About the wur -xeriubn ajxx big guns on the French j coast. v:ere stixl shelling the shore of Britain tod&v. No great e . sa^ tue : ritish. ^.nd London reports that Royal Air rorce boulters nave been showering high explosive on the Nazi Big Berthas* tfut there’s no indication of how effective tnis may have been. The British are inclined to regard the Big Berthas bombardment as mostly snow business, though Berlin was sating tout y tnat tne shelling of the British coast marks the zero hour for Britain/--Another zero hour. air raids today were sporadic, bombs drooped here and t lere. .vreas of homes were wrecked in some places. Berlin admits taut the Nazi sky war has slackened a good deal. kxa bad weather, sa^the Hermans Because of FRENC;: Toaay^s ntws brings an alarming report about the lood situation in France. The report is issued by the Quaker Reliei Group that is doing work of mercy in Europe. The Quakers declare tnat they have made a survey which'indicates that three million Frencn children will be in oesnerate need of milk this winter. One of the fuaker Relief authorities is Doctor Joseph Stokes of Philadelphia, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He states his opinion in these words:- ’’If France,” says he, "does not get vitamins by Christmas, more children will die this winter than France had men killed in the war.” And that means milk xxx -- and other foods rich in vitamins PARIS There were anti-3emitic disorders in Paris today* Crowds of boys belonging to a youth organization stormed along tne stately Champs ilysee and attacked Jewish owned shops, smashing windows and getting into fights. The leader of the anti-Semitic youth outfit issued a statement tnat today’s rioting is only the beginning of a concerted campaign against tiie Jews in France k KP, ei : ti :^-- s caused a 1 urore oi* dramatic excitement in Buenos /.ires, the more so because the case of the deputy had some relation to t.^at o' tne resigned president. Ortiz quit office yesterday because tnat same investigating-coronittee report implied that he himself was responsible to some extent in tne palomar Land Scandal. He felt himself accused. It is Lerieved tnat the Ortiz * resignation will be rejected b^ the rgentine congress, which is scheduled to consider it tomorrow. Today tne buitf of xjrgentine opinion seemed to be that Crtiz should remain in office as President. Newspaper comment in E.A. is that he is oversensitive, tnat there was not enough about him in the land scanaal affair to justify his resignation. CRASH The Ar:uy air tragedy in Colorado was related in full today - as fully as it ever will be. It happened last ni^ht, but the withheld ,..e news for tv/elve hours - until it was possible to fet to the scene of the crash. This oi ^ae .olciauo Mountains, a place inaccessible to automat lies. i.:iere today they found the wreckage of one of the Army’s crack boiubers - blown to shattered bits. And now the story is released. It tells how two big army nlanes went on - a "night bombing mission". Tne one that was destined to destruction carried a cargo of seventeen bombs. Of these it dropped two. Tne veatner was bad, and the nair of planes started back to their base - flying together. They had not a great deal further to go, wnen the ill-fated craft disappeared in a thunderhead. Now, a thunderhead is one of the fearsome phenomena of nature, a towering mass cf giant ***** clouds, the dark and misty container of an electrical storm - the home of thunder and lightning. A plane in a thunderhead is in spot. The 1. st word from the unlucky bomber was a wireless message to tne otner oiane. "Can’t see yo^, was CfUSH- -2 rtv'lio* "0, the bombe^ in a thunderhead could^not see anything. *be riien ^ri iiie °t^ 4 . 0 r cruft heard just one thing more - a crash^ ami, an explosion. Today Array men seid it might have been a case of nail xxx or of lightning. Poth were in the thunderhead - a barrage of ice and a blaze of electricity. At the scene of the crash were busneis of hail stories. A ixxxh deluge of these might have forced the bomber down. Or lightning might have struck it. In any case, the bomber exploded with terrific violence. The plane and the nine men in it were, as the ^rmy fT report states -"blown to bits". Was it an .explosion of the bombs? The war oiane had aboard fifteen of its original seventeen. But,no.- it was not a bomb explosion. Army men said that none of the fifteen bombs hud blown up in the crash Anyway, they were mere -"target bombs.’1» The kind used in practice. 