PALiL C ^ oUI-JQCO ~ TKUR3,, a PHIL 2, 19oG In summer-time -- you'll see one of the little whirlwinds, spinning, hurrying along, picking up dust in a circular twirling. Take one of those miniature whirlwinds, multiply it thou sand 3 of times, make it reach from the stormy sky down to the earth, and fill it with rain and thunder, lightning, make it twist at ninety miles an hour and fill it with death and fury. Then, you have a tornado, like the one that hit Cord ele, Georgia, today. The dreaded funnel-shaped cloud, black and terrifying -- a sight so familiar and so ominous to the people of the South and the West. That's what the people of this Georgia town saw today, as the tornado struck. It was only a couple of ysax yards wide; but it struck the residential district, smashing everything in its path, Forty people were killed and many scores injured. Eight city blocks twisted into ruins l Some of the finest residences in the to ’An sma sh ed into mate hwo od ROPERY The last time I heard about a monkey figuring in a crime affair was in Edgar Allan Poe’s fantastic story - "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." But here's a robbery in Mew York today that gives us a tricky bit of monkey shines. Tonight the new York cops are hunting the crooks. ^he clew in the case was provided - by a monkey. Louis Ferraro is a produce merchant. For a pet, he has a monkey. Te’s proud of that monkey and says it's one of the most intelligent animals in the world. Last night Ferraro had a party in his home in Brooklyn, when in walked three gunmen mhe party was held up at the point of pistols. Ferraro had a roll of three hundred and fifty dollars in his pocket, Ee made an effort to save the money from the bandits. He tossed the bankroll to the monkey, and the monkey caught it. One of the robbers saw the maneuvre, and went over to the monkey to get the money. He got it all right - but he got it only after the monkey put up a great fight, ^he roboer's hand was severely bitten -and scratched, oo tonight the word is out from police headquarters, to all doctors and hospitals - watch for a man who comes with a clawed and chewed up hand for treatment. HAUPIMANN The Hauptmann case stands like this tonight: The time for tne execution of the Bronx carpenter is set for tomorrow ni. ;rht at eight o’clock. But the principal keeper of the prison announces that the execution will not be carried out if trie Grand Jury is still in session - still Investigating the confession of Paul Wendel. It looks as if the Grand Jury would remain in session on that subject for some time to come. So? as for the fate of Hauptmann, you can quote the Bible and say, ’’No man knows the day nor the hour.” More and more the xitiaromyx&snsxs: Grand Jury has taken control of the case and seems to be bent on reopening the whole Lindbergh kidnapping. Just how strong that impression is may be seen in a wild rumor that floated around today, that the Grand Jury may try to postpone things and keep the case going until the return of Colonel Lindbergh from England. Today’s jury proceedings were strictly behind closed doors. Republican Governor Hoffman, appeared and testified, and so did his opponent. Democratic Attorney General kilentz. The Governor, defending the cause of Hauptmann, urged the Grand Jury to lay stress on the confession of Wendel, that he kidnapped the HAUPTMANN - 2 Lindbergh, baby. Attorney General V/ilentz claims to have a hundred per cent proof that v/endel didn't do it. He says there's an iron clad alibi for V/endel - official evidence that at the time of the kidnapping the man was out in Pennsylvania, working on a bootlegging still. Another attack on tha Wendel confession, comes from District Attorney Geegan of Brooklyn, He (declares that Wend el was tortured in a house at Sheep shea d Bay, chained hand and foot, ; kept awake day and night, burned with lighted cigarettes - to make him confess to the Lindbergh crime. This jibes with "the story that Wend el himself tells - that he was forces to say that he was the kidnapper. Isn't that amazing?Ji A new sensation flares in Hund erton County, where toe crime was committed. Today Prosecutor Hauck accuses Governor Hoffman of blocking the investigation of an incident that occurred yesterday. The story goes - that an automobile with five men drove to the deserted Lindbergh house, from which the bSiby was sic 1 en. They told the caretaker they were inveat- igators, on their way to the house to get evidence. The care- J HAUPn,kAi;i; - 3 taker refused permission* He claims the men pushed him around* He ©till refused. They got back into the car ■and drove tovard the house. He jumped into the middle of the roadway and tried to stop them. They put on speed f arid he had to jump to safety. He took the number of the license plates and