STRIKE dL.^_^r yf t/ 3 , / 1 <$4-. ' At Governors Island In New York fifteen hundred troops of the regular array were mobilized today. Two ferry boats got up steam and are standing ready. Buses too are waiting. Everything is prepared to transport those companies of the regular army. All of this ism by order of the President of the United States, who has directly intervened in the textile strike situation GL h J l VV^O- Sfcsafe^^depends on the next word from Rhode Island, on a call from the Governor of that state. It was a whole sequence of dramatic events that provoked drastic presidential action today. Dangerous strike news from Rhode Island kept flashing into the summer White House at Hyde Park, hour after hour. The Presidents morning paper told him of a wild night of violence, shooting, fighting, mobbing, smashing, wrecking in the little state that is so overwhelmingly devoted to industry. At Uoonsocket mobs raged down the streets, smashing windows, looting stores, wrecking houses and cnarging in concentrated masses against troops and police guarding the textile mills. xhe soldiers opened fire. There was snooting in both Woonsocket and § ■j STRIKE - 2 the nearly mill-town of Sayleeville, two hundred shots in all -- scores of people injured, one man killed. With that as a starter the President received official word from Washington that the Winant Board of Mediation was up against a stone wall -- no progress. Chairman Winant reported to Mr. Roosevelt that the mill owners had refused flat­ ly to arbitrate. The strike leaders had already said that they wouldn't arbitrate so long as any of the mills were kept open. After that later news from Rhode Island grew more and more ominous. The violence was continuing, increasing. Governor Theodore Francis Green reported that things looked black* The % ■> police commissioner cf Woonsocket was telephoning to the Governor for troops, more state troops. Every available national guard­ sman had been sent, but that wasn't enough. One vivid thing was -- tear gas bombs, or the lack of them. Barrages of tear bombs had been hurled at the mobs. The supply was running low. A plane took off from Pittsburgh with a fresh supply for Rhode Island. But the plane with its cargo of war gas crashed. The pilot was killed. STRIKE - 3 Into the summer White House today the wires kept telling the same tale -- violence in one place, violence in another. And the Rhode Island Legislature was gathering. It was called in special session by Governor Green, to appropriate one hundred thousand dollars, special funds to quell the outbreak and to increase the State Police force from sixty men to a thousand, the recruiting to be done at once. And the Governor issued a proclamation calling upon ex-service men. World War veterans, to jump in and help the National Guard. He declared that Communists are leading the rioters; and called it a Communist revolt. Reports from the scene of disturbance seemed to indicate that the situation had got out of the hands of the strike leaders. The Chief of the Rhode Island Union Delegation was asked by Governor Green to intervene and use his influence to stop the turmoil. The Union leader went to the battlefield at Sayesville and tried to address the rioters, and persuade them to quiet down. He was stuck on the head and woke up in a ho spital STRIKE - 4 Such, in brief, was the news that flooded in on President Roosevelt, Then he acted. He took the receiver from the telephone and put in a call for Governor Green in Providence. What did he say? Approximately this:- "If you want the United States Army," said the President, "I’ll send the troops into Rhode Island to restore ord er." Yes, President Roosevelt declared that he was ready to order regiments of U. S, Regulars to march into Rhode Island -- the moment the Governor asked him. Then he got in touch with headquarters in Washington, Fifteen minutes later in Washington, General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, announced that the Federal troops were ready. And he flashed the order to Governors Island to have the troops