P^ppilpllpEa^ SUNOCO. WEDNESnAY APRIL 20. 193R. GOOD EVEKIPG EVERYBODY: President Roosevelt appeared in a surprise role today - friend of utilities. After all his c riticisms, official and unofficial, of public utilities companies, he now comes to the front as their financial benefactor. For he now announced that part of the relief billions will be used to help the public utilities. Chairman Jesse Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corpor tion was at the White House today. And it turned out that had been discussing with the president a plan to have the R.F.C. buy securities of utilities corpor tions. The purpose is to finance new construction, foster the purchase of supplies, and, most important of all, put a lot of people to work. The Senate* s Committee on Unemployment ana Relief Ccuae to bat with an urgent report.” Repeal that Undistributed Profts Tax,” also,oodify thd tax on capital gains.” ■PHI R LOBBY \s ,\/'" A committee of the United States Senate has-again-"been* defied^ It's a special committee that^A<r investigating Washington lobbies* Aad "fee man who defied it is Sumner Gerard, Treasurer of the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government. The committee had issued a subpoena ordering him to produce the records of his committee. replied that hefd be hanged if he would. Only a few weeks ago. Dr. Edward Rumely, Executive * Secretary of the Committee, likewise refused to obey^similar 0 subpenae A- mi The pacifists went to the bat again today against President Roosevelt’s big Navy Bill, Senator Nye of North Dakota took a vigorous swing at that more than one billion dollar program. «We do^t need it," he said, "Our navy is large enough as it is," And he added* "The best defense for the nation would be a law to keep the United States out of war." And-he^algo said»=«The& 'TC q chances are ten to one or a hundred A to onevthat 1the Japanese bombs AT------ ------ ----- ------------ which sank the U.S. gxinboat PAN AY were manufactured in the n United States, ii i OPEN DOOR Tkey say the Japanese are preparing to i'orce American and British oil companies out of China# It won* t he done directly but by subterfuge. Japanese corporations of Manchuria and Korea are organising in Worth China to form a Worth China Oil company. This, when it gets going, will control all the oil in the territory conquered by the Mikado*s troops. The information Is not Chinese propaganda, it doesn*t come from anti-Japanese sources. It was announced In a newspaper published at Tientsin; a paper that speaks for the Japanese army. And evidently it's no news to our own State Department. Sumner Wells, Acting Secretary of State, said today that Uncle Sam is giving "close attention to reports indicating that Japan is attempting to close the much discussed *open door’ in the Far East." Those are his words; and he concluded:- "Foreign firms a long ago were forced out of busniess in Manehukuo." 1 ii CHiM The news from the Far East continues favorable to the Chinese defenders. The Chinese Embassy in Washington today announced the recapture from the invaders of territories in five parts of Koeth China. This was done by striking in places where the Japanese line was thin, troops having been shifted, to the main theatre of battle’ near Linyi. Expert opinion, however, believes that the -Tar^r^c!^ nni v the Mikado's high command is preparing a series of hammer blows to capture Hankow, the Chicago of the Far East, temporary seat of the Chinese government. J retreating in order to strike harder than ever HITLER There was a big show in Berlin today, the celebration of the forty-ninth birthday of^Fuehrer, Naturally, there was a monster parade* In a sense it was historic. For the first time the place of honor was given to an Austrian regiment. Those Austrian infantrymen formed a decided contrast to the Ge followed them. They were the only soldiers in the parade who did not goose-step as they passed the reviewing stand. fortresses carried four inch cannon .turrets* in addition to great speed and mobility. However, they did not impress foreign observers as much as might have been expected. The experts shook their heads and said: "So far theyfre Just an experiment." But the sight that most interested military observers was of nine monster tanks. Each of these traveling several machine guns. Tbms weighed eighteen tons each and showed -rtU'txJ** fqfeyb Popeye tiie Sailor Man has offendad the principles ani in i ! l-i I dognas of the German Nazis, Fuehrer Hitler^ censor has put a A ban on one of the Popeye animated cartoons. It*s the one that o — was seen in this country under the title of "Fowl Play*" In Germany it was called "Popeye*s Parrot." This bit of censoring has the producers puzzled. They say there*s nothing in either