L.T. - SUNOCO - MONDAY. JANUARY 11. 1927 GOOD bVESTING EVERYBODY: Hardly five years ago, the nation was horrified by news from New Jersey. A negro truck driver had found in the woods near Hopewell the body of an infant boy, the son of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. Tonight we have a horrifying repitition. This afternoon Gordon Morton, Nineteen year old son of a famer near Everett, Washington, was hunting in the fields, He saw a rab it running towards a grove of alder trees. He ran after the rabbit and, just as he got to the thicket, he stumbled over something, something lying in a ditch. As he picked himself up, young Gordon Morton saw to his horror the dead, naked body of a ten year old boy. Breathlessly, he rushed across the fields to where his father was working. The farmer ran into the house and notified thepolice.authorites of the comity. They hastened to the spot. In a few moments the body was identifier’ as the remains of little kidnapped Charlie Mattson. The identification is positive. A friend of the Mattson family was in the group LEAD - 2 that hurried to the place. One side of thelittle chap’s head ^ had been struck and apparently the body had lain there for some twenty-four hours. In pi ivate conversation, police officers and experienced private detectives had already expressed the opinion that the lac had undoubtedly been murdered. But Dr. and Mrs. Mattson and the rest of the family still continued to hope. Every other day. Dr. Mattson published pathetic, plaintive appeals to the kidnapper, assuring him that the twenty-eight thousand collar ransom would be paid. Today a tragic telephone call to Tacoma notified the doctor that all his hopes had been in vain. In his car he drove to the Scene. Immediately city, state and federal authorities went into action. Squads of polics and G-men from Tacoma and Seattle rushed to the neighborhood and began combing every square yard of ground for leads. So far all they found were the tracks of a car which had turned into the field from a nearby highway. The tracks were photographed and molds were made in the hope of identifying the car by its tires. Every person in the community is being asked whether any strange characters have been seen in the vicitity. LEAD - 3 One of the evilest bits of news I've ever had to tell appalling bUlr'n^*i& CQUhT _____ — For the third time since the election^the United states Supreme hourt hands down a ruling favorable to the Mew Deal, The Silver Tax, the fifty percent levied on profits made by traders in the metal.is not unconstitutional. So said the hhy- Ccurtain a unanimous opinion. The man who brought the snx« suit fought this tax on the ground that it was retroactive, took away profits that had been made before the act was passed. And this he claimed was against the Constitution of the United States. The Supreme Court however, agrees with the government. The Attorney-General protested that the tax was necessary to prevent profiteering IT at the public expense.'* While Congress was debating that silver measure some speculators started to force up the price of the white metal. For that reason the fifty percent tax was made retroactive. The 1^4 fmipiBffgt'fc’twfrtr&ttftlrT—-Sw4>—th^Hpuprem c "Scurfr MONEY The figure sharks of Uncle San^s Department of Commerce have been having a good time, making prophecies about our national Income. They estimate that it will be sixty— seven billion dollars before the next New Year’s Eve rolls round. That’s seven billions more than last year* And it’s within thirteen per cent of being as large as it was in Nineteen Twenty-Nine. The sixty-seven billion, they say, is an estimate based on the theory that the labor troubles afflicting the country at present will be disposed, of before long. If they are settled right away, the total,might even rise to seventy billion. rest of the Departments propfrecy sounds cheery for people who woi|c. Of that huge forty billiohs^will be p^id Q^t in wages and salaries. On the pther hand#, the pi’ices of ’ the things we consume are also due to go up. All in all, however, America’s business as a whole will bekout of the red foVs^he first time since Nlneteejp Twenty-Nine. RELIEF r President Roosevelt hopes to cut relief rolls down to two million^ Such is the gist of a weighty communication he sent to Congress today. and eighty-five pages. In it the White House makes an accounting of the five and a half billions spent on relief in the last two years, it also shows that the number of people receiving relief and being supported by government manufactured jobs is now down to two million, two hundred and eighty-four thousand. A hundred and ninety-four thousand were lopped off during the first two weeks in December. On the one hand, people will call upon the government to retrench . On the other hand, no fewer than a dozen state governments have their hands stretched out to Washington, saying: We need the money to take care of the unemployed." The report is two inches thick and- comprises six hundred This announcement probably will receive a mixed greeting The next thing Mr. Roosevelt will present to Congress RELIEF - 2 will be his plan for reorganizing and simplifying the machinery government. Leading sena.tors and congressmen had Urfilbz. a chance to see the plan at a. conference A last night. It was being scanned by Cabinet officers today. Advance information on the document Indicates that the Cabinet may be increased by a Secretary of Public Welfare. Also, a Department of Public Works to handle all construction done by Uncle Sam. In his budget message last week. told ’A”'—--- A Congress that he hoped to hold W.P.A. expenditures to six hundred and fifty millions for the rest of this year, that is, up to June Thirtieth. But the total sum that he will ask to make good the deficioncy will be seven hundred-and ninety millions. The Presidl!nt^£ook occasion to Issue a, warning to employers, a warning tilKi with a sting in it. He complains that some employers are failing to cooperate with the government in putting people to work. They are s.tepping up production but they'r# increasing the working hours of those now employed. ^ Vd, He adds that this is not, true of the majority^ Moot-dmhwfrrrec DIAMONDS Last Friday I told about the strange c, i of Brooklyn, sixty-four years old, on relief and claimingAdiamends A worth a quarter of a million dollars. Y/e heard also how jtfexXStS It was a crazy enough story last week. Tonight thereTs a mystery surrounding those diamonds which verges upon complete absurdity. determining who really owns that quarter of a million dollars* worth of jewels, they are stumped. Of only one thing are they sure. They are positive that the young man who was arrested could not have stolen them, because they were found in a vault in a Jersey City bank. So the District Attorney of Brooklyn appeared in court today and asked that the young man who had been arrested be set at liberty in his own recognizance, until they can find out who ,a££ual^ owns those diamonds. who went around in rags, owned whole^kxsCK^sfui^of clothes and furs. Officials of the Emergency Relief Bureau discovered that they had been giving Rose relief for almost two The police have found the diamonds but when it comes to But another thing the discovered * A ■ was that Rose^ trunksful DIAMONDS - 2 retorted with the offer to repay the city with a couple of thousand dollars to boot. BMtoddfcx But it wasnH only from the Relief Bureau that Rose was getting help. His son, who is unemployed, told the^«9(fil that he used to slip his father a few dollars now and then because he believed him to be destitute. WEATHER Apparently folks in the east are soon going to have a chance to use the new skis they got for Christmas. Those sub­ zero temperatures of the middlewest are heades east. This has been the craziest and most unsatisfactory winter in many years. Farmers and people who own gardens and orchards, have been bemoaning their luck and beginning to count their losses already. In several states fruit trees and bushes are already in bud. But here comes Old Frosty Whiskers Mr. Zero to nip them in the bud. Meanwhile the Pacific Coast is not enjoying its severest v/inter in years, snowdrifts blocking the highways; fruit growers sitting up nights tending the smudge pots in their orchards, trying to salvage some of their crop. Citrus growers not only in California but in Texas are trying to protect a hundred million dollar crop. However, the hitter weather that is supposed to be on its way canT t come too cuickly for people in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia. They want it to stop a repiti- tion of las-" year’s Hoods. For the heavy rains of the last WEATHER - 2 few weeks have sent the waters climbing again. Cellars of water- front houses in three states already inundated. At the place w£ where the Allegheny joins the Eonongahela in Pittsburgh to becomes the Ohio, the water tod a;, was over the twenty foot mark, with tributary streams running over their banks and swelling the cur­ rent, A stiff breeze would stop all that SAIQNJI n the further side of the globe ajxo£i^^«±Ii«Sffe lies seriously ill. Prince Saionji, the ^counsellor and most trusted advisor of the Mikado, dangerously ill. And that, it is believed, constitutes serious to the cause of democratic government^uch as a it the flowery kingdom. Prince Saionji, eighty-nine years old, is known among his own people as the last of the ,,genro,t, the famous elder statesmen of Nippon. Holding no political office, he has lived in virtual retirement for years, emerging only when his Emperor sent for him in emergencies. Popular tradition has it that he is the wisest man in Japan.^For instance, when that bloodthirsty array rebellion broke out a year ago, Saionji was called upon to bring order out of the threatening situation. As he had always been a liberal, a strong upholder of parliamentary government, he was one of those marked down by the assassins for murder. Prince Kiramochi Saion^i was born MSfcuaiip five years before Commodore Perry visited Japan. He had an important pa^t the formulating and adopting of Nippon^s constitution. His SAIONJI FeiAOW-POPa- - 2 studies in Europe, where he was a pupil for a while of Cleraenceau, gave him strongly democratic leanings, though he seldom made his views public in late years, it is believed that he one of the strongest opponents of military Fascism in the land of -the cherry blossom. Whcn~1ic 3riteerqhls -go r ely■ .An POPE Disturbing accounts come from Vatican Gity again. Once more the officials of the Holy See are worried about the Pope^ health. The suffering aged Pontiff spent a restless night and has been suffering from insomnia. EUROPE Reports of German activities in Morocco are untrue. So says the German government. At the precise time when that denial was KEi sent out from Berlin a message from Ceuta announced that ten of Hitler*s submarines had moved into the harbor of that Moroccan «djcc% This move, if the news is true, comes in the teeth of warnings to Germany from both France and John Bull: "We will not stand for any German occupation of African territory." France was somewhat more positive than Great Britain. The French Ambassador called upon Baron von ^eurath, the German Foreign Minister, to deliver his warning in person. ^And one portentous fact is that it was officially described ax as a warning, not a mere protest.^ The English, for their part, are believed to have contented KSSHsisusiaEst themselves with notifying Hitler*s government that they A would not permit the erection of any German fortifications in C©uta< However, again there’s a lack of definite official information. The only official word from Germany wrsPSt that assurflnce^that the repo it severe untrue. BtlHOPF - 2 Today Reichs Fuehrer Hitler had a reception to foreign diplomats, in Berlin. The burden of his remarks was praise of his administration and the declaration that Germany under Nazi rule was the strongest bulwark and guarantee of European peace. Before he received the diplomats Herr Hitler gave an audience to his principal Generals and Admirals, Meanwhile Moscow was pouring oil on the troubled European fire. Ivan Maiski, Soviet Ambassador to London, made a business call on Foreign Secretary Eden, There is no definite knowledge of what he told Captain Eden, But the gossip is that he denounced the Spanish rebels as pirates, as a menace to international traffic in the Straits of Gibraltar, not merely to Soviet vessels. He is supposed to have demanded action by the navies of the principal European powers to suppress what he called the piratical acts of General Franco. Altogether the territory around the Straits of Gibraltar this evening resembles a huge tinder'ox needing only a spark. DEATH RAY Just by way of adding to the general alarm in Europe, a French newspaper comes to bat with a revival of the story that science has at last perfected a death ray. This time itT s the Germans who are supposed to have brought it to perfection. A beam capable of fusing materials including the strongest, hardest steels, at a distance of fifteen hundred feet. This means war tanks would be rendered powerless and warships would, be reduced to molten metal. The mechanism for this formidable deadly weapon is being centered in the Saar Valley so they say. Tremendous machines for developing high tension electric current of unprecedented power have been erected there. The author of this story is Madame Genevieve Tobouis, a v/riter on international politics in the foremost radical newspaper of Paris. Madame Tobouis declares that the Germans have also per­ fected a bomb which wiU produce artificial fog. The principal value, to blind the eyes of enemy airplane pilots. The death ray, however, was first invented by H.G.Wells in his novel, "The Warring Worlds." It was fiction then and still rnav be. But there's no maybe in this:- SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.