L» >• - SUMO GQ. FEBRUARY 22, GOOD BVEKIJffG, EVERYBODY: § I'm in the Adirondacks tonight, broadcasting from the Lake Placid Club. The world outside is covered with that white substance that brings joy to the hearts of ski and bob-sled fans. Although I am here for a Sun Oil Convention nearly everybody else seems to be here also. Our train came in eight sections -- a dozen cars or more on each train. The biggest crowd Lake Placid has seen since 1929, So maybe the depression is'over. The most important ski event of the year took place this afternoon on the Olympic Hill at Intervale, And by the way, the folks here in the Adirondacks are raising ten thousand dollars to send an American-Olympic ski team to the Olympics in Germany in 1936. Part of the gate receipts from various ski tournaments will go to this. Atemo tflt. gKi Tiie results of today’s big ski jumping contest were -arfliomnced by the judges just a few moments ago. hx A gentleman who took part in two big Olympic meets, in other years, is here in the room — Rolf lion sen. He was in the jumping this afternoon* «*~A-r-arrr^-rr~ you can pronounce Scandinavian names better than I can, Rolf, tell us will-yt»« who won today and what was the longest jump? For Mr* Mon sens-. First place went to that wizard, Attar Satre. Second, to Gunnar Oman, third to Harold Sorensen. Fourth to Hans Strand. Fifth to Sigurd Jorgensen. The longest jump of the afternoon was two hundred and ten feet, made by Attar Satre. one chap took* It was the worst tumble I ever saw a ski jumper take. From where I stood he seemed to make a complete T.; — And you modestly forgotAto mtention that you were among the w i nn e r s # s. But tell us about tnat A. terrific spill someresult in the air, and then come down on his head SKI JH-U^RS -2 ?QR liR, R g uay navG tiaKGn ol f a 1 Lttls too lat©* X *tQ not surs* At any rate, he left the jump head first,'v;ent spinning through the air, fell about one hundred and thirty feet, and landed on the back of his neck. But the latest word Is th$t he is not badly hurt. How a man could have lived through that fall X can’t 1 figure out. As you told me a moment ago he was travelling through £ I L. T.s feet, landing on his neck. '.That a gentle sport!T * POST. IT CERTAINLY LOOKED TODAY AS IF WILEY POST HAD ESTABLISHED THE ALL TIME AIRPLANE RECORD - NOT FOR SPEED,BUT FOR SLOWNESS. WILEY STARTED OUT ON THAT LONG HERALDED TRANS­ CONTINENTAL WHIZ. HE WAS GOING TO BLAZE HIS WAY THROUGH THE THIN AIR OF THE UPPER SPACES ALONG THE STRATOSPHERE AND MAKE ALL OTHER SPEED RECORDS LOOK SICK. BUT AS I SAID, HE REALLY ESTABLISHED A SLOWNESS RECORD. HE TOOK OFF FROM LOSANGELES THIS MORNING AND DISAPP0ARED TRAVELLING EAST AT A COLOSSAL RATE OF SPEED. THREE HOURS LATER THEY HEARD FROM HIM . HE WAS IN THE MOHAVE DESERT, JUST ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY MILES FROM HIS STARTING POINT* WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED WAS THAT WILEY WAS FORCED DOWN A FEW MINUTES AFTER HIS TAKE OFF, H£ LANDED IN THE DESOLATE SPACES OF THE DESERT, AND IT fOOK HIM THREE HOURS TO GET TO A TELEPHONE. HE WASNT HURT , AND THE PLANE WAS UNINJURED EXCEPT FOR A BENT PROPELLOR.^TWO RESCUE SKY SHIPS LEFT THE LOSANGELES AIRPORT TO TAKE HIM OUT OF THE DESERT . 8HgCT"i'g k) WILEY HAD HOPED TO MAKE THE JUMP FROM LOSANGELES TO NEWYORK IN SEVEN HOURHE WAS OUT TO PROVE THAT THE STRATOSPHERE WILL BE THE AIR ROUTE OF THE FUTURE,WITH FAR GREATER S SPEED THAN IS POSSIBLE AT LOWER ALTITUDE . OF COURSE HE A DIDNT PROVE ANYTHING,EXCEPT THAT THERE ARE NOT SO MANY TELEPHONES IN THE MOHAVE DESERT . BUT WILEY WILL TRY AGAIN AND NO DOUBT WILL DO IT SHEET -I" bA*m.Ar64a CWU£UW¥ —F€B &OeB-tJ/€^-UN«-tV€R'^B-0&¥ . POSTMASTER GENERAL JAMES A FARLEY IS.IN PEORI A,ILLINOIS, TON IGHT^TO MAKE THAT SPEECH WHICH HAS CAUSED SO MANY RUCTIONS IN WASHINGTON. I WONDER WHETHER HE WILL MAKE ANY CHANGES IN WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY ADDRESS. A 7F I DOUBT IT. POSTMASTER JIM IS SMKLING ABOUT THOSE HUEY LONS ATTACKS. AND ,MOREOVER» THE NEWSPAPERS ARE NOT PRINTING, NOR ARE THE RADIO NEWS COMMENTATORS SAYING - JUST WHAT WORDS OF WISDOM POSTMASTER JIM WILL UTTER TONIGHT. ALTHOUGH, OF COURSE - THE FARLEY ORAT I ON HAS BEEN LAVISHLY TIPPED OFF IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE# THE LAWMAKERS WERE TOLD WORD FOR WORD JUST WHAT JIM IS GOING TO SAY# ITS A NICE POINT OF ETHICS THAT THE NEWSPAPERS TODAY HAVE BEEN FULLY REPORTING HUEY LONG'S VIRULENT DENUNCIATION OF FARLEY. BUT THEY ARE NOT QUOTING A SINGLE LfiE FROM HUEY'S OWN QUOTATION OF JIM'S SPEECH TONIGHT. SHEET 2 - INTRO That's ethics. >Vell, it all makes the Postmaster General's Washington's birthday speech a thing of peculiar importance. Plenty of people are wondering today what sort of oratory is in it - oratory that me* caused the Kingfish to violate an ironclad ethical tradition «* and break the press release. The newspapers, you know, have their codes of journalistic* conduct, and that's soubly true for Washington correspondents. One of the cardinal rules is:- Never to break a press release. But a little thing like an ethical rule doesn't mean so much to the Kingfish. Nobody knows how he got hold of the <¥> copy of the press release of the Jim Parley speech. SHEET 3 THESE,SO FAR AS IS KNOWN , HAD BEEN DISTRIBUTED ONLY AMONG THE CORRESPONDENTS. AND HUEY HIMSELF SAYS HE DID NOT GET IT FROM ^NEWSPAPER MAN, BUT JUST THE SAME HE GOT IT. THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A LEAK SOMEWHERE* AND HE PROCEEDED TO READ IT BEFORE THE ASSEMBLED SENATE. fef I MAX TO THAT HUEY LONG - JIM FARLEY FEUD. THE KINGFISH WAS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE IMMUNITY OF THE SENATE FLOOR TO HURL' EVERY SCURRILOUS EPITHET THAT HE COULD THINik OF AT-THE POSTMASTER GENERAL - CALLING HI MV* A COMMON" ORDI NARY,UNSCRUPULOUS CROOK. ^ ^ HUEY * S INSULTING REMARKS DID^INfT CAUSE «T GREAT STIR \ * AMONG THE OTHER SENATORS. THEY’RE USED TO HIM BY NOW. BUT PANDEMONIUM DID BREAK LOOSE, WHEN THE KINGFISH PROCEEDED TO READ EXTRACTS FROM THE SPEECH * HIS ANTAGONIST IS GOING TO MAKE TONIGHT. THERE WBRE IMMEDIATE PROTESTS FROM ALL OVER THE SENATE FLOOR. SENATOR ROBINSON , THE DEMOCRATIC LEADER, LED THE DENUN I CAT ION OF THIS BRcRCH OF CONFIDENCE, DECLARING IT WAS UNFAIR AND DISHONORABLE. SHEET 3 THESE,SO FAR AS IS KNOWN , HAD BEEN DISTRIBUTED ONLY AMONG THE CORRESPONDENTS. AND HUEY HIMSELF SAYS HE DID NOT GET IT FROM ^NEWSPAPER MAN. BUT JUST THE SAME HE GOT IT. THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A LEAK SOMEWHERE. AND HE PROCEEDED TO READ IT BEFORE THE ASSEMBLED SENATE. "tt^CL * MAX TO THAT HUEY LONG - JIM FARLEY FEUD. THE KINGFISH WAS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE IMMUNITY OF THE SENATE FLOOR TO HURL EVERY SCURRILOUS EPITHET THAT HE COULD THIN* OF AT-THE POSTMASTER GENERAL - CALLING HIMs* A COMMON" ORDI NARY,UNSCRUPULOUS CROOK. HUEY’S INSULTING REMARKS DID^NtT CAUSE «T GREAT STIR AMONG THE OTHER SENATORS. THEY’RE USED TO HIM BY NOW. BUT PANDEMONIUM DID BREAK LOOSE, WHEN THE KINGFISH PROCEEDED TO READ EXTRACTS FROM THE SPEECH m HIS ANTAGONIST IS GOING TO MAKE TONIGHT. THERE WERE IMMEDIATE PROTESTS FROM ALL OVER THE SENATE FLOOR. SENATOR ROBINSON , THE DEMOCRATIC LEADER, LED THE DENUN I CAT I ON OF TH|S BRERCH OF CONFIDENCE, DECLARING IT WAS UNFAIR AND DISHONORABLE. SHEET 4 OTHER SENATORS RAISED THE I CRY OF "WRONG AND UNETHiCAL", IF A NEWSPAPER MAN WERE TO BREAK A RELEASE LIKE THAT, HE WOULD INSTANTLY BE FIRED. BUT THE KINGFISH WENT RIGHT AHEAD AND READ ALL HE PLEASED OF THE SPEECH. THE SENATORS DlD^Njrr KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT. THERE IS NO OFFICIAL &J. RULE COVERING SUCH A CASE.^THEY ARE WONDERING RIGHT NOW HOW THEY CAN PUNISH THE KINGFISH . WELL, ABOUT THE ONLY THING TO DO IS TO KEEP SILENT ABOUT WHAT HUEY SAID JIM IS GOING TO SAY. THE NEWSPAPERS ARE ST il L KEEPING THE FAITH, KEEPING THE RELEASE INVIOLATE, REFRAINING FROM PRINTING A LINE OF HUEYS QUOTATION FROM THE FARLEY TEXT. 7F* IT’S ALL A LIVELY TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT, INTLftf-ffTTN— NG SO CMFHQUS** BUT IT DOES VIVIDLY GIVE THE DEPTH OF THE BITTERNESS OF THE KINGFISH - FARLEY FEUD*^WITH HUEY TRYING TO CRASH OPEN A FARLEY SCANDAL^, DETERMINED ID SINK THE POSTMASTER GENERAL, TIIC GRANT I NO OF A- JWEftttMEHT CO»TOAOT-FO r rmMHW4H- WH+6H— SHEET 5 - INTRO The 'bitterness between the two men goes hack to the early days of the districution of i^ew Deal patronage* Huey wasn’t playing hall exactly the right way with the party leaders. He was revellious, always talking out of turn. So the Democratic heads decided to punish the Kingfish in the usual way - hy keeping the federal johs in Louisiana out of his hands - allowing Huey’s enemies to pass out those johs. That pushed Postmaster General Parley to the forefront in the Louisiana scrap, because he's the hig job dispenser SHEET 6 CURIOUSLY ENOUGH THERE SEEMS TO BE MORE AND MOR.. TALK ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE KINGFISH MAY OPPOSE MR ROOSEVELT FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION IN THE NEXT CAMPAIGNJ t HERE IS SO MUCH TALK ALONG THOSE i ii r LINES THAT COLLIERS WEEKLY ,IN ITS FORTHCOMING ISSUE , IS DEVOTING A FULL PAGE EDITORIAL TO A STUDY OF HUEY AS i -tf it A STATESMAN OF PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER, COLLIERS EDITOR 9BS&. A KINGFISH AS A TYPICAL PRODUCT OF HARD TIMES. WHO MAY EASILY IT START ALL SORTS OF POLITICAL STORMS. AS A CANDIDATE . HUEY WOULD BUILD HIMSELF A GAUDY PLATFORM^ THE BRILLIANTLY PAINTED CENTRAL PLANK OF WHICH WOULD BE -TAXES. THE KINGFISH "SHARE - THE - WEALTH" PROGRAM; IS A BIT VAGUE AND DREAMY, HIS TAX PROGRAM WOULD BE MUCH EASIER FOR A THOUSANDS OF VOTERS TO GRASP. SIMPLE, TOOt-TAX THE RICH, / DONT TAX THE POOR. ALL TAXATION TO BE PAID BY THE WEALTHY. OF COURSE » WITH THIT KIND OF TAX SYSTEM. THERE SOON WOULDNT BE ANY RICH. AND THEN WHAT WOULD YOU DO. BUT HUEY ISNT BOTHERED BY SUCH MINOR THINGS AS LOGIC -OPPRESS RELEASES. "sheet 7 ..rOAK Htimg The Huey tong revolt in the Senate takes on a more formidable aspect when we are told that he played a powerful hand In the President's defeat yesterday. They say the KLngfish was all over the place, fighting for the McCarren Amendment to the giant Work fielief Bill. The amendment won out by single vote. /\ It was a decided blow to the ’White House. The President is dead set against that amendment which provides that Federal relief workers shall be paid according to the prevailing Wage scales for ordinary la bor. The American Federation of Labor is at open odds with the Administration on this point. The Federation has been driving hard to make th© government pay regular wages to the relief workers. SH E E T 8 IN the white house defeat the kingfish went buzzing about the senate floor , arguing in favor of the amendment , pointing out political angles , turning on ALL HIS PERSUASIVENESS - TO BEAT THE PRESIDENT. -TCP* / OF COURSE MR ROOSEVELT IS GOING TO VETO THAT PREVAILING WAGE M AMENDMENT . ALSO- HE WILL DEPEND UPON HIS POWER IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO STOP IT. IF THE FOUR-BILLI ON~E I GHT-HUNDRED-MILLI ON-WORK-RE LI EF—BI LL CONTINUES TO BE SNARLED UP IN THE. HANDS OF THE LE GI St AT OR S, THE PRESIDENT WILL HAND CONGRESS A FAT PACKAGE CONTAINING ALL THE BLAME. HE WILL SAV THAT IF THE RELIEF APPROPRIATION IS BEING HELD UP AND THE NEEDY AND THE UNEMPLOYED ARE SUFFERING - THE RESPONSIBILITY LIES WITH CONGRESS. SOME QUARTERS WE HEAR THAT IF THE WORST COMES TO THE WORST THE PRESIDENT MAY WITHDRAW THE BILL, LET THE BIG program of work relief slue , and return to the direct HANDa'ouT"sVSTEM OF RELIEF, GOVERNMENT GIFTS TO THE needy - a dole - SHEET 16 ADD WORK RELIEF- AND THE LATEST WORD ON ALL THIS SEEMS TO INDICATE A DEFINITE AND DECISIVE DEFEAT FOR THE PRESIDENT. SENATOR BYRNES OF SOUTHCAROLINA IS THE DEMOCRATIC FLOOR LEADER. WHAT HE SAYS CARRIES THE GREATEST WEIGHT. HE DECLARED THIS AFTERNOON THAT THE GIANT WORK RELIEF BILL WAS DEAD - THAT THE FOUR BILLION, EIGHT HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR MEASURE HAD BEEN KNOCKED OUT BEYOND THE POSSfBILITiyff OF REVIVAL. THIS DECLARATION IN THE SENATE THREW THE LAWMAKERS INTO A TURMOIL^ WITH EVERYBODY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN NEXT. THE SITUATION IS EXCEEDINGLY CONFUSED. IT SEEMS AMAZING- THE TREMENDOUS ROOSEVELT VICTORY AT THE LAST ELECTION »AN OVERWHELMING CONGRESS,AND YET THE PRESIDENT'S GREATEST PROJECT IS fWNED DOWN. AT LEAST - TURNED DOWN DOES SEEM TO BE AN ACCURATE EXPBESSION, AFTER THE DEMOCRATIC FLOOR LEADERS STATEMENT TODAY. yL^y\AJ . - Z ? 1 M m SHARKS I sup jos e It is natural to encounter people from all over the jorld here at Lake Placid, the^ira^S [ i; sports capital of O ^ A * ^to-ermiX'U^ But I must confess that I got quite a shock today f h r; Hi when a man came up to me whose profession is one of the strangest : I've ®-ver heard of. He spoke to me merely because I happen to be a trustee of a famous educational institution of which he is graduate —The Pawling Boys' School. Then he went to the University | aJi of Virginia. With all that excellent education, what profession \ ■I did he choose? Why he 4rs a sharkolegist — catches sharks in the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. %£ James Shaw, the shark man from Florida is sitting beside me here at a window where we can look out at the mu an tiu ii'uj qg—Adirondacks, bur ioU''.IfeiSJ J' mm I'»f o ot &£ ono^ sffAff - THOMAS -1 L» T«s- llr* 3 . L> T. Mr, S. h ±£ L, T,£ Mr. Ss- ,'/hy should anybody /ant to be a shark fisherman, Mr. Shaw? i-or money, :!e do lots of strange things for that. And, also for the thrills. Thera and how do you do it? Usually anywhere from five to fifteen miles off the Florida Coast. We catch them with six hundred foot net*. When the shark hits the net he becomes ensnarled. He rolls himself up in the mesh of the net, and actually drowns himself! A. I,ve seen alot of sharks and I should think they would \ damage your nets. Once.off the coast of Arabia, when with Colonel Lawrence’s army, we were unloading a lot of mules. One fell overboard and as soon as he hit the waters of the Red Sea, two sharks had him. And they pulled him in two almost before you could wink a gyg# Don’t they do that to your net? Some U lies. Once a fifteen foot hammerhead shark that weighed over a ton, tore up three hundred feet of our a net. And '.mat do you do v/ L th 1 em when jrou catch -em? ;,lr. S»_L- Their hides are made into tmskuffahle leather, oil is extracted from the liver, the body of the shark is used for high-grade fertilizer^ 'the fins are sold to the Chinese soup trade, for shark fin soup. And the shark’s eyes are made into fake jewelry and sold to the Colored folks down Sotth. X. T. By the v/^y, do you consider sharks dangerous? Mr. S:- Yell, xhxxkxxsxixxjaiy a tiger shark certainly is. Some of them have jaws big enough to 'take in half a man at one bite. As we shark fishermen says- **V/e wouldn't trust ’em, no how, hardly either.” Bits of news about the world of newspapers come drifting along, n new natLon-wide newspaper Sunday magazine is aoout bo oe uorn. -t is to be called “This \ffeekn t and will appear on Sunday, in papers throughout the country — in Si_tcn journalistic institutions as the ITew Yorh HeruId— Tribune, the .Vtlanta Journal, Jashington Star, Boston Herald^ ■ The opening issue will include the first installment of a new novel by Sinclair Lewis. The magazine will start off with a circulation of four million. The editor is that really remark­ able woman, TIrs, -7 ill Lam Brown Meloney. »«e S^tiasdad • mx -mw.-g—hT-^oiirSiTopki -»i frfo Hearat * o inrn ni nourna 1 gut-^Lny> q bbv ,! ttiblo i-d"*faypo of magqg»ne-«n i th-f we LrrtKn»s-to yertto- oi»-GaturThty^ The Herald Tribune in New York is putting on a big puzzle convention tomorrow afternoon at the Vanarnaker Auditorium, Imagine the difference, the contrast, between the crossword tmzzle champion of America chosen in that contest, and the ski in which/cross-word champion of America will defend his laurels. the rjre sent 7 ^ SHEET K PEACE THE NEXT LARGEST qf D1BLQMAT 1C MANOEUVRES WILL TAKE THE FORM OF INDIVIDUAL NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND THE VARIOUS BIG POWERS.* LONDON HAS INVITED RUSSIA, GERMANY AND ITALY TO A SERIES OF CONFERENCES. THERE WONT BE ANY BIG ^AROUND - THE- TABLE GET- TOGETHER*. TH0SE WHOLESALE ROW- WOWS HAVENT BEEN GETTING ANY PLACE LATELY . SO ENGLAND*S NEW METHOD IS FOR SIR JOHN SIMON, THE FOREIGN MINISTER , TO TALK SEPARATELY AND INDIVIDUALLY WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE OTHER NATIONS- ITALY, GERMANY AND RUSSIA;, YOU WILL OBSERVE THAT FRANCE IS NOT MENTIONED* BUT THEN WHAT ENGLAND WANTS TO PUT ACROSS IS THAT INTERNATIfl IONAL ARRANGEMENT SHE HAS ALREADY MADE WITH FRANCE. LONDON AND PARIS HAD THEIR INDIVIDUAL TALKS A LITTLE WHILE AGO . ^OF COURSE ENGLAND’S SPECIAL TASK IS TO GET GfiRMANY TO AGREE TO THAT AIR TREATY OF MUTUAL DEFENSE, ACCORD ING TO WHICH THE POWERS SIGNING THE TREATY WILL SEND THEIR SKY FLEETS TO SHEET 13 SEXTUPLETS THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE BIONNE QUINTUPLETS. ITS ABOUT THE GOLD COAST SEXTUPLETS . FROM WEST AFRICA COMES WORD OF THE BIRTH OF SIX AT A TIME. THAT WAS EIGHT DAYS AGO, AND THE AFRICAN MOTHER IS DOING WELL AND SO ARE THE GOLD COAST SEXTUPLETS. THEY HAD NO MED ICAII CARE. THERE ARE NO DOCTORS ALONG. THE GOLD COAST EXCEPT WITCH DOCTORS. THE ONLY TROUBLE IS THAT THE GOLD COAST SEXTUPLETS ARE NOT SO EASY TO CHECK AND CERTIFY AS THE FAMOUS DIONNE BABIES. / cA () mL _ _ f) D_ Q - - () JJ asn A