Just for a change let^ start with the ’Vorld Series instead oi' the ,orld ,ar. Fans in Cincinnati are glum tonight. Today in the fatal second inning the Tigers romped home with five runs, blasting the mighty Red pitcher, Paul Derringer, out of the Crosley park,the game on ice. Incidentally, this is the first 7/orld Series in five years, of which no part will be played in New York City. In other words, the first in^’ive years without the New York Yankees. 4t>/A ^ lAr^rw % <? DIES. Todays meeting of the Lies Committee at Newark brought cut some revelations. They concern the Serman-nmericun Bund’s Camp Nordland at «.ndover, New Jersey. Six hundred of the two thousand people who frequent that camp are aliens, who are employed in factories turning out munitions vital to the ,jnerican Defense Program. This exposure was made by Congressman Starnes of Alabama, sub-chairman of the Dies Committee. Starnes announced that those aliens had been traced by investigators of the Committee, and he added that the investigators haven’t even scratched the surface, The Committee also went into that much publicized meeting at Camp Nordland on ,.ugust eighteenth, the joint meeting of the Bund and the Ku Klux Klan. The New Jersey organizer of the Klan appeared as a witness and explained himself. He declared that he had promoted that joint meeting at Cams Nordland because he thought it would be a good idea to put on an Americanization Program in a place where tnere were no DIES - 2 aiinericans. One congressman asked him whether he thought it wise to hold a meeting at the Bund camp, ^nd the Klan organizer replied that he did then, but he added: "I don*t now •" i ^ clergyman, also an official of the New Jersey Klan said he had gone to that joint meeting with the same purpose^ Then he admitted in these words;- I probably made an awful fool of myself, and you can put that in the record." k naturalised German, eastern leader of the Nazi Bund, also testified at todayfs meeting. He told the Committee the Bund has about ten thousand members in the United States. But he said it’s their purpose to try to organize all the twenty million people in ^jnerica of German extraction. He admitted that the Bund had once been opposed to Communism. since the love feast between Hitler and A Stalin, there’s no more fighting between Communists and Bundists in ,jnerica In the battle uf Britain, the reports from both sides in the last few days appear somewhat to confirm the \ •■ritish claims, I mean the claims that the British are getting stronger in the air every week, that their retaliation against the Nazis is becoming steadily more deadly and that British defenses against Nazi raids grow more effectiv^. At least that’s how it looks comparing British claims with those of the Nazis and reading between the lines. The latest from Berlin announces that the Nazis made strong air attacks on all ports -of the British Isles, particularly airports near the Irish Sea. Also that they set fire to an oil depot at Weymouth and smashed harbor works in the east and south, and in the west of Britain. That is not a communique from the High Command, It is a claim made by propaganda Minister (ioebbel’s D. N. B. News Agency. It claims further that the airports near the Irish Sea were so accurately bombed that runways and hangars were destroyed and the fields made unusable I%ow here * 3 the British side of it. There were six daylight air raid alarms today, followed by an attack after nightfall. But the London anti-aircraft barrage threw up such a curtain of steel that the Nazi bombers were unable to get through, except for a few isolated planes here and there. lore spectacular still are the accounts of today’s exploits by the Royal ^ir Force. A rtiding British squadron paid a visit to Berlin, and as they left, the northwest suburbs of the Nazi capital were rocked by four terrific explosions. Thereupon a vast pall of black smoke covered that section of Berlin^ That*'* the part of the city where much of Hitler's heavy machinery is manufactured. The ft. A. F. also attacked all along the line of the channel ports in France, Belgium and Holland, likewise many points in Germany. They paid a visit to the Cologne power station after which two huge fires were glowing in the darkness. An official dispatch from France admits that the British bombing raids on the French channel ports have been >V^K - 3. deadly, T’he Port cf Havre is practically useless, the harbor blocked by sunken ships. ^nd^ter®f s rZPiEaxTBiiiEZtn# Mussolini 1s much boasted air squadrons, plus his submarines and cruisers, have not succeeded in cutting off British trade in the Mediterranean. That's what the British Ministry of Shipping says tonight officially, and it brings corroborating facts to back up the statementt British trade with the f Near East, particularly Pgypt, Turkey, Cyprus and Greece, has been going on steadily. Ever since July, Britain has been importing war materials and ether imports from Greece, Turkey, even Rumania, and the Balkan countries. This trade, says the British Ministry, has been increasing in tne last few weeks. C-uu’^EHLUN Cluiraberlain resigns: that’s the latest from London* a matter of fact, he hasn’t yet? but;he’s going to. The information comes from that ansscl old standby of news sources described as "Usually well informed quarters." Chamberlain is to resign as a member of the Cabinet, as Lord President of the Council? and^as leader of the Conservative party. That will make Churchill tne leader of the party. But the ex-Prime Minister is not resigning because of the ettacks that have been made upon him. He has teen in poor has health, underwent a severe operation several weeks ago, and been weak ever since, wd^bssip is that Prime Minister Churchill will accept his resignation with great reluctance as Chamberlain too* from hTs shoulders a great A. A burden of political and administrative work. The rumor goes further than the resignation of Chamberlain. It is to be ^ “ ocnsiJeruble shake-up in the British Cabinet.