Lowe 11 ho mar, Broadcast for Literary Digest Thursday, Doeember 6, 1910. L a 1 e s •'■ell, e said "hello” to Old Man ‘..inter thir morn in- . And the leather Bureau reports that the gale off the Atlantic coast is growing wilder and wilder. Captain Drank Hawks, by the way, took advantage of a he ling tail-wind, and hopped off on an attempt to fly from New York to Cuba in 7 hours. But the wind didn't boost him along suite enough. He got thru in 9 hours and 36 minutes. On both the Atlantic and Pacific, c-Us Tor help are being flashed out from ships in distress. The Associated Press reports a fishing ship missing off the coast of Spain> an Amorleva liner, th< Northwestern lost Its rudder in a storn off th coart of ’ i - •: tiiis morning. - late dispatch from the International News service says that the famous little coast guard cutt r, the Raid- and the steamer lanana are speeding to the rescue. The’e are £1 passengers on board the helpless Northwestern. On the Atlantic Coast last night the schooner *--nn:i a '.lay with twenty tons of dynamite on board ran on a sandbar off Highlands, New Jersey, during the gale. There she lay, pounded by the waves, with tb" cases of Jynamite hurled back and forth. As you would imagine there was plenty of excitement on the Annie May. The crew lower d a boat and rowed for shore -- and how they rowed. They went at top speed for fear the dynamite would go off'’ any minute • nd blow them tc Kingdom Comp. Thi;• morning the sea died don-Ti a bi t, so "hoy v.ent b-- ck and got the schoon. r of:”. Bu* until she vas ^ree thf-re were ? lot of urietsy people on the Jen; y ^oast in the vicinity of that shiplo.' t of dynamite. DO -X The heather is *01 v rong over in Holland* too, and the DO-X, that big J • r n; m flying boat, \ ill v, a i t, till i t clears. I’ve been saying DO-X, but the Associated Press tells v\r that I am •oron,,. The officii'.l Gr-rrr n pronunciation is !:dou..;h-iksn, that’s vhst th members of her crev affect tonetely c*13 her. So, we» il ho.Vf to say ”dough-iks” hereafter. I read n article in the Litfrary Digest today about American sky travel. f-he Dige st h-u: -.n up i o the minute Motoring • n*. Avi' ion section, and this '■veek it discusses sorre o*' the nev.est wrinkles in American commercial flying. It ron't tell you much about those occasion? 1 hops folds make jin t for a thrill, but if you figure you 'ill ever have to ta e • pi no jus'- to get to some place in hurry, vhy that I igest article vill be a very practical thing "or you to re ;d. 11 p o in t s ou t th r = t the A me ri c ■ n public h; un iuestionably token to the air. It also iuot« s th< A a shin ton ■ t r as saying that "it is nor possible for the American air traveler to go •Imost anyvthere he desires by this mode 'n means of tr re port- lion. ” In ■. o. o CO 1 f' ' ! ;V ri I - 5 - ---- --- - vonl - ht seenr to be ..I’Ll the i.upublic-jns h-’JW: thr edge in bongr cc rr ill the Democrat? have it? -.nd no one seems to Inc the •. ns-, r. «ceordInr tn the Unit d rreec ho^h r- .rfi1 s •■v- running necio ^Fui nedr. but sever-3 c; ndlr ates r.re dern-.nc In: recount - nd ihe^e is still somr irru ■ in Minresotr end en lucky. <x'■•OTrr* -K>r r ‘ , i: to 11 v l iter for tL_ independert t bev Ycrlc TeTegram a-Tdi? that republic n ' e-.dors eve ry here; are b coming mere anlc stricken as they a nalyz e tl, vo t e. Anynay the jury is still out. Fla sh Her*f ?s a flash v ith a bit of excit ment Vn it. There v- a riot in the French Chamber - ' ■ putl s today. And that Chambrr o"’ Deput* s is often the French , , ■ .. t ^ * $oc1a3ist s a nc royalists st■ $ed a *'r e-*'or-r. 11. According to the Int rnational asvs Service It was one of those •uneh-ln-the-nose and sock-in- t he-eye, statesm--n-like affairs. The publisher o\' U.' nev.-spav, r. La Liborte, v!io v. a; fijhtin£ O'n ‘'.ho :■ ide of the re:" list , v.' pushed ^krou h a vinaor , anc> fel in^o 4hG garden bo low. Then thf : olice arrived, and m- de the Deputies stop fi, h ing. In Italy, too, there have been rue fions. Italy Mussolini is strikin out ; t his enemies. And as all the world knows, Mussolini pack.' a reel ; unch. According to th correspondent of the New York dun at iuilwr, he has ordered round-up of his. political opponents. II Mace srys they're plottins to kick over hi: gov -nrent. -cor'js of arrests havu been made, especially in ^ilan, v/hich is a s -- i - ! ist center. Professor Rossi, a leading It'.aian technolo sJ , was being taken to Hone as prisoner, and thre, himself train. He wasn*t hurt, and they soon ra-c- pturec him. A prominent nei si-ap* r editor and a former minister of finance were arrested, and the prisoners are being Sant to penal isl nds ir. the Medit rrsnean. In Gei'P'-.ny the Fascists are still the political storm center--they and the Steel Helmets. The Steel Helmets are a sort c n privi U , unofficial army ' Hied with thf Fascists. In nev Literary Digest that went on the stands thi: morning, thert is an article about the bteel Helmets that falls of an amazing demonstration they held Coblenz. It states that the Steel Helmets claim tQ have 8,000 branches and a. million members. ^ter 1 Helmets p.