Lov; ell Thomas Broadcast for the Literary Digest Wednesday, May 18t 1932 urn Page Good Lvening, Everybody The Lindbergh case cont inues to hold the center of the stage. The New York ».or I d-Te I ear am tells us t h a t: - "Beset by frauds and hoaxes, investigators of three States and the Federal Government sought today to pick apart a haystack of fantasy." They are in search of "a needle of evidence" which might noint to the murderers of the Lindbergh baby. A narcotic addict from Brooklyn confessed yesterday that he was a member of the kidnapping gang, ioday under the pressure of questioning, he a dm i 11 e d t h at his confession was phoney. And now it comes to light that John Hughes Gurtis, the faker of Norfolk, Virginia, had demanded f 1 LIMOB^ sgh 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page_ 2 $25,000. as a down payment from Col. Lindbergh. Curtis meanwhi ie is being carefully guarded to keep him from committing suicide. Th e N e w Y o r k Evening Post, tells us that he is under arrest at Hopewell, New Jersey, charged v/i th giving improper information in the investigation of a high misdemeanor. The penalty for this offence is three years1 imprisonment. In Norfolk, the chief of police declares that he is convinced that something important is being withheld. The authorities are trying to find out where Curtis was on the night of the kidnapping. His whereabouts at that time have not yet been satisfactorily explained. The Anglican c ler gyman who was associated with him in the so-called negotiations for the ransom of the baby, has declined an invitation to come to New Jersey an cl answer question s. 3 1-32 5M V— 6 7 B 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 h___ Page 1 •h i«i i ■ I i A l the same t i me Harry brundige who covered the Lindbergh story for the •St. Louis Star, has an interesting sidelight on the case. I h i s is wh at he reports for the United Press: nune month after the Lindbergh baby had been kidnapped from his home,” says Brundige, nl had a lengthy conference with Curtis in a Norfolk Hotel. He had convinced a former resident of St. Louis that he was in actual contact with the kidnaopers. This man had urged the Star to send me to Norfolk to 'wo rk with Curtis. Curtis told me he had an appointment with one of the k i dna.ope rs f or the f o I I ow in g day. He said he had given his word that he would not talk to police or give them any i n f or rn a t i o n . But he had not promised that he wouldnTt tell a newspap er m an . I asked him how was the contact established. fThrough a , he rep I i ed . 1 Yes, a I fo I I owed Curtis on the following day in a ■ ! man I built a boat for 1 T A b o o t I e g g e r ? T I asked. bootlegger1, he answered I I 1 31*32 SM Page 4 chartered gasoIine cruiser, and later that day I found him, instead of making contacts with kidnaopers* am using himself at deep sea f is hing• An d t hat T s t h e w ay this most pitifully tragical episode in American history has come to a farce of fakery and tragical nonsense. And thereTs an illuminating survey of this nhase of the Lindbergh story, in the latest issue of the L i t er ar y D i ge st , wh i c h will be o ut tomo rrow. The Digest also quotes the New York Herald Tribune as comment i ng on the number of people who became private detectives. They included sensation seekers, well-meaning busybodies who bothered the Lindberghs and the nolice with fantastic clues, i intrusive citizens who pried into the affairs of their neighbors. r 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 2 3 24 25 Page, 3" ^Senator iydings1 long awaited beer amenahien t w us defeated in t he Uni ted States jenate today. Inis amendment was offered as a part of the bi I it on-do I Iar tax bill. Th faryI and Senator proposed to legalize beer for the purpose of raising taxes. He suggested that the beer should be no stronger than ^.75 per cent. It was voted down to the tune of 6iD to 24.