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Show rm:on o Merger of Two Wars Feared If Allies Send Aid to Finland; Poles Drill Big Army in France Outward from Pmima li to the Curibbtan headed the cruiser I bear.rg Franklin Roosevelt home from a flxh.i.g expedition, South of Panama he had fished fur f sh; in the When opinions are expressed in these columns, they of the news analyst and not neoessarily of this newspaper.) Iteltdsed by We stern New&puper Union getting himself con- adequately guarded. conference the aboard Jusiiiloosa he gave report- Civilians A California youth, stopped at Rockford, III , admitted he and 20 other Air means had been recruited by one Col. Charles .Sweeney (believed an American soldier fortune) and ordered to re port in Toronto for aviation training. The FBI went to woik. Maritime The U. S. had two British blockade problems: (1) Britain sought In establishCanadian ing a contraband control system in the Pacific to stop U. S. rubber and tin from reaching Siberian Russia, from whence it may be going to Germany; (2) clippers, avoiding British mad seiuic-- at Bermuda, decided to fly direct from the U. S to the Azores and Lisbon. U. S. exports exceeded imports January by $126,589,000, the largest margin in recent years. One unhappy trend: Gold and sliver holdings of the U. S. piled higher and higher as foreign nations used this method to pay fur their In n s Industry Congress Latest item In the $1,000,000,000 worth of allied war purchases in the U. S. was a $20,000,000 contract placed with Douglas Aircraft company for construction of bombers for Great Britain. Ironed out wore senate house dif-f- t retires in the measure to raise the Export Import bank's lending power by $100,000,000, thus piovid-in- . for purchases by Finland. EUROPE: The Wars Congress Work Passed by the House: Finnish Front. Around Vnpuri on the Karelian isthmus and near In the far north, Finland's defenders continued retreating before Russian pressure. But the Finns held their ground at the "waistline, halfway up the border. Western Front. Increased patrol and artillery activity was acknowledged by both high commands. Heavy German troop movements were reported near Luxembourg, and the Nazis were said to be extending the Siegfried line along the Belgian and Dutch frontiers. In the Air. British reconnaissance planes flew over Berlin two succes- Pot-sam- o y regulate investment companies on behalf of the Securities and Exchange commission. Sent to the Senate: The resolution to extend for three years the administration's reciprocal trade program. Argued in Both Houses: The 1940 census, scheduled to start April 1. While Census Director W. L. Austin moaned. Republican orators urged constituents to risk penalties by not giving personal'' information which is none of their damned business. house-approve- d 1 line already well manned, observers had reason to wonder will send its where Polund-in-cxilfirst five divisions which will be ready for action by midsummer. Finland seemed the best bet, for behind a ceaseless barrage of rumors and counter-rumorflooding Europe this month, could be seen an breach between the two wars. Both London and Paris reported it was certain the allies would land an army at Petsamo, supPOLAND'S SIKORSKI plementing spasmodic aid which has 1 here will his army go? dribbled to tiie Finns through NorIn the light of (Set Below) way and Sweden. overtures German tins possibility, Nazi while were give nights, planes In Scandinavia seemed ominous. chased away from Paris. The overtures: Nazidom has At Sea. Allied warships, massing Finnish-Russiaa truce to sought Russian-German to block In the Arctic sea sea commerce, sank two stop consumption of Russian war Nazi merchantmen near the Finnish materials and thus get more for herInshore. An undented report of naval self, Hitler has also threatened tervention on Russia's side if an alactivity olT Petsamo was considered lied expeditnm.uy force is sent to by observers as the first sign that Finland's aid. He hud also hinted Europe's two wars may merge. to Norway and Sweden that it would be best for them to block allied aid Ilehirid Scenes to the Finns if they wanted to escape Somewhere in France correspondthe war. But at the same time he ents discovered Gen. Wladyslaw had not ovei looked the value of Sikorski of Poland dulling almost Scandinavian friendship, for Swed100,000 troops peasant boys, stuish iron ore would be cut oil if the dents, miners and professionals northern countries joined Britain men who escaped from Poland after and France. Maginot e ;vi g far-nort- h 1 blitzkrieg. With France's Peace Gesture NAMES in the news Despite gloomy news, irrepressible peace rumors