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On the sixty eighth day of a new world we bring you our mayor the honorable Leppitsch like Guardian speaking to you from his desk and City Hall and another talk to the people ladies and gentlemen there's another mayor intelligence and cooperation. I have a great many things I want to talk over with you today. But I do want to mention and he said I should run out of time and that next Sunday will be a great day in New York City it's navy day and millions of people in the metropolitan area will have an opportunity of seeing the victorious American Navy President Truman will be a visit there in our city he will review the entire fleet and you know that day we've been talking about the Central Park following V.J. Day Well that's next Sunday and President Harry Truman will make his first public address in New York City as president that day I mean it is Saturday the twenty seventh That's next Saturday. And they'll be plenty of seats Saturday at Central Park and the address is scheduled at one thirty shop and be there early and they'll be music and band concerts of the service bands and the fire the apartment and apartment of sanitation and day it will be pleasant I'm sure the will be good absolutely can do about that and so be on hand Saturday October twenty seventh at Central Park to hear President Truman last Sunday I talked to about two bombers who are in the none of the business making the thousand dollars a day and had many friends remember one thousand dollars a day profit that they stole from the full of people and had many friends how they were committed to jail to the penitentiary how the appellate division affirmed the sentence and notwithstanding a very strange thing haven't remember I told you last Sunday they were let out on bail and they were at large Well we've got the two bombs and they're back in the penitentiary where they belong but I don't know what they'll spring after I get out of office I walk in the meantime I was pretty fair last Sunday and they're deciding what happened and how these man got out of got out on bail. But I noticed them very sad sort of way that friendly dialogue between their ad mouthpiece and the judge when the bail was revoked I wouldn't have said anything more about it except for this dialogue between Judge Lefkow Patterson and the attorney for these two but I'm all right now that you brought it up they said well the man was misinformed he talks without knowing what he's talking about say I spoke right from the court records if I am wrong why was I wrong all right now I lack that Judge last the Patterson when he signed the bomb was not sitting in any part of his court in the Bronx he was at the a summer home in South Hampton and that the attorney went to his home in South Hampton all the all the West several parts of courts in session in New York City now if you've got anything to say answered back and the next time before anyone indulges in statements that the mad doesn't know what he's talking about check up. In the meantime that two bums who turned out how to balance a day with many friends are in jail and I when we talk about gambling actually think about the small loan sharks and why that's not a you know. I've heard people say oh why do you just gone nuts on this usury matter you know I didn't invent opposition to usury now it's not original mine it started many many thousands of years ago before we find. In the nineteenth verse of the in the thirty seventh words of the twenty fifth chapter of our live etiquette in the old statement there is a definite gradation Thou shall not give him line money upon usury nor land him that I think jewels for increase and then again in the nineteenth of the twenty third chapter of your LOT of made it said that thou shalt not land upon usury via brother usury of money usury of victuals usury of anything that is land upon you is right so we find it in the old to break laws as well as in the Old Testament and Christ was very in fact in such staining the law against usually right when he said and you'll find it in the seventeenth in one thousand forces of the fifth chapter of Matthew thank Not that I came to the story the law of the prophets I came not to destroy you but to fulfil who shall ever therefore shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven and then of course in Matthew twenty first chapter of Matthew and Jesus and into the temple of God and cast all of them that's so well known bought in the temple and overthrow the table and out the money changers and chased them out of the temple the money changers in those days as well as what corresponds to usury today what you remember and in my broadcast. At the end of. The broadcast the end of September I told you about what the commission of investigation was doing on the loan sharks and I said Oh I suppose we will be taken into full on that would not surprise me you know these loan sharks have many many lawyers and they pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees and they too have many many friends Oh I found that out in my twelve years that I've been seeking legislation in all the way well on Tuesday October the second subpoenas was through a total of nineteen lawyers including the firm Cadwalader and act represented the small loan companies and then after that subpoenas was a one Larry tell it there and walked into the office of the Corporation Council describing himself as the public relations man of the New York State Association for loan companies it looks as if we're in for a great deal of propaganda and publicity. And he left a letter and with the commissionaire of that investigation and from the attorney I owe it from Jackson our columns the letter said we have planned to send this letter in