— CHICAGO STfOKL 9 ?V/ The municipal strike in Chicago was settled this afternoon, the walk-out of four thousand city employees. Mayor Aelly announces an agreement for arbitration. The reduction of wages will go into effect — the pay cut for city employees making over three thousand dollar* a year. But thatTs only tentative. turned with the m whole question iMxnxjig over to an Arbitration board A t\ of seven men. Today’s walkout lasted for five and a half hours. and was accompanied by strange doings in the Windy City. Street cleaners deserted their brushes. Baxa Garbage trucks were left standing along the fashiontible avenues. Traffic lights were out. and the streams of automobiles were directed by the traffic cops X in the old-fashioned way — by hand signals. Jiost dramatic of all was the question of the bridges across the Chicago Biver the stream that encircles the crowded and congested Loop. They're drawbridges, and if the striking bridge-keepers had raised them and left them raised - the Loop would have been isolated — no way to get across the river. There are^X4Ain3sf fifty-seven bridges. CHICAGO STRIKE - 2 and the Union had ordered thirtyof them to be raised. That would not have cut communications completely but would have turned Chicago Loop traffic into a hopdess snarl. However, the bridge-raising was stopped by the police. Cops took their places beside the bridge-keepers and »^oppedF them from doing any bridge- lifting — with one ks ^II bji exception. 6ne bridge vas raised. No cop was there. But a nearby policeman ju.iped into action, and the bridge was lowered in twenty minutes. There was a further complication to com licate a fesdxx bedeviled situation. Keeping the drawbridges lowered would cause a tangle with thi United States Government. There*s a War Department regulation requiring that drawbridges across navigable rivers must be in a condition to be opened to let river traffic through. As it was, a number of boats However, all complications are solved now — with the end of the strike, arbitration DEFUSE STRIKES f The question# of strikes and the armament program was a subject of discussion today before the Congressional ^ lag Committee that is investigating the^juric^in national defense construction. Admiral Towers, Chief of Naval Aviation, gave an account of a strike in a war-plane factory, and the following statement, "The strike situation, so far as I know, is a delicate '^-4 , one throughout the aircraft industry" To which Chairman Vinson replied, "Congress is not going to sit quietly by A permit anything to interfere with the procurement and delivery of the defense jorag# program." He added that Legislation will be presented to Congress to deal with Labor conditions in the armament industry. One member of the Committee took quite a drastic view, making this xa statement: "Soldiers who refuse to work and take —So orders are courtmartialed*" said Representative Melvin Maas of A Minnesota. Meanwhile the news dispatches today told of a whole series of strikes and threatened strikes in industries working on defense and aid to Britain. OPlMlONi Tonight we have an appeal for collaboration between two committees on opposite sides of the war issue — the "Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, n and the "America First Committee." William Allen White, retiring Chairman of the former, the plea to General Robert E. Wood, Chairman of the latter. Willia:: Allen White Bays, "Your friends like to call the my friends — war-mongers. My friends retort with^ word — appeasers. Neither is a nice word. Our emotional friends who jibe at each other as war-mongers and appeasers," continues William Allen White, "are good folks who let their emotions overcome their good sense." Then the retiring Chairman of the Aid-the- Allies committee suggests, "Wouldn’t it be fine," he urges, "if unite your group and our group could icx^ifia^in an appeal to the American people to implement the President’s demand for preparedness and then let him and the Congress decide how we shall best defend ourselves?" In other words, a truce to the controversy about aiding Britain,and let the President and Congress make the decision. A etartling stateiuent was made today by Oswalds editor of The Nation and-a prominent Iriberal, Villard, -former CHURCHILL V»ell, today Prime Minister Churchill said some things that seem to me to be of far-reaching import. It was only natural that the Prime Minister should lay sententious emphasis on the friendship between our country and his own. He said: nThe future of the world and civilization depends upon the relations between the British Empire and the United States.” But the largest of significance, I think, lay in his immediate references to Lord Halifax and the Ambassadorship in Washington. He said "We send to the United