^) But there wi I l be another beer tax test next Londay in the House. Senator Norris of Nebraska, hitherto a confirmed dry, had promised that he would vote for the Tydings amendment if the democrats would vote for a r et urn of high war-time taxes on I arge n o o m e s . nI may have to vote for beer one of these days,11 Senator Norris admitted, TTbut I won't now. If the Democrats won't tax wealth, I w on ' t tax b e e r .,r And so saving he voted nay and took other pro gress i v e v ot e s with him, decidinq votes. ;11 I i :! i ; -t II I ’■ ! I, 11 4 3 1-32 5M EiiX^QLL 4 Page bonders will never cease. The leaders of our House of Represent atives are trying to put an end to the good old family payroll racket. A United Press dispatch in the Cincinnati Post conveys the information that senators and Congressmen have been receiving hundreds of letters protesting about this. Wives, children, in-laws, and other re I atives,some of whom never go near Washington, are on this House payroll, and it seems that this payroll is secret. Not even Congressmen are allowed to see it. A resolution is going to be offered in the House tomorrow to throw this secret payroll open to public insp ect i on. Another representative is going to introduce a bill forbidding the employment of relatives by congressmen. 111s been c ha rged that ^en ax or Thomas of Idaho’ Senator Borah!s colleague, carried his daughter and his sifter as clerkTs at the wage of 82200. a year. EAIS2LU - 2 Page Not bad pay when it's considered that the gentleman's sister is said to be an assistant cashier in his bank/m Idaho^*3^ —hrp m r-rrf & r... m^rfe=y~~^~n#=~H4s ^'is't'erd^. never even been i n \i as h i n gt on e "u4^ U i e —4-^—t 9 added-, 4 Ko^v-e ver——t+ra-t—t he s o—l-act he s—a-^e—F^e-t ^—t4q-e—e^try r o+H—now-. All of which a-I adds to the gaiety of nations* l,1 1 i 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 OLYMPICS Page Reports from Los Angeles today, tell us that the build- ings and grounds of Olympic Village are about complete, all set for the Olympic 0ames. Ihe National Olympic committees of fifty countries have sent word their teams will be there. That will mean about two thousand athletes I How about Uncle Sam, Mr, Kirby, is he all set? MR. GUSTAVUS KIRBY Well, in the U.S.A. today we have, oerhaps, the greatest group of athletes in history. Most countries subsidize their Olympic teams. We do not. We depend on private enthusiasm and private funds. We think that is infinitely better. And if Uncle Sam is to have a chance against the athletes of the fifty nations who are coming to our shores for the games of the Tenth Olympiade, he ’ll have to get busy, and now. So far we have funds for only about thirty-five athletes to reoresent us. We should have three hundred and fifty representatives, fhis is the most spectacular and important athletic event in the world $ and, of course it takes place this summer, in Los Angeles, from July Slst to August 16th. 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 1—1 Page. It looks as though the end of the athletic scholarship in the schools and colleges was in sight. T h e iVs i i d I e States A s s o c i at i o n of colleges and secondary Schools passed a resolution today that these scholarships should be abandoned. All institutions of higher education which give free xr tuition or money to football or other athletic stars, will be banned from the white list. IP-H"e tvr-ffd-d-f-e—§t artes- -As-s-e o-i-a+f-o-fv mo-l u d e s ~thre~tn4-dxH~e—At t ant re—s±vct^$-; yd and ,—a-fid o-4-s-t^-h-ct—o-l-u-mt>-i-a- Hfe—rr^rs—ft>un d e d—n-f-ar l-y—laa-hf—a—e-e-n-t-^y- a-go—f err——p-urpat^Q-e—o-f— b r i n g i rrg coid^e-gees- afr 4 —^-eo-en—se-hoo Hs—i-nd: o—e-l-o sop - re I at i o-n-r- They have defined athletic +■ scho I a. rsh ips as either pa ym e n t s of & k k money, or the equ i valent^ grantee1 to students in a college or a university, because of athletic promise or athletic achievement. II i 3-1-32 5M Sid££ Page____ y? 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 n n o o you s u p p os 6 is t t*© "f s. v o p it 6 international character of the Senior Glass of Y a i eT s Sheffield Scientific School? well, lTll give you trree guesses. ltTs Mahatma Gandhi. The Seniors of Shef have been having an election. The Mahatma got 17 votes, Ramsay MacDonald 14, and Mussolini, e f- TO1# I 0 . The Shef taste in fiction is equally interesting. The Seniors were split between Fal staff, Tom Jones and Tarzan of the Apes. All of them got 8 votes I ap i e c e . Their favorite movie star is Joan Crawford, who is more popular than eit h er Greta Garbo, M arlene Dietrich, or Norma Shearer. rvf^9-% —e-f—t-h Q —fe-y— re w i I I— inter e-s %» lewsjra^e-p-s-. _ The who was voted t-ti~te ^ done the most for rale, and was also the most popular and SM 2H£E_-_#2 Page__ most to be admired was a young Mr. Rot an ^ l Af nr m e r intercollegiate heovy-weight champion wrestler and fod: bal I guard. iy 2 4 5 6 Mr. Albie Booth, who has received much mcr e pub I icity throughout the country at large, was second fiddle to Mr. Rot an. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ’ 5M £J±LL.<~uLti Page___ /y I don't know whether this is an animal story or a child's story, but it comes from the Smithsonian Institute in 'Washington, so it should be taken SeriOUSly, k ^ v O Doctor Ales--'! donrt know how to pronounce the gentleman's name, but you hav§^S§8n it in the p a pe r s - - I ' I I spell it and you can pronounce 3j t^t h^ w^.y you I i ke--HKeiJ:tEka H-r-d-I - i-c-k-a--re per ts that he has found many children who behave like an i m a I s. The doctorTs induction, from his observation6, is tha+ the youngsters actual ly want to be the animals they are i rn i t at i n o . He f o u n d some wh o acted like dogs and apparently wanted to be dogs. Others neighed like a horse. Still o t he r s held their bottles with their toes. But cheer up, parents, Doctor H-p-d and the rest of it, assures you that you n e e d n T t w or r y * Your of f sp r i ng , if they bark or neigh, will not iurn into either dogs or horses. He quotes an instance of one small boy v/hose favor i te £JilLLL£E_-_£2 Page /a. pastime was to wallow in a mudpuddle with a pig. They grunted at each other and rooted together. It seem the youngster had no other playmates and his parents were too busy. But the one-time pig-boy is now an honor student in an Eastern college, if that means anything. J u jJLi'ilLli Page . /3 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 he leaders of the Japanese /»rniy ar e m ak i n g a determined e f f or t to control xhe cabinet, as an aftermath to the assassination of .rernier Inukai Accor d i n a to a U.P. dispatch to theMwa/^ from I'okio the formajtion of a supper-party government appeared y\ likely today . It will resembIe a Fascist regime, dominated by the army.J) The military chiefs claim that their aim is to purify politics. It is expected thc.t the home minister will succeed the assassinated Premier at the head of the Cabinet, liosr TThe home m i n i star as we li as the minister of war are bo t h rn ern bers of a Fascist organization n if w h i c h is one o^^tr^ oldest react i oni ry groups in the^ empire i! 21 22 23 24 25 1-32 5M 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 2 5M Page In I i n me an wh i le they are serioiio ly coiice m p I a t i n g x he da n^ e r of a war between Russia and Japan. H. R. Kniokerbocker cables the New York avenino Post that 800,000 men have been called out by the Soviet Government for maneuvers hast of the Ural fountains. It seems that the news came through in a curious way. The Foreign Correspondenisat Moscow apparently were prevented by the censor from telegraphing it. But it was delivered over the Russian official broadcasting station in the Russian language. T he me ssage was picked up, however, in Berlin by an amateur operator who speaks Russian and who has a particularly sensitive listening apparatus. Knickerbocker p oin ts out that this is en t i re l y out of cr der since usually only one class of 200,000 men J J Kj-v attends the ma neuvers . i he i\us si an ^ar Off i c e as called out f o up classes foi this oc c a s i o n , including one wh i c h lad hitherto been exempt from military M n APD JAPAN 2 Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 service because of occupation in iraoortant industries. This is the first time since the Russo-Polish War that as many as four classes have been called to their colors at one time by the Soviets. 