BFAZI From Rio de Janeiro comes a story that our Brazilian neighbors are about to join us in the war against the Axis. At the Pan-American Conference several weeks ago, the Brazilian delegat40\.was in the front line of all the republics that wanted to sever • . relations with the Nazis, Fascists and Japanese. And every republic in South America except Argentina and Chile, has actually broken off relations. Several Brazilian ships have been torpedoed, and it is understood that the Vargas government has ordered all Brazilian shipping to make for the nearest tm a declaratiocf TP, norts. But the action\which most ? f A of v/ar was a neiv constitutional amendment which President Vargas today signed, a measure which authorizes him to declare w'ar without asking permission:^ of any legislative body in case he finds it necessary for the defense of the country. BRAZIL - 2 The Brazilian President is also given the right to take any action against the nation^^^f any /A country endangering the security of Brazil, and he also has the right to declare a state of emergency whenever he finds it•necessary. This announcement at Rio de Janeiro follows immediately upon the news publishedZhere today, A that the Brazilian liner CAYRU had been torpedoed and f sunk Sunday evening off the coast of the United States. r ■"1 TIEPITZ There has been sea off the A Nor^’egian coast. Hitler's great battleship TIRPITZ, sister ship of the BISMAFC!^^ which the British sunk some time ago, ventured out from Trondheim, where she was berthed. She was going n^irth, parallel with the Norwegian coast, presumably to attack a British convoy 1 on its way to Russia by the northern route. British naval planes on a reconnaissance flight spotted the TIRPITZ and promptly swooped down and fired JKHW torpedoes, i/u<p Evidently ^tsy—d-rdn ' t serious damage, rt irrc t British Admiralty announces that it wasj^3^ possible to observe the results of the fight definitely. IF •T T>-« ■; British warshins tried to catch up with the TIRPITZ, but Hitler's battleship fled back to Trondheim under a heavy smoke screen. The Admiralty tells us^ tk though the British planes did n^ sink her, they at least prevented her from attacking the convoy. CHURCHILL It is hardly news that British Sir Stafford-', Cripps is going to India. The news j_s that Prime I Minister Churchill made the announcement in the House of Commons as we had been told he v/ould. Churchill told the House that Cripps was going to confer with tl leaders in Hindustan and put up to them a plan that tt British War Cabinet had evolved for solving the proble m of India's freedom. In effect, the Indians are promisedr dominion status if all the factions of Hindustan make peace and settle the squabbles ^ I But Churchill did not go into detail, tell the /\ jl Commons or the world the exact nature of the arrangementjj i that he proposes. The dispatch from London reports that'^ the Prime Minister left the country with a feeling of doubt that his plan went much further than previous orooosals which leaders have turned down. In fact, he left the decided imoression that the whole ll S CHURCHILL - 2 thing is a sto-gap Churchill used these words:- "Lir Stafford- } j Cripps has the full confidence of the government and I I will try to get the necessary measure of assent from the Hindu majority and the Moslem and other minorities. And he added:- "We must remember also that India is one of the bases from which the strongest counter-blows must be struck at the advance of tyranny and aggression. Churchill’s declaration followed a debate in the House, in which members flung some heavy criticism at the British Admiralty. One speaker accused it of slavish adherence to the traditions of Lord Nelson’s days. J 0 CHUFCHILL - 3 The Labor member who .brought that up, said the words had been written to him by a group of young naval officers. Gunnery, they told him, had been neglectedj and^ a lot of time spent on things which have no relation ? to modern conditions of warfare. speaker A ^ I criticized the Admiralty for not having better torpedo Dianes. i While this debate was going oh, a Navy spokesmanj -rCdirdj, : made known a most ominous fact. strength of the j Japanese Navy has not been impaired seriously. Although un^^athed, its command of the sea and it has A air permits the Nipponese to Exploit their successes in any direction they choose. The British Navy spokesman went on to warn that the Japanese may soon be expected to attack transnorts and mercjxantmen in the Indian Ocean^ira^ A surface vessels. Submarines have been operating there A ■ __ J "l! CHURCHILL - I already as well as along the western seaboard of !3 Australia. The Japanese, he continued, may soon