MONEY L. T. - SUNOCO Monday, October 5. 1956. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY Fascism makes its reply to the three-power money pact! Mussolini's answer is to bring Italy onto the band-wagen. Instead of fighting the movement, he joins it. By decree of his Cabinet, the value of the Lira is reduced forty-one per cent. It is officially and arbitrarily set at nineteen Mre to one of Uncle Sam's Dollars, ninety to one of John Bull's pounds. In other words, the relations betv/een Italy's money- and ours is now arbitrarily restored to what It was before President Roosevelt took us off the gold standard. With the same flourish of his pen, the Duce takes measures to prevent MONEY - 2 infIstion and speculation ih prices. In a supplementary decree he reduces duties on imports. He also forbids any rise in prices above those fixed for September, Moreover, landlords may not Jump their tenants rent. This edict will be in force for two years. It applies equally to homes, offices and farms. Public Utility companies may not increase the cost of light, power, gas, and so forth. As for goods whose prices have not been already fixed, arrangements are being made to adjust them immediately• Altogether this somewhat astonishing move is interpreted as being decidedly encouraging for the peace of the world, also for its prosperity. This word from Home had been awaited quite anxiously. The dictators, both Mussolini Ns-? and Hitler, had until today maintained a strict and somewhat mysterious silence. Nobody knew exactly which way the Italian and German cats would Jump. Of, course Berlin is still to be heard from. In effect, the Ducefs xxpx surprise move leaves the Reich, for the moment, out in the cold. Mussolini, in addition to those edicts, issued a MONEY - 5 decidedly amicable and comTorting statement. He approved unequivocally , of the Franco-British-American monetary agreement. T,The economic restoration of the world", he said, "is the first condition necessary to the collaboration of its peoples for the maintenance of peace." Mussolini’s government took this opportunity to float their long expected Ethiopian Victory Loan. This is essential, says the official announcement, to insure the proper defense of the country. With this goes a capital levy. Property owners will be compelled to ^clate^Easjfe^t^f ive per cent of the assessed valuation of their possessions. That makes us wonder how this well this pleases Italian capitalists^ without whose subsidies Mussolini never could have climbed to power. the only ■ nay- LONDON - 2 given solely to Communists1 But the reports had it that Sir Oswald Mosley’s parade was opposed by a mob of a hundred thousand. Since there are not a hundred thousand Communists in all England, let alone London, it is obvious that objection to Fascism is not restricted to the Beds. England is still in a dither over the affair. and the government is taking strong precautions. Yesterday1s has the supposedly phlegmatic English in a state of and the utmost watchfulness is being maintained LONDON RETAKE It seems strange to have to tell about law-abiding London in the grip* of riots. Not since the Duke- of Wellington, the Iron Duke, had to take the Chartists in hand and swear in two hundred constables, have such disturbances gone on within sound of tt°w BellsrTfrhls morning we learned how Sir Oswald Mosley and his Black Shirts were put to rout by the Communists. It looked as though the quietus had been put upon the Fascists for the time being. But today the shoe is on the other foot. Fascist raiders invaded the East End, where -anti-fascist feeling was at its greatest height. Bricks and stones flew, great glass fronts of shops smashed. The fury of the Black Shirts was heaped mostly upon Jewish shops in London1 s Ghetto. The rioting was not put down until the Commissioner of Police had the area surrounded by a force of six thousand bobbles. .And meanwhile observers in airplanes flew overhead, watching the spots where the disturbance was greatest, telephoning instructions by radio to the police on the ground. Incidentally, the credit for the rioting Is being LONDON - £ given solely to CommunistBut the reports had it that Sir Oswald Mosley!s parade was opposed by a mob of a hundred thousand. Since there are not a hundred thousand Communists in all England, let alone London, it is obvious that objection to Fascism is not restricted to the Reds. <^*^tEngland is still in a dither over the affair^ tule^-evening, and the government is taking strong precautions. Yesterday’s^! state of has the supposedly phlegmatic English in a and the utmost watchfulness is being maintained RACE That journalistic race around the world is becoming Quit6 an exciting affair. When those three repor'*' ~*s left New York last Wednesday, it was difficult to see how there could be any strenuous competition, since they were all to use the same means of transportation. But today we see one of them. Bud Ekins, of the NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM and Scripps-Howard papers a long distance and many hours ahead of Leo Kieran of the NEW YORK TIMES and Miss Dorothy Kilgallen of the Rearst papers. If he keeps up his present rate, and if Kieran and Dorothy don’t lose any more time, Ekins will still beat out his rivals to the China Coast by a full day. But of course they all of them, still have a good solid lot of travelling to do. When they reached Frankfort -am- Main, they were on even terms. But there they parted company each of them choosing a different route. But Ekins appears to have amde the best guess. He stuck to planes with the consequence that he reached Bagdad this afternoon while his competitors had barely left Athens. Ekins went by way of Vienna, Athens, Alexandria, Gaza in Palestine and on across the desert to Bagdad. Kieran and Dorothy Kilgallen also chose, each of them, different routes. Kieran by way of Basle, i | ■L RACE - £ Switzerland. The young lady via Munich. They met up again at Brindisi* Italy, for the flight to Athens, and thence across the Mediterranean to Egypt. The girl reporter had to take a train from Munich to Rome, and Rome to Brindisi. Kieran had to charter an automobile for five hundred miles to catch up on his schedule. Both of them were delayed at Brindisi near the heel of Italy be­ cause of strong head winds. So at present those two are probably either at Athens or on their way to Egypt. While Bud Ekins after stretching his legs for thirty minutes at Bagdad is off to Basra on the Persian Gulf, with India next. When Ekins left Palestine he found himself bang in the middle of a war. At Gaza where Samson wooed Delilah, he ran into a United Press correspondent who said he had a hard time getting there because the Arabs were on the warpath. "It isnft my war" Ekins cabled, so on he went after a few minutes chat witth his colleague. But you never can tell. They may all be together on the China Coast, catching the same Clipper, flying home across the Pacific. IOWK l L THOMAS SUNOCO, Monday. October 5. 1956. « ood -i^anira EVBRgsoMP: That sure was a ball game I saw this afternoon* I hate to tell you how many years I have been a fan. But of all the games I ever saw -• that one at the Yankee Stadium this afternoon was the best, th«pa£i;tt£st^ the most exciting, the most thrilling. At my side waa^ng^Caltephor^^ie^-^^.^' Iiaj#yauad7,~famantt^seen a gam© since he was a boy. Through TTOv most of those ten innings i ‘ ff sat on the edge of the^1seat° in a nervous perspiration* And, I was '6o-A\ I need hardly tell you shut that the Glints five to four victory, keeping them spectacularly still in the series, upset all the dope. Last week the Yankee sluggers banged Hal Schumacher out of the box in short order. With Schumacher on the mound today, said the experts, there was litde hope for the five P. M. Giants and the series would end about three forty- After-yesterday y—afte r tert illetf"WedT«went WORLD SERIFS - 2 And did the aforesaid get himself in a hole. In one half the time. Inning after Inning, it looked as though surely the winning run, or runs, would come pouring over the home plate. But that fighting pitcher pulled out time after time. Take that inning with three men on bases with none out. He got one man out. Then coming to bat were slugging Joe DeMaggio from San Francisco and Iron-Man Lou Gehrig. With all of us there in a frenzy, what did the gallant young prince Hal do but strike out the formidable DiMaggio and the champion home-run hitter of both leagues, Lou Gehrig I That was the high s; ot of an extra inning game of high spots — victory for the Giants in the tenth. STENGEL The game at the stadium wasn’t t?ie only surprise in the baseball world today. From Brooklyn came an unexpecting item. An upheaval in the Brooklyn Dodgers’ ^Mighty Casey has struck out. Not Casey, tie pride of the Mudville team, but Casey Stengejl, the pride and manager of the Dodgers^ Only a couple of hours or so ago I sav/ Casey in the press box at the Stadium, diligently writing his report of the game for a syndicate, a report for which he got paid quite handsomely. When the Series started he was Charles] Dillon Stengel, manager of the Brooklyns. But as he covered that game, he waa^Charles Dillon Stengel, Ex-Manager?) He seemed quite cheerful about it. Probably the fact that he is going to be paid in full for next year’s work, without having to work for % it, contributed to his cheer and softened the blow. There had been a great deal of hot discussion about those Dodgers this year. In fact, there usually is.* STENGEL - g .......... ^ -feW»ed a bum Brooklyn is one of the hottest^ most enthusiastic baseball communities in America. But it hasnrt had in years. The baseball writers declare that Casey is not to blame for the lowly estate of the Dodgersi Bttfe the owners of the club are making Casey the 7 A A goat. It would be my guess that Casey vton't be out of a job long. He's one of the most colorful and amusing figures in the game. He got his nickname because forty-five years ago he was born in K.C.- Kansas City, Missouri. If he uad been a right­ hander instead of a southpaw, we might never have heard of him. He would probably be a fairly prosperous but little known dentist in Kansas City. But he found that the patients looked askance at a left-handed dentist. Casey decided - and who can blame him? - that it would be much more amusing to be an outfielder. It must have been particularly interesting/for him to A be reporting a New York versus New York World Series,tk©=3»*Ml ggsOStpaa Just sixteen years ago the left fielder for John STENGEL 5 McGraw1s Giants, playing Miller Huggins1 Yankess, was Mr* Charles Dillon Stengel. Sixteen years ago,as today, it was Giants versus Yankees. Tftha^s more, Casey won two games ffwaar for the Giants. He slammed out a couple of homers that gave his team the runs just when they needed them, the runs and the championship. He played for five clubs before he became a manager. He was left-wsfcfielder for New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Brooklyn, always in the National League. Since he became a sm manager, he has never been fortunate enough to have a good team. His first managerial job was for the Boston Braves. Little needs to be said about that. Then for a while he handled the Toledo Mudhens. Four years ago he came to Brooklyn, not as manager but as coach. When the owners of the Dodgers fired Max Carey two years ago, Casey was right on the spot and succeeded to his job. Now he follows Max Carey again^ ua reputation as a humorist, A always is able to state his case to the newspaper experts with STENGEL 4 an amusing slant. The best story about hiii concerns his retort to an umpire. After a few inningCasey went up to the ump , took off his shirt and with a deep bow gave it to the umpire. With it he said; "You have been playing with the other guys all afternoon. So wear our^uniform for a change." Another of his famous retorts was made to the fans. They had been booing him all afternoon, giving him the bird# s» ftfnMTn~a Casey handed it right back to them. As he stepped up to bat, with the fans jeering at him loudly, he took off his cap and out flew a pigeon. He is also celebrated for being as ready with his fists as with his wisecracks. His creed is that hands were made for three things. First, to hold a bat; second, to throw a baseball; third, to throw a punch, K^vO f) SHENANDOAH has Theren heen a lot of talk about too much government. On that subject the good'people of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, are able to talk today with details and inside information. The principal industry of Shenandoah is exporting anthracite coal to other parts of the country. But thereTs another commodity that some Shenandoahans would like to export right now. And that is politicians. The hustling town in Schuylkill County is at present enjoying the luxury of two It all started in last November’s election. At that time a new Democratic councilman was elected. Shenandoah •*< Democrats thereupon took a roll call and figured that they had a slim but working majority of eight to seven. "That’s fine," they said, "we’re going to reorganize the entire city government." Then one of the Republican councilmen had a squabble with his -p- to the. ©the* (side. A N A said colleagues the Democratic leaders, nWe’ve_ now got nine to six." At that rslnt, however, two of the Democrats^ got a change of heart and SlooW to the Republicans side. That put the Republicans once more SEENANDOAR - 2 in control with a majority of eight to seven. So the Republicans went ahead and did their little bit of reorganizing: appointed a chief of police and named their Republican appointees to every job in the city. Then came another change. One of the Republicans who had resigned suddenly declared: n,ve changed my mind. I won't resign* instead of that I'm going to vote for the Democ^ats.,, (This is getting too complicated. I'm about lost myself.) Then the Republicans retorted: "You have resigned and you're going to stay resigned, whether you like it or not." But that'11 do for the complicated details of the quarrel. Its conseouences are the amusing spectacle. For today Shenandoah, a city of twenty thousand, has a Republican Council and a Demo­ cratic Council; Republican cops and Democratic cops, fhe cops of one party make raids on slot machines or what-have-you. The cops of the other side raid tte raiders and arrest them on the charge of impersonating officers. By the same token, the municipal water—works have two forces, two men for everjy job, each side get­ ting in the other's way, working independently, pretending the ~ other is not there. And in a minute I'll be there. Not here. Somewhere. And -- SO LONG UNTIL TOMOBPOW.