| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. C Wayne U. U S. S Destroyer Is s Torpedoed an and Sunk Sunke While e on Convoy Duty u West o of Iceland Strike in in Captive Coal Mines Ended I 34 Are Killed as Two Airliners Crash sh EDITORS EDITOR'S S NOTE When NOTE When n opinions are expressed P In these columns m the theare they are those of the tho news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper Released Released by y Western Newspaper Union A f fr r t. t M p x L is 91 Myron C. C Taylor left lert former board chairman of U. U S. S Steel William H. H Davis of national mediation board and John L L. L Lewis of or United Mine Workers arc shown as they left lert the White lute House Douse after conferring with President Roosevelt on the strike of miners of nations nation's captive captive cap tive coal mines It was shortly following this conference that Lewis announced that the miners had accepted the Presidents President's proposal for opening the mines and would go back to work worl pending further consideration consideration consideration consid consid- of the issues under dispute r SHOWDOWN II The Lewis Affair The captive coal mine strike In I which men engaged in digging i coal out of the ground to supply I the laden defense-laden steel companies laid down their tools approached a showdown in the fight between John L. L Lewis and President Roosevelt It has been an odd chain of events that had brought Lewis once a close ally and supporter of the President President President Pres Pres- ident and his labor policy to the point where he had become for Cor the moment Administration Enemy No 1 After a four four day day tic tie up up of the mines there came a truce Lewis with Myron Taylor former U. U S S. S Steel chief and William H. H Davis of the National Mediation board were called to the White House for fora a conference with President Roose Roose- velt Following this meeting Lewis called his district mine labor chiefs into a parley and then came the announcement that the miners would go back to work pending mediation proceedings of the dispute It was declared that arrangement called for a day 15 truce with signs pointing pointing pointing point point- ing toward a complete settlement The issue in the strike was a particularly interesting one for it had nothing to do with collective bargaining rights with wages or hours but a flat demand for the closed shop TRANSPORTATION Tragedies After five months without a fatal crash the commercial airlines had hada a tragic 24 hours in which two airliners airliners airliners air air- liners crashed to the earth with a adea adeath adeath dea death th toll of 34 First accident was that of a plane which crashed and burned in the fog and mist within a short distance of the Fargo N. 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D airport where it was preparing to land Fourteen Fourteen Fourteen Four Four- teen persons were killed with the pilot being the lone survivor He suffered minor injuries and severe shock Unofficial investigators indicated indicated indi indi- that ice had formed rapidly on the wings of his plane as he descended descended descended de de- de- de for the landing but a complete complete complete com com- official investigation was immediately immediately immediately im im- im- im mediately launched to find all the facts Twenty persons all those aboard were killed in the other up crack-up when a plane bound from New York to Chicago plunged to earth and burst into flames near St St. Thomas Ontario This plane too had been flying low in a heavy fog No explanation explanation explanation ex ex- ex- ex of the cause of the crash was immediately determined VEA WEATHER THER In Moscow The military miracle needed to save Moscow from almost certain conquest by the Nazi mechanized hordes occurred and came in the form of a heavy rain which turned I I a sea of snow into mud and slush and bogged the Germans down Prior to this the defending Russians Russians Russians Rus Rus- had reported the pep gone from the invading forces and that the presence among the prisoners of one-eyed one men soldiers with limping legs and other basic physical defects defects de de- de had been significant Most confirmatory evidence that something serious had happened to the German drive just when it was wason wason wason on the threshold of success came from the pen of Goebbels ace Nazi propagandist when he warned that hard weeks were ahead The rain was the crux of ot the situation situ situ- situation alion however the Nazi official situ situ-I pronouncements admitting that roads had disappeared blending into fields that motor transportation transportation transportation tation had been utterly halted and that that the problem of supplying German German German Ger Ger- man troops at the front had become become become be be- come paramount U. U US U.S. S. S Nl NAVY VY Loses a Warship P First warship of the U. U S S. S navy to tobe tobe tobe be lost in the current European war was the U. U S S. S destroyer Reuben James which was torpedoed and sunk while on convoy duty west of Iceland Its sinking marked the first loss of a U. U S S. S naval vessel since President President President dent Roosevelt commanded the navy to shoot on sight bight ight any foreign foreign foreign for for- eign raiders entering what have been defined as U. U S. S defensive wa waters This sinking came just two weeks I after the Kearny incident in which that tha t destroyer survived a torpedo blast and made port after the loss of 11 lives The Reuben James was under the command of H H. H L. L Edwards and was an old type flush deck destroyer commissioned in 1929 1029 MAP l 0 Of South America Though there was much fodder for comment in the Presidents President's Navy day address it was the map of South America which had drawn the most attention in the press of the Western hemisphere The story had been that Hitler had employed