Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayne house and senate set 2135 21 35 age limit in draft bill volunteer plan dropped total air war blasts london area 32 killed in munitions plant explosion EDITORS NOTE when opinions are es expressed pressed in these columns they are rc those of the ne news and not necessarily ol of this newspaper lRe apio leased by western newspaper union I 1 DRAFT lit in november prospects are that no american youth will be conscripted into army service until after election just before the house passed the draft bill by a vote of to and announcement no to this effect was made by representative wadsworth R N Y coauthor co author of the bill to make sure of this however t the he house inserted an amendment A F M 51 Z col leuis B hershey pictured here now head of the joint army and navy nary committee in charge of selective bertice plans who more than likely will become the power behind the draft after the conscription machinery gets underway der Y while a civilian may be named chile I 1 titular itar h head d of the draft col hershey will contribute a major share of the work sin since ce he has spent four jears cars developing det eloping draft plans sponsored by representative fish R N Y to postpone peacetime draft for 60 days while the president appealed for volunteers the house bill differed in two other essentials from the measure passed by the senate the senate called for an age limit of 21 to 30 inclusive the house wanted registration extended to 45 years in order to get a greater number of trained mechanics Th the house ehouse also modified the draft industry amendment so that factories where owners refused defense contracts would be taken over by the government on lease or rental the senate called for seizure and operation ironing out the differences house and senate conferees agreed upon a bill that 1 fixed the age limit at 21 to 35 years inclusive 2 modified the plant seizure amendment and 3 eliminated the 60 day volunteer plan wendell willkie G 0 P presidential nominee added his opposition to that of president roosevelt on the 60 day delay amendment MUNITIONS disaster in what was declared to be the worst disaster in the history of the american am munitions industry 32 persons were known dead 22 missing also believed to have perished and persons were injured in a series of earth shaking explosions which destroyed the hercules powder companas comp anys kenvil N J plant while the cause of the blast was not immediately determined federal state and local authorities began immediate investigations because the plant was busy at work on united states defense orders EGYPT offensive italis long awaited offensive against english forces in egypt got under way as artillery fire rumbled up and down t the he egypt libya border fresh italian troops moved up near the border as british and italian flyers clashed in the first exchange of military blows on this front observers were of the opinion that italy was really beginning to play her role in the battle ol of britain this role consists mainly in in diverting the attention of the english to some other quarter while hit lers attempt at an invasion of the british isles is carried out egypt is an ally of britain but as yet has not declared war with the axis pow ers As soon as the italian forces slash very deeply into egyptian ter this declaration is expected WOMEN W 0 M E N in the news founder of the henry street settlement tl lujian lillian D wald died at the age of 73 in westport conn she also helped found the federal childrens bureau at atlantic city miss frances F rances marie burke 19 of philadelphia was chosen miss america ame r ica of 1941 she is 5 feet 9 inches tall has brown hair and weighs pounds THE WAR london battered in the fifty third week of the war nazi air power began the long pro claimed action which it declared would end in british surrender or the destruction of the worlds largest city previous raids and previous bombings were as nothing Reich marshal hermann W goering from a safe seat in france personally took charge of the operations thousands of gigantic boin bombers bers were sent across the channel in waves at 30 minute intervals all were aimed at london seat of the british empire alarms continued from dusk until dawn even in daylight while air precaution wardens were digging helpless from the debris left the night before new planes arrived they dropped incendiary bombs which set great fires and led the night fliers to their targets through blackouts gone now was raiding only of defense points and industries except for german propaganda sources none challenged the announcement that purely residential areas were being subjected to devastating explosions plo in world famous fleet street home of the greatest british newspapers some of the largest buildings in the city were wrecked hospitals were wrecked subways demoralized gas mains broken and set afire in a two day period the british admitted killed and 2500 V KING GEORGE VI strain of almost constant air raids on england angland are telling on the boyish face of britain s monarch pictured here as he chatted with a workman at aircraft factory which he visited recently maimed even as they made the announcement the bombardments grew worse morale A delayed action bomb struck a section of buckingham palace the royal residence no one was in injured objective of the terror was to undermine the morale of the ordinary citizen berlin said when this was accomplished the churchill cabinet would fall and a new cabinet willing to deal with the reich would take its place in the battered shell torn city however the first day of the raids showed no loss of determination to hold out the king visited a slum section where bombs had ripped great craters in the street where homes of hundreds had been torn to bits out of the window of a house still standing a woman shouted are we downhearted 9 and the crowd gathe gathered red around the king cried no I 1 the king smiled that that night there were worse bombings retaliation british fliers reported by the german air arm to be reduced to ineffective operation were still able to get into the air and fight moreover they went visiting on their own docks dock at hamburg ports along the channel coast in denmark and norway were given a treatment of aerial bombardments the british air ministry said the retaliation was so severe that the areas could not be used by the germans to launch a land invasion nightly there were air raid alarms in berlin too at least one bomb was dropped on the reichstag building se seat at of hillers Hit lers rubber stamp parliament appointments labor board charles fahy soft spoken council of the national lab labor or relations board was promoted by president roosevelt to assistant solicitor general the man who piloted the NLRB through five years of injunction battles and Sup supreme court tests now goes to the of fife which prepares the governments side in hearings before the nations highest judicial tribunal VICHY battle for empire hurried changes in the lineup line up of the petain cabinet sent gen maxime to the french african colonies it is hoped his presence will halt the growing shift of allegiance of frances outlying colonies away from the vichy government and toward the free france committee headed by general de galle now in london general was relieved of the post of secretary of war and gen charles huntziger named in his place general huntziger was one of the signers of the armistice terms with adolf hitler the petain government also ordered detention of more wartime cabinet leaders including former premiers edouard deladier Da ladier and paul reynaud and gen maurice gamelin AU all are being held in a chateau near riom aiom where the war guilt trials are now in progress former air ministers pierre cot and guy la chambre also were ordered arrested both are in the united states seizure of the fortunes of 15 bankers writers and industrialists was revealed heading the list was a group of the leaders of the house of rothschild many of whom fled france ahead of hitler some of the industrialists shipped millions of francs ahead of them but au all leave behind vast holdings in french railroads and factories which now become property of the state in new york arrived M henry haye newly appointed a ambassador ft ambassador HAYE tits his ehtle shirt is clean to the united states he was met at the pier by pickets who carried signs reading made in germany M henry haye hay e protested in english without trace of an accent 1 I wear no shirt but a white one as white as I 1 can keep it miscellany As an estimated american americ an legionnaires converged on boston mass fr for their twenty first national convention the war and U S peacetime conscription cast a serious light over the sessions plenty of the usual legion merrymaking was in store too however with a program including a concert by tamed famed symphony orchestra a gala cavalcade of stars to be shown before at braves field under sponsorship of schenley post no 1190 and the big parade of bands drum and bugle corps among leading candidates for national commander are ray fields guthrie okla and lynn stambaugh baugh fargo N D L LH herschel erschel grynszpan the young polish jew who assassinated a nazi consular officer in paris in november 1938 is in the hands of the gestapo he was turned over by the government of marshal petain when he surrendered to the french after being released on the fall of paris C agen gen jose estigarribia president of paraguay and his wife were killed in an airplane accident he formerly was ambassador to washington and was hero of the chaco war the cabinet designated war minister gen higinio as provisional president |