the mail but in view of the commissioner's Yamuna sending out subpoenas we decided to deliver the letter in person we have been taking the matter under consideration we have had a number of discussions we had than we have been discussing gave plan of action on this report we did know just what to do about it about it and at these meetings we discussed a plan of action to follow we have put a number of economists. And statisticians to work on commission now you have this report and they are making a study and I suppose that it is out of my school as a public relations man but after the study is made the app planning to issue a reply Dr new found is in charge of the study and of course as I say figures do not lie but liars can figure out and so we're just waiting to see this fancy report and then the representative of the small a small loan companies and all these various small firms in typical arrogant loan and small loan company man sat and stated this in the office of the commissioner I mean Mr Gates we spent the whole day discussing the idea of having them there that this was no business of heroes and that we would not let him put us out of business as far as we are consigning he could just go to hell back from the old facial spokesman of the smaller loan company and say I'm just not going to go to that place. But let me tell you you have spent years sent many many poor families into a living hell by your thieving usury and don't think that the fight will be away when I go out of all no sad I'm going to continue to expose you at every opportunity and then it's said that the Met that the man has distorted the picture of the business of the petition of the small loan companies that I use harsh language and saying swine and loan sharks All right eighteen percent in twenty four percent interest a thirty percent interest Yeah why do you call it if you can give me a better definition I'll use it eighteen percent twenty four thirty percent in. All I know what's going to happen. Great deal of propaganda and and how philanthropic and they are I suppose the next thing that I want to being co-operated under the Alamo is Mary Corp act at eighteen and twenty four and thirty percent shame on yourself say there won't be any joy in that dirty money for yourselves or your family that finger of scorn will be probably did anyone who lives. Such ill gain from it I've just been fired with commission a warmonger who has informed me of the traffic plan for Midtown Manhattan this plan will in on likelihood be put into effect in other parts of the city as the need may arise the French stage will prohibit parking absolutely on seventeenth and eighteenth Street between Third Avenue and Broadway. And then generally from nineteenth to fifty eighth Street between Third Avenue and ninth Avenue the first stage as I said will make thirty fourth Street and forty second Street fast moving Express three additional fast moving speech will be added as the plan is perfect additional There will be no parking on the streets that I have mentioned from eight A.M. to six P.M. and all that to express trains from seven am to seven pm there will be no parking on Broadway between thirty fourth Street and forty second Street and no parking on Avenue of the Americas between thirty fourth Street and fortieth Street the no parking provisions thirty fourth forty first fifty four fifty fifty if it's fifty seven fifty each breach runs to second that is to receiving station there are also pounds for automobiles found on no parking streets have been designated owners however will first have to establish identity of ownership and identification of the car at the office of the chief clerk of the sanitation department at these cars will be picked up in conference and I made a wrong can be as second degree that cause picked up and yeah that will be abandoned car if the car is picked up after three hours it will be an abandoned car and then it will be necessary to go to the property clerk of the police department I'll give you more facts about back next week again I want to repeat that out of town busses having terminals within this area I would have to operate out of the time of when traffic is not in motion or during a red light period and that particular street these large buses will also be spaced so as not to create unnecessary congestion. Trucks loaded and only loading would be given every possible cooperation this presupposes of course cooperation on the part of the trucks that is they must pull out only one ready to load all ready to unload I might suggest and I know this is not very easy a consideration and study on the part of trucking companies to either synchronize their trips are out to consolidate and divide the zone so as to avoid multiplicity of trucks going to the same place and each picking up only part of a full load not talking about congestion is our next thought of cost problem still have. That gives us very much concern and I want to tell you my friend it's not as easy as some people who talk about it Dad would make it appear it's a difficult problem that exists not only in our city but in all cities it generally does after a long period of suspension. Construction and weight of a number of people coming to urban centers as commission at plants get F.X. gap of the department of housing building has already announced and we ought to have one thousand three hundred and ninety two additional apartments and ready in that three or four weeks and these are in buildings that are undergoing alterations now are during the past week and commission of plants guy has conducted a series of real fact finding conference as would leaders in the New York City construction industry all the W.P.B. restrictions on new constructions have been lifted new construction