^3Li-— SUNOCO. MONDAY. APRIL 22. 19AO.
GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY:
Just a few minutes ago the British Government made
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an&tnrr important announcement. ^ is expected to have a vital effect
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on the prosecution of the war,
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There have been loud complaints in Parliament and
newspapers that Great Britain^)»S
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enough. One answer to those criticisms was the appointment of
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Sir Samuel Hoare.to replace Sir Kingsley Wood as Air Minister.
Tonight it is made known that
Sir Samuel Hoare has enlisted the services of a civilian advisor.
He is Sir Charles Craven, one of the foremost manufacturers in the
world, head of thefs,'rlg*t«fc4« Vicxers-Armstrong Company. In the last war
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he was a commander in the Royal tfiavy. Sir Charles Crayen will not
become a Cabinet Minister but he Joins the British Air Council £a


A dispatch Irom Stockholm just about an hour ago, reports a
quotation from an official speaking for the Norwegian army. He
moKes C-Laini that British and Norwegian forces have encircled
tne German invaders in two places. At Narvik, thirty-five hundred
Germans are surrounded and the Allies at a late hour this afternoon
began a final assault. jPro-TBay—ressii
^ast week we heard
several times that the Germans had been driven out of Narvik.
Before beginning the attack, the British commander
broadcast a radio message to the native inhabitants of Narvik,
urging them to leave the town as the place would probably be
bombarded.
The jaws of a trap are also closing upon the Nazis
at Trondheim. That again comes from the Norwegian spokesman.
The Germans, on the other hand, claim that although enemy sea forces
b ombarded Narvik, there was no attempt to land British troops.
And, say the Germans, there was no serious fighting around Trondheim.
The German high command also claims to have captured another
Norwegian town, a place fifteen miles west of Hamar. They also claim
to have captured a town called
Lillehammer, north of Oslo.



RAir
Another German air raid not far from London. This is
ohe second cirne that Hitler1s bombers have swooped down on the
coast of Britain since they were able to use air bases in Denmark
and south Norway. \ Tonight!s raids were on the east and southeast \
batteries
of England, ^he raiders were driven off by anti-aircraft
and British^teiSltep planes. / From all accounts, the noise was
terrific but no serious damage was achieved# although this was the
most intensive and determined attack that the British have yet
had to endure.


SHIPS
One of the interesting parts of the war is the verbal
conliict oetv^een the rival admiralties in Berlin and London.
Hach of them says, "We have sunk a tremendous number of enemy ships.n
The latest from the Nazi side is that they are gradually destroying
It hey sayj
the British havy, whichVRas lost sixty-one warships in the last
twelve days alone. The Germans specify four battleships, two
battle cruisers, four heavy cruisers, ten other cruisers, one
aircraft carrier, twelve destroyers, thirteen submarines, fifteen
transport ships.
'35^Jr HereTs the latest bulletin from London on the same
subject. T,Since the war started, the British have lost precisely
eighteen men-o-war including five submarines and a converted
liner.” If that is correct, it leaves King George with quite a
lot of fighting vessels.
On the other hand, British naval men declare that
since the start of the war _they^ have sunk twenty-four of Germany^
warships, in addition to more than fifty suomai ines•





SPIES
A wai ning was issued tonight to the people of Jugoslavia.
Spies and
agents are abroad throughout the'country in large numbers
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Jugoslav, patriots are urged to be carefuly, and keep their
eyes open. Trie^ttorawmcanTNcC^nerra^^Sf Belgrade issuedappeal^*^
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said;- "It is your holy duty to report to the office of the
Commandant everything you see and hear which might damage the
security of the nation."
In one trainload alone there were three hundred and fifty
Germans deported from Jugoslavia recently, and it is understood that
some six or eight thousand foreigners who might be part of another
Trojan Horse are to be ejected.




LOSEY
An American soldier fell today on Norwegian soil, killed
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by splinters irom a
Nazi
bomb^
Hfhe first
American casualty, that is official casualty,in this war.
And the man killed was a soldier of considerable distinction.
Captain Robert M. Losey of Uncle Samfs air force, was rated by
his colleagues as one of the top-notch experts on meterology.
It was in that capacity that he served in the office of
Major Henry
bfr
Arnold, Chief of the Army Air Corps. When the
Russian hordes swooped down upon Finland, Losey was detailed
to the Finnish side as an observer. That meant he was to send
back expert reports on how airplanes behaved in temperatures
from twenty-five to fifty below zero.
When the Finnish show collapsed, the War Office sent
him to Stockholm to serve in the double capacity of Air Attache1
and Assistant Military Attache* to our legations in Norway and
Sweden. His headquarters were in the Swedish capital.
But today he was on Norwegian territory^ actuallyyon an
errand of mercy, sent by his superior officers to get in touch
members of the families of the people attached to
with Americans,


LOSEY
Oi-i legation and consulate at Oslo. These American women and
children were on their way to the Swedish border, traveling
out of the war zones. It was on that errand that Captain Losey
had his rendezvous with death.



Here^ the opinion of a hi^h rarJting Navy officer, about the
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prospects of^wai^^ith Japan. He believes it!s inevitable, and
the man who holds that belief is Admiral Joseph Taussig, former
Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, now officer in command of
the fxxjtxju Fifth Naval District located at Norfolk, Virginia.
And he told the Senate Naval Affairs Committee that he did not
see how we can prevent being ultimately drawn into war by that
Far Eastern situation. Japan, he declares, is working up a
desperate crisis there and is getting dll set for her much
advertised program of conquest. Then he brought up the question
of the Philippines, of which he said:- "I don!t see how we can
possibly let Japan go into the islands.”
As for theDutch East Indies, he said that the
protestations from the Netherlands that they don»t want anybody’s
help in defending those islands, are all camouflage. Says Admiral
Taussig:- "If the Dutch East Indies are attacked, Holland will be
ca
ailing on all the world to get all the help she can."
Then he added:- "If Germany wins the war inEurope,
-t-otfli-i-Mrian nations are going to gang up on us, put the
squeeze on us. It’s going to come as sure as fate," said the
old sea dog.





KING
An important visitor *ill arrive at the Warm Springs
Foundation in Georgia, tomorrow morning. The Right Honorable
W.L.MacKenzie-King, Prime Minister of Canada, is going to pass
a day and a half as the President’s guest at the Little White House.
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He will stay until late Wednesday afternoon. Canada’s Prime Minister]
has been having a brief vacation atVirginia Beach.
Mr. Roosevelt has announced that there’s nothing
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extraordinary about this visit from MacKenzie-King. Just another
meeting between the chief magistrates of the t*o friendly neighbors.
At the same time, observers point out that the President will be
able to get a lot of first hand information from the Canadian
Premier about war problems, the effects of history in Europe
upon the lives and conditions of the folks in Canada.


TOUR
Another piece of information that President Roosevelt
gave out today will set the political wiseacres guessing. HeTs
going to make a swing across the country, go traveling ail the
way to the Pacific Coast this summer. Mr. Roosevelt insisted
that this will not be
a
political
campaign
tour _but_ ~
A significant nbutn: it will not be a silent tour.
A
irst to the
He will make several speeches on the way. he*
border of North Carolina and lennessee and there open the Great
Sv National Park with a formal address. After that, he'll speak
Smokfy
at Natchez, Mississippi. From there to Fort Worth, Texas, to visit
s.
Son E^iot. After that he'tf jog across country to California, to
dedicate the new National Park at Kings Canyon. Then he'll make
to the Golden Gate Exposition
the visit, he has long wanted to,
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at San Francisco. AnJ , as the government has been enlarging
the State of Washington, the President
Olympic National Park in
will
go
there and make another speech
of
dedication.
If
circumstances permit him, he
Will go north as far as Juneau,
<?<>f*Alaska. He ****** planned to go there last summer but events in
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One reporter asked him what would be the subject of his
speeches. To which tfr. Roosevelt replied:- "Conservation.”
Another reporter asked:- "Conservation of what?" And that called
forth a loud laugh from the presidential good humor.
At the same time Mr. Roosevelt stated emphatically that
there is an "if" as well as a "but" in these plans of his.
He will make that tour if affairs permit him, if Congress adjourns
the first *eek in June, if there's no development in the European
war that obliges him to stay in the east.




SO.^K
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court
Thej^^ices of the Supreme Cour^anded down a decision
t , is being c: eered by labor union men#everyirtiena The Court
tnrew into the discard state laws that made picketing unlawful in
Alabama and California.
Arconple
men had been arrested under those laws.
TTTe unions took appeal,
the A.F. of L, and the C.I.O. fought side by side. As the two cases
were practically identical, the court settled them with one ruling.
It was written by the
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newest member of the court, Mr. Justice
Murphy, formei^Attorney General, former Governor of Michigan. The
decision itself is not
so
remarkable as one of the principles
established in it by Justice Murphy. For this ruling states that the
rights of labor on the picket line are just as definite and must be
just as carefully protected as the property rights of the employer.



FLOODS
Good news from the valleyf of the great Ohiib River.
The flood waters are receding. Thousands of refugees who have
been driven from their homes are still unable to return to them.
but good
car
e^hgTr~bde«^taken of them. They will soon be able to
go back to what is for many of them a yearly job,
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The waters are still
rising at Cincinnati
but there’s no cause for alarm. That’s the latest word





WRECK
That wreck on the Mew iork Central at Little Falls,
became somewhat more puzzling today,
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^ttm± the sealed tape of the speedometer of the
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engine that was wrecked indicated that the train was rounding
that curve at fifty-nine miles an hour. An employee of the line
today contradicted that explanation,
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by-offiruialc of the Mew Ti!urk Centl^l ijt Albany*—Offioors-^rf-^the
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air had been on for
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about one thousand feet and we wei^e going at the proper speed,<
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forty-five miles an hourj"



ACClD&flT
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On Saturday night, thirteen
yourife people^ out in
Miru esota^went on a joy ride. Seven boys were in one car, four
oIlci tVk0 girls who had been dancing were in another. The
ltid at t;.;e ^ ieel of the car in which the girlg were riding
He did what a lot of
otner lads are apt to do, he stepped on the gasj ^ stepped on
it until the needle on the speedometer went up to eighty and
at just about that time, near the city limits of Slayton,
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Minnesota, thw car going eighty miles an hour* met the other a
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with the seyen^boys in it^also going at a terrific speed.
They met head-on and the crash was heard a mile away.
Today, eleven of
thirteen young people are
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ginfill: a—rnrrrgne^ The other .two are in a hospital
critically injured, unable even to answer questions.
Thi s^^nss^^fc
is being'pointed out
mxsa-pxm. by the National Safety Council
Colonel John Stillwell,
President of the Council,
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instance of v>hat occurs day in and day out throughout the
country. What ’ s more, this was not a case of tSBa spoiled sons
and daughters of the rich. The eleven dead and the two injured
were the sons and daughters of farmers and small merchants
-of
It's a coincidence that this
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become news just on the day that Edsel Ford announce^ his driving
contest for boys between fourteen and eighteen, a contest for
lads all over the nation , with a total of thirty thousand dollars
put on the line for prizes. And those prizes will go
iAy&o
not only x write the best essays but^raake the best practical
demonstrations of safe driving.


y,0,»iEN
woiiien; l^ut, the men can
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women
he men can listen in
too^.
ladies, thfft you arenft as hardy as you
thought you were, or gycn as men have been assuming tha-
tr you Toare.
Just
because you wear furs in midsummer and thin clothes in winter^
does not mean that you1*^ more able to withstand the weather than
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men are. The Russell Sage Institute of Pathology has been
investigating^jeoi** And the result of their research is that,
af^er
is better able to take it
than



MOTHER'S DAY
Here's a movement to do away witn those flowery telegrams
you're supposed to send on Mother's Day. Amd lo and behold it
emanates from a dignified and responsible source, the Federal
Council of Churches of Christ in America plus the Greater
Federation of Churches. The clergymen don't approve of Mother's
Day. They say it's unfair to father, unfair to grandmother,
unfair in fact to all the family except mother. However, the
Churches of Christ don't want to take away Mother's Day and leave
nothing in its place. They would supplant it with an instTlititionf
to be known as the Festival of the Christian Home.
So it will be
goodbye
to Mother's Day if the F.C.C.C. A and
the G.F.C. have their wayi
And Hugh, have you got anything to say?