L.T, - SUNOCO. TUESDAY. APRIL £0. 1957. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Today was big money day - on both sides of theocean. It was "Budget Day'1 in both the United States and Great Britain. President Roosevelt sent his figures to Congress; Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain recited his in the House of Commons. In both cases giant outlays are shown, big deficits, the need of raising money - with emphasis on taxes. In each case there1s a demand for cash. ^President Roosevelt asks Congress for a billion, five hundred million for relief. This is only part of the yearly outlay by government, a fraction of wha^s handed out. That total is 7 billion this year. [The British budget calls for a total to be spent of four billion, three hundred million dollars. Most of our money goes to relief — unemployment. In his message to Congress, the President made this remark: "The principal danger to civilization lies in those nations which, largely because of an armament race, are headed directly toward bankruptcy." That points significantly to the British budget. The greater part of the more than four billion dollars demanded BUDGET - £ by the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be devoted to Britain1! giant rearmament program, which is scheduled to cost seven and a half billion dollars in five years. ^President Roosevelt reveals that the deficits the government faces are greater than the figures he predicted * some time ago. For the fiscal year that ends on July First, weTll have a deficit of two billion and a halfThatfs three hundred million dollars more than the President thought it would be, when he made a statement in January. For the next fiscal year, ending in July, Nineteen Thirty-Eight, the deficit will be four hundred and eighteen million dollars. It had been expected that there would be no deficit for this period, the budget virtually balanced - thatfs what the President thought in J anuary. What about the British deficit? Neville Chamberlain announced that, in spite of the terrific rearmament expense, London’s deficit will be less than nine million dollars. How do they .keep the figures in the red so low? BUDGET ~ 3 ST 1 ihat takes us to taxation, President Roosevelt announce^ that a congressional study of the tax problem is being made* and * S he give a hint tnat more taxes be1'necessary, But in ^ A with England , itfs no hint. Itfs a declarati©n^^tx± the most drastic emphasis. Devilie Chamberlain today told the House of Commons that Englishmen would be taxed to the savage limit, he waxed ironic as he said: nIt has been suggested that I tax bachelors, bicycles, cats, dogs, debutantes, fictilM^ loud speakers, and other things. None of thesp are of any use to me.H What is of use to him? The answer is - income tax. Sag To meet the stupendous expenditures for rearmament, today »s TS/vJfct^ budget calls for an increase of income tax to a basic rate of twenty—five per cent. Shat means A/ basic, minimum9 everyone to have a quarter of his income taken by A l A urnment. Of course the rate increases for large incomes - jumps high. sky high. President Roosevelt today called for a cutting of expend!tures, go easy on the spending. Re took a stand against BUDGET - 4 throwing new oceans of money Into relief. Retrench, and balance the budget, was the word. In the British budget proceedings. there was little mention of economy and spend, build sea fleets and sky costs. The fleets slogan was - rearm , no matter what it by Congress The presidential message was received.with f\ almost.Esaafcwiwa applause. The New Deal leaders of course shouted. "Hurrahl" But so also did the Conservatives. Republicans, such as Senator McNary and Senator Vandenburg, nodded their approval. What they liked was the retrenchment part of it, the economy. less spending. There was general applause too in the British House of Commons. There the M*P.s shouted;-"Hear, hear!" It isn’t pleasant to have an income tax with a minimum rate of twenty—five oer cent — but all England is resigned to rearmament, the necessity of having stupendous fleets of ships and planes. SPAIN ii There’s one important ship in the news tonight, called by the romantic name SEVEN SEAS SPRAY* I don’t know whether that craft has navigated in the flying foam of all the oceans, but it certainly did a bit of navigation to.day that has a point in the affairs of the nations* The SEVEN SEAS SPRAY did the thing that’s been bitterly argued about for days — it took a cargo of food into the starving left wing port of Bilbao* That harbour was supposed to be blocaded by the insurgent 1 i !! | g ii i fleet — a blockade which London has half recognized amid