-iV sound like threr t of war, but r::. rent The Les gue of’ Nations is getting busy v'ith Ur t ol , ole question of disarnament. The nations are toting guns like ol; Mine west rn sheriffs, and everybody is saying—why don’t they check a f • v c-f their six shooters at the door? And so a body cal’ed the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission is t’lkinj things ovi . kight of" the 4 bat, according to the United Press, the British have come forward with a suggestion to establish a Permanent Disarmament C on ii ss ion. That cemmis s ion v.cu Id act as a ’’world control” of armies, navies and air forces. In other v/ords, it would keep an eye on the number of six-shooters the nations would be carrying. The doviet delegate, naturally. made trouble And he is that old trouble \ maker, Litvinoff. The Associated Press states that he spoke in English, and denounced the i-'rench and nearly everybody else. Litvinoff also protested against making motion pictures of the proceedings, and he had his way. No motion pictures were made. It is said, according to tfre United PreeTs, that the bolshevik secret service men with Litvinoff, objected to the movies, Decause they didn*t want their races to become known all over Europe. Still pictures were taken, however, although the Soviet delegation didn’t like that either. Mine In Ohio they are feeling bad about that mine disaster. nut a curious story has just come through about it. The Associated Press tells how one miner saved his life with his wife’s ap on. When he went to work in the morning he happened to have the - 10 - ap .'on stuck in his pocket. After the explosion he dipped the apron in the coffee at the bottom of his lunch pail and put it over his mouth and nose. The apron se-ved as a sort of gas mask, and thanks to it he managed to crawl out of the shaft alive. 250 were in the mine at the time of the explosion. A hand red escaped and tne rest were trapped. The last victim was taken out today, and according to the United Press there were a total of 81 lives lost, twenty more were so badly gassed they may die. Prom India comes a grim tale. f Indian Killer ■ J. - ■ - — ■■ » ■* The worst murderer in the world has struck again, and this time he has killed fifteen people. It is far off Penjaub which is cursed with this atrocious killer. His name is Harphul Singh. He began ni s career of murder by shooting his sister's father-in-law. Then he robbed and murdered: a Mohammedan butcher at Narwana, and then killed a sub-inspector of police sent to ar est him. A month la er he killed two more Mohammedan butchers. He has a strange hatred against Mohammedan butchers, which may be a fanatical religious quirk. In his latest atrocity Harphul Singh and a companion held up a whole village, and oobed the villagers of their money and bangles, harphul Singh looked around for Mohammedan butchers, and killed five of them. Then he shot down five Hindus, then a Mohammedan mother and her baby, then a money lender who would not give up his gold. After that the two criminals fled, and finally on the road they killed a young tax collector and his orderly. There are till fourteen million people in India who belong to the so-called criminal tribes. "'hey look upon crime as a religious duty. This man Harphul Singh may be one of these, or he may just be an Oriental run amuck. Aby s sinla m Abyssinia there’s a second John D. Rockefeller. I don't mean in making millions -- but in giving away dimes. And it's the new k - 12 - emperor himself -- the one they crowned last Sunday as "Lord Kin^ of Kings of Ethiopia, conquering cion of the ^ribe of Judah, the Elect of God, and the Light of the World." Wowie, hoe'd you like to have that for a title? Anyway, he announced he would give a dime to every child in his capitol. The II ew York Evening 7/o rid says that thousands of youngsters -- some white, some black -- stampeded the throne and got their dimes. There’s another part of the tropics where there may be a great change, and I'm picking this story as the news item of the d ay. Devil’s Island You all know about Devil’s Island, that island of terror in the tropics just off the northern tip of South America, the Devil’s Island where French criminals go to do penance for their crimes, and authors