L^T^^^SUNOCO^^THljBSDAY^^OCT^^g^^l^ GOOD EVENING E VEBYBODY: It was revealed today.that a few airmen of General Doolittle’s bombing of Japan are missing. This follows Japanese claims of holding some of the Doolittle air raiders as prisoner The Secretary of War today listed four of the massing and their names correspond closelyXto mentioned by the Japanese Secretary Stimson repeated the declaration hat no American planes were downed in Japa However fter leaving Japan, General Poo 1 is raiders ncountered bad weather. ^”0ne Lande^ in Liberia, he Secretary pointed out. nAnd several others j • V 4 . rh-ina M To which he added orced landings at night m Cnm . hat some of the airmen may have been forced down n Japanese controlled territory when their gas was exhausted. DOOLITTLE - 2 Secretary Stimson said he had no knowledge of any Jap intention to punish Eoolittle airmen. He repeated that he had no information to indicate that the Japanese were failing to abide by international law in the treatment of war prisoners. He said he was, in his own words, "loath to believe that Japan would violate the Geneva convention concerning the treatment of prisoners of war. The Secretary went on to point out that in the Doolittle raid on Japan, only military targets were aimed at -- G.eneral Doolittle having given his men strict orders not to bomb anything non-military, the Imperial Palace, in Tokyo, for example, which Doolittle himself could have bombed easily. Now up speaks the mother of one of the Doolittle &irmen supposed to be a prisoner of the Japs She tells o^ the last letter she received from her son — Lieutenant V, illiam Glover Farrow, He sent it to her last Jarch at the time when he was training for the Doolittle raid. Of course he could tell her nothing about what he and his companions were up to. He merely sent to his mother this admonition:- "If the going gets tough," he wrote, "remember this and don't forget it -- that there's nothing too good for us to do for our country." Today his mother read that to newsmen, then folded the note and said softly: "It has inspired me ADOOQLITTLh and kept me going." SOLOMONS The lull on the ground on Guadalcanal continues according to today's navy bulletin. The only ground — I III ! r - ——r~ - f - ' action reported is what the Navy calls -- "A minor enemy thrust against the Western flank of our troop positions.n This minor thrust was apparently in the nature of a feeler -- designed to try out the strength of the American line. And it was promptly repelled. Beyond this, the Navy Bulletin tells of no land action. ^ No report of any material change in the military situation/ in the Solomon Island has been V / received,w it s&ys\fX — But, there is air action with United States war planes hunting out and smashing concentr ations ol Japanese troops and supplies on^Guadalcana^..j^ An ^ enemy bomber was shot down. It seems to have been on a reconnaissance mission, and was hit by anti c.ircraft fire. So the general picture is this: For days the Japs appear to have been poised tor an attack, t„»ing SOLMOKS - 2 landed large numbers of soldiers at Guadalcanal. But thus far their assault has not materialized. FAHj^TO^ At Port Moresby in far off New Guinea a mournful ceremony was solemnized today -- a double funeral. In a military cemetery there were laid to rest Byron Darnton, war correspondent of the NElft YORK TI'iES andBruce Fahnestock, the explorer. Both were killed in an accident, the nature of which is not revealed. Bruce was one of the two Fahnestock brothers who made history in the realm of thrills in far ofi travel. And today his brother Sheridan, uaving flown from Australia to New Guinea, stood at salute as his brother’s flag-draped coffin was lowered. I knew Bruce Fahnestock well, and only a few ays ago received a letter from him -- a letter aciaressed ointly to me and the Secretary of the Explorers Club. n it he told of experiences as an American soldier ighting the Japs in the jungles of new Gu.nea. "liy exploration these days," he wrote, "consists f going over old trails I’ve known in the p'st. FAHN^STOCil - 2 Undaunted and intrepid," his letter continues, "we push through the impenetrable jungle with one great and jlorious purpose in