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PRESIDENT
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Tiie ^reat mystery of the presidential cruise is more
mystifying than ever t&day^ President ^oosevelt boarded the
/
TUSCALOOSA this afternoon, and the cruiser put out to sea -
steering south for an unknov.n destination.
Before sailing, the President at his press conference,
made the
xxx±ifj.xK£xiLy
mystification complete - by his silence,
by what he refused to say. He admitted that during the voyage
—
^iy
J
he would fish only now and then tirtwrhe cast out a line to catch
A
A
y\
A
a big one. That raised the question -
k
:
x
2
sjl
±
xx
2
X±£ what would he
be doing most of the time? He-refrained from making-any
t-t-rm--- m refused to deny a rather startling report the
A
newspaper men laid before him - the rumor that while at sea
might meet and confer with representatives
of foreign governments. Great Britain, France, Italy. That surmise
has been making the rounds, and today the President replied with
the negative phrase - T’no comment.”
On tne other hand, it
xbh
was said that the presidential
commander of the Ar^y snd Navy would inspect American defenses in
the Caribbean - Panama Canal protection which is based on
Puerto Ric^.
■Pi
President
himself added still another report
a typical F.D„R. KkiJUK^ whimsy which merely crowns the secrecy.
He said he had heard rumors that he might visit quite a number of
islands, the Andamans, Celebes, theSouth Shetlands or the
Cheruble group. Some of these islands, he smiled, wonft be found
on most maps. They!re»just joke islands - for whoever heard of the
Sostfr
Cheruble archipelago.
The President mystified the newspapermen, and is
mystifying the nation. Also - his own State Department. Today,
officials at the State Department said they hadn't the slightest
idea of why the President refused to deny the story that he
might confer on the high seas with representatives of foreign
governments - mystifying.
JAMES r.OOS^VLLT
Reports that there would be a James Roosevelt
divorce materialized today. In & court at Los Angeles, the
President’s eldest son entered the suit, and the charge he made was -
reads
desertion. The legal language of the complaint ia&xs like this:-
A
A
"More than one year before the commencement of this action,” it says,
"defendant wilfully and without cause deserted and abandoned this
defendant - and ever since that time has wilfully continued and still
continues to desert and abandon and to live separately and apart
fro$ the plaintiff.” Later the complaint makes this statement
”The date of the separation was on or about November theFirs^
Nineteen Thirty-Eight.”
James Roosevelt’s divorce suit, filed at Hollywood,
evokes a statement by his wife, who lives in tne east# She says
that she too will sue for diverge - on her own account. Her
statement goes this way:- ”1 now confirm that my husband and I
have separated, and that he has brought an action against me in
California for divorce. In due course,” she continues, ”1 shall
answer his complaint and myseli seek a decree O
j
. divoice.”
Mrs. James Roosevelt adds that she will have custody of their two
A
JAMES ROOShVKLT - 2
children - Sara Delano, dne years old, and Kate, four years old.
It *as back in June, NineteenThirty, when Franklin
Delano Roosevelt was Governor of New York State, that his son
James married Betty Cushman, daughter of a physician of note -
A
Dr- Harvey Cushing, the brain specialist. During the ten years
that have intervened, the young husband’s father has become
President of the United States. Son James himself made his mark
in the insurance business, then became a secretary to the
President, and now is a motion picture^produae^ in Hollywood.
For some time it has been known that there was a matrimonial
rift, and recently there have been stories that
has found other romantic interests.
This is the third divorce .te=:
Pres id ent. H^-^a«ght»c-^ne-divoree4-her^first--hu9-b»nd-rmd'd:S-^
the wife of a Seattle newspaper\publisher. \His son J^KLiott
si\ywv->vvyM '
was'divorced from his wife. And now .ff^fflcu'TlooS'Cvt'llAand the
vHB
formerVBetty CushiXg come to a severance of i^atrimony
MORGAN
-ftUir
Here's news of a company applyinp for incorporation.
31 doesn't sound like much.-gut wait! The firm is the House of
Morgan. It was announced today that J.P.Morgan and ^ompany has
applied to the New Y0rk State Banking authorities to incorporate as
a trust company. This means, for one thing, that the House of Morgan
is going out of the business of private banking, is changing over to
trust company activities.^That's an important piece of financial
news. But for general interest, the striking point is - that the
House of Morgan is becoming a corporation. It has always been a
partnership, celebrated for
Morgan partners.
