Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 10, Number 46, DeMotte, Jasper County, 3 October 1940 — WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Roger Shaw 83 English Refugee Children Perish As Ship Is Torpedoed in Mid-Atlantic; Kidnaper of 3-Year-Old Lad Captured And Boy Returned, Unharmed, to Home [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Roger Shaw 83 English Refugee Children Perish As Ship Is Torpedoed in Mid-Atlantic; Kidnaper of 3-Year-Old Lad Captured And Boy Returned, Unharmed, to Home

By Roger Shaw

(EDITOR’S NOTE—When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) ___________________ Released by Western Newspaper TTninn

CRIME: California Kidnaping Three days after Marc de Tristan Jr.’s abductor seized him from the street near his home in Hillsborough, Calif., he was returned to his nobleman father, Count de Tristan, in San Francisco. The child was rescued unharmed from the kidnaper, identified as Wilhelm Jakob Muhlenbroich, a 40-year-old German alien, by two woodsmen at Pine River, in the Sierra foothills 200 miles from Hillsborough. For this elaborately plotted and boldly executed crime, the kidnaper, a German alien, received no SIOO,OOO as demanded in a beautifully phrased ransom note of 600 words, but he got a black eye, a

gashed head, a bruised body, and he faces almost certain imprisonment for life. The lumbermen, Cecil Wetzel and Ellis Woods, violently manhandled him when they found him and the child in an automobile I on a dead-end road. THE WAR: ! Aerialistics The British said it would take Hitler 40 years to wipe out London, at the present rate of progress. "But j at the same rate of progress, the German air force might be wiped out in 40 weeks. For the first time, just the same, l.a funny thing happened. The British and Germans both admitted that the other side had outshot them. The British said they had lost at a ratio of 7 to 4. The Germans said they had lost at a ratio of 3 to 1. This was completely unprecedented, not only m the checkered annals of An-glo-German warfare in the clouds, but also in Sino-Japanese, Jap-Rus-sian, and Spanish civil conflicts. Nobody could quite figure it out. It seemed peculiar. The big question, which vexed the critics, was whether the Germans would actually try a land invasion of England this fall There were ali sorts of stories. The royal air force bombed alleged German troop concentrations along the channel coast, and in Norway They damaged flat-boats and similar equipment Whether this equipment was mereh a blind, or not. remained to be seen There was a yarn that 200.000 Nazis were massed in Norway, for a drive across Some critics de dared that the light German tank had proved utterly vulnerable to the two-pounder British anti-tank gun. This, they added, had caused Hitler to delay his invasion, and might postpone it indefinitely. That, again, remained to be seen.

Just Kids A very large number of the Nazi fliers up over England were young kids in their teens. They had been raised under the totalitarian system, and had the reckless fanaticism of utter youth. Their only enthusiasm was Hitler They almost courted death. The Nazi regime seemed to be deliberately exploiting these amateur wild-men. Their bombs might almost be termed: gifts to the school-children of London, from the high school boys of Berlin (or Breslau, or Augsburg, or whatever). No regime in history, said one historian, had ever sacrificed youth in this completely cold-blooded manner—tjiat is, its own youth. Ti e Goering flying circus might well be renamed the Goering suicide squad. More Kids The London press screamed “murder” at the announcement by the British government of the sinking of an English refugee ship with a. toll of 293 persons, 83 of whom were children en route to Canada. The ship, her name not disclosed, was torpedoed 600 miles west of England and sank in a stormy sea within 20 minutes after she was attacked. Of 406 men, women, and children aboard, only 113 were brought back aliv.e by a warship which reached the scene at dawn—almost eight hours after the torpedo struck. Stories of heroism and horror told by survivors of the disaster indicated that many lives were lost in the terrific explosion which ripped the vessel. Many others were swept from lifeboats or- died of injuries and exposure, The children were from 5 to 15 years old, and were the first lost in the child evacuation movements which have been under way ever since the war began. The attacking submarine was not identified, but the tragedy was described by government officials as “another example of the barbarous methods associated with Nazi Germany.” CAMPAIGN: Spirit of 1776- 40 The drums->beat. The bugles blared, the fifes tooted, the crowds cheered, the urchins ducked in and out, while women fainted, and candidates kissed babies, and wrapped themselves in the old red, white and blue bunting. The electoral campaign of 1940 still was in progress. The latest Gallup poll galloped all over Mr. Willkie’s chances. It told the following sad tale—that is—for

