L.T. SUrjQCQ. WEDNESDAY. JUNE I, 1558 GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Florida is in a ferment over the kidnapping: of the little Cash boy, five year old "Skeegie". The Governor has offered to call out the National Guard to help in the search. An army of would be searchers was held in leash until noon today — held by the appeals of the father. But as noon came and passed, the hunt for the child could not be delayed. James Cash, the father, still clings to the belief that the snatchers willkeep their promise. But the little lac^s uncle gave up hope and took the lead in organizing hundreds % of amateur searchers. Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation took into custody a middle-aged carpenter who lives near the boy's home. They made no charge qgainst him, but adx® admitted they were questioning him. Meanwhile, as far off as Hungtington, Long Island, a note was found which was supposed to have some connection with this -K KIDNAP - 2 ka.flnapiii.wg case, J s *= sbw »pound by a freight clerk of the Long Island Railroad. The report is feitak It contained information sixteen miles from Princeton, held in the care of a woman. /\ This alleged communidation was promptly investigated by agents of the F.B.I. awat be femewkeyed thatijn all such cases wild and fantastic tips come from all over the country. that little Skeegie being held in the Everglades, HOOVER FOLLOW HOBBS 1 put in a telephone call to Washington, to J.Edgar Hoover, I 1 nead of the today. For it seemed to me that one fact stood out in various cases:- the family either paid or was prepared to pay the ransom. Yet the gictim was murdered. So one wonders whether the payment of ransom has not become futile. Along these lines I put a question, to J. Edgar Hoover. Said he:- tTI can't make a full and candid statement on this subjs ct at present.” "Your question,” he add#d, "about the utility of paying ransom I cannot answer with either Yes or No.” Then he said emphatically, ”1 do not advocate the payment of ransom. On the other hand, I do not urge people against it.” Then upon reflection the chief of the G-men went on:- "Here is a statement that I can make and that bears on a point of great importance in all these kidnapping cases." And these are his words:- "In all cases where the family is willing to pay the ransom, the safety of the victim will be substantially helped if the channels of news will withhold all publicity until after the passing of the deadline for the return of the victim by the kidnappers.” HOOVER FOLLOW HQbBS - 2 By avenues of publicity, J. Edgar Hoover of course means all of us - newspapers, and radio. In other words in cases of kidnapping for ransom, premature publicity, the breaking of a news story too soon. endagners the life of the victim. WHITFIELD Some six weeks a rich young American took off in his plane, from a Long Island airport, and disappeared. young MSV Andrew Carnegie Whitfield, a nephew of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie. There were much curiosity and speculation over his possible whereabouts. This case comes back in the news today through a lawsuit. Mrs. Andrew Carnegie Whitfield filers* suit for separation in the New York courts. The lawyers explain that the suit is merely a matter of form, to enable Mrs. Whitfield to have a receiver appointed for her missing husband*s property. Mrs. Whitfield's family believe that he is not only alive but, as her counsel puts it, "somewhere around." RECOVERY Here’s an anxiounGement about the state of the nation 7 ^President RuuBTTVUlt himself, "Since I sent jcaoi a messagf to Congress six weeks ago'J the unemployment situation has grown worse.") And he continues: "There is a gap in employment exist! now that we want to fill." 7 The announcement was made in the form of a letter to Democratic Senator Adams of Colorado, has the ^ob of steering President Roosevelt’s three billion two hundred and forty-seven million dollar recovery bill through the Senate. The purpose of his letter was to urge Congress to place no restrictions on the spending of that money, Jin other words. he doesn't want the lawmakers to say how, where and when it ±5 . t-- ^ ( $~£fT~r He wants it left to himself, that is toAte^* Harry Hopkins ^ 4 y The letter was written in the hope of counteracting the movement headed by Senator Wheeler of Montana, The Montana gentleman, and his followersdon't want to hand the President what is popularly known as a blank check. He-re —ar e-^aome—of- ST.LAWHENCE The St.Lawrence Waterway is coming Bfeyengly into the news again. Congressmen and others in Washingtonjwpw? discussing Secretary Hull’s latest proposal to Canada draft for the St.Lawrence Treaty, with which the State Department hopes to overcome the objections of ‘ ~ concessions on poiuLo wi-th our neighborc to the eet ionab 1-e* Support for the St.Lawrence Treaty came from a new source today. Congressman Rankin of Mississippi spoke up for it. Said Mr. Rankin: ”It would be the greatest relief movement ever instituted for the people of New York and the New England states.” Then- he oxpl-erinedi— meaajar^men^e--of—eleetrie--lrirght"and'---power---ra.te^..to the -ultlfflate* o-onaumerw^~a*nd—i-t-~-wouId--relieve --them of tremendous burdens - of* overtyharge^^ Ai’d the gentleman from Mississippi said every congressman should support the proposal and that it would, double the consumption of electricity in a few years ALUMINUM The administration today fired its first shot In its long promised campaign of trust-busting. first target|jta"the Aluminum Company of America. The trial began in New York TheDepartment of Justice makes the accusation that the Company and its subsidiaries in the United States and Canada have one hundred per cent control of all aluminum products in the entire Tf' Western Hemisphere. There are sixty-three defendants in the indictment. Two of them are already dead, one being the late Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon. that this trial will last from six months to a year. Can you imagine sitting on one jury for six months, let alone a year? And here’s some chatty news for the jury. It is expected PKESS AGENT ' :-r* Out of Washington couies amusing piece of news. It concerns press agents. 5 ^ nDoes Uncle Samneed a press agent?” to into t>» y^ur « el f -tka hoT o tlig l> this -round ear-tov Wait,—and--you—?hfct±i--hoa-rv he other night some of us were sitting around a table and this same subject of press agents came up with the third round of buttermilk. Someone had observed that the easier a press agent’s job, the m^re he got paid for it. Just take an example out of show business. One of the most colorful figures in it was the late Florenz Ziegfeld. Ziggie used to pay his press agents what was then a top salary of five hundred dollars a week. But there’s one man, or let us say one institution, that makes Ziggy, P.T. Barnum, even the five Ringling brothers, look like ^ U aa ^ c J2<2, Vl&V pikers: -rCdt *4: <5J2£ +Tie NEW YORK WORLD TELEGRAM sent a man to the capital S to look around and find out the meaning of the huge volume of press matter euphemistically marked ’’News Release”, which has been PRESS AGENT - 2 j pouring over the desks of editors every day for the last few years* ^That WORLD TELEGRAM sleuth found out some interesting facts* First of all, the cost of publicity to the federal government is between thirty and forty million dollars a year. All fchsFS155** spent to tell the taxpayer how th€ New Deal is spending his money and what it is going to spend it on in the future* The larg€i_bulk of that goes for salaries of *im press agents, .^hey don’t call fcteem press agents* Syyfcwasta* They have the title. nDirector of Information*” Another slice of that money goes for the*' expense accounts assistants, sub-assistants, and so forth. In show business, these are called ^swindle sheets.” I«g*tdda±±gicste^ Magazines and other periodicals are published, radio programs^ motion pictures are made and released. It’s estimated that the directors of information send out about seveh hundred million pieces of mail every yearjf | o v o rnimwa eqateyr ienough to fill one thousand seven hundred and fifty freight cars. PRESS AGENT - 3 Pn b tmn rrlrerp'-^lui(tmont wa o« over Now In case these figures haven’t floored you, here are some more. At least eighty departments, bureaus and agencies of Uncle Sam’s government send out publicity. Each of those eighty employs from two to twelve individuals each. There you have a general idea* Ifa the highspots of what It means to keep 9*m informed about your A government’s activities. That ifr-o^ •■frlTOje B»vcn hundred million—year-iy -itam# y ■! havaThad'^o -buy twaow larga COMMUNIST The lawmakers of Massachusetts are getting worried about the goniiiiunists• Some time ago they appointed a special commission of the legislature to investigate. That commission now comes to the front with a terse an# succinct little report of only twenty-five hundred pages. The gist of it is that the commission finds that the Atlantic Coast bristles with Communists. It finds that the object of the Red party in the east is to gain control of all waterfronts* And it says in so many words; wEvery indication points to the fact that the National Maritime Union, a C*I#0. union, along the Atlantic coast, and in the ports of Massachusetts, is controlled by the Communists A federal grand jury sitting in New York City, heard a lurid tale today. It was part of the story of an international espionage ring, a story of crime, of spying, even of kidnapping. The who told it were four officers of^army. They told the grand jurors what they had done to break up that International mob and bring about the arrest of several of MX& It Hitlers emissaries. Part of this weird tale was a plot to kidnap an important officer of army^ Thalr'Wgg- Colonel Henry Eglin, Commander of Fort Totten, Staten Island, also commanding officer of the Sixty-Second Coast Artillery. The conspirators were waiting for the time when Colonel Eglin would have vital documents in his possession, the plans for the mobilization of his unit in case of war. It w^s the purpose of these German plotters to seize Colonel Eglin while he was carrying those plans. XkxlAa map Broadways PRAGUE There was a brawl ill a. cafe, in Czechoslovakia, last night. If a similar affair had happened in New York or Chicago, we wouldn!t even be hearing about it. Tip. » HMwr* woWj^lstol shots