WAR ity/jo-c. mm—— Tonight we haye an official bulletin from Berlin about j the Molotov-Hitier conference. It uses familiar and meaningless phraseology in saying — nAgreeraent on all important questions.n But the Berlin bulletin &± xks goes on to something more significant. This is stated by the United Press dispatch in these words:-"That the center of gravity in Bermanyfs attempt to smash Great Britain has^iow shifted to the Southeast." One implication in this is — the German have failed in their attempt to a&ms^ Britain^aHrectl^ But the more direct significance points to such places as Turkey and Persia, and even Afghanistan and India, It may be that Molotofv and Hitler agreed that Soviet Russia should expand in those directions at the expense of the British Empire. Tiiis is aftirmec by a journalistic statement in Rome — that the Molotov-Hitier of the Soviets and the talks would result in a coapli-catl Japanese to banish the British from the Orient\ Still another line of opinion in Italy conerns — oil. An oil block is to be formed under the direction of the Axis. It's to be a petroleum combination by which Italy would get the bulk of the Roumanian oil production. and Nazi Germany would be supplied by the Russian oil fields This, says Rome, was part of the plans discussed by Molotov and Hitler* It is also the theme of the conferences being held in Rome between tne Italian government and the Premier of Roumania. ^ . - - Hitler" In Moscow there’s MolotoV-^itAnJ^ co^Tnent^in the^newspaper RED STAR — official journal of the Red Army. It doesnft give any details about what the Sov^ts and Waaris were discussing, but / / merely emphasizes the importanceof the event. The conference in Berlin is described in these words — nThe most significant event of recent days.n London gives us a new angle, saying that the Molotov- Hi tier affair has probably^laeted a British program for an agreement with the Soviets. It is revealed that London suggest#^ to Moscow that Britain would sign a non-aggression pact with Stalin, would grant the Soviets a place at the Peace Conference following 4 the war^ and would recognize the Red grab of the Baltic States. London made this bid for Soviet friendship, but immediately af twrward Molotov went to Berlin to confer with Hitler. H^hicn seems like a dramatized rejection of tne British proposal. So things London. This, says Rome, was part of the plans discussed by Molotov and Hitler. It is also the theme of the conferences being held in Rome between tne Italian government and the Premier of Roumania. r - - HTtler' in Moscow there's Molotov;;ptt^ c^ei^in the"newspaper RED STAR — official journal of the Red Army. It doesn't give d^'fe&iXs Aboulix^hat the Sov^ts and Naxis were discussing, but merely emphasizes the importanceof the event. The conference in Berlin is described in these words/— "The most significant events of recent days." London gives us a new angle, saying that the Molotov- Hi tier affair has probably^lasted a British program for an agreement with the Soviets. It is revealed that London suggest^#^ to Moscow that Britain would sign a non-aggression pact with Stalin, would grant the Soviets a place at the Peace Conference following the war^ and would recognize the Red grab of the Baltic States. London made tills bid for Soviet friendship, but immediately afterward Molotov went to Berlin to confer with Hitler. H^hich seems like a dramatized rejection of the British proposal. So things London. contradiction about the extent to which the Royal Air Force bombed Berlin while Molotov was there — a sort of R«A. F • salutation to Stalinas Foreign Conunissar* ^-he London Air Ministry claims that British planes blasted Berlin heavily, and smashed the railroad station by which Molotov was to have left o for Moscow, Sg—had to go by way of another station. Berlin retorts that R.A.F. planes tried to bomb Berlin, but did not get any nearer than the outlying suburbs. The Royal Air Force reports a second bombardment of the South Italian port of Taranto where British planes Scored thtir previous brilliant success. This time docks a.d oil supplies were blasted — explosions and huge fires. The Italians on their part report the secodd bombing of Taranto bpt minimize the damage. The Italian Admiralty likewise scouts the British statment that R.A.F. planes crippled the Italian fleet badly damaging three battleships and hitting other craft. home today describes the Churchill account of the affair with these words:- ^Fantastically distorted”. Rome denounces what it calls "British mistatements," and sticks to its priginal version of the air raid — that one warship on their part, today was damaged, nothing more. The Italians, report the torpedoing of a couple of British ships and the bombing of a cruiser. In the Greek; War the Greeks have been attacking. And the Italians are said to be moving up heavy forces.