L. 1. - SUNOCO OIL BROADCAST Sept. 5. 193S MOTOR BOAT RACES Good Evening, Everybody: The Harmsworth International Motor Boat trophy remains on this side of the water for another year, After this morningfs race, the second heat, on the waters of Lake St. Clair, - 9 - Gar V^ood was once more the victor. ‘A. Kaye Don, the tireless and iactsaxindjaminatiia indomina- ble son of John Bull, just seems to have about the wors£* luck in 4 the world. Once again it was engine trouble which lost him the race, the greatest in the history of power boats. Kaye Don’s boat. Miss England the Third, was supposed to have been the most extraordinary and powerful vessel ever built to tear across the surface of the 'water. She was powered by two -6J gigantic Rolls Royce motors. She hsdr already^a world speed record. Sporting reporters declare that a jinx has followed every foreigner who has invaded Detroit to try to win this trophy away from Uncle Sam. Last year Kaye Don won the first heat tri­ umphantly, In the second heat he beat the gun and was disqualified. A minute later his boat overturned. ADD MOTOR BOAT RACES - 2 Then last Saturday he seemed to be winning beyond * * all shadow oT doubt. Just as everybody decided that Uncle Sam's champion didn1^ have a chance, the red hulled Miss American the Tenth began overtaking Miss England. It was learned later that this was again a piece of bad luck. A throttle on Miss England had broken, reducing her speed. Today the catastrophe that happened to the English craft was a complete breakdown. Kaye Don cabled his backer. Lord Wakefield, that the throttle had broken on the starboard motor. This rendered that motor useless before the boat had speeded its first mile. That naturally put a tremendous overload on the port engine^ caus^ecT a piston to freeze. i 4,'- a ; Well, it is certainly not for v/ant of trying or nerve or skill that the plucky Englishman lost out once more. The Cleveland Atr Races reached their climax today7 with 4"Vie Thompson Tronhy Race. And the winner was Major James H. Doolittle — Jimmy D —-- ».adelT £nd, Haizlin 3rd. FLOOD There 1s serious news from Texas today. The Rio Grande has pone on the warpath. Reports from Brownsville declare that they are having the greatest flood on the Rio Grande in all history. Thousands of acres are flooded. Seven neople are known to be dead, and the property damage is estimated already at five million dollars. At several points the river now is two miles wide. The seven dead people perished as a result of the collapse of a bridge at Laredo. Hundreds of Texans are without homes in western Hidal fo County. Then '?n Floi*ida they*re digging in for another storm. Th ^ weather bureau at Washing ton has orderedjhurricaxi signals hoisted all down the east coast of Florida* The Cleveland Air Races reached their climax today, with the Thomason Trophy Race, And the winner was Major James H. a * Doolittle -- Jimniy D —— AadelT 2nd. Haizlln 3rd. FLOOD There is serious news from Texas today. The Rio Grande has pone on the warpath. Reports from. Brownsville declare that they are having the greatest flood on the Rio Grande in all history. Thousands of acres are flooded. Seven oeople are 'known to be dead, and the property damage is estimated already at five million dollars. At several points the river now is two miles wide. The seven dead people perished as a result of the collapse of a bridge at Laredo, Hundreds of Texans are without homes in western Hidalgo County, Then in Florida they1re digging In for another storm. Tbo weather bureau at Washington has orderedjhurrican signals hoisted all down the east coast of Florida. BiilDGE But not all the nev;s from the Rio Grande is as serious as that. There*s one incident which ended well, though it might have been grave. Three officials of the Mexican, customs house were on the international bridge at Laredo when it collapsed. They were thrown into the water, but managed to scramble to a pile of debris in the middle of the flooded river. But they were not the only occupants of this island of safety. For companions they had two rattlesnakes and a wild cat. XhE And there they were all night. They didn*t dare try to kill their unwelcome neighbors. The rubbish heap in which they had taken refuge was not any too strong, and if there had been any trouble with that wild cat the whole thing woulI probably have collapsed and dumped them into A the water. A Well, j|herefs a happy ending. The three Mexicans were saved, hj flrpnirift just as the rising waters were about to cJc Ovj? itjLAh jtUn sweep over them.^Thetw wild^eompanions^were carried on down the a .j, ^hei jQfireman finally reached the Customs men wit^ai BAfali.QiLbL toe take our baseball seriously both in the United States and in Canada, In some cities, such as St. Louis, iksqc X SX.S. 3 X.XX Xil pop bottles have been thrown not only at umpires but at players. Brooklyn fans also take the national pastime quite solemnly. But nowhere do they seem to be quite as much Nicaragua. in earnest as in Maasspaa. A dispatch from Managua says that *- A A tte baseballAdov7n there ended today in the death of four persons, while the Kmg&xwflxgiiratfriey wounds of another prove fatal, and many others were Injured. -■c I'he Managua team played the Masaya team sg of San Fa nan^e a A Nigaragua was present and watched the game until the seventh PaasHt© at the Masaya home grounds. President Moncada of inning. While he was there, there was no sign of violence. No sooner had the presidential party left when boos and cat calls filled the air. The spectators made threatening gestures. Finally, when the visiting team left the field victorious, a crowd followed them to the atanda. 