INVASION IT . • x/ A C^GiZ T^-Brit are » 'to jgrfrgrrincs5' — ^L^>rx^v> ^ uti^HUd-Uy^Prime Minister Churchill and Lord Beaverbrook, warnings that a Nazi invasion might be expected at any time. It was recalled in London that as long ages as a month ago. Hitlers generals were again collecting flat bottomed barges and all sorts of flat craft in the harbors of France, Holland, Belgium and Norway. When the same thing occurred last September, and the attempted invasion appeared to be a matter of hours, the Royal Air Force blasted away the danger by smashing HitlerTs concentration of barges. ^Today, the R.A.F. is iinr^nimi same^^ac.tel’ffg^ hammeri] away at all ports from which Hitler could attempt to cross the Cnannel. e> — One feature of the situation is that Hitler might launch the attack on Britain as a stroke to relieve the pressure ^ on his partner, Mussolini, in Libya and Albania. As an omen of this danger, it has been noticed that Air Marshal Goering1s air weapon has been significantly Quiet during the last few days. WAR Ana no* what of that war in the Middle East? In Africa, tiritarmtftnis far flun^, battleline ranges from Bardia on the Mediterranean coast in Libya all the way down to the Etniopian frontier of Kenya. All alon^ that huge front, Britain smashed at Italy.wirtli flfekSOTg-e* land. A Cairo is ___ , sea amd air. The latest from is thkt.'Jme British they 1 vey smashed through the tvjE^smas fortified perimeter around Bardia, th»t=iap^r^H%r Black Shirt , A base on the Mediterranean. With bombing planes in advance. the mecnanized forces penetrated the circle of Italian forts around Bardia. The British^aami^ the Italians are putting up A resistance and that Bardia is a tough nut to cracki Some British units are tearing ahead around Bardia, leaving it 1 /VtCL^A in the rear and pushing towards^Tobruk, eighty miles Fighting wras difficult because of neavy rains in the western desert, but Royal Air Force planes"4A oombard^rdia, which was also teihg shelled by British men-o-war lyin* off the coast’ .. __—------ O Britain^? attack on Ethiopia takes the form of lending Mil - 2 o a 10 to iaile Selassie, the 1 £~tTi exiled Emperor, 7^ <PWJ5 — Lc-vWJ^ ^V" It is reported that is at present in the Angio-Egyptian Sudan, A arousing the chieftains of his former empire to rebel against their Fascist rulers. From the war in Albania, news comes from two different sources. One from Belgrade, capital of Jugoslavia. Border rumors have it that the Greeks have captured Klisura, after the most sanguinary fighting. They first routed the Italians ten miles east of Tepelini and then treated Klisura to a fierce barrage of cannon fire. When their fire was not returned, the Helene infantry advanced upon the town. But to their surprise they were met by a oattalion of Italian Bersaglieri, the personal bodyguard of the King of Italy, reinforced with tanks. There they had it out in nand-to-hand fighting, but finally the Italians gave way. Tnatfs today’s frontier report about thS Albanian war. It’s different in Athens. A spokesman for the Greek Yar Office declared that those Jugoslav border reports were exaggerated. Greek troops had not yet occupied Klisura or Tepelini. But they were cannonading Klisura and expected to be able to do it soon. British and Greek ±i,vpilots reported that thousands of Albanians were fleeing from their homes, plodding along roads covered with snow. Parts of that Albanian rront was swept by a blizzard and some of the Greek divisions nad to make their way through thirty foot snowdrifts. LAVAL 'D Pie^ie Laval, the deposed Vice-Premier of France, will | ^ PCcrt^uX uJ^U stand by his guns^ad aLl~gk his a 11 itnda^/He l)eTieves in cooperation between France, Germany and/italyi Hefs confident that Germany and Italy are going >6 win the war. Nothing he believes can prevent Hitier^end Mussolini from making over Europe «*^ere Fascist-Nezi^p±sat^-Ti^ only hope for France is to collaborate. In different language, he echoes the words of otar-own Gerier*'! Zachary Taylor, "If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em." Lava_^^made his position clear quite candidly,j rcnw—\ttrn, to Ralph Heinzen of the United Press. /The deposed Vice-Premier declines to give his version of what happened at Vichy on Friday the Thirteenth, declines to tell his own story of his fight with Petain and the other colleagues in the Cabinet. He made no remarks for direct quotation, refused even to discuss his imprisonment, which was nothing really but confinement to his own castle in the Auvergne region. But he permitted Heinzen to publish a statement outlining the Laval position. Evidently he’s grr-rn confident that the pendulum is going to swing^to him* lot ■_» Ho fteltwgfe.s LAVAL - 2 Ana that eventually the French will keep the agreement he made for them with nitlerfs Foreign Minister, an agreement to collaborate witn miller and Mussolini. rne believes in a new order in Europe. 