EARHART I did some complicated long distance telephoning today. It seems as if I'd phoned all over New York State. All this activity on the wire was incited by a cable from Honolulu x&t&te that told o: ilading a rubber raft, which perhaps might have been Amelia Earhartfs. Through the day, fragmentary details kept coming in, brief, sketchy, perplexing. They told how two Hawaiian plantation workers were fishing off the shore, when they spied a large bag. that had drifted on the beach. They picked it up, opened it, and inside found a collapsible rubber raft - the kind that can be blown up, inflated for life-saving. And instantly the surmise was raised that it was from the plane of the ill-fated JkatBifcfcttix Noonan.*^It was supposed that during the weeks that have elapsed since the flying tragedy, the raft in the bag had drifted thousands of miles from the vicinity of Howland Island to Hawaii. Amelia Earhart, who was lost in . her navigator, Fred A A 'ft'The raft was turr.ed over to naval officers, and the description was flashed that it was not the type the Navy uses on its war planes but the sort common to civilian ships and airplanes. And in the EARHART _ g bag was a label, reading - J. Lansing Callas, Hammondsport, New York, That's what set rae phoning on long distance. I called Hammondsport and asked — was any J. Lansing Callas known there? They said, ^es,** a one-time Navy commander who now manufactures balloons and rubber articles for aviation, "Where could he be found?" They didn't know, and referred me to a lady who acted as his secretary Then I phoned to her, Mrs, Amy Wehman. She said Commander Callas was not in Hammond sport, I asked her - had he provided the raft which Amelia Earhart had taken on her * ill-starred flight? And she answered - yes, he had. But she said I'd better call Commander Callas himself at Balatia, New York, near Albany. I put in that long distance call, and was told that Commander Callas was in New York - at the Lambs Club, So after all of that long distance calling, I found my man right here in the big town. ■i&L I spoke to^Commander mU&m, and he told me the kind of raft which he had sold to Amelia Earhart for her flight. Q/V a X It matched the vague description of the raft found in Hawaii. EARHART - 3 Bat he said of late the rafts he msde were sold through the Air Cruiser Companyf and the labels bore the name of that concern, as well as his own. That would be the case with Amelia Earhartfs• Previously the labels carried only his name, which seemed to be the case with the raft in Hawaii. He said, moreover, that as a former naval officer, he knew the Pacific waters, 9# the winds and currents out there, and he did not believe a floating object would drift from the vicinity of Howland Island in the direction of Hawaii, So, he didn,t believe th^raft Hawaii was Amelia Earhart* s. He couldn^t be sure, but he didnf t think so, And that was the end of a long telephone chase investi­ gating the latest rumor in the tragedy of that foremost woman flyer who was lost on her way around the world. FAR EAST Moves of International procedure against Japan got going ?„n a methodical way today. President Roosevelt returned to Washington and Immediately called a conference of advisors2“-“* Secretary of State Cordell Bull, Under-Secretary of State Sumner Wells, and our roving ambassador, Norman Davis. They discussed American participation In the Nine-Power Conference which has been called by the Deague of Nations. The presence of Norman Davis at the Whit e-House-meeting today is taken as an indication that he will be chief American delegate to the Nine-Power Conference. There’s nothing surprising about that, because during the past several years, whenever the United States has been represented in an International get-together, Norman Davis has done the talking for Uncle Sam. The gravity of events is indicated by the fact that President Roosevelt had a formal Cabinet meeting for the discussion of foreign affairs, while at the same time the British Embassy in Washington today began diplomatic conversations for the arrangement of Nine-Power parley. GREAT BRITAIN In London, the word today was - solidarity with the United States. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sounded that itejnot^4t a conference of the Conservative Party. He said Great Britain was whole-heartedly with President Roosevelt in his /f' ^ lari on .call. That*s what the Prime Minister called presidential declaration for cooperation against war-makers. Neville Chamberlain said it was a surprise to the British government; it had been assumed that Washington was committed to isolation neutrality. So, when President Roosevelt made his right-about face reversal of the traditional American policy. It was a clarion call indeed. "This government will be whole­ heartedly with him," declared Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Great Britain. called In Tokyo, the Emperior Hirohito^tas^a cabinet council, which discussed the opposition by the United States and the League of Nations. Under the directions of the kj^icado, the Cabinet Council prepared a reply, which probably will be issued over the weekend. The feeling in Tokyo Is that Japan will denounce the Nine-Power Treaty, toss It into the wastebasket. CHINESE ENGINEER it certainly is a great exploit of war, when you can steal a whole enemy munitions train. That»s what happened along the battle-line near Shanghai. The Chinese swiped one v/hole long train loaded with cartridges, shells, explosive^ bombs, guns and everything deadly. It happened this way!