- SUNOCO - THURSDAY. NOVEMBER lg> 1956 BOAT here's <* strange story — a story of hard luck. Detectives on the trail, bo, its' a crime story. The sleuths were hunting a tatooed sailor —- so, It's a story of the sea. They caught him — by hard luck-* The tale begins with the sloop GEORGIANA,a trim craft, with a tall mast and billowy white sails. The GEORGIANA was found aban­ doned at a Staten Inland dock. There were blood stains aboard, signs of a struggle - foul play, -^ater, they dredged out Of the water the body of theowner of the GEORGIANA, a retired Bronx merchant. Murder I The skipper of the GEORGIANA had vanished, a sailor named Gilmore. So the detectives began a hunt for Sailor Gilmore, of whom they had a vivid description - a great, husky mariner, marked with maritime tatooing. On one of his hands was tatooed the word "hard” On the other hand was inscribed the word "luck". They got their man in Baltimore, picked him up when they saw those hands with misfortune written on them. Today Sailor Gilmore, brought back to Staten Island BOAT _ 8 was questioned for hours. The police find that, ^skipper of the GEORuIA^A, he had a quarrel with the owner. He wanted to buy that graceful sloop, which sailed so well as to delight a marinerfs heart. Se offered a thousand dollars for the GEORGIASA, but the smm retired Bronx merchant refused to sell. Thatfs the prosecution theory of quarreling and killing. The tatooed sailor denies it all, and tells his own story. relates hew the GEORGIANA set sail from ^ity Island, three to Staten Island. Aboard the craft were^i^aa^men, the owner, and two other men. He* says he was below decks, when he heard the sounds of fighting .above. Jfe went to investigate and saw those other two men rowing ashore in the GEORGIANA*S row boat. The owner was missing. The inference from the sailor’s story is that the two men had killed the retired Bronx merchant in a fight and were rowing the body to shore. district attorney claims he has evidence for Gilmore, the mariner with the tatooed hands, one saying "hard". So in court they’ll try Sailor the other saying "luck”. 0*NEILL Seventeen years ago, a youth came out on the stage in a barn* to speak one line. He was half dead with stage fright, and he merely chewed and mumbled that line. His name was Eugene O’Neill, and he was enacting the smallest part In the first of his plays to be produced. In the audience were famous writers of the Provineetown art colony. They were Impressed, nobc not by that mangled line spoken by the youthful actor, but by the drama the young playwright had written. ^Today Eugene Neill, who is the only dramatist who has won the Pulitzer prize three times, was awarded the Nobel Prize. He is the second American to get it, Sinclair Lewis the the old-time stage celebrity, iTames O’Neill, who stormed the before the mast.oAa Norwegian barks he prospected for gold in J first. What a strange life Eugene O’Neill has lived - son of country in the Ccunt of Monte Cristo. went to sea as a as a sailor a newspaper reporter. And -- the playwright who achieved fame 0 *NEILL i with such dramas as "Ltrange Interlude", "Beyond the Horizon", "Anna Christie", is now reported to be working on a cycle | A plays depicting American life for a hundred and twenty-five years, through five generations. SPAIN The tide of battle seethes on at Madrid, (The Left Wing government claims a large success,, declaring that its troops have recaptured the big airport south of the capital, That flying field is well behind the insurgent lines on the outskirts of Madrid* It was taken in a smashing Rebel victory a couple of weeks ago. If the Left Wingers have seised it. It means - one of their flanking attacks. General Francofs line around Madrid Is a sort of half circle, with the Socialist battalions trying to get around the ends and strike from the rear. Madrid reports that the airport was captured with little resistance, only a few Fascist troops were there - more indication of a surprise flank attack. Fascists who succeeded In penetrating Madrid proper. These are said to be isolated in a maze of buildings and Streets. "Theyfll be annihilated *1 — say the Left .Wingers, The Left Wingers claim to have surrounded a force of Meanwhile, Franco's men are striking a new objective. They*re hittin*7' Madrid from the northwest, the section where tne university is. Their first attack was from the west, where SPAIN - 2 they were stopped at the city line - the Manzanares Hiver* Then fwWK the southwestern suburbs, where once more they came A A . to a halt at the river. Now the northwest, which