ahmy 3r; \Jii-o. Tne army of the Dnited States is to be reorganized. We have this on the word of itc: oVi-i^r r t « 1 ^ cs cnief, General George ^ Marshall- / 7 \ hei(^ n P^ess conference today and told newspaper men that his program for the reorganization of the army has been on paper for quite a while. It is now going to be put into effect. In each O j trie nine army corps areas, there will be what General marshall described as a tactical corps. This tactical corps will be organized as a real fighting combat unit. One of these will be in South Carolina. It will consist of aig the Eighth and Ninth Divisions of the regular army and the Thirtieth Division of the National Guard. It will be under the command of Major General Walter Short, stationed at Columbia South Carolina. Another tactical corps will be in Louisiana, under the command of Major General Campbell ^ Hodges, stationed at Camp Beauregard. This tactical corps will consist of the Thirty-Second, Thirty-Seventh and Thirty-Fourth Divisions of tne National Guard. Still another will be in Texas, and one in the State of Washington. General Marshall told the correspondents that we never before had a mobile force, but now we’re really getting AI'-MY - 2 do/.n Ccis&s« Lsisty Spotpmhifi'p ^ • September, for instance, we had three divisions in the regular army, not one of them complete. But before long we shall have nine of these tactical corps each ready to do any job to which it is assigned. But Cenersi Marshall tells the world about an even more striking innovation that the army chiefs are contemplating. They intend to pick the most intelligent of the men who are drafted and send them to school. They will take men who in the opinion of their officers show capacities for leadership. The schools, General Marshall described as "candidate schools." The men who study there will be trained as combat officers. Tne courses through which they will be put will last about three months. It is the hope of the general staff that tne system will make it possible for a conscripted man to get a Commission and become an officer inside 9# his twelve month* term of service At the end of A A Officers Reserve Corps. That is. army. In that case he can remain he will be enrolled in the unless he wants to stay in the as a commissioned ollicer. C, n^r-1 Mai JhJtt vitK-^uch & p Tor tw-gweral 1 up £1U1111 )> *<w>- any emer^erTcr, Txie ciriny chief of staff also answered one question many people have been asking, that is, where on earth would the army find officers enougn for an array of nine hundred thousand men? The answer is, in the Officers Reserve Corps, which consists of no fewer than a hundred and twenty thousand officers mgmm POLITICS are goi^ to stump the country for Wendell Wilkie in the next few weeks. They include former President Hoover and former Candidate Alf Landon. Senator Taft of >.io Will tour the country speaking for Willkie, also,District Attorney Tom Dewey of New jorkMioWl Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.' A Senator Vandenberg, Governor Stassen of Minnesota, Governor br Lci.er oi hio, and Hanford MacNider, former National Commander of the American Legion- These G.O-P- leaders will speak in the middle west and the far west. CA As for Willkie himself, his special train ib ^ w on the way to Detroit. In one of his back platform speeches."^ne offered A * an ansv/er to the argument that presidents should not be changed in a time of crisis. Willkie cited the example of Great Britain in contradiction. Former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, he said, had been running his country on a candy stick theory. And Br±tain( did not really wake up until Winston Churchill was placed in command. In another speech he delivered himself of a typical « iraA ivini vhv he had left tne middle west Willkie $£» Somebody had asked him wny ne n _ _ A /\ and gone to New York when he always spoke with such pride and POLITICS - 2 aifection oi his midwestern origin, back home the competition is too keen field so he went to New York. Vv'ilikie’s reply was that • Pe wanted an easier ■he Stat* Convention of the New York Democrats opened at todayj started ^ cur.ous fashion. The first speech was made by the State Chairman, James A. Farley. And the noticeable thing was not what Jim said, but v/hat he did not say. Not once did he mention President Roosevelt or the national ticket. However^th^Democratic National Candidate got plent^efmention from the speaker who followed Jim. Th>t ^was Governor Lehman of New York, who spoke glaringly of his chief. Meanwhile, Mr* Roosevelt himself was traveling in Maryland, inspecting defense establishments in t/ie good ajtfbc oj.d Free State. And one of the things he saw was a new anti-tank gun Just built for the army, bogged down in a mud hole. However, _ ^ T 4 U 4 - if didnft think