growls of protest* Nevertheless the British food-ship steamed Into the Bilbao-roa&stead today without mishap* So maybe the rebel blockade isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be# was convoyed by left wing fighting ships* She didn’t strike any mines either, which seems to indicate that entrance to Bilbao is not Has dangerously cut off by explosive charges** as General Franco has been claiming* On the other side of the picture we find Franco warships capturing a merchant vessel bound for the .left wingers of I 1 11 II IS Northern Spain The rebels claim it was loaded with munitions jt&F? * - SPAIN #£> Perhaps it was from Mexico. And Norway reports that one of its ships has been captured by insurgent vessels off Gibraltar. So tonight the Spanish headline is maritime, ships and harbours -- while the international arms blockade of the Spanish Coast has begun its coast patrol. At the Yankee Stadium today Hew York and Washington uei e battling through, the innings of a tough, game. Wotables and celebrities were there — Mayor La Guardia, Jud&e Landis, President harridge of the American League. They were in the middle of the band playing, and the flag raising and all the other festivities. Off in the left-field stands sat a hero of times gone by. Little attention was paid to him, none of the cheers were roared his way — a forgotten hero. From this note of sentiment you may have guessed who he was. Yes, Babe Ruth. Does the forgotten hero ever rise out of his obscurity. and shine again — for a brief glorious instant? R ow ^ keh could that happen there at the Yankee Stadium? The Babe wasn*t in the game. How cjev he shine? A A In the fourth inning Crosetti the flashy Hew York shortstop .as at bat. across the plate came the ball and Crosetti took a vicious cut at it. He hit it Lard, but not suite true. The ball went streaming, a siazming dri've but it was foul. You know those foul drives into the stands that seem as if they might kill somebody and ±kaa have been known to Lean people ucm^erously? it v/as one of tiiera. It went sraack into a box. There somebody caught it. And who was it? The Babe himself. The crowd, afraid that somebody might be hit, saw the old, Bambimo rise with a flash of his old fielding glory. He dragged the ball down — the great gwjcyffiidr&iB.jE out-fielder once more. And forty-five thousand fans broke into a roar of acclaim. Once more Babe Ruth got a cheer. The cheer of the day. That only whetted the Babe’s appetite for more. Later in the game a Washington hitter drove a high foul his way. Be leaned so far out of the box trying to catch it that he collided with the Yankee fielder trying to make the catch*—' -— r <---- - a ----- So^JU< , S'-to 2-. / * HORHSBY Roger Hornsby says his legs are feeling pretty good - and legs are as important in baseball as they are in a musical show, Hornsby symbolizes the improvement of his under—pinnings with the figure eighty-eight. Ho, he hasnft §**%- eighty-eight legs - that would make him almost a centipede. The hefty right-hand hitter, once king of batsmen, has set his ambition - bo make eighty-eight hits this year. Times were when Roger Hornsby would end the season hitting around four hundred: and eighty-eight bingles would look m&s&bp small to him. But last year, Hornsby sat most of the time on bench,* as manager of the St.Louis Browns. He played only in a fe¥f games, and made only a couple of hits all season. He still had the eye to see the ball and the shoulders to sock it - it was his legs that had slowed up, and he felt like an elephant going around the bases. Now he feels new life in his knees and angles, so he expects to make eighty-eight hits this year. Why that particular figure? Hornsby needs just that many , three people just eighty-eight, to bring his lifetime total up to thousand. % wants to end his baseball career by^having say - "There's Hornsby who made three thousand hitsl” ROBBERS In Chicago? George Kusan was alive - that's the point of tills story. ue was shot in a hold-up, but had not been killed - just wounded. So there was no capital crime. No murder charge against the robbers — two of them. Assault and robber^y was all. But they didn't know - they were in the dark. Scene in t£Se station house £ the detectives questioning two stick-up men, had them under arrest, had the goods on them Grudgingly, reluctantly, they confessed what they could not deny - the robbery and shooting. I'hey had to admit the truth - though they didn't know. Was it murder? They were in the dark. Then came the falsehood, the devastating lie, as a detective spoke*- S*. said to the prisoners with cold menace that A Kusan ha£ died.Tflhe two men turned pale. They saw before them the murder charge, the certainty of doom. They "^flbke down with, shattering desoair — "We're through, we're cooked." And they began to talk — they might as well admit everytning. They confessed to murder, real murder — nothing false or fictitious about thi^ihey told how they had committed a number of robberies \ -fix* in one of which they killed Edward Newroski - shot.down while ROBBERS - 2 resisting the stick-up. So the detective.