i * 3 .ir a • • > -sliest -j^tsctor if ail raefces 1 3ea- e, . _: i.', -'io 1 a ra* That d r a ©ecu : j;, - . f the Irie:: t has broken ,u* in the Ja^aaee-o arr^. Tie •'•ant ii -f ' .i€ epi-■ a ir it- a.:.. .the troops at tie .tisati . the Yang8i The J ipanese announce tssrentj . . .. ..i„ ,. -ii a hi^^ero^s esnditioc;. And it is feared t.:e rV-lera :iap spread to tie Thii'. e-~ ar;d tie teeming civilians of Shanghai. All .,f *: '. s sinister ecougi, out it is accompanied jy so'met: :ing ever, uglier -- the charge - f germ warfare. Tie Tapaneue ar . „ H e rders olair tint the cholera cute real: among their troops was brev -it about by the Chinese through the intro•'• ;o*i v of epiceroic -- ersatiovr ger^s. Jigi.th.g a var * . hi. ^-.■3 -■ - d d - . „ shxs • i oil 3h„ IjVC . - -L j - w 1 3 r That’s the vril re^rt from the r-ar ^st today. The Chinese hotly deny the charge against them. Meanwhile, the battle sitiati-a ±x n is about the same. heavy bombard o wot 3 sa'-'age fighting - with con Una ed rw^.rts tiia"-. the Chinese arc successful' y resisting the ■ j a o aoi -o s -w. STOOPS Wh&t did they do at Nyon today? Thatf s a dreamy Swiss town mid Alpine Mountains and lakes, in a Council Hall there the mood was -- tense excitement. For(the N^on conference was in session — the International get-to-gether to take action against Submarine piracy. What would the Russians do? Would the Soviets slash right out against Italy? Well, Foreign Commisar Litvinov did some slashing. In a blazing speech he called upon France and Great Britain to fight the submarine attacks in the Mediterranean.^ A demand for collective action, ^ut, said he/ if such International action is not forthcoming, Soviet Russia will go it on her own. Moscow will send warships under the red flag to battle against the submarines that fly no flag at all. ( One thing was absent. Litvinov did not name names. Although he came mighty close to it. wIt*s a name," he cried, "that1s on everyone1s lips, although it cannot be pronounced in this hall," He meant, of course, Italy. V It is apparent that the British and the French brought EUROPE - 2 pressure to bear on the Soviets and choked off a direct accusation against Rome. London and Paris want to go easy, and hope to pacify Italy. British Foreign Minister Eden followed Litvinov and the Cautious goeeasy was most manifest in what he said. He de­ clared he was sorry that Italy and Germany refused to take part in the anti-piracy pow-wow. ”1 am sure,1* he sopke soothingly, f,that the conference will wish to keep them in­ formed of our work.” That is keep Italy and Germany informed Negotiate with them by long distance, have them participate in the conference in Absentia — without sitting down with the Soviets, which they refuse to do. After this rather mollifying beginning, the proceedings were then turned over to a cormuittee — to deliberate in j secreCy. The committee will make up proposals to convoy ships and establish zones of safety for merchant vessels in the Mediterranean. And tie word Is that irom now on British and French warships will patrol the western half of the iJIod Itei ranean. _J aviator Tlie story of the American aviator condemned to death '^isL&jrvd in Spain, takes a turn of lurid romance today* ^Harold Dahl '“^MTvO will not be shot by the Spanish rebels - tort* saved by the — ~$ jzs \ * ®^ a J5 pleading of his wife. AToday, Mrs, Dahl tells » story. ^Jte^ A A y A. BOTlodT'emsF1 -^he enlisted as a spy for Franco to save her husband -W ^ c=tCT^le. . a vivid blonde, who right now is leading an orchestra at Cannes, the French Mediterranean resort. She says her husband enlisted with the Spanish Left Wingers, not because of any political beliefs, not because he was a Red, He was -^tZ&A^bf offered good money and was eager to fly. When she heard he had been shot down and captured by %&• Franco, and was in danger of being shot, she wrote to the rebel regime, with a plea that her husband be spared. The reply was - yes. Theyfd spare him on one^condition - that she do some spy work for Franco, Today she told her story this way: "They offered me a confidential mission. I was to try to find out how many Nationalist aviators were prisoners of the Valencia Government. "Did she accept the mission? Did she do the spy job? Yes or at least she tried to. She set out to discover the number of AVIATOR - 2. rebel aviators in fcte» Left wing hands; but she was not such a good secret agent. "I failed^L-Sf^a* she said today. That might seem to have sealed the doom of Harold Dahl, but the blonde Orchestra leader’s wife made a final try. She sent a personal appeal to Franco, the Generalissimo, end with crw? ctSl-^g it she enclosed picture. t±im photograph, printed in o^i vvm ? Newspapers today#^is agreeable to look at. Spaniards have a renowned partiality for pretty women, especially blondes. So it worked. Apparently, Generalissimo Franco looked at the picture, nodded his head, and said - w Some babe,,, or however you say in Spanish. Anyway, the latest is - that Mrs, Dahl has been informed that her husband will be treated kin leniently* And there’s another report that he’s to be exchanged for a rebel Iyer », ,.1...!., GU ^ ^ V'/vcx n?