SUNOCO.__ FRIDAY. alAKCil 1. 19A0. UT^- GOOD RViLWlMG &Vh.t\YbODY: Answer: GOOD RVRiMlNG LOV/t-LLi Y^ell, thatTs something new on this broadcast. ThatTs the first time I ever got a reply to my Good Evening Everybody! So to those of you who happen to be listening-in perhaps I ought to explain that I am in theWhite Mountains tonight, away up in New Hampshire, on Cannon Mountain. I am in the Aerial Tramway nut, although it’s too big to be called a hut - of the only aerial tramway in North America, a cabieway that swings tens of thousands of SKiers to the top of the network of sAi-trails that wind down Cannon Mountain. Sitting around me, are more than a hundred weatner-beaten sKiers. And a few like myself who are not so weather-beaten, but I’ll tell a little more about them, and the thrills they are looking forward to this weekend, in a few minutes. Now for tne day’s news as it has been coming in to me all day, from ail parts of the world, over a special Western Union wire. FINLAND A rather exciting thing* is reported from Finland, exciting if true - - and if it gets anywhere* A Helsinki newspaper prints a dispatch stating that the united states ambassador to Moscow is trying to negotiate a settlement of the Finland war. This story is said to come to us from the Soviet Capitol, 4pntains A the following^ "Great surprisei5=^t^aa3D55-r^has been aroused in diplomatic circles in Moscow by the circummtances surrounding the ^ \ A luncheon which^Molotov gave for United States Ambassador Steinhardt." t Of■iswar-of■ hartHg a aigalflean*^ talk with tha-United- 6ta+eo A«baeeedep» Abottt wha»'"4»he--Helodnk1» ■ owepapax ^tory nues-^ Steinhardt tried to induce the Soviet Union to call off the finnish wrar on conditions which might vr Finland * s integrity. " So says the rumor. It wouldn’t be surprising for the American Ambassador to try eosae mediation. The question is - - could he possibly get anywhere with it? The war in Finland still shows the Red army battering at the Gates of Vipuri. The Soviet forces are inching nearer to the wreck of the^ci ty. They say they are surrounding it and soon will capture it, Most observers regard the outlook for Finland as pessimistic, but FINLAND the Filins themselves issue a brave statement tonight. The official military bulletin acini ts they’ve abandoned what are called - forward positions. The retirement is characterized in these words nNot of decisive aignificaacefor our defense system. ^ A question is propounded ; we have every reason to ask, ♦declares the Helsinki bulletin, whether the success the Russians have achieved compensate for the sacrifice of men and material." The inevitable question - can the Soviets keep it up? It’s obvous that if they can continue to attack with undiminished force, the Finns must be A overwhelmed. GERMANY / The Sumner Welles mission to Berlin is accompanied by menacing Nazi_activities and ominous Hitler threats directed at Great Britain# ^ There*s no real word about what transpired between President Roosevelt's peace emissary and the German foreign minister today, rtelles had a long conference with Von Ribbentrop, and the report is that the Hitler diplomatic chief presented a thoroughly nazi view of the emrop4an war-germany's need for living room and colonies. Great Britain’s arrogance in dominating so much of the world, Germany's confidence in winning a victory. It would all seem to be old and oft-repeated stuff; not much use of Sumner Welles going to Berlin to hear that. Of course his talk with Von Ribbentrop today was only preliminary • the foreign minister A would hardly speak any decisive word. That would inevitably be left for Hitler, whom jrelies will interview tomorrow. TFrhe menacing activities today were a series of attacks on British shipping. Nazi planes flew far and wide over the North Sea. One squadron attacked a convoy of merchant craft escorted by Warships. wha t-ha ■ rLor\don wag^bfe'a ten ~6fr.~B6Tlln '7»IaIms'~tTDgrtHtt;r-alrmef^. GERMANY (2) scored hits -sides are agreed, nowereTT"that another area^ a larga^brltlsh merchantmaru^nas suzik^ The utterance of threats comes from Goering, who vaunted today that the Nazi air force was ready to strike a supreme blow at Britain’s Sea Communications - only waiting for the order from Hitler. BRITISH FINANCES Here is one that ought to interest a distinguished financier wno is here beside me -- M r. Thomas S. Lamont of the House of Morgan. How to pay for the warl An answer has just been given that startles the British people. Itfs in a booklet written by the Economist J.M. Keynes, who rose to fame with his financial prognostications after the end of the World War in Nineteen Eighteen. Promient Britisher are urging the people to read the latest proposal by Keynes -- a twenty-five cents pahmphlet. The result today was a stampede to the bookstores, the first edition sold out in an hour. The booklet is entitled, nHow to Payi for the Warn. TheKeynes proposal is that every Britisher, except the very lowest paid, should contribute a percentage of the wages he earns, to the war fund of the london government. This is a loan which the government would repay after the war. Keynes1 proposes a rather complicated schedule of payments, but the essence of it is — everybody give part of his wages to finance the war. As a way to win it. The economist also aggues that when the government pays back it would boost the buying power of the public and avoid a post-war depression. INDIA /7^ tv%A O t\. 0 ^ A W- '~~T~*<~^A*Am «-> - -t-. ^ _ \r^ ^ C UA ^vv *? ~~C(r\A*~p, ujf ^ Trouble for Great Britain in India. The India ^national congress, hr wkPeh speaks for two hundred million Hindus, today decreed - a n civil disobedience campaign, Gandhi’s old idea of non-cooperation, passive resistance^ Negotiations for self-rule in India^broken down, and the answer of the national congress is - civil disobedience* It sounds grave and ominous# Just what,a passive revolt will mean in time of war can hardly be guessed# The only precedent that one can refer back to is is±»steen thlyAyv peace-time^ «*-A Vvw «, ~X " disobedience campaign resulted in long drawn out troubles, killings, riotings, arson, train wrecks and strikes. India was dangerously demoralized for a while. Now the same thing is to be tried all over again - - in time of war. ■E^rjtuk DRUNKS. This being presidential year, the bartenders are having their trouble. So one tavern keeper in New Jersey has written to the State Alcoholic beverage commissioner or-nw advice. A What to do about those loud politicial arguments at the bar — what to do when the presidential discussion turns into a fight among the customers? Would it be all right to beat the customers up? Say, with a length of rubber hose or a stick? The mention of ti». stick rather ^pfeymea with the tavern keepers name. He is A 'rN- A W. Fremont Oa^es, of Washington, New Jersey. The reply of the alcoholic beverage commissioner was made public today, and stands as a general order to ttm Jersey bartenders, saleen keepejpe-. He counsels - tolerance. Don’t be ioo hard on the decmocrats and republicans who get into violent arguments. The beverage commissioner points out that such loud and- realfego J? wran^ings can be what he calls - a safety valve in^presidential year. "Tavern arguments, " he writes, laMerj*## necessarily <^vu£tJiAjfc /V ^ disorder, even if they do shock the logicians. A klnAAy frat fir«> .-word, »-iig^sga*inttgs«rillr-titrmorw^o-kaep. order ttfn -brandlsTimg^ a-^hlae-ir-^fatora ehillelagJ^T#, So Jersey bartenders and saloon keepers are forbidden to beat up customers who indulge in the cherished CENSUS The Chorus of indignation about the census is growing louder in Washington — although today a few angry soprano notes were lacking. A group of New Y otk State ladies were scheduled to appear before the Senate and make their protest against the many and varied questions the census proposes to ask* The New York State delegation intended to give a ruousing demonstration of the slogan 0 "Hell hath no fury like a woman’s — scorn for a censux taker." However, the ladies failed to show up. ^t last report they were snowbound near Clean, New York. Snowed in, but still hot under — um, uh whatever it is the ladies get hot under, that ocrresponds with a man getting hot under the collar. JAMES ROOSEVELT At Hollywood today, the daughter-in-law of the President of the United States, took the witness stand, asking for a divorce, a counter suit by Mrs James Roosevelt, her husband having already A filed his divorce plea. Mrs James Roosevelt tesified that two years ago in May of nineteen thirty-eight, her husband asked her for a divorce. "But I refused,' she said, today. Her lawyer asked, "And after that, were relations with Mr. Roosevelt somewhat strained?" ‘ "Yes, " she answered. She testified that again injiineteen thirty-eight, James Roosevelt asiced her for a divorce. "But I still refused," she testified. "However, " sfca added, " I "went to New York^and took the Children \ ) with me, because it was best for them." Then sheibowed her head V slightly and said; "He never came back tp me." s. Mrs. James Roosevelt is charging desertion and mental cruelty, and she seeks a severance of the marriage bond. At the beginning of this broadcast I mentioned that I vas up here in the Vdiite Mountains, at Franconia, tonight. And I spox.e of the special Western Union wire over tthich news has been coming to me with just as much speed, from ail parts of the world, getting to me just as quickly as it v.ouxd at my Mew Yor*c broadcast headquarters in Mew York City. Well, that Western Union Key we set up in the first aid room, and the operator has hau to do nis work sitting on a cot. The last time I was here that cot was occupied by a lovely young -ady, Lydia Dupont, from Delaware. A two hundred pound saier had crashed into her on the trail, knocked her unconscious, and broken five or six ribs. Che was in tne hospital for weeks, but did that dampen her araor for skiing? I have just discovered that shefs sitting in this crowd, and has been here skiing for a month! And tnat’s the kind of hold tne spcrt has on you once you get tne bug. And there are not many accidents either. Roland Peabody, nead of the N.Y. Aerial Tramway Commission, and an authority on skiing is here beside me. How about the accidents, Roland? RO aj A im D P£ABO£Y: - They seem to be getting fewer and fewer, Lowell. American skiers are getting more conservative, using better jud6merit - skiing better. Why, your ciiuiices of getting hurt on a s^i trail are notning compared with your cn^nces of getting imioc/wed down by a taxi if you live in a city — say at 280 Broadway or some place like that. Or on Tremont Street. Am I rignt you, you Bostonian Hochgebirgers? (Shout from crowd; a.T.:- The way you said Bostonian Hochgebirgers, Roiand, it sounded like some new swear words. So maybe 1 ought to explain taat tnousands of skiers and spectators are eitner here now or on their way to Cannon Mt. to see the Hochgebirgers go yodeling down Taft Racing Trail tomorrow. Over a Hundred racers will tane part; among them some of tne fastest in tne world. Alec Bright, tne Boston patriarch, an old-timer with a long beard, who smasned tne record on the Thunderbolt Trail on M.t. GreylocK orixy a lew days ago. And speediest of them all. Dead Pan Toni Matt, assistant to Hannes Schneider. Greater crowds than ever are using the ski trails of SO tnis Franconia Rebion this *-inter. Twice as the Commissioners of tne N.H. Aeriax Tramway many a.x for February; me. Shjrn FLORIDA. Here’s a v.eird one I ran into today; beside the trail I saw Charlie Lovett and some other Franconians, furiously saoveling snow. Puzzled, I asKed them why. And they answered that they were gatnerin^ snow to send to St. Peterburg, Florida, where the Lew Hampshireites are going to stage a sugaring off party in honor of the visiting snow queen. Bob nipley would have to go some to beat thut one. Snow, and a sugaring off party. in Florida’. HERO <3 The army air jsorps today named its outstanding hero of nineteen thirty nine, the flyer *ho received the cheney award* A should be a thriller to tell, and there is. On December eighteenth last, First Liuetenant Harold Neely was piloting a big bomber, flying over Kansas, He ran into a dust storm. The air was so thick he couldn*t see more than a few feet ahead. He was in an opaque, sightless murk of dust, flying blind. And just then his motor went dead. No motor - in the dust* He had three army men in the plane with him, and signalled them to jump, the parachute way. And he himself prepared to bail out. Looking down through the dimness of the haze, he saw one parachute open, and then the other - but not the third. Only two of his three passengers had bailed out^reflected First Lieutenant Harold Neely. The other must still be in the back of the ship. A -fat CTV^, cSWvJl So, if the Lieutenant himself toak^the-paracimto- way^dgWS^ A the ship to crash - that’other passenger would probably be killed A, in the smash - up. That was not Harold Neely’s way. He stuck to his bomber, as it A went gliding and descending through the blinding dust. Risking his HERO (2) life to save a life. He took the gamble of a sightless landing on ground he could not see, Down to earth he came in his disabled war plane. Controlling it as best he could, he maneuvred for as ^ safe a 0°ntact with the ground as he could make. In the thick haze 't^rrvwrvV of dust, he managed to skid his plane along a field.- safe. First liutenant Neely was a bit irked, as he went to take a look at his passenger, Why hadn’t the fellow Jumped? He opened the back of the bomber - it was empty, nobody there. What had happened was ^ simple and tragic. The third passenger had indeed jumped. The liuetant had failed to see his paaachute open - because it never did open. Parachute failure - and the passenger was killed, Liutenant Neely had risked his life to save a life that had already been lost. u£v«J( W-tryO ^ «. M