Ah The British revat that tonight Nazi 7,ar planes are iA<r3 bombing a city in ^ Last night it was Cardiff, where A A savage destruction was xnfiicted. One correspondent today described tne scene of ruin as reminding him of Ypres, that city 7T in Flanders which was blown to bits in the previous war. Today, like yesterday, the Ger^iar^ city mentioned in the bombing news is -- Bremen. The R.A.F. struck again at that great German port. ^^T^^orrd^rr^^-bTrt^ <^4i Ireland today sent ^protest to Nazi Germany — because of the bombs that have fallen on Irish soil.|Considerable damage done, several people killed, a number injured. One huge land mine dropped by a parachute exploded early today and wrecked A 6 y £ 8 b i.ng^4n^ Ir^lan4 today Todayfs Dublin protest is based on the examination of pieces of the bombs. They are found to be of German origin. '^Ah.r raids against Ireland still remain a puzzle. There is still some suspicion that they perhaps may be a prelude to a Nazi attempt to invade the emerald Isle, or, they may be in the nature V AR - 2 of a warning to the Dublin government not to make c3ncessions In the British news of the sea a name of dark reminiscence occurs tonight. The name — Thetis. Remember the submarine tragedy of the Thetis, the British undersea craft which sank with pitiful loss of life not long before the war began? The mention of this ill-starred craft is in connection with the sinking of an Italian submarine. The Fascist** submersible was torpoedoed by the British Submarine Thurd erbolt .^That1 s the new name given to the Thetisafter the sunken craft was raised. repaired and put into service again. renamed the Thunderbolt, now appears in an exploit of war. The French report the sinking of one of their submarines _ torpoedoed by another undersea craft of unknown nationality. The French ooat was off the North African coast when something hit VAR _ 3 ■___ it, and an xplosion sank it. A french tanker tt^nt to the rescue of some survivors. Then the tanker was nit — apparently by a torpoedo. The ship caught fire and sanit, but uiost of its crew were saved. The story carries an air of mystery — an unknown and unseen submarine torpoeding a French underwater boat and a French tanker. At Buenos Aires, in South America, a French ship attempt to is ready to sail on what appears to be an run the British blockade. The vessel has aboard a large cargo of food, and the story is that she is going* to try to take it to France — the realm of the Petain Government. One supposition is that French war vessels will try to escort the food ship through the British blockade. Another is that the Petain regime intends to make a blockade issue by sending the food ship through — to see * if the British will interfere. A French cabinet much revamped, was in power today — a sort of three-man directorate serving under Marshal Petain. The first step was the resignation of the Minister for Youth and Propaganda, ne was an adherent of former Foreign Minister Laval — Laval having been forced out by Petain. The new three-man Ministry consists if former Premier Flandin, the prominent General Huntziger, and Admiral Darlan. The Admiral is regarded as the strong man of the group, Irat - keJiS a salt-sea sailor, an intimate friend of Marshal Petain1s — and possibly the future ace in the French government. In North Africa Australian troops today smashed through a / sect! n of the defense of Baidia./ They charged the xtalian positions with tanks and infantry, and got through in a critical area. The word from London is that this is very likely the beginning of the culminating British effort to capture the Italian stronghold. In Albania the Greeks are reported to have advanced to a point only twelve miles from the key Albanian port of Valonta. Italian resistance is described as having been strong and determined, but the Greeks pushed ahead. HOPKINS Woodrow V/ilson d ays are recalled with the appointment or Harry Hopkins w President Roosevelt*s personal reprepentative ini London, ^opkins will not become United States Ambassador to Great Britain. He will have no ambassadorial rank, will not succeed Joe Kennedy. The President explained that Harry Hopkins is not well and strong enough to assume so burdensome a diplomatic post. When Hopkins resigned as Secretary of the Interior, we were told that he <2 £ was not in the best of health. He*s one of the President *s <fe»F^ A friends, and has been intimate with F.D.R. ever since Governor days in Albany. His mission in will be thatpersonal representative— a ^ A ^ 6ct* laison main between Franklin D. Roosevelt and the heads of British A government./ London makes the comment that Harry Hopkins is to be -?£* a link between,, President Roosevesfc% and Hrime Minister Winston Churchill And London «Mes ’t A wthe next best thing to Mr. A Roosevelt himself coming.n Yes, it*s reminiscent of Woodrow Wilson days, when the legendary Colonel House was the President* s persenal agent in de?JLing with the warring powers in Europe. Colonel House was like a shadow of Woodrow V/ilson. ThereTs much talk about the question of wording hours in the building of national defense - will worKttf hours be lengthened? TodayTs answer is - yes. Tnat is - in one particular category of defense work. The eight-hour*r«-day limit has been ra’ised in the ‘task of building naval and air bases on the sites acquired by the United States from Great Britain. President Roosevelt has done this in consideration of what is described as - "an extraordinary emergency. This was revealed toda 3 r, and at his press conference the President gave a bit of explanation. He said that the British possessions where the naval and air bases are to be built, have different labor regulations fromlrours. They don!t necessarily have the eight-hour day. Most of the construction work at the defense sites will be done by native labor, and the working conditions will be such as are customary at each place - the same average rate of pay and the same average working hours, trene^ SHIPS President Roosevelt, as we all know, is nautically minded He loves the smart lines of a trim and graceful ship. He does nit enjoy the clumsiness of a lumbering old tramp, an ungainly tub. So we can sympathize with the President who has so much sea-faring esthetic sensibility. But w'hen you start building freight ships on a mass production basis, you toa&m got. to turn them out cheaply and fast — you can’t expect the rakish lines of a speedy cruiser or the majestic proportions of a queen of the sea. The president announced a new * shipbuildings program today. Construction is to be started on two hundred freight ships of about half million dollars. The tedey—pointed out-driaat-the -huge destruction oi1—shipping by shortage-of-veasetB* He was asked about reports that the new ships to be built might be leased to Great Britain. ^Ho-peolied--he-did-Haei Yu> eare to-xnak^i^H^ comment about that. The comment he did want to make, he said, concerned the question of beauty. He referred to his own love for a good looking shi ), and bemoaned the artistic shortcomings of the freighters to be built. He said they would be — dreadful SHIPS - 2 looking objects. But they111 be able to carry cargoes, and lots of them. Aad-'fhey'll be easy and quick to bull*. Right now those are the important points — not oceanic beauty. one of those fashion notes; et-gown soffa. It gives me a superior feeling - to recite the stylish details into the mike with a knowing air - as if I understood what they meant. e4:«rs±cftl frrer In New Y0rk today Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt bought some new dresses for the inauguration. One is a creation w'hich # she’ll wear while riding in an open car with the President to and a from the inauguration. Itfs vermillion gown - called Americana r\ red. It has the new fluid shoulders, a tucked top, a square neckline outlined in crystal beads, slightly flared skirt with unpressed pleads and a panel of tucks, fesr sir^rt ~gtjrerTnaftfrsrinfr CONGRESS in Today the capitol at Washington the last £^Sssion of the A Seventy-Sixth Congress turned into the opening session of the Seventy-Seventh. A few sharp blows of the gavel in the Senate signalized the transition. The lawmakers of the old Senate were there, and^most of them remained. Most of them are in the new Senate. The ones that were not re-elected last November took their departure, while Senators who were elected stepped into their places — and were sworn in. % One new Senator was challenged — Langer of North Dakota. A delegation of North Dakotans are demanding that the Senate refuse to seJChim. They1re making charges against newly elected Senator was seated today — for the time being. Admitted with the proviso* that the complaints against him should be heard later on. Today's session was brief, but immediately the number one question popped up — the war in Europe. Senator Carter Glass of i Virginia gaveexpression to one side of the controversy He declared himself in favor of the President's proposal to lend armament to Britain. He said we should lend all the v.Tar equipment we can And he expressed the purpose in these words:- "To wipe COMPRESS - £ Germany off the face of the earth.” As against that, the Isolationist group headed by Senator Wheeler is planning a determined battle to keep this nation out of the war. The Senate adjourned, until Monday — when President Roosevelt will present his messge to the joint houses of Congress, and will outline his plans for aid to Britain. EOiBEK b^. Today in an isolated section of southwestern Texas, ant naw borabe they found ® giant navy bomber ^afloat on the surface of a small lake. And with this comes a story of high adventure and flashing courage. begins with fcto flight of three navy seaplanes, thirteen-ton bombers. They were bound from Sen Diego, California, to Pensacola, Florida. As they were winging over Texas, trouble befell one of those battleships of the sky. Caught in a snowstorm, * 5 ice forming on wings. So much ice collected that the huge seaplane A was getting out of control. iH: The pilot, J. Murray Hanson, snapped a command to his crew of six. ft* fold them to save themselves - and bail out. He himself would stick with the ship, and try to save the thirteen-ton craft# Of the crew of six, five obeyed the order - five parachutes went fluttering to earth. The sixth man refused to obey. Co-Pilot R.B.Clark elected to stick it out with his commander, in the attempt to save the ship. A desperate attempt - trying to land the ice-logged monster - a seaplane to boot. OMELR - 2 The chances were that they’d have to bring it down on hard, firm ground. Of the five men parachuting to earth, four made it TT all right. One was killed. The survivors told the story that led to a search for the bomber. They hardly expected to find anything more than lie shattered wreckage of a crash somewhere. That was last night* Today the word came through. At the last moment the pilot, with his co-pilot beside him, had spotted a tiny lake, a shallow body of water hardly bigger than the big ship. Today he described it as - ”a tight squeeze.” but he ck . • made it. The two men aboard uninjured, the plane undamagedt A V.Q.V.M an extraordinary document, nrA I should like A to read tne follow ing United Press dispatch:- New York, January 3rd. Magistrate Anna Kross called a mother from among spectators in court today to take care of her wayward son — charged with throwing bottles through plate glass windows. But when the mother, a demure-looking woman, stepped up to the bench, she was arrested on a charge considerably more serious than that against her son. She was accused, the news dispatch relate s, of using a broken bottle to cut the throat of a woman neighbor. Shashithe woman neighbor was in the hospital for twro ^eeks. It!s quite a slice out of life, as the novelists used to say. The mother got into a row with her neighbor in a saloon. She picked up a beer bottle, fexLKka broke off the bottom by striking it on a ta'ble — and went to work with xx c \ 2^ the hxgxKd jagged edge. Thst mother^ could da assume any lofty moral tone with her boy for throwing bottles through plate glass windows. MARRIAGE Today at Pittsburgh, Mrs. Fannie Shannon got a divorce. The judge agreed - yes, she certainly had waited the appointed length of time. Fifteen years ago, Nineteen Twenty-Five, in the Shannon home, Mr. Shannon picked up his hat, and walked to the door. "Well, so long," he said to Mrs. Shannon, "I’ll see you in Nineteen Forty." Whereupon he departed, and Mrs. Shannon oilxxlB waited for Nineteen Forty to come. She waited patiently for fifteen years - Nineteen Forty arrived but no Mr. Shannon. She waited the whole year through, and when the whistles of New Year’s blew two nights ago, Mrs. Shannon finally decided that Mr. Shannon was not goinfe to keep the appointment. And so she applied for a divorce - and got it. HORSE I alv^ys like ! ^'ine strin? of adjectives, I also r!de a horse now ' nd then. So the following hits the right spot. In Hollywood a an today entered suit epainst a riding academy from which h^ rented e steed. says th^y knew he was not an experienced rider, but herefs the horse th£>y ^ave him. The legal document describes it as vicious, wild, untamed, unruly, undependable, tricky, ' nd dangerous. Also, ci ntankerous, fence-rowing, spinning, rearing, -aturt^lixg; Lucking cayouse. »«nll, I myself a time or two have climbed on a horse th't would fit that description perfectly, so I n sympa thi^e. T