will not be underway in New York City except for small buildings for some months the greatest bottleneck is the lack of building material for example that is particularly no common break vailable in December. Also six point five one family Welling's just completed in Queens County are not available for occupancy due to the inability of the village to obtain the necessary bath tub and radiate other builders in Queens County have stopped building homes because of the acute shortage of the following items break grade one lumbar bath rate radiated rock lath and from the builders of apartment houses not only complain about the similar lack of material but also all the difficulty in obtaining a mortgage commitment representatives of some financial institutions that for their delayed submit to their inability of learning whether a new apartment would be under the old and what yardstick would be used in determining such records I don't see any reason for fear at given an honest investment and an honest construction and will be no difficulty as I see it on O.P.'s rent control now in order to reduce some of these back in it and we are going to continue to confer with the industry and that and crystallized all of these facts and get busy on them immediately I have directed at both of the partners of housing in the building and also our priority specialist in the department of approaches and to confer with officials of the R F C I was in the sense that they are releasing for New York City some of the huge surplus United States only building materials such as number bathtubs and second. Now it's been reported to me and I think this is accurate that the U S engineers and United States Army transport own and control more than forty million feet of grade one lumber right here in this area and after least five million feet of this lumber is stored in one plant in Brooklyn it is also been reported to me that the United States Army Engineers has thousands of backed bathtubs stored in warehouses in Seattle to spring all that plumbing fixtures are reported stored in the New York City where. I'm going to urge the military authorities to give this matter immediate attention to the fire this material should have left if it have not already done so it is very different have done so then I would get in touch with Mr Simon can do it in my office a few days ago and see to it that the R.F.C. get to the market now that it is needed now you remember I think it was last Sunday or two Sundays ago I talked to you about the possibility of getting some apartments about five hundred in the Rockaways and five hundred in Coney Island and Seagate Gavitt I make about a thousand now these apartments are available and they have provided for it with heating facility and then several conferences between the owners of the apartment and Mr Platts and they will be available in two weeks and two rooms furnished thirty five about thirty five dollars up to seven loans for the eighty five dollars about that sounds good. But here's the rub and personally I don't like it very much but we must make the best of it if it will leave then he at all. The owners of these properties a winning director at length I'm at their practice I've stated which I believe have been approved by the O.P.'s with a condition that OPI a component will end on the thirtieth of April and they revert back to their not control status as a season of all property and the O.P.'s consented to that on the date of October the ninth team and Mr John James Caulfield addressing the commissioner of housing and buildings with plans to said we understand that at the present time there are a number of multiple you in the buildings located in Rockaway Far Rockaway in adjacent communities which during the past two summers have enjoyed the expression exemption from the regulations applicable to seasonal properties not granted at any time during the period from the them back to February these buildings always the potential number of them have heating plants which can be placed in condition and the apartments made available for winter occupancy the owner of these problems have indicated a willingness to place premises in condition to rent this went after vibing for it that their right to an exempt status next summer will not be prejudiced by renting to tenants this winter in the event the summer exemption in effect during the past two years is renewed and second if the difficulties relating to a eviction would be issued preventing these landlords poor that winter tenants at the expiration of their respective leases on a phone with you nine hundred forty six. The response to the first question we can only reach take the position of this office is from pain of the letter from Robert. Wagner regional ran for thirty dollars you won't protect dated September the fourth when we assured me that any landlords whose property is well seasonably example of some that would not. Prejudice their rights to a similar exemption next summer because this winter Randy provided the seasonal exemption is renewed next year as to the second question concerning the issuance of certificate relating to addiction we can only state that in view of the present regulation if these properties will be exempt under the seasonal exemption provision as outlined in the foregoing power of the have the landlord will then be in a position to commence proceedings to evict such winter tenants immediately after May thirty first one thousand and forty six without the necessity of first applying for a certificate. Of. Fiction and therefore any family that could use these apartments from now until April thirtieth or appointed this May thirtieth and it might it might help a great many families and veterans who are interested and should apply to