L. T. SUNOCO OIL BROADCAST - 5/25/35 Good Evening, Everybody: J"ust at the tiiiie when President Roosevelt*s peace message has got the nations of the world thinking about reducing the size of armies and navies, along comes Japan and throws a monkey wrench into the machinery. (/The Japanese delegate to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva precipitated a dramatic surprise today. He came' before the other delegates demanding not a. decrease but an increase of the Japanese Javy m . wireless report from London informs us that the Japanese delegate,frmmrfcasMx ^r . Cato, demands a new naval treaty to replace sir ned at > ashing ton and London, the^tn which provide that Japan shoulf have three tons of ilavy ior each five to■ \s of Uncle Sam1 s and John Bui 3 ^ generally known as the 5-5-3 ratio. Mr. Sato also reminded the conference that last Decemb r Japaii submitted to the other nations a new proposal for LEAD - 2 naval equality. ^-his proposal has not yet been discussed. Under this plan of Japan's the Mikado would have almost as much^tonnage as John Bull or Uncle Sam. Clever chaps these Japanese. N.5.C. K— 1 NAZI *'e-ve no news of Nazi riots in Germany for some time, out they had one in Brooklyn today. Strictly speaking, it was an anti-Nazi riot. One of Chancellor Hitler,s lieutenants(who is to represent the Nazi government at the World's Fair in Chicago, arrived in Brooklyn from Berlin this morning. Several thousand anti-Hitlerites assembled to -live him a rousing welcome of Bronx cheers and other expressions of animosity. The New York police tell me that many of these would-be demonstrators were Communists. uksjtvj Z- ! However, they were foiled.A'The Hitlerite representative was snaked off the lin.r at Quarantine, taken away in a police launch, and in the smoothest way possible, removed from all danger^ju.. Lhu urt. When the liner docked, the sasafe learned that the German was not aboard. This infuriated the crowd and they rushed the pier. Presently police reserves and the riot SQuacl and mount so police arrived on the scene and there was a merry battle royal, the end of it all, fourteen xsHc so-called Communists were in the coop and five policemen were in the hospital. N.B.C. MORGAN The show put on at Washington by the Senate Committee on ■oanrCj-iig an^ Currency continued today at an even and unexciting pace. People generally seem** to be agreed that the so-called revelations brought out in the testimony are a good deal of much ado about nothing. The New York Evehing Post in an editorial this afternoon declares that the efforts of the Committee*-, counsel so far has resulted in an indictment of the income tax law rather than of J. P* Morgan and Company. There can be little doubt, says the Post, that the injustices and inequalities in that law revealed in these hearings vill lead to changes that will take the burden off the shoulders of the salary earning middle class. __ ___ A A A ^ Fo Then the Non—Ym-b jlvsini-ng Post goes on to point out that A. a /\ A Mthe fairness of the English income tax lav^ which is broadly spread upon the shoulders of rich and poor alike, has been well demonstrated. Particularly by the fact that under the English law Mr. Morgan to // paid an income tax in England in years when heA*fei=ww^pay it here. We learn from Washington that the Chairman of the Ways and Means Corami ttee in the House has ordered an investigation into MORGAN - £ this feature of the law. The idea is to insert in the administra­ tion's big puolic works control bill^ provisions which will correct this condition that permits the exceedingly rich to evade their income taxes when the mere salary earners have to pay eaceii=±it tis o i r v» 1 ye ore , To this end the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committe has appointed a xpa sub committee to make an investigation and discover of plugging uo ^as holes in the income tax law g-ioh 3ip^-e^u_x±i2!rrax±r. One of the witnesses^today was Senator McAdoo of California^ A great deal had been made in the newspapers of the fact that Mr. McAdoo was on the preferred list of the House of Morgan, enabling him to buy securities at a ground floor price. The California Senator said it was perfectly true that he was on the preferred list, and added that so far he had lost several thousand dollars 1 / it* At which the head of the House of Morgan^ f grinned broadly. Another measure which is being considered by the Ways MORGAN - S and Means Coinmi'ttee is a provision in the law to compel full publicity for income tax returns. The notion is that by this © means our multi-millionaires might be shamed into refraining from evading their taxes WOODIK And by the way9 we learn that the Treasury Department has for some time been making a study o/ the income tax law. This was admitted %©ds* 3 r by Secretary of the Treasury Woo din, who was a visitor at the White House^ Mr. Woodin told reporters that this ^the Treasury Department was notrijan«3it^ of the testimony of Mp. 1, ?