Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by roger shaw great britain gets 50 U S destroyers in exchange for naval and air bases U S senator lundeen of minnesota among 25 killed in airliner crash when opinions opinion are expressed in these columns coburn ns they are re those of the newt news analyst and nd not uy of 0 this newspaper new paper by western newspaper union V X md aa r V 7 1 0 01 T heres a man that both republicans and democrats can congratulate nos hes senator allram VV johnson Jo linson of california center who won both the republican and democratic nomination for united states senator in the recent california primary election this practically assures him cofre election for his bis fifth term lie is pictured here being congratulated by democratic Democrat io senator burton K X wheeler of montana left and G 0 P senator warren baustin KAust RA ustin ln of vermont right U S DEFENSE boats lor for bases president roosevelt notified con gress cress that the united states had reached nn an agreement with great britain whereby this country would obtain lenies leases on naval and air bases in british possessions in this I 1 hemisphere sp herein in exchange for tho the transfer of 50 overage over age U S destroyers to england expected to arouse a storm of debate the act requires no rati fica uon tion by congress but was submitted to that body to advise the nation of the arrangements made actor attorney ney general robert 11 II jackson submit J ted an opinion to the white house which upheld the legality of the trade the destroyers were built by the united states during the world war and had been out of service lor for some gome time until they were recently re commissioned ninety nino nine year leases on territory in newfoundland on the island of bermuda the bahamas jamaica st lucia trinidad and antigua in tho the atlantic and in british guiana in south america are granted to the united states by the terms of the agreement naval and air stations are expected to be constructed at these points to old aid in U S plans for a military defense ot of the western hemisphere AVIATION worst tragedy in the worst commercial aviation traga tragedy d in the count rys history his toty and the first in more than 18 10 months 25 person lost their lives when a penn sylvania central airliner crashed near Lovette villi va during a v alo I 1 0 lent thunderstorm the liner en route from washington D C to pittsburgh pa plunged into the tha side fide of a blue ridge mountain foothill apparently with the throttles of its two wide open all of the persons aboard the ship perished among the 21 passengers was son sen ernest lundeen Lund cen F farmer armer Labo laborete of minnesota tho the plane edmed to have exploded when it truck struck the ground scattering wreckage and bodies ot of the victims over a large area ARKANSAS travelers aided by four our trusty guards two of ct them convicted murderers 32 prisoners escaped from ca cummins emins state prison farm near pine bluff ark in a wild mass break the guards were ariso prisoners nars wh who ahad had been appointed trust trusties les because ot of their good records and were supplied supplee d with saddle caddie horses and guns of the six lo 10 loyal aal yal t trusties ualle who refused to join in the rek break b prevented by ringleaders ring leaders ot of the plot NAMES lit in the news tl L mike alike bloss ot texas organized a no third term democratic party in his native empire down mexico way w ay the no thard termites of texas pledged themselves as full breasted red blooded of the first wa ter they said they wanted allme to lead them out of chaos C capt george price of the U S arrn army air corps was awarded the be distinguished plying flying cross for a test flight at buffalo where lie he made a successful crash landing based on rare judgment and skill C L dr B D A maw mav the premier of british owned burma between china and india was jailed for a year Us ile was anti british batish and they called him the dictator of tho the free dom bloc d norman thomas the socialist candidate for yankee president 1940 edition started a mile campaign trip through 23 3 states jw r T from interfering one was killed when he tried to shoot it out with the escaping pilson prisoners ers the convicts fled with tour four high powered rifles and six sawed of shot guris guns some ol of which were weapons they had had in their possession prior to the break II 11 GERMAN WAR IVAR aerial the germans reversed their aerial tactics just as they reversed their infantry tactics in hi 1917 at the beginning of the first world war the germans would attack in regular regimented mass for formation matio n the losses were colossal especially at verdun it was vas sheer mass murder late in 1917 1017 general von hu tier changed the german methodology he devised a hit and brunin run in scattering attack which wiped out the whole british filth fifth army at st quentin Quent tn on march 21 1018 1918 it was the worst day the british army ever had until dunkirk in 1940 1010 the some same cycle hat had come to german aviation in the battle of england the german planes were attacking in n regimented mass waves the losses were tremendous close to 1000 planes general changed the method he sent the german machines over in irregular individualistic jabs and by night instead of by day this proved I 1 much more economical economic alland and much less ineffective the amusing feature was this generals von hutler and much learned their novel knovel military