L.T. SUNOCO. MOMDAg. September 15. 1941 GOOD EVENItIG EVERIBODY: The principal source of head line news tonight is President Roosevelt upon his return to Washington from a cruise on the Chesapeake - a cruise that capital observers believe to have been of the utmost importance. Several heads of defehse production were aboard the POTOMAC with the President - Director General Knudsen of O.P.M., Price Control Chief Leon Henderson, Lend-Lease Administrator Harry Hopkins, and Director Floyd Odium of the Contract Distribution Service. The assumption is that the President discussed with them the latest suggestions for -eorganizing the defense machinery worked out by Justice Samuel Rosenman of New Y.^rk, Sammy the Rose Hack at his desk in the White House, the President sent Congress a message which conveyed the second report on what has been done with all the Lend-Lease billions. Since the Act was passed last March, Uncle Sam has handed over war materials. i lif LEAD - 2 essential supplies and services to the tune of almost three hundred and tv/enty-five millions to the countries fighting Hitler M^st of it went to Britain, with small quantities to China and the exiled governments of Pol&nd, Greece, Jugoslavia, Horway, Belgium and the Netherlands; also to the South American republics. Supplies for the governments of those conquered nations were sent to equip the Polish, Greek, Jugoslav, Norwegian, Belgian and Dutch foreigns legions that are being organized and drilled to fight against the Axis on various fronts. Of those three hundred and twenty-five million two hundred and forty-six went for materials services.” Along with ..is report, the President said in a letter:- ”ii<e are not furnishing this aid as an act of charity or sympathy. but as a means of defending America. We offer It,” he added. ’’because we know -that peaceful resistance to aggression is doomed to failure. The people of the United States,” he declared. ’’knov* that we cannot live in a world dominated by Hitlerism.” ’’Planes, tanks, guns and ships have begun to flow from and foods, the rest for v;hat the President describes as ”essential I - 3 our factories and yards,*' he announced, **and the flow will accelerate from day to day, until the stream becomes a river. and the river a torrent.** Defense was also the subject of a message from the President to the convention of the American Legion at Milv/aukee It was delivered by Secretary Knox of the Navy. In this the President reminded the Legion about the tremendous national defense program, and he added, *'We all know that in the successful accomplishment of such a vast undertaking there must be unity of purpose, unity of sentiment, and a keen desire to make whatever sacrifices may be necessary in order to attain our objective t He then paid tribute to the importance of the American Legion in stimulating strong patriotism and true citizenship* delivered the President's message. Secretary Knox made a speech of his own. He wound up with the announcement that ’’beginning tomorrow, the American Navy will provide protection as adequate as we can make It, for ships of every flag carrying lend-lease supplies between the American continent and the waters adjacent to Iceland. Our ships," he added, "are ordered I LEAD - 4 to capture or destroy by every means at their disposal, Axis-controlled submarines or surface raiders encountered in these waters.” Talking about defense production, the Secretary told the Legion that despite the harping of ill-informed critics, a tremendous ;)ob has been done in an unbelieveably short time. Getting back to the White House, one of the important events of the day was a conference between the President and the leaders of Congress. It was a conference not only important but loaded 41th dynamite. Ever since the President's broadcast, some have been anticipating that he would ask Congress to revise the Neutrality Law. As they left the White House today. Speaker Say Rayburn told reporters that such had been the subject of the conference. Nothing was decided. ■ nothing definite. So there are several questions up in the air. The present forbids the sailing of American freighters Neutrality Act at into British ports or combat zones. It also forbids their being LEA£ - 5 armed against raiders. It isn't definitely knov-Ti what it is the president would like Congress to change, the prohibition against sailing into combat zones or the prohibition against arming the merctiant ships, '^here is also talk about American bases on the Azores or Cape Verde Islands. That could be done without doing anything to the Neutrality Act. But, any request for a change in that act would start a battle royal in the Senate. -tm 1 I CENSORSHIP The generals and admirals are getting together on a cen^rship plan. A^^ting Secretary Forrestal of the Navy admitted \ as much today. Joint plans have been prepared, sxp&sla establishing measures which will need to be taken to give the heads of our military establishment control of all international communications between the United States and the rest of the world. However, % Forrestal assured