L* 'i- SUNOCO OIL BROADCAST ^ = fe/14/SS Good Evening, Everybody: Sensations were popping fast today as an aftermath of that boxfight between rnie Sehaff, the heavyweight from Boston, and Prlmo Camera, the mountrincus Italian. After the brain specialists rot through operating- on Schaaf last night, they avinounced tha t t ie ooera .ion had. been successful, and that the patient was resting, but they declined to commit themselves as to whether he -would rce< ver. At our o'clock this morning Schaaf died. Several bits of information then came out, one by one. first of all, it became known that the dead orizefighttr had suffered from a bad case of influenza two weeks before the fightj. that he was still in. a weakened condition and thet,as a matter of fact, he never should have been alio we-:: to go into the rin. in uho L “w nm 1 +1 nn i To be Quite fair. ---- urged^either to coneel or ask for a postponement, but he declined to- to so, Then came &. 'disagreement between the doctors. The I LEAD - 2 operation on Echaaf was conducted by several of tne most eminent surgeons in the country. When he died they declared the cause gs? was the cumulative effect of the injuries he sustained from Larnera in the fight. But then an autopsy was conducted by the Medical ijeaminer of hew York City. After the autopsy Dr, Charles Norris, Chief medical Examiner, announced that the fighter*s death ,as the result of natural causes, and not from any infuries he sustained in the bout, ur. Nor-^irs-d-ee 1 e-y«-d—bb&4 u t>nm-pr?■ f sum by a ■eubstanoo withi n thr —hf* ended—tha-t.-—ei—- lup i snbr tsitce gri ll btr a-ai-sr-o*o11L > a^l ■. : . , ^hue The Chief Medical Examiner is vat direct variance with the surgeons who performed th om ration. An : Buck Norris, as ho is known to his intimate friends, is a man of not only supreme skill, ms# disfincti^^n^^Sa^so absolutely disinterested. Primo Camera, who v/as obviously as dismayed as anybody at this tragic outcome o'* the fight, as placed under technical LEAD - 6 arrest on charge of homicide. There are no less than three distinct Investigations ToIng on^ one by the police* another by the District Attorney, and another by the New York xbxbihxx Boxr'ng Commission. It is possible that this affair will end of legalized boxing contests in ^ev. York State- Wot merely the upstate legislators who tend to side with the ladies and the clergy who think all boxing should be prohibited, but even the Democrats from the bir cities ar giving ton ue to an outcry against m*vr$*r* in general. K /■v. An ironic fact in this connection is related by Jack Kofoed. It has frequently been observed that Camera for all his size and strength did not punch particularly hard. He xh was once asked vihy. An i the big Italian replied that he was afraid to let ro with all his strength for fear he mi^ht kill somebody. In point of <d(r fact, the blow with hich ho knocked ornic bchafif e±±* 7fas a left jab V/7 enough to kill to the jaw which onlookers describe as hardly i____ -------------------- < BANKS ^ Astounding novs comes from Michigan today. Governor ^omstock has ordered all the banks in. the State closed for a period of eleht days, ibis affecred A , 'nett- » . ) =0-T .'Aj. :r. uni - i m L1 wn'-. ihe suddenness of this order has cauyht the principal towns an:.: cities unaware, especially Detroit, ttfe automobile capitalog ^ ^ ji . Shop keepers in Detroit are preparin f’ood coupons.. Business A men and city officials arc conferrin* on means of feeding that hure city without bankin' faciliti s. The merchants,esoecially those that deal in groceries and other necessities of li^e, are up against t difficult problem. On ;ne one hand they can't cash checks. On the other hand few of them are in a position to extend un 1 i mi. t ed e r e d i t, The ttato of Michigan Itself was caught short by this bank moratorium. It has to meet a. payroll of half a million dollars tomorrow, and the otate Treasurer announced that only thirty-five hundred collars in cash is on hand. ‘liie moratorium was declared as the result of a conference ' Si i 1 ! .[i L ! i i BANKS : in Detroit in '.vhich more than a score of bankers, businessmen and industrial leaders took oart. it was in response to their direct reauest that Governor oomstock issued the order. •^ecretar of Commerce^ tiiapin, hurriedly suramoned for the purpose from ..ashington, as oresent at this conference which lasted all ni h'. An under-secretery of the Treasury was also there. The *.:ichi an Governor iai tn situation souarely at the door of henry Ford. ■Lhe Governor explains it as follows: ii Detroit iruSt Company has been loin" a sreneral bankinr bus in-: sr. when its assets shrank it wanted to get out of bankinr and in order to 10 that it would have to pay off its depositors in cash. Funds were not available for that ourpose. _he Coma ny had borrowed fifteen millions from the Reconstruction finance Corooration, hich was prepared to lo n an additional twenty-three millions. But in order to make this possible the -^-djcUzJt larw st depositorcompany were asked "O consent to subordinate theia deposits