five hundred Park Avenue at the city and center and ask for the housing vacancies apartment and non-veterans who may be interested and should apply to room eight hundred thirty six the municipal building I don't know if since I last talked to you about temporary houses I have I had. An investigation made by actually experts of these so-called temporary housing we Sam and at these buildings and find that they are just not suitable for New York City's use. And it would require six months at least and to take them down and to put them in and in place in addition to the necessity of laying water mains and sewer mains and access roads and the same difficulty in plumbing and would apply to these temporary houses as we're now facing with how it was no houses that are complete and on there is some additional information which we haven't heard something which we haven't seen the policy continues that is that temporary buildings would not serve the purpose I want to pay a special tribute to the New York Times for rendering a very useful service during the past ten days or so and one was the publication of the Marshall report and the other was the publication and fall of the indictment against the German law firm and this is very useful journalism and I think it is the journalism of the future because the radio and television will carry most of the spot news and it's just going in for information which readers would not obtain otherwise and that was indeed a very. Useful service and I want to congratulate the. New York Times but just about this time and the other side of journalism what this played in our society away I mean it's kind of abuse of the right by the owner of a publication who likes to give vent to his personal feeling then and I might add I refer to an item in The Daily News I've nearly all sitting around the only part of a total. It was their charge that General George S. Patton Jr was removed from his command because of the pressure applied applied by and I told the Daily News influential members who racial background was Jewish and of this article they use this and PAC and its impact arising from the fact that Patton had been charged with slapping A.G.I. who was and I quote If they did the Jewish origin the whole story was me the leverage However a lie. A lie so it was know not to be true when it was wrecked and it was published knowing it to be entirely false I suppose this story gave a great deal other views and went to the glass a millionaire owner of The Daily News you know millionaire Pattinson from Chicago I repeat the story was false untrue and a deliberate lie when it was published but after that the wrong course HA HA By the by the publisher and part enjoyment he got out of it an apology was published on October the nineteenth but this apology was not spontaneous it was after some fourteen to twenty lives advertisers told Paterson why he came on I R H Macy West not among those who protest it is the apology it's now that makes it clear that the whole Reginald story was deliberately cooked up made up knowing it to be false because after the advertiser served notice on Patmos and then the story is told that each of the gentlemen meant you. Had not brought and he had not said anything and also that the sun would get in question was not of Jewish origin but what I meant by that if they do you know all the Nazareth character I can to the map of it and of course the lie is apparent because this was not a news article which time could have been an excuse it was a feature that it was not a story with involved facts or they knew it was a factual statement that certain distinguished American had brought pressure and that a certain So we Joe was Jewish origin Irish They of course would have to guess that the facts to be ascertained furniture honest journalist journalism would have deigned to ascertain the facts before publication and not after a threat to withdraw it advertised in a date with no other newspaper man or no news service in this country cared any fact if it was I'm true or not over the eight team it was on crew on October the fire. If it was possible to get the truth or not told the A.P. it would have been possible to get through on October the third act with a bang that this way to do it shame on such publication Shame on such a man who will indulge in provoking racial and acting ism vase on the level of lives shame upon such man who would home and travel within our own country. OK I've had a some of that kind of stuff my going to get called on that you call it for the fight it won't go for long in New York City St Now we can see that constitutional freedom of speech we can see the freedom of the press. But we do not concede or recognize or know of any constitutional. Right to lie to lie about people to lie about what America there is no constitutional obligation to read any given paper no publisher would make any constitutional guarantee their circulation or to advertise that patent rights but the people themselves will be our guide and I want to get make why I've received many letters from a good people of Flatbush I'm happy to tell you that that I think papers will be and completed in a few days as the first move to left town so such frank China's as the city service water company may have and will move along that right soon I want to get it pretty well so that before I go out of office now here's a little good news the organization of The Washington Post market has been complete and day it is formed and it is now commencing to operate and that is the fog that you can that will ease the entire new produce Terminal Market and that it's well on its way there's a great deal of politics and racketeering in that and I want to get fat so without before I go on New York City's about to let you