picture of dialogue that should have offended Germany, ELIZABETH (There was much excitement at Windsor Castle today. It was all about a mysterious parcel, postmarked Paris'1, addressed to H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth. England is getting ready to celebrate tomorrow the twelfth birthday of the little Princess, the heir presumptive to the crown. And that parcel was a present from H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor, Uncle David, to his favorite neice Princess Elizabeth and her little sister, Margaret Rose, were hanging around the hallways of the castle, watching eagerly for birthday packages. She felt the Duke of V/indsor gift with her hands, trying to gues what it was. But it was so well wrapped that she couldn’t guess. She’ll have to wait till tomorrow" to find out what His Ex-Majesty Uncle Davy sent H.R.H. his niece. AIRPLANES m&nuf i*n «dr pL«tnes ,~ #«r a vhile-*^~lea s trr ^British Imperial Airways today announced that l4^t» buying ^4 A eighteen of our transport liners Z At—4-h^ft Bfit>e tilasy a commission ^ -A of ten experts from the British Air llinistry set sail for the United States, They*re going to make investigations over here which may end in purchases of American aircraft on a large scalej^=^A»d' the pyjTgga-^ec^nre^big transports wi^=37^ thr three hundred and fifty thousand dollars apiece AlHLXJiiL Here a bit of uevvs that no doubt will please my sponsor, the Sun Oil Company. Being Philadelphians they are loyally proud of Pennsylvania. The National Safety Council has awarded a certificate of merit to the Pennsylvania Central Airlines. This for seven years operation without a single fatality. This is the second year in succession that the Pennsylvania Central Airlines have received that award for safety. THREE TEHUSAND B.C. ! ! - rit, ,■ q fc£-' I wonder what the wise men of Khafaje, who lived five thousand years a^o, 1 wonder what they would think of all thei-e problems that confront us in this Twentieth Century? I stood in front of one of the wise men of Khafaje for a few ii 1 moments this morningj, A tried mentally to bridge that lapse of time, five thousand years I Jtacb=? Wondered how much man has ::: improved in all those fifty centuries. ^ # J 1 met several of the •wise men of Khafaje.^^S- %orii.i-n^jt::-rrrjfefcStood before their alabaster Images in one of the halls of the University of Pennsylvania Museum^ one of fc..< i i- ij C: eJ the great museums of the world. Khaf&je is about forty miles from Baghdad, and not so very far from ancient Babylon. In those days Three Thousand B.C., the wise men wore ceremonial beards, those same ceremonial beards that we see in pictures relief of the period of Sargon. Dr. Horace Jayne, head of the museum who was with me, told me that the beards probably were removeable, and were worn only on ceremonial occasions. There was one alabaster statue of a man with shaven head, and no bearci. Pi otaably a wise man ftrho had been unfrocked, a politician who had lost his popularity. jjggggjjjgg 'TffRP.r, THOUSAND B.C. - 2 a Hew Dealer or anti-New Dealer of five thousand years a&o who was thrown out of office. thousand five hundred years old. ItTs called the Adam and Eve seal. Because on it are two nude figures, and a serpent. So far as archeologists know, this is the earliest evidence we have of the story of Adam and Eve. It was used by people whom we know little about. They must have been among the earliest dwellers in What more fascinating work than that of the archeologis , delving back into the past ,uncovering unknown chapter- in th history of man, and frequently coming up with information which convinces us that all the problems that bother us today confronted human beings thousands and thousands of years ago. Among the wonders of the University Museum I was V — t .. particularly intrigued by that is said to be about six towns. Not cave dw!ellers. vaguely call them Iranians. ----- / f3& JOHN RINGLING NORTH L^T^i Tonight I’ve brought along the boss of the Big Show, John Ring ling North, of the second generation of the Ring ling family. And I’ve Just remarked to him that there seems to be a young lot of Ringlings handling the big show now. MR. NORTH: Sure, but ^e’re no younger than the seven original Ringlings when they started out from Baraboo, Wisconsin, fifty- five years ago. Most of the seven were only in their twenties. L.T. i So now youth is in control once again. How did the younger generation start In running the big show? MR. NORTH: The first thing I did wasn’t so hot. I stuck my arm into the gorilla’s cage. Garguantua, our monster gorilla, thought it looked like something good to eat. And did he hold on, until a keeper hit him over the head with a boat hook. Gargantua used a motor truck tire for a teething