L.T, SUNQCO>. IHURSDAy. Jm.Y 1 OOOD EVENING EVERYBODY; Secretary of War Stimson today made a bitter attack on Senator Wheeler of Montana. The secretary used the term - Subversive activities, ^e even spoke the word - "treason" The reason for this was - postal cards mailed to soldiers Yesterday, Chief of Staff General Marshall denounced organized attempts to persuade selective service men to protest against being kept in the army for more than a year. The General called that - sabotage. Today it's a case of urging the soldiers to write the President and say they're against the ‘^nlted States going into the Euroepean War. That advice from Senator Wheelr - by postal card. Circularizing soldiers in such fashion tends to impair discipline in the army, declared Secretary of war Stimson today. And he used these drastic words:- "Without expressing legal that I think it comes very near the opinions, I will simply say line of subversive activities against the United States - if not ■ '--f I'l? ^EAD “ 2 treason. That drew a quick response from Senator Wheeler, He explains that KjQ the postal cards heniailed were not sent to army men - knowingly. He says the mailing list was meant to be general and was made up of people who had written to him and of names submitted to him by Emil Hurjz, former secretary of the Democratic National Committee. Concerning the Stiroson denunciation, the Montan Senator spoke scathingly;- "It*s another evidence of how they are tiying to smear anybody who dares to oppose the administration policy of taking us through the back door into war,*^ s aid he. > <i . < i^i liTT.TTnRy SbitVlCL Congress zoa-a.y received an administration bill to keep the men in service for more than the authorized term of one year. The j measure was sent to Capitol Hill by Secretary of War Stimson. It proposes that ^ongress shall declare a state of emergency. The bill. as drafted, reads this way : "Resolved, that the national interest and welfare of the United States are gravely imperiled by the Inter­ national situation — and that a national emergency therefore exists. Ihis resolution, if adopted, would automatically permit the president to keep Lhe selective service men and national guardsmen in the Army for the duration of the emergenty - and six months thereafter. ^he bill, as sent b, the decretary of War, does not contain any provision that would permit the use of the citizen soldiers outside c€ the possessions Western Hemisphere orof the United dtates. It xxn ^ A does not lift the ban on sending another A.E.F. to fight abooad. Previously, General Marshall, in a letter to the iS/iilitary affairs ^o,.miittee of the denate, had opposed a compicLmist^d suggestion ®ade by denator Taft of Ohio, a proposal to permit selective service ifleri to leave the army at the army at the end of sixteen months training. The general expressed the need of the armj' in these J words:- "Trained tooops ready for service in any emergency." To cuJl this he added, "and we are unable to determine when sd where such an emergancy may arise." H II ‘I Congress is called upon to give eight billion dollars more. supjlemental defense appropriations bij.lj^ naming that figure, was presented to the house of Representatives today. The eight billion dollars is to provide funds for constructing five hundred and forty-one new merchant ships, and part of the m..ney is marked for the army - to provide equipment for an arm^' of three million men. 'i ’ll If 111 ^!1il In Wash! igton a labor pact was announced today - whereby 1 the building trades unions of the A.F. of L. agree that they won’t have any strides involving defense projects during the emergency period. Labor disputes and grievances will be settled by conciliation and arbitration - no worn stoppages. This agreement, announced by the office of production management, affects eighty thousand workers in the building trades. And its terms may be extended to a million more. It*s announced that the automobile industry will not have to cut nineteen forty<^wo production to the extent of fifty per cent. A The office of production joanagement in i^ashington has informed the auto manufacturers to that effect. The industry agreed previously to a twenty per cent reduction, and that stanas. Price administrator Leon Henderson tnought twenty per cent ViQuldn*t be enough - considering the amount of raw material that the defense industries need. He called for a fifty per cent cut in the manufacture of automobiles. That's out*- *"fhe original reduction of twenty per cent stands. At Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, another important step has been taken in the conservation of fuel. Governor James has signed an act of the Pennsylvania Legislature, which makes the keystone state a member of the interstate compact to conserve oil and gas. Q This is announced as the most important and effective measure ever yet set up for the conservation of a natural resource. All of the oil producing states have joined up. The adherence of Pennsylvania is important in two ways. For one thing, it makes Hew York also a member. Since the New York AssemJ)ly passed an act that the empire state would join provided Pennsylvania did it also. It was in the Appalachian field of Pennsylvania and New York that the oil industry was really born, and as a matter of fact more new wells were drilled last year in that old Appalachian field than in any other field in the country. And most of those new wells were producers. Tiiey-wijati dt-tr3.d—tewiay.