■■PPSORffiSR PJ^yL^jT' Jew. ,3 MORGENTHAU Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau continues to figure more and more as a champion of economy. Today statements of his are published and his definite thesis is - balance the budget and the way to do it is economy and not more taxes. The Secretary declares his belief that during this present business recession it would be exceedingly bad to raise taxes. He^ dead against it. Slash the spending, is his remedy, and he becomes specific on the subject of silver. The government now pays a subsidy on the production of silver. Morgenthau is against it. He adds that he's against all subsidies. t & tr F-TAPPING In Washington they»re hammering the question A A "Were the wires tapped?" The Senate Public Lands Committee has 1 been looking into repeated charges that wire-tapping was practiced by investigators of the Department of the Interior. They^e had direct testimony in the affirmative - yes, the Interior Department investigators did cut in on private telephone conversations.^And f it is charged that this was by order of Secretary 1ckes. -/^e denies it^ It is said to have occurred during the time when Louis R, Glavls was Department investigator, So today the Public Lands Committee handed out a summons,and passed it along to Glavis himself. he is called to tell the Committee what he knows about wire-tapping. 1 ! robin bQN State Department To today went the Ambassador soviet Russia * He was called to a conference by Secretary Hull, What about the Robinsons^was the question the Secretary put to the Ambassador. The State Department reveals that the United states government has had no reply from the Soviets concerning ''•^rs. Reubens" who with her husband was in soviet Russia with a false American passport Identifying them as Mr, and Mrs. Robinson. The woman is an American citizen. Washington made a formal Inquiry of Moscow a week ago, but Moscow has continued to remain silent. ^So today the Soviet Ambassador was called to the State I ||; ■htl I fi I m 1 m 'i fi I II Department and asked — how come?"^ I I I {^^5eSfen!iXJ ■yu SbJb I I! n 1 WARSHIPS American cruisers are to visit Singapore - a courtesy call. But there seems to be a deeper significance, considering that both American and British relations with Japan are strained and that Singapore is Britain’s mighty naval base in the East. kooveb There1 s a certain gentleman in this land who is soon to pay a visit to Belgium, He has been formally invited by the Belgian government^by King Leopold personally. The invitation goes like this:- ,!The Belgian people wish to have this opportunity to express to you their sentiments of deep gratitude for the eminent services you have rendered their country and to assure you unalterable /f* of t.hpi attachment, Who is the American addressed in this fashion? The answer brings back vivid memories of more than a score of years ago — the World War, invasion of Belgium, the plight of the people, aid from America, Belgian relief, ies, you can guess. The man invited^— Herbert Hoover — who first rose to World fame as Administrator of World War Belgian Relief. FRANCE The French are having another government crisis. Premier Chautemps today appealed to the nation for unity and support. *o He also appealed to the Chamber of Deputies for a vote of confidence. ^The French government is xxkingxajnix shaky and tottering and the cause is a familiar one — finance. The value of the franc is declining, and the funds in the French Treasury are declining too^ ^There’s dissension among the Left parties that maiie up the popular front — the moderate radicals at logger-heads 1 -rdi ilAJc — with the Communists <?w. PARIS News of some fantastic melodrama comes from Paris where Madam "X" was invented. This time it's "Monsieur X" ■ : : 'ilfi the detectives of the Surete are looking for him. They're also | | delving into the affairs of the C-S-A-R; those letters stand for the French form of "Secret Committee for Revolutionary Agtion." Monsieur T,X" is the leader of the C-S-A-R. This is the latest word in the investigation of four political murders. We heard some time ago about the killing of two prominent Italian anti-Fasdsts living in France - the Roselli brothers. They were stabbed. Linked with this is the slaying of a Russian, described as an economist. Also a Frenchaam who was a police informer in affairs concerning ^ A Italians. These four assassinations are charged to the C-S-A-R under the leadership of Monsieur "X" It was believed that the Roselli brothers, enemies QJl *&**{&< of