LO. ELL TTJOfv AS BROADCAST FOR TF.^ IJTEHA^RT DIGEST °TQRr'S MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17r 1950 From all four corners of the compass comes a whirlwind of news, and e lot of it’s about the weather. In the South doctors and nurses have been rushed to the delta country of Mis:issinni and Louisiana, the region that has been swe^t by a tornado. The hospitals of the city of Natchez are crowded with victims. Dozens of nlantation buildin-s are flat as a result of the tornado. The United Press says that one woman was Mclced u~ by the cyclonic wind and hurled into an onen fireplace. Out West old man winter is blowing his icy breath tonight. A blizzard has swept down into the Dakotas and Minnesota, and the Associated Press reports that the storm is sweeping across the Middle .'Vest. From the Pacific Coast come disnatches telling about violent geles that have taken a toll of several lives at San Francisco. Back here along the Atlantic the International News STORMS Service reports that a number of boats have gone aground m the fog rnd that many shins are waiting outside New York harbor for the fog to lift. xhis week’s issue of the Literary Digest has an article which takes us back to those dry, blistering days of last summer. The escessive heat did a few freak things, and the Digest quotes Science Service in telling about © few of them. For instance, there were two draw bridges over the Harlem River in New York. They kept expanding end ex"ending from the heat. They exranded so much that two inches of steel had to be burned off with an acetylene torch. In boston the glass of a skylight was thought to have acted as a lens and set fire to a Yacht Club. While in Missouri, automobiles were set on fire by sun shining through wdnd shield--. In Pennsylvania ten per cent of the apples hanging A on the sunny side of a tree were found to be beke^. A little sugar and cream and they would have been ready to serve. In Europe, too, they’re having stormy weather. An Associated Press dispatch tells us that the giant German STORKS - 3 seaplane, the DQ--X, may not cross the Atlantic until next soring, on account of bad weather. METEORS ilnd that celestial show billed for this week, end, the one with the shooting stars, - well it was a fIon; at any rate it was so far as this rart of the country' was concerned. The weather man wrecked it. The Associated Press reports, however, that Rev; Orleans had a good view of the celestial visitors. The shooting stars armeared at about the rate of forty an hour, one every minute or two, and they were of dazzling brilliance, as they zi-red across the night. Like the weather, politics over here are slightly disturbed. "GLITZ CS i-h^t close hermony dovm in 7/ashington is a bit out Ox tun- today, and the one who Is singing in a key all by himself is Senator Borah. You will recall how, after the election, prominent Democrats advocated a policy of working hand in hand with President Eoover. 7/ell since then a few other Democrats have said they didn't feel quite so harmonious. Insurgent Republicans have also been slightly discordant. But now the mighty Mr. Boreh, says the United Press, is going to bring ut> the subject of Perm Relief, The dispatch adds that this may cause an extra session of Congress. There may be fireworks during the accroaching session, but the real interest will be in the new Congress, a year from now. Control of Congress says the Associated "Press may fluctuate between the Republicans and the Democrats. In the House for a week the meeker may be a Republican and then for a week a Democrat may be the sneaker and so on, with the job massing back and forth. A situation like that has never been -POLITICS - 8 knov.ri in We shlngton. In the big State, War and 'Navy Building down there, a new men is taking an important desk. i II;.*, Me ART KITH Jnc16 Rem's Pegulers are going to have a new chief. .Her • e-y, i me: n. Of course, President Hoover is the ' Commr.naer of e.ll our military end Naval forces, hut he has rlenty of oth■■ r things to do, end the real heed of the Army is Chief of Staff. And now there is going to be another one. Major General Douglas McArthur. That’s his name. Yes, and he is going to be the youngest Chief of Staff that our Army has had since the World War. This weeh General McArthur is to arrive in ",'eshington to take over his new duties. He ought to know a lot about army affairs, if there is anything either in heredity or environment. Not only has he devoted his life to the Army but his father was a general in the Civil V'ar and he comes from a long line of soldiers. It would, take several minutes just to read off a list of the