L^^SUMOCO - THURSDAY, Jvtnft 14t 1334 GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY:- The talk around the NBC Studios here tonight Is all about the big fight. Vice Presidents are asking studio attendants;- *Vho do you think111 win?” Announcers are asking each other In their best high hat diction;- "Will Camera bear down on Baer — or will Baer corner Camera?" Is that the way Announcers speak^Jimmie? the news JIICIY:- No! That1 s the wa^eommentators speakl # L.T.:- Welly letfs not turn this broadcast into a fight. That wold be good — James V/allington versus Lowell Thomas, for the jawbone chamolonshin I JI^r.IY:- Ko, Lowell, I prefer something peaceful, like being timekeeper. h.T.;- All right, Jimmie. Letfs turn the news tonight into a boxing bout, and you ring the bell for the end of each round. JIMMY I- Okay. Here goes (BELL) Round Onel STKfclj Let's lead with a haymaker - something tho-t-' -wil-l—be more important than th^fight. ihe fight returns will be interesting, A J but the returns from Pittsburgh will mean a lot more. Iwo hundred steel workers, representing a hundred thousand members of their union, are deciding the question, "To strike or not to strike•,l If the answer isi,yes/' it may throw four hundred thousand men out of work, l say deliberately 11 may throw", although the Onion leaders say they definitely can call out four hundred thousand. But the steel employers scoff at the idea. They declare that the majority, the rank and file of the workers, don't want to stritce, ca^t afford to strike. Of course that remains to be seen. President Roosevelts four points, by which he hoped to bring about a settlement, have not made much of a hit with the Union men. 4n fact. Michael Tighe, their seventy-two year old m leader, declared: "The President's suggestion is a Chinese puzzle to me, I see nothing about the recognition of the Union in it,n Mr. Roosevelt's idea is that he should be authorized to I establish mediation boards in various regions of the country. It would be the Job of these boards, in case of labor disputes, to ___~.... STEEL -2 conduct elections among employees, bargaining. for the purpose of collective Michael Tighe, the President of the Union, is an aged, chubby, round-faced, amiable individual. He is known as nHonest Miken. And many even among his opponents say that he has well earned his nickname. He's a Conservative. Nevertheless, the attitude of most of the steel operators is summed up by the words of John Girdler, Chairman of the Republic Steel Corporation. Said he: "I have a little farm with some apple trees and potato plants on it. Before I'll spend the rest of my life dealing with Bill Green, Mike Tighe and John Lewis, 1*11 retire to that farm.*' I congratulate Mr. Girdler on his farm. But unless he gets a better break from the weather than we've been getting this year, he would find that retiring to his apple trees and potato C(_ plants might not be such^topian existence as he seems to imagine. if Yes, Mr. Girdler,^tent caterpillars have left any of your apple trees undamaged, you're lucky. (Bell) i !j il : { Jimmy Wallington: Round two. INCOluS TAX Now a snappy left jab, Th© Commissioner of Internal Revenue lands one right on the nose of ns income tax payers. Ke says you have the June fifteenth instalment of your income tax in the office of your nearest collector before midnight tomorrow# In previous administrations, the lords of the income tax were a bit more considerate# Your tax was paid on time provided the money was in the mail before midnight of the fifteenth# ££-you-yut yeur money in tho mail it'wao- regar&od-ao being in Uncle Samia-guatody* But itfs different now* .i:Vw»y-4?vrrt+. d Pont. n#--P4-ftn an w£. tho goTornmont» If your letter should get held up in the mails, well that*w just too bad for you. You will have to pay a penalty# So the Income Tax Commissioner is leading on points and the income tax payer is on the verge of a knock­ out j as usual. (Bell) Jimmy**-Round Three CHANGE tl I Vs the old lack of training, gasping and groggy. y The United States Treasury* is -- from a shortage of change. That doesn’t mean there is a shortage of money, hut there is a shortage of dimes, quarters and dollars. Somebody went to the mint in Philadelphia the other day and asked for three hundred and nine-two thousand dollars’ worth of quarters. 