L,__T. - SUHOGO. KOLD^Y. JUJjK 10. 19 35 GOOD EVI'iVIDG EVERYBODY: Thanks Ben, end my friends of the Sun Oil Company. I don * t look any more like a doctor than I did before. The only difference is I feel more humble. ell, this week begins with one piece of welcome news. A notable victory for John Law, a lesson to kidnappers. Uncle Sam’s policemen are wearing a new feather in their hats. The success of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice in the Weyerhaeuser case has just about the swiftest thing in the annals of American crime. This morning's story alone was enough to electrify the country. Two people laid by the heels in Salt Lake City. In Butte, Montana, another man takes it on the run at the sight of a cop, leaving Fifteen thousand Dollars in ransom bills in his abandoned car. And all this within a. week after the Weyerhaeuser family turned the Two hundred thousand dollars over to the snatchers. The government men have had Karmen and Margaret Whaley behind the bars in Salt Lake City ever since Friday night. Eut this afternoon another sensation broke. J. Edgar hoover’s neon found the hud ecu4' of the kidnappers in Spokane. There’s a resl achievement in sleuthing! And it may cause the criminal world to scratch its head and ask: “Does kidnapping- pay now?” The confession of the Whaleys has the police of five northwestern states looking for an escaped bank robber named William Mahan, the man who took it on the lam in Butte, leaving his car and Fifteen thousand Dollars in ransom bills. Every trail, every bus, every car traveling the roads of the north- west and of the intermountain states, has been scrutinized by a cordon of patrols. f The case of the Whaleys proves once more a truth policemen have been felling us for years. Criminals are supreme egoists. You may recall that the writers of the ransom notes boasted of their intelligence. Well, Harmon and Margaret Whaley were nabbed in a Salt Lake City department store. They were trying to get rid of those ransom bills as fast as they could. L Tried too fast. LEAD - 3 It turns out today that there’s an eastern angle to the story of the ’/hal eye. They used to live in Oamden, Hew Jersey, Pail.ad elpnia and Oapden police pinched the young man several times on suspicion of robbery. But they always had to let him go for lack of evidence. And an interesting story about the Whaleys was un­ earthed by the "Philad elphia Re'ccrd," They lived in a boarding house in Camden. When they left, Whaley told his landlady and a fellow hoarder: ^I've got a deal on that's going to fix Margaret and me up for life." Now it looks as though he spoke the truth. Though not in the way lie meant. He expected an easy life* Instead, it’s probably going to be a prison life. The prosecutor in Tacoma declares he's going to insist on a death sentence for all the conspirators. All this add g considerable point to a ceremony at George Washington University last week, when the faculty conferred a degree of Doctor of Lav/s on J. Edgar Hoover, It's an axiom in baseball that whenever a player gets a public testimonial, he promptly walks to the piste, and 3* Tikes out. .Arid he muffs every ball ’-hat comes his "cy in the field * It seems to have worked the opposite way wit/; the brilliant young head of tha4 Bureau of LEAD - 4 Investigation. The citation of the University was:— ^Thls degree Is granted to John Edgar Hoover, an Administrator trained in law and technique of social justice who by reason of character, courage and skill has caused his name to be associated with those who believe in the nobility of government and the worthiness of life.w On top of that, young Hoover and his men went right out and more than justified the citation. Nineteen years ago. Hoover was a pale faced, dark eygd, dark haired lad, who laboriously got his law degree atr George Washington University, working nights. Daytimes he worked in the library of Congress. It was a job paying thirty xma dollars a month. The advice he got from the older fellows was* wDon,t break your neck around here. It won*^ get you anywhere,n Young Hoover paid no attention to that advice. He broke his neck consistently. f^e got a raise. He got another raise. Presently, he was making more than any of the older men who had given him that thorny advice. He was th4 highest paid clerk on the job when he got his law degree and quit to take another position in the United States Department of Justice. In Nineteen twenty-four, Stone, nrm ■ of the Supreme Court, LEAD - 5 was Attorney General Okmzwmt' organizing <WM^new Division x A A. Investigation. And when he looked through his Department to find a head for it, he ^suskxsoi picked on J. Edgar Hoover. The rest is a matter of criminological history. The breaking of the £ Weyerhaeuser case is the latest chapter. 