to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation BANKS - 3 which was to take over the quick assets and take care or the smaller depositors. The largest single depositors in that trust company were General Motors, Chrysler and Ford. General Motors and Chrysler consented to subordinate their deposits. Ford refused, so tonights papers give us the report. For that reason Mr. Ford, or rather his company, is held to blame for the present situation. At least that is the way the newspaper accounts give us the story tonight. But you may find totally different reports by tomorrow in your favorite paper VALENTINE A rather unusual event took place in Cincinnati today; The celebration of the 84th anniversary of the opening of one of the famous hotels of America, the Gibson House. Manager Schiffeler had a giant birthday cake seven feet high in the lobby today, seven layers of cake, each a foot ■thick. I'um, yum. The lobby was jammed and every one got a piece HOOVER This whole affair probably accounts for the absence last night of Secretary Ogden Mills. I noticed that he was absent when President Hoover delivered his farewell speech at the Lincoln Day dinner of the National Republican Club. Mr. Hoover’s speech was couched J.n as sober and unsensational terms as any speech possibly could be. But it certainly gave everybody ample food for thought. Incidentally? everybody around me com­ mented on the gracefulness with which he %!luded to his defeat * h * in the election, X mean when he said:- n The people determined the election. Those of us who believe in popular government have no complaint." ROLLAMD Anere have been rumors current that Holland would join the countries who have gone off the sold standard. These rumors were set at rest today. Announcement was made that the kingdom of The Motherlands will not^wo off the gold standard. SINGAPORE An astonishing suggestion cane over the cables from A London*' \o less a suggestion than that John Bull may offer Uncle Bam the use^ of his naval base at Singapore. The story isn*t entirely nev. But it was revived stron ly today owing to the latest turn in the relations between Great Britain and the United States. John Bull is beginning to alter his stand on the Manchurian question. Moreover, he is realising that the Disarmament Conference is due for a flony— unless either Great Britain or the United States, or both, get busy, with John Bull is beginning to agree/ih&ifc Uncle Sam that Japan is going too far in Manchuria, what is more, he is beginning to be afraid that if the Mikado1 carry out their announced intention of grabbing the entire province of Beyho from China, there*11 be hostilities between the Chinese and the Japanese which may drag European nations into the quarrel. Correspondents report that tnere3^ an increasing SIHGAPQhE tendency In British official circles to apree with those people who have been sayinr for some time that John hull and Uncle Sam ought to sret together to maintain the peace of the world. There1 s no question^ they but that these two ereat nations <* »» v ' combined could come ore tty near tw saying no to any other countrKcfidt. that nropose<ft to fightp Permission to use the British naval base of Singapore will, of course, immensely strengthen Uncle Sam11 s Pacific fleet. At present If a battleshin is disabled in the Pacific it has to be towed^Cll the way to the Hawaiian Islands, to Pearl Harbor, fees: repairs!. JAPAN China and Japan seem t-o As ior the- -Manchurian situation, the relations betvs'een and Japan seem to In the first nlace. there comes a cable from Geneva that the league of Nations is abandoning all attempts to bring about a reconciliation between the two Far Eastern countries. The committee of the League sent a EgraiBdsssx communication to the Japanese delegate to the effect that Japan's suggestions in the matter could not be considered. 3Tn Peiping everybody is expecting hostilities on a large scale. Japan has prepared three ultimatums ordering the Chinese to aaa? oul oi the province of Reyho. The Acting Prime A A Minister of China, when informed of these ultimatums, declared that they would be emphatically rejected. Chinese troops, he said, will remain in Keyho and light to the last ditch. On the borders of Reyho, the Japs have concentrated a force estimated at no less than thirty thousand infantry backed up by modern artillery, tanks, armored trains. JAPAN - A airplanes, and machine fmn divisions* Then from iokio we learn that the Japanese Imperial Parliament today adoped the Ingest budget in the history of anaing vot .standing vote the nation. It was1 a^optcr^ money amounts to some half billion dollars. A In American All of which news has a powerfully 'warlike sound LETICIA ■Lhen there*s mews from South America. come to open hostilities between Peru and Colombia over \ the much disputed port of Leticia on th! Upper Amazon River. The long expected battle began today after one hundred years of peace between the two countries. According to the Commander of the Colombian forces, the Peruvians opened the fight when one of their planes bombed a Colombian gunboat lying in the Putumayo River. Thus the first bomb dropped in Brazilian waters. Advices from Bogota report that the Colombians repelled the Bolivian attack, it is generally believed that ^ more deadly warfare will Polio?