still bobbed to the surface. In London Lord Tavistock, chairman of the British council for Christian settlement, said he had received a set of peace terms through Germany's legation in Dublin. These he had passed on to Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax. The terms: (1) Ituli pendcnce to Slovakia; (2) indopi ndencc to Poland, with an cutlet to the sea; id) a plebiscite in . . . At Little America, Adm. Richard II. Bj rd reported he and two assistants had mapped the long unknown South Pacific coast of Antarctica. discovering a vast mounistain range and an land SO nulis oflMiure. C At London, ex Premier David Lloyd George scored England s woefully poor food production, claiming that two and a half tm!l on neies which produced 1,000 000 tons i f U od hi 1914 are now imrgtoun with w eeds. C. At London, it was rumored M.J. Hermit Roosevelt, s n of the "Reughruicr," would have h s But to leul an i"t. m Isii army SI, d 4t brigade F.nluml C. Arriving ugi.'ist in the P S Ku- f r a ; (4) disarmament w.d do bkewi.se; tj) Ger lu.n lOii'Uv to the League of Na i ided Bnt.in doesn't con tins. t r .o to i ,n the show. To most ob s ' w i i II o! T i w ice terms ci at i f ( the same bi ghtuud (dies Goes ('.ailing c UTs i pure-und-- d.'i'i r; y i 1 i a I':e-i- ir J 'o a s las evetvone had expect queer peace otTens.ve had evidently Mu-soli- Mr Welles has terms, and it was widily advertised that Adolf r w ...1 d i l.kew iso Every one, ebv i 'Us'y, would talk tough. t Id -- r 1 but by and large the present list of rear admirals and captains constitute a rather square-shootinand able lot. That fact, nevertheless, must not prevent a closer examination of the general question, the general problem, of which the report recommending added power for the general staff officers is only an insignificant part. That is the trouble, you know, with expansion programs. Each addition to governmental scope is, apparently, an insignificant item. g At Washington the National Labor Relations board issued orders for the largest collective bargaining election ever held. "As soon as possible, approximately 150,000 employees in 59 General Motors plants in 11 states will cast their ballots, the principal issue being affiliation w'ltli C. I. O. or A. F. of L. POLITICS: Victory in Ohio Both Republicans and Democrats conceded that Ohio's sevy enteenth congressional district was a sounding board for Ohios political In that district. Republican J. Barry McGregor was lighting it out with Democrat Byron Ashbrouk, nephew of the late Rep. William A. Ashhroek. In the twenty-secondistrict a Republican victory was not unexpected, provided Ohio would send a woman to congress. Hoping it would, socially prominent Mrs. Frances Payne Bolton sought to succeed her late husband. When the votes were in Mrs. Bolton found herself elected. So did cross-current- M ctlrego prophetic seventeenth district wasnt fool- Wash-- i c a m p a i g n MRS. BOLTON co m mi ttre Diii accepted her. hailed Ohio's loults as n s.gn that "the tide cf oat'i t.al sentanent continues strongly tow aid a Republican sweep next ve.r.bir" lit'-- , news: f, ! i ,ir Democratic senators (Mas-.- s ich.i'i its' WaNli, Iowa's Hemiig, Mih gin's Broun and Indiana's M nton ird cateJ they could conceive of an international s.tuntion winch would make it wise to nominate and ilcct Franklin Roosevelt for a thud term. C Thomas E. Dewey had his name tiled m the Nebraska G O P. primary. where he will fight it out with Mich's; in's Sen Arthur Vanderberg C Vice President John Nance Garner lit h.s name be ei.teied m New York. r t 'Lt cal WEEK recommendations as showing men bitwem the professional navy EdBy LEMUEL F. PARTON side. Secretary and the civilian findFeatures WNU Service.) s (Consolidated ison disagreed with the boord house the to "Gentle Breeze is YORK. so reported ings, ard committee. Unfortunately, however. jEW loose translation of the name Mr. Ed, son failed to hit the prt posal of paraguay's new dictator, Jose Fe-- a He should jx Estigarribia. On September 13, g ,od still u; percut. was have called attention that it an- - Gentle Breeze Is it represented dangerous in that control of othir step in the direction lyeu Iron Man servants of by the military-minde- f d the people. or i Army ana Navy A Need Careful Analysis I doubt that the general board's recommendations are going to be It is time, by congress. to think over some of the have happened with re-that things and sped to the navy and the army a few cases the marine corps and the coast guard. Moreover, it time to remember what has hap1 has pened to every single nation that too much given its military services say about civilian affairs or affairs ant