L* SUNOCO OIL BROADCACT - r/l.: /LL Good EveningEverybody; One thing that is tripping the attention of the public today is another sensational kidnapping. Evidently the kidnapers had planned their snatching, as this branch of crine is now called, with precision and considerably They had studied all the movements of their victim, Charles Boettcher II, the son of a rich banker in Denver, Colorado. Young Boettcher had ,iust returned by airplane from Kansas City, where he had been visiting his mother. About midnight, just as Mr. and Mrs. Boettcher had returned home, t./o men stepped up to him outside their garage and prodded pistols into his side. They forced the yoawg bankerfs son into a small sedan which they had waiting nearby. Then they thrust a note into Mrs. Boettcher fs hand and drove away *tri& This note warned the kidnapped rnan1 s wife not to notify the police and further instructed her to d tell his Lather he had g? ^ j0£i*4p | ^ better cetsixty thousand dollarft ransom. Boettcher, Sr. was told A to notify the criminals of his willingness to do business by a % Lii,AD - 2 personal ad in the newspapers. une sentence in the note read: "Donrt forget the Lindbergh baby would still be alive if the ransom had been paid." Later today news came from Denver that Mrs. Boettcher had signified her willingness to uay th&fsixty thousand dollar# ransom. One of the minor features of the story is that young Boettcher is a friena of Colonel thTSdnfect* nindbergh. This kidnapping happened in the Capitol Hill district of Denver, the district inhabited by the richest people in the city. The wrrjIrr- irt r i c L was Tra.nl c T»y fordo of Demvor ns n betin mobiliaod to so arch- — *r?i •; '^^-grrrr- tn fh. v- vietimr—A-H—tifo ronac aroun^-' k >-envor. aro bein'-* 1 ualiui'lar] and, every miroiolouc oe-r in bnlrr~ stonned.^ 1 "Ct ‘'NJC IA/ \y W ^ yj *» LOHDQN An announcement came from London today which is interpreted as meaning a concession on the part of John Bull to Uncle Sam. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald told the House of Commons that the British Government has agreed to expand considerably the scope of the war debt conference in Washington debt mission next month. The. British/kg will have authority to take up world 4 A economic problems ew-wt^measures to promote the revival of mt of prosperity all over the earth^as well as the war debts. Iho -tftlrrirnt on id -thsrt wha t he wa-s—par l'ix:ularl^-> 6t-^ious--jr&^-urrrr~ai'i agrcomont with the os-wh-i-eh ivill enable Bgutaln to pursue a definite }• uroooan poli-oy. One obvious meaning of this statement by Premier MacDonald is that Great Britain has drooped its attitude of not A d its atti A offering' Uncle Sam anything in exchange for a scaling down of the debts. PP*?5?3C7SSE»? f ARinw..... ..; • ■ ■'•'V " HliLER A meeting that too A olace in Germany yesterda;/ revived rumors of an impen :inr engagement to marry^ that v/ill have echoes arouna tne worla if it comes off. The groom,srax so the gossips say,-is to be no less than Chancellor Adolf Hitler, The bride, Mrs, Winifred v.a -ner, v.idov; of the son of the great Richard Wagner, the compo s : r. The rumors of this engagement have been current for some time, but there mm- ti » onfirmation of it. Chancellor Hitler A ^ and Madame Wagner met yesterday at the Richard ..agner anniversary celebration ««: Leipzig. ^t was this that revived the report. Incidentally, eleven people were killed and twenty-three injured in zaz political battles through the German Republic over Well, the expected thing has happened in Tokio. The Japanese Cabinet approved a message to the League of Nations declaring that Japan would not back down an inch. This message was sent to the Mikado and sanctioned by him, and then cabled to Geneva. By way of a retort to this, the acting Prime Minister of China issued a statement hinting that the Chinese Minister will be withdrawn from Tokio if another drive is started by the Mikado's forces in the province of Reyho. One repercussion of all this was a small panic on the stock exchange in Tokio ray mym §_ The Voteraan V.ir less Op-r&tors Association of America each year presents a sole, medal. It is awarded for the outstandiay achievement of the previous year. Last year It went to Senator