—SUNOCOMONDi^y. JUNg gQ^ GOOD EVEWING EVERXBODX:- Just an hour ago^ a short crisp dispatch cam© over the wires with the news that the Moscow radio station announces the Red Troops have retired from Lemberg. Moscow explained that the Red of danger to the rear of our troops." This means that Hitler’s armies have taken and occupied Lemberg. And it also acknowledges that tne Wazis have occupied Minsk./TJith the capture of Minsk, and with Nazi Panzer divisions tearing ahead, the Germans are all set to cut off and surround the ____________ J Russian armies in Southern Poland The capture of Minsk is of crucial importance. It's the gateway to White Russia, a key fortress commanding railroads in four directions. one excited report brought the sensational news that the Hazi advance guard was tearing ahead and had got-to the gateway of Smolensk, within two hundred and twenty-five miles of Moscow. This Armies had retired to new positions, behind Lemberg - "as a result | WAR - 2 was later contradicted by a military spokesman in Berlin. Array • ^e said further that the Panzer divisions were on their way East and that they have trapped the Russian armies to the northwest of Minsk. That’s not donfirmed. But Berlin says that whole armies of the Soviet forces are now fighting for their naked existence. Berlin gives on example of high Muscovite strategy in the last few months, the Soviets bait from a hundred and fifty to two hundred airfields, built them right close up to the frontier to between Oermany and Soviet Russia. On some of these fields as many as one thousand of the best Russian planes were parked. The result was that when the attack started. Hitler’s bomber squadrons made imiiiedlately for those fields, whose locations were well known to the Germans, and with pratically their [ The announcement of the capture of Minsk was not mqde by the | German High Command but by an officer authorized to speak for the I WAR - 3 first shots bagged themselves a tremendous haul of Russian jianes The Nazi spokesmen also claim that their High Command is forging a ring around the Russian armies, a ring that is almost complete. fs thdi^ is denied in Moscow. Although the Russians admit their retirement from Lemberg, they deny the fall of Mlnics Minsk, declare the Red armies .Bra are still furiously fighting there. In fact theythat all the attempts of the Nazi armies to break through there have been hurled back with heavy losses. Another dispatch from Moscow brings the claim that the Russians have destroyed two thousand -r five hundTv.d German tanks since that war began. In all the days of fighting in the Balkans the «azls lost only twenty t;jiks Going further North the Germans have taken Llbeu in Latvia, which the Russians had turned into a naval base on the baltic. Bu^ still further north the Germans ran into a failure. In eami conjunction with the Finnish Army, they attacked Vlborg, one of the ports that Stalin grabbed from Finland for an air and naval base, and there the Germans adn and Finns were rspuHex, i ;• ’ ; i' WAR - 4 repulsed. The Reds are also holding out at Hango, another base they won in Nineteen forty. This news comes not from ii<ioscow but from Helsinki Itself. BRITAIN Hopeful news from Britain. The Royal Air Force today carried out the most audacious attaclc yet. Sv/ooplng down upon \ the NazlSj on their home groundsj a fierce raid on northwest German! Bremem, one of the biggest of the Nazi naval bases, was the main target. ^Iso a fierce raid, tonight on the French invasion coast. Observers reported that they dropped a steady rain of bombs on tne French side of the Dover Straits. In the Near EQst, the R.A.-^. raided the Syrian seaport of Beirut for five hours. A Turkish newspaper asks an ironic question, It wants to know why the French are incurring so much bloodshed defending Syria — wtai which isn't even French territory. | mNCE Ironic news from Viohy — Marshal Petaln has the Soviet Russian Ambassador his passports.) ies, the Vichy government brealts off relations with the ^ovlet Onlon^and has 8ri*6st©(i ssvGPsl thoussnci Riissisms in bptn "tti© occnpisd ©nd unoccupied zones of France. Th© Petaln Government brings the charge that Russian diplomats and Consular officials in France have been engagec^ln activities d^rimental to the public order and the national security. Th^Russians are not standing upon the order of their going, TEh©F*r© going at once. TkKSa They’re leaving tomorrow, maybe evei^ tonight, and will get home as fast as possible. In addition to /this, Frenchmen, that is Retain Prenclimen, will soon f^hting side by side with the Germans j ^ in Russia. At least! J^t was made known today that the leade^of an ouEgiatzBii organization of pro-nazl Frenchmen Is recruiting volunteers for service against the Soviets In Russia On the other hand, here's fote from London. The Free their sympathy and solidarity with the ooviet . ^ II WB/tStSttKIM I A new naval air base in northern Pacific waters. That*s part of the news given out today by Secretary of the Navy Knox. This air station will be at Dutch Harbor on Unimak Island, just off the tip of the Alaskan Peninsula. Dutch Harbor is almost ready, and will be by September First, Also that Pacific air station on Midway Island will be ready by August First CQliiittUNibIfc These past few days we have heard much about the twistings and squirmings of the communist party in the United States. The comrades of course were put on a spot when Adolf st&rt6d shooting cit his 6X—pal Jov« bo long as the two were buddies, the American Coinmunists were all for neutrality. They were against intervention in any form, and they opposed ^ aid to Britain. What are they saying now? Well, today the new party reads as follows: ”The libetty-loving masses of the American people have always been ready and are now m.re than ever ready to make all necessary sacrifices to defeat FacismJ Up to now, the non~intervtntlonists were g.re^ statesmen. Today, the couimunist committee denounced them all, including former President Hoover, Charles A. I.indbergli, Senator eeler of Montana and William Randolph Hearsfe. Because Adolf is shooting at Joe. 1 SPIES Here»s one sequel to the big spy story from New lork, the F,B*I^s arrest of twenty-five men and women accused of espionage. Seven of them have already pleaded guilty. Among them were Lilly Barbara Carola Stein, the pulchritudinous artist’s model who is described as kuia having moved in high social circles in Manhattan. Also Axel Wheeler-flill, brother of James Ikaaiaixiitii i^heeler Hill who used to be chief lieutenant of the rambunctious Fritz Kuhne, the German-American Bund Fuehrer, whom District Attorney Tom i^ewey sent tocrttPff: A for BabKK embezzlement. Uncle Sam’s men made two more arrests today. They went aboard two steamships Just about to sail froa New York harbor -ind / a couple of German stewards. The F.Bl, officials declared that this round-up of spies is the result of two years of counter-espionage work, draft In future all men twenty-eight years and (^er will /\ be deferred from the draft. That was announced by Congressman McCormick of Massachusetts, Democratic leader of the House. There’s a bill before Congress to make it imperative, and it will probably pass the House within two weeks. But until that is done, leader 1 r McCormick asks the Selective Service Board to grant deferment to men of that age. The administration has already ordered the Boards to defer men who are married or those who have dependents. / gasoline Here’s the latest on whether we are going to have enough gasoline for our cars, A government official today declared that barring unforseen accidents, there will be no shortage of* motor car fuel for the next two months at any rate. So go right ahead with your vacation plans. The American Petroleum Institute predicts that the shortage will not be felt before September, and will not become acute until the end of the year or early in iNineteen Forty-Two. After America entered the first World War, one of the first requests we received from the Allies was for gasoline. At that time the oil industry organized the National Petroleum War Service Committee, Supplies in Europe were dangerously low. The oil industry, then an infant compared to what it is iDw, met every demand from abroad. Petroleum prices went up, aw4 as did all prices. But immediately peace returned, competition came back and price of gasoline went down, while on the other hand, its quality kept going up and up - to the high peak of quality of our gasoline today. it use* That, say the authorities, is due to wide open competition. our American system of free enterprise. According to the government’s commodity price index, petroleum products are the cheapest of all commodities now in general * h SUN OL Oh yes, and here’s something you may have heard on the radio. 5^ou did it If you listened to Drew Pearson and Bob Alien, But It will bear repeating. ”In Washington the other day” report Pearson and x Allen, "J. Howard Pew of the Sun Oil Company (sponsor of this news program) sat down across the table from ttzxzBl Harold I ekes, the new oil administrator. From Ickes,”’ continued Drew Pearson and Bob Allen, . Howard Pew, zjui received a request that the Sun OH Company buy its oil from Texas instead of California thus saving a it long voyage by oil tankers through the Panama Canal and uo the coast of Mexico. Mr,'Few replied that Mr, -tekes* request would cost his company considerable money. but that in the interests of national defense he would gladly arrange it. And by this transfer of Sun Oil tankers, continued the Pearson and Allen account, "The Atlantic coast will get total of five hundred > thousand additional barrels of oil this winter. Messrs Pearson and Allen described this as 4 . of cooperation among the American example of the present spirit oi co p peofie. Roosevelt Only thirty-one years have passed since Franklin D, Roosevelt entered public life as a H gi * York State Senator«:=Bttt in those thirty-one years, more thsm six million documents were accumulated in connection with his career. That sounds like quite a lot of documents to describe the acts of one man. But kr. Roosevelt himself prefers to have them thought of as the record* of one period in our history. Shat he said when he dedicated the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Parl^ r^£cii ^ of houi^ library set aside for the preservation of those six million documents and all the other millions of papers that he may be responsible for in the future. The library cost three hundred and fifty thousand dollars to build. It*s a handsome building on a sixteen acre corner of the Roosevelt estate. On this particular afternoon it was surrounded on almost every side by handsome rows of young green an informal affair, Mr. Roosevelt said, old friends and neighbors of his eating corn. It was / ? most of the people present were nominated all of them as in a sense throughout the years. And he li I 1 s' '-I opi CnnS^Velt - trustees of the library in the future. But aside from the Dutchess County folic, there were the refugee crown Princess Martha of Norway^and Postmaster Frank Vn'alker,^who is treasurer of the ne^ library, together with R.R.D. W. Connor, the official archivist of the United States. ""vA The occasion was notable in another respect - it the President has made a speech was one^ of the few occasions TT ^ without a nationwide hook-up. A nation, he said, must believe in three things - t^e past, the future, and the capacity of its people to learn from the past so that they may gain in judgment for the future. He said further that it is in keeping with the times for historical collections to be distributed nowadays, not concentrated. ! This latest addition to Ihe archives of America, Mr. Roosevelt continued, is dedicated at a moment when government people by themselves is everywhere attacked. It is, therefore. proof - if any proof is needed that our confidence in democracies has not diminished in this nation and will not diminish. JACKSON The Senate of the United States will give its consent to ^ ;! I Attorney General Jackson as a Supreme Court Justice. Senator TydingSf of Maryland registered a loud protest with the judiciary committee; but that Senate Committee went right ahead and voted for Jackson, unanimously• 0 Tydlngs was quite scathing, said that Jackson lacked the chafacter, philosophy and judicial temperament for the Supreme Court. Now Senator Tydings announces he will carry his fight to the floor in the upper chamber. gONGREipii Tomorrow Is New Xear's Day. But its not the day wheh we should say Happy New Yearl It»s just New Year’s day for Congress. And for Uncle Sam’s Government. The Fiscal Year ends at midnight tonight. At this monent both houses of Congress are busy putting through last minute appropriations. If they don’t get them through by .midnight, some of our government departments will be without funds; and some of the office holders without Hilaries for a couple of day. And wouldn’t that be thogh? This ends a record year. When the lawmakers |et through tonight, they will have appropriated during the year something like thirty-three billions. Not sea shells. Dollars'. An all-time higa. The nearest approach to that was in nineteen nineteen A year congress appropriated Wenty-seven odd billions, bagatelle compared to this yearl Tnv.NSEND For most political parties this is an off year. But evidently there's no such thing for the followers of Dr. Francis E. Townsend, of old-age pension fame. At their sixth national convention, at Buffalo, ^ew Hork more than eight thousand elderly people assembled near the banks of Niagara Falls to fry and sizzle and hope for the days when that old-age pension plap may be made into a law. The latest idea of the Townsendites i^ that if every nation adopts the Townsend Plan there will be an end of all wars. Such was the thought put forward today by a Townsendite Congressman, Republican Representative Gerald W. Landis of Indiana. The convention will continue right through July fourth. ii I ■' - IV- DEWEY District Attorney Tom Dewey of New York announces tonight that for two years his office has been investigating the milk industry. His agents found that there was a two and a half million dollar racket running in New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont and New Jersey. Tonight comes the culmination of that Investigation. Six men arrested, charged with extortion and conspiracy. District Attorney Dewey says theyahave been conducting a campaign of terror that has cost farmers and dealers hundres of thousand of dollars, milk trucks smashed and men beat up. One of those arrested was the secretary-treasurer of the Teamsters Union in Poughkeepsie, another is head of the Hoboken loaal of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and chauffeurs. mziER EXTRA! Glamour girl becomes housewife:: Brenda Frazier is now Mrs. Shipwreck Kelly. According to reports, her wedding was almost a secret one. Only twenty-five guests present when Brenda became Mrs. Shipwreck. A similar secrecy surrounded the reception after the wedding - only a handful, a mere two hundred guests invited And Hugh, if he isn't shipwrecked somewhere