1 . cJ. SHIPS Q'/uUtXjL J '3re/£- ^ Tonight there1 s a story of two imperilled ships, and it’s heavy with anxiety and discouragement. ^eip is on its way, fcut under the greatest handicaps. Today, two Norwegian sealers flashed a wireless distress c;a-i-1 — they were sinking.± r jn the North Atlantic, three hundred axi fifty miles off Greenland - hardy seal hunters in desperate need of rescue. Their calls were picked up by two steamships of the America! Scsntic Line - plying betweenthe United States and Sweden. But these tw'o vessels were two hundred and seventy miles away, and a * violent storm was raging. They changed their course and steamed at full speed to the rescue. But full speed was mighty little speed. Both of the rescue ships are heavily loaded and the storm is so violent can’t make more than six knots. They report, moreover, that they’re having difficulty in keeping their direction violent is the lash of gale and sea. So tonight on the wild bleak ocean between Greenland and the tip of Scotland, two shiploads of seal hunters are in desperate straits - and rescue so difficult and slow. HIKES In the Hines trial. District Attorney Dewey took a tone of severe lotic today. ^ nl^ |e began his address to the Jury with the manner of a logician, , * expounding few syllogisms. His thesis was that itexKxw the Dut ch Schultz twenty million dollar a year policy racket could not have operated without the help of James J. Hines - accused of being political fiocer. Dewey referred to evidence that the police had been fixed, that things had been arranged for the policy mob. And he stated this conclusion: ^Nohody else but Hines could be responsible.^ From this attitude of a logician, prosecutor Dewey went on to irony and ridicule, decrying the contentions of the defense and demanding a conviction. MCES Yesterday Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau said he thought Congress ought to look over the tax situation and eliminate such taxes as are a detriment to business. Today a congressional voice replied - sure, and let^s have the Treasury Department help us. Chairman Bought on of the House Tfays and Means Committee proposes that the Treasury shall cooperate with Congress, • j and begin an immediate study of the tax laws - to see what can be done to help business* HOPKINS When harry Hopkins became Secretary of Coamerce, the surmise was that Harry would take the occasion to make himself agreeable to business. As boss spender of W.P^.A. billions, business men have looked somewhat askance at HarryT^But^our Secretary of Commerce ^does^know how to make himself agreeable •AC*;: when he wants to, as witness the proclamation he issued to business today. Boldly he tackled those two ticklish words - recovery and reform. Which shall be the government's major object, help American industry to recover or reform the economic system? like the old chicken and egg dilemma^ Which comes first - chicken recovery or egg reform? Today Secretary of Commerce Hopkins made an adoress before r the DesMoines Economic Club, in which he did a lot of economic philosophizing. And one doctrine he propounded was the following. emphasis xhx shifted from reform to recovery,» gaid he: T,This administration is now determined -o promote that recovery with all the vigor and power at its command." So now we know. The chicken of recovery comes before the e££ of reform. HOPKINS When harry Hopkins became Secretary of Commerce, the surmise was that Harry would take the occasion to make himself agreeable to business. As boss spender of W.PS.A. billions, business men have looked somewhat askance at Harry ."^Tut, our Secretary of Commerce know how to make himself agreeable when he wants to, as witness the proclamation he issued to business today. Boldly he tackled those two ticklish words - recovery and reform. Which shall be the government’s major object, help American industry to recover or reform the economic system? the old chicken and egg dilemma^ Which comes first - chicken recovery or egg reform? Today Secretary of Commerce Hopkins made an address before the DesMoines Economic Club, in which he did a lot of economic nh -51 rv o,-,vi -? nr, a To/i /->no he oropounded was the xollowing^ recovery,” Said he: ’’This administration is now determined to ska shifted from reform to promote that recovery So now we know v,-ith all the vigor and power at its command." 