maneuvers from no less a source than the american indians of 1 the eighteenth century the red skins that ambushed general braddock etc out way transylvania here I 1 conte come ever since the last war hungary and rumania have been quarrel quarreling ln i about the disputed province of transylvania it was hungarian lor for 1000 years ye arstill till 1919 1019 and has hag been ru manic since over the past some weeks the rumanians and hangars have been beed squabbling at a great rate rale germany and italy want peace in the balkans Dal kons so at last they settled aled the row in arbitrary style they split up transylvania hau hall and half hungary getting the top half and rumania keeping the bottom halt half the name transylvania by the way gave william penn the idea for his pennsylvania nomenclature and not so bad at that transylvania la esthe Is the special cial home of vampires as anyone who had read dracsula dracula Dra cula will remember and also rumania also lost territory to little bulgaria on the black sea coast and to the russian soviets the big b 19 province pio vince of Bes sarabia rumania was phoney from start to finish and few tears were shed over king carols cruel fate italy and germany have now given carol ah airtight air tight guarantee of left of his kingdom how grateful that merry monarch feels remains to be seen the guarantee however may lead to trouble in the balkans between germany and russia thais what mr Chur churchill thill sits up nights and prays for DAMAGED in franco france the french ministry of fine arts investigated what spots in in france had been hardest hit by the war with germany it gave out the following list many of the places are well known to the americans here it is s rouen laon soissons Sols sons corn com beauvais allens amiens glen saumur Aux dauxerre auxerre Au serre erre orleans calais dunkirk sedan Mez Me leres arras arra le francois vilry the last named was wiped out the allens amiens cathedral hada had a miraculous escape CAMPAIGN not hot enough the 1940 campaign still was not very hot both the candidates acted very genteel although some of their supporters vocalized me like cats on a back fence the best republican crack was this for a lot loi of republicans still care for Will willkie kle it if mr willkie going to vote farmr for Mr willkie Will kle he would undoubted ly y vote for mr roosevelt these republicans there were a lot of them felt that the foreign policies of no better than those of roo roosevelt sevelt and that they growled was a sad state of affairs this growling was becoming a really serious matter within the republican ranks wiiilie Will kle meanwhile leaned more and more on the willkie clubs and the independent democrats and less and less on the angry republican regulars who tend to be isolationist ti revolution the russell overton amendment to 0 o the conscription bill brought forth some willkie roosevelt nastiness the amendment in qu question tion would permit the government to conscript any industry in peacetime if the government considered that industry necessary tor for national defense some people felt it was aimed directly at henry ford who play ball with the new dealers and help the british willkie like the amendment and tried to draw roosevelt out on it roosevelt refused tobe to be drawn out but the do pesters believed he liked the amendment and toe the radical new dealers certainly liked it fine it was the key they said to unlock the castle of entrenched yankee capitalism ital ism the russell overton amendment said the political scientists was probably the most truly revolutionary lutio nary detail in american history more revolutionary than the declaration la of independence or the emancipation proclamation this was hotly contradicted and the debate grew bitter meanwhile ile secretary ickes got called a hitler ln in short pants and willkie got smeared as a barefoot wall street boy ah the rich mans roosevelt ev even so 0 th the 1940 camp campaign algil was pokey and nor man thomas looked awfully good to a lot of perfectly respectable republicans public ans and democrats DICTATOR non dictatorial dictator winston churchill of 2 england ng was in a big air maidlon the coast of kent it was at a place called ramsgate the dictator en on an underground air raid shelter puffing on one of h his Is favorite cigars which he chews like barney oldfield the mayor of ramsgate said sternly put out that cigar mr churchilll Churchil lf the dictator looked sheepish and humbly did so there goes a good lun un said he crestfallen therein lies the essential difference between british and german dictators in the year of grace 1040 1940 Chur chills daughter married a vaudeville actor and his nephew is a 0 communist lie he himself is a trade unionized bricklayer brick layer an artist and an author he Is an ultra blue blood he is half american and he served with the spanish against america he has never cared tor for america in the spanish war of 1898 when a now new york taxi driver knocked him down dompa a few years ago he give gave the penitent I 1 tellow fellow a cigar he also told him an off color ake in short the dictatorial mr churchill tends to be a pretty good guy Nanie sake in london umbrella chamberlain Chur chills great rival has v a namesake called plain george chamberlain lie he Is 23 lie he is a soldier during a furious german air raid he yawned dawned so widely that he dislocated his jaw and had to go to a hospital tor for serious treatment let that be a lesson to the hyster lacs of Arn |