No name is so celebrated^*tfereTag^eceij corporations
«aa that of J.P.Morgan. The firm achieved worldwide fame and power
‘>*-<2 <K a &
l
. Jbis-i
lv
\
as a dealer in corporate securities,
and
the development of the
corporation system of American business, in its control over the
destinies of mighty corporations.-
Yet
the House of Morgan alvays
clung to that old-fashioned system of business - partnership. The
elder J.P.Morgan began the method of associating singularly able
roll
nen with himself - as partners. Theyuaii^of these includes one famous
name after another, names made famous as Morgan partners - H.P.Davison,
MORGA-N - 2
Thomas Lamont, Dwight M0rrow, and a whole list of others. It
wasn’t too clear why Morgan Company clung to the archaic system of
partnership - but there was something ingratiating and sympathetic
about it - the old-fashioned way.
But now, that famous House is changing, and it
seems strange - strange to talk of J.P.Morgan & Company,
Incorporated. In explanation I am told that it!s part of the
universal trend, that inEurope nearly all the famous partnerships
of old have now become incorporated. So hereafter wefll hear
no more of Morgan partners, the Srexiatra present partners will
become vice-presidents of the new corporation, the new trust company.
Chairman Dies announced today that Father Coughlin
has asked permission to testify before theses Committee
investigating Un-American activities. The
Axx
Detroit
radio priest wants to give testimony concerning such matters
as the Christian Front.
Will Father Coughlin appear before the Committee?
Chairman Dies said today that the question is one for the Committee
itself to decide.
Then he added this statement:- MFor myself," said he
"I believe that anyone who preaches racial, religious or class
hatred is un-American." And to this he added the opinion that the
Committee should confine its investigation to what he^called -
"organisations which have a foreign tie-up,."
In Dies Committee affairs, Hollywood takes a headline
place today - motion pictures. This comes with the declaration oy
the Chairman that the movie people, somehow or other, have got hold
of a report on Hollywood made by Dies
investigators.
There has been a lot of talk about Communist influences in the
Hollywood flicker industry. The Dies Committee had its investigators
DIES _ 2
go to work. The report,Chairman Dies said today, *as strictly
confidential and secret - a copy being handed to each member of the
Committee. Nevertheless, he adds, the report leaked out, and the
motion picture people have a copy of it, a copy which has been
>
mimeographed and passed around among
big-shots,
yp’
Chairman Dies makes the statement that his Committee is going
ngnt ahead on the Hollywood angle, and will hold hearings on the
a^contlnmes^with the\^etail that^between now\nd election
Mme, all the^Dies Committee hearings will be^ecret, not public.
He explains thktpublic hearings might\^ause the complaint thai
iey were intended to influence the election. That protest was
^ V \ \ x \
maa^e abd^t Dies Comm^tee doings before the elections two yea^s ago.
V'lLNER
ThereTs another conviction in the affairs of Communists
i* regarding United States passports. Late this afternoon the
jury returned a verdict of guilty in the case of Robert William
Wiener, financial secretary of the American tosaunT-stsw He was
A
accused of taking out a passport by fraud, false statements.
somewhat as in the case of Communist chieftain Earl Browder -
who is under a sentence of four years. The next thing is for
W , offense
the judge to pass sentence^
-ecriis -fer -fi maxifflu*
penalf ive-years -4ft-py4son and
a
t-wo-theu^-nu-4^14a
r f-i-f*
The—big -Red - financial i£an may-g-et t h^»t—muon or iese-*-
■aMMMMBHHI
FINLAND
Tue ^inns today report that the Mannerheim Line is
\
holding fast - against continued Soviet attacks,jThe *inns admit
that in the Suauna section, terrific Red army assaults in the
past fevr. days gained about a mile. The Mannerheim Line has a
depth of ten miles. The heaviest pressure of the attack has
shifted from that Summa area, says Helsinki, has switched to a
couple of other Mannherheim
^
•
Tonightfs communique tells of thrusts repelled
here and there. Ferocious and incessant attacks, with the Finns
holding their ground, so says Helsinki.
