SEP7. 29. IQA], GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: of Labor Perkins appointed Dr» James Landift, Dean of W** Harvard % ^ Law School, as a special examiner to^eibaiJ^ into the charges against Bridges, charges that the Australian C.I.O. leader was Communist. Land i^ gave him what opponents of Bridges called a whitewash, said that at the time of the examination. Bridges a was not a Red, not even a fellow traveler. But slnciZndls conducted^^^aring, the law was changed. Today, any alien who has ever belonged to any party Which advocates the overthrow of the Government of the ; \ HA,A<y looks tonight as though we uiigftt lose Harry Bridges, Pacific ^ Pi. ” coast labor tycoon^ Tv»e latest official report is dHrid agaliiyi 'i ^ " : isn’t final, but it is quite definite. ml 1 i-VTi¥fc^ite a few months ago. Secretary jl ill 1 LEAD. ^ 2 States by force and violence can be deported, bridges is an alien/ never b—a naturalized. Since the Landis inquiry, the Bridges a //air vas* t ' ! ^jjx^jcb^rrjror-^^QxrtlxHiy^::*^ the Department of J-^stice. The Department appointed J^dge Charles B. Sears as a special examiner. ^ And his report, made public today, states emphatically that Bridges, whatever he is now, has been a Communist. Judge Sears further „co-.na. that Bridge, b. sent b.cB to the l„ng„oos,-B the wallabSt^ears declared there ix is evidence that Bridges A cooperated with known members of the Commi^ist Party and C m affiliated organizations. shares their views on political and social, and particularly j.abor qu^sti J,,dge Sears, "I do not rely upon any single incident but rather upon a course of conduct extending from the year lomprising a larger number of incidents U^_neteen Thirty-Two and c These findings are authority and the lawyer for Bridg .d right up subject to review by higher ^ho declared himself deeply to the court of last resort shocked, said he wouj .( ESCLES Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, spoke like a Dutch uncle, today, to the Banking Committee of tii' House ot Representatives. He told the Congressmen that inflati on runaway inflation, would be inevitable - unless for one thing we pay more taxes, even heavier than those imposed in the bill that law became last week. Also, said Eccles, there* s got to be some form of control, not only on commidty prices but on wages and farm prices. The law now being considered by Congress, he said, does not go nearly far enough, Chairman Eccles took quite a chance on making himself unpopular with the Congressmen, qnd Indeed, with other government officials. Most of the other spokesmen for the Administration have lifted their voices against any ceiling on wages or farm prices. But not Eccles. Said he;- "Xou cannot be realistic about preventing inflation if you're going to let mages claries rise Indiscriminately." And later he said: "It may be necessary, if me mant to prevent Inflation, to stretch the forty-hour meeK to forty-eight hours. In other mords," he ^ to resort to the very system me mould continued, **we may be forced to like to see defeated." And democratic™ proce^^ses don^f be possible because it seems that the a _________ work too efficiently;** ^ tii :l ' r TAXEe- FOLLOW LaFOLLETTE And here’s s. word of reassurance from Secretary M^rgenthau of the Treasury. It may allay the anxieties aroused by his proposal that all corporation profits over six per cent be taxed a hundred per cent. Morgenthau said today that he wouldn’t have the draft of his plan ready to submit to Congress before January. Then he added that even if Congress passe<£it, it will not apply to^Nineteen Forty-One.bttstnwsc. If ■\ m Britain s flying bombers did the unexpected. Instead of /> their usual visit to Germany, they descended upon Italy with aOv raid that gave Mussolini's country its first real taste of air war. This is reported to mean that the British high command J a campaign to tlast Italy out of the Axis. The heaviest bombers of the Royal Air Force were sent against Genoa^ Turin, Spe^ia and M.^ Ian. ^\Great big Sterling and Wellington <\ long range planes ma<M sixteen hundred mile round trips over France and the Alp^. They dropped their loads of bombs from as low as three^^^pdf even two thousand feet This campaign began at a psychological moment. The blow vjas delivered just as Mussolini's people were told the bad news of what their rationing is going to be ^<3 what rationing,it is'. TTt tle depending upon coal winter, and that Wi A may have hot water only three times a week. The rationing of rood 1. golns to b« dr., oom-cl t.