gangster 7 ? ^ /<( a__ -~f- A strange story comes to a close today -- .lilee a drama with a delayed curtain. The story goes back to scenes as of a former era -- Chicago crime under prohibition* The days when the name of Capone was written in predominant scarlet. Since that epoch of ang wars and the one-way ride, repeal has come jex and with it the relentless hand of the "G11 Men, Nevertheless, today witnessed the playing out of a singular incident of the times when Scarface A1 was in his baleful glory. The crime records tell of Two-Gun Alterie. He was a Bad Man from the West. He heard about the regime of gangster guns in Chicago. And as he was a two-gun man, that was just the place for him. Out of the West, he came into Chicago to show the city slickers that their big shots were tenderfeet, their gun-men sissies. Whether he fooled around with the Capone mob or the mobs that were gunning for Capone*-- that’s immaterial. The one thing that lifted Two-Gun AJtk Alterie out of the gangster rut was the tale they told of how the Bad Man from the £x± West start d doing his cowboy stuff one night with a couple of city rats. Before the Bad Man could draw either one of his two guns. fl-ANGSTEH - 2 they had an automatic poked in his stomach and told him to leave town. And he die . He took the next test-bound train. The record shows that the intensity of the gangster’s heart sent him back to where he had come from, and he turned his talents to the running of a Dude Ranch. But when the era of repeal and "( jm Men came along and gangdom quieted down in Chicago, Two-Gun Alterie returned to Chicago. The police say he got into the Labor Union Racket. Today it all turned into one of those incidents which Chicago hasn’t witnessed for a long time — a typical gang killing, Two-Gun Alterie and his wife were on the street in front of their hotel when he W3.s cut down by a hail of machine gun bullets and shot-gun slugs. They were fired from a jEtjaUaw window across the way, A window that strategically si commanded that hotel entrance. The wife was unharmed. The Western Bad Man had gone to town twice - once too often gfgMANY The word from Germany today concerns religion. The anti-Jewish disturbance has quieted down a bit, but the quarrfcl between the government and the Catholic Church is flaring dUnT on top of it comes news of the arrest of a prominent £r<^testant churchman, an American. gazt* M. C. Harbeck, editor/of a Magazine called the "Golden Age", published by thy'lnternational Bible students Society. He has been thrust ijtfto a Nazi jail, on two charges. His magazine is under the tan An Germany, forbidden. The Nazi* claim that he tried to ci^6ulate it secretly. The second charge is £hat he tried to remove funds from Germany, funds belonging to his organization. This recalls the trial and conviction of Catholic priests and nuns, accused of smuggling note into the Reich 2Jif . Thi s jp puts a Protestant that’s predominantly Catholic. heard the other night that .the Papal note of protest to the Berlin Government was an act that put the Catholic Church in Germany officially in opposition to the Hitler Regime. And that was amply made evident today in GERMANY -2 Goering's speech. The bulky General, Nazi Number Two man, started' the attack. He ordered the authorities throughout Germany to take legal action against Catholic priests who, as Goering expressed it:- "Misuse their authority for political ends." He berated the Catholic clergy for wh^t he called —"their shortcomings." One of thesa*"which he mentioned emphatically, was the use of the-Catholic greeting, "Hail Our ft N " ^ v--' w Heavenly Father* I don*t kijow why the Nazis * V" should tm object that except perhaps that "Hail" in German is "Hell ”maybe "Heil" is reserved for *Heil Hitler". And Goering thundered against Catholic priests for criticising Nazi laws in their Sunday sermons, llhis would seem to point especially at the Nazi sterilization law to keep the unfit from multiplying. The Catholics are strongly opposed to it, and no doubt say so in their Sunday sermons. The Catholic opposition which Goering denounces is especially strong in South Germany, where there’s a growing agitation against the Storm Troopers. This has led to various disturbances. At the town of Borken, a Catholic church was GEHMMY - 3 desecrated, the alter burned, presumably by Storm Troopers. The Nazis retaliate by saying that the desecration was the work of a Catholic, who had left clews tending to implicate the Storm Troops. The whcle thing is summarized in an insistent rumor that the Hitler Government intends to call off the concordat, the treaty between the church and the