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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Roger Shaw 16,500,000 Will Register for Draft On October 16, as President Signs Bill; U. S. Political Campaign Warming Up; Nazis Continue 'Hammering' London (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) ipu-..H by Western Newspaper Hninn HORRORS: In Jersey . ; - T - i V - I - i " "1 r: it ere are ftree o the injured victims CONSCRIPTION: Ready, Set .' Congress passed and sent to the President the Burke-Wadsworth military mil-itary conscription bill, which provides pro-vides that all male citizens between the ages of 21 and 36 will be required re-quired to register for possible service serv-ice with the armed forces. Two days later the President signed the biU into law. Under present plans, such registration regis-tration wili take place on October 16, 1940, with 400,000 trainees sched- THE WAR: Hammers The war had taken this turn. It was the hammer of Thor, wielded by Hitler, beating down on the more or less solid English anvil. The whole struggle had boiled down into an anvil chorus. Its reverberations shook the world. When a hammer hits an anvil, one of several things can happen. Either Ei-ther the anvil eventually cracks, or the hammer Anally shivers in the hands of the blacksmith. Never does uled to be dressed in khaki by the end of the year. Seventy-five thousand thou-sand will probably enter service about the middle of November with subsequent quotas of 100,000 or 125,-000 125,-000 until the 400,000 mark is reached. ! The much-debated Fish amend- ment to the measure, which provided pro-vided for a 60-day volunteer plan before the draft would be invoked, was dropped before the law was finally final-ly passed. The Russell amendment which provides for the "drafting" of industry was modified somewhat in the final act but under its terms the nation will have power to "take over" (lease) manufacturing plants if the owners fail to co-operate properly prop-erly in the scheme of national defense. de-fense. Draft boards will be set up in of the Kenvil, New Jersey, munitions plant blast, pictured shortly after they I were struck by flying glass. Thirty buildings were left in ruins at Kenvil, N. J. The FBI was called in with a quick rush. Some $2,000,-000 $2,000,-000 worth of U. S. government work was disrupted. Close to 50 were dead, and 200 were injured. It was all caused by a series of hideous explosions at the Hercules Power company, where 66,000 tons of smokeless powder "detonated" with a series of dull thuds. Nazi sympathizers were blamed i for it. and members of the Dies committee com-mittee were sent to the scene of carnage. There was open talk of sabotage. The Nazi bund has a camp at Andover, about 12 miles from Kenvil. Later this camp was raided by authorities. Whatever the J?f Jiit J - f J 1! I x This nonchalant London gent, who is taking in his milk from the doorstep door-step is typical of many Englishmen today. While the constant bombing raids naturally upset the daily routine, the English (according to British news sources) are attempting to adjust their lives accordingly and still hew as closely as possible to the "normal" way of doing things. an irresistible force meet an immovable im-movable object. Hitler might hammer England, until his air force began to weaken. That was perfectly possible. But, if Hitler turned himself into an anvil, an-vil, how could the English anvil turn itself into a hammer? The hammer may not be able to crack the anvil. But the anvil can seldom, if ever, hammer the hammer. That was what puzzled the critics. England might very possibly defend itself, but how could it strike back, to defeat de-feat Germany? If Germany could not cross 20 miles of water to invade a small island, how could little England Eng-land counter-invade, to conquer a whole continent? What would Churchill's striking force be? each community to handle the regis- X WILLIAM KNUDSEN V. S. Defense De-fense Commission production chairman chair-man and MA. GEN. H. H. ARNOLD, air corps chief, are pictured inspect- t ing a P-40, Allison-powered pursuit truth, it was a bad business all round, and more than equalled the contemporary air raids over London and Berlin. In fact, little Kenvil stole the headlines from the spires of Westminster, and the dome of St. Paul's. Ill REICH: World's Fair ' The long arm of the III reich reached out to Long Island, where the World's fair aquabellies out over many acres. The German "protector" "protec-tor" for Bohemia-Moravia what used to be Czechoslovakia, in part ordered the Czechoslovak pavilion at the fair to send "home" the products prod-ucts of some 35 Czech firms. The Czech commissioner-general is named George Janacek. Mr. Jana-cek Jana-cek refused to comply with Baron Von Neurath's command. Said Janacek: Jan-acek: "To obey would actually be taking recognition of the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. I will seJJ as many of the exhibits as I can," added the Patriotic Mr. Janacek, whose joy it is (and no wonder) to defy Mr. Hitler. He added that the 35 Czech firms in question were "under duress." The 300,000 German soldiers and plane during a visit to the Curliss-Wright Curliss-Wright plants at Buffalo, New York. Knudsen stated after a nationwide tour of aircraft plants that U. S. military mili-tary forces would be equipped with 19,000 new fighting planes by April 1, 1942. tration of the 16,500,000 men affected. af-fected. DEATH: Anvils The British blockade is one force. How much it can accomplish in revolt re-volt in Germany would be another. But there were no signs of revolt in Germany, and the iron grip of whippet whip-pet tanks precluded revolt in the seven subject states and nations. na-tions. Would Russia act as the English Eng-lish hammer? Otherwise it might drag on as a deadlock between two anvils, neither of which was equipped with a heavy-enough hammer. ham-mer. In the meantime London was being bombarded mercilessly and invasion threatened from day to day. Buckingham palace was no more immune from Nazi bombs than London's "east end." PARADOX: What a Shame The British aviators, over Berlin, gutted the famous local Jewish Home for the Aged. Luckily, no-body no-body was hurt. The same day, the royal air force just missed the luxurious lux-urious home of Joseph Goebbels, German propaganda minister, one 50,000 Gestapo men who are holding hold-ing down the Czechs would tend to agree with Mr. Janacek. YOUTH: In Flying Boots Here's a couple of good ones, out of Canada, where men are men, and some people are credulous. It seems, according to Ontario sources, that the German" fliers over England are mostly 15 and 16 years old, and that the five-man German bombers are being maneuvered by not more than a rouple of kids, still in their teens. To cap the climax, a Toronto source declared as follows: A German Ger-man plane was shot down somewhere some-where in England. In the plane were found the bodies of the operating operat-ing crew. The operating crew consisted con-sisted of two little girls. These news gems are gleanings from what the boys abroad write home to the old folks. It is aU of the same ilk as "Paolo" Revere (Revere's snorting steed was probably named "II Duce"). Two Party Leaders On the same day death came to an outstanding leader in each of the nation's leading political parties. Speaker of the House William B. Bankhead died of an internal hemorrhage after an illness of a week and Dr. Glenn Frank, former president of the University of Wisconsin Wis-consin and a candidate for the United Unit-ed States senate in that state's current cur-rent primary election, was killed in an auto crash near Greenleaf, Wis. Dr. Frank's son, Glenn Jr., 21, a newspaper reporter, was killed in the same accident. Sixty-six years old, William Bank- head had served as speaker since 1936. He was the third to die in that office during the Roosevelt administration. ad-ministration. He had been a house member since 1917. Dr. Frank was 52 years old at the time of his death. He had been a Republican party adviser, educator and author. He was chairman of his party's policy committee and was seeking senatorial nomination on the Republican ticket. I of Nazidom's most unsavory fig. ures. The R. A. F. had hit Jewish property, and it missed that of the No. 1 Jew-baiter. What a paradox, and what a shame. Modern air warfare war-fare is, indeed, hit-and-run war in the dark, YEAR 1940: Campaign Wendell Willkie invaded the natal town of the powerful Kelly-Nash political po-litical machine, the home of the Democratic national convention last July, Chicago. Willkie was greeted by half a million mil-lion people, and at once attacked the New Deal in four snappy addresses. ad-dresses. He spoke to the stockyards, stock-yards, to the Negroes, to the Western West-ern Electric, and in South Chicago At one point, he became so preoccupied pre-occupied that he didn't recognize Mrs. Willkie. when she confronted him. Said Willkie: "Let me say to you if you elect me President of the United States, no American boys will ever be sent to the shambles of the European trenches." Then he said: "There are a lot of people in 'the country who had better do all they can to beat me, because the penitentiary jaws are going to open to some of them." Just the same his enemies said that he straddled some issues. He had disappointed many mid-western Republicans by endorsing conscription conscrip-tion and the 50-destroyer deal with Mr. Churchill, some claimed. REVERE: Call Me Paolo The Italian press came out with a brand-new one. They said that Paul Revere was a good, Anglo-hating Italian. They said that his first name was really Paolo. They said that this patriotic Paolo Revere was born in sunny Italia, in 1735 This A3 - as ,a complete surprise to American historians, the poor dopes The dopey American historicals had believed that Paul (Paol0) had been born in Boston, Mass.. in 1735 His father was Apollos de Revoire who came to Boston from the Brit: h island of Guernsey (now occup ed by - the Germans) where they still speak Norman French Paul Revere was of French Hugue not stock. His silver-smith father anglicized the family narne, ..J y on account, that the bumpkins should pronounce it easier." G B S: Shaw Speaks George Bernard Shaw, the mnrt em English Shakespeare, add his countrymen to woo the Ru as quick as they could 0RusS,ans out that Winston ChurchiuLtg Churchill had chad3 He pointed out thai ru , ews- declared Lenm fZTzr man. ery BfQaX |
