1 ROOSEVELT /■ n There’s much argument and gossip about the appearance of the newest big-time author, the literary celebrity whose by-line reads — FranKlin D, Hoosevelt. The President is turning columnist, says one rjpor - will grind out a regular ^rw»*'i£je loafer < column a la Heywood Broun^or Westbrook Pegler^ He's getting fabulous money for his literary efforts - says another, sums j commensurate v.ith the fame and dignity of president of the s United States. The first presidential magazine article is scheduled to appear on the aaq^aaECnar stands tomorrow, and today j the heated controversy brought a statement from the White House. || Presidential Secretary Steve Early gave a formal account of the presidential activities as an author. There is to be no •V. column signed - Franklin D. Roosevelt. The columnist rumors are false. The President will^turn out a series of publications, which will include volumes of state papers and speeches^ magazine articles of presidential history and opinion, and ■fTiiTfi nilfiT rof White House press conferences, Wmmm frg-e-s-ft confer11—bo—gl-ven tn th«- tve P'Wbliuafclrjn^ V ROQSLVI'.LT - g Secretary Steve Early declared that the reports of presidential compensation are grossly exaggerated - the figure _/=r • is far too big* Onethat Author fecantcidf*-ix, is getting a hundred thousand dollars for the magazine articles, the first of which will appear tomorrow. Nonsense, says Steve Early, —an4^e-p^Q-cee4-&--to—tel-l—a-- story . frhn otrty'^$33 Z^- tni tilm inninf A ninr-irigm (jji|iTirnnrh~thr rir-hlanli iinil nffru h1mj ainoty ^henseind dtrllarsy" the deal tm iiielruiffi pxeej cuilfyi'UfFPtt tui The PpotKjteiit—trajujii then Aoivn b pT»ftMia.... 1 Li.u» ti.i i J- M tr ’“1 ------ ^ .iji if ------r -tg-myn- newspapers-foil (flgil piibt^catiiaii. Jb-gL a-.cegond magazine m-sde rvffer.. .for ai^feirclea1 iri-lsfaeu^ the prose <?<y»fei eme rupiCTi tr? y [ilg wrt?, '7T ooocpted. What’s the figure? We aren’t told - but merely informed a that i^s^wpi^ below^ds*^hundred thousand ,jycll teel-ow ninety ttoeuooJBe^, Who gets the money? You’d naturally suppose - the author. Writers do like to get paid for their literary Productions. But there are certain proprieties that bind the ROOSEVELT - S President of the United States. He won't take any of the money, neither will his collaborator - Justice Samuel I. Roseman of New York, The Justice, who is known to be a White House advisor, has taken a hand in the preparation cf the large bulk of the presidential material that is to be issued. We are not told just what part of the work he does as collaborator. The money for both President and,collaborator will be devoted to a public purpose. As Steve Early today phrased it - to a useful public purpose under government direction. What purpose? We are not told. It has been decided where the money will go -.the announcement will be made later. cleared up - the^discussed appearance of President Roosevelt as an author. I just had a look at the first of his articles, which will be on the news-stands tomorrow. Meaning - I*ve had an advance In oh at tomorrov^s LIBERTY. For A A It»s that Bernarr Maofadden which begins publication of the new headline author. It gives a quick sketch of the problems of democracy ROOSEVELT- 4 down the panorama of American history, and then comes to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt ideas as incorporated in the New Deal, That brings up an interesting point - New Deal, how did the expression originate and become a national by-word? Author Roosevelt, who coined the phrase, tells us in the LIBERTY article. ^On the occasion of the all-night session of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, in NineteertThirty-Two, he writes, WI was at the Executive Mansion in Albany with my family and a few friends. While I had not yet been nominated, my name was still in the lead among the various candidates. Because I Intended, if nominated, to make an immediate speech of acceptance at the Convention itself in order to get the campaign quickly under way, we discussed what I should say in such a speech. From that discussion and our desire to epitomize the immediate needs of the Nation came the inmiiee*±x±w phrase *A New Deal,* which was used first in that acceptance speech and which has very aptly become the popular expression to describe the major objectives of the Administration.” Thatfs the presidential account of how the New Deal wras named, and now we1!'© to have copious presidential writings about the New neal means. WHITE HOUSE From the White House booms the rea^ unding term - trust busting. The President today held a conference with his trust-busters hief Monopoly Smasher - Robert J. Jackson, Later on, the President declared he^ going to send a special message to Congress on the subject of trusts and on monopolistic practice. The message will be sent soon. The President said he i * didn t want any abrupt, violet trust-busting legislation, but A hoped that the laws against monopoly could be improved gradually. during the space of a couple of years. From the White House also emanates wmni the word - phosphates. There’s going to be a special message on that subject too. What about phosphates? Well, there seems to be a world shortage of these