'That he wanted with them, I don’t know. Then Uncle Sam’s boys went to look in the vault, lo and beholdl they found only one thousand dollar’s worth of quarters] A*though One question is:- "Are peopie hoarding quarters?" The Treasury officials say "No." In fact, they say the shortage is a hopeful symptom. It means that business, particularly small business, is picking up so much that there’s been an unexpected demand for small change. Well, any CHANGE -2 ohange is welcome, espeoially a change from the depression* (Bell) Jimmy: Round four MUSSOLINI Now for some showmanship. It takes showmanship to run off any big event, be it a fight or a frolic — or a grand affair of statecraft. There as showmanship, loads of it at the Versailles fen Peace Conference. There* s showmanship when the King of England opens Parliament, or when Stalin, lord of the Reds, opens a conference of the communist party in Moscow, and it*s the showmanship angle that*s mighty interesthg in that spectacular carnival ael" Venice A today — the meeting of Hitler and Mussolini. Each of the two I dictators is one of the world fs master showmen.. Hi tier, and his Na^is make a specialty of putting on grandiose spectacles. the And Mussolini — why hefs the old master of/showmanship game, when So/the theatrical Hitler went to meet that grand producer, Mussolini, soirit there was certain to be a dizzy demonstration of stagecraft. It was up to Mussolini, the teacher, to show his big pupil Hitler how show should be put on. '&d~ A Rialto Venice, the city of the Sea, with the Grand Canal, theN^&xifc®, venerable St. Marks. Venice in itself is a masterpiece of Ebraxs And what a miraculous stage setting they fce-w* — A and showmanship, grown accidentally through the workings of the MUSSOLINI - 2 centurie s• Battalions of the Fascist militia were brought in a day ahead of time to rehearse their parades* their Leman salutes, and even their outbursts of cheering. The city was bedecked everywhere with Italian flags. Military bands blared martial music — the German Deutschland Ueber Alles and the Fascist hymn Giovinezza. Barnum, Belasco, and Tex Rickard should have been there. They might have learned something. One theatrical angle is that Hitler asked Mussolini diave not to gree any newspaper men on the scene for interviews* Mussolini went further than that. He is keeping any mention of the spectacular meeting out of the Italian newspapers altogether. Elaborate reports of the event are being printed all over the world — but in Italy, not a line. But what1s behind all the pageantry and the showmanship? ^he conferences of Hitler and Mussolini seem to he loaded with all sorts of international importance. The common belief is that MussoliniT s advice and influence will be used to soften down the MUSSOLINI - 3 belligerence and harshness of Hitler»s D^azi regime. With Germany in a condition of grave crisis today. Hitler is likely to nay a good deal of attention to the Duce* s admonitions to go easy, pipe low, and tone down the wilder of the Nazi activities. The gravity of the German financial crisis is illustrated ^©#391 by a rather startling development — just as Hitler and Mussolini are greeting each other along the canals of Venice. Germany has declared a moratorium. The Reischbank has announced that beginning with July first the Hitler government will stop payment on its international debts. This moratorium of nayments is scheduled to last for six months. We had predictions of this several days ago from Paris — coupled with the rapid fall of the mark. It sounded like something of an alarmist rumor then, but Paris v/as right. (BELL) JimiY: Round Five! lagMMw FRlaujii^R That was a long round, but this one will be shorter. It concerns a prisoner, a German who has been confined in a isiazi concentration camp ever since nineteen thirty-three. His offence was that he used to be leader of the Peace Movement in Germany. The irony is that he has just been named as a candidate for the Nob,u .beace Prize. He was nominated by the German league for the Rights of Man, which has its headquarters today in France. This mg* the makings of a charming situation. If the Committee in Sweden were by any chance to award the Nobel Peace Prize to that prisoner, it would be grand fun watching the reactions In Nazi Germany. (Bell; .TTMltfv i Round six. Let's take a swing at those foreign debts. The British don't seem to like the idea of paying in kind, goods instead of gold for the war debts. But even if John Bull won't settle his debts with monocles, the Italians are quite keen about the idea of paying up in spaghetti, salami and tenors. Maybe for good measure they'll throw in forty-seven thousand barbers In kind. The B’rench and the Italians are agreed on this one point. LaBelle France also welcomes the idea of paying with shiploads of merchandise. Maybe she figures on sending us the Eifel Tower and United States four billion, three hundred and three million, four hundred and eighty-seven dollars and thirty-nine cents. France owes three billion, seven hundred and ninety-eight million, four hundred and sixty-seven dollars, twenty-five and a half cents. And Italy -- (Bell; L.T.:- But I'm not through with those figures. Let's study those debt figures. Great Britain owes the Jimmy:- Yes you are. (Bell) Jimmy:- Bound seven. j C ~ - c T7C the i.