SUNOCO. ■MQNDAY^EFT. 26 t . GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Th.e center and fulcrum of th.e world^s news tonight is again one man^ Adolf Hitler• For the second time in two weeks his voice resounded through the worlds ether waves, f For the second time in two weeks the world listened while Hi i fmii nf in ili ^ m nil history.^ % It was an unforgettable scene in Berlin as he spoke “Probably the greatest speech of his career. Forfeven Hitler, the most effective mob rouser of the day, never whipped his audience to such a frenzy of passion. J They wfere literally inflamed with patriotic fire and fever^ready for war. And as the American 'Vve correspondents tell us, his audience wasAa representative German crowd. And even^^:nsT^±ux.-bav«-:na^ there was a thrill in hearing that multitude when it burst spontaneously into the words of the German National Anthem. LEAD - 2 Heard under any conditions, it's a magnificent tune. It ought to be, —for Austrial Haydn wrote it* As a matter of fact, we often sing it ourselves when, as and if we go to church, it's the tune-of "Praise the Lord, Ye Heavens Adore Himt” This afternoon even static couldn't quite kill the magnificence of £*p* Haydn's old tune pouring from . flrvy taLsvN iA/vi— thousands of German throats l thousan ^The huge Berlin Sports Palace was jammed to the doors) hours before the opening of the show. who listened over thousands A \ of miles of air could hear fw-t-hease&vgg} the yells of multitudes , /V shouting "Heil" and "Sieg Heill" - Hail Victory 1 Before the Fuehrer stepped to the mike we could hear the^^^^^^^^g^toSg^ ft Propaganda Minister Goebbels, There can be no doubt about the effect of that speech on Hitler's own coirtrj men. safe to say Germany is behind him# at—1 e«Lst'-nine-ty—per_cent". One does_ hear of an underground Has anti—Nazi movement, ready to spring into action if bleaks out. But. for the time being that / ^ itself-, -tQ,..aany —1-n.-e-l-l-'—&g LEAD - 3 Sj To be his attacks on President Benes of Czechoslovakia , approached the hysterlcal. Sut^ trhaM^ a time-honored platform trick. To give a t£8*mtgfe3y good show, youTve got to have a villain. You’ve got to have somebody for the audience to boo and hiss. It was a shrewd, oratorical trick on Hitler’s part to pick Benes as the villain. It’u p-triuk ui whi-eh none r l " fr-pr^mnly~trf>kg)~\iiii1t President was wiia] here were particularly loud yells from the crowd when Hitler sarcastically reminded them that Benes had not fought in the World War whereas Hitler had borne his share in the front lines. And he said,"The question that'troubles Europe all these weeks is not Czechoslovakia, but Mr. Benes,” And he said: ( About the mildest term that Hitler applied to the Czech ”Mr. Benes put over on the treaty makers of Versailles the lie that there was such a thing as a Czechoslovak nation. dirgar»-d owrr~t a s 1r Kia c hine~gun" if ot4ons"Wexrld~~dTr-the— emphasized his peaceful intentions* "After we got the Saar back," he said 9 "I told France that I absolutely renounced any further on French territory. I renounced all hopes of regaining Alsace-Lorraine. I knew that what the people of Alsace-Lorraine wanted was no fighting democracies are of all countries the most bloodthirsty fomenters of war. He claimed that if Poland had been a democracy, he never would have been able to make a peaceful agreement about Dansig and the Polish Corridor. HKxhKs But as he had to deal with only one man, he made that agreement for ten years and, he said,"it will be renewed." He described President Woodrow Wilson as a vague Democratic scholar who succeeded in filling the BXXXX* German people with the poison of democracy from which they are now immune. He^alco GhamberiariftJ s “eff-or-trS—be-br-ing-A R£tuming--~to-^tfce sBn^rm^T -hB- declar >'■ I w/ 0 LEAD - 6 Grfttfffl&BS b&VQ HO - of~~ ■oxnTreasiuij o<sh©i*-»9^gawr; Be_iiat<>^gain9^her_ni!lt4t)BS—^i^0-u_FWi><>&eHLR--th.s^6ta^ jb<—fee-^ye^clr-people of enp o^n disavowed any intention of intervening on behalf of the Poles and Hungarians. ^Our sole interest,n he declared^ nis in those Sudeten Germans. filic- b»wdnQ<i-.tii^ig.arta,. Trig ’jrady ».o 1»»w vp t -H iiutib ^n y- til He complained bitterly because jteeaAdeat, Benes early last week had agreed to cede the Sudeten territory. "And now," cried Hitler, "he goes back on his woi^ih^took a loa# out'-ef-^hc hook-^ef Preijldeiit'^Wileoii** *rtui- pbop I k have-no thing too do with"-atir"'these hoati-le- actB™frfflBgg a^agg^^TOrgBrapulgasngonH • inU»n»rt>i^***l-^apjrUJJrkU^r^TAnd he shouted: "Now I notify President Benes that German patience is at an end. Ks£ We»re going to have that Sudeten territory and . , ^ , 4 + \wp won't wait until Benes has we're going to have it now,)we won t. exterminated two million more Germ0115* multitude repeated their shouts As he finished, the hug in unison of "Sieg Heil", and the slogan, one Fuehrerl" "One people, one Reich, _____ _ ___ __ LEAD _ 7 It is to be observed that the Fuehrer^added-:nothixigr--xoHtte» yr^^Tn^ymr^e ^has ^aLljgaady^seirt^o" G a e ah'O s ItS:V^he^t!tt±mat3m /t -^J^”warning that if the Sudeten area is not evacuated immediately, vuz_yC^ the German legions will march October First, — thatrmgsfc* Saturday ^<5LeiX^ \£^e^ . t w/mmm \ LONDON FOLLOW LEAD So much for the German position, but what about the rest of Europe? There's Just one sadly over -worked word to describe the situation — confusion. Hitler’s speech was delivered after the communication had come from Prague, the announcement that the Czech government found the German terms unacceptable. But the Czech adds t cy should be submitted for further discussion. Prague made a detailed list of its objections to what Hitler demands. It cited many reasons based on economic and ^ ^4 — racial grounds as well as national defense. fThe Czechs are _ j/J \ continuing^preparations for war. ^Fr&nce^is0openly making preparations, for war^ The government urging all dwellers of towns and cities to lea\e for the open country. even offers to furnish gasoline and special trains to evacuate the cities. They urge leave for the country• particularly ¥.omen and children Premier Daladier^called a special meeting of the Council of Ministers for tomorrow morning. ( in London the Air Ministry called up all members of the defense units of the auxiliary air forc^Gas masks are being t . ondon follow lead - 2 distributed » London^)Special trains to the north are taking men of King George’s navy and marines to the grand fleet at Seapa Floe Tn.® War Office called out the coastal defense units of the territorial army, which corresponds to our National Guard, also the anti-aircraft units* The system that warns people against air raids has been organized and put in working order* Irloyd-s-^f-^ljendogi-HPTmy^eco an- increase of^wer~~ri-3k Tat^s u 11 ihlr]7~fcntJ 1 itt 11 r ar 1 The Prime Ministers of all the dominions, Australia, South Africa, Canada and Ireland, are in constant communication with London. I ^ Americans are being urged to leave Europe and come home as soon as possible. yAll the liners flying the flags of neutral countries are heavily booked in advance. Preparations are being made to evacuate the wives and children of members of British diplomatic and consullar establishments in Germany. Germany has closed the Czech frontier, but the State Department is making a special appeal to Berlin to allow in Czechoslovakia to travel h^e by wayof Germany <3 most drastic moves today wa One of the most drast warning f rom ^ohir Bu]^t and France was an official .«d ^ance to Hitler. It was made public LONDON FOLLOW LEAP _ 3 by means of an inspired statement from Downing Street: n _ labelled as coming from "official quarte " - Aefc««I±y7~±trcnfpiftnat^ Asitf-^ere it is: nIt is still possible to da settle peacefully the Czechoslovak question by means of negotiation. The German claim to transfer of the Sudeten area has already been conceded by the French, British and Czechoslovak governments." Then this official communique adds: "If, in spite of all efforts by the British Prime Minister, a German attack is made upon Czechoslovakia, the immediate result will be that France will be bound to come to Czechoslovakia^ assistance and Great Britain and Russia will certainly stand by France." The statement ends on a hopeful note: "It is still not too late. This is a great tragedy and the people of all nations insist on a settlement by free negotiation." Thlfc» whole business is aar* baffling.th«n ever^ If the The only explanation can be that there are drastic conditions in Hitler’s demands which have not been made public. K-TMG GEORGE Kj^ng George of England, was forced today to change his plans. Tne program was that he was to go to Glasgow tomorrow with Queen Elizabeth and break the ceremonial bottle of champagne over a new monster ocean liner:- R.M.S. QUEEN ELIZABETH, that trans-oceanie monster even than the QUEEN MARY,-- eady to be launched. But at the request of Prime Minister Chamberlain, King George cancelled his plans and this afternoon presided over a meeting of the Privy Council. GLJl ____ _ _ —^ I r~~\ 'V^— ^ U> \ b * f) ' - ^ppflpnrrr — rumburg —V- -y"s--|r^. — oA.— In the fightin^»r-oo?»^ the Czechoslovak frontier there was one engagement of considerable importance^ If you* 11 look at your map you* 11 see that at a place called Rumburg, there*s a little neck of land belonging to Czechoslovakia which juts out into German Gaxony. It was seized and occupied today \ by the Sudeten Free Corps. The Czechs dicb^t put up much of a fight “fet? - -------— (ZervJtJi "(>-? for it. attacked from three sides at A A i"rtangnrim?r-costly to defend it. A once. POLAND There was fighting in the neighborhood of Tesohen, on the frontier between Poland and Czechoslovakia. That*s the region that the Poles are clamoring about. They want the Czechs to withdraw immediately. The Warsaw government received a note yesterday from President Benes. It was made public today. The Czechs refuse to get out and insist upon negotiations. JAP AH Here's a new thought to add to the confusion. There's the possibility that Japan might jump in on the side of her allies, Italy and Germany. French and British officials at Shanghai are supposed to have made all arrangements to remove British subjects and French kx &I& ssusx citizens from all points in North and central China, That does^t mean Japan’s entry into the European war is taken for granted. It’s merely that the French and British in the Far East are preparing for the worst. However there’s no thought of removing Oncle Sam’s Marines. stocks It was only to be expected that such a nerve-shattering day as this should have produced a stock market sensation, 8 i If N on ^iL,Street> but on Threadneedle Street, London, 11 ! excitement took place. It was the heaviest, most jittery, busiest day in the history of the royal stock exchange. Never since that ancient institution was founded have so many securities been sold in one day. It was almost as though the operators had put stocks and bonds into a great big hopper, opened it up and let it flop. The value of many stocks and bonds dropped almost like lead bullets in a bucket; their value was clipped by several billions of dollars. There could be only one explanation, the fear of war. Even many ■N American stocks were hammered down at London. XnxkJui In the heart of our own Wall Street, the traders took it easily. The marxet was nervous but there was no such spectacular, sensational drop as that of London. U i Mi I ft! ROOSEVELT Itfs difficult to find any item in today»s news that doenn11 have some connection or other with Hitler and Czechoslovakia Washington naturally was full of the subject* Secretary of State Hull called at the White House today, at the President*s invitation, Messrs* Roosevelt and Hull sat by the radio, together, listening to Hitler. When the speech was over, the President sent out the summons for an emergency meeting of the Cabinet at the White House tomorrow afternoon. President Roosevelts personal appeal to Hitler and Benes has created no political tidal wave, to be quite blunt about it. Another citicism was, in effect, npractice what you preach. Xou demand no interference by European countries in American affairs. Therefore, suppose you keep your hand out of European affairs*n In other words, mind your own business. Applause for President Roosevelt*s plea, came from Prime Minister Chamberlain. He cabled him. "conveying the gratitude of His Majesty's Government for the worthy message of the President fo the United Sates.*’ TRUCK GTiilivE For several days I haven't mentioned that strike of New York truck drivers, though for a while it had some picturesque features. After all, when the carriage of freight is halted in the busiest city in tiie worlds thst^s sonietliiiig. But ia.st wgb I c it J2_ looked as though tha® strike would be settled, A Today, the peace kzlkHixa talk is off, the strike is oiy and worse than ever. • Hie Drivers 1 Union on the other side of the Hudson River in New Jersey, joinwl the New York truck drivers Hy some fifteen to twenty thousand.meru The meaning of this is that not a pound of freight is being moved -------- — in the great city except perishable food. Drivers of school buses A A have joined the striking teamsters and children were unable to go to school hurricane fcati;^laiacs^ -4^—p'^TT,~~rn : The more the damage from that hurricane is investigated'^he^S\t turns r(fif/W out to be- Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins metjK±K]#=*i** New England toj.ay• He had been travelling over the stricken countryside and the report he brought was gloomy. The total of dead will probably reach six hundred and fifty. The damage in seven states now amounts up to five hundred millio dollars, half a billion. JbutaflB And one hundred thousand are homeless. Governor Hurley of Massachusetts made one concrete suggestion I—that Uncle Sam should 7 ease up on some of his regulations, allow the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to make temporary loans to people whose homes have teen estioyed. Also the F.H.A. should be authorized to hand out ivoney for tne rebuilding* homes and farm bullions. - iako- r . ' yQ - f " tVV \