PHh'^IlENT £.1 President Roosevelt spoke bluntly to Congress today express regret that tne lawmakers have not passed the price control bill he requested four months ago. In fact ne said that if Congress should fail to act, and act wisely, by October first, he uimself will have to act. Maening, that he will use the power already granted him. The lawmak rs have been timid about tampering with farm prices, and puttinx Jitter? about putting a ceiling on Onion Labor wa-'es. The President pointed out that if the cost of living s starts jumping that will endanger our war effort. Along with nis message to Congress, the Presidnent had his own Labor Day Joke with the White House correspondents. Some of them had been predicting that he would ask Congress to let nim appoint an economic Czar to deal witn nflatlon. They * even went so far as to name several likely candidates. When the message was sent today there was no such request in it. So Mr. Roosevelt sent a special message to the White House newspapermen. It read:- "Good raornint suckers." That was all. PRLSIuEUT - l As to his message to Congress. It was a lonp one. And in it he repeated nis previous seven point program that he had offered to the Senate and the nouse to keep the cost of living from going up and up. "The experience of the Government during the last four months," he said, "has proved that general control of prices is possible, but only i_f that control sail-inclusive. If th costs of production, including labor, are left free to riae rise indiscriminately, or if other major elements PRESIDENT - 2 —\ are left unregulated, price control becomes Impossible.” he illustrated^- ”It is impossible for the cost of living to be stablized while farm prices continue to rise. You cannot expect the laborer to maintain a fixed wage level if everything he wears and eats beg ns to go up drastically. On the other nand, it is impossible to keep stability in farm prices or any (father prices if wage rates continue to increase.*' ”In war time”, he continues, ”The Government has a most vital interest in seeing to it that wa'es are tw kept in balance with the r^st of the national economy”ftar,/he said,. oi}/e raore^^Calls for sac/ifice, makers privilege 9/ sacrifice/ That sacrifice will/have to be expressed in ternrs of a laci/of many y0f the thing ave all / / " be,come accustomed. fell/within .rices of foods tnat nayfe been controlled actually 7 / / / -- ----------------------------—-............. -......... ....................... ~" a ; 1 / / / / , / I foods advanced seven/point three ^.recent durlnc same p.rlo. two months after Price regulation beg^n. ^Dut, he "uncontrolled and /fire still gqrng up". rte-^W=e^-4 jihini*-*r^ une^rtrolfm*. Ijip/greatest PRESIDENT - 4 dangeiv'tie poinrted out, is io^iairy products, most '« i/i tOe American diet. x'Sutter, cheese and evajxJ'rated milk, are goUig Ui so fast that they constitute a adeydate supply of f *id arlik. -he^ ex^mpt/under th.e price control act. Brices for these haye be i c n 1 ■ e tirrg: by -other-rzroupsras w* nerdn.su--- — advnncod three principles to !ruide Congress with respect to farm * products: first, to hold the Hie against inflationary price increases. Secc^nd, to get the required production of necessary farm products. Third, to maintain the principle of parity for // agriculture. imw^tant f-or*Hwrr^^r^ in-ilintar Tr-rd^r turn onlllnirB e—Wuele --^h4cn -pyyei l^d" at— h*^T14^4-,-s5DTrH ..............................t■'ll1) J1 L«rr pK^^- ^ontmXa.. ^ The president also urged Congress to consider a law wnich would j place a floor on the prices of farm products. "Ke sho ild not only place a reasonable ceiling or maximum, but also a guarantee to PRESILENT - 5 to the farmer that he would receive a fair minimum prico tor his product forone year or even two years after the end of the war." idr. Roosevelt tyMH* dealt with tn ^ shortage of labor on the farms. <2nA He nad no concrete suggestion but said that the time is at hand A when in many parts of the country we shall have ^o use