if +mr, t * ' * l^nixtt^in- pie state of af illustrated by a Soviet slogan s undei today -- sake Stalingrad a Fed Verdun. Ine ^azi Aar machine Is l tae approaches of the city -- and in tremendous force. Moscow est^'!ra*es that twenty-five % German divisions, some tnree hundred and seventy five th usand men, are converging on Stalingrad; *r.d--rrrey—s-r* aided by a thousand dive bombers. Tnese figures 4 idicate ^ne tremendous power of the attack. which is washing ahead wi • nei.se violence.\ So the lens are thinking back to that previous Y.drld War, the monumental French defense of Verdun, and are cal inr for a reoetition today -- a Red Verdun.^In other sectors, tne Germans are advancing too — pushing on toward tne Great Grozny Oil *>ell£» - n tne blacrw Sea -OH^t -oJxXj their caapait n for tne Sfrviet Naval-bases is pro-ressin?. Berlin tates that Nazi units have crossed the nar o* straits of Kerch -- nave moved over tne narrow water from the Crimea to the Caucasus. CZECHS OL In Czechoslovakia, the Nazis nave executed four prominpnt dignitaries of the Czech Nationalist Churchy were accused of sneltering the men who killed the deputy chief of the Nazi Gestapo — Heydricn the/flanrman. Also -- of harboring five par­ achutists, hiding them in a church. The German announcement rives no details about the parachutists — except the mere indication that they landed in Czechoslovakia from the sky. The Czech Nationalist Church is a relirious organization formed in nineteen eighteen. Its membership embraced about five percent of the bx population of the country. Its need, Bishop Gorazd, was one of the four church officials who have been executed — churchmen and patriots FRii^Cfc Tfie* United States Governnient has msde representations to the Vichy government ol France -- "The most vigorous representations possible," says under-secretary of State Sumner belles. This on tne subject of anti-Semitism, the anti-Jewish measures that are being taken in ’unoccupied France. Specifically, it applies to the mass deportation of Jewith refugees. Our under-Secretary of State stigmatizes the depoatation In tnese words: "It provides a new snock to tne public opinion of the civilized world". So our Government is protesting to the Fetain Regime at Vichy. Tnis was disclosed by Sumner belles in a fetter to the American Jewish Committee, and ne gives the assurance that the State Department and the Uni ted.Embassy at Vichy will do what they can to mitigate the A anti-Jewish policy in France. IKELANi, The trouble in Ireland flared to active violence today - an armed clash between an Irish Republican army roup and the police of Ulster, Anti-British feolin? has been seething among Irish Nationalist elements, with various sorts of popular demonstration^! -- ever since the Ulster hanging of a member f the ourlawel Republican army on Wednesday, ne was convicted in the killing of a policeman. The I. R. A. has Been plot ing violent action, and today an armed band of the extremists attacked a police barracks on the frontier between Ulster and Nationalist Ireland. There was a sharp bit of fighting, an exchange of shots — until finally the oolice beat off the I.R.A. attack. ADD IRELAND Later news tells of an outbreak in the city of terrorists Belfast, metropolis of Ulster. A band of I. h. a . tKzlaxlsts A ambushed a police car in a street, and opened fire. A gun battle was fought, in which the police wounded one of their assailants. SPAIN Today’s interpretations of tne political shake-up In Spain yesterday are inclined to empnasize domestic rather tnan International aspects. When Franco, head of the Spanish Government, removed his Fascist brotner-in-law from the posts of forei.^h minister and chief of the Fascist-minded .-:roup called the Falan^e — the aption iflp*44i*** assumption was that Franco-Spain was veering away from tne A ^ TT Axis and toward the United Nations. Today, however, observers in London tend to xplain the shate-up in terms of Spanish domestic policy-- ^n internal row between the Army and the Falange outfit. yn VIS 4^ quarrel- between the military chiefs and the * A. -C mu ^ a r Dolit’cal rou . and the crisis is said to have been brought about A by a bomb outrage three weetcs atro. At toat time the news told of a bomb hurled at a religious meeting, which was being addressed by y > r an Army officer. Twentv persons ere killed. *ne assumption ^ on tnis side of tne water was that' the fatal blast was the doing ofW l H redical revolutionaties — underground enemies of tn» Franco in tne Spanish Civil war. Now, however, we hear that the Falange is accused of the bombing of tne religious process! n, and that members of the political party were arrested or the attack. The SPAIN Army has been demanding tha+ they be punished. The Falange if insisting tha they be released. ' Th*1 argument came to a head, Aitn Franco taking action — ousting iis Fascist brotner-in-law and taking control of he Faience himself. Th"s iriferpretation con­ tradicts the assumption that the shake-up in Madrid means an ai alteration of Spanish policy toward-the war. However, as London a observers point out, it means that the Franco brother-in-law and his frequent pro-i^axi declarations are removed ^rom the high political scene. sqm Today In Egypt American tan.