L.T. - SUNOCO. ','EDNESDAY. OCTOBaH 23. 1940. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Something is aBrewing In Europe. Hitler is on the verge of breaking out in a new move in the theatre of war or else another spectacular diplomatic coup. That’s the general feeling (M&c ^**** t*a- throughout the world tonight. based on another meeting in a railroad car on a frontier. This time it was the frontier between Spain and France. The Fuehrer met Dictator Franco of Spain and held, what his Nazi satelites describe as a "cordial conference." The Fuehrer was not alone when he met the Spanish Dictator. He had with him his Foreign Minister, von Ribbentrop, and with Franco was the Spanish Foreign Secretary, Ramon Suner. The official communique states merely that these two participated in the conference. No further details given out, and speculation w*a not encouraged “sa Berlin. A , the more momentous is that Whatjmade this meeting all tne moie m for a while it was denied. A report of Hitler’s visit to the LEAP _ 2 Franco-Spanish frontier first broke into the news through a German radio broadcast picKed up in New York. This promptly became worldwide gossip^«n^ as soon as it reached Berlin, it was Propaganda Goebbel^ s office even disclaimed the report, said it had no knowledge of the affair. It was true, nevertheless, jot was officially admitted in Berlin only about an A hour and a half ago. The mystery and excitement over this meeting of Dictators was heightened by an event at Vichy, the seat of the Petain government. As you will recall, Pierre i^aval, the Vice-Premier of France, was having a conference with the Nazi Fuehrer at Fontan^bleau, near Paris, ^e suddenly rushed back to Vichy today, for a hurried conference with his chief. Premier Marshal Petain. Thereupon a report leaxed out, unofficially, that Laval had hastened back to Vichy to bring an invitation, a suggestion for a conference between Hitler and Ribbentrop on the one side, Petain and Laval ^n^the^r.accompanying Hitle^were ke!tei“a?hxlf ofnthedsupreme command,and^ a | host of > otner^ h^gh^r^king^ .ieved to mean something important. It is bnusua for of litarv readers to be present at such a conference, nusua. lor ^ oB Served tnat tne Spanish ambassador took part in this conference between Laval and the rest of the IMS. ' 5 petain Cabinet. The understanding is that the purpose of the conference between Hitler and Marshal Petain will be to put an end to the present state of affairs. Technically, France is at war still with Germany. The unofficial explanation is tnat Hitler wants to offer Petain an agreement to hasten the reconstruction of France. What that Spanish business can mean is food for all sorts of conjecture. Of course for months *1 there has been a rumor that Franco »as about to quit his neutrality, Jump into the war against Britain. It has been an open secret that the Spanish people were sold down the river long since, bound to take part in the fighting as soon as Hitler gave the word. And Spanish newspapers have practically admitted as much with their attacks upon the Br itish and/threats to recatj^ure Gibraltar. Follwoing that strategic stroke of Hitler in taking v,Qc-iPd that he and Mussolini over Rumania, it has ^ J were about to advance upcS^r Bast, attack Creece and try to drive the British out of the Mediterranean. is that the conference with Fr&nco indicates an attack upon the British at both ends of the Mediterranean, a three-cornered attack^ _ C 'h+Zr1 " '— ------- —------- zwtt-nm jit is^known that hitler and Mussolini have not only Italian but German planes, tanks and men concentrated for an advance upon Egypt. Mussolini has Albania, Hitler has Rumania, and Bulgaria is ripe to fall into the Axis net at any time So there*s no wonder that that latest meeting of dictators in a railroad car a#T-yttn ian carries tXm widest- implicati ---- -—— U l ^ jl X BRITAIN Hitler Goering’s Where/fi>/> factories are#-eriu»^tiAi!i,Lireipuu Gb%d 7^0 The British infer from ^ha*, that around the uteawy Gosling hasn* t enough bomber pilots experienced in night work^to cover more than one section of the country at a time. An American correspondent made a motor tour of four hundred and fifty miles through the Midlands, -tie reported that the damage inflicted bvyJbosn by Hitler1 s teaflPB had been grave, but not effective in a military r ^ n sen^e. The worst sufferers were the people in the residential districts^both toe working classes and the well-to-do. Production, says the American correspondent, is going on day and night in all armaments factories. The British Air Force has been making a survey of Hitler»s preparations to invade Britain. The Na7is 'Wf gathered hundreds of motor barges, a hundred anti lifty feet long, in the Channel ports. Each of those