SUNOCO.---- FRIDAY. AUGUST Pg 1941 GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: The Germans announce the capture of the old Esthonian port of Tallinn^ and the event was described as something like the burning of Ty*oy. Tallinn in flames, a havoc of explosions defend. When the Red Army pushed through the Baltic provinces during the early days\of tliis war, they transformed Tallinn into an important naval bas^ — powerfully fortified \ Berlin claims'that a part of the Soviet Navy was blasted \ \ and sunk. Ships trj^ng io ^yicuate the garrison, dive bombers swooping to the attack. and fire. The So’^iet forces destroying what they could no longer f-H The harbor of Tallinn littered with the wreckage of many Soviet warsMps and merchant vessel^ Berlin reports that the railroadTr^m Leningrad to Mosaow has now been cut in several places. The Germans claim that Leningrad is now almost encircled, and will soon be under siege. mff E WAR - 2 m France, the condition of Laval s eems to be in some doubt# The bullet that hit him in the chest is lodged near the heart, and the doctors say cannot be removed. There's hardly any news from far off Iran. Presumably, the Persian government has capitulated to British and Soviet demands. "'rniiiiina fffTT.f.R - 1,TIISS0LINI The Roosevelt-Churchlll meeting on the Atlantic has been described as - «The Worldts Worst Kept Secret."| The Hitler- Mussolini get-together, as announced today, a different S 0 P^=^"'WW! 11 !,I IL might well be called - "The World’s Best Kept Secret.*N/The two dictators have been conferring for five days, and today’s o5?^icial bulletin from Berlin gives us the first hint tliat we’ve had. The worst kept ^^cret gave a tip to Hitler and Mussolini, if i and they decided to show just HN^^egflcient they were in the business | cover of censorship and 1041^ up. Anyway ,j hey’ve been touring the Russian War front since Monday, and not a rumor has coine^ drifting.| I’ve been next to the news ___ a wire ail along, and can vouch for the fact that not even a surmise came across. Today’s dfficial bulletin from Berlin reads in part as follows:- ’’In the course of this visit the Fuehrer and Duce proceeded to important points on the Eastern Front." It adds thatjy^y were at both the i^orthern and southern headquarters of the Blitzkrieg army - the Leningrad area and the Ukraine.. I It isn’t clear at all what this war front || touring mean^. iiaybe^lH4^i^J^as jusl^shov.ing Mussolini around, jjj Jt impressing the black shirt stat^^man whom i/vinston Churchill likes to call - "Hitler’s LacKey." anywayVtMussolini says he was impressed. As the conference broke up today, he issued a statement declaring that, what he had seen on the Russian Front convinced nim that the Axis powers have, in his words, "Saved European civilization from the deadly danger of Bolshevism". The meeting of the two dictatirs comes as a dramatic foUow-up to the formulation of the eight-point peace plan, and it’s easy to sur..lse, that the eight points were a maior topic of the Hi tler-iiussolini palaver. Maybe that’s why they ;|7TI-.L-2U^SQLI i \1 -3 were together for so long - the subject so important. A ready guess Would be that the partners tried to figure out some sort of answer — war aims of their own, a peace program in competition with the nooseveit-Churchill eight points. The official beriin bulletin mentions the ^Jazi-Bascist new order. and speaks of removing what it cails, "The causes wnich in the past have given rise to European wars." Then it continues as follows:- "The destruction of Bolshevist danger and plutocratic exploitation," it says, "will create the possibility of fruitful peaceful and harmonious collaboration by all the peoples o f the Eurppean Continent." That covers alot of ground - Bolshevist danger and plutocratic exploitation: it includes both Communism and capitalism - and maybe the destruction of both of these is to be anaounced as the ^Is peace program. The official . ^ .r «11 soeclfic. It merely gives a hint Berlin bulletin is not at all specii , . ^nY\ and Mussolini may that txhe five-day conference betwe louncement of some sort be followed in the near future b> the ann •ter-war settlement. of program lor an ax I! 111 11 ) HITLEtA-^USSOIilN I -4 Here*s a late Italiaa bulletin that will interest Captain iiddie Rickenbaciter who is sitting beside me tonight. It says, Eddie, that Hitler and Mussolini flew over the entire Russian V^ar Front in a German bomber — with Mussolini at the controls, the pilot. •0 uAUIQ The i4azi-»DOviet radio skirmish conti.uues with a new twist tonight. For several days now, the Berlin Bulletins of war news have been bedeviled by a voice cutting in and maKing jeering remarks - a mysterious radio station intruding and spoilint, the effect of the victory announcements. Let the Wazi