L*T. SUNOCO. THURSDAY. APRIL 3. 1941 GOOD EVENING EVERXBODX: Ihey have found the missing airliner, and everyone aboard is safe. All day long there was desperate anxiety for the passenger plane that vanished in Florida, when it ran into storm and rain and low hanging clouds. Aboard were sixteen persons, including Dr. George Crile, world famous surgeon and pathologist a great contemporary light ofscience. The worst of news was feared, but the latest is — the best of news. The plane found, forced down, safe landing, everybody okay. There was a lightning flicker in the war today. Nothing so vastly important - but startling. The British have evacuated Benghazi. The empire forces have retired from that important N^rth African city which they captured from the Italians in such VWvO brilliant triumph about two months a^o. TfcenatlrasJciJig- Axis cnemv 'I tl GermanJi'# Late today, a dispatch flashed from British headquarters at Cairo saying that Benghazi has been abandoned because of a sweeping attack by a German armored columru. Tne surprise in this news is vivid. In days past, we’ve heard that German units, reenforcing the beaten Italian army, were skirmishing with the British in the war of the desert. There was no indication, however, that the squadrons of Nazi tanks were in any large force. The Germans claimed, and the British admitted, the seizure of a desert outpost, but that was regarded as more of a minor thrust than anything else. 4 This morning the news was that German motorized units had reached a point eighty miles south of Benghazi. All of which gave no indication that the British were about to evacuate the city 1 The Cario dispatch tells us that the empire forces have A WAR _ 2 given up a hundred and seventy miles of coastline which they^ seized V. uTX— at the high-water mark of the overwhelming victories against the A Italians. I Cairo-? makes the comment that the advance of the armored columns of the Germans has been almost as fast as the dazzling British drive which swept Mussolinifs broken legions out of half of the Province of Libya. This Benghazi news has a strange sound for me. Only last night I worked on a M0vietone Newsreel picture of the capture of the city - a bright and fine looking North African place. The film showed the unfurling of the British flag, the proclamation of the British Government, the masses of captured Italian equipment - warplanes, tanks, artillery, the devastated A harbor »fx± with the litter of wrecked warships - blasted by the R.A.F. 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Count Teleki, fch* Premier of Hungary, killed himself at dawn this morning ^For hours Budapest denied the suicide, and gave merely dark intimations about the death of the Premier. There was mention of what was called — "tragic circumstances". Then later today the admission was made. Count Teleki took his life by shooting, pnd the * K reason is described in these words:- "connected with the international political situation." Meanwhile reports emanating from outside o# Hungary were saying th^t ftmnit nref erred to die rather than to submit to Gernan demands that ..Hungarjibe taken over as a base for t£ungar£_p a Nazi attack on Yugoslavia. This is confirmed in somewhat cryptic fashion by a later dispatch from Budapest which relates that shortly before he died the wgirreirifm Premier told his cabinet that a crisis would occur soon. He is quoted as having used these words:- "An important event which will crystalize the situation within forty- eirht hours." So in the somber story of suicide in Budapest we have an intimation that a Nazi German attack on Yugoslavia Is planned to occur soon — maybe within for tv-eight hours. wretoriT ' n o ts SHIES Tne no^e that the Secretary of State handed to the Italian Ambassador is botii polite and very uch to the point, ^t does^t mention the sabotage of the Italian ships taken over by the United States government, but the implication's clear enough. The captain of one of the damaged ships stated that the command A for the wrecking job had been given him by the Italian Naval Attache?. uz tCj So here*ja note handed by Secretary Hull to the Italian Ambassador:- "I have the honor to state that various facts and circumstances have come to the attention of the Government of the I- c-iiL — _JSLJ2l United States connecting Admiral Alberto Lais, Naval Attache of the Royal Italian Embassy, with the commission by certain persons of acts of violation of the laws of the United States.” In that fashion the United States tells Italy that its Naval Attache in Washington is persona non grata, and asks that he be recalled. The incident reminds us vividly of events that led up to the United States entrance into the World War, when E&15S12! in similar fashion asked the recall of the military and naval attaches A of the Kaiser!s Germany. They were involved in sabotage and SHIPS - ? subversive activities-ttils—coxm-tr-y^ The Ambassador of Austro- Hungary was sir-'larly sent racking. Todays event coincides with noisy crowd demonstrations in Italy against the democracies — including, of course. The United States. And in foazi Germany too there1s anti-American action — American residents rounded up by the sinister Gestapo, detained and questioned. STRIKE The ^ord strike takes on a new and twisty complication in t.ie late news. Into the negotiations between the Ford Company qnd the C.I.O. is tossed a demand by an A.F. of L. union. Homer Martin, who used to be hdad of the ^.1.0. auto workers, comes forward with the announcement that he has been hired by President Green of the A. F. of L. to organize the Fork workers and have the ^iver Rouge plant reopened, so that A.i? • of L, men can go to work. Which seems to tangle things up still more. They were tangled enough this morning, when the Ford Company refused to attend the negotiations with the union, because of todayfs alleged C.I.O. violation of the truce made yesterday. The United States Conciliator tried to straighten this out, went to the plant said there had been some violation by the union, and then talked the Company back into the negotiations. That beiig settled, the new complication developed — the A#p# of L. angle. ------- 0 ------- Homer Martin has had a variegated career. He was once the national hop, skip and jump champion. Later he led the Automobile Workers out of the A.F. of L. and into the CIO. Then he got out of that union, a^*d since then has been a salesman of chemicals. Now he STRIKE - 2 returns to the world of labor, saying that he has been commissioned by the A. F. of L. to put Federation men into the Ford plant and operate it. He confronted the negotiators with the demand that the C.I.O. picket lines be removed, so that the A.F. of L. workers could get in. You can imagine how the C.I.O. representatives take this! It certainly makes things intricate, and that’s the state of Ford affairs tonight — very intricate. In the Allis-Chalmers walkout, a group of non-striking workers today demanded that the plant be opened. They want the Governor to take measuresto enable them to go back to work. The C.I.O. has cancelled its plan for a solidarity demonstration in Milwaukee, a one-day work steppage and a parade of all the C.i. 0 .members in the city. That was planned for tomorrow, but the C. 1 . 0 . decided not to do it. The Defense Mediation Board assembled today to begin action for the settlement of the Allis-Chalmers Strike. It is believed that the Board will ask the Company to reopen and the strikers to go back to work pending mediation by the Board. The Allis-Chalmers trouble is regarded as the first big test of the Board’s power. Things look rather optimistic in the soft caoal walkout. They say that the majority of operators are ready to sign a contract with STRIKE - S wmmmmmmmmmaam tne United ^ine Workers - with only the Southern mine owners dissenting They object to the union demand that the southern mines hiuikx pay the same wage scales as in the north* In Washington, Congress continues to be mightily disturbed about the strike situation in defense industries* Todgr Administration Leader McCormick of Massachusetts said he believed it was time for the President to speak out and denounce the strikes. This sentiment was heartily cheered. Secretary of War Stimson stated that the strikes are seriously impeding the delivery of defense materials to the army. NAVY The Navy is issuing a call for volunteers in one branch of the nautical service - the medical*branch^ The fleet of the U.S.A. wants eleven hundred recruits for the Hospital Corps Reserve,'-— Tfce Navy needs pharmacists, medical technicians, male nurses, experienced first aid workers, ^fcffdfctfaejr411 be ratings m accordance with their experience and qualification. tokta : jkllq At Seabright, New Jersey, was staged a hair-raising drama of a man in peril of the sea. It turns out now that the hero has figured in a whole series of hair-raising dramas - seems to have a talent for that sort of thing. His name is GPne Tortariello^ and excitement came to him first when his uncle invented some pills. The uncle is quite an inventive genius, and the pills were supposed to have the property of keeping people from drowning. Tortariello, the nephew, was not lacking in courage. He essayed to test the anti-drowning pills, and^fc^ nearly drowned. They got him out of the water just in time. A little while later a friend of this same Tortariello invented a new kind of parachute, a sort of umbrella. Tortariello still had his courage, and he tested the umbrella parachute. He jumped from a forty foot bridge igxfchg into the Shrewsbury River; the contraption didn*t work, and once more he nearly drovned. The next drama in his life had nothing to do with drowning. Still worse - it concerned romance. He grew so jealous of the girl friend that he chained her to the steering wheel of his TORTARII l LLO - 2 car. Maybelit was the same car that figures in this latest Tortariello episode. Along the shore he happened to drop his automobile key«s, and somehow these fell among some big boulders at the edge of the ocean. Tortariello climbed among the boulders and went reaching for the keys. The big rocks shifted, and down he went. The boulders closed over him, and he was trapped, and the was coming in. It was a bad spot for Tortariello. Some friends came to help him, but they couldn?t get him out. Tv,e boulders were too big - and the tide waa rising fast. It was HkEHxtha above the ankles of Tortariello. It rose to his knees. The Coast Guards were summoned, and they got a derrick to move the rocks. Th© water was as high as the waist of Tortariello. Soon it would be over his head. Finally, with the aid of the derrick, the Coast Guards got him out. And once again Tortariello escaped drowning! SKATER Today a young woman entered the United States, and awaiting her in this land were twenty thousand dollars and three thousand proposals of marriage. Talic about American hospitality! We all know what we could do with twenty thousand bucks, but three thousand proposals of marriage might embarras even the most romantic of us. The luc^y girl is Vera Hruba. Vera is a blonde from Czechoslovakia. A figure skater — with accent on figure. Andher face is all right too. Some while ago, she came to the United States. Her figure figured in a lot of figure skating. The only trouble was that her permit for staying in the country ran out. So the story broke that she’d have to^back to Nazi-dominated Czechoslovakia, unless .... Unless she promptly procured an American husband. Me* Marriage to an American would permit Vera to stay on. Vera, the figure skater, described herself in these terms - na romantic, home-loving girl.” So, with a disposition like that, a husband wouldn’t be so hard to take — and Vera was resigned to it. The publicity got a good response — three thousand gentlemen were willing to enable Vera the figure skater to remain in the good old U.S.A. In the meantime Vera was informed that she could renew her stay in this land by going to Canada and reentering under the Czechoslovakian immigration quotas - 3 So Vera went to Canada, and today reentered the United States. The mountain of proposals of marriage still waiting. Moreover, at Lafayette, Indiana, Lars. Nan Foley has died and j.eft Vera a legacy of twenty thousand dollars. TP are not told iust why. ^hat and three thousand suiters - the luck of Vera the figure skater. Now maybe Hugh can tell us about some luck for the rest ''f us. How about it, Hugh?