L«,T. _SUN_OCQ, FRIDAY. SEPTEl/^BER 26. TT GOOD EVENING EVEKiBODY: Today in London, a member of the British government made a report on what, after all, is the most important angle of the Nazi-Soviet war - the angle of Soviet war industry. Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labor in the Churchill cabinet, declared that a large part of the productive capacity of the Soviet Union has been knocked out.' The Blitz invasion has captured so much of the industrial II f-: area munitioning the Red Army - and threatens to capture so much more. The consequence is, s aid Bevin, that the British must undertake all-out production for the Soviets. They must get busy a hundred percent to turn out war supplies for the Red Army - and that for a long time. Maybe for as long as a year, said Bevin. "In the period of at least six to twelve months, ” said he, "we must drive forward so that we will be able to help Russia out of her own production.” On the war front, Berlin reports that the Germans are still ,-v.^ nia armv they encircled east of Kiev. They engaged In mopping up the olg army y _ ----- - . n he ended by Sunday. The tafvlets, on think the battle tnere will be ena | lorces the other hand, report signal victories ___ 148-2 attempting to drive to the Important city of Kharkov, key to the III! if S; i' ! Donets industrial area. The Moscow tulletin mentions still another place -- Orel. They defeated the Germans there. If the Nazis should happen to be anywhere near Orel, they would be in a most menacing 4 position — for that city is midway on the railroad line oetween ' Kriarkov and Moscow. The general tenor of the Soviet dispatches V is — that the Red army has oeen smashing up German drives in those areas in a most victorious fashion. j|i 'll At Leningrad - the same tragic story. The violence of the fighting increases, as the Blitz drives with all the instruments I' 1 of modern war in the attempt to capture the city under siege — four ,|jl and a half million human beings under siege. One Berlin bulletin tells of Nazi attacks on a Soviet con.oy crossing Lake Ladoga. - 1 That's a vivid indication, because it indicates that the Red Army is moving material to Leningrad, while encircled on land, has > I communications open by water, across the lake. . situation is indefinite. The Nazis are m the Crimea, the sltua-cion known to be trying to drive through the narrow gateway into t at nf their landing parachute important Peninsula. troops, also of G rman i ,,,,— WAR - 3 blov.Ti up Stories of trouble in the conquered countries continue to accumulate, -lighting against guerilla bands goes on in Serbia_ with i'Jazi accounts of having to chase bandits and Communists. In such countries as Norway and Holland, anti-Nazi movements are seething — so we are told, •‘^nd in -k^'rance - sabotage and terrorism. Today, three executions were carried out by Vcd French authorities — the state tribunal representing the/vichy government. The three victims are described as Bommunistsy' One was a former member of the Communist Central Commit tee y Another a former member \ of the French Gnamber of Deputies. By way of contrast — rp DeOaulle Free French regime today concluded a military alliance with Soviet Russia, In the west - a brilliant exploit is credited to tne Canadians. MarSiy Hardy Dominion troops in small boats are said to have raided the coast of German occupied France and to have captured twenty-eight Nazi army officers. They are described as having been asleep in a villa on the coast of Brittany^ y/hen the Canadians caught them by surprise. lai G'jr.Aiario c-i.aiku a \vhol3 series of ship sinkings, and give us i the stat-j.iient that during the period from June tvi/enty-second to >e^te*iiber twenty secuna, they sank more than a million tons. This is in sharp coutradictloii with London statements, which hold that the stja cam.iaigri has fallen off sharply- with a great decrea sa in Biiiisu snlppi-ng j-oas^s. Berlin, luaintains that the Nazi U-Boat fleet s..ployinfe tijw tactics. itMy-BM>fc.V\ov-3l and secret ways whereby they I ars able to blast convoys in spite of strong protection of the British jtarshijs. oo say the Germans ' k..