| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. C Wayne House an and Senate Set e 35 21 Age e Limit In n Draft rat Bill Volunteer Plan an Dropped Total Air it War Blasts London Area 32 Killed in in Munitions Plant ant Explosion EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE When NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns they are arc those of 01 the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper Released by Western Newspaper Union i J DRAFT In November Prospects are that no American youth will be conscripted into army service until after election Just before before before be be- fore the house passed the draft bill by a vote of to and announcement announcement announcement an an- to this effect was made by Representative Wadsworth R. R N N. N Y co-author co of the bill To make sure of this however the house inserted an amendment e jU CoL Lewis B. B Hershey pictured here Jere now nOlo head of the joint army and navy natY committee in charge of selective service Jenice plans who more than likely will become the power behind the draft after the conscription machinery gets un un- While Phile a civilian may be named titular head of the draft Col Hershey will contribute a major share of the work since he has spent pent four years ears cars developing draft plans sponsored by Representative Fish R. R N. N Y to postpone peacetime draft for 60 days while the President President President dent appealed for volunteers The house bill differed in two other essentials from the measure passed by the senate The senate called for an age limit of 21 to 30 inclusive sive The house wanted registration tion extended to 45 years in order to get a greater number of trained mechanics The house also modified the draft industry amendment so that factories where owners refused defense contracts would be taken over by the government on lease or rental The senate called for seizure seizure seiz seiz- ure and operation Ironing out the differences house and senate conferees agreed upon I a bill that 1 fixed the age limit at 21 to 35 years inclusive 2 modified modified modified modi modi- fied the plant seizure amendment and 3 eliminated the day 60 volunteer volunteer volunteer volun volun- teer plan Wendell Vendell Willkie G. G O. O P. P presidential presidential presidential nominee added his opposition opposition opposition tion to that of President Roosevelt on the day 60 delay amendment MUNITIONS I Disaster In what was declared to be the worst disaster in the history of the American munitions industry 32 persons were known dead 22 missing missing missing miss miss- ing also believed to have perished and persons were injured in a series of shaking earth-shaking explosions which destroyed the Hercules Powder Powder Powder Pow Pow- der company's Kenvil N. N J. J plant While the cause of the blast was not immediately determined federal feder feder- al state and local authorities began immediate investigations because the plant was busy at work on United United United Unit Unit- ed States defense orders EGYPT Offensive Italy's long awaited offensive aga against English forces in Egypt got under way as artillery fire rumbled up and down the Libya Egypt-Libya bor bor- der Fresh Italian troops moved up near the border as British and Italian Italian Italian Ital Ital- ian flyers clashed in the first exchange exchange exchange ex ex- ex- ex change of military blows on this front Observers were of the opinion opinion opinion ion that Italy was really beginning to play her role in the Battle of Britain This role consists mainly in diverting the attention of the English English English Eng Eng- lish to some other quarter while Hitler's Hitler's Hitler's Hit Hit- lers ler's attempt at an invasion of the British isles is carried out Egypt is an ally of Britain but as yet has not declared war with the axis pow pow- ers As soon as the Italian forces slash very deeply into Egyptian territory territory territory ter ter- ter- ter this declaration is expected THE TIIE WAR AR London Battered In the third fifty-third week of the war Nazi air power began the pro long claimed action which it declared would end in British surrender or orthe orthe orthe the destruction of the worlds world's largest city Previous raids and previous bombings bombings bombings bomb bomb- ings were as nothing Hermann W. W Goering from a safe seat in France personally took charge of the operations Thousands of ot gigantic bombers were sent across the channel in to waves at 30 minute intervals All were aimed at London seat scat of the British em em- pire Alarms continued from dusk until dawn Even in daylight while air precaution wardens were digging helpless from the debris left the night before new planes arrived They dropped incendiary bombs which set great fires and led the night fliers to their targets through blackouts Gone now was raiding only of defense defense defense de de- de- de points and industries Except for Cor German propaganda sources none challenged the announcement that purely residential areas were being subjected to devastating ex ex- ex- ex In world-famous world Fleet street home of the greatest British newspapers some of the largest buildings in the city were wrecked Hospitals were wrecked subways demoralized gas mains broken and andset andset andset set afire In a two-day two period the British admitted killed and 2500 s z ti y y 9 w d z i 1 V J Jr r i I KING GEORGE VI Strain o of f almost constant air raids raich on England are telling on the bO boyish h face of Britain's monarch pictured here as ashe ashe ashe he chatted with a workman at aircraft factory which he 1 visited sited recently maimed Even as they made the announcement the bombardments grew worse Morale A delayed action bomb struck a section of Buckingham palace the royal residence No one was in in- Objective of the terror was to undermine undermine undermine un un- un- un dermine the morale of the ordinary citizen Berlin said when this was accomplished the Churchill cabinet would fall and a new cabinet willing willing willing will will- ing to deal with the Reich would take its place In the battered torn shell-torn city however the first day of the raids showed no loss of determination to hold out The king visited a slum section where bombs had ripped great craters in the street where homes of hundreds had been torn to bits Out of the window of a house still standing a woman shouted Are we downhearted And the crowd gathered around the king cried No The king smiled That night there were worse bomb bomb- ings Retaliation British fliers reported by the German German German Ger Ger- man air arm to be reduced to in ineffective ineffective ineffective in- in effective operation were still able to get into the air and fight Moreover Moreover Moreover More More- over they went visiting on their own Docks at Hamburg ports along the channel coast in Denmark and Norway Norway Norway Nor Nor- way were given a treatment of aerial bombardments The British air ministry said the retaliation wasso wasso was wasso so severe that the areas could not be used by the Germans to launch a land invasion Nightly there were air raid alarms in Berlin too At least one bomb was dropped on the Reichstag building building building build build- ing seat of Hitler's stamp rubber-stamp parliament APPO APPOINTMENTS Labor Board Charles Fahy spoken soft council of the National Labor Relations board was promoted by President Roosevelt to assistant solicitor gen gen- eral The man who piloted the NLRB through five years of injunction injunction injunction tion battles and Supreme court tests now goes to the office offia which prepares prepares prepares pre pre- pares the governments government's side in hearings hearings hearings hear hear- ings before the nations nation's highest judicial judicial judicial ju ju- ju- ju tribunal I ii Y fJ 1 k |
