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Show THE LEW SUN. LEHI, UTAH W&tigj STj Faces About Town: Senator Bob Wagner and kin standing in the long queue in front of the Rivoli for almost al-most 30 minutes to see "Foreign Correspondent" . . . Ralph Bellamy Bella-my wearing a Roosevelt button in Jimmy Kelly's place, which is not only smart but safe in Kelly's . . . Gypsy Rose Lee reading the first 15 pages of her first book, "The G-String Murder" to Life photogger Eliot Elisofon, in the Stawklib. Dou-bleday-Doran will pay her 20 cents per $2 copy . . . Leelee Pons, with tan from Honolulu , . . Broadway's Broad-way's own Wilkie (Mahoney) who ghosts B. Bemie's quips . . . Billy Rose, Franchot Tone, Myron Selz-nick Selz-nick and other leather-lungers talking talk-ing at once in Moore's and not one listening to the other. Sallies in Our Alley: Judge Jean Nathan, the fussy first-nighter, was in one of those heated discussions in the Algonk dining room when owner Frank Case passed. "What's Mr. Nathan so excited about?" he inquired of a waiter . . . "He's talking talk-ing about the war," was the reply, "he doesn't seem to like it!" . . Milton Berle, who has inherited the late J. Osterman's col'm in Variety, was gleeful over the assignment. "Imagine," he imagined, "I've written writ-ten only one column and I'm booked for Loew's State already!" . . . Clive Howard's definition of an aging ag-ing ham (one who never played the Palace): "A would-be Has-Been" . . .' And then there's the one about the Stock Exchange messenger who was held up in broad daylight and robbed ... Of 35 Willkie buttons! Midtown Vignette: It happened recently re-cently at the Hurricane, weeks before be-fore Betty Allen took over Xs. Ethel Merman role in "DuBarry vTas a Lady" . . . Betty's lifetime ambition ambi-tion was to appear on Broadway . . . When she warbled at the Park Centralthat Cen-tralthat was on Seventh avenue and "DuBarry" is on Forty-sixth street, a whole half block from the Grandest Canyon . . . And then came the chance at the Hurricane for only five nights, but it was Broadway at last! . . . Well, her premiere night was glorious . . . Telegrams from everybody in "DuBarry," "Du-Barry," and friends sent posies and fellers sent good wishes and they all came and packed the place, too , . . What a thrilling night it was for her . . . After the show (she stopped it cold) they hugged her in person and she was the toast of the town . . . Then everybody went places with their boy friends and Betty wound up the loneliest gal in town because nobody asked for a date. New Yorchids: The way Dinah Shore renders "I'll Never Srnil Again" at the Paramount . . . The Ink Spots' Decca-ration, "We Three" . . . Hugh Bradley's book click: "Such Was Saratoga," which got 105 swelegant reviews . . , Var-ga's Var-ga's lovely blonde in black stepins in the September 15 Esquire . . . Warner's "City for Conquest," Cag- I ney s next . . . Ceciha Ager s literary lit-erary lace on a new film-flop: "It's a heavy light comedy, elfin like an elephant. It capers, trips and falls flat on its face, gets up, falls down and gives up." Broadway Ballad: He was a wealthy Englishman, prowling around the world for fun. She was a smart Broadway showgirl, prowling prowl-ing around him for profit . . . They met in Montreal, where she was fea tured in a night club, and he fell so hard 'or her that you could have heard his monocle drop ... He lavished her with goodies a brace let, a diamond ring and a proposal, not a proposition . . . Her mother, the stage variety, came up from New York to "manage" the affair . . . Then Came The War and his income from England was suddenly stopped by foreign exchange regula tions . . . Her maw yanked her back to New York bracelet, ring and all ... He was left in Montreal broke and brokenhearted . . . For weeks the nightclubs in which he was a good spender "carried" him for meals, while his frantic love-letters to her remained ignored . . . Finally Final-ly he wrote asking for the return of his engagement ring; its pawnshop value might help him pay his rent . . No answer ... In desperation despera-tion he went to the American consul and told his story . . . The consul sent on the information, and today mamma and daughter are in custody custo-dy of the United States for "smuggling "smug-gling a diamond bracelet and ring across the border"! Broadway Casanova says the trouble trou-ble with getting stuck on some other oth-er guy's gal is that you're liable to get stuck with her. Add literary lace, the authorship of which eludes us now: "A, political platform is just like the one on the back of the street car not meant to stand on, just to get in on" . . . E. Cuneo's: "When you see the Vermont Ver-mont hills you look at God Himself!" Him-self!" ... A truck driver's sassy retort to a pedestrian who yelled curses for almost being run down: "Take it easy. Greasy!" . . . Senator Sen-ator Tydings' comment in congress about