barges^ can carry two trainloads of men or material, not carload but trainloads. BRITAIN - 2 They are particularly constructed for quick landing of tan*s and heavy guns, it is reported that the ^ yt. requisitioned every barge in Germany^a®^ in German-occupied territory nf- nrcr fiirc The attacks on the Channel ports by the Royal Air Force since the Fifth of September have prevented the Nazis from making use of these barges. By blasting away at the ports, they have thrown all these concentrations of material and intoT^ A A ^ utmost confusion. But that’s been possible only by a constant watch over a front two thousand miles long reaching all the way from Narvik in Norway, to Bordeaux, in France, In spite of the enormous damage that the British air force has inflicted on the invasion ports, the Air Ministry declares that the danger of invasion still persists A And it will I_________ persist so long as the naval units, barges^, troops and air forces are concentrated along the extensive coastline occupied by the enemy. Tne Air Ministry has also been making an estimate of the danger inflicted by the Royal Air Force in Germany. It claims BRITAIN - 3 that the information was gathered from well informed foreign manufacturers. And the Air Ministry adds that it has evidence that the raids of British bombers have crippled twenty per cent of the total production facilities of the Nazis. JAPAN The Japanese Government today backed out of another treaty, another treaty in which the United States was involved. It1 s the Convention of 1911 regulating the seal-fishing industry. Four governments were signers to that Convention, Japan, Russia, Great Britain, and Uncle Sam. The purpose of it was to put an ena to the indiscriminate taking of seals, which was exterminating the animals. The four countries undertook to quit taking seals from the sea and to abide by certain regulations in sealing by land. In denouncing the agreement the Japanese Government flflaimed that it was in order to protect the Japan fishing industry. "Fur seals in the North Pacific," said a Foreign Oflice statement, "have multiplied so much that both direct and indirect damga damages have been inflicted upon fishermen. Therefore Japan can no longer tolerate it since it protects only the seals and does nothing to protect fishing. But here's an event which may be of much greater importance in the affairs of the Far East. An important Japanese today. It was the Mikado’s new Ambassador officer arrived at Moscow JAPAN - 2 __________________________________________ to Soviet Kussia, Lieutenant General Tatekawa. That of itself is significant, a high-ranking Japanese warlord as Ambassador in the Soviet Capitol. His arrival in Moscow has the diplomats puzzled. The betting is that this military diplomat may succeed in bringing about a non-aggression treaty between Stalin and the Japanese, a treaty similar to the one that the Soviets have with Hitler. Of course itfs no secret that this is a consummation devoutly to be wished by Hitler and Mussolini. PROTEST Uncle Sgm is making a complaint to Mussolini. It^otC. the bombing of oil fields l A ^teV Arabia. You may recall last week the fascists were crowing loudly because their bombers had flown all the way to the Persian Gulf, dropped bombs on the Island of Bahrein, which is a British protectorate* c £=0^25. But Mussolini^ also bombed an oil field in ^ ~tfrrU*ry) Saudi^ Arabia, which is neutral^ guff bombed oil properties owned and operated by Americans. The protest was delivered by the State Department today to Mussolini1s Ambassador, Prince COLONNA, WAGE-HOUR When the clock strikes midnight, itTli mark something important in the calendar of workers. That is, people working in interstate industries. For after that, everybody working L<3- \ more than forty hours inj^wwh interstate industries, will be paid overtime. Overtime means, time and a half. Hitherto, the maximum working hours have been forty-two POLITICS jnto a dining car of a western train this in^rning waliusd # Senior Charles MciNary, Repuh^ican candidat^or Vice-President. / Seated at one of the tables he saw a familiar face, and exclaimed: / / , ’’Hei^c there, He.Bfy!” it was^iiis rival, Hehry Wallace, Democratic CoAdidate for Vice-President./Tiie two shook hands and X j/ / X Wallace replied, "Th^s" seems to be becoming a habit for us.n He referred to the fact that ay£ew weeks earlier they had met similarly on ttifi-H mw < train) The opposing^ candidates chatted c^-Z.