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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;
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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. ”
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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
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$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
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, 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.