-Li. j . SUNOCO r rid ay, November 17 19FC Good Evening, Everybody: ^HereT s a real bit of history to open‘-ifa% ttess^ withA ^ Uncle Sam and the Russian Bear are friends once more. President Roosevelt announced that diplomatic relations will_be resumed, aag the breach betv/een the t o countries, which has lasted ever since the Soviets took control, is now healed. The name of Uncle SairUs first ambassador to Moscow v.ar* also announced. He is i*illiam C. Bullitt, who ha taken a prominent part in the negotiations which brought about this .) historic event./ Young Mr. Bullitt is only forty-two years old, certainly one of the youngest men ever to be appointed to an embassy. always been a precocious f el lor/. He used to be a cub reporter but after only a few weeks he was promoted to editorial writer. hen he was only twenty-eight years olu. he was chosen by President Y.oodrov Wilson for confidential missions in Europe, In fact, he made a trip to Russia in 1319 and in his report urged the neither President Wilson nor any of the other statesmen of Versailles paid any attention to it. Incidentally, he's the son of a big-shot family in Philadelphia, RUSSIAN KECQGIilTIGN - 2 * % The final decision to seal this pact of friendship between Moscow and Washington came at the end of a long night's session. The President said that he and Maxim Litvinoff reached their agreement at ten minutes to twelve Thursday evening. All the points at issue have been settled to the satisfaction of both governments* These questions include propaganda, religious freedom for Americans visiting in Russia, proper legal protection for Americans either visiting or work­ ing in Russia, also tne question of economic espionage, (syping on each other's affairs) and money claims. Although this agreement was arrived at Thursday night, Maxim Litxinoff, the Soviet envoy, spent a considerable part of today at the White House. The conference between the President and Commissar Litvinoff was Interrupted this morning while the Russian envoy talked to his wife in Russia on a two way radio hook-up over the U.B.C. networks. Maybe you heard part of this intimate conversation. It was open to anyone to listen in on. Madam Litvinoff, who is an Englishwoman by birth, told her husband that it was snowing in Moscow and that the children were studying hard. RUSSIAN RECOGNITION - 3 Well, that’s that. Many prominent men have for a long time "been demanding the recognition of Russia, saying it would help business. I am sure everybody hopes they’re right. And now we’ll watch. It has taken years for America, the U.S.A., I mean to come to this conclusion. But certainly Franklin D. Roosevelt acted with great speed. NBC V< ALL ACE ThereTs one man '-•ho**® exceedingly skeptical concerning the prophecies of the huge amount of American products that we shall kx sell to iiussia Uncle Sam recognised the Soviet government. That man is Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture. Hr. Wallace aeaear th«coptimism m tne big A \ big vol'ume of trade which it is supposed will flow between the United States and Russia leaves him quite skeptical unless Uncle Sam reduces his tariff. Of course the Government will have to lend Russia the money for any purchases made by the Soviets over here. Mr. Wallace thinks even a six year loan ■ onft be of much use unless the tariff wall is lowered. UBC .. —-T-™™*- -■ ■ -nfen.'" “’WWWWW 'AWiSSE" I ROOSEVELT The President ready to leave Washington about now -- off for hie southern home, the Southern White House at Warm Springs, Georgia. On the way he's going to stop off at Savannah for the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the founding of Georgia, but won't be back in the capital until after Thanksgiving. His mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt, will accompany him as well as Secretary Steve Early and others of • the White House atafi .....^ WORK Before lie left for his short vacation, the President had interviews with heads of various government agencies that ]»•*£. to do with putting one million men to work next week. He a instructed the Civil Works Administr tion, the Treasury, the Post Office, and other Department*concerning the payments of wages x in the Civil Works Administration Program. The President described this as the largest disbursing oper tion in the history of the Government. Ail these men will be transferred from the Relief payrolls of the Federal, St-te, and iunicipal Governments. The first payroll on this Civil Works Program will be xsx some twenty- five million dollars — that ought to do everybody a lot of good when it gets into circulation. ABC Are you still interested in the price of r;old? If you are it is just the seme as it was yesterday. Jin fact, it hasnft changed now in three days. This fact is giving rise to rumors that the price is going to be stabilized; in other ords, that stabilization of Uncle Ca3rs dollar is at hand. But no official confirmation of this rumor is offered nsasR ... . - ■ww jwrsr v-'WggB STEEL One industry v.iiich has been operating under the N.R.A. Code professes itself eminently satisfied with the results. That1s the Steel Industry. They have been working for the last few months under a probational code, trying it out to see how it works. And today the President of the Iron and Steel Institute informed tta* President that it had worked so well that they want to extend it. In other words, they want to continue as they have been. And th: t sounds encouraging. JBC ..... ...V - 'T7• -T^Flwv.