Lev' i Ah.>a*s literary iJi;-est iroadcast
Friday, October 3, 1030.
Sea.
Out on th • sea toni hr sails a small, lonely
vessel
— a yacht. t ith ^ v;ide spread of canvas, she beats
against the v in:
r runs before a breeze. Not so long ago,
she saile-a to these American shores under convoy with a grand
blare of publicity. Now she returns by herself—almost
unnoticed. Sh is oha- rock th* Fifth, going home after her
defea^ . Only one man of those who brought h< r over is
aboard - Caplain Paul, her skipper. The oth rs are taking a
liner back to bn gland. It is said they did not like the
idea of rakin' anoth - transatlantic voyage aboard the tiny
craft. So t-v sha mrock had to sign on a new crew of eleven.
Five of there seamen v/ere from her successxul rival, the
Enterprise.
Well, she sailed the best race she coulc'., and she
deserves a happy voyage home.
Hoover.
Pres
jq
- -n* is bock Washington. His address
vest •rn-v in Ciev-land, as you knov,-, dealt largely vith
pr -sevt. hosmesf con itlon , an Mr. Hoover denounced any
idea of reduction of American standards of living. Some
cr-i.- ic.v-. in ,- r’-'r o one nart o1' his sneech as advocating
consolidation of rui:i roads. There are a lot o ' railroads
in t; couiii.rys • no. in the opinion ot some9 they v.ould do
wel3 to merge.
In
this
week's Literary Digest,
is
an article on
how President Hoover is bringing about a radical reformation
of the heder-
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serve
Board. That article
is
packed with
I
important information telling all about the financial
/
situation of th country, as it intimately affects your
pocket book and mine.
Ticonderoga
I
wonder
if
you
saw a paragraph tucked away with
today*s
ship news
—a paragraph about the Leviathan? A
memorir] servsce was held abo arc the liner f or the victims
U. S. transport
Ticonderoga,
which was sunk by a U-boat
just 12
years
ago with a
loss
of 240
lives.
The Leviathan
was
passing over the waters
in
which
the
Ticonderoga went
down. Officers
no
passengers
gathered at.
the
rail. One
of them ,-as
Sir
Thomas
Upton. A wreath of flowers end a
c ‘
;’ro'
■ ?rav. or th. cants in of the
Ticontiero??. v.,re thr^n into th S6r , ,vhere fathons
belov. lies th shatt r-d hulk of the luckless ship,
oehina -hir siitnle c renwny is on< of the most traric
of vartime stcries.
t
v
K'
js
© cars rhen the te 1*2*01* of J'.rie
U-boats stfc.1 *e:i 2re seas? I do. I - as on a ship
«ha v ?<as chasec into £aloa oy ■2, U- boat. And 22e v/ere
pien"v scare-
1
00!,
The U-Boat that sank the Ticonderoga was a
big undersea cruiser of the same type as the Deutschland,
which made that famous cargo carrying trip across the
Atlantic before me got into the war.
It was just at dawn in the middle of the
Atlantic. The Ticonderoga had developed engine trouble
and bad fallen behin ■ its convoy. The submarine had been
following them all nirht hoping for just a chance like that.
On the stears-r the looicout saw the Ion cxt.ar—lime steel
shame bra ah; surface £00 yards away. ihe car tain of the
Ticondercwa rut his helm hard to starboard and _,riec to
ram.
The submarine dived just in cime to escaue being
cut in two.
The German commander wanted to sa/e his
torpedoes. Bo ?ir came up again to tight at out on the
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surface •■-ith his 'uns. Before tfe Americans could got
hiS
he f?rt'i his first, shell. It struck the
bridge of th .iconde -og- , killed the helmsman, shot
away the Canto In's leg, disabled the- steering gear, and
cam d av ay the air less. Co from then on there wasn't
a chance to sena out an SOS.
The bat-le was on. There were cr T
k
naval
gunners on tx st'.anier, but their guns wer outranged
by the Germans. The submarine drew off to four miles,
kvery rime thr Am*, rleans ^ouncl th ir range, the U-boat
dived and came v;- in a different position. It began to
send over dor ly shrapnel. The transport was set on fire,
the Ifeboats were shot a. ay or riddled with holes, the
blazinr deeds wer filled with dead and wounded.
For two hours the battle went on. Only fifty
man, out of almost 300, were left alive on the Ticonderoga.
An effort was .wade to launch the smashed-up lifeboats.