Mussolini, had been killed by Italian Fascists. te^«y’t* * X « IRELAND Nortne^ n I-rslarid is calling an election — to say ,!yes** op "no% though it seems mostly for the purpose of saying "No”. President deValera of the Dublin government is to hold conferences with London, and in these he has included the subject of the unification of Ireland, get Ulster to join up with the south. This is bitterly opposed by Lord Craigavon, the Belfast Prime Minister. So he has called the general election to decide whether the north of Ireland wants to join the south. The vote, of course, will be a resounding "No." So the election is a gesture of defiance to deValera. pitrf .RTO RICO A state of emergency proclaimed in Puerto Rico! Itrs because of the maritime strike down there. The labor battle has become so rambunctious, that the authorities are clamping the lid down, declaring a state of emergency. BOAT There were stormy gales and wild blizzards along the New England coast today, and the sea claimed a victim - a large New Bedford fishing schooner, which sank off Nantucket. Two men <c.- lost, six saved. The WILLIAM S. was returning from a successful fishing voyage, ten thousand pounds of fish aboard. She was floundering along in the lashing of snow and wind. Great angry seas were running. Suddenly, there was crash. Nobody knows quite what it was. The skipper thinks that some part of the ship’s hull had just given way. The WILLIAM S. was sinking fast. Six of her crew were able to get away in a life-boat, and they rowed for six hours, battling the icy sea. They were exhausted fishermen when they finally rowed safely into harbor at Nantucket. CLIPPER The destruction oi the bamosjp Clipper has reiainisences of the explosion of the dirigible Hindenburg. It would appear he great sky liner blew up in midair — that»s indicated of the sea. It's supposed that the Clipper was dumping gas, trimming ship, in preparation for a descent onto the mot ocean — and while the gas was being valved out it exploded. Why? The experts were tyring to figure that out today. One supposition is that a sparx from the motor may have done it. Another theory harxs back to one Hindenburg. That disaster has never been definitely explained, but the popular supposition is that static electricity in the air touched off escaping hydrogen. So maybe it veteran of veterans who had flown so much, pioneered 20 much. Today in Sew York there’s a sculptured plaque th >.t will never be presented It’s a portrait of in lex surrounded by figures that found scattered widely on the surface the sp&rxing of static^ignited the flowing gasoline grows deeper — the A" A symbolize the linkJ.h.; of h e hast and t e west by Air. i That plaque *as txxxm fasaioned by tne acaiptor J-iUo .<Uy&ai#T^ idea was to nave it presented to the coacteror of oeear.id j:r/y the *-arlT Birds’. Bhose "-arly Birds’ were £oir.* to tsa® ilusick into toeir society apon ols ret.ro fr ois :.. I tarred csamoan dligat. gfctt M^sic^ «?as eiigioie. Toe ffBar^y Bl/s are pilots woe flew sals re 1314, oaa rljios . *tr i *ar teg—t. i _i tdoers otseed, aot of toesn. — a fi_yer seiare 1314. 1 1 e.ts e s se fo r e t'. e ji . j i s x r e a or, e MINE At Harwich, Pennsylvania, miners plunged deep into the earth today, doing a dangerous, sorrowing task. They removed ifcxxix the last two bodies of the ten men killed in the mine explosion. With gas masks on their faces they crept through wrecked shafts choked with deadly mine fumes. The explosion would have been a fearful catastrophe had it not been for the fact that the 518 miners who worked regularly in the blacK pit v.ere off for the day — w^.±ir only a handful on the job. MURDER Today a man in Nsw York, a man of twenty-four, cast back into KXX memory and recalled something that happened when he was twelve. His mother had a quarrel with a man. The man shouted ’’I’ll kill you.” Twelve years later, on Thanksgiving Day, last Fall, that same man appeared once more, and again quarrelled with the woman -- and reneated the threat that some day he’d kill her and all her family. The oolice believe that this explains the murder of Mrs. Lenida vlaite, middle-aged widow, and Jeanette Schuellain, an eighteen-year-old vis-toui'. J T are looking for the killer, whom they call, the avenger. nlSAPPEARANCE I had a phone call today from the bROOKLYN JAG LKf nwl an editorial voice said - "We hope youMl use the story about the missing darvard boy tonight." Then I was told why the BROOKLYN EAGLE is concerned about this. They put a reporter on the story, because the parents of