L.T. - SUNOCO. VtEDNESjjAY. DECEMBER 1. 1927. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: f There fs going to be no row over that incident at Shanghai yesterday, the uproar when the Japanese seized an American tug and threw Old Glory into the Whangpoo. Japan and Uncle Sam have kissed and made up, and the episode is all over.) His Excellency, Vice-Admiral Kiyoshu Hasegawa, with his medals blazing and his shoes shined, a brand new shave and a hair-cut, paid a visit of state to Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, officer in command of the United States Asiatic fleet. And said he: "I have the honor to tend^you the apologies of the Japanese Navy for the sad mistake committed yesterday and we hope you will excuse it." To which Admiral Yarnell reponded: "Okay, Admiral, I hope it wonft happen again." Or at any rate that’s what he might have responded. Vice-Admiral Kiyoshu Hasegawa played a similar visit to the United States Consul, Clarence E. Gauss. LEAD - 2 CP-vx-<L At the same time, the tug which all indiscreet A * $ subordinate haa seized, was duly returned to its owner. There was some delay about this. The Japanese first notified Admiral Yarnell that the American Navy could have it if they would come and get it. They made the same offer to the Italian authorities*e^^ $%jej£^suv\i Admiral Yarnell replied hefd be hanged if hanged if he would. The Japanese must return that American property themselves. The Italian authorities followed suit. There was still a trifling delay, because the Japanese sailors had to scurry around town, finding flags to replace those they had At any rate, the episode is closed and the Honorable Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, announced that the American government is satisfied. A cable from London tells us that the diplomats are getting together to settle thefcatter of 18S* Chinese customs and the interests of foreign powers in those^ceaoi^*^ TT Tokyo seems to be in a most conciliatory mood. The MikadoTs Foreign Office has assured the powers that their wishes will be considered before any arrangement is made about the disposal of those customs receints. LEAD - 3 So much for the diplomatic front. At the scene of war, the Mikado1s armies are pushing swiftly westward. Nanking is threatened from a new direction, and outflanked from the south. I sat beside that erudite Chinese scholar. Dr. Lin Xu Tang at a banquet at the Waldorf, and he prophesied that a long drawn out battle will be fought around Nanking. The success of Japanese arms lias given rise to a formidable legend around the Mikado’s war machine. An editorial in Mussolini*s paper says it^s time the powers realized that Japan is invulnerable, nothing can be done against her. And Sir Ian Hamilton, a retired general of the British Army, warns the world to beware. The Japanese army is on the march, he says, and its goal is nothing less than Singapore, the great English fortress guarding the Malay Straits. That’s a pretty long march all the way down through southern China, French Indo- China, Siam, and Malaya. But it’s no longer than the marches of the conquering hordes of Tamerlane who went as far as the Bosphorus, or of Genghis Khan, who overran everything from the Pacific to the frontier, of Germany. JERUSALEM Tulkarem, in the Holy Land, continues to be a smoldering center of discontent and disorder. Last night there was a fire at the Public Works stores. Five people were burned to death, five seriously injured. Three of them were constables. And the authorities suspect that fire was no accident. On the same day there was a riot in the streets and shots were fired through the windows of the mayor’s.office. Near Jafa4, a band of terrorists attacked a small detail of police, killed a Christian-Arab surgeon and a Christian- Arab policeman. They wounded a thirql and sent him to Haifa, with a message:- "Thus shall be done to all Arabs who have not the nationalist feeling,” In Jerusalem meanwhile the Military Court sentenced an Arab leader to seven years' imprisonment for being found in possession of an arsenal. The Court tried to find out from him aJ!$ where he got^the arms and bullets#His reply was, "That's known only by Allah!" ARMS The armament race in Europe becomes more hectic. A- A Edouard Daladier, the French Minister of National Defense, says that the munitions factories in France will turn out twice s# nsuch in’rTi: Nineteen Thirty-Eight last year. Monsieur Daladier has Just come back from inspecting the fortifications on the eastern frontier. says that the famous Maginot line, that long subterranean, steel fortress, is A impregnable, but, he adds; "France needs a strong offensive army completely motorized, completely.mechanized." Simultaneously, the French Minister of the Navy says that France will launch her first thirty-five thousand ton (ZJ— battleship in Nineteen Thirty-Nine. That will be about the A same time that Germany will put her first warship of the same size into the water -- .... IREILAND be Irish Free State is no more* That doesnTt mean another revolutionhas taken place or that Eamon de Valera has decided to give his country back to Kin^eorge. No, the Emerald Isle just changes its name. In future, it,s to be known as Eire, and that's Irish for Ireland. All this comes in an official communication to the \ League of Nations. Effective December Twenty-Ninth, the land of <Sjj^ Erin is to be formally known by its new name.