'Phsy'P*Constructed to give off a black puff of smoke 'when they burst - no violent detonation. The terr±xic blast that blew the plane and crew to bits was caused by the explosion of the gas tanks. These blew uo with a tremendous burst of flame wh§n tn^bomber in a thunderhead crashed in tne ^ of the Colorado Mountains, ROBBSRY ~T^ „iid West trtiin robuery in Rew York City ^ A i witii a mordant touch of mockery. The keynote of the xex melodramatic affair v/as careful planning and skillful execution -- but the expert robbers made one mistake, one painful error. d4«ap"oi7rt^4-as—b-ney- are W- ^he early morning Albany local pulled out of Orand Central, ntrr-th—►- with some thirty passengers aboard. One oi tne stops was the Marble Hill station in Upper Manhattan. There, as the train came to a halt, six bandits went into swift action^--witn -e4oek~~l±«:e-f«4?ei-aioff. XKsx Their plan was that nobody, save the trainmen whom they held up should know what was going on. Fix it so that the train would go on from tne Xatx Marble Hill stop without any alarm being given. So tnree oi the robbers ER^c held up the conductor, brakeman and anotner trainman, and forced them into an empty car. The bandits knew that the train was They kept the trainmen prisoner® during tne normal time for the R0BBSHY--2 ston bt the station, and then ordered tne conductor to null the bir brake com . Signal the engineer -- go ahead. The conductor ■jL :U‘‘ ' tnem. ..e pulled the air brake cord - once. A bandit turned on him sharply. "You know the signal is two," he snapped threateningly, -Fes, these robbers knew their onions. -t ~ A /f ihe conductor pulied the corn twice, the orthodox signal. The train started. A s it gathered up sneed, the three robbers jumped off. Lennwhile, the other taree bandits were nlaying their part just as expertly -- perfect coordination. They were holding up two mail clerks in the baggage car. They demanded - ’’YAiere is the Yonkers mail sack?” They knew exactly what they wanted. They quickly spotted the Yonkers ma il sack, and grabbed it. They.bothered with nothing else - just tne sack of mail being shipped to Yonkers. Then they jumped off the moving train. s soon as tne alarm was given a manhunt started, and immediately the question was raised -- what was in me Yonkers mail bag? bhy had the six bandits staged their told and daring crime just to seize tnat one collection o- mail. ■ ROgiiSiX---5 RETAKE Obviously, they must huve hud information tn^^soS! exceedingly valuable was in it. Next came an announcement by an official xxx of tne Post Office Department, ne stated tnat the stolen bag contained letters from Washington to Yonkers -- all of a strictly personal sort. Just letters to friends of relatives or business communications , -- nothing of any value. So why had the bandits stolen, all tnat -- just worthless paper A Tnen came an illuminating revelation. One day a week tnat same New York Central train carried a large sum of money in the Yonkers mail bag, a one hunared tnousand doUar payroll consigned to a manufacturing company in Yonkers. That hay-ene- one day a week - but thi-e was not the day.^The robbers^made just one xxxKx mistake*.- In tneir minutely planned and skillfully „.g.a train »«* «• rl5l“ , r the irony in the mail bag -- but the wrong aay. -hat sensational New York City train robbery. '■TLLllIE That ":;ua rei)0rt y°u ^tive heard this xftsrHx afternoon was a big gun that Willkie was firing. The Republican candidate loaued up the artillery with all the ammunition he coula cram in and let lly with as much noise as the gun would make. The shot concerned the W.P.A., the relief rolls. '/illkie made the observation that curing July the number of people on V.P.A• increased sharply, a relief boost of ninety thousand. It wasn’t this simple fact all by itself which drew the blast from the G.O.P. candidate. He proce-ded to give out some W.P.A. figures for previous years, and he didn’t intend them to be any mere exorcise in mathmetics. :endell illkie had deep meanings when he propounded the numbers. He noted that in Nineteen Thirty-three, the relief rolls declined, were reduced more than :i*teen per cent x rcm June through October. Nineteen Thirty-three - said illtcie witu an arch look, was no^. an election year. put Xxn*it Nineteen Thirty-four was, anu during the summer campaign for Congress V/.P.A. went up for an increase of more than eleven per cent. Nineteen Thirty-five, another non-election year, showed a drop of more then nine per cent durins the summer months. WILLKIE—2 ■ Nineteen thirty-six was a presidential year, and there was a relief increase of more lir-.n fourteen re per cent. Mon-election Nineteen Thirty-seven, a decline of nearly seventeen ner cent In Iineteen t..-eigi.t, in which there were Congressional elections, .. .a. ent uo more then nineteen per cent. Last year, Nineteen Thirty-nine, no election, and a drop of more than twenty-five per cent. It isn’t difficult to perceive the profundity of the ^'illKie xkm & xx & slx reasoning, lie intimates that when there’s an election coming, up goes V/.P.A. Vhen tnere are no votes to be fought for, down gees V/.P.A. he would seem to suggest that them down - all uepenaing upon politics. So you see tne subtle flash of T'illkie meaning when he gives the . .A. figure - or this ace-'high election year and ‘states that in July the relief rolls went up to the tune of ninety thousand. Having figured everything out, tne Republican candidate proceeded to issue a denunciu .icn He declared that the V.P.A. increase in July was a violation of the Hatch Law, tnat act designed to eliminate c orrupt practices in politics. The ups and clowns oi seem like a decidedly corrupt practice to Willkie, and he calls upon attorney Oeneral Jackson to make if nn investigation. Jackson ma} prosecute, or again ne may not. aoosi^LT ifxx President Roosevelt today came out flatly in favor of the Conscription nill now bein^ debated in Congress S' flitherto, tne President has spoken in favor of the general principal o selective service. Now, he gives his support to tne speciiic bi^l before Congress. The battle is still raging in tne Senate with ail kinds of prospect of delay. The Presiaent ituted today that national defense requires action on con vo scriotion in the next two weeks. He declared that the way luntary enlistments are going, it would tane the ^.rmy a rear to -et the first batch of four hundred thousand men it wants. It would take anotner year to get another iour nunared thousand. The President eased that right now the Army has basic equipment for tne soidiers who would be drafted when the bill passes. his contention with weighty arguments, F.D.R. supported brought a b.ush.te-tne TreeWcnttai ? Wel-lT—H te-fie ue observed. ^te-the-reguler-bhite some of wnich, however, anaek. wny-tne -™ai'leni3r nl0C*sfry tha-t-today ’s stater..ent-was iseueu r- the baphington tiewspaprr •»«*- m Conference atTyen^n^ Al*o - newspaper 3o it *ss-J^ut is as »i*ed- end v;e u^-1 know re must be 'it'srrrrret1 bttmtt- the kind ..of. 94o^-ies we texi wuert ire hies e-re preeerit-, T r - €b 4 eeueoiftg reFfit^ equipirieni)\ ILhe President caiLe to one point wnich caused him to stop and upOxOgize to the newspaper women. He spoke of underwear. No, not the filmsy laces that girl rapcartKi reporters might wear, not lingerie. The presidential theme was soldiers’ underwear, which is not ordinarily decorated with lace. Tot in the Army. -is theme was, that If, for exaanle, there was e shortage of army underwear, it wouldn't ma.ee so much uifferenee, because rlenty of that sort of thing cduld be had in tne stores of the nation. The underwear logic completely convinced tne^r.ess ------ ^ vyc* - — ineluding the blushing «irl reporters. You Know - shrinking bashful modesty of newspaper women. re was not only det^cy «"d ref ine..^ today's >o mystification. XT116 nhite House conference, tiiere was a. Pivesiuent, speakingV hnuy equipment, r^ntaoned tne walk e-t,lkie KowWt's a walkie-t\e - except :Uaybe \ck nrivate hav, ^ that at all. a conveVsati on while he’s d\Uing. No, it's "walkie-talkie” The i resident explained t;.a < a ^ V \ a oortable driving This being the Nu-Blue Sunoco A 4 to relute e few revelations about driving - revelations tnat we have today from the Public Hoads .dmini'stration. They made a survey of the driving nabits of motorists, the .enaFaeteristios- ef—oeoole wuen they lill up with Nu-Blue and-ge -buzzing-along* here’s a difference between youth and age. Younger persons drive faster than their elders - as one might suspect. And those same elders drive b I khi older oars than the youngsters, which seems fitting - age for age. Nov: herefs an odd one!~ Drivers commonly enter cities faster than they leave them. I suppose you get tuned to a slower clip while passing through a town. T Oh -yen, U^nd the difference between men and women, Youthen cw, j -ahuaftfl womart t m troui - little woman drives almost as fast as you do, ci.iej. . i».nd The shef s a safer driver* nushes a^ft# only a litUr© mor« sirowly than you dOT^end a gooo more * nhi ck—*<~ **i& aee^^idate tna^^e ^ a^ast as .Aiikful ^riva^ few family arguments. Soviet's get along That may provoke a to Hugh James. There » s no argument about what he^s _>o ^ tell you, ^^v x\ U a x 0 ^ cUvvJr yUi'B&M