L- I. SUNOCO OIL BROADCAST - 7/7/53 Good Evening, Everybody: The whole world — not only the aviation world, but the world at large — Is thrilled over the news ^^wsSt^Jinunie Mattern, Smiling Jimmie from Texas, is alive and well. After being missing twenty-^Sir^days he is safe, sound and kicking. You may recall that a couple of weeks ago I ventured guess that Jimmie might have landed In some remote spot from which communication with civilized parts might be difficult. If not almost impossible. This guess of mine was corroborated later by w*™* Wiley Post, the round the world flier. But Wiley and I were both way off on our idea as to where Jimmie Mattern might have landed. We bet on one of the islands in the Aleutian Archipelago. Well, a wireless report by way of London Informs me that Jimmie was found ;lle^vi7laee caliaii AnaAiw 4n the Chukut&i Peninsula alive at a little^village V in Siberia^ a tiny trading village near the shores of t Bering^Sea will remember that Mattern had not been LEAD - 2 heard from since June 14th when he left Khabarovsk in Siberia for z hop over Bering Sea to Nome, Alaska. He-was In that Siberian tradiTWf^v^lla^B ' A. /A x tg^&a<r^±lrla; there neither telegraph nor wireless. Consequently the messaging conveying the *V, information that Jimmied alive and safe was exceedingly brief and A lacking in details. But the way in wjj^ch this news became known is quite picturesque. The first city to receive this information was Moscow. It x came in a telegram sent from a place called Bocharova in Siberia. The telegram was sent on July 5th and reached Moscow only Qrvci*^ from Ans A nearest place with a telegraph wire, by a Siberian who traveled twenty* this morning. The message was carried from^Anadir to Bocharova, the two days on foot In order to do so. jjjQ 2 _ct. 0 ] 3 ^£^l.iy I received word from Edmonton, Canada, thajt A the Alexander relief plane which was going out in search of Jimmie, left that neighborhood early this morning, too early to be headed off by the/news, KU?V0 7r* all over the civilized world from Moscow. LEAD - 3 Then ±ta here's something from Washington on the same subject. Coast Guard Headquarters tells us that Uncle Sam*s Coast Guard Destroyer Northland, Is^only about three hundred miles from the place where Mattern landed. But the Northland cannot proceed into foreign waters unless given permission by the Moscow Government. Such permission will have to be obtained by the State Department. There’s an obstacle to that. Uncle Sam has no diplomatic relations with the Soviet*6©*em»e»€% So we would have to make such a request through the ambassador of either England or France in Moscow. And therefs plenty of other aviation news. Colonel and Mrs. Charles Hi Lindbergh spent this afternoon at College Point near New lork preparing their monoplane for their hop to Greenland. As I mentioned the other day, Go±o«»el=andcM^. LindbergJ are making a survey of the northern route to Europe, ihey expect to start sometime tomorrow, weather pmrmitting. Meanwhile, at Floyd Bennett Field, two planes were oiled, fuelled, and tuned up, ready for a Jump across the Atlantic. xThe two Frenchmen, Maurice Rossi and Paul Codas, expect to start the first LEAD - 4 7 ^ thing tomorrow morning on their"way to^Persia. They hope S'- ^ruSj^long distance flight recordjS^2J / r And then two Lithuanians from Chicago, Captain Stephen Darius and Stanley Tiranes, are going to start on a non-stop flight to Riga, the Lithuanian port on the Baltic Sea, Iheir ambition is to put their country on the flying map. A ^ At the same time we learn from ^ackay Radio Message that General Balbo and his fleet of twenty-four Italian planes are still weather bound at Reykjavik, Iceland. And by the way, the Chicago police are making formidable preparations to protect the Italian air fleet when it arrives at the World’s Fair in Chicago. It seems that threats have been uttered by people opposed to the Fastist^'torenmeKfe. Consequently special troops and officers will guard the Italian planes and fliers every minute while they are in Chicago. 1'heir emergency base will be at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and (i£*special guard will be established there. Major Retd Landis, A Q the American War Ace is in charge of these arrangements. He tells LEAD - 5 us that both mounted and loot troops, air guards and naval reserves, will be used to protect ItalyJs Air Minister and his army. '—---------- o —•— Another interesting air event is to taice place in New ¥ork State Monday. That will be the annual glider meet of the Soaring Society of America. More than forty planes without motors will try to glide through the air all the way from Elmira, New York, to within twenty-five miles of New York City. The magazine Aviation has offered a prize to the first gliderAwho does the stunt. The distance between those two points is a hundred and eighty miles. Some glide, I should call it. This- meat ic sponsored by the- Aeronrmtl nol Cviainbffy--o^- Cemmcree‘. N.B.C. RECOVERY I 1 Another warning to American business has been issued by the Administration of the National Recovery Act, You may recall that yesterday Donald Richberg, General Counsel for the AdmindstratiiSiw m M cautioned American business men. That warning was repeated and 1.1 !