— I WINDSOR A Scottish Left Wing newspaper is greatly excited about the British treatment of the Duke of Windsor. It has an article today entitled: "Bring the Duke Home." knd it goes on to say: "The British ruling class never treated anyone as scurvily as they . „, %-'*-**&-* >' ~~ have treated the former king*. *fThey exploited him mercilessly for /V forty years and made his life one long propaganda tour." ASIG^fhe Scottish paper adds! "Now apparently Prince Charming is to become a Wandering Jew." At the same time we hear from Paris that the Duke has accepted an invitation to the Annual Dinner of the Anglo-American Press Association in Paris next Monday NAZI Several days ago the NEW YORK POST made a grsmt todo over the fact that an armory of the New York National Guard had been used for a function of the American branch of the Nazis, Today those charges aroused the attention of the United States Senate. Secretary of War to report about if. He made particular point of the statement that several National Guardsmen were present in uniform, also two of Uncle Sam*s cadets from Wtest Point, who were in civilian clothes. On top of that, the Adjutant General of the New York National Guard said he is preparing a report on this iter^sttB«tii%AClark of Missouri said he would call upon the A affair for Governor Lehman. CONGRESS Let's see what Congress has been up to while the boss is away. First of all, the Administration whips have corralled enough members of the House to drag the Wage-hour bill out of Committee. It’ll come up for discussion before the House next week. The Chairman of the Steering Committee had a tough time getting enough signatures, but he finally succeeded late this afternoon. The next question we come to is taxes. The House Committee is proposing to simplify the levies on estates and gifts. In the upper chamber. Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, urged his colleagues to adopt his resolution to regulate and stabilize the value of the dollar. nWe are in the path of a fifty billion dollar recession,1’ said the Oklahoma Senator. "Our first need to correct our troubles is to stabilize the currency.” Several members of the Senate, including the Vice-president followed the example of the boss. They didn’t go fishing, they went hunting, in Pennsylvania. They spent the day stalking deer on a ten thousand acre estate near St. Mary’s Pennsylvania. With-them was His Excellency, the Ambassador from Poland. Some disrespectful correspondents in Washington were making book on how many deer the eminent statesman would bag. The odds, I understnad, are on the deer. TAXES The Tax Collector has a new rod in pickle for taxpayers. In future they’ll hare to tell the Internal Revenue Bureau not only their incomes, but everything they own. That means not only stocks, bonds, mortgages, securities of any kind. E& includes A. A houses, yachts, automobiles. If you buy a diamond ring for yourself, or an emerald bracelet for your wife, the Tax Collector has got to hear about it. That applies only to people whose income Is a hundred thousand a year or more. One or two se'nators frowned on the notion. Mr. Burke of Nebraska said, listing your assets jumm has no place on a tax report and I doubt whether it is legal.” Senator Clark of Missouri said practically the same thing. LEWIS There1s going to be an event in Washington tomorrow at which I’d like a ringside seat. It’s a meeting between John L. Lewis and William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor. It ought to be a sight worth seeing when those two bitter enemies me#t in the remote hope of making peace between the Federation and the C.I.O. The report doesn’t say whether the meeting is going to be according to Queensberry rules or catch-as-catch-can. We may assume, though, that no Jaw-holds will be barred. Seriously speaking, the word from Washington is that there is -£eJ&4- optimism that the two labor chiefs may find -'A common ground, reconcile their differences, and bury the hatchet. DIVER A new record was established today in Milwaukee. No connection with beer, although it did concern diving. A young man of that Wisconsin lake port went a hundred and thirty feet deeper under the surface of the water than any diver in a diving suit had ever done before. And he did it in a home-made suit designed by himself and constructed In a work-shop in the basement of his house. His name is Max Nohl. The depth to which he descended in those frigid Lake Michigan waters was four hundred and twenty feet. The