L» T ♦ - SUNOCO, WEDMESDA Y t mi ay pc; | ] o^g # GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: A new international \ ) tonight, £ ^teSE^SBfcTfeight in our own front yard^j Uncle Sam and Japan. That problem of the Japanese who are fishing A. it looks like a tough problem for out Bristol Bay, off the Alaskan Coast, is A *tcp«iT««w diplomats to iron out. fighting between American fishermen and the crews of the Japanese floating canneries In Bristol Bay. This difficulty has been with us for a long time. Fishing in those waters is protected by strict regulations. Those regulations have been observed by our own fishermen. They are to conserve the salmon supply in northern A, A /?5 . waters. The Japanese , anchore^out side the three mile limit, hMizm spread *^heir nets far and wide. The'-e^n^e^uences-are K r i LEAP - 2 0 w&sfrot ail-r tfawy woru Id^dt^xhaustlng the supply of salmon, catching and canning everything in sight. 5> The second-tiH~S'~treen- to ahi>t^off our own fishermen. The quarrel has been under negotiation between Washington and Tokyo for a&m months, with the‘usual tortoise-like speed of diplomatic bargainings. The Japanese Government made a concessioh some time ago, ordered its nationals not to catch any more salmon until the argument had been^thr#^ed out. Did the Japanese weigh anchor and go home? They did not* They stayed right where they were, saying they weren't catching salmon but crabs, The fishermen on the spot have become exasperated with diplomatic delays. While the diploma La Ualfo» ^thelr waters are being fished out. So an urgent radio message was .sent today from an American schooner in Bristol Bay. ^t was sent to Seattle, saying. f,Send rifles and ammunition, our men are going to take this into their own hands." it is understood that twenty-four rifles are being sent with plenty of ammunition. ThiS*^S^eBe sub Ject'^f^-which-th«u message from the captain of a fishing schooner said: "Bearing Sea is covered by Japanese boats and nets. We*ll run fc&nnr v ' Japaiiuu'B ou t our selves.” And he added*-"There are no cufrtett#— n ~"gwd» lyheiT-no—offleialo »re— loekittgaotrb^ itna— r ago making mumtiruus bi ipj ^ hp jiliui o ifl However, the impatient fishermen will have to reckon with the Coast Guard. The officials of that arm says nIf there1 s any shooting to be done, we* 11 do it. We*re watching the situation.” John Bull is going to iron out his difficulties with president Cardenas of Mexico. That** news mm comes to us from New Orleans. His Excellency, Sinclair 0*Malley, British Minister to 'Mexico, landed in that Louisiana port today on his way home to England. And there he told reporters that it will probably be only a matter of tine for Great Britain and Mexico to resume the diplomatic relations that were broken off last month. On that. Minister O’Malley expressed himself xm as in sympathy with the Mexican people. Being named O’Malley, he had reason for that, for said he: "The Mexican people hage the same problem as the Irish,11 And he explained: "That’es the land question, the return of the land to the peasants," Said Minister O’Malley further, "That was the great Irish problem of the Nineteenth Century, but they went about it in a somewhat diflerent way*" CZECH That Czechoslovak problem is still ' Plng volcano in the heart of central Europe. First of ,1> there was the funeral of those two Sudeten Germans, -^-1---- -—tmm- linn. killed last week by Czech police. As might have been expected, Hitler and for a Sudeten anschluz with th< in, the Hitler of Czechoslovakia, x;ne runeral, yA. A 7 treating the dead men as martyrs in a great patriotic cause. Representatives from the German legation at Prague were present. over the graves, the German minister at Prague paid a visit to the Foreign Office. He protested that the German frontier had been violated by Czech airplanes four times in the last twenty-four hours. The report adds that he also urged the withdrawal of those bristling Czechoslovak troops that are. guarding the Republic’s frontier. That’s how it reads in the dispatch from Prague. From Berlin it was reported that Hitler’s minister demanded it was turned into a monster demonstratioi While ir.flamma made A ' A withdrawal of those troops. On that issue president Benes and Premier Hod.za are standing pat. They continue to protect their frontier. CZECH - 2 All this causes grave shakings of the head in London. The Neville Chamberlain government wants the Czechoslovaks to give in. And what's more, they have brought pressure upon the with him an urgent message from the French government. The A gist of it was: "For the sake of peace, withdraw your troops from the border*" With him went the Czechoatfe^slte minister to London, who had stopped in Paris on his way home. in the face of what the official German newspapers are saying about him. They attack him bitterly and describe British policy •S'# French, the allies of the Czechostev«fc ambassador to i’aris made a hurried This attitude of Chamberlain a bit ironic as downright silly. recovery President Roosevelt’ s Recovery