L.I._ SUNOCO. UOaDA'i. JANUARY 13. 1941 GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: The most absorbing topic for today and days to come is and will be that stupendous war-aid bill. Nothing much has been done about it so far. But, the opposition is organizing. In Congress the op jonents on both sides of the fence have chosen Senator Wheeler of Montana for their leader. The Speaker of the House today turned t he bill over to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. And there was drama behind the scenes for Congressman May, Chairman of the Military Committee, wanted to have the first say on that colossal measure. He made a motion that it should be referred to his committee. But the answer to that was an overwhelming shout of NO. The House upheld the speaker so lordly that they didn,t even count the votes. Another concrete move wqs a bubstitute bill offered on the Republican side of the House. The man who presented it is a new Congressman, Simpson of New York, the man who was recently voted down as G.O.P. leader in the Empire State. The Simpson Bill has this difference from the Democratic measure which officially bears the historic number H.h. 1776: it puts a delinite limit on the President's authority, cuts it down to two years. That's one point. Secondly, it restricts the loan of war materials to — first, England or any member of the British Commonwealth. Also Ireland. Likewise to any other country to whose defense our Congress delcares by concurrent resolution, vital to the defense 6f the United States. Simpson pointed out that granting President Roosevelt unlimited power to pick the countries was one phase of the bill that came nearest to giving him the right to declare war, a right which Congress should carefully safeguard. And as it has been pointed out by many not to put a time limit on the bill flight be tantamount to giving the President Dictatorial powers in perpetuity. For if there were no time limit the powers granted t) the President could only be ended by repealing the act. Which means that if the President chose to veto the repealer, it would need a two-thirds vote, -a - — Ur$L*<S Naturally there’s much talk about Wendell Willkie and # V L^CL the support he is giving to the bill. It became evident today that there1s wide difference of opinion about this among the Republicans,as i»deed thpre is amom- "Ww- Democrats. Outside of Congress there were several loud protests. General Robert Wood, Acting Chairman of the America First Committee,. | declared th; t the war^aid bill would destroy our Republican form of government and make the President a Dictator with the right to override every law on the Statute bock and take us into v'ar whenever he metrr fit. General Wood .used th«fee words in a telegram to 'V A, A- /f William Allen White, retiring Chairman of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Wood invited WTiite to Join him in X uncompromising opposition to the war aid bill. There is dissension in the No Foreign War Committee, the Committee headed by Verne Marshall, the Iowa editor. 0. K. Armstrong of Springfield, Missouri, announced today that he's resigning from that committee. Armstrong was one o± the three incorporators of the committee. But, he explains, he can’t agree "AH AID - L with Verne iAarshall on policy. Armstrong is going to start a new outfit, an organization to be known as The Peoples1 Campaign Against V.ar. Later today Senator Wheeler let out a blast against the War A id bill. Like other opponents he declared that it would have the effect of establishing a dictatorship in this country to Without limit. He perfectly willing .that we should sell 'v /A surplus war materials to Britain. But he added these words: nI don^t want to finance China1 s war, England1 s war, or Greece’s war.” Then he asked whether the Roosevelt administration would also want to finance the reestablishment of Poland, an effort by the Finns to get back the territory taken by the Russians or by the Ethiopians^to free themselves from Italy. He made light of the loan-lease plan."When peace comes,"he declared, "the whole world must reduce armaments so that no nation can start an aggressive /7^r / war." To **£<& he added the question, "What use to us will be A A all that second-hand Junk then?” The Montana Sera tor also made the charge that the New Deal administration ax had started a smear WAR AID - 5 c^/yyuu< campaign against everybody who caraet out in opposition to the bill. But he he didnft care^ hefd been smeared often. MRS. BOOST VPLT Here's an opinion of particular interest to people /ho are subject to the draft, -i-hero ou^ht to te a uniform rule throughout the country to place married men vho are living with their wives on the deferred list. So says Mrs. Roosevelt. And, she says she feels strongly about this. So far no definite rule has been officially laid down and it's up to the local L>raft Boards. Mrs. Roosevelt thinks there should be a definite policy; first, take single men who haven't sotten under .