; s RAIDS j ^(tAyvxJ J Today, tne British staged their biggest air raid in daylight. Once again the figure was - a thousand planes. This mighty air armada swept across the Chan/iel in the bright light of day. i» It attacked the Nazi held coast of northern France. Last night, the R.A.F. bombed Bremen again, today the Nazis on the coast of France were assailed. And sn tonight fleets of warplanes may be flying against Germany once more. This huge and sustained air activity, which began with the bombing of Cologne, has reached such proportions that London is calling it - ”a second front offensive” &L The British Commandos have struct another daring blow - raiding the French coast Just across Dover Stxatg Strait - near Bologne. That shore must be defended in the strongest possible way, but tne Commandos landed for what appears to have been a scouting raid mostly. They procured, what London calls - ”valuable information”. f HEYDEICH - ____ -^•he death o^* Heydrich the hangman brings a new wave J of Nazi I kzb terror upon unhappy Czechoslovakli». /The Number Two leader of Hitler’s ^estapo fijM^Wy succumbed today to Injuries i nflicted by a boflU>..-axi^osion In Prague, capital city of the Gestapo Czechs, Nazi killers are avenging their bi^TRStapa man. More than two hundred Czechs have already been shot, and it Is believed that a host of other victims will perish in reprisal for the mortal attack on cieydrich, the Hangman. Today, Berlin gave an official version of the assassination, told how it happened. The Nazis repeated a familiar echo, accusing the British. When all the elements of their version are put together, it suggests a melodrama hardly to be equalled by the most iiucisB lurid masterpiece of the anti-Nazi school of thriller. neydrich the Hangman was riding in a big official automobile. He sat in the front seat beside the chduffeur. The rear seat w’as empty. The car-was speeding along a street in pra Prague, and ahead was a sharp curve, where it would naturally slow down. There two men were lurking. They must a 1^X91? fclEYDBICH - fL iiave been aware of neydrlch’s movements, must have known that his car would come along that way. The whole thing must have been carefully planned. As the automobile slowed down at the hairpin bend. one of the two men dashed forward, and Jumped on the running board. Beneath his coat he nad what the Berlin dispatch calls - machine pistol", fsikx This he rafsed, and aimed at Heydrich the Hangman. He pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. The machine pistol failed to fire. Whereupon the assailant Jumped from the running board, and darted off - tossing away his useless weapon. But, meanwhile, his companion was acting - was tossing a bomb into the back of the car. The explosion demolished the rear section of the automobile. One fragment of the bomb ripped through the front seat - and into hs the back of Heydrich the Hangman. The bomb thrower, in his getaway. dropped a bag in which the police found another missile — a reserve bomb. ri The Nazis claim that the machine pistol throw^i away by |j HEYDRICH - 3 the first assailant was of British manufacture, and say it Is a kind of weapon that they have seen before. ”The same machine pistols,” says the Berlin u announcement, "were found In possession of some jDassk parachute agents who have been dropped by British planes.” .There’s melodrama - A ^ paxaKhl parachutists dropping into Czechoslovakia, men from the sky who had something to do with the killing of the hangman of the Gestapo. Perhaps the two axxi assailants were avengers^ttolCt came by parachute As for the bombs, the one that exploded and the one tossed aside - the Nazis claim that these also were of British make. And the following theatrical touch is given concerning the bombs:- ^^hey both,” says Berlin ”have the same fusing as those used by the British military against German tanks in Africa” Sothere yM have an echo of the battle In the desert sounding in A. \ the mystery of the Death of the Hangman. The Nasi es version might seem to suggest that the British provided the parachute avengers with the same type of explosive missile as the Imperial forces are hurling against German tanks in Libya. V? 0 HEYDRICH - 4 The two assailants have vanished In blank mystery and the enraged Gestapo appears to be unable to find the slightest trace of them, /^he^^Nazls^lav^^^fered a reward of I ! Four Hundred and Eighty Thousand Dollars for Information that may lead to the arrest of the two fugitives. But, In spite of the enormous temptation of zam so much money, the Gestapo has not even been able to obtain a go*d description of the two men who put an end to deycfrlch, the hangman, LIBYA From Libya the news is pretty much the same. Rommel*s Panzer forces are still battling desperately In the salient they have created by penetrating British defense lines. [The A empire forces smashed them back today at one point in that pocket. And u other British armored units, sweeping around through the desert, seized a strong point, thereby threatening the German supply line. % h CHINA In China, the centers of action today were two towns in the same area of eastern China - Chuchslen and Klnnwa. The Japs are at the gates of Chuhsien, important rail center and the site of a big air base that might be used in bombing Japan. The Chinese are holding the city firmly, but the Japs are threatening to flank the place. They are on tku three sides of it already, say the Chinese. At Klnnwa, the Chinese have the initiative. The Japs captured that city some while ago, but today we hear of a I b Chinese counter attack, which may result in the recpature of Sinhwa. A big military conference is on in China - three top ranking United States officers in conference with Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. The three Americans are Lieutenant-a«KBai General Joseph Stllwell, Commander of all the United States forces In China, India and Burma, Major.Brereton. Commander of the HnitBi United States Air Forces In India, and Brigadier-General Chenault, boss of the Flying Tigers. At Chungking they are laying plans with Chiang Kal-uhejj action against the Jap enemy. ---------------—^ —- tU PACIFIC /? This evening’s bulletin from the i^iavy Department announces that the Japs today attacked Midway Island. It was an air raid, and was delivered at the equivalent of two thirty this afternoon, eastern war time. The Navy gives no further ^stalBx details, and we are left to our own imagination to picture enemy planes appearing In the mld-Faclfic sk^ and dropping bombs on that remote bit of land, Midway Island. It is our nearest outpost to Japan; MidwjiyHtldway being eleven fiundred miles west of Hawaii. The island was attacked at the beginning of our war with the Japs, at the same time they assaulted «uam and Wake> but Midway held out. and lD« 3 i beat off the enemy. It is not clear what the raid on this lonely Island may mean, although we connect it inevitably with yesterday’s two bombings of Dutch harbor in the Aleutians. This evening’s late navy bulletin makes no mention of Dutch Harbor, although a statement issued earlier stated that all was quiet at our air base in the Aleutians. Eowe ^8 report that there ha^ been ■ 77 . 9 PACIFIC - 2 another attacK on Dutch Harboi -- a third appearance of enemji^ planes. So stated in the Otta\^a House of Commons by Canadian Defense Minister J. L. Ralston. I •i t But this was later withdrawn. Just a rumor, nothing I to it, apparently. The Navy tells us something about the second Dutch Harbor raid, one of the two announced last night. It was not a bombing affair -- none were dropped. The Japs coming over Dutch Harbor for a second time, appeared to be engaged in reconnaissance. Their planes were scouting! Apparently trying to estimate the damage accomplished by the bombs during the first raid. And the Navy thinks that the first raid was designed primarily as a test; the purpose of the Japs to try out the defenses of our Dutch Harbor air base. Anyhow, the bombing did not much damage, and the casualties were light. bo the Navy now repeats. PACIFIC - 3 “Ihe picture given is bh one of an enemy feeling out, trying to get a line on a situation. And it seems improbable that the test bombing and the scouting at putch Harbor were intended as retaliation for the Jimmy Doolittle assault on 'J^okyo. Hardly a Japanese way of saving face. One JuixaiXB surmise is that the ail air attack^^be a preliminary to an attempt to seize one more of our Aleutian Islands. The Canadians are not blind to thax that possibility. and in the Ottawa Parliament it was stated today that the Dominion Chief of Staff, Lieutenant-General i^enneth Stewart, ww on the RataRxz Pacific coast arranging for the A assignment of troops to meet all emergencies. The Onited States too is on the alert, and tonight on the shores of the Pacific from the Aleutian ix* Islands to tropical Panama - there is a vigilant lookout iss:?.*' MACARTHUR In Australife, General ^acArthur tells of a heavy mVltiple blow by a single American submarine. That one luialRxiia undersea boat with successive torpedoes, sank three big Japanese vessels and damaged another. Two of the enemy craft sunk were heavily loaded supply ships. The third was a crowded troop transport, and the communique from Australia states that all the troops aboard were probably lost. At the same time, a Jap submarine has sunk an allied cargo ship along the supply line to Australia. Two other vessels of the United Nations were attacked, but escaped. mi 'n. vj'f tlAIRJRESSERS The paradoxical ways of modern war are Illustrated by 3 news item from Australia. This tells of a recommendation tnat hairdressers be attached to tne staffs of munitions plants. Engineers, mathematicians, and metallurgists are not enough. Still another kind of technician If needed, ^ maestro of the permanent wave, finger wave, marcel. Not to forget - peroxide. •‘•oday, the Australian Minister of Munitions, Norman J. A. Makin, said It would help the war effort If women armament workers were able to have their hair done while on the job. They could take an hour off for the beautifying job. Right Rajixxxliu)[ now they usually take half a day off for the purpose. So he Is formally recommending- that the technical staff of any war plant, rhere women are employed, shall^nclude a hairdresser. Sounds logical - but I hope they don’t get mixed UD. I'he hairdresser might try to construct an aviation motor while the mechanical engineer might be inspired to give a girl a permanent wave. The motor wouldn’t run and the wave wouldn’t - f r \ wave, and^ali would be confused'^A A !« c,c>c. The House of Representatives is In the midst of xh a lively controversy concerning those two New Deal Social agencies - the Civil Conservation Corps and the National Youth Administration. Yesterday, the House appropriations Comn'lttee up voted to abolish the SxSxR C,C,C. by refusing ta? to pu^the money needed to run It. At the same time, the committee voted to give the N.Y.A. a lease on life. They refrained from striking out the funds needed to keep that agency going. ioday Administration legislators were^^trying to rescue the '^.C. C. While other congressmen were making efforts to aka^ abolish the N.Y.C. Republic Taber of New York said: *»There is no more dangerous anti-defense activity than the N.Y.A." TAXES The Secretary of the Treasury today named a date for starting a system of collecting income taxes by weekly deductions from payrolls. The Secretary said he hoped that this could begin on January First of next year. There were previous suggestions that the payroll deduction idea could be put into practice some time during this year - with employers holding back percentages of wages to be applied to the' Income taxes of employees. But Secretary Morgenthau said today that this year the taxes for last year are being paid in the regular way, and so it would not be wise to have two methods of payment going on at once. Hence, he thought that payroll deductions had better begin on January Firs^^ ‘ -^raHiiaiWOT m //- r V ROBBERY In any war you will find some curious twisters. Here is one from Denver. A policeman came suddenly upon two men holding down another man. They had him pinned to the sidewalk. The two men, when they saw the cop, told him they had captured A agent. a Nazi spy. man they were sitting on was an enemy secret The fellow underneath gasped indignantly, and denied he was an enemy spy. He protested tnat he was a patriotic American, and explained that the other two were trying to rob him. v5o what was it, espionage or theft? Was it a case of robbers pretending their victim was a spy? As a piece of Impudence, that could be bk exceeded only ‘by the otner alternative/a spy pretending that his captors were robbers. Today the judge handed down two prison terms, and I, — 11^^ the verdict was - guilty of attempted robbery. ff (A (PV^ J