L.T. SUNOCO - MOI m LAY, FEBBUABY 5. 1954 Good Evening, Everybody Early tills afternoon it looked as th^ gh v/e would be hearing of riots in Paris, of barricades across the boulevards in the old Parisian fashion. The first reports frim Paris toaay indicated that the Rxx nollee had been re-enforced by the military and that machine gun squads were ready to raku the mobs in the Place de la Concorde. And all because the government had dismissed the Prefect of Police,v,ho was exceedingly oooular. The prefect was invited to quit because of the scandals following that Bayonne bank crash. When he left his office to take the train on his way to a new job in Morocco, he was escorted to the station by thousands of cheering Parisians. However, it turns out that these early war-like reports were somewhat exaggerated. A radiogram from Paris quotes the Minister of the Interior as saying that all these rumors are absurd. Everything is calm in Paris, says he. Ho machine gun emolacements, no riots, no barricades. However, these peaceful reoorts may also be exaggerated Once again the Austrian situation threatens to throw all Europe into a turmoil. The Nazis are still threatening the peace of Vienna. Chancellor Dollfuss has made protests. He has used strong-aria measures to suppress the Hitlerite Brown Shirts. But the Nazi menace is still there. this problem today. After it was over, the Government announced that it will appeal to the League of Nations for help against the Nazis. A radiogram from Vienna indicates that the fiery Austrian Chancellor will go in person to Geneva to tell the League that immediate drastic action is urgent. iment believes that outside to Austria’s being gobbled up by V.-U1 they do to prevent it? That's the ticklish question. The Dollfuss Cabinet had a long confab on help v/ill be necessary to prevent the absorbtion of their neither France nor John Bull nor NBC FASCISTS Some folko in England are becoming worried over the activities of the British Union of Fascists, What worries them is the discovery that Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader and angel of the British Fascists, has been buying himself a fleet of armored motor vans, A good deal of fun has been poked in some quarters at Sir Oswald Mosley and his men. Sir Oswald, a rich English baronet, son-in-law of the most superior Lori Curgon first went into public life as a Socialist labor member of Parliament, But he grew disgruntled and turned to Fascism, The news that he is equiping his organization with armored care has caused even Scotland Yard to become inquisitive. These care are lined throughout with bullet-proof steel and the glass is also bullet-proof. The window openings are covered with steel mesh. They are capable of being at sixty-fi^e miles an hour, and the question being asked in England today is; "What does a political party want with a fleet of juggernauts of such a decidedly military nature?,, London Daily Mirror ROUj,;AIJIA wanted, a good cabinet maker, who knows his trade; they need a new cabinet in Rouraaniat King Carol* s country is once more without a Prime Minister. Premier Nicholas Tltule^cue went to the king today and said; ?IYour Majesty, I quit.n -nid the probabilities are King Carol replied;- HThat's too bad, but can I depend on it? Here1s your hat." There has been no love lost between His Majesty and Mr. Titulescue, vdio has been known as the strong man of Roumania. It was this same strong man who went to the Kin*? some time ago and told him he would have to send away the beautiful red-headed Madame Lupescu from the royal court, the titian-haired charmer who snared the royal heart. What* s more His Majesty took the hint and the lady of the flaming tresses was not seen around the court any more. And did the King like that! By the whiskers of Dracula he did not! Titiilescu came into the Prime Minister*s job when his predecessor, M. Duca, was assassinated by the Iron Guard, fe* The Roumanian Fascist organization, like the German Nazis, sports / the Swastika flag. Titulescu held the job through three precarious weeks. It is known that he. too, was marked for assassination bv the Swastika killers. (NBC) immm P.V/.A. Secretary Ickes has finished one job allotted to him. As Administrator of Public Works, he has spent the entire fund of three oillion, three hundred million dollars. What a lot of fun that must have been. Fancy having all that spundulix to blow in — three billion, three hundred million. Every cent is gone. Six thousand four hundred applications for some of that money are left without the hope of a thin dime. Mr. Ickes says the fund was allotted in a way to provide cash for no fewer than fifteen thousand construction projects that will give work to millions. Well, I hope some of it goes on that road up my way. It has more holes in It than a battle field in Flanders. NBC O.W.A, (Follow P.W.A.) ...