mm rr ** l ' is** KnAAAA f£h>. ^ fe7 /43 9 - ---r -~mOCO. --- TUESDAI^FEBRU/rRY ^ -;non# GOOD EVENING EVE.RY’BODY: I ciin broe.dcasting tonight from a great banquet hall in H&rrisbux’g, at Zinbo Mosque, Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association. The controversy about foreign policies came to a head in the Senate today with a resolution for a constitutional amendment — an amendment providing that questions of war shall be yut to the people for a vote. Make it constitutionally necessary to hold a plebiscite before the United States Government can declare war, and before American soldiers can be sent to war across the ocean. Make it permissible to use the United States Army to defend only our own soil, or our possessions, or some section in the Western Hemisphere — but not to fight overseas, not without a national vote on the question. That's the resolution signed by twelve senators Clark of Idaho are Democratic Senators B0ne of Washington, Clark of Missouri, Donahy of Ohio. Murr-v Tr v.4- j ^ unxu, wiurrciy of Tiontana, and Wheeler of Montana. Republicans, Senators Capper of Kansas, Frazier of North Dakota, and Nye of North Dakota. Farmer-Labor Senators Lundeen and Shipstead of Minnesota. Also Senator LaF0llette of Wisconsin. The controversy over our foreign policy was sharpened by a scathing remark from Senator Borah. He described it as a policy of — ’’bluff and jitters.” He says v/e don’t need them, and by the time we get through with the six thousand airplane program, a lot of them will be obsolete. The whole idea, according to Borah, is just a part of a policy of bluxf and jitters. The Senate debate was featured today by scathing remarks from senators v.ho oppose our getting tangled in European complications and feuds. And there was sharp reply by the aavocal of the Administration policy of opposing the dictatorships. £TABIIZATlQN I hope you gentlemen of the KM p ¥ m a i ^ r.M.T.A. know more about the problems of international finance than I a0. if so you may be interested in this. Tonight we're given a glimpse into a confidential piece of bookkeeping, large bookkeeping with entries dw&y up in the millions. ItTs the ledger of that huge end rather mystifying affair of international finance — the stabilization fund, that two billion dollar budget used to stabilize the dollar in the money markets of the world. Today Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau appeared before the Weights, Coins and Measures Committee of the House of Representatives. The Gold Reserve Act, under which the stabiliza­ tion Fund was established, expires on June Thirtieth of this year, and the White House wants it extended until January, Nineteen ^ ■ 4-v^ ^prretary of the Treasury today Forty. Arguing for tms, the ecr y ^ vc i-n the Committee and to the public, opened the stabilization books The accounts show what we've heard before, that the market deals has made a profit stabilization fund in its money there's a profit of twelve million. Governor James here has STABILIZATION - 2 just given his budget message to the Pennsylvania Legislature. And he probably understands all this. The books in Washington also reveal a lot of transactions in European currencies, and there* s also an Asiatic slant. This is graphically illustrated by one entry ..iarLed dov.n as follows: under the heading of deposits Centre 1 Bank of Chine, one hundred and sixty five million Yuan — forty eight and a half million dollars. And so it’s revealed that j the stabilization fund entered into an arrangement with the Chinese government for the stabilization of theChinese unit of currency — the Yuan. This was done when the Chinese Yuan showed a decided weakness in the money market. It is emphasized tnat China had plenty of gold and silver collateral to back up its end of the transaction. SILVER The Republicans today tried to amend the government Silver pur cn.c3.se Act by forbidding the Treasury to buy any silver except sucn as is nevvly minec in the United States. That ould have throvn the Silver Purchase Policy entirely out of kilter. It was a complicated po licy and the amendment would have tied it up into further complications. The administration Democrats rallied and voted down the Republican proposal. L AE OR ym It looks as though there»d be a peace conference between tne A.F. of l . c.nL. tne C*I.O. President Roosevelt proposed it and the A.F. of L* promptly accepted — though with reservations. And today the C.I.O. fell in line. President John Lei,is said, "Yes, let’s have a labor peace conference." And he wrote the President to that effect SINGER The argument about i£arian Anderson, the famous negro contralto continued noisily today. Representatives of the Daughters of the American Revolution gave out the statement that the reason Constitution Hall in Washington v,as refused for a Marian Anderson concert was because the auditorium had been rented to somebody else for that day, not because she was a negro. To this Sol Hurok, the Marian Anderson Manager, replies that he inquired about Constitution Hall for a couple of other days nd found it was available for white artisits. Then he tried to book it on one of those days for the negro contralto, and was refused, Sol says emphatically he has it all down in black cine, white 1 Yfnich seems an apt figure of speech. He ddds th^t he 11 stage a free Marian Anderson concert in a Par*t ^cross v,ord about Mrs. Franklin D. from Constitution Hall. Meanwhile, there’s no more t > pc ;irnation from the Daughters of the Roosevelt and her reported resignation , the Marian Anderson incident. American Revolution, because ^ . e received no resignation from the D.A.R. officials say they ve rec~x First Lady. HINES The central melodrama in thp n■ &^ m tne dmes case has produced a iegal dilein:’lla* he Sl;icide of the gangster witness, George Weinberg, has put a puzzle in the proceedings against Judge Crpshow, In the prosecution of James J, Hines, the testimony accused Judee Capshav, of having been influenced by the Tunmany leader in cases against the Dutch Schultz policy mob. This accusation was made by the gangster fginberg in the first Hines trial, and since then Weinberg killed himself. In the second Hines trial his testimony uas read — but, cun it be reac OiiCe more in proceedings against Judge Capshaw? It is a rule in such cases the t the accuser must face the accused, and nov, the accuser lies in a suicide’s grave. Such is the legal point with which lawyers were rrestlinc today. Meanwhile , District Attorney Dewey is fighting legal