Monday. July 7. 19A1 Good Evening, Everybcxiy: Tonight the Stars and stripes float at Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. Armed forces of Uncle Sam’s navy are occvipylng that island up North in the middle of the Af-djjit^c..J That’s the startling news thi^ President Rocsvelt ?! ii sent to Congress this afternoon. The President reported an accomplished fact. The move has been abrewing for some time. On July first, as Mr. Roosevelt told it, he received a message from the Prime L (h ttjL ijnCiU Minister of Iceland, yrtdintty asking for protection^ The ilandic Premier asked the President to guarantee that if he r undertook the defense of his country, it niust be strong enough to meet every eventuality. The government of Iceland stipulated that there should be sufficient airplanes for defensive purposes wherever they might be required. He also told Mr. Roosevelt that | the decision had been made by the Icelandic government as an LEAD.,- absolute/ free and sovereign state. And he added that it was considered a matter of course that the United States will KUfloi^ recognize the independence of Iceland. The President-jBpaMfcd that the conditions laid down uo by the Iceland Government were perfectly acceptable to the Government of the United States and would be observed.\ Furthermore he told the Icelandic Premier that he would ask/Congress to agree that diplomatic representatives might be exchanged between the two countries. The President informed Congres/ that American naval forces had arrived in Iceland today, /^or the time being they / will merely supplement the British forces now stationed in Iceland, but eventually the^^B/ltish troops will be replaced by Americans. Mr. Roosevelt told Congress that he had taken that A step in order to maintain the safety of the North Atlantic sea-lanes. jHe is occupying Iceland for the same reason that he acquired bases at Trinidad, Newfoundland and British Guiana from Great Britain. The occupation of Iceland by Germany, he LEAD - 3 set forth, would constitute a serious threat in three First, it would threaten Greenland and the Northern portion of the North American continent. Secondly, it wo^ild threaten all vk shipping in the North Atlantic, and thirdly, it would threaten the steady flow of munitions to Britain, a matter of broad policy already approved by Congress. It is therefore Imperative, the President continued, that the approaches between the Americas and such strategic outposts shall remain open and free from all hostile activity or threat, outposts, the safety of which the 1P country regards as essential to its national security. And he added that as Commander-in-Chief he had ordered the navy to take all necessary steps to insure the safety of communications in the approaches between Iceland and the United States, as well as on the seas between the United States and all other strategic outposts. ABdMLi^ conclusion he said that immediately upon the termination of the present international emergency, all American forces would be at once withdrawn, leaving the people of Iceland in full and sovereign control of their own territory. LEAD - 4 To a small group of Congressional leaders that spectacular step was not news today. It is understood in Washington that he called a few of then to the Whit e and tipped them off last night. And it was evidently no news to Senator Wheeler of Mon* ana. As long ago as last week he declared that our occupation of Iceland was iminent. Tonight he said that if Congress approves tksxsthere what the President has don^md. it will not be long before our troops are occupying the Cape Verde Islands, the Azores, and m iA i Dakar on the west coast of Africa. The Stalin Line has cracked, say the_Na2l^ The Nazi attack I has been hurled back^say The Russian coaimunique is official, comes from "be gSvli't high command. It says the Red army started a counter-blitz of , Joined battle with the Nazis in a furious collision of its own tanks and inflicted heavy losses on the invaders in pitched (xudjLiot^ ^ encounters^^from'^strov, near the Latvian frontier,^ on the Dwlna River, near what used to be Poland. The Reds Polotsk, .1.0 hoiain. <» th.B.r.11.. Blvr, h... iwo.. «» l.t..t .ffort. or t» ».ii. <0 s« ‘""e" “ »o.ogr.a-7oir».i. »>»f= •»«. “• =»«•' “* 0.™.. i» isitll Ta. to t..t . wttio .t.rr it M n*'* towns mentioned by the Moscow communique^indicate that Hitler-s brought up short, generals have been a. •Kv^a'f tViev have broken through the The Ger^ story that they nave Stalin Line in the Ukraine does not come from the high command A It’s a c laim put forth by D.N.B., the propaganda news agency. ■ ■ I ^ L.T. SUHOCO ------ Monday. July 7. 