conscription: "I would rather have it and not need it, thin need it and not have it!" . - BRITAIN, U. S. WOO RUSSIA WASHINGTON, D. C Behind-the-scenes talks are still continuing between be-tween the state department and Russian Rus-sian Ambassador Oumansky with a view to putting relations between the two countries on a more even keel, and perhaps evolving a little teamwork in regard to Japan. But the talks aren't getting far. Simultaneously, Sir Stafford Cripps, British ambassador in Moscow, Mos-cow, has been doing his best to win the Russians over to the British side. If Stalin should mass his Red army near the Hitler sphere of influence in-fluence in the Balkans, it might slow up the Nazi air attack upon England. So Sir Stafford's negotiations in Moscow are a matter of life and death. However, they aren't getting far either. The Russians have been letting Sir Stafford go out on the leash just so far, then they bring him up abruptly. Just what goes on in the mind of Stalin, or Hitler either for that matter, mat-ter, is like doping out what goes on in the mind of the Sphinx. But there are certain signs that Hitler is facing fac-ing more and more toward the west and may have given up his old designs de-signs on the east and Russia. There are also signs that Stalin believes this to be true. For instance, the settlement of Germans in the new German-seized Poland has not been successful. The Germans don't seem to like moving into Slav areas. Furthermore, the Pan-German group seems to be dominant in Berlin. For years there have been two schools of German thought in the Berlin foreign office and the war ministry, one believing that Germany's Ger-many's future lay in moving into Russia, the other that it lay in dominating dom-inating western Europe. At present the latter group seems to be influencing influ-encing Hitler. Their plan is to create, a peasant state in France and the other Latin countries of Spain and Italy. In France they have already removed all of the machinery from northern factories lock, stock and barrel. And it is significant that the part of France which the Nazis left unoccupied unoccu-pied is largely agricultural; so that it will be a long time before France ever is able to come back as an industrial country. Note Betting inside the diplomatic diplo-matic corps is that Hitler will move in on Russia when he gets ready, even if he does try to dominate western west-ern Europe first. COUGHLIN BACK AGAIN Father Coughlin is quietly planning plan-ning to stick his oar into the presidential presi-dential campaign with a new radio series to begin around October 15. But he is having a lot of trouble arranging contracts with stations. Since the controversial nature of his talks bars him from the big networks, net-works, under the National Association Associa-tion of Broadcasters' code, the only course open for him is to buy time on individual stations for purely political po-litical speeches. This the radio priest is now trying to do. But he is encountering a lot of coolness among station owners. They are at a loss just how to classify clas-sify his fulminations, since his political po-litical support has been repudiated by Wendell Willkie, and he already is persona non grata with Roosevelt. Note Coughlin plans to broadcast by means of transcribed records over the individual stations. This is much cheaper than network broadcasting a possible tipoff that the cash isn't rolling into his coffers as it once did. CANADIAN riLOTS One matter discussed by the joint U. S.-Canadian defense board at its first meeting in Ottawa was the training of Canadian pilots in the United States this winter. Canada's severe weather makes winter training extremely difficult for aviators. As one Canadian board member expressed it, "Your worst weather conditions are better than our best." Also, Canada is seriously serious-ly handicapped by lack of training train-ing planes and instructors. The big pilot training program being be-ing conducted by the U. S. government govern-ment has made it hard for Canada to obtain trainer planes and instructors instruc-tors here. So the Dominion is eager to set up a large school somewhere in the U. S. South or Southwest where Canadian youths could receive flying fly-ing instruction this winter. If the necessary facilities can be obtained, Canada is ready to send 5,000 men south for training. All the costs would be borne by Canada. The only thing desired by Canada is the privilege of establishing establish-ing the school on U. S. soil. Note The U. S. army has trained military flyers from South American countries for several years, though only in very small numbers. MERRY-GO-ROUND Both Annapolis and West Point, at the suggestion of the President, will graduate their 1941 classes next February Feb-ruary instead of June. The war department will shortly install a civilian as head of its press division an important innovation. In the past, army officers have been assigned to this job. Newest decoration in the office of Bill Green, A. F. of L. president, is a handsome silk flag, the gift of the American Flag association. . . . i 1 I . 