___ A b for the C.W.A. we learn from Washington tha* it will be able to carry on until May 1st, The House of Representatives today passed the Administration *e bill appropriating nine hundred and fifty million dollars to keep it going INbUuANCB Plans for unemployment insurance are beginning to take shape* A bill to insure workers against unemployment was introduced into Congress today. The sponsors; Senator Wagner of I'iew York and Congressman Lewis of Maryland. This bill provides that the funds for the insurance will be raised by a Federal tao on employers. The tax to oe based on payrolls. BQUaiJiulY The States of New Jersey and Delaware have been squabbling quite a while over their boundary. Today the argument was decided by the United States Supreme Court than w-.ich there is nothing more supreme this side of the pearly gates. The boundary is now officially declared to be the main channel of Delaware Bay. And now the fish will know whether they are New Jerseyites or Delawaranians. PROHIBITIQS ifljiilMpiir >»u. — •..... .................: i., Here*@ something big thirteen t thrown out of court. Prohibition cases. Sot liquor. Prosecutions, '"he Supreme Court handed down a decision today can be tried y This decision overrules the lower courts, which had decided otherwise* The Supreme Court explains that with the repeal of the lighteenth Amendment, the Prohibition Law© ceased to exist. Consequently the government cannot bring people to book for a dead law. President Roosevelt recently pardoned several thousand persons who were doing time for breaking the Volstead' Act, .And; now 13,000 cases tossed into the waste basket. NBC More trouble for Huey. Brigadier-General Samuel T. Ansell sued the Kingfish for libel. Huey claimed that as a Senator he was immune from lawsuits. The Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia today handed down a ruling. It was that the Kingfish is wrong again. A Seantor is not immune from civil suits. So they’ll try the suit and see if it fits CUBA Uncle Sam will get together v/ith Cuba soon, in a commercial treaty* So said Secretary of State Hull today. One of the most important parts of this treaty will concern the sugar business. —o— BAHAMA Carlton Beals,who stirred things up with his booh on Cuba some months ago, sends hk a message from Panama. He says that, although we have treated little Panama rather shabbily, the people In that country are looking to President Roosevelt to do the right thing by them. Mr, Beals states that the present occupant of the Vshite House is capturing Latin American friendship at a great rate. HBC L.T. WALLACE On the subject of farms they don!t know and wo^t for some time, Itfs going to take at least another year before the government will know whether the present means of keeping down overproduction on the farms is to be successful. Many people seem to doubt whether paying Xarmers pot in grow too much wheat, corn and hogs will work out. It has been suggested that the government would eventually be obliged to put a drastic legal limit on the amount of the main crops that farms grow. Secretary Wallace declares that right now the Administration is not thinking of any such strong measures. .NBC TKBHTQN ttow let1 a have a glass of milk - - some news about milk* A year asro dairymen in New Jersey were receiving a dollar and twenty-nine cents a hundred for tnillc, yes, and some were getting less than that, less than a dollar per hundred. President Lawrence of the United Milk Producers of Hew Jersey, told me today that now he is getting two dollars and eighty-two cents a hundred, — more than double what it was a year ago* At that rate he said, he can make money. For this he thanks the Hew Jersey Control Board which now controls the price of milk. I attended the first annual meeting today of the United Milk Producers of Hew Jersey, at the Hotel Hildebrecht in Trenton. The father of the Hew Jersey Control Board sat next to me, Assemblyman Marcus W, Mewcombe, from Mount Holly, Burlington County, Assemblyman Hewcombe is a medical man, a specialist on tuberculosis. He hasn’t a dairy of his own. It simply seemed to him that the dairy farmers were not getting a fair deal. So, with the help of Governor Harry Moore, he brought the Milk Control Board into existence to square things for the farmers I discussed the problem with Governor Moore also and he told me he believed the New Jersey milk plan should be put into effect in every state in the Union. It would give dairy farmers a chance to make money. He was sure it would bring prosperity to them, and they in turn would pass it along to everybody else STOCKS Another big day on Wall Street. Five million shares changed hands on the Exchange, some jumping as much as three points, railroads and utilities even higher. Meanwhile, the enormcajs shipments of gold to America have raised Cain with the French Franc. Its price dropped almost sixteen points. That brings down the price of Filet of Bole Marguery and Chablis 1924. So SSffi Sculptor Joe Davidson, the big hammer and marble man. Is sailing back to France TAXI STRIKE New York wus a strange sight today. Not in twenty years have the streets been so quiet, in fact they looked almost empty, from the Battery to Spuyten Dyoil. Spiten Ewel, The strike of taxi drivers cut down traffic to such an extent that it was quite safe to cross the streets. The strike made it particularly tough for visitors. From every railroad station and every ferry and every steamship pier thousands of travellers