American and foreign decorations he has received. Did you ever hear o.. the Rainbow division? Well, General McArthur is the man who during the World War, corcim&nded the Ha inbow Division. Commanding the Army is a quiet job just now - but it’s different in S-ain, SPAIN - 2 came out with a majority, says the Associated Press# And he's now in control of the Polish Parliament. And then, about that disturbed situation in the Holy Land. England Is trying to do something about it. PALEST! KE Great Britain Is getting, ready to srend a lot of money in Palestine. The Under-Secretary of State for the British colonies announced in the House of Commons today that $12,500,000 will be set aside to help 10,000 settlers in the Holy Hand. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 LiNflBllfitj Page _ i h g y 1 r e o o i n r to p u t a t t'dbr f i c cop outside o t t h e L i n d b e r c h h o u s e .. I e p n t h e n e w on e Lind be rah bps just moved into n ear r r i nce to n , Wevi densey . b u t i t v; a s the ne i g h b o r s who a s k e a t 0 p t h e oo p, not l in d be r ah. j he • internation. 1 Wews say_s that ino sooner had he moved in vv i t h his f a m i I v t h a n tne road past his new home got a I I snap! ed up wit h trattic. everybody w£ nt e d to see where L i ndy lives, ana w hat the baby looks like. oo the cop is baing s t a tio ne d the re t o teI I t he s icht- seers to move on. Interest seems to be pretty even Iv □ iv i dea between the Lindberghs' ne w ba bv a n a uo I one I L i ndber c h 1 s nevv p I ane . the ,\8S oe i a T—a rress b... —, , t......... : i roratt fe^iupl w-' ha ve been work i nr tor n i n e hi o n t n s o n a n e v/ t y t e ot v ; i n r t o r his monoplane. .. i th these wings and a new motor , they expect tha*^ plane to make 22 b miles an hoir. .rumors here in the •jdJb&s ^ ^ £ jr p s t s a v t ri t tk--i n d L m ^ p r h - is 1 o i n; c o t I y •3 * /\ to ^ouch ..rnericf* in i't. i CO-SDS Revolutions are not confined to Eurone and South Arteries. According to the United. Press, there's one out in Montane. The co-eds of Montana State College have gone on strike. The faculty laid down an eleven-o'clock curfew law. The girls gave that idea what is ponularly called the raspberry. The girls refused to attend classes, and sang, the famous old "Prisoner's Song" in protest. They held mass meetings, built as bonfires, end even appealed to the governor of the State. SPINSTERS ',7 lull V Af'l Ladles rre w in arms. Ishbel MacDonald, the British Prime Minister's daughter, announced that she didn't like the term srinster. She wanted to be called a bachelor girl. The discussion is now raging on this side of the Atlantic. Miss Lena Phillins, who used to be president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, says she doesn't mind the word, spinster, but she does object to the term Mold maidff. And Helen Havener, the editor of the Independent Woman”, says what we need is a new name to define woman’s new niece in the world. What shall it be? Old maid, spinster, bachelor girl, or what? FOOTBAIT Jumping Jovv Savoldi was the star fullback of the Notre Dame football teem. lumping Joe has dived over the goal line for the sake of deer old Notre Dame for the last time. Xnute Roekne is losing one of the best football rlayers he .ver coached. Junming Joe is leaving the university, says the International News Service. He was secretly married some time , end the dispatch adds that by getting married Jumping Joe ±2± violated one of the unwritten lews of the teem. ' ' ML •'11 A TOBACCO Yesterday was the 400th birthday of the god-father of tobacco. he was Jean Kicot, French ambassador to Portugal In the 16th century. He Introduced tobacco Into France by getting some tobacco seeds, v.rhich had come from Florida. He sent the seeds to $ueen Catherine di Medici in France. Catherine turned them over to somebody, who dented them. That began the cultivation of tobacco in Furore. In Paris, according to a United Press disnatch, a rarty of smokers celebrated the birthday amid clouds of tobacco smoke. They elected a Queen of Tobacco. Meanwhile, over here in America there was at least one celebration too - although the reonle celebrating may not have known anything about the birthday. Do n in Atlanta, Georgia, at a religious Conference e minister of Brockton, Georgia, was anr lying for IQSACCO - Page. 2 1 a dm i x t a n c © x o x li e Con f ©re nee. 2 was made that xhe ~zAi _ i ^Ss ,^pH The report 3 tobacco His doctor x o1d him to. ih e Conference decided herd have to stop it So, he took the p1edqe aqa inst tobacco, and became a member or the Conference. 