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Show PI? Mi'inot of a Ctrl Friday: lirar .Mr. W.: Uilly Itose offered the editors of the Commy Daily Worker a job in his Diamond Horseshoe Horse-shoe revue. Billy considers their flipllops, backtiips and somersaults the most comical in the world . . . Tip the newspapers to see the next edition of The Hour amazing revelations rev-elations on activities of Ukrainians in the U. S. readying sabotage, etc., campaigns. A new Nazi trick because be-cause Germans and Italians are no longer in good standing over here and Ukrainians wouldn't be "suspected." The German Military Attache in Washington is supposed to have told Washington reporters July 27 is the timetable date for the Nazi war machine ma-chine to take over the Ukraine. Pearson and Allen are furious with ex-Cong. J. J. O'Connor of N.Y. They claim to have a certified copy of a letter from O'Connor (part of the Kansas court record) in which the ex-congressman recently wrote U. S. Judge Richard Hopkins of Kansas. Kan-sas. Alleging that two out of three U. S. appeals court judges in N.Y. were with him in the Congressman Sweeney libel action against the colyumists. Pleading sure victory in N. Y., O'Connor asked Judge Hopkins Hop-kins to postpone any decision in Kansas, but Hopkins promptly dismissed dis-missed all of Sweeney's suits against 10 Kansas newspapers. Hurray for him. PLANES: In Syria Enthusiastic reports were beginning begin-ning to come from Australians in the R. A. F. in Syria and northern Africa Af-rica concerning the performance and maneuverability of American-built American-built planes. These reports constituted an oddity, oddi-ty, however, with regard to the bombers and fighters. From northern north-ern Africa came glowing accounts of the performance of Martin-built bombers on the ever - growing strength of Britain there. The bombers were fast, the sights were unusually good, and they were wreaking havoc with Nazi and Fascist Fas-cist planes in the air and on the ground. The Curtiss-built Tomahawk fighter fight-er planes also came in for unstinted praise, not only on the North African Afri-can front but in Syria as well. But the Vichy French had the same Martin bombers that the Free French and British had in Syria, so it was Tomahawk against the U. S. heavier planes there. The reports of victory were still optimistic in Syria, however, the airmen reporting that the Tomahawks Toma-hawks shot down the U. S. Martins quite as well as they did the Junkers, Junk-ers, Heinkels and Capronis in Africa. Af-rica. "The fire power of these fighters is terrific and they have all the speed you want," said the pilots. A'l II tl REDS: Fighting Hard In spite of empty communiques from both Russian and German sources on the progress of the war on a 2,000-mile front between the two former allies, one thing was evident, evi-dent, that the Russians were fighting fight-ing with all their might and main, but that they were being relentlessly pushed back before the fury of the German mechanized onslaught. Bit by bit and piece by piece the picture began to be seen, despite the fact that both sides were barring bar-ring war correspondents from the scene. The huge front was divided into four general parts, the far northern, the northern, central and southern. On the far north there was no discernible activity. This was the part which Germany hoped to invade in-vade by means of her occupation of Norway. The northern front really began With the FinniKh-Riicsian hnrHop SPY: Roundup In swift, secret moves, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation completed the greatest spy hunt in the nation's history and arrested 29 persons on espionage charges. Twenty-two of the group are natives of Germany. For two years the FBI had been closing in on the spy ring which is specifically charged with conspiring "to engage in espionage activities" in the United States. Warrants issued for the arrests charged the spies with giving information infor-mation to foreign nations concerning concern-ing cargoes of British-bound ships and with revealing new developments develop-ments in U. S. naval, army and aircraft air-craft products. BOMBER: U. S.' Biggest The taking to the air of the B-19, a $3,000,000 airplane, and believed On Labor Day, 1939 (after the Commies Com-mies and Nazzies got married) you reported this: Charlie of Place Elegante says vodka (Russian) and Rhine wine (German) is poisonous when mixed! ... In other words we scooped Mr. Hitler by two years. Your Girl Friday, Underground Ticker Tape: The most Illustrative underground story circulated in Germany is about the time Goering visited the director direc-tor of an important munitions plant and asked him if there were still any Social Democrats, Catholic Centrists Cen-trists or members of the other outlawed out-lawed parties among his workers . . . "Well," said the director, "about 40 per cent of the workers in my factory are Social Democrats, about 30 per cent Catholic Centrists, and about 30 per cent are still members mem-bers