THURSDAY t AUGUST C9, 1340 mmm GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: The s'rcies of northwestern Europe were overcast today, bad weather, and there v/as comparatively little bombing activity over Britain. Nazi war planes tried to raid London tonight, but were said to have been driven off. frsncu jQLc:;:r.s Taree French colonies now have decided to cast their lot witn r,reat Britain, instead of Marshal Petain’s Government vj****m 2 ~ ~ *-£ t ft ,r~~yt of France. They are - the Luke Chad area,The Came noons/and Hew laledonj^J Lake Chad is equatorial Africa south of the Saharao The Cameroons are in T,;est Africa and were taken by France from Ceriaany under the Versailles Treaty. New Caledonia ScrvstL is an island 'roup in the remote Pacific, ^hese colonies have I f ® » resumed the war. - that^ the way the case was nhresed today by General DeGaulle, trie French leader who refuses to recognize tiie armistic v^ith Germany ae One picturesque detail is given. : oreniost in tne cision in Central x*x ^frica is a full blood Negro, ue’s the French Governor of the Lake Chad area. .uis _frican negro studied in French schools, distirtguished hia.sell es a r . y player. Back in his native Africa, he rose in rank in the French ^ministration, and toaay as Governor declares for a continuation of the war against Nazi -e.niany. ITn Lx la Koine ihe sup osition is that the Italian oi rhe -uez C anal is a prelude to a Fascist arive to conquer y - • i.c.* planes o\er buez ars regarded as a preliminary a9-ture. Gesture sees:^ to be the word - because the Italians maae no l^i.z o_ :.ny particular damage, although a number ■ ml s -ere arop^ed at the northern entrance of the water-way -'4.4. ^--w^cV , * /hint. In fact, Rx Rone passes along thej^kxxx)that Italy does not particularly want to crip^ le the duez Canal - not in any serious v., because Ituly hopes to get zss&x possession of it. Q SOOTH a FBICA h re'i, t late dispatch froa South Africa, a move in --he Capetown Parliament to get that British colony out of the vv- v. Th * form r Pr Mnier, General Hertzog, has entered motion derniinding tn^t the Onion of south Africa start i nuedi ite ^eace negotiations with Germany and Italy. Hertzog was forced out as Premier xnx two days after Great Britain entered th conflict. He was opposed to war. Nov. he calls upon South Africa to make a separate peace, and he states that Brit .in is carryinw on the struggle in what he calls T,a spirit of despair”. This declaration i)y Hertzog, the Boer leader, was swiftly answered by another prominent figure among the fi Dutch in Booth Africa, General Smuts ^ replied angrily that South Africa would have only one kind of peace - peace through victory, said he. „ir,Ci~..FT The biggest aircraft order for national defense was announced toaay. It comes to a hundred and sixty million dollar w a Ox c4. •/.1 v ©en SuJid civicitiun engines. The i* irm tciking the contract is the United &i Aircraft Corporation. This was announced by Secretary of the ilavy Frank Knox today. The Seventeen Thousand engines will range fro;.! five hundred to two thousand horsepower. f In aaking the nnouaceiuant, the Secretary of the davy deni d that there hud been any sit down strike by indU'try. He said that companies have not been backward in accepting defense orders. He ^ uinted out that tod~.y*s record-breaking contract has been agreeu upon even ba^ia good sportsmen, willing to j votes the funds. V/e want On top of thi is negotiating with he Ford Motor Company to manufacture forty-five huadr .’d. two-thousand horsepower engine. . » ^ 1*^ y — — RluCRnFT - a deal Aith Ford fell through because the greater part of the aviation engines were for tne British. The ace of motor xxgjiautxx magnates said he would build for the United States only. Apparently this Hew Aeal is on an All-American basis. housing xvn alarming possibility was suggested today before a Congressional committee - the possibility of another influenza epidemic: lrie disastrous outbreak during the previous Ytorld aar. ...is was stated by c. I. Palmer, Housing Coordinator of the Defense Commission. He based his contention on the argument of housing. If we conscript a huge army, and have not enough buildings for the soldiers to live in - why then the result may be a deadly outbreak of the flu. ^s an illustration, the administrator cited Hampton Roads, Virginia, where tnere is a nost of men - /».rmy, Navy Yard* and shipbuilding. r’The need of housing," said he, '’is so serious ana there is such overcrowding, that if something is not done immediately - we will have another conaition like that of the "vYorld ,.ar t^at took so manv lives so unnecessarily through disease." He added that more than a hundred and ten thousand defense housing units are needed immediately. -or this Congress is considering a bill to put up a hundred and fifty million dollars ADD housing . ne statement about the danger of an epidemic led to prompt action, .soon afterward, the Senate unanimously voted a hundred million dollars for housing - this hundred million to be added to the five billion dollar total for defense ^v^i-L-T-Q IIP,U p ING Shortly after that, the Senate passed, the Five Billion Dollar Dil.l — fox* total defense. The measure provides for the construction of a tv'.o-oceun Wavy and more than eighteen thousand airplanes. ■■■■■■■■I The House of Representatives and the Senate have different ide^s about the age limits in the Conscription Bill The measure as passed by the benate last night calls for the drafting of men between tv.enty-one and thirty-one. Today the military affairs committee of the House gave its own version of the age limits. The bill as introduced called for ai. men between twenty-one and sixty-four to register for military service. The committee today cut ou* the upper end of the scale of ages, and amended the bill to read twenty- one to forty-five, ^'-course the-irrenttfre-mid IIouoo -version w-ill nave to be fight in the Lower Rouse tu conscript the boys ^.y — rive, tnster;d of .iserely thirty a k - +• < i ^ spgliis in prospect ovet uiie A more serious battle seem. clause for tne conscription of industry. The Senate passed that one, but a lot of the Congressmen don't like it - and *111 try to have it stricken out. C « '-f « » U '"us KS1[®i revealed In Washington today that the Atainlstret ion is o; nsicering a plan to train the Civilian Conservation Corps for National Lefense work. No, this does not mean tiiat the C. C. C. boys are to be turned into soldiers. Democratic Representative Scrugham of Nevada stated today that the .ciuini stration program does not contemplate the militarisation of the C. C. 6. Such militarization has been demanded by a number of Congressmen. The idea being - if *<*H,*> to draft soldiers under the Conscription Jtxfc Act, why wouldn’t the Conservation Corps make a first rate lot of recruits? President Roosevelt, however, is opposed to this. He doesn’t want the C. C. C.* to be put in the Army. The plan is to train the Conservation Corps as aviation and motor mechanics, workers t t technical tasks of one sort or another - those services which a modern army needs Representative Scrugham stated today that the program is based on Cerman methods. The Nazi victory in France, said the Congressman, was due largely to a huge supply of twelve mechanics foi ea ch airplane or otner mechanics - ten or unit cf motorized equipment. The r inited States *rmy needs that sort ol' secondary military personnel, and according to the plan the Civilian Conservation Corps would be utilized to supply the need* ‘ i course, the G. C* C. would q^uite naturally be included in the conscription of young men in general - a certain proportion of them tanen as soldiers# Tod-y Republican senator styles Bridges of Mew Hampshire called upon President Roosevelt to demand the resignation of the Secretary or tne democratic National Commit-ee. Tiiis is the latest in a Number One political storm. The Secretary of the Democratic National Committee is Lawrence '.ood Robert, surnamed ’’Chip’’. At the Chicago Convention, Chip Robert was one of the ace high figures in putting across the renomination of President Roosevelt. He was a doughty battler for a third term. Chip Robert is also the owner of an architectural and engineering company at Atlanta, Georgia, -he name of the-, £4-ra-4^- Rofeegfc and eompraa^. Recently, there has been gossip about the awarding of defense construction contracts in the southern area, contracts for buildings on aviation fields and other military nrejects. There has been complaint that the contracts have been unfairly awarded. And there has been tiftnta the fir* owned by mention of Robert and Company * emocratio National Committee. the Secret ry of the Congressional deotands ior in .