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 1-5M iiiiE Lowell Thomas broadcast for the Literary Digest Thursday. January 7, 193S. Page, '■30c! rIvo.iing, Everybody: Tonight a busy search is being conducted on bo„.rc! a shio u t he ! i i c; h U w 1 seas. Officers and crew are into the hold among tons of merchandise, looking for two packages. Those packages are believed to be bombs addressed to the King of Italy and to .V.ueso I ini . This is the latest development of the recent bomb plot directed against pro-Fascist Italians in the United States. The International News Service begins the story by saying that the police of New York got a tip telling of two bombs, mai led in packages to the Italian monarch and the Elaok Shirt dictator. The police took up the trail and found that didnoi two such packages were bidid I included in a consignment of mail that was sent aboard the £XS&111S£> a ship of the American Export Line bound for Egypt and Italy. '.Vireless messages were i mined i ate l y 1 2 3 4 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ie 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 l-SM £HJ£ - 2 PagR *) flashed to the ship, and the officers ordered a prompt search. The mail bags are deep in the hold, with tons of other merchandise. And that means a big job for the sailors aboard the ship, wifo*®^ I are hunting for a maiI bag t a i n i n g pag con two addressed ^to^liTe'K i ng ee# fv'usso I i n i . ✓V LML& 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 11-23-31 •SM Page . _ Out in India five bombs were found on a railroad train. The infernal machines were discovered in a first- class compartment of the Darjeeling Express when it arrived at Calcutta today The bombs were taken out and rendered harmless before they could do any damage. The Associated Press reports things as fairly quiet tonight in India. The Nationalists seem to be lying low in most sections, but trade is virtually at a standstill. The Indian boycott against British goods has tied up business pretty thoroughly. At Bombay 300 American tourists got a taste of the boycott. They came ashore to do a bit of shopping. Only a few stores were open, and these were picketed by women, members of the Deshsvikas, a women's auxiliary of the Indian Nationalist party. They talked to the Americans and urged them not to go into a large British department store. host of the tourists were persuaded. One of the Miner i can women, however. : :i : J liiE.I A Page. I f C. 1 4 insisted on going in. She bought an English-made hat. When she came out wearing it the Hindu women tore it from her h ead. 25 11-23-31-5M I r I i i L^BAL^uAiJS 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 Page 2 ? An interest]ng sidelight on the Indian problem comes in a few statements made by a [v'ohammedan . India, who hs row in New i P I/-s in York . In an interview with Louis Sherwin, a reporter for the New York Evening Post, Syud Hossain declares that the quarrel between the Mohammedans and the Hindus is mpsfr exaggerated and is not the real reason why a settlement between India and Great Britain has not been made. He admits that in India has a powerful ankmamritiip Mohammedan minority, but points out that nearly every other nation has its own problems of the same kind. £ver y ^ther na t i on ' a i soP^as d mi nor i tTsC whi-ch ba-e—l-e-“be&o-ns4:d&RexH. He maintains that if England grants India autonomy, wfpy that will be the right time to settle the problem of the Mohammedan minority, of which he is a member. Syud Hossain Is-’Then quoted -by» Lou-lsrrrSker win o-f -tb 11-23-31-; m HULLS. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 1 23 24 25 Page____ kz An interesting conference was held in Berlin today. Two men had a long friendly talk. One represents moderate opinion in Germany. He is Chancellor £■ Bruening, head of the present administration in Berlin. The other was Adolf Hitler, the fire-eating Fascist. The United Press cables that they were brought together by General Groener, the German tv,inister of Defense. Well, the two political leaders have been denouncing each other of late, but now they are trying to reach an understanding. Chan cel lor Bruening invited Handsome Adolf for a conference on the subject of President von Hindenburg The Chancellor wants the former leader of Germany’s armies to run for the Presidency again, and today he asked Hitler to lend his support to von H i n den bur g . The International News Service adds that UcnigDiMtaDiBiB Hi_tler would say neither YES nor NO. AHe said he would have to consult with other leaders of his Fascist U23-31-5M 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 2 L 22 23 24 25 l-SM HlILtiR - 2 Page party. They say that Hitler has a demand to make before he will consent to support von Hindenburg. He wants the Prussian elections to be held on schedule. Prussia is supposed to have an election soon, but it appears that the government is inclined to put it off. But Hitler wants no delay, because he figures his Fascist party