10W. The chicken of recovery comes before the egg of reform. PENSIONS Dr. Old-Age Pension Townsend has said - «i don’t give a hoot for the opinion of economists.He told that to the Ways and Means Committee fcf the House of Representatives. A Today economist appeared at a hearing held by the Committee - Dr* Studenski, Professor of Economics at New York University. He expressed the opinion that the Townsend Plan wouldn't work. Neither that nor the general welfare pension plan another scheme of paying incomes to the aged. The Professor said both theories were dangerous and if they were tried out our economic system wouldnft stand the strain. They wouldj in the Professor's w*ords - probably collapse of their own weignt. That1 s the opinion of an economist, for which Dr. Townsend doesn’t give a hoot. SCHOOLS "0 Cleveland is trying out a novelty . a novelty of educatlon and radio. It concerns that latest thing in the radio «ria - facsimile broadcasting, the transmission of printed material by radio. On Monday there will be facsimile broadcasts of the dayfs lessons, the day's study, in four schools of Cleveland. The classrooms wall get instruction, bulletins, maps and drawings. It will be a demonstration of the'educational possibilities of a simplified facsimile technique developed in the R.C.A.-Victor laboratories, and it will be staged in connection with the Convention of the AmericanAssociation of School Administrators. Yes, radio is performing miracles these days. It can flash school lessons to millions of pupils simultaneously. The next step of progress will be to find some way to make the pupils ■A learn lessons. The trouble with He. York City is there ere ni, always ten tines too many things to do, too many places to go, too much to see. For instance, today I was supposed to be in three places at once, a luncheon which was a tribute to stars of the stage, with the brilliant Eddie Bowling, producer of the "White Steed" at his oratorical best, and at the annual Sportsman^ Show at Grand Central Palace which is drawing record crowds, and a luncheon at which a new school was launched Mary Brooks Picken. Today gnt nader.wny rwtth a dream of her A ^ life time, a school to show the women of America ihxi how to have more clothes, and how to wear them* Mary Brooks Picken, of course knows that American women are the best dressed in best dressed in the universe, assuming that there are lovely the world* But her ambition apparently is to make them the DIET iUij-. Ill I Ti 'IT—irm i now iroitor tmil tflh> fcu ftLkM-gmJUUb- an -kantaiaaBtvn^ udy^'^Jhnt yaa^nd^-ulr•" 1L b’prigl^tiy l - ua—uwfcor ~b ainlMig • Today I picked up a book called A m SENSIBLE DIETING, by New York physician. Dr * ?'illie» Engel. A ^ ♦ NoVi, you \70uldnft think a book on dieting would have such a sprightly and entertaining first paragraph. You'd think it would start out with vitamins and calories. But here's the way the 'IF &33S«a.Engel book ^ begins:- "The Queen of Hawaii," it says, "turned to her hostess. Queen Victoria and asked: 'Do you know. Your Majesty, that I'm related to y '"Jolly, but how?' cried Victoria. ttTBy blood relationship,' explained the dusKy queen. 'My grandfather helped to eat your And that's the *ay the So*" t&Zs out on the^ubject of dieting. who was a pioneer in the This suite L , _ fnld me one about a ^ J Hollyvood diet of pineapple ana lamb chop , ' _ ^ a ^ lady, and doctor friend of his* ^ K twice a day." he told her - "Eat pineapp ,le and lamb chops V DIET - 2 She promised faithfully that she would. A month later had she came back and she was fatter than ever, put on about ten \ pounds. The doctor said, "Did you do as I told you and eat pineapple and lamb chops twice a day?" "I did, doctor," she vowed. "Did you eat anything else?" he demanded suspiciously. "Nothing," she replied, "except my regular meals." FRANCE The French Chamber of Deputies * voted today to recognize Franco - on Monday. That's the sum and sutetance of it, though the vote took the form of a parliamentary technicality. Premier Daladier told the Deputies that on Monday he proposed to recommend to the French Cabinet that the insurgent regime be recognized as the government of Spain. The French Cabinet is Daladier's Cabinet and is in harmony with his ideas on Spain — sure to agree on recognition. Today Daladier explained his stss. position bluntly to the Deputies, in these words - "It is in the interest of France to maintain good relations with the real government of Spain, which," said the Premia? "is Franco’s government." The parliamentary opposition of radicals. Socialists and Communists countered with a demand for a full debate let the Chamber of Deputies talk it over, let the opposition have its; say. Thi> the Premier opposed and the question was put to a vo Daladier won out, three hundred and twenty-three to two hundred and sixty-one. The vote, technically concerning the subject of debate, was in reality an official parliamentary decision to recognize FRANCE _ 2 Franco on Monday. And the same sort of news comes from London. As soon as the French action became known, the word went out that the British government will recognize the Spanish insurgent regime on Monday - loin France in simultaneous action. SPAIN The Parliament Of Republican Spain met today - in France in France. I , une KepuDXican President, and Diego Barrio Martinez, the President of the Republican Parliament. Azana* s purpose was to place before the deputies his wrr^UZdf resignation. Legally, he be succeeded by Parliamentary President Barrio - but this official refuses to accept the succession. He’s in agreement with Azana that therefs no use keeping on with the