to keep the renowned Tammany moves made by the Hines lawyers leader from prison while his case is being appealed, pev : ly editorials 1 vish X could spend more of my time away from New York City then I do - getting the point of view of the ramt* rest of tne country. For instance are people outside of New York tslking about tne outcome of the Hines trialj and fi so what are they saying? Here’s a sample: in Philadelphia's two big inde­ pendent papers, the Evening Bulletin and the Ledger, carry editorials on the subject tonight, pointing out that Tom Dewey has atain proven himself the Hemisis of highly organized rackets. And they point out that his victory has giv-n him a wide margin over the field for the Republican presidential nomination. GOL^JAPS I spent a little while at the State House this afternoon, visiting the sessions of the lower House and the Senate, listening to the remarks of the same legislators who are sitting here with me now. The Governor, having just sent in his budget message, I was glad to have a chance to talk to him about it. His message cills for drastic cuts. Balance the budget! In the executive office in the State Capitol Building I met Governor Arthur James, and asked him what chance there was of cutting state expenditures. He replied that seventeen or eighteen million would be saved by cutting down the number of state jobholders. More he hoped would be cut from relief expen­ ditures. general business recovery, he believes, will take care of the rest. The Governor of Pennsylvania remarked rather causticclly that the National Administration hao no* come around _ . 4-vir,t it v/a* fatal to attack, v.-rip to the Republican point of view that and lash business. back from the Capitol 1 accidentally ran On the way GOV. JAMES - 2 into the Governor’s law partner from Wilkes-Barre who with much enthusiasm told me the life s^ory of Governor James — the story so well known in Pennsylvania of how he was £ kh born in a miner’s cotta^e^ worked in the mines as a boy, studied law, became a brilliant district attorney, for years a judce of the Appellate Court where he handled some three thousand cases of every conceivable type - then Governor. A typical American success story. YThere next? He is only fifty odd years of age, and his friends say he is headed for the Y/hite House. He is of the Lincoln type - and an orator. Perhaps that Kill be hls destiny. I*m no prophet. — VATICAN The Papal election is cheduled to begin tomorrow, and today a complaint v;as made by the French Foreign Office. It has to do v;itn the simple fact that Vatican City is in Rome - Fascist Rome, fascist Xtdly. It is well knovvrn that Mussolini's government places all sorts of restrictions on the foreign press, on newspaper men from other countries, on communications with the outside world. So what about news concerning the Papal election. The French Foreign Office today states that the Fascist Government has refused to provide the foreign press with the right kind of radio and telephone facilities for reporting the conclave of the Cardinals. The French officials were saying that the Cardinals should consider the situation, since the Catholic Church is of worldwide extent and the election of a new Pope is of international interest - and the news about it should not be impeded by one nation, I tali' • SHIPS An amateur radio operator ^ j - 4 . ^ oor receivea a distress call from a ship today, and it created a lot of perplexity. A vessil, the steamship MAh ION in grave danger — with a fire in her hold. So, to the rescue, let ships steam at full speed to the fire , imperiled craft. Tne amateur wireless operator said the stricken ship gave its bearings as Longitude Fifty Degrees East and Latitude Seventy-three Degrees North. Just check that on your map and you*11 see it*s in the Arctic Ocean north of Russia, <d>* and there the ocean is frozen solid , just a stretch of the Arctic ice-pack. The United States Coast Guard figures the amateur wireless operator must have got it all wrong — just a garbled message out of the ether. 'RT.IZZ-AHD In Iowa tonight tiiere's a strip one hundred and twenty-five it lies wide extending from the northeast to the southeast corners of the state * o.nd it!s a belt of blizzard. One of the greatest T i ' ' ' -i ^ 1. snowstorms on record swept along that path, sixteen inches of snow whipped, along by a forty miles an hour wind. Everywhere transpor- tation is at a standstill, which can be readily understood after I 1 1 what happened in Pes Moines. Twelve inches of snow fell in | Pes Moines and the blast of the wind piled It into huge drifts. 1 Street cars, busses, trains and airplanes — all at a halt. Taxicabs refuse to pick up passengers except, in the main downtown street of Des Moines - because the streets further out are completely blocked by the huge snow drifts. 1 giifi ■ SFCRr;rT7-HlK£ Here's a conundrum for vn-n Knc* ioi you business men — who is it that has unfailing courtesy tact nrt-M + t, politeness, charm, urbanity gentility, civility, amiability, g0od temper and sweetness? V.^, your secretary. That is, if she's up to the standards of the Order of Seraphic Secretaries. There's a madcap gentleman in N ot / !£or:x-, a demon publicity man named F, Darius Benham, ?vrho just had a delerius brainstorm and founded the Order of the Seraphic Secretaries. X myself am recommending my own secretarial staff for membership - although they are sometimes not so seraphic. The other day I dictated something about Hannibal crossing the Alps and when the transcript came to me it told about a cannibal crossing the Alps, with elephants! In another case, there was something about some unfortunate fellow being coerced by a big policeman — my secretary had h^m caxessed by the big policeman. I had a secretary once who had an unfailing knack of getting on my nerves. At a stenographer the was almost perfect, so expert mechanically that while taking the fastest aind of gj-lCR^TAiiliLS - 2 dictation sne'd be reading something or other on the desk beside her. Once I was dictating a book to her, and all the v-hile she was reading another fellow’s book — which I didn't consider perfect tact. Well, if ary of yon business men have a secretary you consider seraphic. I’ll recommend her to F. Delerius Benham as a candidate for the Order of Seraphic Secretaries. But remember, she must have — unfailing courtesy, tact, politeness, charm, urbanity, gentility, civility, amiability, good temper and sweetness, and, and, and - SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.