•ormation were made and today a . tVlfi congressional record by statement was inserted ir navy contracts --z CongrssrTian /ins^-n, Chairman of the House Naval Committee. He 2®^ tne statement i rom the Navy Department. ^t’s a list ol building contracts given out under the defense program, and discloses that there were sixty-six awards. Of these sixty-six, eight were given to the firm of Robert and Company - most of them in the iiorida area. They were contracts for aviation-building mostly. Sight out of sixty-six sounds like a considerable proportion, and the contracts were granted without bidding. They were on a basis of cost-plus-fixed-fee. The Navy is empowered to grant awards in that fashion - so much for Mskax*xsiss*acxi»s costs and so much for a fee. ^ The costs in the case of the eight Robert and Company contracts was nearly seven million dollars. The Jee in n«rcenta«es from nearly tnree per cent to four and The fees ranged in percentages 1rom nea a half percent. The total oi^ tne fees was nearly a million dollars - nine hundred and thirty-one thousand, five hundred and sixty dollars, to ue precise. That much government of ^secretary of the Democratic National Committee contract profit taken by tne firni 0 /V^e National r.onjftittee . This iw tins ial story -whi#h > , th raised a f i rst * cia’ss jUkJ in politics tna noliticai connivuno© in the v+to-lm of nHrU.&nel^ a*f4^e«e«. Tne con ent-iwt-is mehe — that v^-^eoF-e-Wj^y of Ueaccrctic f-otioftttl CoKimittee—sheulo-«ttot be TrerTtii-%ted—to-^otr* hefen ee oo«tre et s. •—*«a<or lee4in^ tho ne^utrit~caTT~chai>qc , ;enetor Bridges of iJew Hampshire demands - resignation, end even orosecution. -o-f^enee -1 ni s~man i-fe a te«— "The President says he, "should immediately demand the resignation of Jlr. Robert as Secretary of the Democratic Rational Committee, and, in addition it would seem that an investigation of the entire ma tter might properly be mace by tne Attorney San* General*” tornado. in— £ ne fc4onal"ldofens** — *»T (» • 0, L. ;,exl, tutr; Ar:ay has rinally recaptured xiixstK private Lonaino. Private Londino is what you would call a peacherino* He has been A. V,'. 0. L. for twelve days, and that's a lot of days if you know the Army. In addition, ks&xBfii Peacherino Londino has proved himself to be a great lover and also an expert with wine and spaghetti. The Private was in camp at lort Hancock, drilling, peeling potatoes, uoing kitcnen police, when he was smitten with an irrisistible desire to see his sweetheart, so he left camp without botnering about permission - A. V.U To Londino a.. ‘.V. 0. L. simply me nt a want of love. However, expeclall hail the A« • 0* L, lasts for twelve days. military uetachment was s ent out to arrest the romantic private. camp, the Lovelorn ;netti and some wine. The guaru, mBVbe . bit thirsty. They went. And The guards his home for a bit of spag. Mere hungry, ‘iQ :iia^ ded to nly tnem w Londino proce Y,'. 0. L.--2 a bari-ttl - ne. „ good time was being had by all, *xx*j especially by Londino. mile the soldiers of the detachment were inhaling yards of spaghetti and rivers of wine, he disappeared, leaving the guards with very red faces. So Londino was A. If. o. L. all over again, presumably returning to his true love. Today, however, he was caught once more, this time by the police at Tlli^abeth, hew Jersey. The cops were not so susceptible to the v.ine and soagnetti treatment. Presumably they get more of the same than soldiers do. So tonight Peacherino 1 ondino is in the guardhouse at Fort Hancock. He is expected to be there for some time to come DEAN ::ere*s a mel'^ncholy tale, the saddest kind of sad story. : esterday, a flash of gooa news came to Dizzy Dean - Diz, the one time flame ball artist of the diamond. As all the baseball world knows, Dizzy Dean for the past couple of years has had a sore arm. The hitters were slugging his fast ball far and wide, that same fast bail wnich they couldn’t touch a few ye?.rs back. So the Chicago Cubs sent Diz to the minors - to the Tulsa team. The nope was tnat the hot Oklahoma weather would boil tne soreness out of that once invincible right arm. Ri *ht now the Tulsa team is at Dallas, Texas, playing e series taere, and at Dallas Dizzy Dean got the glad ness - Chicago was recalling him. The Cubs wanted him for the final drive of the season. Ba.ck to the majors - for Diz. -Those were glad tydings indeed, and Diz spoke up and said in his old time bragging way:- .'The old arm is as good as it ever was. I got all my stuff, he shouted. Then he went out to pitch against Dallas, one of the feeblest teams in the minor leagues. They score of nine to live. socl ted him for fourteen hits and won by a „ „ n„11 c.q has had in ten games. It was tne first victory tnat Dallas In Ne« York, Abe Pinchasid is a hundred and one years old. .ibe mi ;ht T'emaps be expected to succumb to old a^e, but no - tht:t1 s not the story. Today Abe, his hundred and one years and ail - went out for a walk. He was hit by a trolley car - and that may seem like an ironical trick of fate. "It was," said Abe, as he waited impatiently while the doctors bandaged up his cuts and bruises. Then he continued his walk - cuts, bruises, a hunared and one years and ail.