ir. operate as far west as the Island of Ceylon. As for | our side, the British Navy spokesman pointed out that ^ a lack of enough bases and the absence of a natural defensive barrier from Malaya to New Guinea, makes the | development of an Allied defensive far more difficult. The Japanese claim to have information that the British fleet is no longer based on Ceylon^but has moved to Bombay. A naval spokesman for the Japanese claimed to have found out that the British Admiralty had sent two battleships and two aircraft carriers to the the Indian Ocean to prevent^general collapse of British i rule east of Suez, BUBIJA The news from Burma is that the British are ^ne^!3*=^‘?ire5=*=Ter*’ , A A ^bandoned the entire delta of the Irrawaddy River, wh'teh leav e coast cleat for the Japanese to at least the Rangoon airdrome and thus obtainerd. command of the Gulf of Bengal with their bombers. us e Unofficially, it is reported that the British Imoerials hope to stop the enemy somewhere in south-central Burma. -S=cFrAjK e Japanese are threatening T'oungoo, a hundred and fifty ^ TT miles north of Rangoon. The withdrawal of the English is considerably hampered by disaffected Burmese, who have never become reconciled to British rule. ^e hear repeated reports that the Chinese are preparing to help the British in Burma, and have a considerable army ready for the job. ■V CHINA I There has been a fresh outbreak of heavy fightinj in China. Chungking reports fierce battles between t armies of Chiang Kai-shek and the Japanese in the J Province of Shantung.X going on for ten days^v'ith heavy casualties on both sides. Spokesmen for the Chinese report that the Japanese threv/ thirty Kfi. thousand men in the field against Chinese guerrillas, buuthey didixi^ capture any of the Chiang Kai-shelN A A strongholds. ;iu. ,','EDNESDAf7~TT^pn_M___ inj^o m 111 GOOD EV^!ir:A.^ .;L v 1 1.^ Jt"f : i^Jir-dUO V\J^Ar\J^^ The Pacific war today^ytS:s^^P:s=^;^,^^p^=zSrho^=&^ / aatd^^iiiras:«T‘-i:rt:ct A us tral ia. threats from Tokyo v/ere| I backed up by the approach of a Japanese invading flee to Port Morseby, the key position in New Guinea. Tfeip 'TlZc^o is not official because actually the Australian authorities declined either to deny or confirm the report of that armada. But there were official reports that relays’ of Australian planes had blasted away at a heavy concentration of Japanese naval vessels. From seven to nine of them were eithei* ;\ sunk, set afire, or damaged by Australian bombs.^ So apparently we itiay take it that the battle of Australia has begun, with a Japanese move to get Ji LEAD - 2 A-- -TT. tji: control^of the Straits of Torres^ Naturally, o^r eft^sa&e^^ are in a hurry. They want to attack and conquer the northern coast of Australia before our re4-nfor 0 Gget there. The Australians are !r confident that at least two of the seven-to-nine enemy ships they hit were warships, There is a comic if ironic note in the pronouncements about Australia in Tokyo. A spokesman II •I I : for the Japanese Cabinet said the Japanese would show -i^ no mercy in crushing the Australians, ’’but if they come to understand Japan's real intentions, the Japanese will not hesitate to extend their help." One is tempted to ask, what should understand about the real intentions of* a man in Dull armor who comes battering at your fI'unt- door? LEAD - 3 An Australian flyer who fought in Java is urging his countrymen not to go building any fancy airdromes in Australia. He says that was ehrx 8$21 sh } i he learned fighting in Java. A Then he explained:- "Fancy airdromes are too easy to bomb^and are unnecessary. All that is wanted," he says, "are paddocks, better aircraft, plenty of pep talk, and tons of bombs." Later we learned that a fleet of American bombers also attacked the Japanese invasion fleet off New Guinea. The War Department in Washington issued a communique tonight that a fleet of eight of our flying fortresses dropped? eighteen tons of bombs in a raid on Japanese ships in the harbor of Sa^lamua. They left two ships s inking^ four in flames, and one on the beach. our total of Jaoanese vessels crippled or sunk since the start of V. LEAD - 4 the war to one hundred and forty-five. This bomber fleet was under the command of iajor Richard H. Carmichael. it returned to its base unscathed. 