mnwgPHmi 1111 1 LABOR ft-'J. - '$us^r<Ur L%U)J d^T, £jr 7 ^. Strange to relate^it looks as though peace between the American . ©deration of Labor and the C.I.O. were definitely possible. The conference of delegates haS been going on all da; at Washington^ If we Judge by the proceedings of the recent A*F» of L* Convention at Denver and the fireworks from the C.X.Oe session at Atlantic City? we should suppose that today*s conference must have been a somewhat awkward, chilly affair. On the contrary, we hear that the proceedings were cordial and Jovial. As one of the reporters remarked, not a black eye, 4-n oighfry-aoi not even a scratch. In fact it became conspicuous that the representatives of these so recently and bitterly hostile bodies were chatty and smiling, and slapping each other on the back. However, that conference *still has a long and difficult path to travel, *»-*»*»* Men who know the Union labor world say that the rank and file of both parties want to make peace. The general mass of the members of tbe A. K. of L. and the general mass of the members of the C.I.O., are only too willing make peaoa* But, they say, it ds the^eaders on both sides ^1 JJ l T.ABQR - £ who not only differ in their opinions but personally hate each other* While this peaceful meeting was going on, another confer­ ence began at Washington. It was the annual gathering called by Madam PerkinS, Secretary of Labor. Delegates from forty-five states to consult about state labor laws. They heard a reading of a letter from President Roosevelt. In it he intimated that he was confident that Congress in its extra session would pass the long expected Wages and Hour Bill. HOOVER A remark uttered in Greenwich, Connecticut, would indicate that there*s still a grave difference of opinion between Ex-Governor Land on of Kansas and Ex-President Herbert Hoover*©# You will remember that in his broadcast last Tuesday Mr. Landon, called upon the Republican Party to stir its stumps and get busy as an effective opposition to the New Deal. But, he made no mention of Mr. Hoover’s appeal for an off-year convention next year. So Mr. Hoover is coming to the bat tomorrow night in a speech at Boston. He’s going to speak to the Massachusetts AastsStteedayy* To which Mr. Hoover answered: "Listen and you’ll find out." Then he went oh to declare himself, saying: "The crisis at the present time is too great to sit by without affirmative action by the American people." And he added: "The Mational crusade to save the American people from the New Deal must be fought on national rather than local issues." address tomorrow night reply to Mr. Landon address to give ou the information gOOVEH that he has spoken to the G.G.P* leaders In thirty-four states and to seventy per cent of the Republican National Committee about his proposal for a convention next year. And this no doubt will be a point in his speech to the young Republicans in Boston tomorrow. Over the weekend he addressed an intimate gathering of tx. the young Republicans of Connecticut at the Greenwich home of Mr. and Mrs, Sam Pryor, After which our mutual friend, Sam as we Pryor brought the Ex-President to my house^ And there Ykn* K in thirty-five states. He told me that the salvation of the ent to my chatted told me he ha^^ddressed young Republican gatherings Republican Party * and the country rested with tys the young people. And he emphasized that! SUPREME COURT That venerable institution known as the Scottsboro case has been up before the United States Supreme Court again. The Court »s verdict was thumbs down on any review of the sentence imposed upon the negro,Haywood Patterson. In other words, the Supreme Court refuses to interfere with the decision of the lower court and as the cards lie now, Patterson must serve his sentence;tte&gfiHifeoi Imprisonment for seventy-five years. However, after the Supreme Court spoke today, his-counsel announced that he was going to continue working on the case. An interesting feature of today*s pronouncement by the high tribunal was that Mr. Justice Black took no part In It. When this was made known, it rather puzzled the Washington gossips. Of course it*s customary for members of the court to disqualify themselves whenever they feel anybody might think that they have a personal prejudice. They decl^Si to referee any fight that might leave them open to personal criticism. But Mr. Black had no personal connection whatsoever.with the Scottsboro ca^ _ ... he * s from Alabama #but”~tha' A ~ * KJEW vv snpRF.ME COURT - 2 The Supreme Court today declined without comment to arbitrate a dispute between music publishers. The question was whether a song entitled, "Starlight, Help Me Find the One I LoTre" was plagarized from a ditty entitled "Confesssing.