Lovell Thomas Broadcast for Literary Digest Friday, November 7, 19D0. Intro. The nevs tonight Is like a Persi n ru; ^ll of variety and full of cclo". There isn’t much that’s startling and *h-r n* t much that’s tragic. But after all that’s good news. And there are interesting items t',rcr all over the v-orld, too, v-i lh a fev comic touches throv n in: A bif; celebr: tion ii soviet Hussi> , a story a bout the '-mount of r-aint the ladies are usinr on their faces, a train hold-up, the com in a o#* the King Li; m, more about the election uncertainty, and, an argument the French are bavin, over grapefruit. Let’s start our evening’s nevs bil l-o-fare "ith Russian caviar and end on the- Parisian gr- -efruit. This is soviet Russ5- ’s thirteenth birthday. Ju: t thirteen years -tgo Lenin an<1 his litnjtenants engineered the spectacul-r uprising that svcpA them into pover. 'any thought the Soviet government wouldn't last so very Ion . But it's still there, ^ncl they are celebr? tin* their thirteenth birthday in a big v. iy. i.ccoroir to the ^ssocj.-ted Press the”n vas an enormous parade in Moscov today, btallin and othtr Communist Moguls reviewed the parade in Heti Square before the Via^Js of thf Kremlin. Tens thousands of soldiers -n civilians paraded by, ant squadrons o'* aeroplanes swept overhead. Cne of the big events v.as the ublic opening of Lenin's new +omb, built o" ten thousane • ons c” granite, and on: of the most imposing structures in Moscow. Until nov Lenin, has rested in a t raporsry tomb, the inner walls of v.hich ”r *e covered with f 1.?:aim.> r- d drar,• s, and the- floor v^as carte* 'd In thf ca’ e brig} t. red. I v Lsi t.-d it sever’ 1 years ago and it was the most theatrical tomb I ever sav/. Interna tion l I*e* s Service on the Pale stine situation. The British have lifted their recent]’/ ennounced ten on the 5mm.ii*ration J ey-s into Palestine , i. c. partly but not entir ly. But under th • ner order, 1500 permits for Jewish labor immigrants have been approved for th" next six months. Hoover A story on President Hoover’s annual Thanksgiving Proclamation vas sent out today by the United Press. The President states that the country has suffered fai* less than other nations thii ar. Lsc Jev- o Here's • flash from the s - 4 - r:ad:- • cheerful and timely reminder tha:. vo hav b-: n free from iscord. Peace h* on ::tr rn£thcne and ro>:ress made, for which "e cn inae- d be thankful. Politics Well, as you kno" , there v/ere 42? congressrnr-n elected last Tu sday, bu4-, the curious thins about the election is that only twenty or so will take their seats at the coming session Congress. The other four hundred -nd thirteen must wait until a whole year goes by. And of the newly elected senators only five will take their posts during th coming December t rm. The coming t rm vill b- just another of these so-called lane duck sessions or congress. Me j nwhilr th^is still uncertainty as to who ill control Congress, an 1 as a result thousands of Washington cler s are feeling a bit nervous. Naturally they’re just as eager to know v,h is el .cted th( candidates themselves. After all th-ir jobs depend on what rarty controls Congress, And .a United Press dispatch from the capitol says they may have a long wait, maybe until Congress convenes in December a year from now whether or not they will have a job. j even though the Republicans have apparently won control of the House by two vot' .s, that sli ght Republican advantage may all b< changed by death or resignation before the new Congress ireetr. nev officials. It al o has a n v official glad-hander, and the first job that comes along for him is a big one. C. Lamotte Belin is his name, anc he has a r; al high- sounding title. He is Chief of the >- t- te Dei'- rtment’s Division of Protocol and ;; 1 a The United States has a lot of In* -motion-.1 Conrone r-s and v^unervisor of ^hit House '-oci 1 functions. '.