the help of women and ?r wn peoOe. ”-1—fe>ed hft liyhi'1 ^ew he-a^i4<- nIt not only wc>uld b^ unfair to labor to stabilize wages and do nsaght nothing about the cost of food: ‘it would be euqally unfair t £ s ^ to the farmer.tT So.wnat does the President propose? He sayd says . y X ) J % nI ask the Congress to pass legislation under w ifch the President would be specifically authorized to stabilize the cost of living including the price of all farm commodities." He said also: T’I have given the most thoughtful consideration to meeting this issue without further reference to the Congress, however," he added: "I have determined on this vital matter to consult with the Congres aded he^srrtriT-^^o ouu«4ry cannot tell," he added, "what powers may have to exercised in PRESIDENT - 6 7F* order to win this war.” Mr. "It is now in effect < n some Roosevelt also dealt Kith rationing. commodities DxaaatitiKji." ne pointed out," and A TT when necessar will be extended to others." One of the most powerful weapons in our fight to stabilize living costs, he said further, is taxation. That still waits upon the Congress to act. He insists on«e more that Congress must eliminate tax TP" exempt securities. And he repeats his request for a tax rate that would ma<ce it impossible for any individual to have an income higher than twenty-five thousand a year. bHO..N Jru re ction to Pre^icient Hoosrvt; ItT s raosscige Ccinie from Brown o'* Mlchigi nj ~n^ of tht ro-c* 1 L-< 1 • rra Lloc in Con -rtis. President' , A said, *111 nave a tough battle on nis hands if he tries to get A Congress to lower the ceilings on farm prices'wlthout aloo stabilizing v.a ’es. The President, ne add* d, has already ^ull t T power to do that vithout ny new law. Senator Taft of Ohio said the President’s message evidently •***9 a noti e to Congress A that so lonr as the war lasts he intends to make the laws of the *JJi4 United States^himself^by executive order. The implications, J** ^ew \ would ma.-ce Congress a xxkr shell Oi a Legislative o y, A 7? Senator George Norris of Nebraska evidently a-re $ with Mr. Roosevelt. He ^^ q *^**^ that a hundred red ten p?i cent of parity for farm prices ^ too much>ad--^ %****t\i tho f^rntrs i-^»i t.o ii nT»—r ■pm Re ;r^sentative Fulmer of South Carolina, Chairman of the house Committee on Agriculture, A1 asks and pass a law curbing fare prices "y October first. But he reason why Congress should n6t do what the President added that he does not believe in puttrng ceilin-s on all prices bRO>N - fc ir and working down, giving thn farmer whatever Is left. Senator McNary of Oregon, Republican leader, made a motion to refer the President’s message to the Senate Committee on Agriculture^ Ttwt is the heart and core of the powerful farm tlo^ in Congress, but the presiding officer of tne Senate, Senator Hatch of New Mexico, referred it to the ban* nr committee. NELSON FOLLO'A THO.’ VS Meanwhile ..ar Production Cnjer o .nald Nelson was making > l/Ls&L Lfiber Liny ?”:n' ch * f ^Icv^Itifid. / th&t tne Jilted Stfctes Is o n? to lose this w&r unless it fights with the s^rne determination and the same unity of ourpose as the enemy. The United Sta ei>, ne pointed out, not ?et a second A A chance to win. Mn or lose, he added, it is po i ng to be final. As for shortages of critical materials he explained tnat we have been makin- some tings faster than others. Until we ret back in balance, as we will before long, said Nelson, there are bound to be shortages nere and there, fie-urged workers to quit taking an extra day of and to stop goin1; on -fmaiMtey-cuicky., ^ir-tlcs» »- -mi* - unautnorized strikes over minor grievances. Any absence from a -£ j ? . factory, saidA slows prodJCtion»# t RUSSIA the battle for Stalingrad, Moscow has been curiously A silent all day. Consequently the only reports we have come from Berlin. Even they are scanty and va^ue. The Nazi hi^h Command ad its that violent fighting is oing on before Stalingrad, which means it is not inside the city itself. The Nails claim that the German and