1 L.T. SUNOCO. yPNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1941 GOOD EVFMING EVERYBODY: of ggvrgfr'fiuffffta. T Vt^fnrwn^ i iiic>-n-r-rt:>|p ^ ■pr^’h^n^ tT^'TffltlvMml iHvfgmBi nrrrcTTwn" opinion of American Catholics about O'JT sending help to the Reds was expressed today by a powerful voice, it-was’Thnt of the Reverend Edmund V/alsh^who^ii# Vlqo'~Prc?-^^eTyt of Georgetown University, declared that before ^ A A we give any more Lend-Lease help to the Soviet Union President to his oeoole. Last week President Roosevelt brought up the new Soviet constitution which Stalin promulgated four years agoj and its A guarantees of not only religious freedom but all the other freedoms. Anne 0»hare VcCormick in the New York Times points out tiiat the President nas been trying ever since Nineteen Thirty-Three to oersnade the Moscow government to make those guarantees a reality. Our Arbassador Steinhardt and the British Ambassador have been Roosevelt should insist that Stalin give actual freedom of conscienc^ \ LEAD - 2 bringing pressure to bear in Moscow. After the Senate ratification - of the treaty recognizing the Soviet a group of government \ officials and businessmen went to Moscow. With them went an American Minister of ghe gospel. But he didn’t set toirst— base- an4“dl^?r^ stay long. Anne O’Hare McCormick adds that the guarantees of religious freedom in the Soviet constitution are merely so many words on paper. While there are many thousand churches open in Russia there are less than one-third as many as there used to be before Bolshevism, While Stalin has disolved the Society of the ^ A A Godless^and the weekly newspaper called GODLESS has been suspended, the League of Militant Atheists remains in existence. A United States Seiiator today made the latest move in the campaign to win Catholics over for help to Soviet Russia. Senator jBunes Mead of Rew York sprang into the fray with a religious attack on Hitler. He told his fellow' Senators he had concrete, documentary evidence that Hitler and the Nazi police are destroying the Catholic Churcli in Germany. ?lany priests, be declared, are under house arrest, and a Roman Catholic Bishop^ the Bishop of Munster was anorehendcd A by the Gestapo because he protested against the systematic oppression LEAT - 3 of the Catholic church. The Bishop had sent a telegram to Adolf Hitler complaining about the anti-Catholic activities of Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Gestapo. Hitler turned the telegram over to Himmler who promptly arrested the Bishop. Senator Mead himself a Catholic^ tfi» declared on the floor of the Senate that no man who believes in God could believe in Hitlerism, and^^itlerlsm must be destroyed. Ofr^^^urw'The implication in this move by Senator Mead is that Adolf Hitler is the real enemy of the Roman Catholic Religion and that therefore, anybody fighting Hitler should be supported by Catholics. The campaign to convince the world that Stalin reallyisn’t so bad was helped in Britain today by no less than His Grace, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of the Church of England^ said that there have been signs in recent years of a change in spirit of the Soviet ruling powers. And he added that some mistakes have been recognized and as far as possible remedied. The true self of Russia, said the Archbishop, has emerged. And he said further of Russia that "V/e may well be proud of our new Ally.” WAR Hitler heading for Moscow, At any rate, all the signs point that way. In his speech to the German people last week, he spoke of new and gigantic preparations th^t his Generals have been preparing! on the Eastern Front. Well, war experts in London interpret the dispatches to mean that already there is a tv;o-ronged attack, in --------- full swing, against Moscow. I Hitler, throwing all his power — every! tank, every plane, every armored division. Nearly everything he has^ against the Hed Army of Marstial Timoshenko around Smolensk; together with the forces he is hurling against the Red defenses in front of Kharkov, key to the great industrial basin of the Donets. It looks as though the Nazi Fuehrer is betting everything on this offensive; which he hopes will be the final one. Military soothsayers are shaking their heads over the Nazi ■■■“■ . .............. .. ......... ... ‘ '■ •• armies. Hitler’s front is too long. So some experts tell us./ And they add that Hitler’s attack on Moscow is a tacit acknowledgement that his drive on Leningrad has not succeeded. Here’s an interesting commentary on the casualty figures Hitler has given out. This item comes from France, from the celebrated Second Bureau, the French Secret Police. According to WAf> - g their figures, the Gernans at the end of August had lost nearly two million men. Nine hundred and fifty thousand killed or missing; six hundred thousand wounded, four hundred thousand prisoners. A fantastically high proportion of dead. Indicating how indescribably ferocious the war in Russia has been. These figures are far higher thian any Hitler hemself has made