TOWNSEND \ \The T0®118®1^ iaveetigation today producad moatly figuraB, but then that *8 what the congressional investigation committee wants to look into - the finances of the Old Age Pension Plan* j Todays witness was the same as yesterday - R. E. Clements, the Townsend organisaer who recently quit the job. The first figure ♦ that the proceedings brought forth was the total amount taken in by the Townsend!tes since January, nineteen thirty-four, a little over two years* It^s a few dollars short of nine hundred and fifty-two thousand* During the last three months of Nineteen Thirty-Five, they took in three hundred and fifty thousand* One thing the Committee is keen about is - how much of the cash had the chiefe of the Organisation been getting* Witness Clements testified that as second ii^sommand to Dr* Townsend, he received twelve thousand five hundred and eighty five dollars in Nineteen Thirty-five. That was partly salary from the organization and partly income from the Townsend Weekly and the Prosperity Publishing Company which publishes the weekly* Evidently fireworks were not so much intamn in evidence. The queetion and answer routine so far has been largely arithemetio reciting figures and adding them up* DOUGLAS The news from Washington tonight brings ua a report of & man and a 3ob, a personality and an appointment * this is regarded as a sign of the times, a political portent. First, let's look at the man. - and then at the job. He is Lel4 Douglas. His grandfather was Canadian - Scot,, who wrote and taught history and made a fortune in copper* Lewis Douglas* father was Hawhide Jim, a pioneer of Arizona, a miner, founder of the town of Douglas, Arizona. Lewis Douglas himself went from college to the World War and brought back a Belgian Croix De Guerre. He taught history at Amherst and cheraisty at Tarrytown, and then went baok to Arizona and became a miner and a grower of citrus fruits. He went, to congress and ssrved three terms. The richest man in the lower house, he always rode to and from his office on a bicycle. what? He wanted to balance the budget. Be was prealdent Roosevelt'e director of Budget in the early days of ths Hsw Daal. His slogan was — soonomy. He saidl DOUGLAS •Don't let's pay out any more than ve take In.* In other word* - balance# Sc, it was a sign of the times and a poltical portent «• in those early New Deal days when Douglas resigned. It was a sign *■ that the era of spending and giant appropriations had arrived# Douglas, the balancer, stepped out, and became an open critic of the New Deal - in ppblic opposition. Yet he and President Roosevelt remained firm friends# That6s the man# Now, what about the job^ which today's report says he is likely to getT The same sort of 5ob*They say that President Roosevelt will appoint lews Douglas to work with the Byrd Committee cutting down expenses* He is still Douglas the balancer, still the champion of keeping the budget in the black# So there's the sign and the portent. Douglas back working on the budget would mean - turn to economy, a new departure from the policy of spending# aentt-on cf-sweep*tBk«»—or-dera f-ro® d»wi»=*talt#.. I^M^prokAkly •wsfceuly ,-twtt wpass«»-£ riCCVi.H -hen a man's early life and success were in mining tlie quest for metals in remote, exotic places lie is indeed qualified to sit in the company with Explorers. 'Today's new member of America’s famous scientific society known as The Explorers Club adventured for years in remote parts of Australia and the Ear East. China and the South Seas, He won a fortune out. of the ores that are buried in the earth. And finally - - be became president of the United States. Today in Hew York, at the Waldorf-Astoria, Herbert Hoover was inducted as a life member of that distinguished body the Explorers Club, the twenty-ninth life membership if has ever granted flood AF".u,rweh Las. nigh j and .oday I drove through an immense area affected by the recent floods -- along the valleys of the Si^^quehaima, oi-enango, and Tioughnioga Hivers. It'^s amazing how quickly things drop hack to normal after a flood. None of the roads are tied up now. In fact they are all in good shape except for a few bumps here and there, bumps such as you find on all roads after the break-up of cold weather. In Binghamton, the lower part of the city where the water swept through the Polish residential section, every family has a rowboat. Thus they are always ready for high water when the Shenango starts doing a fandango. After each great flood the Red Cross helps them put their houses in shape. They re—decorate, and even get new carpets. But the main part a the city wasn’t affected. The village of Marathon between David Harum’s home town of Homer, and Binghampton with its quaint Three Bears Inn, looks as though it has been visited by cyclone, earthquake ana flood. As I earns through a few hours ago, tributaries of the FLCCr AJT£rC,L\rT1?