SUN OIL - COM P ANY B R OADCAST AUGUST 16 1 1938 ( O ur origina l ·· b r ~d cast los t . allo w ing is co p y t a k e n from ID b s t e r file of' B C) TUESDAY They•re going like hotcakes - I mean those new 1938 Sunoco Road Maps. And i t makes us feel good to know it, too. We , worked for months , getting those maps ready for you, did everything we could think of to malm them the most helpful am accurate maps you'd ever used. They're not ordinary road maps. Instead, all kipds of interesting places are located and described on them, ani in addition, the easiest, quickest routes through all of · the bigger cities are outlined. Stop in tonight, at any Sunoco Station for your free . Sunoco map. Just tell tm dealer you wer~ sent ar oum by Lowell Thomas••• Good evening, everybody. A frie:rxi of mine from far off Singapore, Joe Fisher, who lives out on the Equator, came to the studio door just a second ago, ani he remarked that it's hotter here than i t ever was in Singapore. Well, in Vlashington, even the Weath!r Man took the day off. This afternoon i t was not only hot, but moist - temperature 94, - 2 - humidity 50%. Even th e Weathar Man couldn't stand that, so the United States Weather Bureau closed down far the day _ too hot to send out reports on the teat. There was a. strike at Woodbine, 'New J er se.y, . t oqay in a hat factory; in the felt . finis:iing department, where ' steam is used, the temperature went above 100 and twenty employees weilt o~ strike . • It was quickly settled - tb.e manage:mant gave : them the day of£. And here' a one tor all of you who've been sw.el tering in th~ record breaking heat. Thirty mEl'l in overcoats today - thirty policemen in fi.fteen pound Winter woolen O'f: . erco~ts but:t , o . ned up to the nec . k. Tmy stood in line all muffled up for a blizzard in December, while the broiling minutes dragged on. Where did it · happen? Why- in Brooklyn - today was the , day for tm routine poiice inspection of Winter overcoats, and of c · ourse, they had to · have i t on schedule, thought the temperature was over ninety! and the overcoats a nightmare. I suppose i t w as tti3 lE at that caused a tennis player to collapse on the court at Newport today. Frank Kovacs, playing in the Newport Invitation Tournament, was overcome in the middle of a 3 match, had to be he l ped off the court - yes the heat, al thou g h Frank may also have been bothered by tbinking about t.be c . oach controversy in which he is a figure at the moment. Today, Kovacs' former coach, George Hudson, came out with a blast aga: - inst the officials of the Dav-is Gup team and the Lawn Tennis Assoc:J_ation. Kovacs · and Hudson parted company recently - H udso ' n blames it on the tennis officials. · The coach says · the officials intimidated his pupil. He adds that a ~ouple of the officials · told the pres .s that Hudson had attached himself to K ovacs like a parasite, and the coach demands retraction of that parasite crack. He . , also quotes the officials as saying that they're tired 0£ the- way coaches ca p italize on the ability of players, and to this Hudson makes lflention of Don Bud g e and his coach for two years _ . Also player Fr a nkie Parker and Coach Beasley, and player Alice Marble and Coach ':'ennant. It all points to another one of those paradoxes in the amateur sportB, all so strictly amateur, playing w.L thout remunera t ion, no money involved, so how can somebody capitalize on somebody else, when there's no capital i,n the business? It'll take more than an amateur to answer that $!Uestion. - 4 - Imagine a man in an enclosed ear doing two hundred and sev . enty miles an hour and poisoned fumes seeping in - he, s gassed _ , almost asphyxiated doing two hundred and seventy. That's today's story of Captain Easton, the English speedster who's over here to break the record for swiftness on wheels. On the Noriaville Salt Flats at Utah he was trying out his car . , rushing along at a mad clap - clip, 'when fumes from the motor and th _ e grinding brakes . eame seep- ing .into the cockpit. Easton says the only thing that saved his life was the ventilator which kept blowing in fresh air. Otherwise, he'd sure , ly have been asphyxiated, or 1-osibg consciousness, he might have crashed at ttwo hundred and seventy an hour. Jack Dempsey's children threatened with kidnapping - that's a sensational headline. It's asserted in Salt I.a . ke City that the farmer heavyweight champion is so afraid of sna tcbers that he • · s moving his family . from New York to Salt Lake. Dempsey and his wife, the former actress, Hannah Williams, have two daughters, ages four and two. In Salt Lake City, Jack's mother is quoted as sayin g that there have been threats to kidnap the children. Her son feels the W e s t will be saf e r - also, he wants his children - 5 - t.o grow up in the W est where be himself was reared. She -adds that he w-111 live in Salt Lake, probably go into bus i ness there, al though he will retain his restaurant interests in New York~ To all this, Dempsey's New York publiei ty mari, Ned Brown, makes a statement that a couple of years ago the foz_,ner · champion did get a letter telling him that there was a kidnap plot against the children. But nothing happened. And he adds that the Dempsey trip West is not because of ki.dnap reasons. From the town of Li tile Current, ip Capadian · 0nta.rib, tonight comes a trag . ic story. It' s of Daniel. Dodge, twen ty-orie · years old, heir to nine million dollars ot Dodge Motor Car wealth. Up o-q Georgian Bay with his bride of two weeks - sh'e was a telephone operator when he met her, daughter of a tugboat captain - rich young man and poor girl, and the threads of every favorite romance were woven. Yesterday, evil fatality came to pass in the form of a stick of dynamite. It had been in the garage and to 1 t was at · tached a fuse. Young Dodge noticed it, thought he would try i t out, to see what a blast i t would make, like a stupendous firecracker. The · fuse was timed for three minutes - he would surely have plenty of - 6 - time to hurl tha t stick of dynamite so it w:oilld e,cplode at a safe . dist,ance. F ive persens were gathered there when the match was · touched to the fuse. But too dynamite instantly exploded. All were injured, including the wife ·. o.f tll3 automobile heir. T.he e~retaker of the plac . e critically hurt. , Yowtg Dodge himself; had his arm an,d ahouider shattered and was in agoni.zing , .pain. They carr.ied him 0 to the speeqhoat to rush him t · o the - , ne · are . st - dt>c ' t . or at Little Current. Mrs Dodge ~J>v:e the beat>;, although she;, too~ was injured~ - A surging run thro:t:1-g:ti , the :water , :, nd;Le . at~r . mil;e, ~~ after a while the young · wife grew: ' fa - int. · · One '. of the injured · men took the w:hee.1 and as ne did so there 1"&~ a: scream .fpom the 'ba . ck o.r t~ boat. Be turned and saw · namd Dodge · plung . e into th-e · water. The rush o,f the boat took · f t . f · ar be.fore tmy e~uld '- dxcle · ba~.k. · The water was rougl?, and the . re , was no chance to , save the heir to the ·· Dcxige fort.une. That, s tte story 'trla doe'bor lis~ned to today . as he treated the other , victims of the blast. And his dliagnosis: the dynamite injuries to young Dodge were of su._c - h agony that he was driven out of his mind, driven momentarily insane, and so he leaped overboard, so thinks the doctor. But the young wile thinks her injured husband was trying to help her when he saw her g r ow faint and the . n fell overboard. And thus ends the romance of the tele p hone girl and the heir to a giant fortune. An d whq g~ts -- th~ !¢tune now? N , , not the bride. Late word reveals that the nine million dollar~ was left to _ Danie 1 Dodge bi a trust fund, the income of whie _ h will now revert to his sister.. They say the wife ~ill ehare only in monies accumulat,ed and also personal e : state - , but . not the nine million dollar trust r~d. Tbe - re was a convi.¢t, ,scape from a Te~as prison- £a:rm toda31:, an(l the of f icials say the leader o .t' tJ1~ ou - tbreaik was. W i _ llimn Eve . r~tt Garr:war. In Texas, that name means the mo . st de , sperat.e - , kind of de~perado -- Garner serving a long sent~n:ce,, a sentence one hun4red years long, ~ ii you couldn't blame the judge for han:dtilg him t hat exa g gerated str~tch. Some while ago, a highw~y- policeman saw - a car wrecked in the dd.teh. The cop in dutiful and friendly fa-shion, hurrie d over to relp the driver, and th.at driver was Garne::i;-, , the criminal. And when he saw the policeman coming, he opened fire ~d shot him, and t h at g ot him t he hundred years in prison. Toda y the convict s were workin g on t ~ prison farm, de s perado Garne :£1 among toom. Somehow they had a knife. Su d denly they leaped upon the - 8 - guard near t hem, stabbed him, woun d in g him severely. And as the guard fell, they snatched his shotgun and ran. The guard still had his p istol - he drew i t an d blazed away but didn rt hit any of the prisoners. They fled to the bo t tom lands of the Trinity River and there posses went searching for them and found them. There was a fight - two of the .fugitives killed. Desperado Garner was captured, taken back, so that he can serve the r · est of that hundred years. · In the news, day by day, the most constant element of 111elodrama lies in the dark world of crime. In my eight years of news on the air, I have told many an episode of crooks and cops. And today I find the strangest story of all - the most fantastic sort or · shocker. A gang of robbers in Jap~n, a holdup mob, at Osaka, and the wierd thing is t~ weapon they used in terrifying their victims. No, not guns, nor blackjacks, nor any sort of explosives, nor even poison - a weapon you would never guess - leprosy. They held up homes, s tores, and pa s sersby with the threat and tm horror o:f that dread malady. They themselve s are lepers, residents of a secluded, quarantined s ection of Osaka, called Leper A venue. The maimed, - 9 - miss . hapened, robber band would go secretly ,forth at night, would confront peo p le, the sticku p being made with the thre , at: "Ilana over the money er we' 11 iilfe : ct . you." :Am tha : t never .fa . 1.l~d, tha - t terrcr worse than pistols . or banbs. For months the · le - per robbery gang stole and frightened · far ap ; d wide - . But nc,w they've Ju s. t _ be~n arrested. T h e Far Ea ~ t¢rn dispatch tells how pol.tee ci~$c~nded -· upon the · m - cops in uniforms, un - i f · arms dre:nc:bed n 1;,h , germ · ld,:1,I'i.~ pheniieal:~ ~ and on their · hands they wore nb~~r g1 , oves ,· w 1. t · h whieh · to · gra;b th~ prisoner · s. The gang was tried fa · a court spr• · ed with dis~ectafit - the . prisoners, -the guards, the audg~, everytbini di:sfnf'~crt,e , 9;. , /ufd now they've bee · n senteqeed, not to any Jail, but ,, 1,9 :gla~es qt quarantine - the height of a .fantastic crim-e -sto!!y, on e tor the Grand Henne(?). And today- in Shanghai American seldier$ with bayonets and mac h ine guns re · a-dy went int _ o action. There was no shooting, no b a yonet charge, just a demonstration of authority. They moved against Japanese troops and drove them out o_;f the International Sett l ement. A lorry crammed with tre Mikada' s soldiers, cros , sed into the forei g n quarter, but when it was confronted with the ~ - 10 - Americ . an mac h ine guns and bayone-ts, i t turned bac · k. And the Brit.ish have t h e sam e s ~ y to t e l l about Japanese troops t . ~y. A detach- ment of Seaforth Hfgp.lander~ turned them back as · they ttie d tp cross quarded br . idges. But there . wa : s no dr - iving \ away the Ja,panese :- warplane . s that flew over t~ settleme,nt today . : · twentt'b>. . (l)Jllbe : r~ circled . low ov e r the international a . rea Wh~l ~ . pursµit , planes that, al.t;hough this war . £1yipg abqva t• fore~gJ:1 settl,eme1'lt l@.'s done in the .f.ace of yigo:_vaus protest by the s~ttlement authorities. The sum of thes, i ncidents seems to ·- b! - tha:t the Ja.pa~ese . are tty;ing out the authority of the We~ , ter.n . · powe . rs i - ~ Sq,ang~ _ i. . , se : eing · how d.E3termined they are to grote-ct that In~rnational Sett-le . merit against invasion. Meanwhile; a gain frOJQ. . Ha)ilkow:, tre same terrible s - tory - anoth~ . r terrific, devastating air raid. The report tonight i - s tb~t -the Pre . mier of Left Wing Spain ~~ ju,st r .s1gn,a. A . new government i.s - being forme d to guide the affairs of · Barcelona. Thi'S · story of political crisis has a dark, forbidding sound. The executipn of ho s tages _ there is said to be strife between the Reds and the Moderates - 11 - in t:00 le.ft W in g government - strife that came to a climax after the shooting of sixty-ei g ht prisoners held as hostages. we have word that the new Cabinet will exclude Communists, ana - rchists, and syndicalists. The rumor is tha. t the former Minister of War Prieto is staging a comeback, and he . is said to advpcate an armistice with the F ranco Fcrces. This late bit of news would seem to indicate th a t the Barcelona extremists have lost out in . the crisj:s pro.:voked by the execution of hc;,stages. One of the most fer;odious tnv~mtions of moder class war, the killing of per sons held as ~ecuri ty for the behavior of their kinfolk, or of their class. A typic;µ. presemt day horror when there is Red revolution and c · ounter . revqlution. We heard much about this horror when the Spani s h Civil war was new, and now we haar of i t once again, but · the 'Barcelona Emba-ssy in London denies i t and declares that the crisis in the Left Wing regime 1s not because of shooting of hostages, am that the Left Wingers don't hold any hostages and don't kill any. I recall making a remark a couple of years ago when the epidemic of si tdown strikes wis on that the idea had spread from France to the United S tates by some sort of invitation. Today tl'Y3 statement - 12 - is made that it wa . sn't any mere invitation at all. Sitdown . strikes were imported directly by the Communists. This contention was made today by A F of L Chieftain, John P . Fry before the House Committee, investigating un-American activities. He stated today that the French sitdolVD strikes we~e directed by the Communist element in the French labor movement, am that this • particular strike technique was transferred into the United States by the International Communiet organization. American Reds adopted it from the F rench . Reds am followed tlE ir example in f 011.enting si tdawn strikes in the United St.ate · s. A F of L leader Fry repeated that the C I O had plenty of Conrnunists and · said that he thought the John Lewis Union were about to stage a purge to get rid o.f the Red element. Moreover, tOQB.Y he charged that the communists were exceedingly active in the ranks of the W P A. He cited .figures alild named names to shaw that tre wo r kers Alliance which organizes WP A workers is under Red Influence. Chairman John Hamilton spoke two words today - "very definitel7", said he. In that fashi o n, he answered the questlon: Did be think President Roos ev elt would run for a third t e rm? "Very 'definitely", - 13 - said John. Andtesident Roosevelt launched another blow at Demcx:fratic Conservatives today. The "Yes, but" man _ he attacked Congressmen John J O'Connor of New York and s 8 na~or Miller Tydings of Maryland. Of Congressman O'Connor, he said: "He is one of the most effective obstructionists in tre Lower House". or Senator Tydings, the President declared: "He wants to run with the Roosevelt pres t ige and the money of his conservative friends both on his Bide/ Yes - but - fer tho New Deal. - but. And now, it' e not "Yes, but" - it's so long until tomorrow. It seems rather queer. I mean, that out of a . ll tle gasoline manufacturers you can think of, Sunoco is just about the only one, with only one grade of motor fuel. Almost all of the others have e ther two or three. But B1ue Sunoco is made in only one quality., no secorrl or third grades. I'l ' DOESN'T NEED THEM! By devoting all of our time and effort to Blue Sunoco, we save in production and transportation costs, so that we are able to sell H1gh Geared Blue Sunoco at regular gas price. Jus~ you think it over, it's time for Hugh Jares to say••• good night.