I • • 1 ■ " ............... ...irr .. , , Lowell Thomas broadcast for the Literary Digest Wednesday. January 13^ 19^S. H- Page. Good Evening, Everybody: di ■ ion appeared before the ./ays and Leans Committee of the house of Representatives today and tslci vhy we should have higher taxes. The Secretary is quoted by the / L 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 n 12 13 u 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 h -U ji Associated Press as declaring that ^m-crvu-i/ j goal should be a balanced^budget by the end of 1934^) In other wards. Uncle Sam should buckle down and give himself a couple of years of high taxes in which to wipe oyt that huge government def i c i t,%{ Secretary Lei Ion was emphatic in stating that higher taxes were absolutely necessary, that the rates must be raised on big incomes, an d on little incomes too. ——~ *- ■ 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 HAWAII Page, The Naval Department in Washington ann q unced to day that the four pe op I e , three men and one woman, charged with murder out in Honolulu, will be turned over to the civil courts of the Islands for trial. Meanwhile ■fea. United Press cable from Hawaii declares that the authorities out there admit that they haven't anything I ike an open and shut case against t he^clef en dant s. One of the men has been identified as having taken part in the kidnapping of the young Hawai ian who was They can't prove legally that the killing was premeditated, and without evidence of premeditation, there is no possibility of the death penalty. Let's take a look at the background that Iies behind the whole u9 1 y situation. It has been decl ared that for sometime Honolulu has been dangerous for American women. There have been a lumber of cases of assault by Hawai ians i i 25 I 10 11 12 13 H 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 “a-n-SM Page__ Then came the instance a flASAll - 2 and As iat i c s. in which iVips* Mass i e, the wits ot young naval otticer# was dragged into an a u t om obile by a group ot * Hawaiians and Asiatics, an d c a r rie d aw ay and m a 11 r e a t e d f repeatedly. Arrests were made, and there was jc * q a trial . The defendants were That lead to an outbreak of trouble. And then the affair came to a spectacular climax. The ring-leader of the men accused of the attack, a young Hawaiian named Kahahawai, was kidnapped and killed. The deed is charged to Lieutenant Massie, the husband of the young womarf7^t?rs. Granville Fortescue, who is Mrs. Massie!s mother? and two American sai I or s The funeral of Kahahawai*-- ^fc*:^***^ was held in spectacular fash i on. Two thousand Hawa i i an s attended. There was music, the soft dreamy songs °f Hawaii. And, cables the United Press, there was bitter denunciation, with calls tor vengeance. HMAll - 3 Page------ The pp isoneps wepe ’to.ken ovep by the Navy. Mrs. Fortescue is now being he I r! aboard a warship. The American prosecutor at Honolulu called for the death penalty against the prisoners. (Dn the other hand, an American Admiral declared that the men of the Navy would not tolerate having their women attacked by the natives. An American minister of the aospel delivered for say i ng that. Aboard the ship where Mrs. Fortescue is kept, the officers had to issue a command of NO MORE FLOWERS. The International News Service adds that the ship was deluged by flowers sent by people who v/ant to express their approval the mother who killed to avenge the K. wrong suffered by her daughter. It had been surmised that the ^&vy might refuse to turn the prisoners °ver to civil authorities for trial, ^t now comes the announcement, according a b itter Admira I 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 16 19 20 21 22 23 24 JJASAll Page, i to the Associated Press, that they will be surrendered by the naval authorities when the civil courts w an test t hem . Mrs. Fortescue, Lieutenant Massie, and the two sailors, will be tried before a mixed jury, a jury consisting partly of Americans and partly of Hawa i ians. It was before a mixed jury that the four men accused of attacking Mrs. Massie were tried. The jury disagreed, and, therefore, the defendants were released. It was this that led to the killing, presumably because several people took the law into their own hands. Well, from this distance it looks as thouch trials of cases I ike these before a mixed jury are v m ry I i keIy to result in a d i sagreeme nt. Presumably the Hawaiian jurors will vote ■for the Hawa i i an side of the case, and the American jurors will vote for the Arne r i c an side of the case. And 1 t h i n k a good guess would be that when Mrs. ^ a s sIe * s mother and h u s b a nd a n o the 25 HAHA11 - 5 page_ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 two other defendants are tried before a mixed jury, why, the jury won't be able to come to any decision. Meanwhile, the situation in Hawaii cont i nue's’ a I I ^ A kinds of investigations are in prospect. Many Americans out in the Islands seem to be annoyed because of the unfavorable publicity brought to their paradise for tourists. The city is being carefully policed to guard against a renewal of what seems to be a standing feud between the sailors of the American u fleet and the very mixed population of 15 the I s I and s . 