we, in this country, regard as affairs. It cannot be said with too much emphasis that our system of government must live or die by the measure of the power over national policy that is retained in the hands of elected officials. The practice of appointing army and navy officers to civilian posts has been growing in recent years at an alarming rate. The usual practice has been to appoint retired More recently, however, officers. officers have been taken right out of detached the military services from commands, etc. and named to civilian jobs. I am not going to undertake to enumerate them. They are scattered hither and yon, like head of the WPA and head of the division of the departwage-hou- r ment of labor and that sort of thing. One of the army officers is serving as secretary to the President of the United States. I could go on and on and show where these men are functioning in strictly civilian posts. Lest I be misunderstood, I want to say that a couple of these army officers on civilian duty are doing splor.did jobs. But I hasten to add that they are the exceptions. The reason is that a man from the military services is trained along a particular line of thinking. Briefly, that thinking calls for and enforces discipline, execution of orders, blind obedience compulsion in all of its phases. We might look back through 20 years or so and recall how the navy and the coast guard were used in prohibition enforcement. I cannot believe that job was a part of the military service. But they were so used, and that was that. In the space that is accorded me, I cannot make any pretense of recounting the numerous instances where the military services were ordered into duties that never were intended for them by the founders of our nation. One by one, these things have grown up and they are now accepted. Isnt it about time to call a halt? Heres a Concrete Example Of How Plan Might Work T.b!etic! 19- i -' pQ man is checking in, vvlth the emergence of the shrewd, It resolute General Estigarribia. appeared to be a wrong guess, until recently, when the general nouncod his dictatorship, having bUmed the presidency last August, Qray,ngi handsome austere, just turmng 5q he is the smallest of dic-six tatorsj3g pounds, five feet, ad-is lnches tall. He was a Napoleon jn youth, but is said to ave abandoned such attitudes and ln(crcs(s ln later years. Of remote hasque ancestry, he is the descendant cj g ueahhy Paraguayan ecjUcated for the army at home He entered the Gran ancj ln paris Qhaco war as a lieutenant colonel, gainecj a generalcy in a year and emergccj as a national hero. The U. S. A. has a stake In When he his new dictatorship. entered his brief turn as minister to Washington, he lunehed at the White House and was extended generous credits for the fam-civ.lia- n of Paraguay. has "Extrasensory perception been fading rapidly after its sudden burgeoning of two years ago, but here it is again, with Professor J. B. Rhine, its Expert Studies high priest of Duke univerMental Powers sity, making Of Girl Marvel a study of Faith Hope Charity Harding, the little Pennsylvania girl who has been calling the future the way a calls his shots. Now 4 years old, she has been making bull's-ey- e prophecies since she was 18 months old; so naturally they get Professor Rhine on the job. He has kept right on running his parapsycliological laboratory at Duke, since his 2,500,000 tests of University students there convinced him of the reality of mental telepathy, and the possibility of our peeping Into the future, as well as into the minds of our neighbors. lie said it would take 1,600 digits to express the mathematical degree of improbability in his tests. Professor and Mrs. Rhine began exploring the spook world when they were getting the doctors degree at the University of Chicago. Among other such phenomena they examined the feats of the Margery, Boston medium and reported that the whole game was base and brazen trickery." They repeatedly have assailed fake occultism. As to mental telepathy, they lay it on the line, but theyre still working on the prophecy business. They started the latter inquiry in April last year. 