/. GERMANY ■"•nother disorderly episode took place in the building of the German parliament today. A committee was in session, the committee for the protection of civil rights which £ h continues to meet although the parliament has been dissolved. Some of you may recall that last week I reported that a meeting of this committee had been broken up by the Hitlerites protesting against the &»rinran who is a Social-Democrat. Today the Nazis, A. A the Hitlerites are called, resorted to strong* arm methods. as One of The Hitlerite leaders went up to this Social threw him out of his chair, and told him he was a "Marxist and a liar and hence unfit to preside at any committee meeting.1' Thereupon the members of all of the Socialist, Communist, and People*s parties walked out of the room. One deputy of the People’s party stopped in the doorway to light a cigar, and a Hitlerite knocked the cigar out of his mouth and knocked the deputy through the doorway. at that point the meeting was declared closed with no further casualties. SLEEP In Oak P-irk, Illinois, there* s a irl v;ho has been asleep for one whole year. Just a year aro today her mother telephoned the family ohysicia i that the girl had been drowsy for several days and finally dropped off Into a sleep from which tney were unable tonwairg- her.^rexj In the course of these twelve months physicians from several parts of the country have been doing their utmost — -***«teexhausting the resources of their science in an effort to this 'irl* -ta=h±s- She still continues in her coma. The family are keeping a huge box of clippings ■watee-g ugo. ZAi'lG. ILL Mrb. Israel Zangv/i.Ll 9 widow or the famous writer’, the . . ,/? /?/O ^ J__ man who wrote the Melting Fot,_and. so on/ is in this country. ?r, the a bne if at XiOv& on a biography of her husband., and is trying to collect all of his letters. In London, years ago, Israel Zangwill wrote me a most amusing letter that I hooe 1 can find for her. The Zionist movement was at its height. The Jews and Arabs were at swords1 points in Palestine. Amir 1'eisal, now King of Bagdad, King of Iraq, had just * taken the throne of Ayria. He was ruling at Damascus.' That was jf before the French pushed him off his throne — before he became King of Bagdad. I happened to be on my way to the Orient and Israel Zangvd.ll knew that I was zolng to stop in the Hear East. Bos he wrote me a letter asking me to deliver a message to King Feisal of Syria, advising how to solve once and for ell the Arab-Jewish trouble in Palestine. Mr, Zangwill said: "Tell your friend. King Feisal, that the best way, the only way to clear up the difficulty is for him to get all of nis Arabs to move out of in Palestine, Z- 1'iGVtILL — S that country.” Mrs. Zangwlll woulo like to have her husband*s letters sent to her at the Hotel Wellington^ New York City, before she sails for England, next week. EL ER in© Ion? ©xrjected proposal for trie repeal of the 18th Amendment came up in the United States Senate today. ana the first development to show its head was a filibuster by dry senators. this filibuster is being led by Senator Borah of Idaho and Senator Shepparifd by of Texas. %*, Borah took the ground that there are more important issues before the country today than prohibition^ and that Congress should lerffcrtthe question alone for the time be in . Senator Sheppard, one of the authors of the 18th Amendment, warned the Senate that he would use every ’weapon at his command to defeat any proposal to allow the states to reconsider prohibition. I I 1 1 HUEY Evidently there are disagreements in the Eon'• family of New Orleans, yes, the long family of which our friend, Senator N-ingfish Huey, is the most notorious member, A Senate Committee is down in New Orleans investigating the election of Mr. wverton, the Eingfishls candidate who won last November. Huey’s brother, Earl, was on the witness stand. In the course of his testimony he told the Senators: nMy brother told me Harry Abij$, a 3£K representative of the Power interests, „ had given him ten thousand dollars. \ &t that point the proceedings were interrupted by a loud noise from Senator Huey who shouted out: '‘You’re a liar.” He continued to ^ive brother the lie on several other ^ * VALBMTINh oy the way , i for-ot to mention that "t?&, the feast of^bt, Valentine. Perhaps I should have reminded you last nitht, but the truth is I forgot it myself. But there is one man in New York who did not forget. He1s a prisoner at the New York County Jail, serving a term for contempt of court in not having paid his alimony to the little woman. He is in short, a member of that famous institution known popularly as the Alimony Club. Weil, this Alimony Club member, imprisoned as he Underneath was a love thought as follows: ib&szs?yxxxix fu^Z — was, aid not forget his duty to his nbest friend and severest ti "Dear hi Xl-^k wishes I were not here, so SO LONG UNTIL SOMORROW.