government agreed upon sometime ago. The German Catholics are saying outright today that this is what the Hitler regime intends to do, cancel the concordat. This carries on to another report -- that the Nazis are going to form a ’’ministry of religion,'* which will have control over all religious activities in the Reich, both Catholic and Protestant. The Minister of Religion would be in command, not the ecclesiastical leaders. If this idea were put through in a drastic way, it would mean a show-down war with the Catholic Church. And with the Protestant churches too. Today Nazi newspapers came out with raging diatribes. They went so far as to demand the death penalty for Jews who have rrBSMANY - 4 various sorts of dealings with Aryans* One Nazi demands the passage of a fcfcx law forbidding Jews to rsnt apartments to Aryans, or employ Aryan domestic help in their houses, or serve Aryan clients, under pain of death, if necessary. Another violent anti-Semitic journal makes the outright demand on the death penalty for Jews jlh who associate with Aryan women. euglakd In England a Dill to promote peace has been introduced into the House of Commons with the most powerful sort of support. The sponsor is Jeffery Mander, a Liberal, of course, the Liberals are a puny minority in the Commons, but the bill has a set of co-sponsors — a member of each of the political parties. It's sweeping in its terms — calls for arbitration of all disputes, permits the use of armed force only with the sanction of the League of Nations, and authorizes British citizens to enlist in an International Armed Police Force, if the League of Nations should establish such an army of its own. But its most immediately important provision is the prohibition of trade with any nations at war. England would be forbidden to do business of any sort with a country engaged in hostilities. This is in line with Pacifist ideas of cutting off trade, especially armament trade, with belligerents* One week- ness of the idea is jbc illustrated right now in the Italian- Abyssinian complication. Italy doesn't have to buy weapons and munitions, but that's the only way Ethiopia can get any. So its hitting one side and not the other -- so far as gun selling ie concerned . ETHIOPIA Everybody knows that the almost inevitable East African War promises to be a savage and vicious affair. The fighting tribes of Ethiopia are in various decress of barbarism. In fact, the atrocity stories have already begun. From Rome comes accusations of barbarities committed by the Abyssinian a. But, all the Italian charges are flatly denied at Addis Ababa. Just how vividly barbaric some of the Ethiopian tribes are rumored to be is illustrated by one of today’s stories from East Africa. It tells of a terrific method of war the Abyssinians have prepared to turn loose against Italian invaders. The tale concerns the Gallas, one of the most power­ ful groups of Black Tribes that inhabit Ethiopia. Anyhow, the Gallas announce that they are going to turn lions loose on the Italians. They are great hunters of the King of beasts. Truman Talley of Fox refers to the King of Kings and the Conquering Lion of Judah as - "The Chief Lion Chaser.” Anyway, the Gallas are said to be busy right now ETHIOPIA - 2 catching lions, a whole array of the hig cats, to sic 'em on the invading Italians, who, like the Christians of old, will he devoured hy the lions. The other night I told how an Abyssinian Princess in Hew York had declared that her countrymen had a secret, terrifying method of war, about which the military men of Europe knew nothing. Maybe that’s it - the lions. It would make an interesting battle scene - a thundering roar, a host of lions, charging the enemy with great leaping bounds. Of course an unromantic skeptic might wonder what would happen when a modem army cut loose on the charging lions with machine guns, tanks, heavy artillery, high explosive air Dombs and tear gas. The King of Beasts mixed up with tear gas would make quite a spectacle. As for the Conquering Lion of Judah, he make a speech an address to the Ethiopian Parliament, The King, the Uegus Hegusti called ETHIOPIA - *3 upon the Nation to follow him to battle. He'll lead them. This raises visions of the Conquering Lion of Judah leading the charge of lions. ^The i.