L. T. SUNOCO - FRIDAY ATTGTTST 27. 1957 GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY:- Tlie news this evening tends toward personalities, significant figures about whom interesting things are to be told. For example, there’s China. War news continues to stream from the Far East, with its grizzly tales of battle and destruction. But there also comes to the foreground a grave and venerable figure, well known to students of recent Asiatic History. His name is Marshal Wu Fei-Fu, X immense Chinese renown. A reuort from Tientsin tells that Wu Fei-Fu has declared himself for the Japanese, Long celebrated as an antagonist of Tokyo, he now changes his allegiance. He announces himself in support of the local Governments that Japan is sponsoring In North China. They say he is to become good evening everybody - 2, an official advisor t# one of them. Wu P*i-Fu emerges from a Buddhist Monastery. He has been in retirement for several years, a famous War Lord who burled himself In an Asiatic Cloisters to study, philosophize and write poetry. Hets a surviving figure of the old mandarin days of China. As a boy of ten, he could recite the confucian classics. He wrote poetry, an infant prodigy. Becoming a mandarin, he served the Dragon throne under the old dowager Empress. When China became a Republic, he commanded armies, ^he confucian scholar developed a gift for military strategy. Ten years ago he was one of the masters of China. Then his downfall came, his army was defeated, and he retired to a mountain Monastery* Studying the classics, writing poetry, meditating upon the xinl wisdom of Confucious. ^That only Increased his renown among the Chinese, The War Lord kept his fame^ now as a scholar and a sage. Sophia appearance once more on the scene of politics and war is considered of prime significance. His GOOD EVENING STSRYBODY - 3, support of the Japanese regime in North txx China is rated a major event, it seems like a turn-coat affair, selling out to the enemy. But Wu Fei-Fu is a mandarin of the old school, who recalls the Empire of the Dragon throne. Many of the adherents of the former Manchu dynasty are joining the Japanese. They are in favor of annexing North China to Manchuku, where the former boy Emperor of China now reigns with the support of Tokyo. They would like to see the Dragon restored at the old capital of Peking - a revival of the celestial empire of old. insisted on "full satisfaction" for the shooting of the conveyed by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, to the Japanese Ambassador to London. His Majesty's Oovernaent demands - full satisfaction. That's what the Foreign Secretary is said to hare told the Ambassador. It is reported that Britain will Such is the personality angle in the Far East ^ as Great Britain makes a firm demand on Tokyo today, London British Ambassador to China by a Japanese aviatoi This was demand an apology and an indemnity* frOOI) EVENING EYERYBODY - Meanwhile, in a Shanghai Hospital, sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugesen, is reported to be improving. The Doctors say his condition is satisfactory, though, with two abdominal bullet wounds he is by no means out of danger. The question of life and death hangs suspended, and it will be forty-eight hours before the physicians will be able to form a judgment. --- jj----- d> ------------ —----- The battle of Shanghai continues to rage, a mad melee of fighting through streets and surrounding country* The Japanese seem to be winning the fight, and there’s one report that the Chinese defenders are about to abandon the City - the Chinese Commander ordering a general withdrawal* Japanese war planes continue to bomb Hanhing, the Nationalist Capital# The Far East aglow with the red glare of war* jLiv * ju.i iaa w • i‘<ici-v 1 a._|r to Eouiuani& is in\: iHztad al - sorts cf politico! significance* 'There* s 0\ Oi- t, A-U . _ - ,1. t ,._-c>r;ucfc a revolt in the Balkan Kingdom* TitiTi Prince Nicholas was sent into exile oy his hrothei, ino Carol, the reason given was - that Uicholas had carried e. ccrayoner. The word from behind the scenes is that the real re - son ohs som ©thing else again » some tiling in ten sely political. T'ing Carol is fiercely opposed by the hntirCeaitia organization called the fcnzsisxa Iron Guard. -l.d •'- ey a ay that an Iron Guard acheiae was afoot to dethrone Carol and give the cro-vn to brother Nicholas. So Kick was sent oat of the country, Nov. he svajs. has returned suddenly, and they say the Iron Guard is rallying h-.kind hir&* So there may be u drive a.uini?. ping ^arol* Moreover, it's reported that Carol is likely to tail off * conference of statesr cn of the Little Entent hed 1 e^f next we#:,. One of the Little - ...' - nations is Czechoslovakia, toward which the Iron Guard is oitt2rl stiii;.. That ail1 1-3 .nitic organization leans strongly tc* v.'iiXCi t ie i ■ 6 vJtciX':".uL:ij , t s pro—Uazi • it claii^s t‘.at 3up vitli Soviet Eussia— is a S’** hot ^ec of Oommunism, with Prince Nicholas as their leader A the^ :rd^y.t 8t.,.rt trouble to hreah up the Little ^.itente Oonferenoe. MELLON Tonight a special car will be hitched to the eleven o'clock train on the Pennsylvania and in that car (the mortal remains of Andrew W. Mellon will be taken home to Pittsburgh. There, his funeral will be solemnized tomorrow in a church founded by the Mellon femily with a gift of three million dollars. Today the obituary discussion concerns - wealth. Inevitably, because Andrew W. Mellon, fomer Secretary of the Treasury, was surely one of the world*s four or five richest men. Perhaps he was the richest^Perhaps you can rate the Mellon family as the richest people who ever lived. There was always some doubt about the magnitude of Andrew Mellon*s possessions^ TliBTn via m confusion between his own personal holdings and the family fortune of the Mellons* There are six Mellon banks, headed by the Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh, and they are n credited with resources of half a billion dollars. There are altogether fifty-one Mellon companies, and they represent between eight and fifteen dollars - at which figure the family fortune can most likely dollars. The Mellon shaft in these is perhaps three billion MAT,LON - 2 te placed. As for the personal estate Andrew Mellon leaves, the estimates range from two hundred and fifty million dollars to five hundred million. Whence came all of this fabulous treasure? You*!! find the better part of the answer by looking into a school textbook of chemistry. There you'll see a k±st list of metalsf there are ninety-six of them. If arranged in alphabetical order, right on -tte. top you ♦'ll find - aluminum. What gold was to Croesus, Aluminum was to Mellon. It's not a rare metal, but the Mellons control it in this nation. They own the sources of supply, thelped brown mud out of which you get gleaming aluminum. Ahey own the smelters, the mills, the factories. There's not an aluminum pot or pan in an American kitchen whihh was not made by Mellon* And that garni goes for pistons in automobiles, wings of airplanes, covering of streamlined trains, radios, refrigerators, paints, machine gun bullets, and so on for a long list, Andrew ina“»trial lliEtory as an Emperor of Aluminum. In political history, he s marked down as Secretary of the Treasury under three Presidents VEIL LON - 3 Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. He took hold of American finance after the war, and made this nation the first of the World war countries to balance its budget. He cut down the war swollen public debt by billions. He cut taxes. He won that once familiar epithet - the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton. His prestige was supreme during boom times, only to be shadowed by the storm and clouds of the depression. He was born to the ways of hard-headed business, his father, an old-fashioned banker with the hardest kind of bead. $ Young Mellon began his business career with a reel estate deal, to finance which he borrowed three thousand dollars from his father. He was chagrined to find that he was tag being charged sixteen per cent interest. In answer to his protests, his father explained: "The regular rate at the bank," said he, is ten per cent, but you’re an unsound risk, my boy." So the rate was sixteen from father to son. Another anecdote relates that while Andrew Mellon was Secretary of the Treasury, his brother asked him how much he paid for his apartment. The Secretory answered, "Twenty- five Thousand dollars a year." "Wbet’s your salary, Andy?- MELLON - 4 asked his brother. The Secretary of the Treasury replied, -Fifteen thousand dollars a year.- The brother ikak shook his head in reminiscent doubt, -what would father say to that- he murmured. OFFER Other personalities are evoked this evening — a comic tramp with a tin can for a hat and two incessantly polite Frenchmen;- Happy Hooligan and Alphonse and Gaston. They were the most successful characters of Frederick Opper, the Dean of American cartoonists. died today in his .^T h , eighty first year.fl Happy Hooligan was perhaps the most i I ' *‘l111 >■ beloved of all comic strip characters. For thirty years Frederick Opper delighted the children of the Nation and grown-ups too with ktn the antics of Happy and his brother* Gloomy Gus. With his Alphonse-and-Gaston strip he created a phrase that became a byword of the Natlon|-"After you my dear Alphonse. ”^He invented a whole series of comic characters, which read like reminiscences of youth to those of us in middle age. There was the farmer Si and the mule Maud. There was Mr. Dough and Mr. Dub and the Joys and Glooms, also a fantastic series called "Our Antedeluvian ^tocestors.w Lingering reminiscences of the funny paper#. In his earlier years Frederick Opper was a DPPEH - 2» cartoonist and illustrator of serious importance - back in the day an of Bryan and McKinley, But he is remembered supremely for Happy Hooligan^and - ”After you my dear Alphonse 'o ^ - it- _ v a triumphal vrtIcorae at t, •':. v ^ he appeared befcra the automobile worht.re . f"he C.l.c. chief took the floor and called ”3^ ••.arr.or^-, urged hie followers to end the fight that has divic t d ohem into 4 • i factions. He told them to patch up their qv.arrel and close their ranks. And he gave them one special reason why;- so that they cohld unionize Ford, organize the hundred or.d fortq thousand workers of the Ford Motor Co: pan j * "0n< of these days", he Shouted, wHenry Jord is t.olne to quit flying into the face of the inevitable. And a-or he does, you won’t have to organize the Ford workers. They’ll flock into your union". All that got a big hand*TK-t there’s no indication that the factions in the Auto Workers Union have ended their fight A batch of sentences were handed down in the l^ew York Federal Court today. Twenty-five men and women got prison terms ianging iioui three months to a year and two months^ and they were fined, a total of more than forty thousand dollars. Twenty- five prisoners in one batch sounds like a lot. Well, they were convicted as members of the feiggest International diamond smuggling crowd on record. Fifty-five had been indicted but many of them were in Europe, out of reach. Government agencies seized two hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars worth of smuggled diamonds. a college student and a nineteen year old girl were re­ leased today near Thomasvilie, i'Jorth Carolina, after being kid­ napped by a fugitive outlaw. They were in an automobile when a desperado got in with them and, pistol In hand, forced them to drive him for hours* He was north Carolona^ number one bad man, William Pay me, who Is wanted for killing a Policeman. Posses were searching in the hills, when he did his kidnapping act then released the student and the girland kept going in the students car. khtefs - 3u There was a similar sort of kidnapping at Decatur, Tennessee. Two bandits snatched three people and in a gun fight wounded two Policemen* The episode ended today with the killing of one bandit and the KKpsk capture of the other. FLOODS Wet weather - so we have stories of giwv floods. In up-state New York and in Pennsylvania, rivers are on the rampage. There have been drenching rains and cloud-bursts. Wash-outs in many places. Hundreds of homes inundated, traffic tied up, communications impeded. Two deaths are known to have occurred - one the case of a Lieutenant of the C* C. C. who lost his life trying to rescue a man. A family of three is reported missing. It seems odd to hear of boats going to the rescue of a passenger tmtMjf train, but that happnned near the village of Montour Falls. The train was caught by the flood, stuck in four feet of water. Huge floating logs jammed and tangled with a couple of cars, and held them so the locomotive couldn’t pull them. The train was stalled for twelve hours with twenty-five passengers and twenty members of the crew. It took workmen in rcw boats to uncouple the ?%Jhl two oars tied up by the logs, and^free the rest of the train. People were taken off in boats FLOOD - 2 In Washington, too, the story ±t is flood. Dozens of families who live in the nearby lowlands are trapped, marooned. Rescue parties are helping them to higher ground. The latest report is that the sun is beginning to break through in the flood areas, with promise of the "iS'l C rains ending and the floods