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Show "l WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Roger Shaw 83 English Refugee Children Perish As Ship Is Torpedoed in Mid-Atlantic; , Kidnaper of 3-Year-OId Lad Captured And Boy Returned, Unharmed, Home (KDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) w Released by Western Newspaper TTninn CRIME: California Kidnaping I Three days after Marc de Tristan ; Jr.'s abductor seized him from the street near his home in Hillsborough, Calif., he was returned to his nobleman no-bleman father, Count de Tristan, in San Francisco. I The child was rescued unharmed from the kidnaper, identified as Wil-helm Wil-helm Jakob Muhlenbroich, a 40-year-1 old German alien, by two woodsmen at Pine River, in the Sierra foothills 200 miles from Hillsborough. For this elaborately plotted and boldly executed crime, the kidnaper, kidnap-er, a German alien, received no $'00,000 as demanded in a beautifully beauti-fully phrased ransom note of 600 Words, but he got a black eye, a Just Kids A very large number of the Nazi fliers up over England were young kids in their teens. They had been raised under the totalitarian system, and had the reckless fanaticism of utter youth. Their only enthusiasm was Hitler. They almost courted death. The Nazi regime seemed to be deliberately exploiting these amateur am-ateur wild-men. Their bombs might almost be termed: gifts to the school-children of London, from the high school boys of Berlin (or Bres-lau, Bres-lau, or Augsburg, or whatever). No regime in history, said one historian, had ever sacrificed youth in this completely cold-blooded manner that is, its own youth. The Goering flying circus might well be renamed I the Goering suicide squad. I More Kids The London press screamed "murder" "mur-der" at the announcement by the British government of the sinking of an English refugee ship with a toll of 293 persons, 83 of whom were children en route to Canada. The ship, her name not disclosed, was torpedoed 600 miles west of England and sank in a stormy sea within 20 minutes after she was attacked. at-tacked. Of 406 men, women, and children aboard, only 113 were brought back alive by a warship which reached the scene at dawn almost eight hours after the torpedo struck. Stories Sto-ries of heroism and horror told by survivors of the disaster indicated that many lives were lost in the terrific ter-rific explosion which ripped the vessel. ves-sel. Many others were swept from lifeboats or died of injuries and exposure. ex-posure. The children were from 5 to 15 years old, and were the first lost in the child evacuation movements I J ' S ' 1 f J ! I : ,- y tt I I N. X 1 RUMANIA: Transylvania Rumania was settling down, under the anti-Carol dictatorship of Gen. John Antonescu, who had been locked up in a monastery until recently. re-cently. Antonescu helped to chase Carol out of the country, with his hated, red-headed girl-pal Lupescu. Then it turned out that Carol and Lupescu were married, and had been since perhaps 1929. This news cheered the Mrs. Grundy's of the entire world. Antonescu's new Rumania was pro-Nazi and anti-Jewish. It had lost about two-thirds of its territory: Bessarabia and Bukovina to Russia, Transylvania to Hungary, and the southern part of the Dubruja province prov-ince to little Bulgaria. Antonescu didn't care for all this. The Rumanians Ru-manians accused the Hungarians of committing all sorts of atrocities in Transylvania province as they marched in. The Hungarian-Rumanian Hungarian-Rumanian tension seemed scheduled to go on forever. The Germans and Italians had Jorced Rumania to cede territory to Hungary and the Bulgarians. Now, the Rumanians began to talk about Germany and Italy forcing the Hungarians, Hun-garians, etc., etc., to cede territory back to them. Meanwhile, Rumanian Ruman-ian oil exports to Germany were soaring. The best high-test airplane gas comes from the Rumanian wells and today one can consider Rumania which have been under way ever since the war began. The attacking submarine was not identified, but the tragedy was described de-scribed by government officials as "another example of the barbarous methods associated with Nazi Germany." Ger-many." CAMPAIGN: Spirit of 1776-' 40 The drumj beat. The bugles blared, the fifes tooted, the crowds cheered, the urchins ducked in and out, while women fainted, and candidates can-didates kissed babies, and wrapped themselves in the old red, white and blue bunting. The electoral campaign cam-paign of 1940 still was in progress. The latest Gallup poll galloped all over Mr. Willkie's chances. It told the following sad tale that is for MARC DE TRISTAN JR. Back home, safe and sound. gashed head, a bruised body, and he faces almost certain imprisonment imprison-ment for life. The lumbermen, Cecil Ce-cil Wetzel and Ellis Woods, violently manhandled him when they found him and the child in an automobile on a dead-end road. THE WAR: Aerialistics The British said it would take Hitler Hit-ler 40 years to wipe out London, at the present rate of progress. But at the same rate of progress, the German air force might be wiped out in 40 weeks. For the first time, just the same, a funny thing happened. The Brit- and today one can consider Rumania as General Goering's "kept" filling station. CHALLENGE: Duello uGen?veraI Goerin flying chief of the Third Reich, was up over Lon-don Lon-don in his own Junkers 88 bomber Goering was the former command er of the Richthofen flying circus in the first world war, and an ace of great renown. Like many an old war horse, in the second world war he couldn't keep his hands off the controls. It was the first time in a very long time, that a general led his own troops into battle. Goering may be the black eagle of Germany Ri.t ish and Germans both admitted that the other side had outshot them. The British said they had lost at a ratio of 7 to 4. The Germans said they had lost at a ratio of 3 to 1. This was completely unprecedented, not only in the checkered annals of Anglo-German warfare in the clouds, but also in Sino-Japanese, Jap-Russian, and Spanish civil conflicts. Nobody No-body could quite figure it out. It seemed peculiar. The big question, which vexed the critics, was whether the Germans would actually try a land invasion of England this fall. There were all sorts of stories. The royal air force bombed alleged German troop concentrations along the channel coast, and in Norway. They damaged dam-aged flat-boats and similar equipment. equip-ment. Whether this equipment was merely a blind, or not, remained to be seen. There was a yarn that 200,000 Nazis were massed in Norway, for a drive across. Some critics declared de-clared that the light German tank had proved utterly vulnerable to the two-pounder British anti-tank gun. This, they added, had caused Hitler to delay his invasion, and might postpone it indefinitely. That, again, remained to be seen. CANDIDATE McNARY Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Nomi-nee McNary is pictured as he spoke at Aurora, III opening his Midwest campaign. He engaged in a bitter attack at-tack on the Hull reciprocal trade agreements. Henry Wallace, Democratic Demo-cratic candidate jor the same post, has already toured this section oj the country coun-try and is busy elsewhere upholding his parly's cause. the Grande Olde Partisans. According Accord-ing to Gallup, Roosevelt would get 37 states and 453 electoral votes. According to the same Mr. Gallup,' i-ianem lew York city's Negro section-has a Et rnl RgKet0 HiS aUgUSt "am s Col Hubert Fauntleroy Julian. Ju. an had just finished reading Hit- IZZ Kk; l'Mein Kamp1'" Juan's blood boiled over, at Hitler's remarks re-marks on the colored race. This is what happened: Colonel Julian issued a challenge to General Goering, to meet him in a smgle, solitary combat. The channeTVh?6 "P Enh channel. The weapons were to be Messerschmitt planes. Colonel Ju! wuuue would get 10 states and 78 electoral votes. This did not look any too encouraging for the Willkisti. Said an old cynic: "This is one golf game where the caddies are going to beat the country-club members." The Republicans, of course, failed to agree with this estimate. Sam Pryor, director of the eastern division divi-sion of the Republican national committee, com-mittee, couldn't endorse the Gallup estimate. Pryor thought that Will-kie Will-kie would get 300 or more electoral votes, leaving Roosevelt with 231 or less. Pryor added that about two-thirds two-thirds of the country editors were for Willkie, and that these editors conceded Willkie more than half of the popular votes in their editorial districts. Etc., Etc. Each side accused the other side of dictatorial ambitions. The Democrats Dem-ocrats said the Willkisti were planning plan-ning a "fascist" big-business dictatorship, dicta-torship, while the Republicans said the Rooseveltens were scheming a personal sort of "war" dictatorship Earl Browder wanted the dictatorship dictator-ship of the proletariat, and that left only Norman Thomas, whom one prominent literary critic described as a 1940 streamlined Jefferson But nobody expected many votes for Mr. Thomas, and perhaps he didn't either. , general Goerinff was a "lousy 0 divided by 0." Goer "lg was ,' haTve 30 days in which to accept the JuJian challenge. The cha lenge itself read as follows I therefore challenge and defy you, Herman Goering, as head o the Nazi air force, to meet m JO.000 feet, to fight anTer aue to avenge the cowardly insult to my added tha, hould buT Mess schrmtt from the British govern ment. whtch hai two captured ones up for sa!e. Colonel Julian over looked one detail. General GoerTns s probably too fat to get in, Messerschmitt. g UUo a Julian was Haile Selassie's onk flier in the Ethiopian war 1 BRITISH TROUBLE: Egypt The Italians came out of Trir L.bya, and started to invade Fv !" up the long coastline. Ah-eadf T'' had conquered British Sn- , h y down in East Africa The S Egypt were slowly rpfr n!'Sh This would sever th- i canat- |