see it right there the recommendation on I have to start it will be going yeah in there as well as feel top five by four actually move over and a half a million dollars of aid from the I was in town now I'm here something I want to tell you and Chairman John Delaney has this city klal the air style beyond the time that he was ready to retire. He remained in office after I came here and died when I did fall but I. Actually am an addict and I need to live with. Around the. Fifteenth of the and end of November I just don't recall now and I want to take this opportunity I've expressed in the pangs of the land of the people in the art of the splendid loyal service in the any. Place devotion to duty and naming on the job so long. I have appointed in the place of John the only Major General Charles Philip wrote who is in command of all the transportation of the United States I made a red rose water and and gave him a war and general Gross was born in Brooklyn on March the forty eight eighteen eighty nine he ended Cornell University in Ithaca to York in one thousand six and left in one thousand Penn to enter the United States Military Academy at West Point from which he graduated in one thousand and fourteen third in the class of one hundred seven Cornell University wanted me to green mechanical engineering in one thousand nine hundred one now as you know when. We got into difficulties with transportation during the war President Roosevelt put that Major General Growth in folk command and he did a magnificent job I expect to swearing in Gen Rose as soon as the necessary procedures in time and from the Army is complete. I have another vacancy in the board of time. And I'm going to appoint for that they can see Mr William Reed. To be treasurer and Reed is next in financing. There has rendered great services to the city is recognized as one of the best authorities on science. I think this is a good combination and Irish T.V. is that furnished and the transportation end of the get go and that is our traffic regulations and not just them is no one of the world because no railroads in the world at times far too many passengers as the South. Air It's a quiet of late summer engineering it's got to be it's got to be dolled up got to clean it up a bit this was four years of the walking hard it isn't bad as it looks but it doesn't look good and we want to very bad in new a rolling stock at the very best it has been devised and that requires a great deal of scale of cost their financing is another problem and that Reid will go in there and I think will make a great contribution now this matter of the fair will have to be decided and sooner or later and up to date it has been decided yet and to keep to continue the fight and that if the people of the city want a five cent bag and it is up to them it means that we will get into forty nine and that's the nineteen hundred and forty six forty seven we'll have nearly forty nine million dollars of deficit there won't be long before we have fifty million dollars deficit. Asked by actually with the buying of the new appointment and the necessary a rehabilitation of the power plant and that extension of some of our stations. That question will have to be the site as I've stated so many times as there wasn't a vote in the Board of Estimate that was going to present that fast and surely wasn't any vote in the city council at the quiet vote by a vote of the body to come to a decision. No At that the N.Y.C. will again expand its public service to live and the folk am paid and we will have that period commencing Tuesday October the twenty third when the mansion and will be given time each will be given time there's up of candidates on it and if the candidate doesn't show up he'll go for his time and will be aired program format by a president as to the council controller and dad judicial candidates and time will be equally distributed I think the candidates went all out just to who go for those who go second who believe that and so on and that's the way it has to be. Where And now I do I do want to call your attention to move most unusual exhibits and that is at ten thirty year Iraq don't apply that it's an example of our war president at present about the way our men of God forces were taken prisoners by the Germans if the most unique and unusual as an exhibit it's also a telling and impression one and because it shows there at the at the suffering of boys while prisoners and pop they'd need to kill time and it's almost unbelievable the resources of these boys and making little things of comfort and the little things that they needed and also some instruments of how to dig out of the camps and some of them were successful in doing oh PAUL MASI and the newborn marched only to be sure to remind you of the opera in seventy concerts are still going strong at the New York Center at the concert tomorrow and Tuesday will feature heightened Symphony Number one hundred two with biased No Leonard Bernstein conducting and is that boy good at comedy and it will be given there Wednesday night and Friday night and that will be followed That's the common the more pop of the opposite repertory will be some on Wednesday night and on Friday and on the eve of the National Independence Day there will be a special performance of the spotted bride and that is a very interesting and and joyful operates to how that's at the city set found in college I mean that's me remind you next Saturday the twenty seventh and maybe day in New York City President of the United States the guest of the city and will speak at Central Park at one thirty states for everybody and everybody to be there early and before the president arrives will be plenty of music patients before. 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