L.T. SUNOCO. MOflDAg. AUGUST 15. 1958 GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: In Washington there's that Congessslonal Committee on Un-American Activities, A witness today was John 0. Frey, of the American Federation of Labor., head of the Metal Trades Union of the Eederation who made startling accusations. For one thing he said; nThe Communist Party is secretly at work trying to push President Roosevelt and the Hew Deal further and further over to the left.” Subtle pressure at work on the President for a year, said A.F.of L. Frey, and that's in line with the policy of the Communist party adopted at a meeting jin Paris last year. That policy being to work and push for Communis objectives whthin the existing major political parties. Such «xx was the testimony. One member of the committee asked Frey: ><Are you sure of your information?*' Also, "Where did you get it?" To which Frey replied “l cannot reveal publicly the source of what I am telling you, feut I will tell it to the COMMITTEE - S committee In secret If you wish.” And he added, *As a man who has held office in the Trade Onion movement for forty—two years and has respect for himself, I positIveLy^fflfiarfJ lOt "J( come before this committee wit It any document unless I was convinced of its authenticity.11 Frey also declared that the American Labor party was being used to spread Communist ideals in Mew Xork, And he charged that last month’s washing Machines strike at .Newton, Iowa, was managed and commanded by an organisation of the Communist party from St. Louis o . a . w There *s more trouble ahead one of the country* s A newest and largest unions, the United Automobile Workers. It turhest out today that there are not two factions in that union, but three. One is the crowd that cheers for President Eomer Martin. The other is the rebellious section that favors the four international Vice-Presidents who were recently kicked the committee for Industrial Organisation to intervene and straighten out the whole squabble. Meanwhile, accusations are anothers ^You*re a bunch of Communists*n The other retorts* &3fcfflaudt "You're nothing but a gam gang of Fascists." They agree on only one thing. Each accuses the other of conspiracy to disrupt the union# third party^,wants flying fast and loose within u®t||oru One k £ h group says to FORD The Ford Motor Company today made a aajncndc axv»f ^ehoaenf; comeback tm the National Labor Relations Board. The SHKKt Ford lawyers charged that the company,s Constitutional rights had beaa ignored^. That mrijj in a hearing MltiUr lien held at St. Louis. The company asked the Board to overrule the examiner*s report holding that the company had iolated the Labor Act. £hys "We never refused to negotiate with the united Automobile Workers Union ep*(it jlu Lirt'i It says also that ^xaminersssaiaa^Dudley, was prejudiced, biased, and partial to the JIMMY There are more and, more repercussions to that article about Jimmy Roosevelt nut in the Saturday Evening Post, the story by Alva Johnston entitled "Jimmy's Got It." piece which related that the President’s son had collected fabulous fees as an insurance broker. * You will recall that last week that article was followed by another in Collier's written by Walter Davenport, piece entitled: "I Am Glad You Asked Me." In that one Jimmy denied that he'd received huge fees and showed his Income Tax returns to prove it. The story blazes forth again because Jtlva J ohnston ° ^ D A / replied to in Collier's. Ofe Johnston's comment mnrar mmmttKKR* "One of the policies obtained by Jimmy Roosevelt A in 1913 was obtained from Harry F. Sinclair while Sinclair* s oil prosecutions company was involved in the^adisBmxgiixgaxBi^ at Madison, ,SW<t \0rvA^ Wisconsin." Johnston,further: "A Federal Indictment against E. W. Sinclair, brother of Harry F. Sinclair, was dismissed on June second of this year." JIMMY - 2 That comment ril^d the Department of Justice. The Attorney General* s office ^ fK Johnston*s statement is a direct reflection upon the integrity of the four attorneys of the Department of Justice who were solely responsible for the conduct of the Grand Jury proceedings and the subsequent dismissal of the indictment." And it adds:- "Those proceedings were conducted uninfluenced by James \ Roosevelt or any one else, and it may be of interest to note that none of the attorneys in this case had any acquaintance or cninunication with James Roosevelt directly or tadtrat indirectly," The Attorney General*s office said further; "The slightest Inquiry would have disclosed the true facts and the consequent falsity of the charge." To that Alva Johnson c«me. back with another cutting A remark. Said he: "I don*t ha blame the Department of Justice yAnd he adds;- for MI hl being embarrassed at these facts.