L.T. - SUNOCO OIL BROADCAST Aug.22, 1932. ALBANY Good Evening, Everybody: ^The ease of Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York got into theAcourts today and, as a dispatch to the Mew York Evening Post puts it, the lawyers wrapped it in a tangled ball of red tape, But from Governor Roosevelt a startling an- A nouncement. The Governor issued what amounts to a defiance of the courts. The Deputy Attorney General of the State told the Supreme Court Justice the case that'Mr. Roosevelt will refuse to recognize any court order intended ^£e to prevent him from handing down a decision Walker.^ » A dramatic retort to this was made by MayorVWalteej** lawyer. He accused Governor Roosevelt of feeling that he is above the law, Snd he intimated that if the Governor removes Mr, Walker, the Mayor will have to be forcgfably ejected from the city hall. He drew a picture of armed conflict around the Sd 3 i^©l^-tt»^munlciphl government such as has not been seen in ALBANY - g New York City since the colorful and historic days of Mayor Fernando V/ood^^t^c^ £*v For the rest, all that v/ent on in the Walker case than today was talk, — lawyers talk, — of which I know nothing duller BUSINESS Both Looming and evening newspap ers all over the country ',;ere featuring symptoms of a definite* unmistakable improvenient in business today. The U, S. Employment Service of the Department of Labor reports that the United States as a whole experienced during July the first really noticeable expansion in industrial activity that has occurred this year* Similar accounts Y/ere published in the Toronto Star and the Montreal Star, New York State and New Jersey were exceptions to the rest of the United States, But from everywhere else come stories of increasing employment and increasing production. These items come from points as widely scattered as San Francisco and Atlanta, Georga; Boston, Mass., and Dallas, Texas; Buffalo and Seattle. The New England Council has a long list of items showing gains throughout those states. And by the way, prices of stocks went up again today on Wall Street. Railroad shares were the leaders and some of them rose from one to six points. The present state of the market is well explained in an interesting article in the current issue of the Literary Digest BUSINESS - S which says that what we have now is a bahy bull market, not just calf. Economist j The Digest quotes an article in the^a^msttrf of i A London, which suggests that there is reason to think that the giant of the west — that means Uncle Sam — has passed the crisis in his sickness. Well, if even British economists are believing we've turned the corner, that .fa ought to mean something. Let’s hope it means what v/e all hope it means. vvell, Reconstruction Finance Corporation seems to have been getting busy. During the last ten days of July they I if I II it either loaned or agreed to loan no less than Fifty-five million dollars. This sum,in var/ying amounts, goes to four hundred and fifty-seven borrowers. The amounts borrowed range £^ mb four thousand and twenty dollars, loaned to a bank in A Moscow, up to five million dollars, sent to a railroad in A Minneapolis. Don’t be worried by that name Moscow — ±hixxxs it not Moscow, Russia, but Moscow, Idaho All this was made public today by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Incidentally, there is a bit of comedy connected with this report. It was made against the wishes of the President, who did not want the names of the borrowers to be made public. The Clerk of the House, however. did not comply with the President’s wishes. Indignant Republican Congressmen accused the Clerk of doing this to curry favor with Mr. Garner, the Speaker of the House. This the Clerk denied angrily, saying that he was obliged by the law as passea by to make these names public. MOLLISOM Captain Jim Moll!son of Scotland has been spending the last twelve hours finding out what it means to be the hero of the day in Hew York* This Scotsman who was the first person to make a solo flight westward across the Atlantic is no stranger to publicity..tfeoeggia this is his first taste of what publicity means in the United States, His tiny machine which is really nothing but a sports model is being overhauled. Captain Mollison is going to complete his round trip flight as soon as Dr, James Kimball of Uncle Sam. s Weather Bureau gives the word. Though this is ■his first appearance in the land of Uncle Sam, Jim Mollison has learned already that no sane flyer in this country undertakes long-distance flight unless he gets tli# okay on the weather from fifep, Kimball who is | 1 : H 1 known far and wide as the patron saint of aviators^ TiLc —^ CJkrCi*ko-fijis\ t Meanwhile from two opposite parts of the country upwards of a hundred fliers are making the second lap of the transcontinental air derby for the classic Cord Cup, half