L^^ -^UNCJCO. ...THURSDAY , JANUARY 7. 19S7. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Therefs war news - from Wisconsin. A battle on the campus raged today. Students on the rampage. Storming, roaring demonstrations. They attacked buildings. They smashed doors and windows. This rough-house comes as a climax in the proceedings to remove President Glenn Frank. Today, Chairman Wilkie called a limit on moves in defense of Dr. Frank. He cut short a speech by George Adams, a member of the University Board, who is supporting the President. Then a group of student representatives appeared to make declarations for the defense. The Chairman gave them five minutes to state their case - five minutes and no more. and Then the trouble was on, with roaring^ rampaging all over the campus. MATSON About the Tacoma kidnapping - therefs nothing to say. Today Dr. Matson asked the newspaper men to refrain from trying to pry into the case. He^said he knew their duty to the news, but after all itTs his own son. Yes - his own son, the lad that is still missing, kidnapped. So - there1s np news. -tOr CRIM& In New York tonight there are two men who can tell you where the trail of crime leads. They’re worth observing for a minute, because that trail of crime can take you into strange corners. So let’s look at them - one in a hospital with'a bullet in him, maybe he’ll live and maybe he won’t. The other in the Toombs, New York’s grim prison - his face bruised and battered, I I y i The first one is Bad Bill Leahy, renovmed in Hell’s Kitchen, He’s the last of the Leahy brothers, the toughest of the tmighj— liiilll IIIT i TT Trf~TT~rTr-finpJaar who fn rorl Hr 1.1 * ■ The Leahy brothers numbered four. Two died the way of gangsters - killed. One was sent; to prison for a robbery, and now we to tell of the youngest - Bad Bill. He was a mere boy when he went to the funeral^of his eldest brother, Francis - the first^of the Leahys to go the way of gangsters* thorough* HolAtu- But the bad man was also,- a mere boy. sixteen. Tender year?, but gun in hand he held up a dance hall - then shot it out with a cop, and lost. t CRIME - 2 The police say the toughest of the family was Spot Leahy, Spot, who loved to jam broken beer glasses in peoplefs faces in o»©*jUi*oom brawls. He was also handy with a gun - handy is right. In a Hellfs Kitchen brawl tap got a bullet in his right hand, his pistol hand. So he learned to shoot with his left. He came to his end not by way of a broken beer-glass or a blazing gun. It was a knife that did him in - one night in a speakeasy battle. Bad Bill, the youngest^ lived up to the fame of Hellfs Kitchen and the renov/n of his name. He compiled a formidable police record. Once he held up fifteen taxidrivers in a tough West side joint. He had no gun on him, just depended on his reputation, the terror of the name of Leahy. He got by with an unarmed hold-up, robbing the fifteen taxi-drivers. Tonight's story is brief and violent. Bad Bill and an ex-convict named DeChessere had a game of pool in a west side hang-out. When they were through, they walked out into Ninth Avenue and pulled up their coat collars, as they walked through wind and rain. A black sedan followed them, slowed CRIME - S down as it came alongside them, and the men in the car levelled their artillery . Bad Bill and his companion saw them jxist in time. They flung themselves on to the sidewalk, tried to press their bodies into the cement, arj^t the blast of gunfire rang out. One bullet plowed into Bad Bill, His companion got a scratch or two. Tonight the hospital word is -^Bad Bill may live or he may not. trail of crime leads to another swift climax in the case of the man with the battered face. Today the lew York n i» police found La-la Mullins, who was wanted in an affair of robbery and murder. The robbery was the hold-up of a store by four men. They got seventeen thousand dollars. The ) killing occurred when they were dividing the swag. The trail of crime led abruptly to a quarrel, shouted curses, the crashing of heavy blows, and the blaze of a gun. The police found the body of one robber, and arrested two others of the gang. Today they La-la Mullins A He told hoWpin a room^ they were whacking up the stolen cash. One of them complained. another shouted a curse,one slugged La-la «uiain» and battered |SL*> mmm '-x __ ____ CHIME - 4 Vi „ fetlli^wlth a blackjack - then the shooting, f \#% jj , e^vZV«-e Itfs a lesson to observe