- r-l: -:1k I ■■ ( ; 'H J'" Ui '.i! PRIORITi^ % j.here was aa Oxficial statement in Washington today that small business Is racing destruction. The les3<=r commercial and Industrial concerns of the nation are in danger of Ijislng wiped out. This declaration was made by Donald Welson^ Director of the system of priorities. And he said that the ruin of the small business man throughout the country would be - a national disaster, The danger lies in the way the system of priorities is being run. Ae’ve been hearing that the lesser industries are in danger of being put out of business because they can’t get raw raa terlal - so much of those materials being assigned to big time armament manufacture. Defense orders^get the priorities Donald Nelson said today that the whole system of priorities will have to be changed. Wight now a certain industry may get the priorities - without being cble to procure the raw materials - there’s a scramble among the priority holder.. to -et the stuff out of which to make things and what's the use thl s of having ? priority unless you can ?et the goods? In^hia^wlld scramble, little business comes out second best. i s 4-^ Qnivp ^he uroblem now,^ said Donald ^'Ae’re beginning to solve •ii p t little business man has been rtelson, "but up to the ePPv... pATlL GARRETT f f !r lii 1,1 1 i;! lir Meanwhile, big business is having its troubles. I ran into Paul Garrett today, Vice-President of General Motors. The question I pute to him is one that I presume he hears a dozen times a day:- ”How are you getting on with war contracts, production for National Defense? « His reply was that right now the automobile world is rather badly worried. The big oorapanies all have been ordered to cut production of cars and plunge into production for national defense. But, you can’t do it just like that, by magic. New tools must be made. ’’This means," says the Vice-President of General Motors,"that we face a d angerous period when vast numbers of men may be put out of employment, right now at the time of the year when, normally, the big automobile companies are stepping up production, building their new models Paul GQrrett says that the only way this vast unemployment can be avoided will be by integrating the two things, the building of cars, and the change over to work on defense contracts. And, the men in Washington should turn their thoughts in that direction right away. r !! nAYLIaHT SAVING The Government is not going to extend daylight saving throught the winter. That extra hour of daylight ^ill not be the rule in any part of the country — alter September twenty—eignth. During the summer some tnought that it might be a good thing to continue daylight saving right througn the winter - especially in ■Q certain regions./ The southeastern states, for example. The reason - national defense, the possibility that there might be a shortage of electrical power for defense purposes. By keeping the extra hour of daylight, the people ^ bi 4 x would use less electric power for lighting. The Federal Power Commission made a survey of the situation, y»ita a special analysis in the saiittiEsa southeast. They figured out what the saving of power would aiean to defense industries. And now, on the basis of this, they make their report. The power commission vdll not recommend that daylight saving be continued in any part of the country after September twenty-eighth - the day when clocks are to be turned kxlk back an hour. i ^ ana xrbxer wherever it might be required. nAYLlGhT 6iiVI_N(j - £ Tne Commission, however, stated that this is by no wo aid warrant daylight saving, in which case it would be decreed. Bence, the Commission thinVis that Congress should give the President tjower to order the extra hour of daylight KhK.'-n whenever w means the last world. There might be a change of conditions that I; i ieai. ei's flaraii nigh au the movie investigation in iVashinfcton today—though the uolnt of angry debate might seem to have had little to do ..1th the question of war propaganda in motion ^ictureb. Til© one sup^jorter of the (id.riiinistra.tion foreign policy on tn© Denote tiub cuiiiiiiittee is benator McFarland of Arizona. He has been o^£yosiii 5 the isolationist luembers all along^ and today his opposition rose to the pitch of shouting,. He cried out that his fellow members were trying to create prejudice against the British. This had reference to a statement made by benator Tobey of i'lew haiflpsnire, *vho recited information from what he called "authoritative bources.” The Senator declared that the British iiHXXijoc i li’J ^ly Council in Washington was following a policy of ajaKdiscrimination LI n ti s —this in the matter of hiring people to v/ork for them. He said the British refuse to employ persons of Irish, German or Jewish descent, and he added that he would produce witnesses to testify to taat effect. That's what benator .licFaviand denounced as an attempt to Create prejudice against the British. Then he proceeded '^^^icial letter denying the charges, a letter written by Sir Gerald Campbell, Britibh ;4inister in Washington Just Vi/hnt all this had to do with war jropaganda in motion pictures is not