f FRANCE tu. ~ , <Ut. i-i l<f^l In France, terrorism is fighting terrorism. The Nazis, as they promised yesterday, executed fifty French hostages in reprisal for the assassination of Lieutenant-Colonel Holtz at Nantes. But before the firing squads had done their nork. another German officer, a Major, was murdered at Bordeaux. In fact, the ink was hardly dry on the Nazi proclamation before that latest assassination was committed. The Nazi authorities acted as before. They arrested a hundred hostages at Bordeaux^ V»liat we learn from France shows that there’s no end in sight to this^mat^ing of terror against terr^. Observers are pointing out that the Germans are now in a quandary. It is obvious that tiwlr reprisals have no effect, provoke an endless continuance of these terrorist assassinations. The French y*® police attacks Hi Hi . I on German officers are coirinitted not by nationalists^patriotsj (XT-L-C Communists. The tq -^veiy-:rg&siairU j X lifiiieyeizthe^^pojtrl^^. They say tiiat the assassins are young men between the ages of eighteen and twenty, trained in Communist youth camps There are even reports^^hat'the^r^T^ organization of more tnan FRAiNCE - 2 three thousand Communist youths at -ffork all over i;^ i£jL^ ^ ttocniuais'^^ the execution of fellow countrym^hostage^ means * 'j nothing. fact they welcome it, believing that the Viholesale executions by the Mazis will serve merely to infuriate the general masses of the population not only against the Nazis but against the Petain Government. Private accounts received A J from France indicate that the executions are having Just that effect, i s There were urgent appeals today both by goioTHyt Petain and Dari an over the radio. Petain begged his countrymen not to let harm befall France. And he used these words:- "Under the A 7 .mistice we laid down our arms and we have not the right to take them up again and strike the Germans in the back," ■unieiiyai-eto-tftur »hat-Lieutenant froltfl who wao—shot—there j—wag- a goo4-|—Juct and kind mnn with an intoil-4g^Rt--efy!af»rehensloft. Such appeals of course mean nothing to young Communists who have txJLlx been trained to look upon terrorism as a revolutionary instrument and reprisals by the enemy as another incident to revolutionary ;error FRAKCE - 3 The Nazis have their hands full in Belgium too, with sabotage and other disorders, T^ey arrested six hundred Belgians A in Antwerp alone,and a couple of German officers were killed there too. | y ^ ( 4X0C cnr- ? I : : ■■] ) ! J The Nazi drive on Moscow has been slowed up - they admittai it^The panzer divisions found themselves battling against not only the Red armies but pelting snowstorms. Even in the invaluable industrial Donets basing they had to put the Drakes on. But Hitler’s high command declared that this was not because of any strong Russian defense but in order to give their tired troops a breathing spell after long^ «»forced marches throughout the last two weeks. Even so, they say, they have control of seventy per cent of the Soviets’ coal, eighty-five per cent of their iron ore, eighty-five per cent of their pig iron, eighty-four per cent of their tin, most of their manganese. nichol, platinum and bauxite. Yesterday the high command told us they had captured the city in the Donets basin named after Stalin. Today their air arm has been effectively bombing and machine-gunning the 0 /^ Red army positions concentrations near Issum, seventy-five miles north of Stalino. reuorts that Goering’s bombers The Nazi news agency report 4.’ncr R prniies into disaster* but that s have thrown the retreating Re A ,1 A WAR - 3 Nevertheless, the Russian armies are still said to be fighting as a unit, and the Nazi admissions give us room to believe the report broadcast from Moscow that the Red armies in the southern "if front have stopped Hitler’s advance on Rostov. The Soviet news agency announces that the Germans trydng to turn the flank of the Russian armies have been driven back. ii I •f lit ro add war London reports that even neutral military experts believe Hitler’s armies are stymied, at least for the time being. They point out significantly that Hitler’s tremendous mechanized machine has no% been not much more than an hour’s ride from the Kremlin for the last three days and in those three days tfe seem to have made no progress at all 75 ^ A experts in London are not Q JP X/XIUJ. O 1/X ^ ^ XlX/ViwVwX • UJXls^ ** w w Vi uiw A invaders but the Red defenders. an impression that the Nazi drive has lost its momentum and it may be doubtful whether they can organize a fresh one this winter. n ■Ji IRM V/e seem to be often learning things about ourselves from Britain before they're announced in our own country. Today we have Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden telling the world that the United ' States is building