broadcaster pause for breath, and the heckler comes in with a mocking retort. “e'U say, "That'J Just another Goeb, ,els lie." Or - "It wasrt't a victory, it was a defeat” London has been listaning in to the dialogue and naturally London has been hugely amused. The British call the hecller - Ivan the Terrible. There's more i-ondon amusement than ever tonight, bec^se the Berlift victory announcer tried sometning new - tried to fo.l the iCecller. He began each radio get'it acBOss before the mocKlng new IS story with a headline - to voice could cut in. But Ivan the The announcer beg'mi bristcly. terrible still had his say. •e -hinp iMews." Whereupon ”iiere is tne «»*=>• the mysterious voic e promptly snapped ; tihere is the old liar again.” And so it went on through the program. with Ivan the Ter.ible playing hii^ usual pranks aG!^||| t 1 f japan The word from the Far East is that Japan is seriously trying to come to terms with the United States. The tone of the news from across the Pacific might lead us to believe that Tokyo is in a mood to go a considerable distance in an effort to straighten things out with Uncle Sam. President Roosevelt today gave a hint th- at there may be news of a special sort on this on Monday. That's Labor Day, and it also happens to be the second anniversary of the outbreak of the war in Europe. At today's White House news conference, the President was reminded of this and asked whether he had any rv t A A tndav and reminded the newsmen comment to make. He replied, not today, ana that he plans to make an address to the nation on Monday. This mav include an Important statement on international affairs. ar.d a likely guess is — Japanese -American affairs. _ marking at the same It is to be quite a radio program of the beginning of the war. time. Labor Day and the anniversary I, myself, happen to know something about it, because I'm to lend will be a nationwide radio hand. Geographically speaking, it fr, two o'clock Eastern Daylight _ from one to two o event, plus London Time, on Monday afternoon , with a speech by the President. i' UlSblON Th .re*s a touch of the dramatic in today*s appointment of Averell Harrlman. That son of the Great railroad magnate of the past generation will head the American Military Mission to hoviet hussia./ ‘rtwttv.w«fc#C^inounced by President Roosevelt today, averell l^arriman, since ig^t spring, has been in London t (t j It acting at. expedjtor of the Lend-Lease program, and now he goes to aobcow to pliy a leading part in conferences for expediting A ( aid to the Soviets. The President did not state who the other I members of the |a^rican Military Mission woulu be. \ 'j y Th^name of/^arriman has an odd ring in connection with Red -oscow, otalln and Communism. Karriman, the railroad builder^ symbolized an exciting era of the r ugh and tu^ • n. IP of - Frenzied Finance./ And capitalism that earnea tne name oi ________ f now his son heads a military mission to aid the Bed Army. 5 : i i •nt no the old moral - that times do chang^: That T A ri-,d still another Interesting today, and among its members we find o m aerial mission tnat will -1-4- TV.Q Mmv aniounces an a^i personality . The army tu - fronts an air corps group that will tour tne various v»ar fion > f^ISSION - 2 study conditions ol* war aviation Tor the purpose of promoting the aid-to-Britain aircraft program over here. It will be headed by the Air Corps Chief, General Brett; and one of its members will be our old frind Major James H. Doolittle. Xes, Jimmy Doolittle that flashing figure of the sky who a few years back was blazing air trails in the sky, blazing them with blinding speed for the Army jn army air circles they still talk of that incredible adventure, when Jimmy Doolittle with two broken ankles, was hoisted into a speed plane and proceeded to make an almost incredible solo.- flight across the Andes in South America. I i i i 1 ‘ ! 9. uw ^ei^Xj>y~y^ Gx^ \ . ‘__ The principal witness at the senate oil hearing i ZiT^^ today wciS Chair.nan Land of the Maritime Commission - j suggested the construction of huge barges to xX haul oil. He said thoit such barges could be built principally of concrete. could be towed by tankers, and could carry enough petroleum to alleviate the snortage in the Eastern states to jhOTr-thrt tonj of tirU k tanker to-xing two barge^could transfer four hundred and fifty thousand tons. ^ /I fj the barges to Chairman Land^sa-id^^dic P ^ the projected pipelines!- Firstly - because they could be built tore qulcily,' tJecondiy - they \»ouldn't lequiie n concrete. so much steel. ^ hunar •ed barges made of reenforcea tonq of steel, while to would take only ^ hundred thouoa Eastern States would build pipelines capable of seivlng thousand tons of steel. Vdiere maritime commission require seven hundred and fifty 1? The chairman of the . areas of defense to get ail that meta said it would have to I ! to be taken from other V, ^ it's needed badly. V.e simply work, such aS shipbuilding - w er contended. . 