing his memoirs, looking back upon the days when he and Lenin were the two Red masters who ruled the ^hey^^s^ay he has been on his good behavior so far as his enemy Stalin is concerned. I suppose that means he nasn’t b 't\ 1 2 3 4 5 0 7 8 S 10 11 12 1RQIZK1 - 2 Page____ /S. been conducting any activities against the man who drove him from Russia. Some think that might pause Stalin to ease up on his olcrtSs*? and let him return to f/iOSCO w. to But the report from Berlin seems not so, and indicate that this is that Trotzky stay in exile Page / There^ been more trouble in Spain.Xn the city of Bilbao. Three thousand Communists today tried to storm 0. jai I and lynch forty-one prisoners. These prisoners are Catholics who were arrested in the course of disturbances between the red radicals and the suoporters of the Church. The Communists have called a general strike in the town. This follows right on t he hee Is of a f icjht between the Cathol ics and Communists in which four people were killed. The Associated Press cables that when the attack on the jai I came along, soldiers stood ready with guns and sabers. The crowd of radicals was so violent that the authorities released two Communist prisoners to pacify them. They then marched off waving the red flag. Pap-p 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 18 17 18 19 2Gi It is^denied that the conference soon to be held at Lausanne, Switzerland, will postpone its work until after the American Presidential election. The Associated Press declares it has the denial from authoritative sources in London. This follows reports that the Lausanne conference would meet as scheduled and discuss the question of reparations and war debts, but that it would not do anything definite. It would postpone its important decisions until a^ter the United States had elected a President in November. This same report declared that one thing the conference would do right off the beet would be to ask President hoover /V to extend the moratorium for six months longer. This a I so is d e nie d. So the declaration is now that the Reparations conference will go through with its work When it meets. They say that it will extend the moratorium on German reparations for six months, but E£EM£IIQtiS - 2 that it wi I I not appeal to President Hoover to take any act ion on the war debts which the former^ allied powers owe to the United States. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Page /g '.Veil, honk, honk. Egbert's in jail. At half oast two this morning the inhabitants of South Bend were awakened by a tremendous lot of honking. They thourht it was some automobile driver a wi i d serenade on his \ horn. They shouted for him to qut it But msde no differenee out ihe- honk i n g wen on . Then . the Assoc iated * Press, the police were called. They found it wasn’t an automobile at all. It was a big gander that had got loose and was oarading up and down the street^^nti-go5^^^ Honk, Honk. Then followed a lively chase. It took the South Bend cops an hour before they could catch that honking gander. hen they caught him they booked him as Egbert. Why the gander should be called Egbert I donTt know. TI»a cou I i n d - 'h i s owne r y-—stfli f h ey consigned him to jail, that is the dog ^ ii I ZZR'Q Page pound, and tonight EgbertAis honking his honk in the dog pound of the highly esteemed city of South Bend. nebHA I 1 ve honked my honk,1*^^ - So long until tomorrow^