of the competitors in this spectacular contest started from. Los Angeles, the other hal± from Washington, D. G, The Pacific crowd all landed safely at MOLL I SO?! * g Yuma> Arizona. Those from the Atlantic ended the fipst lap at Winston-Salem^ North Carolina. This race which is £,369 miles long, will end ± m at the Cleveland airport Saturday, It is one of the main events of the National Air Races, Then, too,^iS» flying boudoir according to latest reports is still in the air^ Mrs, Marsalis and Mrs, Thaden have now eight days of continuous flying to their credit. They are considering a suggestion that they finish up their flight in the National Air Show in Cleveland, but if they do that they will lose credit for their record. It seems the rules for endurance flights demand that the plane land at the same field from which it took off. Mrs, Marsalis and Mrs, Thaden dropped a note to Casey v whaiL^ J - Jones, Manager of Curtis® Field, to let him imowjjthey They also dropped a note reporting their cold cream had given out and could something be done about ikM it right away. It may interest you to know that Mrs. Thaden. is suffering from hangnails. Casey Jones is sending her up a special preparation to take care of the dainty fingers. BERLIN The German government today made quick use of the emergency decrees providing death sentence for acts of what are called "political iKxrKfcsBi terrorism.” Five members of Adolph Hitler’s brown shirt militia were today sentenced to execution for the murder of a communist. This sentence was imposed by a special anti-terrorist court In Silesia. These decrees caused a sensation throughout the Republic, but the death —ttu fi Jh - - -'r- - * on five Hitlerites has aroused a more acute A state of mind. A ^iot began in the Silesia town in which the death sentence was passed. Police equipped with rifles and steel helmets had. to fire on the mob in order to clear the streets. Fascist members of Parliament were arrested for rMscl'Jbz.. < ... The decisions of these special courts are not subject to appeal or review by a higher court. These emergency decrees I are against all traditions of German law. Those traditions limit the death penalty to cases of premeditated murder. Political commited in the heat of political hatred or passion. ADD BERLIN - 2 were not considered premeditated murder in Germany or, indeed I I ■ in any other European country. On the other hand, the militaristic, aristocratic '■i j 1 I German Government is taking determined steps to restoreAold " ;:ii IS I German traditions. But the traditions they are trying to restore I are connected with manners and morals at bathing beaches. 11 11 11 11 Within the last few years. been : _ wear at seaside /v A. resorts. The new Commissioner of Police has issued decrees prohibi|ing anybody from walking to the heath in bathing costumes. At one resort on the Baltic Sea, thirty people were stopped by police, who1 teorok Wu|aiT--:aaPH?fr. One woman was arrested for wearing a bathrobe which opened when the wind blevr it and 111 I <! 1 SHxhsz shov/ed her bare legs. The Morales- Squads of the police are also to put down A nudity in the theatre. There must be no dancing in bathing suits. Women are also forbidden to wear their bathing suits ___ _ d- 1 / i !l I I II ! : I ! for beauty contests, Q&JkC C±, ^ y FARM STRIKE The scope of the strike of farmers in Iowa is already spreading seriously. As they go along, the farmers are becoming more and more ambitious in their plans. A dispatch to the Cincinnati Post reports that they expect eventually to increase their operations so as to blockade Chicago and East St. Louis. Those places will be their objective, said one of their leaders today, as soon as the Omaha highways are all blocked. As for Omaha, it is almost in a state of siege today, so far as receiving farm products is concerned. The strikers have begun stopping the trains. Using flares and red lights, they brought a passenger train on the Milwaukee road to a stop near Jefferson, South Dakota. This train carried cream in the baggage car. But the doors were locked and the farmers made no attempt to force them. The train v/as allowed to proceed after only a short delay. Then at Moville, Iowa, they held up a northwestern ADD FARM STRIKE - £ freight train for an hour. The story says that they looked over eleven carloads of live stock, but did not attempt to remove the stock from the train, which finally was permitted to continue. The Mayor of Sioux City, Iowa, has issued an appeal for a conference of the governors of all the middle- western states to consider the situation. The farmers who are picketing the highways searched every vehicle that came along. This included not only all trucks but passenger touring cars. However, the farmers are not making themselves dry agents of Uncle Sam. One of the trucks they stopped was laden with gallon ^ugs of liquor. The farmers immediately allowed it to proceed. It was reported that this was the first liquor consignment that reached Sioux City for days. Then there was a dispatch from Norwood, Ohio, ac­ cording to which there is a possibility that the Iowa farm strike may be extended to that state. The story runs that farmers in the neighborhood •©al'leii5 Bowling Green, Ohio, were ADD FAnM STRIKE - S organizing to join the strike. So far they have no definite plans but *Uie5^^ec’t to join up with the There were disturbances in the coal fields of Illinois. One picket was killed and several wounded, in a clash between union and non-union miners. However, the sheriff reported that two mines were working v/ith full crews in southern Illinois. One middlewestern governor today announced his support of the fariners in their strike, This was Governor Floyd Olson, the Farmer-Labor chief executive of the State of Minnesota. Governor Olson suggested martial law as one means of raising farm prices. That is, providing other middlewestern n governors agreed. To bhafr Olson added that he is willing to join in any plan, however arbitrary, which will raise prices of farm commodities. EUGENICS Some hundred sclents are holding a congress in New YorS:. It’s called the Third International Congress of Eugenics, the highbrow word ± eki for the science of breeding. The delegates came from all parts of the United States, from Canada, from South ■American and from Europe. Among the Interesting facts the lads made public today is that we in the United States are' i*a £\ "tAvg. » fftore ^wtnc In 1890 only 54^ of us men were married. In 1950 there dmm 60% of us who had \ /V The boys and girls were somewhat concerned because one of the most eminent of their number ran out on them. This was J. B. Haldane, one of the foremost scientasts of Great Britain and A. a nephew of the late Viscount Haldane who was Chancellor of the Exchequer and many other important things. Br. Haldane refused to subscribe to the notion that we should choose our mates on scientific grounds instead of by the popular if erratic method of falling in He a fine idea, says Dr. Haldane, but it’s a little too asdtgisfc to be applied to human A* beings. It’s not the scientific man's business, says Dr. Haldane, to tell his fellow men what he should do.Ut^ ^ EUGBHICS - £ ”1 don t think I know enough to lay down the law for other people,” he added. Coning from Dr. Haldane, the Eugenic boys and girls thought this was a mean stab in the back, ti A 'TCCe. ^ <5^ > .4 . BOYS V- v item. Heref s a that ought to interest the , * ** youngsters among the listeners. In Buffalo there1s a gentleman named Edward Voe^tch. Mr, VoefSch has rescued .tv/enty-one : /*' *• people from drowning in the river, Well, he has two young sons, and yesterday they showed themselves real chips off the old block, i'hey achieved their first rescue by saving a young man who was on the verge of going under for the third time. SAUERKFIAUT The land of Uncle Sam seems to be the country of strange contests. Jut in Henderson^ Minnesota, they haw what seems to be one of the strangest. T-fc is a contest in sauerkraut eating. A dispatch to the Hartford S'imes says that the JB-r-e-d-e-m-e-s^x ^ is named John don’t know how to pronounce it. i4r—.. , The annual contest was held yesterday. In order to defend his title Mr. B-r-e-d-e-m-e-s ate a total of 14 pounds of sauerkraut, 6 pounds of frankforters, and 36 wins. Well, this wasn’t enough to enable him to retain his title. # • His neighbor who was the challenger, ate just as much*So the judges ~tfeiU4 <7T* decided the contest on the table manners. I don’t know exactly what table manners are in eating sauerkraut. Maybe it depends on sue how much you can balance on the end of your anife^ itfesraaBty rate It ■!!?"" tJaMii feor’■efflexeb'®—go—-homfe- a Say^a-Ne» END <D is^\^ait a minute, here*s a specific example of *1**^ ^ €FV<s-%J20^>^r # prosperity thcit I almost oirerlooked. A, few days ago X mentioned a town in Spain whose inhabitants had to pay no taxes. Not only do they have to pay no taxes but they get free medical TjF'’ irn--' attendance* Well, a correspondent writes'vfrom Portage, Pennsylvania, telling me that we do not have to go abroad to look for a place where the people are not bothered with that dread disease known as taxes. This correspondent, Mr. Frank Beckley, tells me that there is a quaint little town, named Jennerstown, in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, There the boro fathers have just announced that there will be no tax assessment . I levied against any citizen for the year 1938. They have sufficient funds to meet all their requirements* Let me see, I wonder what the carfare is to Jennerstown, Pennsylvania? X think I * 11 load up with some of that celebrated Blue Sonoco and ax start right away. So, so long until tomorrow