^LX for 9 /while and had breakfast at adjoining tables. / / jt y / tne* throw eggs at the other# Out in lo^a, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., was taking the stump for his father. Over the radio he told his audience that President Roosevelt was the greatest lover of democracy since Jefferson and Lincoln. He described Wendell Willkie as na babbling brook which will never rise higher than its source.” Willkie, for his part, took up the charges made against him by the Democrats that he had falsified President Roosevelt»s record. In reply he threw out a challenge to iAr. noosevelt, invited him to tell the people where he had falsified the record. POLITICS - 2 **4 challenged him to deny^that the New Deal had spent more than sixty billion dollars of the people*s money. Mr. Roosevelt, on his way to Philadelphia, declared that a vote for him on November Fifth would be a vote for liberty. Tonight there’ll be an extraordinary milestone in the campaign as both candidates will be speaking in the east. President Roosevelt is to make a speech at Philadelphia, his first admittedly political speech in this campaign. At the same time, vvrfctMf ^Willkie will be^ next door, talking at the evening I miub '1^. -bCyjz -*(hd2_Q session of the Forum of the HERALD-TRIBUNE New Y^rk. The A speech before the Forum won-*^ be his only one in the big city, as he is also to make addresses at Manhattan Center and at the A Bronx Coliseum. Evidently, that’s about as close as the two will ever come to the joint debate that Willkie has asked for so A eagerly, but which Mr. Roosevelt has declined. Willkie’s progress throughout the country continues to be stormy. Not only were eggs thrown at him in Chicago, but he was loudly and deliberately booed at Indiana Harbor while Ot talking to a crowd of^en thousand steel workers^ ) --- POLITICS - 3 The man who hit Mrs. Viillkie with eggs at Chicago last nignt was brougntup in police court today. He*s not one of the unemployed but^a stationary engineer at one of the Chicago relief shelters. Incidentally, his markmanship has oaused'him his job. In court ne appeared to be an exceedingly contrite engineer, said he was sorry # -and fenit nis e^L* mor-e- to~boor -tlTai^ His case was continued to a later date as he is charged v.ith a serious offense, assault with a deadly weapon. It was reported that when arrested, he had a whole bagful of eggs. A fellow standing nearby in the crowd said that if he had eggs he»d throw them too. That remark was overheard by a friend of Willkie^, who promptly knocked the man dow: . When one of the eggs made a direct hit on Mrs. V,illkie, her husbana was visibly angry for the first time in the campaign, -r*? ^ .( With drenched flyts at„Ja*#- bh-ramw out tiot'mire iu.' ma irt get- Xa- I A woman out in California had to go to the hospital and was worried about what might happen to her pets while she was away. So she hired a neighbor to take care of them. After she had been in the hospital a while she went home to check up* And this is what she found!- That neighbor she had hired to take care of her pets had killed her dog because it ate too much* He had sold her chickens} he had given away all the can&ries he couldnft sell, ne had made the rabbits into pot pie and sold all the goats except those that ran too fast for him to catch. With this accomplished, he decided that the woman didn»t have any use for her barn, so he tore it down and sold it for lumber. > But in one act he had gone too far. The woman had a horse, an aged animal of thirty years. Nevertheless, he got ten dollars for that horse. Wrhat infuriated the horse*s owner most was that she learned that old dobbin had been sold to be cut up foi dog food. Now, that was a bad mistaKe in the west because, as the Judge informed the man when he was brought into court. the stealing of a horse, even a thirty year old one, is a felony fETS - 2 in California. Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention that the man while rumaging around in the basement had found an iron box containing six hundred and thirty dollarf ofote^savings. That encouraged him to go treasure-hunting, and he had been digging all over her land until it looked SquaSr-gag had been around. as though »no ' \ the woman o^cac. her money, fir began disgorging bills from his hat band, from his A shoes, from his pockets, from anything that would hold money. But all he could produce was three hundred and fifty-nine dollars - three hundred and fifty-nine out of six hundred and thirty. So the judge wanted to know where was the rest of it. The man explained that he had been under great expense. For instance, he nad to feed the horse. "But," said the Judge, "^ou sold the horse." "Well," said the man, "I had to feed the dog." Said the judge:- "¥ou killed the dog." "All right," said the man, "I had to feed the rabbits." Said the judge:- "The rabbits fed you, what do you mean?" PETS - 3 As the man went on to stutter out another excuse, the jud^e lost patience and cried:- "Taxe him to jail, he»s to be held for a higher court." vwvO dlo w-e e r^szs~\