L.T. SUNOCO, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 19t 1940 GOOD EVE x NING EVERYBODY: For weeks the Parliamentary show in Washington has been a bit dull. ¥es -- little news out of Congress which has been more or less marking time. And throughout the country there has been quite a to-do over the gun-powdery question of whether our Legislators should home or no. The Democratic leaders have shown a strong yearning for home and hearth. And it was believed that this yearning for Congress to adjourn was emphatically shared by our President. Tne Republicans on the other hand maintained that with Europe aflame and the end of thr world threatening this was no time to leave the Chief Magistrate without a Congress to help him. Mr. Roosevelt himself has declared that it was a matter of complete Indifference to him whether tne lawmakers went hom or no. “e announced that he had no more "must" legislation for them to pass. nevertheless, there was the strong pressure from the Majority Leaders In both House and Senate to adjourn, call it a uay until next January. The opposition held a strong fear that if It came to a vote ^ n«m^r*-ratic Congressman declared that the Majority would win. One Democratic uoi g „ inault to president Roosevelt." But today refusal to adjourn was nan insult y . congress woke up, gave a performance, with the unexpected happened. Coi t- a surprise finish. They wonTt go home CONGRB'S - 2 positively and definitely won't — and that's flat. This was decided in the House* Majority leader John McCormack brought the question up in a sudden resolution, a resolution ~o adjourn sine die. which means without delay. It was a tense** definite and reliable opposition hitherto has been from the Republican members, all hundred-and-forty-three of them. But when it came to the vote forty-five Democrats, one American Laborite, and two Progressives joined the G.O.P. members and blocked the attempt to adjourn. The vote — a hundred and forty-eight for adjournment; a hundred and ninety-one against. VVhereupon Speaker Sam Rayburn, the Number One Democrat that In the House, announced that^fctax would be the last effort to send the Congressmen home for some time at any rate. _STo VWW- a promise of fireworks in the weeks to come. Although President Roosevelt had^no legislation to offer, there were two important measures pending, measures which were not viewed with any great pleasure at the White House. One of thern^ w * j a move to amend the Wagner Babor Act. Another, one of the most important proposals of the CONGRESS - 3 whole session, the Logan-Walter Bill, the bill to subject the decisions of Government agencies to review by the Federal Courts. The Stories from Washington report that Majority Leader McCormack, and Speaker Rayburn had been caught napping. They appeared to be flabbergasted by the vote and were at a loss to explain the deflection of those forty-five Democratic representatives who supported Republican leader Joe Martin. Chairman Dies of the Committee on Un-Aiuerican Activities, today de^i/ercd a fresh blast against the shenanigans of the Axis governments in ^he United States. The Berlin-Rome Intelligence he declared, is a huge network in the United States, plotting to obtain iniluence in the principal industries of America Dies was in Chicago today, where he questioned four witnesses, Se said tne information he, A shows that German-American societies are being compelled by duress and persuasion to raise funds to help the German government. However, he added, they camouflage it by calling it, nfirst aid to wounded soldiers.’’ Nazi and Fascist agents in this country have organized a system which involves thousands of people in xii the principal cities in all the principal industries. ’’There is extensive penetration the of subversive elements in industrial life and arnong^foreign-born A population, particularly in Detroit,” says Dies, tend he alleged further that it is important enough to be extremely dangerous in a period of national emergency. The Dies Committee has in preparation a White Paper, DIES 2 which hasn’t been puollshed yet, but other members of the Committee ot" besides Dies are in favor of releasing it. Dies declared that Sfelg Khltw—will name -.r vyr«il people of social prominence who have entertained agents of the Axis and who are strongly in sympathy with the Fascists and Nazis. Representative Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, the Republican member of the Committee, put out a — statement today that, as he phrases it, "we ought to issue the A report and let the chips fall wherever they will." The chances for peace in the labor world look pretty slim tonight. Earlier in the day, the proceedings at the American Federation of Labor convention in New Orleans appeared to