7 8 9 | 10 11 i 12 , 13 ; 14 15 16 1 17 18 | 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 * ■ I.V Jt Page_ 1 H p t r? h o s t story l told you j p t u r cl p v -i v e n i n r has been explained. w' s about uarewsk i f a coniposer o t jazz music in London. He was conducting an orchestra tor a dancing act, v/hen he saw an apparit ion of a warrior pass across the stage. ..el I , it turns out that the apparition was a London rireman. Just a rireman in one of those swanky helmets the firemen wear over there. he was making his rounds, and he happened to get in the way of the stage lights I s u t ^~cr~ r s his shadow sc a x u>^ofc ^?s floating across the stace. That fireman's helmet made him look ^x just like an ancient warrior. 1 he news dispatches stated that this composer was the writer ot the famous stuttering sonci, K-k-katie. i r u o t e d the n e v. s dispatch oT> i r , and this morning got a hot correction, i y/ p s told emphatically t h a t u a, r e w s k i □ id not compos e K-K-hatie at a I 1 , bu t t,, -1 the man who really wrote the famous sonc is tne well known American song DAREWSK1 - ? writer Jeffry O’Hara, K-K-Katie certainly had a characteristic American flavort and I should have known that an American had. v^ritten it. So, here's to Mr. O'Hara, may he continue to write clever ditties like K-K-Katie as long as the old moon continues to rise over the cowshed. NEWS ITEM Some of you may have heard the name of Dr. Tselh. He is a gentleman from China who has visited more than 3,000 cities and towns in North America. He also is said to know more words of our American slang than we know ourselves. Well, I met Dr, Tselh on the street, and I commandeered him to oick my News Item of the Day. "Here’s one," he said "that knocks me for a row of ash eansj Just give this the once over, my hoy." And here’s the yarn he picked. The old German war fleet, those battle shirs that the Kaiser once was so proud of, the ships that startled the world when they met the British at the battle of Jutland, are be­ ing turned into iron and steel to build movie houses and to make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 s.oil l r ays • j \i ond c r Ur. Tsoi h p i eked "t h i e i t em . From t he s eco n d m os *t p o wer ~f u I fleet, in *c h e v/ o r I d to p r o sale a s h Jc r a y s • Was there ever a fal I 1 ike that? Eleven years ago the great German fleet surrendered to the Allies at w c a : d a 017 11 iva : one of the m,ost dramatic events of our tim hen it lay at anchor up there in that, idsf ? n-k harbor off the coast of Scotland. But the German crew put one over on the AIIies father than see their qreat Len-o-,.ar -L L used by their enemies, they opened sea cocks and the ocean came in. They sou111ed e very last one of t hose s hips / o u 1 I I all r e m a m b e r t h at. Since then the British have been salvaging those ships, and breaking them j p; and selling t hem for 6 Id i r on. 30 3 a11Ie ships and cruisers have been "©floated to date out of'ft, and accord ing to the United Press, that wi1 I be al I . he others sank in water too deep for a!vagin o • The giant ba111e sh i p , i n d enter c;, he s recently been brought to NEWS I TEN' - 3 the surface. It is now being broken up. It and of the once mighty wer fleet are being put to the other vessels same rurnoses movie theatres and ash trays. Kow the mighty have fallen. o 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Join: Page their thrones right Now he ref s another bobby Jones, w o rId1s mmmwimmfflsi today gi ve up tournament K i nos ar e I os i nc 'W* sinti ! eft these days, who 1s stepp i ng down. greatest go!f player, announced his intention of abdicating. He says he's through--that is, almost. Bobby said that at the end of the 1930 golfing season he will golf once and for all. The Associated ,-ress says that Bobby announced his retirement through the executive Vice-President of t!-e United states Golfante Association. He is giving up his throne as king of golf for two reasons, so that he can devote more of his time to the practice of law, and so he can make a series of motion pictures. I.jf. —;. ri i; r-'-cTT^ri-t^rs . The International Mews Service tells us that these movies iv i I I be of an educational nature. They will explain the Bones golf technique. This is a pretty good news item to end my dispatches vv i l n tonight. because I can just see all of you golfers getting rest less. I can see you already turning U9E mm JONES - 2 off the radio and starting for your bag of clubs, to nractice the old swing on the living room rug. And here's haring you win Bobby Jones’ crown. Go to it boys. Tee off, and, SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.