L. . UNOCO OIL BROADCAST - A/1/53 Good Evenin ', Everybody: A significant statement was made today in Condon by the Rirht Honorable Seville Chamberlain^ ^Ing George * s'Chancellor of the Exeheouer. It concerns the forthcoming debt conference between Uncle Sam and John Bull at Washington* And the gist of it is this; Great Britain does not look upon that conference as a gasecar. ”swapping deal11. Furthermore, there is no prospect *5 of inelane, returning to the -old standard until, as Mr. Chamberlain put it, ”we are certain that It will work better than it did just before we left it. Great Britaln^~hPSE^a3M4H^=*believe3 a stable international standard of value’1, but there are many conditions to be fulfilled before she returns to ;rold.,, The idea that Great Britain 7ms prepared to make concessions^ in return for^scaling n*. down of war debts is,xhe puts it, erroneous. ROOSEVELT Meanwhile the President-elect was issuing a statement i^<ry*vl2_ from his winter in -arm Springs, Georgia, Mr, roosevelt>-says^i, has neither given nor received any definite pronoBal dealing with the war debts or with moratoriums for Uncle SaiMs debtors. George Van Slyke wires the New York Sun, that Mr. Roosevelt was emphatic about this because of the numerous and conflicting reports from European capitals on this subject. MOTORS John bull took a v.aack toaay at Uncle Sam’s motor car trade. The British government has placed automobiles on the H-«rW £r>i list of s:oods t be at least fifty per cent British— »-x material* a ad labor in order to Qualify for preferential tariffs when they ^re imported into Great Britain. This is in accordance with the pact made at Ottawa last summer. It will affect all those American automobile manufacturers who have plants in Canada. Also manufacturers of radios. CABIi^T The wiseacres are still busy filling Mr. Roosevelt's cabinet for him, A wire to the Brooklyn Tlmes-Union indicates that tne job is almost completed, and this is the slate they have written: Secretary of State - Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee or Owen D, Young of Kew York, VHn • Treasury - Carter Glass of Virginia 7^ War DepartBient they have handed to former Governor George Bern of 'Utah V K. Senator Walsh of Montana,as mentioned before,to / A have the Depart,ment of Justice And, of course. Chairman Jim Farley is to be Post Master General. A The Navy is still open,^nd the Secretary of the Interior, so the grape-vine dope has it, will be either Bronson Cutting of New Mexico or John B, Elliott of California. While the of Agriculture will probably be handed to Henry A. Wallace of Iowa, The CABINET • * * 2 portfolio of Commerce will be offered to Y.illiam H. Woodin of Hew York, but he probably won't accept, and the Department of Labor will go to Miss'/Frances Perkins who was wsw Hew York State Labor Commissioner under Governor Roosevelt. Senator Hull of Tennessee has been in conference today with Mr. Roosevelt at the little White House in Georgia. It should be added that- the Hew York Times today carried a story in which the President-elect offered to * j*- bet the correspondents at Georgia that the£^ gusses on the cabinet would be eighty per cent wrong. IRELAND A. mall train in Ireland was derailed today and two men were killed. They have been having a strike of railway hands and some of the rails i were ripped up. It was supposed that this was done by the strikers. GERMANY It*y been almost three months since they had an election in Germany, so they decided it* s time to have another. The New York livening dost informs us that ^President von Hindenburp today dissolved the Reichstag, tteaa t'y and ordered new elections for March 5th, The decree of dissolution has not been promulgated yet. It was merely handed to the new Chancellor,^ Adolf Hitler, to use at his discretion.