Show weekly Wee SiBy news analysis german and british airmen raid vital industrial centers bv W ito 9 er EDITORS NOTE when opinions aye an expressed in in these columns they hey are those ol of the news analyst and not necessarily ol of this newspaper YE CAMPAIGN roars ott on boss ed flynn of the bronx a man with a surprisingly fine library who likes to read took jim I 1 far ar leys place as national chairman of of the democrats he was the same general type as parley farley with a similar background except that parley farley was a country boy and boss flynn was a city laddie like parley farley flynn is respected around new york and well liked by many willkie came out and said he would not get into personal arguments with members of congress individual hecklers or anybody like that willkie went on to say he had very determined views about conscription and about helping the bellmen abroad but he admit what those views were some republicans remarked that they felt they had signed a blank check made t EDWARD J FLYNN like parley farley hes respected out to wendell willkie esquire and yet more than 90 per cent of the newspapers of the united states supporting him against ta the ae III term more and more people were showing themselves anti roosevelt rattier rather than pro willkie Di dilemma lemina an evidence of this was the continued drift of democrats over to the republican fold As each demo moved over roosevelt would denounce him but still they moved lewis douglas Roosevel ts erstwhile budget director had been one of the first now came edmund toland counsel to the house committee investigating the national labor relations board toland resigned in order to work for willkie mrs dwight morrow acting president of smith college wired willkie that her immediate family was delivering five pro votes on the other othe r hand a fair number of liberal republicans were none too sure about willkie they stressed his non savory background and his anglophile war expressions THE WAR aircraft while the world waited wearily for the german invasion of england air fighting raged to and fro between the royal air force and the goering flying circus the germans forced the port of london biggest in the entire world to close and also the ports of newcastle on tyne hull and newcastle this meant that all sorts of commodities had to be unloaded in the still solvent west of england and shipped east cast which dislocated the british timetable no end on the other hand the british claimed they had peppered hamburg to a really serious degree this is germanys germanas Germ anys third biggest city after berlin and vienna and by far the friendliest city to england of them all its inhabitants speak a local dialect closely akin to anglo saxon and its seagoing sea going and commercial ties with john bull have always been strong after the napoleonic pole onic wars hamburges Ham burgs republican senate petitioned england to take them over bremen hamburges Ham burgs sister city also got it in the neck but not so bad so did Duess eldorf essen wesel and duisburg guisburg Du isburg in the valley of the river rhine essen is the german pittsburgh where the vast complex of the krupp works spreads out it is an easy aerial target sheffield the english equivalent of essen and pittsburgh was scheduled to be next on the list while welsh cardiff and english portsmouth were reportedly already badly gutted one ex englisher was excited by all this he was living in in faraway chicago but he bought a spitfire fighter and presented it to his home town leamington leavington Lea spa in warwickshire Warwick shire antiaircraft anti air aircraft craft in the german service the antiaircraft department is an integral part of the goering flying circus which is an independent branch of the national defense coequal co equal with army and navy in the american service antiaircraft anti aircraft is part of the ardys coast artillery during the first 11 months of the present war the crack german antiaircraft anti aircraft brought down 1230 enemy planes knocked out more than tanks sank 10 ships and damaged 10 more of them the catch there is a catch to all this aerial warfare between the british island fortress and the long seacoast under germanic domination it is this the germans do their air raiding by day and the british do it by night air raiding by day is much more dangerous to the flyers but it is also much easier to hit land targets when the sun is up night bombing is safer for the pilots but it Js is far harder to reach the objectives this accounts for the much heavier german air losses the germans outnumber the british in the air by perhaps 3 to 1 so they can afford to take it the royal air force has to be economical in its expenditure of men and machines NAMES in ibi the news C L the three brothers were discharged from their bail george arthur and robert georges bail was worth and his brothers were worth apiece the trio served short sentences at the federal jail in lewisburg pa they were accused of mulching mulcting ting via larceny and forgery the fourth brother was the late philip of mckesson robbins he called himself F donald coster C L congressman lindsay warren of north carolina age 50 was selected by president roosevelt as ler general chairman of the accounts committee of the house he had served there tor for 16 years the job of comptroller general lasts 15 years and nets per year C L one hundred thousand names unknown to history were the victims of a bad flu epidemic in puerto rico they called the disease the monga drs edwin lennette and john oliphant were rushed down there from the rockefeller institute and the united states health service fl L congressman martin texas dies of the dies committee founded a foundation for americanism it would be said he nonpartisan non partisan non U S ARMY parachutes at hightstown Hights town N J some 48 infantry regulars from fort denning benning ga gave a parachute jum jumping ping demonstration on from two foot steel towers high army officers looked on with grave attention for it was I 1 T kaj M this unusual picture was made as the first doughboy made his jump at the army parachute training center in Highs town N J sensational stuff in the line of troop training the denning benning infantry jumped in four easy stages like this stage 1 was a drop in an open parachute equipped with a comfortable seat that so bad at all stage 2 was a drop in an open parachute with harness instead of a seat stage 3 was a free drop with an open parachute and stage 4 was a free drop with a packed parachute which had to be opened up in the air in any mans country russia aside for some reason it is none too easy to recruit parachute jumpers goering in germany had to start it off by using the dare devils of his own bodyguard even these toughies hies grumbled the first time up and down c headache meanwhile the U S army had