t > - * ! » HITLER <±1^ j 4 J a /0j/^*i'O. 1 V<hit Hitler had to say today expanded the Nazi notion of the war as a revolution. With many words and much excited rhetoric he told the huge assemblage oi workers in Berlin that It wras a struggle between the have-nots and the haves, between Nazi theories about the workers on one hand and British capitalism and gold on the other. And in this he bracketed the United States with Great Britain. Nazi spokesmen have been about attacking this Western republic of ours, and today the Nazi dictator went no further than to identify; us with the British Empire — as powers who own so much of the world and who represent capitalism and gold. Of course, we also have freedom, civil rights, humane and liberal Ideas and no lust for war and conquest — but Hitler did not mention that Eis oromises to the assemblage of German workers were not of the usual loud Hitler ootimisra. He did not pledge them a quick r Victory and prompt end of the war. He assured them that Nazi Germany would defeat.the world, xxd bat failed to lay emphasis on lightning strokes of success right away. Instead he put stress on the notion of waiting, said hefd pick the proper time for compelling ____ _ j____ a decision ^sometime and^maybe not so soon. It is significant that "1 HITLER - 2 tne Hazi Fueiirer appealed to Ills v/orker audience with the statement that when he launched a blow it w’ould not be just to achieve ice prestige, but would be timed to avoid^as much as possible^the sacrij^ of life and blood. From this it Is easy to assume, as London does, that XXXXEG^ Hit^r was really apologizing to his own people for not naving overthrown Great Britain, was giving them an & explanation to appeal to them the most. Saying he planned to win at a time when the fewest possible of their lives could be sacrificed. Hitler may have been cfetBWj with his promises today, but Goebbels wasn’t. That little limpy Minister of Propaganda told of dire things that are about to happenhe stated that the war would soon be over with what he called ’'a grer t lightning offensive against Britain.” The Hitler speech brings one repercussion from London. It is stated that Churchill will make a reply.In Parliamentary circles the word is that the Prime Minister will counter the Nazi propaganda with a declaration of British war aims. There’s growing demand in Great Britain that the London government shall tell what its war objectives are, what kind of peace it plans to make HITLER - 3 eventually. The word is that Churchill will make such a declaration, and harmonize it with American ideas. Make it a sort of joint expression of what both Great Britain and the United States think should be the proper kind of peace. EGiPT ' There are reports tnat the British in Egypt have cut the lines of communication of the Italians at Sidi Barrani. That's the most I advanced point which the Fascists reached when they made a seventy- five railen push into Egypt several months ago. Since then their drive has been stalled. The actual eScope of the new British attack is shrouded in military secrecy, secrecy made rather perplexing by Brime Minister Churchill today. He told the House of Commons of a swift drive tnrough the Western Desert of Egypt. He said that mechanized British forces had advanced seventy-five miles — "at a bound", as he called it. He said that this drive had fcseesi behind the Italian force at Sidi Barrani and reached, the sea. ^He s^pecified the place at which the British had reached the — a piace called Bugfrug which is about half way between Sidi Barrani and the frontier of the Italian province of Libya.^) This seemed ilindoubtedly to mean that the British had cut around the Italians at Sidi Barrani and had isolated them _ severed their communications with their bases in L i by a • Churchill was asked about this* an out declined to ',ive a reply. He refused to state that the Italians had been cut off by yr the drive which he announced. If they're not cut off, the drive must be more in the nature of afraid EGMPT — 4C Churchill was cautious in describing this new offensive in the Western Desert of Egypt. He warned that it was too early to forecast the scope of th^fettack or the result that may be obtained. He described it as — "a preliminary phase.TT He used these words: "But we can at any rate say that the preliminary phase has been successful." From British headquarters in Cairo too, the same note of caution is observable — secrecy about how ambitious an attempt the new operation may be. We1re given to surmise that it may be a sort of "feeler". Fefcl out Italian strength and see whether it has been affected by the reverses in Greece. All this is tentative, but Cairo goes on to state that four thousand prisoners were taken and an Italian General killed — in tnatnew flare of fightfing in the Western Desert. V.T^DSORS The Du^e arid Duchess of Windsor are goii%, to stay in this country a kittle longer than had been anticipated. They arrived at Miami Beach today, and promptly too* up residence at taw hospital. Her Highness returns to her