CQNFEREHCB VfjUL. i»^ha< If the Japflr had walked out of the iJaval Conference last week, they might have provided us with a thrill. As It is, their action today is pretty much of an anti-climax^Any drama there might have been in it has been discounted long since. And, indeed, it was predicted right and left long before the Conference came to order, as soon as it was known what Japan 1 s demand would be. Indeed, many people said: "When everybody knows what*s going to happen, why waste time and money on the old conference anyway?" However, thei* walkout today has resulted in something*.. that either Germany or Russia ngt may be invited in to take the place of the gentlemen of --- Japan. Of course neither the Fatherland nor the Soviets can compare with the Mikado 1 s realm as naval powers. Thatis, not yet_. But the possibility that it opens up is^an agreement between the western natfal powers and Russia. And that*s a picture that the descendants of the Samuri will not look-upon with good appetite, wdbJL -f-l'-r'Up., 1 ^*^. PLANE CRASH That tragedy in an Arkansas swamp tdriyigriuniuun has^hecome a mystery. And that, aviation people will tell us, is the worst part of it all. Now that the authorities have been on the spot, now that experts have looked over the scene, we*haven't the faintest idea what happened to that ill- fated passenger liner. Worst of all, Department of Commerce A officials say that the cause of that catastrophe the death /v of those seventeen people will probably never be known. The craft was in a perfect condition. The pilot, Jerry Marshall, one of the ace fliers of Texas, a veteran and a crackerjack. As for the weather, perfect flying conditions. When the dead passengers were found everyone of them had safety belts adjusted. Whatever the cause of the smash Jerry Mar­ shall had had time and presence of mind enough to shut off the gas feed. T u M t Nothing can be grimer than the circumstances. Z Marshall took off from Memphis in perfect order. Fifteen minutes later he reported by radio:- "Everyting okay." The next time he was due to report, no message. Silence, The PLANE CRASH -2 silence grew ominous. The dispatcher tried to get in touch with him and failed* Then the officials of the Memphis Air­ port became alarmed* The alarm became horror when a message A was received from a farmer living in the Arkanses lowlands. He telephoned in that he had seen a t± giant plane flying low midway between Memphis and Little Rock* crash* Andjhe^heard a loud That, of course, was a cue for a searching party. With lanterns and flashlights men waded through ooze and mud sometimes up to their waist£ And they found evidence of the horror even before they reached the actual scene* For "the Southerner^ the crack liner, angLits passengers, were scattered over cm area of four miles* ____ - d> ------ ----- L-Z-'O-a BONUS And what oi the bonus? That's what everybody is tryinr to aslc the «(hite riouse today. And the White House replies with a vociferous and labyrinthine nothing. The Number One Man at the Executive Mansion has everybody in the capitol and elsewhere guessing^ Aiizfa-jmr-busy guessing! Be that as it may, let's take a look at the Bonus Bill and decipher what it means. It sounds simple and plausible. All veterans who hold adjusted service certificates will get fifty Baby Bonds, not negotiate^ The number of bonds each man receives for the full value of his certificates after any loans that have been made to him are deducted. However, the interest on those loans will be cancelled as from September Thirtieth, Nineteen Thirty-One. But, you may ask, how do.the lads get their pay? They take them to any post office and receive cash, cash for full face value. But there's an inducement to encourage them to hold on to those bonds. If they put them away in the old sax safety deposit box, those bonds will accumulate interest at three per cent BONDS - 2 starting June Fifteenth, Nineteen Thirty-Seven. And those bonds will mature June Fifteenth, Nineteen Forty-Five, with accumulated interest. That’s the scheme as worked out by compromise. Meanwhile the infationiste are busy. Demanding that the Government shall print new money to pay the Veterans. Inflation. They point to the tremendous deficit we already have vWv\3 ~iyO 'C^ifvUte, A new gOjL-d boom in. an old place, the picturesquely named town o± Dead wood, South Dakota. In the days of Thomas F. Walsh, of George Hearst, ana other great finders of mines, Deadwood was one of the most picturesque, hustling, thriving wild and wooly places