m X ^Ui'IUCrU Uii_. \ 1/9/53 Good Evening, Everybody: the 18tb==^et4dw%»n4r-rfflgy: •tyx Ilid y -noil :414"n.**>.++,*m*:s¥z*i*&YLT The Judiciary Committee ■tsJUr of the Senate came out of executive session,with a favorable A fW report on a resolution repeal Out and out wets will not be entirely satisfied with the text of the resolution because it provides that it must be ratified not by state conventions ky but by state legislatures. It provides also for precautions against the transporting of liquor into dry states. ^b^hTs^hat is supposed to be a barrier against the return of^tltloon. For it would give Congress concurrent power to prohibit the sale of rum to be drunk on the premises where it is sold. A wire to the New York Evening Post reports . four in favor of the repeal resolution, that the^vote was ten to lour votpd aeainst it. Senator Borah Three Republicans and^Democrat* voted again £ of Idaho, bell-v/ether of the drys in the Senate, did not vote. td \^~ ul ^ ^i-CtcTP^«. The dispatch points out that the reporting of this resolution automatically places it on the calendar of the Senate for speedy action. Incidentally the Judiciary Committee was amazingly quick — that is, for a Judiciary Committee. A ne .v idea for economic recovery was suggested to Congress today by the ^resident of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. i’he gist of the idea, a story to the Brooklyn Times Union, isf that Uncle Sam should encourage industry to start nap production at a normal scale and guarantee against loss. ^ Mr, Miller, the ^resident of the h.i'.C. told several senators that his plan had been proposed by a noted economist. He thin.:s it comes nearer to a solution of theunemployment problem than any other scheme that has yet been proposed. HOQ^hVliL:: Thd.t meeting between President-elect Roosevelt and ^ecretciry of State Stimson came off today at Mr. Roosevelt* s foreign relations with Uncle Sam$ more particularly details about tha forthcoming Economic conference and the Disarmament Conference. A, They also went over the Manchurian situation and the question of the Philippines. This meeting yesterday with Senator Walsh of fix Montana, who is an important member 'of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate. to Walsh believes that one of the first things tfrart -nrlia come up A for discussion after March 4th will be the question^ whether Uncle Sam should or should not join the World Court. Then, too. home in the Hudson Vail fc* that disputatous question of the St. Lawrence sea way. japan Well, Japan is^on the war path again. To be sure they do not call it war but operations are being conducted by tropps and thousands of people are being killed, so I know any other name for it. A cable to the New York World-Telegram brings the news that the Mikado1s forces have firdd on Chinese troops and occupy a part of the Great Chinese Wall 12 miles north of Shanhaikv.an. Another dispatch that comes from Tokio reports IrifJiatthMrtTra. al had that Marshall Chang, the generalissimo of the Chineserha 1 ■fc^not care to deal a change of heart, invitation to a conference, said Mar shall Chang turned down the Japanese with the Japanese Army except at the point of bayoimets The rumor in Tokio today is that Marshall Chang is ready to negotiate an armistice with the Japs, An interesting rebellion is taking place in India. ^ome eighty thousand Mohammedans in the independent state of Alwar amm arisen in an agitation against Hindu money lenders and Hindu.farmers. Alwar is one of the smallest states in India, Its population isn’t any more than seven hundred thousand. The Maharajah of Alwar has an army of five hundred its soldiers. They found themselves quite insufficient to cope was started with a refusal on the part of the villagers to pay taxes, ^1 am sure many people in the-a** United States are X7F inclined to sympathize with that.) The Hindu merchants add farmers refuse to climb on the bandwagon. #e=th* the Moslems turned on the Hindus as v/ellI a ^C » Even more was a riot that broke out in Bombay. Three persons were killed and twenty-two wounded, Aw* Jt all started over a cricket ball^a^fl^ ^ * '£z^r T ^ <54. C^TA-cket- , ujr'nli* That resolution in Spain has not been squelched yet. After some eighteen people were killed and several more wounded in the uprisings Catalonia, the authorities had expected ttet the dist'orbance would simmer dovm. Today, however, the troublej| spread to the neighboring province of Valencia, in one town of which the 4biarchists seized the town hall, raised the black and red flag, and burned all the archives. Elsewhere in the same province the civil were attacked by rioters. A kMm±±wwt±wm Another item from Spain is that a general strike was called in Cadiz Another riot took place in unexpected part of the world, the Canary 1slands. ^ dispatch to the it began with a strike of streetcar New York Times^^ workers and taxi-drivers. The strikers had a run-in with^’ISSje? soldiers