>-u***■?• v ■* 1 LO^DOi'j The British Parliament was prorogued today and as is usual on such occasions a message fi*om King George was read to the Houses, IiiKe mos kings r messages nowadays^ it said nothing in well chosen words. The principal sentM^ffl^expressed regret that the poor V.orld Economic Conference had come to such an untimely end. It was also stated that the withdrawal of Germany from the Disarmament Conference had put that on the blink likewise. "But11, says his Majesty, "the nations f the world -rust still strive for peace and disarmament11. fell, well, well,4**^ 4 » Mean-bile, "oiks in France are discussing the prospects of cakin' a touch on John Bull, though Johnny has not pail his war 1 ^ t 1 debt to Uncle Sam. In fact, his last Instalment was merely what was cr lied a token oayment, but he seems to have plenty oj dough to to oth- r people. One Paris newspaper wt*ys ohat <*- .iglish A bankers offered a loan to France. I wonder what ^our^ chances would be of making a touch. pip _ /> ; ^at .hole country has been shuddering with horror today over the details of that awful kidnappin- and murder on the coast. The authorities of four California counties were at work last night dragging the bay near San Mateo for the body of young Brooke Hart. One of the grappling hooks fished up a piece of shirt material which is believed to have been worn by the victim. So this encouraged the officers co continue. However, they had to knock off in the middle of thf night hen a v-ind sprang up a no made the water too rough. They’ve been 'reeplnr up the search all day today, but no far * ithout success. Ai ironic addition to the facts in this tragedy is that one of the t o ten ..ho committed the crime has t o children of his own. ’ hen the news of confession became iinown in oan Jose, an infuriated crowd gathered outside the court house. There was talk of lynching. Co the authorities moved the two prisoners across the bay to San Francisco, ’here they are being feyxikE in the stout city prison under a strong guarc;. The officers now claim to have confessions from both tctdnap ? i :. g - 2 IKE these -Lellcu-s. The prosecuting attorney says he is going to bring them to trial immediately and ask for capital punishment even if confessions from both men they can satisfactorily establish the fact that a murder has been committed without producing the body of the dead , kidnapped young Hart they had no intention whatever of returning him alive. They Intended to get the ransom after they had killed their victim. President Koosevelt today sent a telegram conveying his condol nces to the father and mother of the murdered lad. All in all it seems to be the most deliberately cruel young Hart!s body is not found. vith The men are said :o have admitted that hen they crime of this ind since the tragedy in the Lindbergh family. Chicago’s housewives counted themselves in luck today. There is price war between a large chain of stores and the Independent Bakers. Consequently on the banks of Lake iiicnigan you can get a sixteen ounce loaf for a nickel. i£Mm~ BIGAMY Here's a story o** a courageous man. His name is Max Minzer, and he was arrested today on a charge of Bigamy, When the cop got him to the station house, he found the charge was inadequate. Even trigamy would not fit, Mr, Minzer’a ease amounts, on his own admission, so the police say to hexogamy. He had married six women, four of whom lived quite close to each other. To he sure, the gentleman was ungallant enough to have forgotten the names of two of his spouses. The cops told me that the man was hardly the sort you would picture for the marrying type. He was about five feet six inches high, and weighs almost two hundred and fifty pounds. In his choice of wives he was easily satisfied. All he demanded of a gal was that she should have © ^ob and be able to furnish an apartment for him. _______ Six wives! Shades of Brigham Young V,':' ile Henry Horgenthau, Jr., v.as being formally sv/orn in i s Under-Seeretary and Acting Secretary of the Treasury^t/^zkt^ President Roosevelt took advantage of the occasion to say < 1 * honeyed words in praise of the achievements of Mr. Woodin who is on his way toAregain his healthuT^ At the same time. Dr. William I. Myers, once a Professor at Cornell University, was sv/orn in to take Mr. Morgen than1 s former .job as Governor of the Farm Credit Adminis t r a tion. q wa-js*^. ICE All Chicago was