Marconi of Italy. Another year it went to the wir less oner: tor on that famous North foie eoing dirigible the Italia, the tragic one commanded by Nobile, the one that f) h m TLolet . \ A uo. triumous award of the medal was also ms.de to iiichael O’ / u hlln h' o cf the sinking of the Vestris. . jov . Lh • h'h me.yl is to be presented to Ray dyers. , no wi:- he? V.hy Fry van in chnrte of the wireless on Wilkins Is t e>. jc a tion to the polar re-ions, when the submarine Na ut i lus v;o nt unt•• • h :• ice. iu. T- P ajlo i ^CJxt^ .AtCrZASll -4-$Lis> o~>n ifcDxjo / i~Lj 7 i^tkj^ Ui. ■ Jeh - n-t /f^3. INTKQ TO DR. TRUMAN Some years ago, while on a speaking tour of Canada, *■ I visited Mount Allison University, at Sackville, kew Brunswick, T was impressed with it as an educational institution, and particularly impressed by its president, a splendid type of dovsn- East Canadian, tall, lean, white-haired, almost my ideal of the sort of man I would want my son to know. His name is Dr. George J, Truman. I found that most of the Professors on his faculty had done graduate work at American Universities, More than a thousand graduates now live here in the States. My friend. Dr. Truman, is a graduate of the University over which he now presides. Mount Allison, and did his graduate work at Berlin, Heidelburg,and Columbia University. He is in New Xork t$iis week in connection with educational matters, and is 4. , * • . in the studio with me. I am going to ask him a question. I realize that he is biased, or ought to be, but he is the kind of man who tells the truth as he sees it. Dr. Truman, v/hat advantages, if any, has the small college for a young man or a young woman? FOR DR. TRUMAN sfe f:. Some colleges are small because their growth is stunted by poverty, lack of enterprise and general weaknessj others have limited their attendance because those in charge believe that a college, because it is small, has certain very real advantages, not shared by its bigger sister. An increasing number of parents, even in the cities, see the advantages of sending their children out of the busy whirl of life, to a small college. In a community where there are fewer distractions, regular study will have at least an even chance in the competition for a student* s time. But many of our most successful men have come from small villages and the open country. As boys, many of them were lacking in confidence; they were sensitive and retiring. They might not have gone aw-ay to study at all, had it not been that a small college was near at hand. In the big university many of them would have been lost, balked Jn their purpose, and failing to make the adjustment, would have returned home, branded as failures. But in the small college they soon felt DR. TRUEMAN - P. at home, received instruction and inspiration under the personal direction of able teachers. They recognized their professors as friends, and often.the President of the college was the truest friend of all. At the end of the four years a miracle had been worked — the awkward, callow youth had found himself, and was ready and able to take a leading place in the graduate or professional school, or in business, industry, or politics. The professors in the smaller college may not , be any better scholars, and they are usually not as interested in research as those in the big universities, but man for man they are better teachers; and they are better teachers because they are brought into more direct relation vriLth the students and think in terms of human values. All of the universities in Eastern Canada are small. Being used to hard struggling they are weathering the economic storm with strength unimpaired. Hearty thanks are due to the Carnegie Corporation of New York which, out of money set aside for use in territory other than the United DR. TRUEMAJJ - 5 States, has helped out of difficulty more than one of our small colleges. } ggm BC.HOKICS K%07 WvfeAX^r^ ^ «=te concert an important problem - stretching the dollar, no there is no rubber in a dollar bill - that*s in checks A ^ Anyway i A ii-.u4,uauin p «trie: t ' here is a movement on at Columbia University to teach people how to stretch the dollar. Open meetings will be held this week, where householders will gather to be instructed in the