L.T, b'UMOCO. MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1357 GOOD EVENING EVERMBODX: Tonight all America again sits tense while another hectic drama of the air unfolds itself. In the mountain ranges of the west, in a blizzard, a big transport liner lies aground, shattered where it fell after crashing into one of the Utah peaks. Nineteen people were aboard that United Airliner, sixteen passen­ gers, two pilots and a steward. And at the moment, itfs beyond human power to say whether that drama is a tragedy and if so how grim and deadly. In Salt Lake City, the inter-mountain headquarters of the Airlines, it was reported that the plane had crashed near Chalk Peak in the Porcupine Range. Rut Ifve just been talking to tne City Editor of the WYOMING TIMES in Evanston, Wyoming. Re has a man onhis way to the scene of the disaster. And he iniiorms me that the nlane is down on Hayden*s Peak, thirty-five miles soutnwest of his town, over the state line in Utah. Wild5 rigged country. LEAD,.- 2 impossiblt to traverse during the night. So the relief parties dust wait where they are until daybreak. Until they reach the actual spot where the plane lies, we*11 not know whether those nineteen are alive or dead, sound or injured. Spch are the words that came over the telephone from Salt Lake City just fifteen minut@s ago. The plane crashed last night in a storm that filled the mountain passed v/ith mud and snow. Major Shorty Sc breeder at once sent out pilots and observation planes. The sky search located the missing liner about noon. One pilot, who said he flew within a hundred feet and saw no sign of life. Merely two motors torn loose, and fragments of machinery scattered around the wreck. cTTPama COURT Tile Supreme Court spoke egaln today and apparently one of its voices was that of the new Associate Justice, Mr* Hugo L* Black* And one decision is a victory for ^ New Dea3 « It concerns the Securities and Exchange Commission which had issued a subpoena for telegrams sent by three Florida corporations. The Florida companies fought back, saying those subpoenas were illegal^ -- because the Securities and Exchange Commission was unconstitutional* The Supreme Court today declined to consider the case. While Justice Black was chairman of the Senate committee investigating lobbies, he obtained possession of telegrams sent by William Randolph Hearst and others. Hearst charged that Senator Black’s action was unconstitutional and the Circuit Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia agreed. Today, in another case the Supreme Court upheld subpoenas for telegrams. And the Court today considered the measure in which the New York law—makers declared that henceforth all so-called heart balm suits, actions for breach of promise and i±±KwW alienations cfmnrnm COURT - 2 of affections, were illegal. The law was greeted with general approval except on the part of some attorneys who have done well prosecuting heart-balm cases. Today the Supreme Court of the United States refused to Intervene in favor of heart-balm* The veteran Senator Borah of Idaho thr®« a monkey-wrench into the plans of some of the leaders of the Republican Party As we learned a few weeks ago, therets a proposal^promoted principally by Ex-President Hoover, that the G.O.P. should hold a convention-extraordinary next year, to formulate plans for a reorganization of the Party. The Idaho Senator says this would be "without authority or authenticity." And he suggested that It would be far more likely to split the Party than to weld it closer together. That iKfct lends considerable additional interest to the speech that Ex—'Governor Landon of Kansas is ge&BS to broadcast tomorrow night The recent falling off of prices on the stock markets was followed by sensational rumors. Grapevine stories were circulated right and left that the Securities and Exchange Commission was about to close up Wall Street. Those rumors, said the Commission, today are "utterly unfounded." And the Commissioners add: "We»re going to investigate and find out whether somebody has been cir- * culating that report for his own benefit." m THOEGERSEK L*Xs.: ~ us 11 ^ ” noV7 ^° y°u stand tonight in your football prognostications? Well of the eight biggest games of the day from a nation point of interest I managed to miss three -— the Pittsburgh Fordham result, the Cornell-Syracuse upset and the Alabama-Tenn­ essee battle. So, could I possibly interest you Lowell, in a coupla nice fresh alibis, this evening? L.TA;- Sure what are they? Eg:- When I said that Pitt would beat Fordham by a shade — I figured that Pittsburgh would have Goldberg which meant that Fordham would have trouble. As it turns out I should have said that Fordham would defeat Goldberg and Pittsburgh would be defeated by the referee — what a game that fellow played. I l «-T «: - Who—Goldberg? Fbi— jSo_the referee. X mean in that second period y<j.i.en the ball was being fumbled and bounced around like a hot potato. Pitt had the ball, — how they managed to get it is