L.T., SUMOCQ. THURSDAY, DECEMBER .^0, iq ^? GOOD EVENING EVERXBODX: This time a year ago, social traditions in Washington, D.C. were shaken to their foundations. The shaker was none other than the Vice-President of the United States, the Honorable John Nance Garner of Texas. He picked up the telephone^ called up the Big Chief in the White House, and said: "Look, can*t we cut out this dinner business, I mean the dinner you1 re supposed to give me the first week in January and the dinner I'm supposed to give you the first week in February? Let*s don*t and say we did." To which the President replied: "Okay by me. Jack." Settled to their satisfaction, but not to the satisfaction of Washington society. People who have nothing better to do than to be horrified were duly horriefied and the burden fell upon Mrs. James. M. Helm, social secretary of the White House. In order to placate the horrified, she has had to rearrange the entire invitation list of the White House so as to crowd in all the people who should have been invited to the Vice-President*s dinner. GARBER - 2 Just to show the mucilaginous force of Washington social traditions, this time even the sturdy independence of Vice-President Garner yields. Much as he hates it, he!s going to climb into the soup and fish next week, and dine politely at the White House. A month later, Mrs. Garner will again shake the moth bails out of the Vice-presidential tail-coat while the gentleman from Texas dines the President and the First Lady at the New Willard Hotel. ROOSEVELT Uaybe it is nice to be living ln the Whlte House, but it must have its draw-backs too. Not the least of them is that thousands of people feel themselves not only entitled but qualified to write letters to the White House j S sseih of c r L fc LC i. - ib so -te t in tinate personal affairs . For instance:- As you may have heard, the President and the First Lady are giving a big dance for the young people at 1L00 Pennsylvania Avenue tonight. A few days ago an inquisitive reporter /r asked Mrs. Roosevelt "Will you allow the Big Apple to be danced in the White House"? To which Mrs. Roosevelt replied, "certainly if they want to, why not?n Then she explained she had never seen the Big Apple danced and certainly did not propose to judge 4 *^ spectacle that she had not witnessed. Upon her return from a vi^it to her daughter Anna in beattie she found hundr ds of, letters awaiting her. Most of them were comments upon her failure to be narrow-minded and puritanical about that dance she has never seen. bo today she lets It he known In no unefertaln terms that what she said last week still goes. She refuses to Judge something she hasn't seen. And, as she put it "it's up to the children," whether the ball room at 1200 Pennsylvania Rvenue resounds to the frenzied step of the Big Apple Me NARY Here comes sons ebody who talks back to young Robert E. Jackson of the Department of Justice. Senator fficMary of Oregon, minority leader in the Senate today described Jackson's attack on big business an "an obvious effort to create an alibi", an alibi for the so-called business recession. Senator McMary believes those two attacks of the Assistant Attorney General were planned in order to prepare the way for his Chief's message to Congress. The President by the way has put aside all other business in order to prepare that message. Getting back to Jackson's attacks. Senator McHary salds #1 don't think that is the way to handle a grate domestic problem, This is a time for goodwill and cooperation rather than a group of political speeches aimed at a body of our citizens." And he continued,'1 "thoae attacks of Mr. Jackson are obviously attempts to throw the blame on the shoulders of the business world. " And,1 said Senator MeKary "business is entitled to some censure bu : CHINA The Far Eastern news focuses a lurid glare on two great historic cities. And in both cases the somber theme is - destruction . On the tsoutii Cnina. coast lies Canton, cast, sprawling, teeming with Oriental life. The South China metropolis! From Canton come most of the Chinese you see around the world, the clever merchant in Malaya, th4 cunning worker of Hawaii, the laundryman and chop suey purveyor in the United States. Canton was bombed savagely today, the Japanese planes rained high explosives. Thirty war craft of the sky bombarded the heart of the city. Many buildings were destroyed. Scores of people were killed and wounded. So Canton — one of the most populace cities on earth, comes more and more into the lurid light of war — news — as the next probable objective of Japanese attack. The second Chinese city beset by destruction today is far to the North, Tsingtao, metropolis of the peninsular province of Shantung. A strange place is Tsingtao, mid so much of ancient