^ A S' t 4~ i £ a * j . ^ 1^ ■b't~ Well, the great kidnapping mystery came to a romantic ending this afternoon. There was sensation in the news as it flashed across the wires, one of the biggest manhunts was on in the middlewest. And why not,—with the--d4eoppeoi«s*»ee of. F Qpd Gom p« wy^--—d r on d- □ u ^ err-g 1 owedding '-b^l la. Harry Bennett is chief of personnel for Henry Fordj in charge of team hundred anti forty thousand-workers. He’s in A 4 command of theFord Company private police, a formidable organization. As such he has been in bitter conflict with the C.I.O. Union elements trying to organize #*© Ford employees. Also he has lent a hand in the breaking of many a crime case. Harry Bennett is a mighty magnifico who lives in a mansion like a castle at Ypsilanti, Michigan. He has three daughters, one of whom is the Gertrude, fondly called "Trudy." Some while ago, Harry Bennett as chief of^Ford personnel gave a job to a young man named Russell Hughes. A lively chap is Russell Hughes, known for his skill as a tap dancer and as a ELOPEMENT - £ drummer In a jazz bana. Thanks to the job which the Ford executive gave him, he saved enoiagh money to go to college. He became acquainted with Trudy Bennett, jp romance began to blossom - though there is no indication that it had the parental approval. morning when Trudy Bennett and her sister Billy started off in their ear - returning to college after the Christmas holidays. Their car was stalled, frozen brakes, so Trudy phoned Hussell and he came hurrying in his car and drove the girls to school. tsfem Those frozen brakes s-oonioa tie brought .romance to a climax. Later in the day Trudy phoned Sister Billy asking Billy to call for Trudy that evening after dinner. Billy called - but no Trudy. Billy informed their father, and he at once suspected - foul play. As time went on and Trudy was still among the missing - he was certain she had been kidnapped. 8* it must be kidnapping, and the manhunt was on - the local police far and wide, the mighty G-men, and the Ford Company police iAdti+i# The kidnapping sensation began early yesterday "Trudy would call me I am sure," he said. "She has never failed me. If she 4s all right she let me know." ELQ^XNT - S part in the search. . To be sure, there were signs of an elopement. Trudy was 0 reported to have been seen driving off with Russell Hughes. It was revealed that Russell himself had left home taking an extra pair of shoes and a suit of clothes. And a bank reported that Trudy had withdrawn fifty dollars from her savings account that day. But the anxious father refused to believe, he scouted any such idea as elopment. Indignantly he said: "Trudy always did what she wanted and told me to go to hell. But she never kept anything from me." He had faith in his daughter, and thatTs like any fond father. It could only be - kidnapping. So the manhunt was redoubled, the cops, the G-men, and the Ford police got busier than ever,combing the country for miles - searching for the criminals. There was one touching note when Harry Bennett received a telegram UsiaixRi from Richard Frankenstein, who is in charge of the Union campaign to organize the Ford workers. He has been at bitter odds with the chief of the Ford personnel and police. But in this moment of fatherly anguish. ELOPEMENT - 4 all was forgotten. "On my own behalf and for the other United Automobile Workers of America,” the Union chief telegraphed ”1 want to express the sincere hope that Miss Bennett is found soon and unharmed. The Union1s relations with the Ford Company and with narry Bennett himself have at flues been less than cordial, but all of us unite in sympathy with him today.” Noble words, the generous, impulsive sympathy toward an enemy Trudy Bennett took out a marriage licenae, and tno* immediately anxious father. What relief, what joy! Trudy not kidnapped at all, just married. What words do we hear? What exclamation? whose daughter has It worked up to a climax in a big way, the climax being a dispatch from Auburn, Indiana. yfRussell Hughes and Here are the words of the father: !,Let Worn come home when their money runs out," So all ends happily, and the latest we hear is that ELOPEMENT - 5 echo which so often accompanies the peal of wedding hells. Says Harry Bennett, the father: nI hope the guy has a job and l 7F* can support her." ‘That*s what so many a father has said throughMX* the ages. ---- k .:- •:-- t -■ There’s a news story tonight which is nothing more than a dramatic illustration of an old, classic puzzle, £*5*9-Q bit of rhyme, the sort of ingenuity they call a transposition. It’s based on two words that are spelled with the same letters!