Show ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH JV labine half year relief appropriation may avert new tax measures measure 5 would merely postpone crisis EDITORS NOTE NOT EWhen when opinions are arc expressed in these columns they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper I 1 i 1 1 1 1 released by western newspaper union i CONGRESS solution one way of postponing a crisis Is to run away from it though the eventual consequences are usually usually y worse after five ave weeks of wres F franklin Roosevel ts budget it looked dangerously like congress would try this very strategy to avoid raising new taxes or increasing the national debt limit the trouble was economy had bogged down independent offices appropriations slashed in the house were raised to in n the senate making the total bill under budget estimates but still more than lost last year the presidents Pres identa farm bill from which the house appropriations committee cut went to the senate minus only ol of the original figure to save even this much virginias rep clifton woodrum had to tight fight a score of dragons when president roosevelt commented from hyde park that lie he like this tort sort of indiscriminate economizing mr woodrum dug into the A VIRGINIAS WOODRUM seven scion years year old but still true trite dents record and found a speech he mode made in 1933 declaring governments too often are wrecked by a loose fiscal policy thundered mr woodrum what was true seven years ago is true bowl maybe so but the form farm bloc promised heavy pressure in the sen ate the new bill Is under last years and contains no provision tor for form farm parity payments for or which the farm bloc wants at least since this would undo the best economy efforts charts to date there were rumors that con gross gress would run away from its next crisis relief recommended by the president Is for or this item but sen jimmy byrnes of south carolina hinted congress might make only a part year appropriation pria tion of only th thus us staying inside the fast approaching debt limit obvious purpose was to dadid new taxes in an election year but not even the folks back home could very well be tooled fooled into swallowing this sort of economy also in congress fl men who came cam 6 to dinner got into trouble 1 the house NLRB probe heard that two NLRB regional directors had stirred a family quarrel by attending a banquet given by a firm which had cases before the board 2 the house heard about six congressmen who allegedly attended a dinner given by plotters who iho were trying to discredit texas rep martin cun un americanism dies C massouris Mis souris rep john cochran introduced trod a bill to let next novem bers election winner draft the next budget az to settle once and for all time the administration congress battle over who shall make trade treaties now being argued jn in connection with the expiring reciprocal trade act sen arthur introduced a bill to create a foreign trade board NAVY Squal is its report sirce lost last may navy men have wondered why the submarine aqua squa lus carried 28 26 men to death oft off portsmouth N 11 almost nine months later a naval court of inquiry got around to reporting the gist officers and crew were absolved of serious blame the sinking having been caused by mechanical failure of the air intake valve leading to theO vessels engine EUROPE no harm harin at belgrade for a short and unimportant weekend Eu ropes spotlight shifted to belgrade there met envoys of the little entente turkey rumania yugoslavia and greece seeking a way to keep war out of their back yard in their midst were two malcontents who had territorial claims against rumania namely hungary and bulgaria others germany and russia also looked covetously at rumania whose diseases thus became so numerous that she was virtually untouchable to support her against these many foes would be suicide for other entente members but rumanian foreign minister grigore gafencu brought two trump cards to belgrade first was the threat that rumania would seek security with russia and germany unless the entente played ball second was the promise of a small territorial rit orial concession to bulgaria which meant the entente could now woo and win that aloof little nation when men the conference ended nothing was announced more concrete than a mutual promise but not guarantee suar anfee to watch over the safeguarding of the rights of ench each but turkish foreign minister sukru homeward bound stopped at sofia to see how bulgaria would react to manias Ru concession since italy germany and the allies each claimed the belgrade session was a diplomatic victory it had at least done no harm the wars russian finnish withdrawing its decimated armies north of lake la doga russia began concentrating on the Manner helm line armored sledges carried troops to within striking distance of the finnish lines but hundreds died as the finns drove them back parachute troops met a similar fate but soviet planes sapped finnish civilian morale 0 4 N U WINGS OVER r ENGLAND AND top photo shows vati aai sunner gunner in in nose ol of bombing plane bottom botlon photo phola shows diew view from plane abom to in rain death on tn erchant vessel in north sea raining bombs throughout a sunday on and abo at the former city Fin lands ancient cathedral built in 1600 was ruined allied gernian german both sides were busier planning tor for war than fighting it but german planes continued their disastrous raids on british coastal shipping becoming so cocky over their successes that photos were released showing how it was done see abate britain had reason to talk fearfully of the new JU 83 88 bomber which the reich Is expected to unleash soon both sides had trouble at home prime minister neville chamberlain made enemies when he rejected commons plea tor for a war economy dictator germany meanwhile was talking about new taxes and a wage plan to raise a war chest POLITICS an fn it old chicago in 1932 franklin roosevelt was drafted for or president nt at chicago it would bo be historically sign significant if lie he were dratted drafted for or a precedent shattering third term terin at chicago whatever whatever the reason it was worth noting that third termites tike like chi cagos mayor edward J kelly and jersey cites frank hague were in the saddle when the democratic national committee met in washington result chicago won agriculture southern freeze damaging enough to Ao tourist trade was the cold wave that struck southern states in late january when it was over farmers found even more damage had been done to their crops florida clamped down a one week embargo against citrus shipments meats while inspectors determined how much damage was done spies from california were on hand to observe the damage the agriculture departments marketing service surveyed damage in both texas and florida making a preliminary report that indicated severe crop damage but little injury to trees themselves one important announcement ca came me from the U S sugar corporation which reported to stockholders that cold weather had totally destroyed the mature cane standing on 25 percent of the planted acreage ASIA indian when britain went to war and asked indias andias aid mahatma gandhi countered by asking when india might expect dominion status answered viceroy marquess of lindith gow after the war complained gandhi this was unacceptable such bickering continued while the nationalist jeader leader urged passive resistance si upon his people and negotiated for a chance to discuss the problem with the viceroy finally the chance came and gandhi went to new delhi when he asked the marquess marques could india expect her independence answered Lin linlithgow lithgow after the war complained gandhi this was unacceptable net result of five months talk nothing trouble Tro tible trouble trouble I 1 any tact fact reported to japans emperor is irrevocable cable hence the army had no choice this month but to substantiate a fact it had reported in 1932 chinese gen ma chan shan hero reported killed in the 1932 manchurian invasion had popped to life again the entire north china army was hunting him in tokyo 70 year old takao salto created a storm in the diet by charging japan has lost killed and several hundred thousand wounded in china ile he suggested nippon had best withdraw its troops and negotiate peace highly publicized by the foreign press much to japans chagrin the incident was climaxed when statesman salto was asked to resign from the Mins Min cito party the government had still more trouble sweet words have been exchanged with russia since man border incidents ended with a truce last september there were even rumors of a dovlet jap mutual assistance pact but suddenly the border d demarcation emar cation talks broke down as gen shunroku hata charged the soviet with scores of illegal acts sore at everyone including the U S for abrogating its trade trea ty Nippon promptly stuck its toot foot in the mud again by bombing the french operated dunming ing hanoi railroad not once but twice AVIATION foreign Bil business siness already burdened with airplane orders from Eu ropes belligerents U S manufacturers have a new new customer sweden just placed is an order tor for attack planes costing about what this order meant was guess congress buzzed with rumors that the planes were really destined tor for finland but military experts or ar guedo that sweden next in line for aggression should the soviet capture finland was bolstering her own om defenses meanwhile secretary of the treasury gave the first accurate picture of luh juit how big americas foreign airplane business really Is since mid 1938 when then prance france first placed orders here to supplement her own lagging aircraft industry the U S has shipped 1100 planes to the allies recently step ping up delivery to more than ships a day together these two governments have placed orders for about planes in the past 18 months while current negotiations call tor for additional bombers pursuit craft and other types |