L. T. CUNOCO OIL BROADCAST - 5/8/35 Good Evening, Everybody: It became evident this afternoon that President kHHX Roosevelt1s speech over the air last night has literally electrified the country.^Reports from all over the U. S, A. were pouring into the White House all pbi showing concrete practical effects from the President’s message. it telephone report to the N. B. C, Washington A A. /i the information that the telegraph room at the White House has been kept busy all day receiving messages from every section of the country. Industry is making a direct and practical response to hr. Roosevelt’s persuasiveness. Several large corporations announced a ten per cent increase in wages. Some of the wires received at the White House told the President of wage raises as a result of his speech before the United States Chamber of Commerce on Friday, and from centers reports of improvement in business, actual improvement/^poured announced that it had pat on five hundred men in April, jmd" aiijw five hundred more^ probably take on still another five pcuo dLct^^i hundred to fill new orders for the automobile industry. From the steel iAriolHS similar reports came in. They are to the effect that jthxjtx there had been such heavy buying that the A mbs I shb mill owners are actually afraid for the first time in years of being caught without enough steel to accommodate the buyers. So the activity of the steel mills is growing. In fact, in some centers conditions are reported which amount almost to a buyers1 panic. This feeling was reflected in the exchanges. The New York Stock Exchange had another three million share day. Many leading securities jumped as much as from one to 1 t—f/ three dollars, I I There S^also favorable news^ia the price of Uncle Samfs dollar which "became remarkably steady i^nv' — . .— __________ « FOLLOW LEAD ^ Part of the ideas expressed hy Mr* Roosevelt over the air last night are being put into actual form by the President1s advisors today*, That is, the bill to put into effect a partnership of ziut/a^i planning between the government and farming, the government % and industry, as well as the government and transportation. The F'\ measure will probably be sponsored by Senator Wagner of New York.\ It will follow pretty much the same lin4s as the new railroad bill Yfhich is now being considered by Congress. It will establish a coordinator for each industry or group of industries. This coordinator will cooperate with committees Mibtfctesx -aaA the leaders A of each particular industry* On this committee not only the employers but employees and the public will be represented. WAR DEBTS There's no truth in the published report that France and Uncle Sam have agreed on some sort of a v/ar debt settlement, The Department of State announced today that there has been no such agreement. At the same time word has been received in Washington that Belgium will join in the tariff truce which the United States recently proposed, and the State Department _ has hopes other nations will follow suit. Meanwhile the President is continuing his conferences with foreign representatives concerning the economic problems of the world. The principal visitors at the White House^were Sfoong, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht of Germany, and Dr. T. V. Sfasaxg delegate A kx from China. SECURITIES \The United States Senate today passed the Securities Regulation bill, the measure for which President W j Z. <**# Roosevelt asked^ providing for a strict control of stock promoters^ You will perhaps recall that this wars- the measure -rtji concerning which the President said the buyer beware r* A must no longer be respected." The principle of this bill 'th’t&Ufa ta the sale of stocks i^^Let the seller beware that he doesnft »..«tt. si W V ^ A similar bill has already passed the House so all that is needed now is the Presidents signature RACKETS The racket question was formally dragged before Congress today. Senator Doctor Copeland of New York wants Uncle Sam to take a strong hand. He introduced a Resolution calling for a Congressional investigation of the entire racket business, naming specifically the poultry racket, the beer racket, the food, laundry and drug rackets. Senator Doctor Copeland wants a special committee * which shall not only find out all there is to be known on the subject but make recommendations for its cure. RACKETS The racket question was formally dragged before Congress today. Senator Doctor Copeland of New York wants Uncle Sam to take a strong hand. He introduced a Resolution calling for a Congressional investigation of the entire racket business, naming specifically the poultry racket, the beer racket, the food, laundry and drug rackets. Senator Doctor Copeland wants a