y. ab The Naeis have an explanation, their own explanation, for the enourance that the British have displayed under forty days foazi fashion of giving credit to their enemies., After today's raids over Britain, hazi pilot returned to Berlin and declared that they left Loncion one large sea of fire. jBut London again wasn»t the only part of Britain they attached. The Nazi bombers, flying through low clouds, dropped ^ sands of bombs on Liverpool, on the industrial Mtd_ands, and all over the northwest part of England. American correspondents report that wir ing tlip- rim, thruifnigyitv m 1 rra oap 1 1ai -of'1 thx1 Br!■ 1 1 oh—fampire;—trhr noofiiL>i went tii8 oriiei.—sii»—that- any hi£— London is groggy and battered, but si>ill carrying ...... One correspondent traveled around London for four hours, making a tour of more than sixty miies of streets, survey showed that in the last three nights, the Nazis have been concentrating on an ever smaller area* of the great city. Some of the most famous axs£uE2a£ buildings are standing today, bettered A and disfigured. Several are churches built by EnglandTs greatest architect, Sir Christopher Yren. resides them stores, hotels, apartment houses, theatres, entire squares, have suffered. Tae re is hardly a man, woman or child in London, says this correspondent, who has not felt the terror of bombing in some A immediate and very real way. For instance, everyone employed in the office cf the United Press has had at least one dose of bombing a-Lt.iiugh they ail iive in different parts of the city. A couple of weeks 0 .^ 0 } you could wander over large areas and "tcJicLy ti^X kl see no damage, 1 ko^iOf»t-ly’ do oofiied fcjday tnut ^ijndon^nu? tiukL'n ■■u-f iiijpoq ti Eut with it all, there is not. a sign of cracking of 4Hig- ale 9 r\\ morale s^the civilians. For incfan.^a |ri^nytir-L» A 1 d Trindows- biarted-out j any tne ■frr.rnLomi t^g^niuD^ Outride af i t-ar» r— - - • r- .Tiitdl readt »In gyite-of liitiey> .rrgr (there .are billboards advertising afternoon tea dances and the advertisements read:- "Don’t risk night raids, dance in the afternoon.” However, with all this, it must not be imagined that London is lying in ruins, as the Nazis claim. Blocks upon blocks of houses and office buiidiiigs are unscatned. Incus trie*.! plants are working at full blast. Areas around the factories have suffered but the damage was confined mostly to homes and shops, not to the factories themselves. One American newspaper man reports that he is arive today cwing to the °rders of his boss. The district where he lives has been bombed several times, so he was made to sleep ao the home of a colleague. the middle of the night, a bomb demolished the place where he lived, and but for his boss’s aoji orders he would have been demolished with it. Along with his home, the correspondent lost seventy-five thousand words of a manuscript of a historical novel. Incidentally, his apartment was in one of the most picturesque parts of Lbndon, near the old law courts. At a corner of London, says the American, which even Sir Cnristopher V.ren couxd not replace. The Germans announce once again that the raids of the last three days will be child’s play compared to what they have in store for the British. During last nignt, one thousand Nazi planes dropped two million, two hundred thousand pounds of explosive on the capital. This the Nazis describe as reprisal for the British raids in Germany. And those British raids in Germany went on with a vengeance. Heavy British bombers, flying aver in iemays ior four hours, dumped ton upon ton of hifeh explosives on the great more Kiel ana^, on nciraburg, and on railroad centers in Germany, than a score of them. The pilots reported that the naval dockyards at Kiel had been blasted. German Ui&isL combat planes tried to fight them off, but the R.A.F. bombers flew through the defense, through heavy anti-aircraft fire, and reached their objectives. And the Admiralty reported that Uu British warships had destroyed a convoy of three supply ships and three escort ships. British men-o-war also started fires at the French Channel port of Dunkirk. A British light cruiser in the Mediterranean was torpedoed by an Italian airplane, but reached port safely. EGYPT The news trora the eastern Mediterranean indicates that the big German-Italian push on Egypt is getting under way* Mussolini1 s Charlie McCarthy, reports that the Italians have made a nev> thrust towards Marsa Matruh from Sidi Barrani, which they occupied three weeks agoj^The Italians, Gayda says, have got eighteen miles beyond Sidi Barrani and are bombing the British fortifications at Marsa Matruh. Gayda¥Ts announcement says nothing of any Germans in that Libyan army. However, it is known that German shock troops are already on the spot with vast quantities of supplies, taints and bombers, and it has been announced that Hitlerfs Colonel-General von Kitel was