L"‘WELL_THOMAS FOR THE SUM oil COMPAMY. FRIDAY. APRIL ISth. 19S4. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY*- Th© very date today takes us Into the realms of the unknown -- the dim immensities of the undiscovered* That*s what makes some people superstitious* This is Friday, the thirteenth, which many think unlucky* But there are others, all over the country today, who are merrily defying Friday, the thirteenth, by walking under ladders, breaking mirrors, opening umbrellas in the room, and sitting thirteen at the table* And nothing ever seems to happen to these Jolly superstition-busters* They iQ' say it1 s all perfectly well known there's nothing to it* That takes us to a little girl down In Beaumont, Texas* She's thirteen years old* She woke up this morning the richest little --- >- U- s i ss INTRODUCTION #2. girl In the world. Her name Is Dorothy Yount. She has just inherited four million dollars from her father, who was a Texas oil magnate. Some twanty years ago, a play was produced In New York, called "The Poor Little Rich Girl". People snorted and old, whose trouble la having too much money, don't impress most of usfc whose trouble is —having too little. thirteen year old millionairess In Texas* "I can't even play without being watched", she sighs. That Is because her mother, afraid of kidnappers, has hired guards to protect the child. "And," continues the poor little rich girl, "I can't even go to school or have playmates." She isn't allowed to be heedless careless and free, like any other child* Too bad, Dorothy, at the Idea. The trials and tribulations of the rich^ young But listen to the complaint of the pretty but some day that four million will come in handy. ' J St 1/ BRAIM TRUST Now here* s something alarming:- Dr. Raymond Moley, the original Brain Truster, tells us that there is not just one Brain Trust, there are three of* them* The'first bunch is the economists: Professor George Warren, Professor James H* Harvey, and Professor Irving Fisher* the man who used to issue such lyrical figures in praise of prohibition. In group two are the legal lights: Professor Felix: Frankfurter, Thomas Corcoran, James M. Landis, and Benjamin V. Cohen, ^t is this bunch that is responsible for the proposed measures to regulate the stock market* In group three are Professor Rexford Tugwell. Professor A. A. Berle, and non-professor General Crack-em-down Johnson. And those three Brain Trusts undoubtedly know all that is known and much that is unknown. So/ what some people have been saying about the Brain Trust may not be the truth. It may be only one-third of the tarsia . . . WIRT Does anybody know what tew Inspired Congressman Bulwinkle in that latest episode of the Dr. Wirt affair. The doctor made his charges that the Brain Trust were a bunch of Communists. The House Special Committee held its investigation and, from what Dr. Wirt himself said, the general verdict is that the doctor didn't quite know what he was talking about. But Chairman Bulwinkle is not satisfied to let it go at that. He has to bring charges against Dr. Wirt, charges that the doctor was put in jail during the World War, on the charge of beingpro-German. It looks as if Mr* Bulwinkle appeartrying to play Dr. Wirt's game by making a martyr of him. And the first result has been an avalanche of letters and telegrams from people in Gary and other places, contradicting Mr* Bulwinkle and demanding a retraction* -So "tea. -tc ROOSEVELT Homecoming day In Washington. The boss Is back In known tlio White House, tackling things^nd unknown* I like hls sly dig at Congress, when he salds "While I wijbn the train coming up north, the newspaper boys were trying to get me to say I want Congress to go home* However,11 protested the President,"lim not going to say anything of the sort* But for the benefit of you younger Congressmen, all I know is that Washington in mid-summer never gets hotter than a hundred and ten degrees in the shade*” here's your hat*” About hls fishing trip and the fish he caught or didn't catch, the President deftly ducked the issue* Here are his wordss ”1 expected on this trip to get some good publicity about the fish I was catching* But,” he added, plaintively, ”1 could not get any publicity in view of the fact that here in Washington you good people have been going ray of saying: "Don't hurry - A* from work to Wirt#” cxLJt iuJtL The homecoming reception was a gala affair as many of you may have gathered from the radio broadcast of the festivity* Tim '<?-P A j ^ a J f~s ? y. fv a - ^ INTRO TO SPEAKER Beside me in tlie studio h.ere is a man wh.om I don’t know, I don’t know his namre or where he comes from, I don't even know what he looks like. He's wearing a mask, a Black mask that nides his face. He looks like the Man in the Iron Mask, Sounds like kidding. But it isn't. With Mr, Roosevelt's return to Washington, I thought it a good idea to have somebody give us an inside slant on the President. There's a book just out called "The New Dealers”, It's making quite a stir. So I suggested to the publishers that the author of ”The New Dealers" might join me on the air tonight. The book is anonymous. The author sign himself "The Unofficial Observer." To my suggestion the publishers answered, "Sure — but," they added, "his identity must remain unknown. He won't even show his face". They said; "He will come to the studio disguised with a