historic China. It so curiously modern and of the .... *- CHIKA - 2 oresent day. Built by the Germans, monument to Prussian efficiency on the China Coast in the days before the *orld War. iet the orovince^is dedicated to the memory of Confuscius, his homeland, the grave ^kixa± philosopher who, more than twelve centuries ago, taught a doctrine of filial piety and shaped the Chinese mind. action today mam not A A --- Chinese. Wipuon* s men are battling toward the city wiih savage Tsingtac^r destruction today mam not Japanese, but A A ~" fighting. Desperate defenders promised to i± leave nothing but ruins for them to capture • And today they were keeping their oromise — blowing up Tsingtao with dynamite, terrific €S74U i JL explosions reverberating as great building t'l! gTT> <> Jrjr^rcrgl 1 uTm \ in Shanghai a mere few pistol shots were heard today, petty gun fire in that murderous carnival of shooting in China. But the pistol shots out dom one of the most eminent men of the Far East— known far and wide for two things, his wealt of religion. The Chinese Rockefeller they called hi > fabulous interests in Western industries in China, corporations. In religion - a Catholic. The chief Catholic layman of China, decorated by the Pope and by the French and Belgian governments for his fabulous religious charities. Loh Peh-hong was killed today by assassins disguised as orange pedlers. The false orange pedlers approached him and pumped bullets into the Catholic Bockefeller of China* It wasn' t his mm wealth or his religion that brought his death, but his politics, they say. He was reputed to have a leaning toward the Japanese, advocating concession and agreement* He was a member of the committee which is reorganizing Shanghai under Japanese domination. He was expected to become the Msyor of the great city on the China coast * . i. * FILM I've been resting up today - and I hope I don't still sound tired. But what a night last night was! I finished work at seven o'clock this morning — on those PAMY pictures. PAHUI if you've been to the Philippines. I hear that all over the country people have been storming the motion picture theatures to get a look at the film record of the PANAY bombing just about thg most historic of all newsreel pictures. But what a job it was fdrrthose who worked on it all last night l It was the thrill of gambling — that first look, seeing what the cameraman had got. Amazing how much he did get — like the tragic pity of the dying Italian journalist, Sandro Sandri, his fellow Italian newspaperman comforting him in his last hours, as he lay among the reeds of the river island. That second Italian journalist, Barzini by name — a well known name in New York. He's the son of the famous editor who for some years ran an Italian laguage newspaper inNew York. Then, PANAY Officer Anders, who was shot in the throat the pictures show him lying in a remot e Chinese village, his hand , i j r, -t-vio l-tale white bandage being dressed. And around his neck is t FILM - 2 of a throat wound, which kept him from talking, so that on the PANAI he had to give his orders to thecrew by writing with chalk on the deck. Most telling of all — the last scenes of the picture, the inevitables place to tell of the end of the crisis — Japanese apologies. The scene was — the flag draped boffin of American Petty Officer Ensinger who was killed. Solemn, simple, affecting. What a place to relate how Tokyo apologized to Washington, profuse regrets — nWe(re so sorry.0 Funeral scenel And apologiesl Flag- draped coffin — Washington accepts the Japanese apology, and nThe incident is closed 1° With those words on the screen they carry out the coffin. gTT.K FOLLOV k film PougtiKeepsie had its bonfire today -- the burning of the s H k at Vassar. Ihe students union nieeting there put on its demonstration against Japan — the wear lisle campaign. Around the bonfire of silk stockings, neckties, and silk shirts and even silk undies — the students danced a ring around the rosey — did a flaming big apple and chanted this elegent lyric: - If you wear cotton Japan getfs nut tin. SPAIN Spain was fighting a huge battle todays m its murderous struggle between Left and Right franco * s men are driving at Teruel with every weapon at their command - the fury of modern war unleashed to the utmost. Franco’s men are battling with Spanish tenacity and desperation to relieve their comrades who are besiege and beleaguered in the City of Teruel - surrounded and threatened with extermination by the Left Mngers^ It’s many days ago now since the radical government announced that the city was captured, but still Teruel resists. The Left Wingers, in a surprise attack, crashed through, surrounded the town, captured most of it.;, But a desperate band of Franco’s men held out, and are still holding outfit’s a case of massive buildings against cannon fire and dynamite, the Alcazar story all over again. conquer The Right Wing army is not far away, our mu ^ ^ ^ TrT.