L.T>_ SUNOCO, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 15^ 1941 1 GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Tonight there seems no doubt the Hitler steam roller is rolling over the Ukraine. The Nazi high command states that in the southern Ukraine, infantry divisions and rapid troops of the German Army are pursuing the Russians v/ho are retreating to Black Sea Ports. Such is the German version. Though the situation of the Russians may not be as bad as that, there is no doubt the Red Armies have been falling back in the Ukraine. Soviet soldiers claim to have vdped out three crack Nazi divisions and recaptured two towns, held by the Nazis From Russia comes a sensations! story of a detachment of b arefoot Soviet troops. According to Moscow, that barefoot detachment had been encircled and entirely surrounded for thirty- two days. On it*s way back to the Russian lines it ran into a motorized Nazi division. Thereupon those barefoot Russians killed three thousand Germans, captoired three hundred muniiton trucks. ! WAF. - 2 and hiindreds of motorcycles. And then fought their way onto the Russian lines, still barefoot,imost of them in tattered German uniforms. Some confirmation comes in a Nazi disnatch which tells of a wild Bolshevike division. The Nazis more than once have complained about the ferocity with which the Red soldiers are fighting. Here’s a British estimate of the Russian situation. Losses on both sides prodigious, accoT^ir nn iik» H i i ( I 'I II 1 1 I'l I 1 1 r Battles of annihilation. n FRANCE The Nazis are t riuaiphant dr^h6t7tiiat broadcast by FtAuch Marshal Fetain yesterday. The German interpretation is that the French Chief of State unceremoniously rejected American A tutelage and coldly rebufl^^ President Roosevelt* s presumptuous lecturing about France*s ideais. And they add that Petain has definitely ap roved the Fuehrer* s generous offer of co\.«peration in his new Eurppe and the Struggle against Bolshevism, In London, an official statement descrives Admiral Darleji as a dictator, placed in the strongest possible position for forcing on the French people measures of further surrender and collaboration with the axis. / At' hoM<»N^ Washington, official reaction is^-one at. silence. Secretary Hull declares that xM he moLke no statement on our future relations with the French, until he has been able properly to analyze .whatever new moves Vichy may make. It is pointed uut in iVashington that there**^ one point on wh.ch Marshal Petain remained obscure.^ — Thwf wac the positiun r\ Q0j^0Pj^j[^ Weygnad, commande of the colonial forces in Africa, The Marshal did not maKe it clear whether Weygnad would have to FEliiUCE -ii obey the behest of Admiral Darlan, although betain explicityly put bar am in full charge of all French defenses, is^waitlng to^-is Weygnad Washington still the sole arbiter of the actions of the French Colonial Armies in Africa? The United States Government wants to learn for sure whether Germany is about to use or is even actually now using Africa as a base of operations > If such a thing happens. break off relations with Vichy and recognize Goiiercri Degaulle. On the other hand if Weygand defies Vichy and resists the encroachment of the ^xis, we^^j^^ht poseib^ recognize him as the head of the Free French ttkoyfmmmmt. jAm Japan .vas quiet today, but we are warned that it is just the caim before a storm. The warning is official, comes from / a spokesman for the MiKado»s iia Anybody who underestimates tte strength of Japan, adaed The Japanese iNaV^ spokesman refused to say what Japan would do about those four oil tankers that our government is planning to send to Vladivostok. The only official statement in Tokyo ± on that so far has been an expression of grave concern. At the same time, a Japanese dispatch from Hanoi in Indo-China iMwrtnC to Japan. A Japanese radio broadcast overheard in New York, claimed- that the United States QiiVj^uunan^iiTjfc offered kiiitary aid XhB to Thailand, which,had 'A J/>, ,a been fxlu flatly refused. This came at flatly the same time as the announcement in Aash.ngton that we are to send a new xi envoy to Bangkok, «*• Capital of Siam. The resignation of Minister Gr^^t^now at BangKok, has been accepted and he wil_ soon return home, secretary Hull deci^-(5=fetwst this had no bearing on tha preset situatlonX.t S-^-C=CtAjtZ^ ^ ^ ^ is inviting unfortunate results. !|! significant sentince when he said that now is not the time to fuss over whether Japan xhioMii should enter the war. The 1 ' people, he announced, must be prepared . that ail exports from Indo-Cjina been forbidden except exports j' ROOSEVELT There*s another flare-up of guessing about a meeting between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. There still is no official answer to th^questlon^f whether they met J and if so where^ Neither is there any official denial r the conjectur^^?