supply lines to Russia through Iran, Forelng j Secretary Eden told this to the House of Commons. Later the news was confirmed in Washington, and the mlnut e Congress passes the increase the capacity of the railroad across Iran. In facts plans have already been prepared. The railroad that was the pride and Joy of the Shah who left the throne not many weeks ago. 1 second Lend-Lease appropriation our government will take steps to ,, | i BRITAIN W-tS) •pOBl 1,1 voly-iwi; Trtgpt=aty invasion of Eurooe itzk A to help^Soviet kusala^*. Everybody has long suspected this, btit today it became official. It was proclaimed in the British House of Peers by Lord Moyne who spoke for the government. ' 7 '^^ 4^^ in reply to another peer, Iiord A Strabolgi^formerly a commander in the Kira’s Navy. Ldrd Strabolgi told the Lords that the Germans had only twenty-five dvisions i of second-line troops in all western Europe. And he added:- "American information, which probably is right, is that they have less tnan one hundred tanks for police purposes." Then Lord Strabolgi accomplished a rare feat, he made the House of Lords laugh. said the war was too Iht s^ious to be left to professional soldiers. And he asked:- "Wl^re would we been in Nineteen Seventeen and Eighteen if ity had not been for amateur strategists like Prime Minister Llo George?" Tn answer to the former Maval officer. 4 . Lord Moyne said it ‘second would be madness for the British to try to open up front In the West. *»wa he continued:*** "I cannot imagine anything Which would suit Hitler better than if we adopted the Chinese BRITAi:i -e method of committing suicide on your enemy’s doorstep.** His had neither Lordship admitted that the British Army^kJBbdttx^Kti^ enough tanks nor artillery for an Invasion of the continent. nk. British government has no intention of getting into another Dunkirk no matter.what the amateur strategists and soap-box A /v orators and the campalgiis~ln.r^?^n press may shott. ) if li if “1 Old Vesuvius once again brought bad. luck to the ancient city of Naples, ^'‘ot an eruption this time. Just a glow from the crater that-made a perfect light for British air raiders. And i'iaples got the worst that any Italian city has had to sul'fer so far. For five hours R.A.F. squadrons flew over in wqves, guided by the red glow from the famed volcanoes crater. We don’t know yet how much damage was done tho the Italian admit it was heavy. IfjsXs—r_ SUNOCO, WEDNESDAY. OCTOhER 22, . 6eO£> EVEWIWG -1^VerfirBOD5N Herf* • s at least-^me -pi^ee -of-good newyto-bggln-witlK /r All the officers and crev of the torpedoed freighter LEHIGH have been saved, all forty-four of them. Twenty-two of them were landed yesterday at hathhurst, British Gaqubia, in West Africa, and today the United States Maritime Commission received word that twenty-two others, including five stowaways, have’ been set ashore at Freetown, also in British W’^st Africa. But that hasn^t moderated the agitation, particularly in Washington. Somebody has been looking up the records and found that altogether ten American ships have been sunk since this war ir began. Eighteen of the crew of the steamer BOLD VENTURE are still Tf' /- missing. Big shot# in Washington h&ve been citing all these facts A arguments for repealing toe Neutrality Act. Presidential secretary Stev# E^rly, speaking for the White House, invited r LEAD - 2 Congress to repeal not only Section Six as President Roosevelt had asked, but also Section of the Act, The Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations began hearing witnesses opposed to repeal. The first of them y war former Senator Dave Read of Pennsylvania. We don’t know what he told the Committee but he told newspapermen tnat he thought repealing the Act would be a step towards war. And he added that he wanted to see the United States at peace for many reasons, not the least of which is that if we stay out our tea influence in a Just peace yi III be greater Sj^nator Nye of North Dakota heard former Senator R^ad talking about a step toward war and hs asked, ’’Would it be a step or a Jump?” In Gernany, the Nazi press waxed even more virulent were today. They jixBMXlnB toacjJwK* particularly stunned when Secretary Hull called them international highwaymen. One .n o ;?r.r»^pve'lt an international pirate, newspaper called President noose . ^ TE-arrH and the BOLD VENTURE were sunk by and denied that the LEHIGH ana tn Ggrraan D-boats. They even doubted the torpedoing of the LEAD - 3 destroyers KEARNY and GREER. Said a Nazi spokesman, "NoDody to this day knows whether the incidents occurred or not." m ■ ;..i I "(I • Ml ; t i-i !!;i ll ’• 5' ■¥ ii h' ll tummmi 7 ■ii nOLL Secretary Hull spoke out against Hj^tler again today — apropos the sinking of the LEHIGH. He said it was another illustration of the Nazi policy of attempting to create