| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayno wayne enactment of price fixing measure and repeal of Us so neutrality act are chief congressional problems soviet situation grave say british 18 NOTE opinions are in these columns olum ns the to hose the news and not nee lily of ne lessed by western News poDer union z M q X aa r 0 A t V v 9 T 4 Y bernard at baruch aruch Il who headed the ho war industries hoard board during world war 1 I Is pictured as aa ho he urged congress to put a ceiling over the whole price structure including wages rents anti and farm prices baruch who appeared before the house hanking banking and currency comi littee advocated a much more drastic price control bill than that planned by the administration photo shows left to rights right representative gore core of ten tell hessee rep hep paul drown brown of georgia rep brent spence of kentucky rep clyde williams william of missouri chairman of tile the committee rep henry II 11 agall of alabama and bernard baruch KIEV two versions Versi orts the germanov German sv em had claimed the complete capture of kiev the entering bering of the whole city the mopping up of small bodies of diehard troops and the fleeing of russian commanders on the same day tile the russians admitting tile german entry into the tha kiev suburbs had pictured a battle to the death and a defense ot of the city which was costing the nazis men and vast quantities ot of material odessa in the south was finding the pressure relieved the reds had reported in these diametrically opposing statements perhaps the only light was coming from british sources presumably getting information from mission observers on the scene but the british reports had been entirely gloomy the british had reported that an apparent cutoff of the crimean peninsula had occurred and though they scouted the german report of having trapped to russian troops in an encirclement near kiev they saw tho the russian situation as grave indeed from out of all this it was evident that the fall of kiev seemed inevitable and finally even the russians admitted its fall alter after what was termed fierce fighting BULGARIA on nazi side britain had admitted the decision ot of king boris of 0 Pul bulgaria garla to throw his nation final balkan question mark in on the side of hitler in this was seen a more general picture of the german effort which undoubtedly was to be a threatening move toward turkey and the establishment of seaborne sea borne invasion points to go after and the oil fields all this was tied up indissolubly with the russian crisis as it was plain turkey would view with alarm the russian weakness ond and her own resistance to nazi advances would be tempered by the strength or weak character of 0 soviet military 0 power also the effort of the british to bring her own and united states material to the russian fields through the persian gulf was largely to stand or fall all as a result of the success or failure allure of this southern german drive hence it was that W averell harriman Harrl man head ot of the american mission to the soviet had bad stressed the immediate and vital necessity of rushing all possible material to russia JAPAN gets tougher nippon in the meantime had been taking a stiffer attitude toward the united states and in particular had turned her ire upon russia sensing that in the wound ed cd beard distress lay her opportunity of hitting out at her old rival charging that the russians had cut loose floating orting fl mines in the japanese sea in violation ot of international law and friendly behavior between nations japan made the strongest representations at the same time she was rebuffing efforts of the united states toward a peaceful settlement in the pacific andaas and was issuing propaganda charging that the chinese would demand equality with the white races and a right to enter the U S the government of thailand faced further with the request from vichy that america in settling peace in the pacific see sec that the japanese were expelled from froin indochina and realizing the critical times in the orient informed its people that war for thailand was near at hara hane PRICES awl and baruch bernard baruch world war wartime industries head threw a bombshell into the price fixing bill discussion when ho he postulated that no price fixing would work without fixing costs ot of merchandise including wages and rentals that his pronouncement had a profound effect had been immediately evident in the acceptance of his views by at least two influential members of the committee and it was considered more than possible that the final form of the bill would carry on an amendment to fix wage ceilings also there was more than an undercurrent der current evident hitting out a at leon henderson price control administration by executive appointment in the committees feeling that the bill should be administered by a board not an individual POLICY gains support faced with the grimmer picture of european war and a realization through dussias Rus sias crisis that american aid would have to be considerable if the axis were finally to be defeated and the democracies win the victory one notable change in washington sentiment was a growing support for the white house foreign