k SUNOCO. WEDNESDAYT JUNE 5. 1?4Q. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: W-trv^- &~<L- ^nartgrre-^ir-sotrme■ tnal the fighting in Flanders A was a mere prologue to the gigantic battle that rages tonight. Hitler made good his threat and let loose upon the French the force* of the Teutonic fury, yes, the old Furor Teutonicus as described by the ancient Roman historian, Tacitus. On a front a hundred and ten miles long, an army of seven hundred ^ ^ " ana one tnousancj defenders. Vln fact, according to soae estimates, the armies pitted | against each other number two million menl A line of death and destruction one hundred and ten miles Ihng from the mouth of the >&omme Aim to the Aisne at Soissons. i thousand^ftttfrrtt, two thousand five hundred^tanks, and one thousanq dive-bombing planes, hurled themselves in a Nazi frenzy upon the/ A And wiiat has it accomplished^ this day of fighting ferocity/ never dreamed of by Napoleon or Hannibal or Caesar, LEAD - 2 not even by A the Hun? After less than eighteen hours f ttds crcisning attack, the Germans xjts announce that theyS*^” A sweeping along toward the open road to Paris./Military expertsl in Berlin are freely prophesying that the bacti^will be in Parii in a week, or at most a fortnight\^ The grim'Tru^. that^th^^ have crashed through the Vfeygand line. They themselves cla im TP’ to have done it in several places. The French admit that German ^ii tanks got through their lines, but they say it was at no important points. And the statement in Paris tonight, at the end of first day of fury, was that the results were favorable. The High Command reports that the German attacks in general were checked and that even where tanks had got^through, French troops hel d all the strong points. The German High Commandedeclares that they broke the Weygand defenses at several points, particularly at the mouth of the Somme and at Ham, east of Laon. The Nazis also say theyTve reached the canal jointing the Aisne and the Oise. That puts them only fifty-eight miles from Paris. LEAD _ 3 The Nazi assault is described by stratagists as a titanic pincers movement. One arm of the German forces is swinging down the coast of Normandy towards LeHavre. The left arm of the pincers is thrusting at Soissons*p??d-@«a^£e£i?«-* The purpose is obvious. The Nazi strategy is to get Paris between the two shafts of the pincers,. In spite of the high mechanization of modern warfare, in many places the French and Germans were fighting man to man, body to body, bayonet against bayonet. The French admit that near Amiens, large swarms of German tanks crossed the Somme and crashed their way into the suburbs of the city on the north shore. LEAP - 4 In London it was admitted that the main job of holding off this latest blitzkrieg was up to the French. However, both the London and Paris High Commands reported that some British troops were fighting alongside of the French. This gives the lie to the statement from Berlin that the French ore fighting alone since the last Englishman has been driven out of the continent. And it is reported thej^ are holding tneir own. The Southern British Expeditionary force is a small one, but it contains part of the flower of the British army. eet'THe Nazis didn’t do all the attacking today. General Weygand let loose a counter-attack along the Somme and Aisne Rivers, vigorous counter-attacks, particularly strong at Longwy where the Left German Flank hinges close to the Maginot fiercest Line. The part of the German asault was in the neighborhood of Amiens, also at lerronne and Abbeville at the mouth of the Somme. One of the places most savagely bombarded by the C/7/?0f/V Nazis was the famous Automobile factory, the most modern in Europe. However, the invaders did not succeed in destroying the a j c a a s i . LEAD - 5 bulliiags where I lb the cars are turned out* Only t.K executive offices and the bookkeepers quarters. ^eqn^'hile the Royal Air Force and French bombers were making raids in Germany which they described as successful, meaning that they carried death and destruction into the heart of Naziland. The clamor in Paris for a bombing of Berlin will probably not get any attention from the High Comnand. It is pointed out that Berlin is too far away for raids by high-speed bombers to do any serious damage. The Royal Air Force concentrated principally on oil refineries and fuel depots in the Ruhr Valley. THYSSEN One of the biggest questions of the war is whether Hitler has the.stuff- to carry on a long Conflict. -c -- /\ aanaf. goods, implements A there has been a terrific lot of wishful U>sJ^ — thinking in answer to that question, tfne of the biggest German steel tycoons gives an answer today^ wXta m isiiiS mndt Germany is not sufficiently prepared. That German industrial mogul is Fritz Thyssen, formerly ^ae’-of Hitler’s richest and strongest backers^now an exile in Switzerland. What he had to say is published today in the latest issue of the American magazine, which obtained the article by radio. Thyssen declared that never was a war so recklessly started and with less industrial preparedness. He says he warned Mr Marshall / t£i ^ ^ fiasxxRg Hermann GoeringJ that the country was not ready.. ftgr WODEHOUSE Some ten days ago a cocktail party was going on at a villa in LeTouquet, the famous aftd—seaside resort ^ V (/ t. J fr t t4i on the French coast. The hosts, Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Wodehouse, ix yes,the creator of Jeeves, that paragon of British fiction butlers. There was a knock at the ddor and in came a French gendarme. He informed Monsieur and Madame Wodehouse that the 'Soches were coming. Tne Wodehouses laughed it off, refused to take it seriously. They went on with the party. But it wasn’t a joke. The Nazis were at hand and they arrived uninvited D % . They asked some questions of Mrs at that cocktail Wodehouse and then set her free, advising her to go south. Her husband, however, they interned. Such is the report from London. it i-B Iiulw uf ri03BLi^~~n~l4~ ---. l — r„-.+ Vrfl -p y .n nd ft EGYPT The Italian invasion of Egypt, which was rumored to be on the way, has been at least postponed. Last week it was announced that the Italian Minister to Cairo was going to Rome June Fifteenth. Today he says heTs going to stay on the job. Nevertheless, Italians are leaving Egypt in large numbers. For instance. seven hundred students are going home tomorrow. Usually the Italian students who go to the Nile for their summer vacation. remain until much later in the year. Ani the latest from Cairo is that the black-out has been made even stricter. t DarENSE Senator Clam* Pepper of Florida ts feels that we shouldto the relief of France and Great Britain^ should turn over warplanes, warships and A supplies owned by Oncie Sam’s Army and Navy, fie has put his ideas up to his colleagues and twice within a week the Fa* eign Relations Committee of the Senate has turned him down. However, Pepper declares that he is not going to give up. U going to offer his resolution again even though Senator Jam Guffey of Pennsylvania was the only colleague wh^pwckett Pepper clainB that there is increasing popular approval of his idea. O One of the immediate measures for defense will be an embargo on machine tools, an embargo by Act of Congress. As a matter of fact, manufacturers have already, of their own accord, held back shipments of machine tools that were going to foreign countries, particularly Japan and Russia. suggestion to help in the defense program comes from Colonel Frank Hyatt, President and Commandant of the f'ltf fi- 'usu-l Pennsylvania Military College. is to spread information A DEFENSE - 2 about modern military organization and warfare* Tens of thousands of men, says Colonel Hyatt, know virtually nothing on this subject* If they could be properly infornted they would be far more enthusiastic and ready to cooperate in an intelligent way. So Colonel has communicated his plan to General Marshall, Chief of Staff of Uncle Sam's Army* The suggestion is that reserve officers training corps units at college and universities ehoold be used for training of -fti civilians, not only men of military age but also middle-aged, A Manufacturers for instance, who are given an understanding about modern wrarfare will become far better qualified to help in the national program for defense. ^ / m m m w MOTOR c/vrv^7 -wts. /t ■IM.I illji^ have been proclaiming that tte Na^is have a better airplane motor than any other country, in th^ iT»g^oncc7 aH4-ln-^he-"&€ri'yp3-ftpwa&d—papeiLS^utha^- i4 wa-g* Wt»e^■^l»n^i> any owwed gr’rrse'l "by Piitlc Oa^ news from Houston, Texas* brothers named Toce, mechanical engineersoust ox** have been working on a new aircraft motor, w' n-ic gYflligpg<* They say they can prove that it develops twice, the horsepower of any known motor although itfs no larger and is considerably lighter. It has