■ emphasized today in Washington by General Hugh Johnson, Administrator ' A A The gist of the remarks with which he^figuratively speaking^ shook his finger at American industry, was that they are not boosting wages fast enough to keep tssEttr with the rise of commodity & prices throughout the country. Unless manufacturers at large increase the wages of their men and thus raise the purchasing power of the general public, said General Johnson, we are in danger of a new collapse. ;t Then he went on to say: "Vie are having a good rise now. I ' But if we cannot back it up with increased purchasing power, there*s I i II <&M'! , a danger that we may be in for another And he added: "I shudder 11 “to think what would happen to this country if we had another smash—up. ^ The General declared further that he had seen U RECOVERY - 2 indications of* concerted action among the leaders in certain industries to raise prices. In this connection he pointed out that the recent warning from Attorney General Cummings against violation of the anti-trust laws is in earnest. He says the xzxxaiixa£ raising of prices seems to have been put into effect by some industries who have not yet agreed upon a code that complies with the National Recovery Act. Some people he said, appear not to have read the Act and have had poor legal advice. The anti-trust laws^he declared^are only relaxed so far as prices are concerned after_ an Industry Is operating under a code. N.B.C. BUSINESS Cun and Bradstreei^ gatherers of business news, issuea another striking report today, a report that should strike home to all of us. Dun and Bradstreets say that it is no longer an opinion that business is on the upgrade, it is a fact. The report declares further that the rise has come its on so suddenly that ItjdEs full significanee is not yet grasped in many quarters. During the first six months of the current year there has been a complete reversal of trends in tradej 41 - precipitous and unprecedented climb of productive and distributive totals. This has even leaders of industry ' A mystified. Dun and Bradstreets say further that the buying wave now has reached such proportions that it has swept aside all suspicion and lack of confidence. A proox of the permanency of this improvement is the weekly increase in the piling up of unfilled orders. BUSINESS - S In line with this was a terrifically busy day on the hew York Stock Exchange. We leam from the Wall Street Journal that the ticker was as much as twenty—six minutes behind the trading. They had a seven million share day due largely to what the experts- call weekend profit A* ------ — o *--- -- --- Now for something to show that not all employers have been as slow in raising wages as those aimed at by General Johnson. The Dupont corapany in Wilmington announced a ten per cent monthly increase for all its employees, beginning today. Subsidiary companies of the Duponts will fall in line. Then vie learn from San Francisco that after a ~h^SL stormy season sixty thousand workers in canning ^ throughout California, Oregon and Washington are to get the highest wages in the history of thaAlx industry. They will receive twenty-seven-and-a-half cents an hour instead of the previous scale of ten cents* Another indication of better times was in evidence r the United States Brewery Association "&&& in Chicago where BUSINESS - o holding a meeting. Some eighty per cent of the brewers in the U.S.A. are represented. The thing that makes this news is that it is the first meeting of the Association in some fifteen years. I - FOLLOW BUSINESS Here *£ another business item which sounds like a good omen, ^he Thornton Fuller Company, distributors of Dodge cars in Philadelphia, tell me that they received today the largest shipment of automobiles that ever came into Phillie by trailer at one time. A line of forty-five trailers about two and a half miles long, went over the highway into Philadelphia, carrying two hundred and sixty-five Dodge passenger cars and trucks. This is one item in the "better times for Philadelphia campaign" which is going on. Incidentally, the Thornton Fuller people are frankly recommending all their customers to use nothing but Blue Sunoco gas and some thing to Sun Oil Co. Sunoco.oil in their cars. So there’s r\ 2m CONFERENCE looks as though Uncle Sara won another point at that Viiorld Economic Conference in London today. This was in a continuation of the battle on the monetary question. A wireless report informs me that a unique situation developed in a meeting of the * Committee on Monetary Affairs. Uncle Sam*s principal opponent again was France. The French delegates, you will recall, are leading the five countries comprising the gold