SOLOMONS_ When the Pacific War Council met at Washington today, the chief topic of conversation naturally was the American attack on the Solomon Islands. The Council sat with President Roosevelt for more than an hour. When it was over <5WA7* TTTj^'fTnt a rtr—a&ggt' Chinese Foreign Minister Soong said it was most interesting, but, he added, "what we know is what the newspapers say, nothing much beyond that." He described the attack with the words "a good enough token." Dr. Loudon, the Dutch Ambassador, described it as very encouraging. The Japanese continue to claim that/r. 'Jys.kra=-i However, that boast does not come from the Imperial Japanese command. 11 announced that the .speaker of the lower House/W .cabled his congratulations to Admiral Yamamoto, the Commander-in-chief of the Japanese fleet. However, SOLOMONS >2 You may recall that Yamamoto was also congratulated over the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway Island, where the United Nations knocked the Yamamoto's forces galley West. From the a^u-ari-'-TTreuie uf Uml.— -in the Solomons there is no official news. But unofficial reports from Australia bring advices that Uncle Sam's Leathernecks are fighting their way into the wooded interiors of the three most important of those | ..Muirfim ■ 'I - •• ■ *■ . islands^ Our marines for months have been intensively trained to new twists and tricks in the business of killing Japs. They have been advancing against the most desperate kind of defense and under constant and furious attacks from enemy dive bombers and fighter planes. It is believed that we took a leaf out o£ the enemy's hook by using parachutists, but that Ls^ n^t official or certain. The three islands on which the marines are reported to have effected beachheads are Tulagi, SOLOMONS . 3 Florida and Guadalcanal. ( A London newspaper has reports that our forces have been strenghthened and are making progress. The same London correspondeat is iniormed that the marines have tanks, landing barges and special types of artillery. And -- we do know that Allied planes are cooperating with Vice-Admiral Ghormley’s landing force. Every story that comes from there emphasizes the warning that we must expect to hear of severe losses. Australian and American p]a nes are also striking at the Japs in New Guinea. There was a night attack at the airdrome at Rabaul in the Bismarck Islands northeast of the Solomons. Three waves of Lockheed Hudson bombers, manned by Australian crews, raided the Jap installations on the Dutch-Timor Portuguese island of Timor. INDIA The news irom India today is not as disturbing as it was Monday* Fresh rioting broke out at the town of Wardha, also in the cities of Lucknow, Delhi and Poona and at Nasik, Cawnpore, of mutiny fame, and at Madras, metropolis of the South. At Wardha, a smaller town, the police had to fire four rounds before the crowd would id disperse. At Bombay, the morning was comparatively calm, but trouble broke out again this afternoon. Nevertheless correspondents report that the situation seems to be slightly improved, with emphasis on the word "seems." From New Delhi, official city of the Viceroy, the news is not so encouraging. The rioting coming closer and closer to the residential section accupied by British -- and a few Arnericans.have homes there. The police there were backed by troops with machine guns. The disorders had begun in Old Delhi, several miles away, and then the new capital — built recently. However, the authorities seem to have things INDIA - 2 under control and it is officiaiy announced that there has been virtually no interference with the war effort. So far in India there is no indication of any widespread mass movement. So says the British Raj. That the countryside is unaffected, and most of the people of India are villagers. Factories that were closed at first in Calcutta, have been reopened. The cities where the rioting has been bad are centers of the All-India Congress movement containing hooligan elements as well as hot head students. Thatfs the official statement. Later came word from Calcutta that six thousand more workdrs had struck in a jute mill. But on top of that, the India office in London announced that the disorder in the sub-continent was completely in hand. The India office added that there is no trouble on a large scle in the Punjab, in this vast Ben al, or in Mihar, or in the Central Provinces. So, the British may have been ready for this. / nJ T r. d i a av h p v ^ ^ n 11. ? p . ... . RUSSIA On the Russian front, the N-azi s are driving on into the Caucasus.^ Whi1e_one panzer column is rolling into the mountains, another is driving towards the Black Sea, aiming at the naval bases of the Soviet Black Sea fleet and the rich oil fields of Grozny. Dispatches to Moscow from the front admit that the Red Army has been forced bacic at Mikoyan Shakhar, near the provincial boundary of Georgia, the home of Premier Stalin. And not far from the Turkish border. Tne Berlin Radio broadcast a rumor that the governments of the United States and Great Britain were urging the Turks to permit the Russian Black Sea fleet to escape into the Mediterranean through the Bosphorous Straits. The implication of that was a warning to the Turks to maintain their neutrality. There is every indication that the Turks will remain neutral and will permit no passange through RUbSIA - 2 the Bosphorous. A dispatch from Ankara last week reported that if the Nazis take the Black Sea bases, the Red warships will either have to be scuttled or interned by the Turks. In spite of this grim news, a British military commentator in London says that the Russian situation generally appears more cheerful than a week ago. The Red armies are holding firmly opposite Stalingrad and the Germans have not made any positive impression during the last day or two. They are still spreading out in the Caucasus, but, the advance appears to be slowing down. That may be due either to stronger resistance from the Russians or difficult terrain. It is agreed that the Russian resistance is getting stiffen. EAGLE ~[Ct A The British Navy has lost another aircraft carrier / The Admiralty mx London admitted a-s^m^icrh' today . Vt A H.M.S. EAGLE, the twenty-two thousand, six hundred ton man-o-wa^^lrad^ilxssa sunk in what the Admiralty calls an engagement in the Mediterranean. The Berlin Badio claims that a running fight is going on between Axis war vessels and a heavy British convoy. T.te-~Admix.n±± 3 : announced that at least one Nazi U-boat had been sunk at the same time as the EAGLE. JL The Rom Radio claims that much damage has been done by Nazi and Italian air squadrons, presumably toroedo planes. Berlin declares that the bulk of the British Mediterranean fleet is under attack, and that trh-C" Axis warships have sunk eight British men-o-war, including the EAGLE. This is the filth British aircraft carrier kkatriias -tTSeli—since the war began. She was not a new ship and her capacity *as onl EAGLE - ? twenty-one planes. The EAGLE was originally built for the Chilean Government^ buty in Nineteen Eighteen, when the last World War still was at its height, the British Government seized her and converted her from a battleship into a carrier. The Admiralty announces that a large number of the ship’s company have been rescued. EGYPT Our own fighters are now taking an increasing part in the desert fighting in Egypt. A report from the A1amein front brings word that both Army fighter pilots^ and tank crews from America are now in the front line that battlefront. borne of them have been under heavv ____________________________ - ^ ___________ _______ _____________ __________________ _____________ _______________ _____________ bombardment from enemy artillery and airplanes. An American correspondent reports-that they are waiting impatiently for "a whack at the jerries , American style? The advance units of fighter pilots and Curtiss — /tidy Wright, Hawks are at desert stations commanded by a A <Xi colonel from Alabama. They are^wr-Uw^ desert,side by side with the R.A.F. and^squadrons of the South African Air Force. As for the tanks, both General Grants and f\ General Lees, manned by sun-bronzed crews, are so far out in front, that the reporter found it almost impossible to reach them in a truck. It t?f.cs a tank I or a jeep to cope with that shifting sand. 1 EGYPT - 2 One American officer reports that the men under iK his command haj^ been subjected to the stiffest kind of training behind the lines. They are now in what he calls "razor blade form, only hoping jerry will stick his neck out so they can get at hira.,’ Another part of the news is that our men have now become so inured to the drinking of tea, that they drink more of it than the British. RAID The latest Royal Air Force raid was on Mainz, one ol the oldest military centers in Germany. It also used to be one of the most historic and interesting towns. The history of Mainz begins nineteen hundred and fifty-five years ago, when the Roman General D-rusus built a fort there to control the Marches on the Rhine. In the Middle Ages, it was the seat of a great diocese of the Church of Rome, also the birthplace of Gutenberg, the man who invented moveable type for printing. The Air Ministry tells us that the raid on Mainz was particularly successful. The report does not say how many bombers toox part, but they must have been many because the British admit losing sixteen of them. They dropped hundreds of tons of explosive bo mb s on Mainz, and sixty thousand incendiaries The raid lasted forty-six minutes. In the same breath, the Air Ministry reports that in June and Jjuly the Royal Air Force dropped o RAID - *. altogether no fewer than bombs on WPstern Lurope. thirteen thousand tons of i FRANCE swr can other anti-Nazi demonstration in France. Sixty German war pilots were training, trotting around tirgr ^ rh ^ r cinder track at a stadium on the outskirts of Paris. A group of French patriots were hiding behind a hed^e and tossed a couple of hand grenades among them. One Nazi was killed immediately, another died on the way to the hospital, eight were severely wounded, and ten others injured. The men who threw the grenades escaped without leaving a trace. •fr-t,-—Traa"TlTe most daring demonstration that has yet been made by the French underground movement. However, the grim side of it is that iprovoke a new outburst of German reprisals. Another thing worrying the Nazis is an epidemic of farm fires. Underground agents are burning the crops in t~ho fields, barns and granaries. PELLEY Fifteen years in prison for William Dudley Pelley, mystic and anti-Semite. That was the sentence pronounced in court today after Pelley was convicted of sedition and conspiracy. His lawyers asked the judge for a retrial but that motion was promptly denied. They say they are going to appeal to the Circuit Court at Chicago. Marian Agnes Henderson, sectetary to Pelley, was also convicted, and the judge gave her two years. Hosever, the court suspended that sentence. The judge remarked that this had been the hardest case he had ever had to decide. It is hard to draw the line between sedition and criticism, aaid the court, but he* added: "These are perilous times and this case involved a man who has attempted to destroy the morale of our country. That is the serious thing." And he concluded:- "I intend to impose a sentence which will insure us that you --Pelley -- will cause no further harm." TAXEb President Roosevelt’s proposal that nobody should have more than twenty-five thousand dollars a year is opposed by the American Federation of Labor. ---- -------- 1 An economist employed by the Pedration testified against it before the Finance Committee today. He told the Senators that such an aroitrar/V and inflexible rule would be certain to Vimit the activity of businessmen and would be a shorVt/sighted step. ceiling for workers’ wages* objects to a ilat 11 . Ergo the should same principle be applied to industrialists. ^FTBILLO The Musicians Union has fined one of its members for singing the National Anthem! That^ yonnmga&g'TV A fca + he union run a-o n up-by one James Fetrillo. Don Mario, a band leader, was present as a spectator at a Fourth of July concert in Foger Williams Park, Providence, Rhode Island. There were some twenty thousand people there. In due course, the National Anthem was played and sung by the crovfd. Band Leader Mario stood with the others and joined in the singing. He not as a rerin^but as a member of the Sunday ^ A A Recreation Committee of Providence, which had arranged the concert. For that, he pays the union a fine of five hundred dollars! i v «JL'^ GOVF'N ors Six New England Governors met at Augustus, ■'*c^ne today to talk about oil. They are trying to make plans to make sure that the people of New England have enough fuel oil to keep warm this coming winter. The Chairman of the Fuel Oil Committee of the New Ens .and Council told the Governors that there are now sixt^two thousand tank cars employed exclusively in bringing oil to the east coast, sixty-two thousand'out of a total of a hundred and ten thousand in the whole country. More than five thousand more will be released from other Parts of the United States to carry petroleum to the east. However, the fuel situation remains critical. ... officials are deeply concerned about All responsible oilici it. GASOLINE FOLLOW GOVEFNORS. Meanwhile, motor car owners all through the east opened their eyes at newspaper advertisements which pub'ished a new plan for saving gasoline and getting more mileage. The sponsors of the advertisement declared that the plan had been comprehensively tested by engineers and that they had been proved to be practical. Briefly, the idea is this:- Block off half the cylinders in your car. Then make a number of simple inexpensive motor and carbureter adjustments. So doing, we can save up to one-third of our gasoline and have fifty per cent more mileage per gallon than we are getting now. It *will also cut down the wear and tear on tires. gRXRXxixfRoiKrxixaxRHEiKxxHx Several federal agencies are investigating the plan -- the Office of Price Administration, the Petrole Coordinator, the Far Production Board and the Office of Defense Transportatioh.^The American Automobile Association is going-to put its experts to work immediately to investigate. ^ y i\r&—e&zr Ws’L'i ^