EtES-GM:': , Good Evenin , Everybody: ^ Luo Icrous comedy took place in Chicago today, 1 uc icrous thou• ‘h aetua. 11 y i t 1 c quite srious. It InvoIves a dispute between the Chicago police and agents for the federal government vho are assigned to the kidnapping investigation. It all has to do with the abduction some months ago of Jerome Factor, that curious financier aea«*iksas±)» known as Jake the Barber, whom the British authorities are exceedingly keen to totaudb v*. L* T* BKUAUUAbT _ a/jLt'/cb m i. I !:i 1 l i arCgset -lis financial activities in London. You recall that Jake A. A the Barber v*as kidnapped and returned to his family after suffering aeaSsSp hard shin f and oain. Y/eli, it seems that he nad been released upon his definite ••omis^ .o pay a largo sum of money after^taa-rr-aa^* ^ ^S^authorities tapped his telephone wires and learned that he was preparing to pay money — a A, the nolice dressed up a copper in a messenger boy * s uniform and sent him out i h five hundred dollars, to the meeting place appointed by the kidnappers. A force of three hundred municipal and federal officers had been planted nearby so as to catch the crooks when they appeared, messengf r boy did his part, the kidnappers showed up in tb'ir car, and the raoney was thrown to them. The net result of It all v/as that the croohs rot away and now the Chicago police and Uncle Sam*s men are throwing compliments at each other, passing A A. the buck for the frilure of their plan. A father consequence is that the police have thrown a heavy guard around the hotel where Jake* the-'Barber is living, They arc afraid that the kidnappers ’will assume that Jake tipped them of', and that I hoy will try to take vengeance by assassinating himoo - * N* L* T* SUNOCO OIL BROADC/OT - 8/10/0S grr-T?; - ~ v -n -h: Our 'non i Nira - or Neera as some people rant me <^1 ,^4- -K.i?. a. w&Jl JJaJc '**a - - to pronounce her name^- at any rate^ the Ilational Recovery /'Ct? is * runnin through shoal at r at present, \ln the middle of thf negotiations between the Nira officials • the employers and vrorters of the clothin ■ Industry, sixty thousand needle ork:rs threw n their needles and walked out in New ¥0rk City. Labor leaders say It is one of th biggest strikes ever nulled in Gotham, ’"here the garment trcde has always bn a source of trout! . T: ’ 'd rs f the. rtri' r: say th y are protesting against sweatshop conditionsJ My information indicates that both the Administration in Washington and Nira loaders in th New York area, are in sympathy with the worrert. General John on gave i •• iedir • instructions for investigation of labor conditions in the germ nt industry by the ions 1 Labor Board, Professor Leo V.olman of Columbia University, Mujsa»;,,, LF/'D - 2 i>h° .i a icu'bt.r ox that Board5 v/as dispatched to Bev. York to do v.'rt he can to- av is reconcilin ' the t- o factions. -:eanwhile Grover Whalen, former Commissioner of police, n'^r*1 hrnd -if* vnmniie 1 ri~ r ~ r? 1 1 ;.'i i ^—i- ^Chairran of the Nev Yorh N.R.A. organization. off-re' his s rvic- s as .ediator, and asked the leaders of both ee.ploy rs and v.orhr ■: to ac-et him. st\ i\ Instf \r s m>io term \ut i\;e I\ie s11*4>rrsvvant ml ■ \ \- ■ \un ^ \/ov h i\ \, '*arion l 'Co> -*.•0*' h 11 * Fath- r KnickerboC'^ r1 s police were on their f ees re- *r o k- ■ 3 f; stri'*' r.* ns quiet as possiM . You would hardly exp.-ct .ie-t'.e wor; -s to bf u .lacious people. ~ut th- strikes in this iniustry have b n among the aost turbule.it in the history of ror t; *r : r . :Q ---- ^ tr.^, ''Crr —1 ^r;- * r—>, t I. -- 'I I I _T7I-U^«'»l - - I i ---—' -- - — ' » ' n •“ 1 ‘ • •----J.!i' 1 " ' ' • ■ ) too V ‘ -'By I.'m I i r fin— —--- ^-4--- -------- —1,. ____ . - - s ;T- . . LEAD - 2s . Thins aren’t any too peaceful in labor circles out on the Pacific Coast either, although the packing companies say they uevc t.v U'u pic^rrsf stride in California-pretty 7 ;ell licked. One large corporation employing thousands of pickers announced that itlvs Coin" to pay a hi'her sc-le In compliance with the spirit of the President rs R<=cov^ry Act. At r much n nr ^ a lines, C? liforni--, f’ive hundred Filipinos made a lot of stri * talk, •'hereupon they were ir.mediately fired and Mexicans v.er*' hired inst ’f . Most of th employers say that the strike can’t a./ount to ••:ny hi nr becaa.se there are so many workers available. At th ranch in Tulare County ' !ierr the strike began. the six hundred workers ho walked out v ere replaced by nea men. The employ inr company got •n injunction from one of those California courts prohibitinr the strikers from-interference. Twenty-five state uelUc a-v oatrollin the ranch. Governor ! alnh was asked to send the ] m> J fused, saying that it asnH lecessary. ^ 4. , ,[ere evicted from their homes which The strikin; vor o. tm - V . .e thl.G, n out into the have been turned over to th- newcomeu . -hey fierce un hi a witi th mercury Aijl10 deer- es. LEAD - E at the same time I learn from V,'ashington that Mira1 aff' irs 7-' not any too smooth in the capital.. In fact. General Jonn. >n, t .