Bill^ ________ ___, <2^“' ;'14iap-ing-pregi‘€F5s--t^&* bill to spend three and a quarter billion dollars. Its principal obstacle of the day was Senator Wheeler of Montana, pe is not agin the bill altogether, but he’s agin letting Harry Hopkins have a blank check on that three and a quarter billions. The Montana Senator claims that Congress should specify how that huge sum should be spent. He was provoked to an outburst about things he had heard concerning M kw Hopkins^ Wmsmm nettled by a statement Hopkins ha# made concerning the elections in Iowa, a statement favoring Representative Wearin, who is fighting for the toga of Democratic Senator Gillette. Said 0cna.l^r"Wheeler t - I’l—have^-hijgirrregard KJoisfe —In—eff■ cons^argging, The supporters of the President's Recovery Bill are making hopeful prophecies. They say that the country at large will after Congress has passed the begin to pick up within ninety days bill. Bridges of New Hamoshire on the floor of the Senate, fee received an unexpected and urgent message. Mrs. Bridges at their home in Concord, New Hampshire,had suffered a stroke The Senator immediately was rs rushed to the airport and chartered a special plane. The plane flew at top speed north from Washington. He arrived in Concord shortly after noon. But, too late. Mrs. Bridges handled i¥* tee—eeree-Pfrdr-hemorrnge—ten-eftinut-ey before the i Senator's plane T.V.A. Fireworks flew today in a coramittee room at Washington. It was the opening of that long promised investigation into the T.V.A# The first witness was Dr. Arthur Morgan, whom President Roosevelt discharged, the man whose fight with his fellow directors brought the whole business to a head. The tall, gaunt engineer from Ohio lost no time in firing his ammunition. He dotted the ifs and crossed the t*s on his charges against his fellow directors, Hareourt Morgan and David Lilienthal. First of all, he charged them with collusion, conspiracy and mismanagement. Then he became more explicit and charged them with having falsified a report, the report of their negotiations with the Commonwealth and Southern Utilities Corporation for the pinryne purchase of their properties. Director Lilienthal sat almost at Arthur Morganrs elbow as he listened to these accusations against himself. ^ ^ case of the marble quarries owned X A ^ , jimiitiiljuii biTT* Senator Berry by Senator Berry of Tennessee, put in a claim for five million dollars against the T.V.A. for those quarries. And, said Ex-Chairman Arthur Morgan. t . v . a *, *• 2 t'David Lilienthal and && Harcourt Morgan tried their best to make things easy for Senator Berry by arranging a cpmpromiseA Federal commission which heard^ evidence described the Berry claims as worthless, l Then he came to another point, hgj'eourt Morgan and Lilienthal, he said, had shown favoritism to large interests. That was in the sale of power generated by th.e T.V.A. dams. And he added: "They had failed to protect the rights of the public or of the Tennessee Valley Authority." He also accused Dflvid Lilienthal of having misled President Roosevelt. And he replied to a charge made against him by L^ilienthal and Harcourt Morgan. They had thrown it up to him that he had employed an engineer formerly in the employ of Insull. Arthur Morgan retorted today by pointing out that Lilienthal had employed insullfs former publicity man. One thing, however, he said on the other side of the ledger. He entirely jdsxExMKMxkx absolved both Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan of any suspicion of graft. SIT-DOWN The lawmakers of New Jersey are labor problem. They are considering a bill whose authors it is going to be a model for all other states to copy. They call it the "Little Wagner Act.» And they^w^lfs purpose is to promote amicable relations between capital and labor. The State Senator who introduced it, modestly declares that his measure is the nearest approach to perfection. LetTs see what perfection means to a New Jersey legislator. First of all, it tackles the dynamite question of sit-down strikes, axK& he labels "high.^misdemeanors." Workers who engage in sit-down strikes arw to be punished by prison sentences of fifteen years. 1 On the other hand>3w has res restrictions for employers too. i It enumerates a list of what it calls Jt3Qi "unfair practices. f! i\ Zhxxxxln This includes the hiring of labor spies, the blacklisting of union men and members. An employer who interferes with organizations that his employees belong to is also called un Se '4s—one^rho -declines to recognise - e^liedti ve bargii g*-® discuss the --grievanees of the—men who work - for iiim»-' To see that a11 these rules and regulations are carried out, this New Jersey bill would create a labor board. Three men one representing capital, another from the ranks of labor, the third to be neutral. Three $5,000 jobs. HIMES xiitu-a are loud oil’s and ah’s of astonishment in Father Knickerbocker’s city today. ml iiiii srjy-iy in the wig warns of the braves of Tammany Hall. ^One of the richest, most powerful, most popular of Tammany’s dictrlet