bloc. Twice the French delegates have demanded that the Monetary Committee quit discussing all questions of money except international debts. Uncle Sam’s chief ally today was John Bull. The British delegates moved that the Committee continue a wide discussion the U.S.A. When the votes were counted, it was found that Uncle Sam and John Bull had twenty-five, and France only fifteen votes. So the discussions of money and currency will continue, although France and her allies, the other gold standard countries, will not take any part. N.B.C. ROOSEVELT An almost equally important meeting connected with the conference was held today at the White House. President Roosevelt summoned -^r. Bernard Baruch, the banker and financial authority. ' I ill i ill Norman H. Bavis, ^ncle Sam1s Ambassador at Large, Acting Secretary of State -Phillips, and Acting Secretary of the Treasury and the A Department ."to L.MdL(^ J Economic. Advisor to the State This followed on the conference which the President held yesterday with the Administrators of the Recovery program 1 meeting the President canvassed the domestic situation* So today * s m ' was a sequel to that of yesterday. It was indicated that Mr. Roosevelt considers his program for recn^ry^atJiome of paramount importance, and international affairs second. No formal statement was issued after today’s meeting. But the White House reporters were given to understand that the President and his advisors discussed the question of currency stabilization. -ttj. _____ ________________ TENiNXS i-he U* S» A* sustained one iefeat in London today. Sn tfee tennis courts of Wimbledon. Ellsworth Vines, our champion, was decisively trounced tir-a- learn three sets to two, A wireless from London that the, -man who --defeated ^ A. Jack Crawford, the Australian champiww. Vines won the first and the fourth sets, each by a score of six to two. He lost the second by eleven to nine; the third six to two; and the last six to four. John R. Tunis cables the "ew lork Evening Post that it was a great match. It was Crawford^ first victory at Wimbledon. The Californian seemed to be considerable the better player at first. __'tSi.liA 'it But the Anzac broke him down^rith low spinning shots to the American^ back hand. N.B.C. New York Evening Post As an offset to the sad news from ± kiui the tennis court, two American golfers are tied for first place in the British open championship at the famous old links of St. Andrews in Scotland. Those two Americans are Craig Wood of Deal, ^ew Jersey, and Densmore Shute of Philadelphia, Bach of them has a total score of two hundred and ninety-two for the seventy-two holes. The runners-up are Gene Sarazen and Leo Diegel, who had a score of two hundred ! ninete-three a piece, just one stroke more than the leaders^ Craig Wood and Dinsmore Shute will play Milil.ji it T ii l! ■U£ tomorrow. ! i i] t BQCKEFELLER n Tomorrow is the birthday of one of America1 s magnific'os, John B. Rockefeller, Sr. itaEzs It will be the ninety-fourth birthday^of the Sultan of Oil, and he anniversaries, ^^will play nine holes of golf and eh t? a little automobile ride through the vast grounds of his * estate at Pocantico Hills, New York. N.E.C. 0 JOKER The follOYring is the tale of what happened to one practical joker in the luxurious regions of Greenwich, Connecticut, the home of many ^ew fork millionaires and near-millionaires. The victim was Mathew Hanna, who is not only a prominent lawyer but the partner j of Homer S. Cummings, Attorney General of the U.tS.A. Mr. waked up the other morning by an insistent clamor at his front door. He got up, rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, and found on his door step two undertakers, hearse and all, accompanied by a florist. They announced they had .come there to bury Mr. Hanna, Mr. rlid nota wai'rti fto be buried, •ftjwn Lum / 1 UT*^. Hanna objected and said he ^ _ to be buried. . A. A i undertakers insisted that they had received a rush telephone call -{Ugr to Mr. Hanna, and they were going to do what they had set out to do. After considerable difficulty ^r. Hanna finally convinced the over—enthusiastic undertakers that he was much too alive to be buried. Well, it happens that this is an exceedingly old and not too tasteful practical joke. There's nothing much a victim can do about it, but so many undertakers have suffered from | ji| JOKER - 2 that these two in Greenwich, Connecticut got sore. They complained to the Medical Examiner, The Medical Examiner instructed the *■< police to trace the telephone calls. This the police did, and, the Medical Examiner informs me, that the calls were traced today to the home of a Mr. Leonard Holley. The Medical Examiner told Mr. Holley that death is no joke^in official circles at any rate, and that he must pay not only the florist but the undertakerf , —>0 t'f , p ^ r . 7 ^ wui. \ aendfl for an undertaker ^ he must pay not only the rxoris Well, be^f-ere -^narbody go^ag -bo» rush for a train and SO LONG UNTIL MONDAY.