native land after twelve years, only to pass immediately into the hands of the dentist. A few hours after she arrived today, the Duchess underwent an operation for an abscessed wisdom tooth. After this had been accomplished, the doctors announced that the operation had been a success, but the condition of the wisdom tooth had been rather worse than had been \ for a day or so. This motion was seconded by the Duke, who gave additional reasons. Here’s the official statement:- nHis Royal Highness and the Duchess,’’ it says, nare so thoroughly comfortable and so completely charmed by the pleasant surroundings - that they have decided to remain at the hospital until at least Friday.” So it’s a pleasant stay for the famous couple - although dentist does nit A make a stay so exquisitely agreeable A COLLr.CE FOOTBAi^ Vhen the news broke today that Stanford was going to pay money to its football team, tne question immediately arose - what would Nebraska do? Stanford and Nebraska are to battle in the Rose Bowl Game. ItTs quite an innovation - giving college football players cash for their pigskin efforts in a big game. Of course, the Stanford announcement specifies that the gridiron heroes are merely to be - reimbursed. They’re to be given money they might make during the holidays, if they didnft go to the^gw^ game. It»s common eough for undergraduates, especially football stars, to eke out their incomes by getting jobs of one sort or another during the Christmas-New Year vacation period. This is true of Stanford players - so Rose Bowl football activities might mean a financial sacrifice. We are told that backs and linesmen will be reimbursed up to the amount of fifty dollars each - the sums to be determined by the job the player might have got and the sum he might have earned. ^Lt's got to be a real job and real money, not merely surmise or anticipation, uo, ^reimbursement^ is the word. But still, open and undisguised payment for the COLLEGE FOOTBALL -2 paying oi college football is an almost startling innovation, So, what would Nebraska do? The answer is — pay. This was indicated in a statement made today by Major Biff Jones, the Nebraska coach, be safts what goes for Stanford will also go for his team, although Nebraska has not yet been formally advised of the action taken by the Pacific Coast conference. Here’s the Biff Jones declaration:- "We will do what Stanford does in the matter,." says he, "but we will make no 1 comment until we are notified by the Pacific Athletic Commissioner." ~ - i ■ • PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL In trie world of professional football, the gods of chance played peculiar tricks today — rather sardonic. At Washington, the Professional Football League held a series of drawings to decide what earns would get what college football stars that are to graduate this year. The general idea of the draft-drawing was to strengthen the weaker teams in the professional league, fcive them the break in getting the star collegians. So mark the irony of what happened today. Three ace high stars of the college world go to the Chicago Bears, and one of the three is Tommy Harmon, the ace of aces in college football this year. The Bears are the professional champions, who rose to heights of football power by crushing the Washington PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL In the world of professional football, the gods of chance pjayed peculiar tricks today — rather sardonic. At Washington, the Professional Football League held a series of drawings to decide what earns would get what college football stars that are to graduate this year. The general idea of the draft-drawing was to strengthen the weaker teams in the professional league, give them the break in getting the star collegians. So mark the irony of what happened today. Three ace high stars of the college world go to ^he Chicago Bears, and one of the three is Tommy Harmon, the ace of aces in college football this year. The Bears are the professional champions, who rose to heights of football power by crushing the Washington PrOFkSSI^AL FOOTBALL - 2 Indians in a game that was a monstrocity, ^victory of seventy-three to notning, A goes bacK to a deal the Bears made during th4 past season with the Philadelphia Eagles. There was an exchange of players, and the Eagles agreed to give to the Bears the Number One player that th^r might draw in the draft. Wnen the draft drawing was held today, what team was it that won the first pick? The first pick being The Philadelphia Eagles wron the draw, and according to their agreement had to turn over their selection to the all-powerful -to itu . Bears. /*- fc Second choice - the way they run the drawing, was a tie. The player second was that otner football celebrity — John Kimbro of Texas A. & M. Tne tie was between the Pittsburgh O Steelers and the Cardinals. Another freak of chance - because the Pittsburgh Steelers^had an agreement to turn over their choice to the Chicago Bears. The tie was settled with the^t^os of a had coin and if the Pittsburgh outfit^uuaa^ won, the Bears would have klAcT<\ r imbro also. However, Lady luck relented this time and the * PROFESSIONAL FOOT i ^ a LL _ 3 Cardinals won the toss and get Kimbro. The Pittsburgh Steelers had to take another pick and chose Worm Staniee, the star fullback of Stanford. So, according to agreement, it was Staniee whom Pittsburgh turned over to the Bears. On their own drawing, that stupendous Chicago outfit got John Scott of Ohio State, and kjk & k & b he^s quite a star too. <. > TtCfi 1 I6?