7 LEND-LEASE Just a ypv.v ago today, we started the Ir III 11 ! Lend-Lease program. And in that time we have spent two billions, five hundred and seventy odd millions to ^m^^ f^d^our Allies. As Pr es identboos e velt e-f ^ m mentions in his renort to Congress, the figure falls I..: * far short of what is needed to turn the tide toward victory. As a matter of fact, those two and a half billions are only a fraction of the forty-eight ^ billions that Congress has authorized for helping our Allies. one billion, Defense A A one hundred millions, have already been transferred, — TUiairtiHc oresumably shipped and placed in the hands of X ‘ . A ■ our Allies, f^our hundred and eirhty-eight million / dollars* worth are waiting to be shipped, and a hundred and twenty-eight million dollars* worth^are 2. ^ being made. The rest of the ntoice^ -" p r naid out in i LEND-LEASE - 2 servicinp and repairing shins for the Allies, renting anci chartering ships,' and .providing production ------ — facilities in the United States. Q-s^g-v-girtrj^" report does not tell us which country got the most help, but i that Britain^»a±iz-tin?^^x4pcrr^fi«-sareti»^. To carry out the provisions of the Lend-Lease Act, military missions had to be sent to China, kussia. North Africa and Iran. It was the mission to China that encountered the i II U greatest difficulty, for it was obliged not mere ly'Ztf It it' tCe(J) i arrange for providing the supp"* ies but^to. equip and train a huge army for mechanized warfare. IH. Tium ’to ^ ^improving the Burma Poad, building a railway from Burma to Yunnan, evacuating supplies from Pangoon^and -t£x £Wfr diverting shins to other ports^^ The President's report then adds a long list of the other activities that the Diission to China had to carry out. A • ■ -•*■1 hjfiMMKI LEND-LEASE - 3 The North Africa mission is on the job not only in Egypt but also in Eritrea, which the British won av/^y from the Italians. And it*s busy in Palestine. Mr. Roosevelt said further that Lend-Lease has also helped open the way for traffic to Russia. Locomotives and trucks have been supplied to help the Soviets with their transportation problems. The Iran mission has built pipelines, ordnance work shops, food canneries, as well as military depots and repair shops. Also a lot of work has been done in the area between Baghdad and India, work that is now threatened by the prospects of an all-out invasion by the Japanese. JL-- 1 im A General of the Array has protested against the proposal to draft workers who strike in time of war. ”If an individual is unwilling to work,” he said, ”we don’t want him picked up and sent to us to join combat troops, he isn’t good enough. Y/e don’t want his spirit. we don’t want his presence.” The officer who said that is the now celebrated > Lieutenant-general Ben LeOur, l^he ^SHxkB hero of the yoo-hoo incident. A suggestion. If you want to | disciplincand make useful those who have refused to work faithfully with the ‘team, put them into labor y »■.. battalions: set them to’work building a highway to Alask^ l| ^ in Labrador and Greenland. The Array, added^ is not A A a reform school. FEEE DAY Out on the coast, shipyard workers are spreading m a movement to Uncle ^am one day's work every month iithout pay. begun at the shipyards of th e Bethlehem Corporation, where five thousand have signed pledges to tha^effect, and they expect to have ten thousand signatures in the San Francisco Bay area by tomorrow. The Union officials approve of the movement. -1' CHESS Chess, the game of kings, has been played in many curious places and varied circumstances. ! Occasionally, we are told, famous generals have been li’ ill obliged to interrupt their games ^u uci''ff==^ or maybe los A ^ a battle.' Out in Los Angeles, a rich man was playing chess with his wife. Thai gam» was interrupted by a A lil burglar^who I The rich man, intent jj on his chess, gave the intruder a look and said imperiously, ”Gb away!” It turned out that the bandit himself was a chess player^' Instead of going away, he took the ?/ife*s place, and th^ finished the game. All this came out in a Los Angeles law court. where the lady was bringing suit against her husband for divorce. The information was disclo.sed under cross-examination, but it v/asn’t continued long enough for the world to find out who won the game. /. MULE . ^ ?1 Out in Colorado, (^an^s of miners have been digging without cease day and night for nine days, to save a life. They had an eighty foot wall of dirt and coal 1 to aciK break through at the Cr'ackerjack Mine near Boulder^^y Shortly before noon today, their labors t ^ ^. They cleared the tunnel and out into A the daylight walked old Ted, a little old gray mule bleached by years of underground work, the miners' pet for whom they had been- digging u r*ii0. hT^ro 1 nok■- /< since March the Secomd. The"super*'of- the mine reported that the only unexcited creature on the spot was Ted himself. B.e ; stumbled aro und^ nuz zl ing a few of the raei^and acted as if he had enjoyed a long^^acation. Then he started ^ looking' for something to eat^ ayu-^ U, J