.l- THURSDAY. JAIRIARY 14. - 9^7 V GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Every night for the past few weeks the news has been heavy — serious matters, mostly sombre. Tonight it’s different, no world-shaking events — no tragic news bursting upon a troubled nation* Ihere are some things for thought, but therefs a good deal of the light and spritely -- almost frivolous. Like -- the bullish doings in Kansas City today. STEER Every so often in Dig cities a steer gets loose from some stock pen and goes rampaging through the streets. But in Kansas City today tne steer on the loose was such a lively critter, such a first class jumper that it jumped the fence of the stockyards and dashed right into the maze of metropolitan thoroughfares. There was a wild stampede, especially in Petticoat Lane where fashion­ able Kansas City ladies do their shopping. There was pandemonium as mid-western social leaders and debutantes fled with terror from the charging steer. They fled panickly into stores and tried to climb over counters and up the walls to get out of the way. Traffic was tied up, city life disrupted for about an hour. They couldn’t catch the steer because every time they had him cornered, he'd, nimbly leap over a fence. The beginning of the end came when the animal charged into a garage, anc mechanics started climbing. They just about got trie garage go or c^.osea to trap the beast, when out he dashed- just getting through. That was when the cops contrived to get a rope around his neck for the end of the bovine adventure. But the steer managed to perform one final prodigy. He gave a mighty bellow, dragged at the rope and STEER - 2 with a nimble leap jumped on top or a police radio car, Down he crashed through the top of the car and started goring the radio instruments with his long sharp horns. And that was when the art of wireless took a bad beating. The steer just about destroyed the radio car, before they dragged him out of the autenarae and loud speaker and hauled him back to the stockyards. STRIKE T1 1 At eig.it minutes after eleven this morning a group of men gathered around a table at Lansing, Michigan^4^ for a conference triat*s of basic iraportants to this nation right now. They were I representatives of General Motors on one side and of the auto— TtZc ^ ^ V <*\ -SJ ha . «M. , ., T, , VW^vte^ cSf-h£j> CU&o mobile workers union on the ccher. ^ Theyfre negotiating to settle the auto strike** The peace talk continued all day — the proceedings a close ^ icaow tonight is that after an hour of conference^^^ the union leaders left the meeting to talk things over with the Board of Union Strategy, wh&eh went witWthani to ■'the 5ajx-'8a*rf'ta£» Then the negotiations were resumed* When the conference adjourned for luncheon, the ^xiestion was asked: "Has any basis for a settlement been reached?" The answer was "no." After luncheon the talk continued through the afternoon, question was put to Governor Frank Murphy, who has been acting as the mediator of the strike. He was asked about the spirit that was being displayed in the parley between General Motors and the union. Was it a spirit of conciliation? Was II i there a mood of compromise? Skills -2 rO The governor answered: HThere will be no comment at this time," That just about expresses our lack of knowledge this evening -- no comment, as the two parties to the nationally important labor fight Miiiji to natch up terms of oeace# A £1*1. y>%JL-\C<*%0r\ --- -^irs> , -T>VArvua^v^i4 / c'r: t»nlA*2~X'* ? f , \ jn Z- ^A..,-«#Ljg —y^JC^: |^t^“ ^ - suppose ^T#Ii ri^Te a- laau^nrsTicgi &5-ai: "^4- s-.i. * ^ ~ » me x.c. s . 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I*11 lac yen ^ x" * ^ r'7 ^s - ^ y on ‘v an a a. ry ■*.* —- ne .eea -■h - PRESIDENT - 2 So after all there may be a president at the inauguration. This exchange of pleasantries today provided a bit of light relief in the heavy business of government, and here’s another light bit. It concerns* college football. Do you know that there’s one college in the country without a football team or any form of athletics whatsoever? Which one? Guess. - the electoral college. There’s a movement on foot to bemedy that deficiency. nWhy shouldn’t the electoral college have a football team?” asks Dr. Charles Wharton, former all-American star. He is likewise a member of the ^electoral college this year, alfetfcteJC. from Delaware. So, attending the Inaugural next week, he plans to get his fellow electors together, and form a football squad. Well, there ought to be great football possibilities in politics. Politicians ought to make splendid ball passers. they’re so good at passing the buck KIDNAP Tonight at Sacramento, California, a possible suspect is being questioned by the police and the G-^aen. They arrested him in connection with the tragic kidnap case of Tacoma, Washington. Let's see what circumstances there are to arouse suspicion against the man. He is a native* of Tacoma, which has a vague significance In the light of the fact that the kidnap- killer is believed to have known something about the Mattson family. The man being questioned used to be a patient treated .) by Dr. Mattson. That ties to what the criminal said when he snatched the boy - that he had helped to build the Mattson house, was now going to get some of the money back. This led to the surmise that he might be a former patieht of the doctor's, who had paid fees for treatment. The prisoner being held tonight I is said to fit the description which the other Mattson children give of the kidnapper. He Is said to have scratches on his face - it is known that the ten year old boy fought for his life. The S criminal is supposed to be a maniac, so the police are investigat^ tonight's possible suspect is one who criminal Is supposed i KIDNAP - 2 escaped from a hospital for the insane,. signs are exceedingly vague. They may mean something, and they may not. DETECTIVE Tnere’s a startling detail in the story of solving Sew Sorkts sensational crime - There was one simple fact which