chemical necessities. The President said today that he’ll ask Congress to do something about the phosphate shortage NAV^ Today , the House Naval Affairs Committee set aside million dollars. For what purpose? That takes us back to the sad story of American experience with great rigid dirigibles - the Shenandoah, the Akron and the Macon. After the disasters to the bigships, expert opinion turned against tfhe explosion cf the German Hindenburg did^t change the American state of mind. But now United States is going to build another of those lighter-than-alr sky monsters, one about the size of the nLos Angeles*" A That*s revealed by today*s action cf the Naval Affairs Committee. The Navy Bill provides fifteen million dollars for experimental work, and million cf this is set aside to build the rigid dirigible. PERSHING The doctors say that today is the critical day for General Pershing. If he survives through the night, he*s likely to take a turn for the better and get well. The doctors add that it all depends upon his heart. Their diagnoses that the heart of Pershing was strained by the lifelong rigors of his military profession - yes, strained on many a march, many a ggniimi? of his soldiers, and that supreme command - the A.P.{£ in the World War REPUBLICANS The Republican Party made its first step today towards seeking alliance with Democrats opposed to the New Deal. Dr. Glenn Frank, Chairman of the Republican Committee on Program, gave out the names of seven chairmen for committees in different sect:ons of the country. And he made a statement, which points ”which is at complete variance with Republican and Democratic policies and thought. And it is probably Inevitable that sooner or later those who think alike about the political and economic basis on which we should proceed will have to act as well as think alike.” toward aa alliance with Democratic Anti-New De ?rs A "There1s a philosophy developing,” said he. So today we have the first move of what may turn out to be a major political phenomenon AUSTRIA The Austrian-Nazis staged wild demonstrations at the City of Graz today. Twenty thousand Hitler enthusiasts paraded reich.n Meaning - union with Germany. The Number One Austrian Nazi is in Graz tonight, Db. Von Seyss-Inquart, the Hitler supporter whom Chancellor Schuschnigg appointed to his Cabinet at Hitlers demand. The Doctor*s presencein the Nazi hot-bed seems not so alarming. They say he was sent by Schuschnigg to pacify his partisans there, and arrange some sort uf compromise with them. STOKOWSKI There was excitement today In the vicinity of Kaples, Amalfi, Capri, the playground of southern Italy, There were inquiries about a mystery woman. The Italians were calling her, wla Donna Misteriosa.w Who Is she? Inquiries were made everywhere, with American newspaper men leading in the questlonjpi Tonight, the answer is given by a man whose name you*ve heard in the past. Dr. Axel Munthe. He’s the Scandinavian physician who wrote a best-seller several years ago, MThe Story of San Michel#.11 The woman of mystery visited him at Capri today. And the Swedish author-doctor says that f,la Donna Misteriosa” is none other than - Greta Garbo. Who is the man with her? There*s no question about that - Leopold Stokowski, There have been rumors, often denied, that the famous orchestra conductor would marry the movie star. The rumor seems all the more plausible tonight, with the revelation that Stokowski andGarbo have been sojourning in deep secrecy In southern Italy—— YVVyJi*. . When a man needs a shave — that's simple. When a man can; .get a shave free — that's simpler still. Colorado, FatrolmanW. J . Ryan had that scrubby darkness on A' ^ his jaw. He was visiting the ^tute Penetentiary, and in the prison there's a barber shop, a convict working with a lathered brush and a razor. All of which could only mean — a free shave for a cop. Ho Patrolaan Ryan took his place confortably in the chair that leans back. The convict barber lathered his^face, and then the patrolman chanced to take a good look at the conviet1^ face. And that brought back memories of a few years ago. Patrolman Ryan recalled that big moment in his life — a ten thousand dollar robbery of a Denver store, a spectacular gun battle. Patrolman Ryan shooting it out with the robber. Slim Johnson. He pgl a bullet in the robber, captured him and sent him to prison for a long stretch* While the Patrolman was remembering all this, the convict started to strop the razor, blap, slap — the sharp steel edge on the leather. Patrolman Ryan Iman Ryan/HMHiiiiiiiiilain/fnrl "jj, '"""TTljr * convict barber was blim Johnson, whom he had shot and sent to orison. COP There was a wild yell as the cop leaped from the barber’s chair and dash«d out — the white ^JBdbexx lather still all over his face, and Slim Johnson nearly laughed his head off. as he kept on stropping the razor. d testifying moment in the Life of a cop# CAPOHE Today the month Is March, and yesterday It was February -- thatks obvious fact is the key note of today*s story from ban Francisco — a story that tells of mysterious secrecy. A big shiny limousine cruising along the Embarcadero of San Francisco. A taxicab drives by. A quick hail from the limousine. A well-dressed woman a man get out in great haste. jump