3UJMQC0 » j . l / x HCII 101 1958 < GOOD EVE.NI i G EVERYBODY: / Here's a late flash - civil war threatening tonight in Austria. Vienna in a virtual state of siege. The guard thrown about the government is so heavy as to raise the surmise:- menace of a Ha£i putsch. Riot and bloodshed across the country, with $azi parad and demonstrations; especially in Vienna^/ 5S They stormed into the Ringstrasse, Vienna’s central boulevard. today. Swastikas on arms, Nazi songs ringing out — shouts, slogans. denunciations. The hazis stormed buildings occupied by their opponents in and tore tilings apart - savafee destruction. it And — counter-parades by supporters of the Fatherland Front which is against i^azi domination. Violent clasnes between the supporters of Chancellor Schushhnigg and partisans of Hitler I iif fighting and brawling on all sides. The latest tonight tells us that Nazi parades are troyping ill through the Jewish section of Vienna, with anti-Semitic songs and a OSTKIA - 2 shouts. Apparently the Jewisa people are Keeping quiet in the face which Chancellor ScMschnigg has ordered for Sunday, calling it an anti-Nazi manoeuvre^ They protest at the form of the ballot — which merely specifies for or against the indpendence of Austria. They demand that the voting be changed and that Nazis be put on the election boards. The Austrian situation is so grave that we have a flash from Rome saying it may c ause a split between Mussolini of the fierce menace The Nazis are up in arms against the independence plebiscite. and Hitler — a break of the Rome-Berlin Axis. Possible cancellation of the Hitler visit to Rome Herr von hibbentrop paid a second visit to the London Foreign Office this afternoon,- right after the bad public reception he got this morning,, Cromfcf- hooted at him, yelled for him to get out of England* nRelease Niemoeller!” they shrieked. It seemed rather odd that the London anti-Nazi crowd ^ so much interested in Lutheran pastor A commander prosecuted by the Nazis - ‘ ^3 wh^. p awpai^rnt A ‘ A- fg^gOi during the World War. However, the roar of the mob became more understandable when they screamed, "Release Thaelmann!" /Ve^ the German Communist chieftain who is in a Nazi concentration camp. So, maybe there was a little Red in the London crowd. Anyway, powerful forces of police had to battle with all their strength to keep trouble away from Hitler’s emissary, as he went to the Foreign Office with Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax. vhn Hibbentrop’s second visit to“^t|ie sanctum'N^f ■itish diplomaed mjg ht seem to indicate some thihg^is stirrii in the' \ \ \ N ittempt to negotiate a settlemen\between Londo^ and Berl return of th« German colo'hies, and all the re,st of it. Hoover, the latest from Lortdon is word f>om official sourceS\that thUi^ dhn ’ t look so xmxsjcx rosy. They say the present negotiations are regarded with - "no optimism." \ ^ A familiar name in the news from Paris tonight - Leon Blum. 'Trying to form a new cabinet. The Chautemps government was in only seven weeks, with its combination of moderate Left and middle-of-the-road parties. Blum is trying to form a cabinet altogether oj£ the Left - trying to line up all the radical factions, including Communlsts SPAIN In Spain Franco claims a big victory tonight. The hebels have captured the stronghold Belchite, and they declare they^ve smashed a gaping hole in the Left Wing line. Franco's commanders, driving in eastern Spain, trying to push on to the Mediterranean. eg BA Vigorous denials were uttered in Havana today, and the American Ambassador did the uttering. "Grotesquely false," said he. There are rumblings of a Cuban disturbance against the government of Colonel Batista, the one-time army corporal, rumors of arrests, threats of a revolution. In the midst of this* -flaaKod^ tierrai T.Tord-»—off por t £or th a--mo eyerthrovr-#at±s^»^ *tfigh officers of the Cuban army declared that anti-government leaders were claiming the American Ambassador encouraged their plot - Ambassador J. Butler Wright assuring them that their cause was favored by Washington. Well, It is certainly not the proper thing for an American Ambassador to Havana to meddle with the politics of Cuba. So the denial was immediate. "Nothing to it," announced Ambassador ."report » grotesquely false.- Wright - . I V t-W There seems to be a lot to tell^^bcm^today's spy story - 'f *_____ but it cati^a® be told. Federal officials^.