* today?s draft drawing ,Ainstead of favoring the weaker teams it was supposed to do, a fabulous break for the A champion t^sarttlTrbr^y considered far too strong. The Bears got r yV A Harmon, Standee and Scott, and they almost got Kimbro. The drawing gave them some other valuable players, and it rather looks as if they hadcornered the market in college football talent. Tne otner A club owners are described as being hot under the collar because of the result - and there's talk of new rules to stop the bullish habits of the Bears However, it may all turn out to be a bit academic, oecause both Harmon and Kimbro have announced that they will not play professional football. ' tosisW the past that same sort of thxngx*** statement has been made by college stars who are now in the professional ranks BASEBALL Tnere was irony In the world of baseball today. The major leagues at Chicago voted to retain the rule tnat forbids championship club* to get players from other teams by means of trades - and Detroit supported Detroit being tne A- championship team. 1? The mocKery lies in the fact that tne rule was adopted a year or so ago to check the overweening strength of the fcew York Yankees, who were running away with pennants year after year, and were blamed for being too powerful. One of the teams that was most enthusiastic for the rule to curb the Yamts was the Detroit Tigers. But last season the Yankees went all to pieces, and the Tigers won the pennant. Nobody suspects^liSs^ttw^^cr^-cs® ail-powerful that they have to be checked - prevented by acquiring players from other teams by means ofjtrades. So why retain the rule? Today it was the New York Yanks who voted to abolish the let regulation - but the Tigers supported it, although^t against them. Tne Detroit attitude was that they had previously been so much in favor of the curb, it would be inconsistent for them to be against it now - it would look rather foolish. So the Tigers voted against themselves, most of the other teams did the same,j and the rule was retained. ACCIDENTS In Chicago, v*e have the case of a aan who was bitten on the forehead by his own false teeth. It sounds like quite a prodigy - how could you reach up with your teeth and bite yourself on your intellectual brow? Well, it was like this. Joseph Callahan ± r ±± dropped off to sleep sitting in a chair. While he was snoozing, his false teeth slipped out of his mouth and fell to the floor. A little later, fileept^ig Joe slid off the chair, and fell. His forehead came banging down lust where the false teeth were. And they bit him - hard enough to give him a handsome set of tooth marks on his brow. If you don't believe that one. I'll tell you another. At Rochester, New York, a man was standing on a street corner. He was properly dressed, even stylish, but flash - in a swift instance he was without his trousersl ^11 because of a last moving automobile which passed mighty close to him - so close that the door handle of the car hooked into one of his pockets and took the pants right off#. So there he stood the most A /v embarrassed man in the world. In case you tnink I'm making these up as I go along. ^CCIDiLfvTS - 2 I will quote ray authority for the remarkable accidents. Itfs the National Safety Council which today issues a report of freak mishaps of Nineteen Forty. For example, at Pueblo, Colorado, ^ Martin toon a ride on a locomotive cow catcher - right in his own office. nefs a steel company executive, and his office was on the first floor of a building near the railroad tracks. He was sitting at his desk, when a locomotive, which had run off the tracks, came plunging through the wall. The cow catcher picked up the steel executive and rode him through two partitions. He was quite uninjured - save for excessive surprise. And if you donft believe that one - how about Eugene Ramsey of Burgaw, North Carolina. Mr. Ramsey is a carpenter with an inventive turn of mind. His home was bothered by mice, and so he set out to invent a new fangled mouse trap. It had a powerful spring, guaranteed to put the quietus on any mouse. He was working on the contraption, and just had it completed, when it snapped accidentally and caught his finger. He let out a howl of pain, and whipped the thing violently to get it loose. He shook the mouse-trap off, and With such energy that it went flying under the ACCIDENTS - 3 Kjt chen stove. Tnere it hit and killed a mouse! The first success of the Ramsey mouse-trap! Well, maybe you don’t believe that one either. So let’s have something you will believe - Hugh James on the subject of Nu-Blue Sunoco.