L.T. - ^U^QCO. MARCH 6. 1940. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Unexpected news from Rumania! King Carol is to have a visit from Molotov, Premier and Foreign Commissar And the object of the visit - a treaty. This will solve a question that for some time has been making uneasy the ivv^^4^ujAu^ep| Ever since Nineteen ^ A 71 2 Tv;enty, there has been a sore point at issue between Russia and Rumania, that sore point of course being Bessarabia. Tne Soviets have never acknowledged the ceding of that strip of land to Rumania. On the other hand, the Rumanians have been defiant about it. Only the other day King Carol declared that his country v;ould defend that territory at all costs. 4* J | And now everything is to be peaceable^ . L4L announced that the purpose of Molotovas visit to Bucharest is to is5* signijxg^g g a non-a / P aggre pact between the Soviet and King Carol . ssionM***xmte-en * LEAD _ 2 But there*s one question not ensv.er- Will that Russo-numanian Treaty bring advantage to Hitler and injury to the Allies? The situation involving Rumania’s oil is a devious and complicated one. Kt any rate, optimistic observers are hoping that this agreement means that the Soviets are going to keep their hands off the Balkans for the present. BLOCKADE The British stand pat on the question of German coal goii Yjt o Italy. British contraband control has seized the cargoes] eight Italian vessels. The ships themselves will be released and sent on their way back to Italy as soon as the coal has been 7 taken out of themi And presumably the cargo will be held in England so long as the wan goes on. At the kame time it is announced in London that the Foreign Office is preparing an official reply to Mussolini1s protest. a reply that will try be conciliatory but firm. All of v.hichXdoesn11 make me a hit in )t^VtsCJZ- , I ltOS5^=i?^S^^M±tigaB*^-±t-f:ss---protittc«^j-demonstrations of protest against the British in Italy^ demonstrations that appear to have been spontaneous^not organized by the Fascists. first anti-British uproar i Ethiopian War since the days of the ✓ BERMUDA FOLLOW bLOCKADt; The Bermuda episode came up in the British House of Commons today. X mean the seizing of United States mail, and the A searching of passengers aboard the American Clipper on its uay to Lurope. A member of Parliament uttered a criticism in the form oi a m question, asktfS^whether someone had not blundered seriously A at Bermuda in searching American travelers. The question v.as answered by the Ufiier-Secretary for Foreign A.ffairs in downright fashion. Said he:- ”1 don’t accept that criticism at all,” and he added the Government’s action was correct. "Moreover,” said the Under-Secretary, ”it was Justified by what was discovered in the mail.” L ater on there was a violent anti-American speech by vwtr one of the conservative members, because of the blockade, -- i ^ Ai but because of what some Americans have^«^r"about Palestine. ‘•A Labor member of the House moved a vote of censure of the • * government’s policy in the Holy Land. This gave one of the conservatives an opportunity to say, ’’Those gentlemen^ in the United States - whether Jew* or non-Jew.*, have lifted up their voices in the cause of liberty. But the battle for liberty is being fought BERMUDA FOLLOW BLOCKADE - 2 by this country and by the empire - jus * and not by the manipulators of money markets thousands of miles away." ELIZABETH Here* s a surprisel This has Just been released by the British censor. Thfc fciant liner ^UEEL ELIZ&BETH, the largest ship in the world, is on her way to New York. Shefs coming to America to find a safe haven from air bombs and submarines alike. The eighty-five thousand ton luxury monster qHisltjx has only Just been completed. On February Twenty??Sixth, she slipped quietly out from the shipyard at Clydebank where she was built, sailed down the Clyde. On March Second she weighed anchor for these shores. The fact that the censor has released this news makes it apparent that the wUE^N ELIZABETH must be pretty close to American territorial waters. Indeed, she is expectea to dock in New York at any moment. Tnat will indeed be a novel spectacle in New York harbor. Never before have the highly skilled experts there had the job of docning an eighty-five tonner. Though &s uiiU&l, there is no news of any actual happening worth recording on the V*est Front, something tremendous appears to be in the wind. There Bt;e indications that a big push is on tne way. One of those indicationsan official warning to -teh#- British officers and men of the Royal Air Force in France. T..ey are warned that they must not expect the present lull on the Western Front to^eyftfrimict.Indofiwtty-l^i Weather is improving and with it the prospects for a sudden attack. - The official notice doesn’t say from which side the attack would come. The air fd>rce has been ordered to tighten up on air drills and to be sure that steel helmets and flying clothes are on hand^ oj2i2 Back in London the authorities are preparing for a second evacuation of children, not only from London itself but from all the large cities and centers in Great Britain. People are being reminded that March is considered Hitler’s lucky month, the montfc when he has begun so many important moves Bvtrft-tha Swifcs-are- IL Uir nnnnnn#ft^ W'/i-.y t.n£ g-nvern(‘tent^g^.thB nurgnt^rinc IK T -Lri VhNT 10 Herefs a rumor exciting if true. But it^s only a rumor, though to be sure it appear* in several newspapers ... _ . . throughout Scandinavia. Tliey believe^the Allies are aoout to land troops somewhere in Scandinavia to help Finland quickly and substantially. This rumor is not accepted with any joy by the Scandinavians. They don’t want to be caught between the two millstones any worse than they are already. There was a leading editorial in the LONDON TIMES which urged that Britain and Fr^mce should jump in immediately with jutriy it wa prompt and material help for the Finns. it was this editorial that led to the rumor running through the Scandinavian 1 1 papers today. The question is, where would the British and French land their troops if they wanted to help Finland. They wouldn’t dare try to get in through the Baltic, and a landing at Petsamo.uu-MuiitfShjh which is in Russian hands, would be out of the question*. S0 the belief is that they would land their reenforcements for Finland somewhere on the Norwegian coast HOOVER kx-President Hoover expressed his opinion today on certain prophecies tnat have been made about events in Europe. He was talking at Rutgers University. he said any notion that civilization will be re-born after the war is over in Europe is s^eer nonsense. Then he explained:- ’’The inevitable degeneration of food productivity alone, not to mention industrial activities, means that the end of the war will bring on the most difficult period ever Known.” ^ pointed out tnat three hundred million people in twelve nations have thrown overboard every form of liberty, n /Kn, exchangi*^ freedom for totalitarian government* Uad, said Hoover:- A ^ ’’This abandonment, practically over night*, is the most monumental revolution in all history. B^rn <3#t of despair; despair avessEBc* of the problems of unemployment and bankrupt government. - h*. s-0 The forces of free economy were deranged^ Dictators rose up to save the people, who offered no opposition.” Hoover admits that *» #» ** «=-—^ the dictetors restore*productivity. But, he added tnat V iEig 3 Beconomic liberty not suppressed without suppressing all intellectual and political liberty TKUiVlZO For eleven years a man named bam Trunzo had lived a model life in a New Jersey factory town. he did a good job, married, 1 ' ^a‘t^er of three children. But it wasnTt a happy life, because Sam was worried. He was afraid that one day his three children wouldllearn something past^t$?^^Eleven years ago, according to his own account, had killed a man. It was n, self-defense, but Tpunzo didnTt wait to stand trial, fc left the A scene of the shooting, went to Jersey, got himself a job. After eleven years, that killing prayed on his mind so vi much that he decided to do something about it. He obtained leave of absence from his job, put his three children in the care of himselfp friends, got^&^a lawyer and went back to Pittsburgh. There he went into the office of the district attorney and said: nI am Sam Trunzo. Ifve come back to face the music.” Th^n the story of the shooting came out. He and another man had been employed as gardeners on the same estate. They had had a quarrel. The other man made threats against Trunzo. One day they met, the other man fired, and Trunzo shot back,*fc=3*±By. killtfSniis assailant, and that’s the music he's facing bskj S in Pittsburgh.--- ~ko tLs. J2^a. tU* COHAN Lives and loves of the Cohan family were down-state again to-ciy. Yes, I mean t,ue George M, Cohan family, Yankee Doodle Cohan. In ^is day, George M. was one of the greatest champions of life, i \ liberty and the pursuit of happiness that ever wrote a patriotic song. Among George i.’s accomplishments is a daughter v;ho recalls OCc&ZeA * -- lone of George’s most popular ’’Mary is a Grand Old Name.’’ As you may have heard, Mary incurred the parental wrath some twelve years ago. She married a banjo player which for some reason displeased George, ^aybe in the days when George himself was a hoofer on the vaudeville stage he ran into banjo players on the same bills with himself. Maybe they were bad banjo players. At any rnte, nf diePriit—CTre for banjo pxLyui'L ou uuxu.11 tri-la» y ft¥i.o l nt-xy—f rjrgotufriag 1,1, i7T~~ 111 G i.Mmrt A fem'.A-ivmi1 j | ■rlayor tiun'igd be ttw yn, ti At any rate, George and his daughter Mary with jl Grand Old wame have not been speaking for twelve years. The marriage with the banjo player proved to be one of those transitory alliances, and aary fell in love again, /his time with an accordian player. COHAN 2 The news of this whole story is that wt—^'^4 they are married. ;dary Cohan and George Ronkin were married at Doyiestown, Pennsylvania. That*s forty-five minutes from Broadway - if you sksia have a fast enough airplane. tUbV.AYS -LOOxieo upon as a champion of unions. he is facing a fight Foi a number of years Mayor LaGuardia of New York was iVw- with organized labor. di because of the New York subways.