reported the affair t o th e state police, .And now., claims Prosecutor Hauck, Governor Hoffman refuses, to allow the in format ion to be given - the check up on the license number, and the identity of the men in the car, mhese bald facts are more eloquent than any adjectives about the political forces that are weaving around the cond-armed man in the Trenton death house, Who would be interested, in forcing-*a confession out of Wend el? Who could be so vitally concerned as to oq? compel an entrance into the Lindbergh property? Such strong measures are seldom taken in behalf of a penniless prisoner like the hronx carpenter. It all means that the case has been flung into the cat and dog fight of politics* It's an ugly thing to behold - the life of a man,, the course of justice in the pitiful case of Baby murder, the KAL, - 3 k/ deadly flash of current in the electric chair, all dependent on the tooth and claw scramble of a political fight. Lb* >. To<5ay in Worth Carolina, a u.an walked free. He had teen sentenced to prison for a term of from six to ten years. Of this term, he has served only one year and eleven months. Why is he turned loose: so soon? His release specifies - that he ^surpassed the mere requirements of an honor grade prisoner." He sounds like an exceptional chap. And he is. He’s the man who set out to capture the Kaiser- Yes, to capture the Herman Kaiser. Luke Lea had scarte excellent advice from his father. The older man in his Will left a solemn warning, to his son, warned him - never to he rash. The father must have known that the danger point of his son’s temperament was - rashness. But Ldke Lea was never the sort to pay too much attention to p rud en t adv ic e. At twenty-seven, he arose in a gun-toting political convention down south, and amid all sorts of excitement, Luke defied the leaders, the bosses, the big wigs - everybody. That was rash, but it worked. Yes it x« worked. Luke Lea emerged as a political boss, and became United States Senator from Tennessee - if you please. Li/, - 2 His mo st sp ectacular fame c me 'back in those agitated d ay s r i ,rh t af t e r th e Arm & + ice. f h e s 1 o gan. then was, 11H an g th e - Kaiser," There was talk of bringing the ex-war lord to trial before an international court. The Kaiser had taken refuge in neutral Holland. Luke Lea, (by that time a colonel,) formed a pi..an to kidnap the former emperor, and turn him. over to the Allied Powers - a Christmas gift to President Wilson. He gathered a party of ex-do ugh boys, and they made their way secretly into Holland, to the Kaiser’s place of refuge. They were about ready to carr}; out their plot, when the Dutch police found out and arrested them. The first that was known about it was when, the gov ernrrient of the Hether 1 an d s mad e x solemn d ip 1 o m at ic representations to Washington, protesting against the con­ spiracy to abduct the Falser, Colonel Luke Lea and his com­ panions were heir quietly in prison for a month, and then just as quietly released. It was all too rash, it didn’t work* The man who tried to seise the Kaiser returned, home to ! Tennessee, a hero. Yes, sir, I, mean a hero. Tall handsome, aristocratic, all doors were opened to him, golden avenues opened up in the business of money-making. He stepped up rapidly to a d iz.zy height of wealth and financial power. He formed huge c orrhin at ion si of banks, newspapers, contracting L h .A - s companies. Those we e, alas, the soaring, zooming, sky-rocketing joy-riding days of the boom, everybody was rash, so how could you expect Colonel Luke Lea to be prudent. His father's advice against rashness seemed to have no place when the nation’s finance g&pcacgg v^as booming and ballooning. Then came October, 19E9. The crash! The depression. And Colonel Lea found himself involved in the collapse of the Central Bank and Trust Company of Asheville, NortljLaroline, a company which failed to the tune of $17,000,000. There was a trial, his conviction, appeals, conviction sustained, and then - the grim, crey walls of a prison. Within the penitentiary walls. Colonel Luke Lea seems at last to have followed his father’s advice. He was not rash. So now he is released long before his time, as a model of model prisoners RAWLS It was a great story some months ago, when Glenn Cunninglmm was winning all those track events - wonderful to tell how he had become a champion, foot rac er„ because of an accident that had burned his legs dreadfully. He had to practice running to get his injured muscles back ± mm to normal, ^oday we have a similar story when we hear about - the Minnow, That's what they call Katherine Rawls of Fort Lauderdale, Florida - the Minnow, She is small, and she swims so well. They've chalked up a new world's record for the Minnow - at the A,.A,U, champion ship