A*'* XC:'A sooa lo have a criminal trial That *ni be features ay star aerfoi-.:'..,ncas of what the underworld calls — sjusiiliiit. .ne nines case, which resulted in the conviction of a famous laaaany leader, was quite a concerto of states evidence given by former henchnen of the hutch Schultz policy racket — vixie i->av*s m particular. But Mew York's next court sensation will ce - still louder example of witnesses telling all. It will fee the trial of Johnny Torrlo for income tax violation — thl^fc-*■"*•■♦**/ Johnny -orrio who Wd.s once a teacher and partner of scarface r.l Capone in running Cnicago's bootleg underworld of prohiticion a:-.j s. lorrio was cacly shot up in the gang wars, and vanished — leavinir ~carface /-.l in soxe lornship. Nothing was heard from hi., for ye rs, cut recently he has attracted trie attention o» the tc . law^ and now comes trial charged with tuheam tax frauas. testify ata.n-1 nia will ae - nixie Uvis, the same one-time Butch ochuitz lawyer wno was the st, r witness nganst iammany A It is announced that one Of the witnesses^1 leader James . rines. we w M l have hlxle Dovi.s in^tcsnsoocrai- * V It ,, rjyet uF fftni'f), ' I 1 rnony against forrio wii* alsc ce tiveii .y r.is olo. pal ana colleague -- Capone. .No, tear: ace Ai *on* t cepart ivo u Alcatraz ana cosae to Ke» icrk to taie t-e witness a&nd. ni^ evidence against lorrio «ii_ be read, it has aj-ready teen given. ^t alcatraz he aiotated it_a fifty page deposition. of the gangland story ojf ho* young J< lorrio of -»ew/forA was brought to Chicago as a bodyguard' ^nd how ne became a ganfc bo^s there, and^dn turn he brought another jM^bmising young nan from iork to Chicago, as his assistant — acarfueo Al Ctipu!ig.iL he donH itnow what happened between those -two A in the fueds and murders of the paa prohibition era, for today Capone with fifty pages of evidence is helping the government to prosecute lorrio — ana xfr says he is glad to do it. COUNTERFEITING There*s a big Chicago counterfeit case, and today we get some Sherlock Holmes crime drama - the mystery of the jars of preserves and the four trees. Lustig, "Count" meaning "counterfeit." This spurious nobleman was convicted of making spurious money and sent to prison for twenty years. The federal authorities got word that eighty thousand dollars of the Count’s counterfeit was being circulated by two other men. They intercepted a couple of letters, with one ef the- two mem in Chicago writring -to the other in moot mystorieuc faohtoii. ruined the preserves." Another said: "The spring thaw has come. It is time to replant those trees at the fifteenth hole. The fourth tree should be moved six and a half feet." With this cryptic missive was a sketch map of a golf course green with four trees in the background. So there wxxxtfaaxg were the clues, preserve jars, fifteenth hole, fourth tree, six and a half feet. The government sleuths found that the two cryptic The story goes back to the nobleman called Count Victor "Water got into the jars and correspondents frequently played golf on a certain Chicago course^ CQUNTERFEITIKG - 2 err ing often made bets on the fifteenth hole. A trip to the A golf course showed that the fifteenth hole was accurately depicted vJitfL -tL& ^rs^rCt^e^z, by the A They went to the fourth tree and paced off six and a half feet, and started to dig. they unearth three fruit Jars A crammed with eight hundred and ninety-four $2Q-bills, counterfeit. nearly eighteen thousand dollars worth, r\ Thatfs how the government Sherlock Holmes solved the mystery of the preserve Jars and the four trees GARDNER A famous train robber and prison breaker of times gone by is under indictment at Portland, Oregon. Too bad, because it's a painful incident in the romantic story of a notorious convict going straight. ^ears ago, Roy Gardner robbed trains in the old wild west fashion and crashed his way out of Jail in hair-raising escapes* He was captured and recaptured, until finally they got him behind unbreakable bars and he stayed there. One time when Train Robber Roy Gardner was captured, it was because of the quick work of police officer Louis Sonney at Centralia, Washington - and the policeman got the reward offered for the apprehension of the bandit. With this money, Louis Sonney set himself up in the film business, and did well. He never forgot the convict to whose arrest he owed the beginning of his prosperity. Roy Gardner was in prison for seventeen years, and every month Louis Sonney sent him five dollars. Seven months ago he was released, and when he stepped out of prison, there waiting for him was the one-time policeman who had captured him those years ago. Sonney gave Gardner a Job at fifty dollars a GARDNER _ 2 week in his film business - to rehabilitate. But apparently that 11 Gardner said the fifty dollars a week X gave him was trivial,” the film man declared today. He said he should get as a bandit - in collaboration with a newspaper woman. They had a squabble about money, and the one-time train robber wrote her a letter. He