will be the chief winners whenever an election is held in Pruss ia. J MStllliGIOM 1 2 3 4r 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 - 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page At the White House this afternooh President Hoover received the leader of the unemployment march to Washington. He is Father Cox, a Pennsylvania priest, who organized an army of unemployed awn for the purpose of making a demonstration in Washington in favor of federal unemployment rel ief. The forces of the unemployed reached +he national capital today, and led by the Pennsylvania priest, they staged an orderly demonstration with cheers and speeches, and the singing of s on 5 s * The Associated Press wires iki that Father Cox presented a petition to Pennsylvania representatives in the Senate and in the House. o^-f- Repre^s-eTt^gtT^rBSr The petiition was read before &BHgK88S the Congressmen this aefternoon. ( It demands that the I government start a program of public works that will provide jobs. Also that it give direct aid to the unemployed v/ho are in need, and further, that the / n ..f 11-2 J-31 5M lASMltmiQN- - 2 Page------- X 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 12 14 U 10 1 1 farmer shoiai"# be gi ven a helping hand. But tl^e interview between Fathe< Cox and President Hoover was the high spot. The priest is quoted by the International hews Service as telling the President that unless something is done to re I ieve the woes and wants of the jobless, it’s going to bey'fil i ghty sad thing for the country. The President responded by saying that he believed the government should do everything it could to help the unemployed, but that in his opinion the way to do it was to create more ^employment through the regular channeis of industry. In other words, the way to help a man without a job is to improve business so that jobs be created. So far as direct aid by the 2 ( 1 .federal government is concerned, the 23president gave no indication that he 23 would change his mind on the subject. ll-23-.il -SM AlKlLhilL Page 2 1! They cal 1 it "the graveyard of airplanes," that mountainous section of 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 IS 20 21 22 23 24 25 Pennsylvania. And that's where they found the plane that was to have flown to New York, and then to South America. With it they found Mrs. Ruth Stewart and Mrs. Debbie Stanford, the two society women who started out through the sky on a jaunt of high adventure. They ran into fog over the mountains of Pennsylvania, and then their plane came crashing down in that graveyard of airplanes, AOiOM . < The Associated Press describes the widespread search that went on for more than twenty-four hours. And then today the missing plane was sighted by a searching airplane, an autogiro. Later on parties on the ground made their way to the wreck of the machine. Ill 2 - U-23-3J.; m 2j 3 4 1 5 6 7 8 9 1C 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page___ //L Here’s one of those p a r a d o xio a I a to r i e s t h at bewilder the m i n cl, t h o ug h it s e em s to m e we’ve heard s orne thing I ike th is befor e • Five Long Island firemen are under arrest tonight. They are charged with be i ng f i re - bugs . At Oceanside, Long Island, there^^ been a epidemic of fires of late, and now, according to the story given in the New York Evening Post, the police claim that the fires were started by members of the local volunteer fire department. They say that the amateur firemen were s o eni; hu s i a s t i c that they started the b I azesT/f or t he thrill of ft ght i ng them. OJl v Page /SU I he Nev/ York hor I d-ielegram today prints a note that is qu i te appropriate to all the activities that are going on in the wor I d of bridge, the Lenz- Culbertson tournament, the grand bridge jamboree which the New York newspaper people are staging and whatnot. The subject is----- How should ore behave at a br i dge game? And of course the V.'or I d-Te l egram goes b the jtBMRfcxxH fountain-te ad of alI social wisdom, Emily Post's "Book of Etiquette". ..ell, here's the way Emily Post says we should act at a br i dge game: "You must learn ‘to look perfectly tranquil and cheerful even though you hold nothing but yar bo roughs A for days on end, and you must on no account try to defend your own bad play--ever.n "When you are dummy you saMxtx have certai n duti es to your partner, and so do not wander a r o u n d t he room u n t i I c h e hand is ov e r . 