k*J,_ ~ SUNOCO. Vt'EDNPKnftv MARCH , 1 Q?*? GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: n€^ iori v^ity all day nas been buzzing with runors, ruisors about t-iat Tearful triple murder. There* s a, ytusor that the case has been broken, a rumor that the murderer is in custody, a rumor that everything will be made clear within the next few hours. But, the minute those rumors are run down, they turn out to be nothing more but rumors. The District Attorney of New York County intimated that the case had been broken, but all he would say was: "I can state positively that we have a definite suspect.* ■DUm.bI.ttG There's public indignation in Klrksville, Missouri, today. Everybody is enraged at the attempt to assassinate Mayor Jacobs. Newspapers are sailing for a fund to provide a reward for tne capture of the miscreant who planted that bomb in the Mayor’s automobile. The explosion was terrific — tore part of the roof off the garage and even sent fragments hurtling into the kitchen of the house where Mrs. Jacobs was ironing. Only one of his limbs was untouched by the flying pieces of metal. That was his right arm, which has been shrunk ever since an accident he suffered when a boy. Not the faintest reason or motive is apparent. SIT-DQ'O Michigan, hitherto the home of sit-flow* strikes must have no more of them'. There's hot sentiment to that effect in the legislature. No fewer than three measures are up before the State Senate, bills to put a stop to that strike weapon - the sit- down. Miss Perkins, Secretary of Labor, has stated that it was ST still an open question whether the sit-down ifcrikes were legal or not. But some Michigan law-makers are determined that there shall be no question about it. Two of the bills on which the senators are ready to vote would make sitting-down a felony. Tak­ ing possession of industrial property or interfering with its use would become a crime, ^he same laws would also make it .imperative for employers and employees to negotiate before any strike or lock- out occurs. '^'he third bill approaches the problem from, a different angle. This would make it a felony to negotiate with strikers while they are sitting flown. Penalty:- five years in prison and a fine of two thousand five hundred dollars. Drastic punishment for sitting down out of turn! FARM Uncle Sam s Department of Agriculture comes to bat with a bit of chatty information. It applies most specifically to farm workers, but really it affects us ail. Economists tell us that everything is honky-dory so long as farmers and the folks who work for them have money to spend. Prosperity is hitting the rum 1J.11 ipu I uhm ^ hio T u I ami su&ctQntir^i^'faoteiwB^-iy Un.i Pliguroo ipf Dopoptoentr-og-Agri The pay of those who work on the land has Jumped anywhere from five to twenty per cent, depending upon where you look. ItTs best of all in Rhode Island, where the average pay of the farm-hand is forty-one dollars and seventy-five cents a month with board. Last year it was thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. d e in Cali font A A month plus board. Out In the corn belt the average ranges from The -sSeik* in California come off second-best with forty-one dollars A A twenty dollars and seventy-five cents to twenty-six. &£ All that includes A Reports from the south are not so glowing. Down in dollars and six bits, with board. Start* Georgia the pay is eleven 'Wot munificent, still, it's seventy-five cents more than FARM - 2 it was last year. U)a*<di>, eanwhile,^ the Committee of the House on Agriculture turned thumbs down on one of the government's schemes to help tenant-farmers. The idea was to set aside fifty million dollars, to lend them, so that they might buy themselves farms on easy terms instead of renting them. JR*£&««**a3WE=oS^the Committee was a considerable surprise in Washington. It is one of the few times that Congress has said "Ho” to a New Deal request from the White House. President Roosevelt^ wish was to appropriate a hundred and ninety-five million^to help out the tenant-farmers. This fifty million dollar item, however, which was rejected today. was just part of it.^The White House also planned to set aside seventy-five million dollars of the Resettlement Administration's funds for loans to farmers in poor circumstances, likewise seventy million dollars to take sub-marginal land out of cultivation. On these measures the House Committee took no action. HA* FEVER Hay fever sufferers will be interested in this one. The Health Department of the State of New Xork has been at work in their behalf. New York’s sanitary engineers have been making investigations of the entire state, investigations in a methodical, scientific fashion. Their researches so far indicate that the I Adirondacks can be turned into a refuge for folks suffering from | I this curious and baffling affliction. Many sections of those mountains . are comparatively free from ragweed. A And local authorities have been already at work -rV*- eliminating this pestilent weed. The New York State authorities * ! have been setting up pollen stations in different sections of the state. They find that Fire Island, the twenty-five mile ! j long sand-spit off the great South Bay, may also be a haven for hay fever victims. UL'J blV.CaiJD T There are signs that a rebellion is being hatched in the United States. Not a Red revolution or a Fascist upheaval, ihis one is a revolt of the women. And their grievance is the resuscitation of the human mustache. It begins in southern California, the birthplace of the cafeteria and other half-baked developments. J^ne plaintive damsel^ateolareo* K "I like shrubbery, but in the garden, h,5t on a man1 s face.” Another prominent lady was heard to declare: "Grandpa had one, and kissing him was like falling face down on a broom." FQNTAMGBiS The lady who shot the Ambassador had another day in Court. And what she told is abundantly interesting. The name of hi a-i!, >- another celebrity was mentioned^t^'b’y'feutiful Magda de Fontanges** who pulled out a gun and the Count de Chambrun* Last week she made free with the reputation of Duce Mussolini. This afternoon she dragged in no less a magnifico than a former Premier of France, Monsieur Joseph Paul- Boncour. You will remember that the lady said she took a shot at the Count de Chambruh because he had put the kibosh on the big romance of her life. When reporters found her walls covered with portraits of th^)uce, they put two and five together, and behold, the fat was in the firel Today she made no bones about it, admitted that the love of her life wa^the Fascist Dictator, the Number One man of the Black Shirts. Now here's how former Premier Paul-Boncour comes into ftp USed to be her friend, said Madame de this tangled web. fcfe , , , rr,iend she added* But, alas, he turned against Fontanges, a dear fri > , hpr out of a job she had at Geneva, a her. It was he who did her oui o - l j , I gf I: FONTAiNGES - S job reporting a meeting of the League of Kations. Andffen Count de Chambrun, French Ambassador to Rome, interfered in her^romance, he did so at the ihsistanee of _ 1 / BoncourF^ \ vmen she xound herself unable to see the Duce any longer A* said, it broke her heart and she \ felt so badly that she took an overdose of a sleeping She was taken to a hospital and there the Ducefs secretary A ^0-Ao>f visited her every day. After she was well enough to leave the hospital and go to a hotel, Mussolinifs secretary continued to visit her every day. These visits were consoling for a while. That is, until the last one. On that fatal day she learned the news that she must leave Italy- She made no fuss about it, and upon her departure was given an envelope by a Fascist officer of state, in that envelope was the handsome sum of one thousand, three hundred and fifty dollars llnJCuun* e-e—ek«8to*n.-- , - t + d I v . she continued to vtrrite After being kicked out of Italy, FOflTANGES - o to the Duce, but taixusxxKj&y* got no reply. Then she learned ' Libya. that Mussolini had gone to^&y^fcn% That, she said, made her desperate. She bought the revolver and tried to make a date with the Count de Chambrun by Xx telephone, using a phoney name. This little ruse didn*t succeed. But later she learned that he was going to Brussels and what train he was going to take. And so she hx met him at tne station^and shot him. And she would have shot him again, she said, if the revolver hadn't jammed. t! After today's hearing, the lady was taken to the hospital, suffering severely from bronchitis. When she comes before the court again, later in the week, she will meet the Count she shotjface to face. SPAIN C Moi’e excitement from Spain and - h - and it seems to be genuine. The government forces have the Rebels in * ^ n neoeis m a trap, on the Cordoba front. Blushed with the victor-ioc; j victories of the weekend, the government troops are hard on the heels of the Nationalists who fled to the mountains. And there, so Madrid claims, they1 re on the verge of having General Franco*s southern army hemmed in, unable to maneuvre . in thosemountain passes. ^ d The amazing report is that the government troops, militiamen, have the better equipped, be.tter drilled nationalist armies out-fought, out-maneuvred, on the run, and encircled. If all this is true, it means a staggering blow, if not a fatal one, to the Nationalist cause. To make matters worse from the KsksHx Rebels1 point of view. Generalissimo Franco has had to fly across the Straits I i 1; I I I I t t +■>»a +- rebellion which broke over liirgftt. to Morocco to quell that reoeixiuu . - rvn there. It was in Morocco There's a doubly ironic situation t | ! I it's in Morocco thaj; counter-revoluticn that th% revolt began; now Nationalist cause. There's .one^ irony. stabs at the heart of the Another is that the foreigners, the Germans and Italians, SPAIN - £ who were supposed to be such an important part of the Nationalist attack, are today its weakness. At first the Spanish Rebels welcomed the help from outside. But later they began to resent '#7 fchxQfci The story is