All of them were swamped except one. And the gunners still
stuck at their posts, until the
}
ast gob had. been
v.
i
j
led.
The submarine came nearer and. turned loose a.
torpedo. It hit souarely amidships, and the liconderoga
plunged to the bottom. The U-boat picked two officers out
of the water as prisoners. A single lifeboat, 'ilUa v,J.th
2S wounded and dying, was afloat. In it was the wounded
Gaptain, who later die:. The submarine tried to
take the lifeboat in tow, but finally abandoned it.
The boat :rifteo -"our days and three nights before a
passing steamer ricked it up.
One of the survivors was John Michael, by
a it coincidence, he is a boars, the Leviathan
on her cresent trip, and it was he who dropped the
wreath above the broken hulk of ths Ticonderoga.
Baseball
The V; or Id’s Tories players are on their wray
to St. Louis for the third game, as you know, which
will be played tomorrow. The International News Service
quotes r.ddie Collins as saying the Athletics will win
two more games and wind up the series. Frank Frisch
predicts that the Cardinals will win, and even
up
the
series. Guess which team Eddie is coaching for, and
which ore signs Frank* s pay check.
Anc; ri ght now, out in Ct. Lou.;.. , 1>.
^ •
Bradley
is sitting in a rocking chair at the head o. tbt .line,
waiting for th ticket office to open. He'll be there,
rockir, hack and forth all night. "Our team hasn't begun
to play yet,"
says
“radley. And be seems to be right. They
certainly got a trimming yesterday.
Football
iro l; o football season gets under way
tomorrow. rhf fanes last Saturday olan»t count. But
"
ai, ternoon a vile roar rill o up from coast
to coast. lea- s rill collide with a thud, and phantom
teacVis will start side-stepping down the chalk lines
while thousands yell like mad.
The big games, as far as rivalry is concerned,
are mostly in th south and west. Notre Dame meets
Southern fethodist at couth Bend:, Knute Rockne admits
it
1
s
hour. to be a stiff game. Those Texas preachers
usually fight like vildraen. Northwestern takes on Tulane
at Evanston, Ohio Etate meets her old rival the Indiana
hoosiers. Minnesota ta:es on what may well-prove a tartar
in ola Vanderbilt. And the clash between Nebraska the
Cornhuskers, and the Texas Aggies, will be full of dynamite.
In the last, Princeton tackles Amherst, with the
betting on the Lore Jeffs,
tor
a change. Tale 1 aces
Maryland, the southern team that last year culled a. lo
-j-Q i g surprise on the ulis. umaox up against ^he ^est
Virginia
Mountaineers
goes the Pittsburg Panther, and fur
wiV’ fly there.
ZlPM
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Tnc-
United Presr
s-iys fire
today
gutted
xh
. ‘
” <■: t:.-- s 5,000,000 Educational
Building
at
Harrisburg
, Pa.,
vhich
held one of the
finest
•-u i
toriuns
In America. Ann, talking of fires, this
brings us to a -reat ole fireman.
Smoky Joe
Smoky Joe Martini Did you ever hear of him?
1 , every city in this country has its Smoky Joe.
He's the man v o 1 always -’ound where the flames and fumes
are thickest.
Nev fork's Smoky Joe is through after 46 years
in boots and h Imet. At
68
he has been retired. To
the men of the New *ork fire houses there was something
of a miracle about Joe. Yes, and so there was for small
boys, and for buffs, (A buff, you know, is a fellow who
is forever chasing the red engines down the street. A1
Smith is a buff and proud of it.)
Smoky Joel Twenty times he was in the hospital
suffering from burns and bruises. Many times he was
nearly
smothered
too.
He
fou
-ht
fires from basements
to the ton of 38-story skyscrapers. Long years back
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he
szop"C<i counMnr the lives be snatched from the
flamer.
It ■ arn’t that Smoky Joe v,anted to retire.
Not he. True—he collapsed last April while on . uty.
rut fcac c he Casse the other day. He swore he was as
f?, t as ever. But the doctors shook the:r heads.
!:Great Scott”, said Jo:, "I'll be all right.”
Up to vesterday he insisted that the retirement
tale that has been -oing th rounds, was all bunk. The
chief called him in. -hey were old oals. V.hat they s id,
none knov.s. Smoky stalked out, head hirh, and the smile
the boys :n v, so v^ll - but there were tears in the smoky
grav eyes. They seemed to be looking into far, for
distance. There'll be no more fires for Smoky Joe.
China
Tvo British vow n missionaries have been shot
to death by Chinese uommun et.c • An ■tlssoc : tc d Press
cable carries the story fr m Peipinr, China. You may
recall th-t these two missionaries were seized last July,
and were held for a &100,000 ransom. A finger cut from
one of their hands accompanied the final Communist demand
for money. The
ransom
didn't arrive. The missionaries
were shot.
Tornado
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injure , ' s the toll today
of a tornado v.hich swept two southern Colorado counties*
r.nornou oror-erty ’".aye also resulted as the tornado
whirled : rom north to south* It devastated an area
2b
miles long and a quarter mile wide.
V.er- you ever in a tornado? \ el , it's one of
^he most e::ci ting spectacles I -now. Years ago I lived
on t- Iowa oralri , anc. ve had our own storm cave, "we
usea to sprint .'or that cave about twice every summer
when a funnel-shaped, cloud appeared in the sky. Our
house was never carried array. Bu' we sometimes saw our
neighbors' homes and barns o up.
grain
Out in v an -ranciseo, a five-year-old boy
chose a railroad track for a playground. Herbert by name.
exnress roared round the bend. Herbert sat still between
the tracks. He :id not hear—or he was petrified with
fear. Nearer,
engineer caugh
brakes. I can
n-
-r .r rushed th train. At last the
ht of the boy, and jammed on his air
just hear them squeal and grind, and the
the
shoes.
.. 11, it wa; 11 too late.
s)ar :s
flash from
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Th: train passed cv; :• tfc. oy.
cat. har-r'ence to Herbert? The Associated
Press tells the astounding tale. The train stopped,
ihe hern* - . cr- -—sorie fathers with babes at home—
raced oack. There sat Herbert. He wasn*t even
scratched. He thought it was a great joke.
m
Sacscon
One of th* most picturesque Jews in the
world is cir rhillip bassoon, he comes from an old
hagdad family. Hi: home in London is like the palace
of Aladdin in the Arabian Njrhts. Sir Phillip is
famous for his ho.:pitality. He also is an enthusiast
on aviation. According to the International Levs, he
has just srriv in America, accompanied oy a huge
retinue of secretaries an' servants. Just like one of
the caliphs of Bagdad.
Freak
Fleshes
A fire out in Ore 'on v s extin uished by milk,
A milkman on his morning rounus threv: his bottles at it
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Thc Lnited Pre£r al.o tells us that thatched
roofs are getting popular again over in B-ngland. I
v, r.r.0 iis-rica v u„ : try them too, in place of galvanized
iron. As any aviator will tell you, there are altogether
too oieny corruf t * : ron roofs marring the scenery over
her1 one to a t.cned roofs would be a whole lot n?cer to
fall on.
Here1 s a nov; on . The city of London has two
second-hand s’lbvay unnej o for sol . Chicago to te notice.
In fact, I used to live in it. The city is Chicago.
hv-.rr Chicago candidate for mayor for the last twenty
years v as ^omisea to bull;* a subway as soon as he got
into office. when I was a newspaper report r out there,
that Chicago subway scheme was one of my first storr.es.
But they haven’t gotten around to it yet. So I think
they ou2ht to buy these second-hand ones from London.
The N. Y. Herald ribune tells us that Chas.
Fletcher of
Jersey
City w -s reaching eor g. clean :>air of
socles.
One
sock
caught
the trigger of his revolver,
which
vas s t, e cparer. It went off and shot him in the chest.
He will recover-.
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Out in .iandan, North Dakota, Edward Loran
want-o to n! ■ y
*1
-ooi one on his wife. He wanted to
nrfw:* V-r believe he bed hanged himself, del 1, Edward
rt.LPjuogea ht;• > istance. They found him suspended from
a noose, within a quarter of n inch of the floor. His
brother sa ‘ i t as a jok —just another practical joke
gone wrong.
Ton Thumb
h.I on .one is bound for New dork. Two
lieutenants have pr ceded him. The New York Daily
Mirror says A1 has taken up Tom Thumb golf* Already,
he has u millions into toy courses And -hat’s more--
he’s :olng to play a big match of tom rhumb golf when
he arrive■■ . No, vwe can’t tell you ju■ f ehere. AX mi.--.ht
not li ce i ".
He vs Item of the .bay
Nov- for the news item of the day. It was pxcoea
out ‘or me by r. Isaiuh bowman, president of the American
doograph1c a Society.