11 " I f t he re is one thing w cr s e t han i’re hcrrible 1 post-mo rtemT it is the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 £&iiL£E--_£2_ Page___ / ^ i nc©ss ci n c repetition of some j anp i ng habit by one particular player." "If you would be thought 1 charming1 never take your partner to_ task." tzJcJ- a—r ^ jijt -zn- ~tx~~y2 su*. ct ^ ■ t 10 11 12 13 14 6 15 I 16 17 18 19 20 21 23 24 25 11.2J-31 »;M Page___ I donT t know of any s t or y that has held my attention more than an incident related in the newspapers today• At Guthrie, Oklahoma, two men were sitting on a bench in front of a railway station, waiting for a train. One man reached into a bag and took out an apple. The aroma of the apple, relates the associated Press, attracted the attention of the -a other man. "It smells like a north Carolina apple," he remarked. responded the chap with the "I've brought these with me f r om "It is," apple. North Caro Iina . " "Y/e II, I'm from those parts myself^ nA And he went ahead and named the North Carolina county where he came from, and it turned out that the two men were both from that county. nMy name1s McBride," said one. "And soTs mine," replied the other. As theu conti nued; to compare notes they f o i j n d t ha t they we re b r o t her s . T h v - y had drifted apart thirty years !f fore, and Riff I I 2 Page___ J_b_ 2 3 1 had not seen each other again, until they sat down on that tench; at the Oklahoma railway station and the 4 attention of one war attracted by the 5 aroma of the forth O..rolina apple. 6 tLodt r^1 ^ ? 9 10 11 12 13 I Page. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 1 10 17 ie 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Over in merry England the noble Lords and gentlemen hunt the fox. They also hunt the stag. In gay riding costumes and with a baying a hounds they pursue the antlered deer. One of the mast fashionable organizations is the mid-Kent Stan Hunt. Two of its w aristocratic members were out one day when they stirred up a deer. They started af*ter the animal, and as a result they were hauled into court. The case has created quite a sensation in dear old London. It appears that the deer the huntsmen chased was named Bridget. Now Bridget is a tame deer. She is 14 years old, which makes her quite an old lady a mo n g t he deer. She stalks ar ou n d the countrys i de, and the chi I dren pat her on the nose. Ordinarily Bridget is in no wise afraid of mankind. But when the two huntsmen on their horses came roaring up to her, Bridget got scared and dashed away. When the huntsmen kept after her, why Bridget became so frightened that she ! | : h j ' 1 I : I: ikj - 2 Page. /*7 dashed into the sea Her terror was s o Jr great that t+m- poor old atrrt%a4 swarn eight miles before somebody saw her out there in the ocean and rescued her. As a result the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals had the two huntsme The ‘ Wv /V arrested. gives the result of the case as -- dismissed. His V/orship said he'd like to do something about it, but he couldn't find any law to cover the case of the huntsmen who chased^the 14-year-old deer into 5I4 tLM, the ocean. H-JJ. ji . I11SLSI Page----- J_ZL I I 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 : 12 13 14 15 I can't hr|p taking a look at my hat, which is hanging up over there I wonder whether it's an ash-can hat. It appears that there are a lot of us men who are wearing hats that were dug out of the cinders, tin cans, discarded newspapers, and other junk. No, not that we dug them out of the ashcan - that's something else again. The story is told in the new Literary Digest which comes out tomorrow. It appears that the ashcan hat is a menace, not a menace to the head that wears it, but to the hat trade. So many thousands of ashcah hats are being is 17 18 19 20 dug out of the junk heap and sold across counters that i t1 s hurting the business of manufacturing feffidfes The Literary Digest quotes an article in the Business Week which tells 21 22 23 24 25 us that New York has thirty plants devoted to the resurrection o fA as h-c an, h&t-s£ They produce as high as two thousand dozen a day. Chicago and St. Louis also contribute their share. 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 i»;vi ai£££I - 2 / The Literary Digest reckons that ninety per cent of re-made haMsTlire A. rescued from the ash barrel. At city dumps hats are collected and graded. Then they are compressed into one thousand pound bales. Factories • . clean the felt, turn it inside out, put ixnb on new bands, fresh linings, and so on, and lo and behold, you have a ’ test- that doesn't seem as though it had ever been near an ash-can. Recently the demand has been so great in New York that there was a shortage of ash -Gen? hats. w+vT"e=b: lasted until shipments came A. /s 1 in from the trash heaos of the Pacific Coast. Of course , when-you buy-^t new hat +t r>ew -a hf- r rnht-i- Ae-d v^hen"=yo^ buy ane-made ha'fc- i t very -ii k e4y i e—o^e t ha t a c u s towe r fe-f t —in- a ha t —s-t o re when - he—heught a new head- p iece^ But -juet -^he ' same, t housands ef- a s h«^o a n ha t s a re worn w ht-h- a ■ j aunty a in • And many a Beau Br amme I v/ ho is cutt i ng a doggy, well-dressed figure on a 3 I 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page. ±6 ------- r Jl s I ender income is we siring on his steeple a fawn-colored or natty pearl-grey creation that was recently carted o~ft by the ash uiety^ And so saying, I find it's time5 for me to adorn my head with mv own ash-can and so—say - long until tomorrow.