| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne House and Senate Set Age Limit In Draft Drop Volunteer Total Air Blasts London 32 Killed in Munitions Plant Explosion NOTE opinions are expressed in these they are of tue news analyst and not necessarily of this I by Western Newspaper In November Prospects are that no American youth will be conscripted Into army service until after Just before the house passed the draft bill by a vote of and announcement to this effect was made by Representative N. co-author of the To sure of the house inserted an Lewis B. pictured now head of the joint army and navy committee in charge of service who more than likely will become power behind the after the conscription ma-chinery gets While a civilian may be named titular head of the CoL Hershey will contribute a major share of the work since he has spent four years developing draft sponsored by Representative Fish N. to postpone peacetime draft for 60 days while the President appealed for The house bill differed in two other essentials from the measure passed by the The senate called for an age limit of 21 to The house wanted registration extended to 45 in order to get a greater number of trained The house also modified the amendment so that factories where owners refused defense contracts would be taken over by the government on lease or The senate called for seizure and Ironing out the house and senate conferees agreed upon a bill fixed the age limit at 21 to 35 years modified the plant seizure and eliminated the CO-day volunteer Wendell G. O. P. presidential added his opposition to that of President Roosevelt on the delay MUNITIONS Disaster In what was declared to be the worst disaster in the history of the American munitions 32 persons were known 22 missing believed to have and persons were injured in a series of earth-shaking explosions which destroyed the Hercules Powder company's N. While the cause of the blast was not immediately state and local authorities began immediate investigations because the plant was busy at work on United States defense Offensive Italy's long awaited offensive against English forces in Egypt got under way as artillery fire rumbled up and down the Egypt-Libya 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 of This role consists mainly in diverting the attention of the English to some other quarter while Hitler's attempt at an invasion of the British isles is carried Egypt is an ally of Britain but as yet has not declared war with the axis As soon as the Italian forces slash very deeply into Egyptian territory this declaration is THE London Battered In the fifty-third week of the Nazi air power began the long-proclaimed action which it declared would end in British surrender or the destruction of the world's largest Previous raids and previous bombings were as Hermann W. from a safe scat in personally took charge of the Thousands of gigantic bombers were sent across the channel in waves at 30 minute All were aimed at seat of the British em- j Alarms continued from dusk until Even in while air precaution wardens were digging helpless from the debris left the night new planes They dropped incendiary which set great fires and led the night fliers to their targets through Gone now was raiding only of defense points and Except for German propaganda none challenged the announcement that purely residential areas were being subjected to devastating In world-famous Fleet home of the greatest British some of the largest buildings in the city were Hospitals were subways gas mains broken and set In a two-day period the British admitted killed and KING GEORGE VI Strain of almost constant air raids on England arc telling on the boyish face of Britain's pictured here as he chatted with a workman at aircraft factory which he visited Even as they made the announcement the bombardments grew Morale A delayed action bomb struck a section of Buckingham the royal No one was Objective of the terror was to undermine the morale of the ordinary Berlin said when this was the Churchill cabinet would fall and a new cabinet willing to deal with the Reich would take its In the shell-torn the first day of the raids showed no loss of determination to hold The king visited a slum section where bombs had ripped great craters in the where homes of hundreds had been torn to Out of the window of a house still a woman wc And the crowd gathered around the king The king That night there were worse Retaliation British reported by the German air arm to be reduced to ineffective were still able to get into the air and Moreover they went visiting on their Docks at ports along the channel in Denmark and Norway were given a treatment ol aerial The British air ministry said the retaliation was so severe that the areas could not be used by the Germans to launch a land Nightly there were air raid alarms in At least one bomb was dropped on the Reichstag scat of Hitler's rubber-stamp Labor Board Charles soft-spoken council of the National Labor Relations was promoted by President Roosevelt to assistant solicitor The man who piloted the NLRB through five years of tion battles and Supreme court tests now to the office prepares the government's side in hearings before the nation's highest judicial |