mind -- a drink of nice cool ice water." And then Bruce Fahnestock gave an expression of the spirit of our fighting men in the far off southwestern Pacific: "We’re here because we have to be here if we’re to win," he wrote. "And we’re going to win, win here, win later in Java and the Celebes, and Sumatra and the Philippines; avenge Corregidor and HongKong, march back to hanking and iv;ort.. to Great Peking. We’re coming out of the bush," he conduced, "and then in the end do a little exploring in Tokyo. But now, Bruce Fahnestock will take this earthly trail no more. He has left it to his .omracies .in arms -- and his brother Sheridan^to do that eventual exploring fcix in Toxyo. Here is a definite denial that any American troop transports were torpedoed in the Atlantic last nonth. The claim was made by the Axis enemy -- and it is false. This was stated in London today by Lieutenant General Eisenhower, American Commander in chief in Britain. Axis tales about the torpedoing oi several America n troop ships are, in his wads, "complete unfounded. " General Eisenhower explains why the denial was made today. "The information has been withheld," says he, "until eveiy soldier on the Atlantic at the time of the German announcement had been landed safely in the United Kingdom -- and we coulu assure for ourselves the complete falsity cl' the German claims Daylight raiding against Nazi Germany went on today -- with R.A.F. bombets and fighters sweeping I deep into occupied France and Naziland itself. They smashed at industrial plants and transportation centers - losing only one plane. It was revealed today that the American Flyin& Fortresses shot down nine enemy fighter planes in their raid of yesterday against the Nazi U-boat base at Lorient in France. This assault is reckoned as the most daring that Fortresses have staged t . ns iar in Europe. They flew all the way to the great d-boat base without any fighter protection -- and the weat:.er ..s against the.. They had to boat fro. lo.ar altitndes than is best for Flying Fortresses. The bij bo.bers like to be a.ay up there. But they had to s.oop do.n L a comparatively lo. altitude - lo» for the.. This because of clouds that kept the. fro. seein, sir were a better mark than target. In consequence thev usual i or tne uer:ian anti-aircraft batteries and fo the Nazi fighter planes of *hich they, nevertheless shot down nine. ALERT Here’s an item just in from my office in Rpdio City* The metropolis of America had its first daylight air raid alert today, and for twenty-two minutes New York looked like a city of the dead. It was as if somebody had pressed a button controlling all city activities. Everything came to a stop -- trolley cars, buses, sub vs ay add elevated trains. Private automobiles and taxicabs stood motionless at curbs. Streets were deserted and empty, except for policemen and air raid wardens. A citv of suspended animation. And c\en uiie stock market halted financial operations in the miost of a rally, with stock market prices goin^ up. It was a test alert -- in order to see how New York would respond. And the big town responded -- plenty. * »• —> —’ ^ c ” :i . r - Hii~— nr^iSir: 5T ^ c r w - T * * I V jT » - —- r 1 I ¥ I - - «• — c: - Z- - -- - r 1 ¥ r I 7 - - aUCC - - 'E w- • 2 17 rli -• 1 T 10 21 ¥ : 7i I € 11T 2 - 7 v „ ^ T t * « *■ - - » « :* 17 . ::. ’ re ~ L : _ IIP c " - •. V 1 7.2 1 e £ . HOLYOKE Perhaps some of those taxicabs will be sent up to Holyoke and Springfield, iAassachusetss, where I have been today -- here in the heart of one of the busiest regions on earth. Why, even the Spaulding plant, where a short time ago they were making tennis racquets, golf balls, and other sporting equipment for us, now, instead of tennis balls the Spaulding employees are turning out shells. And, in the vast Holyoke plant of the Worthington Pump and Machingery Corporation 1 stood today with Governor Saltonstall, General 3rewry, Commander Saunders, and eight thousand workmen and their families, while another Army-N*v/ E ila^ was run up in recognition ol the way in whici, the workers of Holyoke have done their wartime job, not only on pumps and compressors for Navy vessels, and war plants, but in building ant i - airoralt