States an envoy who comes from the -ery center of our Council and who knows allour secrets.” That gives an idea of how vital the British consider the post in Washington. Then, to cap the climax, Winston Ehurchill disclosed that Viscount Halifax lias been attending all the meetings of the London War Cabinet, not as a Cabinet member - for this has been since his resignation 4 S Secretary of War. He»s been attending them as British Ambassador to Washington. And doesn *t this seem to elevate tne Ambassadorship to the rank of an officer in the Cabinet? Churchill went further. Ambassador Lord Halifax will continue to attend British Cabinet meetings — whenever he happens to make a trip back to London. Churchill put it in these words: "Should he be able to return here for consultation at any time in the summer, as we hope may be possible, we hope he will assume the full functions and responsibilities of a Minister of the Crown.” Is this a symptom of moves toward the muchptalked-of British American Union? One might see as much in the fact that the British Ambassador to the United States is now virtually a member of the CHURCHILL - 2 London Cabinet, the Government WAR London Is having a heavy air raid tonight. The weather 15 clear xor tne lirst time in days, and the Nazi War planes are sw inning over • 'Ine latest dispatch tells of heavy bombtoig explosions and the flaring, of fires* m*xa Ehe German air force is A likewise striking at an unnamed city in the Midlands?*/'On the British side the R.A.F. tells of hitting at Emden and Wilhelmshavan. Bombs were aimed at Great shipbuilding plants, where submarines tr* are being constructed. Large fires followed the attack. -S’ <2., F-. r . is oiy 4n Libya the British say the seige jri-Tobruk^ witn the 1st Italians evacuating advanced positions in the desert. From all accounts it would appear that Tobruk will be the same sort of thing as Bardia, with the Fascists holding the place under methodical seige. There apoears to be no attempt to relieve the Jj?a,sclyti foro^w there no sign of a counter-drive by the Armies from the V/est. FRANCE It was disclosed today in Washington that President Roosevelt sent a message of New Year * s greeting to Marshal Petain, int^ J ....... ............. ........ ... — HiaiviMiiipi f This was in response to a ttaw- it ear ♦a. a greeting th«^ BH^toame late. The striking thing about President Roosevelt's / message was that he used t)fre familiar terms —"liberty, equality. t and fraternity." That slogan of the French Revolution which has been the motto of France until recently. The Petain government abolished -A--- I it when it established a authoratetiv^ regime — in the face of defeat by Nazi Germany. But President Roosevevelt revived it in this sentence addressed to Petain. "My heart goes out to France in \ these days of travail and I pray that^French people may soon once again entfoy the bels&pgs of peace with Liberty, Equality and Fraternity . w.r-rr-/ . - - All ofj^his fits the pattern of attempt to encourage Petain in his policy ts of^ opposing Nazi demands which seems to be the case right now. .Another instance is the sending of limited food supplies to France through the British blockade — this at the request of President Roosevelt. It may be the begginning of a much larger shipment of food to France -- along the ideas 01 feeding the FRAIiCE - 2 starving advocated by Ex-President Hoover. Tne British Government and President Roosevelt are said to believe fchat if a satisfactory way can be found for provisioning the territories of the Petain government, it may exert a valuable effect in influencing France against Germany. This - with « special emphasis on the French Coilolial Armies and what is left of the French Fleet. Today we have belated reports of disorders in Paris on last Armistice Day. Crowds paraded through the boulevards in opposit^oi to the Nazi Overlords. They shouted in favor of Great Britain and the United States and De Gaulle ~ leader of the Free French, forces t.i„. r supporting Britain. And here’s a picturesque detail. They say adfc that British war planes flew over Paris, did a job of sky writing. In that fasion so familiar in this country, the British planes wrote in the sky,—‘courage,' confidence! 