science of stretching the dollar - no, I don!t mean squeezing the nickel. There is a great deal of difference. The nickel is squeezed by the pocy,only the rich have a dollar to stretch. But in any case householders are invited to take sixteen short courses, which will include such matters as the proper way to figure a household budget, methods of marketing and schemes of cooking the best possible meals at the least possible cost. These courses will be given by the regular faculty of Teacherfs Col lege at Columbia HOOVER 1,11"* LlOOVe'* ]-3 certainly being well guarded on this,his last visit; to New Yorl as President, to speak at the Lincoln Lay □cinauet ox tne National Republican Club the Waldorf . At the present moment Mr. Hoover's train, which is also bringing Mrs. Hoover and several member of his Cabinet, is just about cutting into the Pennsylvania Station, New York. On guard at the station are a hundred and seventy-five uniformed New York policemen. Eight hundred of Commission :r Mulrooney's best coppers are lining the streets from the station to the Waldorf. Mr. hoover is scheduled to begin speaking at ten o'clock tonight. Anu if you haven't retired by that time, you will have a chance to hear him av•., bmadoactlnr o%ation»— /\ j'.dentil -.1 TOT^y^wIll leave—tor-Wftenin1en t.oni rh i;,— r. nrivi-ne-t-U the emmitol tarl-y- tomorro1.,'. ~r—y»n i.vu*w .t.n11 irtfint-Importsnt' gi-» today's celpbrs-tlon l iliTT 111 i n I •= -pxr tnday. MBS. ROQSEVLLT No first lady of the land ever made such an unostentatious entry into Washington, D. C., as Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will on March 3rd. She is coin to 'rive from the Roosevelt country house in New York to v.ashinpton ir\ her own roadster.y aooompani-^#- A sely by^two dogs, a Scottish Terrier and a police dog. As ^rs. Roosevelt explain#!# it: HSomeone in the family has to take the dogs and the car to Washington, and I ‘lOn't see why I shouldn^ do it.1' She added that one reason for her trio probably is that it will be her last chance in many months to get away by herself or a few hours. * A peculiar sort, oi hunt v.ras started today, over in New Jersey- . ...................... 3^4 that i^j unusual in the Unibed states. The Game warden of New A Jersey is leading a posse of twenty-five hunters aria.ed with rifles an,.' pistols to tract down and shoot a pack of wild dogs in the tangled country of the Ramapo Hills, in Now Jers-ey. So many togs have either run away from homes where they were not properly fed, or have been abondoned by their owners have pone wild* taken refuge in the comparatively desolate woodland of those hills. It is said fehnA they are hunting in packs, slaughtering wild life and even kllling^stockt-of th« farmorfli vo wild dogs have been shot since January 1st, ^eople experienced in the ways of dogs are rather inclined' to Liscredit the wild'--tales of large packs of dogs running under th leadership of the strongest^# in the pack. The dog wise say tha there is no authentic record of dog's,.hunting in packs. At the same time trappers and gamhuivardens have found half-^ten carcasses of a deer, and on farms and esteb^near the VsHajliapo Hills considerable livestockJaaa been lost. PiiMSY Com in - bac.^: from I'Jev; Jersey on the train I just had an inter astinr conversation with a railroad man who told me one thin? at least that I had not seen in the newspapers. The Pennsylvania Railroad, having comoleted the electrification of its main line as far as Wilmington, Delaware, Is oins; to make the traveling public * s eyes pop out, when its spring schedule is announced. It is going to give ninety minute service between New York an;: Philadelphia. Ninety miles at ninety minutes. That's oin • som . "e've been hearing so much about railway speed records abroad that is it*s oleasant to be able report t cj^SK ee H r 2| sour ■thin- sim.il. r for the U. £, A. A test trip was made iai over the line by officials of the Pennsylvania the other day, and a sixteen car train covered the distance between the Pennsylvania Station, New York, and the Broad Street Station Philadelphia in eighty-one minutes. As you may have already read, before long all the southern trains on the Pennsy will be electrically driven as FEBNSX - 2 far as