■ * vf. — ) /Ce> j . WAR There was a good deal of excitement today when the hectic tone of dispatches from Europe made it appear that the Razis had really begun to carry out Hitler’s threat of war in earnest against Britain and France. But when the actual facts were analyzed, the excitement seems to have been mostly much ado about nothing. As usual, the Germans say one thing, the British give a totally A different color to the principal event of the day^ - an attack by a squadron of a dozen Razi bombers on the Scottish coast. Evidently, they were aiming at the dock yards ne^r Edinburgh, and trying to blow down the famous oridge over the Firth of Forth. They were greeted with a hot fus«iliade from British anti-aircraft batteries around the Scottisn capital. Fighting planes of the Royal Air Force MdjsxkJi met them in the airland there were dog fights over the rooftops of the famous old city which the Scots used to call "Old Reekie.” 1 The British claim is that the German _■ bombers lost heavily,\ three out of twelve shot down, killed. / A / \ They admit that there wrere casualties among the crews of British cruisers and one destroyer in the Firth of Forth. It v^as a xxoikaeix ■I—asalM spectacular show from all accounts, but in the light of cola afterthought, not much to shout about. { The German supreme command, for its part, declares that the losses talien by the Germans v/ere ridiculously small) and / that the attack by the raiding bombers achieved positive results. At about the same time, the German authorities retract a claim they had made previously, a claim that the same submarine which sank the RO' y AL OAK had also attacked the British battle cruiser REPULSE and put her out of action. They now say that though a German torpedo had struck the REPULSE, it did not really disable her.. naval battm Another rumor of a naval battle in the North Sea. It comes from Bergen, Norway. A Norwegian newspaper reports UA three warships firing through heavy clouds of smoke. Upon the appearance of a fourth man-o-war, the three that had been firing disappeared toward the west. cMl <sii22 a. DIPLOMATIC From the diplomatic front, we get a torrential volume of surmises, guesses, soothsayings. The British report, hopefully we ws suppose, that the negotiations between Turkey and Soviet Russia, uck a snag. But from Moscow we learn that the Turkish Foreign Minister received fresh ’ ‘ 1 ’ ~ m his government and resumed his conferences at the ^ t Turkey comes the Russo-Turkish Treaty is on the way to being consummated. In Berlin, Chancellor Adolf Hitler is reported to have sent a special courier to Soviet Dictator Stalin at Moscow. Concerning this there is a lot of guessing and crystal gazing,atesHi none of which is reliable or particularly worth repeating. Fascist nev/spapers. Last week they were pounding the Bolsheviks. Tonight they are printing caustic things about the British and French, Said one paper;— wIf the German submarines continue as they are tesx going, all Britt sh armored ships will be destroyed by the end of next year.” Another—-Fasoirst pubiicati-oH-bl-ame-s—t he. 'Lews —f or- Chamtee r 1 ai n * s - de^e-is ion 'to -keep f ig hiring . the 'wa r-r- -S-t il-i- another -Fasnisij. pap^r that Httlcx ~ offeE^d - peace—hut Ghamber 1 a i n - and- - DaJLsd i e r c r i ed ANe- In Rome therea peculiar change in the tone of the SURVIVORS Several more survivors froni the destruction, oi the ATHENIA reached these shores today aboard a British liner. Some of those survivors, when they landed, were complaining loudly against the British authorities. These were Polish and Czechoslovakian refugees. They claim they were compelled by the Glasgow police to sail aboard the British ship that landed their today. And they hadn’t wanted to travel under the British flag. 3uty, they say, the Glasgow police told them that if they didn’t sail, they would starve in Glasgow. They wanted to sail on some American ship but the American Consul wouldn11 Jet them, saying that American ships were for American citizens. So the refugees had to take what they could. t . thdbergh Colonel The British newspapers are throwing epithets at &\\JZ A ^ Lindbergh, coluoinist call^A him "American Trouble Maker Number Oneand said:- "There1s a guy J | don!t like." A British lady columnist threw scorn on Lindbergh1s flying record, called him "the flying Yankee Hitler" and "a barnstorming mischief-maker who does^t know how to keep his mouth shut." ( The LONDON SUNDAY EXPRESS carried a headline:- "Hitler’s medal goes tc Lindbergh’s head.The LONDON SUNDAY CHRONICLE declared that Lindbergh "shows his gratitude by telling Canada she ought to quit the British Empire." Jlzb^k. warning