previous record had been made by a professional diver in the warm waters of Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, twenty-two years ago, three hundred and seven feet. When down four hundred and twenty feet, young Nohl was under pressure estimated at six hundred thousand pounds. FOOTBALL Seventeen lads were killed this season play football, that is, up to Wovercber Twenty-Seventh. But none of them were college players. The deaths all occurred in high school and sand lot games. Twelve in high school, five on sand lots. The authority for these facts is Dr. iiarvin Stevens, Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Yale University. The doctor himself played half-back on a great Yale team, the tem of Nineteen Twenty-Three, untied and unbeaten. Dr. Stevens was addressing the Convention of the Southern Medical Association of New Orleans. Of course there’s nothing new in the fact that the' high school and sand lot games produce more casualties than the college affairs. One reason for this is that the college players are more carefully trained, taught how to take care of themselves, and. medically supervised. But Dr. Stevens says there may be another ij. - FOOTBALL Seventeen lads were killed this season play football, that is, up to iioveicber Twenty-Seventh, But none of them were college players. The deaths all occurred in high school and sand lot games. Twelve in high school, five on sand lots. The authority for these facts is Dr. Marvin Stevens, Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Xale University, The doctor himself played half-back on a great Xale team, the tern of Nineteen Twenty-Three, untied and unbeaten. Dr. Stevens was addressing the Convention of the Southern Medical Association of Mew Orleans. Of course there*s nothing new in the fact that the' high school and sand lot games produce more casualties than the college affairs. One reason for this is that the college players are more carefully trained, taught how to take care of themselves, and, medically supervised. But Dr. Stevens says there may be another FOOTBALL - 2 reason. No fewer than six million youths take part in the sand lot games, six hundred and sixteen thousand in high school. In collegiate football there are only sixty-five thousand, six hundred and ninety. It seems to be an indisputable fact that football is the most dangerous of games. Out of every thousand college players, a hundred and twenty-four are injured every season. That’s way ahead of every other sport that men engage in. The percentage in polo for instance is eleven point two for every thousand; In wrestling ten point seven. And it’s interesting to (TV\ j 2. learn that the least dangerous game of all is ice hockey, in A I which only two and a half out of every thousand players are *je<? 2^ injured during the season. Dr. Stevens makes no mention of ^£ 2 ? tennis, golf, ping pong or ches_s,. AMNESIA Three days ago the police of Redwood City, California, found a middle-aged man wandering aimlessly about the streets. He couldnft explain what he was doing; didn*t know» fcould^t remember his name. The cops took him into custody, and called in the police surgeon. When the doctor examined him he found one of the vertebra in his neck was out of place. He corrected the maladjustment and told the police to put the man to bed. Today he woke up and started shouting loudly and angrily. When the guards came to the door of his cell he demanded: nWhere am I, and what the blazes am I doing in jail?” The police explained and then he said: HWbat day of the month is it?" When they told him it was December First, Nineteen Thirty-Seven, he exclaimed: "Impossible! It*s May, Nineteen Thirty-Five." Then he remembered his name. Re's a restaurant owner from Cincinnati named Jimmy Saunders. He used to live with his wife and mother-in-law at twenty-two East Daniel Street, Cincinnati. He owned a restaurant known as "Jimmy's and Katie's" on Central Avenue, And the last action he remembered was riding AMNESIA -2 in his car between Akron and Cleveland on May eighteen, Nineteen Thirty-five, There must have been an accident, Saunders1 neck knocked out of joint — resulting in a complete and genuine case of that ever-strange malady, amnesia. ROOSEVELT Young Mr. John Roosevelt wishes to make a correction. He and his fiance, ^iss Ann Lindsay Clark, recently saw the play nI1d Rather Be Right". You know, the play in which George Cohan so jovially and brilliantly impersonates the President. And the President’s youngest son was quoted in a Boston newspaper as saying that the play was disgusting and a raw satire. Today he declared: "I said no such thing. My fiance and I saw the play and we thought it very well done." And John adda: "The only part I thought in rather poor taste was the use of the word ’libido" in a song during the scene satirizing the Surpeme Court. Libido is a Freudian word for --- well, shall we say Spring Fever? And SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.