Rumanian forces have gained further ground as they naturally would claim, but the Germans also acknowledge that the Russians have strength enough to raa.e strong country- attacks with infantry and tar^ forces from the north of the ^eleaguered city. The Nazi High Command claims that all these attacks were repelled with heavy losses and that a hundred Russian tanks were destroyed. The Nazi Air Force is attacking the red defenders day and night. RAIDS -n ^ ^•'.estt'rn turope, the British, Canadians and Americans are carrying In what is described as a non-stop aerial of Tensive. \ Our own fly ini'«^or tresses were assigned to raids on Nazi a il shipyards at Schiedam. u name alerto associated mostly with >A a highly potent beverage. lt\s important today because it is a TP place where Nazi warships are being turned out in numbers. The flying xorteesses also bombed Utrecht, famous as the to n where an history treaty /;as concluded in Seventeen thirteen, important in this MixtBziK instance because it is a railroad junction vital to Nazi operations in tnose parts. From todayls raids, every fly ins fortress returned safe to base in spite of heavy resistance from enemy fighter planes. They destroyed twelve of the enoTny 7f for sure, and probably many more. Elsewhere, squadrons of r.oyal Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force bombers and fighters carrfed on raids over territory occupied by the enemy. British he->vy planes bombed Duisburg again, tne great inland port in the Ruhr, as well as other targets in the Ruhr district. The operations were begun by hea-y flights of allied fighter t planes which spent the entire nignt clearing tne air of Nazi pursuit planes, t .us leaving RAIUS - £ ttie scyweys open f or th-- f o.jb^rs. Today’s operatl ns w re evidently of a different plan from previous zrin concentrati m of bombe. s, Ll^.e tnose at Cologne and Rostock. It appears to nave been a fan shaped operation over western Germany and tne low countries, ut on s scale larger than ever before. The allied crews did so well that some officers believed that in t/iis way an actual Second Front might be created "n the air providea the necesser/ plaries are to oe had. The attack on Duisburg was tne ifty-fiftn since the war began. EGYPT "facyptifln & note of warning been i —4 t*b±i:rfc±ox^ ______ ^u^Ae- Lond^n. ihere bas been —4t*b~tyrr^dor^1 over Cthe retreat —in of H«-«4 V1 obi Mnrahal Rommel and his Afrllca Korps. ^Do not interpret that as a decisive victory, say* the nilitary observers in England. It may mean tnat nommel is merely withdrawing in order to hit all the harder the nx next time. \^£-eot2rsw- fhth- -h«-f*-4efilfc. a SOV4 rtitl 1^- :nrr t * me -to-chcTt-l-e, fto wrei? Mobile units of the jeightn amy /V were foilwing close on Rom el*s heels today, slashing at his rear guard which has been caVd-ying on a running fieht to cover tne retreat One incident of the recent battle there, was the death of a German general witn an historic name, Major General George Von Bismark, killed in action. So saiy Nazi prisoners captured by tne British. was tie a cousin of old Prince Bismarclf, a cousin in the-first llney tj^^t.>^iry-^rnTi,pp,~-7rntrh 1 tirtftff the man of blood ana iron who created A the modern German empire. Bismarck recently ki > led^nad <An A A iaipBBtx important command. He v/as leader of the twenty-first German armored division, one of the crack Nazi Panzer units A detachment of French customs guards — comparable to our cOdot guarusiiicn were patrolling the Mediterranean Coast saw near tne bp^nish Hx)ntier0 iney xers six n land from a small /X. A boat who refueed to answer to the command to halt. The guards opened fire. Then men from the boat returned the fire and five of the landing party escaped. The sixth man was caotured and he turned out to be a British Arny Lieutenant. ^ fhe Nazi and Si Vichy authorities are worried because the dve who did escape into unoe ailed France are evidently British /rmy and Navy men on a desper- te venture. They had & with thei^ a radio transmitter and several fcaxx bags filled with xemx kou documents and Frencn currency. One of those ba s was captured and that is how the French autnor ties learned that it was a party of ^ritish officers. The Vicny Government declares that the mission oi those live British officers is liKe tnat of parachutists. Tn oth*r words, sabotage and intelligence —. It is proper to call it intelligence when your own men are doing it, esp ona. e v\z‘: n thcyfre cnc :y it . But that isn’t all. Fifty-two British and Canadian soluiers . T. wic. rot far from the Italian frontier who had been interned neai Mien , uoe made a clean getaway fro/ their jails. Lany of tnem are still at LSCAPfS - < l&rc:e in anoc apied rrance. fney ^ot out by tu.unelinp under a L'Arzz wall, come ol' them were recaptured in die* walking the sea front promena.*'; witn tn* Sunday crowds. PANORAMA the human element retake ^ whom i RKEKiutiRX fascir;atin k by Stanley Ross jSy Angel i.s selling hi. two nhie. quitting hi. job us pib t Consolidated Oil Compn in Venezuela and takmy iu? Salh’ red-haired pilot-wife Marie r Brazil. Jimmy will drive Cu taiina Fly inn boats loaded w-iti» rubber from Uie detm reachea n{ the Amazon basin to allu-Ai ports for the Rubber Reserve C< t ^orty-three year old Jimmy knows more about junyle flymy and Ifc in the wilderness thar. any^lot in the world. Many arc the secrets of the vast unknow n region that borders Brazil. Vo nezuela and Columbia which he 11 uke with him. Hiss stories are fan tsstic but few men who know the jungle like to completely doubt anything he says. They didn't be­ lieve him when he said he'd dis­ covered a waterfall ten times the height of Niagara in the vast Ve- neiuelan Gran Sabana plateau. But he led a government com­ mission to the mountain. (Auyan Tepui) and the falls (n< w Angel Fills). Jimmy bar. baen flying for the VussacHn and Brazilian govern­ ment in regions where the only maps that exist w'ere made by the conquistadores of the 16th Century searching for El Dorado It « whispered in Venezuela that any time Jimmy needs money he flies into the ‘nterior. lands in e spot never seen by a white man. gathers a bucketful of gold and come* back flush. He knows the interior of Venezuela better than any pilot alive, and can land a plane where no one else would dare to. In February Jimmy was car­ ting Mrs. Felix Cardcna and her four chidren from deep in inte­ rior Venezuela to Caracas where she *as going to have a baby. Nying ver the Orinoco river Jimmy ran out of gas and did a pancake landing on a tiny sand S it. While all Venezuela Icoked r him and the newspapers gave him up as lost, Jimmy got an in- •* d to paddle two days up the river for some gasoline, took oft came in under his own power. During the first world war Jimmy Angel joined the U. S applied for a transfer to the air corps, since he had already taade a name for himself as a rtunt flyer for the Movies. Exa­ mined by Army doctors, he wvs declared unfit for any type of ^rvice, and thrown cut of the Jimmy thereupon joined ,^ A F., became one of the ai s outstanding aces, palled around with Lawrence oi Ara­ bia. Eddie Riekenbacker and Ge­ neral Allenby. Tyr war over. Jimmy accepted an invitation from the new Chi­ nese government U,. form an air­ force for the Republic. In the midst of the Russian Revolution Angel flew across iill«-nt Europe and Asia t© reach/hi* new job. Eveuy time he landed he was clapped into jail by the B. Ishe- viks and hiid to stay there until his papers were sent to Moscow. The trip took him 10u days. 1*0 of which was spent in jail. After a period as a Chinese General, complete' with food tasters, Jim­ my came back to the states and became the he der of u flying circus. He met Marie Sanders in the Los Angeles 'Brown Derby" nine yers ago and they settled down to a life as crazy as any two peo­ ple have ever experienced. So metime ago Jimmy flew into the Guaika Indian section < f Brazil, convinced these fierce cannibals he was a god and got them to .give him - huge auautilv of Cu- _! rare