a reign of terror, frightfulness and absolute lawlessness on the high seas. He added thit it was Just a part of Hitler’s program for world conquest with acts contrary to all law and in harmony with all the definitions of piracy and assassination. He adduced it as another reason why Congress should repeal not one but two sections of the f^eutrality Act. U HjELLMAIi There’s been a hullabaloo because a low-bid defense housing contract at Detroit was turned down In favor of a higher one. The low bidder was going to put up pre-fabricated houses which are a thorn in the side of organized labor. The Senators am investigating national defense today heard an explanation from Sidney Hillman, Co-Director of the Office of Production Managemen*^ Sw took all the responsibility for turning down that contract A which was four hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars lower than % the next lowest. Hillman said that he had done it in order to avoid trouble. The fabricated-houses business involved a labor issue wl:iich might bring about disturbances, whteh would » umi bavg ~a off ee t u pnn th n a nt, 1 i. As he put it:- ^'It might be putting a match to a place where there’s plenty of powder and.blowiffS up our defense program.” Said Senator A Brewster of Maine:- ”Surely a threat of an illegal disturbance is not something you would back down on, Mr. Hillman?" Hillman replied that the record for industrial relations in the United States proves that those things have happened and he did not propose to be a party to^ny more at this time. He did not think the government owed it to the low bidder to tak-^such a gamble. HILLMAiN - 2 y lii^lssourl Senator Triiman, Chairman of the Conunittee^ spoke U^; this up:and sal^ If we can’t let contract to the lowest bidder A who is a union man at that^ ^then I don’t know what this country A n is coming to. Senator Brewster of Maine then wanted to know if this policy would lead to an American Federation of Labor monopoly sponsored by the government in the defense construction contracts have been let to firms who employ labor outside of the fT ct :^ L, r-*bh» field where the I A A ftkmy^e added that out of his thirty years experience, he saw a Federation field where the is predominant. danger signal and obeyed it. n j I program. Hillman replied that on the contrary, one-third of the ,i SUITCASE A gentleman in Chicago was carrying ^ suitcase^when an inquisitive policeman stopped him and asked him some questions. The cop was just about to say, ”on your way”, when to his astonisnnient the suitcase began to talk. The officer was shocked not so much by the fact of a chattering suitcase as by the words it uttered. Those words were: ^Calling Squad Car One 0 One, calling Squad Car One 0 One. Go to the corner of such-and-such a street, pick up a young fellow with a suitcase who has been breaking open mail boxes.” The police claimed later that the young man had confessed. Ou in case squad cars might interrupt him while he was rifling the mail boxes. J He said he carried the radio in ttw valise so it might warn him ! A t J r WIMI'SOPS Streams of ticker tape flew over downtown wew York today,--- just as in the glad, mad ’Twenties, the days of Grover Vihalen and Jimmy Walker. It was an old time rip-roaring celebration, but not for an explorer or a channel swimmer this time. The charivari was ^ . i the Duke and Duchess. I-sfaoyld^h&rdly have to add^Itth^ Duke It has been a long time since ttixt many thousands of turned out Just to see a couple of^^^^wef? H I « /\ people riding through the streets in an automobile. -TtK:. A The royal pair hustled from ‘place to place until they were almost literally run ragged. It^s news when the Prince who was ? j r once acclaimed the first gentleman of Europe is actually disheveled But that’s how he was, tie crooked, hair rumpled, clothing awry. and a tired far away look in his eye. The Duchess, on t^ other hand, took it without turning a hair, still is explaining to the “A press that she isn’t much interested in clothes. ’’Look at this dress,” she said to a woman reporter. ”I’ve had it since xiineteen Thirty-Wine.” Thep^i^vone-^^hingr-whieh quite-eleoely^ that ““the' DoteB»and ftigr i yjNDSORS - The Seraphic Secretaries of America are having a banquet at the Waldorf tonight — not far from the royal suite, and they’ve been trying all day to find out if there is a royal secretary and get her to Join them. A hundred of the top-notch young lady secregaries, wiwh the Windsor secretary would attend their party — and bring the Duke and Duchess. Who are the Seraphic Secretaries? Oh, Mr. HooverIs, Mr. Willkie’s, Bruce Barton’s, Eddie Rickenbacker’s, and three from my office who are always seraphic! And maybe Hugh’s secretary. Tell us something interesting about your beautiful secretary, Hugh. LTP.1941.10.22 LTP.1941.10.22----