CONVICT U Today at the grim prison of oing ting a convict oied — stabbed by other convicts.^nd with this comes a terrifying story of underworld vengeance. He was Matthew Kane, a long-time crook. He was Involved in Brooklyn1s Ice Company hold-up of years back, a four hundred and ten thousand dollar cash robbery, the biggest on record. The police got him. He squealed. And- that was how the giant hold-up case was solved. apartment in Queens, and them one night two gunmen blazed away, and *% a man walking into the apartment building was murdered. Mot Matthew Kane the squealer though. was a mere accountant employed by a big business concern, harmless, innocent. But he looked like Kane the crook. The police packed up th4 squealer, and he told them that he had planned to go home about the time of the shooting, fcut some accidental reason had detained him. bo the police inferred that underworld vengeance had made a mistake and killed an tmiwffieiixiyg inoffnsive young fellow — instead of the squealer. a violation of parole. It was said that he returned to prison gladly - A Underv/orld vengeance pursued the squealer. He lived in an ft* ^oon after Matthew Kane was sent back to ting oing for rgMVICT - 2 for Ms own safety. Within those grim gray walls of Sing Sing underworld vengeance could not reach the squealer. But couldn't It? That’s the question to be asked tonight with the story that the prison authorities today reveal. Day before yesterday the line of convicts was going down a long hall. Suddenly there was a commotion, a wild scramble. And the guards found Matthew Kane wounded. Some convict had stabbed him In the neck with a knife. Was it the long arm of the underworld reaching into Mew York’s formidable prison? Anyway, he died today — the squealer in the solution of the biggest cash hold-up case on record MEANS Today, the authorities were saying they believe the last story about Gaston Means is just another hoax. The rumor is that, just before he died yesterday, he told his wife where he hid the hundred and four thousand dollars he got from the Washington society woman, Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean in the swindle connected v/ith the Lindbergh case. They say he informed his wife that the Catholic chaplain at Leavenworth Prison knows where the money is. interspersed with tall stories and fabulous whoppers. He was tried for killing a woman and acquitted. He was a figure in the Department of Justice during the Harding administration, and created scandals. thousand dollars from Mrs. McLean of the Washington Social Register, with a wild tale of how he'd pay it as ransom to the Lindbergh kidnappers. I've heard J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the G-men, tell tone how they tried to get Gaston Means to tell what he did writh tne hundred and four thousand.them - one tall story Yvell, the whole life of Gaston Means was a flight of fancy. when he got a hundred and four ( 20 ? after another,* whoppers sent them on a series of wild goose MEANS - 2 chases. And now the death of Gaston Means is attended by what the authorities believe to be another yarn. /6e told his wife that the A Catholic Chaplain knows where thaS: much sought for bundle of cash A is hiddenl An army trial in Washington today produced a sensation. A witness told of a man who got a lot of money which he claimed he was going to pay to the Secretary of War, the Assistant Secretary of War, and the Chief of Staff of the United States Army. This was related in the trial of a former Quartermaster General of the Army, who is accused of conspiring with a couple of New York dealers in surplus goods, conspiring with reference to army contracts. Today’s witness told of e sties manager of one of the great automobile companies, and said this sales manager over a period of years had go^thousands of dollars. The sales manager claimed that the money was paid to the late Secretary of War Bern, the then Agsistant Secretary of War Woodring, who is now Secretary of War, and General Douglas McArthur, then Chief of Staff and now Military Advisor to the Philippine government. The testimony rent on with thet the sales manager simply embezzled the cash. There was no suggestion that a dollar of it ever went to the three high official's named. But it certainly looks as if had funny ideas about army contracts. A ten mixiion dolxc.r contract ' 2 is named as having figured in the affair. The President of the automobile company in question utterly denies the accusation against the sales manager, saying there is nothing to it.