'AUL FOLLOW LEAD Meanwhile the New York cops are still hunting for a five-year-old boy who has been missing sine© Thursday, little Johnnie Kaul. This case is the foremost mystery of the day. Kidnapping has been suggested, but it*s by no means sure that the little boy was snatched. From this affair the agents of Uncle Sam have withdrawn. They’ve beeiy4tanding by all this time, waiting to be assured that it was a case in which i;he interference of Federal authority would be Justified. ^ But there have been no ransom notes. . The postcards received by the parents of the missing lad have been dismissed as the work of a crank. 9hoy faereeil—t Vinrf u. Bcas'di whould be made-of all eellag^4n the neigh» beuwhood whore -tho~ boy-~ 11vCrank letters, communications from deranged persons are common features in all such affairs. The New York cops believe little Johnnie Kaul fell into the East River PX't'TS The sporting indignation over Alabama Pitts is hotter than ever* There's hardly a sporting writer in the country who hasn't taken a crack at Judge Bramham for forbidding the Albany Baseball Club to engage the late athletic graduate of Sing Bing. And, oil was poured on the troubled fire fey the Executive Committee of the national Association of Professional Baseball. Leagues. The moguls of the minor leagues held a solemn meeting at Albany this morning, and backed up Judge Bramham. So now a fresh storm of disapproval. "he Judge probably ne^er expected such a barrage of verbal brickbats as has descended on his head. But, it doesn't seem to have dented that head, by the way. The Judge sticks to his guns and says he made his decision "for the good of baseball," He no longer claims, however, that the public would resent it. He knows better now. The Executive Committee, in upholding his decision, though4: up a new reason. They profess to believe that it will be for the best interests of Alabama Pitts not to be in a position where some angry fan in the bleachers can shout unkind things, PITTS - 2 remind inhim of his past. That excuse is like the banker saying:- HIt will injure your moral stamina if I lend you this money,;" '"he issue is now up to Jedge Landis, the Luce of the Diamond. He hasn’t expressed himself on the question at all. So the thing sporting fans are now asking, is: "Will the big league judge uphold the minor league judge?" -V i- G.O.P. ’’All good men to the rescue! To the rescue of the Constitu­ tion!'* That was the principal cry to be heard in Springfield, vvv. Illinois, today^ ^The tomb of Abraham Lincoln, as. y'ua.daiow, 1»- j ,-That makes it one of the holy places for the Grand Old Party and thatfs why it was fittingly chosen for the so-called Grass- RootsConvention* ’’Save the Constitution!” That was the keynote sounded by ex-Governor Frank Lowden, once a candidate for the pEssddsnejB* Sixty-five hundred stalwarts of tto* midwestern Republican^ were there. They cheered Lowden to the echo. Of course there was another sentiment among them, almost as strong. That sentiment not was - "Defeat Roosevelt!” It was^xpressed, at any rate not loudly. But it was unmistakably the undertone of theponvention. The avowed purpose of the meeting is to gird up the loins +&. o.~f? of the aq^L-g-a-Ti^ in the prairie states for the Nineteen thirty- ^ A y six battle. To this end they1re sending out the old familiar call;- "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the Party!U I A progressive and liberal platform is also their aim. The question | f of selecting a candidate was not brought into the open. Of course l G.Q.P. £ that will be up to the Convention of the entire Party next year* But it was freely and eagerly discussed by numerous groups on the side. Political observers are finding some significance in the fact that ex-President Hoover was a guest of ex-Governor Lowden a week ago, RELIEF Whenever the President goes away, his boys in Washington get to scrapping among themselves, 'While he was taking his i A -£5 cxJL ■>nziijgtactaE^ai Hyde Park, a controversy was coming if; to a head in Washington. Xt*s all over the P.W.A., the Public forks ■ :i projects, the spending of that Four billion, eight hundred million Dollar s, The issue is between two of the big shots of the Administra­ tion, Secretary Ickes^and Harry Hopkins, Director of Relief , Between them they have a problem to settle that*s none too easy. The Administration has been criticized- because Public Works projects in the past have not been of a kind to provide