the incident of any ®r* Roosevelt made light of it, aian t importance. Arter inspecting several establishments in the POLITICS - 3 industrial re^ions of* Maryland, the President gave out y-quite "ft oiitimistic announcement. He said defense programj^hTached A >■ A the point where not only guns but tanks and bombs have been standardized, consequently mass can now go ahead, JAPAN With all that has happened in the last few days, the principal topic of conversation remains the treaty of Berlin, the triple alliance of the Axis powers and Japan. (*uite a few observers are discounting it, saying that itfs merely putting tSiaii 11 >’■ i crv iiii. the a condition that has existed for months. a itt The word from the White House is that President Roosevelt, with the aid of the kmtcJl State Department, is giving fiflmest study to the Far Eastern jfeP3g£±a. The President was in liaryiand most of the day, /* but upon his return to the White House, the State Department officials £&iio of digested last minute reports/*>*./W It is hinted that our government may begin putting--- ~ O la JL birtL^f aliy.V Various socielies^yall over the screws on Japan, economica. 4 iw ohi noton to take a strong ^aggressive the country are urging Washington to island empire, that is with economic** attitude toward the t pmharros on practically anything that measures. They want embarg Japanese while theytt^on their will be of any use to the rampage of conquest. JAPAN - 2 A Harvard group even suggests an embargo on imports S»to_ the United States. Other people e-i n. have been urging a boycott of Japanese goods, principally silk. AS everybody kno*s, Japan's chief source of money is the silk she exports to us. But it has also been pointed out that a boycott does not injure the Japanese. It does harm to business men ?/ho have invested their money in silk and -still more harm toPtri^rTorEersT Also, <JKjr\ ye a boycott happens to be against^tia* law. But, the betting in hashing ton is that some legal means will be found to stop the importation of silk, which will be a serious, perhaps even crippling blow to the Japanese. t-ifc*-o-tiKNP things they tTy to- in - AUdJi pOtr?- workftan&f^p that most ©f the articles made ±rr&rpzrr'f'ft±L to pittuea, ■squictM^a b-ior* the buyer hiu, a chance to get then home Another event of today in the Far Eaitirn iitu.,tior. v.as the indictment of ten British subjects in Tokyo. They are charged with having violated the law for the protection of military secrets. *IU0 nrvnl— e. f‘ i JAPAN - 3 bjects\are goinfe\through sore n iii a Japanese jail.^The expiration iX jthey i\ in t i g a t iXi. At Shanghai, a sailor of the United States Navy *as terrifically beaten by Japanese police. 1 h-i-e—was—flonc"' mi uf the Internd Lioiml Oyt tlcnent—¥rhere tho^JapanoGG &ro^ ^tiot^e-uproBed-^o-have any authority or—eontrol. The report is that the American was beaten in order to compel him to tell the whereabouts of certain United States warships. HQWAKD Editor Roy Howard of the Scripps-Howard n a suggestion for healing our sadly damaged relat newspapers offers ions with Japan. A hat he urges is the appointment of a commission composed of Amer.cans with some understanding of oriental psychology, understanding and respect, which should be sent to the Far East with instructions to make a survey, and compile a report to Congress and the President on the broad, fundamental aspect of the entire oriental situation. Howard goes on to argue tnat the mere appointment of such a commission would at least temporarily ease the gEwrtugC tension. It would also, he said, give opportunity to let the tempest cool down, give us a chance to substitute reason and argument for threats and reprisals. Howard then says further:- "Whatever its ultimate results, the appointment of such a commission or the offer to appoint it, would set an example of an appeal to reason that might conceivably be the beginning step in the direction of a restoration of world sanity." BRITAIN In th* Battle of Britain, which goes on as before, the .nost important^ttareit^ of a new fighting plane y iji'TJoc during t;ii» latest night raiito -of TT w^Goering^s bombers. The British papers are hinting that improved types of^ bombers are also t about ready to take the air./ Lord ir. Rot hermereT s DAILY ilAIL prophesied that by spring the Royal Air Force will be so strong both in numbers and in new types of aircraft, that the people of Britain will no longer have the i£jzu' spectacle of dogfights in the air over island. The aerial battleground, when fine weather returns, will be France. One British press association has an exceedingly optimistic story of British success in the air. xt quotes a high officer of theRoyal Air Force, though it doesn't name him, quotes him as saying that in August and September, the Nazis lost the high total of two