^ all the livelier, Not a word comes out of London about the whereabouts of the Prime i Minister, who still is conspicuously absent from Qowning iStreet In Washington it was believed more strongly than ever that the two great English-speaking heads 6f State have been conferring somewhere And it is notable that Mr. Roosevelt, contrary to his practice on ivacations, has this time not allowed the customary retinue of correspondents to be within even guessing distance. The grapevine \ gossip is all the more active because of the acute situation in three different parts of thd world. First of all, the Crisis in the relations between Japan and the United States. Then, in France, the increased powers given to pro-German Admiral Darlan. And, of course, the Nazi sweep into the Ukraine. The United Press Reposts that iw it advices which hat i indicate the iiiystery wil^Uu-ftidrrt^by the m end of Tnis week. :S te^sdoner. Washington believes that the President may Ijnd * somlwtiere ± on the coast of New England in a oou(.le. ■■.>f-4ayg.t^i^ ADD ROOSEVELT Guess ng becaaie still more feverish after a dispatch from London that the ^rd Privy Seal of Great Britain will make an important announcement tomorrow, by radio. The Lord Privy A in the absence of the Prime Minister. There’s also a rumor comi'ig out of Washington that, when the President comes ashore, he will proclaim an important piece of news about defense. The leading article in tomorrow’s issue of ^ 2 /^ Time Magazine makes the positive statement that before he left, the President left orders for the drafting of a plan to completely rebuild the defense organization of the United States. The man entrusted with this job, says Time, is none other than Judge Samuel Kosenman of the New i^ork Supreme Court. Sammy the Rose, as the president chatuily calls him in private, is one of the ■gsrtpqmcly few left of. the original brain trust of nineteen thirty-three. If this news in Time is confirmed,' it will make justice Rosenman one of the top men in the United States. Time declares that the President told Rosenman, the sky is the limi^ Seal, Clement Attlee, has been doing all the talking for Churchill I inintii i rtpi) RQQSaViiLI O ■ -To hfc>«'‘t>eyi given a completely free hand to do anything he sees fit,^^iscard aii the existing defense agencies including O.P.M., and create a completely new structure from top to (tAlP bottom to get results fo^^at^^al^^fense. Anri frarm. task entrusted to Samrny the Rose we« to devise a plan to wake the people A of the United States up to the urgency of the situation. 1 > KiNUDSEN Director Knudsen was optimistic about war material todjiy. He made a prophecy that a year from now we will be hitti^ the peak of our production capacity. I After that, said the Director of America can write its own ticket on war material. And he added that this ticket will be twice what anybody else^^ Then he continued that by nineteen fortji-three the United States will be producing thirty billion dollars worth of defense materials 'T. a year. He followed this up with a plea. He urged the various, t divers and sundry defense agencies of the government to stop bickering among each other about who has power to do this and TT who has power to do that. 'What manufacturers need is a minimum pf “ 7 ^ Washington; So says the Director of Office of Production management. A 4' 1 illLITARY biLt^VICE the House last night, the one l^ne vote by which the Representatives passed the measure to prolong the^Milltary Service. Qt*-iimirgi^^ the ; Congressmen opposed to intervention are Jubilant. They &re A proclaming today that such a one-vote victory shows clearly that if UJVvCt the President askii^ Congress for a declaration of war, he get it. So said Senat r Wheeler of Montana. Representative Fish aoolur^ that if the President attempts to put us in an undeclared u^-nXUP war, there ic=coai^ be no national unity and no appropriations by Congress to carry out such a personal war. Democratic Representative Cox of Georgia went so far as to say that the closeness of that vote shows a lack of confidence in those ordered to conduct the af airs of the nation. And he .explained A that the people feel their government has* been taken away from them and delivered Into the keeping of an alien minded group, wholly unfit for the jOb. That aroused the indignation of Congressman Sabath of Illinois, who disputed Cox £aid said his opinion would be radioed by Hitler and his propaganda^all over Germany and the occupied countries service -ii It will be used by Hitler, said Habath, to weaken our National Defense and divine our country. Co^ retorted