16 17 18 19 20 It might be remarked that the real Hawaiians are comparatively few out there. The great majority of the population consists of Japanese. 21 22 23 24 25 INUIA Page___ /L. H While t he trouble out in India between ranclhiTs followers and the British authorities still continues, |etTs take a look at another aspect of the Indian scene. Today Lord Wi l l ingdon, the viceroy of India, opened the Sukkur Dam. The Internati onal hews Service describes this as the greatest successful irrigation project ever achieved by man. Thousands of people attended the official opening. Theyfve been building that dam for eight yeaqa. It stretches a mile long across the^Tndus River, and they say it will provide water enough to irrigate the whole barren prav nee of Sind. The water will be conveyed by 6,000 miles of canals, and 31,000 miles of smaller waterways. Nearly 6 billion cubic feet of earth have been excavated building the dam. And 2,000 bridges have been built over canals and water-courses. The cost of the operation comes to 51 million d o I I ar s . Yes. that does indeed sound like the I II !h lit 2 I 1 10 11 12 IS H 15 Hu.. [Mill A Page. greatest irri cation project ever, and it is believed that those fruitful waters taken from the ancient Indus will make the desolate and forbidding Sind Desert a region of rich crops and a flourishing population. It may make the desert bloom like a rose. s. Page____ 2 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 nutSidji. a * » ' ' f / o ; h i I e on t he subject of deserts, there is a world traveler in new York this week who could tell „ great deal about them -- if she would. This particular woman has been -- almost every wh ere . dhe is sometl i ng of a woman of mystery. I've crossed her trail in various parts of ih e globe and have always heard her praised as "the woman traveler anu leader of expeditions who c voids publicity", ^he nearly always goes alone; I mean without any o-ltotL auropean coiiip£.n i ons • She has been shot by brigands in arabia, shipv;recked on a lonely ri ver in South Arner ica, chased by wolves in „ the Arctic. h-i-Q I LLS. PM ' 1 Why should a woman constantly Qo in search of excitament I ike that? And what is the name of this mysterious vv ho has spent so many years on expeditions to the ends of the earlh ? Well, her name is Violet Oressy-Warks.; 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 22 23 24 25 •SM Cressy -Mar^s 2 Page. She is Eng I i sh . In L one! on I was to I d that there had been some romant ic tragedy in her I ife, something that had caused her to want to go to the lonely places of the earth, and get away. I don't know whether this is so. but I do know that she carries the instruments of a scientific explorer. She maps rivers and unknown mount a i ns ^ £l-4 Mrs. Or essy-Maries crossed the Sahara desert on one of her expeditions. Another time she mar!e her way over land, alone, from one end of Africa to the othep She has Mved among the tribes of Persia, t^^?andBa I uch i stan /V She drove her own reindeer across the top of Arctic Europe, through the land of the Laps -- an amazing feat. And her latest journey was right across one of the wildest sections of Sout h America! up little-known tributaries of the Amazon, and final ly over one of the wi I dest stretches of the Andes to the Pacific coast. On that journey she picked up fever, and new sMw is in America Cressy-Marks 3 Av recuperating -- and making plans for her next expedition, probably to forbidden Thibet. New York City has become a crossroads of the world. Nearly all travelers pass through New Y ork sooner or Iater. And one of the most unusual to come this way in many moons, is Mrs. Cressy-Marks. 11 12 13 I ! 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 2 ? 