| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayne british see far east squeeze play in japans japan s attitude toward thailand nazis claim big victories over reds son killed in air crash EDITORS NOTE when opinions are expressed in these thebe columns colu newspaper ther are those of the news analyst and not dot necessarily of this newspaper news released by western newspaper union 7 5 Z 1 R 11 wa N az heres a striking contrast in the modes of fighting equipment according to the berlin caption the picture shows a german horse drawn artillery piece racing past a burning soviet tank somewhere along the russ nazi battle lines of the eastern front CONGRESS big work three bills of huge importance were before congress and although passage for all was predicted the importance laid as much in what their final form would be as it did in whether or not they would become law these were the tax bill the draft extension bill and the price fixing bill the latter linked inseparably with the draft industry bill the tax bill it was apparent would be voted into existence minus the requirement that all married couples file joint income tax returns roughly this will cut off the yield of the law which will then have a ceiling ailing ce of about this is to be divided roughly into a billion for income taxes a billion for miscellaneous and special taxes and a billion and a third for corporation po ration income taxes a small balance coming from gift taxes the draft extension bill showed the opposition to the administration losing one battle after another but reforming their lines with more support after each defeat when the administrations resolution calling for an extension of present draftee terms by 18 months was brought to a vote the senate passed the measure by a vote of 45 to 30 this meant that total term of draftees national guardsmen guardsman Guards men and reserve officers would all serve a total of years the bill went from the senate to the house following the vote the price fixing and draft industry bills were chartered along a more difficult course the latter passed the house but immediately there started in the opposition press a battle claiming that there was a thread threat to the freedom of the press and freedom of speech through radio as these businesses too might be seized by the government gover rim ent As to price fixing leon henderson seemed the center of this fight and many in congress declared they the y would feel more kindly toward the bill if they felt more confidence in in hendersons ability to carry it out indeed the house appointed a special committee to oversee the enforcement of this legislation JAPAN warned again london warned japan that if she moved against thailand in any way she would find that britain would consider such a move as a definite threat to singapore and would act accordingly this was seen as a sort of confirmation fir that the british are sending expeditionary forces of occupation into siamese territory and that any japanese effort to cut the burma road will bring the world war to the far east the statement came from foreign secretary eden making it in the house of commons it had been rumored that british troops would be sent to thailand from eastern bases and that a considerable british fleet already was in those waters and it also was believed that japan was committed to move against thailand by its agreement with the other axis powers this was as part of a squeeze play against india DEATH to a youth from rome came the report that bruno the second son of benito mussolini had been killed in an air air crash while on a plane testing flight near pisa he was 22 years of age and ranked as a captain of aviation he had seen action in ahr three ee wars in ethiopia in the spanish war and in the present war he had engaged in what italian sources described as daring and risky A actions GERMANY makes claims the germans who had been P pictured ic fairly hopelessly stalled on the eastern front with the reds growing in strength and in some points p eints taking the offensive came out finally with a statement in which they made the largest claims thus far they claimed prisoners taken and many times more in killed and wounded the entire russian resistance shattered no semblance of order in the red ar army my and pictured moscow as without any clear picture at all of the situation blindly be believing lievin g its army still fighting when it came to giving details of places the while a lengthy one was not very communicative nica tive but from it one could picture the front through the german eyes with sk in the center a sort of island of doomed russian battalions ta lions still holding out although surrounded leningrad on the north was a hopeless city menaced from the south and the north with another small island of surrounded red troops still holding out in the vicinity of tallinn tallian Tal linn estonia kiev on the south was shown in this document as partially surrounded with two huge pincers having pierced the stalin line north and south of the city itself which is an integral part of that line the claims were contained in four special from the headquarters of adolf hitler himself and were broadcast throughout the german nation RUSSIANS their version completely ignoring the claims of the germans the reds admitting nazi pressure on the south say that they are counter attacking and were using the same tactics which threw the germans back in the central front in fact the russian reports considered the front from sk to bel a distance of miles as a single unit rather than a definite pincer movement and said that there was mobile fighting going on all along this front in fact the reds asserted they were holding the germans in two other sectors that of cholm miles south of leningrad and on the estonian front where the germans had claimed important advances the russians also reported taking many prisoners and revealed that many of them are either 17 years old or the older type reservists showing that the nazis are drawing heavily on their reserves early bird 41 4 g 51 t V I 1 philadelphia PA first veteran to appear on the scene for the national encampment of the veterans of foreign wars here was ivas jack parley farley known as the irish traveler ile he hitchhiked to philadelphia from louisville ky and is being rewarded at convention headquarters quarters rs by b y getting the first badge HOSIERY and the women the governmental placing of silk in the vital raw material category closed down the silk hosiery industry and sent american women in a wild blitzkrieg on the silk stocking counters of the nation there were no tears shed over the situation the women apparently regarding the whole thing as a sort of a gay lark and dashing into the stores to stock up just to be doing something more than for any other reason for surveys of opinion showed that the ladies were perfectly willing to go barelegged bare legged if necessary to spray makeup stockings on their legs or to wear cotton if they could be made good looking it was obvious that the new nylon industry would not be able to supply the demand at least at prices women were willing to pay but as to the cotton situation the govern government men t had finished researches at beltsville md from which had come types of cotton stockings many of them pretty stylish looking philadelphia with a a year hosiery industry and other near nearby by cities and states with smaller organizations began changing over to cotton right away one mill already had out a line of samples of cotton lisle stockings several of them of the mesh type these were displayed by pretty models and the salesmen started out to see what the reception of the american woman would be on that they said depended what the factory would do close up or continue to put out the cotton stockings LLOYDS and war bets lloyds was reputedly offering odds on the end of the war even the likelihood of washington D C being bombed circumstances which told their own story the war is more likely now to be over december I 1 than it was at this time last year lloyds was offering 7 to I 1 last year and now has reduced the odds of the war ending in 1941 to 3 to 1 As to the bombing of washington the odds were 1000 to L 1 however as it was pointed out the odds really that much for it was simply the offering of a premia premium M of 1000 for 1 that no property would b e lost within a year in washington thus really meaning that lloyds was betting 1000 to 1 that no particular private property in washington would be damaged SPIES meet doom the reports issued constantly to british citizens that even the walls have ears were given point when it was told that two nazi spies karl theo drueke german citizen and werner heinrich a swiss were executed as spies the story was romantic enouf enough h the two men equipped with radio sending and receiving sets flew near the english coast and were set down from a seaplane they then rowed ashore in a collapsible rubber boat both had foreign passports and spoke english for a time they evaded discovery they had sp split t up and were heading ng for edinburgh scotland by different routes their bags were examined and when the radios were found the jig was up later the government said they were found t to a have fa food od including sausage made in germany they were hanged |