3 He1s anti-British, i Laval says that the Auvergne peasants have in fought the islanders^too often past centuries to be able to switch now and be friendly t<\them. France, as he puts it, must be a continental power. solate herself from the rest of Europe and try to be an Atlantic power. ThPv^f^T^J- she must reach friendly understandings with Germany, Italy, and Spain. That!s the only way she can become an important member of the new Europe. Finally, he hopes he may be able to play the part of the great reconcilor between Europe and the United States. And by the wey, here's what looks like an omen of Laval's power, still far reaching, iaarshal Petain today appointed a new general delegate of the French government at /Paris. And that new general dilegate is the Count De Brinon, a close i rienu of Lav 7 al, who has been Laval's representative at Paris with virtually the authority of an ambassadorl That same de Brinon has been carrying on negotiations with Hitler's man, Otto Abetz, to bring about collaboration with the Nazis. HOWE At last we have the real story of the liner Western Prince, torpedoed by a Nazi submarine. Fifty-three passengers and ninety-nine members oi the crew are safe. They arrived a£ an unnamed port on the west coast of England. Among those saved were the Right Honorable C.D.Hcwe, Canadian Minister of Munitions and Supplies. Two members of his party are also safe, W.D. Woodward of tiax Vancouver who is on the Howe staff and C.P. Taylor of Toronto, Director of Munitions Productioh. Among the other passenbers aboard the Western Prince were James Bone, Editor of the Manchester Guardian, and Colonel A. e . McCrae, a member of thS British Purchasing Commission in the United States. They are among the survivors. Apparently the sinking of the Western Prince and the saving of so many of the passengers and crew will go down as one of the minor sea sagas of this war. The lifeboats were launched with great difficulty. High seas were running. One of the boats was smashed against the side of the ship, crushing the passengers and members of the crew who were trying to climb down the rope ladder. Still another lifeboat capsized, and all who were in it drov/ned. HOWE - 2 Captain John Reed, skipper of the V.estern Prince, went down with his ship after blowing three blasts on his whistle to salute the lifeboats as they were pulling away. Surely a dramatic moment. CaptainReed shouted to the people in the lifeboats: "Goodbye, give my respects to all at home." At the side of Captain Reed was a Cockney steward, a steward named Frank who shouted out: "I»m staying along with the old man." One minute after Captain Reed blew those three blasts on the whistle the Western Prince went down. SUBIAAhliMES FOLLOW HQW'E more Nazi raiders in the North Atlantic. This morning a radio message was picked up from a Dutch tanker. She had been torpedoed some four hundred miles northeast of Scotland. Eighteen minutes later, came another message, a call for immediate help as the Dutch vessel had lost two of her three lifeboats. Two hours later still, the master of a Norwegian steamer radioed that he was being attacked by a submarine. Both of these ships were not far from the spot where the WESTERN PRIi\CE went down. And this afternoon a message was intercepted from a British vessel claiming she had been torpedoed off the coast of Scotland. AID BRITISH All talk In v.ashington today centered around that sensational proposal made public by President Roosevelt yesterday, the proposal to lend or lease war material to the British, Nor is the president resting on that announcement. Already he is having a program prepared — a definite plan for lending or leasing all kinds of armament. But, he made it emphatic today that he doesnot include the Navy; no men-o*-war to be leased. Hov/ever he does include merchant vessels, tanks, planes. Anything that we lend, to be covered by a mortgage. And this, Mr. Roosevelt feels, will not increase the danger of our being dragged into the war. And the value of the material we may thus lend or lease may run into large figures, into the billions. And what do the Germans think about President Roosevelt’s loan or lease proposal? Ofiicially, tney say nothing. Unofficially they are making light of it. They say that the limited capacity of the United States to turn out arms at present will prevent any decisive help, to Britain from us. About, a hundred and thirteen years afeo, an Englishman n" <a WardwiCKe/ enli 6 rated to America, went to a little village rfLt in tne Catskills, Madison, New 3f 0 rk. He established a woolen A mill. Ea several weavers followed him Siww from Leeds and eventually the name of Madison, New York, was changed to Leeds, New York. A few months ago, the tfayor of Leeds, New York, received a cable from the Chamber of Commerce of Leeds, England. It inquired whether Leeds, New York, would not like to contribute to the fund being raised in Leeds, England, to buy the government a Spitfire, l fighting plane. l^p/Leeds, New York, is a place of three hundred citizens. A Spitfire costs twenty-five thousand dollars. But the idea caught on in the Catskills. The local newspaper took it up and presently checks came pouring into Leeds, New York. Some from hundreds of miles away. It’s not certain yet that Leeds, New YorK, can buy an entire lighting airship-for the British, but the little town in the Catskills t*. datings it "tc- WALTSR*LOGAN The ttalter Logan bill is definitely dead. And for the time being there is no possibility of any federal act to give people a chance to appeal to the courts against the procedure of certain semi-judicial government agencies. Action today was quidk and dramatic. It had been said that President Roosevelt would veto it, but the prophesy hadn,t been that his veto would be sustained to quickly. The President told Congress that he could not approve the bill because, in his words, "it would produce the utmost chaos and paralysis in the administration of the government at this critical time." He is convinced, he says, that it wotfld be an invitation to endless and innumerable controversies at a moment when we can least afford them. "An ounce of action is worth more than a pound of argument," he remarked. Observers are pointing out two phrases in the President * s message. One, his remark about "the general philosophy of of the bill. Another was his declaration that the eifect it would be to reverse one of the most significatn and useful trends of the Twentieth Century in legal administration. Some observers interpret that as an admission that we are changing over to a government by federal bureaus. WALTER-LOGAN - 3 T^e House tooK it up quickly, and the result was a Nev. Deal victory. Not an overwhelming one» tw l>e Actually, there was a majority in favor of over-r iding T5\g«a^t 0 Roosevelts veto. But^it wasn’t large enough. The vote was a hundred and fifty-three to a hundred and twenty-seven. A hundred and fifty-three in favor of over-riding the veto. Sind' far short of the necessary two-thirds majority^ MISSING s the story ot a ^an who wandered away from home Or. ire ru was worried about becoming an American citizen. Day nefore yesterday we heard that a brilliant young German chemist named Erhard Fernnolz was reported missing at E3rinceton, New Jersey. Few details were riven out at the time and a Food deal of mystery was made of it. Now comes the explanation. Irom the Director of the Squibb Institute at New Brunswick, New Jersey, where Fernholz was chief of the chemistry division, ternholz had applied for naturalization, he was exceedingly keen to become an American. But he began to worry xfca because his final papers did not arrive. This preyed on his mind, depressed him. but, ironically, the day after he was reported missing, there came a communication from the Department of Justice, dis application nad been approved and he was notified to show up at Trent on Saturday morning to takt a s c th of .'llf'gir,ncr to Uncle Sam, and become an American citizen. V^o cAu?< , ^ vwvo