**)*TBut If they have any ^ust complaints they should be addressed to James Roosevelt* He is the one who embarrassed them. >- / f, * // /. vi ~ ufe"? INCOME TAX - FOLLOW * ic"iigwwi jauud^aa ^aenoiwuuJS" UjF",‘ Tr ' . wlllil’^^WCi;i li Ua *'tgfyN paygJs^r Congress will have to make the base of the income tax broader unless business is substantially better. That means of course that exemptions will be lower and that the tax rates on the lower income brackets will be raised. So says Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Chairman of the^inance Committee of the Senate. Uncle Sam is going to have a deficit of almost four billion dollars this year, WSMPi ■■fri wny ff—nfiirittii niwy Tfcsb - * -- T1-~ won Ho* ver, «ii*Harrison adds this: "Income taxes A •t be increased if X can help it." And he explains: "I»d much prefer to see money come from a pickup in business and a curtailing of expenditures." Senator Harrison took occasion to take a crack 7*6 at President Roosevelt, especially at President^ r ' INCOME TAX - 2 remark about economic conditions in the South. Said the southern Senators «I don*t think anyone who lives fifteen hundred miles away can analyze our economic problems and tell us what Is wrong.11 He says further: "Mo one can tell me that the South is poorer than any other part of the country. It isn't true." mmvs i»e»~ Wa uhliij-, ti3wvi',iww 7T Construction will begin soon eft] projects involving eight hundred million dollars. The significant part of the announcement is that these are not any of Uncle San^s public works, but city and state projects. The office of Secretary Ickes says that more than three thousand contracts have been signed and approved betwreen the Public Works Administration cities and states. Eight A A hundred more such agreements are now being drawn up iddEfe which will bring the total sum up to one billion dollars. from the American iron and Steel Institute. Fran this we learn that American steel mills will he working more than forty percent capacity this week. That's the highest in ten months. AIR MAIL Postmaster General Jim Farley is going to make a new experiment. Rot a political one this time, itfs in his capacity as Postmaster General. He proposes to start air mail service over some of the rural routes. If it’s a success and is extended, there will be a sensational new departure in the distribution of mail. The idea is to have planes that are especially equipped not only to deliver mail without coming to a landing, but also to pick it up. There’ll be four of these rural air mail routes to start with HINES In a roon. of the New York Supreme ^ourt a trial began today of the moat sensational kind. In fact, historians declare that it^s the most spectacular since the infamous Itfs the trial of Jimmy Hines, most popular and one of the most influential of today's District leaders in Tammany. np* Hines, as you may recall. Is going on trial to face an accusation of terrific import by the racket-busting District Attorney lom Dewey. The charge aginst dftfcHines is that he was "the fix," as they call him on Broadway, of former Dutch Schultz1 policy racket. was to intimidate, influence, and bribe judges. There’s going to be drama,perhaps melodrama, of the keenest kind, in this trial. For one thing it's going to be a bitter duel of wits between the young District Tammany boss. of Justice, much to his own And, says Dewey aaseag otho Attorney and Chief Defense Counsel Lloyd Stryker. Outside of HlflES - £ New York MU Stryker’s namelsn*t widely known, but I *m infonned by bis friends tiiat beJ s one of the sharpest and. most resourceful of barristers at the New York Bar. Another thing to make it interesting is that Dewey, against violent opposition, obtained the consent of the court to impanel a Blue Ribbon Jury, that is, a Jury composed of men of substance, position and higi^edueation. A lot of the men of substance, position and education summoned as Jurors diHgianrg today did their utmost to get off serving on that panel. They offered all sorts of excuses to the Judge, but His Honor was firm in many cases, douldnrt accept those excuses. /jP^*i*A»i.LiilaHrr ‘Llxub fciHul'lp«prftflidod by nnni—jilinri iwi'nwhwt