AlO&2Si£L vi^w^. Ikt^LuA, & lv . i '£!<]3^ ®teo- Berlin lost no time after the news from South America, quickly put out a bulletin claiming a / spectacular^victory. / The Nazi high command declares that an-atr raid over Helgoland Bay by forty-four British bombing /I planes was defeated with heavy loss to the British. German anti-air craft guns and sea planes shot down at least thirty- four of the Great British bombers. Only ten of the raiding * Js- squadron survivedrto return to Britain. A As fast as this claim was announced, it was ridiculed by the British. TheLondon Air Ministry admits the loss of onlj seven British planes In that Helgoland raid and claims that twelve Nazis were shot down and that the bombers did severe damage to the German sea plane base The British also announce a victory which the Germans deny. The Admiralty declares tuat a British submarine penetrated into tie mamth of the fiiver hlbe, sunk a German cruiser, the LEIPZIG, aid fired two more torpedoes which are believed to have damaged another heavy Nazi cruiser, gfelratialB The Germans, for their part, say "No"* it didnH happen. nasi®.-- ■ SPEE Ijhe Argentine authorities are in^enning the erew of the scuttled Von Spee on the Isle of Martin Garcia in the Rio de la Plata./ The island is regularly used by the Argentine immigration authorities. [Captain Langsdorf and his officers will be taken care of by a special arrangement, Lansdorff himself went ashore himself on the Argentinian side of the river, and is quoted as having said with a sigh of relief, nI am satisfied^ I fve saved all my men.n However, four of his men are under arrest in Montevideo. The authorities of Uruguay seized them for blowing up cf their ship. ) One report from Montevideo explains that this is Uruguay^ reply to a Mazi complaint, a protest by the German Minister agAsinst compelling the Pocket Battleship to leave when she did. In Berlin there was even some talk of claiming damages from Uruguay, twenty million dollars damages for the loss of tne Graf Spo©* But that talk is not taken seriously. HITLER FOLLOW, SPEE Judging from one dispatch from Berlin, the loss of the SPEE v;as a bitter pill i or the ilazi leaders. It is reported that there ?vas a conference betvveenlphanee 11 or Hitler and the chiefs of his army and navy. The official announcement, which gave the German people the news that the GRAF SPEE was at the bottom of the sea, added the statement that the Uruguayan government didn't give the doomed battleship enough time to make the ship seaworthy. The official hazi papers denounced the British for gross violations of international law. 1 n GAMDIA^S We learn today that Canadian soldiers are on the other siae of the Atlantic. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, the announcement in the House of Commons A a y that the first division of the Canadian army had disembarked safely and smoothly in one of the British harbors MKTALS There's a row brewing irking land, keen indignation among certain business men, li is not without interest over here since it illustrates what some of our own business men might be up against in the ggyaXtag event of our being forced into the War. The aggrieved Britishers in this instance are people interested in the metals. When the War broke out, the Chamberlain Government obliged everybody with metal holdings to turn them over to the Government. Anybody holding copper, lead, zinc, anv kind of metal, had to hand them over to the Ministry of Supply at a price fixed by the Government. And now the Ministry of Supply has raised its maximum price limits for metals anywhere from twenty to forty per cent above what the Government paid for them. So today the jgjjEaxgfYlcWir members of the Metal Exchange in London are raising Cain, talking about an inquiry in Parliament, and all that sort of thing. FT It LAI* P Tonigrt fs news 1 rom the Jaaitic does ^nit hold out jauch Christmas cneer x or ttalin. It looks as tnough tlie Soviet big boss will not have Finland thrust into his stocking on Christmas £rc.-.o One dispatch from the scene ■ * j'n.mmmv l is even more astonishing than the oi-hers. ■, For it ^reports that the Finns have woi^ a crushing victory ~" r g- p y - - - i to r r t r r i r it j j L 9 jp i^i 5*32^ the Karelian Isthmus. The Red forces made two ferocious attacks in that region, trying to outflank the Finns around the easi^end of tne ^annerneim Line^ The Bolshevik invaders haveTj^c/^ theSJp- strongest concentration of man power theyTve mustered since their attack started. X But both thes^l attempts were / hurled back by the Finns. In fact,[ an American correspondent, an eye-witness, cables a definite report that the Reds have been kicked back across the Tipale River .j An eye-witness description of the battle compares it to the German attack on Yerdma in the last war. jwave after wave of Bolsheviks hurled Finnish lines, backed up by withering artillery fire. But j Reds were repulsed with heavy losses.