Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayne nazi advance guard enters bulgaria japans arbitration offer rejected by britain tain far eastern crisis crisi s grows defense board speeds up arms work NOTE when opinions hit are expressed in these ahme columns to lamn ther her are ar thos thane of 0 ien analyst and not of this ihli newspaper released by western newspaper union i BALKY BALKANS and ami an Ante american rican As adolf hillers Hit lers advance guard slipped into bulgaria from rumania there was none to stay thorn them clad in ci civilian overcoats which they did I 1 i 0 not remove but from which protrude fid ed sleek military boots members of i the german start staff took over the principal hotel of sofia and the main bulgarian resort town 40 miles away A where before antinazi anti nazi signs had F t been scribbled on oil walls walla and dulgar bulgar national songs were heard now or chestr ch estros ts turned to viennese waltzes and raised their right arms palm open bulgarian army generals came to the soda hotel with bundles of maps under their arms all day a arid fid all night they and the boot clad men poured over them there was only one show of hos but it was a beamut while it lasted which was about an hour george it II earle Ameil american can minis ss ter to bulgaria and former governor i of pennsylvania Iwas was in a night club p just around the corner from the em cm bassy building the place was filled with the mysterious boot clad civil ian foreigners the gov emor arnor like the tune the orches ift tra was play playing ing and asked them to x f switch to its a long way vay to tip pe one of the mysterious str strangers angers took offense off ense earle said later he i was a major oi of the german general 1 stall staff words were passed and finally I 1 earlo earle said the major throw threw a hoty boty tle tie at him which ho he warded off by covering his head with his arm the former governor has never been known to pass up a chance like that in the world war he s commanded a submarine chaser v h X A 1 1 k H A 4 GEORGE it II EARLE waiters and biggars ivere enli ended sled k after the war he took up h cracking up several machines but always getting into another and hying flying in g aff fl just as aa quickly as possible H he e Is an expert boxer and ha has 8 not refused to make use esq of his fils fists before iio earle said lie he injured tired the mans man 3 features reporters who were present said the bottle battle lasted for a an hour with bottles chairs and tables being used in the melee the mysterious ta rious foreigner was aided by reinforcements in for cements which consisted of cerwin certain W other boot ond clad and gintle gentlemen men earle enlisted the waiters eis at the restaurant where he was known and var various lous and aind sundry bul gars who were present police had achard time with both sides for tile the next hour AIR CRASH number pour four A last august the commercial air lines of the country had established a no accident record of 17 months but with alth the midnight crash of an eastern airlines sleeper plane near atlanta ga the number of accidents in the intervening six months was raised to tour four when searchers near down dawn reached the scene of the crash they found seven persons persona killed nine others injured among those found dead was a member of congress rep william D byron 0 of 1 maryland marylan d aind and among tile the severely injured was the famed world war hying flying ace eddie P resident president of tile the company on whose plane ane he was riding also killed were the pilot the copilot co pilot and steward of the planes crow crew next day a report from balboa canal zone told of the crash of a U S army bomber into panama bay an immediate search first reports said failed to td disclose any trace of a crew ok p seven seen SPAIN ex monarch dies former monarch kill king alfonso XIII died of a heart ailment after an illness of two weeks ile he died in his rome hotel room which had been his exile home for the past 10 years lie he reigned as king of the spanish people fur for 29 years during which time at least eight attempts were made to assassinate him his reign ended in april 1931 when he left thi the throne saying that ZM have W the lova of my people peacemaker aaker an oger offer japan offered to be the peacemaker of the world and arbitrate all disputes the 0 offer ff or came in a statement from foreign minister yosuke matsuoka churchill conferred with U S authorities and then called in the japanese ambassador ilis his reply was one word no meanwhile the japanese peace makers in indochina indo china were mopping up on their job having in instigated sti gated a conflict between thailand siam and the french rulers of 0 indochina indo china japan stepped in and I 1 enforced an armistice taking for itself the rich port of salonon saignon Sal Sa Ignon gnon while the terms of the armistice were being developed into a peace treaty japanese soldiers extended 1 M A 1 ekr 1 mil li 0 j 1 k 41 w YOSUKE for hirn a one word reply their influence in indochina indo china until the french rulers became mere puppets stores were filled with jap anese anesa products and residents who refused to buy them were beaten and jailed just west of 0 the indo chinese sphere of influence is the philippines and just south are the dutch east indies chief source of united states tin and rubber the japanese turned covetous eyes on that spot if that source of supply would be closed to united states shipping americas entire defense effort would be threatened rig big stick washington Fas hington said nothing but carried girled a big stick the U S fleet was known to be somewhere in the vicinity gen george C marshall chief of staff of the army also had a big stick hundreds of army fighting planes left the west coast for our pacific possessions Hawaii and the philippines I 1 more important the house voted funds to fortify the islands of gu guam am land and samoa the U S in the pacific the same proposal was defeated in the house two years ago for fear of offending japan NIL MEN IN AT WORK F full idl speed while congress spen spent t pre precious of ous weeks in prolonged debate on tile the tease lease lend bill to send war mater materials bals to great britain tile the defense commission got in some mighty speedy licks the arming of the nations nation 9 forces has entered the third P of the plan priorities tile the other two are procurement and production job priorities Is tile the job now it will do no good to produce 40 aar airplane engines and no alT airplane plane tall tail assemblies tile the defense commission must regulate production so that every item down to tile the lost eraser on a lead pencil arrives just atthe at the moment it con can be used the task is under the direction of E R hilus jr aluminum and machine tool industries were first to feel the effects effect of his order by authority of the navy speedup law passed last june directed that both industries put aside all other labor and devole their entire energies to filling defense contracts after defense contracts are under unde r way commercial production product ton will wil be rationed but until such tinie time as the government has sufficient al aluminum urril for instance for planes and aks tanks there will be little or none for streamlined trains kitchen utensils or even een tooth paste tubes tan meanwhile hile procurement and production must be stepped up to meet new demands how flow this was being done was reflected in the news of the day dai consider 41 L A new 8 inch railroad gun capable of hurling a pound shell 18 miles was delivered to the ardys proving grounds at aberdeen md the gun weighs pounds C L the three of the ardys four mechanized divisions still not supplied with arms are receiving sc scout out cars one was displayed in washington and two brave congressmen consented to ride rade in it the driver took theta them straight u up the 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