-)- .TtPAH - ♦ % A (TA. statement to President Roosevelt. A ^ At his press conference todey, hM discussed the fact that the A United States has been exporting oil supplies to Japan — a thing that has been much talked about. The President said that shioment of oil to Japan was dictated by the American policy of trying to keep the European War from spreading to the Pacific. The Japanese war machine had to have lubricating oil. and , if unable to get it here, would have tried to procure it somewhere else — the Dutch East Indies. The President noted that an oil embargo Imposed by the United States would have caused the Japanese to move into those Dutch colonies a year ago - "and you’d have had war,” said the President. tie summarized iumriKWid American Far Eastern policies in these words: which are quoted in the press dispatch:- ”lt was very essential," said he, "from our own selfish point of view Pacific". lit for defense, to prevent a war from stating starting in the South h ^ constructing* Newspapermen out there aa were permitted to y\_(2/<V<3 southeastern Asla*,-the araed forces of Japan are landing at strategic naval bases in French Indo-Chlna. / i That nay be stated as a probability - almost a certainty the smsX indication^tiat TO.gJ# through the veil of censorship ^^hlch conceals the French colonies of the Far East. The Indo-China censor permits us to know that today warships of the Mikado were steaming in force along the Indo-China coast. Particularly they were in Camaran Bay. That’s the ^ site of a great unfinished naval base the French have been ?et that information through, and also to say that Japanese forces were expected to land tonight. The Cfcmaran nav.nl base occupies a vitally Important location - about midway between Amerlcan-control ..ed Manl T 4 - In highly strR? strategic relation and British Singapore. It stands in n g y to the Dutch ^ast Indies, which are known to be an object of Japanese ambition. The Japanese naval push into Krench Indo-Chlna is by ,1 JAPAN - 2 agreement, pre-arrangement with the Vichy Ciovernment of France. The French take the attitude that they are sharing the protection of their Far Eastern colony with the island Empire. The sharing of defense angle was emphasized by Vichy today -- as if Japan were doing the French a favor, ^et a late story Irora the headquarters of the Government of fiarshal Petain uses an odd KX|m expression - saying that Japan took the initiative in negotiations for cooperation. INhich, in ordinary language probably means - pressure. ”Japan took the initiative", says a Vichy spokesman today, "because we accepted Japan's ex planation of the situation. First - that Japan has a predominant position to defend her order in the Far East. T I irfrirmpd US of the menace hanging And secondly - because Japan inforraea over Indo-Chlna." What menace? The implication of course is that the British and the Free French forces ar^ meditating some move . . .c in tne case of their taking over of against the colony — *^2 in xn iijan Japs^ collaborate in Syria. So France is permitting «;rtunds very much as If Hitler Indo-Chinese fas defense. That sound y i i JAM - had persuaded the Vichy government to make concessions to Hitler’s Far Eastern ally. 'Ahat have Great Britain and the Gnlted States to say about it? / a London political spokesman declared today that the Japanese move into Indo-China did not constitute a military threat bb to Britain’s grea^base at Singapore.y^nother Sa British spokesman, declared that Japan’s move was not justified^— “cannot be considered a defensive measure”, said he. In Washington, there’s a sharp protest. Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles declares that the United States Government will consider the new Japanese move la hm -n aggression. The belles statement is in ' a ^X part as follows:- ”There is not apparent to the government of the United States any valid ground upon which the Japanese government would be warranted in occupying Indo-China or establishing bases in that as measures of self-defense." Tne Acting Secretary re- revealed that ne handed a protest in these ter.s to the Japanese Ambassador yesterday. The war in hussla is still st>nant — so ficir as v/e are permitted to tcnov;. ihe Cieii.uan^igh co;n:iiand gives us tne usual briefl cOifliDunit.ue — aria it emphasizes hea army resistcnce. give the impression that their advance has be n yw slowed down because of the n -^cessity of eli.uinatii'^ j^ovley forces trapued behind the fighting front. Berlin talks in a curi/us tone of annoyance of the resistance that those surrounded ried Army units insist on maintai ing,. It seems unreasonable t/ the i'iazis, who suggest that ^ maybe the ooviet soldiers Don’t kno\y they are surrounded^— and should surrender. Moscow, tuo sp/aks of encircled hed army units - some of them far behind the oreaent line of battle. i tight in succession. Once ij((ore we have direct contradiction the Germans teliing of heavy d^^tge dome, the Soviets denying it. Moscow / / claims that only a smal^ percentage of the hazi bombing fleet was able j to break through the jiir defenses and get to Moscow. There they did / little damage, and h lot of them were shot dowm. I'he'British today co^iJCted what they call their greatest daylight air offensive against Nazi-controlled points, and say they The Red Capital was /aided again last night, for the third j { in bombed and damaged those two German warships so often bombed and ^—-—■ damaged - the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau\ ihe Germans report shooting dowfH a lot of R.A.F. planes. They say, for example, that fifty-four •Aere accounted for yesterday. The British admit R.a.F. losses, out the number they felve is on y e. fraction of the^taliy. It reminds one of tne great air battles over britaln last fall when the German and ■gritish figures were in fantastic contradiction Today's largest example of contradiction comes from the Italia n iiedirerianean area. Rome tells jubilantly of a gieat^^.xxx± victory’ of convoy, says ^ome and then the summoned naval units which continued the assault with triumphant result,-^ says home. The -_ascists claim they sanx two blg-^ritish merchant ships and a .estroyer and • rvirt '^n ei£ht thousand ton torpedoed a ten thousand ton cruisei u cruiser. The^ they bombeu stiJl another cruiser, a hxxxti bat leship and a aestroyer. v,rtro n qtorv of Medit erI'w.nean from the -British sice we a "tu2^ Gea batTle, buc tiiis a fascist ship sunk tte British. Three vessels of a co.voy were sent to the bottom - i sea and s^. Fasohist planes attacked a strong brltish ,| !i! 1-44 Let*s get away for a moment from all the wretched news of ^ *ar and conflicting nations. Let’s get away. In fact, from the whole huaan race. The v/orld of animals can provide us with something more inspiring. Here for example is a dog story. It happened in Hudson, Michigan - when lightning set fire to a farmer’s barn biarn In the kax were twenty-five cows, and farmer Frank Brown A /V thought of them instantly when he saw the outbreak of flame. However, trying to save the barn - he’d^ave to go for help quickly No time to drive the cattle out. It was a dilemina - but xiammer Brown solved it. He whistled for his coxlie dog Scotty, and, when Scotty came bounding to his side, he said 2’’Go in there and drive out those cows”. Ordering the dog into the blazing barn Then the farmer ran for help, but help failed him in the ] emergency - that is, human help. »»hen he returned he found the barn a smoking ruin. But there, in the adjoining pasture were the - and icotty the collie was keeptdg COWS, all twenty-five of them thgether. from the animal kingdom is equally However - not all the news f inspiring. From Grand Prairie, Texas, we have the story of Lucife^the billy goat. It should teach a jioral lesson. Lucifer died alone, friendless - and drunk He was a billy goat with a long beard and the rankest kind of smell - especially when he had liquor on his breath. He lived with a couple of laborers named Hurley and Chapman. Last night the two men set out for an evening of merriment, and they took Lucifer with them. They visitea all the saloons in the town of Grand Pralrie> and every time they had a drink, they gave one to Lucifer the billy 1^-2^ goat - a shot of straight bar whiskey. YouWe heard the expression. the "drunk as a billy goat.” That expresses it. -t^rouna midnight they were staggering dovm the street, two men and the goat, a policeman arrested them and put them in the local calaboose, goat and all. This morning, the two men were released on bail - but not the goat. Ihey were all right, save for a hangover, *But Lucifer was in the throes of acute alcoholism,- a goatish Kind of delirium tremens. Goats are known to have strong ^ Constitutions, but apparently a couple of Texans ai e even more rugged. There was no ho})e for Lucifer, and today he died a drunkard s ^sath. Which would seem to point a temperance moral -- for goate, if