another story but as they lined up on Fordham’s five yard line — the ball was snapped to Pitu’s halfback Stehbins who mace as if to carry it yn THOrGERSEi; - 2 through right tackle out along cane Goldberg who received the ball from Stebbins on a reverse — and galloped through the Fordham line like Goldilocks hiking through the woods — and when Fordham opened its eyes — there was Goldilocks — Goldberg under the Fordham goal posts and Pittsburgh had crossed the Fordham goal line for the first time in three years. At least, so it seemed for about thirty seconds — but now enters into our little one act alibi — the aforesaid Man In 'white — yessir — the eagle-eyed referee who had spotted a bit of fancy body-checking on the part of a well-meaning Pittsburgh tackle e- said act calling for a penalty of fifteen yeards against ye Pittsburgh Panthers which meant that the touch down play was nullified — cancelled —— rubbed out. And with it passed the one spell—bidding minute of an otherwise colorless ball game that endec, for the tnird yeard in a row in a scoreless tie. The rest 01 the ax rernoon being more or less consumed in time out followed by ct punt now and then —’usually followed by a prayer. The band played a swell game. Up at Ithaca liew Xork — where the Cornell-Syracuse battle gn THORGEPLEN - 3 produced the biggest upset of the day football experts at least got a couple 0-. runs now and then for their money. As Syracuse slapped the Big ReD for a loss — by a score of 14 to 6. n George Peck — the brilliant Cornell halfback — the lad around whom much of Cornell*s offensive thrust is built — was out of the line-up and the Big Red backfield got along without him as well as Sale might do without Clint Frank — or Columbia without Sid Luckman. So without detracting one grain of credit from the smooth, swift and powerful Syracuse machine that Ossie Solem has developed — that * s the alibi boss — Sext Saturday the football experts have such brain-teasers as Fordham-Texas Christian Harvard-Dartmouth — Vanderbllt-Louisiana State — to name only three to clown around with staring. Which reminds me Lowell that ushers in October the open season for duck shooting. By November — if this wacky football continues — we should, have an open season on experts. By the way, Lowell, how did your game with the Roosevelts and the Bs.be Rflths come ouh jiesterday? I notice the New Xork papers this morning are all confused about the score. V V" J^t&syifCisy^y f(3~£^M)-£,?ci£p ^itZ/V. ROOSEVELT-BABE RUTH TT [ — ^ile score, Ed, well i*d rather tell yon about the supreme moment in that game between Colonel Theodore Boosevelt and his team of M Shoo ting Stars, ** and our Dutchess bounty "Nine Old Men.” But, 1*11 not tell you about the hurly-burly of nonsense out there at Meadow Brook Polo Field. 1*11 also omit the fumbles of myself and Colonel Ted; the mighty deeds of polo star Tommy Hitchcock and of Explorers Roy Chapman Andrews and Gregory Mason; sport experts Grantland Rice,Arthur Donovan, Eddie Eagan, John Kier*an, and Freddie Benham; the capers of Cartoonists H.T, Webster, Rube Goldberg, and Paul Webb; the clowning of humorists Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle, Bugs Baer, Homer Croy^ Radio stars Frank Parker, Dale Carnegie, and' Major Bowes. I could go on naming them -- but the climax was. Babe Ruth at bat. I and my nRine Old Men" tried an experiment, had heard that Big League stars sometimes don*t gleam so brightly against first-class soft ball pitching. So we brought along Hardy Brownell, who lives on a farm in our neighborhood, and who pitches for our regular Pawling—Quaker Hill T^am. On Sunday we put In Sir Hubert Wilkins, the explorer. rqosevelt - babe ruth - g and Mflw David Sarnoff of R.C.A., as pitchers. But in the fourth inning we tried our experiment^ instead of Sir Hubert and his beard* or M&, Sarnoff and his dazzling blue uniform, we put in Brownell. Kpx Up came the Babe/tcEba^aa-wst* all set to blast a home run^ the way he used to do in the American League. Brownell, a slight, skinny guy without any burly power, swung his arm ar&mvft with an unusual underhand snap of the wrist that does weird things to the ball. The Babe took a mighty swing at the big sphere, but the ball was past him before his bat came around. It landed right on the mask of Catcher Lew A Lehr, like a cannon shot. The astounded Lew threw off his mask, tossed away his glove, and started for home and mother. Well, the Babe struck out in three consecutive mighty swings. Not even a foul tipi After that the great Bambino was so rattled by his ponderous txi strike-out that he missed three easy ground balls in the field and pulled a Charley -horse which made him a cripple for the rest of the game. ROOSEVELT — BABE RUTH - 3 That was the climax and close of our softball season. But the Babe was a good sport. Not a murmer. There* 11 never be another Babe Ruth. Who vzon the game? Well, Umpires John Golden and Gene Buck and Truman Talley decided to call it a tie and play it off next summer. PALESTINE To end terrorism in the Holy Land the British authorities are burning the homes of the Arab terrorists. Today the Arabs answer by bombing the orthodox Jewish quarter of Jerusalem. ) The British have arrested two Italian-speaking tysssi: Moslem officers, soldiers who are said to have deserted from the French Legion kk in Syria. They charge those Italianized adventures with responsibility for the acts of terror. All over Palestine, one act of violence is closely followed by another. Of course much capital Is being made of the fact that those arrested officers spoke Italian* There have been British Insinuations - though not official ones - that Mussolini’s secret agents were at the bottom of all these, agitations in Palestine* So it becomes significant when Premier Mussolini’s own newspaper bursts forth with a virulent criticism of British policy in the Holy Land. This has caused observers to hark back to an Incident of several months ago when Mussolini paid an official visit to Tripoli. Then the London newspa- 'rs were in a high state of indignation because the Duce proclaimed PALESTINE, P himself the defender of Islam, f This lends color to the rumor that the fleeing Grand Mufti of Jerusalem — highest Moslem dignitary in the Holy Lan, may establish his headquarters In Italy. He escaped to Syria; but the French authorities would be tickled to death to see him go. nHe is free to leave,” said a government spokesman in Paris, T,we arenft anxious to keep him in Syria.” ITALY Premier Mussolini is annoyed. Perhaps that’s hardly news. But this time his annoyance has driven him to make an important statement. He»s fed up with the accusations from England and France about his volunteers in Spain. So^tonight the Italian Foreign Office says: "Those stories are absurd stories that there are a hundred thousand Italians fighting on the side of the Spanish Rebels. The total number of Fascist legionaires in Spain is not more than forty thousand men^y And," says the Rome Foreign Office, "there are far more volunteers from other countries serving on the government’s side." While this fusillade of words came from Rome, there v/as a battle of bullets on the Aragon front. In the array on the government side fought the famous International Brigade, French Poles, Czecho-Slovaks, with a sprinkling of Italian and German anti-Fascists, Against them General Franco threw nine battalions of Rebels, twenty-five thousand, mostly Italians. CHINA Tne latest dramatic stories from China are of suicide divisions, Chinese regiments who have taken an oath to fight, to the death. One of these, fifteen hundred men, kep their oath today. They stood ground — and fell where they stood. But for hours they held back a smashing Japanese attack. Through such a desperate defense the armies of the Mikado literally carved their way to a key position to the northwest of Shanghai. From the north, we continue to hear of the Chinese still defying the superior organization and mechanism of the Nipponese armies in Shansi. And an interesting report comes from Tokyo. Wefve been hearing doubt expressed as to whether Japan could, hold out if the Chinese resistance lasted. {IThe Land of the Rising Sun hasn*t the money or the resources to keep going in the face of a long war,n said the doubtdrs. n That*s nonsense,11 replies Japan today. The Minister of Commerce and Industry says: nJapan is ful ly. capable of keeping herself going econimlcally and carrying on here war in China. And,” he adds, "even if shefs cut off from the rest of the world by sanctions, Nippon will still be a ole to 111 f- m Hi 1 if. la 111 11 1 | Ilf i |[ ii! 1 it I m I 1 if I) I I I[! it M || llrl Ii : ' II 5 I carry on,n FRANKLIN Some two hundred and fourteen years ago, a penniless young printer from Boston arrived in Philadelphia, Though he hadn’t a shilling in his pockets, he soon got work at his trade, and made a success of it. In fact, he made a success of a good many things, including the job of being the first American ambassador to Europe. He did a lot of things in Philadelphia in his time, organizing the first police force in America, also the first Fire Department. He also founded an academy which today is known the world over as the University of Pennsylvania. The name of the man who founded it is Benjamin Franklin, The Two hundredth anniversary of the University of Pennsylvania! One incident of the preparations is the dinner tonight; all over the world. Wherever alumni of Penn are to be found, they’ll banquet together, some fifty-five thousand of them. And all these dinners, wherever they are, will be linked by radio, from the master dinner of three tnousand people starting right now at Convention Hall, Philadelphia. In America ?RAi'iKLUi - 2 the banquets will be tied together by the N.B.C. from nine thirty to ten o1clock Eastern Standard Time. For the rest of the world by short wave. Fifty-five thousand at one banquet — figuratively speaking! And literally speaking SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW