| Show ANALYSIS by edward C wayne WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS most powerful air army Germ germany anys Is now being used to crush england labor peace in Us so S Is not so near first draft evaders evanders sent to prison expressed in these columns they EDITORS NOTE when opinions and are not necessarily of this newspaper are those of the news i union released by western newspaper gi RA will I 1 A A 4 4 D durin arin the strike at the aircraft plant in downey calif U S army defense orders tor for training planes became sidetracked but union heads beads allowed pilots to cross picket lines and take delivery on 17 planes completed the planes were to be used at the army training field at sunnyvale calif above army officers are pictured running one of the planes out of the plant AIR A IR BLITZ over england the the fourth german air army contains the veteran and most expert of nazi bombers it never had been used over england although it is the best equipped and largest of the german air forces the fourth air army was trained in spain n used to smash poland in four days and dive bombed the french army into submission and out of the maginot line now many believe it has been assigned a mission across the english channel the mission would be to grind to debris the british industrial midland area two such attacks have been made the first was on ancient coventry historical cathedral city when lady godiva made her famous horseback ride coventry in modern times had become the detroit of england here was made the larger portion of british airplanes and thousands of her people were employed in defense industries in a single ibi hour night raid coventry was turned into a shambles hardly a single home being left unscathed berlin said all of the plane factories were in ruins fro from m explosive and incendiary bombs the british denied this but gave no details it was admitted however holeve r that almost 1000 civilians were lulled killed many air raid shelters which were thought bombproof being bein 9 crushed like paper the three tow ered cathedral almost a thousand years old was left with hardly one stone atop another except for a single spire after a lapse of a few days the raiders concentrated on southampton city of a million people also in the midlands berlin said the hometown home town of the late neville chamberlain ber lain who appeased hitler at munich was given the same treatment southampton is a textile town and also had been turning out a large cargo of automobiles and munitions greeks dighton fight on in the italo greek war neutral observers shook their heads and admitted they could not understand how greece was holding out outnumbered three to one the ballet skirted pom pam porn pom troops cut the italians to ribbons and pushed them back into albania on all fronts these observers still believed the greeks were putting up a valiant but futile battle no one in authority considers the italian army seriously estimates running from der derision ision to contempt but the greeks military supplies were known to be low also there is no opportunity to give them help for all greek guns b both oth rifles and a artillery artil ery are of a special greek manufacture arid and no ammunition of foreign make will fit their weapons once spring rous rolls around and the italian mechanical force can get into action there may be a different story mare nostrum one thing seemed certain mussolini in his attempt to carry a on n a war by himself was tangling up the plans of the entire axis control of the mediterranean which 5 the e italians call mare nostrum our sea may come diplomatically rather than militaristically adolf hitler came to the duces rescue in this respect once it wa was S certain the italians had bogged bogge d HEADLINES its in the news diplomacy U S ambassador or joseph C grew got a nod of approval from the th japanese emperor at the banquet commemorating 28 26 centuries of the empire in I 1 tokyo toky 0 the d diplomat e expressed cpr e ss ed i in n a speech the h hope ape the that t J japan a pa I 1 W would 0 ua d increasingly n C reasin gl k contribute C n it iu t e to the e well el being e n g of mankind ind the r ruler er n nodded 0 d id emphatic approval down in the mountains of macedonia there were hurried conferences with serro spanish foreign minister king boris of bulgaria premier bolotoff Mo lotoff of soviet russia and various and assorted balkan politicos the formula being sought was a diplomatic flanking movement on the balkans which would give the dar dane da nelles ales to the axis this would require approval of bulgaria lor for german troop movement through that country and agreement by turkey pressure by russia on turkey was one of the keys an attack on gibraltar at the same time would complete the movement DRAFT EVADERS year and arid day eight young men students at union theological seminary stood before a federal judge in new york they were charged with refusing to regis register t e r under the selective service act they had refused to register on october 16 along with other young men they said that after afterthought hought and prayer they had reached the conclusion a conscription is part of the war system and we cannot operate cooperate co in any way government officials churchmen and friends pleaded with them pointing out that under the act they were twice exempt as divinity students and as conscientious objectors they refused a final chance 1 I have no other alternative but to enforce the law said judge samuel mandelbaum and he sentenced them to a year and a day in federal prisons deputy sheriffs led the eight away to be fing fingerprinted er printed and photographed the action was a signal for other arrests in all parts of the nation on the same charge LABOR hopes for peace unity in the ranks of labor which was outlined by president roosevelt