L. T. - SUWOCO - FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1933 SHOT good eveking everybody : Flaming melodrama from Chicago! I killed i^d Wynn**, a woman’s voice screamed over the house phone in a north side hotel, "What?", the astonished telephone operator yelled back, "I killed Ed Wynn" shouted the womah. The clerk called the police. The police went to the room, "he woman was lying on the davenport, soboing her eyes away. "I killed him" she moaned. "I didn*! mean to do it. "What *11 I do?" "Where's the body?" d emand ed the cop. They couldn't find the body. After a long secrch, they did find an angry man downstairs in front of the hotel. He said he was Ed Wynn, "Edward K. Wynn”, "Doggone it", he raged, "I ad red her to shoot and she did." And at this noint he wiped a bit of blood from his cheeck, where the bullet had nipped off a piece of skin, on its way past. "As she fired that shot she fainted" he said, and I got sore and left." HBC COP Then here’s +j\is:- Of all the close shaves and narrow escapes I ever heard ofj This w.s close! A cop had <£V his coat shot off him -- literally. In that same interesting city of Chicago detective John Collopy today arrested a man suspected of robbery. As he did so, the creole: blazed away at him with a shot gun. The slugs ripped the sid * of the detective’s big overcoat, tore the coat virtually off hie bach. But it didn’t touch the cop, who collared the crook and marched him off to jail. ]*BC CHICAGO -&Oe ei&r 'itiau ""noirtrltiftwti b h Chicago was terrorlzsd today ' A by a series of explosions of gas^ explo­ sions that blew off manhole covers, broke v^Indows, knocked down pedestrians and stopped traffic. OC? vvc^iciU^vv Vl^- <^ervvg # GREECE /-i * 0 'It looks as if ----.0—once more behold the ^orderly majestic and plutocratic presence of Sam Insull. It now appears as if the former utilities magnate will be brought to the United Is States for trial. Local opinion in Athene jj&xsfcs. that the protests from Greek-Americans in the United States may have done the trick. Anyway, the Greek Minister of the Interior today notified the one time Czar of Chicago utilities he must leave Greece by January Cist. Presumably he will have to go to a country from which he can be extradited. NBC ITALY Today Is the day for the debt payments from abroad_ December 15th. The Italian Government is kicking in with a million dollars as an acknowledgment of the instalment that it owes, but is not paying in full. Secretary of State Phillips today give®an indication of Uncle Sam's attitude. Says he: President Roosevelt has no personal hesitation in saying that he does not regard the Italian Government as In default.” In other words. Uncle Sam takes the money, closes one eye, and smiles good-naturedly. ^ The prediction we made last night as to what the French government would pay was amply borne out today. The French Am­ bassador informed the State Department that the debt situation remained unchanged, the action of his government will be the same as before, that Is, no action at all aad—tha-t—the Frenoh-—be postponed^—as -usual. FARLEY IfTh Over in Europe Postmaster Jim Farley, who is on a vacation, flew across the English Channel from Paris to London. He!s going to make an inspection tour of the British post office system. The dispatch doesn»t say whether or not he'll make an inspection of the way British politicians hand out government jobs or how they mend their political offenses^ Postmaster Jim might have soow*. in on a loud and acrimon- A, A ious debate in the House of Commons. The M.P.s declared a recess this afternoon, after having been in a heated session for twenty-three hours. They've been battling about the Newfoundland bill. This bill proposes that the authorities in London shall take over the government of the territory of Newfoundland because the local goverhSr has gone broke NBC LAWRENCE «>» In the news again — Lawrence of Arabia! That hero of the World War certainly has a v.dy of doing things. Itfs been just one stunt after another ever since those days when I knew him in Arabia, the time when he was heading the revolt in the desert. Word comes from London that Lawrence has just taken part in a /V With two other men he risked his life in the first experiment ever conducted of bombing human targets from the air. Tliuy~we-rw. human targets in a boat, whUe-^lanco dropped bombs on them-, ^he boat was a new type of contraption, supposed to be bombproof, /'v. a speed boat heavily armoured, the hull made of a rubber composition. The boat churned along on the surface of the water while planes above swung about and dropped ll^-pound bombs. The bombs hit the boat and exploded. Lawrence and his two companions cooly maneuvered their craft and observed the effect, The theory was that the boat could not be xjqois sunk and the men inside could not LAWRENCE - 2 Th. boat operated by the Wing - malcer from was safely in a perfect inferno of exploding bombs . day after day> Lawrence eaye that *he main danger lay in the tremendous impact when