--- - 'UJo ttr F.NCH CQ^MOMXSTS Today in France the Communist Party was abolished /- that Red organization which once was so powerful,^^Xt had a paid membership of half a million. In Nineteen Thirty-Six, the Coipiuni ,1 H! Party polled two million two hundred thousand votes, and controlled eight hundred municipalities. That was at the time of the far-famed Popular Front, which took power in France under Premier Leon Blum. The same sort of Popular Front that won out in Spain, and brought on the Spanish Civil War - the Communists Joining in with the other parties of the Left. It all seems like ancient history now. When Comrade Stalin lined up with Mazi Fuehrer Hitler, he put the Jinx on the French Communist Party^ And today the Paris Council of Ministers outlawed that once mighty political organization of the Reds. Any attempted party propaganda to be punished by prosecution. If there are any local Communist officials who fail to carry out today’s anti-Communist sisg decree, they’ll be removed from office. It wasn’t the wicked capitalists who finished off the If!! I \: f(i Red comrades - It was Stalin. DIES There's to he a Unite* States Govern^ purge of Co„sts ar.d Fascists, so said Congressman Dies of Texas today. The Congressman, as Chairs of the Committee investigating Un-African activities, is much concerned with the doings of Reds and Fascists. He declared that quite a number of them have worked their way into responsible Jobs in various departments of the government. "Just recently," says the Congressman, "I»ve been informed by a ratirw*. reliable source that the respective heads of the'departments have been apprised of the known Communjs ts and Fascists working for them and that the department heads are taking steps toward their dismissal." Out with the Reds and Fascists federal bureaus! t They^l also be tossed out of the C.I.O. - so said the Chairman of the Dies Committee. There have been many charges of Communist influence in the John L. Lewis group of unions, Reds Spying to make C/I.O t -1 organisations adhere-to ^he-Oemmunlst 5 batted Die tee hen1 (3 There’s to be a summary end to that, declares Congressman Dies. "I understand," said he of all subversive today, "that C.I.O. leaders will announce a purge ilf u Ill St||; •slfl :il elements from the C. I. o. ranks, and that the process of weeding out such members already has begun.” Comrade Stalin brought it all on. auto mm European war affairs are intruding into the business of American labor unions. At Detroit> thd old fight is on between the two organ to at ions of automobile workers - one affiliated with the A,F* of L,, the other with the C. 1,0. There * s to be a bargaining election in Chrysler plants and today the A.F. of L, ws&m appealed to auto workers of Polish extraction - appealed on grounds of the conquest and destruction of Poland, The C.I.O. faction of the auto union has been accused of being dominated by Communist elements. Communist Dictator Stalin and his Red army have joined Hitler in the partitioning of Poland, hence the A.F* of L* argument that American auto workers of Polish descent should spurn the C.I.O. group T.F.GIQil The American Legion parahed. today —— all day. Rain in Chicago ..aid up the grand march for a while, but then the skies began to clear. With war in Europe, the Legion called its demonstration "a parade of peace;” A telltale sign that the Twenty-First Convention of the American Legion is the most important in its history. AMBASSADOR bermany isia^ send its AisrilDsssa.d.or tacA to Washington_ that* s the word in Berlin tonight. Remember how we called our own Ambassador home at the time of the Nazi anti-Jewish outbreaks and Germany retaliated by calling Ambassador Dieckhoff back to Berlin? Row we near that the Hitler government is considering the idea of sending Ambassador Dieckhoff back and restoring normal diplomatic relations — on the German side anyway. This, says the Berlin report, will be meant as a npeace gesture.” And the German hope is that the United States will respond by sending an American Ambassador to Berlin CHAMBER!#! Prime Minister Chamberlain addressed the House of Commons today and gave an account of the war thus far. The most important thing is this: -(^Ch amber la in indicated that so far as the Allies were concerned, the war was more economic than military. No tremendous charge by the British and French armies against the Siegfried Line, but slow economic strangulation - that's the idea Speaking of the work of the Ministry of Economic Warfare, the head of the London Government declared:- "The general object of the Ministry is to disarm Germany's economic structure to such an extent as to make it impossible for her to carry on the war." And Chamberlain expanded the British war plan in these further words:- "If Britain," said he, "can prevent Germany from importing raw material essential for the functioning of her war industries, the result, will effectively cripple her power to prolong So Britain means it to be an economic war, illtli instead of army versus army on the battlefield. CHURCHILL The proceedings in the House of Commons tiok on a more A vivid tone with a declaration by the First Lord of the Admiralty, --- H/2^ r ) Winston Churchill^4t^±^ always vivid. {^Churchill told the Commons that the German submarine blockade was not developing dangerously.! The British campaign against the U-boats, said he, was decidedly effective. He estimated that Hitler had already lost one-tenth of his submarines. The First Lord of the Admiralty gave the first official version we have of the torpedoing of the giant aircraft carrier A COURAGEOUS. The mighty craft was protected by four destroyers, but twwent off to help a merchant ship that was being attacked. The two destroyers that remained were insufficient to guard against^fa^CirtT^^fc^^feasiu It was dusk, and the COURAGEOUS A was Just making a turn to enable some of her aircraf^to land on deck. *ys%(2t that moment of approaching darkness, * U-boat sneaked in and got a chance to launch the torpedo that sent the great carrier to the bottom. And the Hi£ht Honorable Winston Churchill had a telling little story to relate - hefs a rare and gifted story-teller. While f! ft : : QHURCHILL - 2 condemning tine iniinmanity of many of the submarine sinkings, he admit tea