DAKAR The battle at Dakar this is announced by Doth the British and the French. Earlier in the day, it seemed that the attempt to seize the strategic French West African port had been called off. General DeGauile,leader of the French who are opposed to the government of Marshal Petain, told tne story of yesterday*s happenings. He stated tnat he and his force of French troops who are continuing the war against Germany were aboard a French vessel - not a British battleship. A squadron of British warships accompanied them to them. DeGauile states that he sent a party to go ashore, their boats flying a French flag and a white flag of truce. But the supporters of the Petain government on shore fired on them and wounded two officers. Later, there was an attempt to make what DeGauile calls - a peaceable landing. Once again the French defenders ashore opened fire. This time there was an exchange of shots and a number of the landing force were killed. Meanv.hile, EVKRxk British warships bombarded the city of Dakar and inflicted heavy damage and casualties. General DeGauile»s report this morning was that he had DAKAR - 2 discontinued the attempt to land in the French colony, not wanting to shed any more French blood, not wantW^o cause civil fighting among fellow countrymen. One report from London explained that DeGauile had over-estimated the amount of sympathy for his cause in French est Africa, miscalculated the amount of support heTd get. A Then later in the day came bulletins telling of the renewal of battle. From London it was a cautious statement, in which DeGauile declared that his attempt was being renewed and had a good chance of success. The report given by the French government is much more specific. It states that today the British fleet opened another heavy bombardment of Dakar and at the same time the DeGauile men made various attempts to land down the coast from the port. Half a dozen landing parties were repalled, beaten off - declares the Petain government. A French submarine was sunk in firing a torpedo at a British cruiser • Most of tne crew were saved. TheFr^nch government claims that the British cruiser was hit. French reprisals for the Dakar attack came promptly today when French war planes bombed Gibraltar. They came from French DAKAR - 3 Morocco, and they claim that they inflicted heavy damage, causing explosions at the Rock. Gibraltar advices say that French planes did drop bombs, «*+ caused « ^plg af fires^- nntbi^e w . om -, ifiww M il So there1s an informal war going on between the two former allies. The British government seems determined to seize French West Africa - or have the DeGauile French forces do it. This - to check the Germans and Italians.J^DeGaulle today issued a 1 manifesto in which he declared that the Petain government was permitting Nazi and Fascist agents to take virtual control at an Dakar - with the threat that the port might become r Axis point of operation. T..o Fretteh ?overn-..eRt on this" side dec-koi-ws -tii*** ~ -poauw?— n wad there,~3- -fto hew-X&f—the procent—elaoh may beoomft ■agTTTft>tb> In another French colony, a long way off, the Japanese are renewing their attack on French Indo-Cnina. Tne French are said to be fighting back strongly, battling against the Japanese push into the northern part of the colony. The assault was made DAKAR - 4 when an agreement seemed about to be between the representatives of Tokyo and France - an agreement yielding to the bulk of Tokyo demands. They say the invasion has been launched independently by the Mikado1s commander at Canton. In Washington the French Ambassador today announced that France will resist the Japanese army no matter at what cost. LONDON EVACUATION The authorities at London today -bdtf iy cxiftanncErg- A A a new and greater evacuation of women and children. Mothers and youngsters to be taken from the r devastated areas^^* v i»* »» sent to the country, Tho- Qnvernmitfttr. -4^-pyovidittg ^ifeh *all""f5gili iivxi Since the beginning of the war, there have been efforts to get children out of the threatened capital, but as of today half of them are still there. Four hundred and sixty-four thousand have been removed, two hundred thousand in the last ten days. Four hundred and twenty-eight thousand xxk children of school age still remain in the London area. The new drive to evacuate the women and the youngsters the is not only because of bombing - but also because of the danger of A an epidemic of disease. This is one thing ftith which the British are reckoning seriously - the incessant crowding of hundreds of thousands of people in air raid shelters may cause the outbreak of a disastrous epidemic. WA£ Today tne war in the air was blow and counter-blow, - hit and hit back^Tae British began the hitting. The h.A.F. in the dimness of last night and this morning launched its heaviest blow c*t Berlin thus far• The London Air Ministry reports that -r&ck. — important centers of Berlin were^ what it calls, nextensively damaged.n Railroads, power stations and war factories. ftMany. fitpos to break saya Loitdon.