mask." And that wasn't all. They specified that he would even disguise his voice, and talk only in false and altered acc ents IMTRO - 2 bo that's how I have this recognized but unrecognizable author here beside me. A special microphone has been rigged up for him to disguise his voice and maice it strange and unrecognizable. I can't introduce him to you, because X don't know him. I can't say, "This is Mr. So and so," because X don't know his name. I'll just ask the mysterious unknown for a detail or two about the President of the United States. So now, Mr. Man-in-the-Iron~Mask, teH us in that disguised iroiee of yours about the real secret of the Power of the Administration. OBSERVER:- Mr, Thomas, I can answer that briefly; the President's digestion. L.T#:- Xes, I have heard of geniuses with dyspepsia, jaundice and stomach-ache. Is that, Mr. Mysterious, what you mean? OBSERVER:- Just the reverse. The President comes of Dutch I:, IRQ - S L.T:- QBSERVEH: peasant stock and, through his Mother, of Flemish peasant stock. Strong muscles, strong teeth and strong digestions have been bred into the Dutch and Flemings for centuries, H&w inherent phyeif *yid motabofeio- Vnleh—ic y . op th ■ -f<> ^»to v c tho»r th^-inbro-d aalai'»feoy of true—ft'riDtoeapQey^' And that for.a man in public life, 1 fl with its irregular hours, its heavy banquets, its nervous strains, is priceless. Especially the heavy banquets. I quite agree with you there, Mr. Unofficial, Unknown, Unrecognizable Observer. | So I suppose the way to understand the political situation in Washington is to watch the President at the dinner table fhat1s not a bad idea. 'Those of us who have seen 0 I F,,p. at the dinner table fex and have caught the gusto — j With v/hich he addresses himself to his victuals, can I understand his enormous energy, enthusiasm and zest Lor ' Hfe. The starvling^?*®" may win a shrine from posterity, j but the full blooded, hearty man Is theof nxs own A dyspeptic Roosevelt would be a contradiction 8 time. feersia* Yes, Mr. John Doe, I recognize the wisdom of what you say — but it is all I recognize. I have been trying to see if I could guess who you are, but I £an?t. And I wonder if any of the radio audience can identify your voice. But letts go on from the unknown to the known. ICEBERGS Hot only on land But on sea we are going to con­ tinue to ±eel the effects of the fierce, unusual winter we have just gone through. Because, one aftermath of the winter is a phenomenal crop of icebergs now floating in Worth Atlantic* This is going to be a sore problem to navigators who across the broad Atlantic from now until July, However, any of you who intend to cross, don’t let this worry you, because the long arm of Uncle Sam is out to protect you. Instructions have been issued to the Coast Guard to double iceberg precautions. The man who really knows about icebergs is Lieutenant Commander Edward H, Smith of the Coast Guard, He prophecies that something like six hundred and thirty giant bergs will cross the main ocean traffic lines in the next three months. But Uncle Sam is sending a coast guard cutter into the northern waters to study the ice movements and keep navigators informed of the drift and path of every berg* 'Jl Is J- ICEBERGS Not only on land but on sea we are going to con­ tinue to a eel the effects of tire fierce, unusual winter we have just gone through. Because, one aftermath of the winter is a phenomenal crop of icebergs now floating in North Atlantic. This is going to be a sore problem to navigators who across the broad Atlantic from now until July. However, any of you who intend to cross, don*t let this worry you, because the long arm of Uncle Sam is out to protect you. Instructions have been issued to the Coast Guard to double iceberg precautions. The man who really knows about icebergs is Lieutenant Commander Edward H. Smith of the Coast Guard, He prophecies that something like six hundred and thirty giant bergs will cross the main ocean traffic lines in the next three months. But Uncle Sam is sending a coast guard cutter into the northern waters to study the ice movements and keep navigators informed of the drift and path of every berg. It*8 a long long way from Gotham, nineteen thirty-four A* D», to Ur of the Chaldees four thousand 5* C| the riim Chaldees who lived on the misty Shore of the Unknown. New discoveries have been made by the joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania* Archeologists have just found priceless, fascinating vessels, ornaments, and musical instruments. In the ancient city of Abraham on the Shore e? the Unknown there was culture, art and luxury on a fabulous scale, six thousand years ago* SOUTh i^iKKIC^ >2 Mix-up between Colombia-Feruj and^the reason is^ that the Committee of the League of Nations, appointed to straighten out the quarrel^ adjourned to- think it over* The row of course, is over that patch of wilderness on the upper regions of the Amazon River, around Leticia. The League Committee adjourned, presumably to give their bewildered brains a rest. But the Colombians and Peruvians interpreted this as an indication that the Committee had found the problem hopeless. Bo they're getting ready to arbitrate with bullets. SOUTH AMERICA - O. And that has given a headache to our own State Department. It is worried because a score of American aviators have sailed to get into the war game in the Andean and Amazonian skies. And the State Department said; "Naughty, naughty, you do that and you lose your commissions as officers in the United States Army Reserve, n To which the aviators reply in effect, "Oh, yeah? Maybe Uncle Sam will pay us five hundred dollars a month not to fight for Colombia?" But the boys ask innocgatly:- "Who told you we are going to fight? We’re engaged as instructors!" Well, I wish them luck. They are flying away into the unknown. rescue Th.