TURKEY
Russian technicians ordered out of Turkey - that might
have an international aspect. But really it * s more of a human
, r
story than anything else. The Stalin Government has ordered home
a group of between forty and fifty Soviet technicians who have
been working in Turkey,-Return to Moscowl" , is the command.
But theSoviet techniciam refuse to go.* To the idea of
returning to the Communist Utopia, they firmly shake their heads.
7T
They much prefer Turkey - or any place. They were sent several
years ago to run a big textile plant for the Turks, and theyTve
been there ever since, representing the skill of Soviet industry.
a
Soviet element within Turkey./Turkey how leans away from the
Soviets and toward^the Allies, and ix itfs'because of this
estrangement that Stalin decided to pi^H. out itis text!.- ---
\ \ \ \ V"
But the
technicians won’t be pulled out.'V
That creates something of ^problep^'Vi^ Moscow i**
V
\
\
\
/
considering the idea of asking the*Turks to expel the techniCi-rE
and make them go back to Utopia,. A sad prospect for the
The
Turks, however, are reported to be saying it's
none of their business - it's an affair between the Soviets and the
textile engineers themselves.
ttr
EGHTEH
Today off Honolulu a ship steamed back and forth. The
Captain
was
not on the bridge,
was
in the boiler room, with
his eye on the steam gauge. How was the caol burning in the shipfs
furnaces? That was the predoglnan* question.iii=rtlie-i'Slc±T
3
per.ts~:iBin^
k
)
He was Captain Gerasmios Fanas of the Greek freighter
Cristos Markettos. That same Captain Panas who put into Honolulu
bought some coal from the United States Navy Yard there and then
let out a loud holler in the most
Greek. The coal coat
A
/I
him tv/enty-five dollars a ton, which Captain Panas said was an
awful price. And then it wouldn!t burn. He claimed the coal was
so full of sand that it didn*t burn well enough to fry an egg.
That caused some astonishment, and brought retorts from
the United States Navy authroities, at Honolulu. They declsred
they’d been navigating naval ships wTitn that same
To prove their point the Navy authorities sent to the
Greek freighter a crew of their own Samoan firemen who are guaranteed
to make most anything burn. They went to show the Greek fireman
how
to make the coal take fire and get up steam. So that’s why the
ffflfT GHTER -
P
Ship
was cruising back and forth today,-THe Samoan fireme^ showing
^
)yA
fk n Q ^
Captain^Panaa ^that he could navigate on the fuel the Navy sold
him -- ao twenty-five dollars a ton. The Greek skipper studied
the steaii. gauges^ and when it was all over he conceded —— yes
maybe that coal would carry him to the next port —
Japan.
A A
_ MOREEN
Today state police in the mountains of western Pennsylvania,
battled their way tnrough snowdrifts to reach a remote farmhouse.
They were cringing aid to an injured woman, a woman wounded by
shotgun fire. They were also checking up on a fantastic tale of
violence and killing, a story of how
a
wounded woman had been
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compelled by a man - to shoot him.
Farmer Ralph Caldwell employed a farmhand named Glenn
Plants. Last v;eek, for some reason or other, the farmer discharged
the farmhand, who thereupon declared hefd get even. It turned into
one of those hill country feuds. Last night, the Caldwells, husband
and wife, were in their kitchen. Suddenly, at a kitchen window,
appeared the feuding farmhand. He had a shotgun, and was aiming it
through the window. The wife sought to shield her husband, trxtrd to
throw; herself in front of him, as the shotgun b—as ted. Tu.e husband
fell to the floor, killed. The wife was wounded in the arms from
the spray of
shot .'^Thereupon, the Killer forced his way into the
house^fthfe most fantastic part of it all occurred. The killer
forced a sixteen year old boy who worked on the farm, forced him
to witness what happened. He forced the widow of the man he had
MURDERS- 2
Jus-: slam to shoot him - she with her wounded and bleeding arms
ne
put tne muzzle of the shotgun against his chest, holding the
gun out, and fe* told her to pull the trigger. She did, the gun
roared, and the killer fell, the life blasted out of him.