guns tnat operate by remote control. And we saw those guns swinging about, without a human being near t..em. COFF. ll From Boston we have a report on the black market in coffee. How good is it? The Office of Price Administration reports - - "vile." Boston black market coffee is being sold at exhoritant prices, as high as forty-five cents a pound -- and it is pronounced to be -- "unfit for human consumption The OiP.A. elaborates on the descritpion by saying the bootleg coifee is so poor in quality it might have been made from "boat sweepings." You know what you sweep up from the bottom 01 a boat. So I suppose that when you brew a beverage of the black market coffee you get -- "Bilgewater. PROHIBITION Toe ay the Navy joined the Array is opposing the 1 icuor araenoraent to tiie bill to lower the draft age to eighteen. This amendment would prbhibit the sale of alcoholic beverages inthe vicinity of all arny and navy posts. Secretary of War Stimson has protested that such a measure would interfere with tne Army's own methods of teaching temperance to the soldiers. Also, prohibition affecting the vicinity of camps would take in som much territory that the Army would be in the position of having to enforce prohibit on at such places as New York, Chicago, Y» ash ing ton, Los Angeles and San Irancisco. Today, Chairman Senator V, a 1 s h ol the henate Naval Affairs Committee stated:- "I talked with the Secretary of Navy this morning and asked his decision. He stated, "the Senator continued, "that the navy was in full accord with the views of the Secretary oi V\ar." So that puts both branches of the service m opposition to the proposal to enforce prohibition in tie vicinities of camps. Administration Leader Senator Barkley is trying to have the prohibition proposal considered as a separate bill and not as an amendment to the draft bill. Because the debate on the proposal as an amendment would hold up and delay the legislation PROHIBITION - 2 to take the Nineteen and Twenty year olds in the Army. ADILPROniBITION A gto s the Is'tGct/. bGns.'tor Josh L gg 9 .n.d his Dry-Up-The-Army-Camp amendment took a defeat tonight, wien the Senate referred his proposal to the Military Affairs Committee. And this keeps it from being incorporated into the draft bill, and puts it into unfriendly hands. For the Military Affairs Committee is known to be opposed to the demand for a modified kind of prohibition. tfBb^POOSKVLLT Here is a story about -- Totty. How, who is Totty? You could hardly guess. Totty is the First Lady of our lane. This news comes from England, where things are being revealed about irs. Franklin D. Boosevelt, things you might not be able to find out here in America. The reason is that irs. Roosevelt in her girlhood went to a finishing school in England and British newspapers are digging up information about her girlhood school days there. All of which is in connection with the forthcoming visit of the wile of the President oi the United States to Great Britain as a guest ol Cyeen Elizabeth. At the town of Cobhara in Surrey there is a schoolmistress, Miss Helen Gilioro, who was a fellow pupil of our First Lacy, in England. They were together at Madame Souvestre's finishing senool Eimbledon. When the present Mrs. Roosevelt arrived as a young gin, She ,n5 then called - Totty. I» ‘'"Ct, MS^BOOSEVELT - 2 at Madame Souvestre^ finishing schoo}., there is to this very day a desk with the following written across the top:- "Totty Roosevelt, summer term, 1902. Even then she felt a concern for the future President of the United States. On her dressing table she kept a picture of the then youthful FranKlin Roosevelt -- so says Miss Helen Gifford, now a gray haired principal of a girls* school in Surrey. "I remember the day she arrived, n says the English school mistress. "The first meal, we hardly dared open our mouths. She sat oeside .wad a me Souvestre, chatting away in French. Well, that must have been impressive, the new American girl holding forth to the French school mistress -- in French. Nowadays the First uady most of her chatting away in Englis.. And thnt'stbn story of Totty in Englano. Ana no. lot's got back to Hilton Cross in do, fork. LTP.1942.10.22i.pdf LTP.1942.10.22ii.pdf