poison which the united States Government is now using 1 to treat shell shock and Infantile Paralysis. Jimmy said he put s - ( me of it on a pin, scratched a cat and saw it die in eleven seconds On another trip, laying out the border line between Venezuela and Brazil, Jimmy narrowly mis­ sed getting mketl with Curare himself. Arrows flying all around him, Jimmy saw’* four of his In­ dian helpers drop dead. Flying rubber cut of the wil- derncs will get it to allied ports much faster and cheaper than by the clumsy Indian methods now employed. At present it takes twenty days by Indian canoe to haul a quarter tone of rubber from the section Jimmy will ser­ vice to its destination. Angel can nv ke the (rip in three hours and carry up to ten tons. Although there are countless millions of rubber trees in inte­ rior Brazil. Venezuela, Columbia. Peru and Ecuador, the Allies can t count m more than 100,000 tuns this year, according to a half a dozen experts with whom 1 ha­ ve spoken The principal pro­ blems are transportation and la­ bor. In its heyday, 1010-1012, Bra­ zil never produced nr* re than eighty thousand tons and Vene­ zuela twenty thousand. That was when rubber was ® A current prices rubber contractors aren't interest**!, and Indiana won t work. '-^r. —m It is a story about a TJ a 3 0 1 8 0 *■% 1 c % M S you mi ht call, a flyer’s their hats to him. His Tinny year? he lias been flying South America, a region You may xexwlxkt remember ared in the American Museum ?s ago, and later it was lay Evening Post, and I zine tolc about Jimmy. ’fall ten times the height ? Jimmy /1ngel found a river u. They didn*t; believe ;ory. Until he lead than mountains and there they times as high as Niagara a explorer friend of nine, Ji furltcher, whom I have mentioned before, sends tne a faxsaiHtinK fascinating story from Laguniilas, Venezuela. It is a story about a young nan who, Llk< J inuay Doolittle you might call, a flyer’s flyer. Airmen everywhere take off their hats to him. His name is Jimmy An-el. Anc for ma:*y many years he iias been flying over the Jungles of fea t :n* ra : Sou*d Ann-ica, a region where a forced landing means death, 'iou may rEXjemjiKr remember a story about Jimmy -^ngel that appeared in the American Vuseum of Natural History Magazine tv.-q years ago, and later it was expanded and published in the' Saturday Evening Post, and I think Mrs. Melo:.ey»s THIS WEEK Magazine told about Jimmy. It was about his discovering a waterfall ten times tne height of Niagara, deep tn the Andes, where Jimmy Angel found a river plunging over the Gran Sabana Plateau. Tne idn t believe Jimmy when he came back wit*h tnat story. Until he lea. & government expedition into those mou T in- nf^ e y found that incredible waterfall ten times as ni-n And it is nov. named An el Falls. gW* AflGEL 2 1 wish I had time to briefly sketch the story of Jimmy Angel and the Hying he did over regions where there were no except a few made by the conquistadores of the ifi&K Sixteenth Century when they were searching for El Dorado. The story sdcaxtxJiaxy that Jim Durlacher sends me, written by Stanley boss, in a Venezuela paper, called Panorama, says that in Venezuela it is whispered that any time Jimmy Angel needs money, he flys deep into the interior lands in a spot never seen by a white man, and gathers up a bucket of gold”. but 1*11 skip oil that and just give you the latest news. Jimmy Angel mxas met Marie Saunders at the Brown Derby Restaurant in Los Angeles some years ago and they settled down to the most unsettled life of any two people in the world. One of the big jobs in the jungles of South America is getting rubber out of the wilderness. At present it taKes twenty days by Indian canoe to kxx haul a quarter ton of rubber from one section and Jirony Angel has taken on the job of flying it out, in his plane he* 11 carry up to ten tons and bring it out of the Brazilian forest in three hours. J1E! X ANGEL 3 That's the latest on the Incredible young American flyer v.ho found the highest falls in the world.