„ Morgan. And Mr* Woodin told reporters: tTI have thought for some time the income tax law should be improved. I think that within two or three days a statement on that subject may be ft forthcoming from, the Administration. / (L really cheery note 1^M“s{;ruck *s»isij! by the genial , „ Charles M. Schwa^ Chairman of the Bethlehem Steel SoaaaQasafefaMi- K x Ml*» Cch"ah was addressing the annual meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute HExfewx In New York. 0ne thing he said was that conditions are exactly the opposite from what they were a year ago. The trend now, he declared, is definitely upward, whereas at this time last year it was on the down grade. Then he made another important statement which was that the steel Industrygladly accepts President Roosevelt*s proposal for a partnership "between government and business. He believe^ that, if industry and government wpseb into partnership istai President Roosevelt hxU. will use his powers in a sane and constructive manner. A Robert P. Lament, the President of the American Iron and steel Institute, corroborated what ^r. Schwab said, that the industry is fully in sympathy with the purposes of the industrial recovery bill ^ ‘ . = ~ ' which Congress is now considering. A N.B.C. HOV/E HereS something that^s«w*id«. pponiiwin^. Colonel Louis McHenry Hov.'e, the President’s secretary and his life long confidant,, is is going to start a series of weekly broadcasts over the networks of the H.B.C* The first one will be on Sunday, June 4th, at ten T& l *- / P. M,, Eastern Daylight Saving Time. rStm broadcasWwill take the form of interviews. The interviewer will be a well known newspaper progress that has been made during the preceding week at Washington, in the Congress, in the White House, and in all the Departments of the Government. Incidentally, we learn that an average of more than more than ten times as much as the average during previous administrations. Sim A huge volume of these letters ask for infornietion. It is expected that these broadcasts ofi Colonel Howe writer, an old favorite,.Walter Trumbull. A. At these interviews Mr. Howe will inform the nation of the four thousand letters poujj/into the White House every day. This is (jlf-Mruy&jLf-i. will convey much of the that is sought. /> fp STORM 1 Philadelphia today is gradually recovering fromV&s"? storm U ji A^L- fflusu- ^ that struck tue city yesterday evening. Police headquarters in A Philip tell me that four lives were lost^ several people were injures, and the property ftainage will run into the millions. In ^sO/ ft- Camden alon^ the destruction million. The storm. of cyclonic origin, swooped suddenly down on the city from the Ssucfex northwest, just as people were going home from their offices. An observer in the office of the Cun Oil Company on the seventeenth floor of a Philadelphia skyscraper tells me that he could feel the b»4id43S*^rocking^ and from his vantage point he could see heavy cornices torn off by tjie terrific forced of the s*a±e which reached f /V , A O) A velocity of a hundred miles an hour. Street cars were blown off their5tracks, W& traffic was snarled, trees were blown down and for a couple o± hours all Philadelphia and the surrounding country were in a state of chaos. Germantown, Fairmonnt Park, Jyerbrook and other outlying communities yjQ-pQ completely cut off from communication. The electi ic pov.er was STOP! - 2 rol 1 ey, interrupted, there was %&P- telephone service. It was the worst storm that hit Philadelphia in half a century, in fact, in the history of the Philadelphia Weather Bureau, N.B.C • <? : * .qiPAtajr ^ 1*111 glad that storm didn*t turn north from Phi-1^4elphiii- and come roaring across the Jersey flats last evening, or I might have been in for a rough time.*'* When the hurricane was playing havoc in I was only A a few miles away, in a*-tat# American Airways &je# liner, flying down from Providence. We had fair weather until we reached the outskirts of New York City, and then we had to go up above the clouds,and ** crossed New York without being able to see it, plunging down through the mist to Newark ^rv!U>0 Airport.A few minutes later the weatherworse, probably the tail of the storm that romped over Philadelphia. ^ The people of Rhode Island have started an interesting campaign. It is called Renovize Rhode Island, The famous Providence Journal even put out a special supplement in connection with the campaign. The idea^i^^t k"*"~ * y ■— 4 p-p^Qgg are down, both on materials and labor. FOLLOW PHILLY - S But nearly every one thinks tgsfc they are go^ag to go Up rapidly* So the leaders of the Renovize Rhode Island campaign are advocating that every one in that small hut exceedingly vigorous and independent state get busy right now and lake I l advantage of low prices* Renovateji modernize your place, I beautify it. In other words do all the things you want to do right now when prices are as near bottom as they are likely to be for a long time. And in so doing, you will help to bring better times and you will put men back to work. The plan seems to be spreading like wildfire in Rhode Island. " " We all have things we want to do: foundations to buildings in want of