streamed to street cars and subways carrying their own baggage. There were a few cabs available but the strikers still have the City pretty well sewed up. Yesterday it looked as though the squabble had been settled. But today it was all off again. The strikers want their union recognized or they111 know the reason why* ifs 1 ! Hi NBC LAVi HENCE 1 I n I-H Here’s something new about Lawrence of Arabia, Some fresh novelty about him is always turning up. In the London Sunday Chronicle, Captain Liddell Hart dnsJounss3 1 J declares that Lawrence has a good deal of difficulty in remaining in the humble position he has chosen for himself. As most of us know, England’s romantic hero has for sometime past hidden his ■ identity under the name of Aircraftsman Shaw, just a Tommy, in the if Royal Flying Corps. But it isn’t so easy to be a nobody. The I authorities have frequently tried to get Lawrence out of the ranks as a common soldier. When he first buried himself in obscurity under a false name, he was recognized by an officer who had known him during the World War. This officer sold Lawrence’s secret to a newspaper for a wad of pounds sterling. There was so much publicity about it that the military authorities dismissed the "anonymous1’ hero from the Royal Air Force, Later on, he re-enlisted, this time by agreement with the authorities, but shortly was dismissed once more. It 'was at the time of one of the Schneider Cup Races' and the unconscious cause of it all was the Italian Air Minister, General Si Balbo. The LAWRENCE - 2 runway for the Italian machine in the race was slimy and slippery, Balbo wanted it cleaned off. He went straight to Lawrence whom he had known shortly after the war. Lawrence had the rnswy runway cleaned off. Meanwhile all sorts of magnificos had seen Balbo exchange greetings in ax friendly conversation, hob-nobbing with the private soldier. They, too, recognized Lawrence and proceeded to make a fuss over him. That caused a lot of talk, and once more the hero of Arabia was dismissed. Friends interceded and again he was allowed to enlist. He is still in the ranks, but is always in danger of being turned out into the cold civilian world. The British authorities donTt like publicity and hullabaloo for a common soldier. I suppose if Lawrence were to consent to become an officer they wouldn^ mind. London Sunday Chronicle CRIME Savage fighting In Oklahoma, a war between the law the crooks. In various parts of the state the authorities are on their toes trying to rid the state of the bad actors. Just outside Sapulpa, Oklahoma, a wild west battle was staged. It ended with three desperadoes stretched out dead. There were casualties on the side of the law, too. The chief of police of Sapulpa and one of his men -were also killed. Then there was a raid at Chelsea, Oklahoma. In this, one burglar was killed, and one deputy sheriff. PLYMOUTH Mr, B. E, Hutchinson, President of the Plymouth c Motor Corporation informs me that his company is fay,far ahead of last year. Then he tells about a cuick sale at an auto show in the middlewest. A visitor was looking over a car and the salesman said to him: "This automobile is absolutely the last word I11 "The last word?" said the visitor, "That's just the thing for my wife, - Soldi" MIAMI — When Prirao Camera, the big a da fighter from Italy left by air with Col. Kilpatrick, pres, of Madison Square Garden, tonight for New York, wnere he must attend bankruptcy hearings. CameraT s fight manager purchased three seats on a plane for Camera alone, so as to assure the big fighter plenty of comfort and leg room. Camera fights Tommy Loughran for the worldTs title in Miami, Feb. gg, hence all the tender care to the mountain man. NBC IMPOSTER , sad news from the aristocratic precincts of Hob Hill, San Franc!scoP Social circles there were recently enlivened by the presence of a man who was accepted as a distinguished scientist from Hew York, This luminary, claim­ ing to be a member of the American Medical Society, was greeted as a real somebody. But the Nabobs on Nob Hill have had a rude awakening; especially those who cashed checks for the distinguished scientist from New York, For this morning the San Francisco cops descended upon the elegant apartment in which the scientist was living and took him off to the calaboose. The police say the only science possessed by the distinguished scientist is the science of passing checks that bounce. They declare that actuality he is an unfrocked lawyer, disbarred after being convicted of larceny. NBC NONCHALANT Tou have heard of people who have a genius for landing on their feet no matter what happens. A cook employed in a Ohio ago restaurant went to work this morning, regardless of the fact that strikers were picketing the place. As he walked through the front door, a homh went off right under his coat-tail. The force of the hlast blew him clear through the restaurant and out through its back door into the kitchen. The police rushed in, expecting to scoop him up with a shovel. Instead, they found him, quite unruffled, lighting the gas under the ocffee urn. He certainly was nonchalantl But I wont be if I don’t hurry up and say SO 3X>NG UNTIL TOMORROW.