Tnen tne woman, suffering from her painful injuries, took
her two small children, and with the boy farm worker they started
out through the snowy night, bound for the nearest neighbor’s house/
»*** seven miles away. They trudged and toiled through blizzard
and deep snow. When they reached the neighbor
the telephone and called the state troop
1
s house, h
0
*got to
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today they
battled their way to the scene, and then began the still harder task
of getting the wounded w'oman to a hospital.
)
HORSES
A m&dcap sort of story »as revealed today by an
Indictment handed do«n at Los Angeles. It tells of an extort!
on
had
scheme, v.i.h the blackmailer trying to get back money he lost on
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the horses.
At Hollywood, Neil McCarthy,is prominent in racetrack
affairs. He*s a prosperous lawyer, who races thoroughbreds, has
a stable of them. Horse Owner McCarthy got several letters from a
man who signed himself as Nixon. This Nixon related that ne had been
betting on the McCarthy horses, and had lost. The way the McCarthy
thoroughbreds had been running, he complained, had xxxlxitlaixt
caused him to lose some five thousand dollars. But, he added,
he really never lost money on the races. Because, when he did,
it was his custom to make the owners of the losing horses reimburse
him for the cash he had dropped. If they refused, he sxwHyk poisoned
their horses, -^e did it with v<hat he called npoison darts.n And
he went on to tell of cases in which he had destroyed valuable
thoroughbreds with his poison darts.
Having made these explanations, the writer asked
V Horse Owner McCarthy
3mx
for the five thousaid dollars that betting
on til©
ti.\ *.or
sgs
cost tii.n*
Xi tii© money
kqtq
not
forthcoming, cal^nity
v-ould befall
the McCarthy racing stable
thoroughbreds killed by the poison darts.
The Hollywood sportsman took the weird extortion plot
to the police, and the usual trap was laid. Horse Owner McCarthy
met the blackmailer, and they sat down for a talk. ^They were
discussing the money the extortionist declared he had lost, the
menace of the poison darts, and the payment of five thousand
dollars - when detectives stepped in ind made the arrest.
Today a grand jury indicted the horse—bet.ter who
claimed to have
jlk
a ne?» answer for the old question of how not
to lose on the races.
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i
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j
IJif 0,
Tiie ^reat mystery of the presidential cruise is more
mystifying than ever t&day^ President ^oosevelt boarded the
/
TUSCALOOSA this afternoon, and the cruiser put out to sea -
steering south for an unknov.n destination.
Before sailing, the President at his press conference,
made the
xxx±ifj.xK£xiLy
mystification complete - by his silence,
by what he refused to say. He admitted that during the voyage
—
^iy
J
he would fish only now and then tirtwrhe cast out a line to catch
A
A
y\
A
a big one. That raised the question -
k
:
x
2
sjl
±
xx
2
X±£ what would he
be doing most of the time? He-refrained from making-any
t-t-rm--- m refused to deny a rather startling report the
A
newspaper men laid before him - the rumor that while at sea
might meet and confer with representatives
of foreign governments. Great Britain, France, Italy. That surmise
has been making the rounds, and today the President replied with
the negative phrase - T’no comment.”
On tne other hand, it
xbh
was said that the presidential
commander of the Ar^y snd Navy would inspect American defenses in
the Caribbean - Panama Canal protection which is based on
Puerto Ric^.
■Pi
President
himself added still another report
a typical F.D„R. KkiJUK^ whimsy which merely crowns the secrecy.
He said he had heard rumors that he might visit quite a number of
islands, the Andamans, Celebes, theSouth Shetlands or the
Cheruble group. Some of these islands, he smiled, wonft be found
on most maps. They!re»just joke islands - for whoever heard of the
Sostfr
Cheruble archipelago.
The President mystified the newspapermen, and is
mystifying the nation. Also - his own State Department. Today,
officials at the State Department said they hadn't the slightest
idea of why the President refused to deny the story that he
might confer on the high seas with representatives of foreign
governments - mystifying.