obliged practically to slide to work this morning, v.in n the city v.oke up, it found Itself under a thick coating of ice. Bain had xx fallen, and then froze as it lay. The result vr- s that any fine of motor traveling was exceedingly perilous. do natter which iy the car was pointed, it was likely to go in the opposite direction. ! I frrs-vw'l”--- --------------------------- .I’.uyrjp--, - - now tnat bird> Bob Ripley, gets around over this planet! He nas oust sent me a photograph of himself, up to his hnees in a snowdrift on a road in Georgia. But wait a minute, it’s the Georgia you’re probably thinking about/^^ This Georgia is a rovince of Soviet Russia in Asia. Bob doesn’t say where he is going, but he , isn’t on his way. ■ ■> :r. »- ^ apparently, for the moment ^ <x- snowdrift ith a crowd of .entlemen in those typical big fluffy fur Cauc jetsc . c; ..s, -tie;... ting to got in jut. The envelope he sends me tne picture in is addressed to "Tov rich Lo ell — - s, Radio City, Rockefeller Center, He,. York." Mell, 1*11 et Tov. rich Believe-it-or-not- Hi p tc ;.U uiees in th-t ^static snow, is thi^ing of the hot day last Sumner when he played sec rr, base on my ba~l team against the Hei Canaan, Connecticut, oootieggc.s, .h«i the temper ture as one hundred n the shade. Anyhow Ripley's picture fro* that anow bound ig . that I bare l«t reeelTed the full story of the opening of & creet new high oy here pjp ^ y - It is x tne "ienorial .ugh5, ay ne:.r Altoona, extending the fa:uous Horseshoe Curve on the Pennsylvania Railroad, one of the scenic wonders of America. This brings true the dream of the Altoona veterans for a memorial to their huddles who went ’’West” in the great war. That road will undoubtedly bring many more travelers to the Altoona section of Pennsylvania I obt; ined ay information c ncer ting the r^a,d from the Altoona Tribune. • - • . t . . ’ ' * „ ---- ——■— fTT«-JAC'\I-IG It becc.me evident today that the end of prohibition does not. mean an end to hi - j aching. &&$! Four hundred and forty cases of sparkling Burgundy were unloaded from the French liner Paris on to £ truck and sent merrily on their way to the government bonded v, art he a. . h hr 'a as consigned to. an importer under a governmerit bond. A ft . . -t blocks a.-ay from the pier three men jumped on the running board when the driver stopped for lights; one of the men took he driver* s lace ; nd drove of’ ith the truck while the driver hins :lf r•.put into a car ith a bag over his head. He as then ta .en ait for ?■ ritte around town for a couple of hours and later releas d. That*s the story the driver told .hen he walked into the police station. No guards had been assigned to the truck because it was believed that since the end of prohibition nobody would want to hi-jack a consignment of ■ ine. But-that- guess^was-wrong. liBC uomi:-boc.y ac tne 1 /.aidor m-kw !■» the other night khx asked me !Ii no is the vice president?1* Fortunately^ Mr. John Nance Garner of Texas v,as no vv he re in sight and did not hear this charcicteristic Today therefs an article in Collier*s by Bay Tucker which asks, "V.here1 s the Republican Party? V«hat has happened to it? Where is it hiding?*1 Ray Tucker answers his own question ^ ith a reply that a President Hoover, he adds, sat the example for this policy of lying lo and everybody else in the party has folio ed it. adds that few people believe Mr. Hoover will be the next candidate. G^TxYoLURG Dr* aenry Hanson, President of Gettysburg College, informs me tlia t ttie college and the town are getting together Sunday for a celebration of the seventieth anniversary of ikitx what is recognized as one of the finest pieces of prose in the English language - Lincoln*s Gettysburg address - on November 19th. Tne celebr; tion will be held on the spot where that noble . iece of rhetoric aos de_ivered. F'»ur f• mous descendijits of the gre t men of the Civil Y.'ar « ill be there r. ,.g the::; tvill be gr nd; on . * hbrsham Lincoln, grandson of Robert E. L e, and ,^sat gr n.ds n ;f George G. -ieide. In f-' ct, tne A A rInc1pal speaker of the occasion will be Colonel Ulysses .. Grant, the third. And Dr. Lincoln Caswell, who is considered the greatest living impersonator of Father \braham, v;i 1 deliver the Memorable Gettysburg Address.•* L.T.Personal. BINSTEIN ■■ .........' .... SZS But relatively speaking here’s another item rhetoric. It comes from the Christian Register, But the advice comes from no less a celebrity than Dr, Albert Einstein, Somebody asked the great relativitist whether he knew of any formula for succeeding in life, and this is Einstein* s idea on the subject; "If A represents success in life I should say the formula should be A equals X plus Y plus Z. X being work and Y being play," "What, then, is Z?" inquired the audience, "Oh", replied Einstein, "Z is the faculty for keeping your mouth shut," and that's exactly what I’m going to do now for two days. So SO LONG UNTIL MONDAY, Christian Register,