clear, but later on the hearing got around to the joint at issue. Darryl Zanuck, Vice -coresident in charge of j^roduction of Twentietn CeJitury Fux, gave testimony and denied that Hollywood had ever oeen asked by the government in Washington to make feature pictures that would arouse a war spirit. He jointed out that in the gangster era, Hwliywood ^^roduced gangster jjictures exposing the Underv/orld. and Similarly, said he, Hollywood later produced anti rlazi pictures exposing Hitlerism. * I tiUBFjCANi The Number T>\o hurricane of the season of big winds is lashing the ocean to the south of the Island of Jamaica. Only a days ago, the first great hurricane of the year swept through the Gulf of Mexico and hit the coast of Texas. This second one makes two in quick succession. 'n r It is whirling along at about seventeen miles an hour. and its present course .nay take it to the coast of C entral America. However, those xiMx violent circular storms of the / Caribbean often turn horthward through the Yucatan Channel, / A tetween Yucatan and Cuba, and continue their way across tne Gulf of Jlexico. So our own gulf coast may possibly be in for another blow. There are fears of a tragedy at sea - a snip lost in the nurricane. The American motor ship Ethel Skakel sent a Wireless distress signal saying sh^ was sinking in the storm. Today ^avy officials at Panama City stated that a patrol resorted, but had failed to find any vessel had searched the area , . from San Juan, Puerto Rico, we hear sign of the motor ship, and that a Navy patrol plane today sighted two men on a raft, it is ksszEii feared that they may be t only two survivors of the aURBlCANt - 2 foundered vessel Iducti fartlier to the North, the storm inds are blo’'.ing - the tail end of the ;,revlous hurricane. A three thousand ton freighter was blown ia onto the southeast light shoals Block Island, Rnode Island. The vessel is aground, fcRtwKSHBij beaten by heavy seas. ”It looks as if she’s siRj? going to stay there,’’ said members of the 0oast Guard today. The crew has been taken off, although they at first refused to go. Tney’re a game lot of sai lors, and they v.anted to stick with their ship - which had thirty feet of water in her engine -^room, Tne tail end of the hurricane is tied to another kind of news from upper New fork State. The wind there has been whipping forest fires. Mght thousand acres ablaze in the outbreaks of fire reported from time to Adirondacks, with new time. Five hundred men are battling the blaze, but the report Is Lnat they’ll not be able to get the flames under control until the wind has died down, tha t last breath of the nurricane. I ^ ii; ttr ' '!! Si •l! i riui r ^ ^ _______ _ 1 / % r.FORGE AHLI d S In ' London police court today a man played his part with dignity, a man who for a long lifetime has made a professi on of tnat uality - dignity. George Arliss, the veteran actor who jrs-S won theatrical fame as a portrayer of stxKSt stately roles. Be was most famous in that of Richelieu, the great Cardinal statesman of France - and how well George Arliss could wear the red robe of the Lordly Prelate! A-O- V ' ^ Today George Arliss was on trial, was convicted and sentenced. Be was accused in a matter that had to do with rigid financial regulations in xxK>^tDBB0 war-time Britain. Every citizen in tne United Kingdom is required to register any securities ttiat de may noid, and the inaictment was that George Arliss IN had failea to register more tpan fifty-two thousand Uollars* worth of american stoclis and conds. The implication was that , j of tilP war burden placed on he had tried to dodge his share aiding securities that he held in Englishmen - had done that by Q'-.fplv for himsell. the United States, trying to Keep nrifrq had all the dignity that the The court proceedings h BQ veteran jjrotrayer of Majesty could nave w vished. The Lord Mayor himself pre -resided as mcigis trate, and he 'nade 4 ABLINS, - 2 a concession to the cctor - who is seventy-two years old.^i P ?'!il concession of courtesy - which was about all the concession Arliss got. he was found guilty of gross and culpable negligence, and the Lord Mayor imposed on him a huge fine of eighteen thousand dollars. In addition to dignity, George Arliss, acting on the stage, has been notable for his gift of irony. That Quality too was present in the verdict, tie was ordered to pay the court costs - forty-two dollars. That, as an anti-clima:< to the fine of eighteen thousand, must have brought a wry smile to tne face of the old actor vwvo- Cv SM at the bf r was permitted to sit down, taKe a chair - tSB± though I it is British custom for a defendant to stand at the bar. A