meet in Chicago# It's the world’s record for the hundred yard free-style breast and back stroke event. She swam the race in four minutes, six and three- tenths seconds. And here is the astonishing part of the tale; It's all because the Minnow had rheumatism# As a child she suffered from a stubborn case of rheumatic pains. And the doctor's prescription was - swimming. She had to spend several hours a. day in a tank or in the ocean# In the end, she was rid of her rheumatism -and found she could out-swim the best of them. BAWLS - 2 Two ye^ra after she began her cure, she held four national titles for women. Now, after a victory in Chicago, the girl who had to swim: her way out of rheumatism, is one of America’s hopes for the Olympic games* And that is the kind of a story I love to tell ECKNEH Flying above the South Atlantic is a giant Zeppelin, the biggest in the world, .and aboard the vast silver cigar is a man who is doing a bit of thinking. He1 s Dr, Hugo Eckrier, the world's most famous airship commander. The news today provides something for the skipper of the sky to think about. There's a blast against him. in Germany* The .Hazis are complaining about his conduct in that overwhelming election of last. Sunday, They say that Eckner actually refused to come out and do electioneering for Hitler. The Mazi authorities rounded up all sorts of celebrities and had them make radio speeches in favor of the government, They included Dr, Eckner in the round-up, but he refused — refused to say a word. His answer was -- well that he is a technician, and politics is no business of his* But that doesn't satisfy the ifazis - not one bit. They point back to 1932, In. that year Hitler ran. for the presidency of Germany against von Hindenburg, and von Hind enburg won, In that canpai gn Dr, Eekn er d id n ot stand aside, as a technician who has nothing to do with politics. He made a radio electioneering address in favor of ECKI^R - 2 von Hind enburg -- and against Hitler* In fact, they say that if von :ind enburg had refused to run, Dr. Eckner would have taken his place, as opposition candidate to Hitler. (oddly enough the giant ship that Eckner now is piloting is named the von Hind enbu rg.) The Nazis are uttering loud d enunciations against tike world-renowned sky-piiot. They point out, moreover, that last Sunday the von I indenburg and other German Zeppelins were used in the Hitler campaign -- only after plenty of pressure had be -n put on the big boss of the airships. A report from Berlin today declares that the Nazi Propagand a IvTini stry has issued an undercover order to the German newspapers. They're not to mention Eckner *s name in connection with the maiden voyage of the von Hind enburg. They're not to give him any publicity whatever* So you can see the political complications that surroud the first sky trip of the greatest of all 2eppelins - the flight to South America which will be succeeded by an air voyage to New York. BEDOV IN At Teachers* College, Columbia. University, they've been worrying about the education of the tent-dwelling wand erers of th e Ax abian d esert. The trouble is - they don't stay in any one place, ihey won't stay put« M ow, the answer is -- the schoo1house will have to go chasing after them, a ho mad educational institution for the nomads. The idea is being put into effect by a graduate student. A bedouin who knows the sands and com els of the Arabian desert. He’s going back home with a scho elhouse on wheels, a motorized institution of learning that will follow the Arabs in their endless migrations. They're to have teachers, doctors and nurses everybody but a chart of the alphabet. They won't teach the camel-riders reading and writing — not to begin with. They don't have anything, to read and they would rather shoot than write. But they ' 11 be taught sanitation, =snd better ways to rear their sheep and camels. And they'll be given glimpses of the marvels of Western civiliz­ ation. This will be propounded by means of lantern slides and rnot ion pictures. The Bedouin will have a chance to see such BKDQti 1^ - 2 miraclcB as sky-scrapers, cce-.n liners, subways and cafeterias. And won’t they be astonished? They’ll think it much stranger than the tales their traditional story­ tellers relate -- tales of genii, Aladdin’s lamp, and magic carpet. The light of modem days for the dreams of the Araoian ights As most of you know, Lowell Thomas is taking a vacation this week - a well-earn eh vacation - the first one he has har* in six years. And X have had the rare privilege and a lot of fun of trying to pinch-hit for him the last four nights.. But tomorrow night, the day's news will be brought to you by my old f ri end , Dr. Will Duran t, th e autlior o f the ,t 31o ry of Philo sophy. " And so it is my time to say. GO CDHIGBT ,