that some of the G@nman tJ~boat c orrimander s were humane and even chivalrous. And he told this anecdote;- ’’One German Captain/1 said he, nsignalled me personally kanritigwii the position of a British ship he had just sunk, and urged that rescue be sent. I was in some doubt/’ Churchill continued, ’'as to what address the reply might be sent. However,” he concluded assuringly, ’’that German U-boat commander is now in our hands and being treated with all consideration.” J-ust how the British caught the humane U-boat commander is not related* —they*inu glad ti'oafc U xiip wifcii- oons id-cyeiticrfy. jjflVAL BATTLE The mastery of the big naval battle still continues — or does it? For a couple of days heavy firing at sea has been heal'd along the coast of Norway — in the same area where the historic battle of Jutland -v/as fought during the World War. If a naval battle is going on it certainly is lasting a long time. The mightiest fight ever fought on the sea, the Battle of Jutland, lasted only an afternoon — with some sporadic night attacks. But this new titanic struggle at sea has been going on for daysl So its* reportedi Sounds extraordinary, if not incredible. Anyway, how could they have a really big naval battle — when Germany hasn't p - - much of a fleet, a couple of pocket battleships and a few cruisers — nothing like the Kaiser 1 s navy that fought at Jutland. Here,s a supposition: refreshingly unsensational. The United Press today quotes the Naval General Stafj. of Norway, quotes it in a statement with these words: "It seems that a mistake has been made, and the sounds came from dynamiting in quarries in t e fiords outside Bergen." So says the Norwegian Naval General rtafi- the cannon fire of the supposed battle was Just dynamite blastin 0 NAVAL BATTLE - 2 off a lot of rock. And that may he the real explanation of another war sensation — the mysterious second battle of Jutland! Which produced those big headlines yesterday. ZF.PPELIN BOMBARDMEi^T Here’s another splash headline exploded tonight — the Allied bombardment of the great German Zeppelin Works at Fried- richshafen. How a factory manufacturing aviation motors. The story was reported from nearby Switzerland — people heard the shoot­ ing and saw explosions. French bombers were said to have hit the great plant. But this is denied, by Paris officially. And now there’s a rumor that the air raid story was Just a German invention — designed to cover up an accidental explosion in the Zeppelin plant. I: Ilil •? PTP^F- n TRQP Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop is going to Moscow that s announced by both the Germans and the Soviets. The last time he went was to sign that Hitler-Stalin Non-Agression Pact, which shook the world. This time nobody knows what Hitler's Foreign Minister is up to, visiting The Red Capitol. The suppos­ ition is th t hegoing to negotiate with Stalin concerning the final dispostion of Poland, make an agreement for the creation of some sort of an abbreviated and mutilated Polish state between the territories of Germany and Russia. pyy.nw VQM HIBBEIjTROP There's a late bialletin from Koumania? a rumor that a&nt rttjthg* Hitler and Stalin have agreed on a plan to divide up eastern Europe^ divide it either as outright possessions or as spheres of influence. The Bucharest report states that the Soviets have agreed that Nazi Germany shall have Boumania in its sphere of influence. FLEET Moscow announces that the fleet of Russia has been put on a war footing. It isn't so much of a fleet, though the Soviets are reputed to have a lot of submarines - and submarines are very much in the news of this present war. It isn't clear what the war mobilization of the Red fleet means, but it's exciting all sorts of a*. speculation and worry in the Allied countries - every Soviet move ' A does. In Washington today the Congressional Committee investi- ting monopoly took up the subject of oil, that Invaluable substance petroleum, And. right away a war-time angle appeared, when an expert of petroleum told the Monopoly Committee that the United States is the only nation on earth that has enough oil to provide instantly for any emergency. Especially — any military emergency. Sixty-two per cent of the world’s entire oil industry is in the United States — this was testified by J. Howard Pew, President of Sun Oil. The theme of monopoly in petroleum brought reference to the fact th t a hundred and seventeen oil companies are listed. Are they monopolised? Witness J. Howard Pew testified grimly in these words:!,If anybody suspects,said he, ’’that monopoly is likely to be established among these six score of fightin independ­ ent determined competitors — I should like to nave him sit at my elbow during the working hours of a few business days. He would learn what competition really Is,” said the President of Blue Sunoco, RASB3ALL in Cincinnati today Bill McKecdnle took two chances with pitchers, two surprises. The Cincinnati Reds started their most important series of games during their entire season — the old baseball expression "crucial series" certainly does apoly. A desperate pennant battle during the stretch, Cincinnati leading the battling, clawing, mauling St. Louis Cards by three and a half games. Now — a four game series with the Cards. Cincinnati Manager Bill McKechnie has two outstanding pitchers: Bucky Walters and Paul Derringer. Bucky has won twenty-seven games, Paul Twenty-four. Derringer pitched yesterday, so was not avail­ able for today. So the inescapable logic was — Bucky Walters, in a supreme Cincinnati effort to win the first game. To the astonishment of the huge crowd in Cincinnati — in went Junior Thompson to pitch. Junior is hardly more than a rookie. Junior Thompson hurled a peach of a game, they only got one run of! him The Reds got three. And the crowd went wild. How came the logic for the second game. Certainly xt would be Buck;/ Walters this time, Bucky the ace, the tar- But BASEBALL - S once more McKechnie crossed the logic. He put In Lee Grisson. At the beginning o£ the season Lee was rated a star on the Cincinnati staff, but the promise failed. He went badly all season. What happened with Grisson in there? Cincinnati lost six to three. So it's now up to either Bucky Walters or Paul Derringer to v/in one, and put it on ice.