I. T. - SUNOCO - SEPT, £4. 191^ % good E'/BKIKG W i;HYBCDY; The suspense is ever! In Boston to<3ay the second game of the douhle-header was just a hall game, Didn ft mean anything much even if Boston did win. The unimportance of that second game is a clew to the vital baseball significance of the first. The Giants went into the opener needing one win to clinch the National 1-esgue Pennant. And the Boston Bees were in there to make it as tough as possible. The Bees trotted out one of their flashiest pitchers* McFayden, who can breeze them over with all sorts of curves and hops. And today McFayden was good. But Hal Schumacher was just as good. The Giants got a run in the second* The Bees got one in the sixth. The ninth came arid went and s4-131 they were tied. The pitchers battle went into extra innings — one extra inning. In the tenth the Giants scored another run, pitcher Schumacher winning his own game. And the suspense was over. That clinched the pennant BASEBALL - 2 So th.e metropolis of Gotham will have a subway nickle series, which we*ve been suspecting for some days:- Uev.r York versus Wew York in the autumn classic. POLITICS A council of Wea.i' xi the old days suggested a military camp, with generals gathered around a map, plotting out a plan for the battle on the morrow. Today’s Council of War takes us to a quiet, spacious country house, amid green lawns, on the banks of the Hudson - Dutchess County, Hyde Park, the Summer White House. Instead of generals in frowning marshal uniforms, there foregatnered civilians, mighty men of politics - the president, the Vice-President, Secretary of State Hull, Attorney General Cummings, National Secretary Parley, Senators Robinson, Guffey, Byms, Donahey, and Finance Committee Chairman Gerard. I don’t suppose they gathered around a map and stuck any strategic pins. but they might have^ a pin here--and—theroiceon-ti»UJitr these mark place? for the President to make speeches. Today’s Democratic Council of War took up the problem of the speaking tour with which President Roosevelt will climax his campaign. Hitherto, President Roosevelt hss not swung out open spaces of the far west. The perilous international situation has curtailed even POLITICb - 2 hie travels in the Middl©west, ■because he has v/anted to keep dose to Washington and the State Department, But now the Democratic leaders of the westernmost states are demanding that the President shall pay them a visit and speed up things Democratic out there. They went him to repeat his coast to coast speaking tour of Nineteen Thirty- Two, Will he do it or won’t he? That was debated at Hyde Park today. Little word of the -deliberations has leaked out. The Council of War met in secrecy. Meanwhile, Governor Landon i s in Minneapolis tonight. Eis speech is scheduled to present his program for social security Why * jea enyfco^y ever call Philadelphia sleepy? why did I do just that thing? I've heen reproved, told how wrong I was, how wide awalce Philadelphia is.- Where did that nickname of sleepy town come from? I suppose it was because of the T pious sabbath observance cf good old ^uakertown, the churchly quietude of the Philadelphia Sunday. »That1 s the only reason I can think of, after what I learned today about unsleeping Philad elphia. I phoned the office of Mayor S, Davis Wilson, and he exclaimed "Sleepy41? You would have to do some mighty lively mg sleeping to develop the harbor Philadelphia has or to build our five million dollar air-rail-marine teiminai or our giant stadium for sports." Mayor Wilson went on to mention Philadelphia’s Board of Conciliation and Arbitration which in eight months has settled forty-six strikes involving fifty thousand men and Philadelphia’s war against racketeers and gunmen which has reduced crime about fifty-five percent since the beginning of the year PEILAEXLfhlA - ^ # "Do a few little things like that while you're snoozing and slumber in k , m said the Mayor with fine sarcasm. All of which convinces me that I made a mistake, mu st have been asleep. / '•V league The League of Nation3 is waiting to find out what Mussolini is go ing to do* The Luce of course is exceedingly annoyed by the League’s action in seating the Ethiopian delegates - thereby giving then the rank of representatives of a sovereign and independent nation* when their country has been conquered and annexed as an Italian province. ~TJ=> A V Jit* Mussolini is about to make his decision. It is certain that Italy will take no part in the League affairs as long as the Ethiopians are there* And ma^be Rome will cut loose from Geneva definitely and resign from the League. M usso II a .I is deciding on that right now. If Italy does withdraw, it will give us the spectacle of a world society of nations with a ma^orit^ of the great powers outside* Of the seven major nations* thr^e in the League, Great Britain* France and Soviet Russia. Four on the outside - Germ’any* Japan, Italy and the m H § I {H! I I§ United States, However, Geneva will still have Ethiopia. With affairs like this confronting the statesmen, ■ ' m ill ■sr I all I 1 they are devoting some attention to an interesting side light* This deals with the problem of terrorism, political LEAGUE "• 2 oppositionists of various lands, who strike with direct violence -- assassination. It has long been the custom for nations to give shelter to political exiles and to refuse to ex£«nte them, even when they have been guilty of deadly crimes, plain murder regarded as one thing - political assassination another. Hot long ago, Italy refused to give up a Croatian Terrorist whom France wanted to punish for the assassinaticn of King Alexander of Jugoslavia, Just a few days ago, Horway replied angrily to Soviet Russia, when Koscow stiffly demanded the extradition of Leon Trotsky, accused of plotting the assassination of Stalin and his colleagues. Norway refused on the old ground of the right of political asylum. One obvious reason for the custom of not giving up political offenders is the reasonable assumption that they would not get fair justice at the hands of the government they were attacking. They might he an cased of terrorism, when only o guilty of opposition. If a terrorist cannot be fairly tried in his 0^:1 country, where can he be? What about an LEAGUE - 3 International Criminal Court for political cases? Why not have a tribunal, not of one nation, but of all - to try accused terrorists? That*s the question now before the League. The statesmen ax* considering the feasibility of having an International Criminal Court _SPAlli In Spain the Rebel advance on Madrid and Toledo came to a halt of censorship which might he the explanation. The most dramatic concerns the great El Tiempo Dam, one of Spain’s greatest works of engineering. El Tiempo Dam extends across a valley leading toward Madrid from the West. The Rebels were advancing up that valley. Today’s report tells us that the Left Wing Government, as a stroke of last minute desperation, threw open the flood gates of the dam. And the torrent rushed down the valley, thirteen million gaaclam: gallons of water in one tremendous swirl. It overwhelmed the advancing rebel column, swamped men, guns, tanks and ammunition trucks. That’s the report from Madrid, and it may have some­ thing to do with today's halt of the Rebel advance. Still, the opening of the dam wouldn't mean anything permanent, because the flood would quickly drain away down the valley and dry up. ^he employment of surging watei's in military strategy is no iiin„ SPAIN - 2 new. ^splashy page of history tells y* us how the Butch have beaten back invading armies by opening the dikes which i keep out the sea - thereby flooding great areas of low lying land. In the Netherlands, however, the land would stay * - «riW -i flooded, until the dikes were repaired, whiCh is not true of the high plateau of central Spain. [ a *. urfcLj •{£& 'l&dbdi A~aLsr*^<^ iieua. CMLebiJ rnberl twoV^I V e 8 us another remini ae enn « ^ Exp 1 an a t i o n nu rrfbe v e s us another reminiscence of past history. In the days of Napoleon, Wellington fought his way to Madrid by following the same route the Rebels have been taking. General Franco has been using the Wellington strategy. On Napoleon’s side, the Bat tie-Winning Emperor ordered his Marshals in Spain to fight Wellington’s advance by coming down through the mountains and fsilling upon the rear of the British. Army. The French tried to do that, but the British fought off the out- flanking movement, Madrid report-s today that the Left Wing generals have followed the stategy of Napoleon, have attacked from the mountains and hit the Rebel rear guard. They claim they’ve got General Franco’s columns boxed in. So maybe that's why the ±a advance has stopped. T" SPAIN - 3 Or maybe it's because of airplanes. There are reports that Madrid has new squadrons of nlanesAfrom QK vmhx -1**. somewhere or other, ^d. are holding up the Fascists by irtti hitting them from the air. From the P.ebel side we hear still another story, American correspondents with General Franco^ men, not far from Toledo, report that the onward march was at a standstill today to gi^e the troops a rest. A one-day holiday, taking /\ it easy, and consolidating positions. Sq^that may be. the explanation. All we really know is that the Fascist sweep of victory didn’t keep on sweeping today. As for the reasons - take your pick. flHIHA The nev, flare-up In the Far East, that latest peril to the peace of the *orld - tracee to a sinister shadow scene ol* China, town* Today Japan toolr strong—hand©d action in Shanghai, because of the killing of a Japanese marine and the wounding of two others* ^The Mikado’s officers investigating the assassination have produced an eye-witness, who tells the following story:- time, with the queer shows of Chinatown. The witness tails how he saw three Japanese marines walking along the street. the three marines xj in front of him* Then he ducked away into sorte dark passage, leaving one marine dead and the other two wounded. Scene in Shanghai, the native quarter*. It’s night and following them, trailing them, A u tsar skulk!ns stalker whipped out a pistol and opened fire on A That’s the sixth recent assassination of a Japanese In China, which tells of the increasing anti-Japanese bitterness among China's .millions* It’s enough to strain the patience of the mildest man of Nippon, but the Mikado’s officers are not so CHINA - 2 mild and long suffering. General Takayoshi Matsumuro said today; MI think the limit of patience has "been reached.. We must teach and advise these Chinese, but if they don’t listen - then must slap their faces, M Go tonight ine face-slapping is on. The Japanese have landed troops in Shanghai - in the international settlement I a /£ x £ they have a legal right to do, But they’ve pushed their patrols into the Chinese city, where they have no legal right. Tonight a large area of Chinese Shanghai is commanded by flag Japanese bayonets. Squads of marines, under thethe Hieing Sun, march^auid counter-marchjthrough the streets. Motorcycle troops wheel and manoeuvre, and frowning tanks rumble on. The Chinese author! ti es- have lodged a formal protest against the Japanese invasion of their town, but the Mikado’s men have rejected all protest. The Chinese now have declared martial law, preparing for the final emergency. And bo tonight in Shanghai Japanese and Chinese confront each otner, with tense hostility — with an explosion threatening. GHIx’.A - 3 In the international settlement the police maintain^ lay the foreign consulates have been mobilized and are on guard. European and American residents are on the qui vive, expecting the worst. repetition of Nineteen Thirty-Two, the sfe battle of Shanghai - when the warships and the regiments of Nippon fought the Chinese settlement was a scene of rifle and machine gun battles and thundering cannonade. What _&a they expect? Signs point to a possible when the vicinity of the internetional 'N-ViVurfe' threatens to hapnen once more - if A, Tokyo, its patience exhausted. decides to seize Shanghai again --- Mf - ^ - ul TL o c<-«rw\j£. "tes^ .( j : ^Tiil« a^.a^^er^' af pfiTT^ o^xe '^*«^^X<_ “^vc^vyitt ^Kt ^M a -OC- 4\ whose going to be eleoted^' To^y,, hov/ever, WLfc^indbi U m T u O?. jXi^A" CL^vwb lA^p-<fW G»V^ find out that doesn't ooncern any political campaign. It tells us things about business and banking. mhe Annual ^onv enti (jn of the American Bankers' Association is in session at San Francisco, One speaker today was Clarence Francis, President of General Foods Corporation, He told the men of finance about a nationwide survey that his conr any has made, a sort of straw vote of economic opinion, Seventy-four hundred bank presidents were questioned to ascertain the financial view. As for the popular slant, the questions were put to fifty thousand assorted peo pie, carefully chosen to give cross-section of opinion, A. What about prosperity? Fifty percent of the answers to that question said; "Yes, prosperity is here." The optimistic fifty percent expressed the belief that a boom is underway, a boom that will reach its peak in nineteen jorty maybe as early as nineteen Thirty-Sight, Whose financial opinion counts the most in this broad -1- BANKS - 2 land of ours? One of the questions was this; "I b there any yuan in public Xife witn those viev/s on icaoney matters you. agree?" Six out of ten people answer "Yea." They’ve got their favorites. Whose opinion ranks highest on matters of finance? The answers gave number one place to President Roosevelt, then Father Coughlin, then Senator Carter Glass, and then Governor Land on. That's.an h _ s odd selection^ ^ —- e>^x v^r^cJb ? * ij How do the banks stand with the people? Fifty-seven percent of the answers declared their belief that the banks are not doing their share in promoting recovery. Among the bank presidents fifty-eight percent*!* said they thought that the public attitude toward banks was friendly. Twenty-five percent § ; n il asi |I 1:81 li 1 £|1 thought the public was just indifferent to the banks. Eleven percent thought the public was hostile. That's the summary of the survey that was presented to the Bankers' Convention today, and with it Clarence Francis called upon the men of finance to get out and enlighten the people about banks and banking -- a campaign of public education. f ■iff i i I I i I