L.T._ SUNOCO. MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1941 GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Today was a day of wild rumors from the Balkans./ Rumors from Belgrade, rumors from Bucharest, ramoj^lrom Ankara, and, rumors from Sofia. uut of thatjwrfter of nit is reported; and it is said11; the tru^iMTs not too easy to discern, except two facts: Bulgaria is now a part of the Nazi system, virtually a part of Hiterl!s Reich; also, Nazi troops are at the borders of Greece. \ Hitler1s bombers tonight are within easy flying distance, Just sixty five miles from Salonika, and only sixty-eight miles from the Turkish fortifications in ThraceS^ That much is definitely true Another fact that seems to be fairly definite concerns Moxcow, The Soviet Union disapproves the anschluss of Bulgaria to the Reich and has said so. V\e can»fc say this is indisputable, LEAD _ 2 for the report comes in a round-about fashion. It purports to be a radio broadcast from Moscow overheard in London. Anct, 0n the other hand, we don’t hear any report of Staling having expressed his disapproval to Hitler. overheard in According to that rodte -repo; A L0ndon, it was at the Bulgarian government that the Soviet Union shook its finger. The Deputy Commissar for Foreign Relations told the Bulgarian Minister to Moscow that, first - the Soviet government cannot share the opinion of the Bulgarian government that the presence of German troops in Bulgaria will facilitate the preservation of peace. The Russians point out that events will not now be within the authority of the Bulgarian government, and this will lead to the widening of the theatre of war and its penetration . And ttee Mo-BOowForeign TJfftfccc said fttrtbeg ttwt- A A into the Balkans the Soviet Union therefore is unable to render support to the Bulgarian government, especially since the Bulgarian newspapers lately have been distorting the truth regarding the attitude of the Soviet. LbAD _ 3 Of course even if it is true, this disapproval by Stalin may not mean much. He has plainly shown that he does not want any fight with the Nazi army. If the troops of the Soviet move at all, it will be somewhere where they wonTt meet with any resistanceapeak of*. da Now for of those rumors. One of them comes from A A Ankara. The travelers arriving from Bulgaria hava reported the appearance of HitlerTs motorized forces on the borders of fturkey^--. in iturope. That report goes as far circumstantially as to mention the place in Thrace where a detachment of Nazi motorcycle troops and tanks had arrived^ s Svi Lengrad, only twenty miles from Adrianople, the headquarters of the Turkish army in Thrace, and only a hundred miles from the Dardanelles. Ankara reports that the Turks^ have somewhere between three hundred thousand and five hundred thousand soldiers entrenched along the Thracian border. There was also a bit of excitement at Ankara today when the German embassy announced that a special messenger from Berlin had arrived at Istanbul and would be in Ankara tomorrow LEAD - 4 morning. It was rumored for a while that the special messenger was no less than Hitler's Foreign Minister von Kibbentrop. But the German embassy denied that, said it was just a courier. not any Nazi big-shot. Now here’s a report from Bulgaria’s capital. ^Hitler’s generals have a large and powerful force amassed on the irontier between Bulgaria and Greece. This isn’t official, just a guess. 'KtntiA But the grey uniformed coluan. were_ rolling across Bulgaria A A in such massive columns that the observers estimated there were between twelve and fifteen divisions, from a hundred and eighty thousand to two hundred and twenty-five thousandmen. Whatever the truth, we may be sure that Hitler has a strong and sizeable army on the Greek border tonight. ------------------ Ironically enough, this was the day on which the 1 Bulgarian people celebrated the Sixty-Third Anniversary of their ] liberation from the Turks. .. There’s also a rumor that the British have disembarked and entrenched a large army at Salonika. Tnat isn’t oilicial either. iixiMxixKXija doesn't- even come from any British centers A A It was LEAD - 5 published by Virginio G^yd^, the editorial mouthpiece of Fuehrer Mussolini, seems to be appropriate Mns&olini no* than nD»#en- e-i«ce he be4«g descr-ihedthfr nQuizzling of itfriy*.♦* And Jaei^e-^e—a-g-u»or fFop the eergiital rT, Belgrade today was one of the principal centers of rumors. And that was inevitable because of the obvious activity of Nazi emissaries and diplomats in the Jugoslav capital. The culmination of all those rumors is that Hitler has offered the Jugoslav government a bargain, If they*11 Join the Axis, the Jugoslavs will get Salonika. Not only Salonika, which means an outlet into the Aegean Sea, but also a guarantee from Hitler for the integrity of all the territory that is now Jugoslav. Now for Athens. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, has been in intensive conference with the heads of the Greek government. and the report is that tonight they reached an agreement on all the important questions involved. That!s vague enough and comprehensive enough, but evidently means that the Greeks arenas going to surrender A no matter how many troops Hitler has on the Bulgarian frontier LEAD - 6 In Berlin^ the Alazis were jubilating that the presence of German troops in Bulgaria has completely changed the position of Greece. Qfficially, it is announced that the general staff has reached all its objectives in Bulgaria, according to plan, but that Hitler has not yet served any formal ultimatum on the Greek Government. And herefs the reaction in Washington. The Secretary of the Treasury will issue an order tomorrow, freezing Bulgarian credits. Secretary Morgenthau said it would be some sort of freezing order. Reporters asked him whether it would ap^ly only to Bulgarian credits or to all foreign credits. That he refused to answer. BRITISH ME Senator Carter Glass of Virginia today came out £lft in favor of putting a rauzzjb^ on his colleagues in the British Aid debate. The tal-c, he said, has gone on t oo long and he would favor the cloture, which means an iron bound limit on further speeches. He did not say this in the Senate.but to reporters. Only a few times in the history of Congress lias the Senate ventured to enforce the cloture. It takes a two-thirds majority to put it over. The proposal came to the ears of Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri who bridled at the suggestion and remarked that the administration had not got the votes to enforce a cloture. Senator Barkley of Kentucky admitted that he^was cronsidering such a move. principally But the administration leaders were worrying^about the Ellender Amendment which would embody a proviso that nothing in the bill would authorize the President to use the Army or Navy outside the Western Hemisphere or any of Uncle Samfs possessions. nDP LIniTIh-K AID Republican Senator Bridges of New Hampshire was one of the speakers in favor of the bill today. He made the war point that this mm I x * is not merely a struggle between armies, A A A not one of the never-ending wars that have plagued Europe through history. "On the contrary," said Bridges, "it is a struggle a between philosophies of government." If Britain is not successful, he said further, the world will be dominated by Germany, and that will bring us immediately into economic war and - either immediately or eventually - into a military war. Bridges remarked that Hitler and his legions were at the Greek border and the Senate still was talking. Later this afternoon, the administration forces and the opposition came to grips over that cloture business. It was S, George of Georgia who opened the fight asking for a limitation of » b debate by unanimous consent. The challenge was taken up quickly _ _ _ \ s by Missouri’s Bennett Champ Clark, who objected. And that was for the time being. A WALSH Uncle Sam’s Havy could easily take care of itself in Anerican waters, against any fleet, it could, for instance, dere.i^ the navy of Japan, provided the Japanese navy were kind enough and rash enough to venture all the way across the Pacific. but^i: our navy tried to invade Japanese waters, the attempt wwjid be “suieidalt. ySo said Spnator Walsh of Massachusetts today, A Chairman of the Committee on waval Arfairs^. He made thafc statement in the course of a speech against the British Aid Bill. A** Chairman of the Haval Affairs Committee, the gentleman from Massachusetts may be presumed to have some knowledge on the subject. In fact he declared that he was quoting naval experts. Any naval expedition in far away waters, he declared,would be an uphill battle and hazardous. Spnator George of Georgia, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, then took issue with Senator Walsh. He quoted Walsh against Walsh, producing a report that Senator Walsh had written last year. In that report the Chairman of tltae Naval Affairs Committee had emphasized the weakness of American defenses and the need for strengthening them. *nd Senator George y ALSH claimed that Senator Walsh was contradicting himself. Nothing of the kind, retorted Walsh, that report of a year ago was one in which he urged the further expansion of our navy. Since that time he added, we hcive developed sufficient size and strength to prevent any invasion. ROOS l VLU PresidentjRoosevelt was obliged to take it easy today," — didrft see V^tf> visitors. This is the fourth day he has been suffering from a cold in the head# sm Rear Admiral ^clntire, who l7 is M-p. Roosevelt’s personal physician as well as being Surgeon General of the Navy, ordered him to rest and cut down on his work, Consequently, the President cancelled all the engagements fchatr had been made fo^ him todtiy, didn’t even hold his regulaj* Monday morning conference with the leaders of Congress to receive reports on the progress of the British Aid Bill in the Senate. But Secretary Steve Early said Mr. Roosevelt had^ tallied to them over A the telephone. DEFENSE LABOR In spite of optimistic reports our national defense program ■Z^au* hfr« been considerably hampered by strikes. The authority for Z*U-c«z A tha*t statement is Robert Patterson, Under-Secretary of War. He told the Judiciary Committee of the House that in the last week of February alone one hundred and twenty man-days of labor were lost. trassum^ means the equivalent of the work of one hundred and U a \JU^7 - twenty thousand men for one day. Patterson suggested that Congress A should establish once more the same system of labor mediation that was in force during the World War. ttt^dBnta^y-^^strike^tis be^m^toda^ on one of the^'Srmy’s jobs in anti-aircraft firing rang* at Camp Davis, North Carolina Some four thousand members of the American Federation of Labor Building Trades walked out demanding a preferential shop which means preference given to union members. KINGSLEY Sidney Mngsley, the playwright, the Putlitzer prize winner was whistling an old fimiliar ditty today, itfs the song which hints that "You*11 never get rich because you*re in the army now.” Playwright Kingsley was today mustered into the service and left his New Jersey mountain home ira for Fort Dix. He proved to be a model draftee because he said he was glad to go, and added that he thought the whole country ought to be drafted. ftFATHjR Old Mother Nature v;as playing weird pranks all over the country today; meteorological pranks. She offered almost fifty-seven varieties of weather. Floods in California, a dust storm in the southwest, snow in the inter-mountain region, the worst blizzard of the winter on the Continental Divide and spring, for the Atlantic coast states. Heavy rains in California were followed by a savage gale off tne Pacific Ocean and the Sacramento River burst through its levy. The dust storm, the second in a week, raged all the way from New Mexico to Kansas, and one airplane pilot reported he had encountered clouds of dust as high up as eleven thousand five hundred feet. A fifty mile gale in the Rockies marooned the crew of a freight train ten thousand feet high on the Cumbress Pass in Colorado - where I can recall that freight trains often got marooned in the snow. There was just as great a variety in temperatures: ranging all the way from zero over the northern plains to fifty degrees above over Lake Michigan. Storm warnings were posted over parts of the Great Lakes. On the eastern seaboard, that weekend blizzard was followed by spring temperatures. SUPREME COURT - V » jsf Wcrg Just; for once, here’s news from the Supreme Court/^ of direct and personal interest to the ladies. It!s about hats. Strange as it may sound, the little woiran!s headgear finally caused such a hubbub that even ^he austere justices of the highest bench had to settle it. It’s all on account of tbm style piracy. As you may have heard, the designers who strung together eighty-seven cents’ worth of material, which they sold to the ladies for fifty dollars / • on the supposition that it was a hat, were sorely vexed by pirates. A No sooner had they started the big income ladies to paying fancy prices for those gadgets, than certain low fellows would come along. make the same thing and sell it for three dollars. still showisg a profit, of over three hundred per oent-x A So the nobby manufacturers and retailers got together, sno organized a guild, the idea being not to have anything to do A with anybody who had anything to do with pirated hats. Whereupon the Federal Tradejpommission^naped on declared that the guild was an illegal boycott in restraint of trade. The hat guild SUPREME COURT - 2 appealed and the Circuit Court of Appeals declared that the F.T.C. had been quite right. And now the Supreme Court of the Unitecl States echoes the sentiment, Justice Hugo Black writes-"The opinion^wtiich was unanimous. Incidentallyalso applies to a similar guild organized to prevent the piracy of designs for dresses. DOGS In future, all dogs must wear a tag. Maybe that doesn’t sound likenev/s. Come to think of it, I didn’t finish the sentence: 1 should have said hot dogs, ies, the harmless, necessary wienie is going to be against the lav; if he isn’t properly identified. He must wear a label telling you exactly what he’s made of. The Department of Agriculture today issued an official order six thousand words long; and it’s all about hot dogs, sausages, and all sorts of processed meats. Wo hot dog may be offered for sale without a government license — not even in a ball park, Hugh.