L. T. SUNOCO OIL BROADCAST - 7/18/53 Good Evening, Everybody: J-he story of Joseph W, Harrlman, the aged banker who »io is on t rial in the Federal Court and otp disappeared^Tiiayfch^gyfi'igdg'g'al: took another slant today. Shortly after Federal Judge Caffey had declared his bail forfeit, Mp. Harriman calmly walked back into the nursing home from Vvhieh he had vanished. But his return was a trifle late. The patience of the law over Hr. Harriman^ vanishing acts had become exhausted. Judge Caffey had not only ordered Hr. Harriman*s bail forfeited despite the oleas of his 'aSsecawsr for delay. He had also issued >v a bench warrant for the aged banker. So as soon as he walked back into the hospital at 4:50 this afternoon, the hospital authorities notified the United States Attorney. Within five minutes a ^ast motorcar with a United States mar^al was speeding to the hospital to arrest him as a fugitive from justice. Mr. Harriman was then arraigned In Federal Court on that charge. N.B.C. 4; Busim’ss This is volume of pleasant news so far as business is concerned. The burden of the sontt is more work and more pay for millions of Americans. An important announcement comes from the Department of Labor. Since April there% been an increase in employment of thirteen per cent, and in payrolls of twenty per cent. For instance, in June alone, there was a rise of seven per cent over May in the number of people put back to work, and almost eleven per cent in wages.^Then there’s a comforting item from Detroit* The Chevrolet Company will have seven or ei ;ht thousand more men at work by August 1st. Ami - ra-jewd fcolarlf**. ten- per c en'te. carried and mail.if And here's something that should bring cheer both to people who grow fruit and those who eat it. Out on the three per cent United Airlines tell me their business jumped flfty- tt month, both as regards the number of passengers A BPSIHESS - £ f"^L^ju^Coast they 1 ve discovered a new way of shipping it without refrigeration, They tried it out with oranges, stxatApx dipping them in parafin and Shipping them through the Panama Canal to * Hew York, The Luckenback who have already carried, two boat loads of oranges treated in this fashion, claim that they arrived in perfect condition, and infinitely cheaper than if they are refrigerated and shipped by train. Two more boat loads are on their way by water from coast to coast. This looks like a renewal of th old traffic war between steamship lines and railroads. If this can be done with oranges, of course, there seems * ' % no reason why it shouldn*t be done with all other kinds of fruits. N.B.C. CABINET President Roosevelts super cabinet, or the General Council, - - VI as It is officially called, met this afternoon, but the President himself was not there. Although his cold is slightly better his I i physician urged him to remain in his own quarters, so the Attorney General presided over the meeting. The purpose of this session was to consider the proposed nationwide code of shorter hours and higher wages for all industries. :! i The plan is beins put into shape by General Johnson, ykm Administrator h of NIRA. The idea is to provide a temporary and voluntary scale 1 of minimum wages and maximum hours of work for those industries | whose codes have not yet been okayed by General Johnson. As soon as any industry perfects Its code and has it approved hy the NIRA Administration, it will automatically pass from under the operation of the temporary blanket agreement. ! I j \ | J Incidentally, one of the classes In this blanket agreement j i : will provide for a minimum wage of fourteen dollars a week for all * I* • I male workers, and a thirty-five hour week. N.B.C. '* MAJORCA, Uncle Sam’s p**£©sa* is becoming treatment accorded by Spain to five American citizens on the Island of Majorca, dot only has Claude Bower, our Ambassador to Madrid, been working hard to secure their release, or at least a prompt txlal, but the State Department in Washington has made a request extraordinary ( ! ' f to the Spanish Ambassadoi>, asking him to make h± representations to his government, The outrageous part of this business is that the . Spanish authorities have as yet made no move to set a date for the "1*1 m* ~ “ : I the local courts have treated with contempt all requests for bail. Well* I've Just learned by telephone that the Department I ; of State has sent instructions to the American Consul General in j ■jji Barcelona, to proceed at once to the Island of Majorca, There he is to spend his entire time doing what he can to help these five feast Americans. * J, N.B.C POST The news from ..iley Post continues to he exciting. A wireless report from Moscow by way of London informs me that he landed in Irkutsk, Siberia at 9:35 this morning. Eastern Daylight Time, ihus he made the 1800 miles from Novosibirk in seven hours A and forty minutes. gome traveling! 0 , ur one eyed ehamp^ from Oklahoma is now more than half way around the earth, £±x±x on his second flight. Hefs now more than sixteen hours ahead of the record he made with Harold Gatty two years ago. A1-chough they say one good eye bloodshot from •A. lack of sleepy when he landed in Irkutsk^Wiiey Post declared that he would take off again in five or six hours, which means that he's now already on his way to Khabarovsk, He^made that remarkable speed in spite of losing his pilot. He—ntoune■ j uo t■ long to- aad ■wcra’-abjre—f4gid hi-a v<ay cvcnbually^^ n . b . c . SLfcE. 1< I! L juz ^ (MstUc&ury^ jU^eA. / yviU^ ~^_UUi lg 7 • liMTRO, TO TRENHOLM knows more about Post and his preparations for this flight than anybody else in the countryt his manager Lee Trenholm. Mr, /-£■*. A m UjxiLa^ Trenholm has been telling me interesting things about Post -A a that I had never heard before, and.I thought you might like to hear r\ V^t^cX!y<S—*9-4— y-ltOL ClX/l wJ'i^ * 1 ^ t0Ey“v^wiAp -So, them too. Mr. Trenholm A. - ^ “t^C K>tsAX^ this rooord fli-gte^v L.T. L^E TRENHOLM L-T. First of all, ¥/hatfs this flight all about? Who * s backing Post this time? Trenholm: Nobody, This is the first real solo flight, Vsflley Post owns his ov ^ ti plane, has no sponsors, backers, or partners. There’s no single trademark or commercial label to mar the white hull of the Winnie Mae. We’re advertising nothing and selling nothing. I mean. L. T.: Has Post any particular plan for his flight, aside from the course that mapped out? Trenholm: Well, before he left oh discussed with me whether he should take it easy, .lower the record just a little A A - ‘ "— then do it again next year, -^fter talking it over he decided to aim for a record on this trip that would be as nearly unbreakable as LEE TRENHOLM 2 & ) And by the way, he*s wearing that white patch over his left eye for comfort. He removed his artificial fCs left eye so that it wouldn’t bother him on £ long flight. L. T.s How fast can the Winnie Mae go? Irenholm: Her full capacity has never been tested yet. Post believes she is capable of doing from five to six hundred fxA4. miles an hour up in the high altitudes. When 1fie^ completed this flight around the world he may try her out. Only one other man besides Post has ever flown the plane since she came out of the factory three years ago, flnd^^^wi the first time another man flew "O bj - l it she had her first and only crack-up. The accident was no fault of the other pilot, and probably would have happened even to Post if he had been at the controls. L. T. What does a pilot flying the ocean think about? Trenholm: That X cannot tell you. But I can tell you LEE TRSIHOLM - S that one thing he doesn’t think about, at least that Post doesn11 ever think about, is whether his engine is going to motor trouble never enters my mind* * I never had one konfe on me in my life.” And you may have heard that when Post and Gatty flew around the world together they had an understanding that if the engine shuild fail while they were over the ocean. Post would stick the Winnie Mae's nose straight down and not bother about same determination before he started on this ilight all alone. fail^ said to mes "Once off the field the question of being battered around for days by the waves m^mfi/assiB^msssssnL REPEAL Astonishing news comes from Alabama and Arkansas where the voters have been going to the polls all day to decide whether those states would Join the Wet or Dry Column. Leaders of the repeal movement told me by telephone that they have advices from these states indicating that both of them, hitherto regular strongholds of Prohibition, are voting wet. If Alabama and Arkansas become the seventeenth and eighteenth states of the Union to ratify repeal that will indeed be news. Of course the direct plea made by the President as leader of the Democratic Party kxk evidently had a strong influence in both those states because that means the Democratic Party machinery was moving to bring in the wet votes. The Anti-Prohibition leaders tell me there was a fair size vote in Alabama until the middle of the day. But the information from Arkansas is still more surprising. The Wet leaders first claimed that even Arkansas would vote three to two in favor of repeal. After getting in the first returns, they have changed those figures and now say Arkansas will be wet two REPEAL to one A significant thing was that the first rural county 1 * ^-and the rural regions«^«-^*dKdh have always been for Prohibition^ Ljh i- <LtTvvv\te i---- 3 J>_____ |___ X>__ ____ V voted forty-four to one in favor of repeal. Little Rock,Arkansas, is running seven to one for repeal according to telephone advices fran there. Other sections of Arkansas are running forty and fifty to one. | , UBC BALBO ^ Chicago is certainly iiEi doing herself proud "b** entertain** General Balbo, Italy’s colorful Air Minister and^s twenty-four 7^ i*/ Last night^General grew tired of official ceremonies and of wearing his uniform all the time. So hehKEinto civilian A.w A clothes m&Sm a slouched hat and went on a junlcet with a small party A of frie i 'f- ' t £ a ' 'riends# the World,s Fair. S» jee rode in a-automobile skooters. thre?; baseballs at the heads of colored boys and tried his eye in the 7t*<r 'f&x shooting gallery. And^ he made five bull’s eyes out of six shots with an automatic pistol. Then he and tL, s * and ~bmf d his friends tried out some 5.£^ beverage. didn* t get back to ¥ a.. »\, hotel until three ©etcissfc this morning. Incidentally^ one of the festivities arranged for him he gets to New ^ork will take place Friday night at the Waldorf. This will be a reception and supper dance given by the Italy-America Society. Among the guests of honor will be the Italian Ambassador, the Italian Consul Gener- 1 in New fork, Mr. Henry Fletcher, former ~xin Ambassador to Italy, Amelia Earhart, and^George Palmer Putnam, and a host of magnifies from the official and financial worlds. N.B.C. BALBO - 2 And Bere1s more news about General BalboT s sojourn in Mew York. He and his armada will arrive in Gotham, sometime 8 J between five and seven P. M. tomorrow night, daylight saving time. The. Italian air fleet will land at Jamaica Bay alongside of Floyd 11 11 Bennett Airport. of J? ThMvisit^is^ the Italian aces £s particularly A A.. / interesting because there are Italians in Hew York n.V « - ^ --td* (Z&f — ^ -- -r,-- 1,r-- than two hundred and f iftv of Father * there are in Rome. More than, two hundred and fifty of Father A Knickerbocker1s finest^will be on hand to see that there1s no Bst^will monkey business in the shape an an anti-Fascist demonstration. Mounted police, launches from the marine division of the police force, and three destroyers from Uncle Samfs Coast Guard will 5g«i»pf the seaplanes. There will be an official welcome for General Bulba and his men at City Kail, One of the entertainments will be a luncheon on Friday given by Generoso Pope, the king of the Ck Italian language newspapers in He?/ York, who%j- also Chairman of the Mayor1s welcome Committee, w . b . c . y . Ill; !:■« MORTON An ironic tragedy is reported from San Franciaco. The victim was Major General Charles G. Morton of the United States Army, & Several years ago Major General Morton retired a.s Commander of the Ninth Area. He had been a soldier since 1883, and fought through two wars. In the Spanish Ameriean^tfsr he was a A Colonel, and in the World War he led the S9th Division in Hie terrific battle of the Argonne. On July Fourth he was lighting firecrackers for some of the youngers of his family and one of them exploded prematurely and inflicted severe burns on the Generali leg. That terrible menace of the firecracker^tetanus, set in, together with heart complications. This morning General Morton died at the United States Army Hospital at San Francisco at the age of 72^ <a_ Imagj[ne that. A survivor of two wars, and dead from a firecracker explosion, N.B.C. BASEBALL This has been an exciting day in the baseball world and more particularly the American League, for on today’s games depends the actual leadership of that League. As ± h any fan knows, the ^ew York Yanks after being way ahead for so many weeks in the early part of the season, took a xaisaua slump shortly before July 4th, while the Washington Senators were going strong. Consequently the Senators nosed Babe Ruth's teammates out of first place and stayed there for a while, then the Yanks took a spurt while the aggressive Senators had a JiauAr slump. The consequence was they finished week neck and neck, A tied for first place. £ Marse Joe McCarty, manager of the Yanks, remarked: A "We had our slump,now we've worked out of it, and the Washington fellows are having theirs.,T And today the Yanks have been playing Chicago at their own stadium in New York, while the Senators were entertaining the St. Louis Browns in 'Washington. In just a second I hope to be BASEBALL - £ 11 I : able to give you the returns. This is important. If the Yanks win and Washington loses, the Yanks will be in the lead. If Washington wins and the Yanks lose, the Senators will again I ! ^ game. be in first place, but only by half^Hx^ainac Wait a minute. here itocajax are the results: $h8cJfe-^eftn* li Shsc'fe-i^eftn* (JU ji ■ S p ENDING ^ulton Oursler, famous writer of mystery stories, playwright, novelist, and editor of Liberty Magazine, is spending the summer on Cape Cod* Mr, Oursler is an enthusiast about Uncle Sam* s Coast Guard service, and spends a good deal of time ~$JL vwevvu| ^a/vn, with the Coast Guard boys^ ^-e has just run across a story that he considers so important that he rushes it to me by wire, via the teletype:- pt^Za — Ninety-year-old Cape Codder went out in boat dragging for liquor cases thrown overboard from fleeing rum runner, ^e dragged up a big bottle of something and sampled it. ngody Pop," says he. "Why did they ever throw sody pop overboard? Mo harm in sody pop." Bat 6eing thirsty he drank it all. Then he found some Scotch whiskey and drank a pint of that. Then he found some more whiskey and drank a pint of that. Then he found some more sody pop and drank another quart of that* Since that time he has been out cold for two weeks and still thinks the Civil War is going on. Why? Well that sody pop turned out to be extra dry champagne. I I ! f! LIBERTY - 2 t And now it1s time for me to go out and wet my whistle with a bottle of sody pop, or sarsparilla, or something, so — So Long Until Tomorrow, Personal correspondence *