policy it was evident in the pre action discussion of the repeal of the neutrality act president Roosevel ts latest request anent his policy even from circles most strongly isolationist and most vigorously opposed to the president it was conceded that the act would be repealed perhaps within two months the cohesion of foes of the presidents policy was becoming less f firm r M senator lafollette tor for instance had urged all isolationists non interventionists to gird for the battle of ballots this fall and to make the foreign policy their issue senator taft at the same time had urged campaigners and voters in the congressional primaries to leave the foreign policy out of the picture he said congressional votes on the question have cut across party lines and there Is no reason tor for the party to make an issue of foreign policy wendell Will willkie kle storm center of both of these statements saw the first as on an acceptance of his challenge to the isolationists to meet interventionist candidates he would put in the field a and nd the second as an unwillingness on the part of a republican leader jeader to meet the issue DUTCH I 1 in rebellion sabotage theft and antinazi anti antl nazi rebellions bel lions were occurring on an increasing tempo in holland it ad been reported in london through gh a dutch news agency the rotterdam public prosecutor stated that the city was waa unsafe and that the forces of law and order were unable to cope with the wave of crime while not giving actual instances of antinazi anti antl nazi demonstrations the censored dispatches had spoken of burglary petty thefts and other outrages in utrecht special guards were appointed to aid the police HOSTAGES the germans in paris under general executed 12 french hostages to pay for the death of one german non commis stoned officer shot in the he back on a paris street as he walked to his home the shots came from a passing auto tho the assassins were not arrested summarily taken out and shot had been seven communists one jew and two persons accused of having been in the possession of weapons and three who had been charged with attacking soldiers j SHIPS seized by US U S the maritime commission faced with a union strike which had immobilized some 10 16 ships in six major ports all of them vital to the defense drive seized two freighters of the alcoa corporation in new york and sailed them off to bermuda and the west indies with supplies tor for naval and air bases the unions had complained to president roosevelt that this action robbed them of the right to collective bargaining the president had not replied but the ships were taken over the maritime commission recruited crews and oft off they went the commission indicated that it would act similarly it if other cases among the remainder of the ships developed the negotiation between the men and the ship owners was over the question of bonuses for doing dangerous work THREE platte plane strikes the national mediation board was hard at work trying to settle three strikes that had threatened important airplane factories one of which hod had three quarters of a billion dollars in orders at the consolidated plant in san diego it was the A F of L machinists who had voted to reject a company offer of a 5 cent hourly blanket wage increase and stood pa pat on its own percentage demands the workers were insisting that the company meet a 10 cent Inc increase given by other large airplane plants in southern california it was at buffalo N Y curtiss wright dual plants that the workers had threatened a strike unless the NLRB ruled within 10 days day s on the employees demand for a labor election and at bendix N J the of the CIO had authorized a strike at the accessories plant of air associates socia tes inc listing eight charges against the company SPIES that nazi germany was high highly y interested in american secrets of plane production was seen in the evidence in the spy trial in new york that many of the 16 persons on trial were ordered by beilan to got get airplane information the testimony had been that edmund C heine former employee of two large automobile plants had collected and prepared for transmission to berlin technical information on U S plane manufacture included in his data were details of the construction of bell Aira Alra cobra planes the chief U S fighter the consolidated B 24 bomber the martin bombers and the fairchild trainers miscellany berlin the german radio claimed cialle d that enemy planes had been destroyed by german antiaircraft anti aircraft artillery since tho the start of the war london five belgians using a 80 90 foot dinghy managed to get across the british channel and escape to england they were four men and a woman the trip took three days and nights london aided by the ai aora ora borealis bore alls or northern lights british B bombers made some of their greatest night raids of the war the lights giving them almost a daytime view of their objectives A total eclipse of the sun visible for the first time since 1856 1850 in chinese territory was seen in eight provinces buenos aires strong representations from berlin against antinazi demonstrations in argentina might be followed by a breaking oft off of diplomatic relations it t had been stated |