-The Japanese munitions train was rattling along, a Chinese engineer at the controls. The train stopped at a wayside station. The Japanese guards jumped off, to be gone for a minute or two. The Chinese engineer was left alone In the cab, and mm in him flamed the spirit of his ancestors. The tracks ran straight ahead, across into a section held by the Chinese army. So the engineer leaned on the lever, started the train, and took it charging^ a breakneck ride. The astounded Japanese guards knew nothing about it until It was speeding away in the distance. j3o_4^haPDen§£ that into a Shinese military railroad center came a Japanese munitions train, loaded with tons of death. The engineer delivered It to the Chinese .command, was greeted as a hero worthy of his ancestors, and given a reward of a thousand luai;, three hundred dollars. He's the toast of patriotic China tonight. Italy Is going to turn down the Franco-British proposal. Mussolini1 s reply will go to London tomornow, and advices froin Rome state that it will be a refusal.^Italy will not go into a three-power conference to get the foreign volunteers out of Spain, especially the Italians* So that will bring a new crisis to a head, leaving it up to London and Paris to decide what theyf11 do^- and they1re reported to be ready to do things. Rome Is said to fee prepared for anything that may happen, such as the reopening of the French frontier, with heavy shipments of war materials to the Spanish Left Wingers* If that happens, the civil war in Spain will turn into an open race of war supplies shipped into Spain — French munitions'^fch^-pjfejt to the Left Wingers across the border, Italian munitions^!* to Franco by sea. The LONDON EVENING NEWSvtoday tells of'N'ifteen thousand rtalian troops landed\at Cadis last week. The EVENING NEWS declares^that the British government knows this. *3ix± has hie Information from.*** unimpeachable sources. This the POKE Today the news brings us^anr-±taai^o'f two people ever on the go, no permanent place to stop, keeping on and on, wanderers « over the face of the earth. Those two drifting travelers^tKat most famous of wedded couples, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Where is it that they might settle down? Surely, England Is the only place where they^Bsji^j^ truly have their home, the kingdom over which he was king before he married his American Duchess. Today, the EVENING STANDARD in London carries an article under th^headline - f,The Duke Will Never Come Back.” The article is written by someone who should know'1*- Randolph Churchill, son of the eminent Winston Churchill. Randolph Is an Intimate friend of the Duke of Windsor, has been with him lately in France. And Randolph Churchill writes that the Duke has given up all expectation of ever returning to England. He’ll ne\er go back. Instead, he*s visiting Germany, and he’ll come to the United States. Randolph Churchill says the Duke and Duchess will stay here for a month. Then they'll keep on, keep going. They'll spend ^ , „„„ c-imnv climate, perhaps Honolulu, or he cold months in some sunny f DUKE - 2 if maybe Cuba. Then in the spring they'll return to Europe and maive a tour of the Scandinavian nations. Then they'll go on - traveling^ Yes? two wanderers, going everywhere; home - nowhere. Sis Ex-Majesty, the former Edward the Eighth - a man without a country. Now, about an ex-Mayor - Jimmy Walker who dazzled politics as the Mayor of New York. He is cca tafa&f having trouble keeping a job. He was appointed to the New York Transit Commission^ Twatf fhat caused a row. It put him In line for a pension, and there was a storm about - a pension grab. So he- was dismissed, which cut out the pension pa. t of it. Then immediately rehired, so he could tow the job. * ' ^ But today a New York Court-said - No, he can't^hiJ* the job. A New York Supreme Court Justice handed down the ruling that Jimmy's appointment to the Transit Commi ssion|wao illegal. The job comes under the heading of Civil Service, and the appointments made without the proper Civil Service examination- so ruled the Court. An ex-King without a country - an ex-Mayor without a I t duke job! ED THOBGERSEN The World Series is certainly turning into a run—away for the Xanks —— but let*s have Ed Thorgersen of Movietone tell us about it* So play ball, Ed, — a thing which the Giants didnft do so well today, ED • 2ou know, Lowell, to me there was something pathetic about those Gianst out there today — maybe I$m softhearted — I don’t know. But as I watched the feeble efforts of Bill Terry’s team in trying to withstand that nerve-wracking — bombardment of Yankee bats I had a feeling of futility — I thought of a little terrier pup — yapping at the heels of a Great Dane — trying to cut