« 1... br..d. TO. r.tlontr* .tso .ppUd. • v»o-hQ furs or textiles^ to clothes. The sale of any clothing, hats. Ml - ^ is forbidden for fifteen days, until a new rationing system is made public All of which is not calculated to cheer the subjects of lAussolini for the part they have to play in Hitler^s war. ....... . dramatic is the big battle reported by Rome today. According to the Fascist high command, it was a naval battle, a startling *± victory for the Italian air arm,^the loss of three British cruisers, a British battleship torpedoed and other British men-o-war damaged seriously damaged, and three T>,.t.= th, story »•. told m dr..l d.t.ll. td. ...n th. o.yi..l sMP «« =« ™.y d.cl„. It to 0.y. to.n « “• *■* proudost t.ttl. -i^oos or Kiot O.org.'. tW«- this happened in an attack They go on to say that all on a convoy which was moving American war r materials through the Straits of Gibraltar to the Middle Eastern front. The battle. say the Italians, took place on Tfl«;ted ten hours, Saturday and lasteo isLtr ^ the colonel commanding furiously and they add it raged ^ f AH = 3 ____ the Italian forces killed, also three squadron /^ '' '““cc aquaaron commanders. Mussolini's official news agency even tells the name of ttet Commander, Hellmuth Seidl - obviously a German. And it goes on to allege that no fewer than seventeen Italian torpedo plane squadron co:nmanders were in action, and that seven of them were veterans of the Spanish Civil War. That^s the Italian side of the story, told with great corroborative detail. The British Arimiralty replleS with one word - ^laughable.” Even before the Italian communique had been published, the A<^miralty had announced the safe passage of a large convoy through the Mediterranean, only one freighter lost. Q one British man-o-war slightly daunaged yJapokef®^! of the Ar^miralty said, ”As we tell the truth we can sit back and have a good laugh.” And then they added that, according to the Italian claims, the entire British Mediterranean fleet had been sunk not once, but many times over. And here^s a message that comes direct from a battleship with the British Mediterranean fleet. It states that the ii. f] ti ‘¥ 'O WAR - 4 battleships of the eastern fleet, accompanied by cruisers and destroyers, under the command of Sir Andrew Brown Cunningham, nave been operating for two days out of Alexandria, without catching so much as a glimpse of any enemy unit either ih the air, on the surface or underseas. In Russia, Moscow was reporting with consid^ab! exultation that w^inter is acomin^ in. Snow around the Kremlin itself, while in the extreme northwest the invading Nazi troops are snowbound. The Soviet spokesman claims that this will bring 9, hardship to Hitler’s men while Red troops are quartered comfortably in deep dugouts. In the region along the western Dviua, the Germans are up against particularly hard sufferings from cold, rain, mud and ice. 'S6 Moscow dispatches go on to report advances in the center, two villages recaptured by the Reds southwest of Bryansk, And they declare that the Russian advance is progressing through a regular cemetery of tanks, broken machinery abandoned by the Germans w’hen their offensive broke down, ) WAR 5 That's the Russian side of the picture.^ A More spectacular still, is the story of the spread of the underground war against Nazi domination throughout Europe. The latest sensation conies froni Czechoslovakia and it^s confirniecl by stories from Berll-n. The Nazis admit that they were obliged to arrest General Elias, Premier of the txKtMlBXixt Protectorate of Czechoslovakia, dominated by Nazi rule. He is charged with activities inimical to Germany. The Nazis declare further that they executed six other Czechoslovaks. London says twenty, and that they include two former high officers of the Czechoslovak army, k Dr. benes, the exiled President of Czechoslovakia, declares that he has information that the Nazis are about to start a new wave of terror in his country. FT.om the rest of Europe come stutixac similar tales, r m < ID The newspapers of Paris tonight report that twenty more Frenchmen, said to be Communists, have been executed by the ftazi^ transport A war story, from Canada. A transport ready to sail. The soldiers going aboard too^ one look at the c^uarters assigned to them and sald:- ”Too dirty, too crowded.