Congress that these plans contain no provisions for compulsory censorship on the press. They*re limited to the control of communications passing between the United States and foreign countries and between ships and shore^'^ut the plans. he added, are subject to approval by higher authority and it may be necessary to have a special law passed by Congress. m ADT0M3BILES The number of motor cars to be manufactured in the the figure that was handed to the industry by the Office of Production Management today. ‘ T^epresenta a cut of forty-eight point four per cent below the number manufactured in Detroit and elsewhere last December. In the last month of Nineteen Forty, the industry turned out nearly four hundred thousand. m States in December will be limited to two hundred and four y thousand, eight hundred and forty-eight passenger pars. That*s p MOVIES f The Senators investigating the movies are decidedly- annoyed at certain newspaper columnists, ttxmjat Senator Worth Clark of Idaho, Chairman of the Sub-Committee, declate'f that ther^^^been A A a mass attack on the work of his Committee by newspaper columnists, and he add^ that it smacks of conspiracy. If the Senator only knew how jealous columnists are of each other he might change his mind. You can hardly get any two ?r /f of them together cocktail party, let alone a conspiracy. MINERS There’s a <t^egr—:>ortc^n£' mine strike going on at Hazelton, A- A Pennsylvania. Twenty-two thousand insurgent miners are striking i against their own Union, the United Mine Workers. What they don’t like is a special assessment slapped on them by the Union chiefs. The Union chiefs acted promptly, ordered them back to work. But twenty-two thousand of them defied the order and have the anthracite mines of southern Pennsylvania sewed up tight. And they announce it’s going to stay that way until the Union revokes that assessment. •ill J r \ WAR War news tonight from Africa. Two German and Italian columns crashed through the frontier between Libya and Egypt and were-well on their way when the British Imperial forces caught up I with them. The axis columns were mechanized armored divisions, and they had gotten thirty-five miles into Egypt before a line of British tanks caught up with them. There was a shorty sharp, decisive engagement. The Germans and Italians were driven back into Libya with heavy losses and at the same time the defenders of Tobruk sailed out and caught them in the flank. British officers in Cairo told nevrspapermen that this was obviously a reconnaissance raid. So, it is believed in the Egyptain capital tonight that the Nazis are organizing for another drive into Egypt. It will soon be the anniversary of the date w'hen Marshal Graziani started that push over the desert towards the Nile, the one that ended so disasti’ously for the Italian colors. as does come from that eastern front furnishes an antidote to the premature optimism promoted by Saturday»s news, the recapture of From Soviet Russia? Notliin^^ really nev;. Such information j 1 I M£ - 2 twenty-six towns by the Red Armies in the center. This morning Moscow acKnowledged that the Russians liad given un Kremenchug. Berlin doesn*t say much either. The high command declares it’s ring ol steel and cannon around Leningrad has been tightened and that all the efforts of the Russian tanl-cs to crash out have been driven back. In London, military experts are deeply nessimistic about the Red Army’s withdrawal from Kremenchug. If the Nazis reach the top of the Crimean peninsula, they’ll cut all railroad lines to the Crimea. spie : Here's the latest instalment of the Phillips Oppenheim spy serial that is being acted out in the Federal Court at iiew iork. Testifyingr today was a plump, middle-aged German stenographer, one of the prisoners who has confessed. Incidentally, sne's a naturalized American citizen, Calmly and cooly she told the court of the parts played by some of the sixteen defendants who did not confess. One of the things she told, was that in liineteen Thirty-Eight, the nead of Hitler's Gestapo in Hamburg, was in the United States with his brother. In fact it w’as in her apartment that this Gestapo head laid the plans and ^ organized the espionage ring to operate her in the Unite d States. His brother he sent to Mexico for sabotage and subversive work there. The name of that Gestapo chief was Nikolaus Bitter, also known in New Xork and elsewhere as Dr. Pankin. Her statement about Bitter's brother was investigated in Mexico City and it turns out that he is knovm there as having been paymaster for Nazi agents throughout Mexico, also in Central America. Officers engaged in army intelligence have often told me that incredibly silly things are done and said in espionage work. All of which was borne out today by the testimony of another witness | V 1 SPIES - ? k in that soy trial vitio said that in Nineteen Forty, the Wazi Governrient vas full of perfectly fantastic ideas about new secret weapons believed to have been invented in the United States. Almost any European will believe almost anything, about American inventors anvwya. The