^ xhe - xnris ai,fe now saying / ^wrrtiadEiyx jocularly that they will have to invade Russia whether FII i LAH) - 2 they like it or not, because they haven't got room in Finland no There the Reds were successful, drove the defending Finnish soldiers over into Norwegian territory, where they were interned. On the other hand, it is reported that numerous Russians were also interned by the Norwegians, Russians who had had their fwiigwx fill of fighting. By this action up in the far north, tne Reds have driven tne Finns out of the narrow corridor of land fronting on the Arctic Circle betweenSoviet territory and Norway. tne tip of the lake. The other victory is more important still It was one in that narrow te&istline of Finland, where ^he Reds bury all the de n Russians. From the far north, however, there’s a different story. However, at two other important points, the Finns were successful. Twenty miles northeast of ^ake Ladoga, they defeated a Soviet army that was trying to majte an encircling movement, around are trying to cut the country in two. Tne report from that front invaders surrounded. MATIQI^AL DBFKaGB The jobs laid on the shoulders of the Federal Bureau of Investigation are becoming more numerous. Ever since the War started there has been louder and louder talk about foreign espionage and sabotage by foreign agents in the United States, As a result of this fear, extraordinary measures are going and to be taken to protect munitions factories^ avoid such disasters as the Black Tom explosion and others. There are four hundred and thirty key plants in this country manufacturing things for Uncle Sam’s Army and Wavy. And the job of protecting them has been put up to the XB F.B.I, If ever the United States would be involved in the War, ‘rhthe number of plants to be protected would be more than twelve thousand, ilwfc*. of the F.B.I* report s that every day Q—rrcclucUTiwr'r* urmnStwn hundred^- 1 I nrm A a complaints of espionage, sabotage and other similar breaches of the law. r iteS'. GEORGIA The troops *ere out in Atlanta, Georgia, today, National Guardsmen on patrol,.Martial law was declared over one of the buiidink s of the State Government. Till j “tT1"1---- *• 1- i^^onnh ^ n th(- fium frt^rmtriT—It rtn mo I T*n»rwn t.rll-iinn- ^Knn*- giniiar inctanec pcvgriLl years ago^-a■■■ rgnr betuveeir the Go^ornar of th» jtats and one of i’.ig1 sttbordinate offi'e-iejla% (3j2iZ , ¥frrs"-tww 3^t±X an argument betweenpovernor Rivers and y5 i w. L. Miller, Chairman of the Highway Board. The Georgia Governor fired the Chairman of the Highway Board. Chairman Miller refused to be fired, said the Governor hadnTt the right to do it. §*£££ss3a==s££±i^s, even went to a judge of th^Superior Court and obtained an injunction restraining other officials from interfering with nis duties. Nevertheless, the Governor today called ou National Guard, stationed soldiers under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel tnroughout the Highway Building, uhaiiman Miller showed the Lieutenant-Colonel a copy of the ’ j , IT. asked him whether he proposed to deiV a cojrt , tfe civil -Law Lieutenant-Colonel re oiled that martial law super se GEORGIA - 2 and as a Lieutenant-Colonel he had to ocev i-ho r ^ ocey the Governor and not the caurt. And that's where the quarrel stood at last reports the National Guard on duty to see to it that an official 0f the state do^not do any work. I am told tnere are some states in which it doesn't require the National Guard to prevent state officials from doing any work! OKLAHOMA flood-control navigation and power project on the Red River near Lenison, Texas, This project, instead of arousing cheers, provoked loud laments from the folks of Oklahoma, The State wants to bring suit against the Secretary of War to prevent the starting of that flood control power project. The issue came up today before the Supreme Court of the United States. The Supreme Court is »•*; Hi- merely going to consider how the suit should be brought. Uncle Sam’s attorneys are claiming that Oklahoma should not sue the Secretary of War but^Wfl* ^Government itself. And of course the Government cannot be sued without its own consent. to know why jftkxkx. Oklahoma is making all this fuss. Governo would put under water a hundred thousand acres of rich land in Nevertheless , the case has got along far enough for us Phillips declares that the dam, which Uncle Cani would OKLAHOMA r Mo s t-stcrt e s g ions . ckleg^te- deal federal govei^nment start.s'' bullding a dam a^ywher^near them/The St^tp^of Oklsdioma I 7 ^ I mb exception as to be real The Hew Deal had planned a flood-control navigation and power project on the Red River near Denison, Texas. This project, instead of arousing cheers, provoked loud laments from the folks of Oklahoma. The State wants to bring suit against the Secretary of War to prevent the starting of that flood control power project. The issue came up today before the Supreme Court of the United States. The Supreme Court is >- m iiiui. i'yur-,1- if merely going to consider how the suit should be brought. Uncle Samis attorneys are claiming that Oklahoma should not sue the Secretary of War but^«» 'fC+K Government itself. And of course the Government cannot be sued A without its own consent. nevertheless, the case has got along far enough for us to know why feixitx Oklahoma is making all this fuss. Governor Phillips declares that the dam, which Uncle Sam would have to build. would put under water a hundred thousand acres oa rich land in WfflM __________ __ _______ OKLAHOMA2 Oklahoma, land on which possibly there are large reserves of oil. It would flood highways, bridges and rights of way. It would make many people homeless and the State would have the problem of moving and taking care of the homeless.