L.T. SUNOCO. FRIDAY. OCTOBER SO. 19Z9 GOOD EVENING EVERlBODYs There1s little European news tonight — just about the lightest war-news-today since the war began over there. So let’s skim through it quickly* letfs have a look at A Asia and finally pass along to some vivid and dramatic American items for a climax and a close AIR RAIDS Great Britain had some more air raid alarms today - alarms and not much else. German planes over the Firth of Forth, which Hitler war-birds bombed last Monday. Today no bombs were dropped, the German planes over at a great planes were able to height and were away before British fighting get near them FRANCE To the idea of a separate peace with France Berlin chimes in with a denial. The official German news agency issues a statement, saying - ThereTs nothing to the suggestion that Hitler is planning an offer to France, trying to get France out of the war. Absurd, says the German news agency. And it adds ominously that there will be a fight to the finish on the Western Front. The assumption that the Germans intend no large scale attack in France - not right now at any rate - is not beleved in Great Britain. London experts are saying - you canTt be sure that Hitler won't order a big drive. FRENCH COMMUNISTS The Paris police, in a French drive against the outlawed Communist Party, arrested three Reds today* And in raiding their haunt in a Paris the gendarmes found twelve large trunks crammed with treasure. Masses of silver and gold crudely melted into ingotsj-also silver and gold not melted down at all. Church vessels encrusted with jewels, historical pieces of ecclasiastical art, priceless old paintings, works of art of all sorts. It was easy to gueiss the secret — plunder«4 from looted Spanish Churches. Treasures by the Left elements in the Spanish Civil War and shipped to Red organizations in France. F : 1 I !l 1 I I ! j i t j II 1'! J I 1 # lr a ft R i| I If; I I m 1 [ j II IIIf I ji / * mmm turkey Berlin reports that Hitler today had conferences with tiie Ambassadors of Italy, Soviet Russia and Turkey - discussing tbs new treaty between Turkey and the Allied powers. The raya-Tufe Nazi government is said to be much disturbed by that most recent pact, the government circles in Berlin are calling it - unneutral. . . ' . ' ' . FINLAI® The Foreign Minister of Finland returned home today - returned from the conference of the Scandinavian powers at Stockholm. Helsingfors reports that the Foreign Minister went into immediate conference with the Finnish Cabinet for the purpose of drafting a final reply to the demands made by Soviet Russia. The mrrm world still has no real idea of what tihose demands are or what the reply of Finland will be. / * ROOSEVELT President Roosevelt today confirmed the supposition that the United States ban on submarines applied to the traditional three mile limit. But the President repeated his previous contentions that the term ^territorial waters" may have a flexible interpretation - not merely three miles off shore, but maybe much further. The President said it depended on cireumstaiB es. Things ■ight be such that wefd consider our territorial waters as extending hundreds of miles out to sea - maybe a thousand miles. All of which would make "territorial waters" an exceedingly flexible term - proving that rubber is not the only thing that’s elastic. WKUTRALITY (jLindbergh*s famous radio speech stirred up new trouble | today - in the Senate, during the Neutrality debate. Senator Brown j of Michigan, who supports the repeal of the Arms Embargo, took a fling at the Flying Colonel for what he had to say about Canada. Lindbergh took the attitude that if the United States is guarantee this Western Hemisphere against powers abroad, the United States nations it guarantees. And he pointed to Canada, and the solemn guarantee that President Roosevelt gave to the Dominion. Canada has gone into the war, which has a decided bearing on the American1 guarantee, said Lindbergh^y Today, Senator Brown called it - "gratuitous insult country.*^ Speaking of Lindbergh’s theory of the position of the United States in the Western Hemisphere, Senator Brown declared:- ”1 condemn his remarks, because they lend encouragement to the spirit of nationalistic imperialism that has cursed the world for centuries and which is the potent poison that has killed peace.« should have something to say safest the policies pursued by the to Canada." And the Senator remarked:- is a plain statement thf^T'canada cut the last tie between itself and the mother Tn/ism is SHANGHAI China pops into the news tonight with a sounding pair of words - nuncontrolled hooliganism." The complaint is from Shanghai, where theChinese part of the City is governed by a regime installed by the Japanese. Foreign interests in the International Settlement have important properties extending into theChinese part of the town, and see* patrolling the streets in this area. The protest is that the Japanese-appointed city government is running things badly, conniving with the opium traffic and with all sorts of misdoing and disorder. Disorder characterized by those two mouth-filling words, "uncontrolled hooliganism." Assaults have been committed against and ^patrolling. police in the employ of the International Settlement have been killed. The situation has become so bad and unruly that today an American official said - "Call the marines." He wants the marines to take over sections of the Chinese part of St^Shai and preserve order. —and—t-he^Ch^ne-se- aii'thari.tieay"-^s-ponserred- by-t he- a panesw* In Washington today Secretary of State ©ordeil Hull was asked about the Shanghai trouble, and the suggestion that the marines be used. Ke replied that the State Department w^s leaving it up to the local American representatives in /Xnr wt*. 1 fi .. . ' TOKYO Tokyo newspapers were saying today that Japan appreciates the candor of American Ambassador Grew. This, referring to the decidedly candid address the Ambassador made, a warning to Japan that the United States is opposed to Japanese China and the violation of American rights there. The Tokyo newspapers are answering that by saying - "Yes, we appreciate the candor.” And then added, that American opposition will not affect t-zm Japanese policy one bit. The Mikadofs government will go ahead and try to establish what it calls ”a new order” in eastern Asia - whether the United States likes it or not But, anyway, thanks for the candor1 The United States Steamship ACADIA put into New York today with a tremendous story of storm. And not only that, storm at sea and fighting on tne ship. The ACADIA was caught in the violent tempest of several days ago, writh five hundred and twenty passengers from Europe. It went through a trying ordeal - especially when fist-fights broke out among the crew. The passengers complained that the sailors acted badly all along, were insolent and cantankerous. SJ& m The trouble started over matters of shore leave at ports in France, England and Ireland. Then, a row started between two labor factions aboard, two union groups. Some of the crew belonging to the National Maritime Union, which is C.I.0., others were meaitB?s of the International Seamen’s Union, which is A.F. of L. So they had the old C scrap aboard ship - while the storm was raging. The wind was a shrieking, howling gale. The sea is described as - heaving mountains. At the height of the tempest the ACADIA had to heave to, and lie wallowing amid tne mountainous waves. And to cap the stormy climax, there were fist fights among the the crew, ^C.I.O. slugging it out with the A.F. of L. - while the tempest raged. K-D-K-A Twenty years ago. Station K-D-K-A in Pittsburgh began organised radio broadcasting. Today, twenty years later, K-D-K-A is installing a powerful ultra—modern transmitter unit, a transmitter embodying the latest science, improvements never before used in broadcasting. And that raises the question, "What will things be like twenty years from «=>n K-D-K-A is trying to answer that Tonight they're having a ceremony, installing the new transmitter, and in a glass time cabinet they're sealing predictions of fifteen leaders of science. These experts of technology have written their own prognostications of what scientific progress may be expected at the end of twenty years. These prophecies are being sealed in the time cabinet, and will remain sealed - until Nineteen Sixty. Then they'll be opened, and people will be able to judge the correctness of those scientific prophets of today. proclamations You Know how governors of states issue proclamations dedicatics various days to various things. There are Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, Tree Planting Day or Phine-Up-Your-Automobile Day Days dedicated to various activities, days commemorating heroes of C I battles, or id 32 L± 3 (jQXic£Xjcx what-not. Toojnany^ of those dedicated days’? says Governor Aiken of Vermont. His Honor, the Governor, declares that he is beset by all sorts of propagandists and pressure groups wanting him to issue proclamations dedicating days to suit their own interests. So today Governor Aiken issued a proclamation which goes like this: nNow therefore I do hereby proclaim now and for the duration of my term, that the executive offide is not going to be used for propaganda artists, pressure groups, lobbyists, and promotion managers. I shall issue no proclamations except for tuose few occasions that are generally respected and observed by the people of Vermont.n A proclamation to end all proclamations. At the if ale-Army game tomorrow, one of the prominent figures will be, "Handsome Dan." That may sound, like good news at New Haven, but it isn't. There seems to be no hope for Handsome Dan, the Yale bulldog mascot - struck by a hit-and-run driver on Tuesday. He's Handsome Dan the Fourth, and today it appears that he won't recover. So for the Yale-Army game they'll parade - no, not his successor. His predecessor. They're bringing out Handsome Dan the Third from his comfortable retirement. Several years ago, that ifale bulldog was pensioned off because of old-age. But now he'll take his place once again as a mascot of the Blue in a big game to be played before Ex-President Hoover and Governors Carr of Colorado and Baldwin of Connecticut. —* "ft; There was a nerve-wracking affair at Austin, Texas, today - a gun battle in a school-yard, a hail of bullets across the playground. And the yard was crowded with children, as the police shot it out with a bandit! Yesterday this bandit robbed a bank at Blanco, Texas, and got away. Early today, with a manhunt on, he held up a police officer in an automobile. He took the policeman’s pistol - also the car. And away he raced. Another police car picked up the trail, and there was a v/ild pursuit*, along the highway and into Austin, the capital of Texas. The speeding police car was catching up with the racing bandit. He was just passing a school yard, when he stopped suddenly, jumped out, and dashed on"to the playground, It was recess time, crowds of children playing their games. The tore through the%*£®fe kids, 'and took shelter behind a tree v as the police car came up. And he opened fire on the officers. They shot back - bullets whistling over the heads of the children, It was nerve-wracking all right, but the teachers helped I a lot They yelled to the children to lie down, and the kids 1 mmiii&mmpmm .. gHQOTIKG - 2 got the idea - they threw themselves on the ground. As the shooting went off, one policeman dropped with a bullet in his leg. And the bandit, as he blazed away from behind the tree, was hit in the foot. He emptied two guns he had, and then surrendered The casualties among the children? None at all ff AT.ENTINO Every so often the news brings us a bit to remind us of the cult of Rudolph Valentino. It still lingers on. And today brings the most curious Valentino story of all, simply fantastic in its emotional twisters. In Chicago, a girl is in a hospital with a badly burned hand and arm, and today in a police court a young man faced the judge on a charge of theft. He summarized the story in these wordsnMy girl Marian,” he told the judge, "was nuts about Rudolph Valentino.” Benjamin Platt and his girl Marian were going around for quite some time, and Ben never objected because Marian simply worshipped the memory of Valentino, the Sheik. Marian as a youngster saw all the Valentino pictures, andafter the Sheik died she gathered a collection of souvenirs to remember him by — pictures and posters of the movie idol who had made feminine hearts flutter. She often talked to Ben about Valentino, in sighing, rapturous tones - and Ben didn’t mind. A day or so ago Ben took Marian to the movies, and there, in a newsreel, they saw pictures of Valentino, old film cut in as a newsreel subject. Marian was in ecstacy and later she signed to the 1,___... mammm VALENTINO - 2 boy friend:- "Ben, I*d dearly love to own that (She wanted the pictures of the Sheik to put in her collection, as part of her Valentino shrine.) Ben was a devoted lover. He!d do anything Marian asked. So at night he broke his way into the theatre, giyfcyy'mfrpvthffthen got into the projection booth, and swiped the newsreel. He took ijt to Marian, who was waiting for him in the basement of her home. Together, they unwound the film, found the Valentino sequence, and snipped it out with a pair of scissors. They decided to bum the rest of the film in the furnace. They didnft understand how inflammable and explosive motion picture film is. As Ben tossed the mass of celluloid into the furnace, a sheet of flame shot out. Marian was standing with the strip of Valentino film in her hand. It caught fire and flamed swiftly upward. She screamed, as the blaze seered her hand and arm. They took Marian to the hospital and Ben to Jail. That was the story Ben told the judge in court today. Whereupon it all ended happily. The Judge dismissed the cnarge against Ben. The manager of the burglarized motion picture ^jpjEej hi ',ikuimnmwr*’Tiwvm VALENTIHO - 3 theatre stepped forward and made a remark about Ben and Marian getting married. nAnd for your wedding present," announced the theatre manager, "IT11 give you a copy of that Valentino film." And what have you to add to that happy ending. High? S-L-O-T-M.