-ay with their careers and who are not in the middle of their xa schooling. Second, married men who are able to sup. ort their wives even while in service. Also married 1 en whose wives c^.n support themselves. ^EST VIPGINIA The St^te of V.est Virginia is in the position of having o ie United States Senator too many* And that lsn,t meant as sarcasm. It j 11 arises because of a xtf political tussle. The incoming Governor is ‘iatthew N. Neely who resigned ais his seat in the Senate to become Governor. He succeeds Homer t.. Holt, the retiring Governor, who is one of his political opponents. But, before Holt cave up the seals of office he us^d his prerogative to name Clarence E. Martin, former President of the American Bar Asspciation, to that vacant seat in the Senate. Well, the new Governor, Matt Neely, expected something of the sort and to counteract it he resigned from the Senrte precisely at midnight last night. Thereupon he was immediately and secretly inaugurated as Governor, not ^ in.-? tor n orn.al ceremony, and then his first act was to name a Dr. Rosier, President of Fairmont State Teachers College, to the seat which he, Neely, had vacated. Meanwhile, of course, t’nerefs Senator Kilcora, ho was elected to tsce the seat recently held by young Senator W1 ST VIRGINIA ___ _ - 2 push -iolt. And, T.atfs hov> v*est Virginia oomes to have three Senators. Or ap ears to have. There 7/as a dramatic scene today in the executive mansion of the Governor of Georgia* Atlanta. Governor Rivers was making ready to surrender his office to succeed* Governor-elect Eugene Tplmadge. And before he left he signed B his name to aState document. A A Eleven years ago a couple of undergraduates at Oglethorpe University committed a robbery. They k±±± held up a rirgia drugstore,and one of them fired a shot which killed the clerk. They were arrested and brought to justice. One of them was RichardjGray Gallogly, of a family prominent in Atlanta. h0th af-th— received life sentences. iSome peopl^ may recall the name of Ggllogly because of the spectacular jail break achieved in Nineteen Thirty-nine. He got as far as Texas, accompanied hy his pretty young blonde wife, a former school teacher who had married him while he was a convict in the penitentiary. Gallogly J Sloitroi^ixXE^ \ was caughtiand brought back to prison, to serve out the rest of A his term. Several months ago GovernorRivers Oi Georgia issued a parole to George Harsh, the man who had taken part in that PAKDON - 2 holdup, the man supposed to have actually fired the shot. The document that Governor Rivers signed today, one of this last, was a full pardon for Richard Gray Gallogly,* also^ for .Harsh. And as they left the ^xecii ive mention pretty blonde f\ * Vera Gallogly said nGod bless you. Governor, for giving me my husband," w-evV SHIPS Storms on the Atlantic; three ships in distress,* and they within easy radio earshot of the mainland. First of all came the news that a steamer of the American West African Line was in trouble two hundred and forty miles East Southeast of New York. Four critters of Uncle Sam's coastguard and three other vessels rare went to the rescue, as well as a coastguard airplane. Next came a call for help from another steamer of between New York and Bermuda ship of the Barber Steamship Line was taking water in her foreward hours for N he I kx S x Uncle's coastguard ir :: l /. nd There's growing excitement in England over the dynamit^problem of naval and air bases in Ireland. The Churchill government is being urged to take them if the de Valera government /Ko-C will consent. And one London newspaper exposes a Nazi plot to ^ - - - - - - - —- - - - - - - - - - - - —. j grafe^ control of the Emerald Isle.y De Valera, says the London News-Chronical, was made awar^ through diplomatic channels of the A willingness of the Nazi government to provide every possible assistance to Eire. H0wever, the News-Chronicle adds, the DeValera government promptly turned down the offer of any Axis help. That, says the London paper, happened Just before the Nazis jBBsiktAg bombed Eire twice in succession. At the same time it became known that the Irish are facing a food shortage, particularly wheat. ThatTs official, was Their announced by the Minister of Industry and Commerce, wut outside source of supply is virtually cut off and they've not been able to procure any shipping to