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 Page_. f ^ EflEu V\^r\0 c^.t-wvo2^a. 'L£^- v +£ « We should all join in a fight on axhei sin, Oiommunism, corruption, greed and exaggerated nationalism. Such is the gist of the encyclical issued today by Pope Pius XI f r orn^a t i can. On these evils the Pope blamed thfe troubles that are afflicting the wo r I d today. We should put aside all base egotism. ihe nations of the world should unite all their forces in a single front. He appealed to Protestants as well as to Oat ho I i cs . He mentioned emphatically the accumulation of the wealth of nations in the hands of a small group of individuals, the unequal distribution of wealth. "A small group who hold the war Id 's wealth manipulate the markets of the wor Id at their own caprice, to the immense harm of the masses,1' the Pope added, "profiting by this economic distress and moral disorder the enemies of all social orders, be they called T Ei ■VI-32 SM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ! 5M Pj£ PL O Page_. Y? Communists or any other nain ej boldly set about breaking through every restraint. This is the rn os t dreadful evil of o ur time}! tie. , '‘There is no e xcess that will not seem justified by exaggerated nationalism. Love of country is abused, leading people to hatred and driving all to d estruct ion." “he—Po-p-e—&e-t—&-s4d e—t-he—f ears4—ef- t-he—Strer-ed'---H-ea-r-t—e-f'-C'es-u-s—e-H—du-ne-..dr-d- fe-p—t4=ie—be^^iri-fte—o-f—a-'-y?ee-k of prayor■. i-t-f . -fu-l—dtH^-i-Rg—th a t we-e-k- t-o... abot-o-i-n—f-p-^m—enter tai nmonto—a-nd- amu sement-s—ho-we-v-t-r—l-e.iy^u4-i--- H-e—as ke d- those j re-Hmetano es -t-o m aka, siae-e-i-a-l—s ae-ri 44 oe s—fe-P—th-e—b&m-f-i-t—of t-he—po-o Pv I h 8 8 id 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 3-1-32 5M £EM£S Page. /J? Il _ v v ui^tng. t- tu \m\ so '~t£sZry •s&-at -y _ far uncovered --^SeoCr years old. Incidentally, it was uncovered by American archeologists. A joint expedition of the Museum of the Universi of Pennsylvania and of the American Schools of Oriental Research were the discoverers. It is situated in northern il.esopotam i a. They found it after digging for two years in that region. Hitherto the oldest excavations were the royal tombs at Ur of the Chaldees, which you may recall from your Bible reading. This new town is 500 I ■ty years older. e 11 11 y- S^PF#«e: 'I i\ I p I: ;! 1 f 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 12 5M Page Some body got the goat of the Ri oh t v'/ Honorable David Lloyd George. It seems that they've been ki doing the former British Prime Minister and comparing him to the chorus gir I for whom it was no use to buy a book because she already h ad/va=sa&T'‘ Y/e I I , it wasn't quite as bad as that, but some eminent statesman whose name isn't mentioned is quoted as having declared that Mr. Lloyd George doesn't read any books except thrillers. Mr. Lloyd George is quite indignant and is going to challenge the eminent statesman to attest of A knowledge of literature. So runs a story by Morris Gilbert in the New York Evening Pos t. "There are only two kinds of books that I don't read and which I never shall read," Mr. Lloyd George declares. uQne kind is the printed reports of my own speeches* I don1'!: even r ead them i n t he newspapers. r%nd t he o t he r kind |j is a biography of my o wn I i f e . n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ! 5M Mai Page, %c> How is your old straw hat? According to a dispatch f r oni London in the New York Sun, we^over here^blow ourselves much more in this respect than Europeans do. It?s estimated that men of the United States and Canada possess three hats for everyone owned by Londoners - frert even deluding the sicxkxi good old^topper, fetes i n e s-s...m e n , Incidentally England is discarding the straw hat. Ever since the war t be H ^ s^een^ ^ pretty much boycotted/v Apparently the people most extravagant in their headgear are Mexicans who think nothing ... ~r , of paying ^60^ for a lid. The average Londoner never pay3 mo re than or a do I I ar ■fEL-o « a do I I ar and a quarter and a h a I f? O-dErvO cK ^ ^ -v ^ JlJAr <*£■----------- ^ 11