L. T. - SUiSOCQ. WLD in ESDAY. OCTObER 29. 1941. good evening EVEKVBODY: Tonight «e know a bit more about the torpedoing of the KEARUtV. Details were made public late this afternoon by the Secretary of the Navy himself. secretary Knox revealed them almost at the moment when Senators on the floor were throwing acid remarks at each .BARNEY. Nye of North Dakota other about the ‘.jrurdnime "f-**" had made the definite statement, that no American lives have been that the Nazis had sunk in this war. and asked, "IMiat about the lost dn any of the ships Up spoke Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma eleven killed on the KEARNEY* ttfue KEARNEY wasn't sunk." v;ere killed and Nye retorted, i-i'toH ”No, but the men Then Lee replied^ i > the Navy didn’t shoot them. d with the words, o r»'-tnr Ny® counterea To which Delator y n and he asked, "Does "V'e don't know what the KEARNEY was doing !:! LEAD _ the Senrtor know?” So the announcement by Secretary Knox comes as a direct answer to Spnator wye, and here it is: »’The KEARwEr was protecting a convoy of merchant ships on the night of October Sixteenth. Suddenly signals of distress came from another convoy some league; distant, signals that submarines were attacking it. The KEARWEI xsxXs went to the rescue. Sighting a merchant ship under attack by a submarine, the EIEAHWEY dropped depth bombs.”The statement from Knox continued: ”Soon afterwards three torpedo tracks were observed approaching the D.S.S. KEARWEY, one passed ahead of the ship, one astern, and the third struck the KEARNEY on the starboard side in the vicinity of the forward fire rooms." This happened some three hundred and fifty miles to the southwest of Iceland. The official statement says further that the explosions were so powerful that they breached the side of the destroyer well into the waterline, flooded the forward boiler compartment, and killed the men stationed in the boiler room on the steamliig watch. The explosion was forward and upward, so that the deck over the fire room was ruptured with such force that t1 LiiAD - 2 wreckage was tarowii onto the bridge. Her skipper. Lieutenant- an A ship damage routine. By this prompt action he prevented the Commander D?^nis, immediately sounded thefor casualty and ICfcAKLEY from sinking. She was escorted to port by other destroyers. and the badly injured men removed to hospital. Secretary Knox also made public a report by Rear Admiral /V Robinson, Unief of the bureau of Ships. It stated that the force of the explosion not only opened the' starboard side of the KEARwEY but blew out the deck overhead and' caused damage to the deck house and bridge above. The forward boiler room and a small compartment were completely flooded, but the ship remained upright with very little change in trim. iiAoreover, adds the Admiral the machinery was of such excellent type and design that the engine remained serviceable. j ■i M. . 11 !:! •in i KNQ2C The sinking of Gsrraan submarines by Americn warships will probably nob be revealed bo bhe public* Secrebary of bhe Navy Knox inbimabed as much boday. The idea would be bolseep bhe Nazis guessing, make bhem worry when bheir submarines don*b reburn bo porb This policy has been followed oub by bhe Bribish l^dmiralby. Said xinox:-«Greab Bribaln has been in bhe war a long bime combabing submarines bub you’ve nob read aboub many of bhem being sunk*’’ And he added; ^Obviously a lob of bhem have been sunK. ' 1 ROOSEVELT The Germans are still £TotIi±'ng=a^=:th«=tt8BS» over / President Roosevelt's Havy Day speech. R^t0}f=*3-^ei:K8a=s5F^stiBH=«*=Wgefc=ijf=e«rt^ Nazi spokesman tftid: A that the President’s refusal to publish thi& much debated map and the documented Nazi A plan to abolish religions was proof that any such documents are sheer fabrications and forgeries. The Nazi Foreign Office distributed photostatbt copies of a map of South America which had been published in the last August issue of FORTUNE MAGAZI im E, And the spokesman for the Foreign Office declared that this map may have been the one that air. Roosevelt spoke about A newspaper in Santiago de Chile editorialized that TTCe . Uncle S was mar •chlng rapidly towards war. i^tjr^cncemasenli^ A said the Chilean newspaper, ’^has not yet actively entered the conflict because it wants unanimous approval and is educating its people intelligently to such an end.^ That editorial appeared in -El Mercurio'S which John Gunther-in his book "InsWe Latln-iimerica" describes as the most important newspaper in Santiago. In his ROOSEVELT The Germans are still fulminating over President the President’s refusal to publish the much debated map and the documented Nazi plan to abolish religions was proof that any such documents are sheer fabrications and forgeries. The Nazi Foreign Office kM distributed photostatic copies of a map of South America which had been published in the last August issue of FORTUNE MAGAZINE. And the spokesman for the Foreign Office declared that this map may have been the one that Mr. Roosevelt spoke about• A newspaper in Santiago de Chile editorialized that Oncle Sam was marching rapidly towards war. Ihe D.S.A., said the Chilean newspaper, has not yet actively entered the conflict because it wants unanimous approval and is educating its people l‘ ' ■ Roosevelt’s Navy Day speech. A Nazi spokesman said today that psi I ill; ii * i ii ' i Sn llfi' iili ii |H m h ii- intelligently to such an edn. That editorial appea ^ e, Tronic "IkSIDE LATIN AMERICA" "El Mercurio", which Jolin Gunther in d„=rn., .s th. .o.t l.port.M n..sPW« “ “““«”• lll»in.tlng POOP OPotPor d.cl.roP t».t tP. ».P»P1« i .3 anv «!tate in the Americas. i as democratically minded and governe roontry in Latin-America, bar none. He refers to it as the pleasantes , ^nQSEVELI - 2 A Paraguayan diplomat expressed grave alarm over that mpa, dividing Latin Am«*ica into five vassal states. ----------- And here*s a comment from the Antipodes. A newspaper in Melbourne, capital of the State of Victoria, says that the President’s Navy Day Speech has only one logical sequence, the full participation of the United States in the war. Another Melbourne daily goes farther saying that "while Congress still is discussing neutrality, America is at war." mt ^TTTRALITY follow ROOSEVELT In that debate on the floor of the Senate, Senator I>jye was leading the fight of the non-intervention bloc against the neutrality repeal. He waxed quite rhetorical, saying: "The gloves are off now, the claws are out. The moiise (meaning the American people) bas been played with long enough, l^ow is the time to gobble it.” Then he said: "In the West the betting is ten-to-one that if we pass this repealer, the United States will be in the war before Great Britain is in." And he continued: "It has been well established in our experience tliat an armed merchantman is less safe than one unarmed." “If we get actively into the war," said Nye "as this present program would lead us, it is going to be our war all the way and no longer a mere proposition of holding Stalin's coat and handing up the water bucket and sponge to England. W li. LABOR ill it The U. S, Army is all set to take a hand in the strike at the Air Associates Plant in Bendix, New Jersey. The ! ' i news was first made public by Richard Frankensteen, head of the Aviation Division of the United Automobile Workers. As Frankensteen iiy |i ’ff (! J out it, an Army major is being sent to Bendix to enforce the order of the National Defense J^ediation Board for a settlement of the strike at the Air Associates Plant. Frankensteen said he’d heard it over the telephone from Sidney Hillman, Associate Director of the 'J.P.M. Reporters asked Frankensteen whether this meant the Army would be taking over. To which Frankensteen replied it meant just what he said. Which left the matter somewhat less than clear. Later an announcement came from the War Department by Under-Secretary Paterson. He said a representative of the Army would be in Bendix tomorrow to supervise the reinstatement of strikers. Paterson wired both the union and the company advising them that the War Department expects the cooperation of both sides. That seems to clear up the most immediately menacing situation on the labor front, pr^nAensteen strike in the East as published this morning. I .•s threat to call a general C.I.O. - 2 But the Coal situation is Just like the bottom of the mines themselves — dark and gloomy* John L* Lewis and Myron Taylor had their much publicized conference at a hotel in Washington today. William H. Davis, Chairman of the National Mediation Board sat in too. They met at ten and by half-past three they’d apparently got nowhere, since they were all seen going to the White House Just before four o’clock. When the reporters questioned Lewis he told them to talk to Mr. Taylor. When the reporters questioned Taylor he said"We are going to the White House, and that's all I can say." And that's how the coal story stood up to a late hour today i j^gyrTs FQLLQjfL.Sm2E. John L, Lewis was described on the floor of the Senate today aa a traitor to American ideals. Those words were spoken by Senator Ellender of Louisiana, in the course of a debate on the coal strike, be said further, ”I warn the American working men not to follow this labor bully, I plead with the laboring man to foster a movement to throw out such leadership before it is too 3ate." And then he concluded:- *^1 further brand Mr. Lewis a traitor to the boys who are now preparing to defend the country and to the American labor movement." 1 \ iJ 1 addcoal And here^s more about the coal strike. President Roosevelt iflade a fourth demand upon John Lewis to reopen the coal mines, and Lewis for the fourth time refuseJ^J For two hours the President tried his own hand at settling that dispute with Lewis, Myron Taylor and Chairman Davis present. Lewis declined to give a final answer toniglit. iie said he would confer tomorrow with District leaders of the Mine Workers Union and then give an answ’er. «nt]SING 'tLeJr UL ^ ^ _ The housing situation threatens to become desperate .round factories turning out materials for defense. Nathan Straus, the \ A A n Federal Housing Administrator, toirtt5=^ the Senate Committee investigating defense. Straus puts the blame on the policy that has housing construction among different government agencies, without experience. All power for defense A /V housing was taken away from i^is own agency which now has charge distributed ------^ almost entirely of projects that have nothing to do v/ith defense. Straus put it this way:- predict the most desperate housing conditions in defense-production-centers this winter. Dangerous ^ congestion)” And he added, ”It could all have been avoided if the tested machinery of established housing agencies had been used. ■'hi 11 I I WAR Kerens a bright side to the news from the Eastern front, as the military observers in Britain see it. They think conditions for the Soviet armies may possibly have taken a turn for the better. They say it»s mostly the bad weather that’s responsible. The nazis wallowing in mud and slush even along the southern front, where they were threatening the key city of Rostov. It*s worth noticing that the Nazis also admit they had to slow up because their panzer divisions were mired. But, in spite of all this. Hitler’s armies north and south of Moscow are beginning to join forces east of the capital. closing the pincers. That’s the latest from Berlin. The Nazi spokesman described the weather as incredible. The Russians admit that Stalin's armies have been forced back at Kalinin, a : > i!:5 11:1 iii hundred miles north of Moscow. Also news from the Crimea, scene of one of the bungled i wars of the Nineteenth Century, when British, French and Turks fought tosether igainst the Russians. That war is now chiefly telling hos the British Light Brigade j remembered because of the poem of Russian arillery at Balaclava. charged into the mouths WAR - 2 Tonight Russians are on the offensive again in the broad plans of the Crimea. The Nazis declare they have forced the defenses on the narrow isthmus that Joins the Crimea to the mainland. The Soviet troops are retreating, they say, and the Nazis have got as far as the narrow strait which separates the Crimea from the coast of Georgia. Once in Georgia, the Nazis will be practically at the back foor of the Caucasus. With the Crimea in their possession, they will command the Black Sea, especially as they will have the great Russian naval fortress of Sebastopol, which the array of the Czar evacuated In Eighteen Fifty-four after blowing it up. Here's a later bulletin from London. The Russians have evacuated Kharkov, which the Germans ix already callraed to have captured. Kharkov Is one of the biggest industrial cities in _ ,, iTni" 3.W3V with not only th©ir the south of Russia. And the Red g , i-ho ritv and blew up some of armies but the entire population of the city an the plants of military importance, before they 1H| ' !l li i T Qfivs it is believed tonight A late dispatch from London says ^ . _.,ianlng from the War Cabinet, not because that Lord Beaverbook is resigning 4- H hut as a protest against the refuai^^ of ill health as first reporte , _of the ..... . r-- :1 balloon In North Carolina, a county commissioner was taking it easy \ \ on his front porch when he heard an unusual sound in the air. Vhat he saw was more unusual than what he heard. A smoke-house filled with fine North Carolina hams was cavorting through the sky where li J. smoke-houses have no business to be. He called the chief of police t L who tried to start up his car to investigate. Essr ignition system . /I w r /n was full of rain, so the police chief had to erank-Hxis-. The A M motor back-fired, the crank hit him and blacked his eyed^u^ [iuJr Meanwhile, another farmer a few miles away, reported that something mysterious had come down from the sky and carried off his pig pen with a fine healthy sow and twelve shoats. So there was the smoke-house j’lui sailing through the ai^ and a pig pen underneath it, the shoats not bo awe old enough yet for the smoke-hous^ ' The answer soon was in evidence. A captive balloon had broken away from its crew at Camp Davis, i^iorth Carolina, and it was the tv;o thousand fdOt steel cables dangling from the bal_oon that -I had wipped up smoke-house, pig shoates and all. Presently, that balloon cable “ electric power line, whereby thirteen unwilling passengers met an izr:l-z:LZSJrr iesth, the s;>« tad the r»el Te sho4te5. Irr the A'hJ i tiE<;&« tls.'Vs^ ,"jt a E^arir to»r.. r-t ti« A ?) V\‘w-5«‘X^ •«k 4d£ji£fe. -r.e tshles roiil6>i still iiore tc^eer lines. htt zCf the torrent frea a cewer station, shrrt-circaite^i lines in arrfola, Tirginia, t»o hundred siles aiay, alacst hxcie a larg^ ^ ¥ater-aair, and finished up hy carrying off a weed’s washing froa £ '‘lothesllne near Swanturv, Xorth Caroling. t ends the. sad story cf the death of the twe^re A A little ztgSp with no apologies to W*l'« Tisney. WTLDWOOD - LEV LEHR The City of Wildwood, New Jersey, has a new law on the statute books. The law reads; ^Dogs are not permitted to bark between-ten p.m. and six a.ro.” I should add that the I ! law has teeth in it,for any owner whose dogs bark after ten o’clock at night is to be fined ten dollars. Wildwood, New Jersey I ■ Oh yes I That’s where my Movietone comic pal. Lew Lehr used to have his "summer home. I wonder what they do about monkeys in Wildv;ood, Lew? Anyhow, ordering dogs to stop barking from 10 p.m. to 6 a m. soxmds like monkey business. And, Lew, I’m convinced now- that monkeys are not the craziest people! Hugh, is there a doctor in the house? S i