Republican Vice Presidential Nominee McNary is pictured as he spoke Ql Aurora, 111., opening his midivest campaign. He engaged in a bitter attack on the Hull reciprocal trade agreements. Henry Wallace, Democratic candidate for the same post, has already toured this section of the country and is busy elsewhere upholding his party's cause. the Grande Olde Partisans. According to Gallup, Roosevelt would get 37 states and 453 electoral votes. According to the same Mr. Gallup, Willkie would get 10 states and 78 electoral votes. This did not look any too encouraging for the Willkisti. Said an old cynic: “This is one golf game where the caddies are going to beat the country-club members.” The Republicans, of course, failed to agree with this estimate. Sam Pryor, director of the division of the Republican national committee. couldn’t endorse the Gallup estimate. Pryor thought that Willkie would get 300 or more electoral votes, leaving Roosevelt with 231 or less. Pryor added that about twothirds of the country editors were for Willkie, and that these editors conceded Willkie more than half of the papular votes in their editorial districts. Etc., Etc. Each side accused the other side of dictatorial ambitions. The Democrats said the Willkisti were planning a “fascist” big-business dictatorship, while the Republicans said the Rooseveltens were scheming a personal sort of “war” dictatorship. Earl Browder wanted the dictatorship of the proletariat, and that left only Norman Thomas, whom one prominent literary critic described as a 1940 streamlined Jefferson. But nobody expected many votes for Mr. Thomas, and perhaps he didn’t either.

RUMANIA: Transylvania Rumania was settling down, under the anti-Carol dictatorship of Gen. John Antonescu, whp had been locked up in a monastery until recently Antonescu helped to chase Caiol out of the country, with his hated, red-headed girl-pal Lupescu. Then it turned out that Carol and Lupescu were married, and had been since perhaps 1929. This news cheered the Mrs. Grundy’s of the entire world. Antonescu s new Rumania was pro-Nazi and anti-Jewish. It had lost about two-thirds of its territory: Bessarabia and Bukoviria to Russia, Transylvania to Hungary, and the southern part of the Dubruja province to little Bulgaria. Antonescu didn’t care for all this. The Rumanians accused the Hungarians of committing all sorts of atrocities in Transylvania province as they marched in. The HungarianRumanian tension seemed scheduled to go on forever. The Germans and Italians had forced Rumania to cede territory to Hungary and the Bulgarians. Now, the Rumanians began to talk about Germany and Italy forcing the Hungarians, etc., etc., to cede territory back to them. Meanwhile, Rumanian oil exports to Germany were soaring. The best high-test airplane gas comes from the Rumanian wells and today one can consider Rumania as General Goenng’s “kept” filling station. ■CHALLENGE: Duello General Goering, flying chief of

the Third Reich, was up over London in his own Junkers 88 bomber. Goering was the former commander of the Richthofen flying circus in the first world 'war, and an ace of great renown. Like many an old war horse, in the second world war he couldn’t keep his hands of! the controls. It was the first time, in a very long time, that a general led his own troops into battle. Goering may be the black eagle f Germany. But Harlem—New York city’s Negro section—has a black eagle, too. His august name is Col. Hubert Fauntleroy Julian. Julian had just finished reading Hitler’s book, “Mein Kampf.” Julian’s blood boiled over, at Hitler’s remarks on the colored race. This is what happened: Colonel Julian issued a challenge to vjenei al Goering, to meet him in a single, solitary combat. The place was to be up over the English channel. The weapons were to be Messerschmitt planes. Colonel Julian inferred that General Goering was a ‘‘lousy 0 divided by 0.” Goering was to have 30 days in which to j accept the Julian challenge. The challenge itself read as follows: “I therefore challenge and defy you, Herman Goering, as head of the Nazi air force, to meet me at 10,000 feet, to fight an aerial duel to avenge the cowardly insult to my race. Neutral correspondents must be the referees.” Colonel Julian added that he would buy a Messerschmitt from the British government, which had two captured ones up for sale. Colonel Julian over- « looked one detail. General Goering is probably too fat to get into a Messerschmitt. Julian was Haile Selassie's only flier in the Ethiopian war. BRITISH TROUBLE: Egypt The Italians came out of TripoliLibya, and started to invade Egypt, up the long coastline. Already, they had conquered British Somaliland " down in East Africa. The British in Egypt were slowly retreating along the coast before Mussolini’s Marsha] Graziani. f The object of the Italian high command was to cut the Suez canal. This would sever the imperial lifeline of England to India.

MARC DE TRISTAN JR. Back home, safe and sound.

CANDIDATE McNARY