there prepared to move at a moment’s notice. Meanwhile, the Rhode Island Governor announced that before calling on the President for Federal troops, he would consult the Legislature’s consent before making the drastic move i STRIKE - 5 of summoning the regular army. So that is how the matter stands. The United States Army now waiting for the summons from Rhode Island, and waiting for the executive order of the President of the United States as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy. A leviathan ( I suppose it had to happen -- the Leviathan back in storage. Each Trans-Atlantic trip she made was at a loss of over a hundred thousand dollars to the company. The contract under which the big ship was bought from the Government called for five round trips. The five trips have been made. The company has decided not to go on losing, so today the biggest ship afloat on the seas is going back to drydock — too big, too magnificent, to earn a nickel. She carried more troops to I • i : n Trance than any other vessel. She retires today. And today is General Pershing's birthday — just by way of coincidence. ! riiORhO. u [j.. h A ■ i, Ar r-o C-c,11 A i nV..,s ti . h•! on ha s bittA-r w ^ ■ f 1 n '-* r f' --' w ■ nd c ■ i un t er eh a n; n s, bl» m » and jtA<* f >'! i f ja *j Lt)n . .i-vrirl no day t,hes© took a. aurnrisini tui*n with a non ant- 1 . ins no not eon corn the i i >_fwt.ed ship?. its o f‘f 1 0e5•« oi■ i t.s ere>r -■»von « ..,bo-1r<i . T t1 s ano'the^^ax* ^S- sr, — thei P>'j *•• i n a n t 01 evelond. 4% In n orns^to otre I heerlnt' todey. at the United States Cnstofiis. House in 'Ne'e York, the Captain and the Chi a - t -Of'f'ieer o i1 t h e 3 i n e r, P r e «i d en t C1 « v e 1 n d * w«i* e th e n t i n c I. p a 1 1 -nvolve'd , The Ct-n* eT-Of nicer of the took + -. = i". oi'i botbire Teder^]. Inspector Hoover * and made the charge Vtpr't iir.-.r nss c ■ ■ r ■ i n did^ife ^ot -sroi'-i nt ly on uch in lover life- boats to ,-t; r'z u) survivors. T ua .Chief—-Gf'■finer denounce *5 the Cam -in in un p t-i n. t.er^s tor -.vb^t he called an inexcusable del. ■■ v in <-otti.ng the life-boats down. out on the sea, and to the j»Apr1 vje. ' I I': f I th- t u. riAA^r'S in the somber prO'Ceedirfff s nt the investdoati on paid sr*ritbdn^ly, he h:-d forever lost all respect » ror t p contain, and would file t declaration asking him to he iVi1 i.KKl ) A. ij'A-r relieved of hi? oo^i -and. 'S© T > - e t r fouc ! lit- otn.^rs. who wei ^ around end near . ; t a::nv.h i 1 e th p •' uv- -sti. • t ion c-oe 5 on, with 11s ,n uf v:itnessp-5 ex.w-nd ; - ip : -nd « 1 fyimr the olcture of evil oh• noe ■ nd r-ipful doom, the etorles told by the survivor« . - y off'oers. V'v .mn .o ir.ifp too crew of. the shin thet s the nri de of the Un-fd Cine. I f --ve Just been in corn- .nn ! c*at» on by lon^ di g+».nce teleone., v. i th Pr:-nlclin D. dooney, .president of the Viard attH&L •h-f or.. -r*. ■ ionev > c ' n I>)p0 f tun i . In ih .• York. He h- s been A A »r:''o - nd ni. ;’nt ‘ ,r-o r})^ tr- ■< :'rm *i3Z==c ^-*=^—»iOi v-r.,j i,i <<4 He*«- • n u , ;.-nd in Fhi noi n . forty years in it. from bottom to to . Hh- rent to . >rk after • simple year in Hi ?h school k)£jr '-no pose t*'* th » • *i1 ••-*si< ency of nls company. f Wj^eCGi ^ ^r;lQ ;, .-ni th^ . • -*■' fine, V^i'pi a moment and tell ns the th out h te that are no > -r^nst xn f " s <i i oci tonight» hill v-.a t- r t is i cro ^ ie r. ‘ooney? ■edy -vf the flaojo (3a^fc(i2 is reaching out and /V j r'Uh 'Mi . 111,4 .•rovernment is now condnotinf the tnvp.stl.pati on into the hsturd^y disaster aboard the horm Castle. Naturally f" of thp VhTd line -s v;el 1 ••s t>ie G--n^r:,1 nnb1 to are -nylons r, ,oi > *-nd n.)Pn • 1 ■> f '.oiti ti e‘- +,<■■ the board of* inquiry. ’rVo *n^ri^y '- n d - the answers to the questions we all V.onld 1 i ke pot ved . Tv.in ; trv e?..ns as rich to. tiie Line ;-s to the Public. V-e - -k -erelv that until such tinre as all of the ets are brought out the public withhold -its .liricement as to the w^nv rigors * nd con^l : ctinp reports thf*t ere o before us. S • r* et ■ I - k , ?nv it. o'o hp '-id without fesr of contradiction . ■ . et i, y.v»r, p., f 4 1 ,.,ndir-> -'I". 