go faE for thrilling stories. We have always thought of uevil's island as a difficult place to escape f ro m. But the French say it is too easy to get away from Devil's Island. So the most famous and most aucx terrible prison in the world may soon be a thing of the past. Another reason the French may abandon it is because it is so unhealthy. The convicts who go there soon become physical wrecks. So they are talking about moving the prison from the tropics to an island down near the South Pole, The name of it is Kerguelan Island, and it is just a dot in the Antarctic between the southern tip of Australia. It is one of tne most remote spots on the planet. Hav an a Here's a flash from a place a few hundred miles north of Devil's Island, Havana, one of the first cities founded in the Western Hemisphere, is about to lose its old identity. Within the next five months, says the United Press, Hav .ana will become a federal district similar to the District of Columbia. But like the well known rose, no matter what they call it, it will oe the same oglorious, the same old sparkling navana. R i c k en b ac k e r After twelve long years, Eddie Rickenbacker, America's Ace of Aces, was decorated today for his heroic feats of flying durin ; the World War. President Hoover presented him with the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest honor this co-intry can give its war heroes. Mot only was he the commander of the famous Kat-in-the-Ring squadron, but he also held the American record for having shot down 26 enemy planes. The New York Telegram says that all the members of the Hat-in-the-Ring squad ron who could get to Washington, were present to see Eddie decorated by the President. It had been twelve years since many of them had seen each other -- and some odd things have happened since they were together in France. For instance, the New York Evening Telegram reminds us that twelve years ago -ddie Rickenbacker was shooting down Fokker airplanes at sight over the German lines, and today he is vice president of the Fokker - 15 - vg Aircraft Corporation, An o ther celebrity of a few years past appears in the news. V a 1 en 11 n o You remember Rudolph Valentino's f un era! when tens of thou sand s of pe o p1e blocked traffic and women fainted? Well, now we are told that the funeral was all framed up as a press agent's stunt, just a bit of ballyhoo for the Valentino films, all worked up for advertising purposes. This was revealed today in a 1 aw suit out in Los Angeles where the courts are settling up Hudy Valentino's estate. The actor's brother and sister claim that funds have been misappro­ priated oy George Uliman, the executor. It was Oilman who gave out the startling, news about the funeral. On the witness stand he stated that he stage-man.aged the fUneral and hired fifteen hundred policemen and forty press agents to put it over in a big way. He ados, that Valentino was half a. million dollars in debt when he died, but that the deficit was turned into a $700,000 profit, all because of judicious management, so Oilman says. Sea Water A strange cargo was delivered at the docks of London, It consisted of a shipload of sea water. The water was brought from, the hay of hi sc ay to the London Zoo, Accord ing to the New York Telegram, fish in the aquarium require this water to sustain life, Here's a letter trom West Virginia, It's about a fish story. It comes from a banker down in Shepherd stown, West Virginia, bhephe rd stown is %,ust three miles from the battlefield at Antietam, where one of t ne great battles of the Civil War took place. And the man who sends me the fish story is Joe Trout, he's the Danker. And he tells it on a local mail carrier who went lishing in the Shenandoah River and. caught a five and a quarter pound bass. When they opened Mr, Bass they found another bass inside him that weighed three quarters of a pound, and in the second oaes they found a chuh. As Joe Trout points out, it certainly was a case of fish eat fish. liilkman And Aaron Swanson is a milkman out in Chicago who isn't going to play catch with milk bottles any more. For weeks Swanson delivered a quart bottle of milk every morning to Customer Witt by tossing it to him from the street. It was a good twenty feet, says the Associated Press, but Customer Witt always got it on the fly just as he was leaving for work, Buf yesterday Witt was late, and absent- mindedly hurried' out the door. He forgot all about the milk. Just as he shut the door his daily quart came whizzing past his ear and crashed through the window. It made Customer Witt so mad he hailed the milkman into court to pay for the windowpane, do, goodnight, and until tomorrow lockout for your milk bottle.