1941 Good Evening, Everybody: Tonight the Stars and stripes float at Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. Armed forces of Uncle Sam’s navy are occupying that island up North in the middle of J the Atlantic^J That*s the startling news ttet President Rocavelt sent to Congress this afternoon. The President reported an accomplished fact. •IT: The move has been abrewing for some time. On July first, as Mr. Roosevelt told it, he received a message fr^ the Prime L ^ UnCji Minister of Iceland, . asking for protection^ The landic Premier asked the President to guarantee that if he r * undertook the defense of his country, it must be strong enough to meet every eventuality. The government of Iceland stipulated that there should be sufficient airplanes for defensive purposes wherever they might be required. He also told Mr. Roesevelt that S • the decision had been made by the Icelandic government as an 0 WAri - 2 The Nazi high command did issue an official communique ,«d-44U« (y ostnmis*^ tfhey have captured Cemauti in Bdkovina, Qnd tha^puts them right up to zsslk the southwestern border of the Ukraine Afsl ]hie Nazi generals announce further that they have pushed on to the upper reaches of the Dn4lster River and the Sereth, so the panzer legions are now approaching that corner of the map where the borders of old Poland, Rumania and the Ukraine used to Join. beeauoo it wsgflhe of the strong points made by the Soviet high command Wta* up to now Un^ been able to throw back all the German attempts to break through on the Bessarabian front. However, neither from the Nazi high command nor D.N.B. do we learn any details of this alleged spectacular break-through. It is understood that the 8* Stalin Line, defending the Ukraine, is from seventy-five to a hundred miles deep. Observers are oon..,«e»tl, .Mt .11 th. »..l. ».« c.P«r.^ >0 r.r 1= pr.n.L.r, a T PEOPLES’ ARMY Soviet i'ussia is preparing to use all its hundreds of of population to fight Nazi G^aany. A Peoples? Army of gigantic size is being mobilizecf."pf^Sfc*^^bilization ta* ^ oSLvi iiigiiiTTi >nig» A§ a aattog=rf fact, 4 already X pai the regular Red army has not yet been mustered up to complete war strengtl^ This new Peoples’ Army will form an almost unlimited source of reserves to reinforce the regular army. The entire available ----- —- VWJi-vV man-power of the Soviet republics, from seventeen to fifty-five, X mim=±s-to be enrolled. TlMfti^oinen will be drafted for labor regiments. Some of the Soviets have already been mobilizing both women and men from the ages of sixteen up, for work in the fields. Even office workers have been called upon to help bring in the harvest. There «re other indications that the Soviet Government is preparing its people for further disastrous defeats at the hands of the Nazis, A Soviet spokesman today said that Moscow was fully prepared to cope with German air raids. The main shelters will be the subway system which is dug particularly deep in the old i^scovite capital. What’s more, Moscow has benefited from the p - k OPLEE' army - 2 experiences of London and has trained special brigades and volunteer fire wardens. The same spokesman partially corroborated statements I l{ a 1 a made by the Rome radio last week. Rome announces that Moscow was J being evacuated. The Soviet- did ackBowl««g»cMm that children HMre being taken away. The Nazi high command has published a claim that its advances into Russia were accomplished with small side. The Soviet high command declares, on the contrary^in the first tweiv Ive days if the Russo-German War, the hazis lost seven hundred thousand men *v r ^ I i BRITISH ^AIDS Meanwhile,I the Royal Air Force has been blasting away over Germany and occupied France. XFrom early in the morning until late this afternoon, grefiC^quadrons of British bombers roared across the Channel, and/left storms of explosives and fire bombs over the industrx&l sector of the Ruhr. One German town they left a mass of/flames, and started at least fifty fires. Elsewhere, a ^ge factory was ablaze. In France they set fire to a huge aarcraft plant and dropped more itwwtw M Brest. In spite of the war in Russia, the Germans had enough bombers left at home to make raids on airfields and factory /, towns in the Midlands of Britain^ gliuy-ffl ai'i ports on the south M^wS^southeast coast. K ^ - The Nazis also claim that their bombers made a strong attack on the Suez Canal and the British naval base at Alexandria. armor-piercing borfbs on Hitler’s battleships at the French port of [j II ‘ 0 ^ PAi.£RMO The Royal Air Force also pulled off quite a spectacular raid U the Mediterranean. From a base on the north coast of Africa^ nine hundred miles away, heavy British bombers winged their way nine hundred miles over t.he waters, to. the picturesque old city of Palermo. «^C3ne of tne most ancient and interesting citi.es in Europe, built by the Phoenicians two thousand, five hundred years ago. It was occupied at various times bjr^^mer^different conquerors and races.Romans, Goths, Bvzantines, Saracens, Normans, Germans, French and Spaniards have all had their turn at ruling Palermo, all left their | marks behind. The British bombers left theli^narite^b^hlTid at Palermo- ^ A J but principally in the harbor. 