^Once again the old lion of .ales, Lloyd Oeorge, is to be invited to join the Churchill CHxJ^BKRLxvlN - ^ government. That's not so surprising, but it is unexpected to near that Viscount Beaverbrook, Minister for aircraft production, may resign. V 1GYPT. lie Nazi generals have taken over the Italian milittry forces in the eastern Mediterranean. That’s the word from London today. \ Just hov the Italian people will take that is a matter for/interesting speculation. Of course the general public in Italy won’t know abcut it for some time, as it is perfectly poss .ble for the Fascist authorities to keep such ne^’s bottled up| But when the Italian soldati find themselves commandec by German officers, .they=££I »^V a ii htr4 been eri Oraziani’s advance along the North ^frioen coast across the. desert Has h?nrd4^- p ^ ----- getting lu fiTnPPgB»»| The excuse offered is that the Fascist! are consolidating at Sidi Barrani, building up their fortifications and getting ready for a n&t drive on Fgyot. rust for a couple of weeks the Italians have claimed no A advances across the desert <z^i\XLa^ x VL</V n )+he story that tne Germans are going to take over1tm a yv ^ 7 Cfccm:ir»ty PTgtn*. The British admit they have no EGYPT - V definite information that Nazi soldiers or German war materials have arrived in Africa. But, they say, the German masters have already taken actual charge of Italian operations in North Africa. For some time we’ve been hearing about Mussolini trying to acquire bases in French Syria; get virtual control of that French mandate. This is still in the wind. Meanwhile if HitlerTs generals have taken over the eastern Mediterranean, we shall no doubt hear of spectacular fighting in the Near East before the winter is over. And if it is true that Hitler’s invasion of Britain has been postponed, he will have plenty of army corps and plenty of planes to throw against the British defenses in Egypt, these to be transported to the Near Eastern theatre of war by way of the Italian peninsula and Libya. PGPcLO Dire things for Uncle Sam in the Pacific were prophesied today. The prophetfw«s Mussolini 1s own newspaper, ttm Popolo D^talia of Lilan. It sounded as though the Ducefs editor might be speaking in behalf of Japan. Por he harped on that Singapore agreement between Britain and the United States, the agreement by which our navy would use thirt great British naval base. Mussolini’s A A newspaper declared this agreement to be absolutely inadmissible. It also hinted that Japan would put her foot down on the recent understandings between .ashington end New ..ealand, which provide for United States bases in Samoa nd the Cook Islands. The Luce’s editor went on to Jay that all our efforts to improve our strategic position in the Pacific have come too lute. They have been neutralized, says the Italian, by Japanese fortifications in Formosa and the six groups cf Islands over which Japan holds a mandate, Mussolini’s editor uses these words:- ’’Japanese aerial and naval superiority in POPQLO - £• the Pacific is such that any United States aerial and naval action against Japan would be equivalent to suicide for the United States Navy.” There*s one clear fact that can be gathered from that Italian editorial. The Fascists have taken the Japanese alliance to their hearts with ardor. FRANCE The Nazi authorities in occupied France have started to go to work on the Jews. A decree was published at laris today and announded over the Paris radio station. It orders all Jews, both French and foreigners, in the German occupied zones, to register. Furthermore, it is announced that no Jews will be permitted to function in the liberal J-C> nrofessions especially, newspaner*. in occunied France. All A A Jewish merchants must have signs in front of their stores T5r®*iiL proclaiming in both French and German the words, "I am a Jew.” '.hat is more, Jews who fled from tne occupied regions of France when the Nazis advanced, are forbidden to reenter. /r The Petain government is preparing to 'establish concentration camps for foreign Jews who cannot return to their native countries. It is expected that thegovernment at Vichy /A will soon sen* restrictive regulations o£ ilta-cita: A A concerning Jews, to be annoim-cea* FAD^R TSKI a weird story oomes from Spain that the greet pianist, Paderewski, has been arrested. It is decidedly weird as nobody can imagine what sound reason the Spanish police would nave for taking him into custody. Ke was on his way to the United States. He was atiKK arrested in Saragossa, in spite of his diplomatic visa, which of course he carries as a former Prime Minister of Poland. The news „ . , ____ ^ ^ T.T____ J ___o.___ — J 1_______ 3 44- the Spanish police for five days now . Yihen tne iJar.is invaded Belgium, one of the worldfs most feu-ous paintings disappeared. But not because it was stolen by the Nazis. The vicissitudes of that canvas in the last four months read like an adventure story. It was the famous painting by Van Dyck of "Christ on the cross”, one of the greatest of all time. For three centuries it has hung in the Cathedral at Termonde. hen the Nazis were at tne door on .May sixteenth, the Burgomaster of Termonde packed up that painting and a lot of other art works and tnrew them into a large truck. Then, with twenty-three members of his family, he fled before the aavencing Nazi hordes. It had been his intention to leave the Van Dyck and the other works of art in the Cathedral Ek at Ghent. But when the refugees came to Ghent, they didn’t even hesitate. In fact they didn’t stop until they reached the south of France. On the way they encountered dismal weather, and for a Ind-break and impromptu roof, they used the Van Dyck painting F a INTIHG - 2 of ’’Christ on the cross." v.hen the Nazi conquest was complete and things bf^an to settle down, a commission went out in search of the Van Dyck. They found it in a refugee camp, still being used as a roof. The news is that it’s back in the somewhat damaged masterpiece, as Cathedral four months of rain, wind and sun have not improved that WtV" canvas. Those refugees surely had a mew-*-priceless roof over their heads CORN Here’s a bit of news from Miami, Florida. Dr. Harry H. Young of Miami left by airplane for Na ssau by royal command. He lias gone to Nassau to remove a not so royal corn from the royal foot of the Duke of Windsor, Governor General of the Bahamas, former King of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and Emperor of India. Who has corns even as you and I. But if you use a car and Nu Blue corns don’t matter so much do they Hugh?