L,T. SUNOCO - August 5. 1955 ( Good Evening, Ev-rybody;- "1^ you baseball fans — hold everything! It has happened! V»hat? why, the Yankees were shut out today! — Shut out for the first time In three years! It happened at the Yankee Stadium. Lefty Groves was pitching for Philadelphia. And Philly beat the Yanks 7 to 0, The first shttout for the Yanks in 308 games! Vte have another flood story in todays news and from Mile-High Denver, Colorado,of all places — the roof of the world we used to call it out there. There is no river, properly speaking, in Denver. But running through the city is a narrow stream called Cherry Creek. Well, many months of the year Cherry Creek is hardly more than a trickle. Nevertheless some of those westerncreeks have peculiar ways. They can be almost as otea dry as a bone one minute and a raging torrent the next. They don’t do things by halves out West. This used to be disconcerting at times to the old Colorado pioneers, because harmless little Cherry Creek would behave in the same fashion as some other little rivulets and sweep down on them like a raging lion. In more modern times they took precautions against Cherry Creek’s vagaries and confined the stream between concrete walls. LEAD - 2 today those walla proved Insufficient. The first thing that happened was a huge downpour, a regular cloudburst soutneast of Denver, Thf- next thin , the car* taker of an irrigation dam tnlrty-five miles away saw that it as about to break. He i-wedirtely telephoned police headquarters, in Denver. By telephone, by motor car, and on horseback messengers spread the alarm all along the road to Denver. Police cars rushed through the streets with sirens and fir- bells screaming, warning ev< rybody to get out of the way of the flood, 1?^ sur enou h, a 11 of water i ht feet high swe t down u ion Denver and flowed over the retaining walls of Cherry Creek. a Captain ianevuth of the .. nv . Police told me by fi; Vtoleohone that severil hundred homes were Hooded, two people were report'd drowned. Bridges and boulevards were swept away. The flood, the worst that Denver has seen in twenty years, broke down communicati >ns. Although the waters were receding late this afternoon. a good deal of Denver is still under four feet of water* Hundreds of pr.ople are hofaeless^ The police and LEAD - £ fj f ire departments of Denver and rm1 tov/ns were A,. A msfciix mobilized in full force. Railroad tracks are washed out at 'veof-nxiti points and several bridges have been swept away, — fkiJtpcOj- ^ ww, CV^J 'tfwvv N.B.C. "toSt^Ut VW<| MAVY Advocates of a big navy for Uncle Sam will be encouraged by an announcement from Washington, Secretary of the Navy Swanson has just awarded several contracts und er the new program which provides for the building of 278 million dollars worth of new warships. Today's announcement covers the building of thirty- seven new vessels. Twenty-one of thee# will be built by contract at private yards and sixteen at Uncle Sam's Navy yards. Incidentally, beginning next Sunday all those Navy yards will go on the basis of a 40 hour week. That's not such good news for the men as it sounds. Hitherto they have been working five and a half days and getting six days pay. Under the new order, they will work five days, but only get five days pay for it. STRICT Inal, coal strike in Pennsylvania threatens to bring about a cr'S's of alarmin proportions. In the first place all the mines of the Pittsburgh Coal Company are shut down, all those of the Jones and ^chaughlin Company, the Frick Company, ana half those of another big producing company. The situation threetens to affect everybody. I have a message from Pittsburgh which brings the information that the steel mills in that district have only a ten day supply of coal with which to carry on. one plant in Youngstown has only enough for six days. This comes Just as th< st el industry, the barometer and ainstay of all industries, was beginning to pick up. For instance, new contracts awarded by Uncle Sam’s iJavy Department Jumped th* unfilled orders of the Bethlehem Steel Company sixty-four per cent in one day. The entir steel industry depends on the mining around Pittsburgh for fuel. Already purchasing agents are STKIKF - 2 cudgelling tMr wits and scouring the country to replenish their supplies of coal. ^If the mines continue to shut down, and no other supply is available, the steel plants will have to follow suit. And anybody can see what that means to the Recovery program.^ -ell. General Johnson, th< A Iministrator of Nira, is working ooth an i nail o iron out the situation, which is xox&thK&t somewhat complicate - . code has yet been adopted by the coal industry. The date set for th* hearing on the code submitted is August 9th. General Johnson han ' nnounced that th- National Recov y A'ministration eoul take no part in labor difficulties unless th< y involved the violation of a code in operation. As there is uo code operating :n this situation, the General has not yet the authority of the Act to back him up. Nevertheless, he called a meeting today at which the President of th- United -line Workers, Gov rnor Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, and the President of the #. C. Frick Cote Company were to be present. The trouble strrt d at the mines of the Frick Company, which is molt ST RIMF - 3 heavily involved in the dispute. Governor Pi nr-hot ehowed up and the representatives of the United Mine iVorkers, Thomas Moses, the President of the Frick Coke Company i i-no red Generr t Johnson’s invitation. General Johnson, went ahead with the confer nee anyway, but IVashington officials say they o not see exactly -hat he can do If the mine operators decline to arbitrate. N.B.C MIRA In other respects President Roosevelt's NIRA program is t orging ahead with increased speed. Industries throughout the country are almost tumbling over themselves to sign the blanket code. From all parts comes word of increased wages, shorter hours, and larger payrolls. By the way. General Johnson received an interesting letter today. It came from a sixteen year old lad in East Texas. This youth wrote to the General asking if something couldn't be done to make parents pay their children a better scale for mowing lawns. Perhaps my son will be waiting to talk that over with me when I get home tonight. NBC PRICES The Department of Agriculture today announced that it will issue a weekly list of prices on necessities to protect the consumer from profiteering. That means that you will know from official sources whether you are getting gypped or & ' 'as-.S PIGS A large crate was delivered at the office of the War Department in ■■ashington today, a crate containing two igs. It was addressed to Captain Thomas Jefferson Davis, ..ho is attached to th- office of th Chief of Staff. Captain Davis, as you may imaein , Is of the famous Jeff*s*«m Davis family, the one time President of the Confederacy. Pl^s do not often arrive at the War Dcpartm nt an naturally the __ _ of that crate created ^ A no little amusement. Captain Davis was xxx as astonished as anybody until he r * th letter hich nccomp nled the pigs^faiii e?rplr.liio<i In Uncle Infantry there Is a First Lieutenant named John B, fh rman, who ir a gr: nd rr phew of th famous General Sherman, «n t + m >f—-arching throu h G» orria Ch« rm ;n. Captr.in Davis once r- r 'ed to u’ ut^ n-. it ^ h- /m n tnot hi. s j&*m*aPf*t*£** j.uuiiii'iw^ siolt n so»nf pi pts from the Jeff^r.^on Davis -state. — > pi -r.. as lieutenant SI - n*s answer. The letter was written on War Department form^headed: Subject* Pigs. A letter was PIGS - 2 In the letter Lieutenant Sherman begged to state that he was returning sai^ pigs and hoped they would reimburse Captain Jeff Davis for the property stolen on Sherman's march to the sea, and he added he hoped those pigs would cement the friendly relations between the Horth and South, And then he probably added the classic remark made oy the Governor of North Carolina to the Governor of South Carolina, NBC , LISBON V.e in the U.S.A. are not the only people v.rho have been sufferln-; from th heat. A wireless from Lisbon by way of London brinrs th > news that for the last few days Portugal also has been in tb grip of a terrific torrid wav-. Millions of dollars worth of damage has been done to crops and owing to the long drought forest fir^s are re ing throughout vast areas with no prospect of checking them. N.L.C GSNEVri South America is in the news once more and on the subject of^Grantl Chaleo, that strip of land which has been such a long source of disoute between Bolivia and Paraguay. The council of the League of Nations has accepted an offer of mediation made by representatives of Argentina, Chile, and Peru. These nations consider the long quarrel between Bolivia and Paraguay as harmful to South America and are anxious to clean it up. <•> NBC STOCKS ' eople who have been criticiaing Wall Street ought to be pacified by this one. Possibly in order to stall off regulation by Uncle Sam, the Mew York Stock Kxcahnge has under­ taken to reform itself and adopt measures to prevent or at any rate reduce such wild speculation in the stock market as the last few years have seen. The Board of Governors have announced a new set or rules, and all New York is talking about them. And in other cities they're talking about it tonight. The moat important of these raises the minimum of margins necessary for trading. In future if you want to trade in a small amount of stocks you will have to put up a margin of fifty per cent. If you're a large dealer you'll be let off with thirty per cent. This is efrective immediately for new accounts and next month on old ones. The Governors also not 1 fied mcrabers of the Exchange that in the future they must report every week all activities in pools, syndicates, and options. It has also announced that this is not a sudden development, that all these new rules have been under consideration for many months* NBC KIDNAP -i.it.- ktanap racket is developing some nev? ideas. One e a t ■. _ j :■ i s ing g en 11 em s n. 1 n Bro oklyn ho wa s ha rd up conceived the notion of kidnappin himself. He figured that he was worth five hundred dollars to his family, Unfortunately for him the family ^ id'"hit play ball, They report' 1 the nattc-r tO' the police an th'O police set r trap for the 'kidnappers. As a result the gentleman himself is in the coop together with one of his employes accusf'd of having conspired to kidnap himself. Then the case or that sports promoter ho was abducted in IrooklyEi also ha.:" a new feature , It indicates that the people In the cidnapning racket r r- goln*. in for credit,. The next thing wefXl mow they111 be in the instalment business. They releasf d the sports promoter they hacf abducted on hi ,5 promise to pay t o thousand dollars within a reasonable time. Police headquarters tells me that, the kidnapped man's family refuse to cooperate with the authorities. In fact, fbey even asked th£ cops * o lay of:.’. But the officers are r?oi.ng ahead anyway.. N.B.C. KIDNAP - 2 Senator Copeland oi ^*ew -^ork v^ho has been made Chairms.n of the Special Committee to investigate all rackets and crimes in the United States, made a tim ly announcement. He says the first meetin* of hii committee will be held in New ^ork City on August 14 th. And I h'*ar from California that Governor Rolph has just signer a bill v.hich provides death or life imprisonment as a penally for kidnapping when the victim is mutilated. This law was assed because of a recent case in San Diego. There a seven year oli boy was so treat'd. The Can Diego police say that a nineteen year hi *h school graduate confessed to the crime. N.B.C. BRIDGEPORT I’ve been in Bridgeport, Connecticut, today, Bridge­ port, where they manufacture everything from needles to shells for long range guns. And, they all told me that things are definitely looking up, J. L. McGovern, Editor of the Bridgeport Times - Star, helped me line up some of my news for tonight, Here’s one local item he gave me, Bridgeport Airport will be a thing of the past tomorrow. It is being re-christened "Mollison Airport" in honor of Amy and Caotain Jim, who will be there to do the christening. You will recall, it was near Bridgeport that the Kolllsons crashed after they had ma^e their great flight across the Atlantic, L.T. BAUD IT S The bandit industry wasn’t bo profitable in Chicago today. Five robbers with shotguns invaded the offices of a firm of coffee importers. They made the entire office force, forty-eight people, lie down on the floor with their faces to the ground. They rifled the pockets of the staff, all forty- eight of them, and how much do you suppose they got? Just three hundred dollars, to be split five ways. One fifth of three hundred dollars wouldn't keep a Chicago robber in cigars in boom days. N.B.C TIURI-LIA As ou ...ay kno , I am constantly g-ttin call-. 1 on my *onunc lc tion o ' :;l.,ce n :‘-s -- and oth r ■ ’alngs! So a story in the current issu of th Literary Diges rings a sympathetic note in my ears. Out lest 'n Montana 'there1 s a to n whose name is spelled E-u-r-e-l-i-a. How th pr nunciation of that name has t 'n th- source f continuous ispute between the conductor and t br em: n on a tr .in tl . a . • u E - u - r - e - 1 - i-a Aheir quarrel is sorely confusing to passengers. For whenever the thej hear the conductor exclaim: "You^e a liar! ? u'r- 11. = «- T.i n froc th cth r en of the trr. in they hear tne brakeman shoutings •You really arc! You really are!" I f1^ V -As for me, I am glad I donft have to pronoimce the n-'.ne f th t t n 11. Lit- r ry . ' • st. POSTMASTER San i rancisco is giggling -tmiury at the expense of the new Postinaster, William H. McCarthy. Mr. McCarthy walked into his new job today, and the first thing he did i was to write letters acknowledging the^ of his friends. He dictated letters to all parts of the state, and his secretary mailed them out. Incidentally, the stamps were not on the house, tkKy that is to say, on Uncle Sam. Mr. McCarthy paid for them. Later in the afternoon Postmaster McCarthy received his first official communication from any one of his departments. It was brief and to the point and read as follows: On letter to Fresno please forward two cents postage due WAIIT ADS The inhabitants of Th'Cky Sprin;, Wyoming, were somewhat st; :-tl d the other day. They saw an announcement in the Rocky Springs Rochet, the to' n newspaper, which read as follows: nA son was horn to Mr, and Mrs. r. A. Bruce at the Wyoming General Hospital." Just below that came a line reading: iadcm bting results." "Rocket Want- Rocky Springs Rocket