into the taxi and command — Drive Fast to the Dock, the TF* dock where the boat to Alcatraz was about to leave. The woman and man .wi Mrs. A1 Capone, wife of Scarf ace Al, once underworld lord of prohibition in Chicago^ ^hn~wm11Ralph Capone, whom they called "Battles” in the old days when Joe_was a power as -H. his brother’s gang lieutenant. With as much hast and concealment as was possible, she keeping her face shielded by a large straw hat — they took the boat for the fortress prison. Mrs. Scarface Al visited her husband yesterday. She did it again t lay, accompanied by ’’Bottles." The stern rules at Alcatraz provide that no person may visit any prisoner more than once a month. That’s why it’s a dramatic point that yesterday was February and today is March. It explains CAPOiNL -L- how the Number One prisoner of Alcatraz could receive visits from his wife on two successive days. tantalizing -- All of this is a^puzzling hint^of things hidden by the blank secrecy of Alcatraz — reports of the mental break-down of Scarface Al, rumors that he jfcx has gone mad. Perplexing and % mystifying, and we have no clue to the enigma of those rapid-fire wifely visits in February and March. SCnCfti!*;—— WHIPPING POST Is there any use of talking about the Baltimore whipping post, and its grim details today? Only this - that it^I* present day evidence of the meaning of the old-time cat and nine a, tails and the floggings that were a part of ttfe previous era. The story tells of the prisoner, skinny and scrawny, sentenced to receive the seldom inflicted punishment because he was guilty of a particularly atrocious case of wife-beating, ite^ltied to the 1%+** -— whipping post. The sheriff-two hundred and twenty pounds, easfc. six feet two,^wBJ the cat'^tm^nine—tails. And he swings with a peculiar stiff armed motion, tie must, according to law. He is forbidden to bend his elbow, for doing that he might weaken and soften the stroke of the whip. So, stiff armed, he whirls the cat otnine tails. In the old days it was a commonplace. In our time we may ask - was the punishment really so bad? Today*s report from Baltimore will suggest an answer. The first stroke didn’t seem hard, But a dark streak appeared across the wife-beater*s back. All the strokes of the cat o*nine tails thudded softly. WHIPPING POST 2 but the second left another dark streak. And with the fifth, there were red streaks. With the sixth, the wife-beater groaned. Thereafter he sobbed with each stroke. There were twenty In all, when the eat o’nine tails flashed for the last time, he seemed to have fainted. When he was released he walked away - with help. Today1s justice to a wife-beater gives a harsh meaning to the term TIflogging,T - all that cat o^ine tailing that was onee^B^ vogue. The wife who was beaten tried to see it, but they wouldn,t let her in. Still bruised and battered, there was no let-up to her vindictiveness. She protested that the punishment the should have been m full measure of the law, a hundred lashes* K jlnstead of twenty^ A DfANNUMZIP In his later years, the^w©^ was haunted by the thought of death - as in his earlier years he seemed mad with the lust of life. The young poet who set Italy aflame, with his incredibly brilliant poems, novels and plays, master of the flaming and sensuous style. The flagrant lover, whose affairs made scandal around the world. The genius adored by Duse, who devoted her dazzling career and topmost fame to him, and whom he betrayed with a book that destroyed her - MpaM that was a prodigy of literary genious. The warrior, A A who flung himself into the conflict of the nations, flew and fought as an aviator. The international adventurer, who with his own private army seized the City of Flume, in defiance of the Versailles Peace Conference, and thereby gained Flume for Italy. The political thinker, to whom the basic ideas of Mussolinifs Fascism are attributed* Yes, it’s a picture of a genius maddened by life, that small, incredibly fcxiliMhwsutKii bald, egg-headed, A * 7 *“*“i,rllB; “f 8°a' “ ~~f'\sCklL '#ittfrWlif&-^lacfifaless/,turned into a fantasy of death. A world poet, idol of Italy, he lived in a fabulous villa, in which he created for himself a strange room. He called it his dying room.^ D1ANNUNZIQ - £ It was decorated writh daggers^ pistols and bombs — instruments of death. In Italy I heard fantastic stories of how mx once a year d’^nnunzio would create a fiction for a day - that he was dead. On that day he retired to his dying room, and considered himself no longer in the land of the living. I was told that this yearly day of death ws the anniversary of the day when a woman pushed d'Annunzio off a balcony, and he landed on his head, and IT nearly died.11 He always said he wanted to be buried amid the surroundings of his dying room, the daggers, pistols and bombs; he wanted to be wrapped in a coverlet on which were inscribed secret signs - signs of which he only knew the meaning, signs of death. His last book was published in Nineteen Thirty-Six, the final production of his genious. It bore the strange title - Jt^hk nA Hundred and a Hundred and a Hundred Pages from the Secret Book of D*Annunzio, Tempted to Die." What?s the news about d’Annunzio tonight? He has died _ ^ __ v\ * 4 in his death room