Kazi Military believed that an American engineer had developed a shell directed by a ray — a shell with an electric eye. Also that a professor had nerfected a uniform proof aga'^nst mustard gas. Gadgets for dispelling fog and crush trenches were also devices with which the Nazis credited us. Their spies had been ordered to procure the plans of these devoices. V BEAK Here’s the weirdest bear-hunting story I ever heard Mr. and ^.Ts. Earl Howes,Ernest and Clarence Andrews of Madison, aiaine, were fishing on Clear Pond near Pleasant Ridge, not far from Bingham, Maine. They were angling in a small boat. with no yen to mix it with any big game whatsoever. But a bear decided otherv.'ise. A large black bear, full of unfriendly feelings He came bursting through the thicket on the shore of the lake. and as soon as he saw the boat with that fishing party, it enraged him. He didn’t like intruders in his fishing waters So out he went, splashing through the shallow wateis of the lake. right for that boat I All as unprovoked as a Hitler blitzkrieg’. The folks in the boat had no weapons. Well, one man had a hunting knife. The three males in the boat tried to fend the brute off with the oars, but the steely claws of the bear ripped the hand of one. Another‘got in a lucky wallop with an oar on the skull of the bear, stunning it. And that gave them a chance to get in a few swipes with the hunting knife. And that was the end of the irate bruin. If I i JP>a BASEBALL The Brooklyn Dodgers, as everybody knows, are a hardy lot. That *s not news, but O^r Bums have Just done one of the hardiest things in their tempestuous career. They have challenged fate by announcing that they are open to mail orders for World Series tickets. That certainly is tempting fortune, since Our Bums are quite a few steps away from having that Hational League Pennant in the bag. The Gas House Gang of St-Louis is hot, hot enough to have taken tee- double-header from the New York Giants yesterday, and the Dodgers are only one game and a half ahead of them. What makes the Brooklyn team and management so cocity is the fact that seven of those thirteen games are with the P^^illies. Poor old Phillies, everybody picking on them. The Dodgers might remember that historic year when Bill Terry of the Giants, thinking he had his pennant cinched, gave birth to the rwaar comic question, "Is Brooklyn still in the League?" Brooklyn's answer w^as to knock the Giants out of the race, and let the Cardinals in, I 1 11 111 BASri.BALL ~ ? V.'hile the home office v/as brashly daring the fates. •n Our Bums themselves were out in Cincinnati, mixing it up Y:ith I the ex-champion Reds. Just by way of a retort, the Reds played TtCe like the champions they were last year and gave n the fight of their lives. It was a ding dong runless game for mo st of the afternoon: seventh inning - nothing to nothing; ninth inning,- nothing to nothing; tenth inning - nothing to nothing^ 4^ ti CZ 41 <A\', g : ift £ a : There ^ a young lady from Tulsa - who*s voice is not so sweet and dulce; - that sounds like the beginning of a limerick. But it isn^t, it^s a softball story, wina Korgan, twenty-four, of the Higgins Midgets Team of Tulsa is the champion lady pitcher of America. At Detroit, the Higgins Midgets won the world's championship over the n^pin Brews of Cleveland. The score, three to nothing, a shut-out with only three hits. Pitcher Nina Korgan fanned eleven batters. Throughout the tournament she has fanned sixty-four and pitched one no-run, no-hit game. ^At a girl, Nina'. And now. Attaboy Hugh! i will if the President and Mrs. Boosevelt happen to be in V«ashington on that oarticular day. Mrs. Hoosevelt took the opportunity to rebut a story that liad been circulated about ex-King Carol of Rumania. The fable was that the First Lady declined to receive Carol*s flame, the famous red-hat±ed Magda. For that reason, Carol and Magda have stayed away from Washington — so ran the legend, ^rs. Roosevelt said today t'nat there is nothing to it. Just one of those stories, she declared. At nine o»clock, September Twenty-Ninth, the First Lady is going to report for work. And she»s going to work hard at the ;job "to her by New York^s Mayor LaGuardia as Administrator of Civil Defense. But she isn *t going to let it interfere V7ith her daily nev/soaoer column, or her radio programs, or the lectures she has contracted to deliver. One thing everybody wants to know is whether the Duke ^ and Duchess of Windsor w’ill be guests at the White House when they come to Washington toward the end of this month. Mrs. Roosevelt was asked about it today. Her reply is that she imagines they BOOZE In Beauce County, (.Quebec, they»re having an election. A prohibition election, of all things I That isn»t the least curious part of it, for Beauce County would hardly seem to need prohibition. VlTienthe Quebec Government established the liquor commission, one of the government stores opened was in that same Beauce County. Inside a year itclosed'lip- A. ^ y for lack of business. In short, it would seem that the people of Beauce kxS don^t care for booze.