*’ Whereupon they were moved to an upper deck being held for a contingent of Canadian and Australian flyers. When the flyers went aboard they were shown to the quarters originally assigned to the regular troops. Those aviators took one look and zkxs refused to sail — two hundred and sixty of them. Also a grroSi group of twenty technicians from the U.S.i^. — civilians. They kicked too. TheCanadian and Australian flyers were later assigned berths on another ship. P.S. Here’s the sequel as it came over the press wires: When they landed on the other side they were court-martialed, grounded and deprived of tbelr extra air pay. Theirs not to reason wfcy - even with the cockroaches. Th.6 Nazi spy service in this country was organized by an officer of the German Army, This came out today at te the spy trial in New York, Gustav Kaercher, one of the defendants who pleaded guilty to the indictment, was observed in Berlin as recently as a year-and-a-half ago, strutting proudly down Unter den Linden in the uniform'of Hitler^s army. And he used to be the leader of the Storm Troops of the Deutsch-America Bund on Staten Island. He was then a naturalized American on citizen. A Nazi army officer, ipid active duty, and a naturalized A American citizen1 Hi' ■f i 0 H'-wii-HUi Hill III SlfUTj Here’s another prophecy that Uncle Sam is going to jump into the war; soon. The latest prophet is General Jan Smuts, Prine Minister cf the Union of South Africa. General Smuts began by admitting that probably he shouldn't be saying such a thing in public; then he went on to say it anyway. He has no doubt that the time is near when America will be an active full-fledged participant. Perhaps General Smuts had a political motive for such an unauthorized statement. Frcwn several fia sources we’ve I i been informed that he has a tough job on his hands keeping his ^ V 'I own Boer countrymen in the war. We don’t know how it stands at present, but not so many months ago, General Smuts had a majority of no more than four with him in the South African Parliament, —o* Here's a word on the same subject from somebody who thP hpad of the government of South is a little closer even than tne neaa & A. Haw Frank Knox, just back from a Africa. Our Secretary of the Navy, ridiuj. visit of inspection to Bermuda says it isn’t up to us. The Axis, Will do all the deciding as to whether and when we are to enter into a shooting war^ MKS. R. The Firs! Lady of the Land started on her new job today. As Assistant Director of the Office of Civilian Defense. Reporters noted with interest that the Lady was on time to the dot. Her boss^ Director Fiorello La Guardis, was almost three-quartersof an hour late. But that didn't feaze A who set to looking over her mail. She was busy at that when interrupted by the boss, who called upon her for the first task assigned to her. The pleasant chore of posing for the newsreels. Reporters asked the First Lady how much she was getting in the wage envelope, whether it was one of those dollar— a-year things. She replied that she hadn*t even asked. Would she be on the job every morning? The answer was: Every morning i she doesn^t have to be some other place. In a way, this was an historic event. Historians tell us this is the first time that a First Lady of the land has 'r taken an official government position. WEATHER The Weather Man promises a break in the four week»s drought that has been drying up the North Atlantic States. Occasional rains for Tuesday. That’s the prediction. And the sooner the better. In New York State alone, more than ten thousand acres in the Adirondacks and Catskills have been blackened by forest fires. There were six new fires over the weekend; and, eighteen more are reported today. In other eastern states, wooded sections are tinder dry, and nearby residents are anxious. s’ 1 t' 'I ti ■ :!il FIGHT Champion Joe Louis met Challenger Lou Mova at Madi son Square Garden this morning. Not to fight. Just to weigh in. Nova turned out to be one-quarter of a pound heavier than tlie champ. The Bro¥ni Bomber, at two hundred and two and a quarter. is the heaviest he lias ever been for a title right. Joe showed up in a snappy sports outfit of chaste green The examining doctor reported that his blood pressure was a little bit lower than Nova’s. From which some deduce that Nova, the amateur Yogi is more tense than the champ. And -‘•*11 bet he is even more tense along about now. But here is Hugh, who is never tense!