^The Greeks state they are advancing at various points — in some places crossing into Albania. Important victories say they. Rome tells of attacks repelled. The Greeks are expecting a heavy counter­ attack. Britain was bombed today, as Britain is bombed almost everyday. London as usual — and tonight*s communique - tells of a huge German air fleet striking at the industrial areas of the Midlands — a thunder of bombing and the heavist kind of anti­ aircraft fire. SEUSSIL A singu^ai a.nd ratner mystifying story comes along concerning the Ex-£mperor Haile Selassie, former King of Kings and Lion of Ji^dah. -and it also tells of the Ethiopian Joan of Arc. Altogether, the story is rich in the dramatic and fcfcw romantic. It begins with a little man wrapped in a great cloak, who was conducted with the deepest of secrecy. It was Haile Selassie. And where was he taken? Into the Italian Yacht Club at Alexandria - he was hidden there. The tale relates that the former King of Kings flev/ by plane from England to Egypt, on his way to his former kingdom of Ethiopia - to lead war against the Italians, All was secrecy, which climaxed with the little man concealed in a great cloak being smuggled into the Italian Yacht Club. There, with all the curtains pulled down, a gala party was staged - a party of British officers entertaining the one-time Lion of Judah. They celebrated with the best of Italian wine taken from the well stocked cellars of the club. They toasted Halxe Selassie*s future victories - with chianti. l^After a day or so the great cloak was got °ot once more, the little man was wrapped in it, and was flown t© VUJ<J2 to c/\-b@^ )> u^Jtg^ Khartoun,to start his campaign - still under conditions of the greatest secrecy. it isn’t explained why all the concealment was necessary, Haile Selassie would certainly be safe enough in Alexandria. The only supposition is that the British wanted to keep his trip a secret from Italian espionage in Egypt. On the frontier of his former kingdom, who* will H&ile Selassie meet? j^hy, the Joan of Arc of Ethiopia. And who is she? The answer is amazing - Sylvia Pankhurst, the one-time suffragette. You have to think back some years to remember how Sylvia Pankhurst battled for the woman suffrage cause in England - together with her mother, the formidable Mrs. Pankhurst. Those were the days when the suffragettes raged around London, and went to the 7 T -2 <7 extent of horse-whipping the Prime Minister. strange turn of events to find that now Sylvia Pankhurst is a Joan of Arc. But so says the story, relating that for the past four years she has been working secretly in North Africa, trying to stir up a revolt among the Ethiopians. Her labor has been largely tne smuggling of communications between the exiled Haile Selassie and the chieftains of the Ethiopian tribes, the chieftains in their lion sKins. V;e are SELASSIE. - 3 ’> told that a hundred thousand of the tribesmen are ready to revolt against the Italians - largely as the result of the efforts of one-time Suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst, now the Joan of Arc of Ethiopia. The place jbw » origin of this story is _ 4 appears in the SIERRA LEONE DAILY MAIL. Sierra Leone is a place on thecoast of V.’est Africa - one of the strange and barbaric parts of the earth. argk ^ ti . na Here's something from Argentina on the subject so much discussed - the possibility of tne United States getting naval and air bases along the coast of South America. lEhon—i y.ijigj*- Argentina is willing to collaborate with the United States in establishing naval and air bases on Argentine territory. What kind of collaboration? The report from Buenos Aires is that it would be a case of setting up Argentine bases, but aimc-Lix* that these would be made available for Pan-American defense. No question of giving over bits of territory, no charge of sovereignty - just a matter of Argentina having the bases and permitting the United States to use them. Tneoretically, they would be available to any Pan-American nation, but practically - Uncle Sam is the only one who has a navy and air force and could use a naval and air base. The Buenos Aires ^ispatch contains this postscript:- "Argentina will be glad to aceept financial assistance for building the bases." SABOTAGE Herefs a report on last Tuesday’s blow-ups in plarts making explosives. Secretary of War Stimson stated today that there was no evidence of sabotage. Such is the result of preliminary study in two of the plants - the one at Woodbridge, New Jersey, and the other at New Castle, Pennsylvania. The Secretary said that the War Department has not yet received reports of the investigation at the site of the third explosion, Allentown, Pennsylvania.1 The Secretary reverted to that singular coincidence - the three expldsions in widely separated localities A# s occurred wi within the space of an hour. And he made this A A comment:- ’’There was a peculiar regularity about the explosions that might have suggested Teutonic efficiency.” A compliment to German thoroughness. ’’But”, added Secretary Stimson, ’’the investigation thus far has shown no sign of sabotage. ;> And the same thing goes for the fire in the War Department "The information I have,” said Stimson, ”is that it was probably due to negligence.” r.DNSCRIPTlQiM The firs, contingent of men for military training will be called up next Tuesday, iMovember Nineteenth* This was announced by / Secretary of /ar St^imson^t o&ayj^y ith that beginning, thirty thousand trainees will be summoned between November Nineteenth and December First. The First Corps Area will get the first group, and the other Corps Areas will follow in calling the men to service. There are nine Corps Areas altogether. Tuesday is the day for the first recruits to go to camp. DRArT T.