the bombs hit the armor plate, but that when the first direct hit was made they hardly noticed it. so terrific n were the repercussions made oy dozens of other bombs exploding in the water all around fl- a- . J IUTRQ TO BLAKE This afternoon a deputation of young fellows came to see me and explained that they were ship wireless operators. They told me there was a strike of wireless operators on just now -- on one line. The hoys were required to take a twenty-five percent pay cut and they didn’t like that. We got to talking and they told me some rare stories about wireless and sinking ships. One of them scun a particularly vivid yarn. His name is wSparks,, Blake - R, C. Blake. Bo I brought him along to tell it all over again - to you. Come along "Sparks" old boy, meet your old friend Mike-the-wireless FOR MR. BLAKE v _ , ^ ca^/trvt^- Lervo-eQQ^ lVel L,A^vwas a tiffiL when the steamship Bear was lost on the coast of California. I V;as the wireless operator aboard. A winter storm blew up. I went on duty in the wireless shade at midnight and got messages from several ships QLfr that were having a bad time of it. ty one o’clock 1 was thrown out of my chair by a smashing shack. The vessel took a heavy Tj! |1 14 i M 1 i 1 | j;i , 9 | I i Ik! |j] II II i|:P fii list and began pounding with heavy jolts. 1 could hear passengers yelling on the deck# Tbhe storm had driven us on the rocks. I ± picked myself up and began sending distress signals. That^gr a thrilling time when you oend- diatrooo oignala end wait to-teeca* M- ■tbey’vo boon pItrkfd A I got a reply from the steamer Yosemite and also from the coast guard fifty miles away. We were pounding on the rocks* "the waves broke over the deck. The passengers were half crazy. Several of them were swept overboard. The Yosemite. came in sight during the night. She tried to shoot life-lines w'ith line ^uns. Couldn t make it. At daybreak the £oast guard arrived by land, and they tried shoot lines. There seemed no use — until half of the daj had managed td shoot a line to us and i j gone by. In the afternoon they FOR MR. BLAKE - £ i the removal of the survivors began. It went on through the night until all were safely ashore - all except twelve. Twelve out of two hundred and fifty passengers and a crew of eighty* 4- ~ J — -•* five men. I left the ship with the captaiT^-^o*' ** afhore f it I I J! y ! half strangled in the surf, / h T.IKD BURGHS Viell, talking about wireless operators, there’s Urs, Lindbergh. Nothing seems to stop that aviating couple, any more than anything could stop the Colonel himself when he was just Slim, unknown to fame, driving his way through the night on is historic solo flight across the Atlantic. A radio message to Tan-Americ an Airways tells us that the sky jaunting Colonel and his wireless-operating lady landed on the Island of Santo Domingo today, after a two hundred mile hop from Puerto Rico. They're now within hopping distance of their own native shores. There’s breathless romance in the adventures of that young husband and wife — three trans-Atlantic crossings for the Colonel -- two for the Mfs. NBC 5-f - crc •&3So C.cnaraittf'S1 of t,]i^ Holism of Herr€San^st:lT^5 rfC'pm Options «ere mzac 1 xx 1 q \ for alter in* *u.e Inrc-iae lax, I suppose altering .reans ue — not dotm. A r£»wr< io j\ifa 'gfelcyffg t.h»% Toey vrsmt to make the alterations such a; will not -impede legitimate business tr anss*c tions * * '$-* T.¥OiBaer ^ .■. i.brr baring ft pit,«c el he» aad <*.;. ts is o *o.:itiiBato pii t ii jiff ii * > n n PwriTt oi ii.—Anv “’ar ? ^ tr-?t— warn—te ^aire- yogf ■ It ora yic.^ -g.iie.1. weulg y irl-g-o^ii*^ aaero aenee* m«r ye up to the Lhtver imont »— tyo huinrea ■aas—■.■rr ailli-cri ^eilaro arye^ Acting Secretary Morgeoth.au of the Treasury Department advocated that the incc me tax law be revised to fci plug up the loophole a.. Ike idea is to make it airtight, so that we i..c<uv see any note millionaires finding technical xy ways to avoid paying their tax. hr. lorcenth.au likewise took up the subject of marriage — not that he ,as waxiap rename ^the thoughts about youth and love and so on - In fact ha was distinctly uarotantlc - when he spoke up and sal 1 -hat the government ought to make husband and tide file - ^ ^ rrv tv rillion dollars r^uld be a single return, -e declared th&t f > mi were not allowed to added to the federal revenue If ■»*! ried «hpa ■ i mm' fhfen, to sha\ e Ox u c. xx* kx t-'-tX* -Udhiihv^aMeMiiiiBik^oBtdaaaMMBOPo^ _________ JOHNSON A late dispatch from the White House denies the rumors that General Johnson will resign as the head of the N.R.A* There have "been rumors that he would abandon the Blue Eagle and take another post, but the President says -- no. NBC MKS5E MORTGAGE There1 £■ another mortgage project before the President and he is confabulating about it with Jesse Jones, K.F.C. Chairman, and George Van Schaick, Supreintendent of Insurance of Rev* Yor^ State* I u is a proposal to lend money to needy mortgage holders. I always thought the folks that are supposed to pay the