seems to be Madrid’s most vulnerable pointy iKfegfetsto*. No river protection there - an open way into the city. All day there has been a violent storm of cannon fire. No sky bombs, however. Rain^ aai fog^anA cloudy - no weather for flying. Tonight it remains to be seen whether the Fascist legions can smash their way into Madrid by way of the northeast. RUSSIA In ried Moscow an American wedding is postponed by strange events. This affair of United States citizens and matrimony is stopped because of a Communist mystery/j^P dark conspiracy and secret arrest. Americans In Moscow were all set for a grand clanging and pealing of wedding bells. They were, planning not only a gala ceremony, but also a church ceremony. Church and religion are in grim disfavor among the Soviet Reds, with their atheism and campaigns of the Godless. Americans- have celebrated not one religious wedding in Moscow since tfae ■ S tate-s-faftagH** eeogttixadl ; an American embassy has been established in the "Sub At Communist capital, Vice-Consul .George Minor wss to marry K A i i ill Mia’s Mildred Wright, she journeying' from the United States to Moscow to join him. They wanted a* church wedding* So the Americans in Moscow planned a solemn marriage, the first in the I! I if shade?/' of the Red Kremlin. WHat clergyman would perform the ceremony? Ihere was only one Protestant minister left in all Moscow, the Reverend Mr. Streak, a German Lutheran, who was a Soviet citizen. js J : ■ I ■’ : i i i ii y It ri Ji i: s 1 He was to officiate.**.^TOwociaigig^ Everything was set for the wedding bells when - the Reverend Mr. Streck disappeared, vanished. Inquiries were made. Vvhat had become of him? Today the answer is given - and it points to an affair that is causing International repercussions. The Soviets claim to have discovered a Fascist plot, and have arrested six Germans, three Austrians, and a Swede - the prisoners taken away by the Ogpu with the usual Soviet silence and mystery. They are accused of some sort of conspiracy against the Reds, Fascist intrigue, anti-Communist propaganda, maybe sabbotage - you can infer the usual charges made in those weird Soviet trials. Today, the German embassy made representations to the Soviet foreign office, demanding an account of the accusations m against the six Germans. r-laa- about—bhe"'arre#t—of the Aijetricmer ^11 was revealed today i 1 that one of the six German prisoners of the Ogpji is the Reverend Mr. Streck - who was to have performed the American marriage 1 -WiJ 35SMB RUSSIA - 5 ceremony. Red Moscow»s first big church wedding. Nobody knows when he will be released, if ever. or what will happen. The wheels of diplomacy are grinding — to what result nobody can foretell. Maybe thereT11 be another one of those Soviet trials, fantastic and terrible. Anyway, the wedding is off. There1s no other Protestant minister in Moscow to officiate. by way of Helsingfors,Finland. Vice-Consul Minor has gone to Helsingfors to meet her. Jfhey are in a bit of a quandary* To be married in Finland, they’ll have to establish a residence of two weeks. In Moscow they’d have to be content with one of those Soviet weddings, with Red ritual most informal. So two American fiances find their romance in a tangle of dark Soviet mystery and international complications. ourneying to Russia MAE WEST to "Mn q — x« ______* _ Just to ke-- ^---- - ----- e complete# here!g another connubial i week of celebrated romances - first, marriage news about John Barrymore, then Charlie ^haplin, last night Peggy Joyce. And tonight - Mae West. Not that Mae is thinking about entering into wedlock. She's trying to prove that she is entirely outside of that holy estate. that he married the Buxom blonde back in Nineteen Eleven, when 6K. she was presumably not so buxom, but undoubtedly just a* blonde The man who claims to be the husband of Mae W4st is^in court trying to prove it^ The case comes up in itaxX»xk the New ¥ork Supreme Court on Monday. , legal proceedings of her own. She calls upon the law to protect her against those matrimonial claim's, ^ho—^eniea she-hae'-ov^y scon—tho many Sfew^ays she doesn't" know^the;.mat^ never saw him; doesn't want to know him, doesn't-want to see him. He may be somebody's husband, but not hers - so says Mae West, who is of the opinion it1is a terrible thing to have a total stranger come up to you and say he's your husband. It all concerns that vaudeville actor^ wno nas oeen claiming , wno nas oeen A A Meanvdiile, the wedded or unwedded star has begun BASEBALL t j How much, is a baseball team worth when it finishes