brought about the arrest of the negro' wno now has confessed to the crime. He changed to a suit of clothes belonging to the victim1s husband* and then took the suit to a tailor to have it altered - handing it to the tailor1s for the boy to identify the criminal. To make the story more pointed and pat, the lad is an enthusiastic reader of detective stories* and always wanted to be a detective. So now he found himself a key personality in a sensational crime case - called upon, to make a critical identification. couldn1t make the identification* couldn^t remember cue man. The negro prisoner spoke up. nSure you remember me*" YfrW, the important thing was - A assistant, a sixteen year old boy. When the criminal was brought before him he was asked brought the suit in^ <tou were DETECTIVE - 2 writing out some tickets for some other clothes^ £*-hiwaet4d wve. Then the young fellow remembered. Yes, it all came back to him. And he made the identification, which clinched the case against the^kfTler. It was an odd event for a young Sherlock Holmes - criminal identifii the BIG HORN Here1 s something to be taken up bv' the amalgamated union of husbands, that ancient order of long sufferers. They must do something about Joe the Big Horn. Joe is an Osage Indian, a rich one, (His forefathers roamed the barren plains of Oklahoma, the territory allowed them by the pale faces and the Great White Father. Those barren plains covered a huge lot of oil,which was afterwards discovered. So today Joe Big Horn is an oil millionaire.) But just the same, Joe is in oail- The union of husbands will have an intuition that there’s a wife somewhere in the affair. For Joe Big Horn is back on his alimony, hasn’t paid the "little woman" in some tirfie. So he is cooling off in the alimony jail, and it looks as though he might stay there for a while, I knovr there are some hard shelled husbands who will say, ’’Hurrah for Joe Big Horn.” They’ll applaud his adamantine refusal ! to kick in. But it’s not that at all. Joe Big Horn -wants to get out of the alimony cooler, and he’s willing to pay. He’s eager to souare things with his storm and strife. The trouble is that Joe Big Horn, being a red skin. BIG HORN * g is a ward of the nation. His wealth is administered by the Indian Agency^ which dispenses benevolence to the aborigine. And the Indian Agency wonft release the cash needed to IVo&stiat the wife, of routine red tape. So Joe Big Horn is in jail : '.OHS TER Strange stories are being told on the Roof of the World, Yes, a snow man who is entirely abominable according to the Tibetans, They have weird superstitions, of course, In the Lf"-3 so proper and sedate as Scotland# Remember the Loch Leven monster a couple of years ago? Well, the ^abominable ^snow man is not likely to make as much of a stir'in the world as that Scottish sea-serpent — because Tibet is so remote from every­ where* Tie have some rather impressive evidence about the weird creature of the Himalayas — from no less a person than Erie Shipton, the British mountaineering explorer and Mount Everest climber* Shipton testifies in all seriousness that he an ogre that lives among the snows. described as a werewolf covered with long hair. It*s said to devour human beings. ** ii far-off Tibet. The abominable snow man is on the rampage again. of the Lamas we can remember fantastic tales in a place That’s what makes it a terror among the Tibetans MONSTER -2 A wild scare on the Hoof of the World would in itself be worth a mention, but it*s all the more curious when we find so sound a British explorer describing the footprints of the jLbominable jmow man* Ship ton says he encountered them on the snows of Mount Everest at a altitude of thirteen thousand feet — like tracks of a stupendous creature walkingt ’fi&fcfcTIhey were too far apart for anything like a human being to have made. They were so large that he could fit his own foot in a quarter of one of them. He relates that he tried to track the monster* but lost the trail when the footprints passed from the snow to barren slopes of rock* t Is this another one of those queer inexplicablerstories? Or perhaps do the fantastic footprints indicate that the wonder­ working Lamas are up to a trick or two? BOHYAN iherefs a great man in the news tonight, not Mussolini or Hitler or btalin. Somebody greater than they. Not even Napoleon or Caesar or Alexander the Great - itTs somebody still greater. They are holding a convention in honor of this mighty personage, a convention at Bemidji., That sounds like Turkey or Afghanistan. But it?s Minnesota. Bemidji, Minnesota, reputed to be the birthplace of Paul Bunyan,^ the legendary lumberjack whose exploits and pywdtytgfM prodigies are the fable of the northern forest^ to story-telling, lumberjacks spinning tall yarns around camp fires. Tonight they are holding mighty disputes about the toothpick Paul Bunyan used. It is-known that he uprooted a tree to pick his teeth. But was it a pine or a fir? * point they're investigating. Some accounts say the temperature sank to 37£ degrees below zero. Other versions contend themselves wltb the undeniable truth - that it was so cold the snow was blue. This Paul Bunyan Convention appropriately, is dedicated flow cold was it in Paul Bunyan's time? That's another You know how the tip of your nose will turn blue with the frost? EUNYAN - 2 I It was just the same way with the snow - in Paul BunyanTs time, edb*c> They1 resetting the truth straight about Babe, Bunyants pet ox. The space between BabeTs eyes was the length of fifty ax handles. Or was it fifty-one? They are calculating hx AA that accurately tonight. But therefs no j doubt that Bunyan cleared the timber out of the two Dakotas to give Babe room to $xza graze.1 And in Minnesota they know Ur&ejl the origin^ of the ten thousand lakes^fcas^f ornament that state. Those lakes are Babe*8 footprints, as she wandered across the prairie. If Which leads me to make seme footprints of ay zrvcrv^ || oSSWa-r 4na SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW. * A* /