Show I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. C Wayne Nazis Launch Repressive Campaign Ip II ii Answer to Anti German Anti German Revolts And Widespread Acts of Sabotage England Claims aims Mastery in Air War EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE When NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns they theT are those of the tho news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper Released by Western Newspaper Union I Ij f 1 rr h. 1 fl v. v f 11 MI MIt t y I 11 r ww f r f N 4 I I II II I a 1 i wm Scene of oC U. U S. S army war maneuvers has shifted from Louisiana to South Carolina and this picture shows a bit of oC action as the fighting got under wa way Here lIere one side had established a bridgehead and a pontoon pontoon pontoon pon pon- toon bridge was built for Cor trucks and artillery But before they could cross completely enemy planes appeared and bombs exploded to demolish the rear units NAZIS 11 More ore Trouble According to reports from Europe German officials were busy with a I I repressive campaign throughout their conquered and occupied territory territory terri tern tory to prevent the spread of a vast the front German anti-German move move- ment Acts of sabotage were reported reported reported re re- re- re ported from Belgium France Denmark Denmark Den Den- mark and Czechoslovakia and the Nazis were doing everything to put putdown putdown putdown down what wha t to some observers looked like a general revolt The slaughter of Czechs in Bohemia Bohemia Bohemia Bo Bo- Bo- Bo hemia and Moravia through drumhead drumhead drumhead drum head instituted by bythe bythe bythe the new regime had continued to keep pace with even to surpass the killings in occupied France Eighty-eight Eighty were reported killed in three days 58 in one day Reinhard Heydrich former chief of Berlins Berlin's secret police who had I been made protector of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Czecho Czecho- slovakia or what was left of it was using the mailed fist to stamp out a persistent rebellion The same story was coming out of Bulgaria with reports from Sofia of persons arrested in one day in one Black sea port The blood brothers and friends of the Russians were revolting revolting revolting revolt revolt- ing at any efforts the Germans might make to use their country as asa asa asa a pass by-pass to get eventually at Caucasian Caucasian Caucasian Cau Cau- casian Russian oil fields AIR MASTERS l Churchill The first victory of the war of any real import to Britain had been announced announced announced an an- in most positive terms by Winston Churchill when he told the house of commons that the Royal Air force had a attained mastery of the air The information was given to parliament parliament parliament par par- just as London celebrated its second month without an air raid alarm The prime minister asserted assert assert- ed that the RAF was in a position to bomb Rome at any time that it seemed convenient or advisable and reported that Cairo definitely had not been bombed denying previous previous previous pre pre- reports that this had occurred The reaction was swift in coming from Berlin and from Rome In the latter city the pope was reported reported reported re re- re- re ported to be sending a message via Myron C. C Taylor to President Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt asking him to use his influence influence ence with Britain to pass up the bombing of Rome The President on the other hand was said to have sent a message to His Holiness suggesting politely that he might take up his residence at a safer spot The Berlin answer was a quintuple bombing raid not on London but on five northeastern cities with heavy casualties reported The defense of these cities was presumably not as asgood asgood asgood good as that of London At the same time the RAF was conducting continuous and heavy raids with squadrons running as high as several hundred planes One raid on the port city of Stettin was conducted for five solid soUd hours by waves of bombers Italy made a strong attack by air airon airon airon on a British protected convoy in the Mediterranean but eyewitness reports reports reports re re- re- re ports were that terrific casualties in men and planes were suffered and the battleship Nelson while damaged damaged damaged dam dam- aged by a torpedo suffered only a slight diminution of her speed SEA PO POWER TER Viewed T by Knox Sea power of Britain and the United States States both both present and to come will come will spell the end of the triple Axis said Secretary of the Navy Knox in an address He also declared that once the Tokyo Rome-Berlin-Tokyo alliance had been defeated it would be up to the United States and Britain permanently permanently permanently perma perma- to pool their forces to stop new aggression Many wondered if he left Russia out of of the picture deliberately UNCLE SAM SAl Starts Taking The government had started with the first of the month the heaviest t take ke of taxes in American history a day But it was only a small part of the whole tax program which would nick the American pocketbooks to the tune of a year and when one figured that a billion billionis is a thousand million and that three million a day is only a little more than a billion a year year year-it it gave some idea of what the huge burden would be Contrasted with the World war take it was 13 billion against about 7 billion or not quite twice as much money and there were vere yere more people to share in inthe inthe inthe the payment For instance in 1918 the exemptions exemptions were 2000 for the head of a family and 1000 for single persons as as compared with 1500 and today That it was figured would bring still