L.T, - Spi^lQgOj—HffiDMKSDAy. AUGOS'^ ^Q, . GOOD evening EVErefBODV: Tonight the world is wondering sind worrying aoout Iran, which we once knew as Persia, the center of the great empire of the Medes and Persians. Iran tonight is the problem child of the nations at war. Nobody knows Just what the government off the Shah is up to. Just what the^J^cftbictfiB are meditating, british newspapers reported startling increases in the A military establishment of Iran. One paper said that the XSUUi army had been strengthened from a hundred and twenty thousand to two hundred thousand. The LONDON DAILY MAIL report^ that the A sinister von Papen, Hitler’s Ambassador to Turkey, had made a A secret visit to the capital of Iran. If that is true, he presumably gave instructions to the thousands of German agents known to have filtered into the country in civilian clothes, with their uniforms in their suitcases. Mi±i* Militaiy sharks LEAD - 2 ar6 pointing out that once Hitler*s armies control the southern Ukraine the way will be open to the Caucasus. If the Nazis can get the Caucasus before winter, the way to Iran will be open and iL the way to Iraq through Armenia and Kurdistan. T.E.LawTence, in his book called ’^Oriental Assembly”, pointed out that Iraq and Syria were geographically and historically indefensible from the east. In other words, once the Nazis have a foothold U a AJI in Iran, it go hard with the British oil fields in Iraq, A ^ and the pipeline to the coast Ac we’ve been hearing for several days, both the ■ ^,>,1 n. Rii-gsi^ made demands upon the Government of Iran to turn out the German agents and so-called t\ tourists"that have penetrated in civilian clbthes. A report from London itai tonight is that Iran sent a reply, a reply which in diplomatic language is not wholly satisfactory. The messages from London and Moscow to Iran were sent on Saturday, and mim * were not quite an ultimatum. In diplomatic argot, the reply from Iran is being given detailed study in London and Moscow. ;r. ,1 I'l '"i.'i. If wa £ JySt a few minutes ago^ the Berlin radio opened a broadcast with a loud fanfare ofjtrumpets. It was a typical Hitlerian special communique from the Fuehrer’s headquarters on the Russian front. I The high command claims to have smashed no fewer than twentr-five Russian divisions in the area around Gomel; that’s a humdred and forty-five miles north of Kiev. Twenty-five divisions represent^ something like four hundred and twenty-five The communique goes on to assert that they A included seventeen Infantry divisions, two tank divisions. one motorized division, five cavalry divisions, and two paradhute brigades. Gomel, the center of this battle of annihilation, lies on the Dnieper and Socli Rivers, halfway between Kiev and Mogilev. V' cor ding to the Nazi high command figures, the Red armies have now lost,twt> million men; A A Nazi spokesman alleged that further south, the port of Odessa is enveloped in flames, and the battered remnants of Marshal hudenny-s armies doomed. The Reds made savage efforts brldg,h„ds o„ th. D„l.p« - t».fs th. ...1 phr.s.ol.S,. to hold the "savage efforts." But the Nazis crushed them. D n WAR _ 2 Here's the Russian side of the story. The Red army has landed tanks behind the G 0 rnian lines and is throwing the Nazis back in a strong counter-attack on the front protecting Moscow. At the same time, th^oviet high command officially admitfi^ that both Odessa on the Black Sea, and Xi Tallinn on the Baltic, are seriously threatened. But the Red army spokesmen declare tjiart; both strongholds will be defended to the last man, They acknowledge that the German armed forces are striking powerfully at both ends of that eighteen hundred mile front. And the Russians realize that Hitler’s generals are using every last ounce of strength to score a decisive success before winter. There’s no attempt on the Soviet side to minimize the German advance. But the Reds deny that Marshal Budenny’s armies have been crushed and claim that the Russians are resisting as strongly as ever all along the line 1 “I WAK - 2 li Here’s the Russian side of the story. The Red army has landed tanks behind the German lines and is throwing the Nazis back in a strong counter-attack on the front protecting Moscow. At the same time, thejSoviet high command officially admitS^ that both Odessa on the Black Sea, and fi Tallinn on the Baltic, are seriously threatened. But the Red army spokesmen declare tjaart both strongholds will be defended to the last man, g* They acknowledge that the 6erman armed forces are striking powerfully at both ends of that eighteen hundred mile front And the Russians realize that Hitler’s generals are using every I last ounce of strength to score a decisive success before winter. There's no attempt on the Soviet side to minimize the German advance. But the Reds deny that Marshal Budenny's armies have been crushed and claim that the Russians are resisting as strongly as ever all along the line inviET nID - i government made one quite concrete answer to the plea for aid to the Soviets. It came from Jesse Jones, the Federal prepared Loan Adininistrator^^=il^ indicated that his department to lend money to Stalin to help pay for any war materials bought here. Jones added, however, that there has been no definite discussion of th* loan to Moscow. But, he said, he imagined that if A Russia is unable to pay for what she needs, some way will be found to help her () FRAJjCE More fighting bet¥/een the British and the French, The ne^s comes from Vichy, The Petaln Ciovernment complains that the British lijt^ are tightening ^ hunger blockade around French Somaliland. British warships are reported to have penetrated into French territorial waters off DJbouti, and shelled a French vessel bringing supplies to the French colony on coast of East Africa. The French in DJbouti have radioed the Petain Government that the British are trying to starve them out. Af)4 Vichy also has dispatches from Ankara that the British have proclaimed a state of siege throughout all Syria. American troops today caught their first glimpse of a Mazi fighting plane. One of Hitler’s long-range bombers flew over Beykjavlk for the first time since American forces joined the British In the garrisoning of Iceland. try to drop any bombs hostile gesture^whatsoovw. Just flew around, apparently taking a look-see until British war planes chase.haP-^^afTi The German made his get-a-way under cover of a bank / of heavy clouds. This may be the preliminary to the series of bombing raids by the Nazis over Iceland. In the past It has been part of the German method to make careful reconnaissance tlights before trying an^bambli^ raids. 