^nd as proof he racites the fact that the sales manager is still in the employ of the company. DRUG FIRM There are warrants for arrest in the financial scandal revolving around the great d^ug firm of McKesson & Robbins. ■A Three officials are to be taken into custody - F. Donald Coster, President; George Dietrich, the Assistant Treasurer, and Ge»Jge Barnard, representative of the company’s Canadian and English agents. They1re involved in charges of an eighteen million dollar shortage. It all concerns the company’s crude drug department. The books show a vast stock of crud drugs marked down as assets. And the charge Is that the books show too much, eighteen million dollars too much. Huge quantities of crude drugs are listed as being deposited in Canadian warehouses, and the authorities claim that these warehouses are non-existent. One item in the charges tells of company officials depositing a fifteen thousand dollar check to the credit of t he Canadian firm, and this firm, they say, is non-existent. This large financial scandal has been stev.ing for days — with the iiTBCbsiaxtomi company directors demanding the resignation of accused officials. Today, the United States Commissioner put the whole thing in the hands of the law - by issuing orders for arrest. jaiy, Seattle' s murder trial caine to a tense emotional close today — the case of the seventy—three year old Mrs* Mary Eleanor Smith, charged with tfenr murder of mag ten ^ears ago. Accused with A her was a man said to have been her son - Decasto Earl Mayer. yesterday, he killed himself in his cell, and that unnerved the aged woman utterly. Today she was in a condition of breakdown, feebly and brokenly she pleaded - guilty. A dominant point in the case has been - the absence of the body. The authorities were never able to find any trace of the murdered man. Today, the seventy—three year old woman, while pleading guilty, said she would take the police to the place where she and her son burled the body. The ohargo -ega-iiiMb iTOff ig" tnurdor 'in (with test=4egia«^^*a«'Shetll get a life sentence ^ihj^little more of her life to live. ETTIMG The big Hollywood trial today painted a contrasting picture of violence and love, terror and affection. Ruth Etting the blonde torch singer took the stand and told of the doings of her former husband Colonel Martin Snyder, nicknamed «Moe the Gimp," who is on trial for shooting his successor to the connubial affections of the torch singer. Ruth today testified that lived in mortal terror of the Colonel. On the stand she told how the Colonel — "Moe the Gimp" threatened her, abused her, terrified her and beat her. She told how the Colonel hit her with his cane. "Oh yes," she testified, "Moe struck me with his cane. Another time he threw me to the floor of the hotel and hurt my spine." Other testimony dwelled upon the affection that SMoe the 1F«T ! I Gimp" displayed. With Ruth Etting on the witness stand, a lawyer asked 11 I ii III 111 ! I I ETTIMG "Did he send you a diamond ring inscribed 'To Momsie from 5 ^ Daddy.'?" And she replied: "Yes." "Did he send you two Easter bunnies. And she answered: "Yes." SxxjuxlxyjoDM "Did he send you ten handbags?" "No." "Did he give you a diamond and platinum charm bracelet depicting a jazz band that cost him twenty-five hundred dollars?" Answer: "It cost only eighteen hundred. and after all this contrast of violence and love, terror and affection — the testimony went on to tell that evening when ft*xx£ Ruth fitting and the Colonel's daughter were getting dinner ready and Ruth was frying pork chops, the Gimp" brought in his successor Myrl Alderman and shot him. He didn't kill him however. And so Colonel is on trial for the A ii mere attempts. m FUGITIVE The New York police are questioning a man on a wnole series of crimes, a man whom they claim had deserted from the Italian army in the Ethiopian War. And the story they tell apout They say that Victor Galloti was sent to prison here in the United States, after which he was deported back to Italy. There he got into trouble and was sent to jail. He got out of that by volunteering for service when the Ethiopian War broke out. He was enrolled as a resident and went aboard a transport sailing a for the African conquest. At a stop at port he shot a guard, A and escaped - and made his way back to the United States. ssJh Galloti says this is a fairy tale.