Jliip^^Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora was foj^nany & years thp foremost prosecutor in New York. And it is pointed out that one consequence of that will be that the District Attorney won*t be able to rwa the trial as sometimes happens in celebrated cases, because the presiding Judge will know all the answers HINES - 5 It will probably take a couple of days getting a jury to gx try papoMP Jimmy Hines. After that the firewcrks will begin, especially when Racket-Buster Dewey introduces his principal witnesses, members of the Dutch Schultz mob who have confessed, turned State's evidence, and will appear tm testify against Hines. FASHION Here1s one for the ladies. The fashion experts have been prophesying that the little woman is going to go back to the clothes that v'mc used to be worn in Nineteen Hundred, Th«t means as many petticoats as a Polish peasant^ together with the old-time paraphernalia, the cage-like contraption that used to be called aBKBBBnpHao cor set se aocei'dingr to^hpwiqjoliaa.iftou The first kick to this prophecy comes from Hollywood stars. They say with loud and unanimous voice: "We^re not going to be enslaved again, modem women have been emancipated from those feminine tortures," RA.SEBALL A bseball accident, to »Gabbyn Eattnett, catcher and new manager of the Cubs. They were playing the MGas House Gang0, the St. Louis Cards at Chicago, today. Joe Medwich of the Cardnial was at bat and he hit a foul tip. The ball struck Catcher Hartnett a terrific wallop on the right hand and Hartnett had to retire from the game. When a surgeon looked at it he saw a possiblity that 0Gabby 1s right thumb might be broken I seldom prophesy. But tonight Urn going to risk a prediction. There will be no explosion in the Czechoslovakian crisis for at least several weeks to come. This is August fifteenth, end it has been rumored for weeks that hitler would strike at Czechslovania in the middle of August. This v^eekend the newspapers and foreign offices of Europe were shaking with alarms because of those mighty maneuvers of the new German army. The British government even went so far as to warn some of its nationals against travelling in Gerr fr" Nevertheless I stick to my little prophecy. It's based on a brief three line dispatch from Holland. This Bernhard left their residence today for a motor tour of Germany and dispatch reads; "Crown Princess Juliana and her husband rince ^p .ii.^iia in , * 1 *-. 4 - 0^4 G>i»QMdMinw»:^ You m^y ask:- !,What on earth haye the travels of the Dutch Crown Princess to do with war?" Just this. heir presumptive, to the throne of the Netherlands, would never have been permitted to leave at this time if there were any chances of hostilities by either Germany or Italy, In the first place, the Netherland^govermsient wouldh’t have allowed it» li l ! g i euMTJ reasonbn ^iwi§iiTf i'mit LIn the second place the governments of both Germany and Italy would kK have discouraged such a motor tour by visiting royalty if there were any remote ‘*j!he German government prospect of war, for one would sorely need the good will of the Netherlands if war broke out, needs it as a ms-tter of fact even in peace-time. So that tiny little dispatch seems to ftiwwilmulwe evidence that thffl MwrrifcMnti "»wi# is not due right now. A PICKUS Several years ago we had occasion to comment on a Cleveland gentleman named Abe Pickus. In his business hours he’s xaLfcjt'c head of a small independent oil company. bis hobby is calling up the heads of foreign governaents and telling them what*s what about peace and war. At the time we commented first gwgawmwHclwit about Mr. Pickus this pastime of his had got him into trouble with the law. It’s Illegal for a private citizen to address such communications to foreign governments. program of his own. He wants all international quarrels settled idea for quarantining nations that are aggressive and start potentate than His Majesty the Emperor of Japan.^ It cost him Forty—two dollars and fifty cents to tall^to one of the But Pickus is still at It. He has a peace by arbitration, and he also echoes President Roosevelt* s put in a telephone call for no less a Emperor’s secretaries PICKOS - 2 The Japanese long-distance call did^t accomplish anything so Pickus is going to make a peace trip aborad. To England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. He intends to call Hitler and Mussolini and tell them where to get off — in the picturesque language of Pickus — and SO LOBG UNTIL TOMORROW