tiIi-=_£UwOCO.--- JOnr/.Y. Qh_Ij^ 1940. GOOD EVENING EVEhYEODY: Practically the entire Kixliixai civilized viorld was waiting today for news from one special quarter. Wnatfs happening in Moscow? How are the Finns getting on in their with A A S t a 1 in, J Humors buzz rin northerrjpurope^Qdry, Peace has been concluded!- no\ it hasn’t iraKR^- * * tne Finnish delegation has left Moscow l,- the Finnish delegation is / still in Moscow)- the Allies are intervening) - the Swedes are intervening) - british warships have appeared off Petsamo, the crv\ ^ Finiiish port in the Arctic Ocean^ A Copeniiagen newspaper that is usually well informed, CeWyVje “*/ an "ominous IFe^rt: -terrrntlrtig^ka-that, the Finns have been forced to come to terms 5 unfavorable and humiliating terms. Tnis was soon officially contradicted by no less an authority than the Foreign Minister of tne Finnish Government itself. Minister Tanner told the United Press by telephone A LhPX - 2 ^ev. Y^rk thcio at a quarter to tv.o this afternoon the peace delegaticn from Finland ^as still in Moscow, negotiations still going on. but no agreement. inat L the only actual fact that tonight The Russians and the Finns are still dickering. ------ leaves the field open to endless 4 rumors and conjectures about the terms that Stalin now is exacting „ L. t?otL of theriniiS. yesterday and early .today, there were A reports that the terms were drastic, crippling, humiliating. Later this afternoon, a rumor from Stockholm that the Etr&ZTX, Soviet demanQS a -than "^■WS^r MOSCOW Miilcib Helsinki last fall. A Presumably the Finnish negotiators in Moscow kx « were too busy negotiating to havg opp6rtjg?±3yf for anything else. But if they took time out to listen to the radio, they could have heard the official station in Moscow blasting out its usual denunciations of the Finns. In fact, it is reported that the Moscow radio station took the occasion to broadcast even more bitterly than usual aoout Finland and its people. LEAD - 3 V !iilc-tfie^^fTrrs were In .hs'jetM, d^EeirpfuI^g,Hrt 7 KV-iTr> iftlLJi^, bohalf"wi<n icli^er^A 31 ^ London. Prime Minister Chamberlain made a statement in the House of Commons^ lie' announced Pnr 1 iaiiiini'fe that nHis imajesty’s Government and the French Government have already informed ^'inland that they are to proceed immediately and jointly to help Finland^ using all available resources at their disposal.n This statement was made by the Prime Minister in reply to a question by the leader of the Labor Party. An^Cnamberlain added that;the "House will be aware that both the French and British Governments have sent and are continuing to send material assistance to Finland." The inference is that the Allies could have sent even more but for the attitude of the Swedes and Norwegians. The Swedish and Norwegian Governments have notified the world that they would consider the advance of any expeditionary force over their territory as a violation of neutrality, and would resist the advance of such an expedition by all means. ft riCT-3 of that mfiounuet»eftt-by-CnaiHLiCTiain V i » i , s LEAD 4 ^ ^11 itc cnc jug Pi'fu.jT »es^to strengthen thej* handle in However, the Finns have their fingers crossed, "Ihey realize t: a" the piirase Mall the means at our disposal,,, could mean eitner just as much or just as little as Chamberlain or Daladier want it to mean. The "inns are exceedingly doubtful that Britain and France would attempt to force their way through Sweden and horway* The Finns realize that any continuation of the war on the present terms would mean either the extinction of every man, woman and child, or at least exile. At the same time, -Uicy Ane member of the Finnish S Parliament put it this way:- "How could a dishonorable peace be sold to men of an army that hav& smashed the Russians on every A front but one and made their success on that one so costly that any normal nation would have been aghast at the sacrifice?t' n^.aoi.'w we1!! know the outcome tomorrow. Foreign Minister Tanner of Finland at the end of his telephone conversation with New # CANADA Trom Canada. A cable has been sent from Toronto to President Kallio of Finland. It was sent by Senator Arthur Meighen, Chairman of the Finnish Aid Committee, for.it.r ! r^..K. .viixii^ter of Canada and leader of the Conservatives in theSenate. He guarantees to supply the Finnish Army with two thousand Canadian volunteers and his Committee is going to raise sixty thousand dollars to finance the expedition. As a matter of xact, two hundred volunteers have already gone from Ontario, five nundred more will be ready to leave in a few days, and another fifteen hundred in two weeks. WELLES I*ie latest about the diplomatic voyagings of Sumner Welles is that our mystic Under-Secretary of State had tea with the Brtiish Royal Family today. A. t i he came away .from Buckingham Palace, he went to Downing Street, and the rumor is that he told the Preime Minister and the Foreign Secretary that their cousins in the U.S.A. don’t fany some of the recent censorship incidents. The way he put it in diplomatic language is that certain British war-time measures are having an adverse effect on the attitude of the American people toward t< e Allied powers. Sumner Welles made one quick retort to newspaper men. He was asked whether it was true that as he left the presence of Adolf Hitler in Berlin, his own face was gloomier than usual. And Welles replied that as he didn’t carry a compact with a mirror in it, he was unable to see his own face. RIstMTROP While President Roosevelt's emissary was in London, A'ol f Hitler's was in Rome. The Nazi Foreign Minister von R Lbbentrop had a conversation with Btjaw Mussolini lasted A / Hour and twenty-five minutes. fen *4« i:-ri n Kibbentrop was also received by Pope Pius and a great deal of importance ixjrtxx is attached to that. The Nazi Foreign Minister was no less than sixty-five \ a T cucl ^ ^ minutes in the papal presence, extraordinary. The A- A usual formal auditions granted by the Pontiff last five to fifteen A minutes. After Kibbentrop^ audience with Duce Mussolini, an official announcement went forth proclaiming that the Rome-Berlin Axis is as firm and cordial as ever, the military alliance remaining solid. As For his conversation with the Pope, the grapevine 1 guessworK is that nibbentrop expressed the hope that the Pontiff would support any move for peace starting in Gernmny. And the rumor is that Pope Pius countered with the hope that the Nazis would modify their treatment of the inhabitants of Pol&jtXl; HATCH In basiling ton the i^*:?itorable Senators had a merry little wrangle about the Hatch Bill — ^ccra the Statute to forbid of lice holders from taking part in politics. vrfSF? bill r* tiTT^d^ud—some ^ime-ag-o7~but tliis—tru1^ ^n,.t.or Hatek wtm-by to--r-!t^-drt~atrowgtr> He wants to have that prohibition extended to cover not only Federal employees but otate employees who are paid either in part or altogether with money from Uncle Sam. And^there !s the ’rub. 1 A.—l<rfe~oi;' people^ ^Tit thut-idea —heeerne 1 -If^ w : Buthe grapevine tells us that the bill is going through^eventually. And the Senators in favor ±1 of it won themselves a victory today. Their oppon«nts wantea to sidetrack the Hatch amendment — push it in corner to make room for act to appropriate the trifle A A of nine hundred million* odd for the Department of Agriculture. 2 Tr There was a good deal of shouting about But in the end /A. Senator Hatch of New Mexico and his friends had their way.-bju. vot^ —f)i ~ Howev‘?r, the Hatch sde lost one scrap^. on a proposal to extend restrictions even further. to cover office and stockholders of companies having HATCH - 2 Federal Government. That one was defeated, 53 to 31. FUNDS The Democrats and Republicans have been checking up on theipo^e t bo oks. ^ parTticy-tya *Ja^ing an audit so as to make theia? report to Congress that the law requires,of^thesE* And the result^of that audit A alike are not only out of the red:- each party has a nltfu nest egg in the bank. The Democrats have their Jackson Day Dinners to tliank for Those functions brought the neat sum of one hundred twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars £»to the party exchequer. With that they paid off all loans and^have more than sixty-six thousand dollars in the kitty. the Republicans. X J srrmi ^bul 7 trGi»"«orf^> Though they spent two hundred seventeen thousand dollars in the last two months, on the last day of February they im# more than one hundred sixty-five A A thousand dollars in oho bftftk* c/ mmm, WE k THEK Old -.ian V>inter fooled the folks in the east today. Just t° remind the easterners that the season doesn’t end officially until March Twentietn, he swooped down on several states with tar icy wixids and jieavy snow# woo t Ly--ify Enp-tii>ifidcr's c(»14., 'tsT— Temperatures went tumbling down, highways blocked, transportation crippled in amny- A ' AM tne V.eather Bureau says the people in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania had better nave their snow shovels ready for tomorrow. But there are also signs by which we knew that this winter in the spring is on its last legs. 1 mean the flowers that bloom X 3 oaatoQ&. tra-la — not in the garden, but at the Annual Flower Shows in wew/ York, Boston and Philadelphia. A flower show is about the only place where you encounter f names almost as difficult to pronounce as the places named in Finland. For instanc nee, at the Grand Central Palace I was introdu /\ / ced <K. to e schizanthus. I’d never met one before, at least not to know it A by name. This particular schizanthus, I am tola, is unique. !