enough jobs. So the difficulty is, find projects that (a) are ax worthwhile, and (b) will employ plenty^of labor. And that's where the difference in the point of view of two men comes In. Says Secretary I ekes: "The money must be spent on something worth building, something that will be permanent ,11 Says Harry Hopkins: "The main idea is to provide jobs." M.R.A. FOLLOW RELIEF And another rumpus has been brewing on Capitol Hill* This one over the N.R.A. A number of the senators are proposing ~-i£~oOvV to turn thumbs down^on the temporary Blue Eagle. They say: «Whatfs the good of keeping that bird hanging round half dead and alive. Give him the axe.” This move comes at an awkward time. Unless Congress extends the N.R.A. dies at midnight Saturday. So the stop-gap A bill gobrLq- be rushed through this, week if it’s ^ciing to be passed at all. Their--sit/u at i on has the Democratic leaders in A A Congress quif worried. They say the measure is sure to pass. But w»t- this new opposition in the Senate is nothlHg to be sneezed at. Apd now comes iunuthag. bit of information that*s none too encouraging. The National Industrial Conference Board made public some figures it has been gathering.- Those figures show that the cost of feeding the Blue Eagle in the last two years has been around Ninety-four million Dollars. That’s what Uncle Sam has had to shell out to administer the N.R.A. and its five hundred and seventy- eight codes. About seventy-five per cent of this money was spent by the various code authorities. Those costs were twice as much CHI Mi* The Tartar, the Mongol and the Manchu, all down through history, have gone raiding Into China, now, it's the Japanese. Thirty years ago the allied European and Japanese troops evacuated the Peking-Tientsin area, after squelching the Boxer Outbreak. Today an infinitely stronger Japanese army is marching into that same area. The question today is: "What is Japan going to grab next?" S q th e r e 1s alarm at Nanking. Chinese troops abandoning the territory to the advancing Nipponese have been tearing down telegraph poles and disrupting transportation. So the Japanese high command has now sent an advance guard of infantry to prevent further destruction of c ommunication Iines. The Chinese officers are afraid they'll not be able to prevent an outbreak of wholesale looting and other vandalism by their own troops. If that were to ha>pen on a large scale, It would offer the Japanese general staff an excuse for annexing more territory. Of course the Japanese offer perfectly plausible legal II m N.H.A. FOLLOW RELIEF - 2 RETAKE during the second year as they were during the first. And those Ninety-four odd million dollars do not include the expense of forming the codes or of the lawsuits to keep them enforced. GHIjA The Tartar, the Mongol and the Manchu, all down through history, have gone raiding into China. Kow, it!s the Japanese. Thirty years ago the allied European and- Japanese troops evacuated the Peking-Tientsin area, after squelching the Boxer Outbreak. Today an infinitely stronger Japanese army is marching into that same area. The question today is: "What is Japan going to grab next?" So there1s alarm at Nanking. Chinese troops abandoning the territory to the advancing Nipponese have been tearing down telegraph poles and disrupting transportation. So the Japanese high command has now sent an advance guard of infantry to prevent further destruction of communication lines. The Chinese officers are afraid they*11 not be able to prevent an outbreak of wholesale looting and other vandalism by their own troops. If that were to ha pen on a large scale, it would offer the Japanese general staff an excuse for annexing more territory. Of course the Japanese offer perfectly plausible legal CulXK -h- reasons ior their actions. They say the Chinese government is too weak to enforce order anywhere in that vast land of China. So they, the Mikado1s men, have to step in to protect Japanese interests. It*s all a big international chess game. When the smoke-screen of words is blown away, the fact will remain that the region which used to be the heart and center of the■Chinese empire will be virtually a Japanese province. However, John Chinaman has always-had a way of avenging himself on his conquerors. The Tartar, the Mongol and the Manchu all ended up by becoming completely Chinafied. And political prophets are prophesying that this will happen to the Conquerors who have come under the banner of the Rising Sun, Sum it up this way:-/Japan nus swiftly forced China to withdraw Chinese troops Tientsin, leaving Japan, from the great cities of Peking and tonight, in