*^ ttXhis is too big a case to talk about* The lid has been put on by Washington.,r All that is r.nown is the report that federal agents are questioning a mechanic employed at the Seversky Airplane Bdcfi Plant at Farmingdale, New York. The Seversky Company is building a number of up-to-the-minute fighting planes for the government, and recently it has been under heavy guard. The guard was put on after they arrested two men and a woman a week or two ago as spies selling military secrets to a foreign power. They oay that-in the :e..th-JmoiEg- So no wonder there were spectacular surmises when federal agents today took a mechanic out of the Seversky plant and started questioning him about an international spy ring. The mechanic was employed in the experimental division cf the plant where new ideas of military aviation are investigated. WASHINGTON That liquid substance known as Hg° was the theme of presidential recommendation to Congress today. Water - two billion dollars for water, .Thn^t^amoant of money could buy a whole ocean of champa^nej But it’s a question of the water policy of the nation, flood control, irrigation, iKabajaatxjSLHxi inland navigation. The President presented to Congress a copious report drawn up by the National Resources Committee - a vast quantity of Information for guidance. The White House suggests that the right kind of national waterjjpolicy for the next six years could be put into effect at an expense of about two billion dollars. There’s word today that the anti-monopoly business will be put off for the present - the present session of Congress, that is. We have this from Congressman Sam Rayburn, Democratic leader of the House. He was at the White House today and talked with the President about the anti-trust legislation^s»± which is in the offing. When he emerged from the White House, he said that the President would not take up the matter with the lawmakers right now. flefll let the trust-busting legislation-drive wait until A the next session. FARLEY A jubilant cry rang out in Washington today; -’’we1 re out of I debt, the Democrats are out of debt!” That hymn of solvency was ~wr£io < 4 * intoned by Postmaster Jim Farley- fte** also Chairman of the /v /< Democratic National Committee andabout whatever ^ >i money the party owes. It owes not a nickel^ said Jim today. And he explained that^t^ff^r^^i^^ackson^ Dinner had brought in funds which enabled th^Committee to pay off every debt. The Democrats out of debt# That does seem odd - when we remember the doldrums the party was in durirg the days when 'Tt/ickvv "Up­ john W, Davis was candidate and^Al SmithA Chaiman Farley himself admits it1 s something unusual. He said the Democrats were out of the red for the first time QUOTE perhaps since the origin of American parties END QUOTE. No*” perhaps, Jim, and you might as well say - since the origin of time. Anyway, Uts Postmaster Farley's postmen won't have to deliver a lot of unpaid bills to Chairman Farley's National Committee. MOONEY Today in a Caliiornia legislature a dramatic scene was enacted^w*gt3terir»*gftaggagCTunjftrecedented. ^That1 s a good word of a prisoner feot his case before the^law-makers of state^ in the hope of plead 'n£r*t persuading the goverrta®«t to give him a pardon. And that prisoner, ww one of the most famous — Tom Mooney. He stood on the speaker* s stand, in a blaze of lights^ lighted like a Hollywood set — for the benefit of the news reel cameras. Tom Mooney grey and worn after a score of years in prison, fiis eyes blinked behind horn-rimmed glasses. He began by apologizing. an nThis,n said he, "is rather^inusual proceeding. And, f'it is rather difficult for one toho has been stored away for so many years to become adjusted, bo," he pleaded, "I hope you folks will bear with me." ___ ervvcjBL iSu*. And with that Tom Mooney spoke innocence, A ' denying any connection with the bombing of the Preparedness Day Parade in Ban Francisco back in war-time. "I again deny," he declared, "that I perpetrated that dynamiting." MOONEX hard He declared that the bombing case was pinned on him by interests hostile to labor, hostile to him as a labor leader. »Fracers fabricated the case gx against me," he ^\Ul 4 Point by point Tom Mooney rehearsed the the testimony, th^ witnesses, the facts, the law, & He put emphasis on the evidence of a photograph, a rather famous picture that shows Tom Mooney on top of a building a mile away from the place of the explosion, ^nd^ the hands of a clock In theTpicture point to about the time of the explosion. Showing that Mooney was a mile away v/hen the dynamiting ^ook place, The prosecution always contended that the hands of the clock were 7T re-touched in the picture, the time element falsified. ,knxl==»© Tom Mooney spoke his piece today, told his story to the legislature. hoping it will influence the govern GEKSON Governor Lehman today handed down a decision in that Communist case which has caused so much argument in New iork. It has been quite a puszle, that affair of a Communist appointed to office in New York City. Simon Gerson is an avowed member of the official Communist Party, the^action that maintains the party line of political cenious of Fiorello LaGuardia that he was able to line up on his side such extreme opposites as the Republican conservatives and the Communists. Tn pe1 ynn»n>a by. it 1 S-- Hr-'" r.ri^r..n -- ipjml -h*. ■ —HoWajng "imususl"~nb&ut thaIt is most unusual, however, for a professed Red to be appointed to office. So naturally there was a violent storm. |The tempest of protest blew so hard that Borough President Isaacs changed his mind a little; bit and gave Communist Gerson a less important job than the one he was planning to confer on him in the beginning.