:k»X._£rJiNOCQ. MONDAY. SWPTELRF.R 13. 19S7 GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: The Chinese high command describes its evacuation of the Shangiiai area as a strategic move. The Chinese armies are falling back upon their third line of defensey a line that has been planned and fortified long since. They add that this strategic retreat!s done at the urging of the German officers who are serving as military advisors to the Chinese generals. The reason being to ^et out of the range of the heavy guns of the Japanese warships in the Whangpoo and Yangste Rivers. \s soon as this movement to the rear became apparent to the Japanese, they launched a furious attack with all arms. The idea was, of course, to turn the retreat into a rout and prevent the retiring Chinese from establishing themselves on their third line. This opens the questionwhether the Mikado's warlords will consider this Chinese retreat from Shanghai as the achievement of their objective in that region. When hostilities hegan,that CHINA - 5 In Europe Dr. N. K. Yiellington Koo, Chinese Ambassador to Paris, delivered an appeal to the League of Nations, charg­ ing with the Invasion of China, aggression against the territorial integrity and existing political independence of China a member of the League of Nations. This appeal, said Dr, Koo, clearly constitutes a case which can be dealt with under Article Ten of the Covenant of the League. But will it? ^ RETAKE was the principal, action that the Jap^ese demarSe^^tff*®111® evacuation of Shanghai and the surrounding territory by all Chinese Troops. However, if the Chinese entrench themselves in a really trong position, they still remain a threat to the invading forces of the Mikado. The Chinese claim that three Japanes warships were bombed by airplanes off the coast near Macao. They say one Japanese battleship was destroyed and sunk, but there is no confirmation of this. The word from Tokyo is that the Mikado’s government will again refuse to give Great Britain any satisfaction for the shooting of the British Ambassador to China. The final note from the Tokyo Cabinet to London was completed today, and is probably in the nads of t1 - British Embassy now. The shooting of Sir Hughe Knatchbuil-Hugdson was investigated by Admiral Hasegawa and the outcome of it is that no proof has been found that it was a Japanese pilot who fired the shot that injured the British envoy. So calaim the Japanese CHINA3 In Europe Dr. N, K. Wellington Koo, Chinese Ambassador to Paris, delivered an appeal to the League of Nations, charg­ ing J$pan with the invasion of China, aggression against the territorial integrity and existing political independence of China a member of the League of Nations. This appeal, said Dr. Koo, clearly constitutes a case which can be dealt with under Article Ten of the Covenant of the League. But will it? SPAIN L Premier Mussolini has accepted the Nyon Agrement, the invitatiop to join in the international patrol of the Mediterranean, i Put, reservations. It was said in France that he doesn't like the back seat allotted4to Italy, he wants an equal share with France and England. That's'the rumor in Paris, In London, however, it's said that £1 kb he 'just wants a larger zone to be patrolled by Italian warships. At the same time, something #as happening in Geneva which the Duce is bound to resent. The, Assembly of the League of Nations, with the Aga Khan in the chair^ first of all declined to expel Ethiopia from its memberstaip^uJE^cap that^the League also voted to go on recognizing the Valencia government as the legal government of Spain. This in spite of the protest from General Francisco Franco, the duce of the Spanish insurgents. i GERMAN1 Fuehrer Hitler of Germany broke out today with a characteristic speech quite in his old style. To wind up the Nazi Party Congress at Nuremberg, the Fuehrer blazed forth with another violent attack not only on Bolshevism, but on the Jews. ’’It*s the Jews,11 he cried, t'who have seized control in Russia!" Then he cried again:- "^hey are using that as a starting point for world revolution!” The latest verbal onslaught upon the youngest Supreme Court judge, looks like quite a storm. It may turn out to be a tempest in a tea-pot — but the tea is boiling high. It all started with a series of artidles in the PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE. J|nd those articles began with a definite statement that Justice! Hugo L. Black not only was a member of the Ku Klux Klan as charged but is a life member, and no resignation of that member­ ship is on record.