L.T. ■ SUNOCQ. Via!,DrtESrAy. MAY U. 19A1. GOOD EVEi^IMG EVERlfBODY: HW The former Nazi Number Three continues to be tb* , r-- seasatironai news figure Number One world. All ffrer A ^ ^ the ^ace^ conversations begin and end with Hess.Everybody is guessing, conjecturing, rumoring. Some of th ^conjectures and rumors are wild enough to be described -Dnlliir^rt es- . A ,/ ^ — Z' ---- cockeyed. Of real news, new news, meaiiing facts, all that came to A / A light today, was literally nothi^. Unless you choose to accept / the item that the British Government has put the lid on information / / about Hess and has doubl^'d the guard around the hospital where he / is recovering from i^s accident. It is no longer admitted that this hospital Glasgow, Just somewhere in Great Britain. Tllfe most spectacular report that Hjtler^s one-time confidant is talking. \ln the district attorney's office or the underworld they would call it "singing". Great stress is laid x LEAD - 2 1 on this in all the publicity that rages over England tonight. There were reports flying around that the British Broadcasting Cdjrporation had broadcast a talk in the German language, that Hess had been telling things which would make the Nazi high command sweat. But that report is denied. An official of the British Broadcasting Corporation said no such language had been used, that the British Broadcasting Company had not the slightest iaiowledge of anything that Hess had said or written since he landed in Scotland, nevertheless, it is declared far and wide, i without cont radiction/ thattalking, ^ , f A ^ He w'as questioned by^ii iiirtiiriM of the British Foreign Office and, it is also said, „ . . . I a J^ by St least one Bi*itish Cabinet Minister, And~ts rthat eventually he will be questioned bj^Prime Minister,Winston Churchill^ We are also informed that he passes his leisure . moments making voluminous notes and reading a "Who Done it?" novel by Agatha Christ!. T^ere was obviously a revulsion of feeling about this fantastic, amazing escapade in Britain tocjy. It was expressed loudly in some newspapers. The m ANCHESTEK GOAhDlAN, for instance. I lead - 3 1 i: bade the country beware lest the ^esserschmltt which brought Hess to Britain turn out to be a Trojan Horse of the first order, bearing with it an enemy more formidable than the §reek warriors led by Ulysses, who opened the gates of Troy, The British are still making much of the fact that Hess landed on the estate of the -Duke of Hamilton, One can*t help having a bit of sympathy for the Duke who is on active service. If a burglar is caught on your premises are you his pal? Obviously, an airplane traveler coming in that fashion from Germany had to land somewhere. So why should anyone suppose that the Duke is a pro-Nazi? He neger was anything of the sort. But he was one of those eminent Englishmen who, before Hitler rose to power, thought the old German Republic ought to be helped. And if it had been, then today there would be no Hitler and no war. It seems far fetched indeed to think that Hess believed he could meet influential Britons, includeing the Duke of Hamiltoh, and persuade them to organize a peace party in England, • Today the Nazi spokesman trying clumisly to explain Hess* flight tells us he expected to fly back to Germany within two days with peace terms to submit to the Nazi Government! id T-FAD - 4 The Nazis also proclaim loudly that they are not afraid of anything that Hess might tell because, they say, he doesn’t know anyhting worth telling, has no knowledge of the plans of the German High Cormnand. He being only Hitler*s closest friend — and Deputy Fuehrer I! At any rath some people in Great Britain are inclined to take the point of view of the MANCHESTER GUARDIAN. They remember that Hess was a man of long standing loyalty to the Nazis, and of fanatical I devotion go Hitler. So they suspect another Hitler plot. And here is one report from London — a remarkable aspect of it is that the censor let is pass. This report is that Prime Minister Churchill may make a statement about Hess in the House of Commons tomorrow. Then the report goes on to say that observers are pointing out that it will not be surprising if the Prime Minister should war the British, warn them not to get too sentimental about the fugitive from a Nazi insane gang! Ghurchlll may remind the country that even theromantic circumstances of that flight from Augsburg to Scotland, even the behavior of Hess — showing the photograph of his little three-year-old son — does not wash out the blood in which the the Nazi leaders are steeped. A^l of which mi ; LEAD - 5 has many of the earmarks of an authorized statement. It seems to Indicate that the British are beginning to recover from their first bewilderment and Jubilation over this whole incredible affair. However you look at it, the fact remains that the adventure of one man - the Deputy BajSi Fuerher - has crowded off the front pages the rest of the news about the most sensational war in history. .L- ( ' )■ . i ' f lead - 