in last place? ■*he^€)t> not so good at hitting, not much better at fielding, and II I ■ w rather worse at pitching? They didn’t win am many games* “t£e ^1"* )L ctvva V T3>~Hrw"vv<i # agtM»^e4aked- the»^ a roan A * kToday the^BixiwSB were sold* Eor how much? There’s a report the figure is — three hundred and f i I twenty-five thousand dollars* Small, as baseball prices go, but you wouldn’t expect millions for a last place ball team. The Browns have been bought not by any one person but by a group_a syndicate of St. Louis sportsmen, who figure they can do something with the team* xhe sale had to be okayed by a meeting of the American League Club owners. Sd^Uteting mm held today, tttft sale am approved — and tonight the St. Louis i All they still need is a Browns have a new set of^e*»***» ^ I slugging outfielder or two, e fast infield and a couple of pitchers, j .Aj SAN FRANCISCO Today the President of the United States pressed a button and put Into effect an edict decreed by the Smperor of the United States. ^With an electric flash across the country President Roosevelt in Washington opened the mighty San Francisco-Oakland Bridge.^ And thereby obeyed the command of Emperor Norton-the-First. back to one of the most singular characters in the history of the West. Back in the eighteen_forties Joshua Abraham lord, and wore a purple cape* Always a bit eccentri made a fortune. And then a San Francisco fire In 1853 ruined Idi* He disappeared for a while and caiae back more eccentric than ever announcing that he was Norton—the—’First, Emperor of the United States of America. KIs reign was long on the Pacific Coast, a gaudy monarch in a green coat, blue trousers stripped with red, gold epaulets and a general’s hat adorned with a flowing ostrich plume. That giant span across San Francisco Bay takes us He had the distinot^MMag^i Norton landed in California. He decreed taxes and they say people paid him SAX FRANCISCO -2 taxes strange as it sounds. Once at a political rally lie sat on the platform with a candidate for the United States Senate. ^he candidate made such an eloquent speech that Norton—the—First arose and said there was no use to hold an election **— for he, the emperor, would appolp^ the candidate the Senate. But the. greatest of his imperial edicts was one that made the Californians of those days fall down laughing. Norton the First studied the topography of San Francisco Bay and was inspired to a mighty dream. He commanded that a bridge he built across the bay from to Oakland. According to the engineering of the day, that was the wildest of all the imperial insanity of the Emperor of the United States. Yet today President Roosevelt pushed the button and right now the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge is in full s-Norton—the -First dreamed and decreed some eighty years ago. A V *VJU^5lUO AUTOMOBILES Here s a bit of news that has a puzzling sound . It relates that a horse jumped into the tonneau of a hydrocarbon phaeton, tearing the canopy, bending the propeller, damaging the refrigerator and breaking off one of the mud splashers. The clue to that puzzling prose is the date - it goes way back to Nineteen Hundred. In that year the word ntonneau” meant body; ^hydrocarbon1* was gasoline; "phaeton” was the style of carriage. "Canopy” meant top. "Propeller” was the steering handle. "Refrigerator" was a radiator, and "mud splashers" were fenders. In other words, ■ a horse jumped into somebodyrs automobile- back in Nineteen -TP ^ ^ -&U Thio oddity n connection with New York's brilliant and ultra-modern automobile show^j'SgI twh - t R point is^ the confusion there was thirty years ago in the terminology of motoring. /"Z-" The very name "automobile," was adopted only after much debate. They called the contraption a "horseless carriage," a e Pig , a gas tejt buggy it ^ and "auto-gondola." Another name AUTOMOBILES _ 2 was "viamote", from nvTa” and "motor”. The solemn LONDON TIMES had an Inspiration and suggested a combination of the words "motor” and "vehicle" to form the name "mode". How would you like to call your %®»».a "mode"? A A One antediluvian manufacturer went haywire with a isdtgJEfcxJEKtgfcfc light-weight motor car built of wood. He advertised that it had a wooden frame, wooden wheels, wooden axles, everything wooden I suppose except the ignition chamber. An unfortunate customer bought one of these wooden automobiles, and returned it with the terse comment, SbnMiAKfcfcx "wooden run" Just as it wouldntt be right if I wouldnfci! say - SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW. €