23 24 25 "klUSM 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 18 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 “*11-SM Page, Here's an answer to a question that many of us have asked. I Remember that accident in the itaiicKStRXB*xita* Library of the Vatican when there was a collapse of two floors ^ a«# Immense treasures of ancient manuscripts and works of art went tumbling down with the debris* ',Ve I I , how much damage was done? What treasures were destroyed? The answer is given in the new Literary Digest. There is a paragraph In m headed - Destroyed, and then follows a paragraph headed - Damage. In those two you will find the exact information. For example, among the objects destroved was a marvelous vase I ined with malachite, which was given to the Vatican by Czar Nicholas ixaf the first, of Russia. And then the L i ter ary D i g-st t£jz ^fiLascX- quotes the New York Herald TribuneAthat among the books damaged was an Ang I o-3a/*^v\ copy of the Gospels, nearly twelve - 2 s rtIMMMHieBaitXMlM Page 14 15 161 23 24 25 hundred years old. That Literary Digest list of the treasures involved in the accident to the Vatican Library makes a fascinating catalog of toxsKfatxKxax historic objects* And one thing that will please people who have an interest in artistic things, is the fact that the destruction and damage is less than nrtrrtrfe hrt=vs=tro«n. expected. ' Vie, w r° ,-^*7 cx ^^JL j ciUrwa- a^> V\^vO JL VJl^takL^vsje/\ ^ y | UTcwJC^ i 6 I i I 15 MJTQgQBILE SHOV.; Page 14 Well, Ifve been impressed by the sideshows. In addition to the big automotive extravaganza at the Grand Central Palace there are other automobile circuses in many of ¥ Kew Yorl^s hotels. I’ve spent the day walking from one to the other. We auto fans are having a bigger run for our money than ever. After you’ve seen the main event, you make the rounds of the hotels and take in the spectacular sideshcws here in New York. You meander over to the Hotel Roosevelt and have a look at the unusual exhibition there. And, the one at the Waldorf — well. It seems almost as big as the main show. Yes, this looks like a great year in the auto world. 25 r" uu Page. if 1 - Cow ter Ivav-^ B '^"CTw, <2^—^/~c^ ^ Mrs. Arno 1 dlshg-a-Ju wild and ferocious I j I yf rare this is The i^ev; York Her a I d-Tr i bu ne te I I s ttlT^~CLar3fTTTCI KjtS: y a^-i^wniT&-aiH^rrttrrsrjux or rrTrm: .Elizabeth Arnold of Irvington, New Jersey, was awakened by a terrific clatter 13 U 15 16 22 23 downstairs. She investigated and found that her pet lily had cone on a rampage,- had cone berserk, and had caused all the « > oommotion. f/r s. Arnold has a peculiar lily, a native of Mexico, which i s .extraord i nar y because of its rapid c r ow t h. that lily has been known to grov/ four or five feet inW many days. But now it has /V exceeded all records,. For some time the plant has been quiet -- * c lias been buried in a peach-basket tuH of sarth. IV.rs. Arnold left the lily vnth a tin-pan covered over the basket. During the night the lily suddenly started to crrow. It shot up to L1L1 2 Page a height of five feet, and threw the tin-pan into a corner. That's what caused a I I Tie racket. And on the berserk plant was a blossom as big as a man's head. Sound tall, but it's given to us on the authority of one of mos*fc c onsfinvcixi v© ns wsp q . p©r%s 9 10 11 12 13 H 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ' Pa^e / ^ d, | can ' t help talking a little about 11' & been so I can't the weather tonight weird and freakish. In these parts i t^a*^ been hot and sultry. Albany, ifd^Torfry reports the hottest weather on record for j ^ s j -- J^^ary l~3 trh-. The temperature was 66 aj-^. In New v'ork City this afternoon it was 67, / * .____ ____ ,-^F5L —la. I . \ ii! tn the took Lion- it’s something else EnjafErtv —Tktey hratt violent wi Id gales and heavy W~tajLnje vc ^ i^JL "to ph - o ^~\$L, /V ° bl i zzards t oday snowfalls. At Qurango,~Co 1 or ado. p i nk snow fell. The snow was pink because of clouds of red uust kicked up by the v/ind In so^.e parts of i..on tana it is 20 below zcp-tt- ton i ght. Early today it was 50 above, iar 9*^- i^omuTiYiim ' j £t.v4- w i t h i I r orp—trs&tFe^ ~ n a few hours At Shiprook, [Jew f.,ex i co , thep-erf ^ an ice-jam in t h s r i v s r v^n ; i a s c au s s d a flood . Between those extremes of jcjLiil *n the ’Vest and warmth in the cast, the weather^u s been cutting all sorts of cur i ous ^» mmaaMaa l ■ I 1 f mi^ - 2 T!ie ouuthern part of .’iss is. i PP i '.'alley 5 Page. J‘h e w""’ ,f windss^lmJ to southern d 7| 6, 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Power lines are V.«{ o';; i Illinois, ,g~n# Towns are p I unged . i n t=o- d.r'-.nesr, tonight. "S^oddest story ..bout wind storm is one wired to tbo I nternut iona 1 [lews Cervice. At Farnham, New York, a freight train v.-c.. rattling aloiiw. The wind was blowing like fury. Suddenly a farm- no .e sai ling along and I anded on the railroad track. It was just picked up by the wind and deposited on the rails. Too freight train hit the farm­ house^ a per't' e track urttcXz'thtU*. i ns' weather man seems to have gone '-TXJZJ z J k . OL- * SJ ig!*t I '' ! ony today . I cou I d^^^on rtsi.fsAfe;a-’-tt•■Ti^rd-rl t-?=rrg about funny temperatures and oueer storms, but it's now t inia for i t Aout into the tropical New -Vor^ January say _ _ SO LONG UNTIL TOLON k OW. I 1 i i gh t a nd