thp; vanished Wilbur Gould live in Brooklyn, His father is a retired shoe manufacturer, *ad "Jfhe news hawk found a pathetic state of affairs. The elder Gould is ill, so ill that they have not ventured to tell him his * eighteen year old son has been missing ever since last bund ay, when he was last seen in a Harvard dining hall. The mother in t prostrate with worry, under a doctor*s car#. Friends of to** fasily told the reporter this one angle - they sold that the boy 11 £ter.s to tr.l £ broaccact every event ng, ft constarit habi t , t of his. W ter e v e r ne "fey be, ne'd b* n^eJy to i ■ n y< n in tor.! rat. Ant so on r o;. d a ear of the pitiful **l*»ifc ef ht r family, a.or ton t »o t or log ■- /;-peno< ? 1 Ut • ; J frot * - e r a o/1 og Vv b* *' ****** : , v,f, teov/.d f 3n t^o 5--or.tr. o ... 11' t .t tr t «• vr; ■■ / tea t ' 1 J M ^t’£;; * fc lllll'l linn l m ■ssteemEsam — nTSAPPEARANCE - £ twenty-two year old law student, disappeared, leaving a brief penciled note which said - nI am sorry.T' He hasnft been seen since. In this latest case there1s only one possible and rather mystifying clue, ftilbur Gould's sister has been hunting, investigating. She has found nothing significant in the way of - missing clothes, money drawn out of the bank, or a note left behind. No sign of an elopement, because the boy didn't go around with girls. The sister has found nothing save a notation n« on a memorandum pad under date of December Sixteenth, a meaningless couple of words which she thinks may be the name of a book or perhaps the name of a man. No other sign or clue. FOOTBALL The University of Pennsylvania has picked its football coach to succeed Harvey Harman, The new pigskin chief is George it Manger, who has been acting as freshman coach. He’s only A. * twenty-seven, one of the youngest of big time football chieftains WIFE SWAPPING A court room at Salem, Massachusetts, was the scene of a startling shocker today. It was a stroke of sombre melodrama In a freakish, fantastic case. "Wife-swapping" was the charge before the court, the story of two husbands exchanging wives. And conversely - two wives exchanging husbands. The two wives are suing their husbands for divorce, naming each otherias co-respondents. The whole thing was getting grotesquely confused and farcical. When - the stepfather of one of the wives took the witness stand. In the midst of his testimony - he dropped dead. There, on the witness stand he collapsed and died. A weird shocker indeed in that freak fantasy oi wife-swapping WIVES When there1 s a scrap somewhere, it's not unusual to find a wife mixed up in it. But it*s big news to find nine thousand wives in one huge scrap. That seems to be the situation in Toronto, where they have a union of housewives. One section of the union had a mass meeting, and staged a lively battle. Thatls the new’s today. It’s all because of the price of milk, which has gone up to thirteen cents a quart. The union of indignant housewives banded together to fight the increase,- thEyxtuocK -rrtagi^ The mass meeting was one pandemonium argument and denunciation, in which the ladies screamed fleas unseemly words, as ’’shut up” and get out!” It ended In a wifely turmoil and confusion. Not content with not getting along with their husbands,they also do not get along with each other. banner \^y A new patriotic slogan was sounded today - take the squeak out of the "Star Spangled Banner." Maybe you didn*t know there was a squeak in it; I didn't. B** where is the squeak? A Itfs in the - "free", the "land of the free", when the voice hits that dizzy high note. All this is pointed out by Vincent Lopez, the patriotic jazz band leader, whose ardent Americanism has been pained by the way the "Star Spangled Banner" is sung. His ears have been displeased by the sounds that are emitted when the assembled patriots hit the high note. His eyes have been distressed, seeing the look of agony on faces - when they sing, "the land of the free." Lopez has a simple solution. Instead of squeaking the word "free" on an F, as at present, sing it on a D. In other words, instead of makirg the voice go up to a notch higher, maice it come down a notch lower. He says it will sound fine, and people will Just love to intone those noble words - "the land of the free!" f . He has put the idea before the Daughter of the American BANNER - 2 Revolution, and tney're much interested. They've asked him to give an audition of his version of the national anthem with a D instead of an F. They’re all for taking the squeak out of the "Star Spangled Banner."