L.T. SUIOCO - AUGUST PB, 1955 Good Evening, Everybody:- A dramatic manhunt is going on all up and doi/vn the Atlantic Coast from Maine to the Virginia capes* The crack vessels of Uncle Sam’s Coast Guard are'^ii^^Tfche hunt by special request of President Roosevelt himself* Three New York boys, neighbors of the President in Manhattan, set forth eight days ago in a twenty-eight foot sloop from Barnegat, New Jersey, for Nantucket, Massachusetts. Since then nothing has been either seen or heard of them. Their parents communicated with the Preddent, who sent instructions to Rear Admiral Hamlet of the Coast Guard. So the Admiral ordered the entire North Atihantic patrol to quarter the ocean and try to find the missing young mariners or some trace of them A force of eight destroyers, six seaplanes, ten army planes, and ten Coast Guard cutters started the search n this morning -£ v^Ar 0 MO LEY G Professor Raymond Moley, so-called head of President | Roosevelt1s brain trust, is certainly holding the center of the political stage today. In fact his resignation as Assistant Secretary of State has set tongues wagging not only in political circles but everywhere^) Incidentally the news that Vincent Astor is about to become a magazine publisher with Dr. Moley as editor-in-chief has whetted the curiosity of the entire country. Both Dr. Moley and Mr. Astor^were at much pains today to deny the general interpretation that is being put on Dr. MoleyT s resignation. ^ Folks in Washington won*t hear of any other explanation save that the head ofihe brain trust quit because he had stepped on too many ofxicial and political toes, particularly those of his chief. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, j Coincident with this explanation is the theory that Vincent Astor, who Is a kinsman of President Roosevelt, moles : - 2 devised this magazine Job with the tacit cooperation of the President to ease ih® out the head of the brain trust in the most polite way. ^ Sewe^sat^'fliere are times when even the v/isest of ?/iseacres can be wrong. It is a fact that when Dr. Moley took the Job of Assistant Secretary of State it was announced that he was only doing it for a short while. Furthermore Mr. As tor produced documentary proof that the plans for the new magazine, a political weekly, had been under consideration even before Franklin D. Roosevelt ascended the throne. Among the other backers and contributing editors to the new magazine are W. Averill Harriman of the railroad Harriaan family and his sister Mrs. Charles Carey Rumsey. EALCOHI There’s another feather in the cap of Italian aviation today, I mean the record established by Lieutenant "ito Pale on i when he flew upside down for three hours six minutes and thirty-nine seconds at Chicago, Lieutenant Falconi's name sounds as though it were the English "falcon" with an "i" added on to it, and he certainly lived up to the name. Because he established: that record with his right shoulder strap broken and only one strap between him and death. An hour after his flight began the right strap broke and threw him half out of the cockpit. That threw all the weight on his left shoulder and the wind blew his goggles away. Gee! Husalem! Nevertheless eh continued his flight, and he has only a slight ache in his left shoulder in consequence. That thriller was by way of prologue to the National Air Races to be held in Chicago the latter part of this week, NBC TNSULL Well, Uncle Sam Is definitely going to make another stab at l^±iig±iig=^acj(r Samuel Insull once the multi-millionaire utilit^sing of Chicago and now an exile. in The court of appeals, the highest tribunal in Ureece, is going to hear a formal application from the United States Government for the arrest of Mr. Insull so that the State of Illinois may put him on trial on charges connected with the collapse of the gigantic fabric he erected out there — the collapse which ruined thousands of investors. At present Mr. Instill is in a nursing home near Athens. His friends day the aged ex-King of Chicago is really ill. GENEVA The latest prank of the German ^azis was to kidnap a citizen of Czecho—Slovakia^ a citizen of whom they did not approve, while he was on Swiss territory. At any rate, that is the subject of a complaint lodged in Berlin today by the government of Switzerland. The Swiss have asked the Hitler government to make an investigation and a formal apology. Also to release the Czecho-Slovakian who was kidnapped. - CLrvw) NBC WEATHER The Weather Bureau has some rather ominous information for us hut let's hope it doe^n^t mean the coming of