^ Justice Black, who is in London with Mrs. Black, declined invitations from reporters over there to make a statement. A.ttorney General Cummings, today says however, that Mr. Black is definitely and finally an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court — meaning Klan or no Kina. Says Mr. Cummings r,Hefs there for life and neither the Senate nor the President of the United States, cutiild do anything to remove him. The only actions that could remove Mr. Black from the august seat, are resignation, death, or impeachment.1' And he added;- " Impeachment would have th be initiated in the House of Represent­ atives.” jBJLACg - 3 Meverthe less Senator Copeland comes out with a blast that the Supreme Court and the Senate should find some way,'1 some way as he put it:here are Senator Copelands words:- "Keep this man from wearing the black robe of justice by day and the dhameful white robe of the Klan in the dark of the night." Thus spoke the Senator. These fulminations were ansv/ered by Senator Bankhead of Alabama. Mr. Bankhead dismissed the copious Copeland eloquence as nothing but propaganda. "Just a little political campaign on the part of Mr. Copeland for the f3ew ^ork mayoralty election," said Senator Bankhead, and then he added:- "Bringing up the issue of Klan membership at the present time is merely a rattling of old bones that have long been dead and dry." The air today was full of denials and counter-denials. Hiram Evans, grand wizard of the Klan, says that Justice Black is not a member but that until the records of the organization are investigated, it's impossible to say whether he ever was one. At any rate former Governor Kilby of Alabama, said he had a photostatic copy of a card proclaiming Mr. Justice Black a BLACK - 4 life member in the K.K.K. as well as a life member in the U.S.S.C. Mr. Kilby was Black*s unsuccessful opponent the last time he ran for the United States Senate. RGU o LV^LT Another engagement in the President*s family, another big ** time wedding somewhere in the offing. Yes, it*s young John Roosevelt who returned from Europe last week. As the poet remarks: - "Journey* s end in love.rs* meeting .*1 And in spite of frequent denials it was announced today that tfnii Ma sataaBBamm is_engaged to Miss Anne Lindsay Clark of 4 Boston and Nahant. The young lady’s mother who hair said "no" to reporters several times admitted it today. Rumors of the engagement were enlivened and increased vrky by the efforts of young list* Roosevelt and his fiancee to dodge A the cameramen. Miss Clark only recently was staying at Hyde Park, family. is now at Wahant with his finacee*s Presumably the wedding won’t taxe place for a year or iAri £$' ^1 so as the young man it to Cambridge, Massachusetts shortly to begin his senior year at Harvard. Bpeaking for the President at Hyde Park Lieut. Col, James Roosevelt declared this afternoon:- "The family Is very pleased.1' BUTLER Thirty-one years ago, a little cook entitled, "Pigs is Pigs", was published and within a few weeks all America was reading and chuckling over that tiny volume. It dealt with the dilemma of an express agent named.Mike Flannery, in a small town. One day a couple of guinea pigs arrived at the office of which Mike Flannery was in charge. Mike delivered the guinea pigs and said, "Sixty cents please,’! The man to whom they were consigned said, "Nonsense, guinea pigs are domestic pets and should be charged only twenty-five cents a piece." "Pigs is pigs," said Mike. The man refused "to pay the fifty cents, so Mike fcxat took them back. He wrote about it to the home office. He wrote and he rewrote and he triwrote. By the time that correspondence had been going on for a few months, those two pigs had become four thousand and sixty-four, and Mike had not only to take care of them but tis to feed and water them. At that, the home office authorised Mike to deliver the pigs. But by that time the man to whom they were originally consigned had left town. Mike then received orders to ship the pr.gs to the home office. BUTLER - 2 At the end of a week he had shipped two hundred and eighty cases of guinea pigs and v/hile he was shipping theEi seven hundred and four more were born. As the book ended, he was still loading guinea pigs into baskets witn the philosophical remark: 11 *Tis not so bad as it might be. What if them dago pigs had been elephants Ift ”Pigs is Pigs” comes into the news toda^i because Ellis Parker Butler died at Housatonic, Mass JJhiUuQCiii Here^ a surprise for baseball fans especially Cincinnatians. The Cincinnati Reds have a nev/ manager and the colorful ±x pugnacious Chuck Dressen is out. Apparently his mistake was to walk in on the club management and ask what .as going to happen to him next season. One trouble with asking questions prematurely is that sometimes you get an answer. And the answer of the Reds General Manager to Chuck when he said:- "Where do I stand?1' was '.'Well, 11 m sorry Chuck you donTt-H For the rest of the season the Reds will be managed by Rigan Tom Wallace, one of the scouts. At this stage of the season it doesnft much matter who manages