mortgages were the needy ones, but it seems that the people who try to collect the mortgages are needy also. So the Government, having helped the first class with its loan activities is now considering a plan to help the second. The program would\involves^lendiii'g aboutXfifty mliiion dollars ^.o small mortage holders, mortgages theyhold to be the security* Llr. Jokes explained that loans would probabi . \ \ \ v \ \ v \ , be advanced up to 5^5^ of tVe valu^ of the ^mortgaNge. The rate Of interest\suf:gested Ihe R.R«C. woulc lend tk^mone^to the mortgage\compahies knd they^in turi^ would\^-end it >to the PAY-ROLL rour million men and women on the pay-rolls of the Civil Tories projects two million families taken off the rolls of public unemployment relief and placed on a basis of self-support So runs a summary issued by Harry L. Hopkins, Civil Works Adminis­ trator. That much disputed union election of the Y/eirton Steel Company was held^today. Department of Justice agents were watching at the plant. It is not expected that the Labor Board will do anything about the days balloting until the agents make their reports. The vote is said to be about the same as it was earlier in the week. me HOCKEY 1 "For the First time in history", this next dispatch says. SeemS that somethi«g or other is^hg^ening for the first tim^\ (it must have been great to have been there the first time something happened for the first timej) Well, anyway, its about an American hockey team. Fourteen Annsrtea* boys of the Ice Hockey Team of Morristown, New Jersey School sailed on the BERENGARIA today for ; 11 i 1 an invasion of Switzerland and France# They*re going to show their European Jbc brethern how hockey is played in America. And the way H dli it is played — from what I,ve been able to see —* is roughly. ! The Morris town—toam—will start hostilitieo Vi-llarj Switgerland^ v»iiepe th»»y will haotlo througfa aB" ^ombor -fi4th-and feStte. There has been a good deal of talk as to how international ( sports create international good-will, but stirs up a lot of ill-will instead. A good hockey game should be an excellent way to start an international war. However, this is the first time in the history of ice hockey that an American scholastic aggregation has gone abroad in quest of foreign honois. NBC WEDDING sn And now lor a bit of society news which Is also news about the movies. Society and the movies might be considered far apart. How would you tie them together? Well, in the old familiar way, the old familiar tie, bond, hitch and splice — marriage. The movies married society ill if I today, that is, Gary Cooper married Sandra Shaw, withwhose name goes blue blood, the Blue Book, maybe Kentucky blue 'll 11 grass, and everything except blue Monday and the Blue Eagle. They were to have been married at the Waldorf, where the boy that knocks the gals dead has been stopping. But at the last minute the wedding was taken to the society menagd — I believe tha^s the word — any way, the home of the bride's t*u****<*; 1 / I I So Gary is a married man and will take his society .Not jt bride to Hollywood. that she's a strange there. She herself appeared in the talkies last year. Prosper DOG Here's a story to be told in two letters - not letters of the alphabet but letters you write. One was received oy Governor Moore of Hew Jersey. It read like this: ’Honorable Governor: Considering you always help the children, I wsmdHz want you to help me. I lost my best pal, whom I loved so dearly. His name is Rex. Hefs a sort of mixed breed - half police dog and half chow dog. Will you kindly notify the troopers, because he might be wandering on a lonely road." Signed Adi4p<^ Gioia. The Governor of New Jersey sat down and wrote back: "Dear Adolph: I am sorry you have lost your dog. I, too, have a dog - a cocker spaniel. And, you can be sure that no effort will be spared to find Rex and restore him to you.” This • being- Chriotmee-Seftetrar—P-atB- 3 ^ 3 *^ - anyone* wh o- fHmd e- your—deg—wi 1 l—teke • c u r e —of a&Gr-'i i otura. him to ymn-” Then the Governor issued a command to the State Police: "If you can't find the dog, find one like it." "i20 BOXII n G Talking about international sports, here's an event of a sor', to evoke a lot of peace and good-will among me. Some boxing bouts between husky Frenchmen of the French liner ILE BE FRANCE and equally husky Germans of the German liner EUPOPA. It seems there is a prize offered, the Blancart trophy, for boxing among the crews of the North Atlantic liners. Bouts have been held right along and it all simmered down to a final contest between the French and Germans. It seems that we have heard of rumpuses between the French and the Germans before. Anyway, the final title bouts have just been held and a complete victory was scored by Alfonse and Gaston. The battlers of the ILE DE FRANTF battered the battlers of the EUROPA, and thereby won that North Atlantic boxing trophy. And as they left the ring they said, "After you my dear Alphonse." Au revoir - and SO IONG UNTIL MONDAY. NBC