© triumphant rescue of the last of those Russian scientists and their families^ marooned on the ic©9 has excited wild jubilation in Moscow# There is more rejoicing than if the Soviet armies had won a spectacular victory# And indeed what military victory could be finer than that victory of rescue# One Soviet newspaper editor professes to know exactly what would have happened if the Czar had still been in power* He editorializes that there would have been so much red tape and so much wrangling^ ovr~rth»-. rwacna^ that the marooned folks would have starved or frozen to death long before the rescuing have aviators could ^got to them# Yet we may observe that Irqperial A Russia performed its own feats of adventure and daring# ELLSWORTH On into the imknown — LineoXn Ellsworth announces that he's going to take another crack at the Antarctic. The savagely bad luck, real Friday-the-thirteenth bad luck, that him back last fall has only inspired him to try it again. it was quite fitting that the Half Moon Club should give Ellsworth a big blow-out, -with distinguished geographers riSfe, and gYprleag explorers wishing him better nan the* last time #L m-csvvfeit-a when he reached the Antarctic, and the ice crushed his plane as he was unloading it* SARFATTI Sometimes It takes distinguished foreigners to make Americans realize the magnificence that there is in their own backyards. For Instance^ the average New Worker roams through the streets, never appreciating that he is walking with blinkers through sights more wonderful than the hanging gardens of Babylon. For example, Donna Margherita Sarfatti, Mussolini^ biographer, when they took her on a sight-seeing tour through Rockefeller Center, described those soaring towers as "more beautiful than she had even dreamed." Italian authoress a big blowout, with Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia, as toastmaster. Among the guests were the Incidentally, they have just given this former Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, Antonia Grossardi, Signora :ti Guiglia and Grossardi, the Contessa Crisuolo, Count facchetti Guig No, it wasn*t on the sa^sxai stage at the Metropolitan Opera House. It was at the Waldorf. DILLIKQ-ER Now for a dark bit of the unknown - the whereabouts of Dlllinger* Let's look at the latest escapade of Public Enemy Number One, the way he broke Into a police station at Warsaw, Indiana, for the sole purpose of stealing several machine guns and bullet proof vests. His previous exploit was breaking out of jail - and now he's breaking into jail. The usual sentimental excuse made by crooks is that they've not had the benefits of education and so forth. Folic men tell me this is the bunk. Dillinger, for example, went to high school, and played on the baseball team. He married a childhood sweetheart. He committed a robbery, and was con­ victed. Since then he has become the devilish escaper and killer. Since his latest escape he and his gang have stolen two hundred thousand dollars in tlfeVv bank robberies, and They say that part of Dillinger's raids have been made to help his friends, and that the arch-desperado is loyal. have killed three policemen. intelligent and brave. That's sentimentalizing. *»* £s for bravery - take the old policeman whom Dillinger held up while he was "breaking Into the police station at Warsaw, Indiana* Old as he was. Patrolman Jud PIttenger, with Dilllnger g'jn pointed right at his midriff, grabbed the formidable killer, went to the mat with him, tripped him and hla pal, and <> the three rolled down the staircase* Dilllnger got away and tonight -- the old story — whereabouts unknown* R0GB3C > One of the things the ^interested football fans since the Rugby team of Cambridge University, England, came over here has been their phenomenal kicking. The ball used in Rugby is considerably larger and heavier th n the one used in American football. Bo it is all the more interesting to observe that in the Cambridge victory against Yale it was the kicking that won the most points. j The Yale Bowl is smaller, or at any rate narrower than the I fields to which the Englishmen have been accustomed. Consequently, they were unable to their usual lateral and backward passing so bewildered the Harvard and Princeton teams. For all that, the Cantabs beat the Elis by thirty-two to five. And it was the kicking that did it. Yale men said that no such kicking had been seen in the Bowl since Charlie Brickley of Harvard scored 'tw <mje five field goals^way back in nineteen sixteen. However, there is no indicatiof^that Rugby is likelj to supplant American football in popularity. A crowd of fifteen hundred SO watched this Rugby game as compared with seventy^ thousand have been there to see Yale play Princeton or Harvard. ending Alter this broadcast of the unknown and the known there is one thing that I certainly do know. I know it by heart. It is — SO LONG UNTIL MONDAY,