^n»s generals claim they have made tne defenses foot by foot. Franco s gene strategic advances in a flanking movement and are threaten! g cut off large forces of Left Wingers, 355 S RfiUMANIA In Roumania the drive against the Jews has begun with a vengeance. In bucharest three newspapers owned by Jewish publishers are to be suppressed. Correspondents say that one of them is the best informed journal in the country. A bulletin from Vienna reports that Premier Goga is going to cancel the licenses of Jewish innkeepers in the country districts, suppress all Jewish traders, expropriate A their lands and cancel their naturalization. On top of which Roumania’s new Prime Minister gave an interview to an English newspaper man, saying: wWe do not hate the Jews. We are not anti-Semitic in principle.^ And he explained: nWe are doing this to keep Roumania for the Roumanians. In a population of eighteen million, more than one and a half million are EARTHQUAKE More panic in Mexico City, another earthquake. At five forty-two this morning the people of Mexico's capital were frightened by a repeated shaking of their houses, and ominous underground rumblings. Those subterranean noises, as a matter of fact, have been continuing off and on ever since the Twenty-Second of December, The earthquake experts located the center of today's shock out in the Pacific Oc^&n southwest of Acapulco. But it was so violent that the effects were felt way in the interior. At a place called Ometepec, in the State of Guerrero, the terror is so great that the people don't dare sleep in their houses and are spending their nights in the fields. YACHT At San Pedro, California, G-men are eagerly awaiting the arrival of a little white yacht, a pleasure boat. Today there’s anything but pleasure aboardShe's being towed through the waters of the Pacific by a Coast Guard cutter, and within her luxurious hull she bears a grim cargo of melodrama, mystery, perhaps murder. That's why agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation are waiting for her. riea oir-^he high oo»c frs uh That yacht, which sails under the curious name of AAFJE, is a schooner with a motor auxiliary. She had been chartered for a two-day cruise by a wealthy hotel man of Santa Barbara, California. At the end of the two days, she had not put back into port and there was no word from herr itoxriiajl— On Monday, a pilot aboard one of saw her floundering helplessly in the long •ftonrn hundred and fifty miles Uncle Sam's naval planes swells of the Pacific at Catalina,I-ela*»A«-’ Tlie naval pilot stuck around her, then dived written in lag large black letters on the closer. Thereupon he saw schooner's mainsail the ^ACifJ - 2 dramatic message, "S.O.S." And he espied lyon the deck the body of a man. On Tuesday a Navdl seaplane located the yacht; landed, and the pilot went aboard. When he returned to shore he reported that a man aboard had told him the body on deck was that of the hotel owner, Dwight Faulding, of Santa Barbara. Be added the information that the dead man had been shot. Furthermore, there was no food, or water on board, that everybody had been hungry and thirsty for three days. Navy officers have declined to give out any information to the public, saying that it's now a matter for the G-Men. AUTOMOBILE Here*s a story about somebody who is sore. You»d think It would be some Chicago cops, but that's only the minor part of it Robert Zwikel made a U turn on Michigan Avenue, whereupon the indignant traffic officer stopped him and grimly wrote out a ticket He tried to hand it to Zwikel, but Zwikel refused to lower the window of his car, and the policeman couldnft shove the ticket through the glass. T,Pull open that window!” howled the policeman. r Zwikel inside just shook his head. nYoutre under arrest,” roared the cop. Zwikel still wouldn1! open the window; he had the car locked, and the cop couldnH get in. The enraged officer called the patrol wagon, which arrived but did no good. They had to get a big truck and haul the Zwikel automobile around to the police station. There the stubborn motorist still refused to open up. The cops were furious. They smashed the glass with the gun and dragged Zwikel out. He faced t exasperated police. ”Say,” he said reproachfully, nthis is going to make finTOMQBILE - 2 w wife mighty sore! I had an appointment with here an hour ago and I guess she's still waiting. And won't she be sore!" I suppose the wrath of the police can be of minor consequence to a husband — when his wife is sore. Well} I * ve got a date to meet the wife, on skis_up at Lake Placid. So SLONG UNTIL TOMORROW.