^gus Negusti defies the Duee and declares that the men of Ethiopia will fight to the last 'to ditch, maybeAthe last lion. And the women too, he calls upon them to fight. Ladies and lions - an interesting addition to the art of battle. ; , Prom Geneva the news is not nearly so picturesque. It concerns a meeting of the League Council - called for July twenty-fifth, to take up the Italo-Ethiopian dispute. What will the Italian Delegates say? Will Mussolini withdraw from the League? Will the League take decisive action in checking the Luce? I don't know, but I'll bet — that the League Council doesn't do anything in particular leviathan I don't know how to say "Leviathan*1 in Chinese, hut we may soon have to ieam the Far Eastern equivalent of the stately name of that big historic vessel. There's a rumor in shipping circles that the former Queen of the Atlantic may De -4oll to the Chinese Republic. They say the Nanking Government is thinking about buying the Leviathan to convert her into a Flagship for the small Chinese Navy. She is not a war vessel of course, but I suppose they might convert her into some kind of an auxiliary cruiser. The old ship that in ten crossings carried nearly a million doughboys M war-time France, is now lying idle at a dock in Hoboken. She has a skeleton crew aboard to keep her in condition. The contract of the owners with the government compels them to maintain her in some kind ot sea-going shape. "White Xjtjqoxh Elephant" is the inevitable word to describe that former German Liner which made history for the U.S.A. and they r- may find an answer to the Leviathan dilemma -^selling her tLsL V ROCKRIPGR ihe auramer theatre movement seems to he sweeping the country. Well, "sweeping" may not he the won*. But, according to Nathaniel Reeid, one of the leaders in the world of the summer theatre, there are three times as many harn theatres in the country this year, as there were last year, of which Mr. Reeid *s Rockridge Theatre at Carmel, New York, is one of the most elaborate. In addition to plays indoors during the week, for each week-end, all this summer the Rockridge is staging outdoor revivals of Gilbert and Sullivan -« the Mikado this week-end. Mr. R-eid believes that the summer theatre movement is opening up a new field for the new author, the new director, and the new player. He believes it is bringing the American theatre to the real American people, those who live in the country, and in town and villages. And thus the stage will discover just what is the attitude of the country toward it. He speaks of New York City — Broadway — as a foreign City. That is, a play may fail and Broadway’s appraisal of it may not be the fair appraisal of the American people at all. BOCKRIDGE -2 Nathaniel Reeid of^Rockridge sees in the summer theatre movement a possible revTal for the American theatre as a whole* A clean American theatre for clean American people,**'** At any rate, a summer evening, with Gilbert and Sullivan played < under the trees — tnat sounds ideal. SENATE An aftermath of the New York State flood comes along in the form of action Toy the Senate Banking Committee today* In a session lasting only five minutes, the Committee said: "Here’s three and a quarter million dollars." A loan they are handing out, money to "be lent to companies whose factories were washed out By the flood. It’s called the R. P. C. Catastrophe Fund. The factories will be rebuilt and employment restored in the flood sections. ROMANCE Last evening at thia time I was closing the broadcast with a rosy glow of romance, but tonight it’s so different. Twenty-four hours ago I was hitting a glowing Cinderella note, about the shop girl in an American five and ten engaged to be married to the adopted son of the President of China. But right now the flowers of sentiment have turned into ashes. In the first place Miss Viola Brown, the five and ten sales girl, denies that she is engaged to James JLlnn the adopted son of the Chinese President, She says they are already married Secondly •« James Linn says there must be some mxxtX mistake. He claims they are not married. He says they got no "ttrvATOLJvjf further along the matrimonial altar than a cable which he ^ A sent to hi a adopted father asking for permission to marry the young lady, "hirdly -- he has^answer to that cable. And the answer is "no* -- permission refused. So if they are engaged, they are forbidden to marry — while if they are already married that1 s f o rb id den al so. * ROMAflqB - 2 fourthly -- there’s an excellent reason why the President of China cables a loud and emphatic "no". James Linn is already married. Back in China he has, not one wife, but two -- and four children. So if they are engaged how can they get married -- when he's already doubly married back in China. And if they are already married — two wives plus one wife equals three wives. All of which seems to indicate that James Linn is saying farewell to Viola Brown, while I am saying — SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW