L. . UNO- 0 OIL BROADCAST - 2/1 /7l Good Evening? Everybody: Ihe movement for the reoeal of the 18th amendment took a step ahead today. It hafit been expected that the Dry Senators would delay action as long as possible to the extent of a filibuster against even considering the measure. But a test vote was '“*4 tvs. today and the Wets won fifty-eight to twenty-three This was on a motion to immediately &e&?!^&$ip==hk££3 re soli resolution of Senator Blaine of Wisconsin. ■kftor- the Wets won this motion Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the minority leader, offered amendments to the ratifying of the repeal from the legislatures l . o state conventions. &a==cd3s>«P==^==st3^ This mean* that the people A would have a more direct chance to say by their vote whether they want prohibition abolished or not. Another Senator Robinson and supported by Senator Vagner of Mew York, was for what is called naked repeal^. In other words^ these Senator voicing the sentiments of the out and out Vvets, want the amendment to LEAD - 2 read^/,,The eighteenth amendment is hereby repealed,11 without any of* the elaborate preamble and qualifying clauses suggested by i£ ry Comoiittee a , , But, as pointed out by Mrs. Sabin, leader of the 7/omen1 s Organization for Prohibition Reform, the V<ets have still a long path to travel before they win. BAMXS M i chi :-:an -trie situation in Detroit and throughout the state of 5 —Tji^rr.l io f aoui1 s e X ’tnat ban.' moratorium — loots a^±ts3y hopeful today. Governor Comstock opened the way tor the immediate reoneninr of such bants as want to reopen. This does not mean that he has authorized an end of tht® band holiday, but in his own words: nThe state will not interfere if. pants which on on di spite my proclamation cio not. prefer "to ' A creditor arainst another." Later on in Detroit bants arranged to release twenty-five million dollars immediately to facilitate business, Federal Reserve Bank of Detroit did not close. Millions are beinw sent to this bant from branches of the Federal Reserve System in Chicago and New York. vfnat all this amounts to is that (denosit rs in STX*+***s4. n ~bt fw* . Detroit will be allowed to^y /11 hd r aw ^i t .a r sa balanc e s Another important announcement from Detroit was that Governor Comstock has unreservedly withdrawn the charges he made BANKS - £ yesterday. He explains that he had misunderstood the facts and admitted that his interpretation of the cause of this hank moratorium was without foundation* The Ford Company states that it had nothing to do with the situation. some Michigan towns, hanks kept open and continued to do business just as usual. And the whole atmosphere seems to be clearing up. Dave Lawrence, in his daily comment from Washington says the feeling in the capitol is that this Michigan episode will do real good in that it will bring about a more liberal attitude on the part of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. MO‘10 KS I'Jov, for soioethine to contrast with nev:s about bank moratoriums. 'the Automotive Daily hev/s has received reports from eight states on the motor car industry. As a result, it shows that in giumovT*! the sales of cars took the first definite upturn since late in 1989. 'I'he R. ^. Polk report of last week estimates that in general no less than ninety-one thousand cars were sold in eight states alone. This is an emphatic and promi sine increase. Another story in today's Automotive Hews s&xx tends to give the reason for these healthy symptoms in the motor car industry. A careful analysis reveals the fact that today you not only get more automobile value for tout dollar when you buy a car, than ever before, the Automotive hews claims further that values A. in automobiles are greater than in any oLher lines of manufacture* A Committee of the U.S*Senate started an inquiry into of the family of Samuel Insull, the one-time billionaire utilities king of Chicago. The principal witness today was Samuel Insull, Jr, Young Mr. Insull told the Senators that he, himself, was broke, as deal the family was permitted to acquire rights to over thirty-six million dollars worth of shares in an Insu^ll investment trust for something over eleven million dollars. In other words the family was allowed to purchase stock at prices ranging from seven-and-a-half to fifteen dollars a — '"'he same day It v/as put>agestjae s' m the open market of the Chicago Stock Exchange at same privilege including -assy public officials. Young Mr. Insuall on the other hand told the Committee that though the Insull family had made an enormous paper profit on this transaction it was only a p^iper profit and never realized. He said that some of this stock, now were the rest of his family. He also told them^in one for thirty dollars Numerous other people were given the almost worthless, was still held by the family. FIGHT xhe sporting world today was still heatedly and anxiously The discussing the death of poor Ernie Schaaf, ^movement to do away with prize fighting in ^ev. York State has not abated. One State Senator has announced that he 'ill soon introduce a bill repealing the Walker lay/ which permits boxing contests in New York. It is called the .alker Law because It was introduced by former .Wayor Jimmie, when he •• as in the Senate. Another measure proposed by an Assemblyman calls for a complete investigation Into professional boxing matches which will ascertain, among other things, whether there is any faking in prizefights and wrestling matches. If that investigation comes off what lively reading it will make in the newspapers. Primo Camera, the mountainous Italian, has been exonerated by the iww. Yor: District Attorneyfs Office. Outside of official circles everybody agrees that he was in no way to blame. He himself is reported to be in such a state o. mind th.■ u he fe^el^ lie Quitting the ring. XHXhxd'EJzXwkBmxx CUSTOMS Ibis moi’nin? it looked as though ■ve were going to enjoy a louci uiiaw at the expense oi' Uncle Sam's Custom House in ^ew York. A bundle of pictures came through the Customs addressed, to a New York art dealer. Nov/, the lav/ against bringing improper illustrations into the United States is exceedingly stringent. A minor Customs official saw these pictures, gave a literal interpretation to the law, and confiscated the things. The information got into this morning’s oapers and what do you suppose those pictures were? They were reproductions frescos Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel A. A pictures that have been cherished and admired by for centuries. Well, not only the art world but tne general public started to draw in its breath for a gigantic laugh. Then came the information that an intelligent higher official at the Customs House in New York had got wind of his subor dina ts’s a c tion, examined th e pho to gr aph s ano nao Lily rescinded thdKictian* khay -weea- {j^noth-":r good joke cone blooey. WoM of thes^ famous at the Vatican, the thole world 7 v. Now,for the latest on the Sino-Japanese situation. f^Tne Mikado1 s representative the League of Nations received a cable today from his government instructing him to leave Geneva and return to Tokyo at the end of this month. This means the first step in Japan*s withdrawal from the League. It is understood the Japanese Delegation will return home by way of the U.S.A. Then, the stock exchang^ throughout Japan suspended trade this afternoon. The Tokyo Exchange was closed at one o*clock. From Peiping comes a cable reporting that the Acting s Premier of China has conferred with the Commander of the Chinese Gllrillas in Heyho and Manchuria. The object is to * coordinate their operations with those of the Chinese Regulars. Reports continue to come into China*s capital of heavy concentration of Japanese Troops along the Northern border of Reyho, Japan*s withdrawl from the League threatfeens to produce a dispute in which Uncle Sam will have to take part. The over m Mikado^ Government holds a mandate for the League some sixteen hundred islands in the Pacific which constitute a sort of ^rgrbl^iy between Japan and the U.S.A. These are A * islands which used to belong to Germany. If Japan withdraws from the League, obviously her mandate no longer holds good. On the other hand nobody believes that Japan will let go of those islands. So, there is another ticklish situation for the diplomats and statesmen. L;.lICIA & between the two souther American Republics, Colombia and Peru, The Colombian government ordered its minister home from Lima, thus breaking: off diplomatic relations. Colombia claims that the Peruvians started the fight. Then too, the Colombian War Department continued to disembark troons in the region of the Upper Amazon Leticia. Incidentally, the air clones e c cmi which are said to * have mesacm: driven off the attacking Peruvian forces, are led by a German flier. Major Boy. The Colombian oar Department reports another victory. This was at the torn of Tarapaca, a port on the River Putumayo, some eiwhty miles from Leticia. It had been occupied by Peruvian forces, but according to news from Bogota, the Colombian troops drove them. out. gW7 RETAKE between thr two mouther American republics, Colombia and Peru. The Colombian government ordered its minister home from Lima, thus breaking: off diplomatic relations. Colombia claims that the Peruvians started the fight. i'h- n too, the Colombian War ueoartment continued to disembark troons in the re-ion of the Uoner Amazon isnr.ax Leticia. /\ Incidentally, the airnlanes^ rtf i.nat—crromv/hich are said to have Tg-rrevKo driven off the attackin' Peruvian forces, are led by a German flier. Major hoy. The Colombian ..ar Department reports another victory. This was at the town of Taranaca, a port on the River Putumayo, some ei.hty miles from Leticia, t had been occupied by Peruvian forces, but according to news from Bo-tot* , i^ne Colombian troons drove them out. JAINh course r>.v the . c&£>. u knov. whet anniversary this lafc'? Thirty-five veers ar;o the battleship Maine was blown up in navaws harbor with consecuenc s .that violently changed the oi' history and^the man of the world. A* As th ^ev, Yor>: t un points out, the question who blew up the iiiains is still unanswere.d toe ay, A board made up of distinguished American naval officers reported the vessel was destroyed by a submarine bomb. The Spanish government held an investigation a no concluded the explosion was internal. In the U. t. / ., of course, we accented the verdict of our own expert^ But, as the «ev/ Y. rk Sun the explosion of a ' I u 3 uh 2. in iaDch submarine bomb HufistT the result of s conspiracy, ondVall A . . . consoi rad os a number oi nr n a re involved. /hEsn* t it amarine that the secret has never come to li 'hw . 