^ Red Dictator Stalin. h@ was appointed President imxgsxaf Isaacs of Manhattan. 0 $ Well, itfsAa reflection of the peculiarities of r fiERSON - 2 .— The storm kept blowing to Albany, where a concerted demand was made on Governor Lehman. A large group* consisting of ! 746? American Legion chiefs mostly* toldAGovernor that Borough President Isaacs should be removed for appointing Communist Gerson. Today the Governor said - Mo. at-er» ■ si ; J Gov 0mop -ke U. powea^y^^ pemovaly and therefor c her-ghoulA A be the more -eoroful—ah<w*"t-e3i^pe4"SlngEo not^eal that tho ■ Communist Party is legal in Mew York State and therefore the appointment of a Communist is legal, I 1 i f i k I 1 II ^lden>t* a^dangcrrmis pr^ice-dent--^ ^ffee Goverhof^s poweTT-Sa7..Lltfon der^ed^—^ KANSAS CITY hisd-s©m» sprightly election days in Kansas City.^Tfoday a scandal of voting frauds came to a climax. A federal judge sentenced nine jssx election workers to prison - terms varying from ten days to three years. But thatfs only a small part of it. The trial t ha trended today was the eleventh of a series - two hundred voting officials indicted in all. And the lis^sentenced tsdsjf brought the number of convictions up to fifty-six. The twelfth trial wa ^scheduled to be held on Monday, but it won’t be.^"caL led off. That was the latest development today, when all the defendants in the twelfth trial pleaded guilty, and asked the mercy of the ccurt. They’ll be sentenced later. yes there must have been some mighty funny doings in Kansas City on election day! FATHER HUBBARD (Use Thursday, March 10) Father Hubbard, cut off from the world, away up in the Arctic has Just j . lashed, me a message by shortwave# With his short wave sending set he sent me a message in the hope that some amateur somewhere, would pick it up, and let me know. Sure enough, one did. It has been relayed to my by Army amateur radio station W 2 F R K. The message reads: "Best wishes from King Island and the Arctic. Expedition entirely successful. At present ?fe are completely isolated ' l\^*5L^r~LAA4_ from the outside \vorld." Well, I asked the Army Amateur Radio Station to try and get a message through to the Glacier Priest, him to try and pick me up by shortwave tonight. For, this news broadcast girdles the world by sho’rtwave.^ Sq=j^ Fat her Hubbard is listening, here's interest him PLANE No thrills for the passengers - which is just as well. Sky travelers cWt want the kind of tingling excitement that seven passengers missed in the latest airline thriller. For eight hours the big plane circled in a blinding peril of rain and fog, along the south Atlantic coast. The pilot wanted to head for Charlestai, Soutljcarolina, and land there, but the wireless information was - canft do it, the densest kind of fog. So up and down the coast he flewr, looking for a place where he could set the transport down, this for eight hours - with seven passengers aboard. awaken them for the thrill. Finally, early in the morning, the pilot spotted an opening in the mist, a farmers field below. The gas tanks were almost empty, and he had to try a landing on getting the cobwebs out b D c of their brains^csa* the plane came to earth. Shsccp A safe and skillful landing near Richlands, North Carolina. Today the passengers were being told about the thrills 3daxwky±iagyy2^«yt; through%ich they slept and snored. But it was night time, the plane a sleeper - the passengers deep In slumber. The crew didn*t disturb them, didn’t the plowed then the passengers were aroused - just CROWS One shot killed fifteen thousand crows today near Burley, Idaho. What mighty hunter fired that stupendous shot? Xt»s this way:- There's an Island in the Snake River, and it was Infested C with £rows. They were a pest and something had to be done. So the State Game Department fixed up one grand shot. In tin cans they packed sticks of dynamite along with buckshot. A hundred and ninety-nine of these improvised bombs were spotted around the island and wired electrically for one explosion. And then the island was left quiet for a while, and the vast flocks of crows returned to their customary haunts. The island was black with them when the blast was touched off, and exploding dynamite filled the air with buckshot. That one shot accounted for fifteen thousand crows, — ~ # AMRPLANCE There was a comedy of ambulances at Joplin, Missouri, today. Mrs. Eliza Harryman was seized with an attack of appendicitis and the doctor said - "Take her to the hospital, quick!,! An ambulance was called - it went to the wrong address. A second ambulance was sent, it got into a collision, a smash-up with an automobile. Ambulance Number Three went speeding, to fetch the people injured in the collision of ambulance Number Two. Ambulance Number Four made a dash - to get the rest of the people hurt in the collision. Ambulance Number Five finally got to the lady with the appendicitis and took her to the hospital. The much delayed operation was successful