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The navy's general board, in this Assume we, as nation, were havrecommendation, wants to have con- ing si me hard feelings with one of gress provide the chief of naval op- our North or South American neigh- - Army General erations with power that is almost bors. Assume, further, that the oth- Gets Credit for equal to that of the secretary of the er nation was do.ng us an injust.ee of course, the chief of and was refusing to allow the mat-- r'aziKuss Deal navy. Now, naval opi rations is a professional tors to be arbitrated so that a show army. His tracks usually lead in mariner and soldier. He usually Psslbly serve a Pur- - he direction of the next German so knows much more about sane nan Ti- lunge, and, controlling the army, he il?1.0niJ i'Ur eIectcd val operations than outlanders and ri th would be dif- - makes as well as executes decisions. vl"usy members of congress that a parallel Genet al Von Brauchitsch is a aPthUn' ,rbbcre is unnecessary. But it never is to A,- cen re always will be. member of an old east Prussian be forgotten that the chief of naval Dois th nk that the chief feudal a anybody family, conservative by in- operations is a career man who is nS uW1h grca,er Et'nct' tducan and tradition, but not responsible to the people, as are noivors h .Th 0Uld be Phicahy malleable, A distin- elected representatives, and as long found on the in gJ1"h(1d officer in the World restraint war, he as he obeys the laws and keeps his driima m'h IIlS b'lkd lhe republic, but went j"11' along health, he remains in the service un- train of i conclusion' thaV some heaJ, til retirement age is reached. pHcnaUng his gUnS and became head u D'p There is much to be said about Ud f. lts aimed From 1922 to bXvem careers in governmental service. Inforce PP, accju,cs" 1932' he delivered many scholarly deed, what would our fighting forces cence and he a"ree dmunciatums of bolshevism, but, be if they were not professionals? that com rom.se uV' t?Ver way out perhaps more than any other one Our army would be comparable to i robably, that is a man. gut through the il- interchange of what we have seen under Russia's us ra un. I agree that it Is under facers, technicians, fabricated great freedom. That is somewhat r3 lhat are vested nids. munitions and raw materials pf.nY beside the point of this analysis. Our '1e,uprrer,t. s i.e .mi of toe pr fesiinnal between Germany and Russia dur-meI purpiMlv used the navy system if government prescribes mg this decade, exagthat policy making and respmsibil- - fi rati d iluvrulion because if thue Weighty opinion from the othitv for di termination of policy shall is added p 'w or in the ,ttcr ff er side is that General Von be In the h.uids of elected represent-- I n krg p:0y glinted new, there Brauihitsih, rather than aaves tin i being the fellows who w,U be add.;. Hitler, grms of p Gocring or Rosenberg, schemed have men nership in the senate or accorded latar as sure a, little the n house if representatives. deal and allies grow on tri.s Is foued it to a conclusion through Si me eff rt was made ty politi'next slip ' (Dt j p1ve t j V his unquestioned hold on lit the s so cians to di v clop the general board's in these cel t r cs. arnn . The wta.le thin? can be s To li li is a Do attributed ;mrrod -the plan, P. Ibeheie. n the c. m BID FOR POWER? n tc dec an. the we are and the t m m my In a recent recommendation of timing gett n p;,ry. sarl (if drive into Poland. In nod peer le m the i.ni's general board, Wil s.t.o. s nf resp s taird 'rs',!K'cs there have been ham BruCuart sees the naval ofbdty WW-gear- hi st.lity between the to cu d an furcl.o-'ficers ir.iMng a strong bid for weier hen- d with the bet--- . Got'rng. adJ.tioral control of the departpt and s.ocere they riav be. th se o.. i.t f. if it ever comes rnur, off.cirs n Rurally ta.se with ment. He says they will be taktmi the o a.i i pi n brink The general was deep Liidrm, Mis (f ;he r ing th'c j wi r away from ci ilian i1 Btihn in 1881 It is ot g i ri and has been We h u officers. While he doubts that .11 )uth congriss w accept this rec m bril mi'i'da:,'". Bruckart warns that we must watch any trend which oi m would too much power to dk e authorit.es. 'n dCP ibit in Dr Rausch Kuop lhtr Oh opt n. ' evolution of nihilism. 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NEWS v fat. .Lp significant ing At V, .Nf ? or 1 Republican winch was Still rCw d N a ' reo-wti- k dir-man- 1920. I if i Ike ev lei ked I 'rcli.e. ug h s preliminary in Kerne vv ,th Bend i I' dci secretary if State hirnii r hurrie to Swdzer-ta"- . d Perce to Berlin. What li ei hi u a:eitised ns a n pie f n't finding expedition was s t. 1 navt'c; Sit .'!i a 1! Ariluluke Otto if . tria hepul to ar use soutane ' for his rn in i pi mi nt provided s s the war and Austr is rest ri d C Died: Gen. William Graves, 74, who coi',n..i; o, d p S expeditionS ot u from 1913 to ary Frets v ' Hr, m a -; Ail'd! i.i, if i tints . LAHOK: lliggcst Election s Germany's , hair-braine- d land a $20,000,000 loan; (2) a $60,000,000 appropriation to keep crop control checks flowing to farmers. Proposed: By Sen. Robert F. Y.), legislation to Wagner (D.