a new headache it found that its best airplane reservists were working on the wide network of american commercial and transport air profit nonpolitical non political and non secta rian its name will be the dies foundation for americanism mr dies dislikes un americans especially un american americans C poor queen Eliza elizabeth elizabell beil visited wounded french soldiers and sailors in london she tried to talk french to them canadian french she picked up here last year they said C L al capone was mingling with the american public again he was visiting miami beach nightclubs and restaurants when he dined in one fashionable spot he had his bodyguard sit watchfully by the bar he was taking up golf again fishing in the sun and swimming in his own private pool fl L new york cites communist daily newspaper the daily worker was sold to three aristocratic red women mrs reed mrs caro lloyd and mrs susan woodruff thereby the daily worker ceased to be the official organ of the muscovites mrs reed of boston once put in half a days work on the moscow subway with a shovel so the story went it was said to have been a labor of love she was then 63 years old lines here they are vitally needed and so is the flying equipment some of these topnotch civil pilots are military some are naval and some are marines but all of them will have to stay in case of war right where they are this was the U S gendral staff verdict COMMONS it laughs the house of commons at westminster is pretty grim these days but it got a good laugh for once one member announced that no less than 14 italian submarines had been sunk by the british navy in the mediterranean in parliament there is a rough and tough scotch labor deputy named J J davidson who loves to wisecrack wise crack the tories and the furriness fur when he heard about the submarines he yelled out Is it true the british sailors at s sea ea only have to call out waiter and italian subs come to the top but the italians had an answer they were actually shipping pocket submarines over the alps to help hitler in the english channel operations once the great hannibal of carthage shipped his elephants chants over the alps to harry the italians and now the italians were turning the same fantastic trick with their hery fiery sea serpents and strangely enough historians have always referred to england as the modern carthage because of its shipping banking colonizing and trading SPORTS porkers corkers the wimbledon Wimble don tennis club in england is the best known in the entire world every american champ and she champ has played there on the green turf it is glamorous and top drawer it was announced that the would turn to pig breeding for the duration of the war and would deal in in porkers corkers instead of lob lollies and back hands it was revolutionary I 1 and it certainly cricket or tennis either it seemed that the davis cup was turning into a bitter cup of misery to be drained by a new champ the great god mars so with english polo as well its fields were plowed up britons are good sports england needs aluminum and needs it bad one veteran of the last war turned in his aluminum false leg to a scrap metal depot at windsor he wanted to hold off diftler just as much as the fancy did meanwhile there was a lot of talk about equipping parts of the british army with steel breastplates breast plates and helmet visors to bounce off shell splinters which was one back step more toward the dark ages of ironsides frona iron pants ants and iron heads at the battle of bull run in 1861 some of our own new york militia wore bulletproof bullet proof vests but they proved so heavy that the new yorkers threw them aside when they ran away they were not such good sports gorillas alfred was an anglo gorilla at the bri bristol stol zoo he is worth and weighs pounds net he eats 12 per week in foodstuffs and is said to be the longest lived gorilla in captivity keepers say hes just as good a sport as the fellow with the aluminum leg but alfreds too eapen expensive sive to keep up and if somebody adopt him hell get shot nobody in england likes that prospect one man wrote the bristol zoo and said why dont you ship him to america with all the other Haps burgs simultaneously dogs were being slaughtered in germany to save food poor dogs poor alfred poor hapsburg Haps bur burgs gs U S PEACE what they want wl ant in the tenth new jersey congressional district congressman fred hartley conducted a straw vote he sent out blanks to voters and answered this mob voted stay out america by 97 per cent the other 3 per cent were hoa O clety people from fashionable tn ridge most ot of the 97 per t were from newark or its suburbs some 70 per cent of these people favored universal military training without knowing much about it about 97 per cent were for the present rearmament program it was acknowledged locally that congressman hartley had performed a useful public service and a truly patriotic one adjacent north jersey is the count rys no I 1 industrial zone and how the Jer feel these days is of primary united states importance the hartley poll also attracted significant attention in england london please noted NICE NAMES pretty cute liberty equality fraternity have e vanished from la belle frani francy Z they have vanished from was basig g ton D C too only in this case liberty equality fraternity are attractive young ladies they have gone on vacation their father former president commissioner of puerto rico is santiago iglesias the complete list of his hispanic daughters includes liberty equality fraternity justice light peace and america on their vacations these virtues will scatter widely light is off for mexico justice for new england equality and fraternity to puerto rico peace to ohio and america to los angeles said liberty my plans are private but im going to live up to my name it will be remembered that a radical mexican state governor named his three sons satan lucifer and lenin in the american revolution the commander of the hessians called his baby twins amerika and kanada but here are some popular 1940 names just discovered in brooklyn nicey teaky icey zigy kirvy obdulia alethia marador Mary dor oceana evelyb wat elginia Ev ginia one family named orr called their child ordinary tauline pauline revere n ilk ai dc f n 41 N pauline ret ere in the miss elane summers 19 enire university sty of at wisconsin beauty queen pictured about to mount her white horse in front of Chi cagos city hall en route to washington D C arith art an co ri bill or scroll to be presented to president roosevelt elt her ride is sponsored by the committee to defend america by keeping it out of war this gives gires but one side of the conscription problem as proponents of the ilse plan claim that americas interests cats can best be served by a universal ersal military training program released by western newspaper union |