L, T. December 6, 1938. Good Evening, Everybody: Gur old friend tne sales tax is with us again. It comes in President Hoover^ message, the last message of his regime. As the Philadelphia Public Ledger points out, the last time Mr. Hoover made this prouosal it as rejected by Congress. Instead of the sales tax our legislators imposed a lot of so-c-:lled nuisance taxes, including drastic levies affecting the automotive industry. Well, these so-called nuisance taxes were not as profitable as expected. Instead they proved to be, as the President observes nin many v/ays unjust and discriminatory." So once again and with a good deal more force, Mr. Hoover proposes a general manufacturer's sales tax. This time opinion in Washington holds that Congress will accept it. This manufacturer's sales tax »hould incittAe foods and perhans some grades of clothing. #r UXUtxLJ _ £ Mr. Hoover also urges that as one of the first moves to hasten recovery the banking system of the United States needs to be widely reformed. Also, our governmental machinery is sorely in need of being reorganized. More than fifty Federal bureaus and departments should be consolidated. Then too, the President* recommends another eleven per cent^ pay cut for all Federal employes earning more than a thousand a year. He urges that Uncle SamTs appropriations be reduced by eight hundred and thirty million dollars. He also urges that the money spent on public works ihmii'hl be cut from seven hundred and seventeen odd million dollars to some four hundred and forty-three million. And furthermore, Mr. Hoover V-Vrt-O, points out thu+ many abuses in excessive payments to veterans mangy* The movement for repeal is by no means over in this Lai^e Duck session of Congress* {^.Ithouph Speaker GarnerJs resolution was defeated yesterday in the HouseAmendment offered by Senator Glass of Virginia was laid before the Senate today, and promptly sent to a committee. This amendment which was defeated at the last session, proposes a substitute for the 18th amendment. Meanwhile, as the New York Sun informs us, a bill for £.75Abeer jg drafted by Chairman Collier of the Ways and Means Committee of the House, will be taken up tomorrow. To pass this it will not be necessary for the wets to have a two-thirds majority. A bare majority can enact it. There will be hearings before the House of Representatives on Mr. Collier's bill beginning tomorrow. The first witnesses heard will be brought in by Secretary of the Treasury, Mills. aUUui^n ‘i'he Washington hunger marchers succeeded in doing one thing today. They got the goat of Vice-president Curtis. A delegation of the marchers by arrangement saw the Vice-president. They started their address by telling Big Chief Charlie that they hadn11 mats- much confidence in him. A story in the New York world Telegram relates that Mr. Curtis rose from his chair with a fiery red face and saids nLook here now, no fefleetioQS on me or I'll put you out." well, the air became calmer sufficiently to allow the delegation t > say what it had to say. Subsequently Mr. Curtis laid the hunger marcher's demands before the Senate. Some three thousand of them marched on the Capitol, as the report says, under a flag of truce. They were led by a girl and hedged in by a strong force of police. Furthermore, a tear gas squad of the Police Department marched right along with the demonstrators, As result no disturbance occurred. A The only bit of drama was the encounter with the Vice-president. £1 XlJ-i The new German parliament opened today with cheers r and a denunciation of President von Hindenburg. An eighty-two year old general, one of Hitlers lieutenants, £!3±ib:xk delivered the opening address. In it he said that history one day ..Quid curse President von Hindenburg for driving the country into Bolshevism. Later on he referred to Adolf Hitler as the greatest living German and the only nan who can save the nation. The Hitlerites cheered and the Communists booed. no casualties. g^> » M * W| sunn Nothing has aroused so much comment in a long time all over the country, in fact all over the world, as the matter of the passport of Dr. Albert Einstein. Soon after the news was published of Dr. Einstein having been cross-questioned by Uncle Sam’s Consul General in Berlin, the Einstein residence was deluged with cables from America, It seems that kaiteA had made up his mind to cancel A* A his engagements in the United States. Frau Einstein told the reporters: "Vie were quite determined last night to turn our backs on America forever." nut at any rate, the hubbub is all eke over now. The U. S. Consul General in Berlin announced that the visa had been granted. The Einsteins announced they would sail December TROTSKY A / » Leon Trotsky, the once great Red leader of Russia, is again being whisked across the continent of In m "11 nufi In f^in "In Europe as though he were a of dynamite. The former chief of the Red army observed that the mobilization of the fuxt d. * ' oolice to escort him through Europe was "out of all A proportion to the danger I