'Zj /f37 CAPTURg. The capture of the third of the Syracuse escapers hits the news tonight - angel face Geary. Ktstax Not a shot was fired in the seizure of the desperado. Geary had an injured leg, he hurt it jumping from a second story window when his two pals were kh captured. He was cold and hungry, dodging about Syracuse, a hunted fugitive. A workman at a warehouse saw him sneaking into a shack. The workman Ki went to the door of the shack, the only door, and locked it -- and the gunman was a prisoner inside. Then the workman notified the police, who had no difficulty at all in making the arrest. Too weak to resist was baby face Geary, who was convicted of the 0TConnell kidnapping in Albany, who is believed to have had a hand in the half a million dollar Brooklyn ice Plant hold-up, and who made a melodramatic escape from prison aMMaMfe days ago* A. K murdeb . Toda^ the police of Minneapolis Questioned a newspaper columnist, Cedric Adams of the Minneapolis star. Adams purveys chatter and gossip, and ten days ago, on November eighth, he printed in his laiim column the following bit of grim gossip. "I met a very close friend of mine in the loop last nighty the item said. He Vs given me scores of items in the past. Some of them have been little scoops, too. And hefs never been wrong. Herefs one he dropped last night. You can take it for what it*s worth: - A prominent labor leader in tl >) Minneapolis will be ,f taken for a ride* within two weeks. Today the I inneapolis police were mighty interested in learning the source of that ominous tip, the identity of the well informed friend. Columnist Cedric Adams said that he had got the murder information from a union chief, a leader in the Minnsapl Minneapolis trucking strikes five years ago. Those strikes were accompanied by violence and killings. Adams added that when he got the tip he told the police about It. Maybe the police weren't so much interested in the PS •W* ■— KrTTRDER - 2. gossip then - but they were today. Because this morning on a Minneapolis street was found the body of Labor Chief Patrick Corcoran, Secretary-Treasurer of the Teamsters Union - shot to death. A police messenger went speeding to his home to break the mournful nev/s to his family. Alien the murdered man’s wife saw the police car, she ran out, crying: ffIt’s Pat. I knew they’d get him.” For a year and a half she had a premonition of her husband’s fate. And now it’s revealed that recently Corcoran had been beaten and shot at. So the finger of death was on the labor leader^ in such flaunting public fa = hJnn that it hed become an item and a prophecy in a newspaper gossip column. Tonight the finger of murder seems to be still pointed. Several days ago an anonymous letter came to Farle Martin, organizer ox the Bridge and structural iron workers. It read: ”If you are smart, get out and stay out - or else. Get it?” Today, several hours after the murder of labor leader Corcoran, a telephone call came to Union Chief Martin. The voice on the other end of the MUKDSR “ * wire said: "After you read today’s papers, you’ll know we mean business." Murder today and threatened murder in the Minneapolis world of labor. And it’s just two years since the Minneapolis murder of Walter Liggett, Editor of a newspaper dedicated to reform and labor. It isn’t difficult to guess the answer. Union racketeering is an old story, and there seems to be a desperate underworld condition of racket and union in Minneapolis. _____------------ o —-------- —---- C< .1 otr j ^ JUUn ^ ^ ^ FRAftfCB. France made a gesture to Germany today - a gesture and response to Hitler’s insistent demands for colonies. The idea is - to share, Ro, not give Germany any of the French colonies - just let Germany share in the exploitation of the vast French possessions in tropical lands, Germany to exchange manufactured goods for colonial raw materials - such as rubber, cotton, cocoa, etc. This is the first time France has ever mentioned a colonial concession to Germany. Does it mean that the boys are softening in the face of Hitler's insistent shouts for colonies? I wonder CHINA. ^ The exodus from Nanking continued today. Most of the Americans have gone^) Only the embassy officials remain and a small group of American doctors and missionaries who iH± insist on taking a chance. They're calling themselves - die hard Nankingers. The capital of China is awaiting the enemy as powerful Chinese forces are rallying to the defense. <L And Nanking fears it may become a second Shanghai, city of A battle. The Japanese, in driving the Chinese further and further inland, are launching a naval campaign - and that's an odd one, a campaign on a lake. By way of the Yangste