civil war. He supports AzanaTs opinion that the Republicans should surrender to Franco. So the two are taking action to terminate their government and^announce that the Spanish Republic is at an end. They timed this to occur just as the French government acts to recognize Franco. Meanwhile, Republican Premier Negrin and Foreign Minister Meanwhile, prepares to launch an overv;helining drive . One report is that the insurgents wix± an attack tomorrow. A A FOLLOW E&BBXKK SPAIN The United Press has dust flashed a story given out by the Franco authorities of Barcelona. They say that Nationalist patrols today made a tragic discovery in a patch of woods near the French frontier. They found the bodies of forty-two persons who were shot by the Republicans, just before the final retreat into France. Chief among the victims discovered today are the Bishop of Teruel and the Colonel who commanded the Franck forces when Teruel was captured. -JL ThJfca story states that the Bishop of Teruel, after he was captured refused to make a statement that the Republicans were supporting religious tolerance, refused to broadcast this on the radio. There have been many rumors about this ecclesiastic A now* it’s found that he was shot by his Republican captors just A before they crossed the French border. Such is the report from Barcelona• HUNGAPY ^ news from HU„£ary today gives us a contradiction, two actions ^ 5 one opposite to the other - Uke givlng somebody a kiss and a sock in the nose at tv, nose at the same time. The Budapest government today abolished tv,= „ «i, •"ti-c™,,. W«, .hia, tl„ SlmtAr, rc,r„.lj tB> Rome-Berlin Axis. Crack do»n on the Hasis at holne ^ sign up v,ith the Nazis of Berlin. No doubt the two things were timed to occur together, with^Lview to the political effect -just some dramatized contradiction. It would appear, however, that there is more appearance \ ,, tnan reality the contradiction. Hitler's Germany doesn't seem to give a hang about the Hungarian Nazis and their suppression. They were ordered to disband their organization, their property seized, their headquarters raided. Even a oubord-inato orcwni ® **i'»n^ *'1JThe Hungarian National Socialist Party has been a close imitation of the German original. Instead of Brown Snirts, Green Shirts were worn, the policies were a close counterpart of A. German Nazi policies - including anti-$emitism. £0t I’iiQM POLAUD Anti-German riots continuedin Poland today. At Warsaw, a huge crowd of students tried to march to the GermaiWassy. The police stopped them, and then they gathered before the headquarters of the Polish High Arniy Command. niii1~li1ii ij shout / A "Lead us to Danzig lt! They were angry about Danzig because of anti-Polish incidents in that Free City, which is in dispute between Poland and Germany. At the University of Danzig Germany put up signs saying — ^llo dogs or Poles allov/ed*^ Hence the anti—German demonstrations which spread throughout Poland today, with cries. "Lead us to Danzig!" IRELAND There's a German training ship scheduled to get no enthusiastic welcome in Ireland, at least not from the Lord Mayor of Cork. The German ship is to pay a ceremonial call, and it was suggested that the Ijord Mayor of Cork take part in the official welcome. A*?0 Today he said "Mo”, he wont do it. The reason? - because of the way the Nazi newspapers wrote about the death of Pope Pius the Eleventh. His Lordship, the Mayor, expressed it in these words: "Vlien the responsible German press termed the Holy Father a political adventurer, X cannot see my way to give any recognition to representatives of Germany•" The Nazis do seem to have a way of making themselves popular in a lot of different places. Today we are told about the will of* o ne Wlli of Pope Pius the Eleventh. He didn't leave much, indicates the official Vatican newspaper. There is mention of certiin works of art and sacred objects. To whom does P0pe Pius leave his worldly possessions? To his successor, the next Pope - fc±x soon to be elected. The most striking part of the will is the Pontiff’s direction for the disposition of his body. He wrote: "I expressly wish my remains to be laid at rest next to the tombs of my dear venerated Pius the Tenth who gave me my post in the Vatican library.” And the will goes on to direct that i his grave shall be not far from the tomb of Benedict the Fifteenth "who appointed me," says the late Pope, nto the See of Milan and who called me to the sacred College of Cardinals." This part of the will concludes: "Many who have come to pray at their tombs, will also have perhaps a thought and prayer for their unworthy successor." So wrote Pope Pius the Eleventh in his last will and testament. ^pl PRAXER For^thousands^ill over the world this was a day of prayer, an annual occasion dedicated to prayer for peace. it And so from the hleak ice of the Arctic to the lush green of the tropics, from the cathedrals of Europe to Christian communities beside the temples of India, the prayer was raised \ Give Us Peace. \b\ ^ 4 - u~ctL£