if-SUNOCO. V.F.npc^y. JI),tY TO. ioio . GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: The Vichy today became the background for one of the great scenes history. Hitherto has been iinown chiefly as a place where fat rich people went to "T -fca,.J_gag their gout. Today it/scene 7^ <? wr.ere 1^f^AThird Republic of France,i©st-4ts existence Six hundred A and forty-nine French Senators and Deputies cast their ballots on the Host fateful question that they ever have decided or ever will decide. It was the National Assembly of France voting its own suicide. The vote was five hundred end sixty-nine to eighty. Just eighty French legislators to oppose the death of the Republic At that, their voting ’’No1’ was only a mere gesture, xhe ^hoxe procedure went through by rubber stamp, Before they met, wild rumors ran through Vichy C sm .<L fim*- LEAD - 2 to the world at large. It was reported that the French political leaders opposed to the surrender to Fascism had secretly arrived a. that little watering place now become the temporary capital of France. There had been all sorts of rumors about the group that included Dal&dier and Mandel^men first responsible for the conduct of the war. They were supposed to be aboard the mysteriously (PA. j missing French steamer MASSILLiA en route for somewhere. The^ [Xo. sensational rumor had it that they were to appear suddenly^and fig.l the suicide of the Third Republic. But there was no truth in it. However, former Premier Reynaud was there, also Leon Blum, the Communist Popular Front Premier. Assembly voted itself into limbo without Dalodier and jaandel. The resolution before the National Assembly was to have been read by Marshal Petain, the Premier. Instead of that, it was read by Vice-Premier Pierre Laval, who had helped prepare the resolution because, it was explained, Petain v.as unable to be present on account of his advanced age, eighty-foui. The text of the resolution begins with the declaration . Q iP^qnn of the lost battles. They must that Frenchmen must make a lesson ox tne LEAD - 3 r-cvist taeir comaori errors and discover the reason for their weaknesses. France must accept the necessity of a national revolution which is necessary for its future. And, the resolution continues:- "This reconstruction requires the total effort of all Frenchmen. Tne government must have all the power to decide, undertake, negotiate and save v.hat can be saved, destroy what must be destroyed, reconstruct what must be reconstructed. Later on it says:- TfFrance must return to her agricultural and peasant character primarily and her industry must find once more its traditional quality." Then comes a significant phrase of the transformation in it professional ranks. Thus will be left to the government to establish equal order and justice. There's also a clause about abolishing the dictatorship of money and plutocracy. By that vote of five hundred and sixty-nine to eighty, the French National Assembly not only dissolved itself but entrusted absolute power to Marshal Petain and groups surrounding him. In short, an absolute dictatorship. Tne new French Parliament, as we learned last Monday, Fasci for the upper house. House. will follow the Italian model, a Chamber of a Chamber of Corporations for the lower LEAE - 4 The passing of the Third Republic was the sienal for a strange outburst of warnings from Germany and Italy. These warnings were not officxal but editorial. *vnb this was the gist of them:- Frenchmen must not think that their change of government will get them any milder peace terms from the Rome-Berlin Axis. And the newspaper owned by Air Marshal Hermann Goering announces in these words:- ’’France must bear the full responsibility for her mistakes and crimes. Germany has gained the dominant role in Europe and a France may exist beside her. But it won’t be the France of yesterday. France must be satisfied writh the role assigned to her.” It is quite significant that an editorial of identical meaning was published in Italy under the signature of Virginio Gayda, Mussolini^s own mouthpiece. In fact, the German and Italian editorials might almost have been written at the same desk. today's mysteries Is that naval battle in the -©f There re two fcconnts one from flatly anil positively. Here's the one from London. The British » rshiPs J^ve driven ' 11 ®m units of the Italian fl-et, forced them to ta’-ce cover in Italian harbors. The Admiralty a™ t it at last one of tassolin **0 eaA 1 sMys has been struck by a direct hit from a British shell fired aA IvOn^, rinye. Also, that one of the Royal navy's bombers had scored a direct hit ith n aerial torpedo on an Italian cruiser and that a BritL-h submarine torpoedoed an Italian U-bo':t and sink h r. Nevertheless, the Ro:& navy is disa. . ointed. The British Com nder-in-chief in the Mediterranean regretted that -€f»war could join battle in close range action. /p It li. n offici 1 versi r Fascist battle fleet and airplane bombers caught up v/ith t^/o of the Jdediter r n an battl* : rono and came off^mcdzlwnj The It: lians declare th t their only losses were one destroyer. on- > -our aircraft. Oh yes, and an Italian warship vhich .’