more of the nations nation's people into the burden bearing fold The first taxes to be levied had been the special excise taxes and the government was taking unusual steps to prevent merchants from raising prices more than they should so as to be sure that the burden should be placed squarely on the buyer and that the buyer could know he or she was paying it There was some heavy buying in advance of the day but not more than had been expected LABOR Still Restless A sudden strike at the Dodge division of Chrysler Motors had been settled but there were many other strikes or threats ts of strikes showing showing showing show show- ing plainly that labor unrest was far from settled Twenty thousand had walked out at the Briggs auto body plant in i Detroit and the eight largest hotels in Pittsburgh were closed down because because because be be- cause of a general strike of some 2000 workers An ordnance strike was reported at Sandusky Ohio involving truck drivers and iron workers At the same time the government decided to increase widely the steel capacity of the bigger companies which would mean not only a heavy construction program m to be financed by the government but a further shifting of the labor population AMERICA Al FIRST Gets Publicity Most of the interventionist newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers were pursuing a new policy toward the utterances of America as they held their convention convention convention conven conven- tion in Bridgeport The idea apparently apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap was to play up the speeches with page front headlines instead of burying them inside the paper on the theory that the nation was sufficiently sufficiently sufficiently suf suf- aroused to be further aroused by hearing what the America America America Amer Amer- ica First leaders had to say The speakers including Senator Nye and others did not disappoint the editors Nye electrified a Bridgeport audience by telling the public that by working in defense plants and by turning non-defense non plants into defense work they were laying the groundwork for tor the complete complete complete com com- financial ruin of the city The North Dakotan painted a horror horror horror hor hor- picture of a Bridgeport with no work no mone money hardly anything to eat after the defense boom was over and informed them how foolish they were to throw themselves into the defense construction campaign with such enthusiasm Other speakers condemned critics of Semitic anti-Semitic speech at Des Moines and the new commander commander commander com com- mander of the American Legion was called in one address a Benedict Arnold hoodwinked into being one by Frank Knox Secretary of the Interior Ickes petroleum administrator who had been making gigantic efforts to get Easterners to save gasoline appeared appeared appeared ap ap- before a senate committee and blamed the senate for seriously hampering its efforts T The e committee had surveyed the field and had found that no serious shortage of gasoline existed on the Eastern seaboard This was despite despite despite de de- de- de spite the fact that Ickes said there was and had put curfew regulations into effect to try to save the fuel Ickes declared that the senate committee had been told that there were railroad tank cars available available avail avail- a able ble to haul oil and gasoline to centers of need but that he had made a subsequent Inquiry and could find fund only cars Ickes attacked the testimony which he said had done incalculable incalculable incalculable lable harm to his effort to conserve the East's oil and gas FREE PRESS Vital Vital The President plainly showed that he considered freedom of the press vital to the United States Slates as well as other freedoms when he spoke of this subject in detail before a group in New York He said Newspaper Week should awaken in the hearts and souls of all aU Americans Americans Americans Amer Amer- a renewed determination to defend and maintain and perpetuate the priceless heritage of a free rc press The maintenance of an unfettered press informed by truth and guided guided guided guid guid- ed by a courage and conscience and wholehearted devotion to the public w welfare is is' isa a fundamental obligation of pa patriotism I trust as a result of the observance observance observance ance that Americans will have a renewed sense of the incalculable blessing which a free press confers It must be maintained against all assaults To this Secretary Hull added A Afree Afree Afree free and informed press is essential to a successful program for national nation nation- al defense In this connection it was recalled that the navy department having refused to permit the use of facts about British naval vessels being refitted in the United States changed its attitude recently and now was giving this news out whenever whenever whenever when when- ever it occurred WORLD SERIES Dem Burls Burls' World war or no world war Americans must have their World series of baseball so at the Yankee Stadium despite cloudy weather a world record crowd had stepped into the huge stadium to watch the Brooklyn Dodgers do battle with the Yanks There was not the slightest indication indication indication indica indica- tion of a lessened interest in the great series the series the public having by press and radio followed the advent advent advent ad ad- vent of the Beloved Bums into the series Some estimates of the numbers of Dodger fans throughout the nation ran as high as an an unbelievably unbelievably un un- believably belie large following for a baseball team And the Dodgers had done their best to give their fans what they wanted for Dem a Burns Bums a world championship pen pen- nant |