in Su gwnww £ * 3 . - 20 f flewy i*» g s? train * to bbery-sfctvsy^. Goodevening Everybody Today* s train robbery story has been a maze of confusions,*^ gapor^^e»atmdlQtiB« egreh^^xaj;. an4 4»<w--theu-1 i nsj. /First it was said that the hold-up men had got away with fifty- eight thousand dollars, consigned to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Then suddenly that dwindled* This afternoon k M Kelly, assistant superintendent of the Erie announced that the amount the robbers got was a mere nine hundred and fifty bucks that little for one of the boldest and best planned train robberies on record* The early reports told how swiftly and precisely the bandits seized a large manila envelope that was in the baggage car of the train -- the envelope supposed to contain the fifty eight thousand dollars* Later that was changed, with the robbers now pictured as getting away with several bags of silver coins and a package containing some parts of a ex-ray machine El ,7 On the Erie & crowded commuters' trein was rattling along from Paterson, New Jersey, to Jersey City. It was just pulling in to the station at Nutley. Hurrying commuters were waiting to board the coaches. Off to one side stood a green s edan. The train came to a stop. The door of the baggage oar slid open. In a swift instant seven men climbed in to the car. Pive baggagemen found them­ selves looking into the muzzles of sawed off shotguns and machine guns. I " The key to the strong box«"One gangster demanded. "Come across and make it quick ! They took the key opened the strong box, snatched their loot, jumped out of the baggage oar, ran to the green sedan, piled into it — and away they went speeding, a flash of green. The crowded commuters in the oar knew nothing about it, until the trainmen gave a swift alarm and detectives came hurrying to the scene Aiiy railroad hold-up takes ones reminescence back to the old era of train robberies in the West. Tills time though we are reminded -- not of the Western bad men of the eighties, but of a savage wild west affair that occurred in Nineteen-twenty-three, the robbery of the Southern Pacific "Shasta Limited" in Oregon. The D'Autremont brothers did it, with shooting, killing and dynamiting. They escaped, but four years later were caught. What we hear concerns one of the three bandit brothers, Hugh D• Autremont. For the last nine years hefs been in the Oregon Penitentiary at Salem, the news gives us a prison oddity —- Hugh D1 Autremont is now editor of the Prison magazine -- "Shadows11. The magazine is his own idea, and is a well written, well edited sheet. Prison editor of "Shadows" - an odd finale for a famous train robber. 9 BOND THEFT FOLLOW ROBBERY All day news has been flashing about that giant hoard of stolen American securities discpvered in Monte Carlo* One thing about it is an extraordinary turn of coincidence and similarity. Last, evening we heard about the big break in the case of five-hundred and ninety thousand dollars stolen.from the United States Trust Company. Today it*s a break in the case of a million and a half dollars swiped -from C. J. Devine if and Company, of Wall Street. On two consecutive dayst-^- * ^rrests and recovery of money, in two such huge robberies, <31 That is coincident. But it goes further than that. The A two crimes occurred in almost identical fashion. In each case a package containing a fortune was delivered, and was laying on the desk while- being receipted for —and disappeared. The ounningest of bank sneak thieves, swiping huge money in the subtlest way. Yesterday we heard of,arrests in various parts of the 10 United States. Today the trail takes us to that beguiling haunt of gambling**-Itonte Carlo. Two men arrested, and in their possession the Police found four hundred and forty thousand dollars of the million and a half taken in the Whitney robbery. Not only that, but the police are on the trail of a grand total of nearly three million dollars of stolen American securities, loot taken in various robberies. The story has fastining A * , 0A. large volume the romance of crime and detection* Crooked gangs speeding back and forth in powerful oars between Paris and Monte Carlo. Mysterious women enter* The trail leads across the Atlantic to Park Avenue* The themes of high society and the underworld mingle in the attempts to cash the big money securities. One angle of the detective story has that telling touch of oddity which snaps up a tale