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Show T0m Washington, D. C. BUNDISTS EMPLOYED IN DEFENSE PLANTS Dies committee agents have i secretly se-cretly warned government author -ties to be on guard against an out break of sabotage in defense plants on the West coast. According to the Die s-men biggest big-gest U. S. danger spot is Los Angeles, Ange-les, where Nazi and Communist fifth columnists have been unusually active ac-tive of late. The Los Angeles area contains one of the largest concentrations concen-trations of defense work in the coun-try coun-try One reason for the D-men's fear was their discovery of a secret mailing mail-ing list of 2,500 names in a raid on the Los Angeles headquarters of the German-American Bund. Herman Schwinn, West coast Bund fuehrer, admitted, under questioning, that the list consisted of Nazi sympathizers who regularly attended Bund meetings. meet-ings. A check-up of the names revealed the startling fact that 800 of them are employed in airplane plants, shipyards, oil refineries, auto factories fac-tories and other key defense industries. indus-tries. SPANISH BRIBE The career clique of fascist-minded appeasers inside the state department de-partment has dwindled in size and strength since Europe's tragic history his-tory proved the fallacy of their course in Spain. However, they are Still strong enough to urge a loan (or gift) of $100,000,000 from the Export-Import Export-Import bank to General Franco, dictator dic-tator of Spain. Furthermore, it may he that the I career clique will get away with it. They urge that the hundred millions mil-lions be advanced to Spain in order to keep Franco from coming into the war against England. They claim that if Spain has enough food, the country will remain neutral. And it is the British, whose fumbling in Spain was even more responsible than ours for the present danger to Gibraltar, who now want the United States to bail them out with a hundred hun-dred million dollars. Confidential military reports from Spain, however, indicate three things: first, the Spanish people are so fed up with three years of bloody civil war that they won't fight in any foreign war not of their choosing; choos-ing; second, Spain is so badly defended de-fended that her harbors would be easy targets for the British fleet; third, the Spanish people actually are near revolt, which is the secret reason why Franco wants the hundred hun-dred million. Without food, the old Loyalist government might come back again. In other words, it looks as if the career clique inside the state department de-partment is still trying to keep in power the man they secretly backed during the Spanish civil war. CRACK IN THE SOUTH The Solid South was cracked in the recent election, but not by a Republican. It was the work of a Nashville, Tenn., Democrat, in the only hard-fought congressional battle bat-tle in the entire South. Hero of the saga was J. Percy Priest, crack newsman of the Nashville Nash-ville Tennessean, who, running as an Independent, unseated two - term Rep. Joseph W. Byrns Jr., son of the late speaker of the house of representatives. Priest defeated Byrns although the district hadn't elected anyone but a regular Democrat since the Civil war, and although he committed commit-ted the faux pas of failing to register regis-ter so he could vote. Priest, however, had other strong advantages on his side. For many, years he has been his paper's "good will" reporter, attending barbecues, fairs, graduations and civic gatherings. gather-ings. Practically everybody in the district knows "Perce" Priest personally. per-sonally. Also, Byrns, first elected as a New Dealer, had chalked up a near perfect anti-Roosevelt record. Priest also made much of the fact that Byrns' speech against the draft bill had won thunderous applause from the Republicans. Nashville generally is strong for national defense de-fense and FDR. So while Byrns won renomination, he found a real fight on his hands when Priest threw his hat into the ring as an Indcpend-ent, Indcpend-ent, Byrns sent out a frantic SOS to How?, rtC"eTeS Snd ReP' S Hobbs dashed up from Alabama to stump for him. But it was no go. Byrns was defeated in the only Dem-ocratic Dem-ocratic upset in the entire South Notc-Pricsfs constituency ls known as the "Hermitage district,'" because it was the home of President Presi-dent A,drew Jackson patronP- of the Democratic party. The new congressman is 40 years old and unmarried. a . EXIT JOE KENNEDY Intimates of Ambassador Joe Ken-nedy Ken-nedy -re otTering bpts Z m not return to the Court of S James's. While publicly Joe has consider it. n fused to i-rs have been made to him II.. terr d- bu, |