leaders was arrested^ M^r~WErar s.ii arrested by racket buster £sai Thomas K, Dewey, whose sensational prosecution of mobsters lead to his election as District Attorney last in the operation of a lottery, specifically, the Numbers racket Hot only Tnmm&ay. Bravee — but—everybody—elr^e—irn N ew Everybody supposed Jimmy Hines, past position. Although he is a Tammany leader he has been high in favor am with the New Deal* At a time when practically all of Tammany was fighting President Roosevelt llLurully as he popularly known, was immune, in an impregnable Jiramy Hines stuck up for him. has been receiving quite a bit of federal patronage in New lark City, ngcrnh's-'-oerea 0ne of the more colorful of the I a mm any Hll^D - £ chiefs. Originally a black smith enc-^f.tlio»» A who toii—smashed his way to the _ top, smashed it with his fists in the days when the fruits of politics went to the brawny. At one time he was known as the power behind the throne in Tammamy^ the man 'who sat at the leaders elbow and told him what to do. wa-e—a ono-1 time friend of tho boep—-barony a— nowii in-^bhe-1 annal e of cri-»»» a<u But eh-e ehtrl t». RUFFALQ The mills ofthe gods of justice have been grinding in Buffalo . One public official after another has faced a jury, and been convicted of graft. Today a former^ieiBtwr-ssoNew Yorl^s city on the lake, joined the list. A jury of the Supreme Court found him guilty on six of eight counts. While he was mayor, Buffalo was building a fifteen million dollar sewer. mayor bribes,from an insurance broker, 7 (P K BOBB When Admiral Byrd was making his first expedition to the South Pole, the public heard -- m Charles V jg Bobb. he was one of the angels who put up part of the funds for A the Byrd Expedition. And. there were many colorful stories about ftOjSL Bobb. Apparently his was a typically glamorous American A career, a man who had raised himself to fame' and riches by in the financial world. A Later on, unf^Ft-xma^ely? the gilt got wiped off the ~B^^L gingerbread. Bobb, the Admiral*s^angel, popped up suddenly and ignominously in the clutches of the law. For the law said that Ifr. Bobb1 s ,i^^^roto?eats in the financial world ' * A consisted of swindling people with phoney mining stock. All this becomes news because Bobb and four others at the bar of the Federal Court in New York^ _'VT&Jlfl their fourth trial^©n'ethe^e^charg*^ ■ a CL t* -^T I If flame There's only one real piece of news about that airplane disaster. The Bureau of Air Comir'J^T'sent four of ±ts^bm&% inspectors^to investigate thl tragedy. So far it seems to be more completely a mystery than any^ri^y^i^M?het^ aviation. -smelderlrng ashco of th» 7f ~/Zue 2a R. 9everel.^&d—leeeer^rao1^re«^^—hut^he-p>i^neirpel-eauee--of—heathy ~^x>~uz * The engineers of United Airlines, after he^ieeia^e e^-*we^-# neither examining the wreck, found that jukile of the plane s two engines *h * was in operation at the moment that it crashed. And there's an interesting bit of aviation news in the June issue of COMMENTATOR Magazine, it comes from the workshop ^ Jh . > of Glenn Martin, H«±* designing an ocean transport larger than k any that has yet been either built or conceived, it will weigh ________ (jr o ——— a hundred and eighteen thousand pounds^and will carry a hundre passengers across the ocean, that is, a hundred in day ‘ j sixty-six with sleeper accommodations^-— >i^2 BICYCLE A lady In Boston, the mother of a fourteen year old boy, had a premonition yesterday, it was a premonition that something was going to happen, presumably something bad. So she took away her young son's bicycle, locked it up so that he couldnH ride It. Two hours later, she received a telephone call. The boy had borrowed the bicycle of one of his chums. Ahd an automobile driver had knocked him down and killed him. - TANKF.R FQLLOVv AIRPLANE fet^gr^rrm foITtlWttd tiy Quni niftwg ^olosian oce.-n going ship. She wasn’t A at sea but in port at Fall River^, Massachusetts. Something blew up aboard an oil tanker. In a few seconds she was wrapped in flames. The force of the explosion h±fi3e ripped out a large section of the tanker’s bottom. Nineteen people were burned,or, injured in other ways. Thirty men devest quickly into the waters of the Fall River Harbor. inr~---Th^P» A, V c v rw fixxiety at Fall River, d&m the tanker 0 J ^ blew up not far from sixty large storage tanks. However, wteen the fire department got the flames under control in an hour. M c C arthy We’ve heard of people drawing up wills which bequeath money to dogs, cats, parrots and other pets. Edgar Bergen, the big throat and gag man, has gone these people one better. In his will, he haS left ten th°USand d°llars to Charlie asked the Actors Fund of America to serve as Charlie’s guardian. The income of that ten thousand dollars tm is to be used to keep it- m — tAf * Charlie in good repair^ But he is not to be kept idle in a glass case* Charlie is to be kept vocal, to be used by ventriloquests of later generations. As Edgar Bergen puts it, he is to be used to perpetuate the art of ventriloquism. ^vwvO UrCct"