River and a network of canals they've moved a fleet of small armored craft into Lake Tai, from which they expect to bombard the Chinese Hindenburg line from the rear. The Chinese say - they'll fight trwis - with a naval battle on the lake, A United press esxi correspondent with the retiring Chinese army cables a story of the horror of the retreat. He tells of soldiers screaming and running like maniacs. Speeding military trucks running down soldiers and refugees. " I caw r.HINA - 2 a munitions truck explode near me", lie writes." "And watched an armored car burn." The U. P. man tells that he came upon a Chinese General, eyes red, lips swollen. That Chinese General stood disconsolately and remarked: "Things are upside down." And so they are in stricken China. WTTSSIA follct china . A late bulletin from distant Siberia. Marshal Eluecher Commander for the Soviet in the Far East, today issued a military order - telling his Red army and navy to be ready for PHILIPPINES. The China - Japanese war, already of much concern to the U. S. A., takes a new turn of American interest today. Observers are saying that itfs the Far Eastern situation which has caused the sudden change of khm political ideas in the Philippines. A drastic change of ideas there seems to be - although President Quezon spoke in cautious, gingerly terms. Quezon is shrewd, a master of subtle approach. Word from Manila tells how he spoke up for Philippine independence, demanding complete independence now - immediate full severance of the tie with the United States. He said it should come right away - if it is to come at all. But if it is not to come, why, said he, "then weTd better start talking about something else," What else? perhaps - dominion status, the Philippines under the American flag, as the British dominions are under the British flag? Quezon said: No, that was not being considered. But - if it is to be discussed, they’d better start discussing it ri^ht away. It’s all like saying, nwe insist on having this and If we are to have it we want it risht away, but if we are not TTTII^PINES - 2 . to have it rijsjlit awc^y} let*s tailc about sonietliin.g else.tT V/ell, you can’t blame Quezon for the subtle approach. Philippine leaders talrcecl up independence so hot and heavy for so long that the masses of people in the islands are all for it, aren’t thinking of anything else. So it’s exceedingly awkward for the Manilla Government to start backing away from full independence - the removal of American protection, tossing aside the power of the fleet of the United States. Yet Quezon’s guarded remarks are being interpreted in precisely that fashion - a sign of backing away from total freedom. And tonight the change of mind at Manila is attributed to the Japanese invasion of China, the s war ambitions of Tokyo in the Far East - empire dreams of Dai Nippon, as the smoke of battle rises in China. The Philippines, wholly ^ree, completely divorced from America, might be next. so Manila thinks more fondly of the stars and stripes and the heavy squadrons of the American-Pacific fleet. WEDDING There was not a single wedding at Johnstown ■ftenaeiAvfeHfri*, today, and that's too bad - because Mrs Knox was eighty years old today. The whole town celebrated her birthday, because Mrs. Knox is one of the dominant business leaders of those parts. She was fifty years old^ when a gelatine company was left to her by her husband, and from then on she managed it on to prosperity o and millions. Life began at fifty for her - life and business success. So Johnstown had a birthday celebration today, but alas - no wedding celebration. Mrs. Knox, the business woman, is also an orchid grower - one of the foremost of the nation. She has magnificent greenhouses, where the lush flowers of the tropics bloom in beauty and profusion. And one of her turns of philanthro y is - orchids fx® for brides. V/hen there's a wedding at Johnstown, she gives the flowers. The bride can come and take all the orchids she pleases. So, on the Eightieth Birthday of the Lady of the Orchids, the rleasing fitting thing would WEDDIflG - 2 have been — weddings in Johnstown and heaps of orchids for brides. But Mayor Harry Jenner informs me regretfully _ no brides and grooms today, only a birthday. Though — wedding days and birthdays are related somehow. ^t any rate the story of eighty year old Rose Knox, who in her eo-called old age built up, and still runs, a million dollar business may encourage someone, somewhere, who thinks he*3 too old. Q LIVT^H SAUSAGE Today in a New York Court a man bowed his head and wept -- great tears of uncontrollable grief. He is suing for the alienation of affections of his wife. His name is