-.ere was a dramatic scene in a New 5f0rk court today, as sentence was passed on ei^ht theological students who refused to register for conscription. The eight young men, who had been repeatedly described as well mannered and well spoKen, sat with bowed heads. In the courtroom were members of their families, fatr.ers, mothers, wives — who wept as the sentence was passed. The ei^ht youn^ theological students repeated their contention that to register for the draft was against their belief and their conscience. They were well aware that under the Selective Service Law they would undoubtedly be exempted for military service, but that didnft matter - they said. The mere act of registering, they argued, would have given assent to conscription, which has to do with war. Their spokesman was David Dellinger, a former athlete at Yale. He said to the Court:- nY.e regret that our attempt to live as closely as possible after the teachings of Jesus had to cause this friction and inconvenience'. But," he added, "our consciences are more moving than any man-made penalty. War, which is systematic mass murder of our human brothers," he aruged to the Court, "is completely contrary to our best intelligence as well as to the teachings of Jesus." The eight young men were given one final chance. They were offered one more opportunity to register. They still refused, thereupon Federal Judge Mandelbaum pronounced sentence. It was based on the federal prosecuting attorney’s contention that an example should be made of them - an example that would deter others who might seeK to evade the draft. The judge said - a year^and a day in prison. And the eight young theological students were immediately There was a baseball surprise in Chicago today. The m&n&kenient of the Cubs sent an invitation to the sports writers to come to the office of the Club and get some news. The sports writers of the various papers assembled;ia^tne-o££xce^ and what did they see? There appeared to be some mistake. At the President1 s big desK was sitting, of all things - a sports writer. Yep, there on the throne of the mighty was Jimmy Gallagher of the CHICAGO HERALD-AMERICAN sports page. It looked as if Jimmy had strayed into the wrong seat, and was writing his dai^y story at the desk of the gk President of the Chicago Cubs. ’’Wnat's the idea, Jimmy? Who do you think you are?w - that sort of comment from the other sports writers. E&rt -thsn--tfc^ announcement was made by Phil K. Wrigley, owner of the Ciub. Jimmy Gallagher of the HERALD-AMERICAN, s'. ntsa just been appointed - General Manager of the Chicago Cubs. ^ o A \ a \ ' "to rhw And was that a surprise VA x VO <J<L^ to the brother sports writersl It was the second surprise in two days. Yesterday the wonder was - the resignation of Gabby Hartnett, as manager of the team. Gabby, who had seemed to symbolize the Cubs for years BASEBALL - 2 a star catcher and uhen Manager, Today the Question of a new manager vtas left undecided, the surprise being — the appointment of a General Manager to run the affairs of the Club. And he’s just a reporter. It seems to have been as much of a surprise to Jimmy Gallagher as to everybody else. He said today he hadn’t yet had time to think it over. And he won’t have so much time during the next several days. He’ll have toround out his newspaper job, and has a big football game to cover on Saturday. Then on Monday he’ll take over the task of bossing the Cubs. HOPSON in the New r0rA trial of Howard C. Hopson, former utilities executive. I ilianl^like to give you something simp 1^ and lucid, making perfectly undei standable the financial deals that were outlined in court. An expert was on the witness stand, and he told of - Twenty Year Convertible Four-and-a-Half Per Cent Gold Debentures. An issue of fifty million dollars authorized, but the|actual issue uttu sixty-three million. Tnree corporations were involved. One subscribe#^!o twenty-three million, nine hundred and sixty-five 'A thousand dollars1 worth. Another did something else, all the way up in the millions. The third corporation complicated things still more with further millions. It all simply bristled with figures^ 1% got so complicated and intricate that the judge called a halt, and said - "This maze of corporation figures is so confusing that unless we have some real help of words in one syllable, I don't see how the Jury will understand.theiB*®’ And His Honor added: nI don't know if I II be capable of understanding then* either.'7 the jury can't understand them and the judge can't 6ither - how can I be expected to understand them? i»ni afraid ■Hi HOPSON - 2 I can’t give you any clear and lucid version of the case. Defendant Hopson himselx maKes the plea that he ia has had a mental breakdown - maybe h# brote^ down trying to figure out the financial complications of his own case. And maybe if i wrent ahead with the mathematics, breakdown