^) It probably will be sent to the Speakr* of the House without giving isirti Parliament any opportunity to^assemble. This means that Hitler and his principal supporter, Alfred Hugenterg, will have complete power in Germany^ The—Catainet —x>o pa c o re,- io goin^--to--^sk-tha KAI6 ,R fcome new doeurn^nts relating to tht- -.ar were made public today. They consist of private r form- r daiser-13 personal archives. The New York orId Tele^r? m publishes a cable relating that one of these is a letter that ViHnelffl wrote to hip hunt on the very eve of the- war in July 1914. in this letter ' t v the former Kaiser lays the blame for the war on England and Russia. The late Czar Nicholas, he said, virtually stabbed him in the back, But the chief villain in his eyes in 1914 was England. wThe full responsibility for the European conflagration1*, he wrote to his aunt, **rests only and solely with Inglond.'1 Well, today most people seem „o think that the question who started the war is purely of academic interest. COLOMI l .S Political observers are predicting that one of the first things the Hitler government will attempt will be the regaining h* of Germany*s lost colonies. tt1^ been one of the main points iis in speeches of the Nazi leader that the treaty of Versailles mast be denounced and that Germany should have her colonies back. Most of them are held by Great Britain and France. They are valued at some twenty-five billion dollars, ^ RAILROAD left The last stearn train between ^ew York and Philadelphia at four o’clock this afternoon. Beginning •4 — u* today there is^hourly electric train service between the two cities. The electrification, which has been completed as far as Wilmington, has cost the Pennsy onehundred million dollars. )W<3/ v A . a lOvalr'' i&J&l Tv*, ^ r k7 ^ a'; LAW — ^ . -r* y A; * c.:r^ - odd E. Uunn„ a represent;.;live of the Sun Oil Company, writes me from Atlantic City. He happened to be calling at a private home and when he was announced as the Sunoco salesman, a little girl spoke up and said: Mother, we can have some Sunoco in our omelet.1’ It developed that her curious remark was the result of one of Jimmy nailing ton1's^ahnouncements, in which jw-« said there would soon be Sunoco gas in every hamlet. Little Mary thought he meant ou.'iocTar in every omelet, V^V-v SLUE LiA.'VS Those Sunday blue laws in Pennsylvania about which there been so much squabbling IfagrAsnu^' r»em years, seem to be definitely on their way out. At any rate, a preliminary victory has been won by the advocates of libcralisfii. The Pennsylvania However, the President and Secretary of the iesarstxii iasocfflfcSx Lord’s Day Alliance declare# the fight ^ s not over yet, —rm"s it out to the ■bi"Ller-end and— ^ieverrt-5—if possible, ••a-ny-ekang’e-in Pennsylvania law.3» •i^e^rnwhi -k **- in—Lelawar^ the S ta-t'r‘-ytfan'n,'b^---o onour r th^ouKh the H. q 4U»4>-to ropoal De^nyarcpi^oh-ibitioa. House of Representativeacfassed the first reading of to repeal the Blue Laws. Among the witnesses whose opinions were n heard was Connie ^ack, the veter ui manager of the CONVENTION Another interesting change is contemplated in Pennsylvania. A bill has been introduced into the Senate at harrisburg, to abolish the direct primary system and restore the ancient metho . of nominating candidates for state and county offices at conventions. The old style state convention, say sponsors of this bill, not only were more fun, but they were more efficient in bringing out the right kind of candidates. - A^'** t A. The direct primary law, they^ssajsy iias made no change whatsoever in the boss rule of parties. The—t -was held 4-ft- l-tHrfr-, -and—^^-lfrs^- orro^tTr-'Phi lad e-1 ph i a was i n—1 HQxri----They' rrer e-> oolop-f-u-l-' d-pamatio a-ff aiwe,—the so old o onvcnti one ,—a-nd the oeon<» of memy-a—dari-ng and spootacular piece of ■■■i-ntriguor No?* for a hold-up story with a somewhat novel slant to it^, A couple of bandits walked into a * drug store in Brooklyn ]fcsgtZB±gtafc and drew pistols. That store had been robbed four times before. In that store was the sister-in-law or the owner. The sister- in-law1 s name is Miss Grace Putnam and she is a collateral descendant of General Israel Putnam, the Revolutionary War hero. Well, Miss Grace Putnam certainly showed When the bandits told > "To stick up and get in back there,11 Miss Putnam did nothing of the sort. She turned on them scornfully and exclaimed: nGet out of here, you devils, you,” Thereupon the robbers took to their heels; in fact they ran so fast they almost tumbled £63 each other getting to the sidewalk, TAX iS i have here a communication from the Automobile Ovmers League of Massachusetts. You may ash what is the Automobile Owners League? Well, for one thine } 11 t jin lb ■ i n» thn t the owners and drivers of motor cars are tired is of taking it din the from legislatures . They are tired of being looked upon as a sort of Golden Goose whenever a law maker doesnft know where else to turn to raise revenue. Heretofore the fighting against the enormous and increasing gas and oil taxes has been done by manufacturers of motor cars and the motor truck and petroleum interests. But now it looks as though *1^3 owners are waking up and have come to a determination to quit being the goat. Motop on? owner e who niHsupo.lly—ape- ■s-y are ^olng to takftLdirection action.