budget Two astonishing and contrasting stories appear in the news today. Leths taKe the optimistic one first. There are more people working sl in the United States than ever before. Thirty-eight million, one hundred and forty-five thousand persons are profitably employed. And that doesnTt include agriculture or any of the government projects*or the relief bureau. The statement comes from a Republican, Senator Vandenburg of Michigan, once a candidate for the presidential nomination. He says among other things that business and industry have set a million and a half people to work in the last ninety days. He also says that Perkins1® Department of Labor has exaggerated by five million the number of unemployed in the country. ,rIncrease in employment,,! says the Michigan Senator, "is none of the government * s doing, it's due to business." Now that looks pretty rosy. But hereTs another side of the picture. The White House issued a statement today which lends color to the report that President Roosevelt is worried, worried over Uncle Sski’s deficit, worried over the I oa income tax returns, worried over the problem of finding money Car^y on BUDGET - 2 the prodigious activities of the federal government . So this afternoon he called a conference of his principal advisors. It’s no secret that Uncle Sam is going to be shy three billion dollars this fiscal year. The money has got to be raised somehow. The terrific taxes on the high income brackets are bringing in less and less. They say It is the lavf of diminishing returns at work. Senator LaFollette says he believes smaller incomes have got to have their taxes raised, there1s no getting around it. But the most enthusias­ tic estimates admit that this will only bring in two hundred million dollars a year. A special message from the President, to Congress, is due this week on the serious subject of budget and relief. That was the subject of this afternoon* s conference at the White House The statement made by the White House spokesman informs us that Mr. Roosevelt's message will recommend some slashing, drastic economies. GERMAHX A surprise note Iran Berlin! Hitherto we've heard, repeatedly tha^Fuehrer Hitler would have nothing to do with any world economic conference. But today the tune is different. So said the Fuehrer to George Lansbury, leader of the British Labor Party. "Germany is willing to be represented at a conference, to tale part in any united effort to establish economic cooperation and mutual understanding if Mr. Roosevelt or the head of some other great state takes the lead." The British Labor Leader made this announcement in Berlin late this afternoon, apparently with the full concent of the Mazi regime. ii Incidentally, he said thatjPresiHent Rooseveltfs name was specifically used in his conversation with "America is the logical nation to take the lead in calling such A a conference because she is above the battle. Furtnermore, President. Roosevelt has shown interest in international cooperation by his economic policy in South America.t! ^3a._.Uuit' ■&Svk£jis\ — i — "I would like Mr. Roosevelt to call the conference but I J am not sure he will." -*'T i'-aa-ningtor. Ball Park this afternoon a promising young pitcr.er nasea franklin Delano Roosevelt wound up and heaved a osseoS-ii. 2 Ji tlie diamond • In other words the President of the United States opened the 1937 season with the Senators. The opposing tear* was led by that other promising youngste”, Cornelius Molillicuddy, Conny Mack, beginning his fifty-fourth year in the national gaue. ^fce Phila. Athletics won 4 to 3 In ten innings. Outside of Washington probably the most ceremonious fea­ ture of the day in the ball park of the bean and the con. For it was Patriot*s Bay in Boston. The Boston Bees and the Phila­ delphia Fillies started their season, with a double header, -“nu again Philadelphis won both games £ to 1 and 1 to 0. It was certainly a Philacelphis day. Also this was the day of the For­ tieth Boston Marathon. All U.S.A. hopes were on Johnnie , the crack distance leper of Arlington, a top heavy favorxue• sot 2z of those £6 aiies Kelly let the field of a hundred a no sixty- nine runners. But he had set too hard a pace. At tne end of tre twenty-sixth he sen an to wobble and the crown went to "alter Young of Vert no, In the Province of Cue tec. ~o to Canaca belongs BASEBALL - 2 the honor of winning the fortieth tvventy-six-and-one-quarter- mile*-Mar a tnon. If you insist on being precise^ twenty—six miles, three hundred and eighty-five yards, all the way from Kopkinton to Exeter Street in Boston^s Back Bay district. 