-N- . i 'tv f (1) The bill to give Fin- senate-approve- r- ..." g $20,000,000 i in , of Trade nt Tat-i.- c;sAfe ' ilian Authorities. as which stjrtled who read it m Washington next day, Not only must the presi r.t number of guns and planes at Panama be doubled, said the President, but a long range defense program mint be arranged to extend throughout Central Am erica and as far south as Ecuador, Colombia and Vmeuila. Reason for this, he said, was the need for a betti r opportunity to disced r an attacking force at a much longer d. stance from the canal. life. Even the new Caribbean fortresses The report M ltd to attract much were inadequate protection from the attention. Cii'amly, it fmlid to reeast, he maintained. ceive the pul In ity that it should was have had in 'he newspapers The observer An interested Augusta Boyd, president of little reason was, I believe, that many Panama, whiee country will profit writers sinq 'y regarded the report by heavy U. S. expenditures in the imd its rt commendaCanal Zone. Saul he, after a con- tions as an isolated instance. My I ference aboard the Tusraloosa: feeling is, however, that the genthink we're all in the same boat. eral board's views must be examwith ined Latin America must closely because to my nnnd the United States in defense of the they represent not an isolated inWe are in there 100 per stance canal . but evidence, often repeated, is concent ns far as of a general tri nd in governmental cerned affairs that is h.ghly dangerous. DOMESTIC: This discussion must not be conan attack on the navy. I sidered Nose Gaunt have great respect for the navy and Of all questions in the 1910 census, especially for th" present personnel none has drawn more fire than those in the positions of policy dettrmma-tion- . regarding personal income. When There are some quacks and census takirs begin their rounds boys up near the top, April 1 many a citizen will probably refuse to answer these questions despite the threat of a fine. Adding weight to the G. O. campaign of protest, Miss Catherine Curtis of New York appeared before the senate on behalf of women investors Said she; Congress will have to enlarge the jails to house protesting women if income questions are not stricken from the census. Nevertheless Census Director William Austin went ahead with his will not plans, hoping his nose-couMeanbe completely sabotaged. while the department of commerce announced creation of a new national income division which will "analyze and interpret the flow of income from various sources and its expenditure in the final analysis for goods and services." For its source material the division will probe every source of personal income dnta available, including social security records, bureau of internal revenue and the 1940 census. ers some Reo.n.menil- - Il-a- ril -- - At a press President Roosevelt summoned congress to safeguard V. .V neutrality. Good intentions notuitlistanding, the V. S. found itself deeply concerned uith Europe's u ars politically, f manually, economically, soiially. Items in a ueeh's rieus: ', By WII I I M BRITKAUT WNU Service, National Press C. Bldg., Washington, I). - Ue house c mWASHING i "s ri... ie labmittee on i n ' ' rfc' r ile a report "cr d y t fu: iher ' n ommends t1 u of n.u. power to h g i n n de beh ,s That propos.' came fore, but tie tier, ot n port from the na.y g' r. boatd. die policy mak g agrcy if the navy department I', r, ' rt si n's, thi ri fore, an official n u- t y ra king officers of the Umti i y.C i s navy for greater concentr i'.o:i of power in the.r hands, as n,val ot.ici rs, as fr an the civilian contiol the through sicretiry arid assistant secretarv of te navy who alii ays have bi a a; pumn d from cn ll in- I .li.y Making ot tlilil ioial Control I rom Han.U 1 Ci vinced that Amtr,cas Gi- Sit months had passed since Germany ini ailed Ptdttnd, since During senate hearings on the reciprocal trade act. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace hinted the U. S. may seek means to help the farmer, whose exports have been reduced since tile war started. Main reason for woe: Allies claim they need all their foreign exchange to buy munitions. One possible remedy Is an excise tax on munitions expoits which might be paid to farmers. Depart, noil'.- - n, U.S. and the Wars: After Six Months Agriculture fr WHOS "'1 Navy ifficcrs Hid In licport to House Committee he had fished for ir.f jrrna-tio- braltar is rTStgwTfrr' ( Canal Zone (EDI TORS NOTE are those . Washington Digest WHITE IIOUsE: Home Again WEEKLY !EWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. 1mBIE 1 1 i and Vain glut y may never bear seed. riouer Die . P erb. Jk d Russo-Germa- - tr-r- s I non-elec- t. g? ' J tit fr-V' , yG b ..S - ' J,. J8' |