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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
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the following^ "Great surprisei5=^t^aa3D55-r^has been aroused in
diplomatic circles in Moscow by the circummtances surrounding the
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luncheon which^Molotov gave for United States Ambassador Steinhardt."
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nues-^ Steinhardt tried to induce the Soviet
Union to call off the finnish wrar on conditions which might
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.



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Trouble for Great Britain in India. The India ^national congress,
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speaks for two hundred million Hindus, today decreed - a
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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^
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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wran^ings can be what he calls - a safety valve in^presidential
year. "Tavern arguments, " he writes, laMerj*## necessarily <^vu£tJiAjfc
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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
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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
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with me, because it was best for them." Then sheibowed her head
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slightly and said; "He never came back
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me."
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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?


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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
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tnis Franconia Rebion this *-inter. Twice as
the Commissioners of tne N.H. Aeriax
Tramway
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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’.



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The army air jsorps today named its outstanding hero of nineteen
thirty nine, the flyer *ho received the cheney award*
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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.
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the ship to crash - that’other passenger would probably be killed
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in the smash - up.
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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
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safe a 0°ntact with the ground as he could make. In the thick haze
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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(
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