0 £~i W - s -'ssarHiable sign of the times when the departure 01 a syaip-iony orciiestra becomes a public civic occasion. Thousands oT arie Quaker City’s music loversin top hats, ermine and evening clothes, will march to the Broad Street station tonight. The occasion is the departure of the Philadelphia Orchestra on its concert tour of thirteen thousand miles from coast to coast. The ten car special will carry a hundred men and four hundred women musicians. I can remember the _time when a symphony orchestra"cou^d iravel its head off and not a public official would have paid the slightest attention. rne -TSTrry of the ziurter in the studio, vas & short- -’Ted -' 3 —te say they have the Ban. who killed the rventy-iiTe year rid girl violinist wit’ a claw h&mer. 'he 5ev lork officer who broke the case is deputy Chief Inspector Hclemott, the sane kike Mcfermott who, as Detective-Sergeant broke the Snyter—Iray case, found the little greenslip of paper which sent June kray ana kuth Snyder to the chair. Ike nan the police arrested was, as foreshadowed in earlier accounts of the surfer, Mischa Ross, a booking agent, the iiscarieu fiancef of Tania LeBova, or Julia Kussenbaun as her real nans was. The police say that Eoss was under the in­ fluence of lithe r when they arrested his at Mount a inhale, kev York, reporters describe bin as being still Jittery when he was brought to Sew York City. There seeits to be sose discrepancy as one wnether confessef or not* The sa-t who ought to know, Xnspewto* Me.*.----, says: r?e have no confession; we don’t need one; re’we pies sircunstantial evidence to h' it nit without «n> s „e»es... murdkk - X On the other hand, when the police pulled Ross out of bed at two o’clock this morning, he is reported to have said; "I know what you want me for.” He is also reported to have told the police that he had struck the young violinist while in the throes of an alcholic fury, that she had hit him first, and that he had retaliated. He did not know that she had. died. He was brought to New York still not knowing. When he finally learned he collapsed. By a coincidence, that studio killing came to light on the eightieth birthday of a man who has been defense counsel in most of the spectacular murder cases of the century* Yes, Clarence Darrow. One statement that he made in the course of his birthday interview was that,nAll killers are unbalanced. They are defective,” he said, ’’either temporarily, at the time of the killing, or continually. Defectives should be confined, kept in a place where they can do no harm, ^hey should not be treated in the spirit of hatred, punishment, revenge.” ”No killer ever acted of his own free will,” says Clarence Darrow, "even though the law holds that he does. Theie is no - 5 sue'- thing £3 free-vili,1* he aczei. irmi2_ is & l L j ihe r==hLt of circus stances and emrironneni. -he sjst-es Thich ; *ill exacts an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life, is barbaric.p ouch is the belief of the fax--as defense lawyer this century has seen. STRIKE /: There111 be no strike against General Motors in the U.S.A, Thctrs tne reply of the Automobile Workers Union to the demands of the Canadian strikers. But the Union on the United States side of the line will give their Canadian fellow workers all the financial support they need.^ As a matter of fact,, that demand of the Canadians put the C.I*Q. leaders in rather a tough spot. On the one hand they naturally want the Oshawa branch of the Union to win. But having just signed an agreement with General Motors, they would have awkward questions and charges to answer if they called a strike #n the United States side and thus went back on their agreement so soon after signing it. On another side of the industrial £e battlefront, the war is on between the Union and Henry ford. Xhe United Automobile Workers have filed charges 6.t the Detroit office of tht; National Labor Relations Board. They accuse Henry Ford of discrimination against Onion men and intimidation of his workers. The news was President of the U. a .Yv, A. made public t Union men and intimit ublic b$ Homer Martin, SPAIN A few minutes from now the peninsula of Spain will become an island, xnat doesn't mean inxgMEgz any geographical upheaval is going to take place. It will be a sort of metaphorical island a piece of land surrounded entirely not by water* but ^by^aZsi^and ^ Ax battleships.