geographers and map makers at Koenigsberg to redraw redraw redraw re re- re- re draw the map of South America giving certain countries there and in Central America the status of vassa vassal states of the Axis There were 14 countries involved and they would have been divided up and consolidated into five vassal countries two of them under the control of Italy one enormous section section section sec sec- tion under the direct guardianship of Hitler and the others to go to Japan Argentina and Uruguay were to tobe tobe tobe be II 11 Duces Duce's vassals Peru Chile and Paraguay would be under control control control con con- of Japan and all the territory from Brazil north to the Panama canal would be Hitler's lebensraum lebensraum lebensraum lebens raum I IRE Shown Shogun by Group The isolationists had shown their ire against the Presidents President's speech as an exposition of his own policy and led by Wheeler and Taft in the senate had fired shot and shell into Senator Pepper of Florida a backer of the Presidents President's foreign policy Not far behind them was Walsh of Massa Massachusetts who fIa flatly charged that the President sought to lead the country into actual war without submission of the question to the judgment of the country or of congress Taft was more bitter He said President Roosevelt has bas admitted admitted admitted admit admit- ted that he has tricked the American Amer Amer- leant ican people While talking of peace he has admitted that he has already already al al- ready done what he can to plunge the nation into a shooting war And Wheeler said that he had alys al- al ys believed that the President had been opposed to our Involvement Involvement Involve Involve- ment in the war and had sought to keep us out but that in view of the Navy day address he was convinced that he would have to change his mind EXECUTIONS Halt Hal t b by bj II Hitler iller illerA A sudden halt in the execution of Frenchmen in reprisals for attacks on German officers of ot the army of occupation had been accompanied by the report which was said to have leaked out that two German German German Ger Ger- man officers had been killed in the Lille sector 4 Hitler had ordered a halt in the executions in France to give the French a last opportunity to co co- co- co operate LIFE In Germany German Through a pronouncement by bI Paul Joseph Goebbels Nazi propaganda propaganda propaganda ganda minister one had received a partial picture of what the Royal Air force had been doing to Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many and how bow life was changing there ther as compared with that before the bombing of the Reich started in earnest He said I know you have it hard today Y You u must all work as never before Your wives must sometimes stand for hours before stores in order order order or or- der to buy some vegetables Your children frequently are sent into the country and separated from you for months Sometimes you have to go without a glass glas of beer sometimes without cigarettes Then b because cause necessary hands are not available you have to shovel coal Then at nights go into raid air protection cellars and after two hours' hours sleep go back to hard work That is the way it is in many cities of the Reich and in some even worse If JAPAN ore More Restive Nippon chafing under the terms of British American-British peace with Japan under her present policy was evidently becoming more restless The newspaper writing of President Roosevelt's promise cf of full aid to the government government government govern govern- ment said American aid to the Soviets and Britain is reasonable and acceptable acceptable acceptable accept accept- able but support to which is not at war with Germany is inconsistent in view of the United States' States aim of destroying Hitler- Hitler ism This promise of out all-out aid may maybe maybe maybe be taken as a direct challenge e to Japan In the meantime it was reported from Shanghai that Japan despairing despair despair- ing of ever being able to build a areal areal areal real government under the regime of Wang Wei Ching-Wei in occupied China was now turning to a new plan The Japanese were seeking it was said to establish small new local governments The first of these was to be set up at with jurisdiction over three occupied occupied occupied pied provinces and part of a fourth LABOR General View Generally speaking the labor front frontin in the United States was troublous with several defense plants involved involved involved in in- and others threatened A machine-gun machine factory in Detroit was silenced by a walkout with wages at the bottom of the con con- There were 1500 workers workers workers work work- ers and they were asking a five- five cent minimum raise There was a fear that three other plants of the same company in the Detroit area would suffer a sympathy sympathy sympathy sym sym- pathy strike The wages were 1 an hour for formen formen formen men on machines and 85 cents for tor women One of the union issues was the removal of the paid lower-paid women women women wom wom- en from the factory The I office demanded that striking welders in a Seattle shipyard shipyard shipyard ship ship- I yard return to work and were met by the defiant retort that the request request request re re- re- re quest should come from the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House direct The welders' welders organization an A. A F F. F of L L. union stated that it ft had appealed three times to the President President President dent and that the had let them down This was an odd strike because the basic point was said to be a charge by the welders that under existing union arrangements they had to pay dues in several unions at the same time in order to ply their trade These were instances but Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington was fearful that the whole labor situation was touch touchy |