leads I STRIKE In the automobile strike, the prediction is - that things will happen in a few hours. This is the statement made by Governor Murphy of Michigan^* after conference today with both General Motors and the Union leaders. Favorable things are supposed to happen - for the signs seem optimistic. There has been a bit of compromise on one important point. General Motors demanded that the Union put an end to those sit-down strikes and get the strikers out of the plants. The Union refused to do this unless the Company backed down on its threat to dismantle the plants and move out the machinery. General Motors conceded this point today, agreed not to move the machinery while negotiations were going on. V' "it, ^ - — --- ^ - | A 1 ROOSEVELT President Roosevelt today spoke an answer to reports of a drastic slashing of the W.P.A. rolls. The White House policy has been announced as - economy. And there has been a controversy about how much economy there should be in the W.P.A. One W.P.A. administrator said that a hundred and seventy-five thousand names would be dropped from the payrolls. But Chief Administrator Hopkins took a strong stand against any violent slashing. Today we have the President * s decision in the matter. He writes it in a letter to Representative Sirovich of New York. Here were the Presidents words; "No persons will be dropped from thit- program who are in need of relief at the present time." And he adds that any in need of relief who have been dropped will be reinstated. TURKEY Now about the international flare-up concerning - Alexandretta. As if the Spanish crisis were not enough in this Alexandretta? Sounds like a girl with a fancy name* the kind of substitute for Susie or Kate. Nothing like that, however,— atlas and youfll^that th^Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor abrupt right angle bend south. That*s Syria, which France controls. Right at the bend, is the ancient port of Alexandretta. the aggressive new Turkey under the dictatorship of the grim- jawed, cold-eyed, Kemal Attaturk. sounds a little lixe Attaboy i But it’s a Turkish version of "Father of his country." It means father of the Turks, to which the echo responds, "Attaboy 1" In other words. It isn’t enough to have Dictators Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin bulling things around, we also the Alexandretta crisis. But who is / •It 1s a vital and controversial point on'the map. Look at your — That’s Turkey. Then the shore takes an It’s in the territory of Syria, but Turkey claims it - TURKEY - 2 need Dictator Keraal Attaturk kicking up a rumpus. The Turks have been dissatisfied ever since the after—war peace treaties split up their former empire — dissatisfied because the Alexandretta sector was given to Syria under a French mandate. They didnft say much about it - until recently. What has provoked them? The’ trouble is caused by that good old-fashioned phenomenon - somebody tried to do a good deed, which so often causes trouble. * In this case it?s France. Syria has been restless under French.control, so now Paris has decided to give the country its independence. To which the Turks respond -"all right, give Syria its independence, but also give us Alexandretta." And the good deed turns into a new international crisis. Today the Turkish Foreign Department held a conference with the general staff of the army. This follows confabulation between the general staff and Kemal Attaturk. The newspapers are conducting an intense agitation. A prominent Turkish uses the familiar words, "national honor and self-respect," and makes this ominous declaration:- "If war starts, France is to TURKEY - 5 blame.w All of which is provoking a lot of popular excitement* M appeals to Turkey appeal to %he League of Nations, A demanding Alexandretta. If refused, Turkey will withdraw from the League. Another report is that the Turkish army is mobilizing on the border, and will invade the disputed territory if any incident occurs. -*v^L i rmly^ Today France ordered its Syrian army to take measures for stopping any Turkish attempt to push across the border. A spokesman of the Foreign Office said significantly that France has more troops in Syria than is generally believed. He put the number at thlrty thousand. Just to make the affair completely international and ominous, who should also appear in the picture, but Germany, the Nazis, Hitler. Syrian newspapers are saying that the Attaturk is