>. - 2 Tioughnioga were still flowing across the roa* in a few places, hut traffic is uninterrupted. You can go .anywhere without fear- of washouts or typhoid or anything else. MAXWELL ANDERSON Some year* ago two men on the editorial etaff of the old New York World Collaborated and wrote a play* One was Lawrence Stallings, the other was Maxwell Anderson* The result was — "What Price Gloryl" And over night two unknown editorial writers were catapulted from nowhere to the forefront of American Drama* Their war play was one of the phenomenal successes of the American stage Z^Many a brilliant production came out of the old New York World* It was famous for tlf^at* Of all - I suppose the me it spectacular success was "What Price Glory#* 1 Now - t^ke the fact the owner of the World was the legended Joseph Pulitzer, and that he founded the Pulitzer prizes* These are yearly awards to the best novel, historfr, newspaper story, play, and so on* For years the Pulitzer prizes have been something of an additional insitution* Last year the Pulitzer award for the best play aroused a storm of dicussion* The leading pundits of the drama disagreed with the selection* The dramatic critics declared that there were better plays than the one that got the prize* Following that 9 UAXWELL ANDERSON 2— the theatre experts founded an award of their own - a prise granted by the New York Dramac Critice Circle. They don't say they did this, because of any disatiefaction with the selection of the Pulitser prize winners. But there it is, a rival award. Today the critics annouced their first selection for the dramatic honors of the year. Vho gets it? The play is "Winterset” • Scene - the lower east side of New York. The scenes blaze with pity, indignation and contempt. The moral - that you've got to live by compromise. Who is the author? That's the irony of it. He is a great craggy fellow with a heavy mustach, son of a roving baptist preacher in the middle west. He was instructor of English at Stanford University. Then he became a newspaper man. His name is Maxwell Anderson - one of the two editorial writers of the Old New York World, who leaped from obscur^ I to glory by writing - "What Price Glory!" BATTLESHIP FO li LQ h I'iAViiL^ TREATY Hej'e's a familiar question. Do you believe in reincarnation? I mean - the reincarnation of battleships. You can five the answer, when you've heard the story. Thirty-seven years ago, the pride of the United States Navy was - the CHICAGO. In those days-armored warships were made of woodj with iron plates plastered pver the wooden hull. But not the CHICAGO. She was launched in Eighteen Ninety-Nine* a revolu­ tionary experiment, built entirely of steel. When it was found that she Could navigate as well as the others, or better - that changed naval construction over night. The old time warships with steel—plated-on-wood were about as. effective as so many rowboats^ against an all-steel, monster. For many a year now, the CHICAGO has been obsolete. She has been lying iale and useless in Pearl harbor, far off Hawaii. Just lying there,®.* rusting. What's the fate of a played out ship like that? Commonly,.to be sold for H junk. Tnat's the predestined fate of the CHICAQO. Who buys the junk? Foreign nations frequently, especially the Japanese. So a report is that the CHICAGO is likely to be sold to Japan, as scrap metal. The BATTLESHIP FOLLOW .NAVAL TRKATY - £ Japanese way is to resmelt junk iron, and build new ships. So there's the prospect that the one time pride of the United States Navy , first American all-steel warship, may die the death of at junk, and be reborn as a powerful new ultra-modern battleship of Japan. That would be a strange incarnationl SPIES Note—tbi s «an-ho 1-4 -«Qvor-4f _a«c essary. Sometimes you can scan a couple of dry looking figures, and see in them all sorts of beguiling romanance* For example, here1* a bit of statistical information we have from England. It comes along with those myriads of numbers that tell of London's new giant arm&nent program, the countless Pounds Sterling being spent on new war ships, guns and fighting planes. The bit of bookkeeping that catches the eye gives us two figures. One is eight hundred thousand dollars. That much was spent last year on the British Secret Serfrioe -Secret agents, espinoptge • The second figure is a million and a quarter dollars. That's how much they will spend this coming year on the British spy system. Nearly double. A third of thersecret service total will be devoted to countei espionage - hunting down foreign secret agents, spying out the spies. The stupendous new war machine