7 ^ the first and the closest that American troops have come to actual warfare !■! i SINS “11 The people of Canada were astonished this morning to learn that their Chief of State had taken a sudden and dramatic flight across the ocean to London. Prime Ministdr Mackenzie King took off U/19^ early today from an airport in Eastern Canada, the first time \ A A ever been in a plane By comparison with the meeting between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, this was a well-kept secret. A handful of government officials and the close personal associates of Canada*s cU^ Prime Minister knew he was going, also a few correspondents in the A press gallery at Ottawa. To everybody else in the Dominion and to the United States, it was a complete surprise. During the last session of Canadian parliament King's political opponents hurled criticism at him because he hadn't gone to London. King replied that he'd go when the time came but he was going to aiamiw4^ into it for grandstand purposes. It was predicted in Ottawa that one result of his visit to not > Downing Street may be conscription in Canada, conscription for service overseas. Some people In the Canadian capital believe that the British war cabinet Is planning a land attacl. against the Nazis on r* For any such offensive as that the British the continent of Europe. For a y US9. * ^ armies will need to be reenforced from Canada and that need will have to be met by conscription. So far the Canadian armies have by been kept up to their quotas voluntary recruiting ill Pii es I KENT King George’s brother, the Duke of Kent, will be in the States for less than four d^ys. The State Department has just announced his itinerary. He will arrive at LaGuardia Field, New York, Saturday afternoon and go straight to Hyde Park. There he will stay ?rith President and Mrs. Roosevelt over the weekend, and come to Washington with the presidential party on Monday. Then he will immediately fly to Norfolk, Virginia, to inspect the military and naval reservations there. Monday evening VA/vCiP be the guest 9t an informal dinner^at the White House, sday Tuesday heS-W^isitan aircraft plant in Baltimore, and leave Tuesday evening for Canada pE^ROir The folks in DeT^roit deserve our sympathies tonight. It seems curious to have to talk of the automobile metropolis as almost paralyzed by a transportation strike, hut that’s what has been going on all day. Everybody without a car has just been Bmkxaf'-qsiwiHt out of luck, unless he or she could thumb a ride to and from work, —oour—it wae all— right-^-for—-'■with pare; pretty fonewonu in ^rXw U cPf vy'-<>^t<y-vJL<rvv\ Not a bus or trolley was running in the ,*re«t=«4i^^ Among the inconvenienced by the strike were four hundred thousand factory workers. The Hudson Motor Company had to close down I two of its plants, and throw nine thousand employees out of * Irt^^^settlement of the strike, in which they^r«=r»s3^ not K lin American Federation of Labor Onion tbafe is giving the ;«rty. The strike is one of those jurisdictional affairs, a squabble between the A.F. of L. and the C.I.O. The p^rtPration men, as also are some of transportation workers ar ... «.«, CPnty .no -- tl DETROIT _ 2 The A.F, of L. Union demands an absolutely closed shop in Detroit’s municipally owned transportation system, sole bargaining rights, with a check-off, the Union to have sole use of the bulletin boards in the car barns and other places. The city authorities made no attempt to run any trolley or buses exclusive contract with any union, A There was a turbulent scene in the mayor’s office this afternoon. The leader of the Union shook his fist in the Mayor's face and threatened to call out all the thirty-five thousand city TT employees if the strike isn't settled by tonight. Mayor Jeffries of Detroit apparently had both sides of the dispute on his chest, for the leader of the C.I.O. Union accused him of deliberately bringing the strike about so as to help the A.F. of L. The A.F. of L. accuses the C.I.O. of trying to raid its ranks. ...y Its Kia^rsllh. th. strut ..= o.U.a « five days’ notice before according to v.hich a union sho 5 ' give time for arbitration, striking, a cooling-off perio , Tne Mayor claimed that a city government has no right to make an %|j npTRQIL- 3 In the case of public utilities, the law imposes a cooling-off period of thirty days. This particular strike was not voted until midnight last night and became effective at four o'clock in the morning. Accordingly, it is reported, people dependent trolleys and buses were given no warning, had no chance to upon malce other arr angements for getting themselves to work. *1 I! jnTnvOBlLES FOLLOW DETROIT The strike happened at a date when sour prophecies ! I are running through the automobile capital. People who know what’s j what about motor car production are predicting that automobile production will be curtailed not gradually but drastically next year. That for one thing the motor car industry won’t be able to get the materials necessary for making automobiles. That for another, the government wants to have both the men and the machines available for defense production. We are told today that ^he manufacturers in Detroit are bracing themselves for a severe jolt. Ni NICHOLE A banker out at Englewood, Chicago, put out an unusual plea to his depositors today, fie urged them to withdraw their ; I money. As a matter of fact, he has been doing it since last April. jj At one time he had deposits of more than seven millions. Now there are only thirty-nine thousand in deposits left in that bank. through what he prophesies will be the worst financial wringer in its history. It isn’t often you hear of a banker telling the public to take their money out of his bank! and the President of the bank wants the customers to take it out. i Under existing conditions, ha says, he does not care to continue as the custodian of other people*s‘money. He’s a fervid New Deal ■i hater. He wants to be on the sidelines while the country is going