—ai rgrfrfT~ rrtnri^ large nre~5 ^1,iich weie visible miles awayi Anothor^-liQadQn centinue&y a-powor atatieft aligrrt at- foup-diXfarant points nn £cT*J*\ The Air Ministry communique continues with statements like this: A nBombs bursting on power stations and flames leaping high. One pilot," it relates, "was guided in by a great fire which blazed up more fiercely as he piled bombs on top of it." On the German side, todayTs Berlin bulletin admits that the British bombers hit a gas works, started raging fires at at least two factories, and blasted one electric rail line badly enough to tie up transportation. The immediate response of the Nazi rcidio and press was an outbreak of fury, a tempest of raging words, demanding instant and ruthless retaliations. While they were talking, they also acted, as Goeringfs air force hit back. Berlin claims heavy bombing damage on London today and declares that the war planes blasted Waterloo^ Station - that famous railroad center ^ust across the Thames the center of the British government. London reports that heavy German air attacks were beaten off, though some of the bombers got through. c&xd* 4^ * f ’jrrcS On© ugly form of retaliation is reported - hitting at universities. Berlin states that Nazi war planes bombpd Cambridge. This - in retaliation for the previous attack which.ti» H.A.F. made A A on the university city of Heidelberg, fiOMBING 0 The British Air Ministry tonight announced that today H.A.F* bonders a daylight attack on a force of German mine sweepers in the Channel. These vessels were clearing the narrow water of hidden high explosive, when the British war planes swooped down on them. The Air Ministry states that two of the mine sweepers were sunk and one damaged. This seems to be the same episode that was reported earlier in the day - as witnessed from the top of the chalk cliffs at Folkstone. The previous account told of H.A.F. bombers attacking Nazi torpedo speed boats and sinking five. However, according to the late official account, they were not motor torpedo speed boats, they were mine sweepers. The number sunk was not five, but two - one damaged. INVASION Today we have some London comment about a story that has been circulated recently - the story that the Germans have already attempted cm invasion of England, with disastrous failure. The accounts told of huge Nazi troop losses in efforts to land on the coast of Great Britain. More recently, the rumor went like this. * tnat the Nazis were trying out practice maneuvers for the invasion^ jqu t ino '-»f landing which they wonld try -fce- pnt into, effect ia-ter -on. And these practice maneuvres ended disastrously - with heavy losses of life. Today the LONDON DAILY MAIL printed still another version. which statef that the German invasion fleet tec* sustained loss of life, fifty to sixty thousand troops^ iS, * thlr drag n wdtecr^rif- -soAdlw hwu lect when the invasion /\ fleet was hit by the storm last week. Crowded transports foundering in the tempest* Later in the day, sources close to the British government declared that the newspaper story was wrong - exaggerated. The storm last week did play havoc with boats of the Nazi invasion fleet, but there were no troops aboard these INVASION - 2 da: t at the time. So says the official source, which goes on to tell v.hcit may very well be the real story^ behind all those rumors. The stc. ement is that the Germans did lose what is called "a considerable number of fully equipped troops at sea." They were going through embarkation exercises - a practice maneuver for invasion. They were surprised by Royal Air Force bombers, and sustained considerable losses, - as they* were1 This version is accompanied by a strong denial by British personalities who should knowJ There has been no invasion attempt by Nazi Germany. No effort to land onjthe British coast. says London. C0;,jMU«ICATI3KS ^ It is specificoily stated that no censorship of radio is planned in the creation of a National Defense Communications Board. President Koosevelt established the Bo&rd today, and its purpose is to coordinate the use of radio, telegraph and cable for defense in time of emergency. To this general explanation the White House statement adds: "The Board will have no power to censor radio or other communications - or take over any facilities." No censorship, and the government will not take over the operating plants. Not in the working of the new Defense Communications Board. tmmm CORCORAN Well, Tommy the Cork, has resigned. That same Thomas G. Corcoran who has been so prominent in the affairs of the New Deal. He left the government service today, but he isn't exactly out of New Deal affairs. He becomes a Vice-Chairman of "The National Committee of Independent Voters", supporting a Third Term. Tommy the Cork has been a gtexi good deal of a legend in Washington, as an inside New Dealer with a special track to the White House. In the early days of the Roosevelt administration, great fame attached to the ranking members of the Brain Trust - those much debated professors. It was Moley who for a while was a Ylc.'