Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C G wayne Us S destroyer Is torpedoed and sunk while on convoy duty west of iceland strike in captive coal mines MM es ended 34 are killed as two airliners crash EDITORS NOTE when opinions opinion are expressed pred ex 1 in th tarse e s to o lonina they ther at are those hose of the news new analyst and not no or I 1 of ahll I 1 0 newspaper c ws paper released by western newspaper union U 3 4 A 1 I L myron aayron C taylor left former board chairman of U S steel Wil william fiarn H davis of national mediation board and john L lewis of united mine aline workers are shown as they left the white house after conferring with president roosevelt on the strike of miners of nations decap captive coal mines it was shortly following this conference that lewis announced that the miners had accepted the presidents proposal for opening the mines and would go back to work pending further consideration of the issues under dispute SHOWDOWN the leivis affair the captive coal mine strike in which men engaged in digging coal out of the ground to supply the defense laden steel companies laid down their tools approached a showdown in the fight between john 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 and his labor policy to the point where he had become for the moment administration enemy no 1 aft after er a four day tie up of the mines there came a truce lewis with myron taylor former U S steel chief and william H davis of the national mediation board were called to the white house for a conference with president roosevelt 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 15 day truce with signs pointing toward a complete settlement s ett lement 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 a tragic 24 hours in which two airliners crashed to the earth with a death 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 D airport where it was preparing to land fourteen persons were killed with the pilot bein being g the lone survivor he suffered minor injuries and severe shock unofficial investigators indicated that ice had formed rapidly on the wings of his plane as he descended for the landing but a complete official investigation was immediately launched to find all the facts twenty persons all those aboard were killed in the other crack up when a plane bound from new york to chicago plunged to earth and burst into flames near st thomas ontario this plane too had been flying low in a heavy fog no explanation of the cause of the crash was immediately determined WEATHER 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 a sea of snow into mud and slush and bogged the germans down prior to this the defending russians s a ns had reported the pep gone from the invading forces and that the presence among the prisoners of one eyed men soldiers with limping legs and other basic physical detects defects had been significant U S NAVY loses a warship first warship of the U S navy to be lost in the current european war was the U 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 S naval vessel since president roosevelt commanded the navy to shoot on sight any foreign raiders entering what have been defined as U S defensive waters this sinking came just two weeks after the kearny incident in which that destroyer survived a torpedo blast and made pore por after the loss of 11 lives the reuben james was under the command of comar H L edwards and was an old type flush deck destroyer commissioned in 1929 MAP of south america though there was much fodder for comment in in the presidents 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 the map pf af south america giving certain countries there and in central america the status of 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 under the direct guardianship of hitler and the others to go to japan argentina and uruguay were to be il II duces vassals peru chile and paraguay would be under control of japan and all the territory from brazil north to the panama canal would be hillers Hit lers lebensraum IRE LE shown by group the isolationists had shown their ire ire against the presidents 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 Morida a backer of the presidents foreign policy not far behind them was walsh of massachusetts who flatly charged that the president sought to lead the country into actual war without submission of the quest question ion to the judgment of the country or of congress taft was more bitter he said president roosevelt has admitted that he has tricked the american ican people while talking of he has admitted that peace he has al ready done what he can to plunge the nation into a shooting war and wheeler said that he had h ad always believed that the president had been opposed to our involvement in the war and had sought to keep us out but that in view of the navy day address he was convinced mind that he would haye to change his LIFE in germany through a pronouncement by paul joseph goebbels Goeb beIs nazi propaganda minister one had bad received a partial picture of what the royal air force had been doing to germany and how life was changing there as compared with that before the bombing of the reich started in earnest he said 1 I know you have it hard today you must all work as never before your wives must sometimes stand for hours before stores in order 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 of beer sometimes without cigarettes then because necessary necess dry hands are not available you have to shovel coal atheni then at at nights go into air raid krotec protection n cellars and after two hours sleep go back to hard work that is the way it is in many cities of the reich and in some even worse JAPAN more restive nippon chafing under the terms of american british peace with japan under her present policy was evidently becoming more restless the newspaper Yom iuri writing of president Roosevel ts promise of full aid to the government said american aid to the soviets and britain is reasonable and acceptable but support to chunak in g which is not at war with germany is inconsistent in view of the united states aim of destroying hitlerism this promise of all out aid may be taken as a direct challenge to japan in the meantime it was reported from shanghai that japan despairing of ever being able to build a real government under the regime of wang ching wei in occupied china was now turning to a new plan the japanese were seeking it was said to 0 establish lish small new local governments the first of these was to be set up at kuksang with jurisdiction over three occupied provinces and part of a fourth LABOR general view generally speaking the labor front in the united states was troublous Ious with several defense plants involved in and others threatened A machine gun factory in detroit was silenced by a walkout with wages at the bottom of the controversy tro versy there were 1500 workers and they were asking a five cent minimum raise there was a fear that three other plants of the same company in the detroit area would suffer a sympathy strike the wages were 1 an hour for men on machines and 85 cents for women one of the union issues was the removal of the lower paid women e from the factory the office demanded that striking welders in a seattle shipyard return to work and were met by the defiant retort that the request house should direct come from the white te |