1 TV Apparently, the Nicaragua fans are not accustomed if* *»A®nthusfflsm. -Miere was only one cop there and he was helpless| i - uj D sj A iijbAh^ in for a while. But after the rioting had caused all those casual­ ties , he managed to subdue the crowd and prevent any more serious consequences. They surely seem to be fans down in Nigerague. PiyrLUi - I * 1 - I i 1 Though most of us were taking a rest, over in France they seem to have been quite agreeably busy. There was what is described as a decided boom today on the stock exchange of Paris, With this came a general increase in prices of stocks and bonds. The stock of the Bank of France jumped 540 francs a share. What is more. Uncle Sam’s dollar and John Bull’s pound rose in value. The important thing is that financial observers believe this bnan will continue. They think so especially because Paris has hesitated for more than a month before imitating the rise of stocks on Wall Street, BERLIN Then there's news from Berlin. The German government^today officially proclaimed President von Hindenburg^ emergency decree, puts the decree which/jraxxKd into effect a twelve months* plan for the economic recovery of Germany. Berlin correspondents declare that the decree v/as made particularly emphatic by the fact that the entire cabinet as well as the President signed it. Authorities point out that this is g Germany*s largest venture into t&E state planning. At the same time the government expresses itself as strongly opposed to experiments in state capitalism. The communication announcing ifcK his decree states the formula that in the opinion of the German cabinet private capitalism remains the best and most sensible way to satisfy the economic needs of mankind. Borne of the observers describe this as a "gigantic attempt on the part of Germany to lift itself out ditch of the/sbtfo! by its own bootstraps .11 Briefly, this decree will appropriate a sum of two billion two hundred million marks for the A. reemployment of idle labor to start up production and to stimulate domestic trade. ri r\ ammmaasm Ai)p BKinijIN - g And from London comes the news that his Majesty's government intervened today in the cotton strike in the Manchester district. The Minister of Labor has in­ vited representatives of both employers and strikers to meet officials of the government. It was indicated that a settle' ment of the dispute^is possible. They started a picturesque festival down in Oklahoma T&c-i festival of thanksgiving. This is an ancient ritual in which Indians for hundreds of years have been making merry over the harvesting of their crops and- the full supply of food A. A in storage for the winter. There wmm Comanche s, Kiowas, Tonka was, Cheyennes, A Osages, Navajos, and Hopis. They*re assembling at Indian cr>ct~ Trading Post to dance their ancient dances^ In these they pay homage to the sun by way of thanks for the harvest'-stod prayer for protection and plenty next year. They are feasting on S m buffalo, recalling the days when the tribes used to believe that the earth opened India summer to allow countless buffalo to come^wtfc, so: providing food A. and clothing for the Red Man and his family. A CHICAGO There was an Unexpected comedy scene today on street*. On the sidewalk oiA^one—01 lay a huddled figure with a shotgun, besidfr-hiig-^- Scores of people gathered /I around^ but did not dare to approach, Finally a police car arrived and one of the bystanders exclaimed, "It's a gang victim, officer. Hefs been taken for a ride. See, therets his shotgun lying right beside him,0 The police stepped forwarded and ordered the crowd not to £ touch the body until the coroner arrive*. Then while the cops were taking names and addresses of witnesses, the dead man stirred yawned, and sat up on the pavement. "What*3 all the excitement?0 said the dead man. nCan,t a fellow go to sleep if he*s sleepy?*1 Then he explained that hefd been sitting there waiting for a friend to go on an early hunting trip, and ther»-=h® fell A asleep Thepolice explained to him that It’s against the CHlCikUU _ 2 law to look like a gang victim in Chicago if you really arenft one. # i I GOVERNOR ALLEN % % iver since this farm strike started out In the Middle viest I've been curious to talk to a farmer from that section. Well, I ran into one today. Perhaps some folks 'wouldn't call him a farmer. But he is, and also an editor, author, politician, etc. You've all heard of him — United States Senator Henry Allen of Kansas, former Governor of Kansas, and particularly famous as a Kansas editor* Governor Allen is here at tiw Republican. headquarters Well, I asked, this famous Kansan what he thought of the farm