represent." OL. — The bewhiskered Communist chief is sore at the 'V newspapers. He says Journalists hsve mistreated him. He declared to correspondents: "You have made me say things aeosw said against Joseph Stalin' MAIL a mail robbery which recalls the famous exploit of the late Gerald Chapman was pulled off in Chicago today. Five masked bandits ambushed one of Uncle Sam.1 s mail trucks ^ Jr near the main post office 1bfi-'fh*4TDgo-» They escaped with booty " 7 valued at anywhere between five hundred thousand and two million dollars. Almost in the same breath comes the news that two men are under arrest in Boston who are believed to have pulled off a theft of half a million dollars worth of U. S. Treasury bonds in New York last JieesESffifesp. The police claim that the two men'they arrested have been identified by New York bank officials A murder story that comes from Los Angeles reads like the beginning of a novel by E. Philips Oppenheim. A hundred and <£> ten foot yacht bound on a cruise around the world, was tied up at ^ong Beach, California. It seems to have been the yacht of Captain Walter Wanderwell, who^described as a globe trotter. £© }!&***-< ^Several friends with whom he was discussing a round-the-world cruise were aboard the yacht last night. While they were all in the dining salon the captain was called away by a man who A appeared at a screened porthole and asked to speak to him. Captain Wanderwell, as he himself, was gone some while. When his companions went to look for him they found him in his cabin shot in the back. His right hand covered his face, and from his left hand dangled a bunch of keys. The investigation into his murder developed several interesting facts, -^t turns out that on the records of the United States Secret Service his real name is Valerian Johannes TZzc <C Tieczynski. Agents of the Department of Justice declare that during the war he was arrested and imprisoned in Georgia as a *=m mOiCiUlull 2 / German spy. Later on in 19£5 he and his wife were arrested charged with illegally wearing army uniforms. The police of Long Beach, California, promptly gathered in everybody ho was aboard the yacht at the time when the so-called Captain VVanderwell was murdered. All those people who were contemplating a round’-the—worid cruise with the colorful captain are now being held by the Long material witnesses. Among them are Lord Edward Eugene Montague of London, and fourteen other people from various parts of the United States. This looks like a mystery that bids fair to make interesting reading in your favorite newspaper for sometime to come. SHAUKAT ALl Mahatma Gandhi has sent out an appeal from jail -- an appeal to all India to make a huge demonstration December 18th, The day he wants devoted to the cause of raising the position of the outcasts, the Untouchabl-.- of India, When I was in India some years ago, the non-cooperation movement had just been started -- by Gandhi, the Hindu, and Shaukat All, the Mohammedan, Since then they have fallen out, Gandhi is still in jail, and Maulana Shaukat All is here in America, enjoying the luxury of the Waldorf-Astoria, In his oriental robes he looks for all the world like a giant Moslem potentate from Central Asia, While Gandhi is on the outs with the British, Shaukat AXi now speaks In praise of British rule in India, Shaukat Ali is a giant, and Gandhi a little man. In India they used to say that Shaukat Ali often carried Gandhi around in his pocket. i, I^-tJ i.j ^ U . Have you ever had the experience of receiving a bill from the Telephone Company running into three figures sot for a long distance call to Seattle, that you do not remember having had? And have you then discovered that the __ .-oUt call was put in over your telephone all right enough^by one of your guests^ There are people who when they are full /— the joy of life, think nothing of using their host*s phone to call up the girl friend or the boy friend <bn the other side of the continent. Well, a Mew York: gentleman has mx invented a device which he calls the &SDcax& Savacall. He asked that his name should not Be made public. The Mew York World Telegram describes him as Mr. Montgomery Fitzurse Cadwallader. Said Jff/j f /^^^Cadwallader: ,!I give a party in my apartment Thanksgiving mg' night and somebody makes for fifty-three dolla a call to Chicago. 01 gewalt. So I invent a gadget. Look!" K I |t§i I 1 _ g if"" r j I r': i I ]/\J L mj -^ Mr, Montgomery Fitzurse Cadwallader produced a metal. ^.“TUU f i r s t h o it, zn e A a i, plug with a key. By inserting the plug 'aial telephone, and turning the kttSE key it’s impossible to dial any call, although incoming calls can be received. 1^- can oe receivea, y yk: ?Jt<L Mr, Montgomery Fitzurse Cadwallader said: .*fcfct^teRfc A (cut do’v.n telephone bills wonderful, especially some friends I got in Greenwich Village _ „_____________________ aj} <U. T^ l I :■ a.w-i.4.