another storm like last week's. What is described as a tropical disturbance of slight intensity has been observed some one hundred and fifty miles west of Bermuda. It seems to be moving northeast. . Also there's an unsettled condition in the Gulf of Mexico and that one is working northward with its center somewhere Qbout three hundred miles southeast of Brownsville, Texas. v f ^ NBC I )AJ ■ C4/^r>ryUU<* 7 y.AM-Q) \d&sfr m^J2-Ad ^J^\Jt y^i^€- v yhy. ^g>7;<?'33. ___ ■HHppgBE^ ...... HARHIMAM 1HTR01; I have an interesting surprise for you tonight. My sponsor, the ouh Oil ompany, is exceedingly anxious to do everything it can to help out the National Recovery Act. So I have been asked to yield a few moments of my time several evenings to distinguished guests. Of course I am glad to do this. Tonight, Mr, W, Averill Harriman, Chairman of the President's Emergency Reemployment Campaign for the State of New York is here with me. As you probably know, Mr. Ear riman is Chaitman of the Board of the Union Pacific Railroad and other important corporations. Incidentally, he is one of the backers and editors of that new magazine whose preliminary announcement has caused such a furor in political circles today *»- the one to be edited by Professor Raymond Moley and published by Mr, Vine6*4 Astor. Mr. Harriman, how about the President's program? m. harriman We have embarked on a great adventure under the inspiration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. It Is a thrilling adventure, an adventure that could only have been conceived by an American, in America. It is an adventure that could only be carried to success in America. Generosity, as well as adventure, has been £st the moving quality of our nation. It is not necessary to review the countless evidences we have given of this^but never before in our history have we undertaken a project that combines generosity with sound, business. What we have set out to do is sound business. The whole concept of the N.R.A. is to put men and women back to work on a business basis: to end competition in the lowering of wages, to give employment with a living wage, and through increase in buying power that must come as a result of this, to speed recovery. Much has been said about boycott and duress. They have no place in what we are doing. Last night you heard General Johnson* s ringing words — "I want to say to you in all earnestness and solemnity that if there is even a shadow of such a thing it would spoil this whole endeavor »n Let me add to this that we must keep away from hatreds* Bitterness will not help us towards our objective. Earnest, sympathetic, enlightened cooperation will. baseball Ht-J. oo-v RXxi o_ t^C^r ^fcr “lj c*" -te-eJb. The crucial part of the baseball season is Just about to begin. The major leagues are coming down the home stretch in the race for the pennant. They have just five weeks to go. Harold Totten, the Chicago baseball writer who is the N.B.C.ts expert on the game, tells me that every day raises the possibility of new champions in both leagues, allhough the Washington Senators in the American and the New York .&JU Yankees in the National have comfortable leagita# over their A_ A nearest rivals. Of course the biggest upset of the season so far is the collapse of the Yank#«» who are^behind the^Qiato^ by eight games. This has been a sad shock to Yankee rooters. But Totten says^ Babe Ruth and his team mates are still t^yf-^S,. to catch up with Washington In the National League the surprise of the year has been the performance of the New York Giants. They are leading the Boston Braves by six games . H^obody, at the beginning of the season, expected the Braves to get even that close to first place. As a matter of fact they are coming out like a Carribeon hurricane. However, they have only a slight edge on the Chicago Cubs, last year’s pennant winners, — I mean not including today's scores. The Braves have made a splendid fight, and plenty of people even outside of Boston are rooting for theip. Hut the Cubs have one advantage. They are going to finish the season •g* with a long stay on their home grounds, and they are always notoriously successful there. Meanwhile the Pittsburgh Pirates and the St. Louis Cardinals are still in the race, although they don't seem to be able to forge ahead of either the (Jubs or the nraves. In the American League the race is virtually a two- club affair. The Cleveland Indians are rated as having only a remote outside chance. The Senators are hitting well, playing steady ball, end getting good pitching; and though the Yankees have not given up the fight they will have to play miraculous ball to cop the pennant. ROOSEVELT £ I u? wix*. ja****i?'