1 t.o af‘-ord the plpemes, he *t hiot the steel to ai- haven' A OIL - 2 From the side of the Senate Comir-ittee that is conducting the oil shortage investigation, Senator Maloney of Connecticut made the most important statements. He raised the :iuestion - should the Latin-American countires be permitted to get as much oil as the Eastern states? That^s the arrangement at present - we are supplying the republics to the south with as much petroleum as the Atlantic seaboard s tates are getting. And that, intimated the Senator, may turn out to be a danger to our National Defense Program, - because of the amount of defense industry- in the East. Ii!^TBQ..TO C a PT/^IN RICKLNbACKkH who is going to be the Number One Flyer, the Ace of Aces in this second World War? No man knows, m fact, so far we have neard very little about any particular outstanding airman. Tne number of flyers is so much greater than in tne First World War. The sky sometimes te filled with pl&nesj aviction playing a far greater part. Well, the American Ace of Aces in World War One is Co^- sitting beside me* •tjddie Riclienbacker had his friends and A ni s family and perhaps himself badly worried some months ago -- as we all know. For months Eddie fought for his life -- a thing he has done before. But, this time he was on his back. X h And while he was on his back he has just been telling me ne had ix time to do a lot of thinking about a lot 'it,. of things. For instance, Eddie? . . j/—7— RICK^S^BiiCKLR: For one thing‘liOwell, I thought a lot about my friends. I sort of felt that they were helping me out, giving me strength. In fact, I *^now they were. And, that*s one of the reasons why I’m still alive. ^ - ""“Li-T Jf TT INTRO TO CAPTAIN nTCK-FNgAriq^ _ ktlii you said you also thought about our country. national defense, and so on? CAPTAIN R.i I did. Yes indeed, I did. And one of the conclusions I came to was this: - The reason why we have so little national unity — and we all agree that we need a lot more right now — is because of our lack of unselfish It'aders among Government officials, employers, labor, and uvx almost every walk of our national life. That’s why we are not getting enough planes, enough tanks, enough rifles, enough shells and enough of everything so desperately needed right now. In Germany the people belong to the State. They have no choice. They do as they are told — or else! The same is true in other countries run by dictators. In England it is that way too because the British Empire is fighting for its life....... Here in this country some of us realize the importance of national emergency. Others don’t. It all seems a long way off to most Americans. lAe still go arout our daily lives each trying to get as much as he can. The laborer tries to get all he can. Employers the same. So also with ! i . INTRO TO CAPTAIIM BICKEi^OFCFR ^ g those in political life. As t i 1 lay there for months on my back it became plain as davlieht tn mo t' o uayiign^ zo me that our greatest need is for patriotic unselfishness. And if we don»t hurry up about it, if we don’t all become more unselfish and if we don’t oil gain in wisdom, then there is a melancholy future ahead all of us, and we are/going to pay a terrific penalty......... I wish I could maice that ten times stronger. At any rate, you can taice that from a fellow v'ho knows that he*s living on borrowed time! ^ ^ ^ L.T. Thanks Eddie. I hope everybody in America is listening in tonight. There is no man in this country forwhom the American people have greater admiration than for Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. Twenty some years ago he gave everything he had for his country. And now he has come back from the edge of the beyond, to ui*ge us all to unite unselfishly and nurryup about it. BHODOCTION The new board Just appointed In Washington Is being called — the Ministry of Supply. On an alphabetical basis you might style It - S.T.A.B. The full name Is Supply, Priorities and Allocations Board, That sound fairly complicated, so let*s see if we can get some simple explanation. Xes, here it is — a statement by William S. Knudsen. Still continuing to be a director of the Knudsen, formerly of General Motors, becomes a member of the new agency — he’s to concentrate on planes and tanks. Tod^ he made the following statement;- "The Job of the board,»» said he, to make an overall survey of materials in the country and then distribute them to the best advantage for National Defense. "I think it will be good," Knudsen declared. ”We can sit down and work out all phases of the Defense Program,” Sere*s hoping he’s right. And now, Hugh.