backed up by the fuehrer, and that if the Turks get Alexandretta, Germany will be rewarded - with oil. Yes, that three-letter word figures in the complication - oil, TURKEY - 4 Hitler to get control of petroleum deposits - thatfs one angle to jab sharply in France. Anyway, we had Ethiopia, we have Spain, and now we ITALY In the Spanish trouble, the reply of Rome to London has been delivered; a3.so Germany fs reply. These are said to be about what youTd expect. Mussolini apd Hitler agree to the idea that outside nations keep theiaj citizens from enlisting in the civil war, but there is a "but™ - Rome and Berlin will only keep Italians and Germans out when the other nations keep their own nationals out in an^effective way. Moreover, both Italy and Germany are said tp demand that all foreign volunteers now in Spain shall leave - get out of the fighting, get out of Spain. Thatfs the reported gist of the Italian and German replies, which have not been made public. FRANCE France follows Englandfs lead. French warships follow British warships. Meaning - Paris has ordered thirty-four French fighting craft to concentrate in Spanish waters. It hasnft been clear what the British intended to do by mobilizing one-seventh of the British navy in the troubled zone. Similarly, it isnTt clear what France intends. SP&IH I The battle in Spain seems as if it might be something decisive. You fellows who were with the A.E.F. wonTt have any trouble in understanding the strategy. Just the mention of the word ”salient0 will remind you of the days when the doughboys struck at those German salients, those bulges in the line, drove in at one side, threatening to cut the salient off, Thatfs just the sort of thing that Franco*s regiments are trying to do now. The Madrid' forces occupy the most precarious kind of salient, not merely a bulge, but something more like a long finger. from Madrid to the Escorial, something like twenty* miles. And is exceedingly narrow. Franco*s men are smashing at the base of that long finger, trying to cut it off; -They claim to have got across the road from Madrid to the. Escorial, thereby^u^teifythe main line of Madrid communication.^ The battle is swaying back and forth, with the Left Wingers claiming successful counter-attacks WSDDING Holland had its royal wedding today, with stately cere­ mony and popular jubilation* The news tells us that the Princess Juliana wore orange blossoms* Nothing astonishing in that yet it would haye been appropriate if all the Irgtmr the national flowers at the wedding had been tulips^ of the Netherlands* Tulip-growing is a great industry there -- mtA has been for centuries^ 8»nt18h4<y ago the Dutch staged a crazy and historic boom, the wildest kind of wildcat speculation -- in tulip bulbs. Apparently the international diffmculty was smoothed out all right* The other evening I told how the Netherlands government had decided to play a couple of Nazi tunes in defer­ ence to the Germany of Hitler* / The bridegroom is a German* Nazi z sensibilities seem to have been assuagec^frysrfchTir, because in the mountain of messages of congratulation awi there was one from Hitler* J Holland had its other wedding today, the other Juliana went to the alter. Ordinaril^y it wouldn’t have been proper for anybody else to get married on the same day as the Princess. But the exception was made for — the other Juliana. Because — ADDING -2 she was born on the same day and at the same' hour as the Prin­ cess. A cynic might find some disallusionment in the fact we learn^*/^ft© the other Juliana is not a Juliana at all. Her real name is Petrone11a. She merely adopted the same name as the Princess* But then when the wedding hells ring out,, the cynic# waioW-4 &•*.■&***£% " ' ix ICVISIBLS They say the fabulous shirt of invisibility has been found -- over in the land of I.lussolini• I don’t suppose there’s any idea of having the Duce wear it® He loves to be seen, likwise heard* Anyway, it’s not a shirt, but an ex-ray machine. Mancini* He’s an experimenter with ex-rays and ultra-violet, all kinds of weird rays. They say that when he focusses a eerie beam on a person, strange things happen* To the by­ stander that person becomes bleared and ghostlike, and finally disappears altogether. I don’t know of what use this modern shirt of invisibility The storv^of mysterious doings in the laboratory of Doctor to be inaudible — and GO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW