L.T r_j3tmogG - vnsJiiEaiA/, 3, 1936 ASIA To understand thi© afternoon’s news from Asia, you need a crystal b&ll, a divining rod, and a course in astrology* After all of which you will he just as wise as before* What’s the meaning of those reports that a Chinese army two hundred and fifty thousand, strong, is on the march from Can.ton — headed north? It’s tremendously to our interest to know. If this troop movement means the long predicted explosion of the Par East, it’s of the utmost gravity for Uncle Sam. There is bound to be the strongest pressure, the most violent storm of propaganda, to drag us into it. Only one fact stands clear through the maze of con­ flicting reports. There is a large sudden and mysterious movement of troops in southern China - headed North, And, there are three versions of the why and vdierefore. Tokyo says it*3 a beginning of Communist hostilities against the Hanking government. The Nationalist Cabinet at Nanking, on the other hand, declares that the march of the southern soldiers, has been promoted and fomented, by Japanese agents. The purpose. says the Nankingese, is to create a state of disorder which will ASIA ~ S give Tokyo an excuse for a further southward invasion* There we have two sides of the triangular argument. ^he story from Canton is that the southerners are marching on Nanking with the slogans "If you won* t fight Japan, if you wonft resist Japanese aggression, you will have to fight us." Such are the prospects. Civil war, Japanese intervention on the pretext of restoring order, a general conflagration on th# shores of the China Sea*. The repercussions of this business are worldwide. It puts John _Bull in a tough spot, anxiety £»to the QuaidtOrsay/ on the banks of the Seine. And it will cause many a headache on the banks of the Potomac, at least within the walls of the State Department. PARIS There*s a grim, ironic touch in the story of the strike that has spread all over France, For the first time since the 1 days of Marat, Danton and Robespierre, a liberal radical pro-workers | government is about to take office. And, Just to give the Socialist Monsieur Blum and his colleagues a rousing welcome. the labor leaders call the workers out all over the country. To be sure, they protests nThis is not a general strike." Nevertheless, Parisians at this moment are in danger of going hungry, even without water. Thousands have thrown down their 1 i I; tools in the busy manufacturing districts around Lille In the north. outhjin Marseilles, shipyards are shutting down. Factories I making munitions of war are silent and empty Of course the most serious situation Is in Paris. That’s because the men in the refrigerating plants auit. As a A result, no ice, no milk, and, before long, no meat. There’s a pretty kettle of fish for a new government to face. There’s a pretty problem the workers are handing to the Cabinet they have elected as being particularly and Intensively their own. PARIS - 2 / / Whatfs It all about? More money, less work, A forty-hour / / week, the recognition of the unions, discharged union workers to be rehired with full back pay! In such circumstances. Monsieur Leon Blum takes office tomorrow. In .Paris, the ladies were getting themselves into the papers too. France is one country still conspicuously obdurate to the caus© of woman suffrage• So the 1 adies of France have invited a new slogan; "No vote, no socks darned," They took a picturesque way of publicising the idea. Equipped with thousands of socks, they stormed the Senate Chamber. Every fair hand carried holey socks, awawk socks with no heels, socks with no toes, socks of brothers, fathers, husbands - socks that would stand up alone. There were more socks in that Senate Chamber when the socking was over than you’d see at a champion­ ship prizefight* From the visitors' gallery they rained down upon the heads of the august fathers of the country, the senators of France. And the rumor is that some of those socks contained bricks. Those chic, petite ladies of France! But it looks as though a new day is dawning for la femme. We hear, the socialist leader, leon Blum, is to follow the example of president Roosevelt. .His new Cabinet, to be organized tomorrow, is expected to include two women. One, the famous winner of the Nobel Prize, Hadame Curie-Joliot. WGXSN - 2 T.n.xa ciatinguiened scientist will have the portfolio of either scientific Research or Social Welfare* j%nd another wonian, Madame La Coure, a veteran militant Socialist, will he in the Cabinet as Under-Secretary for Child Welfare. This seems to be ladies* day in the news. Thirty- five women from nineteen states, convened in Chicago. The meeting is called "The First Finance Congress of Women." The idea is to discuss woman »s place in the business world. All women who have financial interests. And they*re getting together to discuss what the men arc handling or mis-handling business. But a still larger feminine assemblage met in Washington today. Seven thousand ladies from the farms got together in the capital. They come from rural communities of every state in the Union and from twenty foreign countries. "The Third Triennial Conference of Associated Country Women of the Worldl" The first proposition on which they agreed ought to appeal to all of us. "The stomach", they say, "is not oaly the way to a man’s heart but also to international understanding. WQI£BN - 3 “Good food," say the farm ladies, "is the best foundation for clear thinking.w So saying, they all made a rush for the cook book distributed at the convention. 11*8 a volume of recipes compiled by housewives of more than thirty countries. It tells you how to make everything from blinas, those Russian pancakes. to tximdt fried chicken, a la Iowa TAXES Taxes, taxes, taxes - that's a sad, dry subject except when a good row breaks loose to liven it up# Not in sixteen years has there been such a long, tough and lively rumpus on the subject^ 1 The Senators are fighting the last round of it at this precise a on.ent • It’s a matter of only a few hours now until the Be venue Bill is^rollered through the Senate. The Democratic whips say they*re going to put it over even if the ladies and gentlemen on the Hill have to sit a±4Anight. Even before it is passed, it is already the target for brickbats# The United States Chamber of Commerce, through the voice of Harper Sibley, declares: "It’s destructive, it won't I 1 work, it confiscates property^ To which he adds an explanation: »It will increase the general tax upon corporation earnings from 8. | twenty to as high as sixty-eight per cent.*1 So that's the reaction I : I of the Chamber of Commerce. But even if the Senators jam it through tonight, in their haste to adjourn, their little taxing job won't be finished# The minute it gets through the upper Chamber, the Conference Committee of the Senate and the House will have to TAXES - 2 get A-o work* And we^e plenty of memories of how long those conferences can last* The only thing that may hurry it up is the increasing nervous anxiety to declare the Seventy-seventh Congress at an end so that Senators and Representatives can attend to the serious business of going to the conventions, and getting reelected. In this respect, the Republican minority are even more anxious than the Democrats. Delegates are already beginning to gather in Cleveland, And the reports that come from the ok shores of Lake Erie, are making all Republicans in Washington awfully fidgety to be on their way. There is almost no chance of the tax business being washed up this week, the ladies and gentlemen on Capitol Hill will have to take a short recess. With the sad prospect of having to wind up their law-making task in the heat of Washington July. gsw j & r Governor' Harold Hoffman of Hew Jersey is the e'enter of anotner storm. sinde it evokes echoes of the Lindbergh ease, this one too attracts at tent ion all over the country* His proposal tO' replace Colonel Homan Schwarzkopf as head of the State Police, by Colonel Mark Kimberling, has brought another carload of verbal brickbats flying around Mr. Hoffman* s ears. Earlier in the day there was a great hubbub over the report that Schwarzkopf, expecting to be superseded, had started to remove all the files and evidence in the Hauptmann case. Attorney General Wilentz, with a smile dissipated that mmor. Those records, he pointed out, don't belong to the State Police anyway. They belong to the prosecutor's office of Hunterdon County, where the trial was held, / if Colonel Kimberling does succeed Colonel Schwarzkoph, it won't be his first a3venture in police work. As a matter of fact, he was one of the first members of the Hew Jersey State Police. Having just left the United States Army with the rank of Captain he passed the police examination as a lieu ten ant. In Nineteen Twenty-Nine, NEW JERSEY - 2 A he quit the force to become Superintendent of the State Reformatory at Hah way* Since then he has established an enviable record in J penal work, fie has become distinguished as one of the prison heads -yp' able to combine strictness with humanity*'* It was only a year ago that Governor Hoffman appointed him as principal keeper of the State Penitentiary at frenton. S t *36- mM ■ , n' - ! a I IS : S3 | -■: ^ - I . • I ■• I 1 ,0* ijtajaKsssc-effies!: IK THU TO PREMIER P’fSART A d i at iiigui sh©d head of a govemmant is sitting beside me tonight* Ever since school days, long ago, when we used to study about Homan Gov ©mors and Proconsuls, I have felt somewhat awed in the presence of political power* Cur visiting Governor tonight is from Canada* Some time ago we had on the air John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir. Governor General of Canada* This evening, sitting beside me is the Premier of a province, the Honorable A* A. Dysart, head of the government of Hew Brunswick* Oh yes, I'd almost forgotten, Mr, Dysart, one evening a moose caller from Mew Brunswick did his calls into this same micro phone, • Qi MB* DYSART: And if any of our guides in the Mew Brunswick forest had their portable radios turned on that night, maybe the moose actually heard the calls! Moose calling is a little out of ihy line, Mr. ,Lowell Thomas. Let's try something else. premier dysabt - 2 ’ All right, Premier Dysart, some of the shore line of your beautiful province of New Brunswick is along the Bay of Fundy• I,ve been there, and it is one of the sights of the world seeing the great bore come in, the highest tide anywhere on earth. The Bay of EundyJ There*s magic in that name! Also politics. The Passaaaquady runs into the Bay of Fundy, and of course one side of the Passamaquady is in your province, Mr, Premier. Some years ago X remember that a huge Passamaquady power project xx was on foot. The plan was to develop power both for Canada and tine United States, Your people turned it down. And now, the Passamaquady project on our side, supposedly for Maine alone, is being held up. Why did New Brunswick say "no'* those years ago? MR, DY3ART: Sardines] --Q-- : That sounds odd. What could sardines have to do with electric power? / PREMIER SYSART - 3 MY P /3ART« Our expert a in Ottawa said that the giant project as originally presented to New Brunswick would affect the waters in the Bay of Fundy, and possibly xan± ruin the sardine fisheries. Our Bay of Fundy sardines are famous the world over* Perhaps you’ve heard of McLean, the Sardine King. L.T,: Sardines! Which reminds me — I'm thinking about going on a fishing trip some time this summer. Where would you suggestf Mr. DY3ART; Why not try the Tobique, the Merimachi, or the Bestigouche? If you will come at the right time you can have the most sporty xishing in the world -- fly fishing for Atlantic salmon with a light rod. Salmon that weigh from ten to thirty pounds, L«T.: Many thanks for the suggestion, Premier Dysart, I*d like nothing better than to start for New Brunswick, tonight. TUMNISY Gene Tunney, undefeated champion of the world, lost a decision, in Connecticut today. The first decision in almost twenty years to go against Gene, And they say Gene is rather sore about it. But he wasn’t fighting in the ring this time. He had an encounter with the police, the cops of Woodbury, Conn. Gene was going home to Greenwich after doing a radio broadcast in Woodbury. ?Tot talking about Shakespeare, this time — just telling the folks, over the air, all about the joys and pleasures of motoring in Connecticut, Then • the first joy Gene got after delivering hia broaSeast, was a ticket* Life always was that way. Squire Tunney, said the Woodbury cops, drove past a stop sign. "What stop sign?" Gene wanted to know. "Right there", replied the cop, "I don’t see any," said Gene. "What’s the good of a stop sign that’s invisible? It’s a racket! Just a racket for Woodbury to fill its coffers at the expense of innocent visitors." However, the ticket sticks. It will probably a Ion r time before anyone persuades Mr. Tunney to talk about the joys of motoring in Connecticut, Just the same TURKEY - 2 X doubt if they make him pay* So much for the police of the nutmeg state* Out in San Francisco, there’s patrolman, just a plain, honest copper, who has the whole to .in giggling; with some admiration in the giggle. He certainly seems tohave been a thrifty copper! When a man can save eight hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars out of a salary of two hundred a month, sirs! that’s thrift. He made it all, he said, out of shrew! investments in the stock and bond market. Inevitably that calls to mind the reply of a once- famous Hew York cop, to an investigating committee. His name was Alex Williams, His nickname on the force was "Clubber Williams." When they asked him to acplain the large fortune he had acquired, he replied; "Heal estate investments in Japan," That’s a good answer — and. SO LONG UNTIL TOMORBOW,