mt .1 ii ^ L.T. SUNOCO. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1959. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: The az;ti-Nazi disturbances in what used to be Czechoslovakia, climaxed tonight with a savage announcement — nine Czech students have been executed by Nazi firing squads. This comes in an official German statement, which adds that the students were guilty of what the Nazis call "acts of resistance". Many others were arrested. For several days now, students have been surging through o the streets, shouting — "Our Freedoml" And this one peculiar thing Is to be noted -- a riot by students who are called "Fascists. This right wing group cried out against the Czech government in power, using the slogan "Away with the government that is paid by the Engllshl" That sounds peculiar, paradoxical. J ^ CZ^CHOSLOVAXiA _ 2 .'.t Today's disturbance, however, is clear and comprehensible. The German announcement attributes the trouble to what it calls ”Student intelj.ectuals who have connections with Senes.Tt les, Benes, the former President of Czechoslovakia and one of its founders, who was forced out when Hitler dismembered the small republic. Today students at Prague staged a freedom demonstration the most violent to date. They attacked the Germans. Nazi stormtroopers and members of the Gestapo secret police battled to suppress the outbreak. They occupied the University and other schools. They seized scores of students, singled out the leaders, and shot them - nine in all. This was followed by a fliazi decree ordering ail the universities of Czechoslovakia closed for three years. German reenforcements, stormtroopers ^nd police, are streaming by the thousands into Prague, which tonight is like a city of the dead. i* l COUNCIL Grey t', isr tind France have formed a sleeping cconortiro agreement — coordinating their wax*—time economic arrangements. meeting of the Supreme War Council of the Allies. The British and French will have a joint program concerning munitions, aviation— equipment, raw materials, food, ships, etcetra. They1!! pool their resources - and pool their purchases. One of the most important angles is this;- the British and French, in buying war supplies abroad, will not compete against each other - will not bid up the prices.agninot caL-h"^lliitm \hey*ll lay-out a mutual program in placing orders^- will act^ as / \ \ one\ This happens in the thrt'd month of th,e present war. DuriK^ \ V \ the W'oKld War, it t\)oA the Allies several yea\s to get abound to the same sort of economic coordination. V E nglish girl Today we have some elucidation in the singular case of the aristocratic English girl who has dedicated herself to the cause of Hitler and the Nazis. Her name is Unity Freeman-Mitford, a beauty of London society. Her father is'Lord Kodesdale. She was prominent in England as a pro-Nazi, an admirer of Hitler. She went to Germany and became a friend of the Nazi Fuehrer. Now, with the war on, she is remaining in Germany, an expatriate from her own country. Singular conduct by the blonde beauty of the British peerage. arrived in the United States with the story of an encounter he had with niiiss Unity Freeman-Mitford. It happened last July, when the crisis was tense and the war was drawing near. Stanley Richardson tells of being in Bayreuth during the Wagner Festival, and there in a cafe he sat at a table with the daughter of Lord Kodesdale. Alpdtsix He describes her as blond arid very beautiful, dignified and austere. Hitler has called ner - Today, The British jojusly poet, Stanley Richardson, the perfect type of Nordic beauty, At their table wras Captain Buckner, a member of Hitler's personal bodyguard. And only two ENGLISH GIHL - 2 tables away sat Hitler nimsell, The iinfelish poet expostulated with, tne British society girl — about her devotion to the Brown Shirt Dictator. own Aint.^von wi^h » s budy puwffa d 1TB" infqrTPmt- fli iiiWgL isTfe aaMHi^ T'T *’I told her she was making an international ass of herself/1 he relates. "I told her that Hitler was to be compared to Father Divine in America; that he exercised a form of mass psychological effect in whipping the mob spirit to a frenzy.M What effect did that have on tne daughter of Lord Rodesd&le? None at all. She wouldn’t listen. "She’s just crazy in love with Hitler," Stanley Richardson said today. And he added that she thinks Hitler is - Christlike. "She believes he does ail the things Christ set out'to dcy," explains the poet. "She thinks the Germans are a superior race and thus should be supreme in tne world." Well* that would make it appear as if the expatriate beauty of British society were, as the poet^iraycw IfgirxKyxl "cr "I told her," he continues, "that tne Fuehrer v,ouxd tnrow her over, and tnat itxxsHxixhKxa she would be a sorry girl. ViMG i-ilSli GIRL _ 3 But," he adds, "she has fallen under his spell, and it did no good." Such is the story we are told of the daughter of a British peer who has joined the enemies of her country. KUHN Today at the trial of Fritz Kuhn they had ail sorts of ups and downs - up asxia onto the witness stand ana down again. This, accompanied by incessant rowing and wrangling. The way the trial has been going for days, peppery arguments between the ^udge and Fritz’s lawyer, Sabbatino. His Honor rebuking Saocatino and Sabbatino talking back. And now today - the ups and downs. First 2£ was District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. He stayed on the witness stand ^.ong enough to say a few things. Sabbatino cabled him for the defense in an attempt to show that the prosecution of the Fuehrer of the German-American Eund was for political reasons. Thtn ftT "it r " CL^.^-ppr vf ui "i'Tt !-f liiij i^Mi'inri nini ntn r-iiif Sabbatino demanded to know whether or not Dewey had any personal animus against Kuhn, "Never having seen the man before," Dewey retorted, "it - odd be impossible for me to have any personal animosity. >.nd yet, I have considered him a nuisance to the community and probably a threat to civil liberties. gt KOim - 2 6 After the District Attorney stepped down from the witness stand, up stepped New York*s Police Commissioner, Valentine. The judge didn’t like the question Sabbatino wanted to ask, so Valentine stepped down. Then up stepped Mayor LaGuardia, Sabbatino asked the Mayor whether he had written to Secretary Hull asking the State Department to withold a passport for Fritz Kuhn. LaGuardia never answered that, because the judge interrupted and said the question was immaterial. That was the end for LaGuardia. He stepped down from the witness stand. And so it went -- ups and downs . . . ^ ecuadob The death of the President of Ecuador is to be followed by elections within two months. President Narvaez succumbed to a long illness. His passing does notseem to indicate any political repercussions - just a prompt election to choose a ci< new successor. All of this comes in the news sadhS-r-ha# a cable A tztevczx about it from John On dine, an A„e \/WU4l — Uv\ A ^ Ecuador. ?s^s. COUKT The appointment of a nev. Justice of the bupreme Court will wait until next year - so said President Roosevelt today. HeTs at Hyde Park, and he told the press conference that he does not intend to name a successor to fill the vacancy left by Justice Pierce Butler until after Congress has convened - that's in January, /^he Dpouimcw^giiuuJ n -iw?rt$ade tea'tar dif ficu it to a^ynttat i+mm+nm TW!rtJW?W^5!,Pw,l5•8S8S^PBOBiw•,^#• As for who w'QUxd be, the President stated he has given no thougnt as yet to the selection. Washington rumor, nowever, continues to mention Attorney General Premi Murphy. G.E. Two great figures of industry are retiring, both from the General Electric Company, Gerard Swope, its President, and Ov.en C• Young, Chairman of the Board. This was announced today^ they’ve reached the age limit for retirement. Gerard Swope began his career as a helper in the Chicago shops of General Electric 1 He started~S^^^^*^^ollar a day, and ended by becoming President of that great concern and one of the nation’s best known industrialists. Owen D. Youftfr, in his youth, wanted to work his way through Harvard, but was rejected. He had to contend” himself with a lesser institution of learning - working has way through, tait; became one of the top flight figures of American industry, 322 played an important part in the post-v/ar finance of Europe, German reparations, international money &r rang emeriti "j^r eminent in American politics forbade having his name put up a Democratic national convention as a candidate for the presidency and Two men, who started at the bottom,^now have stepped out ol office at the top. . - ^ mmaum v ; eddikg A strange and sombre ritual was enacted at ColebrooA, Hew Hampshire. One hardly knows what to think of it, a wedding, a symbolical rite. The bride stood beside a coffin, in vmich lay j/y ' U**J( the body of her bridegroom. Theyengaged - Clayton bennett and Ida Knapp# they were to have been married today,Uut^ was killed last baturday in an automobile accident. Ida Knapp went through with the marriage ceremony at the appointed time. The ttasg ring was placed on her finger by the father of the man # r\Zucy- <pisCtZU( she would have wedded. Then - the funeral was held* A Yes, strange and sombre indeed - a double ceremony of wedding and funeral. •" mmm. m BaWMpUMtttaa jasaEasisiiSfs DKUi-.K Here1 s anotiior one of tJnose wisdorn-of-Solomon court decisions. A man was arrested for being drunk nd disorderly - for the twenty-third time. And in court he displayed considerable wisdom himself. He asked the judge to send him to jail, saying that he realized having been arrested twenty-three times for being drunk and di.orderly was really too much. But the judte said He refused to send that two-fisted drinker to the jug. He suspended sentence, and spoke these words - "You only hurt yourself." I suppose the judge meant drunkedness is its own punishment, as i/iany a fellow Knows was turned loose to go out and punish himself again, so I suppose tin*, nezi the morning after, in any case, tne confirmed Tzaam will be ,is twenty-fourth arrest for being drunk and disorderly. 'm. I TRUCK DKIViiH And now — v;r,o^ s s. g6ntJ.©tiifit.n*? n truclt driver, Wtro are the genfeiemen of tne highways? Tae answer is — tne t-.-puaki drivers. Yesterday, Secretary of the Interior Ickes handed out a wordy lambasting to the boys who drive the big behemoths along the the roads. But leave It to^truck drivers to give a reply. Did you ever get into an argument with one? Their spokesman today was John W. Lawrence, General Manager of the American Trucking Axsagiatklajd i *_lin „,fc tA ' _______ ______ Association, utterly denied Truck dr-i-ve^B tx^e Secretary called them ^ peregrinating pests,1’ He defended the perfect manners and exquisite courtesy of the truck drivers - their courtly deportment. Here's what he said:- "A couple of years ago we instituted a national truck driving championship, and that empnasized good department,n To that, the spokesman added an unforgettable aphorism. "The truck drivers,n said he, "are the gentlemen of the highv. ys.n /-.nd to think that our roughnecifcecretary of the Interior talk.ed yesterday about getting an armored tank ^ A TRUCK CIUVEH 2 bumping trucks off the road! Today I got a telegram from one of those gentlemen of the highways, John Coleman, four fifty-one Norwood Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan, here’s what he wires:- "Can you arrange for me to be the first to pass Ickes in his armored car?" truck driver Spoken like a perfect gentleman of the highway! V.eli, Kathleen Hildebrand slept late today^ and that was better than stretching. Trying to get an aviator's license, she was an inch too short. So she stretched and stretched - as we heard last night, hut she could gain only half an inch in « o, stature. She had to come up for examination this afternoon, so what did she do? She stayed in bed until noon - because the doctors told her that people are taller when tney first get up than they are later on. Tnat1s because their backbones are limbered out. Later in the day, apparently, we sort of slump down and our backbones get shorter and we're not so tall. So by staying in bed till noon Kathleen was absolutely at her maximum height when she appeared for the test. The doctor measured her height, and lo and behold, she was exactly five feet two - unless the doc stretched a point. So now she has ner junior college flying license. FOOTBALL They'll have no football for a year at Southwest High School, Kansas City. That was decreed by the Board of Education today. La..t year the high school team won the championship for the Kansas City area. This year they had only one game to go to win the championship the second time. That game was played V.ednesday night when the team copped the game and the championship. Thereupon the student body went haywire. They stormed into theatres, whooping and noliering, and dashed out. They swar *ed in stores and some swiped merchandise, while others contended themselves with destroying. They xiuijcauEdniJostiBrBs &nd>2a2LE went hooting down business streets and let the air out of automobile tires along the line, and they raised Cain with the cops. It was footoall madness run riot. Yesterday, the student body, having calmed down, waited gloomily for the retribution that would surely come. And today came retribution;- the word doom. Tne Kansas City School Board decreed that the football crazy high school w shall have no football team next year. They'll have to find some other excuse for busting up the town. T^CII-bRS Here's a picture for the future, A schoolroom; the child i en a He in 3 a. n at the teacher's desk stands a spectacular blonde, dazzling viith glamour, oozing charm. Who Is she? Why, that's teacher - dear children. At least it should be according to Dr. Clyde Hill, Chairman of the Education Department at Yale, The Doctor breaks into the nev.s with a few recommendations for schoolteachers. He told of a few things that dear teacher needs. "A little more glamour," prescribed the Doctor, and he summarized it all in these memorable words:- "School teachers could afford to study the fine art of feminine witchery." it »xiKxiS£, Feminine witchery, doctor 0 You don't mean they should look like a witch, do you? Ho, not at all. The.doctor means ~TS iw aJd'- 1 bev-itcning. Hicrs' suotxn To whom did the Yale pedagogue make these glamourous reco.oi endatio .s? Why, to the New England Assocj tion of Scnool Superintendents. And you should have neard those frothy old boys cheer! And now , nr, wm*k rui you on^rtng. A