-* fra*erneg± tientr oe-&&«e l-et^e»«v The two words are - ocean and canoe. Scan those two words a minute and you’ll see they’re composed of the same letters. So the puzzle rhyme goes like this: it If you would sail the ocean blue Do not try it in a canoe." Now, here’s the news story, A missing emh Connecticut boy has been found. Last week he left his home at Darien on his way to Florida - taking the ocean route and in a canoe. The seventeen year old lad was out to paddle all the way. They had been searching for him since last Sunday, and today they found him. They picked him up off Hocky Point, Long Island, his canoe floundering in the rough water. He was almost a goner when the Coast Guard rescued him. So - SaXEffiKSXMKXIK you would soil the ocean blue Do not try it in a canoeZ* Today President Roosevelt followed up ais message to Congress — in which he called upon business to cooperate. He told the newspaper men that he was thinking of a series of conferences between business and tss* government to promote better conditions. He specified tne ideasfhe thought business and government should discuss -- ideas how tfli prevent over-production and no.; to develop purchasing power in the United btates. The scheme wouic be to devise ways of adjusting production and of guaranteeing fair play in industry. Bx Did that sound like a revival of the H .Ft.A* on a friendly basis? It did — and the President knew it. He met the point by saying toa that he did not mean the creation of another M.R.A. .Conferencex method would o be something different. And he said he was against any kind of price fixing. The President added that he thought any such conference system of regulating business might violate the Anti-Trust laws. 60, he would be in favor of changing the laws, twj Itfga.i Xggg1^ H UPSON In the midst of a good deal of ominous news about decreasing business and increasing unemployment, today brings a flash of rather startling contrast. The Hudson Motor Car Company announces that it is doubling its payroll, doubling the number of its t workers. Right now thepompany is employing six thousand men, and in the next couple of weets is taking on six thousand more, t It1s adding m million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a month to its payroll. Why the burst of activity? They’ve got a total an ambitious program for a new low priced car,^nutting/aaenxtax investment of eleven million dollars. Put men and money back to Dcsrutexteyxfche /thaasaud sxfcaxfciaxH. xi t xomtpx work;/- is their slogan. » Yes, that Is vividly in contrast to the general trend of business news - today’s news from Washington, for example. There the unemployment problem looms to the foreground/ special Senate Unemployment Committee began hearings - and was told that the increase in the number of the jobless for the past , two months was the largest in years. During November and December employment dropped by s million and a half - that sassy-added to the list of workers without work. Rap SON - 2 Here13 a new explanation of the recession*-JlFe^e heard a lot of them. The bonus, the soldiers1 bonus - that was cited today by Marriner Eccles, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank. He told the Senate Unemployment Committee that the bonus - "threw recovery off balance," as he phrased it. All that money paid out to the ex-soldiers created inflation psychology, said he. Meaning - it caused a temporary splurge, followed by a reaction. AVIATION It looks as if weMl have a central government body in control of commercial aviation. Senator McCarran of Nevada talked the idea over with President Roosevelt today* and emerged from the conference saying the President approves.n The Senator from Nevada has two aviation bills right now on the Senate schedule. One provides that air transport should be placed under the guidance of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The other proposes that a separate commission be created to supervise standards of flying safety and airline efficiency. Which one would get the White House okay? That was the question. And today itfs answered. PresidentiRoosevelt is in favor of a separate and independent federal commission to govern aviation barton In Washington today [Representative Bruce Barton introduced two bills. No, he’s not out to create more laws. The two bills are designed to kill two bills, repealers. This is the beginning of the campaign promised by the advertising-inan-turned-*legislator — campaign to abolish useless laws. When he ran for Congress in New York Bruce Barton’s platform was — there are too many useless * laws, a multitude o^statutes— so let’s get rid of them. He pledged that he would enter motions to repeal them at the rate of one a week. The mogul of publicity was elect id on that platform and then^he sat in Congress during the Special Seccion — and did nothing, no repealing. Was he going back on his campaign promise? ’’Hot at all,” Bruce Barton announces today. His repealing activities were delayed for weeks, because he had to read the laws to be tossed out. That