* s lie 'b«ss£P^is truth. A F^lse murder brought real murder to light. ^ oJl£*h*l¥ SCANDALS k beauty testified in a New York court today, a beauty one time the "Scandals." her testimony was financial. Miss Dorothy Savine of Broadway glow and glitter, suing a rich man of St.Louis - for a business deal. The lady, so lovely In the chorus, declares that he engaged her as his financial advisor - at three hundred dollars a month. Do you think that a pretty head cannot contain complexities about stocks and bonds? Do you think that baby blue eyes were not made to scan Wall Street charts and figure? If so, lend an ear to this testimony by the former beauty of the "Scandals." "He said he wanted me to watch conditions in Wall Street. He gave me a hundred dollars In advance. Then he went to Europe." So the Broadway beauty was afe to be a bewitching wizard of Wall Street - but the rich man of St.Louis denies all. CAKRIh NATION In the middle west, a shadow must be walking tonight, a little, sharp-faced woman in old-fashioned clothes - and she carries a hatchet. les, the shade of Carrie Nation, and she smiled, must have olx 23 l ±± x , with a pious smile^upon .the Reverend William x A Dray - and his brick. Because hefs the male. "Carrie Nation" of The Reverend Dray, fifty-nine year old minister of Vesta, Arkansas, is a crusader against Demon Rum. instead of chopping up a saloon with a hatchet as Carrie Nation'did, he tossed a brick through the front plate glass window, of one of those dens of iniquity, with a bar and a brass rail,.customers and a bartender. The Reverend Dray was arreste^ The judge asked him why he heaved the brick, to which the response was a severe scolding The judge pronounced sentence. And here’s where the smile S Carrie Nation’s face must turn into a scowl. Because the judge sentenced the Reverend Dray to pay a hundred dollars and costs. Total - a hundred and fifteen dollars and CARRIE. NATION - 2 seventy-five cents. He refused to pay, whereupon the judge ordered him to jail to serve out the fine at the rate of seventy-five cents a day - meaning five months in the calaboose. So the shade of Carrie Nation must indeed be frowning, with that most righteous and formidable frown of hers DIVIDE Today near Kingston, Mew York, an armed posse^ stalked through the gates of Heaven and invaded the Promised Land. They were looking for Father Divine, the negro cult leader,who calls himself "God*1 - and is worshipped by numerous followers^ both black and 'white, as a divinity. The‘report was that the self-styled diety had taken refuge in that up-state heaven. They didn’t find him, although they searcned high and_low^- also with caution. The posse^consisted of state troopers and deputy sheriffs, twenty- five strong. They needed both strength and caution after what had happened in Harlem. In the Harlem Heaven -"God” was among his angels. Meaning, Father Divine was haranguing twenty-five hundfed of his believers into a wild frenzy. The big meeting hall was throbbing -gjp with^feyv&n, of excitement. The stocky little brown cult leader sixt^^va? shrieking his heavenly message. He was up in the A spirits, as Harlem expresses it. The frennied fervor of religion was at its height in the Kingdom*-when in the twelfth row a man arose - a white man and in his hand he held a paper. He walked up the aisle to the DIVINE - £ dark divinity, and on the pulpit he slapped - a summons, a document in a lawsuit. Instantly , pandemonium broke loose. With a yell. Father Divine grabbed the process server by the shoulders. His angels shrieked in wild bedlam: "He’s fighting Godi" they screamed. And they surged forward in a maddening, storming mob. The process server disappeared under a storm of blows in a wild melee. It took a squad of police to clear the hall. And the process server went to the hospital with broken ribs and a stab wound - dangerously if not fatally, hurt. Today the police held three of the angels accused of being foremost in the attack. One of them, a dusky seraph who bears the name of "Happy Boy Job", although Job was renowned mostly for his trials and tribulations. The police meanwhile are looking for Divine, the divinity who presides over that Heaven in which they raise so much - Cain. t-m.