public. NAVAL BATTLE 1 A naval battle in the Mediterranean and a great British vessel gravely damaged. That is, if we believe a special announcement at Rome. The Fascists tell a story of a great British fleet steaming from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean,an^feiasiT meeting an Italian squadron that engaged them and came off best. The British fleet was led by the great battleships RODNEY and NELSON, and the brarui new battle-wagon KING GEORGE, pride of the British Navy. many cruisers and destroyers in their train, The Italians «S««r^hat uvlOeatiy the principal aim A of the action was to make the Italian naval units in the zone engage in a clash under conditions of adDsoitrt^ inferiority^ " , /f ^ ft11cost the i^ritish dearly^ • An Italian submarine launched a torpedo which struck the formidable British aircraft carrier ARK ROYAL^ That's a mighty ship of ttsr--klnd^ twenty-seven thousand tons, carrying sixty aircraft and protected by heavy armor mnnlnii* on th® sides and on~ deck. The British comment on that Rome communique was full of j laughter. The Italians must be getting pretty hard up, said a spokesman at the A/^miralty. V»e can»t count how' many times theytye NIVAL BATTLE - 2 sunk the ARK ROYAL. As a matter of fact, I seem to recall tliat only las t week the Italians claimed to have hit the NELSON and made a hole in her stern large enough to drive a bus through. The British Admiralty admitted the NELSON had been hit. And in the early part of the w'ar, the Germans reported not only the ARK ROYAL but the RODNEY, sunk several times. The French Admiralty came out with some navaj. news today. naval news and a complaint. Two French steamers torpedoes in the Mediterranean, sunk by a submarines presumed to be British Later it turned out that the steamers in question were in an Italian convoy. In one case all the crew were saved, in the other case two men dead, eighteen missing. The sinking of the two French stamers, by a British submarine seems to be just conjecture on the part of the French Admiralty HI ■ IRELAr^D , 1 Here s news indeed, words of praiseJfrom Ireland, ab«ttt=-tiie They ^ere uttered by an Irishman well qualified to speak, 4 c 3 c —Prime iiinister Eamon deValera^^ ^For two years,” he told his countrymen, ”God has saved this country frcm being Involved in a savage war.” Then he added: ”So far our rights in the main have been respected." And he said further: ”I think it is only fair to acknowledge that the belligerent nearest us. Britain, in spite of temptation and urgings of certain propagandists, has not succumbed to them and has not behaved unworthily.” That’s what you might call praise from Sir Hubert. iii »4 !■ H 1 MOFFETT The torpe<1oing of that tanker in the Atlantic Ocean has aroused the ira of James A. Moffett, Ghairman of the Board of the lalifornia Texas 0-^1 Company. Moffett was #riled by the disclosure that the tanker was carrying oil to South Africa. This, declared the oil magnate, was disgraceful and outrageous. There is an abundance of oil supplies in South Africa, he said, so ithy should we have been exporting oil there when there is a shortage in the Eastern states of this country? I 1 ii, i I ROOS.iVELT President Hoosevelt is determined that the general public ®^stuiiiio|r no unnecessary hardships because of defense. He said toda^ to a group of seven hundred dealers of business from all parts of the country- itS the thirteenth annual conference on \ distribution.at Boston. ^ A The nation, said Mr. -^oosevelt, faces many new and difficult problems. Then his message continued: must see to it that the other democracies and their armed forces are kept well supplied with all requirements for the present struggle. That in itself," he added, "is a monumental undertaking." «-nd, to avoid needless hardships to consumers, distributors must organize in such fashion as to avoid the any delay in putting into the hand of the consumers greatly increased ^ A output of our productive capacity. i h ') DRAFT PhOPERTY The Act that enables the President to draft propert; Is all^through Congress. The final touch of legislative procedure was administered by the House today, and new it’s on the President’s _____ j desk waiting for the signature. i The bill was held up quite a while because the House ^ \ ■j and Senate couldn't quit« agree. But today the Representatives i okayed the report of the Conference Committee with nothing but a voice vote. It isn’t qiaitr as drastic as the one the War Department wanted, the bill which would have authorized the Vv\' - Government to seize any private property that^j^eiyagWpartaBiitr -A^ Cofigp»go r^wrota. thing m^ldec The House, for instance, wrote in a clause that there must be fair and just compensation for any property so seized and that compensation must not be less than the market price 11 The War Department made the point that bhere-are_ times when and second-hanck 5 sd«alers-are oDstijftata^ won * t ^ell except^-at speculative" prto^fi. To dee^-vrith ’ he Army, and need a LABOR From all sides been hearing warnings that the A priority business would throw a lot of people out of work before long. The prophecies have come true sooner than the prophets expected. In the month of September, seven hundred thousand €<7 lost their lobs. 5hati no''|rw»»war&^ritr:com04r=#lW the Washington A ^ office of W.P.A. In August there were fifty million five hundred thousand people employed, in September only forty-nine million, eight hundred thousand. MORGENTHAU The Government of the United States is about to make an agreement with Mexico to stabilize money. The news comes from the Treasury, from Secretary Morgenthau himself. He has been in conference with the Finance Minister of Mexico and a representative of the Bank of Mexico. Q. That isn^t all there is to the story. Th«:t stabilization A pact will only be part of a general agreement, a settlement of all the differences between ourselves and Mexico. That’s what Morgenthau says. ALCOA The Aluminum Company of America is not guilty of monopoly^ [ says Federal Judge Francis G. Caffey. The learned^^^«dfis who tried the Government’s case against the Alcoa, has been reading one of the longest decisions ever compiled on any bench, he started reading it last Tuesday and went to so much detail concerning the Government’s charges that only today did we learn thai't-muoll of the gist of his decision. The Department of Justice made two other charges against the^Company^-conspiracy and restraint. We have still to learn what s Hr>nor thinks about them. •i V 'i BRAi^DEIS There was a solemn moment at the opening of the new term of the i^uprerae Court of the United States today, inc-idgntallity it-wa8» the first session presided over by Harlan Fiske Stone, (Tw/\ jjj t¥m new Chief Jtistice^^>fHrti» Uwittd- -Slaty first official ij KM A ^ . act was to stop aM proceedings while the court honor to the A memory of their late colleague, jlt . Justice Brandeis. The Chief J^jstice spoke of the great learning of Brandeis, his rare sagacity. wisdom and prophetic vision. After ^ eulogy o£:rtbrEB-:3iinutea^ the high court ad jour ned dimmed tat PAINT Here’s one for the ladies. It costs eight hundred million dollars a year to paint their faces, enough to buy ten battleships. If you don’t believe this, ask the census bureau of Uncle Sam. a year. There are forty-nine million, one hundred and sixty-four .thousand, five hundred and eighty-seven of the creatureover ^^^reaturei^i fifteen years old and more, .fiiid hlintyj puKliig it kl’nrtiirt So^ that eight hundred millions means an average of sixteen dollars a year pei^face, more than one-fifth as much as they spend for food. That’s where the figures come from, eight hundred million dollars I I i u J '•-p- '^ i ii r.rrA"i :j;|i:i £AS£MLL The World Series that ended this afternoon was the toughest the Bronx bombers ever fought. As the final score of three to one indicates, it was not by fence-busting that the Yanks won the Series. Only one-homer today - by Henrich. The Dodgers fought grimly every inch of the way; and went down fighting. It needed a great fighting team to have any spirit left after that tragedy of yesterday. Never before in the history of baseball did a team have a game won, actual victory at one moment and lost a second later. The Brooklyn rooters today showed that thtlr sportsmanship was as good as their enthusiasm, and tliat’s plenty. In spite of that dropped ball which lost the game and eiientually the Series, the crowd cheered Mickey Owen every time he showed up. They cheered him at batting practice, they cheered him every time he came to bat. In the Dodgers’ dressing room after the game, there was Just one bit of disagreement. Joe Medwick said the Yankees were the luckiest ball club in the world, every game could have gone either way But Pitcher Hugh Casey saw it differently. Said he:- "The Yankees are one of the greatest teams ■•■’ve ever seen.” I said the Dodgers went down fighting, and that was almost I I !'■ I; BASEBALL - 2 literally true. There were moments v/hen it looked as though fists would swing, once when Pitcher Wyatt made a crack at Joe DiMaggio, the mound with his fists ready for action, and Wyatt as ready as Joe. Immediately umpires and players rushed in between them and no blows were struck to shock Commissioner ^andis. There was not only fire inthe hearts of the Dodgers while they were playing, there was actual fire on the roof of the grand­ stand. took the Fire Department ten minutes to put the frames out, but the spectators knew nothing about it A great Series, one of the greatest, if not the greatest. From the standpoint of exciting baseball. Also the tolial gate for five games totalled more than a million dollars. A record for a five-game series i:; 1] i ft I l! which the reporters dldn*t hear. But they saw Joe running towards j i I pi l! I WEATHEP This is Fire Prevention Week, In a year when it is of peculair importance. Fir e Prevention Week has taken on an added significance, after all we’ve been hearing from the wartern countries about the importance of fire protection in civilian defense. Hugh, you tell us about it.