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I* xsei xx xsjre xrt? ml. es xcalrei »-i^ slfZ': tioi-siii rlTf-.s ^zlli t Tiicfr. ict tnf f.:. IlLi.:-3F ::a£ zcZj £ am Tvi bxxlrex rlT'exs lx xer • <»xl:x xexxi iun lx rxr rere xx -rxrx rxx xev sHis, xxx nx l£-:xlc :1 'Xtr ixlsxTir. B V LEAVENWORTH A sit-down strike in a prison! That would seem to rate as the most curious labor dispute since the defense program began. Dncle Sam^s guests at Leavenworth, Kansas, were turning out shoes for the A^my, two thousand pairs of shoes a day, working thirty-nine hours a week. On July First, the Bureau of Prisons clapped an extra five hours of work a week on the federal convicts. The prisoners refused. They didn’t make any disturbance, they didn’t walk out because they couldn’t walk out through stone walls and steel bars. They Just sat down at their lathes in the penitentiary factory and literally refused to do a stitch. When the prison officials investigated, they learned that the men want double pay A for all work over thirty-eight hours a week, and an increase in the nominal pay, which tl^’re supposed to get for making those Army shoes- don't get tt until they're released; and even then it’s exceedingly small. They also want more time off their sentences for good behavior than they’ve been getting So for the time being the prison factory at Leavenworth, Kansas, is making no shoes* il i ' . 1 I MILK STRIKE Th^ milk strike in New York and surrounding states got into homicide court today. A truckful of milk was rua through a picket line of striking farmers in Vermont. On the truck was a deputy sheriff. There was a scuffle and the deputy was pulled off the truck, »t=aay'-^FatftThat* s what the authorities " 7 ^ charged. Be fell under the rear wheels and was killed. Today A four men were brought into the municipal court at Middlebury, Vermont, charged with manslaughter. They pleaded not guilty. In Mew York State, the striking dairy farmers continued to have the support of Farmer Owen D. Young, former advisor of former Chairman of the presidents, fiiii.ui il-liiMmrpoEgtiaii: Board of Ggneral Eleo^icTauthor of the Young Plan. He issued a statement today saying that the dairy farmers needed not only a quick increase in prices but one that could be enforced. Farmer Young has been striking for all he's worth. Be owis three farms. and not a quart of milk has gone to market from any one of them in seven days. JACKSON Robert H. Jackson is now a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. But with no thanks to Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland who did his utmost to prevent it. ^nator Tydings, till the end, urged the Judiciary Committee not to confirm Attorney General Jackson* s nomination to the Supreme Bench. But the Committee 1 i: t recommended it notwithstanding, recommended it unanimously. Democrats j and Republicans alike. This afternoon Jackson's name came up on the floor of the Senate. The only speech about'it was made by the Maryland Senator, who set out in detail all about his feud with Jackson, his reasons for maintaining that the Attorney General was unfit to sit on the Supreme Court. Senater-Ty4ings went so-fay-e^— S^ator^y^ught be try^H^Jackso^^n impe*^^ent ^h^r^s instep of cbnfirmldg his noWLnation. ^However ,\when the fatter cdme to a vVte in the Senate, there was only, one voice\heard saying *»No,*» the , \ \ \ \ \ \ * (nktor from Wry land! In fact tnere werd^ only twenty voice of the Sei \ s\)hai Senators on the floor of the.Senate Chamber when\the vote was tak V. \ N \ ji PERUVIAM WAR Washington is quite concerned about that undeclared war in our own hemisphere, the fighting between Peru and Ec'a^or. Sumner Welles, tim Acting Secretary of State, told a press conference this afternoon that everybody in the Americas looks rixnpuv with profound regret. One correspondent asked Welles whether there /A might not be sane outside influence behind that undeclared war, J tU meaning of course Nazi influence J To thafTeU^ gave an indirect / /A I answer, quoting an ancient Spanish proverb which runs that,lxm very often in muddy waters, fishing is good. Considering the critical state of the international situation, that quarrel between Peru and Ecuador is particularly twit- has been ^2^regrettable, said^Welles. It'^an old, old^i going on for more than a hundred years, one of those difficult South American boundary disputes. In the last few months, the governments of three countries, Argentina, Brazil and the United States, har/e been trying to mediate*’W igt ' i enQac, ^‘VV' _ __ Ecuador accepted the offers ■ Per’^wcc^ptfi^ with reservations. As ^or the outbreak of hostilities, the Peruvian press PEaUViAiN WAR . 2 and government blame them on what the7 call ”an unspeakable premeditated act of aggression by Ecuador," The Ecuadoran government and newspapers bring the countercharge that Peruvian troops attacked frontier towns belonging to Ecuador, But the Ecuadorans add that the Peruvian forces haven't Meanwht3.«7>-the-4 healepheea aooparati 3 I: J