of the other outlawed parties" . . . "Forty per cent, 30 per cent, and 30 per cent?" bellowed Goering. "That makes 100 per cent! Aren't the biggest bomber in the world today, to-day, also the fastest and most powerful, pow-erful, was an event. Yet it disclosed that bigger and faster ships are the rule of the future, fu-ture, and the not-far-distant-future at that. Not so very long ago 400 miles an hour was a dream, and many experts ex-perts declared that at 600 miles an hour, or 880 feet per second, the air resistance would burn up a plane. This was exploded when the TJ. S. army announced that at Wright field a civilian test pilot dived a plane at the rate of 661 miles an hour, or 968 feet a second, which is losing altitude almost at the speed of sound, which travels only 1,120 feet a second. The speed of the pilot, Bob Fau- "Oh, of course," was the reply, "they are all Nazis!" During the early days of the Nazi occupation of Paris, whenever German Ger-man officers entered a cafe, the French patrons would promptly get up and walk out. This so infuriated the conquerors that they issued an edict forbidding Frenchmen to leave a cafe for at least 15 minutes after the entrance of a German officer . . After that, whenever a German officer entered a cafe, the Frenchmen French-men present would reach into their pockets and pull out small alarm clocks, which they set and placed on the table. At the end of 15 minutes, the alarms would go off all over the place, and the Frenchmen would rush for the doors! that part of it which lies to the southeast and separates old Finland from the road to Leningrad. Here the fighting was severe, but apparently appar-ently was mostly in the air. Another An-other portion of this front lay somewhat some-what to the southward, and included the states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and the Germans moving mov-ing from East Prussia, were invading invad-ing these territories only recently taken over by Russia, and were slowly forcing the Russians back into in-to their own territory. Here the fighting was extremely severe and the Russians were forcing forc-ing the Nazis to advance slowly, where at all. The greatest Nazi advance was on the central front, with the rail center cen-ter of Minsk, reputedly a "life-line" of Russian supply between south and LVKJ15JU i : Satisfied The passage by the house military mili-tary affairs committee of a report condemning a long list of persons and agencies as having bungled the national defense showed a puzzled public that apparently nobody was satisfied with the way our preparations prepara-tions were being managed. The house committee attacked the administration, the defense advisory commission, the army, the navy, OPM, the maritime commission and the state department and Secretary Ickes. The President, it said, had been too prone, when new problems arose, just to name another board, with the result that endless complications compli-cations and confusion had arisen to slow progress. And harking back to the President himself, it was recalled that he, too, had declared himself far from pleased with the way things were going, just a day or two before the house committee reported. William Knudsen, head of OPM, reported defense production lagging; lag-ging; Leon Henderson, price control con-trol man, was pegging the prices of tires and tubes and threatening in other directions; the maritime commission com-mission was displeased with the ship owners and Secretary Ickes was having a hard time with the nation's na-tion's oil men. sei, tester lor the Wright company, was a mile every 5.44 seconds. Last year Andy McDonough, an air-line pilot and an air corps reservist, flew a Bell Airacobra in a dive at 620 miles an hour. And Capt. Ben Kelsey had piloted a Lockheed from March field, Calif., to Mitchel field, L. I., in seven hours, at an average of 420 miles per hour. The tip-off as to the future came from Washington, for Langley field, already with a wind tunnel which will test ships designed for 300 miles an hour, is going to be revamped to test 500-mile-an-hour ships. POWFR In Holland, on Prince Bernhard's birthday, all loyal Dutch citizens wore a white carnation, the prince's favorite flower, as a symbol of defiance de-fiance to the Nazis. Angered by this display of "insolence" on the part of the conquered people, the Nazis went around tearing the carnations from the coats of passersby ... A short while later, Dutch sailors made their appearance on the streets and in cafes with carnations prominently displayed on their chests. The Nazis soon desisted from tearing them off . . . The carnations car-nations worn by the sailors contained con-tained ingeniously concealed razor blades. In Holland, one of the big problems prob-lems in the underground warfare against the conquerors is how to find out who can be trusted. One couple north armies, as the prime apparent objective. Here the Germans were claiming their greatest successes, and on the basis of meager dispatches, dis-patches, they had indeed covered the