special committee \ which shall not only find out all there is to be known on the subject but make recommendations for its cure rv:v ~" GQVEHNOHS _ Tli* Governor or the Stat^^aa^ always considered A himself Viitna A' big gun. But today bigger gurl5 than everp Staying been promoted by the President. , i£x. Mr. Roosevelt has ordered that in future the Array A and Navy must give Governors a salute of nineteen guns. Bitherto they have oaty been getting^eventeen. The only officials ^ ib in America^te girfc^nineteen guns up to now have been cabinet ministers,' 9X Y^AfiX^vv. * 1^1, * -from ■Mie Whi^o H•**»»■=-' that- in future--^hey wj:li-rank TTfatbr KIDNAP Probably the most crowded building in all America ^«.3 the h-ie-torio1 Town ^-all of Provincetovvn, Mass. A The entire population of not only Provincetown, but the OafUL 3>iP surrounding^coiamunities turned out to see the two Buck Brothers, Kenneth and Cyril arraigned for the kidnapping of little £en year old ^eggy McMath. In addition to TC j Z hXllierfy ;o there Jk A were newspaper men and photograwaers from five states. Newspaper men on chairs, newspaper men standing, newspaper men on radiators, newspaper men on window sills. The TomHall was surrounded by a cordon of Provincetown police and Massachusetts^Shate Troopers, HrenQinirr?; we learn by telephone that the Court^hjEistjJ Kenneth ' uv \ a. 'tftfcUif and Cyril to' biTlT^frrr^t himir-^1 thousand dollars each. Prior \ A to arraignment Kenneth Buck had modified his first confession and claimed that a third man, whom the police had not yet arrested was most to blame for this crime. The St-ite Ti oopers made an investigation and said they took no stock In it, xhe official view is that the original confession made by the two Bucks is the real story. EARTH UJ k KI , Has anybody lost an earthquake? Or perhaps I should say has anybody found one. The seismograph at Fordham University, the scientific instrument which records trembling of the earth, registered a severe shock somewhere or other about seven o*clock this morning. Father Lynch, who is Fordham*s earthquake expert, he thinks it happened somewhere in A the Pacific Ocean off the Mexican Coast. &orae of you may recall that little couplet from the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera ,!The Pirates of Penzance1', which runs as follows: that description pretty closely. He broke into a house lajt spectacle ni^ht and the first thing that struck his eye was the^&igfcfc of four little children sleeping on a mattress on the floor. Other si^ns around the house told him that it was the residence of somebody out of a job. right out again. But before he did so he left behind a dollar bill to which was attached a note, saying:- "I saw the little tykes, so I'll give you a break.” the New Jersey police of Runnemede, Aone burglar who left a "When the enterprising burglar's not a-burgl»ing. A h 4» the cutthroat isn't occupied with crime. He loves t hear the little brook a-gurgling And listen to the merry village chime." Shmewhere in ^ew ^ersey there is a burglar who fits So, what did he do? turned right around and walked one message from Y\ d house with less money than he entered with. SAFETY Here's a law that's going to affect millions of people, and a law that will he given three cheers by most of us. A few moments ago I encountered Mr. Lucius Boomer, head of thctaldorf-Aatoria,and several state officials. They were discussing some news that affects every inhabitant of the Empire State -- I mean the State, not the building. Governor Lehman has signed a bill requiring every autmuiobile in Hew York State to be equipped with safety glass, the non-shatterable variety. But the bill doesn't go into effect in a hurry. If you have a 1922 model car you don*t have to dash out and buy non—shatterable glass. It simply means that cars must have the safety glass commencing with the first of the year 1935. Buses have to have it by the first of the year 1934. I was in an auto smash once. We were hit by another car, and hit such a tremendous jolt that the glass in million pieces. iieasMi^ulverised. our windows flew into ten ROYAL SCOT Folks in the U. S. A. who have never seen what one of the crack British trains looks like^ are about to have an opportunity to do so. The Royal Scot, %$»■ de luxe flier of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway which runs between London, ____ fcttafaariamx Edinburgh ^Glasgow, leave o . / ^v(rUnii;e#-^ta4ee-«4 Buffaloi This is the first complete British train ever sent to this country, Thie—trails- covers the four hundred and one miles , A from London to Glasgow, without stopping, and is one of the fastest in the world, faster in point of fact, than any of the fliers in the U, S. A, The Royal Scot is going to make a barnstorming tour of thirty-five cities in the east and Middlewest. shenm la Buffalo tomorrow and will be in New York May l£th and \ ISth. ThenJe^ it~ t /i-H—go -e-lehg the 14ne -af -th< PennaylTania Railroad Chicago, stq>at‘ several places ^©n the way*, including Atlantic City. of t-he-- tr a vel - and tran-spor t action of the-W^rld^Faijr._, EGGS Well, National Egg Week is over. I suppose you folks all ate them three times a day, just to he patriotic, because after all it1s a well-known fact that every American loves his chicken. S-a•“^trappOL^. ^you^had them soft-boiled^ wb hard-boiled, scrambled, benedict, and sunnyslde up. A A. My last meal of Egg Week happened to be on board a Lackawanna train passing through that gorgeous hill country of New Jersey, between Morristown and Delaware Water Gap, on my way to Stroudsburg. This reminds me of that old, old song; "Where do you work-a, John? On the Delaware Lackawan What do you do-a, John? , , ill,— il I push, I push, I push," n . and so on. Well, on the Delaware Lackawan,^Lning ^car Conductor Frank Scholl gave me a leaflet entitled, "A Tribute to the American Chicken.,, In it I read that the egg is one of our greatest protective foods, full of ultraviolet rays, and so on EGGS - g JT"^ % i | 5 | coming to us straight from the hen^ wrapped in nature*s sealed container, the contents of which have never been touched by the hands of man. Then It adds — in case you are interested in this bit of information — that in the course of the year, in this country, there are produced about 32 billion eggs. Furthermore, in case you are interested, that the average hen gives us eggs to the weight of twenty-five to thirty pounds per year. And the average hen consumes some eighty pounds of feed. And that*s another bit of knowledge that came to me this weekend —- on the Delaware i»ackawan. ______ _ HUBBARD Everybody has heaiftd of Father Bernard Hubbard, the _ distinguished Jesuit priest who is not only clergyman but one of the jB£ihtr -b,t!Ali7fuexplorers of the day* Father Hubbard has been ill in San Francisco for quite a while, but he is now out of his sick bed and off again to Alaska exploring more volcanic glaciers, on which he is today one of the foremost authorities, id Hvf A dispatch from the N.B.C. ■♦■iiff'nn in San Francisco /V brings the information that Father Hubbard this time is taking a short wave radio wi-th-He hopes to climb Mt. A Shishaldin and to establish communication with the California University radio station at Berkeley. SAILOR A quaint little episode is reported from a large penitentiary. A new inmate arrived and the warden was making haven1t got a trade why we1!! teach you one so that when you get out of here you111 be able to earn an honest living." And the Warden added: "And you can choose your own trade." To which the convict replied: "Well, warden, if it’s all the same to you, I think Ifd like to be a sailor. him the usual speech that wardens maj$e to new arrivals. Said the warden: "Now you’ll have to work here and work hard. But if you HARVARD The entire world today is agog over the \ * appointment of a professor of chemistry to the position of President of Harvard University. This is the'^ci^' time in the rS history of Harvard that the corporation has departed from the tradition of selecting presidents from either the clergy or from men devoted to letters and arts. Professor Eliot, the Five Foot Shelf of Books man, was originally professor* of chemistry, A to the world at large iw? seemed more like ^ man of letters. A* Harvard1s new president is James Bryant Conant who hitherto has /’lf-*asx+rT3Lr&. held the Sheldon Emery chair of Organic Chemistry at tho Uni^nraiitir A He is only forty years old and consequently is one of the youngest xxx&x ever to hold this position,^<*^r*'<'‘£ FASHION NOTES Here’s a fashion note from London that may astonish travelers whose memories of visits to England consist considerably of shiverinr. Well, here it is: Bare legs and bare arms are already being vforn In the * British Capital, not merely a^S^the seaside resorts, but in old London itself, and right on Bond Street. There right in -A London’s most fashionable shopping district were girls with no stockings and just light sandals on their bare feet. Incidentally, a story is going the rounds concerning the late Mr. Justice MeCardie, of England, who died by aeoldonfe recently. He was known as the bachelor judge, and his pungent comments were frequently in the papers. On one occasion Mr. Justice MeCardie expressed his iki. Ignorance on ways of women. In the course of a trial he asked counsel: TtTell me, do women dress to please men?n And the ■ barrister replied: nMy lord, they dress to please men and to annoy other women .11