Wilmington, Delaware. Eventually 'electric locomotives will be Dulling the western trains as far as Pao1* ? , Pennsylvania LIMC'JIii'J And by the way, did you know Lincoln was ah /N railroad man. I learned at the meeting of the General Eastern Passenger Agents Association, at the Hotel Lexington in dew York, that part of Mr. Lincoln!s legal work brought him prominently into the railroad world. At this meeting of nearly one hundred General Passenger Agents from big railroads throughout the United States, Cnnada and Mexico, I heard an amusing story about Lincoln. It was told by Dr. Edgar Borne; secre ry and General rassenger Agent of the Hudson River Day Line,who has quite a reputation as a Lincoln student. Mr. Lincoln was attorney for the Illln is Central Railroad in an Important case, he won it. He won a decisive verdict for his clients and sent them a bill for twenty-five hundred dollars for services rendered. The Vice-President of the road objected to this bill and said; — ’’Mr .Line In, a or twenty-five hundred dollars we could have hired the greatest lawyer in the country - Daniel Webster.” Mr. Lincoln replied:- "Well I won the case - Webster could have donejro more." After fallow -Uincolr: - ^ which, at the suggestion of certain lawyers and judges, amon^ his friends, Lincoln raised the amount of his bill to five-thousand dollars and the railroad eventually^ paid, LEATHER - ... ......... ihe news from the meteorological front today indicates more snow.n Several places along the Atlantic coast reported the heaviest snowfall in four years. And the thermometer, after taking an astounding nose-dive to six degrees at six o'clock this morning, is now up again. Iran several parts of the country come reports about youngsters killed hitching their sleds to automobiles, ihe Chief of Police of Trenton, N.J., set other police chiefs a good example today when he sent all his men out with ordexs to put a stop to this kind of fun. It's grand sport, but it has been proved much too dangerous. Here * s one that aiay interes t you. Dr , Truman. On the coast of Newfoundland they had another terrific gale. In one snail town a church was blown clean off its foundations — over a cliff and into the sea. On Dong Island bound that group of ten people who put to sea in a schooner to look for the son of one of them who was missing in a small boat, on Long Island Sound, are today reported to be in a bad xy way. They drifted thirty-six hours V/EATHLH - 2 helpless on the waves without food, without drink, anti without heat. Six of the ten today are five days of helpless drifting The rudder, th engines, the radio, and the pump had all been rendered useless by a fire. Two of the crew were lost trying to save themselves in a small boat. The survivors came into oort declaring that they owe their lives to the heroism of the assistant tn*ineer of th^ trawler, by name Kdvrard . lade. -hree times he lashed into the enrine room to shut off the motors so as to avert am explosion, ^ach time he was driven back. The ,ourth time he was successful and collapsed just as he « had done the trick. in a Beriyas on ana s ;rgeons believe they may have to amnutate the^fingers of the skipper. •h. fishing trawler came into port in Boston today, after FI:,L. ESCAPE The current issue of the literary Digest quotes a chaste little narrative from the paper called "Washington Labor". And here^ the gist of'its Tv;o lady school teachers from Brooklyn on their sabbatical travels xF.Esniiyx stopped recently at a small old-fashioned hotel in Alberta,(Canada. One of them, a rather nervous lady, coulr not rest until she had explored ssa-i the corridors to find all the exits in case of fire. door Unfni tuna tr ly-y tile fir s t/tlMB, she opened was that of the public A. A bath occuoied by an elderly gentleman taking a shower. The schoolteaoner lady, appalled and flustered, stammer d out "Oh, excuse me. I'm looking for the fire escane." oo saying, she ran for the aforesaid fire escape. Imagine her feelings when, as she was running down the corridor, sne heard an r: l.armed xhKMtjx shout. Looking around she saw the elderly gentleman, fashionably draped in o. towel, running after her. Panting• fefei* "»ihere s f1.[■ t Well, after th: t, I'm oin • to grab my tov/el and shout: BO LOUG UNTIL l^r~