.a^ not nau^d was hit b 3 r a shell which killed twenty-nine sixty-ai for tfe , say the Italians, it co-ild be repaired in a few days. On dRfjgHxg UfTerence between the British and Us. ! * y— fo ^nt in th Ion' n Sef off t — ,^VA^( IAJ I C( k - tt A A Th Italians claim to h< ve suni^ a British heavy cruiser and a destroyer and to h ve damaged a battleship r nd more than one TP aircr ft carrier ith bombs from the air. Th'~ Italians also claim to h ve fought a successful engagement with another British fleet, a squadron from Gibraltar. So yha there you are. Vie hope to know before long which account cona s closer to being accur te. There’s a bill before Congressaimed at making it easier for children from Britain to come into the United States. Democratic Senator Downey of California is the author of the measure. He proposes that there shall be no eight dollar head-tax for refugee youngsters. Everybody under sixteen, coming from Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Poland to be exempt from that eight dollar tax. The report from London is that there are thousands of boys and girls in Britain waiting to be evacuated to America^,but, there aren’t enough ships to bring them over. There is considerable fear that the whole plan may come to grief, unless liners flying the flag of the United States can be allowed to sail to Britain or Iceland and bring them over. Tatf To do that, the President would have to issue an order modifying the requirements of the Neutrality Act. BUND T*.e Dies Committee down in Austin, Texas, is investigating <s»YU^ C4 v still another German bund* ]~£*^called the Kyffhauser Bund, and ao. an organizfition of German war veterans. The Dies Committee so xa.5 investigating was holding its meeting in secret at Austin today. Chairman Dies declared itTs the most important hearing that his Committee has yet held. The Kyffhauser Bund is formed exclusively j of former soldiers dij..the German army. ^It has branches in every key city in the United States. All members are required to keep up rifle and revolver practice, and it is alleged that this Bund, though it has no connection with the Deutsch-America outfit, is definitely under the direct control of Nazi officials. BROY.DER The senators in Washington today heard the opinion of v,he Communists aoout that proposed bill which would compel groups like the Communist Party and the Deutsch-America Bund to register. Communist opinion was tol^ to the Senators by Earl Browder, Bolshevik candidate for Presiden^^As^ou iaiaw^- he^ out on bail^ having been convicted of obtaining a passport by fraud. Browder, whose ourrnsp Browder, whose purpose it is to abolish democracy in A A America, protested against the bill on democratic grounds. He said it would hamstrvin^democratic processes. He even had recourse to quoting Abraham Lincoln. Sej^pointed out that Lincoln had recognized smd endorsed the principle of^international working class organization when he made a reply to an address to the First Congress of the International Workingmen^ Association. ] Browder again denied that his party was under foreign domination, he admitted that the registration bill would hamper and curb the Deutsch-America Bund, and he didnTt object to But he added that any advantage gained in tnat w^ay would be offset by the impetus it would give to Hazi philosophy. de ? k ;^ k rive billions more for defensel That, in round numbers, 'X —~ is tne atest reqest by President Roosevelt. To strictly accurate, tije appropriation he asks for in a special message today is four billions, eight hundred and forty-eight mi lions, one hundred and seventy-one thousaid, nine hundred and fifty-seven dollars. But you wouldn* t quarrel v;ith a commetitator over a mere hundred and fifty- one millions odd, would you? Such are the temper of the timesl This gargantuan sum is to be appropriated partly in cash, partly on the cuff, Tne War Officfe calculates that it would aid fifteen thousand planes to the Army Air Corps. But there*s one new and striking feature about the President* o latest message; It includes a definite, positive, ironclad promise j In act a double promise. First, says Mr. Roosevelt, f,*ve will not use our arms in a war of aggression.tT Second: men to ta-ie part in European Wars. But,”he adds, ”we vvi 1 repel aggression against the United States or the Western Hemisphere.” This brings tne'total of the extraordinary defense urns for which Kir. Roosevelt has asked to the tidy total of fourteen billion dollars odd, including four billion for a two-ocean navy. -Least one fight in the Senate is aii over, washed up, i misneo. The battle over Knox and Stiason. Everybody v.as surprised th^t it lasted so long. In spite of tne storm of. amazement that broH.e when the President sent in those nominations, it was prophesied