be favorable. The ftgdcratnon- the reading of a letter from President Roosevelt in which he made a strong plea for unity. And^ President William Green, said he thought the convention would probably approve of the executive councilTs recommendation that the o_ peace committee get in touch with similar group from the C.I.O. But late this afternoon John L. Lewis tooK. the platform at the C.I.O. convention at Atlantic City, took the platform with all his old-time force of invective and scorn. ’’There can be no honorable peace with the American Federation of Labor,” he roared, ”until the C.I.O. has made itself strong enough to negotiate on equal terms.” His hearers greeted his belligerent remarks with applause and cheers. He spoke with scorn of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the United Textile Workers. He poured down contempt on leaders David in his voice he cried:- "Peace, ain»t it wonderfult ’1 Then he repeated the word ’’peace”. LABOR - 2 And he added: nThere is no peace. There is no peace,f1 he declaimed, "because you are not yet strong enough to command peace on honorable terms." Even though he says hefs going to retire, there is no doubt of the tremendous influence that Lewis wields over the C.I.O. For when he got through talking, the convention unanimously adopted a resolution that he offered, a resolution which ordered the C.I.O. negotiators to stand pat, to hold out for conditions which the -A American Federation of Labor always xx&XHMlflt refused, /#nd in that resolution there was no mention of any peace overtures to the A.F. of L GKEhCE : .'.-fcTinwfW The government of fireece has made an appeal to the United States. - he Greeks are in need of arms, ammunition and war material in geneicx, and ohey want to buy here. Sumner Welles, Acting Secretaiy of State, gave out thj^*news at Washington iLYlcb. 0 \ hi pi ii'-tant stxld-yr: W ^ h'tfrs rfeV'E>si.^d-^t:,yKr^ our govern;nent is giving thire Z T appeal irom the Greeks, what i* called Sympathetic consideration.n V/hat the Greeks want most is fighter planes to deal with the Italian bombers that Mussolini has been hurling at them. He was hurling with a vengence today, trying desperately to retrieve the Italian defeat at Koritza and fca relieve the sorely beset Italian troops there. Despatches from Jugoslavia report that the Italians have managed to throw in reinforcements. A column of sixty-five Italian trucks filled with soldiers and war materials has passed through Koritza in the past twenty-four hours, in spite of X heavy fire from the Greek artillery. jLr- -es>Jf<LyJ-<*- A j4e+/' ^ ------- Greek Minister’ of Information told correspondents that the troops of Hellas have thrown the invader out of Greek territory. But since fighting stiil^reported at Koritza, and the Jugoslavs ik ?the Greek artillery still is shelling the pi.ace, it seems GREECE - 2 UMy «h,t t6, ol.i.. i. «ho». A p£a=inat%H^> An observation made in Moscow is worthy of comment. The newspaper RED STAR, organ of theSoviet Army, suggests that Greek sympathizers shouldn't be too hasty in crowing over the Italians. It is true, says the Soviet military commentator, that the Italians have encountered a worthy adversary. But the Greek tfcji successes must not be over-estimated. Italian reverses do not A affect the disparity between the two forces, the Greeks cannot dream of occupying Albania. In spite of the help of British A A air force and navy, the Italians are concentrating large forces against the Greeks, including six more Alpine divisions. BARNES An American war correspondent has lost his life. Ralph Barnes of the New iork HERALD*TRIBUNE European staff. Yesterday a dispatch reported that a British bomber had crashed against a mountainside in Jugoslavia, crashed and killed all four people aboard. The Jugoslav War Office investigated and found that the plane had been carrying HnxfchKixpx a large number of bombs. The bodies of those four people «n the plane were scattered over a distance of three hundred meters from the wreck. As one result of the investigation, the Jugoslav War Office informed the American Minis er at Belgrade that one of the four killed on that Jugoslav mountainside was Ralph Barnes of the NEW YOR ^ HERALD TRIBUNE. BARNES - 2 He had been correspondent AdrEE the HERALD-TRIBUNE all over Europe, serving in Horae, Paris, Moscow, Berlin and ^ondon. Earlier this year, he filed a dispatch from Berlin, after which the Nazi government expelled him from Germany. VALERA -- 1 The government of Eire will positively not give Britain any j / +. - / bases on any Irish coast. That news comes from the head. A President deValera himself. 