no carburetor, no crakcase compression, performs as well in the stratosphere as i± at sea level, and has only half as | e/k^l+4lr\ many moving parts as the ordinary motori Automobile peopl^will be interested to learn thatj 1583^ feed their fuel straight into the combustion chambers ano tnat the motor r 'i h fires on every revolution of the crankshaft. t \ - -- And here 1 s A indTr-nri^ Everybody has been saying that in case of war we might be up against it for rubber, since we import it MOTOR - 2 from the East Indies. Actually, that will no longer be necessary. It was announced ooday in New York that automobile tires made of Synthetic rubber are now being made by^ttiE=SzrrC55aWBtt: CK/^ j Z Its base is crude petroleum. synthetic product nAmeripoln or ^Liberty Rubber.w The first reaction to that news was that it would produce havoc and ruin in the rubber plantations of the Dutch East Indies and the Malay States. Actually, however, that will be a long time ahead. John L. Collyer, President of taap Goodrich fcewjwmy*, says that at present his synthetic rubber is more expensive than the natural rubber, though for some things, such as gasoline hose, pressure Rose, brake lining, it is better because it lasts longer, tio tnu fwittmihfii—jbs, . even if the United States were ce»pjr»te>ly shut off from the rest of the world, you would be able to ix* fill •tawtk with Blue Sunoco ana go on synthetic tires. jiAMS Here's news for haws, meaning licensed amateur radio operators, In^future they may not send or receive messages from abroad. That's an order, made public today by the Federal Communications Commission. ' It applies to of the A A. A vS fifty-five thousand licen^d amateurs in this country. However, it doesn't mean they can't communicate with fellow hams in Alaska or Puerto Rico or Hawaii or the Canal Zone, or even the Philippine Islands. Anybody caught disobeying thi* order will A be without a license. The F.C.C. does not explain.But it's easy to guess that the reason is to prevent the use of amateur radio licenses by so-called subversive elements in this country. CAPTAIN bART^LTT AlNiD r.,T. A famous old sea dog just sat dovm beside me. We are going out to dine on Polar bear and walrus in a moment. You all know him, Captain Bob Bartlett, who commanded Peary*s ship on the expedition to the North Pole, and who has either led or been with so many other Arctic expeditions. Captain Bartlett goes to the Arctic every year. How about it. Bob? Is the war going to keep you away from the Polar regions this summer? —o— CAPT. BAnTLBTT: - I should say not. I wish I was over in Europe fighting them Germans. But, mebbe I’ll get around to that a little later. This summer I!m going North again as usual. But, I still have room for two or three more young fellows to ship with me. Yes sir, we are going north to where civilized people live, the Eskimo. Up where people haven*t gone mad as they have in Europe. GUILD *OT3 3 ht a number of lawyers in this country were dissatisfied with the American Bar Association, thought it was too conservative. So th^ organized the National Lawyers Guild. One of the lawyers who Joined that Guild is now an Assistant ~E-£/" v J c $ Secretary of State, A.A. Berle, Jr. B# resigned from the Guild ^^Sphatically and drama tic ally reason ;H^=g^rgrfi "SM The Assistant Secretary of State sa^' he Joined the National Lawyers Guild because he hoped it might represent the liberal element among American lawyers. Now, however, he declares in his own words, "It is obvious that the present management of the Guild is not prepared to take any stand which conflicts with the Communist Party line." In short, the National Lawyers Guild is Just another American stooge for Stalin and the Kremlin mob. ANENBERG Another chapter in the case of MoaoE Annenberg, \ owner of the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER and a chain of racetrack sheets. This is the official news from Washington on the settlement of Uncle SamTs claims against him for income tax. Annenberg has settled with Uncle for eight million dollars plus A. interest. The Internal Revenue Commissioner says the interest will probably bring the sum up to ten million dollars. HeTs allowed to pay it in seven instalments. And to guarantee it he has had to pledge everything he owns including majority control of the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, also his ranch in Wyoming and his villa in Florida. y~against ■ hi