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Show PAGE TWO THE TIMES-NEW- NEWS QUIZ One WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBWE Boost in Relief Fund Forecast kT' ' (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed in these columns, they of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union "You have just done the most tragic thing in the history of the country. You have shown a reversal of the spirit congress adopted from the beginning in trying to live within the budget . . . I feel this afternoon very much like the poet uho said: '1 was at the funeral of all my hopes And tombed them one by one. Not a word was said, not a tear was shed When the mournful task was done.' " Thus did Virginia's Rep. Clifton Woodrum scold and eulogize his fellow congressmen who had Just administered the coup de grace to son: It proposes a graduated tax, based on the number of stores. Myers pointed out that the Constitution requires that taxes be levied uniformly, geographically speaking. WHITE HOUSE: Welles' Return Down the bay at New York went some 25 reporters to meet the incoming Come di Savoia. A few minutes later, in her card room, d and they faced a tall, handsome diplomat Behind him was a talk with Adolf Hitler; two meetings with Benito Mussolini; long and private discussions with Neville Chamberlain and a great and idealistic crusade: The Edouard Daladier. Had he wished. Undersecretary of 1940 congressional economy campaign. Until the senate added al- State Sumner Welles might have most $300,000,000 to the farm appro- - pulled big news from his bulging portfolio. Instead he said: "I am mighty glad to see you, and I'm glad to be home." With that he caught a train for Washington where rumors were already mounting fast Revived was the favorite chestnut that Sumner Welles' report held the key to Franklin Roosevelt's third term ambitions. Said the wiseacres: If Mr. Welles felt a European peace was in the air, the President would retire; otherwise, no. Judging by European news Mr. Welles read the ' ' American papers, it looked like a " t third term. dark-suite- EUROPE: Telegram VIRGINIA'S WOODRUM He felt poetic. "Thanks to the wisdom of the Soviet government and to our valiant lied Army, the plans of the British-Frencwarmongers who attempted to fan the flames of war in northeastern Europe again failed . . Such was the telegram sent to h priation bill, house skinflints had slashed more than that from early budgetary requests. They had saved almost enough to avoid the new tax levy which $450,000,000 Franklin Roosevelt wanted in order to avert a boost in the $45,000,000,000 debt limit. But senate spendthriftiness now found its way to the house. Upped $55,651,058 above the President's budget request were CCC and NYA funds, and it was this particular increase that made Virginia's Wood-ruwax poetic. Next item would be relief,' for which the President asked $1,000,000,000; but everyone knew that this figure would be increased. Sole remaining bulwark of economy was the house appropriations committee, which was rumored about to slash $60,000,000 from the navy bill. Meanwhile it was a safe guess that congress would shun new taxes this session. Reasons: (1) It's an election year; (2) the debt limit won't be exceeded until next year, and a new congress will then be in session. Also in congress: C Flayed by customarily ardent New Dealers like Key Pittman, Joe O'Mahoney and Pat McCarran, a resolution for three-yea- r extension of the administration's reciprocal trade act neared its showdown in the senate. Chief quibble: Whether the senate should retain ratification power. Franklin Roosevelt promised to veto the bill if the senate did. C The perennial and controversial bill, already passed by the house, went to the senate floor after an okay by the judiciary committee. s C Inserted in the Hatch bill by a house committee was a clause forbidding expenditures of more than $3,000,000 by any national political party in any campaign. C Hearings opened on the chain store tax bill, flaming torch and cause celebre of Texas' Rep. Wright Patman. First blow: Weaver Myers, legal stafTman for the congressional committee on internal revenue, opined that the measure was Rca- unconstitutional." "clearly Dictator Josef Stalin the day Russia made peace with Finland. It came not from friendly Germany but from hostile France from Soviet Ambassador Jakob Souritz. Two weeks later Envoy Souritz's recall at request of the French government created a mild diplomatic flurry that echoed across the Eng lish