6 Here’s later explanation of the Hess flight. It sounds TMia, -xs-_notrddir^ entire stor:^ This tale is that Hess wrote a letter to the Duke of Hamilton some months ago, urging him to end what he called ’’this lunati^^ war” between I -li! ' 1 ^ Germany and Britain. T^-^e story goes on that the young Duke promptly t turned the letter over to the British Government, p»rti soundSo Hess received no reply, J the Gestapo learned about the letter had the Gestapo learned about the letter tm had written to the A A Duke, whereupon a crisis was percipitated within the high ranks of the Nazis. And Hess started to ma^e secret preparation for tiw* dramatic escape, because he knew he was th«a doomed and that his^execution^wonidj not be far off. This^verstnn repeats the conjecture that Hess landed on the Hamilton estate deliberately. J IiiAL Here’s more ominous news about Iraq, The pro-Nazi government at Baghdadjocar-ha® the sympathy of another Moslem A A power. At least the Baghdad radio so reports. Afghanistan is lining up on the side of the pro-Nazi Iraqis. TPsome time ago, four Asiatic powers bik I made a friendship pact, Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Afghanistan. In accordance with that, the Kabul government has advised the British government to settle its differences in Iraq quickly or else the Afghan^^s^as* will side With the pro-Nazi Iraqis, w^ggpcat, that thtc ia an aimeiunTOmctt^ ^ MWHWighdBiM ~anffi8"hae no furliheg corroboration. A ■t S t if !f .■(tirnMBiwfcr-agwiaBatti ‘■■■0 FRANCE Something is brev;ing in France aind we would all give a great deal to know what it is. The Retain Government has come to terms with Hj[tler, but those terms haveui^ been made public. Vice-Premier Admiral Darlan, as^^r^rybody knows, was in Hitler’s Urt2je/Tj2- Bavarian^tea^ at Berchtesgaden sn^ talked with Hitler and Ribbentrop for four hours. All we know about the result is Darlan to continue his negotiations with the Nazis. Of course tftw rumors are rife. The most ominous of—is that the French have‘Completely turned their backs on their old allies and are goipg to allow the Nazis to walk j g/u^ ^tfoc /i' \ through Syria to IraqlT'Tn official communication was issued by \0cSy I0ty th^Cab^et,^^aai^all it said was that the effect of the negotiations will be felt soon. Even granted that ominous rumor is not quite true, we may be sure that the French have had to make serious concessions. In fact one of the stories that came out of Vichy is that Rudolf Hess fled from Germany because he was so appalled by the terms to which the French had agreed, terms which meant a complete collaboration between the French and Nazis li •J I FRANCE - 2 It was openly charged that some of those ccncessions have gone into effect already. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden made a statement in the Qouse of Commons today,^ said the Retain Government had allowed Hitler to send torpedo boats down the Rhone River into the Mediterranean. Newspaper men are pointing out that nothing has been either seen or heard of any German torpedo boats in the Mediterranean. I BO£I£S From the southern shores of the Mediterranean come rumors of a spectacular naval battle. If the reports are true. the British Mediterranean fleet has battered and destroyed an Italian Convoy somewhere off Africa, A story from Algiers has it tnat thousands of dead bodies have been washed ashore on the east coast of Tunisia. They are reported to be the bodies of Italian soldiers, and one ijnoffical guess puts the number as high as thirty All this is unofficial. 1 i thousand. It is also sAid that many barrels of oil floated ashore. ! M- STRIKES The San Francisco shipyards strike presents a weird situation. The men striking constitute a minority, some seventeen hundred machinists. Today’s news on it says that the shipbuilder: wou^d like to deal with them, but, they say they can’t. For if they agree to the demands of the machinists then they would be breaking a contract they have with twenty thousand other workers There was a great tod do recently because of an agreement between management and labor on the Pacific Coast, an agreement that outlawed both strikes and lock-outs. This was hailed as a a real help to thd national defense program, itnd that is the pact which the shipbuilding employers declare they would be breaking if they dealt with the now striking machinists. Sidney Hillman, the Associate director of the O.P.M. has called upon the strikers to put an end to their walkout, live up to their contractual obligations.,- end their strike which is tying up five hundred million dollars’ worth of navy building. Hillman had a conference with the President today, and issued his message to the strikers as he left the White House. Meanwhile, that San Francisco walkout put fresh vigor _J STRIKES - 2 into the congressmen vrho are In favor of the Vinson Bill, the bill which will forbid the calling of any strike in a defense factory until after a twenty-five day cooling-off period. It would also forbid the signing