1 • n-Ml f ' )f*d in c-.i/c > .-V Xf v;.. r,- u..d i f► &•/'-- -'.r •ro-'tO''* )r«yi ce ■••nd 11 ty «* - Tv. r. r.f 4-Wet o^.nstritC't. ; ,*■ of be '■-'I'- 1 •■ « mf ■ 'p n'' j * pr- '. r> 4 ■ ' ‘ ’ 1" f l r - f ;■ y r. f 11» r( a (■] i _____ . -■ 'in,: 'ii ' ! « <> f. • ■ i n r) ar1<=>rm? rol y. oyo ? « ■ not' • rit.t -r bo’'/ovp»r « wh•! o>> c'-'n not’- b» p 1 > *-■ !-■« h^vn-? r*'n^ f ??a.cr1 f< oe •r>f H ■• ■ ■■ ■' V:, ■ 're. , 1 m c; t. 5 r, ^ 1 r. ' ! vr r, ^ • : ■ - * r o -‘ f' O T-1 in the s® n-., t > • > onre , T nr- nn+ r'onht. r.b =-1 "U-ny nf the brave rfopnc; nonw +'"'■-+ b* «r --re *>c yo+ tinr^nrded. But rtf those v/e icuoVf tv or* ^r» «no'*' '•> to win the r 11 on up ell. EOLuO.j.?. -LV' X T’-u.-se v ere s rilcin* ..•orsi^ from a vjter^n of* fcho wor'd oi* : 1 '• ■ s * voice [}■•■* > vf been beard but little ! L th e rto i n the c* • m t rov e r sy 4 nv; ■) - ayc'i.ery element that cm ns up — a sealed bottle f-und ^lo-t-in^ no the sea. To the bottle •• ••• tr.'te that, r ■ ds* “Helo us. e are 'in pro Cos tie survivors Coast Guard officials are not sure whether itf-s 1c - r iot. -enuin^ c 11 Tor Vial - . so le oerv^rse • nd 1 UfU'-rlous ho^r. PRISON If you pen something up it will try to break loose. Men in prison will try to get out. You can take that as a general philosophy, and itTs borne out by the news. The latest plo^S^jail break^reported from the Massachusetts State Prison at Charleston. The warden reveals how a wholesale escape was planned, but the plot was discovered prison is in the news today, it was in the news in a much just inline• The whole batch of hard-boiled, would-be escapers have been shifted to solitary confinement. Massachusetts more glaring; way a. few years ago. Thie prison where Sacco A ^ A and Vanzetti were executed* imHiLEAJAH I tiad a telephone call today froin. Jerry Maguire and Jerry spiked the story I told last night about the Maharajah of Rajpiplah. It1s one of those neat yarns that go around about important people how the Maharajah, owner of Englandfs greatest race-horse, met Jerry Maguire in London and tried to find him in New York -- only tnere were too many Maguires* ;==8as#. Leek4’ngout1 of -ail -tnoeO'^ag^irooB-irag— plenty of Maguires, all right, but adds that the Maharajah found ifetefe 'Ukjzjz. . ,(It was back in 1938,” Jerry relates, ”1 took the Maharajah to Washington and Chicago and showed him the make of automobile and typewriter he could find#” So thatfe the the real story of His Highness, the Maharajah of Rajpiplah and Jerry Maguire of the Federal Bank and Trust Company of New York# Over the telephone Jerry admitted that there are sights. He sure liked America,” "He bought every n-t q *t jf m T*TEtr — * t ,R r AltlliAHAd AH I had a telephone call today from Jerry Maguire, and Jerry spiked the story I told last night about the Maharajah of Rajpiplah. Itrs one of those neat yarns that go around about important peoplehow the Maharajah, owner of England's A * greatest race-horse, met Jerry Maguire in London and tried to find him. in Hew York -- only there were too many Maguires, as#- le&k4ng for-eno Maguiro ou^ of'-all thooo Maguiruea'iiea I'tkis finding a^Tteedlo in a’-hoy. etsiakii. «« Over the telephone Jerry admitted that there are plenty of Maguires, all right, but adds that the Maharajah found j£j£S "It was back in 1988," Jerry relates, "I took the Maharajah to Washington and Chicago and snowed him the sights. He sure liked America ‘Lie bought every make of automobile and typewriter he could find," So thattethe the real story of His Highness, the Maharajah of Rajpiplah and of the Federal Bank and Trust Company of New York, Jerry Maguire DIVINE In Los Angeles a woman is suing for divorce. Her grounds are desertion. She claims her husband was too much inteiesied in lexigion. What regilion? That' the peculiar part of it. The husband left hon? to follow the cult of Father Divine, The wife is white, the husband is white. Father‘Divine is a Negro, the leader of a curious