took time — and what a bore. But now Bruce Barton has read • lot of them, and he is making up for lost time, he declares his program is — two repealers a week for ten weeks, until he catches up with his schedule. And he proposed the first two today. BARTON -L- “B il .t are they? The one is the Eraergancy Bank act of Bruce Barton in his best punch-publicity-vein describes it as one of those four-alarm fire measures JfeEBH^Jpifthrought // in the panicky days. It's a complicated statute giving the President a lot of assorted powers over banking. The second bill he wants to repeal is a real antique. It's the war-time finance corporation. That was a big thing during the World WarId War and has been defunct ever since. But it’s still on the statute books — with its useless provisions for World War finance activities. Bruce Barton, who made fame and fortune out of advertising, imows a good ^publicity gag v hen he sees one. His campaign to out a lot of laws will dr- w plenty of limelight on his legislative head — the Bruce Barton technique applied to politics. :.a:. J.. KID TIGER It must feel great to be known by such a ferocious name as "Kid Tiger.” Imagine walking up to a girl and saying, "Babe, I^ Kid Tiger!” Wouldn't that impress her? However, the formidable feline has been pushed around so much he must be a tame sort of Tom cat by now. The ■■■l-a'tcs l is ~~hu UUod to become a cl biaen-and j>uhl4e—benefae^er of of. the-naii.ons on-earth, tir^ 7jT miniattirc’gepubl-ie ef""Andony.a . But wti a -4iurn Kid Tiger, whose real name is Sikorski, is reputed to have.been a lieutenant of Scarface A1 Capone in the Chicago gang wars. He skipped the country to escape an income tax charge, th^same sort of legal difficulty that sent f^arface A1 to Alcatraz. In Europe Kid Tiger couldn’t be extradited, but many countries didn't want him. He sojourned in fifteen different nations — always^asked to leave. Now; he is being ejected from France and as a last resort he thought of that half pint nation - Andorra. He promised to build a magnificent modern hospital for the Andorrans if they1! let him take up residence within their tiny baxdxxxxxx boundaries. (Kid Tiger must have plenty of money left.) But,Andorra says nothing doing. KID TIGER - 2 So where is Kid Tiger going now? The latest is that Left Wing Spain has offered him sanctuary. They say - ’’Okay, you can live in our midst.” Maybe his cash is welcome there. So tonight Kid Tiger is on his way to Barcelona, where no doubt he’ll become an ardent Loyalist^ That’s an ugly story about the two girls .ho killed a he.* Jersey bus driverobbed him — of two dollars and ten cents. One or the two is only seventeen, the other twenty. Newark police say conf essod and told the story of how they decided to hold up a bus, g*.t aboard kkk with a sawed-off ah rifle , pointy it at tne driver and announced: - "This is a stick up.’1! 'P&m ” aJh A ariver t r abbeij^t 1 1 e c an, hey shot.and killed him. " fhi .s happened two weeks ago, the crime was a mystery until now. The police were looking fo. two men as the murderers, but CAGNEY In Hollywood James Cagney is back on the Warner lot, and no doubt he111 start socking the girls again. The hard-boiled young man had a loud and artery row with Warner Brothers, and tried to break his contract with them. But yesterday the California Supreme Court decided against him and today Cagney n and the Warner Brothers issued a statement saying - all is forgiven, no hard feelings?*The rambunctious young man is going right to work on a string of new pictures - all of which would seem to indicate that a few Hollywood beauties are scheduled to get smacked in the kisser'. Cagney's suit against the producers was based on a claim that they over-worked him, over-worked his good right arm landacbS punch Fourteen pictures a year, Cagney claimed they madq him work in that many. That's a lot of pictures. And in each one a fair damsel was battered around a bit. discovery, when in a Cagney picture .a daring experiment we ^ the hero took a punch at the leading lady. Would the American movie Several years ago, Hollywood made a startling CAGNEY - £ audiences stand for anything like that? The result was awaited with fear and trembling. The result was highly gratifying. There was no audience resentment,- proving that American manhood did not mind seeing American womanhood get slapped around. Thereafter, a beautiful girl getting socked was a regular feature in Cagney pictures. Too much socking of beautiful girls^Jfl would appeal^ that at heart the tough young man Is the soul of chivalry. He doesn’t like to hit a lady, but he had to do it - for dear old Warner Brothers. And.he has to keep on hitting -the California ^ A Supreme Court says so. It’s a sad, sad story - how would you fellows like to be poor James Cagney* compelled to haul off and slam those am — gorgeous girls?