the baseball club 38? e occupying the position which sports writers describe as "the cellar." Even if Mr. Dressen couldn1! do any better than land his team at the foot of the League, his exit removes a colorful personality from the Cincinnati Reds. With the single exception of Burleigh Grimes of tne Brooklyn Dodgers, Chuck Dressen was the scrappiest of all major league managers. Whenever the game got dull Chuck could be counted upon i&R DRijooKN V'~ to provide diversion in the shape of a hot argument with the umpires. One consequence of this was that Chuck v/as chucked out of the game msequenci A a dozen times this year. Off the diamond he was noted for being smooth, a suave talker and the best dressed man in major league baseball# As he was supposed to be a close personal friend of* Powe! Crosley, the principal owner of the Beds,-the rxchucking of Chuck was quite a surprise. Never at any time has he had an easy job at Cincinnati. He took the eighth place team in 1934 and the following year pulled it up two notches. In 1936 the Reds finished fifth and still fighting. When this season opened it was announced that the team had been so improved that they could be counted upon as in the race for the pennant and^ certain of the first division. As iz turned out, for all their fighting qualities they weren*t so good as baseball players. Nevertheless they’ve made more money than any other team in the National beague. This is duT^la^e^T'^o^iig^^ames. More people have paid A money to watch the Reds play than any other team except the New York Yankees. 1 A BREVITIES ^hen you talk about a gold rush* you promptly think of the far west or of somewhere In Panada, But for the last few weeks px&xsx prospectors have been flocking to a region in the east. The precious metal is being mined in regions no farther auEay than thirty miles away from the nation1 s capital. Since President Roosevelt so Increased the price of gold, a couple of mines in Maryland, mines that hadnit been worked for many a long year, were reopened and operated so successfully that ore worth as much as a hundred and fif ty-five dollars a ton was recovered. Those mines date from the day of Thomas Jefferson, when gold was first found near Washington, D.G. But they were forgotten and todi abandoned when the rich deposits out west were discovered. Today, however, prospectors are panning In the creeks and drilling in the ground not only in Maryland but In Virginia, on the banks of a creek called Bull Neck Run. BREVITIES £ A hurricane has been on its way to America, rushing northwest across the Atlantic in the-last few days. Today storm warnings are out all the way from the Delaware breakwater to Boston. All vessels in its path are warned against dangerous conditions. The lawyers of America are going to make a determined effort to prevent celebrated trials from becoming three ring circuses. We seem to have heard that before, but the gentlemen of the robe say they are in earnest this time. The American Bar Association is going to hold a convention in Kansas City later this month. And for several months a special committee has been investigating. The Committee consists not only of lawyers but of newspaper publishers and editors. They say they are determined to prevent a recurrence of such fantastic scenes as happened at Flemington, New Jersey, when Richard Bruno Hauptmann was convicted as the kidnap-murderer of the Lindbergh baby. BREVITIES - i There1s going to be apurge in the United Automobile Workers Union. Homer^artin, President of the U.A.W.A. has called a special meeting of the Executive Board to throw out Communists and others responsible for wildcat sit-down strikes. Here’s an item the like of which you will probably never hear again. A politician says to his friends, "Don’t vote for me.11 There is going to be a primary election In Philadelphia tomorrow and former state Senator Max Aaron of Pennsylvania was candidate for judge of the Common Pleas Court, since he filed his petition, the Republican organization chose somebody else. And ex-Senator Aaron says: "I’m going to support their Choice and I’ll be much obliged if you will do the same," So don't vote for me. In Atlantic City today the chief topic was the walkout of Miss America, the seventeen year old school girl who was pro- claied the most beautiful girl In the country, the queen of the beauty contest. Atlantic City couldn’t b lieve tnat a girl would spurn a thousand dollar Persian lamb coat, to say nothing of BREVITIES - 6 vaudeville contracts and an airplane journey to Hollywood and a screen test. The ex-Oueen^s reason seems even more indredible. She walked out because she wasjust tired of it all. Ho hum! So she went home to get rid of a cold and catch up on her sleep. And no?? in case you’ve been catching up on yours during this broadcast I’ll say SO LOHG UHTIL TOMORROW.