HARTFORD - JTJHE V IS o7 GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Tonight I am broadcasting from Hartford, Connecticut, the insurance & capital of America. Today Hartford was taken by storm, captured by troops, veterans^f the,World War. The famous Yankee Division swooped down on.^SB^nnii and I came with S A A them. There is no particular reason for me mentioning this over the radio except to explain why I happen to be broadcasting the news fran here.*' The reason is^that our notorious ball team, the Nine Old Men was invited to cane and play for the Yankee Division and their families, to play against a team led by* Coranissioner of Motor Vehicles A Oomn eatieufr1, Mike Connor • the reason is th at I stayed at the game a lAirfrl- longer than I v in 3hould^ and^haven’t worked more than half^iJif A in shape for this broadcast .V After taking two getting the news beatings so far this season, the first at Madison Square Garden second on Memorial Day when Ford Frick's Furies took us into camj>, our Nine Old Men threw away their crutches this afternoon, and really tried to play ball ^^"our battery consisted of Heywood Broun, pitching, end your Sunoco News Commentator catching. !y But Heywood had marvelous support. Humorist Ted Shane, Graham Me Name e, Lanny Ross, Cartoonist Paul Webb, Novelist and Hardy Brownell, they Just couldn't miss. And at bat they didn't seem like fifty or sixty year old men at all* I left i the fourth inning with Lanny Ross pitching for Jf and the Nine While we were playing ball in Hartford, here's what was going on in Washington:- Homer Groy, ex-football star Carl Ray, .Bob Johnson, JSddie McGrath A A Ray, .Bob A / Old men leading by a score of tw®|ve to two* T i s TAXES i 1 ■We ggna»=PffBB5 The Senate was considering the tax revision hill, the so-called business recovery tax act. So Senator Bob La Toilette of Wisconsin the opportunity to slip in an ^ ^ u -Q —- amendment for his pet project. For years the Wisconsin has been saying that Congress ought to broaden the base of the income taxes, make more people pay. ^ amendment was for lowering the present tax exemptions^for single people^from one thousand to eight hundred. And the exemptions for married people, to he lowered from twenty five hundred to two thousand. Then he also offered an amendment to raise taxes in the middle brackets, start the jtaxes on ineomes between „ vd^^That one mighty nearly went three thousand and four thousand a year.^ma throush. At first the vote was thirty.-nine to thirty-seven in favor. ^ Then all of a sudden Senator Tydings of Maryland switched his vote from .yes- to -No*. And the result was a tie, thirty eight to thirty eight. That_defeats an amendment. Tt was a disappointment to La Follette, who told his colleagues ^ 3 ' ^ dhi 1 itiss and have ^ ^ we should face our responsibilit________ __ nthe time has come when ~ TAXES continued: the courage to increase taxation.* And he added; - ’'The country a..: s reached the crossroad where it must choose between^i^trolled inflation and the hard jofce of taxation.* The senators don't feel like taking the hard road at this time. Maybe they think it's too close to next year's election. Later, the Senate passed that so-called Business appeasement tax hill. It made a few changes, not important ones, in the act as it had come from the House. Nevertheless, the main body of the bill went through, the act to raise one billion, six hundred and forty four million, three hundred thousand in taxes and also it is hoped to bring M relief to businessmen rad loosen up the flow of investment money. It isn’t all the business men have been asking for, but the Congress-; f\ men say 1 fruit at least they've tried to meet business half way. SPMDING Washington correspondents received an unexpected call today. They were summoned to the White House for an extraordinary conference^ end vti press wjr 55 * The President had sent for them to tell them about the new spending program that he proposes to urge upon Congress. ^le news in one short phrase is, three billions, eight hundred and sixty million dollars! Just a hundred and forty million short of four * l0 billion. Another whopping outlay^ Of that, Mr.Roosevelt proposes to spend eight hundred and seventy millions in the nineteen forty fiscal year^ The rest is to be spread over a term of years. But the President contends that all that money will not be an addition to the expenses of the government. Wot a permanent increase of the national debt. The loans that he proposes to make will be self- lie uidating, he said, and they will be financed outside the regular budget. He emphasized his declaration that he will authorize no loans except for projects that can assure the government of getting every cent back* SHOEING continued; Now here are some of the purposes for which he proposes to len^^rt^money.^ One is a three hundred and fifty million dollar^TOEr^c spread over two years, for non-federal public workbench as hospitals, bridges, sewage disposa^ater works. Then seven hundred and fifty millions are to be devoted * to the building of express^ post roads, bridges, speed-highways, city by - passes^ All these to be toll roads, thus assuring repayment. Next comes half a billion, five hundred millions, to help the railroads get equipment over a three year period. The equipment to be purchased by the government and leased to the railroads. ^hq4- HTTP-3 . 11 ■■"■mill. I■IIIIIP■ liinfl- Then there’s a seven year program for rural electrification, four hundred and sixty millions to put electric power at the disposal Qf one million, two hundred and fifty thousand more farm families. And that isn’t the only point of consideration for the farmers. The President would lend them five hundred millions, two hundred and fifty millions in Nineteen Forty, the rest in Nineteen Forty One, for farm purchases, also to make repairs and help them m get machinery, seeds, water facilities, and so forth. SPENDING continued: And finally, the President proposes to lend five hundred millions to foreign governments in the next two years, on condition that the money be spent in the United States. The i resident 'UUfen explained that this plan represented his idea for a permanent revolving fund to help the country through hard times. He proposes to make this a permanent policy. As he phrases it* he development and maintenance' of a revolving fund fed A j from the earnings of these government investments and used to finance new projects at times when there is need of extra stimulus to employment, And h^idded: - "Such times will recur in the future, as they have in the nast, and there will always, be need for public facilities and improvements in our natural resources,^ Three billions, eight hundred and sixty millions in loans TlX/I'?3H\TD time S* coming when thj^country will be , , , x ^<2^ c .^ yyu ^. T o t C^ rulea by elderly people. That M the ultimate hope of ~ T ..iu . •■.To™send, the two hundred a month Sem^and-eggTmai. followers held their national convention at Indianapolis and the old Doctor tola them; - ”1 believe our most reliable talent lies under the white thatches of people who have gained experience through the years, And he added: *1 look forward to the time when elderly citizens will guide the destiny of our nati6n.w His delegates were particularly delighted when he told them that the Townsend movement ultimately would embrace the entire citizenship of the United States. And then it turned out that it Ms also^ftSSB hope to elect a president, He said to his audience: -HMon't smile. I do not look forward to the time when I_shall he president. But .I do look forward to the time when w=> ahall elect one.* Presumably a seventy year old president with a congress composed of *. -sv+v arm ninpty. That seems to be the new dream of oeople between sixty ana ninety. > the TownsenditesiJt^. : 5Q.UAIXTA The sinking of the submarine "Squalus* may bring one grim benefit to Uncle Sam’s Navy. Tl 1 i urTlT1 | U p mu.. ........ fun 1 m±wbSf . -.Ttethw^agically late, to be sure«]5ut it may save the lives of ^owi^lo^^thers . All this came out at the hearing at the court of inquiry at Portsmouth The witness was Harold T.Preble, naval architect who himself went down in the^Squalus’1 on her tragic dive and was one of the thirty-three to come up again. Jjie has been employed •two as a irvsl architect in the Portsmouth Navy YardJ^o leaj '^hojp. twenty­ 's in. He years. And he has taken part in the test cruises of no fewer than / tv;enty-seven submarines. Captain Monroe asked Preble this questiont *Do you believe the hull valves and other engine valves are of poor design for an emergency?” And Preble promptly replied: - *up to the time the,f5qualus?* sank I thought they were pretty good. Now I know that they are not.' And he added: - "I know we can improve the design of the valves.” captain Monroe asked another: - "Would you recommend the changing of this type of valve on submarines in service?" •SJJALUS continued: And Predie answered: - ’'Without delay.« Then there was a sombre confirmation of the now accepted theory of the cause of the S^UALUS tradgey. I mean the theory that it was a faulty induction valve. Almost literally a voice from the dead, a voice from the bottom of the oceaJjjbed outside Portsmouth^* brought this conf irmationf-' One of the witness told the court that he was stationed in the forward battery room of the submarine. Suddenly he heard what he described as a hazy voice say over the ship* a telephone: - '♦Take her up. The induction is open.* And a few seconds later another voice said: - *The engine room is flooded.* A voice from the dead to corroborate the livingl SUICIDE People on the streets of Pittsburgh witnessed an unexpected drama today. A handsome young woman, was driving a car over the great George Westinghouse Bridge in East Pittsburgh. When she reached the highest point of the big span she s topped, got out of her car, and made a dash for the railing. Before anybody could interfere, she jumped, plunged off the high bridge, down, down, to instant death. Later it w$s discovered that she was the wife of C. Edgarton Warburton, grandson of the great John Wanamaker of Philadelphia• KING :r’"V"Tllil1 *:here are sore throats and hoarse voices in ' 11111 VT ^S18116 tonight, sore and hoarse from yelling a welcome to King George and '^ueen Elisabeth, the most vociferous and triumphant welcome that a returning sovereign ever had in the British Isles. As the”Empress of Britain” streamed slowly up the Solent, the beautiful body of water outside Southampton, the horns and whistles from hundreds of ships blared a greeting. The great white Snpress” was promptly surrounded by fleets of excursion boats, motor boats, all sorts of pleasure craft. The young Princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, by that time were on the '’Empress* with their home­ sick father and mother. A royal navy destroyer had taken their little royal highnesses out to sea to board the wBnpress* before she entered the Solent. Crack planes of the Royal Air Force flew overhead, dipping and diving in salute. As Their Majesties landed they found weitine for them the ^ueen Mother. Of course their first question wts,*-** hov, she felt after her recent accident. And she replied she was perfectly well again. As they crossed the rranp nl mk the KING continued: 7 young Princesses were so excited that they jumped up and do™ the King*s arms. f x was when their train put into Waterloo Station tha* their welcome became really stentorian. 'With the little Princesses they roce in an open carriage, past Trafalgar Square, to Buckingham Palace. A report from London says that the mob in TrsCslgar Square was so thick that a fish monger's delivery boy, carrying his tray, had to stand for nearly an hour with his tray balancedjon his hands stretched above his head. Wh^ahniay A As Their. Majesties drove past Old St.Stephens, members of Parliament A were lined along Parliament Square, waving and cheering as loudly as any coster. Among those who welcomed the King and Q,ueen at Waterloo, Joe Kennedy, Amabassador to the Court of St. James by the way, was The House of Commons passed a loyal address which was presented, to the King and Q,ueen by Prime Minister Chamber- lsin tlle jubilation over the return of the sovereigns K2 " 1 ^^' /p overshadowed^the public dismay and fury over SXlS. ClOW 00^ JAPAN T&l ine latest stroke f the Japitish*< ,-£hajt) /he ultiraatmn that all British and other foreign war­ ships should get out of Swatow and stay out. There was a hurried conference of high army and navy authorities in v « | London^ with members of the Cabinet* learn that Prime Minister v J'wW Chamberlain’s officeconstant communication with our own State Department, After the conference was over, the Prime Minister went into Parliament and told the Commons that he had ordered arrangements made to move all British women and children from Swatow. JWP (tU said the Japanese had promised to help also to respect British property. TIERTSIK FOLLG'T YJiittlELL ! . ( The reports from Tientsin V and raore pro vocative. ~ The Japanese, at the concession barriers, are.doing their utmost n to humiliate British subjects. The British ccnsul told the news­ paper men that again a man had been stripped naked. Another was forced to undress down to his shorts, with a crowd of Chinese staring at him The object, of course, ttto to make all Europeans, particularly the British,‘ lose face as much as possible in the eyes o^ the Chinese. One Englishman, the Assistant Secretar3r of the facing Club, even had his mouth pried open by a Japanese officer and gentleman. At one barrier a Japanese sentry ordered a British woman to take all her clothes off. She declined, and as the sentry made a^^at her she slipped out of his grasp and darted into the concession. ENDING a thing happened this afternoon. Conmis si oner Connor of Connecticut, figarlng that I would overstay my time at the ball game and that I would be i in a jam for news, wrote A out a story for me, and told me to be sure and Include It in (9n my way around the I eeke bases ia \ thi s bro ad cast tonight . A I lost Mike's story* So the world will never know what important news it wa s that the G onn e o ticu t Gommis sio ne r ► wanted me to include in tM s broadcast. And, now, back to the Nine Old Men, to see if they held that twelve to two lead. And, SOLONG UNTIL TOMORROW.