- CRIMINALS In the early years of this century, science and popular interest had a lively concern in the theories of Lorabroso, the Italian Criminologist. Lombroso claimed there was a def­ inite criminal type: - that could be recognized, shape of head, face, ears, arms, etcetera. Not much has been heard of the Lombroso theory In a long time, bufi today the news in the world of science brings us something similar. Two Chicago doctors come forward with the theory — that there is a crime disease. At the Cook County Jail have been making a long series of experiments with habitual criminals. They extracted fluid from the spinal cord, and the microscope showed an abnor­ mally large number of cells. These cells came from destroyed tissue of the brain and spine. Moreover, the doctors found in the spinal fl^ih habitual criminals a substance called globulin, which does not similarily occur in normal human beings. This, they say, indicates some sort of disease, a malady that caused habitual criminality• Crime sickness it might be called. ADD CRIMINALS The announcement of all this, caused an immediate stir in the world of science, and the word was - caution* From Hartford comes a neurological warning that there must be further research before drawing any such conclusion, other Criminologists said - they had their doubts. So the latest today is - there*s likely to be a scientific controversy about that crime sickness. Anyway, there should be a crime medicine, as is indicated by a brief survey of law and outlaw today. Down south, the police are searching for a nest of robbers, a rendezvous of outlaws. They are hunting in the swamps of Louisiana and Mississippi - seeking a wholesale hideaway of desperate characters* This follows the killing of a fugitive named Hariston, near Jena, Louisiana* This desperado fled from Texas and was organizing an outlaw gang in Louisiana. He killed a Louisiana policeman and then himself was killed. Today, the manhunt was on for the rest of the gang, and three were captured, two men and a woman* They were surprised at a swampland hideaway, near the Mississippi River. And the authorises believe that still others, a whole company of ADD CRIMINALS - 2 desperadoes, are lurkla^ in a secluded haunt among the River bottoms. In Hollywood, a motion picture technical man had the urge to act in the films. Everybody in Hollywood has a hankering to play in the pictures. Finally, the man got his chance -- a bad chance. He played a small part in a picture. A former acquaintance recognized him, and told his wife. «He*s out again,” said the friend - out of prison. Wifie investigated and found that hubby had indeed been released. Moreover, he had married again without the formality of being divorced. So now he*s up on a bigamy charge. In a jail at St. Louis, a light burns in a cell day and night. On the wall is a painting of the crucified Christ. Artists who have seen it praise the picture highly. It was first discovered five years ago, when a guard noticed a prisoner kneel­ ing in prayer — kneeling before the picture. The prisoner said he himself had not painted it and he didn't know who had. Some other convict,. They never found out who did paint it. The Chief of Police has ordered the cell to be kept vacant and lighted all the time. KENT Today in Washington, some words of shrewd good sense were uttered. They imanate from Forbes Watson of the painting and sculpture section of the Treasury. Said Brother Watson: "There arenft many people who can read Eskimo around Washington - and I doubt if Puerto Ricans can. n Consequently, the mural that Rockwell Kent painted in the Washington Post Office building will not be disturbed. They won’t obliterate the Eskimo inscription that the artist put in. the scene of Puerto Rico. "No, there aren’t many of us who can understand Eskimo." Just to prove it repeat the inscription