of any more closed-shop contracts in Ci defense plants. On a ccount of the strike situation as it stands today, the advocates of that bill are moving to have it called up immediately; a bill regarding which labor unions are not a bit enthused. The strike at the Boston ^aval Drydock came to an end today. But others are threatening at General Motors and the Hudson Motor Company — companies with defense orders totaling some seven hundred and eighty million dollars. And the soft coal strike will be on again if the Southern operators don’t come to terras. Also the walkout of six thousand Colt gun-makers is in a negotiation stage. All of this has the Congressmen riled. And they seem about ready to legislate against strikes i i PEACE PICKETS Evidently the peace pickets around the White House didn t listen to the advice of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The First Lady told them yesterday that they were wasting their time. Apparently, the ladies had plenty of tine to waste, for they picketed more ^ than ever today. One group of five hundred delegates were met at the Union Station by Mrs. Burton K.lATieeler and Mrs. Bennet Champ Clark, wives of the two isolationist Senators. The ladies also went to the Capitol and were having a hard time getting in, as the Capitol police refused to airet let more than two hundred at a time into the House office building. Blit they found a strong champion in a Representative from New York, Ham Fish, flam took the occasion to bawl^the 11 ^ ^ ^ Cgpitol copsimnt«t to know if this ha® become a dictatorship, A A A and why shouldn’t ihe ladies be heard? One of the ladies was quite peeved because the tree on the Cflpitol grounds on which they had hung an effigy of Senator Pepper of Florida a few months ago had been cut down. Said she: — suppose they were afraid we were going x to hang somebody else.n t T iii. i? 5 *^ PEACE pickets ; _ 2 The big excitement was provided by a young man called ite, Andrew P.Tomaszky. Tomaszky is a Leatherneck, a first class private from the New York Marine Base at Paris Island, South Carolina. Be stood around for an hour heckling tlae picketers around the White House. Hw that too tame he whipped off his belt, shouted to the news photographers, "Here I go!", and dashed at the picket line smashing the lanterns carried by the pickets. Thereupon the Washington cops intervened to protect the lady picketers. and took Mrs Tomaszky to the brig. A A more serious contribution to the picket story was made by the DiesCoinmittee5==it will start public hearings next Wednesday, and an investigation into that American Peace A Mobilization, which some cf the Congressmen describe as part of the Communist Front. li BRIDES 1 New fashions for brides! White is no longer worn by H young ladies who get married in June — that is, in France. The French Fasldon designers are making bridal costum4s in what is known || ■ as a tender b!^ue, more popularly called "angel’s wing." Then there’s jj a pale rose called ”first emotiin." But - young ladies, in case wing you don t care for "angel’s blue" or "first emotion pale rose" what about a pale yellow called "faded shell"? No, not so good. Not faded shell! Not that! Some French brides are going in for a touch ^ of Ifilac, that is, they are buying wedding gowns in mauve. "Monning jl clouds," they call it. We also learn at fereat expense that French brides are carrying bouquets of rosebuds, hyacinths and glycines. Hugh, here. where I’m sure would weep if he found himself at a wedding^there were no orange blossoms! ^t let’s talk about something both less Dizzy and more Dizzy I 5 n i r .f7^ 5 ^^ DEAN Dizzy Dean is one of the few baseball players whose \ name is known to everybody, even to those who are not baseball I fans. He was a remarkable pitcher in his day; but, that isn*t what made him generally known. He is a remarkable character; hence a natural source of news. Well> Dizzy made news again today. He became the first*pitcher in history to resign. frankly acknowledging that he isn’t a good pitcher any longer. Maybe that has happened before, since the first ball game was played on the Hackensack Meadows, or at Cooperstown, New York, but I never heard of it. Dizzy wrote to his boss. Phil Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs. In the letter he said his arm wasn’t any good any more, and he asked to be placed on the retired list. It was only three years ago that Wrigley |[± paid a record price, a hundred-and-^ighty-five thousand dollars, plus three other players, to get Dizzy for the Cubs. And today the generous baseball magnate refused to let the boy from Arkansas go. Dizzy got a reply reading:- ”Your petition to be placed on the voluntary retired list is rejected." Then it continued: "Come down tomorrow and we^-5 sign a contract I as a coach." -J /^v .tMKM "■"'^ ” 1 1* miiiifiMiiiiiilii DEAN ~ 2 Whereupon they say Old Diz became^ for the first time in his life, speechless. I hope it isn’t contagious', I hope Hiigh, that you are neither Dizzy nor speechless.