as one of the hoped for objectives of his third administration a n seemed little less nearer as the congress of industrial organizations met in convention in atlantic city and the american federation of labor met in new orleans the A F of L said president william green was willing to discuss peace terms anywhere anytime and any place but a C 1 I 0 committee presented to the convention a statement of terms these e terms approached closely what john L lewis retiring president previously outlined and which had been found beyond the basis of agreement by the A F of L the C I 1 L 0 asked first that au all ot of its unions including many set up in mass industries since the split be admitted to a new joint organization intact this presented two problems first was the claim of certain craft unions like ke the for example for jurisdiction in some of the mass industries like the automobile plants tor for example 1 second the A F of L was believed believe d unwilling to accept certain small lef twing C 1 I 0 unions the C 1 I 0 asked also that any alny unity movement include a an n attempt to bring into the national scope certain of the railroad brotherhoods brothe several sever al of which now are independent of either national body president roosevelt sent an appeal to both conventions both conventions also were split internally over administrative questions john L lewis made it known on th the e first day that he would not again accept the C 1 I 0 presidency philip murray 1 head of the steel workers was boo boomed med for the job from the start but hesitated to accept because becaas e it is believed he felt lewis mine u union nion would attempt domination the A F P of L battle which brewed for or a time under the sur face was led by david dubinsky president ol of the ladies workers garment chos boss y two former secretaries to congressmen gordon cordon canfield right of new jersey and herbert bonner banner left of north carolina ore are to take the places of their former bosses in congress canfield replaces the late rep george N segar and bonner banner replaces lindsay C warren who resigned to become V U S comptroller general ESPIONAGE diplomats accused chairman dies of the house committee un american activities called before him in secret session various officials of german and italian organizations dies charged that members of the german diplomatic corps have been engaging in a quiet campaign to raise funds in the united states to finance german rearmament he also said german money was being sent here for investment in vital industries and to promote an appeasement group emphasizing that his committee has moved cautiously to avoid a strain on international relations dies asked secretary of state cordell cardell hull if his department had any objection to exposure of diplomatic corps intrigues the secretary disclaimed any responsibility terming the investigation purely a congressional affair dies said he would ask the next congress for a million dollars to continue the investigations two theories three other departments of the government however were somewhat less than enthusiastic over the dies hearings the army and na navy vy intelligence and the FBI were letting it be known discreetly that they consider dies is doing more harm than good A everything uncovered by the sp special e house committee commett ee they said has been known to the them in for a long time for years these agencies have worked cautiously to get U S agents agent into alleged subversive groups these U S agents have listed and catalogued cataloguer catalo gued a va vast array of information which can be used at the proper time in the meantime they have made it possible to keep a watch on all suspects and these suspects not aware their identities are known have exposed the whole network through which they work but the dies committee it is said has by raids and publication of names revealed the fact that the identity of these alleged foreign agents is known this makes th their air work ineffectual so they are recalled then new agents and new networks are set up by the foreign powers and the army and navy intelligence telli teni gence and the FBI must start au over again tracking down these new agents may take many man months of effort to cover a field which once was well protected MEXICAN MISSION in ift spanish vice president elect henry A wallace went through the southwest in his recent campaign speaking spanish A new assignment in that language was his first after election duty he attended the inauguration of gen avilo camacho president of mexico as the representative of president roosevelt its an old latin american custom for nations to send official representatives to each others inaugurals als the U S has never indulged before but now its part of the good ne neighbor i gabor policy and is looked upon as effective several days after the decision was announced mexico revealed it had granted the united states air and naval bases on the mexican east coast miscellany 41 L the oddest refugee cargo arrived in florida from england it was 1000 r rare a re orchid plants the property of the duke of westminster who raises them as a hobby the collection faced two threats in england bombing and the fuel laws which chic provide for heat only in food too d hot houses 41 L the united states army is sharply changing its is tactics and technique of attack stress will be on small units changes are outlined in a new manual announced by Is maj aj gen george A lynch chief of in fanty fantry the manual will be the chief text book of the new L samuel hansen 58 native army of germany was declared guilty of contempt in m los angeles superior co court urt tor for refusal to answer ansbe r questions h he e said would violate his oath as an agent of the german bank ba he said he had been threatened W with ith death by a gestapo agent |