(r. Belin I - to be to the v'hole U. > .A. vhat Crover •halen ‘nd his hi h hat and tail coat and spats are to New York. His first big job will be to rrc* ive His H Jesty, ling Prajadhipok. King of -i and his ^ueen, md th ir Siamese Majesties are to be received with pomp and circumstance. tet me give you -n idea of just how di ‘ficult Mr. ^elin’s glad-handing job is going to be. Not long ago the President­ elect of Brazil ’v* s received in Washington, I mean the man vho never had a chance to be president on account of the revolution. But during his visit in Washington the distinguished Brazilian guest combined that there were not enough facilities for rressing the suits of clothes that he had brought along. So official Washington informed the er<sident-e ect that if he merely sent his suits to tir butler they v.ould be ta>( n c; re of. A little lat r the butler phoned for help. Mr. Prestes of Brazil had sent him 41 sui^ 1 -■ r . vth r *hings Mr. Selin will have to un tangle probl eus .!.i c<• th' f. Anoth r roy' 1 notf: ‘'ollovs that one. eden V Patrice McGill, the former libr- ri m of '•indoor Gastlc, t 11s us rfi-it the members of he oritish royal Only, according to Patrick and the Evening Telegram, tl don’t like: to r-ad much of anything. Nobody eve joer "ro the iibr*iry of Windsor Cast3e emeapt American tourists, he says. The Kins of iveden, on tho other f enc oo d e 3 ■ bou . cards* ihe Associated Press says th King as inspecting 3 fort, eh n h found four soldiers — supposedly on duty — busy ov r a geme of bridge. The soldiers were paralyzed v.hen they looked up and saw the King. Bu King Gustav strolled over to the briege 'sbl , took a look at the hands, and turned to the playcr who had the bid. ' ly d . • rello’ ," he sai l, "Your clubs are weak ■ t bid,11 ■ witl hat h< continued on his inspection tour. The Kir of ov.eden evidently has a fine sense *, whicl ( ■ ■■ not. The next it 113 explain what I mean. Bincla*r Levis The avard of the Nobel Prize for Li ter .a tur • to >- in cl a.1 r Lewis hr s had an amusing kick-back. Lev.is, in formally accf ptinf in ulged in a bit o1 humor. He he was ■ - : t< usi t 46* 350. that goes with th- prize, "to support a well knov.n young American author and his family. Meaning him r- 1 f. Th.-t t r t/.- temen t v/a s relayed ovc- to -y- ue-».,nyj anti you know 'oiks in other countries don’t always understand our An eric- n jok< s. Ana they took Sinclair Levis’ remark literally# The German w rens printed lory admiring articles about h's wonderful generosity and public spirit in devoting the ^obel Prize money to *he ruorort of scr* poor American author. They hope he will select one who is thoroughly deserving. I suppose Sinclair Lewis thinks that’s exactly what he did. Hitler Here’s another little joke. Adolph Hit' r ..nts to talk ov> r th- radio, buit the Gernvin *ov'wn >ient says ’'nix Adol h. • broadcasting stations in Germany are under government control, *md tip to no-r Hitler has not been able to send his fiery denunciations over the air. He is protesting bitterly, Y . ,- . He says out that * re ^ r ^tnsteln broadcast a speech from London "ast week about the Hitl er Sc ;rr he an u,- t' tell th- world about t’- e plight of the Germans. Here*s a lino I ‘‘ound amonf the “fopicr Tn brief" in the new Literary Digest. The Dig- st 'uot s the Arkansas Gazette say in ', ''Hitl rTs ideas may b' Mussolini' but his mustache is Ch "lie Ghaplin’s." Galifornia No for a train robbery. It .... ' ifornia today. That sounds like j’oing back to tre ■’ila ^nd - • ;entur: o, n* t it? Fiye bandits held up a Southern Pacific train two ' *om Berkeley . The - 11 - Intematioml Ne s ^ervic*'- ?*; •; they we": armed with machine ?uns, automatic piato' , saved off sh t run s, and dynamite bombs. ih° t sounds more li :e the intro' uction to a story about revolt in Hussia than about California. «<ell, the train vas bound from Okaland to Ctockt >n, and was Carrying several large pay rolls and con Iderable currency. -he b' n .It" made o< !’ with about v100,000. Roosevelt ---- Governor Roosevelt, of Hew York, issued i statment this afternoon denying in th t he is/any way interested in a Roosevelt- for-President boom. Halifax t'rom out at sea comes a story o*' dang r. Thre * men in a thirty-loot motor If -ly- t bo-.t iro battling a 3ruthvveat g *le off Nov* co*-' toe y on th ir way across the Atlantic, ihe International News wr'rvic s ys th y started fmi Michigan, c nn threu *h tb- Great Lakes and the Nov lore Barge Canal. They are now on th- ir v. .y to 'J£.rE*ny, and hope to get there by Chris*mas. Life having Th t reminds ne that our Coast auard service irade a v/onder^ul record 1 