1 WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS House and Senate Set 21-35 Age Limit In Draft Bill, Drop Volunteer Plan; Total Air War Blasts London Area; 32 Killed in Munitions Plant Explosion (EDITOR'S NOTE When oplnionf are expressed In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily ol this newspaper.! p.inri by Western Newspaper Union. I. DRAFT: In November Prospects are that no American youth will be conscripted into army service until after election. Just before be-fore the house passed the draft bill by a vote of 185 to 155, and announcement an-nouncement to this effect was made by Representative Wadsworth (R., N. Y.) co-author of the bill. To make sure of this, however, the house inserted an amendment. Lieut. Col. Lewis B. Ilershey, pictured pic-tured here, now head of the joint army and navy committee in charge of selective se-lective service plans, who more than likely will become "the power behind the draft," after the conscription machinery ma-chinery gets underway. While a civilian may be named titular head of the draft, Col. Uershej will contribute a major share of the work since he has spent four years developing draft plans. sponsored by Representative Fish (R., N. Y.) to postpone peacetime draft for 60 days while the President Presi-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. inclu-sive. The house wanted registration registra-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 seiz-ure and operation. Ironing out the differences, house and senate conferees agreed upon a bill that, (1) fixed the age limit at 21 to 35 years inclusive, (2) modified modi-fied the plant seizure amendment, and (3) eliminatec4 the 60-day volunteer volun-teer plan. Wendell Willkie, G. O. P. presi dential nominee, added his opposition opposi-tion to that of President Roosevelt on the 60-day delay amendment. MUNITIONS: Disaster In what was declared to be the worst disaster in the history of the American munitions industry, 32 persons wet known dead, 22 miss ing (also believed to have perished) and 200 persons were injured in a series of earth-shaking explosions which destroyed the Hercules Pow der company's Kenvil, N. J., plant While the cause of the blast was not immediately determined, feder al, state and local authorities began immediate investigations because the plant was busy at work on United Unit-ed States defense orders. EGYPT: Offensive Italy's long awaited offensive against English forces in Egypt got under way as artillery fire rumbled up and down the Egypt-Libya border. bor-der. Fresh Italian troops moved up near the border as British and Italian Ital-ian flyers clashed in the first exchange ex-change of military blows on this front Observers were of the opinion opin-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 Eng-lish to some other quarter while Hitler's Hit-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 powers. pow-ers. As soon as the Italian forces slash very deeply into Egyptian territory ter-ritory this declaration is expected. WOMEN . . . in the news Founder of the Henry Street Settlement Set-tlement Lillian D. Wald, died at the age of 73, in Westport Conn. She also helped found the federal children's chil-dren's bureau. At Atlantic City, Miss Frances Marie Ma-rie Burke. 19. of Philadelphia, was chosen Miss America of 194A. She is S feet 9 inches tall, has bruwn hair and weighs 120 pounds. if ' ' V ' f "' i ' r.nrtiiMw.iw.. nwrtHn irn BnnwwiJl Jfe, im4 By Edward C. Wayne THE WAR: London Battered In the fifty-third week of the war, Nazi nir nowpr becan the long-pro claimed action which it declared would end in British surrender or the destruction of the world's largest city. Previous raids and previous bomb-ines bomb-ines wpn as nothing. Reichmarshal Hermann W. Goering, from a safe seat in France, personally wok chare of the Luftwaffe's operations. Thousands of gigantic bombers were sent across the channel in waves ai 30 minute intervals. All were aimed at London, seat of the British em pire. Alarms continued from dusk until dawn. Even in daylight while air precaution wardens were digging helnlesa 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 de fense points and industries. Except for German propaganda sources, none challenged the announcement that purely residential areas were being subjected to devastating explosions. ex-plosions. In world-famous 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 set afire. In a two-day period the British admitted 600 killed and 2,500 KING GEORGE VI Strain of almost constant air raids on England are telling on the boyish face of Britain's monarch, pictured here as he chatted with a workman at aircraft air-craft factory which he visited 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 injured. in-jured. Objective of the terror was to undermine un-dermine the morale of the ordinary citizen. Berlin said when this was accomplished, the Churchill cabinet would fall and a new cabinet willing will-ing to deal with the Reich would take its place. In the battered, 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 bombings. bomb-ings. Retaliation British fliers, reported by the German Ger-man air arm to be reduced to ineffective in-effective operation, were still able to get into the air and fight More over they went visiting on their own. Docks at Hamburg, ports along the channel coast in Denmark and Nor way were given a treatment of aerial bombardments. The British air ministry said the retaliation was 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 build ing, seat of Hitler's rubber-stamp parliament APPOINTMENTS: Labor Board Charles Fahy, soft-spoken council of the National Labor Relations board, was promoted by President Roosevelt to assistant solicitor gen eral. The man who piloted the NLRB through five years of injunc tion battles and Supreme court tests now goes to the office which pre pares the government's side in hear ings before the nation's highest ju dicial tribunal. t St r CtrW T H E N I) how the wind is blowing Congress A recess of several weeks beginning before October 1 is expected in Washington. Vatican All attacks on the Reich have been halted by the pope, now that hope for a quick peace are lost, in a campaign to help Catholics in the conquered areas. Plastics Bausch and Lomb, leading lead-ing optical manufacturers, are testing test-ing a new eye-glass lens of transparent trans-parent plastics. Rayon Japan may be dislodged as the leading rayon manufacturing country with development of a U. S. process using rayon with woolen and worsted fabrics. Labor Unemployment is estimated estimat-ed at the lowest since 1929, by an American Federation of Labor survey. sur-vey. Volume is set at 4,500,000. Last year it was 9,650,000. All time top was 13,270,000 in 1933. The 1929 figure fig-ure was 1,864,000, but the natural growth of population has increased several million since then and therefore there-fore more people actually have jobs. Education The federal office of education estimates that one-fourth of the nation will be in school by October 1. The various classifications classifica-tions add up to 32,000,000 persons. This includes 2,000,000 adults in night or part-time schools. VICHY: Battle for Empire Hurried changes in the line-up u the Petain cabinet sent Gen. Max-ime Max-ime Weygand to the French African Afri-can colonies. It is hoped his presence pres-ence will halt the growing shift of allegiance of France's outlying colonies col-onies away from the Vichy government govern-ment and toward the "Free France" committee headed by General de Galle, now in London. General Weygand was relieved of the post of secretary of war and Gen. Charles Huntziger named in his place. General Huntziger was one of the signers of the armistice terms with Adolf Hitler. The Petain government also or dered detention of more wartime cabinet leaders, including former Premiers Edouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud, and Gen. Maurice Gamelin. All are being held in a chateau near Riom, where the "war guilt" trials are now in progress. Former Air Ministers Pierre Cot and Guy La Chambre also were ordered arrested. Both are in the United States. Seizure of the fortunes of 15 bankers, bank-ers, writers and industrialists was revealed. Heading the list was a group of the leaders of the House of Rothschild, many of whom fled France ahead of Hitler. Some of the industrialists shipped millions of francs ahead of them, but all leave behind vast holdings in French railroads rail-roads and factories which now become be-come property of the state. In New York arrived M. Henry-Haye, Henry-Haye, newly appointed ambassador AMBASSADOR HA YE His white shirt is clean. to the United States. He was met at the pier by pickets who carried signs reading "Made in Germany." M. Henry-Haye protested in English without trace of an accent: "I wear no shirt but a white one, as white as I can keep it" MISCELLANY: C. As an estimated 100,000 Arrterican Legionnaires converged on Boston, Mass., for their twenty-first national convention, the war and U. S. peacetime peace-time conscription cast a serious light over the sessions. . Plenty of the usual Legion merrymaking was in store too, however, with a program including a concert by Boston's famed Symphony orchestra, a gala "Cavalcade of Stars" to be shown before 40,000 at Braves field, under sponsorship of Schenley post No. 1190, and the big parade of 400 bands, drum and bugle corps. Among leading candidates for national na-tional commander are Ray Fields, Guthrie, Okla., and Lynn Stam-baugh, Stam-baugh, Fargo, N. D. CHerschel Grynszpan, the young Polish Jew who assassinated a Nazi consular officer in Paris in November. Novem-ber. 1938, is in the hands of the Gestapo. He was turned