control of North China. ASSASSINATION A strange bit of news comes from another part of the Far East. At first it looked like kxxm an ordinary police court brawl. But gradually it has developed into a case with ramifica- tions all the way back Into the secret politics of Europe. A tramp steamship called the CALCUTTA was on its way ; from Marseilles to Japan. When the CALCUTTA docked at Shanghai a fifty-three year old seaman^named Michael Abramovich,was taken off and arrested. He was thrown into prison, charged with assault. Apparently it was a simple case. But while he was being investigate^, some suspicious facts leaked out. Abramovich*s shipmates said some startling things^ in Shanghai. Whereupon they became so suspicious that they laid a got to the ears of the £ French authorities charge of murder against Michael Abramovich. They1re holding him for extradition. The reason? That fifty-three year old seaman is now accused of having been an accomplice in the assassination of King v Alexander of Jugo-Slavia at Marseilles last October. bo thfcC apparently ordinary, commonplace member of the crew of the tramp steamer turns out to be actually the most sinister kind of conspirator. That is, if the French ! police are right. ITALY The newspaper warfare between Italy and Great Britain has gone too far. It isn1t John Bull who says that, it's Premier Mussolini himself. Of course he started it in a way. He said Italy was going ahead with her own plans in Africa and if John Bull didn't like it, it was just too bad. Thereupon the Fascist newspapers, being "even more Royalist than the King'V^ took their cue from him and started a campaign against England as violent as only European newspapermen can make it. Naturally, John Bull’s journalists caught the verbal brickbats and threw them back with some extra ones for good measure. CJdkf^zM Jbpw* iiji < 2 £* 43 ^^ But now, says the Buce,ltthat, s enough," ^In other words, o it's a question to be settled between himself and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Let the newspapers keep out of it, at least the Italian newspapers. All of which sounds like pretty staunch common sense The newspaper warfare between Italy and Great Britain has gone too far. It isnrt John Bull who says that, it's Premier Mussolini himself. Of course he started it in a way. He said Italy was going ahead with her own plans in Africa and if John Bull didn't like it, it was just too bad. Thereupon the Fascist newspapers, being "even more Royalist than the King’V^ took their cue from him and started a campaign against England as violent as only European newspapermen can make it. naturally, John Bull’s journalists caught the verbal brickbats and threw them back with some extra ones^for good measure. -iAAA. wa A But now, says the Buce,"that’s enough." ^In other words, it's a question to be settled between himself and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Let the newspapers keep out of it, at least the Italian newspapers. All of which sounds like pretty staunch common sense ITALY The newspaper warfare between Italy and Great Britain has gone i! too far. It is^t John Bull who says that, it's Premier Mussolini himself. Of course he started it in a way. He said Italy was going ahead with her own plans in Africa and if John Bull didn't like it. it was just too bad. Thereupon the Fascist newspapers, being : tfeven more Royalist than the King^ took their cue from him and started a campaign against England as violent as only European newspapermen can make it. Naturally, John Bull*s journalists caught the verbal brickbats and threw them back with some extra ones^, for good measure. /pz. dtpw* id* But now, says the Duce,"that's enough." ^In other words, "4 it's a question to be settled between himself and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Let the newspapers keep out of it, at least the Italian newspapers. All of which sounds like pretty staunch common sense. FUR Once upon a time you used to have to go to Russia to see the most luxurious collection of furs. At the annual fair at Ni jni-Hovorj , the display of gorgeous pelts used to be something to make your eyes pop out. Today it's right in America, in little old Hew York, that you’ll find the most sumptuous exposition of furs. The annual show opens tonight at the Waldorf-Astoria. Fifteen hundred buyers from all over America, U an ad a as well as the United States, will get together to stroke the sleekness of such fur coats, capes, and neck-pieces as might astonish even the family of a Romanoff Czar. And now I'm going to say something that will astonish n o oxi o * *■ SO LONG Ui,riIL TOMORROW.