Show ii I r sn c The Private Papers Paper Of OJ a Cub Reporter Not long ago I lost a friend Ben Bernie died Many people liked Ben Bernie Bernic Because Ber Bet Bernie liked many people Ben Bee had more than acting talent The fact is the is-the the easy good nature known to millions of Americans was not an act A human being himself him self he really loved his fellowmen Ben Bernie's life llie was an example I of the opportunity America offers a ason ason ason son of poor immigrant parents And his death is an example of the devotion devotion devotion devo devo- tion these Americans have for their country Ben was warned by his doctors that his bond drive engagements and his m many my many appearances at Army camps and war plants were too much for his strength But Ben kept on And he died How much his bit helped cannot of course be measured But this we know He continued in the fight against the orders of Government authorities his doctors and the entreaties entreaties entreaties en en- treaties of his family And now his effort is ended Because over and beyond the call of duty B Ben n Bernie tried to give his country more than he had Our feud with Ben Bernie started started started start start- ed in 1931 The sponsor of the cigarette firm for which I rode the Magic Carpet with orchestras from all over the world suggested that the show needed some humor I borrowed an old stunt that worked so well with Mark Hellinger with whom I feuded Phoning Ben Benat Benat Benat at the College Inn in Chicago I told him that on the next broadcast I Iwas Iwas Iwas was going to read a telegram from him It was for the orchestra orchestral l leader ader Duchin and it said Just heard first broadcast with Winchell You were wonderful Can get you at State-Lake State Theater with Winchell and WITHOUT him I told Ben I would then tell one on him him and and from that date on every on-every every man for himself I Swell he said go ahead And you know the rest Anyway that's how it started Robert Ley the Nazi party's problem problem problem lem drunk got sober enough the other other other oth oth- er day to have a good scare scare He began to sort of realize reaUze that its it's getting getting getting get get- ting down toward the pay-off pay and things arent aren't looking too good for him To save his skin he tossed the Nazi master race theory into the ashcan That was just campaign stuff he scoffed and shouldn't be betaken betaken betaken taken seriously Were We're all good fellas fellas fellas fel fel- fel- fel las together he orated and were we're just loving everybody to pieces It happens that lush Ley is head of the Nazis' Nazis labor dept and from where he sits he can get a worse set of d. d ts than he ever collected from schnapps He knows that there are prisoners of labor in inthe inthe inthe the Reich and bodied able-bodied enemies represent a lot of hell when the time comes to raise it The big weakness of Leys Ley's scheme is that the soldiers are going to bring in m their own accusations They saw the Nazi idea at work in Italy Farnsworth Folwell and John Lardner reported the butcheries of the master ex-master race at and if that crime isn't avenged then victory will lack something This wasn't war I It was massacre for Nazi pleasure The Nazis evacuated the town then sneaked back and slaughtered whole families women and children included especially women and children As Lardner points out it lacked even the excuse of a lynching lynching lynching lynch lynch- ing frenzy It was methodical It was more than two miles over hilly country between them and the victims victims' victims victims' victims victims' vic vic- tims' tims homes The Huns marched the distance because they enjoyed killing the helpless It was a crime so incredibly horrible that Folwell didn't dare broadcast it until he checked and double-checked double it An acquaintance would have you believe he went into a restaurant which advertised We Serve Everything Everything Everything Every Every- thing and heard a drunk tease I the manager with Everything eh Well bring me an elephant steak The manager countered Very well how veIl how many in your party I One me said the lush Sorry Sorry Sor ry ry 1 was the tactful retort we cant can't kill a whole elephant for just one customer The beer shortage will be ended soon An import important nt midwest brewer has a new patented formula and process and will accept all orders starting December 1 1 Quiz Kid Joel Kupperman will do a second film for Republic Pictures Pictures- at per week His first for U Universal Universal Uni Uni- i- i versa versal got 2000 The contract will eventually get him 5 Gs per In the early Summer of 41 Ml the U. U S. S Army General Staff informed the State Dept of the desperate state of U. U S. S preparedness There were many conferences between Gen Marshall and Secy Seey of State I Berle in hi the gravest possible time I Shortly after one of these meetings meetings meetings meet meet- ings a Senator called upon Berle What possible excuse is there for selling gasoline to Japan he demanded Confidentially Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator said Mr Berle the lithe chips are down in the East Were We're not selling selling selling sell sell- ing gas now now now- were we're re n buying time It |