to take over the command ____ _ of the* push on EgyptMussolinifs Marshal Graziani. BURAIA KO a D ) Taat Far Eastern situation looms critical again tonight. In a couple o:' days the British will be throwing open the Burma Road once more. The Chinese forces of Chiang Kai-shek are getting ready for the stream of supplies that they expect to pour into them through BJrma. At present there is a great scene cf activity at a town called Lashio in Burma, northeast of the much sung Mandalay. Lashio is one of the jumping off places on^fccs^ road into China. Some two thousand trucks made in America are being overhauled at Lashio, in readiness for the opening of the Burma Road. One hundred thousand tons of materiel are piled up there, and half a million tons have accumulated at Rangoon. Of course the Japanese are makirg their preparations too. ^hey promise a relentless bombardment of that highway into China and Japanese airplanes are being concentrated in Indo-China. POLITICS Henry Wallace, Democratic candidate for Vice-President the headlines today. He smarted a campaign tour through western Pennsylvania and for his principal attack picked y on Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. V.'allace called the Flying Colonel t-------------- the Number One Appeaser of America.\Then he repeated the accusation he made when he accepted the nomination, the accusation that the Republican Party is the party of appeasement. Wallace was particularly incensed by Lindbergh's charge that President Roosevelt is forcing the United States into war with the Axis. On the other side of the fence, Republican Candidate Wendell Willkie announced that the principal part of his program was the building of a defense so impregnable that we will not become involved in w:ar with anyone. Willkie made this plea at Mannsfield, Ohio, on his way to Cincinnati, where he is 21 to mcke one of the major speeches of his campaign tonight. Willkie then made the plea, "Join me in a cooperative effort with evei/one so that we will have unity in America and no discord." he ashed the people listening to become soldiers in the battle to preserve America. And he said President term without telling us anything principles. Roosevelt was ashing for a third of either his policies or his DRAFT PM-y-Trt^N,r c-moorvfltive zuy—ttmt,' tenlj-Ttay-urer^ ii—ncrr -pnrr&jiH-!?f Amn ie^Ti* iirH"j^j^ For the first time since tne United Spates oecaine a nation, we today began the formation of a standing conscripted army. J or the first time in peace we enrolled our young men. From seven ofclock on, sixteen million, &fL%A*y ~t^K four hundred and four thousand, t2s*»r^twenty-one thirty-five, went to the school houses, town halls and fire nouses of America and registered. They did it cheerfully and in Democratic fashion. The sons of the Roc^efeJLlers showed up at the registration places side by side with the sons of people who work for them. John D. hoc -1 r ’lTrr the Third and Laurence S. Rockefeller were among the earliest at a little fire house just outside the entrance to the great Rockefeller Estate at Pocantico Hills, hew fork, udoso of those who registered there today were Rockefeller employees. ~XCLnq(? \/\) liso-of the Rockefellers, Nelson and David, registered xat.er in A ''A the day. Young millionaires and^day laborers put down their names and told ail about themselves. rtlt, yoi'n^cut ^ sons-—tfoe—president^ cfcoud—in lino nit. .fcs*e DRAFT - 2 .r-ittxL Unnih, -^uimnt, ■ Muysaehrn^t W Fraruilin D. ^J) noo^eveio, Jr., went to a fire station at Indianapolis, took his turn»an»ir ^ine Go^rrt>y Oiortt ajtiecr-nlia- ■nrs- fta w A4.h -ft—e-hueni-i;--- 7Tr youn^ new&^L per "w»my Athletes and sporting editors, Hollywood stars and saxaphone players were amon^ the sixteen millions. The Governor of a sovereign state, Harold St&ssen of Minnesota, registered at St.Paul although his position maxes him exempt; likewise the new Senator-designate ~3T<m from ^liiuiesoti, Si^Editor Ball.wneft Staoeort- A A\ tedpoirTtoa the obncr day t-o otrgeuod tite i<rtc S-^iutor ^undcuft<» At Washington Senator Rush Holt of West Virginia, who is only thirty-five and exempt until nineteen Forty-One, was registered in hisoffice by a registrar of the District of Columbia, Holt, aaijiig niU!_:t—of■■ttre- otncr younr-a-eft by descrlb^^f the procedure as silxy and unnecessary'. xevero.1 other members of Congress registered, most of them in their home states, Bui, .