that Rockwell Kent wrote. It goes like this: "Mi^uniera Ilaptiumum. Ke Ha Chimmeulakut Angayoraacut." How many of you understand that - or is my Eskimo pronunciation not so good? rpj^g funny part is, that somebody did read it and was able to translate it. Who? The name is not astonishing - Yihljamur Stefansson, the explorer of the Arctic and friend of the Eskimo. He was looking at the Rockwell Kent painting KENT - 2« of Puerto Rico and to his amazement he recognized it tas the Kushohwin dialect of the Eskimos. He was still more amazed when he noticed what it meant - that legend written in the United States Post Office. It was an jfcm±x invitation to Puerto Rico to revolt against the United States. Stefansson translates it like this: "To the people of Puerto Rico - go ahead. Let us change chiefs. That alone can make us equals and free." Rockwell Kent today gives a slightly different translation. He says his Eskimo might be freely translated: "Puerto Ricans, if you want freedom, then get it, and God bless you." In any case. It looks like an incitement to & revolt, start a rebellion against the stars and stripes.MtiAll this in Jim Farley’s handsome Post Office building in Washington. Rockwell Kent explains that he is in sympathy with Puerto Rican aspirations, and to this we can add that he’s an inveterate practical jokster. One of the greatest of American artists, he has also an impish sense of humor. But where did KENT - 3 he get the Eskimo? ^ell, Rockwell A^ent lives in New Jersy but he had a second home at Unamak, Greenland. There he paints northern scenes, and hobnobs with thepeople of the igloos GOVrRKMENT BRIEFS. From the summer white House at Hyde Park it*s announced that experts will go to work right away * on that pre*?i!'6'€ntial plan of a census of the unemployed. One of the most Important Jobs will be to draft a questionnaire which the jobless will be asked to answer,^The unemployment count is to utilize election and post office facilities^ and_it will be held next winter. ----- —-— r£> ■—“—-——— Washington announces the forthcoming construction of three hundred and nine public buildings, to cost seventy million dollars. They will be spotted all over the country. In Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, The Wheeler Dam was dedicated today. The President at Hyde park pressed a golden key and started the ceremonies. The giant Alabama power project was formally described as - "For the use and benefit of generations to come." Philadelphia began its Constitution ceremonies today, in commemoration of the hundred and fiftieth anniversary the signing of the great document. It will be a ten-day constitutional festival, with receptions, a gathering of Mayors, and a regatta GQVEr.lUE^T BRIEFS - £ on the Schuylkill Elver. Today Washington announced — bumper crops for nearly all grains. This is the biggest year since nineteen Thirty-One. The corn crop is two billion and a half bushels, almost twice as large as last year. Bumper crops are okay, if the prices don1! sluma too much for the farmer. VvEIRTON. For weeks now they’ve been having that Weirton steel investigation at New Cumberland, west Virginia, The Company is accused of violating the Labor Law - anti-union activities, it has been an affair of charges and counter-charges, argument and counter-argument - long drawn out, prolix and obscure. Today, however, the news of the Weirton investigation brings us something that we can understand. There was a wrangle between Edward G* Smith, examiner for the National Labor Relations Board, and Clyde Armstrong, counsel for Weirton steel. They were going into a lot of technicalities about whether the S. W. 0, 0. was a labor organization - much too technical for me. The argument got so •> hot that examiner Smith pounded his gavel again and again on a marble slab on his desk. He finally hit the marble so that he smashed it. The Vfeirton lawyer remarked: Examiner, it is not necessary to break marble”. That only set the quarrel going hotter than ever, until -ixaminer aait* took anotS^p^with his gavel. That was the - P climax, as ne brought it dov-'n with a tremendous bang. Sot only did he shatter the marble this time. It was on the glass top 02 trie desk. And he struck so hard that he also shattered the glass. And pieces of "lass flew on all sides. Slivers landed in the hair of the Court reporter, and one large piece narrowly missed him. After that the hearing was ad3ourend, and it was about time, as it’s about time for me to adjourn — and SO LObG OK’TIE MONDAY .