^ units went Into action -- for their first fight in the Battle of the Desert. Previously, seme while ago, a small roup of American tanK experts took part in a brief armored engagement. They included Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, ihat, however, was only a small trial affair. Today came the real thi hg -- American tanks in a regular battle, tor day^they've been standing in readlne. s, waiting for the moment to strike. And now they have had their chance. So how did our tanks make out? ^ta^\i4ll. in their first desert action tne United States armored units destroyed at least six Nazi tanks -- aad probably twu more. Germen kiAa Meld Marshal Rommel still nolds the^round he captured, the wedge he drove into the southern sector of the British line. Ihat is, Rommel holds most of it — but not all. 11tie news today tells of a sharp German defeat, wnen the Panzers sta ed an attack and t'-ied to punch a nole in the British defenses. They w.re repelled, and nurled back beyond tneir starting point - the British recapturing positions, a secon: • i withdrawal in twenty four hours' Another U' v CJ&J VL>^-<ry^ Insisted of a quick uccess for.itur sid^ consisted A A blow by a British mobile EGYPT - 2 column wnich struck around the southern Axis flank and destroyed axa an Italian supply column . It was in the nature of a raid -- and decidedly successful. One point about the battle for Ef»ypt is the -iCJr important fact the British and Americans control the sky over the A desert. Our air superiority is such that the German air units have virtually been grounded, kept inactive. This ts in contrast with the earlier sta es of tne fi£ht, when the Germans were sending large squadrons into action — forthr dive bombers escorted by fifty fighters, tnat sort of air strength. Now the British and Americans are masters of the blue above the yellow sands. j mi cam From China we have news decidedly American -- the air power of the J.S.A. tailing a foremost part in the successes the Chinese are scoring over- the Japs. Powerful air squadrons, commanded by General Ctilwell, are hit".ing the enem, hard -- pounding water and rail co .munications. \ And today our warplanes bombed the central * headquarters of the Jap enem -- iMaricnang. On the ground, the Chinese have advanced to within six miles of the last bip base that the Japs hold in tne province of Kiangsi. Also — they a^e encircling the air base town of Kinhwa in the Province of Chekiang TRfcaSON h Cnicago grand jury today returned indictnents aea!^at. y. treason, sic Jerman born AmerlCcin citizens, i'ne charge — txxRKz The six A A are accused in the case of trie eight wazi saboteurs, six of whom w^re executed ia Washington. Specifically, the 'ndictment alleges that the efendants pave aid to one of the'executed Mazi apents^---- n7 Herbert aaupt. They are Haupt’s father and mother, his uncle and sunt, and wo friends of his parents. face the penalty^ s* for treason. The maximum is death. The minimum is five years in t T prison and a ten thousand dollar fine. There is to be an early trial, and the United States attorney at Chicago states that he will try to produce as witnesses the two saboteurs who escaped tne death penalty -- George John Dash and Ernest Peter burger. Tney were rranted mercy, because of aid they rave to the uovernment* Xn the conviction of the others —— the> co.deseed s id f£d, and now their testimony is sought in a court appearance at the zalal trial of the six defendants accused of helping in the sabotage plot hatched by trie Hitler Gestapo ) There are still eight others charged with* the same offense. They are being held in custody, to r.e tried Later. KOVEN Todriy in v\ ashing ton tn^ man powpp chi^f talked about woman power. He spo*ce in large terms — large figures. Paul V. McNutt, who is in charge of the program of mobilizing thE this country’s war labor resources, outlined tne part that women are to play in armament production next year. He said that by the end of Nineteen forty-three, one out of every six women not yet employed will be needed for the nation’s labor force to win the war. The man power commissioner, talking about woman power, went on to recite some big numbers. "War Production", said he, "employed about one million, four hundred thousand women