most mileage in this district. Yet most observers believed the Ukraine, the southern front, was the one the Germans coveted most Yet it was on this front that almost no advance had been made, the Russians Rus-sians claiming to hold the Prut river, which was still a considerable distance from old Russian territory. Thus the old Nazi "pincers technique" tech-nique" was evident, as it was obvious ob-vious the Germans were trying to divide the Russian defending armies into two parts, and drive southward to surround and encircle the Ukraine defenders, and to do the same via the Baltic states with the northern defenders. Defense plant heads, seeking places for their workers to live near their work, were falling out with the federal housing men, and it was hard to find anybody that was pleased with anything in the defense set-up giving the press and speakers speak-ers who were opposed to the New Deal handling of the whole show plenty of material for their attacks on its policies. FIELD DAY: For Britain As the Germans, led by Hitler in person, turned their backs on England, Eng-land, the British were having an aerial field day, running day and night air raids with minimal losses in men and ships and dealing out terrific blows to Nazi and occupied territory. But the Britisher in the street was not satisfied. There was a growing grow-ing demand for invasion of the Nazi-held Nazi-held lands. This spread far beyond the "man in the street" angle when one general suggested that the time had come for "hit and run" attacks on coastal points as a sure method of wrecking the Nazis' entire buildup build-up for an attack on the British isles The general, J. F. C. Fuller, said he understood the British had amphibian am-phibian tanks, and that if they did have them, now was the time to use them in cross-channel invasion attempts. For F.D.R.? There were two distinct schools of thought about the problem of granting grant-ing President Roosevelt further additional ad-ditional personal powers in the emergency. The war department, according to authorized sources in Washington, was putting pressure on congress to declare a state of unlimited national emergency, a step already taken by the President, but which would free his hands for considerable action ac-tion now barred to him by the fact that congress has not given him the reins. The isolationist press attacked this move instantly, and so did some congressional leaders who had generally gen-erally been regarded as administration administra-tion stalwarts. DOOMED: Are Big Guns The accuracy of American bombing bomb-ing from the air and the size of bombers and bombs has caused the army chiefs to doom to oblivion the big railway guns, not to mention the huge weapons fixed in coast guard positions. Say the army chiefs: "These big guns cannot fire with nearly the accuracy nor the effect of the big air bombers. The w-ar department might as well abandon this weapon." MORALE: The Mental Side As to the propaganda releases, which contained much more space and information than did the official news, there was every indication that both sides in the Russo-German war believed strongly that the other's oth-er's inner morale was weak. There were dozens of stories from Russian sources telling of Nazi soldiers sol-diers and aviators laying down their arms, saying, "we don't want to fight against the Communists." The Germans, on the other hand, did not make such claims, but took the line of telling the world what brave and foolhardy fighters the Russians w-ere. and by telling stories of "stands to the death" to paint the picture of an army suffering defeat after defeat, and letting its soldiers fight even inside of burning buildings build-ings until all were killed. The purpose of each of these types of stories was to impair morale. This caused many observers to feel that the outcome of the w-ar might well hinge on a breach in the morale of either side. soivea it in mis manner: A tew minutes before two o'clock every afternoon, the wife shouted to her husband, who was working in the garden, "Come in, dear. It's almost al-most two o'clock." Two o'clock being be-ing the time for a London news broadcast, their next-door neighbors reported them to the Gestapo . . . The Gestapo didn't arrest the couple, however, because they were able to prove that they didn't own a radio . . . But their neighbors had swallowed swal-lowed the bait and unmasked themselves them-selves as Nazi stool-pigeons. j Ever since the Nazis conquered Holland, the natives have been for-to for-to listen to the Dutch broadcasts broad-casts Hum London, but most of them defy the resulption. at the risk of their lives . . . One Dutch woman, wom-an, who was recentlv caught listening listen-ing to BBC (the British Broadcasting Broadcast-ing Chain. was arrested. The infuriated in-furiated Gestapo asked her explanation explana-tion ... -i wanted to hear H't-ler H't-ler speak." -vas her calm reolv. I "Hitler said he v--s goin? to s-oea'k I from London last September, "and ' I'm still waiting for him." j i |