| Show weekly news analysis greeks creeks continue to advance laval loses french cabinet post uy by C 4 wayne EDITORS NOTE wits when opinions r n expressed in ia these columns they r those of el the news analyst led and not necessarily of this newspaper MACLE DEBACLE italian version unquestioned was the fact that italy had been kicked wholeheartedly out of the war by britain greece and the free french together with other sundry allies such as polish czech and other hands that had joined into the battle of greece and the battle of egypt the invader who stepped briskly into the war just at the moment of frances collapse shot forces along ra persistent rumors current in europe say that bruno mussolini above eldest son of 11 II duce was shot down and killed during an air raid on kalonika Sal greece official italian circles have denied this report and say he Is serving at an airport in southern italy the mediterranean coast from the border of libya to sidi bahrani Bar rani and who sailed across mountains tor for athens from an albanian takeoff take off had become the invaded on both fronts As the british and greeks summed up huge supplies of war materials captured and enormous inventories of prisoners in hand and still coming in the rumbles began sounding through vari ous parts of italy but more particularly ticul arly in the north and about the industrial cities of turin and milan despite all efforts of censorship to keep the true situation from becoming generally known the deba cle was too enormous to be hidden longer and aides had to take to the radio and to the italian press to prevent a 2 spread of the disaster to home fronts dismissal of leaders disaffection in the Dode canese islands riots in the streets of the two iwo big factory towns had leaked out and then the fascist party line editors and commentators menta tors began dishing out orders to the populace from the higher ups at the same time issuing warnings to britain and the hellenes as to what they might expect from the italian troops when they get really mad while there was some news of Epo sporadic radic increased resistance at certain points in the fronts the general words were two retreat and evacuation all along the line and the press articles about the might ot of the british enemy and the unfair bayonets of the greeks were just a foretaste of what was to come with tirana full of wounded and dying soldiers back from the front lines UNREST french version britain was getting little comfort according to her own sources from frances governmental upheaval which sent pierre laval pro fascist foreign minister flying ou out t of the petain cabinet presumably into confinement and put flandin pro nazi into his place in fact british circles frankly doubted the authenticity of any internal disturbance to amount to anything and laid the whole change to orders direct from hitler however it was a notable occurrence and ac accompanied compan led by a scurrying about the streets of vichy and presumably paris of a body of GP men frances new gestapo or in italy they were calling them action squads but they are all the same sort of strong arm governmental ern mental police france called them groupe de protection hence the GP on the armband arm band it was a GP band that took laval into custody thus putting into at least a momentary decline the man on whose shoulders rested considerable of the onus of frances surrender rumor floated double around the french overturn rumor no 1 had it that old man petain realizing that revolt was stirring beneath him charged laval with plotting to get france into the war against england and had summarily ousted him rumor no 2 was to the effect that laval had plotted blotted to overthrow petain and create a new government with himself as dictator whichever might be true watchers agreed that the aged general acted with much the same speed as the younger hitler in slapping down a purge which shot kavals feet from under him with dispatch the upheaval met the same view view in most circles that it was another evidence of the general european unrest that was moving through all the conquered territories an unrest that might find no directional force for sl a long long time highlights in the week s news baltimore the new martin B 26 latest american medium bomber underwent test flights made around miles an hour landed at miles and was able to stop on the field 0 K army pilots hailed it as a bombers dream one said that if its brakes were shot away it would roll more than two miles against the wind before it would I 1 step istanbul dwarfed in the larger of europe came the story of more than jewish refugees from central europe who had paid each passage money on a ton toil wooden ship on the guarantee that they would bf be landed in palestine being capsized and drowned in the sea of marmora the captain a white russian wai saved berlin the ministry of agriculture claimed the present allowance of fat butter margarine and other edible fats is 10 ounces per person per week as against 4 ounces during the world war I 1 hoboken fire destroyed a mil lion dollar defense plant engaged in making unreported appliances needed by U S naval vessels washinton washington ton the government sought at the lowest rate of interest ever to be paid on a lo 10 loan an on the first day it was oversubscribed eight times more than being offered for the certificates kobe japan warnings by the japanese press that its going to be a long war were seen as shaking the confidence of the nipponese in the power of at least the italian end of the rome berlin tokyo axis washington the total number ot of draftees to be called in january will average about twice the number in the first call it was eutizi estimated sted SIX DAYS shall thou labor pointing toward the six day perhaps seven day week in defense industry defense council chairman knudsen belabored american industry for lagging and declared the united states was not getting the spirit of defense work knudsen told the manufacturers many things but one of these was outstanding and had to do with airplane manufacture U S goal declared knudsen had been 1000 warplanes war planes a month by january 1 he said at the rate things were going well be lucky if we are getting a month by that time the reason for the lag is lack of comprehension by manufacturer by laborer of the meaning of the national defense program U S is supposed to be getting ready to protect the nation in case of aggression an and d to help england hold things in sta status quo until that time knudsen pulled no punches and told the manufacturers that they were spending too much time figuring what to do with their profits and earnings and not enough getting out the