strike in the Middle West and what he believed would be the outeone* His answer was:- "The farmers probably will not get any immediate results. In that sense they will not win the strike. But they are calling nation-wide attention to the unfair and unequal di vlsi^tayfe^the ultiaate consumer pays for a farm product My sympathies," added Senator Allen, "are with the fanner,," On ray way up from the Jersey coast tod*g^ on that grand boat, trip from Atlantic Highlands to Manhattan, one-ofr-tfce mos't'-deli.gkt.ful-shortehoat rtrins .in-stll the .world,. i read a A GOVERNOR ALLLN - g sparkling, rip-roaring article in the Saturday Evening Post, That famous Philadelphia publication has long been a favorite of mine, and my favorite Saturday Evening Post author has long been Samuel G. Blythe, well, Sam Blythe's article was about the recent Republican, and Democratic Conventions, and -- it -— was ■— a — scorcherI He blew the Conventions all to pieces, and summed them up by saying they were as bogus as a china egg. The last time I had seen Senator Allen was at the A O D Chicago Conventions, . I asked him if he thought Sam Blythe was A right, and if he too thought the Conventions were example of A inane, savage, barbaric, nonsensical hokum. The Kansas Senator replied that he believed our National Conventions with all their tomfoolery and ballyhoo were an excellent thing, just as a safety valve, a for folks to let off steam. He said he thought that was a lot better than the European system of rioting and fighting, whether you agree with the Kansas Senator or not, Samuel G, Blythe's article in the Saturday Evening Post mate*® hilarious reading, mat A given a &ide^-splitting picture ef a notional innti-tution -that only- > ■ex is ts -1 n- th i s- country. FUli-.TU That potato story ti—* I quoted from an Idaho newspaper + a. few evenings ago has got, up the dander of some of my friends in Pennsylvania. Mr. Hugh McCabe of Germantov/n, Pennsylvania, writes me that "those western farmers seem to think they grow aotsit large potatoes. Well", said Mr. McCabe, "their potatoes would t K Just about make seed for the farmers of Pennsylvania." Then Mr, McCabe goes on to relate that a friend of his= * w near Doyleston planted some potatoes in a field r£± fight back of A l his farm house. When he was digging his crop he came upon one spud which he simply could not get out of the ground alone. So he called in a few neighbors to help him. After several hours of % jo&x hard work they got the potato rolled out. But the ground from I which they got it out has an incline down towards his farmhouse. The potato slipped away from them, rolled along, and kept on rolling. In fact. It kept on rolling until it knocked a hole out of the wall of tne farm house, and rolled right in beside the fireplace. Weli,'^hat did that farmer do? IT1! say those Pul^lO _ £ Pennsylvania farmers are ingenious. He built his fire around the potato. am& he and his family had roast potato every day for the next six months. Mr. McCabe adds: "If you are dovoa that way there’s some of that potato still left, and I’m sure they’ll be glad to give you a share." potato whopper of the year A At any rate, it puts those Idaho yarns in the shade. Let’s see what Idaho will Meanwhile Mr. Hugh McCabe of Germantown, Pennsylvania, is rax unanimously elected to the Tall Story Club. A- A- KKbCU& Uncle Sam's Coast Guard boys had piaimKjdE plenty of thrilltng work to do over the weekend, particularly in those parts of the United States where high winds were raging. In Buffalo, alone, the local life savers added six rescues to their credit. One of the men saved had been afloat in a small skiff on the wind-lashed waters of Lake Erie for almost twenty- four' hours. But more thrilling still, was the rescue of a lady from New Orleans|off the south shore of Long Island. This lady with five other holiday makers, had set out from. Center MorSohes in a power boat yesterday afternoon. Shortly before nightfall a storm came up In tne ooeam It was only a small boat they were in, It shipped water, whtafct^rlooded the motor and the engine stalled. The pilot tried frantically to start the motor while the boat, out of control, was tossed like a chip of wood in the churning seas. Suddenly out of the darkness came a huge wave which towered broadside over the small craft. The boat turned over and everybody in it wad thrown into the water. passengers to swim toward shore. These five managed to keep afloat until a Coast Guard boat rescued them. The pj e ooj*# reached him. The sixth passenger, the lady from New on drifted ashore at/west Hampton Beach after clinging to the A underside of that overturned boat for more than eight hours. She was in an exhausted condition, but otherwise suffered no ill effects. The pilot of the boat shouted to five of the A exhausted, a; -eafloat untidb- the Coast Guard Orleans, elected to stay with the boat, and was clinging to the A framework of the overturned vessel. The Coast Guard r went back to look for her, but was unable to find her or any trace of the She was given un for lost. But this morning she Ai»k"EHeref3 a young woman who must have had not only endurance b