!l Here’s an extraordinary thing,u he sal •, ''one
of the strangest migrations of People in our time."
“l.r: -
4lc tJJ‘; ':e th'vr-- alv.v/s
thou, h
sometimes unnoticed, migrations. For instance, a
n Cnma'ncn ?i y nr nave been moving, for several]
years now, irom Shantung to Manchuria. But the
mi "ratlin nnnouncoG to .ay is in North Africa—an: it
cer taInly :• vt
es
a weird s tory.
Amor..: tne granite hi3,.ls and sandy deserts
deep in the Sahara lives the Berber tribe of Omar el
Muctar, a clan of warriors devoted alike to freedom
and to plunder. they inhabit a craggy v.aste of hills
v.'h'ch *'orn a natural stronghold. Of work they do
little. Of fighting they o plenty. They are accustomed
to live on if .o;ie of the surroundin' oases and val eys,
from -/loom they neve long taken a tribute of one tenth
of their possessions—grain, sheep, and camels. They
s\ - -gerc- : an * lorded it, - conquerors among the coneuered.
Nov:, it so happens th^ th- country of Omar
el hue tar lies v i thin thv boundaries of the Italian
provinces in north Africa—Tripoli and -eereneyika,and
it ••• ru; bouna to be only a matter of time until the haughty
tribesmen ould clash with their European overlord.
Thry were-
accustomed
, not 'o submit,
but uo ommat< .
jUgsert arfare began, an ■ is still on.
Thu desert fighters have been putting up
a
resistance. J-heir country was in the remote wilds
. -g
01
t-C' nt rior. Its natural strength, they
increased 'vith "ortifications, An , as they lived
on
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n ana animals of the surroun..-ing tribes,
1--
■>
abl to revolt tne'nise.l ves, without any
d straction, to ri“hting. The Italians sent
ex additions against tb n, but got nowher-:. The r be Is
th *. ■ ru hills, nd continued to collect
tribute fro.ri th- lesert 'oik around.
but non t:
Italians have completed an
extraordinary maneuvre against the Omar el Muctar
tribe. It is one >■ the gr -atest sin lie population
movements of primitive peoples in history,
,hy not. eliminate the rebels* food supply?
a?r tr Italians. ...o, they started a forced migration
of th; runny tribes—the tribes from whom the rebels
have Ions exacted tributes of. oo . Kighty thousand
people began a. long desert tret, ith tent..;., pro visions,
house hoi u.oo. s, and 600,000 head of cattle. In an
endless s- ri s o" caravans, they plodded on to the coast,
where the Italians had dug wells anu "u - aside grazing
lanls for th- !.r use. The whole immense movement as
carried on
behind
a veil of deep secrecy, and only
now,
i:
r ■ :
,
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in an Associated Press dispatch from 1 rth Africa.
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Th mi
'rat
i
tribes
v/ill remain
on
the
coast
over winter, until s *in By then it is cted,
th* tribe of
Umar
el .aictar, v.
i
1 h
their
ordinary food
resources 'on , v
ill
have been
starved
an forced to
submit. /Urea / fleets of armored cars are moving
against th- ;-resu.r.ably embarrassed rebels.
* 11, the:* ’ r another forced migration at
non ..
Th-.' timer is sisn iin, , and it1 s up to me to
migrate. Goon night.
Add:
Flash
A motorist named einney Dortch was arrested
u in oishhiil, hie xor>, for driving .oast a red light
signal, his excuse to the judge was that he didn’t see
the stoo si n because he vas thinking about getting
married. To prove it, he. pulled the marriage license out
of his pocket. The jud . .as sympathetic and offered to
p rform th ceremony. The lady was there, so the judge
gave them a life sentence inst- ad of a fine.
Freak F.~l ashes
7 , -tovernmen i of wo land has passed a law
com w-
m ] ip1? every do e to take a ba
',n
eve ry moniii.
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w stwam'-r has just ocked in Brooklyn with
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a car^o oi a- ni txlon anci a half jollars worth of'
o«a
..
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L
once
-lived
n
dates
for
nearly a week,
in
Arabia, • n-
I
fad iik,- .-inline that ship.
Flash
The International Mens Service sends a flash
that th- American Legion, will maintain a hands-off
attitude toward prohibition and other controversial
political issue,
s.
Scott Micas, National Judge
Acvocat-, stat ■ this afternoon tha.t prohibition will
be a
closed book,
as dr
as
the Legion is
concerned.