-oisrin-at *ator, started waving the big stick. He minced no words in ^xclaiminr teat there has been altogether too much bickering and argument among some industrial leaders, and what the country ants is a.ction. These ords were aimed particularly at th of the at "l industry, several of -hom ivalked out on a ^ j oonr re ice in . ashing •*on gesterdav whe n th y s; jx '. illiam Green, President of t • American Federation of Labor present rsc-n as a deliberate and intentional slap in the f'• c of th Labor Gnion. ^resident^himself is now A. . 4 * 6~Y^L* "“W rf-Te.wea, iu * Furthermore, there's quite a battle -oinr on about thr a <o ttion f the code for t^ automobile industry. Dr. Green, as Labor advi ser to the .iation; 1 uecov ry Act, os announced that ^e will insist on the rights of the orkers to collective bargaining. In the code submitted by the industry, the' rif ts arc in ■ ny respects PPSHPlt Li A P - 4 restric ted. the other hand I learn that the various branches of bhe tobacco industry have siened the President's blanket code, and th'.:' transit and public kh utility units also submitted a code while the newspaper oublishers a new and modified ^ A code. In spite of 11 this argument a' out the steel industry, t n steel nills ar<- turning in nev. hi h records for pi-oduction. This is aTtributed to increased demand steel tjSv brewery plants. ..hat i. morf , Postmaster Gen< r; 1 Farley gave out a statement today showing how the Foreign Air —ail service of the Post Office Department is contributing to the rebuilding of our commerce' ith Latin America. AUr. Farloy states tn•*'t his latest a r^oorts inh ica t- conclusively that^re.ne ed flo\v of trade between the various republics in this hemisphere is already under wei h. He „ „,.k claims this "r a sis foreign commerce of the United States is reacting to fas the President's program for industrial recovery. HOTEL In Chicago a comuiittee of* hotel men passed a busy day wrestling with the problem of a code for the husines of hospitality, George Wartman, Supervising Manager of the Gotham Hotel, in Hew York tells me that the situation is urgent. Guests are asking why the hotexs are not under the Blue Eagle, They don't seem to understand how difficult it is to put such an intricate business under a mKxtX uniform set of laws. Luncheon clubs have cancelled reservations and guests are insistently asking how come. Mr. Wartman of the Gotham expressed the pious hope that the HIRA regulation will not create a situation whereby the chef will be right in the middle of a perfect filet mignon bord elalse when quitting time comes and will abandon his pots and pans and leave the job to a second chef( whose soul is not properly attuned to that particular filet raignon bourdelaise. (Pro sper) COHAN By the way, Nira ia about to be ceXebrated in aong. And tne poet laureate who ia doing it ia no leas a celebrity than our old friend, George K. Cohen, Old timers in the theatres will recall that among the first of George’s beat sellers were "Yankee Doodle Dandy” and "It’s a Grand Old Rag". So when Uncle Sam jumped into the World War it was perfectly natural that George IL. should be drafted to celebrate that in song, and the result as everybody knows, was his rousing march "over There. So now the officials of the N.R.A, have called on Mr, Cohen to write a song in praise of the New Deal. He always was a lightning worker and he’s done the job already. He calls it The Grand Old National Game. You will hear it Sunday evening over this network at 9:00 P,M., Eastern Daylight Saving Time. George will sing it himself. And I’m sure going to tune in at that hour SLOAH I 1 I f I I i \ ‘ 8 r:f; ■■ r on my dosk i"'rom olin Aloan of ^ew York. fo lovers of <>rt *** j . Alo, n i: .nown as one of the most brilliant of livin'/ 8inters. But I never knew before th< t he was addicted to v.Titin- verses. ne .as sent :re a little verse of his own composition. First of 11, he suggests that 1n future our friend Nira, i——■ -I »■ u?-,.1 1 ~. -r!-r?^ ■> aould be -r nounced NEERA. And he:-1s hr. .loan’s reason. He entitles his little verse nSouvenirs% an’ the v rse runs: The holla r Is our Goa u se , And NIRA means Recovery; Prosperity — each ay we’ll be NIRA ray Go i to Th e!x If th t v rse Isn’t exactly poetry, it if rt least [i pretty near ttv truth. Corr sponrl ence. This was the big afternoon of the year for all Americans who are :-:c n on harness racin’. ThejihS!