** ^Visitor 4** the Summer White House today, waa Montague Norman, governor of the Bank of England. Mr. Norman first had lunch in New Xork with Governor Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Many of the big shots in the banking world were present, as well as Secretary of the Treasury Woodin. After the luncheon Mr. Norman and Mr. Harrison motored to Hyde Park. It is rumored that Mr* Norman's xgbbce visit to the United States has been undertaken on his own initiative. It has given rise to a recurrence of the gossip that Uncle Sam may set up a fund to stabilize the dollar, but those close to the President deny this. It was made emphatic at Hyde Park that Mr. Roosevelt has in no way changed his policy of letting the dollar shift for itself so far as foreign exchange is concerned. NBC WHEAT As we v/ere taught in school, one man* s meat is another man’s poison, and some sad news from Argentina sounds like good news for wheat growers in the U.S.A. The Department of Agriculture has reports from South America that the wheat in crop in the Argentine is x^t a bad way. They have had a long drought down there and the crops are threatened v/ith destruction by grasshoppers. -^11 of which should put pothe price of grain here. CANADA Even though affairs in Canada are on the mend just as they are in the U.s.A. the government of the Province of Quebec Intends to continue its policy of sending jobless people and their families to work vacant farm lands. This we learn from the Colonization Department of the Canadian National Railways. Not only the provincial government but the city fathers of various municipalities and the Dominion government are collaborating in this scheme. Already two hundred and fifty families have been placed on vacant farm land in Quebec this month. They were recruited from the various more, crowded centers of population. Each family receives a grant of six hundred dollars, five hundred down and the balance next year. Furthermore, each settler is given about a hundred acres valued at thirty dollars an acre. This price is to be repaid by the colonists as they are able. It sounds like an admirable scheme. NBC PAINT Here1s another pronimciamento from the Cosmeticians Association of America. If you think the dear girls have been putting too much paint on their faces, ;just wait until next year, heavier and thicker lipstick and rouge are to be the motto of Miss and Mrs. America in the coming season. So that if you see something walking down the street which looks like i T~ a newly painted Canadian letterbox,^don*t be startled. It may be your wife. NIGHT SHIRT The following etory comes from an exalted ananias of the tall story club — but it is not a tall one. It is related to me loy Mr. John Knox Smith of Austin, Texas, and is t'or cnoe a true tale, A man who lived on the edge of Austin keeps chickens. One night he heard noises coming from his hen house and decided to investigate. Now this man happens to he one of the few remaining folk who still stick to the old fashioned night shirt. So out he went into the night breeze, night shirt tails flapping around his legs, snot gun in hand and followed by his dog. As he approached the hen house, he crouched low to the ground so that whoever was in the chicken house might not see him. He stopped about seven yards away from the chicken house, xaxuit raised the double barrelled shot gun to his shoulders and started to call out to the chicken thief. Just as he did so, the dog, who had crept under his master's night shirt, licked his master's thigh. It scared the man so much that he left go with both barrels and killed twelve chickens, I make a free present of this story to the manufacturers pafamas. 1 j .T. Personal gTLJOtJg Ail English physician has some encouraging information for parents. The message is ^Don1! be alarmed if your children are subject to bilious attacks. It may be a sign of intellectual and artistic ability — of later habits of hard work and ultimate success. Dr. E. E. Free in ± "The Week*s Science" observes that most of the children who are subject to these bilious attacks, follow a definite type — a type of exceptional activity and with L , an unusual'sensitive nervous system. People of this type also tend to be activei mentally, to work or play intensely and to accomplish much more than the average individual in intellectual or artistic directions. Alas, my father tells me that I was an unusually healthy chi Id^ and never bilious j ^ -2 Week*s Science.