Britian is building is c ^ t et teohnioal Foreign governments are eager ™ s information about just what the British war enginee ax turning out. They'll pay good prices for the secret SPIES - 2 dope. And then, England is an easy country for spies. You can land on its shores with a minimum of formality. You can 1 ive there without al 1 the checking, registration and watching that goes on in eontinental countries. And the spies love it* ,P ■ Eng 1 ishmen recently woke up to the secret menace in ft their midst when the German agent. Dr* Gortz, was convicted of gathering data about the new sky fleet Britain is building. Tie Doctor, just to keep the spy story up to the romantic standard, worked with a beautiful blonde woman spy. The British secret service has found that twenty per cent of the foreign spies are lovely ladies. They are used to decoy young British officers. Soft smiles and bright glances are the lure in getting technical facts about British gun building, warship engineering and his majestie’s new great sky armada. So today - London't vast military budget doubles last year’s appropriation for the secret service - in spy hunt spy grand national ^here's a rising vogue for horse raoAng in this country. Hundreds of thousands of people think they know more or less about odds, and take pencil and paper and racing forms and figure the chances on the track. Well, I»d like for some of these experts to tell me how they would calculate the odds on this story, how they'd have figured the chance of events happening as they did* I'll bet they'd answer — a million to one, the long shot of long shots. Over in England the Grand National is the classic of the steeplechases. The track at Aintree is the most difficult in all racing. The course runs four and one half miles over flat and dreary country near Liverpool. It h^s some thirty jumps, the hedges and ditches for the riders to vault. It isn't/best place in the world to see a raoe^ Only a quarter of mile of the track Is visible from the grand stands. The crowd rarely sees the tumbling of horses and riders, the spills, the nishaps. Last yearr=*h*» ™nnir« of th« Grand national produced a sensation in the world of sport. Two hwrsww Golden Miller,Atbe favorite^ on w om GRAICP i.AfrlCLAL - 2 big money was bet, Reynold s+mm • * ^ just a rank outsider, a hopeless long-shot. The epitome of the enexpected happened. Golden Kill ei -ell, tossed his rider, and was immediately out of the race. There seemed small reason for it. The explanation was given —« that the flashlight of news photographers frightened the horse, and he stumbled. J remember how closely we studied the motion picture of the fall at Movie tone as Ed Thorgergson did his sports description. And the race was won by the long shot, the outsider -- Reynold stown. That was dramatic enough, but there was still more to it, Reynold stown’ s owner was an Irish horseman, Major ho el Furlong, That’s xrt a snappy name for a horse racer - - Furlong, And who was Reynold stown ’ s rider? Well, the Major's son, a former officer in his Majesties Lancers needed money. He had to have some cash to get married. The prize money of twenty- five thousand dollars would come in mighty handy. So he climbed into the saddle as a gentleman joukey and rode Reynold stown to victory. "hen presumably the Major’s son got married. Now for the news today. This year's grand national was run. once more Golden Miller was entered - the odds on favorite. Once more Major Furlong put Reynold stown in the steeplechase. SHAH) HATIC8AX* — And again Reynolds town was a long shot. Let*e keep on duplicating laet year*e story. One© more Golden Miller stuabled and fell, and again Reynoldetown galloped in to ▼ictory. Thie tiae the lucky long-shot was ridden by a professional rider. Jockey Walwinl Win is right. Haae your odds — for having racing history repeat itself ao precisely in two consecutive years. MAI1*' C 1 V.;AR 7CLLCV. STO^Y OP FAR};' HORSE5 How for sense more horse flesh. But it’s not a story of this year or last year. It takes us back to Nineteen Nineteen and Twenty. In those two years, Man 0 * War, reckoned the greatest of all *bang tails,’ ’started’ in twenty-one races and won twonty of thera. This weekend at Lexington, Kentucky, they’re celebrating the nineteenth birthday of Man o ’War - retired to the stud these many years. He is exercised eight miles every day, is weighed in every month, gets a physical examination every four months. The old horse is insured for half a million dollars. Man 0’War’s worth more than that to Uncle Will, his old negro groom* Uncle Will, like a regular Old Black Joe, looks at the great racer and sighs;- ’’Boss - dat suah am de finest anirnule in de whole wide world." And — SO LONG UNTIL MONDAY, ^ 7 3/7