Negro religious movement. ItTs an odd story of how that fantastic black revivalist began his celestial proceedings at Sayville, Long Island, how he opened a place of salvation which he called "Heaven”. It began as a small but exceedingly substantial heaven. Every evening Father Divine served free meals to his followers, fried chicken, Southern style. He, himself, fried the chicken, which was served by Negro ,girls, whom he termed,his "Angels.” The colored population streamed into that heaven of fried chicken and angels, and where-wild revival doings kept the celestial kingdom in an uproar. The neighbors complained about the noise, ±he town decided that Father Divine’s heaven was a public nuisance. He was tried and sentenced to a year in jail, but a higher court DIVINE In Los Angeles a woman is suing for divorce. Her grounds are desertion* She claims her husband was too much interested in religion. What regilion? That1 the peculiar part of it. The husband left hom to follow the cult of Father Divine. The wife Is white, the husband Is white. Father‘Divine is a Negro, the leader, of a curious Negro religious movement. ItTs an odd story of how that fantastic black revivalist began his celestial proceedings at Sayville, Long Island, how he opened a place of salvation which he called "Heaven”. It began as a small but exceedingly substantial heaven. Every evening Father Divine served free meals to his followers, fried chicken, Southern style. He, himself, fried the chicken, which was served by Negro-girls, whom he termed,his "Angels." The colored population streamed Into that heaven of fried chicken and angels, and where -wild revival doings kept the celestial kingdom in an uproar* The neighbors complained about the noise. The town decided that Father Divine's heaven was a public nuisance. He was tried and sentenced to a year in jail, but a higher court DIVIHE -S reversed the verdict and turned him loose. After that the cult has spread amazingly. Father Divine expanded to new kingdoms,, as he calls them, and established new ',heavens,T. He achieved a triumph of spiritual ingenuity t when he hougit a airplane. Every day he makes a flight, taking his followers for "'hops to heaven." All these heavenly doings take, money. Once when Father Divine was asked about the thousands of dollars he spends, he looked piously upward and replied:- "It comes direct from, heaven, fresh, clean dollar bills." And now a white woman in. California is suing her white husband because of his devotion to the heavenly revivals, which indicates that there * s a considerable Caucasian element in the Ethiopian cult. They tell how that heaven on Long Island attracted the white folks, attracted them so .much ..that there were wealthy society women from^New York who built bungalows for themselves around the heavenly uproar* Exalted Giraffe of* thr- Tall Story Club, T want to r - prot^t, Mntf it'P n.,tbi «. to sneeze about. S wish Somebody's infringing on our or tent, tres >'-<ssing in our baoty- rd. Ttfs the Cnohoo Hay Fever Club, I h-ve no doubt t.iose hay r over sneezers O’-n go "Caohoo” _ loud and often. ~fcd on ore: o Sneezer, T .Ti'. H'rri s sneezed wfth such r ] nud Hn^ohoo" t-a-r-t via ui e.qzed b < s e^e-gl asses ten foot across the room. Maybe so. But toUf-y's newsp^oers re tellinp of Sneezer Georere Pi l «nt ’ A f'-r - i m. In Kansas once, George sneezed, and oiMis^d • t<ar-»• of ; ..orses to run »v;?>y, V/hi le driving in °- +■ •- v • in i n.n-rm . D. C. bo ”C • > cbQoed11 1th such violence another t -.n in • ri^^^nv --''le. he'sneezed, -'nd th° fellow about + ,( i - - <tv'-n tbe w ' 1 n 1 ng b ■ n<1 l ea to > 1 ^ feet, and throw 'hi p r*■ rdc j ■*> ■ '>/. up 1 th thf t nr rti nul ar sneeze, George alew out Ivoth .,f t s ton - 11s. Mow t ?sk ^ou. Tht r-1 ■ ' 1 i* no cn ^zl ng club, that’s tall storv ^Uib, K fe': I 1 sii n •j I 'Theyi r® •'*ot f.n^^rs thev* re snoreme 1 i ^rs. And bn4' r.i •• i.nt ' our territory. •,> wuuldn* t flre«m of but i nto theirs. We dnnM: sneem-. we stink to our tall storie?. C^n* (no , * rd--- t^'O uvJiiU Uu's'l i.t TO:a0aliOW *