- =rlc-£_D ri£g, ror -.c'ler is -a7* ""’1 over The .eonstrv cerenoniee rere helc l.n ZiLiiDT Oi i *- T E.T 5 * - T Tl TT S* aUC j\z ^lOTV "STeS eVer’TT'h^'-fe- tisalt i, tf s es approprigT-e Tiise to r exaTe jjmkBj^kszigT-esSj gePPapg rasoT i or a a J cur qs . s passed. P®o sssudred =• ^ t-veiaPy— four s-ails la one dsy. I's-o hnadr-ed aad Presty-four wew Xsirs — That *5 scare Thing to ware the .flag about! hue nr The benefits That Congress has thereby oonferreh upon The k*± nation 're .find that yen can now >111 sea H obs , .if yen nave any asbiTioB to shoot or poison or dao-JEe a se^s 11< hs ., J ust go To Ha.shs.. ST-es saason. is declared on. The big iBarine x; ,-ff itS~ sarnnal 5 be-sens 5 They are a nenace To sal son. A Hen Jtrs. Co«llh.ge? widow of tte en-presIdenT, gets framlnc cri tl . 1 eces. Tbs can sens, nan— Tree _cr 'Tae re^T uf -uer life, c he’ll never have to STand in Use at the tost of flee again w *■ | :sher wheHer tts privilege exTenie tc , scsej orders! Hex ^«TW ^.><5 ~>- s T^ Hamers who ena-narhnn—ee «orac.*ggg: loen There are Twelve soldiers whs went a. •••. 1,1. in ;c 'm m ffLAa DAI - 2 nineteen eighteen to visit their families. They were fined and put in the guard house, dow. Congress has pardoned them and theyfll get bade the money they paid in fines. But the real Flag Day significance of those two hundred and twenty-four Congressional Bills is to be found in the one that makes Sergeant Albert Yorke of ‘.Tennessee a Major in the Army. Sergeant Yorke was acclaimed as the greatest single hero in the World War. The President is empowered to make him a Major and then retire him ^ __ _______w.v.a. cA-dvOi. J from active service, Another Flag Day bit of news tells us that the United States Navy has been given a new Cincus. ‘i'he old Cincus has retired, and a new Cincus has been installed to the place of glory and power. Cincus is navy slang^for the Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet. The title is too long for radio and flag signalljry so they've shortened it down to the abbreviation of C-I-N-C-U-S• So a new Cincus means that Admiral David Foote Sellers has retired as Commander in Chief ol the United States i'leet and Admiral Joseph Mason Beeves is taking his place as the boss of a hundred and twelve mighty warships and all the gobs. The new Cincus is described : if I il Rl.AG DAY - 3 as a bearded sea Hon - not the kind you are allowed to shoot in Alaska. He looks something like the stately Admiral Sims of War days. (Bell.) Jimmy: Round gwansfe There1s been an attack on the American Fleet. One of the destroye. s In Sew York was rammed by a mysterious craft. There was a sinister crash at nl^ht as a boat hit the side of UncleSam’s proud warship. But the criminal riae been apr-rehenoed, and isx is in the hands of the police. He is Jimmy Sickens, a fifteen-year-olc colored boy. Jismy comes from Virginia. And he d.oesn,t. like Sew Xork co wel . He had a ini fuss uritr his family on best one Hundred and Fiftieth Street and decided to ?o back to Old Virglnny, to visit his klr.-fo;ks icvm there* So he rent dom to the dock and i;ot Into a rsnrbsat -T-,.rt srartei to roir. He haarJc *ot v%ry far Khen ne oe/’an to realize that it 2 ' zbt be hard work rowln? all the vay down to rrinia. He a aw a t r ir. 1 ea a m:- e o ref t in 11 e r f v e r, a ta i d 00 a t rith an arxiliary rotor. He cl in bed aooert arh txzx re'ced ^.ehor. He :o-lbr-s- ociet t' e sails aod he ooolio’t start the “otor . &sxx r.- ^ floated downstream, irlftio^ beck to >; *: >'rrlr/.T. 2-T t' ' 2 tine Jlw vas n: hot7 oor.^07. He roima?ed ar-omb. ia :oe bo. at, and low a,oh oeholdS He doted hr a oalley BOAT- 2 ^ r~\ i^iy-l R/*S Vi n4-»^^«4-^»iJ-;3 -i~ --, ___ ±, • t ■% t full of food. Bo he started to eat, v.'Ith the aopetlte of a A colored boy of fifteen. He ate and ate, forgetting all about navigation, Then came the crash, the kkm assault on the dignity of the United States Kavy. Driven by wind and current the boat smacked bango into the side of Uncle Sam’s rakish, frowning destroyer Dumber 113. I don t sunoose they cleared the decks for action or started shooting die guns, or anything like that. But the American sea fighters promotly captured the enemy and hauled him on deck. ".ere you fry in? to attack the American Fleet? the stem question was put to Jimmy. ro f* »2*o 4id,n he sobbed. "I'l&s .lust trying to go back to A Did Virginny." £o J-rrv was turned over to the chi1drer 1 s society T ot care. cbfll ; iw'f'oe., v '' r l y . r. . o n J The Police Corami seloner of hew Yorh there should he a moratorium of jokes on coprers. But I can’t resist this one about the police of Elizabeth, liew Jersey. They receive^ a request to find a missing man. They search­ ed for days and days. And finally they found him by accident, and where do you suppose he was? Right in their own jail I He had been committed there on the charge of operating a moonshine stil3. "he police of Elizabeth remind me the absent-minded orofessor who went all over the house looking for his pants an^ finally found he had them on, und ern eath his pajamas! (BELL) Jimmy: Fight’s over. You lose Lowell. L.T.: Down but not out! SO LG j -.G IL.^IL TCHO h BGW.