^ That international blockade begins at seven o'clock seven P.M. Eastern Standard Time. The warshijjs of France* Germany Great Britain and Italy will be watching the coast line. French and British men-o-war will patrol those parts of the shore controlled by the Nationalists. On the other hand* the war craf- of Puce Mussolini and Fuehrer Hitler will watch the waterfronts still in the hands of the >• Then of course Spain also has considerable land frontier#. So the French border will be watched by a hundred and thirty observers of k&x neutral nations. A hundred British watchers will be on the lookout for Portugal. There'll be ten at Gibraltar, and others at different spots. Altogether, there will be more than a thousand people watching Spain on the qui vive to see that not so much as a volunteer nor a bullet enter that war torn land. SPAIN - 2 Twenty-seven nations of Europe are cooperating. It’s a curious departure in history, the first concentrated effort to forcibly confine a war inside the borders of the"country where The patrolling warships will closely scrutinize all vessels approaching the Spanish coast. 3 They cannot board snips sailing under the S^ars and Stripes or those of any other nations outside of Europe. Eut if they suspect that-any ship is frying false colors, they will make a close check-up. it started. The fate that depends upon the success or failure of this plan is tremendous. If it succeeds, possibly that civil war may remain a civil wrar. and the two warring forces can tear each other to pieces without foreign let or hindrance until one or the other or both become exhausted. If it fails, there is strong probability war W’hich already has been called "a little world war", may develop into a repetition of Nineteen Fourteen, with practically the same allignment. The british House of Commons is not altogether Fourteen, SPAlfl - S reconciled to this international blockade. Members of the government, especially Foreign Secretary Eden, had to stand up under volleys of questions in the House this afternoon. The questions, which were of a highly quizzical nature, some of them scornful, came from Conservatives and opposition alike. The fcortuous path which the Baldwin government is treading in this JL' labyrinthin situation, by no means pleases all of England. Cabinet Ministers on the .job either ignored the questions that were asked or replied with weasel words. On the Spanish battlefronts there were rumors that Bilbao would fall to the Rebels before long. The Basque President is reported to have said: "All is lost unless England changes her attitude about the Rebel naval blockade at Bilbao. England's refusal to let food ships enter the harbor has demoralized our of Bilbao that he had five hundred pieces of artillery ready to shell the city. COhQijATIOIj Itts not only in England, that the coronation of King George the Sixth is causing excitement. There’s a terrific to-do today in Vvashington. The archives are being searched, the traditions of the U.S.A, are being lnvestig,ated, the Protocol Bureau of the StS-ld Department is scratching its collective head over a weighty n ue s 11 on ? -i Ay Tvi,.i i-iT^ representatives of Uncle Sam wear knee breeches, Two of the magnifieoes who will represent us at that mighty.bltt^ have flatly said ’’No,’1 General John J. Pershing A' and Admiral Hugh Hodman will not be seen in public in any satin 5 plus fours. They will wear their uniform. Black Jack Pershing knows full well that when he’s all togged up in his regalia as a 'ut 6L General of the United States Army, he most imposing no matter where tsasi. when. And Admiral Rodman, whose flagship led the Sixth Battle Squadron in the North Sea during the World War, will appear in the full dress apparel of an American naval officer of flag rank, When the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt represented Uncle Sam at the funeral of King Edward the Seventh, the same COROftATIQK - £ 1 i question arose. T.R. said he’d be everlastingly gall-dinged and horn-swoggled if anybody caught him without long pants in public. President Woodrow Wilson set quite a sartorial precedent when he showed up at the Paris Peace Conference with one trouser cuff turned up and the other down. Latter day envoys are not so insistant on the he-man stuff. Sir Robert Bingham - I mean the Honorable Robert Worth Bingham, Envoy Extraordinary and Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the Court of St.James^, has let it be known that he will be "chawmed” to appear in the fancy costume prescribed for British courtiers, vwoe. the Honorable James W. Gerard, one time Ambassador to Berlin, one time Justice of the New York Supreme Court, and a formidable patron of the arts. It used to be a saying on Broadway that Jimmy Gerard saw more musical shows than the critics. GLJl It seems to be settled, therefore, that Arabassa^P^r Bingham and Ex-Ambassador Gerard will adorn* the occasion with their lower limbs encased in black knee breeches, black buckles at the knees, black silk full fashioned stockings, and black I