| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayne sinking of robin obin moor by submarine Is investigated by state department byrnes jackson named to high court As stone Is appointed chief justice EDITORS NOTE when opinions opinion are ar expressed in hue columns they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of 0 this newspaper released by western newspaper union U S citizens are getting a firsthand first hand look at the famous nazi fighting plane the Messer schmitt now on display in a new york theater proceeds from the showing of this plane will go to buy bundles for britain this is the first time that one of these aerial fighters has been shown in the uni united ted states COURT lineup line up changed president Roosevel ts appointment of harlan fiske stone to replace charles evans hughes as chief justice of supreme court was announced at the same time as he sent to the senate the names of tto t two to new associate justices he had picked sen james byrnes of south carolina and attorney general robert H jackson of new york A republican justice stone is 68 63 years old and was appointed to the supreme court by president coolidge in 1925 his appointment as chief justice came as somewhat of a surprise for many sources in washington believed that attorney general jackson would get the nomination senator byrnes bymes who has been a strong administration supporter in the senate since the early days of the new deal will succeed justice who retired some time ago jackson will take the place left vacant by justice stones elevation to chief justice u s ship worry the robin moor sunk in the south atlantic well within the united states neutrality zone was declared by its few survivors to have been sunk by a german U boat the first m in what most observers expected would be a series of international incidents similar to that of the lusitania in the last war the robin moor went to the bottom bearing seven passengers including a little child and the first lifeboat the only one immediately found contained only 11 survivors the other two boats according to the evidence of brazilian ship people who went in search showed on the surface of the sea some evidence that they had been lost the first notice of the loss was given as the result of a storm at sea but the survivors told their rescuer that they had been torpedoed following these reports by survia survivors ars authoritative sources in washington indicated that work on a formal note of protest to germany was under way by the state department it was pointed out that in such a note restitution for loss of american life and property was only what the nazis could expect while at first the white house had announced that judgment should be withheld on the incident later word came that there seemed to be no longer any reason for that the state departments report was first made public by sumner welles at his press conference he based his findings on the account of the sinking as it came from walter J linthicum U S consul at aernam buco brazil linthicum spent nearly five hours getting the stories of the rescued persons DUCE calls names celebrating the year that italy has been in the war mussolini made a speech to his puppet legislators in which he defied the united states to become more active in the war after saying that this country is really in the war already he also likened president roosevelt to sulla one of the bloodiest and most tyrannical of all the roman noman dictators STRIKES A formula ever since president Roosevel ts fireside chat the nation had been waiting for a strike prevention formula realizing that in the presidential speech there had been a definite pledge to halt defense work stoppages in labor disputes it remained for the strike at north american plant at ingle wood calif where men engaged in building in warplanes war planes to provide the answer and the united states to wonder what kind of an answer it was swiftly methodically the troops moved in and took over the plant began weeding out the unions labor leaders inspected even the contents of lunch boites bod of returning workers and put the plant back into production within two days that were reported to be approaching normal within 24 hours planes were rolling off assembly lines into test nights flights and on the surface all was apparently well but observers began asking themselves questions during the next few days when trouble of various types began to appear not at north american aviation but at other plants several things bothered people who were wondering whether the use of soldiers to take over plants would be a workable system of strike ending some wondered if perhaps the strikers at inglewood ginglewood Ing lewood a bit too willing to have the plant taken over others wondered if perhaps the strikers demand of the government that the pay be raised to 87 cents an hour or 12 cents an hour more than they were asking of private industry and the same wage that the government they claimed was now paying workers of similar skill in similar jobs the union leaders were equipping men with signs reading hold out and remember the army cant make planes but their pleas fell for the most part on deaf ears and the second day of the army occupation they voted to go back in a body but the army take some of them back ordered others reclassified and shoved in the army at 21 a month instead of 20 or better a week C CIO 1 0 red or pink one of the products byproducts by of the inglewood ginglewood Ing lewood strike and its result was that the dies committee findings came to the fore and began to render some sort of answer to the popular controversy of the past two years whether the CIO is red white or just pink rival unions used to call the CIO red the CIO maintained it was pure white dies committee just hinted around that it might be somewhat pink that there were communists in he CIO but that it was not proven that it was communist controlled or not then came a wide serious series of defense or partial defense labor troubles most of them involving one branch or another of the CIO Alaba mas representative starnes active head of the dies body promptly made public that each of the striking unions had a communist or an ex communist as its active leader SYRIA gets in war names of the worlds oldest towns including such as damascus believed the oldest and tyre considered its closest rival got into the front page headlines as the british sailed on into syria following the expectations of everyone vichy dispatches told of resistance but except in certain spots the resistance was of the token variety a few fek shots fired and then the french troops laying down their arms later to join with the british passively if not actively the invading armies were made up of british and free french under De and seemed to be moving more or less unchecked into the chief and most important parts of syrian territory chief work of defense was being done by nazi warplanes war planes said to be based on northern syrian airdromes aird romes like aleppo principal air center of the country britain was not referring in her dispatches syrian advance as a victory but was rather regarding it as simply a tactically important move to circumvent an expected german move or at least to meet it on a battleground farther removed from palestine and iraq oil fields it was obvious that the big syrian airfields were the prime objective and that if britain could get hold of them and defend then them with resident assistance a good battle might be put up on syrian soil and protect the backdoor entrance to suez and alexandria but the serious resistance near the coastline and in southwestern syria made it look as though brit ains success in this objective would not be won without a good deal of fighting in general however the first advances were m meeting eating with a good deal of resident approval and with some defections of french colonials to the De standard CHURCHILL on OIL spot most seriously since the time he took over leadership of the war effort of britain churchill found himself on the spot because of the crete mishap and words flew bitterly around commons and on the editorial pages of british newspapers as churchill defended his program the british leader was holding firm refusing cabinet modification or any step that would even look like an an admission that the churchill government was a flop at handling the war criticism of churchill was far less lese bitter than that which was directed at chamberlain but it was still far stronger than anything which had previously been leveled at him much of it came from leslie hore balisha deposed minister of war and churchill turned on an this former cabinet member and practically told him to hold his tongue and to recall that the war ministry was in a lamentable condition when he laid it down summing up the crete disaster he laid it to inadequate control of the air said the battle was 1 worth having fought that it cost the germans a major effort and resulted in the loss of men and planes not to mention many surface ships answering the why of not enough planes he said they were not to be had unless britain had been willing to denude the island itself and that he did not believe it a good policy to try to be safe everywhere at the cost of being strong nowhere |