The authorities of the Canadian Navy have published a warning to the masters of merchant ships. It concerns particularly the way they enter the harbor of St-John, New Brunswick. They were cautioned that if they do anything that looks suspicious, they1 re liable to be fired at by the coast defense artillery in St.John. First of all, on approaching the harbor, they must give notice in advance. They must enter the harbor only in daytime and immediately seal their radios. They must not come near any government ships or government docks HEPBPR1 The political campaign in Canada is getting warmer. Premier Hepburn of Canada delivered an attack on the dominion government today, said, itfs badly prepared for war. In fact, so ill-prepared that the army is unable to accept any more recruits. M^nTRALITY The fight for a new Neutrality Act continued in Congre s today. Critics of the government hill gained one decided victory. The administration forces yielded to the attacks made on the proposal to allow the belligerent governments ninety days* credit. This was formally acknowledged by Senator Pitman of Nevada, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and leader of the .. ight to get the bill passed. introduced an amendment cutting out those ninety day credits and making it a stricly cash-and-carry affair. ARMISTICE President Roosevelt^issued his annual proclamation oTdevjmUthe celeoration of November Eleventh as Armsbice Day, by an Act of Congress. In his proclamation, the President said thfet"in the tragic situation in which the world finds itself today, with the destructive forces of war once again unleashed, it is appropriate for the people of the United States to reflect upon that hour of November Eleventh, N^neteenEighteen, when the voices of war were silenced.0 Whereupon A pon Marurges us urges us to look forward even now to a time when a just and enduring peace will be established among all the peoples of the earth. MAVERICK San Antonio, Texas, today furnished the world with a surprise. The central figure wa. the Honorable Maury Maverick, former Representative in Congress and later elected Mayor. You may recall what a row was made at San Antonio when Maury Maverick permitted Communists to hold a meeting against tHe protests of many people. Maverick declared he had no more use for Communists than anybody else but he was going to preserve free speech in SanAntonio. Today a grand jury handed down five indictments agAinst Maury Maverick, accusing him of felonies and ten others charging him with misdemeanors. Specifically, the indictments concern the illegal advancing of money to pay poll taxes. Officials of the International Garment Workers Union are also involved. Maverick promptly raised ten thousand dollars bail and said the whole business was a political smear. GALLOGLy Governor OfDaniel of Texas today heard a story explaining how a couple of rich undergraduates had turned hold-upj^ Richard Gallogly of Atlanta, who escaped from prison, appeared before the Texas Governor, pleading not to be extradited back to Georgia. His attorney told the Governor that Gallogly had originally pleaded guilty of that crime to save a friend, also that he had been beaten by guards in the Georgia Penitentiary, and that the only reason he had been imprisoned so long was because of the interference of professional politicians. Those undergraduate hold-ups at Atlanta, Georgia, started in a hilarious college prank. Gallogly»s classmate. In a gay moment had shot the face out of the college clock at Oglethorpe University. He was ordered to pay the cost of repairing the clock, ^nd staged the hold-ups to get the money to pay the costs and his fines. && saiirhe had accompanied this classmate on the hold ups but had A carried no gun and had tried to present the killings. Gallogly’s lawyer told the Governor that he had been mistreated because his family were rich. If he had come from poor folks, said the lawyer, Gallogly would have had a better break. Persecuted because he was rich! ' 'v, /“ ^ A roostm I The State of Washington has a champion, a sprinting rooster. | Hefs a three year old white leghorn, named Dot. He had to defend his title yesterday. They held the fifth annual championship of the rooster racing world at Big Harbor, Washington. After eight elimination races, they narrowed the field to three white leghorns. Dot won again, covered eighty yards in fifteen seconds flat. I was was curious to know how they made those roosters race. i---- They hold in front of them a bag of corn^and^ ygNM n We all imow how certain articles are sold with a guarantee - if I the compare for a certain length of time r® will repair them gratis 'll ! ■ i i m is i if 1 I if they get out of gear* Sometimes people claim free repairs and ■StCh the company feels they1 re not entitled to them. Asrt often folks A are pretty scrupulous. As for height of scruples, let me submit this onef The manufactuers of the Rand Shaver got a letter from A Lieutenant John C* Nichols of the United States Navy. Lieutenant Nichols is one of the survivors of the SQUALUS. He writes that when the ill-fated submarine was raised and they pumped it dry, he retrieved belongings of his. witli -IW And he found his electric fisai Shaver. The razor,, he writes, had been submerged in salt water in the presence of chlorine gas and silt since the twenty-third day of May. Yet when he put electrical Juice into it, he found it worked. However some parts had rusted. So now he was sending the i* razor back to the company for repairs. "I enclose the guarantee with it," he writes, "though I ■at fully realize that such does not hold In this case. I do wisn, however," he continues, "that you would adjust and repair the razor LETTER - 2 as necessary and bill me for the charges.” Bill him for the charges? The Company should send Lieutenant Nichols, U. S. N . a thousand dollars for the year’s perfect publicity storyi ATTTO SHOW 1 || This is the week, when most highways lead to the Grand Central Palace in New York for the Fcrtieth National Automobile ill, ■ l Show. That's always news because everybody wants to see what ft improvements the manufacturers have achieved in their Nineteen 1 Forty models. From what I've observed after a quick glance at J&JGOO+* »* * ■jy. new caifil the day is approaching when there'll be Si I! i m ! such thing as shifting gears. Thatday isn't here yet, but the ease with which gears are shifted now i^a=*ffWS3jsfes&£«^feature of I the new cars ticn . " A /I This was Safety Day at the Show. Paul Hoffman, President 15 L ll : of the Studebaker Corporation and also of the Automotive Safety Foundation, had an interesting report to make, he pointed with pride to the fact that in the last year there were twenty-nine thousand fewer traffic fatalities than four years ago) and one million fewer accidents involving personal injury and damage to property; one billion dollars less loss in cash, and insurance costs reduced as much as forty per cent. ? One of the biggest drawing features at the GrandCentral :] ! 1 il ill ; 1 llE m ij N I:, | I' ii if i i f 1 ii : -p Hr! ill i I: r I Hi I I II S ll 1 Mi Palace is the Hiighway Safety Center. There people have a lot of fun fiU. Jz___ flTITQ SHOW - 2 testing their knowledge of driving, competing with their friends. The game is to ansv/er questions about driving and then reading the answers registered on boards controlled by electricity. Another chaste little exhibit is what they call the Barger Drunkometer. It measures how drunk you are, if any. Indeed, they say it has been accepted by judges as a means of testing the degree to idiich a driver may be under the influence of the cup that cheers and inebriates. t enddrance Those endurance flyers are still up in the air over Rosamond Dry Lake and Santa Arina, in southern California, 'A couple of them have been up three hundred and forty-three hours, breaking the record for light planes. Two others have been aloft eleven days. And the two who are flying around over Muncie, Indiana, are only they may not like. They can fly all they want to, but their efforts will not be officially recognized. The headquarters of the National Aeronautical Association in Washirg ton announced that it recognizes no endurance flights except those mx that it has officially approved and supervised. About a year ago, the Association announced that they will have nothing more to do with endurance records. seventy-two hours behind their California rivals. When they come to earth they will hear some things that PLAHE THEFT A cool customer showed up at the airport of Sudbury, Ontario today. He jumped out of his car, pulled a revolver out of Ms pocket, and held up the watchman. The robber then tied the watchman up with copper wire, gagged him, and parked him in the office. He then found some cigarettes in a desk and a bottle 6f rum. He smoked the cigarettes, drank up the rum, went out into the field and craked up a seaplane belonging to Austin Airways. The next thing he did was to tear out the ignition wires from a couple of other planes that were moored in the lake. Then he stepped Into the cockpit of the plane he had cranked, taxied down the lake and took off with his motor roaring. The police had a theory that this airplane bandit intends to use the plane in a bank robbery. Late today they found the plane --- crashed. The robber flown, without wings.