ring, so imagine how I felt. However, I’ve still got my arm. L.T.: So that’s the way the younger generation begins - sticking an arm in a gorilla cage. DIMAGGIO Svid^ntly:, Joe DiMaggic of twenty-five thousand dollars n nyInrnnnhaIt A& at-»'M-Ti-A1r'ian3r nitwfU'to^called up Colonel Jake Rupp^rt of the Yankees this afternoon. They talked for five minutes over the long distance. And the gist of what Joe said was: "Don 11 shoot. the conversation, saying: nOkay, Joe,-send me a wire confirming what youfve said.n The wire came through about an hour ago and Joe promptly hopped the train for New York. need to wo.. „ _____ _____ „ - ___ __ ^ Iking up to the plate and whanging the ball out to the left field bleachers. And maybe Joe was influenced by this morning^s news. fwt- For therein he read how his young brother Vincent rpulled^owi* a home rune against the Giants for the lowly Boston Bees in Colonel,. /v affisaygnd •offered» Colonel Ruppert wound up yesterdayfs game. that was just a bit more than last yearns home run king could s^and 5CSi:-- DEAN Baseball fans ^ ey^ all over the cornitry were -tni^e^^fl aarffThro fc«s-B£ir> circuwsfeance was«su^l<|r~was t-ii© debut of wHermann-, coiaiDonly known A as "Dizzy11 flean, as a two hundred and seventy -thousand dollar pitcher in a Cub uniform. Dizzy pitched^and pitched successfully, Nothing new in that, even though his last season wasn't so hot. But whatf~WagTihi5ggy he pitched without getting into a fight, not A A . - In—shor t , - he aeeas—to^ imself -to -pitohing. and he-wbn- his-gaiae• even an argument, and not even a wisecrack, - i»-she^h,- have—con fincsd~hlmaelf--to TQ l>»^gure^^fchar»«:wexe^ ight other athletes in~ther»- gAvtng hiama blfc—h^lp i fni>a^ "lEhoae baby bears of Charlie Grimm's cut loose in the second inning, got ten hits, knocked a A Cincinnati pitcher out of the boa. \nd gave the Dizzy one a handsome nine run lead. Dizzy drove -ln^one—run -himsel£v He pitched only seven innings, by which time the Cubs had'the game on ice^wi^tlE^a- score^ofr-nine'-'-to^tWOv^. So Charlie Grimm yanked hiny©ut~=ef the-gamete not because he wasn't doing well, but to^^*ake sure of not^ over exerthg 1 his arm so early in the season. Was in trouble^ BANDITS They say lightning never strikes twice in the same place. But a Philadelphia gentleman tonight thinks that, doesn't apply to robbers. He was standing at the corner of a street in downtown Philadelphia, when three bandits walked up to him and shoved pistols into his ribs. They took away all he had, thirty dollars. Wondering how he was going to get home without walking, he kept standing on that same corner. Five minutes later a large and able-bodied negro armed with a blackjack came up to him for no benevolent purpose. izFtde- .a fourteen dollar watch that the three pistol bandits had overlooked. RANK NIGHT ?faw*VBad news for promoters of Bank Night in movie houses, Bank Night is illeg&X from now on in Connecticut* The Supreme Court of the nutmeg state says so. And said so by a unanimous decision. the chief justices* "Nothing can be said from the standpoint of public morals in defense of this plan. It develops in men and women the gambling Instinct and makes appeal to the baser elements in their nature." POLICE CHIEF The folks giggle at the expense in Westville, New Jersey, of their chief of police. are having a He* s a most I I zealous officer, particularly against speeding motor car drivers. He has issued three hundred and ninety-two summonses since the first of the year. Today he was chasing a speeder through his town and in his enthusiasm kept on into the next township. There he was stopped by a special a summons charging three offenses^8e^±3==sneu5MHJU3ar driving without a license, Ax trying to make a nUnturn on a state highway, and not having proper registration for his car. I } WHITNEY Out inClayton, Missouri, there’ s a justice of the peace who evidently has hankerings for the mantel of King Solomon. He had a prisoner before him convicted of petty larceny. Said this justice, whose name is Louis Hickss "Some people think there*s one law for the rich and one law for the poor. We*11 correct that right now." Justice Hicks went on to says "Richard Whitney got five years for stealing about two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.^ Then he stopped to figure for a while and calculated that would be about five dollars an hour. So he said to the prisoners "You stole two dollars, so your punishment ought to be about twenty-four minutes in the custody of the sheriff # the sentence." The only trouble with the wisdom of this^Missouri Solomon is that the sum which Richard Whitney stole is now estimated as being more than ten times two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. ^3 © A Uyf^T )i fir* ©