and then proceeded to explode bombs xH&fc in chocolate factories and soup paste thereby scattering chococate and’"?NSH*3£ all over the he Tnere seoias to have been rioting in A* the world yesterday and today. In Dublin thirty people are in the hospital as a result of a street fight. Some t&m members of the party of former President Cosgrave tried to i ■■ a ft r»oo t a &£ Dublin, The Eepublicans stormed the meeting and a free for all battle took place. I A dispatch to the wew York Evening Post reports tbsefc it is generally feared in Dublin that the situation will considerably w rse. Efee Peeling* throughout southern Ireland more and more bitter. The -^rish Republican /V A army is holding private meetings, and nobody knows what will be the outcome of that. ■£n no less than forty-three state capltols In America this month legislators are wrestling with the problems of taxation, unemployment and economy. A story in the Newark Evening News predicts that out of their deliberations will come legislation of greatar importance, that is, economically speaking-j^tiaaa^ any other time in a generation. One of the principal jobs of the law makers is to find new sources of © revenue. According to the Newark News, which has gathered information from all over the country, a great many of the wise men are in favor of the general sales tax. Another feature of the day is the attitude of legislatures towards th4 governments of the various counties all over the country. There are indications of a general tendency to attack county governments. It looxs as though the administrations of counties in many states will undergo radical changes. AUTO m HOV. . if I can.. National Automobile Sh .w at- 4 ^be fw-^nri -CjM» 4 iT»y>i >>x is so large that it overflows^even the spacious \\ a . OMjrv\ General Motors has -et=«3e®^3ci2^show A l QzidnaJ? accomodaTlons at Palace. *£=^s&==&ifB. displaying six s£.-.the.itt- lines at the Waldorf-Astoria. \ I cannot begin to give you a list of the things worth seeing at this Show Pcroowep! -boy etrcrnnrba^tt C q ^- m A machineo*.— Oi»e—thing—that strik-eis~-tj»e—eye>> a^—the-Auboesebiln-6hcrgr--±-g~^he-increa3ittg—-beanty-of- modem maehinerys The f Tiom^-thni r nf flcierrcv->—are- wondorful- thlng-&—W. lool£-ec^» } The tendency today among automobile manufacturers is first for greater simplification; second, for as strong an appeal to the eye as possible^ Motor car manufacturers have found out that in most families it is the woman who decides which car will be bought and the ladiesseldom trouble to look under the hood; so long as the hood has decorative lines, they take the engine on. hear-say. Therefore, the idea of engineers and designers auto faHCiV. . 2 , ^ o /° f) today is to combine good looks with good engines. 6dJ<! Naturally, there are all sorts of interesting we^o gadgets. One of them is a pick-proof lock - a lock that defies even the cleverest automobile thief. It is now possible to lock all doors and windows of your car simultaneously with one key operation. Another welcome improvement is automatic starting. You dor^mj^ have to bother with the starter Sbaaf^:d.s7nnrns4vT»^aszr±s Z~t±nrfc—arg—a rm nnf^fST^Crttan—rhm-<4;»y wbi»i»- y ll hh^-^rma^l-3axi2 nan —miTU)^rLia ^iTt-Tmm P.iil.riC-jLDo story from raris in the Philadelphia Evening Ledger tonight makes^otrthiny more of an E. Philips Oppenheim romance than of a sober news story. The heroine ^=*4 is a Hungs r 1 an princess. Her full name is quite a mO'uthful. She is the Princess otefanie of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfuert. *3- VVk^ l— to (T - A French newspaper publishes the rumor not yet confirmed that the Princess Stefanle and so forth has been expelled from France for excessive activity in international affairs. They say that the French government believes the Princess was engaged in intrigues, strategems and plots, some of then plots against the peace and dignity of the French Republic. More specifically, she is said to have been hired to procure the publishing of anti-Polish articles in British newspapers, AS Poland is a strong ally of France, the French government thinks this is not clubby. The Princess, who is described as a handsome micMle-aged woman, has been known to be a close friend of Viscount Rothemere, the British newspaper publisher. _ g An interesting phase of the story is that all this information came out when the Princess gave up her apartment in Paris and sent her furniture to the municipal auction rooms to be sold. hayo^bo hiro aw avwtirmiiior 4*—Pac-irS-,-—?he—aa-ln^airnu auction rooms just as-it doct» pAwiM>hopfrt V.ell, the person v.ho bought this furniture found in a desk a secret drawer. In this secret drawer vm* a number of documents. These documents provided such interesting reading that the finder took them to the French Foreign uffice. There, says the story in the PhiladelphiaALedger, officials were astounded at the revelations. afxii Way be the no vet spies