^w 2 RETAKE ml *r . Montgoiiiftry Fitzurse Cadwallader produced a metal plug v.'ith a key. By inserting the plugfirst hol^. the A / dial telephone, and turning the ksSf key itfs impossible to dial any call, although incoming cauls can be received. a* v^c Mr. Montgomery Fitzurse Cadwallader said: cut down telephone bills wonderful, especially some friends /? tfri. I got in Greenwich Village^ LKV.IS V Sinclair Lewis, author of '"Main Street” and several other famous novels, is learning to ski in the Austrian alps. The news came out today on account of a report that Red Lewis was in bed with pneumonia, in. London. This report was contradicted. The sight of Red Lewis on skis is one that invites a good deal of excitement in the literary world. -I I^UU.L i .4. J. XXj-lj My friend, ^a^or Jimmie Doolittle, seems to have a charmed life. This afternoon*s reports relate that he was only slightly bruised when his plane crashed in a Louisiana swamp. In facted, he piloted a pirogue through the swamps to get his machine out, A pirogue, as you may know, is a long narrow flat-bottomed boat which is used for navigating through marshes. n K—, ^ ^ -tebL -- GULP >/INE Here’s a story that undoubtedly Is being played up big In the newspapers of the West, I mean out beyond the plains. The Philadelphia Bulletin announces today that the famous Mine With the Iron Door has been found. For a century prospectors have been looking for it. A prospector named Charles McGhee, and his brother, prospecting in the Santa Catalina mountains in Arizona, found the lost Mine With <3 the Iron Door at the head of the canyon del Ora, near Sombrero Peak. They found the entrance hidden by great rocks. But when these were taken away they came upon an iron door and then a vein, rich with gold. When I worked in the gold mines of the West as a youngster, Arizona* s lost Mine With the Iron Door was already almost a part of mining mythology. L.XJ.U1.L.U An important convention of Protestant Churches is beinff held in Indianapolis, ixx&hax It is the convention of the federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. There are delegates from not less than tKKHiiciiK twenty-six denominations representing one hundred and thirty-five thousand churches, with a total membership of twenty-two millions. At the opening of the meeting the convention was addressed by Bishop Francis J. McConnell. The substancex of his speech was a plea for a united church. The Bishop added: ,!You can’t get union among churches simply by passing resolutions about it. You have to think together and live together in terms of Christian felowship.” The famous Dr. B. Parks Cadman also addressed the convention A story of derring-do at sea comes from no less a ship than the great new Italian liner Conte di Savoia, one of the largevessels airoar and the sistership of the Rex. J story in the New fork World Telegram describes voyage to America, tome nine hundred miles east of Ambrose Lightship, five o*clock on a stormy afternoon, all the lights suddenly went out. The entire passenger list was plunged into the wildest excitement. Everybody was wondering what on earth, or rather, what on the sea, had happened. generator had cracked off and fallen into the^Through the opening the water was pouring in at a great rate. The Captain called for volunteers to go down was a short stocky forty-five year old steward named Gennaro Amatruda. Seventy-five feet over that ship's side he dropped A new liner a severe test on her maiden It turned out that a large valve of the port gs into hole. The hero of the occasion A and there he worked for an hour with great waves breaking i over him, while he tried to plug that hole. On the inside of the vessel engineers were working in three feet of water with no more light than was provided by flashlights. After ***-oo^7 an hour’s work Amatruda and the men helping him came back had i i on deck. Xhey^put a plug in the hole, drawn a mat over it and lashed it with great cables. This work they had done under ! 1 ; the utmost difficulty with the sea constantly hurling great 1 masses of water at them. When Gennaro Amatruda and his mates got back on i i- | deck and the lights came jssep on all over the ship once more. 11 a cheer went up from everybody on board, Amatruda was embraced by Captain Lena, the commanding officer of the Conti d* l Savoia. And the repairs were done in rime for a great celebration at the Captain's dinner that evening. There has been so much interesting late news tonight that I don’t like to refer to anything even, a £ew hours old. But here’s one a special to the New York Herald-Tribune, you may have overlooked. It sounds like a tall story but isn’t. At Spring Valley, New York, a deer, a wild buck from the forest, jumped through a window of the office of the Rockland County Reader, a weekly newspaper. Then it proceeded to upset galleys of type, rolls of news print, and /JlJLo. play*# havoc with editorial and business offices. The Chief of Police finally shot it. The deer had a lot of fun in that newspaper office^ but stayed a bit too long. Instead of remaining to be shot he should have kicked up his heels, jumped back through the window and salch what I’m saying now. So Long Until Tomorrow.