'The disturbances are said to have A been so Violent that German military police opened fire witn tneir machine guns. They aimed low at the pavements to frighten the crowds W . ----- ^ Bullets giancsC off and hit^a number of people. ) A Here's a bit of sharp French wit. A woman xamdnaqnnc ws* pat in jail W U German officer^ -Ti» offis** went into a shop to FRAMCE - 5 . i buy something. The called out 4>erve England and is in a place was crowded with women. And one of them the German officer first/ He is going to » I hurry 1 •‘•hey^grrHxlH&x in jail for that. put her REFUGEES A statement from the StateDepartment to&syj made public^^ t American declaratioa on the question of refugees. This wa» in response to an appeal made by France. The government of Marshal detain pointed out to Washington that in unoccupied France there were tens of thousands of refugees who had fled from the Nazis — people against Hitler, Jewish refugees, and so on. France is bearing the whole burden, said the Retain Government, and asked Washington to do something in finding pi aces for the hapless exiles to go. Specifically, Washington was asked to use its influence to gain entrance for them into the' Republics of this hemisphere. The State Departments reply was in the negative — saying that it was against the policy of the United States to try to get any American an nation to change its Immigration laws. So far as the United States is concerned, the immigration quotas are filled — said Washington. The declaration spoke in opposition to what it called — "the spread to the Western Hemisphere of forced migration." SOUTH AMERICA Today American business men in South America admitted that there was a good deal in the charges made by Nelson Rockefeller, who is acting as co-ordinator of commercial and cultural relations between the United States and the Latin American Republics. Nelson Rockefeller1s statement was that American business houses operating in the Republics of the south had in their employ citizens of the Axis powers, Germans and Italians who were engaged in anti-American activities. At Buenos Aires it was stated that some American firms hQd hired Nazis and Fascists even after the outbreak of the war in Europe. A later astonishing statement by Nelson Rockefeller says that Nazis are using the film f,Mr. ^mith Goes to Washington^ as anti-American propaganda — an expose1 of political corruption in Washington ■AELQ PfiAmlA One phase of the nev/s is an element of dark melodrama — violent episodes that shock and sometimes startle the imagination. part Stories like these are of that slant on life which only the news can give ns. Take today — beginning with the man who blew himself to bits in a hotel lobby at Buffalo. He was registered in the hotel as W. B. Wright of Rochester. The understanding was that he was a construction engineer, an impression which seemed to be borne out one day last month when in his baggage was found — a quantity of dynamite. This discovery was made when he failed to pay his hotel bill. He was evicted from his hotel room and they went through his baggage. However, he proceeded to pay the hote& bill, and returned to live in his room — with his baggage, dynamite and all. Yesterday once again this ft. B* bright was behind with his bill, and as before was.served with a notice of eviction. This time what he did was this:- Deprived of his room he sat^ in the hotel lobby. He ras still there this morning. On his person A he had a hemvy charge of dynamite. In his mind — a fantastic thought of ending himself in shattering fashion, with a turn of vengeance against the hotel. He had a way of detonating the MELODRAMA - 2 dynamite. There was a terrific explosion that blew out tiie windows on the ground floor of the hotel, wrecked the furnishings — turned the lobby into a blasted ruin. The blow-up was so violent it xa&hs smashed the dishes in a coffee shop next door. There was no other person in the lobby save the victim — he was blown to bits. Y p S, an incident of dark mel~j---- And next we have even more of a grim and eerie shocker At Mt• Holly, Now Jersey, they found today the victim of a gang xmx murder. The body had been laid in a ditch in formal fashion, with grotesque underworld ceremony, one hand tucked beneath a carefully buttoned overcoat, the other folded across the breast and holding a hat. All this was in mockery of some posture of pomp and dignity. Here1* fhe most startling part of it^— it was a body /P, without eyes* And ftereTs the incredible story oi underworld ferocity that the police reconstruct. They say that tne gang 1 killers fired a bullet at close range into one eye — commiting the murder. Another shot was fired from long range, some expert underworld marksman making the other eye the target of an accurate MELODRAMA - 3 Yes, a horrible glimpse into a dark and noxious corner of human life — reminding us in a bizarre, micabre way that the underworld still exists and must be crushed. PICKFOBD A storey of married life is told in a damage suit filed today at New York — a suit against Mary Pickford and her husband Charles Buddy Rogers. A firm of New York musical managers calim that orchestra leader Buddy Rogers broke a contract with them because Mary Pickford threatened to divorce him if he didnU give up his projected tour and come home. Bdddy, come home! And SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.