Charles A. Stiff, and he is a baggage master. A chain store executive he declares, stole his wife's love away. In the court proceedings the moment of pathos end tears came when it was told how Ars. Stiff, in preparing her husband, Mr. Stiff's lunch pail, neglected to put in the liver sausage, the liverwurst. Baggage Master Stiff says he suspected for some time that his wife's affections were growing cold. Then he knew it -- when one day he opened his dinner nail and instead of the liverwurst found a cold potato* Then he knew -- the chain store executive had broken u^ his home. The lawyer for Baggage Master Stiff told a mounrful story of a wife who wanted filet mignon, while her husband was content with liverwurst - and she gave him cold potato. CONG'RES d . The wrangle In Congress today was about the same as it was yesterday --a combination of the anti-lynching bill and the agitation to do something about the business taxes* The southern senators talked and fillibustered against the bill uiiat would put the hand of the Federal Government in the south to stop lynching* In the midst of which -- the demand grew louder that the tax on surplus profits be revised or done away with altogether. senator Clark of Missouri declared •pCt u outright H&flk the majority of the Senate « mmb in favor of A, ^ A doing something for business by doing something about those taxes which have been handicapping business. The Administration program seems to be lost In the shuffle -- although it was announced today that the Farm Bill which was advocated by the President will be ready to submit to the lawmakers on Monday. SENATE. For Senator - the husband of the richest girl in the world. The news today says that James Cromwell can ye the senate if he wants to, as successor to Harry Moore* Cromwell is the husband of Doris Duke of the fabulous Tobacco fortune. Democratic leaders want him to^they say* ROOSEVELT The illness of the President always stirs a wave of concern in the United States. The White House has had more than its share of casualties from illness — Presidents X sex Zachery Taylor, William Henry Harrison, and Warren Harding, so itTs a relief today to read the bulletin issued by - McIntyre. No, not the genial presidential secretary, Colonel Marvin McIntyre, but the presidential physician, XxxxHaxx Dr. Ross T. McIntyre. Today, for the third consecutive day, President Roosevelt was confined to bed with an infected tooth - accompanied by an intestinal dxxtxx disturbance. This morning Dr. McIntyre extracted the tooth - although he had hoped to save it. Our sympathies are with the President. Whatever our political differences may be, we are unanimous on the subject of having a tooth pulled* Presidential physician Doctor McIntyre's report is as follows: " There is nothing to give any alarm at all," he says. " The President has only half a degree of fever, and that should end almost immediately.,T jtnnflTCVELT - 2 That was followed by a report for presidential secretary Colonel McIntyre. With Secre ary Erley, he visited the presidential bedside, and the announcement is that the chief executive cracked jokes with Steve and Mac. And that Indeed suggests convalescence. Just to help the presidential convalescence along, herefs one. If President Roosevelt should happen to be listening. Although — I must begin this joke with an apology. WINDSOR One evening a counie of weeks ago I remarked that A. we had had enough Windsor storiesA enough of the Duke and Dutchess, and the unfortunate housing trip, and it was about time to lay off. But how could you, the way the theme of the Ex-King and his American Duchess kept forcing its way into the news? again tonight. can repeat that ■trh-txgat all over Of course, it would be easy enough to skip the Simpson-Raffray wedding today. Ernest Simpson, former husband of the Duchess of Windsor, and Mrs. Raff ray, girlhood and lifelong friend of Wally of Baltimore - married. But then - ii in today’s news along comes the Unemployment Census - with a Windsor slant. I gave a broadcast the night before last about that count of the jobless, which perhaps makes it a bit more interesting to me. Anyway, the giant tabulation was sure to bring a cror of oddities - always a diverting element in the news. And the first oddity I ve seen came along today. WINDSOR 2 Un Washington the clerks were sorting out a mountain of those returned unemployment questionnaires, when — up popped one signed wDuke of Windsor": For the Ex-King the following was filled in:- Profession — housing expert. No home. At present unemployed. I>m marking that down as the first Unemployment Census joke and the fourteen hundred and seventy eighth Duke of Windsor joke.