g -y after d <y in ^ oresc^ndo of w ^fare. London er ti ter 4 h' t ton-y si^ hii1^ ;r*od Wrizi v.erp] roared ov ^ri t in for ■ Adi i*l wind of c^r d- ttl*3. Rvarywrhere on p f u:' r- ninnr 'ni '#3 tdere w s incessant -loft, co igk > 7r ft was cloudy over the iclp against the att?eking ttceking sky of Frit in today. Vtorpl*oes battled above the clcuos, and A olu rod loan through them ino^tnr ?n bombing dives. There were A ' a? ha° been the e-ise for the past four days, the biggest air battle ^ver Wns fought - the magnitude of the ky struggle increasing The Lon-on neWboapers are saying -ttr****t* blitzKrieg. They are describing 11 --s eulminating WAR - 2 v iew fe*3 ' the more liKely^ nej' i]r p of s r ^: x cl1" i ' issued 10 hetlin. 'T'he N^ris are boastinr of the zero hour, and German military author1 ties today -nnoTi ced th1 t the Hitler sky fL0'rJ^ fleet had chieved control of the • lr over^D >v v Th« t British yc ' A. -m — C keuv^yati)---------- >ort is the nearest >oin1 * Germ n controlled Prance - A ‘ ..o ol es fron C . re 'Iasi armada woi have the shortest space of water to traverse for a landing in England. If the hitjor forces ti did mean t0 launch their attack at tha4- point, ooviously they1 d try first of all to obtain control of the air over Dover. British military • uthori ties, however, d-? scon ted the noti n today - pointing out that tne Dov°r area is nre isely the moat formidable stretch of English const for an invasion - protected by the famous chalk cliffs, those steen cliffs which line the shore an ^re • natur*^ rampart. Moreover, ^aid British miltia^ men, ^v^n if the G^rm ns did achieve air control ove’' Dover it wouidn* t mean so rnuch , Domination of' the 0 k ' v ^-— mere joint would be insi^ni t*icant. Brltsh military men are interpreting the WAR - 3 crescen-i^ o1 th® serial blitp'krl0^ 1n ? different fashion. 1 i ev sn^ rh’ t the Gerro ns. as p r^re objective, p re ^rnnshing at the Britvin military airports near the Coast - ryin^ to Knock fbe^ ont veep the British ftghfers from us1 nr ther?> for * hort distpnoe attaoK ^nd ouick refuelinp. The Nazi plan wou ci he to e] i .in te the nearby irnorts and then striKe at the ones further back, wiping out the Hying facilities progressively, further and further. This tends C^rvjL oQ ^r^~ to ' t ' k ^ ri e' r the strategy winning, the air, as tne A Germans are trying to pr- ctice It - knocking out the n^rr by airports and then the ones further on, striking at the eJabor'te equipment that modern military flying fields must hpv •, smashing up the coordinated air defence with which Great Britain is orotecting itself. —- - - British military authorities ar» spying that the blitzkrieg of the ir h'- s not reached a climax, ©a Nazis /V ^ 1; unched six hundred planes in today1s assau t, bu t the - I ght of air fury non1! be reached u til th over a If thousand a day. ''The British authorities believe th t Hitler VvAjL ~ ^ :S nrep; r *d to sacrifice five thousand nl-nes to win the ?i’r "nstery wer hri^ io - if he c n. Then orobably wi13 come tne attempt to ■<nv.de. Meanwhile British observatir-n planes r« <ort thnt they have not yet spotted any buc'e concentration of boats, such as *muid be needed for '< landing on the tight little isle. Meanwhile, the R.A.V. is counter-attacking - hurling air raids against German bases. Toaay they bobbed a series of inportant ooints In Frnce, Belgium, the Netherlands, ana Germany itself - do'nc he'»vy damage. Tremendous explosions, huge fires. The losses on both si es are as widely contradictory ac ever. London reports that fi.£ty-sev«n Nazi nlanes were shot do>n toci* y, while only nine H.A.F. fighters were lo^t. Ber in el' i s that up to no< n alone, sixty-nine British olanes h, d been destroyed, as gainst only a tow of the Nazi sky WAR- 5 H^rp are t.'^p total figures which London and b r in resoectively give for thrp« days of wholesale a!r fighting. London clal s th t * hu .dred and eighty-three German planes 'J\ < urin, three n- y a against sixty- British. Berlin pats 11 fchl - a s pi; nes destroyed, t^.o hundred anti cti fifty-^ou ’ ‘driUsh as against f if ty - f ou t * G e rraan . ; ri -a ' ■ ' fte day ar? obscuring the r-r-1 result of the battle of the sky over Britain. O Even an aerial blitzkrieg has its lighter side An incendiary bomb today in t the roof of a house in Kent. It went right through the roof — and landed in a bath GUNS ihere’s a good deal of doubt tonight about the story that GermanJsffe guns are shelling the British ooust. Both London and merlin ofiicially disclaim the idea. Yet from the scene of the supposed shelling the word persists. Eye-witnesses declare that heavy explosions occurred wnen there were no planes in the sky — so they couldn’t have been air bombs. British World War Xur Veterans in the xxh vicinity have examined pieces of the missiles, and declare they’re shell fragments. Of course, giant guns can shoot for more than twenty-two miles -- tne aistance across the narrowest point of the English Channel. t*xx Ue’ve heard stories that the Germans are installing huge pieces of artillery at Calais. So shells falling on British soil are entirely possible — though there’s no official support ior the story — ■ — n zn v*e re told too^y th: t the dr» d Hitler Secret >0 ip ,> the he?t^ o, has ^ he? dnuarter0 ir New York. Masked as a Nazi travel agency, . nd located in the sane building as tne Ger ian .ConFu]/te? a floor below. There is added dr'-na In t^e r r c t that this very place W'‘S bor.bed x a con ole of norths ar'o. Aoi)arently - somebody tried to blow the Tiev. Ycrk headruarterr* of the Ge--,'aro; Another lurid story about the aff ir is related by Dr. Paul Schwartz, who used to be the Oerran Consul in Nev. iork. y- until Fitter took nower — whereupon he re ianea from hi ^ oost bee use of h' s opnorition to th0 Nazis. Dr. Dau Sohwart- stated toany tirt th^ tr-vel agenev. re?illy th^ Gestapo herdrua^ters, used to be on the very same floor as the Ga^ - n Consulate. Then it was movod dovmstairs - because of a rather startling event. Two years the present Gerra- n Co -sul happened to come uoon ?n envelo ie cont? ininv naoe; s >vot red by tbe boad of the supposed tr. vel agency. The consul found that the document consisted of an srt elaborate rej cernl I i ms elf — • report being made to hitler1 s i\ N 13 - - Secret i^e ?r> BeAlin. Thus he discovered th-t the Ciertano ovv tan ners w- s s ylng on hi . hi made the C onsul ?o anrry tn- 1 ^ Insisted thr t the supposed - to-be tr: vel agency must move out. An^ the Gestapo moved to the floor below, ^uoh is the story tolc by the former German Consul . «> BROWDER In Washington today a warrant was issued, and on it was marked the name oi - Browder, which has such a familiar Communistic sound. This time, however, it's not Mr. Browder, JT it's Mrs, The Co..munist candidate for the presidency is under a prison sentence on passport charges, and now the ixx Immigration Service has called for the arrest of his wife. They want to know whether she is in tnls country legally. Mrs. Earl Browder is believed to be a Russian woman, who married tne Communist leader a year after her arrival in the United States. Is her stay in the country legal, according to tne Immigration Laws? That’s what the authorities v/ant to find out. So, tney’ve issued a warrant for Mrs. Earl £ xxkx 1 kx Browder '"■‘'US’ ipx^opn president 1'1 potion *5 ji in tn • news again tod <y. It was held five weeks ago. snd still nobody rmows v.ho is elected President, It takes a lonr time un exlc in votes ob th^n it!s a lonr time before the r suit i- annou,,cia. The !* t v.e he rd - both candidates # v»er« loudly olf i ’ 1 nr victory. Today’s nev° r^ves us Dronunei-roento by General ’ ' ) ' ■ ' * . ran against rne Government *»»<=»rv% oerty. The General is not in exico - he’s in F v na. he sai( too y he w s on a vacation. nI came to Cub* for ono week”, he e> )1-ined, “and have stayed tliree.'’ he added that he might •• 1 so visit Costa hic: and Guatemala . a c midat^ duing •II that vacati ning bet-een election day and the announceoient of the result - sounds odd. Tod- y A1 mazan, in F v-n , made n bro dcast to the people in Mexico, he decl .red that the voting had been al ost u rnlmous. The election n^; rly a hu dred oercent for Almazan. He annou ced th t ktsx he would be inaugurated as Pre idant of the Republic on the f1r«t of Pecember. "T know”. MEXICO - a ’’‘'th ne, "iiif t. the '-eoDle pre mtixtriT’ writing for ie, -ind I can i\y : ellow citizens that their KJxrrfiBX confidence in me TBwiwfc vi in." go he*XI be there ■ n ! 17 r: t to be inauqur- ted, but '>e nwhi.le - he*? vacationing in Cn^a, no m y vi-=it Cost- hica -nd Oupt^m- ' . ceems lil^e - uite b tour. General. KNOX One or the interesting political facts of the day is that Secretary or the Navy Colonel Frank Knox is a prominent newspaper publisher, a power in journalism. The Colonel, of course, is something oi a paradox - former Reoublican candidate lor vice president now in the cabinet of the Jemocratic New Deal. Today tne Chicago Daily News appeared without the name of Frank Knox on its editorial page. Dart week the Colonel told the directors of his paoer tiiat his duties as Secretary A of the Navy would take ail^his time. hefd have to retire from journalism for the time being. Today’s issue of the Chicago Daily News shows that the place of Frank Knox is now temporarily taken by a three-man group, one of whom is a well known editor, A. Paul Scott Mawrer. How does the Knox paper stand in tne Roosevelt-!\rillkie fight? Third Tern? With Colonel Knox running the journalistic show, the News h> s taken no stand as between Roosevelt and Yillkie. Today, with a three-man directorate installed, the News still took no stand RSCRrTTS I hardly Know what comment to make on this next one - save that it reminds one of World Vlar days. At that time, peo.le wondered about the large percentage of men in the draft who turned out to be physically unfit. So what do we find right now, as the Army is busily recruiting? Much the same thing. Today the Medical Corps of the Army comes forward with a statement sxxx expressing concern because of the bad physical condition of many of the young men who are seeking to enlist. The medical corps declares that in the New York area at least thirty per cent of the would-be recruits have been rejected - because of such defects as bad teeth, poor vision, flat feet, bad hearing, and general debility. Thirty per cent turned down - that seems like a lot A SHOOTING ere’s the v/eirdest sax shocker the news hts brought in a time. At Sudbury, Ontario, John Basok, a section hand, wanted to dance. He asked a waitress in the place 4 on enter tainraent. She refused. Said - no. thereupon the section hana whipped out a gun and opened fire, shooting the waitress five times. She fell to the floor. The section hand, otxxhiK dashing to escape, stumbled over her, fell - and broke his neck. The girl, badly wounded, apparently will recover FIGHT It sounds like news to say xx* that Joe Louis scored a complete ilop in the ring. But the heavyweight champion did - last night. Joe completely forgot what it was all about, •e was tne referee o: a prizefight at lYest Haven, Connecticut. Two battlers slugged at each other round after round, and Joe did his stuff as referee. After the last round, the two fighters stood in their corners and waited for the decision. It was up to Joe to proclaim the winner. Meanwnile, the champ was tne center of attraction, and tne crowd hailed him with enthusiasm. Joe responded. He responded so much he plumb forgot what it was all about. He must have figured that he was the winner. So, still responding to the cheers, Joe climbed out of the ring, and was on his way - leaving the two fighters standing there. They had to haul Joe back into the ring to get him to give the decision* J sdlu-