■_ v.as grown by the method that has all farmers and gardeners calking and speculating today - hydroponics. Ttiis piant> which as x saw it at the Gra.i*, Cential Palace, lias something like ten thousand Dlossoms arid it v.as grov.n Ly James C. Auchincloss, in ordinary sand taken from the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, plus chemical nutrients. Amusingly enough, that scnizanthus was not allowed to compete with plants grown in the ordixiary way. It interested me particularly because a number of people have been saying that in the years to come, not only flowers but most of the vegetables that we eat ?till be grown by tnat same method, Hydroponics. Ut> in Boston, at tne hew England Flower Show, they have a plant which feeds on hamburgers. No fooling! It’s called the Darling Tonia Californica. T. e Annual Flower Snow in Philadelphia,that is being held at the Commercial Museum, is described as the most artistic and gil^/geous that has ever been seen in the City of Brotherly Love. TREASURE 'It A spot of news from the West Coast leads us into a picturesque chapter in tne history of California. In the exciting, golden dciys of the Golden State, there flourished a Robinhood*4vC q j ^ ifYnjz* - !&r^j character named Joaquin jaurietta. Stripped of romantic legends, he actually was a highwayman and probably the notion that he robbed only the rich and split his loot with the poor was nothing but a fable. At any rate, scoundrel or hero, Joaquin lurietta was tne subject of many i t-ni.iw-exciting tales* was a marvelous horseman, always contrived to have better mounts than the officers. Whatever his character, he was a highwayman of incredible speed and nerve, and a nightmare to the sheriff1s deputies. In fact, Joaquin was too much for the ordinary forces of law and order, the authorities had to call upon the soldiers to cope with him. Tne military almost had him cornered in San Juan after he had made a particularly daring and successful raid on the mint at Auburn, Califoinia. In that raid he is supposed to have snaffled up the neat little sum of seventy-five thousand dollars in octagonal gold pieces. Joaquin slipped away from the military at San Juan and took refuge in the Franciscan Missio ! TRhASUKE - 2 at Carmel for a while. Old Californios were always convinced that the Franciscan . acres ha tnemaelves a rich silver mine somewhere between the mission r^nch and the Carmel River. And the legend is that while taking sanctuary with the Fatners, rAurietta discovered the wordings of that mine and hid there a portion of his loot. Jhe site of the mission ranch is now occupied by a rich and fashionable millionaires’ club, the Mission Ranch Club. And here’s how it comes into the news. The earth caved in on that property, disclosing a tunnel. And it is believed that this tunnel leads to the lost silver mine of the Fathers of the Carmel Mission and the hidden treasure of Joaquin Marietta. The cave-in happened some days ago, and the news was only permitted to leak out today because the modern owners of that property kept the secret so as to give themselves time to get mining equipment onto the spot. It is believed that this underground passageway leads to that lost silver mine beneath a ranch house recently occupied by ohe of the Vanderbilts of New York. The manager of the mission Ranch nouse in his underground explorations has already IREAUSHE - S found mine shafts heavily tlmhproH odvxxy timeerea and the remains of rusty mining machinery. TREASURE - 3 found mine shafts heavily timbered and the remains of rusty mining machinery. pomcfflbcr Feuding sarrnewftere Glitb fu.in h nr 1 iins ,n * t»i*t , — op - j — I sa-y^—publicity n i rrntnr i±--i 9 at leapt a goeri oPi-.i'CE Colltfe,<3 ^nd university circles were in a considerable upset t3da\ ^ver tnat initiation tragedy at Columbia, Missouri, Hubert L. SpaKe, a twenty year old undergraduate of the University of A is sour i, \,cib iound dead in his bed after he had been inducted into a fraternity called Theta Nu Epsilon. ^3* & secret T%at organization^ exists against the laws and reguia tions of the University of Missouri. The dean said the faculty had been doing their utmost^ to stamp it out. Theta Nu Epsilon, is a social fraternity, noted for its convivialty. And at some colleges undergraduates can be expelled for joining it. but in the present instance thereTs nothing tnat the authorities of the University of Missouri can do because the membership and proceedings of tnat outlaw fraternity are so secret and so carefully guarded. So the only recourse xeft to the faculty is to appeal to the thirty-five or forty members to disband. ? as that of another fighting Admiral,Hov/eve*, A ’A that i Dewey is too young for president. But frpIMae. adds: - ”I’ll take him in my cabinet along with Herbert Hoover who’s going to be my cam ) iijatl - r ciiief adviser.n There?s just one obstacle before Clyde Coburn in his path to the presidential nom'nation. He hasn*t yet solved the problem of how to get carfare to Philadelphia.--- - 'Hvjl C’f.'WAML >tU-<7V\ CV'vvt^