that the German and Italian officers, particularly the Germans, exasperated the Spaniards they had come ------ €^r to help,****** their arrogance. Hence, one cause of dissention. ^ A The Spanish Rebel officers are also beginning to get their backs up against General Franco for another reason:— ■jfhey feel that he has let Spain be made a pawn in the international game played by foreign powers. There are rumors from Morocco of wholesale executions by firing squads. RUSSIA Here's something from Moscow that probably won't be received with cheers in Berlin. The Soviet Government has come to terms with Romania about that vexed question, the frontier. This has been a source of much ill-feeling, an obstacle to any agreement between the two countries. Mow that obstacle is removed. And the next L-giPon u fMI'1 ^alliance between Russia and Roumania, a treaty similar to those /and) .Labi/ between Russia^H/France, and Russia dnd Gjsecho-Slovakia. One doesn't need to have second sight to realize that seeing the Soviets Nazi Germany is not going to be win a new friend. And some people believe that down in Rome, Premier Mussolini won't welcome the news with open^a \ An interesting feature'of this gesture by Stalin is that & ^t^Tin. The squabble between Moscow and Bucharest was over * A a handsome slice of territory in Besarabia - more than seventeen thousand square miles with a population of three million people. Russia. The Treaty of Versailles took it It used to belong to away from the Soviet and gave it to Roumania. But the Russians RUSSIA - 2 e-i-dn^ i>t i^rgood n i,^ have been growling about it ever since* So there must be something behind the news that they now say to Roumania: nOkay, you can have the land* you can have the people. We won!t quarrel about that any more.,, 3 [] These are nervous days in Tndin T , ^ xn mala, the Land of the Black pagoda. Tomorrow is the date « Qate for the new constitution to begin, the constitution which gives independence of a sort to eleven of the native states of Hindustan. Half-way home rule is one description that has been applied to this constitution* And thereTs trouble ahead* Not only the police but a large portion of the standing army of India are standing at anas prepared for anything that m? may happen* The fly in the ointment is the attitude of the Nationalist Congress. This is Mahatma Gandhi^ party and it has a mjaority in six of those eleven provinces* And that party has declined to permit any of its members to take office or to form governments. Mr. Bandhl is dead against this new constitution. It will make government in India a thing of the sword and not of the pen. he says. The feature he objects to is that provincial governors, British officials, can * veto any 'laws passed by the assemblies. upon Gandhi . ' It U up to him, correspondents i# 111 -orevail ..... .. 1 "r l1lll^rTnn' say whether peace will prevaxx A BONE "• s"'‘' ■' ».» , s„. t.u, , !B„,t ^ h, ao lt w htlra A yarn that comes from Edinburgh is as ^ , *uuign is as wsird as any of the mystical mysteries of Algernon Blackwood. But the source of the tale is no professional story-teller, he's a British soldier and diplomat, Alexander Seton. While in Egypt, Lady Seton was present at the opening of the to*mb of one of the ancient Pharaoh's at Gizeh. As a souvenir she brought back a fragment of hpne. Soon after her return to her home in Edinburgh, Lady Seton visited a soothsayer who warned her that misfortune is hanging over her house. She told her husband, who scoffed at the idea. Two months after that, people living in the house became afflicted with a sudden and unexplainable illness. Fire broke out twice in baffling , n qtories circulated around Edinburgh circumstances. Presently, s^orxet* that the house of Sir Alexander S-eton was unlucky. Maids refused to work there. House guests reported that strange noises had AhC <-he night, one of them even saw a aroused them in the midd ghost. Glassware crashed^»»tM*g=^ no good reason. 3QNE - £ Sir Alexander Seton still said that superstition was nonsense. Nevertheless, he gave that relic fro* the iommb of the Pharaohs ro a inend, a surgeon. T*o days later the surgeon returned tne gi- And in explanation he said that his cook had seen & tarl white swathed tigure, for all t^ie world like a-aiuHMy^coaie—to1*- life* The apparition chased his cook, she ran and broke her leg. So Alexander Seton took the bone, and put it back in the glass case he had had made to contain it. The following day he was telling a friend about it. The friend said; should like to see it.n nCome upstairs,” said Sir Alexander. Thereupon, in Sir Alexjjs^S^ own words, "As we approached the door xxx we heard a muffled noise. Open opening the door we found the glass case lying near the door on the table. The glass was pulverized as though it had been ground under somebody's heel. The bone lay halfway out of the case.” It was all the more puzzling because the table was only two feet high, the floor was thiCly carpeted, and hohody had been in that ro^;> -0- _ ~ ^