him down to a terrier size. And then 1 thought back on the last two weeks of August when the Giants were wagint that glorious fight in the closing stages of the pennant race — when they came from way back — seven games behind the Chicago Cubs —— to win the flag in a surging drive. In a champion thoroughbred — it’s called Fighting Heart — Man o* War, Equipoise, Gallant Fox — all the turf champions had it — Bill Terry’s Giants had it — they stiall had it out there today — but they were up against baseball as played in a different league — and therein lies the story of that five to one shellacking — to paraphrase a chance remark once ED THQRGERSEM ~£ . fi£S made by the good Bill Terry — the Giants are not in the league. As Tor mtomorrow* s game — it should wind up the series to make good our last night*s prediction — if it doesn’t the Giants merely win a stay of execution. Do let!s have it over with and get down to the more timely business of football. And along the Atlantic seaboard football tomorrow will center at Princeton where the Tigers meet up with the Big Red Cornellians from above the shores of Lake Cayuga, ’^he same Carl Snavely machine that shatterd Colgate forty to seven — on the basis of this — Cornell I yell. A Columbia Lion meets up with an Army mule — not the same Army that had Monk Meyer, but otherwise about the same. Knowing Columbia's great Coach Lou Little as we do — we fully realize that when Lou points toward a certain objective he1 hard to beat — but all things considered such as Army,e Craig and Wilson — as against Columbia’s lack of reserves — we're joining the Army. Last year we conceded Ducpiesne not a chance against the clawing Pittsburgh Panther - remember what happened — they defeated Pitt seven to nothing and was our tace plenty red. Tonight we admit ED THORGERSEN - 3 that Duquesne will score — but not enough. At New Haven Yale plays Pennsylvan -1-a — and notwith­ standing the fact that Larry Kelly is just a vivid Eli memory Yale will win — because the Bulldog backfield still includes Clint Frank. Intersectionally speaking Ohio States goes west to meet the Troians of Southern California — a tossup — but I think it* s Ohio State by a shade* Down South — you all have read that Duke will lead the Southern Conference this year — tomorrow they play Tennessee — a member in good standing of a different league. I look for an upset — Tennessee will win. Center of attraction on the Big Ten Circuit will be the Minnesota-Indiana clash — Lafct week Minnesota let me down — but not tomorrow —— Bernie Biernan* s Gophers will really go to town. And here* s a short lateral pass Lowell — one michrophone from me to you. X,. t . ; - All, right I like the passing game — so xet*s pass on to the news . S'-- SEMIMOLES, An echo of the old tragedy of the Indian sounds in a dispatch from Washington today —— the Seminole tribe Is likely to migrate from Oklahoma to Mexico, Because NSeminole11 means "Florida" — their ancient home, — Florida and the everglades . What had the great Chief, Osceola, to do with Oklahoma or Mexico? It was revealed in Washington today that last summer, eight Seminole chiefs journeyed to Mexico City, saw President Cardenas, laid that ninety year old treaty before him, and demanded satisfac­ tion. Cardenas said - "Xes". And he offered the Seminoled the choice of several sites in northern Mexico. Just a few weeks ago, many leaders of the tribe went to look at one of the sites, which seemed the best. After that, they journeyed on to Mexico City and had a conference with President Cardenas. The upshot of it all, says Washington today, is that the Seminole are likely to take the Mexican offer — the whole tribe migrating to treaty lands in the Mexican state of Coahuila. They*11 become Mexican citizens — those Seminoles whose forefathers were the wild red warriors of the Florida everglades AUTOMOBILE Today at Lindon, Utah, things happened. They happened in swift, blazing succession - all because an automobil blew a tire. Howard Harper was driving along the highway, when the blow-out occurred. His car swerved wildly off the road, and hit a power-line pole, taut The impact knocked the pole down, and the high tension wires fell across the power line of an electric railroad. That caused a short circuit, and every electric light in Lindon went out. The fireworks of the short circuit started a fire at Dick Walker1 s gas station, .and the station blew up.. And the whole town wras in a turmoil,- Howard Harper, whose tire blew out, and who started it all, sustained a sprained wrist. Yes, things happened in‘Lindon, Utah - and how! After the excitement subsided, the* prostrate power line pole was set up again, and the high tension wires put back in place. Shortly afterward, at that same place, another automobile driver lost control of his car, it swerved wildly off the road, and hit that same power line pole and knocked it down again for another short circuit. This time, three houses caught fire, and Lindon, Utah, was in a turmoil all over again. AUTOMOBILE 2 There they had xm a double dose of excitement, but here we111 have just a single dose of broadcast - and SO LONG UNTIL MONDAY