*o?f the Hambletonian, A A the lluti ribbon event of the Grand Circuit at the track near the little to-n oi Gosh1 n, ^ev rh. I v.ish I could have been there to see it. Though running races g> t most of the publicity, many people think that trotting races have it all over them for bein" picturesque, and I an inclined to agree, with thmit. For another thin , tin harness race trac’-s are comparatively fr^e from the touts and tipst rs and all the oth r chiselers that swarm around even ‘:he br .t conducted of jaa».runn'nF tracks. They had z monst >r crowd to s*:e the fifty thousand dollar Hfljnbletonian, thebiggest crowd in all its history, and they evidently eot th i r . on v*s worth, beca use X hear that the third and -.inal heat was a real thrill •• The first heat was von by a mare named tyii*.. Mary Reynold s, driven by Ben^dasr. The second by another mare called Brown Bferry, driven by Fred Eagan. In the third heat Bro-n Berry, running way in the lead, stumbled and fell on her RACE - S knees. ^ i.y . eynolds tlion sprinted Eorward an.) came in a f*ul3. length ahead of the fi.eJLd^ i£ji. -rx^uc-e t&uz ^e»ir “ Incidentally^ Mary Reynolds is owned by one of the Reynolds family, the tobacco millionaires of Winston Salem, North Carolina. MACHADO Though Cuba ia quiet today, the enemies of ex-president Machado in the U.S,A, apparently are by no means so pacific. Mrs. Machado, wife of the deposed president, with a party of sixteen other refugees, was on her way north today in a train bound f’or Hew York. Just as the train to which her special car was attached was approaching Philadelphia, an urgent message was delivered to Mrs. Machado. A special correspond ent of the He?/ York Svening Post reports that the message warned her of danger in new York. She was advised in fact, that political enemies of her husband, many of whom have been refugees in Gotham for the last few months, were laying in wait to take vengrance on Machado through her. She and her party consequently stopped hurriedly off the train at Philadelphia at eight ©♦clock this morning, "he warning had reached the party of Cubans too late to arrange for a special police escort. But the Pennsylvania Railroad provided a heavy guard of its own police to ride on the train and protect Mrs. Machado. So when they reached the Thirtieth Street Station at Philadelphia MACHADO - : LAis o; raili'oad police escorted the r-- fug ee to the • «fcu: :■ ’ty that“-ut hi ill ,oil > As soon s they were . • f 1. oata;• 1.1s!h;T=uq tt polic- deo:•:<i*tin■'■ of Philadelphia made: arrangements to keep a close guard over the ex-president’s i r- : n ser fri • r . . U . York Avon: i,; Post Italians everywhere are pretty jubilant today. On top of the extraordinary achievement of Marshal Balbo1 s armada, there comes the feat on the slant Italian liner, the Rex, in busting the transatlantic speed record; thirty-cne hundred and eighty-eight miles from Gibralter to Hew York in four days, thirteen hours and fifty-eight minutes, an average of almost thirty knots. Branson de Cou, the globe trotter, was on board with his wife, returning from one of his annual jumps around the map. Mr. de Cou tells me the passengers were all thrilled over the race across the Atlantic, In this connection there’s an interesting fact concern­ ing the master of the Rex, Commander Prancesco Tarabotto. Commander Tarabotto who wears a beard of pretty much the same shape and color as Marshal Balbo’s, has been at sea for thirty- six years. He made his first voyage at the age of nineteen and on that occasion it took him fifty-four days to go from Italy to Texas gqRMMX ^ A big political trial started in Germany today, the trial of the men whom the Hitler Government accuses of having set fire to the Reichstag, Germany’s House of Parliament in Berlin. J The trial is taking place at LeijncLg in Saxony. I learn** from wireless report, by way of London, that there are so many prisoners in the dock that the trial will probably continue until late in September* 0 NBC Kissira Aa this is what our Jiinglish cousins call the silly season, there may he no harm in my relaying the following information; At Luna Park, Coney Island, there*s going to be a kissing marathon next Monday afternoon. I've been asked to act as one of the judges, - not one of the kissers or kissees — but I am afraid that's one subject of which I am not such a hot judge, even though the management does guarantee the judges full protection against female competitors, ftqt Here are some of the rules laid down for the competition. Any competitor making advances to the judges will be thrown out. Any contestant caught eating onions before-hand is declares ineligible. Great Scott, I should hope soj How about garlic? Competitors will be allowed to close their eyes, but both eyes must be closed at the same time. Biting in the clinches is prohibited. Well, well. XkwJttx That gives me an idea. I think I'll go out now arid do a bit of biting -- on some juicy beefsteak. And, SO LOHG UNTIL TOMORBOW