U.S. MEN TO BE CALLED UP

Southland Times, Issue 24234, 18 September 1940, Page 5

U.S. MEN TO BE CALLED UP

CONSCRIPTION NOW IN FORCE

OCTOBER 16 IS DAY FOR REGISTRATION (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received September 17, 8.50 p.m.) WASHINGTON, September 16. The President, Mr Franklin D. Roosevelt, signed the Conscription Bill, which is now law. He proclaimed October 16 as the date for the registration of approximately 16,000,000 men between the ages of 21 and 35 years. The keel of the 93,000,000 dollar, 45,000-ton super-dreadnought New Jersey was laid down in the Navy yard at Philadelphia. The New Jersey is a sister ship of the lowa, now under construction at Brooklyn.

The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says that the isolationists, Senator D. Worth Clark (Democrat, Idaho), and Senator Rush Holt (Democrat, West Virginia), allege that Mr Roosevelt is negotiating for the transfer of half the United States’s 59' Flying Fortress bombers to Britain in addition to torpedo-boats and bomb sights. The British Anibassador (the Marquess of Lothian) commented: “I wish it were true.” The War Department placed an order for 144,000,000 dollars worth of war planes. Mr Sam Rayburn, of Texas, succeeds Mr William B. Bankhead as Speaker of the House of Representatives,

BREAKAWAY BALLOON CAUSES DEATH

(Received September 17, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 16.

At the inquest on a railwayman, Daniel Dunsden, it was revealed that the trailing cable of a breakaway barrage balloon .lassooed him around the waist, lifting him up and crashing his head against a telephone box and breaking his neck. The balloon drifted off to sea. DOMINION SOLDIER’S COURAGE

LONDON, September 16. When an incendiary bomb fell in the Strand during a recent daylight raid a New Zealand soldier leaning against a wall nonchalantly extinguished the bomb with his foot