says it was just sarcastic. But authorities say it was so unprintable that now hefs indicted on a charge connected with the United States mails - held on bail of two thousand dollars. Nevertheless, the famous bad man of times gone by announces today that he is going right ahead with some lectures he^ planning to give at the Golden Gate Exposition, lectures on the theme - crime doesn*t pay. He might add;- sometimes letter writing doesntt didn^t work out so well fifty Next, Gardner made an agreement for the writing of his life pay either GIANTS There was a battle of giants in St-Joeepi^ Missouri, today - though only a court battle. Robert P. Wadlow, a circus giant called A the t<ullest man in the world, %m suing a doctor, who wrote an article Wadlow was not normal. Today, two witnesses for the doctor’s defense were two other circus giants. Jack Earle and Glenn Rider. Wadlow simply looked down on . A A ---- - them. One is only^iiit^j more than eight feet tall, the other a mere seven feet tall - Just a shorty. Wadlow is eight feet eight. The two giants are testifying that they read the article the doctor vo—o wrote, and harm in it. In addition to all this gigantic testimony today, there was rather * Lilliputian bit of evidence. A Chicago hotel doorman, of pitiful ordinary stature, testified for the defense,, and told of trying to take a picture of Wadlow in his full majesty of eight feet eight. The giant, he says, demanded fifty cents for the right to photograph him. The hotel doorman refused to pay the fifty cents, but snapped a picture anyway. "He called me over to him," testified the doorman today. ’’When I walked up 1® be hit me ith his fist. ^knocked me ten feet.” Just Gulliver among the Lilliputians! FIGHT I think that at-this- moment I-should- cali ^gpcm-ai-I-of—^s. mon te bow onr heads in sedness and syiHpathy for a sepeewing—brothei^, a-fman -who-ls^-in diificnitles -tacaua© those -dangarona. end o^ten-deediy people j ee-llod womon^ Cliff Henderson is a sports promoter - accustomed to the society of wrestlers, prize-fighters and similar uLLld'^and inoffensive persons, but unfortunately now and then one does get into the society of women. And that*s when the* bgqttfclyTtaMnlly hegtTTUb Poor Cliff is accused of hauling off and socking a lady. Poor Cliffl today, the melancholy sports promoter -cxplaingt ►^—he-^id-net-take a puneh-at-¥iv ian Ooe-y- the bea»t 1 fe 1 eherjw>-g4r^ wf-ngyer struck" a woman in my llfoy**----- asseverates Tib— In^expianati^ he tells a story of two beautiful ffimxx choi^Si>^=*i«fc=^ deadly rivals. Dazzling Vivian Coe and ravishing Louise Burnett have frequently competed against each other aa tehing-fcaT"'charms and—f««qittati.-ono in beauty contests, against the-other* her you canw^rstend-t he pathew-of— narratien,-ay he’-tells "it ^ these—werdat— - 2 - nl was standin8 on the sidewalk," says he, "talking to , , ______ __ Louise Burn"tA* of whom^ttaksfl* is professionally jealous. V V ' /V Just then aru»t]a»r. oh»ruc walked by. She turned ^ A. and said something about wanting to give Miss Burnett a piece of her mind." seems to^ave been the-p^inb-where QMff-showld- have clearod out as fast"a's~ppjsibley»becQuo<»\!^o man should stick wuacs, around when two Sl?ly two beauty contest rivals, are giving each other pieces of their mind - if any* But Cliff stayed there, and here’s what he says happened. "She hauled off and took a swipe at my chin," he=4» "I put up my hand to defend myself - I did not c*, strike her And then he adds Ala that plaintive protestation nX never struck a woman In ay life." Poor Qliff p^rfcr:ai**->*' i-m-ln-lT think that- the- eughrfe-t-ef 9he4-e— sot rfor-himt* SPAIN li f Another day of fighting between the in Spain and the Communists. Time after time the Madrid radio has announced that the Communist revolt had been suppressed, irtth l new reports of more battle, yoday^s news - r1 Hi! described violent clashes in Madrid, and in other places in the Republican area* In the afternoon, a dispatch came through declaring once more that the Communist outbreak had finally been put down. The latest word this evening is that fighting is still going on. 6 The Franco armies have been sitting quiet, while their enemies are tearing each other to pieces in a civil war within a civil warT^ The insurgents seem to have been observing some sort of truce, but 1 : dispatches today tell^they1ve pushed forward a bit. No, not fighting - no battle. Wefre told that Franco's men simply walked over and took . : :: possession of positions abandoned by the Republicans in their fighting among themselves, troops withdrawn from trench lines to fight the Communists, and the Franco people taking over those trench lines. SPAIK - 2 Burgos orders Its Navy to sink any vessel entering the tli three mile limit of the Republican coast. This has produced repercussions in London - for the British are always touchy about sea rights. Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax told the House of Peers today that if the Franco Navy sinks any British ships. His Majesty^ government will regard it as a most serious matter. The Foreign Secretary indicated that Great Britain will not tolerate or recognize the Franco blockade. BRAZIL American millions are being thrown into the South American battlefield of trade, stacks of United States cash to counteract the commercial drive^the totalitarian powers* Germany and Italy, Today, Washington announces a big deal with Brazil, a hundred and twenty million dollar deal according to report. Washington is advancing that much to Rio jn ; f to promote American trade in the land of the Amazon. The arrangement is something like this. Brazil agrees to eliminate artificial money and trade barriers, declaring freedom of commerce, a wide open market for American goods. Moreover, Brazil will pay its American debts. In return, the United States government will advance credits with which Brazil can buy American merchandise, j|| f! financial aid to the tune of a hundred and twenty million dollars — it is said. Thus the government paves the financial way for American business to compete with German and Italian trade policies in Brazil. S 1 from the White louse SPEND k Cut expenses t— tliat word now. President Roosevelt today had a conference of officials. one of them Senator Pat Earrlson of Mississippi^ TJc strong advocate of government economy. B* talked about cutting down the x? spendliag, and says that the meeting with the ~F\ ^ ^ President was "completely harmonious". Prcoident Reeoovel'# to).d the conference that expenses should be cut m SL whenever possible. STRIKE In Washington the strike picket lines have caused the cancellation of a great annual function - the banquet of the White House Correspondents. Every year that's one of the hilarious events of the season, with the President in attendance and a veritable "Who's Who" of politics and journalism enjoying the show. But it won't be staged this^jww - no scintillating bill of radio headliners, no parady newsreel got up by my colleague. Lew Lehr of SOT Movietone. All because of the hotel strike, with picket lines drawn around the hostelries of the national capital. Today, officers of the White House Correspondents Association had a conference with hotel managers and labor leaders and were told the strike wasn't likely to be settled Whereupon the correspondents announced a cancellation — because of the problem of the President and the picket line; they didn't want to cause a situation whereby PresidMtRooB»OT£fct^viould^have to choose whether or not to pass < /l through the cordon of strikers around a hotel. All this provoked some lively debate in Congress today. Republican Repres entative Clark Hoffman of Michigan made ironic STRIKE - 2 remarks about the President and the picket line. Republican Representative Knutson of Minnesota chimed in. He thought th, orrespo.-ijents' btoquet wa^to haT^^been held \t the Wili^rd, and h4 remarked that thejWillard hds two stately entrances - boti picketed. The Mayflower, on the\other hand\ has many entrance including on^ through^the drug ^ore. So th^ Congressm^b asked\why ti^(*y tranofog th* bfmqMQti 4o the Ma/floweF» The guests, the Congressman pointed out, could go in the drug store, rl and spend a few minutes there, as if having a coco cola or a soda Then, when the pickets outside were not looking, they could sneak into the hotel. A great idea. Congressman, but it would hardly do for the President of the United Statesl There was a good deal of Republican comment about various New Deal executives being embarrassed by the picket line, sneaking into their hotels, trying to slip by when the pickets were not looking. Well, there would seem to be a dilemma when a passionate political partisan of labor ±* juui lives in a hotel that has a strike - it * s tough to have to move out all of a sudden, and it’s embarrassing to stay in. SKPKK % It would take a bunch of professors to get up an idea like this - a solution of the pole cat problem at Teaneck, Hew Jersey. In the basement of the Bergen County Junior College, there lurks the kind of kitty affectionately known as the skunk. It's tucked away in an obscure out of the way corner, and nobody w—to go >1 j I If near him. They've been trying to devise ways of getting the pole cat to depart# wfcc* Up stepped some professors. brilllanl ideal "Let's try sulphide," they announced. A * fin inspiration. Now every chemtry student knows that^.^arbun is a particularly malodorous gas, often called - rotten egg gas, named after what it smells like. And the professorial theory was — to get rid of the pole cat by stinking it out. Imagine a good old fashioned American skunk with his ripe and rare aroma being embarrassed by the mere smell of over-ripe eggsl Kranutid He'd laugh at their he'd think it^a rare perfume, attar of A rosesXwkH the professors tried it out. They flooded the basement and gKTTNK » 2 the only result is that today the school is perfumed in two A- - rottejiv eggs plus skunk. And tfvuui professors run our governmentI / 7 £<Zr7TASU2il<f 1'4/.lf . Auth . l£> ?