« It would have been interesting, to say the least, to havee the nine foremost judges in the western hemisphere settling a dispute that originated in Tin Pan Alley — Starlight hove and Confessing nmiaRLlM It looks as though Father Charles E. Coughlin were withdrawing not only from the radio but from the field of the printed word. His paper, wSocial Justice,” has been sold. The new owner is an organisation headed by a business man of Toledo, Ohio. And that. famous radio priest as a publicist. removes the ED THQRGERSEN L.T.:- WeTve read all about the big football upset last Saturday. Here's Ed Thorgersen with the reasons why — Your face looks a little red tonight Thorgy — how come? E.T.Well, it isn't sunburn Lowell -- that I know. I've been looking over the staggering results, and I'm ready to blame a part of it on the weather — for example: The Wind and rain in the Yale Bowl where Clint Frank and the other Eli Bulldogs beat Cornell nine to nothing. A howling blizzard at South Bend where Notre Dame beat the Navy nine to seven. While the Cornell-Yale affair couldn't be called an upset, I sorta looked for that Big Bed Cornell passing attack to click and maybe stop the Ells — but the turf was so soggy and the ball so water-soaked that nobody could do nothin' much — and of two fighting teams Yale simply proved to be the faster — more alert. Perhaps the biggest upset of the day in the East at least, happened right in New York where Brown nosed out Columbia seven to six — thereby winning it's first major victory in four years. Colombia was beaten by the Army two weeks ago through failure to make good the points after toudhdowns. In three tries Columbia made not a one, whereas Army made all three. Saturday Columbia was again nosed out by failure to kicic that all-important point after a third period touchdown - while Brown made it good in the final quarter. Begins to look like maybe Columbia should get down to concentrating on that most fundamental phase of football — namely the effective and dependable use of somebody1s foot. As for the not re Dame — Navy outcome — we called that one right — so we111 Just mark that snow-storm down as a boon to the fighting Irish and a lucky break for me. And now letfs line up the sectional leaders — and leading challengers for the mythical national crown. In the opposition So Yale gets the bid — until next Saturday, at Hi least when the two meet and the issue will be definitely | ( decided. Should Yale be defeated — then Pittsburgh would re-enter i| 11 consideration. I t 1 H I if ! I ED THORGERSKN - 3 In the Midwest the situation is a bit more involved — How that Northwestern’s bid for the Big Ten Crown has suffered a setback by Ohio State, while Ohio State in turn has been defeated by Southern Califonnia — thirteen to twelve — incid­ entally, another instance where that vital point after touchdown decided the issue — it looks like a tussle between Ohio state and Minnesota — both having one defeat — However if both survive for three weeks ^ the deadlock here should be broken when they face each other. In the Southern Conference — everything considered, the Duke Blue Devils are forging ahead as predicted by your roving quarterback along about last Spring — while in the Southeastern sector it begins to look like Vanderbilt on the strength of performance — with Alabama very close behind. In the Big Six — the Nebraska Cornhuskers appear to be the big shots while in the Southwest — Baylor remains tonight, well out in front as the only undefeated and untied members of the Conference. In the Golden West - Californlats Golden Bear stands alone with its nose pointing toward the Rose Bowl wnicn makes it about time for me Lowell to point my schnoszle toward the door. __________ tfflNTAGUE There was a touch of Eighteen Ninety melodrama in the court room at Elizabethtown, New York, today. It was a scene remindihg you of.the good old heart throb plays of the nEast Lynn", "Way Down East", and "Shore Acres" school. A gray-haired old lady, dressed in black, with white lace at her throat, walked slowly to the witness stand. Her name was Mrs. Mary Moore. She is the Mother of Laverne Moore, better known as John Montague. And she testified that on the night when her son was supposed to have helped rob a roadhouse, he was at her home in Syracuse. Montague*s sister also weni^on the witness-stand to corroborate the alibi* The prosecuting attorney a t temp ted no cross-examination of Mrs* Moore. Later on, a sardonic note made its appearance at the trial. Before Laverne Moore became John Montaguejes^fa*' famous golfer and pal of film stars, he was a bootlegger in New York State. That was brought out not by the prosecution, but through witnesses called by the defense. The object of this information became