repair; that playroom for the children; new equipment for the bathroom; repairs to the heating plant; , gutters and down-spouts; new screens. Which reminds me hat I have promised my wife to buy a new washing mo-chine. So I»m going to see if I can*t switch this Renovize Island campaign to my own locality's Rhode If you ever go to the country districts and get into conversation with some of the dwellers ik&Ksopc therein, you are certain to hear 3&t*e carious bits of lore about the moon. Dr. D. F. Free in n^he Week* s Science11 writes: !,It is probable that more people believe in the effects of the moon on weather than in any other superstition. As a matter of fact there is a certain amount of truth in some of these proverbs. Ihe moon^_ac a matter o^- fimet} is sometimes an indicator of what is going on, but it does not, as some people believe, control the weather.n A Rochester firm that manufactures thermometers and other weather instruments has made a list of some of these lunar weather proverbs. One of them is the idea that moonlight causes heavy frost. The truth is that thejaoonlight is especially bright on clear cloudless nights because the surface of the ground cools off fastest, and it consequently makes the visibility good. Then you»ve heard the proverb that a ring around the moon indicates a storm, bell, this one usually Is.true, because the halo is due to the reflection of moonlight from very fine ice crystals , <? - A UOOTJ - 2 floating high in the air. These crystals are apt to appear in mixes up advance of a x cyclonic storm v;hieh/the hot and cold air way up above the earth. Then there*s another proverb that sharp horns on a nevj moon indicate windy weather, This one is true because these horns or cusps are seen most clearly when the air is amt; most clear. And that happens when strong winds are blowing away the dust. But the experts tell us there Is no truth at all in the superstition that the upward or down ward turn of the horns of the moon indicate dry or rainy weather. Also the ancient belief that the changes of the moon fix the best dates for planting seeds and harvesting crops* is just an old wive * s tale. ^ Week*s Science, TOM MOONEY Ellery Walter, the roving reporter who Is on his way around the world again, wires me from San Francisco that the city at the Golden Gate is all agog over the Tom Mooney affair. The newspapers up and down the JlA. Pacific Coast are carrying stream^is®* headlines about every angle of the case, legal and otherwise. Young men and women wearing arm bands on which are the words nWe Want Mooney Released” are mingling with the crowds everywhere in San Francisco and An the ferryboats crossing the bay. No matter which side you are on, says Ellery Walter, you can get into a strong argument, a violent argument with a native son at the drop of a hat, if you mention Tom Mooney. L.T.- Personal Correspondence I ran across an interesting paragraph in the Literary Digest which gives a sidelight on life in Russia. In the land of the Soviet Union It is possible to get a permit to buy a railroad ticket without standing inline. One man who-had bought such a permit pushed his way to the window ahead of a long row of permit others. When the others protested he said: "But I have a^jdbakKi to buy a ticket without standing in line." And the reply they made to him was: "So have the rest of us." Then explained: A "This is the line for persons who have permits to buy tickets without standing In line." FIGHT Here*o a sporting item that comes, from LondO'.n. A ^/ireless report we have Just received informs us. that the British capital will welcome a return match between Kid Chocolate> the featherweight boxing champion from Cuba, and ex-Seaman Watson, whom he defeated recently at Madison Square Garden, The English believe that countrymen the better man of the two. As a matter of fact, one American, no less a celebrity than Jack Dempsey himself, has expressed the opinion that if the fight at Madison Square Garden had gone twenty rounds, the Britisher would have taken the Cuban into camp. .fi^show their a second bout between these two^virtuosos woull Well, we shall see when they meet again in London. N.B.C CHICAGO ;; They had a big dress rehearsal £n Chicago today. It v/as at the Y;orId1 s ^air grounds. The army of workers which has been organized to handle the millions of people who are expected at the Fair were put through their paces and drilled to be ready for the opening on Saturday morning. Incidentally/ this is one World’s Fair that, apparently, will be opened on schedule. We hear from Chicago that everything is ready. All over the hundreds of acres covered by the Fair. r y -A EUDIMG - DELAWARE F-D.Memory of Wilmington, North Carolina, writes me that he has been reading that invaluable reference book TEE WORLD ALMANAC. There he discovers that Wilmington, Delaware. has 53,£97 men and 53,300 womens three more women than men. Mr* Memory wants to know how he can find out who the three extra women are. If they happen to be listening in I hope they will write to him and help him out. And solong until tomorrow.