transport wheat to Eire. MEDITERRANEAN FLSET An American correspondent was on a British battelship in the Mediterranean when it was attacked by German airplanes. And one of the things he reports is thatj^he battle for control of the Mediterranean has developed into a duel between the British navy and Hitler’s air force. \Evidently this was the first time that British mqn-o’-war in that sphere had been faced with Nazi dive-bombing. And it seemed evident to that American reporter that the Nazis had sent their ace bombing pilots down to help Mussolini. They firwt appeared overhead at about eight thousand feet. There they broke into three flights, and dived almost vertically, straight at the British warships. As the Nqzis dived the British sent up a barrage of thousands of shells. Thesemade a cloud so thick that it would not seem possible the planes could keep going. But they did. Mane$vring with remarkable skill the Nazi aces plunged through fche barrage, and some of them seemed to come down to within less than a hundred feet of the water before dropping their bombs. And not one of them could be seen falling into the sea. Later, however, they were intercepted by British fighting planes and some of them were shot down. Again and again the German pilots displayed the same daring and skill. However, they did not appear until after British cruisers and MFDITERRANl.M FLEET - 2 destroyers had sunk one of Mussolini^ destroyers. Evidently there is a lot of difference between by Italian and German bombers. It is noted that the American reporter did not the Nazi dive bombers had scored any important hits, there was a silence almost eloquent. Both Nazis and that British warships were seriously damaged; but of being attacked say whether About that Fascists claim this there is yet neither confirmation nor denial £LtAi£- The latest achievement of the British Royal Air Force was a KXfe chain of raids that carried the bombers as far east / as the River Danube./ Both fighters and heavy tox planes also machine gun attacl^on th# Nazi: troops concentrated along the coast of Belgium, Holland and France^ Those are troops believed to Xm- massed there by Hitler in preparation for the next attempt to invade Britain# The R.A.F. bombers\al39 made raids throughout Germany and Italy, one of them on Axis oil supplies near Venice. GREEKS The Greeks in Athens were busy enjoying themselves today, jeering at, the news from Rome, the news of the latest shake-up in the Italian High Command. The Hellenes interpret rc. J tvf A&wJLSlxh Mussolini’s as a direct consequence of the capture of Klisura by Greek armies in Albania.\They claim the fall of 4 Klisura smashed the Fascist defense in southern Albania. In Rome itfs politely stated that General Soddu, the Underminister of War, has been called from Albania because of ill health. General Cavallero who succeeds him, is Chief of Staff of the Italian armyA/u-^. (foiloiri; hl^^f it h-Phill i pa--s t ory ) LASSIE - ABYSSINIA riemember Dr. Lembie, the American v;ho was Haile Selassief s chief advisor, in the days before the King of Kings was obliged to take it on the lam? Well, Dr. Lambie, is back on the Abyssinian border again. He recently wrote a book entitled "i». Doctor Without A Country”. When he became a sort of Grand Vizier to the Xing of Kings he was obliged to give un his American citizenship. But a Bill has passed the Senate which is intended to restore those rights. I have just had a long mes age from Dr. Lambie. He sends it to me from deep in the Sudan. In one telegram he describes the death of Dr. Robert Grieve, a young American from Seattle, and his wife, who were bombed at Doro, on the Abyssinian border, un important village where the^was no reason at all for the Italians to drop bombs. Dr. Lamoie says that Bob Grieve was attempting to signal the Italian planes with sn American flag and actually fell, with the flag enveloping him. But what is more to the point at presenter. Lambie says that until a few months ago the Sudan wes almost unprotected LAIvIBIS - ABYSSINIA - 2 'Q and now all that has changed. He believes the British are ready for a big push, and says John Bull’s war machine in Africa is now going in full ge*r, with the trailer car of Haile Selassie fastened on behind. He says that large numbers of Abyssinians have been living in the Sudan since the Italo- Ethiopian Yar. And, they are yearning for their cool Abyssinian mountains. Their cry at present said Dr. Lambie is:- Addis Ababa.’ Only a month away.’ On to Addis Ababa.’ Dr. Lambie, "The Doctor Without A Country" feKliixx believes that the push is on now, the campaign that will as he ruts it "change Benito Mussolini into Einito Mussolini," &J2r-Kj£4. .