k*JLi - SUNOCO« TU il SP h Y. AUGUST B. 1939. GOOD EVENING EViLrlYBODY i These August weeks are warmaneuvre time. All over the world the nations are staging vast military games, with millions of soldiers under arms - for practice* This is a Number One factor in reckoning the war peril, which so many £Es:piJExxx± believe will flare up with the approach of fall. In Italy, the war maneuvres are over - came to an unexpected end before schedule, and this has provoked widespread speculation,—So Home Correspondent J. b. Mathews oable^ to the NEW YORK TIMES. ^Why did Mussolini call off his giant military games so abruptly? There*s no reply in Italy, but in France tney're saying - it * 5 because the Italian battle practice cTWJP proving ^ thing most unwelcome to the Fascist government. They say the mighty maneuvres in northern Italy were showing the fallacy of the theory of - a lightning war. The Germans call it - blitz ku krieg. Blitz - lightning. Krieg - war. It* s a favorite LL a D - 2 t “? v::'> idea with the TotalitarlajEis that by the overwheliaing use of mechanism they could rip through the best of enemy defense, liKe the French Maginot Line - and win in a hurry ^ -Tiig- praai -Fanuiat is taohillty;— n irmnii nf innTrruniitirn nga.an'Tt. . -the gponoh strategy uf on o—tiraiacndot>-9-fort»ifi.f^ MjMi - A Him Uic.r Mag inot -falno, Today1s report, as carried in the LEW YORK TIMES, is that the Italian maneuvres were designed to prove the theory of a lightning war, but in fact were proving just the opposite. Hence, they were called off. 4 In England today, five hundred balloons soared into the sky, to begin the great British maneuvres. Britain is concerned above all with the war in the air, and that * s wnat balloons are for — the much publicized balloon barrage against air raids, a vast line of gas bags floating high and dangling long cables to snare hostile aircraft, a kind of protecting fence in the sky. y maneuvres - 4 h ) o moehairbsijrr-^i* mOBer rotgdincj^ i fntinri of t 8 . LEAD - 3 In our own land, we’re having uianeuvres too - the big War games haven’t started yet. A sort of preview was staged in Virginia^ and the first result we near is that the doughboys did pretty well against the tanks. ThejHfrtank attacks at * T um against infantry, and didn’t do so well. Trie Hundred and A Twenty-First engineers brought out their defense and tank traps, they dug trenches and threw up barricades of trees. Did it so fast that the tanks were stopped, mlany of tnem put out of commission - all in theory, of course. The defense used beer cans, beer cans fitted with a small percussion cap to represent explosive power. Wnen a percussion cap beer can went pop under a tank, the rolling fort was ruled - out of commission. In that fashion tne day’s preliminary army-game taught a lesson of anti-tank defense. The maneuvres were staged on historic ground - the battlefield of hull Run. The mythical battle gaam came to a focus at the very hill where Jackson and hie division took their A position in the first great battle of the Civil War.^At null Run in Civil War Days, Jackson won the victory and gained his nickname of MStonewall.,T But today tne forces LEAD - 4 on Stonewall Jackson's hill were defeated; reversing that old battle of Bull hun - in theory. -ctf POLAND ftazi Germany started a v/ordy war on Poland today, the Hitler press breaking into loud fulminations. Danzig Nazis are in a verbal fury of newspaper attack. What irks them most is a declaration in a Polish newspaper which said that if Danzig made any move to join the hitler neich, Polish military bombers would straf Danzig. There*s further irritation in that much irritatedcorner of the world - Danzig statements that the Polish anti-aircraft guns fired on a German airliner, a passenger plane which drifted over Polish territory. Tonight the Danzig Nazi leader, whom they call the Danzig Hitler, is conferring with the real Hitler. Berlin says 11*3 important - nan important step on the path'to a settlement "s> O of the Danzig question,Tt Nazi spokesman. JAPAN Once more there1s word that Japan is about to Join in a military alliance with Germany and Italy. This was stated in Rome by the Mikado’s ambassador to Mussolini. He declared that the military alliance is as good as made, and only needs the working out of final details to become a reality. China is getting a huge loan from Soviet Russia seven hundred, million itubles. Figured in American money, that comes to a hundred and forty million dollars. This is of the utmost importance to desperately fighting Cnina ~ especially as Japan is pressing Great Britain hard, to make British finance stop supporting Chinese currency. CnimESK Trie police in Cleveland are raiding the Chinese- They’re rounding up leaders of tne Chinese inhabitants of the Ohio metropolis. Tnere are charges of terror and torture - inn i'lrtu all in behalf of war-stricken China. Yesterday, the body of Wong Youn was found floating in Lake Erie, ne had been beaten to death* Today it appears that he was a victim of the ferocious methods of enforcing the collection of China War Relief money - he had been remiss in his payments. * This has brought several Chinese forward with stories of how they themselves were tortured. Today they told a ■ otory of” how Chinese were assessed regular payments for the relief of refugees fleeing from the JapaneseIf they failed to meet the assessment^ they were brought before a secret tribunal A and were sentenced to punishment. Sometimes they were forced to march through the Chinese district, decorated with placards pronouncing them to be - slackers. One Chinese reported today that he had been held a prisoner for nine hours. Sometimes they were flogged with bamboo switches, whippeo. till they were half dead. A Chinese graduate of an American science school told the police CaiI.jE.SL - 2 today of a Chinese woman who has been, a leader in tae terrorist drive to extract money, She frightened delinquents with, bloodcurdling threats of - a torture chamber. All this now culminates in aiidfean official investigation into the practices of the Chinese secret societies in collecting Chinese relief funds#—% V.H i L a T There s an old familiar phrase that summarizes today’s story a o oj t wheat, the world's grain crop* The phrase is, "an embarrassment of riches. " Today, the International Institute of Agriculture, meeting at Rome, declared that this year’s world production of wheat will be tne second largest since the Vvcr Id War. Only last year’s bumper crop was larger. One big factor is Soviet Russia. Huge crops are burdening the fields in the Ukraine, in central Russia, and in Siberia. The Canadian wheat production is estimated at kxjtsxk twelve pillion, two hunt tons. Last and-ar-half mTilion^twiiwii The.: av-erago-i -for- - thn'^ia'&'t-^ive~-y<Hirs has be-e** six-mll-L-ion, wjb I- aotfon- hundr cdr thousand l^ine million tons more than Canada can consume, nine million tons for export. The crop in the United States is estimated at the United States can consume. WHEAT _ 2 The summary of todays report is that the surplus world production of wheat would be sufficient to fill the world1s needs for one year. The surplus equals one year’s consumption. So the market will be over-supplied in Nineteen Forty, and possibly in Nineteen Forty-One. FOOD STAMPS I l The food stamp system which the government has been trying out, is to be extended - made nationwide. It has been so successful that it's to be extended to cities throughout the country - so said Secretary of Agriculture Wallace today. The experiment began at hochester. New York, and had two objectives. One, to enable people on relief to get more food. The other, to encourage the consumption of various kinds of agricultural products, of which tnere is a surplus. To the o people on relief stamps were sold. Orange stamps, with which they could buy their money's worth of any kind of food they liked. With the orange staaps they got some blue staaps free. With these blue stamps they could get certain specified kinds of food - the kinds of which there was a surplus. Mercnantr umopting- the, blue- gframpg- could" each ^ncm in wifch--tho governmc nt, jj;afr or The plan nas been tried out in four cities, and as evidence of its successthe Secretary of Agriculture points to hochester. There, he states, food sales have increased eigni per cent since the stamp plan was started. -Of Lhls*~ii gi m ............... _______________ FQOD STAMPS - 2 As a result, the stamp surplus idea is to become nationwide. The process will be gradual, and it will be continued only as long as it proves to be successful. FAIR All the talk about the business the New York Fair is doing turned into cold figures today - an auditors report, it covers period from April Thirtieth, when the Fair opened, to July Fifth, a month ago. How many people went to the Fair during those nine weeks? Deduct the free passes, and here's ^ figure for paid admissions - five million, six hundred and eighty thousand, two hundred and fifty-two. The significant point is, how does that compare with expect ions - compare with the amount of business the Fair people thought they'd do to make money? It's fcsxjm about half In cash it represents gate receipts of four million, three hundred and they'd take in. The daily average - eighty-five thousand people f paying their money to get into the Fair. The expectation was more than twice eighty-five thousand daily. in an ethical sense, it's positively lofty. Well* Michigan is the state of Governor Dickinson, who found so much sin and shame at the New York Exposition. Michigan is having a state fair, and the seventy thousand, six hundred and nineteen- about half of what A D There's fair news from Michigan — it's better than fair A- F air - 2 I Governor Dickinson is seeing tnat it shall include no Michigan primrose path , no cursed drink which leads girls astray. Today, | I 1 the Executive Committee of the Michigan Fair, spured on by the ■— —- Governor, issued a decree - no highjinks, not even a glass of beer* A l^t inslidietrig- cocktail Iruy lug highball The ExecutiveCommittee specifies the beverages to be had, aid uses th^se words:- wMichigan dairy products and unfermented jliices A from Michigan fruits .11 They'll have educational features instead of girl shows - no displays of what may well be called, 11 the fair sexy m YACHT V/rien tine Coast Guard starts searcxiing for a vessel in distress, you can depend on the good old Coast Guard to do its utmost. Ggeirck far and-wide -over"1 —*^rofflb every orpinrc ol lri'. of tho-watcry sxpaiiB«| and never give' up On Sunday night, distress signals were flashed to the Coast Guard - reporting that the yacht VIRGINIA with five persons aboard, was adrift gg* off the New England coast. helpless, at the mercy of wind 3*. searc^#^vgr^ doughty ^uttaro ana the afcy* cling* arrplanQO% No sign of the missing VIRGINIA, drifting so helplessly, nut the Coast Guard kept on and on, seeking the imperilled craft, eager to save lives - good old Coast Guardi Th© search ended today when it was discovered that the yacht VIRGINIA was tied up to a dock at Marblehead, Massachusetts, had been there most of the time while the heroic search was going on. Th© VIRGINIA had been in distress out at sea all ngnt, but shortly after sending the alarm to the Coast Guard, another the craft to port, ftll was well, except - boat came along and towed tne YACHT 2 they forgot to tell it to the Goast Guard. Awd the s4grml's still Ooaab1 Ouai»d-^oi<ig %& mo And is the Coast Guard sore today, after all that strenuous, arduous and futile searching! BIGAmiST One hardly goes to college to become a plasterer, and one hardly takes up the trade of plastering to become a Don Juan or Casanova with the women. Oh yes, but one does - what a debonair young man might be saying out iryhicago tonight. Saying it in a prison cell. Coli«gi« steraiq him -thal jiuu can1^ g ve to plastering, but found marriage an easier mode of livelihood. His fourth wi^e, a beautiful night-club singer, had him arrested for getting eleven thousand dollars from her- lie said he needed it to clear up a one hundred thousand dollar estate. She says he also pawned ten thousand dollars* worth of her furs and jewelry - living the life of a wealthy boulevardier, with two huge and thoroughbred great Danes trotting at his heels down the avenue. His third wife enters the picture, claiming that he got seven thousand dollars in cash from her and. thirty-two hundred He went to college, but failed to get through. He took dollars* worth of sxm securities. This, claims wd.fe Humber Three, bIGAMIST - 2 he spent on a glorious and expensive honeymoon with wife Number Four, Further in the background appear two other wives whom he wedded - finding matrimony a lot better than either college or plastering. I HiiAKT Tonight over in the Philippine Islands at Manila, a baby girl lies sleeping quietly - one of the most extraordinary medical freaKs on record. The child was born with its heart on the outside, the heart outside eflf the chest. The amazed doctors stared A. a and gasped, the more so as the infant breathed normally, and the heart on the outside beat normally. TheyTve placed a cocktail glass over it to keep it warm and free of germs. And now they are debating. Tney canft guess whether the child will live or whether they should attempt an operation and put the heart inside the chest cavity. While the doctors are agitating, the little Filipino girl 11 sleeps quietly, her heart not quite on her sleeve, but almost. may feveh 1 ^evs for A44* hay fever victims 1 ^ews in two Chinese words - Ma Huang. Sounds something like ’’Mother hanging”, but it doesn’t mean that at all - it means ephederln. If you don’t know what that means, you don’t have hay fever. Ephederin is the alkaloid commonly used to ease sneezing and sniffling. Ephederin is made from the tali Chinese grass called Ma Huang, the production of which was gravely handicapped by the war in China. Because the Japanese militarists invaded China, tens of thousands of Americans had to jffle^the more^from hay f< that the harvesting of Ma Huang grass is back to normal inChina. sneeze and snjf&e^the more^from hay fever. But today the report Is The Department of Commerce announces that the imports to tie United States are up to where they should be - Ma Huang for M a ^