of orimet'Prom Paris, the New York police got a tip to investigate a fashionable lady r 0 j fill enough to^ffflh&ii a ft"t ft sw8nicy New York iiotel* Slie wes. Quite s oosmopliteH — made frequent trips between New York and idonte Carlo, and ivAA>-v-e^-v0^ bad a fancy Tills in the^Principality of Gambling. They questioned her and she said she had been told about the activities of the ring that.was selling stolen American securities in Prance. She had been told about this by a man named Anthony DePasquale. The Police checked on this individual and found that he used to run a spagett* restaurant Italy in New York's Little/MUMBlttQ^near Police headquarters. The police used to patronize this restaurant extensively because it was near headquarters and because the spagetti was good. Depasquale had been killed. He was standing on a street of Little Italy when guns blazed from a passing sedan. The police had never been able to solve the murder of the restaurant proprietor whose spagetti they liked so well ftnd who^now appeared in the spectacular drag of the stolen ?rom here the trail led to a rich man on Park Avenue .^who bonds. r 1 I told th« oops of an American acquaintance of his in Paris being approached by sellers of the hot and dungeons securities. These were the leads which led to an investigation s I | if I 1 by the French Police* with today's result of two arrest and the recovery of four hundred and forty thousand dollars tf}- snatched in the big Well Street robberyA.-^^*-^ : f I (j. Tf *HfriLrrrHw '■ImX.ilj GENEVA All our items are American tonight - but one. Here that is:- The collapse of negotiations at Geneva today was only to be expected. The League of Nations can hardly say okay to Mussolini»s relentless peace terms, and have its face. Committee of Thirteen threw up its task of trying to arrange a settlement between Italy and Ethiopia. The committee handed the whole thing back to the League Council which is scheduled to meet on Monday. The Council will have to decide what’s to be done. Presumably on Monday Captain Anthony Eden, speaking for Great Britain, will demand League action against Italy; and France will oppose any such action. The League itself threatens to blow up with a blaze of international enmities. Today there was an exchange of notes between already embittered, Great Britain and Italy. An exchange of notes? It was an exchange of retorts. Britain accused Italy of bombing a Red Cross Unit. To this Rome made a shar reply. "The Red Cross Unit was to blame," said Mussolini:- It GENET/A - 2 repeatedly fired on Italian airplanea." And Italy added the demand that such attacks must be stopped, -- anti-aircraft '•vi fire shielded by the Red Crocs* MProvocative acts of war !*1 said Rome, Britain made a come back to this saying that if there were more such Red Cross bombings, she'd demand damages. krora Italian sources come another one of those stories that haile Selassie is ready to abdicate his throne and turn it over to his son, Crown Prince Makonnen, then Kakonnen would ask for peace on any terms and the war would stop. Yes, the Crown Prince would become the new conquering Lion of Judah, or rather the Conquered Lion of Judah, That's * the rumor from Rome. Into the explosive international mixture is loosed another bit of potential dynamite:- A Preach news agency announces that the Turkish array has entered the area of the Dardanelles. That's supposed to be demilitarised, unfortified, devoid of soldiers. So commands the Paot of Lausanne. If the news is true, the Pao£ of Lausanne means Just another treatytorn up. The Turks have been hinting / * that they going to reocoupy the Dardanelles with their A soldiers — thereby following the example of Germany on the Rhine 13 BIT'TKH k decree of guilty was pronounced today against a small, thin white-haired man, who had all the reserve and dignity of a Judge of a federal Court of the United States, Judge Halstead Hitter of Florida. The United States Senate today sat as a tribunal. That’s the regular way, when there's an impeachment of a Federal judge. It needed a twoethirds majority to convict—and the vote was that— just two-thirds. There were seven counts aginst Judge Hitter. He was found giilty on one of them end it consequence he will be removed from the Federal bench. The formal accusation was --"High crime and misdemeanors in office," In plain language it was.- fee aplitting. Judge Ritter, sitting on the Federal Bench passed Judgnent in the case of a bankruptcy. He appointed his former lawyartner a receiver and awarded him a large fee. Later the law Partner paid the judge a fat sum of money. The accusation »»« that tho former iaw partner had split the receivership fee 14 ■ifa wlthAJndge. Denying this. Judge Hitter declared it was all "Co-lnoidental." He said he was paid the money as his share in the split-up of the law firm -- just an aeoident that it happened to come right after the receivership case* A few weelrs ago the lower house voted that Judge Ritter should stand trial. There was quite a discussion about +the proprieties of receiving gifts, hospitalities, entertainment. One representative got a laugh, when he shook his head in doubt. "If it's a crime ,11 said he, "To accept a free meal, how,many of us would be here — and not in Jail." The House having voted for the trial the Senate did the trying. For the twelfth time in American history the Upper House sat as a Court to hear an impeachment. Eight of those times involved Federal Judges. Today's conviction is the fourth — "Jhdge Ritter, the fourth Federal Judge to be removed from the Bench by an impeachment. ATI to 8. I * in in DetTOit toni gfat, the city to visit when yon went to get & line on conditions throughout the country* Detroit is a sort of national barometer. crvit ^ Are they making many cars^f I wish you could see these busy plants, feel the electricity in the air - the opteism. ojwnuiwai — and see the smiles on the faces of the men who menufacture so many of the world's oars. Are any of the^baok to their 19£9. peak ? I should say so. For example, Packard this month will reach the largest volume in the. history of that old and highly respected organisation * The Ford people are elated over the success of their new line, the Lincoln Zephyr. Hudson and Chrysler are going great guns. As for General Motors; the Book-Gadillac Hotel is jammed with weather beaten, squint-eyed, fancy booted Texans in ten-gallon hats. On these big hats are sigis advertising the approaching AUTO S “ 2 Texas Centennial Exposition. But, they are not just Texans, They are representatives of General Motors in the Lone Star State, visiting Detroit, yip yipping and whooping it up over the success of that giant corporation and its 1936 line of auto s BASEBALL X met one of these Texans in the elevator late this afternoon. He was muttering to himself: "Thiz sz no town to go to a ball game, I mi-z- well be in Siberia. Why did X leave San Antonie? ' Tempuhohoor thirty-eight: BahlM And so on, which brings us to the topic of baseball - the only topic in Detroit today, tod excuse me if I get personal for a moment, I do so merely to give you a picture of the state of baseball lunacy in Detroit, Having picked up a cold on the train X decided to consult a doctor. When I phoned him he said; “if you're coming in make it mm. snappy, I'm going to the baseball game in about five minutes,w I realize there is supposed to be something unethecal about giving a doctor publicity. But this one is so famous that he doesn't need it. So it ought to be all right to mention his name. As soon as I got to Dr. Burt Shuriy's office he gagged me with something down my throat and started talking baseball like a blue streak, told me how he had pitched for A BASEBALL - 2 fifteen years nimself; then gagging me with another spray he started telling stories about Ty Cobb, MThe Georgia Peach was the most perfect speciman of an athlete I ever saw;" swish swish, "An his muscles perfectly developed; everything perfect about him except his temperj" Then to the accompanyment of more spraying he told about the day when Ty Cobb threw down his glove, climbed up into the grand stand, and pounded the day­ lights out of a spectator who has beai shouting some unkind remarks at him. And of course he assured me that Ty Cobb was the greatest baseball player who ever lived. Giving my throat one more final spray he jumped into his car and raced for Savin Field. A huge crowd jammed the Detroit ball park today for the opening of the season, a crowd dressed in furs and wrappeo in blankets. Even with the thermometer at thirty-eight they were there to cheer Micky Cochrane and his Tigers to victory. But the Tigers didn’t win. The wind and blizzard evidently favored the White Sox from the Windy City. And 30,000 Detroit fans probably caught cold. Which remainds me — excuse me now while I spray my throat .and — S0L0MG UNTIL MONDAY.