channel. There, Britain and Russia were at swords points over British seizure of a Soviet freighter in the Pacific. After several days the excitement had apparently died down, but not a big question mark: anti-politic- n mTn i niLiMj How the wind rp is blowing , If v 1939, AGRICULTURE Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace asked congress to make it easier for farmers to get credit Reason: of all farm mortgages are in arrears. Meanwhile the department viewed with alarm Britain's decision to decrease imports of American cotton. Probable upshot: A revival of export subsidies. AVIATION Army and navy spokesmen revealed 1.600 warplanes have been sent to French and British forces in the past 14 months; that production is brHng rushed on 2,700 more. One-four- th I NX VS.!'' Jour: 0 is the cannon-firin- g Curtiss pursuit ship, one of three new army models which France and Britain asked permission to buy. Did the army grant or refuse such permission? 2. (Each part of the following counts 10 points). Why were the following movie stars in the news: (a) Dorothy "Penny" Singleton; (b) Bob Burns? 3. True or False: Reprimanded by the state department after an delivering speech, U. 8. Minister to Canada James II. R. Cromwell resigned in a huff. 4. What g event made residents of Syracuse, Uti-cRochester, and other upper New York cities stay home against their will? 5. Choice: The new exnlosive of Lester P. Barlow, demonstrat ed before congressmen, is made of (a) liquid oxygen and carbon; (b) T. N. T., dynamite and carbon; (c) glycerin and rosewater. 1. Above 1 life . - P-4- anti-Germ- ? ENVOY SOURITZ Cot his wires crossed? Did Envoy Souritz, a seasoned diplomat send this uncoded wire as a deliberate attempt to shatter Franco-Sovie- t relations? Chancellories In Paris, Premier Paul Reynaud's new cabinet made an auspicious start in its aggrrssive campaign against Germany. Summoned home one by one were all of France's diplomats, chief among them Ambassador to Italy Andre Francois-PoncReason: Premier Reynaud will do his best to keep Italy away from Berlin and Russia. Meanwhile Great Britain was also starting trade negotiations with Rome, but more important for the moment was creation of a "inner cab- AT WNT Srnfl PLANES FOR THE ALLIES i TpHE policy of the President to permit the allies to buy our most advanced type of military and naval planes is 100 per cent correct ' A principal problem in our preparation for defense is productive capacity. Time is "of the essence in war. Napoleon used to say: "I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute and hence few wars." We have the best industrial plant in the world. But in our modern system of manufacture, the best plant in the world can't get into production without first going through a slow and complicated effort called "tooling-up.- " This means the arrangement of buildings and machine tools to provide a continuous flow from one operation to another without backin Europe has caused tracking or lost motion. It means If AR Uncle Sam to tighten the the making of the working points guard on his vital Panama of those tools to insure absolute A, - - r " iCl Mr-- TT record-shatterin- a, IIDDCN 'Kl- , a op Ait - canal. Even visitors (above) are now barred from much of the canal area. Twenty thousand troops are on duty. Sentry shown at the left shows how soldiers must guard against malaria. rr . V ' AMP Oi QUICK fJL Scnuod Fearura AIR PROGRAM 'T CAN see no reason why a nation of people with unlimited national resources and with courageous youth in millions cannot so build for the future as to be able to say with undeniable emphasis, 'America Rules the Air." U. S. Senator Patrick A. Mc135,000,000 Carran. Mother's Hope Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all. Holmes. INDIGESTION Sensational Relief from Indigestion and One Dose Prorei It 11H14 the flrrt doee of thlj plemant-ttl- n black tablet doeaa't brim jou tb (aitsM and Bort end bottle If complete relief you have experienced back to US and (at DOURLE MONEY BACK. Thte Bell ana tablet belpa the atomaca digest food, makes the excess stomach fluids harmless and leu you eat the nourishing foods yon need. For heartcaused by burn, akk headache and upsets so oft feel sour and excess stomach fluids making you Bell-US Drove lck all oer JUST ONE DOSE of seedy relief. 25a everywhere. From Want to Want That man is never happy is for the present so true that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little Life is a progress from while. want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. Johnson. AV1 News Quiz Answers Permission was granted. (A) "Penny" Singleton was hospitalized after an auto accident; (B) Bob Burns and others were sued by man who said he was kidnaped and forced to, sign a denial that Burns had stolen his wife's affections. 3. False. He refused to resign. 4. The biggest blizzard since 1888 blocked all roads and piled drifts up to 30 feet in depth. 5. (A) is correct. 1. 2. AVIATION: Achievement Skies were overcast but radio reception was good. Pilot A. F. Olson nosed his Northwest airliner into the night toward Billings, Mont. Just west of Helena a bolt of lightning "appeared from nowhere," ripped the fabric from the right aileron and gave Pilot Olson, his two fellow crewmen and 21 passengers a good scare. When Pilot Olson landed at Billings he also brought home the bacon. That night the nation's 21 commercial airlines completed a full year's operation, flying almost 88,000,000 miles with not a single crew or passenger' fatality. V While operators slapped themselves on the back, actuaries figured this record made it safer to fly than to walk. con L. . itf r 'M 'txifl; hi reeks "Once the original tooling is done fewer . . . experts are needed." uniformity in all the thousands of separate parts that go into the assembly of any such complex and wonderful thing as a modern war plane. The scarcity, due to the depression, of sufficiently skilled pattern and is one of the great "bottle-necks- " retarding production. Once the original tooling is done fewer of those experts are needed. Everybody who is old enough will remember that preparation to build the radically different successor to the old Model T tin Lizzie, paralyzed the production of even the great Ford plants for the better part of two years. It is believed in the motor industry that a single last minute change in arrangement and design cost the Ford company mil lions of dollars and months of time When this great preparation work is done, increase in speed and re duction in cost are very great To put the American airplane industry on this kind of mass production basis would give us something that hasn't existed and, under conservative plans for our own equipment might never have been completely attained. But a billion dol lars worth of allies business coupled with our own requirements on basic designs identical with our own, will do exactly that This result of giv ing the allies our most advanced designs is the most fortunate Ihing that could happen to us from the angle of our own defense. tool-make- : TAX ON MACHINES tttt, ff ftrr,.,,MUu,. J. ffMfif flgfr, tf t i 'lift Merchant ships passing through the canal are euarded by armv troops like the fellow above, on duty in the engine room. It is also reported that steel nets have been installed to protect the great saboteurs. F. locks from would-b- At Washington last year an A. of L. teamsters' union allegedly "conspired" to make concrete mixing companies hire union teamsters to drive mixer trucks. About this time the anti-trudivision .if the department of justice began casting a suspicious eye at the sorry plight of America's building construction field. Taking a long shot Trust Buster Thurman Arnold slapped a charge of Sherman act violation against Washington's inet" teamsters. The allegation: That this squabble Interrupted building The War operations, therefore the union had restrained trade. For two days the British blockade worked Its way into the Skager-raProtesting loudly that unions do and Kattegat and threatened to not fall under the Sherman act, A. cut off Germany's merchant trade F. of L. cooked up a demurrer with Scandinavia. There was still and a motion to dismiss the ina chance it might succeed, but the dictment In late March Federal Nazis began fierce warfare in the District Judge Peyton Gordon surNorth sea with the apparent pur- prised everybody by upholding the pose of diverting British attention indictment, maintaining the Sherfrom the blockade. Meanwhile man act applies to unions where spring flowers brgan blossoming on their objectives are not "legitithe western front mate." Day before It struck at labor, the Sherman act floored a capitalist A unanimous Supreme court ruling Strong Arm Stuff held that patent owners may not At dawn 2.000 of Bolivia's 12.000 extend their legal monopoly to consoldiers marched against the presi- trol their product after it reaches dential palace at La Pas, resolved the dealers, and specifically may to assassinate the provisional presi not Impose price-fixinrestrictions dent and seize the government. Out Case on which the ruling was made to meet them went Chief of Staff was that of the Ethyl corporation, Gen. Antenor Icha.o with two ma which has licensed 123 refiners to chine guns and a handful of loyal manufacture gasoline officers. Into the enemy ranks went with its patented tetraethyl lead an army captain, recapturing tanks fluid, and in turn has made the rewhich the plotters had stolen. In a finers license dealers who sell it to few minutes the war was ended. the consumer. LIKE FAST HORSES AND A I SLOW-BURNIN- Guns shotvn at right are typt- - m cal of the artillery weapons in-stalled at Panama. Below, doughboys during maneuvers leap over a sea wall. Huge guns f and large troop concentrations are capable of protecting the Canal cone s secrets. Back into the headlines after his vacation in Florida went Texas' Rep. Martin Dies and his investigating committee. Current enemy: Russia and Communism. While Chairman Dies announced plans to "summon witnesses as fast as we can locate them," his operatives swooped down on Pittsburgh Communist headquarters in search of a Red who used the name "Franklin D. Roosevelt" on his party membership card. Also hard at work was New Jersey's Rep. J. Parnell Thomas, a Dies aid, who told reporters that "any number" of school textbooks used in the U. S. contain "one subversive passage right after another . . . Taken with the surrounding material, they may mean little, but when they are put with other selected passages they fit together perfectly, and the result is " amazing." COURTS: Sherman Vengeance t n4 Amazing e ct five-ma- POLITICS At Dallas, ex Gov. Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson announced she was willing to run for third term. JAPAN At Tokyo, Rear Adm. Shozaburo Kanazawa viewed with "grave concern" a report that the U. S. is strengthening its Philippine naval forces. INCOME Salaries and other money paid U. S. Individuals in February totaled $3,554,000,000, a 6 per cpnt increase over February, ' I UN AMERICANISM anti-lynchi- HUGH S. Uniudhatuni are those .mhm General Johnson Against Sabotage by 'Enemy' Leave Tax Bogy for Next Year CONGRESS: Coup de Grace Thursday, April 4, 1940 Uncle Sam Guards Canal Zone Know your news? hundred is perfect score on the following quiz. Deduct 20 points from each question you miss. Score of 60 or more is acceptable to excellent. As House Joins Spending Spree; NEPHL UTAH S, Q n If s it k A view from atop Ancon hill just before the last lights were extinguished in Panama's first blackout. On the left are the lights of Mira (lores locks. The outline of the canal can also be seen, a narrow thread of water which is Uncle Sam's "lifeline.'' PAN-AMEMC- g anti-knoc- Light army bombing planes on guard. They'd harry enemy ships. Senator O'Mahoney's proposal to tax machines has had a panning from every editorial that I read and I have to read a pood mnnv One recurring note is that Joe hails from the Ere at onen snare nf Wyoming, which hints that he can't know anything about machinery. I happen to hail from the great open spaces of Oklahoma, but that Isn't going to prevent me from horning in on this argument I can't recommend the senator's bill. In the first place, although I have studied it I don t understand it. I have a dim idea that It taxes the producer who makes more than average use of machines and from the avails, (correct avails) subsidizes the producer who uses less than the average machine power and hence employs more man power. I can't go for that It is not tax ing for revenue. It is using the power to tax as a power to Dunish one group and reward another In proportion to their degree of departure from or compliance with a government rule a to how thev should run their business. It is both "puni tive" and "Incentive" taxation and both are dangerous ground, Furthermore, it would be utterlv Impossible to apply. The labor- In the cost of various products varies from 10 per cent to 80 per cent and Is largely caused by forces entirely beyond the producer's power to control. Nevertheless, there is something very valuable In part of what the senator has at the back of his thought We ought to this idea of financing all social legislation by taxes on payrolls or give more thought to taxes on machine or machine hours. The rush toward machine production and away from employment Isn't altogether caused by advances in science and invention. Every time a manufacturer Installs a new machine operation displacing labor, he makes certain logical wage-eleme- G CIGARETTE1. 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