1 He said it in an exclusive interview with Carroll of the United Press. It was evident that nDevn, as the Irish affection^tely* call him, wanted to make himself clear Im-Wam mqgV»eyHipa4het4^ f acnien.. to the American people, > i rtteai \ tnfrt i«b-ware x-hrortycd pphiit^. ■tiww%P-t.r^--aBVaXer* (^i-varnmeu-t to aonoe^ -liingp hgsgy. Jf^ M o JU vl . l#gv-<-s remarks to.Ws=i#i» Carroll indicate pretty clearxy that not ^ A /l , even urgings from Washington will swerve ta£=tr-is^ from fb£i* firm intention. Let's quote some of his words. "Tnis question," he said, "is one which involves our national sovereignty, our people's will, also our safety." Then he continued;- "You in the United States are three thousand miles away from immediate bombing. If we handed over the ports to Britain," said Eire's President, "we would thereby involve ourselves directly in the war with all its consequenses." He went on to say: "You have seen what happened to London notwithstanding its defenses.« And he continued. - n ■^reln&d is not a VALERA - 2 nation wl+ird® cnn spend ten million Pounds a day for armaments If London is suffering,’1 he points out, nwhat would happen to Dublin, Cork and other Irish cities?” Then he spoke sympathetically, saying:- ”lf I could do anything to relieve the suffering of the British people, I would do so. But,” he added, ”our principal purpose now must be to save our people.” It was pointed out to President deValera that Britain had leased bases to the United States. To that he replied:- ”There is no analogy at all. In^+^jj case the British are leasing territory to a neutral. But we are asked to lease neutral territory to help one belligerent to fight another.” EASY k passenger from England landed in New York today, telling a story such as few women couid live to relate. It was the l U l laj, itliHI iib of what happened to her in one of Hitler's raids upon London, happened to her and her fourteen months old baby. For lont nights she had had ^ sieej^ as-she had fcs-fcpefid tn«w^in an air raid shelter. Finally came a night when she was too exhausted to go to the shelter and she dozed off to slagyv In her own house. Her slumber w'as deep that even the roaring A concussion of a bomb falling through the roof did not awaken her. MC l TT l M i It was not until her house began to tumble about her^tesa^ that she regained consciousness to find that the roof had fallen in. The bed she was sleeping in collapsed and the walls were and forth. back She looked up through the hole that the bomb had made in the ceiling and saw another bomb falling through that identical hole. It fell Just beside the crib in which that fourteen mouths old baby was sleeping and then exploded. It blev* tue baby ^leai up into the air through the hole in the ceiling. Tne mother went up with him partly because she Jumped to grab him and partly ia helped by the « . . arm*; were extended and somehow or other force of the explosion. Her arms wcie BAB£ - 2 she managed to catch her baby as though he h«Ed;rb^€^ a basket ball. Miraculous as it may seem, both the baby and the mother were unharmed. When they got down into the street all four houses in the row in which they had lived were utterly ox demolished. That woman and her fourteen months old baby were the only survivors of all the families that had lived there. Tne bomb had made a crater A large enough to hold a large London bus. ZkiUELaufiX When -1 S'E.B - \yCjr CK . | ADMIRAL BYRD Admiral Byrd staged an interesting little ceremony today. He gave back a 'rood luck piece, returned it in the presence of Boy Chapman Andrews, Lincoln Lllsworth, Captain Bob Bartlett, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and a group of other explorers and friends. The good luck piece was a silver dollar, which he returned to Arthur Salzburger, publisher of ^he New York Times. Byrd explained that he had carried this coin on each of his expeditions, and returned it to Salzburger each time -- tha$same silver dollar, tie said he carried it over the North Pole, in thal flight with Floyd Bennett, tie carried it on the flight across tt(e Atlantic, when they found Europe A hidden under a sea of ceiling-zero-clouds and '.-.ere obliged to fly back and land in the ocean. Then, he carried it on his o 4 -u had it with him when he spent flight over the South Pole, had it 1 A that long stretch .lo-. « ‘»« 1“- ■•«»» or the lo« ^ “ “rr‘*a “ “U* charting some hundreds of miles of unknown coastline, and new territory in Antarctica. A_nmRAL BYRD 2 But, the most interesting part of the x ceremony w-is a remark that Publisher Arthur Salzburger made. When Byrd bended back the rood uck dollar^ said that oe had given it to Byrd before the North Pole flight - nd before y> the Atlantic flight. But, that after that, each time Byrd came to him and asked for thafeucky dollar. Se, the Admiral soesfs=*« b«=*ii|i*rstitii^saperstitious even as you and I. Or, ; ere you? a 'W v -