and two men were wounded. But in consequence of that brawl, stock exchanges were upset all over Europe, There was a sharp drop in JL the prices of European securities. For tho* fracas happened at the A same Czechoslovakian town where those two Budeten Germans were killed ten days ago. Here*s the official version of the rumpusi-There was an orchestra in that cafe. Among the people eating and drinking was a non-commissioned officer of the Czecj^ army^_iirr asked the orchestra to play a Czeek folk song. Immediately he was surrounded by a threatening crowd. No fewer than thirty-five Sudeten Germans started for him with blood in their eyes and anger in their gestures. In self protection, says the official account, that Czech non-commissioned officer drew his revolver, and fired. He didn’t aim at anybody, he pointed his muzzle at the floor and pulled the trigger twice. But the bullets bounced and wounded two of the Sudeten Germans. One of them was injured only slightly, the other got a bullet in the PRAGUE - 2 knee. And in consequence of that, the foreign offices of the great European powers have another bad case of the shakes. As might be expected, the Nazi newspapers bristle with furious words. The German version is that the orchestra was playing a German song and that the Czech non-commissioned officer smashed the violin from the hands of the leader of the band MEXICO Here's a pretty sure sign that the troubles are over south of the Rio Grande. A couple of weeks ago, the AmericanAutomobile Association issued a warning to tourists: "Don't go south on the Pan-American highway or to other parts of Mexico if you want to be safe." Today it cancels that warning. So, if that's where you want your tankful of Blue Sunoco to take you, you can go south without fear, all the way to Mexico City. And they tell me you might even find some warm weather there, which would be a change for us on the Atlantic Coast DERM This was the day of days for all good Englishmen. Darby Day, the^_ call it*—In accordance his with ancient tradition King George was there, head crowned A by the grey—topper that's a part of the uniform of English gentlemen when they go to the races* His Hoyal Majesty attended not only out of respect to tradition, but from a good sporting reason of his own. There was undoubtedly a hasp hope in the royal breast that the experts might be wrong this year and that the royal colors might flash first around Tattenham Corner and down the home stretch. JNot since the days of Edward the Seventh has a King of England led a winner past the judges. The royal luck was out today — A the mob. the royal horse finished away back in^hExmadah The winner. a rank outsider, a twenty-to-one shot, belonged to the son 7T of the late Earl Beatty, Admiral of the Fleet. The American owners were also out of luck. One of them had a horse that finished eighth, the other was nowhere SHIELDS Herefs an aftermath of the steel strike in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a year ago. Last night a celebration was held in Johnstown, the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Newspapermen who covered the historic Johnstown flood of Eighteen Eighty-Nine. Presiding at the affair was the Mayor Daniel J. Sheikas. In the middle of the festivities, an officer walked in with a warrant. It charged the Mayor with bribery, extortion and malfeasance in office. All because of the thirty-six thousand dollars the Mayor admitted he had received from certain corporations and organizations. He made no bones about having received the money but said it was spent to preserve law and order, during the strike. Before he made his speech to the Johnstown flood correspond© ents last night, said the Mayor:- ^I^ve just been served with a warrant,” and he added: nWhat I did last year was one of the greatest successes of my life. Because a trying problem was solved without bloodshed. I’ll face these charges fearless,” said he in a flood of oratory to the Flood correspondents. AND BO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW. SHIELDS Here1s an aftermath of the steel strike in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a year ago. Last night a celebration was held in Johnstown, the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Newspapermen who covered the historic Johnstown flood of Eighteen Eighty-Nine. Presiding at the affair was the Mayor Daniel J. Sheilds. In the middle of the festivities, an offleer walked in with a warrant. It charged the Mayor with bribery, extortion and maifeasance in offic e, All because of the thirty-six thousand dollars the Mayor admitted he had received from certain corporations and organizations. He made no bones about having received the money but said it was spent to preserve law and order, during the strike. Before he made his speech to the Johnsto¥m flood corresponde f ents last night, said the Mayor;- nIT ve just been served with a warrant,n and he added: 11 What I did last year was one of the greatest successes of my life. Because a trying problem was solved without bloodshed, I111 face these charges fearless,1* said he in a flood of oratory to the Flood correspondents. AND SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.