PEACE PROPOSAL The British Pai’liament today took a vote on the subject of peace. The motion v.as made by an Independent Labor member, named UcGovern. He said there v*ere many in Britain who oeiieved that an attempt for peace should be made. "No opportunity, U.e declared, "should be allowed to pass, by which we might with intelligence, and if necessary in a spirit of compromise, bring this tragic devastating conflict to an end." He continued his argument in this fashion:- "Bringing peace to a country," said he, "is not discredj^^ it is a worthy motive." Aiid the Independent Laborite added:- "There is no certainty of a great military victory." This contention was answered by Lord Privy Seal, Clement Attlee. Refs a Labor member of the Cabinet and he spoKe for the British Government, ne used these measured words:- "The alternatives before the country are not war and peace - but war and what kind of peace?" He asked - if a peace conference were called now, who would attend it? He wanted to know whether Hitler would presume to represent the countries he has overrun. "Our prime difficulty," declared Clement Attlee, "is that we are up against a people who do not accept any of the decencies of modern civilization PEACE PROPOSAL - 2 Tney have destroyed any vestige ofjfreedom in Europe.” He stated Britain1 s purpose in these words:- T,Our aim is to establish a peace of free peoples.” The Commons thereupon took a vote and snowed under the peace proposal by a majority of three hundred and forty-one to four. ieanwhile, there are rumors of a peace suggestion from another quarter - Portugal. The story comes from French Government circles at Vichy, and states that President Salazar o of Portugal is going to approach the belligerent nations with suggestions for ending the conflict. .ru.ie <,aL drama in the British port of Southampton today - tna old historic harbor so terribly bombed of late. King George went to oouthampton to inspect the wreckage - and hearten the people. ne sav' a scene of devastation - also a scene of popular enthusiasm. George tne Sixth paid special honor to a woman who is hailed as the neroine of Southampton, ner name - Miss Tadpole. Strange, what odd names the English sometimes have. We Americans note them with i a smile. But an odd name can be accompanied by the highest flame of courage, as is illustrated in the story of Miss Tadpole. SheTs tne organizer of a woman’s volunteer service at Southampton. And today King George was told the story how Miss Tadpole found nerself in a position of desperate peril. Two buildings on either side of her were aflame, the walls threatening to fall. Instead of promptly escaping. Miss Tadpole undertook to save tv.o mobile canteens that would have been engui.fed‘by fire and^masonry. She drove one of the mobile canteens out of the area, then returned for the other. She was barely clear when one of the buildings ]—tira^ came crashing down a few feet behind her. Such is the story that King George heard today about KIiMG - 2 Miss Tadpole, heroine of Southampton. V.hiie he was hearing it, there was added drama - as a Nazi warplane flew overhead. Anti-aircraft fire roared and bursting shells dotted the skyp O l the King drove away in the royal car^ fee Nazi plane was still high above, pursued by the telltale puffs of smoke. YiAR Tae war in the air has slowed down a great deal, because of the weather. Both sides are impeded by soggy landing fields and by icing concitions so dangerous in aviation. The bombing of Britain has slackened. The R.A.F. today however struck at the Rhineland and Turin, the great industrial city of Northern Italy. London tells of heavy blasting and huge fires. ------- 0------- The Greek War is still in the crisis of bitter fighting, with Athens reporting that the Italian base at Porto Edda has been cut off and isolated. Some accounts say the Greeks have entered Porto Edda. And that other Italian base Argyrokastron is said to be about to fall. / Bulletins from Rome indicate that the Italians are strict: on the d efensive and Greek sources believe that the Fascists are simply trying to hold their lines intact while they organize a heavy counter attack.xThere are rumors that Italian assaults are being plannerTror Christmas time. p WAR - 2 Rome today gives us a report of a volunteer for the Fascist Parachute Corps. It hardly seems news — somebody trying to join up qs a parachute soldier. But look who It is — Garnery, Primo that sameamerce who was the most gigantic of all heavyweight cnamiiions. Yes, old satchel-feet, lofty and ponderous — who sax more duik rnan i L neA wcteheix flinging his \fea*$A7fran>e out of a airplane and dropping A < ’ ^ his^wwHi^weight ditrthe end of a parachute. Then landing! th the old satchel-feet on a battlefield. It certainly would terrify the enemy. In fact, it terrified the Italian Parachute Corps. They turned Garnered down. He weight y£w*r** pounds now and the> figured they!d have to make a special parachute for him — extra large, double-size. So the former heavy-weight champ wiH have to enlist in some other branch of the service. TMX They might use him as an imitation of Hercules to frighten the Greeks — who don* t seem to frighten so easy Today there *8s a protest against the proposal to transfer large numbers of American merchant ships to Great Britain. The protest emenates from the maritime unions on the west coast. They claim that a wholesale transfer of American merchant vessels to the British would weaken United States national defense. Also, say they, it would increase unemployment - would throw American sailors, dock workers, and so on, out of jobs,. SHIPS «0 STRIKES In V»a ohin^ton today the statement was made that the United States aircraft industry is facing an epidemic of strikes. So said Democratic Representative John Costello of California. Re declared that the companies making war aviation equipment for national defense and for Great Britain are everywhere being faced with demands for higher wages. This follows the strike at the Vultee plant in which the union workers secured an increased wage scale. Aviation workers in general are demanding that same said the‘Contessman. This, he reckoned, might add an extra two hundred and fifty million dollars to the national defense cost. Or it might, in his words - "bring the entire aviation defense program to a standstill." ROOSEVELT 1/0 any doubt about the purpose of \ President KooseveltTs cruise to the Caribbean. In spite of the official secrecy and the President’s own laughing way of avoiding votr^a- — questions,^Jie was sailing^outhem waters to inspect United States defense in the West Indies. Today this was made official at the narbor of Kingston, Island of Jamaica. In the fifty destroyer deal, Jamaica was named as the site of one of the naval and air bases tnat the British granted to the United States. Today, aboard the Cruiser TUSCALOOSA, President Roosevelt received the British Governor-General Sir XjUEslexixx Arthur Richards and other British officials, «n£ ^Thereupon the TUSCALOOSA accompanied by two destroyers, steamed dow'n the coast. After twenty-five miles they were off Portland Bight. That’s the specific pla'ce where an American air base is to be established. The President and the Governor-General, without leaving the cruiser, scanned the lay of the land, the contour of the shore - the site of the new defense base for the American control of the Caribbean and the defense of the Panama Cenal. I:: AjGwrtAL .nis 'Aorld is full of coincidences - we aii know that. Take tne following - in Wasnington. President ^ooseveitfs next inauguration is being planned, and tickets for the inaugural grandstands are being put on sale. The address where the tickets will be sold is seven hundred and twenty-one — Fifteenth Street, just across the street from the Treasury. Now it happens that that same address was the Washington campaign headquarters of Vendeli Willkie. Selling the Roosevelt inaugural tickets there might seem to be rubbing it in. But today officials shook their heads solemnly and said - itj^s just a coincidence. Tou&y a million V. .P.A. workers were told tnat they must accept regular employment - whenever they can get it. The statement was made by Acting W.P.A. Commissioner Howard Hunter. He threatened that W.P.A. workers would be ta^en off the relief rolls - if they refused Jobs offered to them. To one million persons on W.P.A. he made this declaration:- "You are required," said he, "to accept bona fide offers of employment, whether of a permanent or temporary nature." CRASH A story of tragic irony was revealed today concerning the airpxan_ crash at Chicago last night - the accident in which eight lives were lost. ineioi'Mt- occurred—I arW-j vrhttn^ thi? 1 * 1 ■ The captain was Pilot Philip Scott, and he took, extra precautions for safety. Jie changed from one plane to another - so as to take no chances. At the Cleveland airport, witn passengers aboard, he was aii set to take off for Chicago. The control tower gave the signal - go ahead. The motors of the big plane were roaring. But Captain Philfep Scott didn’t like the way they sounded - ”8 little rough,” said he. So he wouldn’t take off. xie wanted to fly with motors, not a little rough - but entirely smooth. So he transferred his passengers and crew to another plane, the motors of which were as smooth as silk. This was the ill-starred plane which flew to Chicago, and crashed with fatal effect while trying to make a landing. Today an investigation seeking the cause of the accident disclosed that the wings and tail surfaces of the giant liner were coated with a quarter of an inch of ice - it was CKiiSH - 2 ice-forming weather in Cnicago, though the plane had de-icing equipment. ItTs an old story - the formation of ice is one of the greatest dangers of flying. A frosty accumulation distorts the flow of air over the surfaces of an airplane, and this may make the controJof the plane faulty. However, officials said today that a quarter of an inch of ice should not have been enough to cause an accident. They pointed out that other planes nad landed under similar circumstances shortly before. So the crash remains a mystery. 1 ^ — alarming about the future of women. a woman can have a future as well as a past. Today's KBJLfcxxxxrsyxxxauRx prophecy comes from the Hollywood expert on maxe-up. Max Factor. He tells us what the woman of the future will look like, and he ought to know - because his job is to make the woman of the present I ook like what she ainTt. He says tnat a survey of the feminine trend shows that woman will become taller, heavier and darker - brunettes and redheads predominating, not blondes. Complexions will be darker, and ft*ladyTs features will change. The woman of the future will have a higher forehead, a shorter jawbone, larger eyes, and bigger lips. Shef11 also wear less clotning - as if she doesn’t wear little ooough right now. In otner words, MTlady in times-to-come will be a swarthy, half nude giantess and a chinless highbrow, with thick lips and goggly eyes. Such is the feminine future - let’s hope it’s far enough in the future. Tae snow was heavy in the Buffalo area, making the countryside look something like the S^iss Alps - that region of eternal snow. At a police station the telephone rang. A womans voice spoke:- ,?I wish youTd keep a looK-out,” said she, "for my two dogs. Tv>eyTre lost in the snowstorm. They’re valuable dogs, and I’m afraid they won’t imow what to do in all that snow and blizzard." The police sergeant asked:- "What’s the description of the dogs?" w0h,n ca.ue the answer, "they are St-Bernardsl" Well, shades of the pious monks of the Alpine Pass of St. Bernard, who bred those famous St. Bernards to rescue travelers lost in the snow! Now, I suppose, we’ll have to breed travelers to rescue && St-Bernards. GANGGTER *' ”v Lou is, a jury handed dov,n a verdict - not fcUij.ty. .nd this ends an aftermath of one of the most famous crime cases in American history. The defendant found not guilty was Leo Brothers, who served eight years in prison for the killing of Jake Lingle. That crime was a nine-day wonder back in the gangster era of prohibition, when the'bootleg mobs rolled high in wealth pov\ r, ana when Scarf ace A1 Capone was underworld lord of Chicago. Remember Jake Lingle, the Chicago newspaper reporter who was killed by gunmen of the mobs? And then it was discovered that this influential newspaperman had been closely tied in with the bootleg and murder gangs? The case climaxed with an arrest and , trial - the conviction of a gangster named Leo Brothers, for the murder of Jake Lingle. Re was sentenced to prison for fourteen years, while controversy continued to blaze around the affair. V/hile in prison, Leo Brothers dedicated himself. not to thoughts of escaping or maxing trouble - he turned inventor. he invented a combination-cigarette-and-c^garette-lignter - which «— ^ does sound like quite a combination^ rie g^piied for a patent on GANGSTER - 2 it, and planned to start a business with his cigarette contraption when he got out of prison. Recently, after serving more than eight years, he was released. But, instead of going into business with his invention right away, he was promptly arrested - charged with another murder. That crime had been committed before the killing of Jake Lingle, and was connected with labor racketerring. A taxi driver was assassinated in Chicago. A few days ago. Brothers was put on trial. There was a lot of testimony against him, but today the jury returned a verdict of - not guilty. Bo now I suppose the central figure in the celebrated case of Jake Jingle can go ahead with his self-lighting cigarette. lou just pull out a cigarette and strike it on your pants. And that brings me panting to #y Blue Sunoco finale SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.