L l T. - SUNOCO. MONDAY■ JULY 1st. IQ/..,). GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: There's a feeling in the air tonight that another zero hour draws near in Europe, the zero hour for HitlerTs blitzkrieg on his most nated enemy, Britain. Nothing -------- has happened yet rumors. However, we have the grim memory (ff I C^f fcjsftpt similar rumors denied, repeated, and denied again,| preceded cay Holland, Belgium and France. There^i one rumor that the Fuehrer has given orders to cut loose tomorrow morning. Of course nobody knows the truth of that outside the Nazi inner ring and the general staff. There was even a report that German troops had actually landed on the British coast. The Churchill Government took that one seriously enough to put out an official and emphatic denial.^That official denial was the first thing wefcfi heard of the report which eviuen~ly had been A running through Britain like wildfire all day. LiiAD - 2 )mebody in the Midlands reported thtit he had seen an airplane flying over a wood, and that later the countryside was swar.ning with German parachute invaders. The authorities ran that one down and found there was nothing in it. The Nazis havemade a landing on the Channel Islands^wnieh wa^ British soil untilevacuated last week. But that doesnTt mean much, those lovely islands. which belong to King George not as King ahd Emperor but as hereditary Du^e of Normandy, are closer to France than to Britain. They have no military value as a point of attack on England. 0n the other hand, they would have been exceedingly difficult to defend. The Ministry of information in London officially admitted that the islands have,been seized. They were first captured by Nazi planes, in a surprise attack. There are no details to tell us how the German generals transferred their troops to the Islands. ~&dr It isn!t the capture of Jersey and Guernsey that leads to the belief that Hitler is about to unleash all his that horrors on Britain. It1s the information his generals have been LEAD - 3 massing guns and war materiel of all sorts along tne Frencn side of the Straits of Dover, assembled at Boulogne, Calais and Dunkirk. This information comes through German air men shot down and taken prisoner by the French. William Philip Simms, Foreign Editor of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, says what he heard is that the Nazis have concentrated material of fantastic proportions along that strip of land just twenty-two miles from tne white chalk cliffs of England. gigantic armada has been In an article published today in the NEW YORK WORLD TELEGRAM and the other Scripps-Howard papers, Simms reports that he was told that armada includes huge numbers of new long distance cannon capable of shooting explosive shells a distance of forty miles: That would enable them to set up a barrage to cover a strip of British soil eighteen miles wide. Those guns are supposed to have been built especially for the invasion of Britain. Simms also learned that the Nazis have twenty-five thousand planes ready to swarm over the island with their deadly rain of bombs. Most of those, it is believed, LEAD - 4 built since the war started last September. And by all 'T^Lia. ZiSl accounts tnat is d©sorib.oda conservative estimate, A lot of people have doubted that even the mechanized power of the Nazis could effect a successful landing cr^ that impregnable Island. But Simms, who returned from Europe by trans-Atlantic clipper only last week. .steals. tart^Hcs He says that well informed neutral expert military opinion believes the Germans can do it. ’feey are so vastly A superior not only in air power and mechanized equipment, but also in man-power, xm The military theory is, that with all their artillery and bombers, they can block off a stretch of the Straits of Dover forty miles wide, block it off so effectively that even the strongest of Britainfs warships could not approach it. Under cover of this barrage, say the experts, a barrage extending eighteen miles into British soil, the Nazis could land troops in force and establish what is knoW11 as a bridgehead. The worst of it is, from the British point of view, * that the, lost practically all their equipment in Flanders - LEAD - 5 a*iiaiunition, tanks, trucks, artillery. Etast wag tto -vain American correspondents report that they saw those huge quantities of British stores, saw the trucks and tanks being repainted for use by the Nazis. A further note of alarm was sounded tonight by Leslie Here Belisha, who was War Secretary when the war started a * -31) was forced out. He point^cf- out tha£ Britain has a Irish ports dangerin Ireland. The Nazis might try to seize Irii and use them as bases for a blockade of Britain, "fhe Ex-War Secretary draws a picture. He declares tnat Britain j p Jj * ^ ^ &t/C isin the North Sea because the Nazis hold Norway, Denmark and Holland. in the Channel because Hitler holds Belgium and France. Also, he says, the British communications in the South Atlantic will be threatened by submarines operating from the French southern harbors an of Brest and Bordeaux. So, if Hitler would effect a landing in Ireiand, he would have Britain shut off from tfce wr3t on her A 4 only remaining flank. l\) O/n. VVVwvOaAji^~|, - n. LEAD - 6 ^wa_ a^x- <£y (faJy f M. ^& ^ 4 ^ 4 ^, Britain1 s one hope, it is said, is that ^ nn^Tt^nwn move A ^ ' I of Sta±xn against Rumania. British sympathizers believe that thife vvl ^Y diversion in the Balicans^mM^ distract Hitler from his invasion of Britain. On the other hand, experts have declared that it would taae only ten or twelve of those irresistible Nazi Panzer1 divisions to knock out Russia in one short campaign^ ^ery ^ £r>^Lr- The latest from the RumantarT capital is that King Carol has renounced the British and French guarantee of Rumanian frontiers. Of course, for several weeks that guarantee hasnft been worth the paper it was written on. But today the'Rumanian government officially announced that in future the foreign policy of King Carol’s government v.ould be in line with the new orientation of Burope. And that is taken to mean only one thing Carol is going to play ball with the Nazis. feTa^^aking a desperate last minute attempt to save his country from cpmplete dismemberment; -*/ In Bessarabia and Bukovina, the Soviet mechanized divisions have moved so fast that they h ve over-taken the Rumanian soldiers who are evacuating. T0 the east Hungary is partially LhJiD - 7 mobilizedj The entire Budapest area ts mobilized, and the whole country is in a state of semi-mobilization. Admiral HorthyTs government issued orders tonight curtailing train service^ interpreted as a prelude to general mobilization orders tonight. To the south, the Rumanians are threatened by Bulgaria. The Balkans are full of rumors about border clashes, the usual reports that come before invasion. Although Carol gave in to Stalinas demands, the Soviets are attacking with full strength. They have landed parachute troops in swarms, also small tanks carried by transport plane . In the Far East, everybody is in hourly expectation of a sudden attack by the Japanese on Hong Kong. Two steamers, packed with American and British refugees^left that British island for Manila today. A condition amounting almost to panic prevails tir^.Ii2tr=rey±rm»- NAVY Uncle Sam is going ahead with a vengeance on his new t'rto-ocean navy. A bunch of contracts was announced today, by the Agting Secretary, Lewis Compton. It's the largest single group of contracts in history - forty-five new ships, forty-five that will cost Uncle four hundred and fourteen million dollars. TAX Another tax bill for Congress to »ork on! A tax bill to / • fS prevent anybody from profiteering on the of our national armament. To this end, President Rooscveo^rsent a special message to Congress, a short one, only five paragraphs. The gist of it was, nl recommend to the Congress the enactment of a steeply graduated excess profits tax, to be applied to all individuals and all corporate organizations without discrimination^ And Raos«v«£t A also said:- nWe are asking even our humblest citizens to contribute their mite. So it^ts our duty to see that the burden is equitably distributed so that a few donft gain from the sacrifices of the many." Mr* Roosevelt left the details to the discretion of the A lawmakers. Probably this will be one of the first jobs that Congresx will tackle after the Democratic National Convention at Chicago in tv,o v/eeks. Congress will take a ten day recess a week from Thursday. WILiuKIE A private yacht docked at the New YorA Worldfs Fair today, -hgff^gptTired-tr^- intgrryt rr£-£ The yacht belonged to Roy Howard of the Scripps-Howard ^ 1C d- newspapers, t^resldeTi't—«Jwl36|itor^c£ the NEW YORK WORLD TELEGRAM. A A. >*■»/ From it stepped a tall, hnskjsi blaming figure, with a smiling face and v/avy hair. That face, through newspapers and newsreels, is already familiar to the whole country^ Sxa&t it belongs to the Republican candidate, Wendell Willkie. Incidentally, his Uncle out in his home town, says his real name is Lewis W. Willkie, krtSlJj but asjb young man he always hated thd1 name nLewisTT. In U)as\ A he got on the roster of Uncle San^s army as Wendell W'illkie and has let it ride that way ever since. Soon after he landed from the yacht, he made a date with the newspaper men in a downtown office. There he showed he had one faculty highly in a candidate. He can handle a press conference. It needed all his ability, for this one was jammed. There were enough reporters present to get out a round dozen newspapers and still have a couple of bridge and poker games going on the side. M V jr WILLKIE - 2 Though he handled his questioners well, he didn’t tell them tKAAoU, ---- anything cmd sometimes thatTs the essence of good handling. A He’s going to hold his fire until some date in the future %hen a committee will wait on him at Elv/ood, Indiana, and break to him the great secret that he has been nominated by the Republican Party. And that’s when he’s going to tell where he stands-and tL* the G.O.P. platform. A Instead of giving the reporters news, he gave them an interesting story. ”I’ll tell you something dramatic,” said Willkie, walking to the window of the office. He pointed across the street and said:- ”There is the building where President Roosevelt and his law partner, Basil o(connor, had offices when I came to New York.” Then he explained that his own office was in the building just across the street from them. The* he made the orrtoJi that he did not know whether Mr. Roosevelt would be going back to practice law there or not. They asked him whether he had read what the Democrats had said about his nomination. Willkie’s reply about his Democratic opponents was:- "Those boys must have the jitters." “eri nt added:- "They sounded just like the people who opposed me in Philadelphia. Every time my opponents said anything, I got more votes." He told the newspaper men that hisTom Dewey, had been very swell about all this. Dewey, he said, telephoned 6^ half an hour before the fe&Haliixg balloting was over congratulate him. Thon he ha added that he expected Dewey would help him in his campaign. Tom Dewey, for his part, said he would speak for Willkie any time he was asked. And he describ jl . ' as a man of splendid character^ Incidentally, Willkie today resifcned as President and Director of Commonwealth and Southern, the resignation to take effect July Tenth. And he will shortly resign from all the other companies with which he is connected or interested. VvJ^dt -tk? ^ r’s^ C>V\JL { — l yv^AAAy^-vN_i2_^) -tkkjl <LSc^cJkcL . u^p ) ^ - <x~^X ^ uZ. ck^tk x -'Cnrgsa ^ «=tLeAi ( M c NA t .Y follow willkie ( ^T'illAievylso said,tnat later in the week he^tf go to ^ Xx^ A f A V»'ashiri£;ton to talk things over with his fellow candidate, QzS A/Lfy Senator Charll# McNary of Oregon. ran the gauntlet of a r - -. . . . •.. - a press conference today. He said he couldnft go to New York to see Willkie because he was too busy with his job as a Senator; and he added that the head of the ticket would carry the big burden of the campaign. The Oregon Senator will make a few radio speeches and visit some sections of the country, presumably out west though he didn't say so. But he added that he would not be able to make any swing around the circle, no general tour. FLOOD 7 Floods in Texasl This is an unusual time of year for such news. Only a small part of the state was affected, an eighty mile area between the Colorado and the Lavaca Rivers. But it’s a rich section and the angry waters did a million dollars’ worth of damage before they subsided. For all the smallness of the flood district, the way it happened was dramatic and startling. There had been a week of rainfall in saBlhxsnix&l south central Texas. Then, with the ground thoroughly saturated so that it could aborb no more, A the heavens opened in a cloudburst. One place had sixteen inches of rain in twelve hours. In less then no time the Colorado and the Lavaca and Guadalupe - the last two normally shallow streams - became raging torrents, overflowing their banks. A Southern Pacifi passenger train left the tracks. Bridges, communication lines and roads were swept away. One town was marooned, cut off from all communication, and Red Cross help was brought in only through the effective work of a ham^radio operator. fcmople killed . Titat4a the de*th tolxy—»ncv. e eensejw^tive gu