are not romancinr/9 romances about international ^Tl A A once familiar name broke into the news again today after sm a considerable interval. The name of the Honorable Jimmie Walker, former mayor of New York City. Some French wine growers have made him an offer to become their American Agent. story in the Newark News says that what the position would amount to would be that of sort of czar over wine exporters. In other words, Jimmie would have a job in the wine business wry similar to that of Judge Landis in baseball. The go-between in the negotiations bm&cmma the wine growers and A Jimmie v.alker Henri Cochet, the famous French tennis player. Jimmie is seriously considering the offer,'t&u, Ihe rulers of bovlet Russia have always scoffed at what they call Bourgeois^ sentimentality. But listen to the latest action of tnese so unsentimental ^mmissars. They have changed the name ol Nizhni Novgorod, the sprawling maficet city on the idxx banks of the Volga, to •^axim Gorki. A bulletin of the ^w-S^^Geographic Society points out that for sevetvwk hundred years Nizhni Novgorod has been one of the most famous market cities in the world. In fact, it was the center of trade communications between Europe and Central Asia, “axim Gorki, the famous novelist, is a nsrfa^x native son of the city, if that isn*t a sentimental act, I donft know what is. Nizhni Novgorod, or rather Maxim Gorki, as we should call it today, is the Detroit of Russia. An American automobile company has built the largest motorcar plant in bur ope some fifteen miles up the river. In addition to the plant it is also building a workers town. When the whole project**. completed, it will represent an outlay of more than a hundred and fifty million dollars. Here s a new record for Uncle Sam. A dispatch to the Baltimore bun from Chicago brings the information that the onited States is about to become the leading sauerkraut eating nation of the world. Now does^t that thrill you? In the year 192? folks in these United States consumed no less than one hundred fifty-four million pounds of sauerkraut. That,s still thirty million pounls short of the amount eaten in Germany. Incidentally, it is not generally known that sauerkraut was not invented in Germany, but in China. It v/as imported into Germany from China by way of Russia. The Russians learned about it long before the Germans. People who like Chinese cooking that Chinese sauerkraut is far and away the best in the world, having a more delicate and less acrid flavor. A large share of the front page of the New York World Telegram tonight is taken up with the adventures of Betty, And Betty is a eat, a handsomely striped grey eat which for years has held the job of chief of the mouse police at the Lackawanna Terminal in Hoboken, Mew Jersey. Betty not only the dread of all mice at the Lackirwanna higherto respectable routine to steal a ride on the truck of a coach on the Lackawanna Limited, the crack daylight train to Buffalo, every conductor, brakeiiae, and dispatcher on the line became interested. It was ita a baggageman in Morristown, Mew Jersey, who first saw Betty occupying a perilousi perch as the train thundered through his station, A telegram was was flagged at Dover and a committee undertook to rescue Betty, But Betty didn,t want to be rescued, Bhe put up her back and spat most ungracefully at her would-be saviours. In fact, it took \ Station, she a company pet. So when Betty broke off her several rescue squads to finally run down Betty in a lumber yard - £ this is a story with a happy ending. They decided that kEx*xEXxi.±:fci±*x Betty1 s wanderlust had to be curbed and that her prime duty lay with her family. So today Betty is back with her kittens and to celebrate her return the station master of the t»ackHwanna Terminal, who ±x was chairman of the reception committee, blew the wranderer to a turkey dinner. The moral of this appears to be that it somfeimes pays to run away from home xJL^ -ptfoL) taSL^ -tdrvL -iiuuLf ■H vL An item which I read in this morning^ newspapers gave me quite a shock. It relates that a lady t devotee of the new cultj technocracy, put h> r beliefs into practice in a peculiar fashion. There was a lecture on technocracy in ^teInway Hall* Just as it was over, they passed the plate^ The young lady in question,in place of money contributed fifty cents in technocratic money. The joker in this is that the technocrats propose that energy shall be used in place of Uncle 8am1 s currency. Forty kilnwats, in their is considered to—he the equivalent of an hourfs human work. Well, the young lady contributed twenty kilowats. Perhaps I should add that h* r contribution wa accepted. And here's what was a shock to me. If half an hour represents twenty kilowats, twenty-five or fifty cents, fifteen minutes is worth/^oeiXKxaHixaxhait cents. That’s a disturbing^ thought. In any event you ve had ten kilowats of my energy tonight even if it is only worth two bits. ttU ' oU Ui'lu UWxlU