thousand planes and five thousand men. t air raid alarms in London today, There were again law ^ K and the Ministry of Iafor®a ation claims that the British te* bagged forty-three Germans as agci ainst the loss of only sixteen British planes. The Nazis were using their great new four engine bombers bftITAIK - 2 A fev. Df them got through the anti-aircraft and fighting plane defenses. But the rest were driven off, British, for their part, sent their raiders In T i riiyirn^Ma £%* they bombed rail centers in Germany, A and airdromes in Germany, Holland and France. The most spectacular raid was one on the Fokker Aircraft Factory in Holland near Amsterdam. The R.A.F. pilots reported that huge fires started as they left t. . ^ 'Vv"'CvCc^tv FRENCH a bulletin came in a few minutes ago from the Virgin Islands. It reports an incident in the Caribbean that may have wide flung repercussions. A couple of French officials were on their way to ' i:e United States from the French island of Martinique. They were special representatives of the Retain Government at Vichy. Th^ were traveling by an American airliner. When the plane landed at Antigua, one of the Leeward Islands belonging to Great Britain, those two French officials were removed from the American airliner, they and all their baggage. So far we have no explanationAwhy the British intercepted those Frenchmen. But we may be sure Wwt Vichy will have something to say about this. TplTH ANNIVERSARY PARTY I If any of you happened to be listening in ii last evening when there was a special broadcast over these stations, you may n^ve been a little puzzled. The broadcast came from a party that my N.B.C. colleagues and my Sun Oil sponsors were giving in xgt honor of my tenth anniversary on the air. Ten commentators were featured in the radio end of the show. H. V. ^altenborn, Raymond Gram Swing, John B. Kennedy, Thomas Ibarra, Gabrieli# fleatter, John Vandercook, and -UZe yy^Ur^ -**>*~*^y% Baukhage.. I am tremendously grateful to these xlw*-fulluw* ^ for what they did and to the N,B*C. for presenting nie with the first microphone I used ten years ago which they had plated with gold.^And, then,-I wish you could see the present from ray Blue Sunoco sponsors. It *s a desk set 4 mj .*4 nu Hnwn mV notes of the evening with two pens,to use in writing down my nux. the wire, and a clock to remind me Hi news as it comes over the wire, ^ . +he int nutes and seconds that have of the passing of the minutes, the minutes 4 v. 4 - Ypc and a compass on that desk nearly all whirled by tonigh , - ’ set to help gie keep my bearings in these times of trouble and peril; and a barometer and a thermometer; all on a pedestal that whirls around like a globe of the w@rld. Well, last night I was still in the middle of my reaarks, thanking everybody, when the anniversary program went off the air — I ran over. And, there were several more things I wanted to say. Ten years ago when I succeeded that dynamo of energy and news, our old friend Floy^Gibbons, I remarked to myself and to some of my friends, that with the best possible luck, I could hardly expect to be on the air for more than a couple of years. I figured a news commentator could last no longer than that. People would get tired of listening to him. So, I was surprised when I , . And. now my tenth anniversary was still on at the end of five ye • -r . eleventh year, the longest unbroken has passed, and I am entering the run of any daily program in radio history. So, again I want to thank the N.B.C. for the enormous »1, 1, h., given „e, .n* « ,“1’' ""l““ TENTH AMIVERSARX PARTY - 3 and tolerance and cooperation. And, I want to thank the radio audience Jor having made it possible to be on the air at all, let alone for fen long years. Ten years that have gone by like a flash. There is one thing I feel more and more. What magical material for narration the news is! It has e verything. Think of the days we are living in, immense tragedy, horror, disaster; and, the most stupendous heroism. Look at Great Britain, holding out over there — under the bombs. And, there is a lighter side, the simpler things close to us, intimate. Yes, the news gives us mankind’s pageant of adventure. Well, my new Sunoco clock tells me It's time to sign off and say "Solong Until Tomorrow « fiugh James is giving me a signal. HOGH: Right, Lowell, let me break in a moment. L.T.: On one condition, Hugh. In the ten years I have been on the air there is one thing I!ve been wanting to do but l»ve never had a chance. n ^ when you finish your brief Sunoco Will you let me do it wne y commercial? i: S^re. I.ra wondering what it is you have In mind. COMMERCIAL TF.NTH ANNIVERSARY PARTY - 4 Now, what wan it you wanted to add, Lowell? L.T« . V«ell, for ten years, ITve wanted to say, THIS IS THE NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY.