L.T. SUNOCO. FRIDAY. MARCH 28. 1941 GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Before ^ get on with the day’s news I guess I had better explain where I am. The reason I had better explain is that at any moment during this fifteen bk minutes period I may be interrupted. You may suddenly hear the rumble of a train, and the whistle and clanging bell of a locomotive. I am broadcasting from the railway station at St. Agathe, in the Laurentians, and my hosts, Stationmaster Herminagiles Touchette and his colleague Paul Glgnac, tell me the night train from Montreal is due now in exactly one minute. *ut when it passed through St. Marguerite, and St. Adele oust down the line, it was about twelve minutes late. So I may get blasted off the air before I finisn with my Sunoco ^ in after the crowd of broadcast. Or the train may come started bac.c to the Laurentide Inn to skiers sitting around me has the banquet we are all going to „ .ttlng around me in tiais little French Canadian Among those sitting a RT1 AG AT HE - 2 station — I shouldn't say that because St. Agathe is the metropolis of the Laurentian — sitting with me are Monsignor Bazinet, the extremely popular spiritual leader of this part of Quebec Province, Mayor Georges Liboiron, Ken Harrison of Laurentide, Tom Wheeler of Greyroc<vS, Explorer ^rad viashburn who is also the director of tne Hew England Museum of Natural History in Boston, Louis Therrien who runs the little restaurant here in the station, Gaston Gibeault, head of the Laurentian Resort Association and Madame Gibeault. Oh yes, and I ought to mention sixteen young fellows who have their skiis stacked outside, and who are sitting here on the floor. They are all in white uniforms, because they belong to the local ski patrol. Are you all here tonight, boys?" nOui, oui, M. Thomal” And they are led by Phil Benoit who in the last #orld War was the youngest Canadian soldier. Benoit Joined up wnen he was only fourteen, and survived of course, although he was wounded a number of times, gassed, and buried alive for eighteen hours. And now fro the latest news concerning this Second World War. Jugoslavia remains a mystery tonight. There is not indication of what policy the new government will pursue, what it will do about the treaty putting the kingdom into the Nazi-Fascist Japanese Alliance* The only certainties are tnese: the new premier, Dusan-Simovich today declared that Jugoslavia will try to remain at peace with all of its neighbofs, Dusan-Simovich proclaimed what he called — a policy of full independence. We may presume that the treaty which the preceding government made with Hitler did not constitute full indtependence. Today the Jugoslav army was under full mobilization, orders streaming to the frontiers of the kingdom — ready to repeal any attack. YUGOSLAVIA A dispatch from Berlin tells us that Germany ha delivered a warning to flugoslavia about alleged outrag Germans in the country. .11 day the Nazi press has been fuming because of injuries the Jugoslav uprising which they Claim were inflicted on Germans in c Today's representations also contain the Nasi charge that the coup d' i etat by the Jugoslav army was linked with doings of the British and the Americans. The Gerraans are Still waiting for a reply to the enquiry sent JUGOSLAVIA - 2 yesterday. Reported to have been virtually an ultimatum whether or not the new Belgrade government intends to adhere to the treaty with the Axis. From Belgrade itself comes a report that Dusen-bimovich has informed Berlin of what he intends to do. He is supposed to have replied — "events sPeak for themselves.” Adding that certain points in the much-debated treaty are not likely to be accepted by the Jugoslav people. We are not told what these certain points myiy be, but from Turkey comes a hint. Istanbul gives us a story telling us why the previous Yugoslav Government was over- thrown yesterday, “ecause in tne treaty witn not «ia.r . ““ public. Turn® source. ».n.™ «” ie>K>’*<1 fnr the de-mobilization of the q secret clause which provided c contrary to a promise they had made to the Jugoslav army, fhis was ...» leaders before toe, «o <le»» “ “e"' n sources give us the opinion of what the new Turkish political s ho They won't denounce the treaty with Yugo government is lively to do. thinking. They won't abbrogate it Hitler — that's wht the Tur* is formally, and they won t loin up with the British and Greeks. vnfiOSLAVIA - 3 They1try to stay at peace with Nazi Germany, try to observe neutrality. In other words, Yugoslavia will attempt a policy of letting the treaty stand — more as a formality than anything else. The United Press dispatch from Istanbul uses these words: "The Jugoslav government, it was reported, will merely acknowledge the Axis pact without either denouncing or ratifying it. Then they’ll see what Hitler will do.n ----- — The latest report tells of communist demonstrations in Belgrade — red parades through the streets, with heavy forces of Police and soldiers on guard.^ The communist marchers shout against the new government — which'they declare Intends to get into the war on the side of Brfitain. "Imperialist Britain", say the Reds. The Yugoslav Bolsheviks demand another kind of policy a tre y with Soviet Russia. AIR WAR. The British Government today published its official version of the Great German air attacks of last fall — the air battle of Britain. The opinion is general that in failing to knock out the Royal Air Force in a series of tremendous blows last fall. Hitler sustained a m^jor- set-back, the first real Nazi defeat\ bome‘'tHink that air battle of Britain may turn out to have been the turning point of the war. So now le^s see what the London Government has tto say about it. The booklet got out today states that there were four phases of the mighty sky campaign. These were dictated by the nature of the problem and the sequence of events. The Nazi sky assault was launched as an intended prelude to invasion. The German command knew that before a successful landing could be made, it would be necessary to keep the British Navy out of the theatre of action, drive „ „ nf. ow. so the first phase and to six* the Royal Air Force out of the sky. „ -lynched against the shipping ports from for about ten days, was launcnea g , , 4 -^ The Germans found which British Naval units would ave * nn bv the British fighting squadrons was that the resistance put up by rt+or? That brought on the second phase, greater than they had expects • b a F. airdromes! This lasted lor which v.'^s directed against over two weeks. The campaign against the R. a .F. establishment on the ground tailed to cripple the resistance put up by the Spitfures and Hurricanes, Whereupon the Germans switcned to the third phase. They hit at industrial targets — and concentrated more and more on London. That continues for nearly a month. These first t ree phases were daylight attacks. The German losses were so heavy that they thereupon switched to the fourth phase — attacks u.ider the cover of clouds, and above all* night raiding. The waves of night bombing began. The German losses were vastly heavier than the British. Tne R.*.F. casualties were three hundred and seventy-five pilots killed and three hundred and fifty-eight wounded. The Germans, during the daylight attacks, lost two thousand three hundred and stveuty-five planes. In what spirit did the Nazis take such heavy losses? . words! nLet it be said lor The London account uses these v.oras. .*» n-4-/ ot 'pven when the Luftwaij.e was German morale that it never faltered, even wnen hundred and fifty air craft during each ptriod of losing seventy to a n London continues, "German pilots showed daylight. Certainly, j x 11 The story adds that these qualities of courage and tenaci y. x. hv qunerior qualities of the British qualities were met and matched y P war labor The Delense Mediation Board took Its first action today, action in the 1irst lour strikes submitted for its consideration The procedure was as follows. The Mediation Board consists of eleven members, and from among these panels were the appointed sub-committees. Four panels, each to deal with one of the four labor disputes. Simultaneously the Board sent telegrams to campanies and unions, asking them to resume production at once, and then send representatives to negotiate for settlement. One of the four strikes is at the plant of the Condenser Corporation of America, at Plainfield, New Jersey. Union leaders there immediately announced that they would cooperate fully with the efforts of the mediation Board to end the walkout. Another is the walkout at the Universal Cyclops Steel plant in Pittsburgh. There today an agreement was made. The company and the union representatives came to terms - which are still be be ratified by the strikers. , _r-i4- of* the four strikes The most important ox is the International Havester dispute been appointed in the five are A panel of five mediation board members have to deal with the company and the union. Included Chairman Dykstra and C.I.O. President Philip Murray They are to meet in Washington Monday with the representatives of Management and i»abor. At the scene of the harvester strike in Richmond, Indiana, tilings were quiet today. The union called off its pickets. Tne order was issued by C.I.O. leaders in jail. They siad it was no use continuing the violence. These union leaders gx face charges made in court today. Affidavits were filed with the allegations of riot, and, conspiracy to commit a felony. Eighty-two C.I.O men are involved, .including pickets and sympathizers. The most important of the strikes not brought before the Mediation Board are the Bethlehem Steel Walkout and the allis- Chalmers dispute. The Bethlehem Steel affair at the parent plant, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was settled today. The employees in a mass meeting ratified the terms agreed upon by the union leaders. T y ratified jubilantly, then staged a victory parade. The strike leader 4. + v^tovv and ithas been one of our stated: "This is our greatest 1 ’y ^orlired that the settlement leaves hardest fights." The company declared 4 4- when the strike began the situation just about where the settlement at Bethlehem a strike began at Immediately after the s , slants — Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the another one of the company i«4n-i' was the same as the , i There the complaint was _______ great. Cambria plant, in /-ir-i o 4-V' i Q +■ i ABQR “ 3 started the Bethlehem troubles — the employees representation plan, wliich the C.I.O. calls a company union. At the Cambria plant ballot boxes were placed today for voting under the employees representation plan, Whereupon the union called a strike, and the men walked out. Union leaders describe the shut-down as one hundred percent effective. At Allis-Chalmers, some employees returned to work today. About a fourth. They were unmolested, though threatened, At a union mass meeting strike leaders demanded that the walkout be continues - still rejecting the ultimatum or rquest - issued by defense Director Knud sen and Secretary of the Kavy Knox. VALTIN The Department of Justice has taken into custody a man named Krebs. That doesnH seem to mean much, until we hear that Krebs is the right name of the author aho signs himself "Jan Valtin." the man who wrote the book, "9ut of the Night", a current best­ seller. He was arrested today on a warrant that begins deportation proceedings against him. There •s much talk about the truth or falseness of the lurid disclosures made in the book "Out of the Night". Tales of the underground communist organization, sinister, world-wide. Stories of fantastic intrigue and plotting by the Reds. Jan Valtin represents himself as having been sra a German Communist who became a number one figure in the secret Red Network of International Intrigue. He was caught by the Nazis and put in a Hitler concentration camp and on that subject he tells a tale of horrors. There's such a piling on of villainies of the Reds and the Nazis, that the question has been raised - -Can all that have happened to one man?" Is it fact, or is there fiction in it?. . j x. interesting to take a look at the These questions matte it t va-mn was arrested today. It recites a warrant on which Jan Valoin was nH tese confirm someof the things told in series of accusations, and tne VALTIN - 2 the book# The warrant charges Valtin with having committed assault with a deadly weapon some fifteen years ago in California. For the crime he served three years in prison# This bears out the story the author tells "how the secret organization ordered him to carry out an assassination, and he bungled the job." The warrant states that he was deported back to Germany in Nineteen Twenty Nine, and that he was a member of the American Communist Party. These formal charges all fit in with Valtin1s nightmare narrations of Communist and Nazi doings — though, of course, they confirm only a very few points. Now he’s arrested for deportation — but where they*11 deport him to is hard to figure out. According to his own story, he procured his release from a Bazi concentration camp by duping and tricking the Gestapo. So to deport him back to his native ^ v-tnH nf hard luck, especially for an Bermany would be the hardest kind kind of royalties from a best- author who is getting the fatt seller book. r.ni.LISION At Jamestown, Hew iork, they say that Julius Trank, sixty- two years old, will probably recover. Julius, driving his automobile was hit not by one railroad train - but by two. And that would seem to be overdoing things. Therer are two tracks at the grade crossing where the accident occurred. Julius w^s driving across the first, when he was hit by train number one. The imoact knocked his automboile over onto the second track. A train going in the opposite direction hit the car, add slammed it back onto the first track. By that time the first track was clear — no more railroad train, or the automobile might have been smacked a third time. As it was the sixty-two year old man was injured, but the doctors say his condition is satisfactory and he’ll probably get well. This week-end by all means get out your car, fill it with Nu Blue Sunoco, drive to Virginia or on south ■ where Spring flowers are bursting into bloom or come up here W:iere Spring skiing its best, here at St. Agathe, at the Laurentide Inn, or on up at Mount Tremblant. ^ ^ntt e t hit by two trains or even by But whatever you do don t ni y one train. What do you say, Hugh'