HOLD-UP C 3' ZiTj^.^lunr, ^l) Things kept getting hotter through the day in the record breaking hole-up case - last summer»s half a million dollar stick-up job in Brooklyn. The New York police say the case is virtually broken. They know who did the job, how it was planned, the details from one end to the other. All that remains is to arrest the crooks, and the cops are on a round-up campaign right now. They declare the arrests will be made sv/iftly. • : | I One arrest already has been made ■- a former small time boot- legger named Quinn, who admits he owned-the speed boats in which the robbers got away. He had been missingi ever since the crime was committed. And now the police have got him, and they claim he is " j a key figure. i { Eight men took part in the actual stick-up. The cops say j twelve Yfere involed in the scheme, a former bootlegging mob. It will long be remembered as one of the' most methodical and efficient | of al^^rimes. There w&s the most caning strategy and military A precision^ as the crooks held up a money truck in front of the big ice plant, snatched bundles and. bales of cash, half j^million^^ escaped in swift cars to a pair of waiting motor boats and dis- appeared across New York Bay. dkis much of the story v/e knew with the Immediate reports of the crime last summer. What is revealed now, concerns what happened to the crooks after they went whizzing away in their speed boats. Police later found the boats sunk, at the bottom of the bay., just off the foot of a New York street. So the robbers, after .their dash across the water, scuttled the boats and fled by land once more - in waiting automobiles no doubt. Having found- the boats, the police , and ggaaft-UJiH L-lU*4y belonged to the proceeded to trace thenh a " a former bootlegger Quinn. 'They have been questioning him hot and heavy, but he admits nothing more than that the getaway speed boats were his. The sunken boats were the beginning of the trail, which the police claim they have followed right along to the full solution of the crime - with swift arrests In the offing. bandit Over I** bandit has been sentenced to prison. From prison he may go into a handsome government job. ^ Hef s a famous bandit, Ladislas Maczuga, the Robin Hood of Poland. He robbed the rich and gave it to the poor. That made him immensely popular among the Polish peasantry. The authorities staged a determined manhunt for a year, but he lived in an isolated mountain cave, guarded by a ferocious-dog. The peasants of the region guarded him too, kept his secret, sheltered him, threw the police off the track. caught But at last they’ve got him. They the Polish Robin Hood in his cave, watch dog and all. And swiftly the authorities at Warsaw sentenced him to prison. But the peasants of his old stamping grounds have made a vow that when the prison term is up, they are going to elect the Polish Robin Hood to parliament or something like that. PLOT The great American Fascist plot produced some new bits of miner sensation# today. Representative Dick-stein of the Congressional Investigating Committee, states that Gerald P. MacQuire, a bond salesman with a V/all Street brokerage house, has admitted that he is the treasurer of the Fascist organization. MacQuire was named by General Smedley, D. Butler as one of those who approached him in the three million dollar conspiracy to overthrow the government in Washington and make the General Fascist dictator of the U.S.A. bond salesman MacQuire A A recently made a trip to the Fascist countries of Italy and Germany. Other reports drif>ting out of*the committee meeting tell that the Civil Conservation Committee at Elk Ridge, Maryland, was to be the mobilization point for the five hundred thousand veterans who wrere to be gathered for the^Fascist march on V'« ashing ton. In spite of these particulars, it is likely that the great conspiracy will die away into nothingness. It has been^w=eS4=**** with a chorus of ridicule and laughter. The chances are that it was nothing more than a ia lot of loose chatter around the little fellows who table, just pipe dreams and big talk on the part of have big imaginations. WASHINGTON We have had unemployment relief, farm relief and home relief. And now it machinery relief. The President, pushing on all s.i.des against unemployment, trying to find new angles of \Jl industry reemployment, is for old. a slogan of new machinery He has been told by experts who have made surveys, that I in thousands of idle or semi-idle plants machinery and equipment has depreciated greatly during the past three or four years. Much of this will have to be renovated and repaired. So why not do it now? The President is planning a drive to persuade American industry to go ahead and put their factories back into pre-depression shape. That will put thousands of jobless to work. At the same time, the automobile industry is laying plans to get gx together with President Roosevelt to study ways and means to push things in the auto trade. Miss Frances Perkins, j Secretary of Labor, is suggesting a plan that the motor makers, :! instead of running their own big automobile shows, should let the dealers run the shows In the various key cities. The idea is that, j Instead of evei'y manufacturer rushing his models at one certain WASHINGTON - £ period, deal01* sh.ov/s at various times v/ould spread out production stagger It xke over the season. And Instead of factories working day and night for several months on a rush job, they*d take it easy for a longer period, and thereby provide more continuous employment, LAWRMCE fi-' ...j- ^ I w . .V;' * I I g.- | 5 i *! I 1 t Among the many things I haven't got is a gift for controversy* I am not much good a.t arguing a point, because I always get a sneaking suspicion that the other fellow may be right* And here comes a violent attack on Lawrence of Arabia, by a Major Bray of the British Army. I feel as if I might be expected to make a reply, because I happened to write the first book the fabulous exploits of the young Oxford archeologist who led the war in the desert, The Major makes a great point of the fact that Lawrence, refrained from driving the Turks out of the holy city of Medina, "You must not take Medina, the Turk is harmless * there,1' the Major quotes Lawrence as saying. And adds that Medina should have been captured promptly. The Turkish power would have fallen more quickly if it has says he, I can recall Lawrence's attitude toward Medina very well. The main campaign was being fought in the north, in Palestine. Medina was far to the south. The powerful Turkish i.r yi-lnJ ■ t'l-j H?4- ~ ----- 4!n<iitAiift,wiiWi^i,ai.i»'l- 'sii*.. -.. ^'' 7~ LAWBENCH Among tiio many things I hasn't got is a gift for controversy. I am not much good at ‘arguing a point, because I always get a sneaking suspicion that the other fellow may he right* And here comes a violent attack on Lawrence of Arabia, by a Major Bray of the British Army. I feel as if I might be expected to make a reply, because I happened to write the first book the fabulous exploits of the young Oxford archeologist who led the war in the desert. The Major makes a great point of the fact that Lawrence, refrained from driving the Turks out of the holy city of Medina. wYou must not take Medina, the Turk is harmless there," the Major quotes Lawrence as saying. And adds that Medina should have been captured promptly. The Turkish power Would have fallen more quickly if it has says he. X can recall Lawrence's attitude toward Medina very well. The main campaign was being fought in the north, in Palestine. Medina was far to the south. The powerful Turkish I i AWKEKCJS - 2 force there waa isolated. That's the way Lawrence figured it. Better let them stay tied up in Medina rather then have them ' join the main Turkish Amy battling the British in Palestine. Major Bray repeats a familiar accusation against Lawrence — that of vainglory and theatrical postures. Lawrence's famous attempts to hide himself away in obscurity have been interpreted as a good deal of dramatics. This was wittily expressed to me one night by Colonel Isham, the American connoisseur and collector of rare books and manuscripts who was on the British staff during the World War. Colonel Isham remarked that Lawrence had a natural gift for "backing into the limelight," Major Bray points to the capture of Damascus, He declares that Lawrence was swip» ing fame when he rushed into Damascus at the head of his Arabs, before Allenby's Army got there — though it was Allenby who had forced the Turks to clear out of the city# thereby making a triumphal entry possible. My und erstand ing at the time, was that Lawrence jumped the entry into Damascue, not for his own glory for the LAWKEKC'Ji - 2 force there was isolated. That's the way Lawrence figured it. Better let them stay tied up in Medina rather then have them ’ join the main Turkish Army battling the British in Palestine. Major Bray repeats a familiar accusation against Lawrence -- that of vainglory and theatrical postures, Lawrence’s famous attempts to hide himself away in obscurity have been interpreted as a good deal of dramatics* This was wittily expressed to me one night by Colonel Isham, the American connoisseur and collector of rare books and manuscripts who was on the British staff during the World War. Colonel I sham remarked that Lawrence had a natural gift for "backing into the limelight.'* Major Bray points to the capture of Damascus. He declares that Lawrence was swip­ ing fame when he rushed into Damascus at the head of his Arabs, before Allenby’s Army got there -- though it was Allenby who had forced the Turks to clear out of the city, thereby making a triumphal entry possible. My und erst and ing at the time, was that Lawrence jumped the entry into Damascus, not for his own glory for the LAWRENCE - 3 ^benefit of the Arabs, He ha$ made promises on behalf of the British government to Feisal, the Arab monarch and leader. He was hotly in sympathy with the Arab claim that Syria and Damascus should be given to them; and he led the Arabs swift­ ly into Damascus as a way of strengthening their claim. It has been said again and again that Lawrence's retirement from all official honor after the Peace Conference was out of resentment and as a protest - - because Syria and Damascus were not made a part of King Faisal's Arab realm. But then attacks are nothing new to Lawrence of Arabia Some people collect stamps^ sonie books f some paintings of He started as a hobby. He v/as interested in thunder and lightning. He began writing to people in various places, asking them to send him a postal card the next time they had a thunder storm, telling him about the brightness of the lightning, the length of the flashes, the loudness of the thunder, the duration of the peal. As he got more and more information, he started figuring out facts about thunder storms, their habits and their distribution. Now, S. Morris Bower, of Haddersfield, England, has become Britain,s specialist on thunder storms.. He sends out thousands of postal cards all over the British Isles to farmers, shepherds, xistajcs thunder storm map of England, locating the places where the noisy tempests^ originate. And he issues an annual book giving the light house keenrs, vicars and army and navy officers. year!s history of thunder in England, nr.YMPIC GAMES Now - a dramatic stroke, a telling gesture. Remember that controversy about the Jewish angle..in the Olympic Games? The American Olympic Committee wouldn't accept the invitation to the Nineteen thirty-six Olympics in Berlin^ unless the Nazis made a definite guarantee that there would be no anti—Semetic discrimination against Jewish athletes. The Nazis gave the guarantee - and then proceeded to make that telling gesture. Word comes that the German Olympic Committee has sent an invitation to Zionist Palestine, asking them to send a team of iwwYXft Zionist athletes. But Palestine has rejected the invitation. The reason the Zionists g iye is that they have not yet organized athletics in Palestine sufficiently to put up an Olympic battle. The old land of Greece is going to send not only athletes, but the traditional Olympic fire. In accordance with the ways of the ancient Greek games, a torch borne by an athlete will give the signal. The Olympic torch will be lighted in Athens and then relays of runners of different nationalities will carry it to Be_lin. ^le last runner will be a German. And at noon, on August 1st, ? lie games will officially open, when the runner bearing the Olyrn^ ‘ire comes dashing into the Berlin Stadi-um^-^d^^^ rfMA^T , I BASEBALL The Babe hit a home rim. That *8 always exciting, but it hardly seems appropriate at this time of year when the sporting pages are crammed with football. However, the Babe did hit a home run in a late November game. And it was the climax of sensational baseball doings over in Japan, The American Nine, led by the Babe and the veteran Connie Mack has raised a storm of ovation in the land of the Samarai, Immense crowds have been turning out to cheer the Sultan of Swat, with wild, tumultous greeting - Banzai Bambino I This week in preparing the Fox Movietone reel we had plenty of evidence of that, Japan going wild over the Babe, And American Ambassador Grew has issued a statement that Babe Ruth has done more to create good feeling toward the United States and to make relations more friendly - than a whole crops of diplomats. How about the Sultan of Swat for Secretary of State? But now about that crucial home-run. It was really an amazing game at the city of Shizuoka, The Americans were playing against the Nippon All Stars in Shizuoka, The pitchers were Whitehill and Sawamura, Yes, old Earl Whitehill, a veteran of many a campaign, and Eiji Sawamura, a Japanese school- ftflRILLA One of the famous sayings in American journalism was created years ago when Arthur Brisbane saw a prize fight and remarked - "A gorilla could whip 'em both.’1 And ever since it has been a cardinal doctrine of Brisbane's philosophy that, as for fist fighting, a gorilla could whip a man, or several men. That's what made it interesting when a fflatpasaass chimpanzee and a gorilla got out of their cage at the Bronx Zoo. The keepers went after them and Keeper Buehler got into a mixup with the gorilla. It described as a real nip and tuck battle - and the man licked the ik K IT a. . gorilla. As this was as astonishingreversal 0jF the classic of a >r man biting a dog, the reporters lost no time call up Arthur Brisbane, who expressed the greatest scepticism. He claimed it could not foe, ’'The gorilla wasn't really fighting,"he insisted, nhe must have felt sorry for the keeper, must have yielded to persuasion. But the keeper repeats it was a real fight and insists that be tackled the gorilla like a football player and they rolled battling over the ground. And then he dragged the gorilla back to the cage^ J&L4A4 VH-**x**- £h+^Ji , ftf] RILL A - £ But Arthur Brisbane sticks to his guns. In his colmin in the New York American today he tells how the chimpanzee and gorilla escaped from their cage, '^hen he continues the story this way: "They looked around^^^tocasgssv^dld some primate thinking, hurried to the first human being they saw, their keeper, and were led back." So the great gorilla controversy is still in dispute -■ and the question is: "Can a gorilla whip a man?" SHORE There are many sounds that are sentimental - the sighing of lovers ^ the cooing of the dove, and the laughter of little children. But you wouldn1t think that snoring could he sentimental, romance in the old buzz saw, vMessages of love in that sibilant drone of f-i€ noisy sleep. There’s a domestic battle on at Spokane, Washington, a wife suing her husband for divorce, not because he snores, but because of what he said about her snoring. She admits she does emit ■ a buzz or two when she sleeps, but denies the sentimental and romantic side of her snoring. The husband is a telegraph operator. That’s the key to the whole situation^ BOTgdbgfaMt "fhp wife explained to the judge I-— ’’Your Honor", said she, "I know ,1 snore. But my husband 1 1 accuses me of snoring in Morse code,’1 «^es, the telegraphic husband claims it is a telegraphic snore - also, that he*2«» read 12^buzz saw signals. tt^mVour Honor"! the wife continues, "h^accuses me of / | n snoring out messages to other men when I am asleep.” Well, that does put snoring in the category of things of the hEimt heart, the nocturnal buzzsaw in the Garden of J h 1 SNORE - 2 Anyway, the notion of telegrapliio snoring gives roe a good idea, only it won't work. It would he a real novelty if I were to snore my final sign-off. Let's see-----snore. Not so good! Guess I'd aucoxx just better say. SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW