the yes The End You're listening to The Hour of the Time. I'm William Cooper. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I want you all to close your eyes. Assuming that you're sitting in a comfortable chair, please lean back, relax, close your eyes, and let the years roll away. Tonight, we're taking you back in time to the golden age of radio. You're sitting in your parlor in front of your cathedral radio set and waiting breathlessly to hear a speech by the president in front of a special session of Congress. One of only 20-some-odd special sessions of Congress that had ever been called in the history of the nation up to that time. Keep your eyes closed. And listen very, very carefully. This is the 25th time that Congress has had a special session since its organization 150 years ago. John Adams was the first president to call a special session. He summoned the fifth Congress to meet on May 15th in 1797 to consider suspension of diplomatic relations with France. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison each found it necessary to call two extraordinary sessions. And Mr. Lincoln called another just before the Civil War. The greatest number of special sessions have been summoned by Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Three each. Mr. Roosevelt's first extraordinary session of Congress was in March of 1933 to pass emergency New Deal laws. The second was in October of 1937 to enact the social labor and farm legislation. And this special session that has convened today makes the third. Right now the members of the House and the Senate are all sitting quietly in their seats. The galleries, as to be expected, are filled to overflowing. And standees are standing at all of the doors. The presidential box is directly opposite us across the full length of the House. And it's very hard to recognize anybody sitting in the box from here. But we can see some of the presidential confidential secretaries. Ms. Grace Tully and I believe Ms. LeHand is up there too. Outside of that, all of the boxes right up to the very edge of the standing room are filled to overflowing. And although the scene is not as bright as it was on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Congress, last spring the color is still there. There are many ladies in the audience and they're all dressed in bright new autumn clothes. Colonel Starling, the chief of the White House Secret Service, has just come in the door immediately to the right of the rostrum and has spoken to some of the members of the Secret Service standing there. So we can expect now that the president will be here shortly. An hour before the scheduled convocation of Congress this morning and three hours before President Roosevelt's speech, vantage points up here in the galleries of the House, where the joint session is to be held, were taken over by newsreels and still cameramen. Even then, a few spectators with the coveted passes that entitled them the seats arrived. That was at 11 o'clock this morning. At that time, your reporter was here and there were only two members on the floor itself and they were Representatives Curtis and Graham. Both, incidentally, are among the few who have established perfect attendance records at the last session. Microphones were put in their places and automobile parking in the plaza in front of the Capitol was banned. Two hours ago, or so, large crowds of spectators began to trek across the lawns and take up vantage points near the entrance to the House so that they might see the president as he arrived. Over on the Senate side, your reporter was there this morning, too, before this Congress was convened to hear the president's address. Vice President Garner was in his office very early, we were told, and was talking about his pecan crop and the Bantam chickens in Uvalde, Texas, where he lives. A few senators, including Senator McCarron of Nevada, meticulously attired in a cutaway, strolled about the chamber. And the Senate galleries, strangely, were crowded, although the Senate's only task was to march to the House chamber to hear the president's message. Page boys, who had had their vacations interrupted by the special session, were making very sure that the senator's ink wells were filled and the penpoints and pens and such things were in place for a busy week, or perhaps the busy weeks which are to follow. Now the House is sitting there in order, waiting for the president to come in, and we've just received a signal that the president has started down the corridor, which leads directly into the House itself. And we can expect Mr. Roosevelt to come through the door, leading to the speaker's platform in just a moment. At that time, of course, the whole House will rise, and undoubtedly we will hear an ovation from Mr. Roosevelt. There always is one when he comes into this House to speak before the two sessions of Congress. Speaker Bankhead and Vice President Garner are presiding jointly, of course, over this joint session. As I told you, they are sitting together, up where the speaker normally sits alone. That is a marble dais, which is in back of the speaker's rostrum in itself, where President Roosevelt will make his speech. Up overhead, the sun is shining brightly through the glass-in window, and we can see the famed coffin that is the speaker for the House amplifying system. And now Colonel Starling is coming through the side entrance to the House of Representatives, and President Roosevelt can be seen through the door, going down the corridor with Secretary Early. Mr. Bankhead has just announced the presence of the United States, and here's the ovation for the president. You can hear the ovation. Colonel Starling has just gone up and tested the speaker's platform to be sure that it was certainly built. And President Roosevelt, with the two committees, one from the House and one from the Senate, is walking slowly up the ramp. And now you can hear the shout and the roar of the crowd as President Roosevelt stops to walk up to the Washington speaker's platform on the arm of Brigadier General Watson and his secondary. Behind him is his bodyguard, Tom Saunders, and the two committees now are being conducted off the speaker's diet and back to their feet. Vice President's honor will shake hands with some of the members of the committee, and both the vice president and Mr. Bankhead are smiling and saying a few words to Mr. Roosevelt as he walks toward the speaker's platform. The ovation continues for the president as he stands there and now lift his splendid head to smile at the crowd in his usual manner. He stands there quietly for a moment, and he just, I think, in just a minute now, President Roosevelt will begin his speech. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. I have the distinguished honor of presenting the president of the United States. Mr. President, Speaker, members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, I have asked the Congress to reassemble an extraordinary session in order that it may consider and act on the amendment of certain legislation, which in my best judgment so alters the historic foreign policy of the United States that it impairs the peaceful relations of the United States with foreign nations. At the outset, I proceed on the assumption that every member of the Senate and of the House of Representatives and every member of the executive branch of the government, including the president and his associates, personally and officially are equally and without reservation in favor of such measures that will protect the neutrality, the safety, and the integrity of our country and at the same time keep us out of war. because I am wholly willing to ascribe an honorable desire for peace to those who hold different views from my own as to what those measures should be. I trust that these gentlemen will be sufficiently generous to ascribe equally lofty purposes to those with whom they disagree. Let no man or group in any walk of life assume exclusive protectorate over the future well-being of America because I conceive that regardless of party or section the mantle of peace the mantle of patriotism is wide enough to cover us all. let no group assume the exclusive label of the peace bloc. We all belong to it. I have at all times kept the Congress and the American people informed of events and trends and foreign affairs. I now reveal them in a spirit of understatement. Since 1931 the use of force instead of the council table has constantly increased in disputes between nations except in the western hemisphere where in all those years there has been only one war now happily terminated. During those years also the building up of vast armies and navies and storehouses of war has proceeded abroad with growing speed and intensity. But during these years and extending back even to the days of the Kellogg-Briorpe pact the United States has constantly consistently and conscientiously done all in its power to encourage peaceful settlements to bring about reduction of armaments and to avert threatened wars. We have done this not only because any war anywhere necessarily hurts American security and American prosperity but because of the more important thing that any war anywhere retards the progress of morality and religion and impairs the security of civilization itself. For many years the primary purpose of our foreign policy has been that this nation and this government should strive to the utmost to aid in avoiding war among nations but if and when war unhappily comes the government and the nation must exert every possible effort to avoid being drawn in to the war. The executive branch of the government did its utmost within our traditional policy of non-involvement to aid in averting the present appalling war. Having thus driven and failed this government must lose no time or effort to keep our nation from being drawn in. In my candid judgment we shall succeed in those efforts. we are proud of the historical record of the United States and of all the Americas during all these years because we have thrown every ounce of our influence for peace into the scale of peace. I note in passing what you will all remember the long debates of the past on the subject of what constitutes aggression on the methods of determining who the aggressor might be and on who the aggressor in past wars had been. Academically this may have been instructive as it may have been of interest to historians to discuss the pros and the cons and the rights of the wrong and wrongs of the world war during the decades that followed it. But in the light of problems of today problems of tomorrow responsibility for acts of aggression is not conceived and the writing of the record can safely be left to future historians. There has been sufficient realism in the United States to see how close to our own shores came a dangerous paths which were being followed on other continents. Last January I told the Congress that a war which threatened to envelop the world in flames has been averted but it has become increasingly clear that peace is not assured. By April last new tensions had developed a new crisis was in the making. Several nations with whom we had had friendly diplomatic and commercial relations had lost or were in the process of losing their independent identity and their very sovereignty. During the spring and summer the trend was definitely toward further acts of military conquest and away from peace. As late as the end of July I spoke to members of the Congress about the definite possibility of war. I should have called it the probability of war. And last January also I spoke to this Congress of the need for further warning of new threats of conquest military and economic a challenge to religion to democracy and to international good faith. I said an ordering of society which relegates religion democracy and good faith among nations to the background can find no place within it for the ideals of the prince of peace. The United States rejects such an ordering and retains its ancient faith. and I said we know what might happen to us of the United States if the philosophies of force were to encompass the other continents and invade our own. We no more than other nations can afford to be surrounded by the enemies of our faith and our humanity. Fortunate it is therefore that in this western hemisphere we have under a common ideal of democratic government a rich diversity of resources and of peoples functioning together in mutual respect and peace. And last January in the same message I also said we have learned that when we deliberately try to legislate neutrality our neutrality laws may operate unevenly and unfairly may actually give aid to an aggressor and deny it to the victim. The instinct of self preservation should warn us that we ought not to let that happen anymore. And it was because of what I foresaw last January from watching the trend of foreign affairs and their probable effect upon us that I recommended to the Congress in July of this year that changes be enacted in our neutrality law. The essentials for American peace American peace in this war-torn world have not changed since last January or last July. And that is why I ask you again to re-examine our own legislation. Go back a little. Beginning with the foundation of our constitutional government in the year 1789, the American policy in respect to belligerent nations, with one notable exception, was based on international law. Be it remembered that what we call international law has always had as its primary objective the avoidance of causes of war and the prevention of the extension of war. The single exception to which I refer was the policy adopted by this nation during the Napoleonic War. When seeking to avoid involvement, we acted for some years under the so-called embargo and non-intercourse acts. That policy turned out to be a disastrous failure. First, because it brought our own nation close to ruin, and second, because it was the major cause of bringing us into active participation in European wars in our own war of 1812. And it is merely reciting history to recall to you that one of the results of the policy of embargo and non-intercourse was the burning in 1814 a part of this capital in which we are assembled today. Our next deviation by statute from the sound principles of neutrality and peace through international law did not come for 130 years. It was the so-called Neutrality Act of 1935, only four years ago, an act continued in force by the joint resolution of May 1, 1937. Despite grave doubts expressed as to its wisdom by many senators and representatives and by officials charged with the conduct of our foreign relations, including myself, I regret that the Congress passed that act. I regret equally that I signed that act. On July 14th of this year, I asked the Congress and the cause of peace and in the interest of real American neutrality and security, to take action to change that act. I now ask again that such action be taken in respect to that part of the act which is wholly inconsistent with ancient precepts of the laws of nations, the embargo provisions. provisions. I ask it because they are, in my opinion, most vitally dangerous to American neutrality, American security, and above all, American peace. these embargo provisions as they exist today prevent the sale to a belligerent by an American factory, the sale of any completed implements of war. But they allow the sale of many types of uncompleted implements of war, as well as all kinds of general material and supplies. They furthermore allow such products of industry and agriculture to be taken in American flag ships to belligerent nations. There in itself, under the present law, lies definite danger to our neutrality and our peace. from a purely material point of view, what is the advantage to us in sending all manner of articles across the ocean for final processing, final processing there, when we could give employment to thousands by doing it here. Incidentally, and again, from the material point of view, by such employment here, we automatically aid in building up our own national defense. And if that normal profits appear in our midst, even in time of peace, as a result of such an increase of our industries, I feel certain that the subject will be adequately dealt with at the coming regular session of the Congress. Let me set forth the present paradox of the existing legislation in its simplest terms. If prior to 1935, a general war had broken out in Europe, the United States would have sold to and bought from belligerent nations such goods and products of all kinds, as the belligerent nations with their existing facilities and geographical situations were able to buy from us or sell to us. This would have been the normal practice under the age-old doctrines of international law. Our prior position accepted the facts of geography, the facts of conditions of land power and sea power and air power alike, as they existed in all parts of the world. If a war had broken out in Europe in 1935, there would have been no difference, for example, between our exports of sheets of aluminum and airplane wings. Today, there is an artificial legal difference. before 1935, there would have been no difference between the export of cotton and the export of gun cotton. Today, there is. Before 1935, there would have been no difference between the shipment of brass tubing in pipe form and brass tubing in shell form. Today, there is. before 1935, there would have been no difference between the export of a motor truck and an armored motor truck. Today, there is. Let us be factual. Let us recognize that a belligerent nation often needs wheat and lard and cotton for the survival of its population just as much as it needs anti-aircraft guns and anti-submarine depth charges. Let those who seek to retain the present embargo position be wholly consistent. Let them seek new legislation to cut off cotton and copper and meat and wheat and a thousand other articles from all of the nations at war. Yet, I seek a greater consistency. A greater consistency through the repeal of the embargo provisions and a return to international law. I seek reenactment of the historic and traditional American policy, which except for the disastrous interlude of the embargo and non-intercourse laws, more than a century and a quarter ago, has served us well from the very beginning of our constitutional existence. It has been erroneously said that return to that policy might bring us nearer war. I give to you my deep and unauthorable conviction, based on years of experience as a worker in the field of international peace, that by the repeal of the embargo, the United States will more probably remain at peace than if the law remains in its stands today. I say this because with the repeal of the embargo, this government clearly and definitely will insist that American citizens and American ships keep away from the immediate perils of the actual zones of conflict. And so, I think the repeal of the embargo and a return to international law are the crux of the issue that faces us. The enactment of the embargo provisions did more than merely reverse our traditional policy. It had the effect of putting land powers on the same footing as naval powers so far as seaborne commerce was concerned. A land power which threatened war could thus feel assured, assured in advance, that any prospective seapower antagonist would be weakened through denial of its ancient right to buy anything anywhere. This, four years ago, began to give a definite advantage to one belligerentist against another, not through his own strength or geographical position, but through an affirmative act on the part of the United States. Removal of the embargo is merely reverting to the sounder international practice and pursuing in time of war as in time of peace our ordinary trade policies. This will be liked by some and disliked by others depending on the view they take of the present war. But that is not the issue. The step I recommend is to put this country back on a solid footing of real and traditional neutrality. when and if, I don't like even to mention the word if, I'd rather say when, when the repeal of the embargo is accomplished, certain other phases of policy reinforcing American safety should be considered. And while nearly all of us are in agreement on their objectives, the only question relates to matters. I believe that American merchant vessels should as far as possible be restricted from entering war zones. But war zones may change so swiftly and so frequently in the days to come that it is impossible to fix them permanently by act of commerce. specific legislation may prevent adjustment to constant and quick change. And it seems therefore more practical to delimit the actual geography of these war zones through action of the State Department and administrative agencies. The objective of restricting American ships from entering such zones may be attained by prohibiting such entry by the Congress. Or the result can be substantially achieved by executive proclamation that all such voyages are solely at the risk of the American owners themselves. The second objective is to prevent American citizens from traveling on belligerent vessels. Or traveling in danger areas. This can be accomplished also, either by legislation, through continuance in force of certain provisions of existing law, or by proclamation making it clear to all Americans that any such travel is at their own risk. The third objective, requiring the foreign buyer to take transfer of title in this country to commodities purchased by belligerence, is also a result that can be attained by legislation or substantially achieved through due notice by proclamation. The fourth objective is the preventing of war credits to belligerence. This can be accomplished by maintaining in force existing provisions of law, or by proclamation making it clear that if credits are granted by American citizens to belligerence, our government will take no steps in the future to relieve them of risk of law. The result of these last two objectives will be to require all purchases to be made in cash and cargoes to be carried in the purchaser's own ships at the purchaser's own risk. Two other objectives have been amply attained by existing law, namely, regulating collection of funds in this country for belligerence and the maintenance of a licensed system covering import and export of arms, ammunition, and implements of war. Under present enactment, such arms cannot be carried to belligerent countries on American vessels, and this provision should not be disturbed. The Congress, of course, should make its own choice of the method by which these safeguards are to be attained, so long as the method chosen will meet the needs of new and changing day-to-day situations and dangers. To those who say that this program would involve a step toward war on our part, I reply that it offers far greater safeguards than we now possess or have ever possessed to protect American lives and poverty from danger. It is a positive program for giving safety. This means less likelihood of incidents and controversies which tend to draw us into conflict as they unhappily did before the last World War. There lies the road to peace. The position of the executive branch of the government is that the age-old and time-honored doctrine of international law coupled with these positive safeguards is better calculated than any other means to keep us out of war. in respect to our own defense, you are aware that I have issued a proclamation setting forth a national emergency in connection with the observance, safeguarding, and enforcement of neutrality and the strengthening of the national defense within the limits of peacetime authorizations. This was done solely to make polyconstitutional and legal certain obviously necessary measures. I have authorized increases in the personnel of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard, increases which will bring all four of them to a total still below peacetime strength as authorized by the Congress. I have authorized the State Department to use for the repatriation of Americans caught in the war zone the sum of $500,000 already authorized by the Congress. I have authorized the addition of 150 persons to the Department of Justice to be used in the protection of the United States against subversive foreign activities within our border. At this time, I ask for no further authority from the Congress. At this time, at this time, I see no need for further executive action under the proclamation of limited national emergency. Therefore, I see no impelling reason for the consideration of other legislation at this extraordinary session of the Congress. Thank you. It is, of course, possible that in the months to come, unforeseen needs for further legislation may develop, but they are not imperative today. These perilous days demand cooperation between us without a trace of partisanship. our acts must be guided by one single hard-headed thought, keeping America out of this war. In that spirit, I am asking the leaders of the two major parties in the Senate and the House of Representatives to remain in Washington between the close of this extraordinary session and the beginning of the regular session on January 3, 1940. They have assured me that they will do so, and I expect to consult with them at frequent intervals on the course of events in foreign affairs and on the need for future action in this field, whether it be executive or legislative action. And further, in the event of any future danger to the security of the United States or in the event of need for any new legislation of importance, I will immediately reconvene the Congress in another extraordinary session. Thank you. I should like to be able to offer the hope that the shadow over the world might swiftly pass. I cannot. The facts compel my stating with candor that darker periods may lie ahead. The disaster is not of our making. No act of ours engendered the forces which assault the foundations of civilization. And yet, we find ourselves affected to the core. Our currents of commerce are changing. Our minds are filled with new problems. Our position in world affairs has already been altered. in such circumstances, our policy must be to appreciate in the deepest sense the true American interest. Rightly consider this interest is not selfish. Destiny first made us with our sister nations on this hemisphere join heirs of European culture. Faith seems now to compel us to assume the task of helping to maintain in the western world a citadel wherein that civilization may be kept alive. The peace, the integrity, and the safety of the Americas, these must be kept firm and serene in a period when it is sometimes said that free discussion is no longer compatible with national safety. May you by your deeds show the world that we of the United States are one people of one mind, one spirit, one clear resolution walking before God in the light of the living. And thus the President of the United States includes his address reviewing the equality laws of the country before a joint meeting of the newly convened special session of Congress in the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. In just a few minutes, the joint session of the Congress will be adjourned, and the respective houses are expected to convene again on Monday. The applause for the President continues as he slowly turns from the Speaker's platform to go out of the door and out of the Capitol building. We expect to be back here at the Capitol shortly for some important news. This is John Charles a new now to our New York studios. While the President of the United States was addressing both houses of Congress, Premier Delagier began a message to the people of France. Later, our translator who has been listening to the speech over shortwave radio will give you a free resume of the entire message. In the meantime, we will listen to Premier Delagier's concluding remarks. We take you now to Paris. On the side we all in S we don the Old Nam miracle we but a people unanime, courageux, resolu, who inscrits on its hands of liberty or death. After so many nonsense and so many raiment, the German propaganda has now no longer a last hope. It is clear that German propaganda has now only two objects. She wants to separate France from England. She wants to unite the French in France. But when the French hear the Germans tell them that this war is the war of England, they say no, it's the war of Hitler. How to speak French, who, after months, have no danger on their own frontiers? They are war for the Great Britain. The German propaganda has not to be able to change the procedure when they are in the territory of the Reich. The French know by experience, as much as by feeling, the value of the British. They see the Marine of England and destroy the German submarines. These planes are fighting in the sky. These planes are not voluntary, but by the way, to join France in the frontiers of our country. They also know that the ideal of libertarian and human dignity and human beings they are fighting the heart of France, the Angleterre and the hundreds of millions of people who, in their empire immense, devout all their force to the common cause. The radio hitlérienne should be able to reprendre this thème to the end of the end. For example, the French is not a double. The French is more ridiculous. The more ridiculous, the more ridiculous, the more the hope to dresser the French against their patron. But I think the better, or his successor, to make it hear in his radio the voices of women who pretend to speak in the name of the French ms. The employees of his propaganda can read their rappel who is an offense to the pain of the mers. A French dishonoré who is a country who is a citizen in the German studios for the destiny of the soldiers. A few of you can be taken with a piece of cross. This is a sentence to the feelings that is nobles but only to raise your and to to refer your will. Because the propaganda allemand has to lie on everything but there is something that she would not be to you to you to you to your love for France. The love of France has opened the miracle which assure our salute every time we were in the peril. In the proof, our national community becomes from day to day more ardent and more paternal. We are going to fight because we do not do not that France is a scary for a salute. We will put all the force to take all the measures of the interior discipline and economic so that the whole country will be to participate to the common effort. We will not allow some to achieve some and others will honor their sang. We are calm and we are not not as our enemies by the fear of a long we are to the victory. We will consider this victory until we will will be able to finally bring the security definitive that the people have been for three years. The test is hard. The sacrifices will be for them. the war will have to be the war and the war who are the war the war the war and the war has the war and the war and the war and the war for the war and to end with the war of Germany. France has not taken the arms for to die to the women and men without defense the war and the war and the war the war the war the war from Paris CBS has brought to the people of New York and the war and the war and the war and the French prime minister said that for 20 days France has been at war. I want to tell you soldiers of France must remain free men always. I have just visited the front and seen the value and the intelligence of our high command which avoids every temptation of sending its men and am proud of our gallant soldiers who fight because Germany has tried to use force against us. We must fight this force that tries to crush France. German domination has also crushed Poland but before Poland also Czechoslovakia and Austria. The efforts of all those who have tried for peace because the destruction of Poland was prepared in advance by the threat of force and secret treaties. certain positions were gained. But now Poland not only has given herself up in martyrdom but has shown heroism after her first defeat because her mobilization was not complete when the German mechanized divisions marched through her territory. Poland consolidated her resistance later along shortened lines. But the German motorized divisions were too strong. Russia also came into the fight through a secret pact. The division of Poland was decided upon by Russia and Germany. Hitler had the precious contract that is the contract with Russia in his hands before he even attacked Poland. What man of honor could be content with Hitler's promises of today since all his previous pledges he has torn up one by one. In 1934 Hitler said that Germany would respect the Locarno pact. But in 1936 he occupied the Rhineland. Later he told later he told later he told he told the world that Germany would never annex Austria. Then he did annex Austria. On the 26th of September he said the Sudetans were the last problem to be resolved by Germany. But on the 29th of September at Munich he promised us and me personally that he would not annex the Czechoslovaks because he wanted only he said the purity of the German race. But on March 13th Prague was occupied. Bohemia was reduced to servitude. Later Hitler said Hitler said that Germany considered Poland's frontiers were permanent and irrevocable. Now after tearing up Poland he says that he wants nothing more. His promises he has promised not to touch France but we know too well that he will do the same thing to us if he can. His ambition is to isolate France from all her friends. Germany is developing her propaganda everywhere. She wants to separate our provinces one from the other. But all of France has arisen like one man. There is no traitor among us. We want liberty or death. After so many lies German propaganda has only now the further hope of separating her enemies and dominating the world. She wants to separate France from England and disunite France among herself. But to all this we reply no. It is not our war but Hitler's war. Hitler's war. We are fighting for ourselves and for Great Britain. German propaganda is making a great mistake in not changing its tactics. The British fleet Monsieur Dallagy said and her planes are fighting gallantly and her soldiers are joining ours for liberty and human dignity. human dignity. Our two immense empires that is the French and British empires are united. We will not be Hitler's Dukes. The German radio he said has been using all sorts of tactics notably that of having women speak trying to imitate French mothers in order to plead with their sons not to fight. But our soldiers said Monsieur Dallagy cannot be caught in such a trap. Your dignity he said in speaking to the French soldiers will be aroused. Germany cannot deceive your love for France. The love of France has consecrated our order all along the line he said. Uh, we are threatened and we are fighting not to be slaves. We will take every measure of discipline within our country said Monsieur Dallagy in order to fight the good fight. We are calm and resolute and are not haunted by the fear of a long war. We want the final victory and then we want to found a peace on a sound basis. The test will be hard he warned the French soldiers. The sacrifices will be grievous. But France has always conquered every peril he said and with her moral strength has won every victory. The French army has courage science and faith said Monsieur Dallagy. We will finish this time once and for all with Germany's efforts of domination. Uh, we are fighting now for justice and humanity and we will have victory. You are listening to WBCQ Monticello, Maine, USA. This is the hour of the time. I'm William Cooper. We have taken you back in time, ladies and gentlemen, to September the 21st, 1939. and that, ladies and gentlemen, was our translator in New York giving you a free resume of the message Premier Dallagy delivered to the people of France. The message was begun while President Roosevelt and Washington was addressing both houses of Congress. Now the latest news from Bucharest, Romania where Premier Kalinescu was shot and killed today. It officially announced in Bucharest that members of the outlawed pro-Nazi Iron Guard killed the Romanian Premier. The announcement called the attack cowardly. It said the assassins were arrested. And it said further that a new Premier will be sworn in right away in advance of a meeting of the Crown Council with King Carol. Romanian officials said that order prevails throughout the country. The German news agency, meanwhile, says that the Nazis didn't do the deed. Reports received in Bucharest said that Romanian police at Cernotti, which is near the Polish frontier, had raided the German house there and it was reported it found material outlining the attitude which German residents were to take in the event German troops were to arrive at the Polish-Romanian frontier. A border now manned on the Polish side not by Germans but by the troops of the Red Army of Soviet Russia following the Russian occupation of eastern Poland. Bulletin. Paris. Germans today subjected French positions on the Western Front to the heaviest shelling of the war. Here are just a few more dispatches. Berlin. The Romanian legation says an army leader, General Ernst Barlis, has the name to replace Premier Kalinescu. This indicates a strongly militant government in this pivotal Balkan kingdom. Romanian officials say they will enforce a rigid policy of neutrality. Paris. Europe's western battlefront is quiet today but it may be only the low before the storm. Troops are on the march in both France and Germany moving up the Burrard front lines. France has now completed general mobilization with six million men under arms. And British troop movements in France continue at a feverish pace. the repeat the bulletin which counteracts that remark that we were just giving you in that dispatch. The Germans today subjected French positions on the Western Front to the heaviest shelling of the war. A further broadcast on the European situation will be presented by CBS later in the day and evening. There will be a summary of developments as reported by the Press Association at six o'clock each in daylight saving time and H.P. Kaltenborn will analyze the day's happenings at 6.15. The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations present the nightly broadcast of Elmer Davis and the News at 8.55 p.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. Once again we're speaking from the House of Representatives in the nation's capital. When we returned you to New York some minutes ago, shortly thereafter, the joint session of the Congress was adjourned but the House of Representatives stayed convened. Just a minute or two ago the House of Representatives concluded the business of the day and convened, or rather adjourned to convene again on Monday. Albert Warner, Columbia's Washington news analyst, is still here in the small library just off the House of Representatives floor and has several more distinguished members of Congress we will interview. Albert Warner. Representative William B. Bankhead of Alabama, Speaker of the House of Representatives is here with me now. Speaker Bankhead presided with Vice President John Garner, at the joint session which has just concluded. Speaker Bankhead, I wonder if you'll tell us a little about the session ahead. Well, I do not know, sir, that I'm in a position now to give a direct answer to your query as to something about what's going to take place in the session of Congress ahead of us. As all know, we have just convened today and neither the Democratic nor Republican leaders have had an opportunity yet to fashion or formulate an indefinite program of action. But I think that I'm justified in assuming that for quite a while at least the Senate of the United States will be the center of attention as far as legislation is concerned because as you know during the last session of the House we passed through this body the Bloom Bill in modified form and it's my information that the Senate committee will meet either tomorrow or Saturday to take up consideration of some form of that bill. I do not know how long it will be in committee or when it comes out how long it will be debated. That's a matter that's entirely to be determined by future developments. Thank you very much. You of course have just listened to the address of the President of the United States. I'm very happy to say to you that he was received in the House of Representatives by great cordiality and tolerance and respect by both sides of the House both the Democratic and Republican membership and I was tremendously impressed with the apparent spirit to pervading all members here that for the time at least partisan politics should be adjourned and that all of us representing all political groups should be unified in purpose and in spirit to do all that we can prudently by tolerance and moderation and sound judgment to preserve the peace of the United States and to prevent our being drawn into any war. You're going to be spoken to now by one of my dear friends on the Republican side Congressman Ditter of Pennsylvania who I am sure will enlarge somewhat upon the spirit of friendship and harmony as far as national unity is concerned which I have just undertaken to express. I thank you. Thank you, Speaker Bankhead. As the Speaker has said, Representative Ditter of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee and one of the minority leaders of the House is with us now. Mr. Ditter? I read that. We are at a fateful hour in the history of the American people. Every member of Congress is conscious of that fact. Our deliberations in this session of the Congress may determine whether we follow positively and aggressively the constructive pursuits of peace or allow ourselves to be drawn into the consuming inferno of war. Before such a challenge affecting the destiny of 130 million people, all thought of partisanship gives way to the deepest impulses of patriotism. the heart of America cries aloud for peace. Only calm thinking and deep Americanism will enable us to see clearly through the bellowing fog of alien propaganda to the clear path of national interest. The greatest service, as I see it, that America can render to the world is to keep aglow the beacon light of liberal constitutional government. That light is the hope and the only hope, I might say, of the world today. At this time, we should support wholeheartedly the President's plea for a unity of purpose. And I feel that that unity of purpose can best be expressed in his own words when he said, and I quote, despite what happens in continents overseas, the United States of America shall and must remain. as long ago the father of our country prayed that it might remain unentangled and free. And it's in this spirit that the House of Representatives, Republican and Democrat, convene today to try to solve the great and perplexing problem. Thank you, Mr. Ditto. Mr. Ditto. We've just heard from Speaker Bankhead of the House of Representatives and Representative Ditto, Chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. Now, we may turn this back to Mr. Ditto. And while Mr. Warner is attempting to contact Mr. Bloom, the representative from New York, it might be interesting to review once again the history of the special sessions of Congress. This session today was the 25th Congress that has had a special session since its organization 150 years ago. John Adams was the first president to call a special session. He summoned the 5th Congress to meet May 15th, 1797 to consider suspension of diplomatic relations with France. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison each found necessary to call two extraordinary meetings because of the split between the United States and the Great Britain, or rather Great Britain which led eventually to the War of 1812. Again, Abraham Lincoln called a special session of the 37th Congress on July 4th in 1861 just prior to the war between the states. The greatest number of special sessions had been summoned by Woodrow Wilson and Franklin B. Roosevelt. That means three each. Mr. Wilson, of course, called his special sessions just prior to and during the World War. Mr. Roosevelt's first extraordinary session of Congress was in March of 1933 to pass emergency New Deal laws. The second was in October of 1937 to enact social legislation and to enact social labor and farm legislation and today's special session was called, as you know, about the neutrality laws. Now here is Mr. Warner back again with another distinguished member of Congress. Mr. Warner. We have with us a woman congressman, Representative Norton, Mrs. Norton of New Jersey, Chairman of the House Labor Committee. I wonder if you'd tell us a little about what you think will be in store in the session ahead. Well, I believe that the Congress will abide by the suggestion of the President and shall not consider any legislation other than the legislation concerning the embargo. At least that is my hope. I believe that the Congress is very much impressed by the message delivered by the President and I think the great majority of us were entirely in favor of all that he had said. I wonder if you look forward to a long session and to a bitter fight over the arms embargo. No, I do not. From my conversation with a great many members today, I believe the session will not be long. I believe we may be out of here. Not later than three weeks from now. I hope I'm a prophet. As I understand it, the House will be going into three-day recesses until the Senate act? Yes, of course, the House already has acted upon this legislation and until the Senate acts upon it, I presume there will be nothing for the House to do but await the will of the Senate. And no doubt, when the bill comes back to us, why, we shall have our day in court. Thank you very much, Mr. Norton. You're very welcome and thank you very much for asking me to come here. Mr. Daly. And thus, the Columbia Broadcasting System concludes its broadcast relevant to the address of the President of the United States before a joint session of Congress on the neutrality laws of the country. You have heard the address by President Roosevelt and prior to his address and following it, Mr. Warner, Columbia's Washington news analyst, interviewed several prominent congressmen. This is John Charles Daly speaking from the House of Representatives in the capital of the United States in Washington, D.C. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. 3.10 p.m. BULOVA BULOVA watch time. Here's a distinguished timepiece. The 21 jewel BULOVA president in the charm and color of natural gold. Curved, streamlined. An exceptional value. A broadcast of the baseball game between the Washington Senators and the Cleveland Indians will begin this afternoon at 4 p.m. Suburb to J.S.V. Washington. Love, work, and dream Fill our lives with a venture and joy The career of Alice Blair. The transcribed true-to-life story of a lovely girl fighting for fame and happiness. Facing the problems, the heartaches and thrills on the ladder to success. At this time every day, Monday through Friday, join Alice Blair in her fascinating career. It was the poet's words that he said, the world is too much with us. Late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our power. And I'm afraid in many ways he was right. Especially where we women are concerned. Our daily whirl of activities, the evenings we're out late, those busy mornings cleaning house, everything conspires to play havoc with our complexion. And goodness knows, a woman's complexion is part and parcel of her natural charm. That's why it's so important to guard the skin by proper cleansing. I mean with a pure cold cream. Dagger and Ramsey perfect cold cream. Because Dagger and Ramsey perfect cold cream removes dirt, dust and makeup without robbing your skin of a natural oil. For your own fresh attractiveness, use it before you go to bed and then again in the morning. Ask at your drug store or beauty counter for the big, generous, 45 cent jar of Dagger and Ramsey perfect cold cream. Alice has had an exciting and eventful afternoon at Mercury Studios. William Waldron, the top director, is to direct Alice in her screen test. And the young actor Barry Clayton at his own request is to play with her in the scene. Both Waldron and Clayton were deeply impressed by the scripts Alice brought to use in the test. And Waldron was more than enthusiastic over Alice's reading of the scene. Of course, she carefully evaded all their questions as to who had written it. For Alice, promised Carl E. Bright she would under no condition. Mentioned that he was the writer. The feud between Carl and Hollywood is notorious. The whole map of the apartment. Uncle Andy, waiting for Alice, hears a tap at the door. A tap that becomes more familiar as the days in Hollywood go on. I don't need to give myself free guesses who that is. Is that lady from next door again? Oh, hello there, my auntie. Hello, Andy. The kettle's on. Come on in and have a cup of nice hot tea. Hot tea? On a day like this? Of course. Why, there's nothing so refreshing. Come on. Well, it sounds mighty attractive, but I'm expecting Alice any minute now, and I just don't think I'd better leave. We could leave the door to my apartment open. Then we hear her when she comes upstairs. Well, I think maybe I'd just let her stay here. Well, everything's all set out, so if you change your mind. All set out, did you say? Uh-huh. Well, come on. I'll come in just a first bell, and we leave the door open. That's fine. Oh, Mary, you know, you shouldn't put yourself out this way. Maybe I like doing it. Now I'll pour the tea. You know, there's nothing more gracious than a woman presiding over a tea table. Uh-huh. But a tea table shouldn't be set with gleaming silver to make the picture complete. Oh, I haven't missed the gleaming silver. To me, the picture is already quite complete. How nice of you. And there's plenty of time for all that gleaming silver someday when you get a home of your own. Oh, don't. Surely you didn't take offense to what I said. Oh, no, no, no, of course not. It's only that the idea of a home is so far from my mind. You see, Andy, I've battled alone and, well, you take two lumps of sugar and no lemons. No, no. How did you remember that? How could I forget it? There you are. Oh, thank you, thank you. You know, it seems to me even if a woman does follow a career as her life works and chooses to battle through alone, as you say, there's still no reason why she can't have her own home and even have the gleaming silver. Oh, of course, if her career is a highly successful one. You know, I wonder sometimes if I've chosen the right path. Andy. Hmm? I had a chance to go on location for two weeks. Yes? I'm not going because of you. Oh, now, see here, Mary. You can't let us interfere with your work like that. Can't I? Well, I just couldn't bear to go away for two weeks. You don't know what it's meant having you and Alice so close by. Well, for the first time, this little apartment has seemed like a real home to me. I never knew what I was missing before. I've been such fun asking you in for tea, running in and out, asking your advice. Oh, but, you know, this will have to stop my efforts to interfere with your work. Well, it's worth everything. Oh, come on, let's not even think of it. I did it because I wanted to. Well, no, I don't like that one bit. No, not another word about it, do you hear? We're going to have a lot of fun. We're going to be very, very giddy over the weekend. Oh, I have such wonderful plans. Andy, have you ever been to Venice? To Venice? Yes, well, no, I couldn't forget. I haven't. Would you like to go with Steve? Go to Venice? Oh, you sweet spring. I don't mean to Venice Italy, I mean Venice California. Oh. You know, down by the beach, like Coney Island. Oh, well, that's a horse of a different kind. Oh, Andy, you're too wonderful for words. Will you go with me? We'll have a rollicking time. Well, this sounds a bit giddy for a man of mine. Oh, a man of your age. When you get on a roller coaster, you'll forget there's such a thing as age. Me on a roller coaster? Uh-huh. Oh, oh, the very idea. Oh, that's just the way you talked about dancing the other night. And you turned out to be the best partner I ever had. Yeah, well, that's a bit different from a roller coaster. Oh, you old blot-day New Yorker. Of course, I realize that Venice isn't nearly as big as your Coney Island, but things don't have to be big to be cozy, do they? Mm-hmm. Not at all. I hear apartment friends. It would be such a lot of fun. Oh, me on a roller coaster. Mm-hmm. Zooming through the space. Uh-huh. Oh, I don't know. I just don't take to those things. Oh, you never know how much you like a thing till you try. And I promise you won't fall out, because I'd hang on, oh, very, very high. Well, I don't know. I may consider that wrong. If I croaked very, very high. Well, and you say you'd hang on very, very high? Uh-huh. Well. No, afraid or so, and one of them. Is it in nearby? Oh, hello there, Alice. Hello. Come on in. Well, we left the door open so I'd hear you when you came. You mean so I'd hear you? Heard you laughing, stood out in the front hall. What's the joke? Don't you dare tell. Oh, no. Not in a million years. Have some tea, Alice. No, thanks. Oh, come on, come on, Alice. You sit down and have a cup, well, and you tell us all about what happened today. Let me pour it for you. Chance, I really don't care for any. It's too hot. Oh, that's just a notion some folks have, that you get all steamed up over a hot drink. Hmm? Now, when you come right down to it, there's nothing more refreshing on a hot afternoon than a cup of hot tea. It cools off much quicker than a cold drink does. Now, am I right, ma'am? You absolutely are. Come on, Alice. Join us. No, thanks, really. I have to start learning lines anyway. Have to be at the studio. The crack have gone. Oh. Want to help me with the lines, Uncle Andy? Oh, wait till he has another cup of tea. Gee, then I'll send it in. No, I think I've had all that's good for me. And it's been a very stimulating afternoon, Myra. Especially the first part. The first part? Oh, you just wait. I'll show you what real stimulation is. It's a promise, remember? Oh, I'm remembering all right. Say, what are you two talking about anyway? What's the big mystery? Should we let her in on the secret, Myra? Don't you dare. No, can't let you in, Alice. Girl, you're too young. You wouldn't understand. That's the hateful kind of a remark to make to a growing child. Well, enjoy the tea, Myra. We'll do it again whenever you say the word. See you later. Oh, I tell you. You should have tried some of that tea. It really does cool you off. Being with that woman never cools me off. I'll be here, chickadee. Don't go off on a tangent. Gee, good to get home. I'll dig that home. Oh, I don't know why you're rare up the way you do. Myra just pushed herself out to be a good friend to her. Uh-huh. Yeah. You know, it's sort of sad and pathetic. She's been alone so much. Having us here, she said, made the place seem sort of home-like. Uh-huh. I really got a bit upset, though. She turned down a call to go on location for two weeks, just so she could be around here and enjoy our company. Well, that sort of puts us on the spot, doesn't it? What are we supposed to do? Stay around and entertain us? Oh, we'll make it up to her some way. Say, what was the big secret? You both acted like you'd swallowed her mouth or something. Oh, no. No, we didn't anything of the kind. I heard you laughing when I came up the stairs. What was it, anyway? Oh, it wasn't anything at all. Well, if it wasn't anything at all, why don't you tell me what it was? You're just magnifying the whole thing. It was a little joke that Myra and I had, that's all. Nothing more than that. Well, why act so mysterious about it? We weren't doing anything of the kind. You said yourself that we let her in on the secret. Now, now, see here. Just because you're my favorite niece is no reason for you to check up on every little thing I'm thinking and every little joke I'm sharing with someone else. Oh, I'm not checking up on you, Uncle Andy, but we've always done everything together, especially since we've been out here. Well, there are a lot of things you do that I don't check into, as much as I think they ought to be sometimes. No, sir, you just mind your own business, young lady, and let your uncle have his private life. I'm sorry. I had no intention of interfering with your private life. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't get happy, dear. Well, I'm not happy. You'll find out in due time what it is we're talking about. When will I find out? When it's over and done with, and not before. That innocent little remark is destined to lead to an awful lot of trouble. Is Alice right in her suspicions of Myra? Is Myra out for Uncle Andy? If there's one place on Earth where a man looks like a bull in a china shop, that's a beauty parlor. But I was in just at the spot the other afternoon. You see, I had a date with a lovely creature, and because she was going to be late, she told me to meet her there. Should I be silly and embarrassed? Well, however, I did learn something. Women pay far more attention to their complexions than we men ever realized. And when I spoke to my date about the matter, she said, no woman can afford to neglect her skin. With a man's typically blunt curiosity, I asked her what she used on her complexion. And she replied, if you must know, I always cleanse with daggett and Ramsdell, perfect cold cream. And judging from how fresh and soft and absolutely irresistible her complexion is, I guess there must be something to this idea of cleansing your face with daggett and Ramsdell cold cream every day. Why not try that 25-cent jar? Remember the name, daggett and Ramsdell. The name you can trust. Is Uncle Andy interested in Myra? Or is he manlike, flattered by her attention? Alice draws her own conclusion when she comes home unexpectedly in tomorrow's exciting France Drive, Career of Alice Blair. Can you hear the rhetoric of the movement of the reference of heir – speaking of Ali... Are you faced with no more swimming for a while? No driving your car with the top down? No sitting out in the cool breezes to avoid the heat? These are the sad consequences of having a summer head cold. The summer variety of cold usually hits you in a very uncomfortable spot, the nose. Nothing is as mean or persistent as a stuffed up nose. You can't stop a cold from running its course. 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You'll like Arrow's fine taste. It's smooth, not sweet. You'll find it better, not bitter. Every bottle always hits the spot. President Roosevelt has just called on Congress to repeal the embargo provisions of the American neutrality law. The president asked the legislators to substitute for the embargo a cash-and-carry system of trade with the warring nation. Mr. Roosevelt urged Congress, which was convened in extraordinary joint fashion, to work with one single hard-headed thought, namely, keeping America out of this war. President Roosevelt's address, together with other activities at the special session of the United States Congress, was covered fully by the Columbia Broadcasting System and Station WJFB, ending just a short time ago. It will therefore not be necessary at this time to repeat details already broadcast. Meanwhile, the White House has disclosed that President Roosevelt plans to leave Washington Friday for a weekend at Hyde Park to observe the 85th anniversary of his mother's birth. Mrs. Sarah Delano Roosevelt celebrated her 85th birthday today. Six youthful assassins shot and killed Premier Armand Kalinescu of Romania this afternoon. The premier was a vigorous score of the pro-Nazi Iron Guard organization. The assassination occurred while the premier was driving by automobiles of the Royal Paris. The premier was 46 years old. He also held at the time several other cabinet portfolios, including the Ministry of War. During his regime, the government had suppressed the Nazi-minded Iron Guard organization charging it with terrorism in Romania. Two of the assassins of Premier Kalinescu committed suicide by shooting tonight when surrounded in a midtown store, guards cutting off their escape. The Romanian legation in Berlin reports that an army marshal, General Ernest Balice, has been appointed as Romania's new premier. This indicates a strong militant government in the Little Balkan Kingdom, which has suddenly become a pivotal state in Europe. According to the legation, the cabinet has issued a statement stressing that order prevailed throughout the nation despite the assassination of Premier Kalinescu. More details of the ill-fated diplomatic steps which led to the outbreak of the new European war were made public by the British government today. A white paper was issued saying that Germany answered Great Britain's ultimatum of September 2nd for withdrawal of Nazi troops from Poland with a threat to answer any aggressive action on the part of England with the same weapons and in the same form. There's a lot of speculation just now over what is happening at sea. The British government will not comment on reports that the Bremen has been captured by British warships, nor is there any statement about battles at sea, nor an explanation of heavy firing heard off the Danish coast. Radio broadcast from Warsaw today, according to reports from London, say the beleaguered metropolis still is Polish. Colonel Lipinski, the Poles official broadcaster, reports that the Poles in Warsaw are carrying on their fight against the Germans and have even scored minor victories in a few Warsaw suburbs. However, Lipinski announces that three flights of 40 German planes did great damage yesterday. He reports that Polish anti-aircraft fly brought down seven German crafts, but he adds that those which were not shot down destroyed what was left of the Royal Castle, the Art Academy's National Museum, and the Central Institute for Physical Training. Jan Podorewski, now in Paris, says, Poland's sacrifice has not been in vain. The world-famous Polish pianist and wartime premier of Poland believes his country's resistance has given the Allies time to make the preparations which will lead them to victory. Meanwhile, Europe's Western battlefront is quiet today, but it may be only the lull before the storm. Troops are on the march in both France and Germany, moving up to bulwark's front lines. France has now completed general mobilization with six million men in Iran, and British troop movements in France continue with a feverish face. Listen in again for the Arrow News reporter, brought to you by the Globe Brewing Company Baltimore at 5.30 this afternoon. Remember, when you order beer, be sure to ask for Arrow, the beer with the famous flavor. Joking speaking, this is Columbia Station for the nation's capital. WJFB, Washington. Dr. Brent, call surgery. Dr. Brent, call surgery. Dr. Brent, call surgery. 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A momentous day for the impressionable youngster upon whom it will leave an indelible impression for the rest of his journey along the road of life. The courtroom is filled to capacity with thrilled-seeking public. Every onlooker eager for a glimpse of the boy whom they've been discussing and reading about for over a week. The boy whom the newspapers have branded as a criminal. The jury has been selected. Twelve men and women who are to hand down a decision after hearing the state's attorney tear the defendant's reputation to shreds. After hearing the human appeal of Mr. Gregory, his counsel, a penny for leniency. And now as we enter the courtroom, we see Butch, bewildered, pathetic, sitting with Mr. Gregory. Judge Gray is about to address the clerk. And as we listen in, we hear... Swear the jury, Mr. Clerk. Friendly rise and raise your right hand. You and each of you do solemnly swear by the ever-living God that you will well and truly try the issues joined herein and a true verdict render according to the law and evidence. Thank you. All right, Mr. St. Sabino. Thank you, Your Honor. May I please the court? Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. At this time, I would like to offer you my congratulations for having been selected to hear this, which may prove to be a very interesting and unusual case. After having been questioned by myself in the counsel for the defense, we feel that you men and women are of the type who are qualified to hear and judge this cause, which is now going to trial before you. Yours is an important duty. It is obvious. A young boy is on trial before you, and you are to determine fairly and impartially from the evidence which is given from the witness stand the guilt or innocence of the defendant. Now, in the case of the jury box, you're not expected to leave all your life's experiences outside the courtroom. You're expected to use the same good sense and judgment that you use in all those experiences. Listen carefully to all the evidence, and based on those experiences and the knowledge that you obtain from them during your lifetime, you will be able to decide whether or not this boy is guilty of the crime with which he has been charged. At this time, I feel it is my duty to warn you that merely because this boy is but 11 years of age, you are not to consider that fact or let it govern your decision. After you've heard all the evidence, the court will instruct you that any infant over 10 years of age may be found guilty of any crime or misdemeanor if the evidence so was. I should also at this time have to warn you that the fact that a child is untried should not affect or arouse your sympathy should the evidence indicate that he is guilty. The defense may and probably will, no doubt, attempt to play upon your sympathies and to whom you are pleased. I'm going to object to this state's attorney trying to influence the jury with whatever the case and the defense might be at this time. The objection is sustained. Thank you. Mr. State's attorney, kindly confine yourself to outlining the case to the jury and remain within the province of an opening statement. I'm sorry, Your Honor, I make no offense. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the question to be weighed is one that must be decided upon consideration of strip right only. If a crime recognized as such by our statute has been committed, if a crime be fixed upon the prisoner at the bar, then it is immaterial what his age is and what ulterior consideration might prompt you to wish that this cut might pass from his lips. Your sworn duty, your obligation as citizens, concerned in the preservation of the social order as friends of the law and interested in its preservation, all speak with one voice. And that voice is awfully distinct. Do your duty and let the consequences fall upon those who have recklessly, brutally, and criminally violated the most fundamental laws of society. Who has steeped his hands in the blood of his fellow being and who denies doing so is a wicked homicide? Your Honor, I don't know why the state's attorney insists on making his speech at this time. I believe that he should be warned to confine himself to the opening statement which Your Honor permitted him to make at this time. Mr. State's attorney, proceed with your outline. Very well, Your Honor. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the prosecution of John McEwan, the defendant, for the crime of murder and the crime of manslaughter. This accusation against the prisoner we expect to sustain by the following evidence. But on the 24th day of August last, John McEwan armed himself with a loaded pistol and with the intent to kill, did fire that pistol at one Margaret Allen, scratching her in the right upper chest. And that as a result of that gunshot wound, Margaret Allen died. We intend to show that earlier in the day, this defendant had an argument with Margaret Allen. We intend to show that he sucked around that entire day. That as day grew to an end, the passion to take the life of Margaret Allen grew within the mind and best of this defendant. And that on the day before mentioned, he turned upon the deceased and inflicted wounds from which Miss Allen died on the fourth day. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the simplest possible statement of the case. I have avoided the mention of circumstances which will necessarily appear in evidence. If we shall prove these facts by the testimonies we shall bring forward, we will have made out our case. And your duty will be to award that crime the penalties prescribed by law. Order! Order in the court! Surgery. Calling Dr. Brent. Surgery. Surgery. Calling Dr. Brent. Surgery. Calling Dr. Brent. 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Late last night in Mrs. Simpson's boarding house, her lovely face lit by a shaft of moonlight. Eleanor was tense and drawn. Her eyes were heavy and weary from lack of sleep. And when Kurt said goodnight, she said, Kurt, I've been thinking of Milton in the things she said to me. If I thought I'd ever be a theater and cynical to her marriage in life, I'd rather be dead than I would. Oh, I'm a type, Kurt. I'm a type because I'm I'm afraid. It's early the following evening. Kurt has been out looking for work all day while Eleanor has been sowing and mending her meager wardrobe in preparation for her coming marriage. Now, alone in the front parlor after dinner, they sit in silence, both wrapped in deep thought. Finally, Eleanor looks at the shaggy-headed man she's promised to marry and says, Kurt, I feel terrible about last night and me. I do. I shouldn't have gone out of pieces and said what I did. Oh, there's nothing wrong in that, Dutchess. I'm glad you told me how you feel because, well, I'm the guy you're going to marry and I'm the guy who ought to know. Oh, Kurt, I'm a full-time and awful sissy. Well, that's okay with me. I don't like hard-boiled women or anything. But I shouldn't have gotten it with Susan right now that way. Well, can I help it, Kurt? She sat down and did me exactly how I felt about marrying me without a job and no hope for the future. She looked like a Christian to you. When she explained she felt the same way just before she knew Jimmy. That's what frightened me, Kurt. I love that. Just look. Come here. Relax, will you? Relax. There, that's better. Now, what are you worried about, huh? You got me and I got you. Right? Yes. If we don't have anything else we had that much. Sure. We've got each other, haven't we? Yeah. You know, I'm much of a philosopher, Dutchess, but there's much I do know. A home, a family, all life has to begin just like we are. Man and woman. Mates. Adam and Eve didn't have anything. Nobody all right, did he? I don't know my Bible very well, but I can't remember saying anything about you getting bitter and cynical and fed up with married life. I kind of really didn't have any money or pretty clothes. Of course, maybe I'm not a good guy like that anymore. Oh, yes, you are. At least, you already are. Well, then we can't miss. And you won't ever be like murderers. You're not that tight. I don't think we're going to rather before she may, Jimmy. I thought so at first, but I don't know. I swear, I was so scared. Maybe this marriage without me really hope of another does anything to you. Certainly does something immortal. Now, look, I won't let it do anything to you, Natchez. I promise you. Kurt, do you think we'll be glad and turn it on this one's worth job? We don't want to wait a whole year to get married and do we, Natchez? No. I guess not, Kurt. I don't. Of course. Who's this? Hello. Hello, Kurt. Hello. Hello, Jimmy. What's going on here? No, no, she isn't, Jimmy. I thought she's out playing off that duker tournament she had last night. She tied with a garfield flash and it set the whole ukulele. Oh, Kurt, you're proud. Yes, you did. Ellen, look, I hate to bother you with this, but we're here and murdered when you talked to her. You've seen the way she's been acting. Is there something wrong? Yes, I've been out all day looking for a job and when I came home she was all dressed up fit to kill. I don't know where she got the money for a new dress, but she's got one. She's going out dancing. Oh, don't let her go, pal. Put your foot down. Oh, I did. She's going to just the sea. Yeah, I see. I say, but just I'd like to talk to Jimmy alone. We'll step out for a minute. Do you mind? No. No, don't look. Okay. Come on, Jimmy. Jimmy, is she going out with another man? Oh, I don't know, but I do know what it would mean if she goes out tonight. This is the first time she's done it, and when she does, I lose her. No, you won't, Jimmy. I know I will. She's sick of staying in that hole we live in. Sick of not having pretty clothes and not going out because I can't afford it. Oh, Kurt, I love her so much. I don't want to lose her. I was going to ask grandma to come and talk to her, but she isn't here. Tune in next week and for the exciting conclusion. Good night folks and God bless each and every single one of you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.