bitterly that such a remark could only be expected from Sabath, considering what he knew about the association uf A Sabath, with Qoaiuiunist groups. Thereupon Sabath rose to a point of personal privilege and denied every word of what Cox had said. ’ He declared that though he was not born in tne United btates, he was just as Ipyal an American as the gentleman from Georgia. sn ocuae Georgia’s Cox then^ocuse down the aisle aMsd shouting but the speaker declined to recognize him. Later, upon Cox's own — A request, his remarks wer« stricken from^the record. President Roosevelt's Lieutenatiib had their f/ngers crossed and their prayers focused on the benate^ They hope the benate will agree to^ the Representatives' version of that go to the Senate tomorrow^ Lt -won^ 1 i' j' ft A (Jui.ck action in the upper the President to be liiqt signed before nightfall. And that"»-eg^«: the Presidentfpiond^^ave information that he will be back in Washington tomorrow night LABOR The heads of the War Department are worried about strikes. In the middle of last W(eek there were twenty-four of them, with fourteen thousand workers idle. This week there are thirty strikes with more than twenty—three thousand men out. The serious part of it is that several of these walkouts are holding up the manufacture of parts for tanks and airplanes and, most serious of all, machine tools. In one of them there is evidence of sabotage. That is at Mscnwah, Mew Jersey, a factory making army test bombs and bomb casings. It was found that sand had been poured into the machinery. -3^ fixtures broken and parts removed. union leaders denUad that this done by any members of the union^ but F*Ij.I. mun A President Roosevelt took an emphatic step today in connection with defense production. An executive order was issued from the VVnite House which suspended the eight-hour day for mechanics and laborers employed by the War Department. The eight-hour day was part of the law of the land on all War Department projects, but with 9 a provision that the President can suspend it in case of an ‘t LABOR -2 emergency. Secretary Steve Early explained that this orde r was necessary bedause it is essential that all military projects. particularly air fields, housing units, fortifications, should be finished quickly. However, it is explained that men working longer than eight hours on war projects will get time-and a-half for their overtime. r>RQDUCTIUi4 Here*s an item that may be good news for small manufacturers. There^ been complaint that all or most of the huge contracts for defense production have been given to the big corporations and that they have not turned oyef any part of the work over to sub-contractors Accordingly, a reorganization was ordered by l^illiam IS. Knudsen, Sidney Hillman, Secretary Knox and Secretary Stimson as heads of the Office of Production Jlanagement. Tfaey have set up the defense contract service as an independent bureau. It will be the jo^ of that agency to check all contracts. If the principal contractors canULot be persuaded to parcel out part of the work to sub-contractors they will be obliged to do so This was made necessary^^^DMMMaai—because ppoba^ty^several S million workers will be without a job next year if something of the sort is not done. In the first place, there wilj. be shortages of materials in the making of products for civilians. Then again. President Roosevelt*s recent oTder to the Federal Reserve Board to shut down on installment buying threatens a further dislocation. Therefore, it becomes imperative that sub—contracts chull be issued to the smaller factories. pRTTtSH H a II^ The people of Berlin now have a better idea how Londoners felt after the big bombings of last year. Hitler’s capital got a double dose air raid last night. British and Russian planes pounded the city on the for two hoursf. The British air ministry reports that as the planes flew back, they saw whole sections of Berlin in tsJL flames. Fires that began as wtiite points of light, /ly became a red glare beii^ath the clouds. Berlin was blasted with high explosibes and incendiary bombs. Berliners A have now experienced fouii raids in five nights But they weroa^ the only^ooijle Germany to ^ For twoa nights and a day ^ the British have been pounding at the Reich and also at German occupied territory, t-t nviTe ihe biggest air offensive the Hundreds of t! bombers took part, some of them great flying fortresses built in 0\ America. Almost five million pounds of explosive bombs were dropped on Hitler’s .oountyy. In addition to Berlin, they raided Magdenburg, A even attacked Btettin, the Nazi harbor on the Baltic Hanover; Essen, where the big Krupp works are,* Osnabruck, Cologne, and Germany’s Great North Sea Por"^ Bremen. Some of the planes