Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne National Lottery for Peacetime Draft Holds Spotlight of Defense Germany Changes Tactics in Air Tension in Far East Affairs Grows NOTE When opinions are expressed In these they are those of news analyst and not necessarily of this by Western Newspaper Interest In the current draft program has led the government to place on display in the Washington office of the Selective Service board this World war draft The register shows that the draft lottery began a. July and ended hours and 46 minutes with the drawing of the The same method is being used determine the order In which men shall be called for the 1940 peacetime conscription Numbers Called To War Secretary Henry L. went the honor of selecting the first number In the national selective service President Roosevelt was to pick the first capsule out of the goldfish bowl that was used in the 1917 draft but graciously yielded to The late Newton D. secretary of war under President selected the first number in Contracts The industrial program of national defense entered its second First was drafting and awarding of Billions of dollars worth of from battleships to paper were contracted The job now Is one of actual manufacture on the speed-up scale demanded by the Defense Commission in order to achieve the two-ocean navy and equip an army that will number close to within a few Chief bottleneck is machine the machinery and gear necessary in the process of turning automobile shops into tank and the mass production of warplanes and William S. head of the production division of the said tool makers are swamped with sold out a year In President Roosevelt issued an order permitting seizure of tool machines being made for foreign wherever the material Is necessary in American Outside tho vast industrial capacity of the United Stales seemed to be taking both defense and expanding civilian orders in its stride toward record production The climb in manufacturing Indices since last spring still has left a margin of surplus In raw materials and But despite the rise of various business statistics to new peaks since Wall Street security markets remained inert WAR AT Tactics Change England was emerging from almost three months of continual bombing with greater confidence in its ability to withstand whatever the can As the stormy weather wore on and German planes were not halted by fog and freezing British air leaders increased the fury of their own raids over Germany and Prime Minister Winston Churchill made bold to predict that by with the help of American England will seize supremacy of the The German air attack on London was reduced in one Daylight raids were fewer and less In the beginning Air Marshal sent large formations in daylight During this period scored Then the tactics shifted to single planes at varying The German losses were but still remained Now raids are confined largely to night Bombers drop their packages from the and scoot for The result Is that the WOMEN I in the news Romance Martha Jane daughter of a vice president of General Motors went to England last spring to drive an Her parents protested but to no avaiL Now the and James V. have announced her engagement to John who Is In a having shot down 22 Nazi Germans no longer can pick their but bomb the height of the German planes Is too great for British antiaircraft guns while defense planes arc unable to climb into battle fast German losses have The English people have been told a fast-climbing plane soon will take the air in Otherwise on the war C. France denied rumors in diplomatic circles that it would declare war on Britain in order to get better peace terms from The terms were said to give Alsace-Lorraine to Nice and Tunis to and provide for control of all other French colonies by a three-nation Vice Premier Laval conferred with Adolf Hitler and was said to favor the C London revealed after several that Adolf Hitler twice has tried to start his promised invasion of The British said that on September German troops were loaded in barges along the French but bombers attacked the boats so heavily the attempt was ROADS OF Burma Road For three years China has absorbed and dispersed the heaviest shocks that a superior Japanese army hurled against it While European nations who considered themselves a nobler race have been China has produced nothing to equal the treachery of the Fifth costly errors of or the crimes and stupidity of European For more than a year its sole avenue of supply from the outside world has been via Rangoon by then by narrow gauge railroad across Burma to thence over hundreds of miles of tortuous road through malaria-infected countryside to In where railroads again are For three months Britain kept the road as an act of appeasement to When Japan signed the alliance with Germany and Italy the road was But during those three months Japan seized control of near-by from France and based airplanes within bombing distance of the Burma Nightly the crude bridges arc being blown to bits and rebuilt by thousands of coolies working in disregard of their Blue Danube Famed in song and the beautiful blue Danube has become a highway of conflict in Hitler's march to the east Germany was supposed to have agreed with Russia to limit its penetration of the Balkans to commercial When Nazi legions were sent into Rumania to King Michael's Russia apparently looked at the proceedings with sour Heavy echelons of Soviet troops were sent along the Danube to create a military German troops lined the other German knocked down and shipped by rail to were floated down the Danube to its mouth in the Black There a German naval base quickly grew The base is a definite threat to the main Russian fleet in those Previously Russian warships were protected by an understanding with which controlled the entrance to the Black But the Germans have outflanked this fortification by Just where Hitler's Balkan adventure Is headed none seemed willing to It may be only a diverting sortie toward the oil lines of Asia or It may be a full assault toward Rumor and retraction discussed alleged made by the Axis powers on and |