^ New York City has bought up the companies that have been operating the suoways and on the First of May the entire underground and elevated transit Sfc# is to be unified, all one big municipal ownership served notice system of. A affair. on the Transport Workers Union that in the future subway workers as city employees, will not be alloved the privilege of striking, or of having a closed shop. The Union men talked back to him today. There was a meeting of the Transport Workers U hwl , a meeting that represented six inssssaia 'T u U s I l . , . And they voted tnat the Executive Board of tne Union should have the power to call a strike at any moment^ the thousand subway A Board sees fit. tort-twnorwyq±»y underground. CANTON ror.ner Judge Martin T.Manton has given up his fight % m 1 . bw His attorney appeared in Federal Court at Itew York today with a certified check for ten thousand dollars. a check to pay the fine that was imposed upon federal judge^wfeo^sr^t^ais own decisioiis. And it was announced that tomorrow Manton will surrender to Uncle SamTs marshals, will go to Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, to serve his two yearsi CAVE-IN Trie earth still quivers at Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, tne city taat was partly swallowed last Monday. A district mine inspector oi the State of Pennsylvania went underground and came back to the surface with this account. He said he was not good at description n but, he added was ifafijDdtf'i /( /f m^it say it was like a giant had hold of the ground and was snaking it. Which seems to me like ^0-0-^ lhat district mine inspector of Pennsylvania is too modest. The affairs of the# anthracite town are now worrying the higher officials of the state. Governor Arthur James, who was himself a breaker boy, is taking hold of the situation. In his youth, the present Governor of the Keystone State lived right on the spot where so many buildings Monday. A n A good many people were grumbling today because the coal mine operators had been allowed to mine underneath the streets of an inhabited town. To tnat Governor James retorted that the people had built their homes at their own risk and the operators have the unqualified right to mine. However, for the time being, all Mining operations have ceased at -3 » ChVh-lX - 2 The experts who went underground reported that tnere might be another cave-in at any time. In fact, gaps in the earth are widening-afrl l.HT! hluu.i mm »iyi -crnsr ELECTION Another Republican elected to Congress. The returns from yesterday1s election in the Sixth District of Iowa are not quite complete yet. But there are enough figures at hand to indicate that -c Robert K. Goodwin of the G.O.P. has won the CiilxLUS Tae Legislature of New York State puty itself on record about . . . WDUKk tne c^nsu£ today, it adopted a resolution, xacjkjt»>jfl»3aaijc,0t;iiy^ ' Congress to strike out purely personal questions from tne c??~ list that the census takers are going to ask 'the citizenry. Both A the Assembly aftd the Senate were unanimous But Director Austin of the Censi^ Bureau stands pat. Contrary to rumors that have been running through Washington, he has not cut anything out of the census questionnaire. And he said,when the Congressmen read the record they’ll be convinced that the questions about income are not only valid and proper, but are necessary to business. As a matter of fact, business organizations asked for those quest ions^ They are also necessary government agencies and to Congress^^Jt t And out in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the public being A amused by the case of the shoemaker who chased the census taker away. The shoemaker is a blunt, two hundred and fifty pound fellow named James Kosselli. Accompanied by a lawyer, he walked into the Federal Bui-Iding at MilwauKee, anci surrendered to the autnorities, surrendered with the words, ”itra the big bad criminal you're looking CENSUS - 2 for." Evidently Shomaker Rosselli was thoroughly enjoying his moment of fame. Judging from his replies to questions by reporters. Shoemaker Rosselli1s principal reason for chasing the census taker was that he knew him. And, said Rosselli £That census taker is a big bum, and I can prove it.n He said further that he was willing to answer any questions that were asked of him "polite." But, not the way that census taker asked them. He’s a bum, and I can prove it; said the two-hundred and fifty pounder, as he smo'te the desk withhLs fist. Hard wordsl And now Hugh speak some soft words.