on the North American continent. It was there that George fiearst found the famous Eoaestake mine, the source of a large proportion of the two hundred Hearst millions. But like Leadville, and Central City, Colorado, Virginia City and Pioche, Nevada, like scores of other places that made fortunes and drama, it faded. For years Deadwood was a ghost town, with deserted mine shafts, empty houses, the bare frames of saloons and gambling houses with windows boarded up. And nov* tne picture has changed a?ain. The high price of gold has brought new life to Deadv^ood as to other places. At the famous Homestake there’s a new shaft driving a mile deep into the earth. Also a modern hydro-electric plant ana an assay oil ice. Even the nearby to n of Rockford is on the boom too. The hammering of carpenters and the noise of concrete machines can be heard hastily putting up new mills. New ore veins are being discovered. GOLD - 2 new claims staked out. In Nineteen Thirty-Four, South Dakota mined more than sixteen million dollars* worth of* the precious metal. And engineers tell us that the figure for Nineteen Thirty-Five will run even higher. What*s more, some of the baser metals such as columbite, feldspar, bentonite^ and lithium ore /V- /thcutJA used not only in the making of fireworks but ^ batteries, all these are being dug out of the black hills of South Dakota. y 1^6 . tutroduction for siemel A gentleman dropped in on ue tonight whose specialty is hunting tigers with a bow and spear. He is Sasha Siemel, who among other things is the hero of those thrilling books TIGER MAH and GREEK HELL, though he was born in Latvia, his bailiwick is South America — the jungle, Green Hell — and oddly enough he looks like Ulysses S, Grant. Recently he took Colonel Ted Roosevelt to South America on a hunt. Hunting the big cats, jaguars, South American tigers, with the weapons of our forefathers seems just about the most dangerous thing a man can do. How about that, Mr. Tiger Man? 3IEMEX MR. SIEMEX: Not Mr, Radio Man, it's much safer than going after them with explosive weapons. X. T« How do you make that out. Can't you miss with a how just as well as with a rifle? MR, SIEMEL: Well, yes, occasionally. But as a rule I feel myself pretty saf e Behind an eighty pound how. But then in case one does miss, and the hrute becomes charging, we're ready for him with the spear. And I'm perfectly sure of my weapons, because I make all myself, my own bows and arrows, forge and temper my own spear blades, L. f. : To us it seems a little strange to hear of hunting tigers in South America. MR. Ri-RiOtTr,; Ah, you call them jaguars. But down in South America we call them tigre. As a matter of fact, they run to three hundred and fifty pounds, as large as a medium sized Bengal tiger* You SIEEEL - 2 haven11 any jaguars of such size in Morth American zoos* L» T. i What1 s the most exciting experience you had with one of those big cats? SIEMBL; The most exciting time I ever had with a cat was in a boarding house in Buenos Aires* There had been a lot of murderous burglaries around there. I woke up in the middle of the night with my window open and was conscious there was something or some­ body in the room who had no business there. After lying awake a couple of minutes, I kicked violently with my feet. There was a yowl, a snarl and a spit, and behold t a common or garden house cat» That was the biggest f right I ev er got from a cat. But the sad dost experience I ever had was the first time I'd ever seen a jaguar in the open - they usually cling to the bush. I had my camera man, a young boy I was breaking in, posted with detailed instructions, so that be could get a good picture. The dogs had chased the jaguar up a tree. We were all ready for him, I wanted one picture of him climbing down the tree, and simL - 3 another of the spear fight. 1 clicked my steel camera at him and as he heard the click he snarled and came sailing through the *x± air at me. I had never seen a big cat jump from such a height. He landed almost at my feet. I got him with a spear. When the fight was over, I looked at my camera man. He was pale and shaking, and said --- L.T,:- I bet I know what he said. He had forgotten to load his camera with film! SXggflgL: Not exactly, but just as bad. He had rubbed against the xx aphragma, if you know what that means. Anyway, there was no picture UMPIRE It seems funny to be hearing about "a most popular umpire•" Fanny" I always thought umpires were about as popular as the proverbial pole-cat at a picnic. But it seems that for two years running the celebrated Albert i* «t Adolph Stark, Dolly to you, has been acclaimed the most popular umpire in the National League. That’s a result of the census of the SPORTING NEFS, a baseball weekly in St. Louis. In the American League the laurels go to Bill McGowaji. But Dolly topped all the umpires in both leagues for first choice votes. DATES If you were a stenographer, how would you like it if your boss laid down rules for the dates you make and keep, or break - of an evening? Most employers say: "I don,t care what the boys and girls do after office hours, just so they're on their toes the next morning."^ Out in Iowa there's an employer, and an important one, who cares a great deal what his employees do in the evening. That's the Iowa State Liquor Commission. It has established a date black­ list such as exists in young ladies1 boarding schools. The young gentlemen and ladies who work for'that Gommission may not associate with either liquor salesmen or newspaper reporters. There's | something that ought to interest the newspaper Guild1 I However, the tommlxxxzaxKrxxxkxxtKKLxiExxxxixxJi Commission hastens to explain that its ruling is no ref-, ret ion on either f! newspaper men or liquor peddlers. The idea is to prevent any If of the official business of the Commission from leaking out. Can you imagine what a hubbub such a ruling would make in Washington? Suppose nobody, in the employ of Uncle Sam at the Capital were allowed to have champagne dinners with lobbyists or beer dinners witfa repor ers. SAXOPHONE FOLLOW DATES And here’s a yarn from the Far East that might interest the Musicians1 Union. In a Chinese cabaret in Shanghai, there was a young saxophone player named Bienvenido Bantog. MKi Eantog is a Filipino, evidently full of the traditional and ineradical passion 4$. of his race. He became enamored of a dancing girl in that cabaret. Another man in the band started making a play for the same lady. The up-shot was a quarrel, which Mie; Bantog ended by stabbing his A. rival. As a native of the Philippines, was subject not to the Chinese courts but to the United States Consular Court. There his made a plea for mercy; claimed that the stabbing was done in self-defense. But aside from self-defence, said the lawyer, the judge should go easy v^ith Bantog. In the first place, he said, Bantog wfe*. a saxophone olayer. As such, the advocate continued, he was only a step from the jungle. Furthermore, he urged, "a saxaphone flayer represents the icwmxxx lowest rung of the social ladder and should not be treated as though he were a butcher t?sker-’ or car3dle-stick SAXOPHONi- FOLLQVv DATES - £ makei’. O p even a xylophonist.n Said the judge: TII think you're right - six months in jail." I wonder what the scale of punishment ought to be for ukelele players? ALARM In the game or romance you should say It with wedding bells. by a young man of Montreal, who tonight is in jail. The story 2Z O goes how Rene1 Jobin was deeply devoted, but the girl's parents were cruel. They wouldn't let her see Rene*. One night the mournful suitor was pacing disconsolately in front of his loved one's house, yearning for a way to’^wH^'her. Then he noticed in ^ A front of the house - a fire alarm. And that inspired him to a flaming idea - only there were .no flames. He thought - if you were In the commotion, the people of the house would rush out, parents, daughter and all* And he would have a chance to sneak her off to 7T one side and be for a few minutes writh her. He tried it, and it worked! There was a fire alarm all over the place. Papa and Mama came tearing ang* down the front stoop, daughter followed them. And while Papa and Mama joined the firemen, looking frantically for the fire, Rene* and his beloved had a blissful few minutes. not fire bells. Love may be alarming to some, but it shouldn't be a false alarm. All of these rules of the heart were violated •^changing of vows of eternal ALARM - 2 It worked that time. And it worked the next time. In fact, it worked eight times. Love was singing its own sweet song and the Montreal Fire Department was driven crazy, not to mention the incessant agitation of Papa and Mama. But the ninth time - Ah, that was different! The kire Department had cruelly set a watch. And they caught Rene', ringing the false alarm. So now Rene* is in the coop. And the lovelorn girl is hoping that by the time he gets out he won’t oe too old to marry her. (GONG) Fire alarms and love, and — - SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW•