WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS U. U S. S Senate Passes Men and Property Draft Bill as Defense Program Spurts Retarded Blitzkrieg Credited to Spain Duce Whips Up Hate Against Greece EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE when NOTE When opinions opinion are In these thu column the they are re those of the Ua news newt analyst analI n and not no of this Ihli newspaper by Western Newspaper tt Union i This Nazi Nail plane Is II used to lo help buy more British fighters A little i British girl Is contributing to the led Ked Cross fund after aeter paying her admission admission ad ad- mission to 0 view a German 1 plane lane which was shot down near When the Germans bombed the town tows one attacking plane which was wal hit landed In good condition It was put on display by the Red Ked Cross to raise money for the Croydon Spitfire fund Spectators pay pa six alx pence to 0 look at It CONSCRIPTION Men eilen and Property Climaxing 14 days of t debate in which a coalition of at administration administration- and Republicans overcame the opposition of an conscription anti anti bloc the senate senat passed the Burke Burke- Wadsworth conscription bill after atter inserting In in- in inserting an amendment authorizing the government to draft private In Industrial industrial in- in plants when such action is 15 necessary to Insure production of defense defense de de- de- de tense ma materials The roll call vote was 58 to 31 31 Proponents of at the amendment argued that if you conscript con script manpower you must conscrIpt conscript conscript con con- script property too The draft measure would require men between the ages of 21 and 31 to register for a year of compulsory military training Endorsed Endorsed En En- unequivocally by President Roosevelt as an integral part of ot his rearmament measure measure meas meas- ure the bill went to the house of representatives where a fight loomed to raise the age bracket to 21 to 45 45 ln in effect doubling the reservoir reservoir res res- of potential draftees Wendell Wendell lendell Wen len dell Willkie during the week had come out for a draft bill blU now which helped kill delay attempts by bythe bythe bythe the Isolationist group The senate acted less than 24 hours after the President signed the National Guard mobilization bill authorizing authorizing au au- au him to call out state militiamen and army reserves for a year of active service The first contingent of may be mobilized mobilized beginning September 15 IS DEFENSE More and more speed peed is the tempo in U. U S. S military preparations The National Defense commission let contracts for airplanes The army now has on order President Roosevelt also named a six man board which met with a similar Canadian board to survey joint defense plans Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of ot New York is chairman Women in the News Miss 1 Betsy Ross year old flier of at Lebanon Pa established a new altitude record for light tight planes With a horse 65 power engine she reached feet Lady Haw lIaw Haw lIaw is the name of an American woman who is broadcasting propaganda to U. U U S. S from Berlin much as Lord Haw flaw Haw liaw nightly talks to England Friends of ot Constance Drexel former for mer mar Philadelphia newspaper newspaperwoman newspaperwoman newspaperwoman woman who was last located In Germany writing pro Hitler articles arti artl dies des claim dalm to have recognized her voice Princess Elizabeth who some someday someday someday day may succeed to the throne of ot England celebrated her thir thir- thirteenth thirteenth birthday with plain sponge cake Icing was missing because of the sugar ugar rations Mrs J J. J Borden Harriman U U. U S. S minister to Oslo and Crown Princess Martha of at Norway arrived arrived ar rived in New York on the U U. U S. S army transport American Legion The ship had passed through waters wa Germany declared as mined Washington had informed Berlin it would hold Germany responsible ble for the ships ship's security ESCAPE for Children After weeks of debate congress passed paned legislation authorizing us use of American v vessels sels to bring child war refugees to America The measure requires that before any vessel makes the trip aU all belligerents must guarantee the mercy ship will not be attacked Also Iso American foster parents parenti must guarantee the children will not become public charges l. l Number ot of children to be admitted is fixed by the immigration quota DETOUR Hitler Late Delay of Adolf Hitler Hiller in arriving In England is attributed in Washington Washing Washing- ton to Spain Plan was for General Franco to attack Gibraltar first That would seal British ships in the Mediterranean and make them unavailable unavailable un available to battle Nazi transports In in the channel Franco began a press campaign to work up the Spanish people toward toward to to- toward ward this end He had bad students march in the streets crying for tor Gi GI- GI- GI But just then a British mission arrived in Madrid It promIsed promised prom prom- Franco food for his people Immediately Immediately immediately im Im- Im- Im mediately and a share in control of at Gibraltar after the war Franco hurriedly sent a delegation delegation tion to Berlin to get a counter otter offer He decided to play both ends Its It's an old Spanish custom Meanwhile Hitler's blitzkrieg was stalled SHELL GAME On the Beaches Super-guns Super capable of at shooting tremendous ranges long have been hinted to be Germanys Germany's much her her secret weapon So when shells began falling failing on the British Dover cuffs cliffs thousands of f residents packed their wol worldly Idly goods and anil scampered inland However the distance from Dover Dover Do Do- Dover ver to the gun emplacements on the French coast is hardly more than 20 miles Most modern powers have coastal guns that will shoot that dis dis- tance They are the same 12 and 14 inch 14 i h guns guns carried on battleships The German shelling didn't last long British guns with the same range opened up on the German em em- placements In the Air Raids by Marshal Goering's Luft wane on British industrial and military military mili mill tary centers grew progressively heavier Gradually more attention was being paid to London and the visits extended as long as six and seven hours High explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped and the air ministry admitted the toll toU of casualties and property damage was growing Fires swept over fashionable fashionable fashion fashion- able West End as 81 well as the poorer workingmen's sections The British returned the calls promptly In murky flying weather they dropped in on Berlin several nights in succession Heavy explosions explosions were heard on Unter den Linden Linden Lin Lin- den Berlins Berlin's Broadway The German German Ger Ger- man war office said however only suburban spots had been hit and the central city was untouched