^*** see to it that the law makers listen. The LetTguen of Automohilo Owner-s ■ are bc^lne—f• in-otho-r -otate-s-g-a well' a-i •Mas saehuBottc y and~ihe movement is CHILD All France today is bavins a loud chortle at the expense of a committee of tee, foremost French authors. As the correspondent of the tells us, a prize is yiven every A * year for the best piece of literature produced by a child under thirteen years of agr, SO' this year the Committee, consisting of some of the foremost French writers of the day, awarded the prize to a little girl of eleven for a pretty tale about a nightingale. a cuclaoo and a donkey. After the award was made and published, some fellow with a long memory was mean enough to point out that the eleven year old girl1s piece was a plagiarism. Not only plagiarism. It was copied from a famous French classic. The Committee of foremost writers who awarded the pri*e are now busy explaining why they didn't recognise a fragment of the French classics in the eleven year old xxri little girl1s work. One of them is so angry that it’s the last time he*11 ever serve A on a prize-giving jury. And^ ^ e gaiety of nations* EDEN A real farden of Eden, a true lovers' colony has been discovered in the Galapagos Islands. There on a tropical islc»d are many unusual things. An expedition went dowa there with the representatives of the Smithsonian Institute, the San Diego Zoological Society, and the University of Southern California. The scientists went down to do zoological research but they have A found other thin s besides. The description in the r'.TTi ag. J jj; ji, r carries the information that this Garden of Eden in the Caribbean tropics is x on Post Office Island. This is supposed to be the lonesomest post office in the world. Incidentally, it functions without any government supervision. The post office itself is an old wine cask. It was placed there on the island by a British Naval officer in the last century. Inhabitants of the Galapagos Archipelago put their letters in the barrel. Occasionally passing steamships stop to pick up the post and deposit therein letters they have for the settlers. EDEN 2 al ol. i^re-e^t-vn mtti-I about an ^w-i-e-e a yetn*% Among those settlers are a German scientist and his mate, two people who decided sometime ago that the world would be well lost, or love, and so they have found** it. The scientists found the lovers completely happy and not regretting any of the institutions of the civilization they left behind. $y- SPATS A quaint morsel comes over the wires from Akron, Ohio, A correspondent of the Newark hews reports that the Sheriff of that community. Sheriff Ray Potts, astounded the Akronites by appearing at his office with bright yellow gloves on his hands and spats awrounft httia dogs, A. Well, you can imagine that many people in Akron grinned loudly at the thought of a sheriff wearing spats. Personally I don't see why a sheriff shuldnTt wear spats. Still it doesnTt when the following notice appeared on the bulletin board of the County Jail In these words: !,Wo ice to all deputies: On and after February 3rd all deputies of this county are requested to wear spats all the time they are on duty,” - And there’s joy today in the Akron X » ' ENDING When you find something facetious in the portly and dignified Boston Transcript it is quite an event. The Transcript tells us of a Boston vicar who was appealing to parishioners on behalf of the Christmas Dinner fund: !tY»hnt we want, my friends” said the vicar, ”is not abstract sympathy but concrete plum-puddings.n If that vicar were to go on the lecture platform and had to eat in some of the places that travelling lecturers have toi rinr jii hefd find plenty of concrete plum pudding. iw<J s olong until tomorrow.