over by the government of Marshal Petain when he surrendered to the French after being released on the fall of Paris. C Gen. Jose Estigarribia, president of Paraguay, and his wife were killed in an airplane accident He formerly was ambassador to Washington Wash-ington and was hero of the Chaco war. The cabinet designated War Minister Gen. Higinio Morinigo as provisional president I' if , I tx '1 J ' t 1 WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features WNU Service.) NEW YORK. Whether Benedict Crowell Is a good prophet of not may yet be revealed. Mr. Crowell, Crow-ell, assistant secretary of war in .the World Experiences of war has been CrowellGrooved named spe-Into spe-Into Present Job cial consultant consult-ant on defense, de-fense, by Secretary Stimson. Addressing Ad-dressing the Institute of Public Affairs Af-fairs at the University of Virginia, July 11, 1931, Mr. Crowell said: "Should a great war ever again engulf our country, American Amer-ican manufacturers, including the new industrialism of the South, as well as the older in-dustrialisms in-dustrialisms of the North and East, without waste of time, material ma-terial or priceless human lives, will perform their essential function func-tion of munitions supply . . . onr national security is on a sound foundation." Mr. Crowell, who was a consulting consult-ing engineer before he became a Cleveland banker and industrialist is a brigadier general in the ordnance ord-nance reserve. His specialty, as assistant as-sistant secretary of war, was in organizing or-ganizing our munitions industries for the war effort He was widely praised for his efficiency in this and gained fame as the most ruthless cutter of red-tape in the army high command. This may have something some-thing to do with his selection as defense consultant at this moment. mo-ment. Yale university, his alma mater, recognized the above service by giving him an honorary hono-rary master of arts degree in 1918. A . native of Cleveland, 71 years old, Mr. Crowell began his business career as a chemist with the Otis Steel company. He rose in executive execu-tive positions and at the same time gained technical qualifications which made him ' a metallurgist and consulting con-sulting engineer. . He is the author of several books, including a six-volume series se-ries called "America Went to War," of which Robert Forrest Wilson was co-author. One of these volumes is entitled "The Armies of Industry," singularly pertinent to problems and backgrounds back-grounds of our present national endeavor. Reporters, interviewing Mr. Crowell Crow-ell in the old days, frequently used to note his resemblance to ruby Bob Fitzsimmons, and deduce, from this his capacity for hitting and staying-power. staying-power. TN HIS novel, "Le Couple," pub-A pub-A lished in 1925, Victor Marguer-ritte, Marguer-ritte, the French writer, foresaw the disaster which was to overtake F,rcH 2;- l Of Doom Accepts debacle quite Conquest Foretold3 c c u r a t e 1 y, but put the date at 1943 instead of 1940. Today, the author accepts the conquest which he tragically described and makes common cause with the conquerors. con-querors. He denounces General De Gaulle and his followers as the hirelings hire-lings of England. In present and future clinical research re-search into the fall of France and its causes, M. Marguerritte's lament and prophecy, as of 1925, will be interesting. After describing the alliance al-liance of French politicians with "Prussian and Bavarian junkers," and the subsequent collapse and conquest he says: "And then we shall be reaping reap-ing w,hat we have sown. It will be the result of our policy of attempting at-tempting the semblance of grandeurstupid gran-deurstupid because it is not warranted by our power, nor by our national wealth, nor by our trickling birth-rate, nor by our exhausted finances." Years of self-indulgence, mad pleasure-seeking, the softening of moral fiber and the ebbing of national vitality, he said, would precede the final destruction of the French nation. The League of Nations, he predicted, would be a ghastly failure. M. Marguerritte is the son of a famous French general of the Franco-Prussian war. In his study were medals and memorials of his father's war service. He is a stalwart stal-wart man, tall and straight with abundant pompadoured hair and a Van Dyke beard. He was a member of the Legion of Honor and honorary president of the French Society of Men of Letters. Let-ters. Poincare, no defeatist, had Wged his Legion of Honor decoration. decora-tion. This and all his other honors were stripped from him when he published an offending book, "La Garconne." He had been for 10 years an officer offi-cer in the French army. In his books, which he continued to write during his army service, he championed cham-pioned virile French nationalism. Now, at 73, he watched France "reap what she has sown," "US 10 Unci.. 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