1 n other countries have listed the blowing up of the Maine as one of the great international historical mysteries. *T *■ ton correspondents ore observing - hat this dairty-x if tn annivei-sn.ry or the M-aine tragedy lines <Jncle Sam 3nL'G e.-.^in auchine Cuba witn dbdEEKX anxious eyes. It is generally known tnat revolutionists are planning another attaclz on Cuba’s dictator9 President biachado. It is believed that this nas been planned Per —arch 4th, the day of the Presidential inauguration In the U. S. A. And General Menocal,says the traps vine t.elegrat.h, v.-ill again head the attempted rebellion against his inveterate enemy. General Machado. It’s an open secret tnat v:hat is called a network of Cuban intrigue against General Machado’s government is being B. . LIN Here is some news that looks bad for Germans who aon!t approve of th‘ ir government. Chancellor Hitler is clamping down on tnem the- same rules as are enforced in Italy and Soviet fj ■$A Russia. In future it ill not be oossible for liberals like the A biographer, ^rail Ludwig, or Remarque, the author of All Quiet on the destern Front, to leave their country as a protest against Nazi rule. It was announced today that passports for foreirn travel will not be issued to anybody -hose oolitical • ideas are not approved by the government. KLONDIKE I wonder if you remember my mentioning a dog on the air about a week ago? His name im Klondike and he A had dropped in to pay me a call. I tried to get him to bark but he just wouldn1t do it that night. Stage fright or something. At any rate, Klondike dropped in again this evening to apologize,and that howl you just heard was Klondike attempting to give you the latest news from the Polar regions. In the North he is known as the singing dog. He Is one of the most beautiful huskies I have ever seen. Klondike accompanied Father Hubbard, the Glacier * Priest,on some of his recent explorations. He is here with a school teacher from Nome, Miss Dempster, who is taking him on a tour of the United States. I wish you could see him __ as well as hear him. Wherever he goes he stops traffic he is so handsome. Rumors have been current tor sometime in diplomatic circles that a secret treaty had. been arranged between Hungary, Germany and Italy. These rumors were given the emphatic lie today by no less person than Premier Mussolini. II Duce A announced from Rome that he would not have denied those reports of a secret alliance if they had not been brought up before the Foreign Committee of the French CJaamber. At any rate that seems to be that. LABRADOR 0 ( ^ Here* s word of a project to sell Labrador to Canada. Geographically it is a part of Canada already, but there1s that peculiar political split by which Newfoundland is a separate Crown colony and owns Labrador. But now negotiations are on for Newfoundland to sell Labrador to Canada;and by the way the Canadian negotiator in the matter bears the interesting and historical name of Champlain r HOLD-UP A somewhat unususl bank hold-up was staged in Philadelphia early this morning, ^ feature ■ -ez:-r±±z v'as that it was unsuccessful. One of the bandits gained entrance^ masquerading as a mail carrier, kith a. confederate he succeeded in tyine un the watchman. But the watchman wriggled loose and oressed a button which not only sounded a burglar alarm, but I flooded the bank with tear gas. All this happened an hour before due the bank was/ataai to open, A A The would-be bandits the tears streaming from their eyes. They managed to escape, but the hold-up was a flop. AIR TRAINo xn yesterday’s New York Times appeared an aviation item which, becaase It was only ten lines lony, escaped the observation oi many people, including myself. It recorded the successful^ towing; o ,.illj» Farner, a famous aider, with a hundred and ten pounds of mail, through xhe air all the way BXMcfcx over the Alps from Zurich in Switzerland, to Milan in Italy. An editorial in this morning’s Times comments on this brief item. The Times points out that this may mark another stage in the evolution of aerial transportation. When the plane to win ' Farner arrived over the air field at Milan, he was cast off and coasted safely to ground in ten minutes. ihe limes conjured up visions of v/nole trains hauled through tno air .t.n thio xashion. Say, for instance, the train is pint south from «ew York. Thet*d? Jtnjl car is cut loose ov: r Philadelphia to elide with passengers and mail to the airport below. The rest of the train keeps