material this was a double blow at the employ A WILLIAM KNUDSEN pictured as he urged a wartime basis tor for industry to speed production of vital defense needs ers for temporizing with employees demands tor for higher pay and with employees m for threatening and carrying out strikes he introduced the longer work week idea by stating that employers should find a way to use machines on saturdays and sundays making the obvious point that use of these lh ese two days on a full time schedule would automatically speed u up p production about 30 per cent or the amount it is lagging in advance he answered the manufacturers plaint that they lacked the trained men to do this knudsen told them to get more men and train more men he told them to stagger their trained men through the extra shifts thus swiftly training the less able to catch up to full time production his address to the manufacturers was an air clearer like the first lightning flashes before a storm that he hopes will rain airplanes and other defense material PRESIDENT and flying duke president roosevelt returned to his white house desk to face tremendous problems behind him a mile trip on U S S tuscaloosa which was shrouded in secrecy before it began turned out just what had been predicted a junket throughout prospective naval air bases in the antilles and wound up in a blaze of front page articles when the duke of windsor flew out to sea to confer with the chief executive it all began when duchess wallis who had to have an infected tooth out translated in royal languages language into a major dental operation decided to have the surgery performed in a miami hospital she and the duke went thither in the yacht of a swedish friend who oddly was a pal of Goe rings the day after the death of lord lothian the operation was safely over with the duchess convalescing bewitchingly and the duke with a considerable amount of time on his hands suddenly it was announced that president roosevelt wanted to talk to him A navy bomber soared down onto the blue biscayne waters a motorboat met the duke and off he went shrouded with more secrecy than the president himself had been when he started out he was back the same day and the next day the tuscaloosa came in and the cruise was over the public prepared by all this tor for something monumental had to satisfy itself with the story that the duke and the president had talked about the unsuitability of pint sized Ma island for a naval air base and asking the duke if he arrange a better one it was the biggest anticlimax in mon months abs tbs LOTHIAN predicts then dies the notable blunt spoken british bachelor marquess of lothian ambassador bas from britain to the united states lay dying ir his washington horne home from poisoning at the very moment when his written words spoken by proxy at nearby baltimore were predicting what the war in europe will be Lot hians deathbed prediction was that britain with the heldal help already promised and under way from america will win the war decisively in 1942 whatever the facts may be the shocking news of his death gave his final utterance unusual prominence in the news editors tearing their hair over the problem of whether to put the largest headlines on what had happened to lothian or on what lothian had said his passing was the occasion tor for the press here and abroad to express genuine sorrow and shock at his untimely death and his loss was believed to have left a gaping hole in britaina Brit ains diplomatic body lothian was a worker his speech was brusque and these two qualities alone had given him great weight in washington As to his prediction of the end of the war in 1942 and with britain victor it was met with keen interest and perhaps added power because it was to all practical purposes his dying utterance CITY anxious strangest public health story in years broke in rochester N Y with a whole cl city y of souls rushing to be inoculated against typhoid first in sharp sequence of dramatic events was the firing of two city officials when a public health officer on his toes discovered the cites water supply had been contaminated tamina ted with water from the genesee river infested with sewage Ro chesters population most of them modernly health conscious rushed to have themselves inoculated against typhoid a job which takes three injections with an interval interval between first day the health officers distributed tri buted shots of the serum which were promptly gobbled up by private physicians and shot into anxious arms in addition another 1100 dashed into the public clinics and took what they could get there from nearby cities in fast trucks were ru rushel sufficient supply tor for tand the second d hero enough to immunize nio persons health officers were looking for the entire population to take the shots and were combing the country for enough of the prophylactic material to give to persons three doses each at intervals the entire episode presented one ot of the most unusual spectacles in any american city in history and was certain to be studied and reported on for months to come in in medical and public health journals it developed that somebody somewhere had turned the wrong valve the wrong way and the river water got into the drinking supply LATE guard s new day delay in building barracks t tv chief cause national guardsmen guardsman Guards men f many parts of the U S got a months respite from the rigors of military training the new date announced from washington was february 3 and on this day the irmy i hopes to start ma many ny thousands of guardsmen guardsman guards men off on their year of intensive military schooling the lag in sending them out left a handful relatively speaking of draftees most of them volunteers scattered throughout the nations camps on them the regulars were cutting their training teeth getting into the stride that they hope will develop a routine for the hundreds of thousands yet to come FOREIGN JOTTINGS vichy france mrs elizabeth deegan state department employee was freed after being detained by the nazis five days charged with aiding british officers to escape france after the collapse london mr and mrs paul C chamberlain he the son of the late governor of south carolina were killed in a bomb blast chamberlain an artillery officer in world war I 1 elected to make his home in england after the war he was a member of the home guard athens the body of a headless aviator on the kalonika Sal road wearing an italian uniform on the breast of which there were decorations of an unusual number gave rise to the story that bruno mussolini son of II 11 duce had been killed rome denied the story saying bruno was safe at an air base in southern italy k |