^cz storm center as the ercfr Brain Truster. Then it was Tugwell, who A * A became Number One Brain Truster to the President. In later years, the term "Brain Trust" disappeared from current usage, and Washington gossip mentioned - the Circle." That Infl&eJ? Circle featured the twin names of Corcoran and Cohen - ace inside advisors to the President. The front man of the pair has been Corcoran - Tommy the Cork. I have the impression that it was President Roosevelt who Jocundly applied the funny hickname. Tommy the Cork, though reputed to be extremely influential in the nORCORAfl - 2 New Deal, htlc no vastly important government post, ^e has been employed as a special attorney for the Reconstruction Finance That1s the job he resigned today - to become Vice-Chairman of T Th© Nationaj. Committee of Independent Voters”, supporting a Third Term. This is a new campaigning organization, and today it elected Mayor LaGuardia of New York as National Chairman. Senator Norris, Honorary Chairman. today President Roosevelt received a delegation of the Committee, and accepted their pledge of support. doctor In Brooklyn, Dr. A. Nathaniel Rosen learned an interesting thini ---nrer^rfrnc tn-the doet.og , Hefs hale and <rxM hearty, practicing medicine industr shot down, shot five times. - but six years ago he was y( * big mystery in the physician1s life. never knew why. It was one Today the police, in their investigation of the Brooklyn Murder Syndicate, disclosed the fact that Dr- Rosen was shot six years ago by two professional killers of Murder Incorporated - a \/lCdX' contract job. nWhy?n a mistake, one of those utterly vicious crimes in which gang gunmen blunder and shoot the wrong person. 0ne of New York's sensational cases, some while ago was the murder of a mild, peaceable employee of a piano company - a gangland mistake. They were gunning for a racketeer who looked like the victim. The same with the physician of Brooklyn. They mistook him for a mobster called Knockout Halpenn. Luckily, the doctor survived - to hear the explanation today There won't be any prosecutions. The case*W^ marked 7* * it. _ jy, + vip crime, one who some time "closed." There were two gunffi-n from the police. The other later was killed trying to escape tail. As fo_ attempt to get him - and succeeded. , As for the mobster. Knockout Halperin, committed suicide in jail. . _ _^ the gang made another WORDS Suppose a fellow were to say to a girl: "You gimp lit tie thr j.p, you're a diliy." What would the young lady reply? — f c'X-lJ Vd ^ She might respond tartly: "Who's a thrip, you big Gaboon* ti11r> nniiii—ir Sne might think you were insulting her. when, in fact, youTd be paying her a snappy compliment - in a most modern way. ItTs all a question of the latest thing in words. Since I make a living with words, I'm interested in them, - and I noticed some odd ones in a book recently out* MrtnMtar-a - called "If You Drink", by Wilfred Funk. Wilfred, is of the Funk and Wagnalls lineage, and takes naturally to lexicography and tricks of words. In his book, llf'TuU DFlTil^ he takes a satirical fling at the topers, especially those of the smart nightclub variety. Naturally, WiIfFunk gets in quite a few of the latest nifty expressions society icted-c* chatter. ^Ca*, coins a few of his own, wklxkxaiKxiii I= 2 XDtecfc,fyor example^a T!b-l-aPPyn^ means what It sounds like, a fellow gets blappy around the waist. Or hs±*. loopy. fiwHb1 he silly stage of highball consumption. But the verbal novelty I liked best was the WORDS - ? monosyllable f,thripn. Cleaning - the snappy sort of cutie. Also the adjective "gimp" - natty. What about "diliy?" That signifies something mxc >ptiona 1 f~rathea; wonderful So it?s quite coraplimentary^^^^BSBa^: for you to say to your girl, litt.lp thri little thrip, youTre a diliy." But you might maestrsSX duck^just to be on the safe side. LEGION Bostonjtnrtiy i... . city of sound^jWflf course, there were sights as well - with the American Legion holding its big parade in the uity of fesxxxm the bean and the cod. But the march of the Legionnaires was chockful of bands and drum and bugle corps^ not to mention the shouts R£x&kKXKh£K and the cheers - a feast for the ears of tens of thousands of spectators. The parade was led by Georgia, because Georgia was the winner of the Legion membership competition. The Legionnaires from the state way down south were led by the drum and bugle corps of Atlanta Post Number One. cession were exhibits of that forty/and eight y y -/forty mpi^and eigj^ff horses, ^w almos^/a symbol other kirid of railroading wh^'ch, however, Jr' / Jr / S S f M S jf / was /ardly befitting the Stars aryl Stripes./ It / had more/to do with the old Confederate flag of lonE ago. The / / 7 / / Tennessee Veterans parked a repUca of a famous locomotive which / / / / Confederate soldiers stole f^hm the Union Army at Chattanooga. Just to keep the event nice and loud, there was tiw ^ big boom and blare A- / ^ LtCION - 2 won by Commonwealth-Edison Post of Chicago. Champions in j the game^ beating the drums and blowing the bugles 1 -^CerVi-~t£jL 'ir-*^£z- '^aL^ Viy.-gj«t