^fhe police are holding him on suspicion of having committed various c rimes and of having been - the phantom burglar of the Bronx. FRANCE Paris announces tonight that Great Britain has promised to support France, if France should get into a war with Italy — moral support and military support. And today Prime Minister Chamberlain, in his London speech, declared that Great Britain’s obligations to France are far more than mere legal commitments. Chamberlain likewise refused to promise that he would consult with Parliament before negotiating with Germany about a return of colonies. This is the speech which was boycotted by the German Ambassador; and his diplomatic staff in London. They didn’t go. All because of advance knowledge that Chamberlain would say something about ! : recent German press campaigns against Great Britain. He did say something, but nothing very violent. His words were:"I must deplore j the recent atltude of the German press, which has not scrupled I nil ff to pour out vituperation against our statesmen.” EDEN Tire Honourrrbi-eyAnthony Eden paid his visit to the White H0use today. First he called on Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles, who escorted him over to see the president.We donft imow what the former Foreign Secretary of Great Britain and the president of the United States talked about. Upon emerging from the White House, the Right Honorable gentleman issued the following statement: "I enjoyed my visit very much,” said he, nbut as to what passed between us, you will have to ask the President. That's the courteous thing to do, isn't it?” Well, it is, but one can't ask the President, save at a White House press conference. So we'll have to wait. . 1 PAN-AMERICAN The Pan-American conference at Lima is going to tackle the subject of racial and religious persecution. The Cuban delegation is proposing that the conference issue a protest against the suppression of .inorities because of religion or race^ea**** applies to Nazis and Fascists^ ^J^Today, the conference decided to take action on this. IF 1 The Brazilian delegation proposes that the conference discuss the activities of minority groups in the Americas -.meaning Nazis and Fascists. The Uruguayan delegation has ideas about checking foreign political activities in the western hemisphere - which also means Nazis and Fascists. So these various deliberations have a common theme. There*£ talk about the conference trying to do something 1 about the Civil War in Spain - mediation suggested. But today Franco’s ill government at Burgos said that he ouldn’t pay any attention to anything ; f ! H] the conference mi^ht have to say about Spain. Any suggestion would be ienorM. -A.“■ *•' 5 -d< l' SHIPWRECKS Tonight, one or the famous ships of the north, is pounding to pieces on the roc-tcs in a wild, Arctic storm. The schooner PATTERSON, a two master with auxiliary engines* For years she made the perilous run^rfthe North Alaskan coast, pass^l Point Barrow as far as Herschel Island* Last night, in a violent tempest, she was driven ashore off Cape Fairweather. An ironic name, Fairweather - there where the icy winds and seas beat with desperate violence on a craggy shore. At last reports, the coast guard cutter HAIDA was trying --- to make a rescue in the teeth of the gale and the surf - not to rescue A* anybody from the ship. The crew tasd got ashore, all save two men who were lost. But getting ashore at Cape Fairweather in December is almost as perilous as staying aboard a sinking ship. The sailors were reported to be huddled around fires in the bitter Arctic cold, as the rescue ship seeks a way to take them aboard. Such is the end of a famous northern craft. The PATTERSON was built in Eighteen Eighty-Two, and was put in the sergice of the r United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Later, she became a SHIPWRECKS - 2 whaling ship, and after that was put into the fur trade. Known as the vessel that made more Arctic voyages than any other in Alaskan waters. laying a caole for a new telephone line to MinotTs Lighthouse, replacing a cable that was ripped out by the hurricane in September. Last night the cable got tangled somehow, and the PEQUOT vras blown on the rocks. Two cutters spent the night trying to pull her off, but in vain, until high tide came this morning. Then the cable boat floated again. Ship aground off Boston, too, but the latest word is that She was figg i if- l GOAT In Blew York's Central Park Zoo today a keeper was In the lA-f cage of a wild goat. He stooped over to pick^sofaething.and the wild goat did just what a tame goat would do, only a wild goat ft would do it with rather more vigor. Tonight -th°—tr^ri j'l resting comfortably. Wo, the patient is not sitting up. ; i. I I ■-