The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-01
MARS ROCKET HAD
 HUMOROUS FINALE
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HE IIGdEU Uu tA4C AhOAVN eaA1v vA40J had been ordered out to fight.
 "They were all dressed up to kill, !" he said. "I couldn't conyinceA eAthem it must be- a fake and two hours later saw them still riding around look ing for whatever it was supposed to be.
 Corp. Frank Wilson would Ike to meet one of the six or eight people who stopped him Sunday night and described in terrifying terms the landing of the space ship that they personally had witnessed.
 Some of the hallucinations were blamed to the fact that there was fire in the forest 15 miles away, and there was pail of smoke near the village which might have been the work of Martians.
 Commission May Act
 Washington, Nov. 1-(UP)-The federal communications commission meets today for 8 routine session, but may consider action on the radio dramatization that frightened thou sands of listeners Sunday night.
 EGG Chairman Frank R. McNinch said that the commission faces a heavy agenda of routine work, but that it might" discuss the Sunday broadcast if the script and transcript tion of the program reached Wasf1- ington before the meeting begins.
 "If we have time and if we have complete data" he said, i've will consider the broadcast today. If we don't get to it, we might put the matter of until next Tuesday. Or perhaps, if the other commissioners are agreeable, we'll hold a specal meeting"
 Commission officials said that they had no power to fine offending Sta- tions, but that they could use the broadcast as partial basis for re- fusing renewal of license. Operating licenses may be refused when the commission finds a station has not served public interest, convenience and necessity" The present commits sion, however, has used this basis for refusing to renew only one li- cense-that of KGBZ, York, Neb. Officials said stations six-months license ordinarily would be renewed unless the station had repeated vio- lations of the communications act.
 Wells Novel Drama
 The broadcast Sunday night was a dramatization of H. G. Wells fan- tastic novel, war of the Worlds" 1" The program, directed by Orson Welles, depicted the landing of a space ship from Mars in New Jer- sey. The announcer, interrupting a "dance program" to broadcast news bulletins" related how monsters poured from the space ship and started destroying civilization with death rays.
 Hundreds of listeners, particularly those who tuned in late were panic stricken.
 The broadcast brought quick reac- tion from the EGG and congress, and apologies from radio officials. Welles Offered Position New York, Nov. 1.-CUP)-The honorary leadership of the League of Interplanetary Defense" was of- fered by Princeton university stu dents today to Orson Welles, 23-year old actor and producer who wrote the scirpt and played the most hair raising role in Sunday nights radio dramatization of War of the Worlds.
 The league" congratulated Welles on ''your successful demonstration of the mass hysteria which would be aroused by an invasion from Mars" and asked: twill you accept honorary leadership of an organiza- tion to provide adequate defense against such an eventuality and to reconcile the warning nations of the world in the face of this common danger?" '. A resolution by the league recom- mended "an embargo on all martial music, an investigation of interplan- etary spy activities by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and that the United States be criss-crossed with maginot lines to insure safety from without"
 Boston, Nov. 1.-(UP)-The man on the street isn't dumb" because he doesn't know the difference be- tween a radio program and a Martian invasion, he's just suffer- ing from American jitters," Bos- ton university psychologist said to- day.
 Professor Wayland F. Vaughan said the panic resulting from Sunday nights broadcast was not caused by "unintelligence" but rather by ''the general strain of these years of economic stress and felling of in- security. s..s.s,.
 He said recent war talk and pic- lures of war bombings creating just the state of mind for such panic, !" but that it couldn't have happened in 1928"