JAMES r.OOS^VLLT
Reports that there would be a James Roosevelt
divorce materialized today. In & court at Los Angeles, the
President’s eldest son entered the suit, and the charge he made was -
reads
desertion. The legal language of the complaint ia&xs like this:-
A
A
"More than one year before the commencement of this action,” it says,
"defendant wilfully and without cause deserted and abandoned this
defendant - and ever since that time has wilfully continued and still
continues to desert and abandon and to live separately and apart
fro$ the plaintiff.” Later the complaint makes this statement
”The date of the separation was on or about November theFirs^
Nineteen Thirty-Eight.”
James Roosevelt’s divorce suit, filed at Hollywood,
evokes a statement by his wife, who lives in tne east# She says
that she too will sue for diverge - on her own account. Her
statement goes this way:- ”1 now confirm that my husband and I
have separated, and that he has brought an action against me in
California for divorce. In due course,” she continues, ”1 shall
answer his complaint and myseli seek a decree O
j
. divoice.”
Mrs. James Roosevelt adds that she will have custody of their two
A
JAMES ROOShVKLT - 2
children - Sara Delano, dne years old, and Kate, four years old.
It *as back in June, NineteenThirty, when Franklin
Delano Roosevelt was Governor of New York State, that his son
James married Betty Cushman, daughter of a physician of note -
A
Dr- Harvey Cushing, the brain specialist. During the ten years
that have intervened, the young husband’s father has become
President of the United States. Son James himself made his mark
in the insurance business, then became a secretary to the
President, and now is a motion picture^produae^ in Hollywood.
For some time it has been known that there was a matrimonial
rift, and recently there have been stories that
has found other romantic interests.
This is the third divorce .te=:
Pres id ent. H^-^a«ght»c-^ne-divoree4-her^first--hu9-b»nd-rmd'd:S-^
the wife of a Seattle newspaper\publisher. \His son J^KLiott
si\ywv->vvyM '
was'divorced from his wife. And now .ff^fflcu'TlooS'Cvt'llAand the
vHB
formerVBetty CushiXg come to a severance of i^atrimony
MORGAN
-ftUir
Here's news of a company applyinp for incorporation.
31 doesn't sound like much.-gut wait! The firm is the House of
Morgan. It was announced today that J.P.Morgan and ^ompany has
applied to the New Y0rk State Banking authorities to incorporate as
a trust company. This means, for one thing, that the House of Morgan
is going out of the business of private banking, is changing over to
trust company activities.^That's an important piece of financial
news. But for general interest, the striking point is - that the
House of Morgan is becoming a corporation. It has always been a
partnership, celebrated for
Morgan partners.
No name is so celebrated^*tfereTag^eceij corporations
«aa that of J.P.Morgan. The firm achieved worldwide fame and power
‘>*-<2 <K a &
l
. Jbis-i
lv
\
as a dealer in corporate securities,
and
the development of the
corporation system of American business, in its control over the
destinies of mighty corporations.-
Yet
the House of Morgan alvays
clung to that old-fashioned system of business - partnership. The
elder J.P.Morgan began the method of associating singularly able
roll
nen with himself - as partners. Theyuaii^of these includes one famous
name after another, names made famous as Morgan partners - H.P.Davison,
MORGA-N - 2
Thomas Lamont, Dwight M0rrow, and a whole list of others. It
wasn’t too clear why Morgan Company clung to the archaic system of
partnership - but there was something ingratiating and sympathetic
about it - the old-fashioned way.
But now, that famous House is changing, and it
seems strange - strange to talk of J.P.Morgan & Company,
Incorporated. In explanation I am told that it!s part of the
universal trend, that inEurope nearly all the famous partnerships
of old have now become incorporated. So hereafter wefll hear
no more of Morgan partners, the Srexiatra present partners will
become vice-presidents of the new corporation, the new trust company.
Chairman Dies announced today that Father Coughlin
has asked permission to testify before theses Committee
investigating Un-American activities. The
Axx
Detroit
radio priest wants to give testimony concerning such matters
as the Christian Front.
Will Father Coughlin appear before the Committee?
Chairman Dies said today that the question is one for the Committee
itself to decide.
Then he added this statement:- MFor myself," said he
"I believe that anyone who preaches racial, religious or class
hatred is un-American." And to this he added the opinion that the
Committee should confine its investigation to what he^called -
"organisations which have a foreign tie-up,."
In Dies Committee affairs, Hollywood takes a headline
place today - motion pictures. This comes with the declaration oy
the Chairman that the movie people, somehow or other, have got hold
of a report on Hollywood made by Dies
investigators.
There has been a lot of talk about Communist influences in the
Hollywood flicker industry. The Dies Committee had its investigators
DIES _ 2
go to work. The report,Chairman Dies said today, *as strictly
confidential and secret - a copy being handed to each member of the
Committee. Nevertheless, he adds, the report leaked out, and the
motion picture people have a copy of it, a copy which has been
>
mimeographed and passed around among
big-shots,
yp’
Chairman Dies makes the statement that his Committee is going
ngnt ahead on the Hollywood angle, and will hold hearings on the
a^contlnmes^with the\^etail that^between now\nd election
Mme, all the^Dies Committee hearings will be^ecret, not public.
He explains thktpublic hearings might\^ause the complaint thai
iey were intended to influence the election. That protest was
^ V \ \ x \
maa^e abd^t Dies Comm^tee doings before the elections two yea^s ago.
V'lLNER
ThereTs another conviction in the affairs of Communists
i* regarding United States passports. Late this afternoon the
jury returned a verdict of guilty in the case of Robert William
Wiener, financial secretary of the American tosaunT-stsw He was
A
accused of taking out a passport by fraud, false statements.
somewhat as in the case of Communist chieftain Earl Browder -
who is under a sentence of four years. The next thing is for
W , offense
the judge to pass sentence^
-ecriis -fer -fi maxifflu*
penalf ive-years -4ft-py4son and
a
t-wo-theu^-nu-4^14a
r f-i-f*
The—big -Red - financial i£an may-g-et t h^»t—muon or iese-*-
■aMMMMBHHI
FINLAND
Tue ^inns today report that the Mannerheim Line is
\
holding fast - against continued Soviet attacks,jThe *inns admit
that in the Suauna section, terrific Red army assaults in the
past fevr. days gained about a mile. The Mannerheim Line has a
depth of ten miles. The heaviest pressure of the attack has
shifted from that Summa area, says Helsinki, has switched to a
couple of other Mannherheim
^
•
Tonightfs communique tells of thrusts repelled
here and there. Ferocious and incessant attacks, with the Finns
holding their ground, so says Helsinki.
TURKEY
Russian technicians ordered out of Turkey - that might
have an international aspect. But really it * s more of a human
, r
story than anything else. The Stalin Government has ordered home
a group of between forty and fifty Soviet technicians who have
been working in Turkey,-Return to Moscowl" , is the command.
But theSoviet techniciam refuse to go.* To the idea of
returning to the Communist Utopia, they firmly shake their heads.
7T
They much prefer Turkey - or any place. They were sent several
years ago to run a big textile plant for the Turks, and theyTve
been there ever since, representing the skill of Soviet industry.
a
Soviet element within Turkey./Turkey how leans away from the
Soviets and toward^the Allies, and ix itfs'because of this
estrangement that Stalin decided to pi^H. out itis text!.- ---
\ \ \ \ V"
But the
technicians won’t be pulled out.'V
That creates something of ^problep^'Vi^ Moscow i**
V
\
\
\
/
considering the idea of asking the*Turks to expel the techniCi-rE
and make them go back to Utopia,. A sad prospect for the
The
Turks, however, are reported to be saying it's
none of their business - it's an affair between the Soviets and the
textile engineers themselves.
ttr
EGHTEH
Today off Honolulu a ship steamed back and forth. The
Captain
was
not on the bridge,
was
in the boiler room, with
his eye on the steam gauge. How was the caol burning in the shipfs
furnaces? That was the predoglnan* question.iii=rtlie-i'Slc±T
3
per.ts~:iBin^
k
)
He was Captain Gerasmios Fanas of the Greek freighter
Cristos Markettos. That same Captain Panas who put into Honolulu
bought some coal from the United States Navy Yard there and then
let out a loud holler in the most
Greek. The coal coat
A
/I
him tv/enty-five dollars a ton, which Captain Panas said was an
awful price. And then it wouldn!t burn. He claimed the coal was
so full of sand that it didn*t burn well enough to fry an egg.
That caused some astonishment, and brought retorts from
the United States Navy authroities, at Honolulu. They declsred
they’d been navigating naval ships wTitn that same
To prove their point the Navy authorities sent to the
Greek freighter a crew of their own Samoan firemen who are guaranteed
to make most anything burn. They went to show the Greek fireman
how
to make the coal take fire and get up steam. So that’s why the
ffflfT GHTER -
P
Ship
was cruising back and forth today,-THe Samoan fireme^ showing
^
)yA
fk n Q ^
Captain^Panaa ^that he could navigate on the fuel the Navy sold
him -- ao twenty-five dollars a ton. The Greek skipper studied
the steaii. gauges^ and when it was all over he conceded —— yes
maybe that coal would carry him to the next port —
Japan.
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_ MOREEN
Today state police in the mountains of western Pennsylvania,
battled their way tnrough snowdrifts to reach a remote farmhouse.
They were cringing aid to an injured woman, a woman wounded by
shotgun fire. They were also checking up on a fantastic tale of
violence and killing, a story of how
a
wounded woman had been
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compelled by a man - to shoot him.
Farmer Ralph Caldwell employed a farmhand named Glenn
Plants. Last v;eek, for some reason or other, the farmer discharged
the farmhand, who thereupon declared hefd get even. It turned into
one of those hill country feuds. Last night, the Caldwells, husband
and wife, were in their kitchen. Suddenly, at a kitchen window,
appeared the feuding farmhand. He had a shotgun, and was aiming it
through the window. The wife sought to shield her husband, trxtrd to
throw; herself in front of him, as the shotgun b—as ted. Tu.e husband
fell to the floor, killed. The wife was wounded in the arms from
the spray of
shot .'^Thereupon, the Killer forced his way into the
house^fthfe most fantastic part of it all occurred. The killer
forced a sixteen year old boy who worked on the farm, forced him
to witness what happened. He forced the widow of the man he had
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Jus-: slam to shoot him - she with her wounded and bleeding arms
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put tne muzzle of the shotgun against his chest, holding the
gun out, and fe* told her to pull the trigger. She did, the gun
roared, and the killer fell, the life blasted out of him.
Tnen tne woman, suffering from her painful injuries, took
her two small children, and with the boy farm worker they started
out through the snowy night, bound for the nearest neighbor’s house/
»*** seven miles away. They trudged and toiled through blizzard
and deep snow. When they reached the neighbor
the telephone and called the state troop
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today they
battled their way to the scene, and then began the still harder task
of getting the wounded w'oman to a hospital.
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HORSES
A m&dcap sort of story »as revealed today by an
Indictment handed do«n at Los Angeles. It tells of an extort!
on
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scheme, v.i.h the blackmailer trying to get back money he lost on
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the horses.
At Hollywood, Neil McCarthy,is prominent in racetrack
affairs. He*s a prosperous lawyer, who races thoroughbreds, has
a stable of them. Horse Owner McCarthy got several letters from a
man who signed himself as Nixon. This Nixon related that ne had been
betting on the McCarthy horses, and had lost. The way the McCarthy
thoroughbreds had been running, he complained, had xxxlxitlaixt
caused him to lose some five thousand dollars. But, he added,
he really never lost money on the races. Because, when he did,
it was his custom to make the owners of the losing horses reimburse
him for the cash he had dropped. If they refused, he sxwHyk poisoned
their horses, -^e did it with v<hat he called npoison darts.n And
he went on to tell of cases in which he had destroyed valuable
thoroughbreds with his poison darts.
Having made these explanations, the writer asked
V Horse Owner McCarthy
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for the five thousaid dollars that betting
on til©
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cost tii.n*
Xi tii© money
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not
forthcoming, cal^nity
v-ould befall
the McCarthy racing stable
thoroughbreds killed by the poison darts.
The Hollywood sportsman took the weird extortion plot
to the police, and the usual trap was laid. Horse Owner McCarthy
met the blackmailer, and they sat down for a talk. ^They were
discussing the money the extortionist declared he had lost, the
menace of the poison darts, and the payment of five thousand
dollars - when detectives stepped in ind made the arrest.
Today a grand jury indicted the horse—bet.ter who
claimed to have
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a ne?» answer for the old question of how not
to lose on the races.