obvious. Moore and others were running liQUor and proposed to us roadhouse as what is known as a drop, a center for their activities. | MONTAGUE - 2 And that accounted for his presence at the roadhouse at various tii'es — the roadhouse he is charged with having helped to rob. That also tended to explain how La Verne Moore’s golf clubs and suitcases were in one of the cars in which the bandits fled from the scene of tne robbery. HlfiSOE According to a dispatch from Toronto, the government of Canada is somewhat worried about the proposed visit of the Duke BfxklxJixM and Duchess of Windsor to Toronto, The royal honeymooners have received ardent invitations from several sources to cross the frontier when they come to America, A publishing house invited the Ex-King to open National Book Week, which Toronto is going to what worries the potentates of the provincial government of Ontario, Duke1s visiting any part of the British Dominions, And London will probably insist that if he does go to Canada, there shall be no official reception or ceremonies. an open secret that Downing Street objects to the A anp WINDSOR Be that as it may. His Royal Highness and the Duchess will definitely be on these shores not later than November Twelfth from Farts today* Wtttnrthwanc^sfcharfci f hf momentous advlc @4 "jfhey have reserved suites on both the NORMANDIE and the B ob BREMEN, The NORMANDIE sails November Third. msA the BREMEN sails November Sixth lIpjM.iWMMMiMia.ij i i.urnaw—n ■ There1 s trouble of a new kind in the Mediterranean* A mysterious gray seaplane marked with a black cross swooped down upon an airmail base on the island of Minorca, swooped down and that point Aw A raked it withai machine gun bullets airplane base of a French commercial^airline. The attackers set fire to a dispatch boat owned by the line and the French government announces tonight that they are taking urgent action, ft ^ warship been sent to Minorca. And the French government will take whatever steps might be necessary to insure protection of the airline from Marseilles to Algiers. Another sensation report from those parts is that a British destroyer sank a German submarine off Cape Antoin^ early in October. That*s0not an official report. The British Admiralty denies it. But it^ssfflfc fact^ that German A* A submarine was sur^jfcfbout that date. The German government notified the families of the crew that it had during maneuvers But;it was believed that the so-called maneuvers were_a mission to the Mediterranean. & And; from Lond^jQ^ comes a rumor that Russia is withdrawing from the Committee for Non-Intervention in Spain. The xams rumor - 2 - was published by a London evening paper. But it the Soviet Embassy in London, also by the Foreigr A is denied Office. BELGIO-:* The row in Brussels has ended in the fall of the cabinet. Pri-iie iilinister Van Zeeland and his colleagues resigned. And A the Prejaier says in a broadcast to his country tonight: resigning to defend my own reputation as well as that of the National Bank, a great institution to which I belonged for I fifteen years.” "The solution to this crisis", said the Belgian Premier, "Bhould be a coalition government. It is necessary for national unity in the BelgiafflScinsidiHW* And he added that the charges of the opposition that the National Bank had been mismanaged would be disproved beyond cavil. This political crisis caused the Belgian government to ask the nine pov/ers to postpone their Brussels conference until November 3rd. But the British cion1! want to wait that long. They insist*^ it ought to be easy to straighten out Belgian political troubles and, «^exx=ddi»*r conference.©a=£ctobeii3S®>. A A CHINA The Japanese high command today admitted that it had run into a snag in north China. That snag was the doughty and totally unexpected resistance of the Chinese, -^t has the invaders stopped on three main sectors. This was announced today by Lieu­ tenant General Count Terauchi, the Mikado’s Generalissimo in north China. Said he:- ’'Chinese troops in Shansi Province, after sustaining several days of continuous attacks by out soldiers, suddenly counter-attacked this morning.” And he continued: "Their artillery used poison gas shells but our soldiers were equipped with gas masks and repulsed the attacks.” At hanking, a hundred and eighty-five non-combatants were killed or wounded by bombs from Japanese airplanes. LOWELL; But here's Ed Thorgersen waving a dispatch under my nose. What's up, Ed? THOR. A late United Press Sports bulletin, Lowell, which clears i up the managerial mystery about the Boston Bees — the post will go to Casey Stengel — formerly of the Brooklyn Dodger. I Now Lowell - I LOWELL; Yes Ed, - Let's both say — SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.