last December. This figure," he went on, "will jump to four million, five hundred thousand by December of M b Nineteen forty two, and will climb to six million by the end of MiMitR Nineteen forty three. By then," he summarized," women will jsrE represent at least tnirty percent of the labor force employed in War Production. In othe^ /oris, - 19^ will be doing nearly a third oi the work. SCRAP agTAL Today in Washington, t^o hundred newspaper publishers and editors from all over the country pledged themselves to a big program of publicity and promotion. And the thing they ar- <?o'n? r to publicize and promote is the scrap metal campaign! Ihe nev;spapermen agreed to this after they heard froa blunt statements from War Production Chief Donald Nelson. He told them the campaign for the collection of metal Junic has bogged down. The people of tnis country are not turning in scrap metal as they should. The collection is way below par. s Dons^d-^elson, our want 1 nduodriesj faee- a of- the producton-of ~ “^1 thln--tho -> There will be something of a steel crisis, unless the metal collecting campaign picks up, and provides huge quantities if of scrap to feed the furnaces. The War Priduction Chief tae se ward^^ —-U-S-^dey "the added that right now we are not turning out a war winning brand ot armaoent production. So far as production is concerned, Donald Nelson said: "V^e are not 7T doing a very good job at winning tne war.’* In response to the SCRAP iETAL - ^ do .nright message delivered by the production cttef, tne two hundred newspaper publisners and editors spoice up and siid that they will do their bit. They’ll use their newspapers to publicize tne Nation’s war need for the people to turn in every possible bit of scrap metal. EXPLOSION Today In New Yor.t thousands of people had one startled thought — air raids, bombs. This was the instinctive reaction to the roar end shading of a violent explosion. Over a wide area, buildings trembled, windows were blown out, dishes were knocked from tables, pictures fell from walls -- and the roaring sound of the blast was heard afar. New Yorkers, like people of other cities, had become air raid conscious. So no wonder thousands reacted with one Jumpy thought -- that New York was being bombed. ^The explosion occurred in an apartment house, and the way it happened makes a strange story. The Buchanan Apartments are on East forty-eighth street, and there today a maid reported for her daily work. She took an elevator to an upper f&oor m and went to the door of her employer. Time and again tne maid had gone to that door, and pushed the bell — to be admitted by the woman for whom she worked. S /F This time it wal a catastrophe. 1 When the maid ..ushed the bell. up,# bhe, herself, was fatally injured -- the the whole plac^ blew blast smashing out the door and rip ing things to wreckage. Tht? explanation of the cataclysmic doorbell ring was given later by the police. The woman in the apartment had been in a depressed mental EXPLOSION - £ condition, and had committed suicide by gas. The apartment was full of gas escaping from tne open jets of the stove, and was aa explosive as a bomb. It was ignited, touched off, by an electric spark from the doorbell mechanism. And the result was the blast that gave east side midtown New York and an air raid scare. LOVE V.e all have se n lepal documents -- full of thorny crabbed phrases o. the law. But sometimes a paper drawn up by a lawyer can flash with somethin^ richly human. Take one passage from a complaint file! at Lai., as, .exas, today. Many a man will recognize the style 77^ and tone, and reflect upon the wiles ol wom#n. A Texas oil man is suing a young woman to ;*et back twenty thousand dollars1 worth of k ± x gifts he presented to her. Sne was to have married him, but, having received the gifts, sne changed ner m nd and wedded a Chicago oil man. The lady must have a fondness or petroleum. Or, at any rate, she nas a warm appreciation of thinrs that petroleum money can buy, -- such as diamon<i—bracelets, strings of £ pearls, emerald clips and a orty-five hundred dollar engagement 7T ring. These were enumerattd court today. In the legal document, the lexas oil man also enumerates a few thin tha-* tne young lady told him. ohe said (Quote) that ne was a enius, a fine dancer ' nd that his comoany was super ly entertaining /-ith nev—r d a dull moment — and that he kept her in the <louds all the time, unquote. "Ever heard anything liKe that, fellows?? I bet a lot of you have, though maybe you did not jctelr twenty-five tho isand dollars1 LOvL fur^s^.^7 ^ ^ ^» v^orta of jewels and^ A mxxbwx ^ Anyhow, that is what the girl \ a ) sail to the Texas oil man -- aiid jEnereupon married the Chicago — r\ A — oil man. In other words she was giving him the oil.