- — BROUN Heywood Broun was unusual among newspaper—men — and they are a breed of the unusual. He did a lot of things which made news; his death today is first-page news. And — he ran for Congress on the Socialist ticket in a silk-stocking New York district, knowing perfectly well that he hadnTt a prayer. Then there was the matter of his painting. He hadnft even a vestige of training in the use of pallette and brush. Nevertheless, he painted, offered his canvases for sale, and people bought them. In similar fashion he started his "Give a Job Until June" campaign. At first it seemed a startling, eccentric thing for a columnist to attempt. But it provided employment for several hundred people for at least a few months. He was a huge fellow — always carelessly though expensively dressed. Twwgyt Twenty-four hours after he got a new suit it would look as though he had taken it from one of the wagons of the Salvation Army. That gave rise to the phrase that Heywood looks like an un-made bed. I've always suspected that he isadc invented the phrase himself. He told me once that BROUN - 2 he had adopted an idea from one of Bernard Shawfs plays, I believe it comes in "FannyTs First Play," wherein one of the characters says: "If you have a weakness, make a merit of it and it will make you famous." That isnH the exact quotation, but words to that effect. He always capitalized stories at his own expense. He always wrote freely about his losses at the racetrack and at poker. But as a matter of fact he was an exceedingly good, hard-pressing poker player. I knew him best as he played ball with us, on the Nine Old Men. How badly he played and how he loved it I Whatever he did he was always in there pitching. HORSES We *ve heard of various kinds of collectors — fanciers of paintings, postage stamps, old American kitchen chairs,and what-not. But hereTs something I'd never heard of before - the collector of merry-go-round horses. This comes to attention because of an art show that has Just km opened in Hew York, an exhibition called - i' /'v-e-'-vA-e— ij\ ^- t ~ i ^ ri ti ^ r-^ nThe Horse in Art^^ It's for the benefit of the French Civilian ^ Relief, and displays uup > wid Y1 n',n*' Chinese sculptures of warlike steeds, saddles in which rode warriors of medieval Persia, paintings of horses, all sorts of horsey art, nearly everything except the Wooden StsUMi Horse of Troy. But the wooden horses of Coney island are there - the pride of the show. Art Expert Carl Freund, who runs the exhibit, told me with Jubilation how the great discovery was made. Somebody rummaging in a musty warehouse at Coney Island discovered half a dozen old merry-go-round horses, dating back to half a century ago. "Masterpieces," cried Carl Freund. "Magnificent wood carving, nsJ 10. imw They are collectors' items," he informed me solemnly, and added; you xnow there HORSES - 2 are in this country several famous collections of merry-go-round horses .n "Really!” I exclaimed. "It’s quite a &obby horse.” 'ij- vJ-~ VENEZUELA: I have ^ust heard an extraordinary story. It was (Pack-a-neens) told to me by Dr. Tomas Pacanins / Consul General from A the Republic of Venezuela. You may recall that terrible fire which occurred on the North coast of South America a few weeks^ago when a whole town went up in flames, a town built on stilts out over the waters of Lake Maracaibo. The name of the towii was Lagunillas, an oil town with a population of between four thousand and five thousand people. Dr. Pacanins tells me that Lagunillas had been a problem for many years. The buildings all extremely fragil, bad sanitation, and about everything else you could think of. VS/hen Dr. Pacanins was Minister of Public Works, his government ordered him to build a brand new, modern town, on the mainland, near Lagunillas, move the population there, and destroy the rickety town on stilts. So the new town was built, a regular town of tomorrow; first a KKHtai circle on which were the schools, churches and public buildings. Then a larger circle outside that for all the stores and other places of business, j Then a still larger circle outside that for homes, all of modern brick construction, paved streets, uptodate sanitation, and lighting.] VENEZUELA - 2 But, low and behold, "the people from Lagunillas refused to move to the marvelous new town of Ciudad oifeda, although everything was to be given to them free. For over a year the new town stood empty. The oil workers, the floating population from all over the world, preferred to stay in their squalor, ---<rvCtr^'-fcioe^nJ<r . in the rickety town on stilts^ Then came the fire a few weeks ago, the flames that wiped it all out. And now the population is^ moving to the town of tomorrow, Ciudad O^jeda, taait built by Pacanins, this Dts± distinguoshed Venezuelan‘engineer. Dr. gagkajaira A trained at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, sad-frjrs^.ol^Ragu 4 ^vsr-v^ vwwi -b&jt (MYI jv J YW-TJ-W y 2