that hnox and Stimson wouj.d be confirmed quicaly. Instead there have been hours of hot arguing and explosive speechifying on tne floor of the Senate. It toois. two days for the Senators to okay Henry L. Stimson ax as Secretary of War. And, it wasn’t until late this afternoon that they ended the squabble over Knox. Tnere was a colorful note rn tnis afternoon*s debate. The principal champion of Colonel Knox was tne Senator from Illinois, Scott Lucas, ^nd tnat same Senator Lunas has been frequently and vehemently attached uy Colonel hnox in his CnlCnGO DAILY NEWS, but he maae the most vigorous of ail the speeches in behalf of tne editor-pubxisher who opposed him for election and criticized him so often. Said Senator nucas:- ”It is absurd to describe Colonel Knox as an interventionist.” Senator ^ucas’s speech was not only ardent but effective It changed at least one vote. Senator Joiinson of Colorado had stuck out to the aast against the nomination of Stimson for Secretary of V»ar. But today he tooK the floor and announced that tie speech by Senator rucas hac changed his opinion; so he had decided to vote for .Inox for Secretary of the Navy. Incidentally, Colonel Knox was confirmed by a far larger majority than Stimson. Yesterday’s vote on the new Secretary of War vas fifty-six to twenty-eight. The vote on Colonel Knox for Secretary of the Navy was sixty-six to sixteen. POLITICS Now for the d^ily instalment of our big mystery serialJ ill he or V*onTt he?” Will he or v^on’t he runj£o 3 r~a Y0U may have noticed that ^nobody engaged in the occupauion of dealing with news^tuts ventured ■feo-sticii hxs~iiecic. c7%\ir au^Jl - srqansxtpr o phe cy. And — I in--3th eremjs-els- H<rpee4red- inrirc^l^w-s—ftTHne in-erte- word——yes;— Birh—tnere1 o aiTirys^Ttn—^-r^ '-<2vr>wje .•^sve he^14ft-eh tn«cisive?--tevei-a^. oliticians, ixiia 'fcbl*ys^lq including Mayor Kelly of Chicago,^?»iHbr©^4er±n^ J J &s\JL- Q- q -K tUv^. O-acy-'wvo 'G-O*. The word from the advance guard of delegates now in Chicago is that President Roosevelt will drive his chariot through (Z^i^Sr&s, - J precedent and go for a third term. iS^ has even decided upon his I ^ vice-president. So says the Chicago correspondent of the NEW YORK EVENING POST and the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS,Charles VanDevander. The Democratic candidate for vice-president, if Mr. Roosevelt runs, will be the Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, wonTt care for the A A idea, but the President will insist upon drafting him. And VanfievartUr adds that this information came to the NEW YORK EVENING POLITIC!: 2 POST today from a source of unquestionable accuracy .j Van Devanter points out that this would have a double ' A e *r e c o. Fir. Aii, it v,ould crystalize the foreign policy of the i'e/. Pes.1 as a major issue in the campaign. Also, it is believed tnat it ’ a i. i kE help heal the breach in the Democratic Party, the breach betv.een the conservatives and the New Dealers. Meanwhile, tm Republican candidate, Wendell Willkie, /# j) started what is Jocularly called sxil his vacation in Colorado. I must say he has picked a grand spot for a rest; I know faxxKxx* eveiy inch ofaround Colorado Springs, the garden of the gods, the grand canyon of the Arkansas, the Royal Gorge,c ' (/yy And he has got a grand host in the person of my former colleague, c . Ralph Carr, now Governor of Colorado. But^^tmrryou: irfLica restful vacation^urrounded by-; division or-'Sa-Od^camera men. -Mrs — uz-vtcl ^ nwnRped -to d^ctre-the sharks—-at least -a^-fgy iror; a^feepxns^tmtrB- naoau art err: amt BOYS i. couple of long Iilani lads, fourteen and fifteen ye rs old, wanted to go to war and fi0ht for the British. So they left hone, h vi i; in txsr their pockets ^ --csa^Tvr^f „ cctaa- • M sbw ‘anoit var-^at - — A, ter rr - *>f u^yatr tm=*» =^g?oy TC lsv C a airport Fart 'Tenpstead, Long Island . ^£* rly this xornlng they ror. thh h i any flying experience v.h .tsoever, but tloe, didn’t ph faze tft l>-zrw. then. On- climed in :.ni grabbed the controls, while If the other or»^ spun the proiellor. Experience or no experience. they started nd took off. Tliey flew around a while A just to get the feel of the plane, then got altitude and headed north for th* Canada.»-=$$»*. When they reali d their fuel was low they v, re ne Peeksill, Ne- York, on the Hudson, aboffth forty iriles from Ne York city. Xyjxspi* In spite of tneir A complpte 1; ck of 2:c experience, fift.en-year-old Bernard Byrne, a perfect landing* Toen tii- Xiceu to _ fiiiin^ st.^tion and got four gallons of gasoline 1th the last feu cents they had left. They tried to take off again, but here’s where lack of SOYS - 2 experience came in. The field v/as too short for a take-off anJ tney crashed into a clump of trees. Nevertheless, they climbed out unhurt and made a getaway. 4t wasn’t Ion. before Nev Yor St te police &aLz troopers found them washing tnemselv^s in a brook. .1 —-rrr-n. ‘ wlid*. .. % - n ) /^L&JsCsi. _>2^- L^t ^