ast year. The Coast Guard boys saved more n 5000 lives along all our coasts, Thi:- information was riven out today by Admiral Billnri, head o'* the ^oast Guard, and appears toni/ht in Ccripps-Hownrd newspapers across America. R-1Q1 They are still Inv- stiyating the in London, and today F-101 disaster over a bomb shell was thrown in*o the inv stig- Aion. -Lt c .me in the fo^m o-" some st "tlint t-stimony from one of the officiil airship inspectors. According to *h f int:■ rna* ion . i<e" s borvice, this inspr ctor sii it v. r tnown before the ship started for India that it had structural weaknesses and defects, fie said the manner in which the ship's gas cel s were nl iced caused them to rub constantly against the steel structure of the dirigible. Then he explained that thr* steady rubbing at thousands of points -©suited in hoi s being worn brie of the gas cells. This would allow the h:rhly explosive hydrogen gas to escape. Robots But in spite of disast ’s, aviation roes on progreo ing. Just list n to this. A hashingt n dispatch to the New York Evening journal states that the Eastern Air Tr ins ort Line is equipping its planes with robot pilots, an., beginning with this '.••into", these mechanical aviators will do the flying - that is, ■ 1*-, Each pi ne wil h ve a hum in pilot, too, hut he will rrerely do th1 taking o^f and the landin'. Once in the air, the automaton ”111 take the controls. It will ly ahrou h "ogs ana storms with gr^at -r accuracy than any man can do, and //ill hold the lane absolutely level and straight on its course. Cosmetics Here's some good cheer. It's a news item about an industry that says times are great. The people who rabnufactur ani sell roure, lipstick, and all sorts of cosmetics, say they did a record business *-his year. According the ?Je"* York Evening World it totalled over two hundred million dollars, and of *-his American om',n spent twelve million ‘'or pink cheeks, twenty-one million ^or perfumes, anc twenty-two million *'or face powder. Business leaders all over America are telling us that we can help bring back -ood times by buying things now. Th- Ne-f York Evening Telegram carries m article which says that the "BUY NOW** slogan hasn't any rr caning and should not be heeded unless we have a real reason ^or buying. ibis reek's ^it rary digest discusses the "buy Now" idea thorou hiy and shows just how the campni-n is being conducted over Ar.-rica to persuade people to put money into circulation. One of the interesting things about the article is that it tells how business is really booming in some localities. but it also contains a few 'A a min notes which suggest that if we do buy now we must buy wisely. Horse r h>rse ou‘ in Montana lived in a cist rn '’or fO days withouJ- any • ■■•or: -i ranch, and its own r gave it up for lost. ^ month at r, according to the Unit d Press, he discovered the animal at the bottom of a 16-foot cist- rn, still alive but awfully skinny and wobbly. The owner got him out by digging a trench, a runway clear to the bot-om ol the cist- -rn. - 17 - Parrot The oth- r evening I told about a parrot that prayed and sang hymns. Miss B irnette o:’' Cleveland, iritos that she has a still more accomplished parrot that sings two songs at the same time - the two songs buing: HHail Columbia Happy Land” and ''Hail, Hall the Gang's All Here.” He sings one line of one and then a line of the other and so on. Mono parrot! And then about grapefruit. The french academy insists it isn't grapefruit. It's pamplemousse. They're revising th : French dictionary, says the Paris correspondent oJ' the <ev lork Bun, and they1'.' 2om< to t r "grapefruit”. Tti t's vhat most Frenchmen call it, but the french Academy is always cantankerous about letting foreign words into the French L uiguaga. One learned school argued that .grapefruit is really a -r- r.ch vo’ ., tut tht • ajori y decided that pampleraousse Is still more French and is correct. And that's hat you will have to call it if you want your grapefruit the next time you -o to Paris. j-his scholarly item from France ends our evening^ spin around the globe, oo what o you s y v?e ill co out and one pamplemousse for dinner? But grapefruit or puttiplemousse, or whatever you call , 1T11 bot it will lirt in your eye just the same. Goodnight.