■ i..,urpxa ..f t.ii-iii In Vushi.'igt - Of course -U,-y N-1- ali exempt so Ion, as their constituents keep them in of!ice. DRAFT - 3 The draft lists will show celeor&ted names aplenty when they are completed. For instance, Lanny Ross, Kenny Baker, Barry V.’ood, Bob Trotta a::;jn£ the radio headliners. Band Leaders Eddie Duchin, Eddie LeBarron, Bob Chester, Gene Krupa, Bobby Burns, and several ot iers. The entire personnel 6f some of the best Known bands were on the lists. Aioong the athletes, nax Baer, Champion Joe Louis, Buddy Baer, Billy Cahn, the light heavyweight. Of the ball players, A ianager Joe Cronin of the Boston Red Sox registered at a little red school house in Newton, Massachusetts. Cleveland^ pitcher. Bob Feller, showed up early this morning in front of a small shoe repair shop carrying a shot gun. Bystanders raised their eyebrows and wondered whether he totted the shotgun, ti i nn f,*H‘ ■ t-nr. ha . ^tffi^naes^^Bob explained that he was going duck hunting. /\ Hugh McDermott, Chief of Police cf hast Liverpool, Ohio, wires me that several of East Liverpool’s young men di ought rifles to the registration polls. Others asAed the registration board for guns. Evidently they thought they were going out to fight right away. National Open Golf Champion Lawson Lit tae and DRAFT - 4 Byron nelson, Champion of the Professional Golfers Association, J i i ii '] ' h i I ji —*\ tj* ^ i ^ . At hew York, forty youn^ men registered whose average OLr\j? height was only three feet, ten inches. They midgets. In A Hollywood Robert Taylor, Don Araeche, Tyrone Power, hrrol Flynn and a host of the younger glamour boys were in line. One; amazing feature of this whole performance is that it went off as smoothly as though conscription were an old story 0 for us^ Thejyoung men passed through the mill at the rate of more than a million an hour. At some places, men had to wait in line four or five hours, they said. At some of the polling places in hew York young men were m line as early as two o’clock this morning. — - •. r*-ror t, ygaag men Jrr1 yyottPg wo»aa »e out to be Dlri'ftifry ........................* ......... ........... ■ r .1_ __ _ _ _ —i...v .-4-^ ;—-+-r-irTt- W I n j ;.un Try of Cnic£tg^>, ttne-th<i , . v-L ^---f no n fa ■—iiU't for the most you nL — -woman dcjenbqd hcPO<‘T-t ao u THE DICTATOR When Charlie Chaplin has a new film, that»s news of 'world, iiaportance. And, Charlie*s long-awaited picture, THE DICTAI3E, nis first ±n live years, had its grand premiere in New ¥ork last night. All Ameiica will soon be talking about it. So we might as well do a little. Yve are all entitled to play the role of critic when a new Chaplin film comes out, because Charlies belongs to us all. THE DICTATOR, as you probably know, is one hundred per cent Charlie Chaplin. He not only plays the leading part - two leads in fact - and is on the screen more than ninety per cent of the time, but he produced it entirely with his own money. He was his own director, and his own author. In fact Charlie even wrote the music. (My wife and I happened to be there as guests of the Czar of the film industry, Will Hays, and his lady.) Charlie Chaplin and his wife, Paulette Goddard, Vi^re on hand, an Charlie, in addressing the audience, referred to her as "my wife", the first time he has done so publicly, so fai as I -I'n.. Juf ing by the laughter everybody seemed to enjoy the THE DICTATOR - 2 film enormously. Itfs savage satire on Hitler and Mussolini, and especially the parts where Charlie is the Chaplin of old - the pathetic tramp. Charlie plays a dual role, a barber in the Ghetto, and. Dictator of the country of Ptomainia; while Jack Oakie, a perfect Mussolini, is the Dictator of Bacteria. Since I first met Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood some twenty-five years ago I had often heard that it was -is ambition to be a tragedian, to play Hamlet. At last he does. And alas, that’s where the film takes a nose dive. At the end he turns serious and becomes Hamlet - with a dash of Dorothy Thompson. If only Charlie would turn his picture over to a good newsreel cutterl His shows are always made up of episodes just as newsreels are. In one hour Ben Loweree, Johnny Flaige, m _ - Tr man Talley's cutters at Fox Movietone could or any izuxaua of Tr -man iaxx y vastly improve THE DICTATOR. But I'd like to go again tonight just to see tne scene in the Ghetto, where Charlie, the Jewish barber, does a THE DICTATOR - 3 dance on the sidewalk, in and out of the gutter, with Storm Troopers converging upon nim from all directions. That one is as oo i as anything Charlie ever did. Xes, and the scene in the cellar where the men around a table are eating pudding — the idea being that the man who finds the coin in his pudding will surely die. And, shaving the customer to the music of Listz1s Hungarian Rhapsodyl Xes, and above all, where Charlie, as Hitler, does a ballet with the globe of the world, a globe that turns out to be a balloon. That one would make a perfect ending to THE DICTATOR. As the balloon - the world - bursts in his face and he bursts into tears. ¥es, if he had only skipped his frenzied plea to the world at the end of the picture One wonders what the repercussions from this film will be in Germany. And will Hitler and Mussolini ever see theraselve as Charlie Chaplin and Jack Oakie,; Well, it was a thrilling premiere, Hugh.