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Show THE BULLETIN NAMES WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE Europe's Emergency Measures Hit U. S. Economic Structure; Allies Link Trade, Diplomacy in the news BP . . WHO'S NEWS by Western Newspaper Union to Tokyo. Japan was worried, because the U. S. is both her best customer and the chief foreign source A NeutraVs Woes: In Washington, both executive and of her war supplies, without which she could no fight in China. legislative branches had their hands U. S. cotton longer meanwhile farmers full with rapidly increasing foreign feared a trade breach with Nippon, complications. U. S. neutrality had come home to roost, bringing with it heaping insult on the already deep the problems of war in Europe and wound created by loss of British trade. Asia. Among them: The munitions board Defense. warned there was too much crude THE WARS: rubber and tin being shipped to Eu- Britain Grows Bold ropean countries. In January's first "Each one hopes that if he feeds the 12 days, for example, 1.000 tons of crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat tin were exported against stocks on him last," hand of only 3.500 tons. Unless dealThus warned Britain's Winston ers and manufacturers Churchill in a radio address urging Europe's neutrals to Join the allies in "united action" against Germany. It came when dark clouds floated over Scandinavia, the Lowlands and Balkans. But Winston Churchill missed the boat. Commented a Brussels paper: "Belgium does not feed the crocodile, and is ready to defend herself against invasion." WEEK DOMESTIC (Churchilts admiralty was not doing so well either. Chalked up was Britain's twenty-firacknowledged naval loss, the flotilla leader Crenville.) st i IrttStNT MUII PBPPOSB SOW! CLIPPER AND ROUTES One of many problem. better In conserving these "strategic materials," the board threatened new restrictions. Agrknltnre. Contrary to expectations, Europe's war has given the U. S. farmer a bad time of it Both France and Britain, anxious to cement their tics with neutrals free THE WARS) are making trade pacta Bearer at home. Choice example is Britain's decision to buy all her tobacco from Turkey, eliminating a 180,000.000 annual market for U. S. growers. This month Britain ceased large orders of U. S. cotton as provided under a special barter treaty. To bolster her foreign exchange and save shipping space on her boats for more important munitions, Britain had almost eliminated purchases of U. S. wheat, fruits, pork, etc. Said the agriculture department: "This situation Is likely to continue through much of 1940." Malls. For two months British vessels have stopped arid searched All Scandinavia was meanwhile going overboard for the sake of Finland, but that did not mean Norway, Sweden and Denmark wanted to gang up with the allies against Joe Stalin and Adolf Hitler. Nor did Italy wax enthusiastic about British-Frenc- h overtures designed to encourage n Duce's formation of a strong neutral bloc in the Balkans. Of these latter states only Rumania, which has the most to lose In a war, hoped for a strong alliance to ward off attacks. (Rumania had another worry. Several German divisions were stacked against her northern frontier in the Russian section of Poland, ostensibly to police the railroad. This, plus reports that German technicians were operating oil wells in Russian Poland, gave foundation to rumors that Poland may again be partitioned, giving southern lands to the ReichJ While the western front remained stalemated, while R. A. F. fliers struck at Sylt and Helgoland air bases, the British lion showed unmistakable signs of renewed boldness. Heaped atop Churchill's speech and the curt rejection of American notes (See DOMESTIC) came seizure of 21 Nazi seamen from a Japanese boat in the Pacific. Finland's war enjoyed only a temporary respite before the Russians launched a sudden five-froattack which (according to the Finn high command) was repulsed readily with several thousand Russian casualties. On land they were still triumphant, but the Finns lacked power to combat the Soviet's most effective weapon bombing raids. German-Rumania- n By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features LOUISIANA, Reform CandiSan HonsUa Janes (above) began campaigning to defeat Gov. Earl K. Leaf in the February runoff primary. Following his late brother Huey's tactics. legLong called a special six-da-y islature, ordering it to pass 20 new bills, and repeal several others. Commented Jones: "It's too late now to try to fool the peo- date ple." e In Rome, Foreign Minister Count Galeasse Ciano cabled good wishes to Wang Chlng-We-l, whom Japan is establishing as puppet ruler of conquered China. Next day the government of Chiconsidered breakang Kai-she- k ing diplomatic relations with Italy. C In New York, Communist Earl Browder heard two comrades (George E. Powers and Nicholas Dozenberg) testify against him in the government's passport fraud case. Next day the U. S. rested its argument 4 In Kansas City, Mary McElray, once a kidnap victim, daughter of the late dry Manager H. F. McElroy. killed herself. C At Paris it was learned Ignaee PaderewskL famed pianist and former Polish statesman, has accepted presidency of AGRICULTURE: Exit Wheat CCC announced all fanners 1938 wheat sealed under government loans must redeem it by paying their obligations or surrender the grain when the loans expire March 31. Since the domestic wheat price is higher than the world mar--, ket it was estimated that in most cases loans, storage charges and Interest would total less than the current price. At the same time the corporation hinted loans on 1939 wheat maturing April 30, probably will not be extended. U. S. vessels, often European-boun- d 1907 (2) To unload this unleashed surof the violation in mail seizing plus abroad, the department of agHague convention. After repeated riculture announced it would reprotests. Secretary of State Cordell sume subsidy payments on exports Hull finally got an answer curt al- CONGRESS: of wheat and flour from Pacific most to the point of hostility: "His In Mourning coast ports to China and Hongkong. majesty's government finds themSenate page boys placed a calen- Though subsidies were abandoned selves unable to share the views of Two days dar of bills on his desk as usual; January 3 in the face of poor winter the United States it would be unthinkable to do other- wheat prospects, worry over conthat later, hearing clipper ships were being searched at wise. Missouri's Bennett Clark stat- gressional action on the farm probBermuda for contraband mail. Mr. ed for the record: "Last night at lem probably induced the department to get rid of all the wheat it Hull warned the planes may soon 8:43 p. m., remorseless events transkip Bermuda altogether. Jumping spired to take from us our beloved could, while it could. friend and colleague." At tiny Fair-from New York to the Azores. PHILIPPINES: (Whether by coincidence or became having nt ..." Fan-Americ- Britain is trying furiously to win Italy Borne-Berli- n axis, the mumy from the state depmrtmenl figured Italian veixels halted by the British at Gibraltar were detained an average of four days; V. & ships: 12.4 days.) Safety Zone. After considering for one week Britain's refusal to reczone around the ognize the Choice Western hemisphere wherein belligerent acts are "forbidden," the neutrality committee de Janiero found itRio at meeting self stymied. Japan. As the abrogated U. S.Japanese trade treaty lapsed, congress and the state department felt heavy pressure (much of it for imposition of an embargo against munitions shipments Pan-Americ- church-inspire- d) QUOTES SIR RONALD CAMPBELL, British ambassador to France, telling Americans aboat the war: "We . . . ask you to believe that this war is no more and no less than a struggle between right and wrong. This is not a phoney war." DR. ALEXIS CARREL, French scientist, en the path to peace: ". . . humans . . . must really try to understand each other. If we (the allies) knew what was in the hearts of the Germans now things might be different" MAURY HUGHES, Jack Garner's campaign manager, on prospecta: "I am positive that with Mr. Roosevelt not running, Mr. Garner will be nominated." W. GIBSON CAREY JR.. president of the U. S. Chambrr of Commerce, en budget balancing: "Childish references to the impossibility of effective control of expenditures . . . are evidence of a lack of will and lack of character. Is it not silly to say that the. richest and most productive nation on the globe cannot pay its way?" Unless something Intervenes, the Philippine islands will gain their independence from the U. S. in 1946. Then, as every Filipino knows, aggressive Japan may step in to snuff out their independence. Hence, since Japan went to war in China, many Filipinos have back-slide- d on independence, seeking extension of U. S. control until oriental waters are still again. Faced with such Indecisiveness, fiery President Manuel Quezon d elded something had to be done. Opening the national assembly he told a startled audience that the islands must choose now: either risk the dangers of independence or resign themselves to permanent retention by the U. S. long-cherish- 300-mi- le SENATOR BORAH events transpired. field, I1L, where he once ran away from home to Join a theatrical troupe, the folks mourned. They did likewise at Boise, capital of the state be had represented for 33 Remorseless years. would follow William E. Borah to congress was a matter of conjecture: it might be his long-tim- e friend, Idaho's Gov. A. C. Bottolf-seBut for the moment there was a strange dearth of conjecture on this point Democrats snd Republicans, politicians and statesmen, congress and the nation paid tribute to one of its elders. Also in congress: C The house having hacked from President Roosevelt's appropriation and deficiency bills, responsibility for economy now rested with the senate. Colorado's Alva Adams, head of the senate appropriations committee, promised to undercut the budget on treasury and post office items by $11,000,000. Also forecast was an even greater slash in the defense deficiency bill (the house had already cut 37,000.000). This looked encouraging to the economy bloc, which hoped now for no new taxes. Who n. $102,-000,0- DISASTER: Ship in Flames Out from Genoa with 643 passengers and crewmen sailed the 11.669-to- n Italian motorship Orezio, bound for Chile. One day out off the French Mediterranean coast she suddenly exploded and was enveloped in flames. All lifeboats but two were burned. Orazio's passengers Jumped into the sea while her radio sent a desperate and fins! SOS. Twenty-fou- r hours later first rescuers arrived and by nightfall 536 were accounted for. Forty of the 101 missing were passengers. MISCELLANY: Y and TV Service.) NEW YORK. The recentof Kene-sa- w proclamation Mountain Landis, freeing an oppressed minority of major and New.houndGot Landia Aid and Prune of Chtet First Form of Telephone Collegiate Honor System Their honor is dearer than their grades to University of Minnesota agricultural students. The agricultural college is in its twenty-fift- h year of use of the honor system. Begun in 1915 at the request ef the student body, the system has been subjected to student approval every four years. 1 reminded this courier of the blf blizzard in Chicago, along about 1906. I was a new and bewildered reporter from the sticks, tossed into the maelstrom of a federal court railroad case because there was nobody else to send except the office boy. It was as intelligible as a squirrel cage. The defending attorney loosed a gas attack of statistics and my pencil dropped from my limp fingers. The Judge, a little, brown wheat- straw of a man with a chrysanthemum thatch, got me in the sharp focus of his bright agate eye. I hadn't been wrecking any trains or robbing banks, but I began to fear the worst I wondered whether my elaborate Ignorance of what was happening could possibly be construed as a federal offense. Then the blow feD. The Judge gavelled down the spouting lawyer and said the court would take a brief recess. Then he beckoned me into his chambers. He asked me to sit down. Then he said: "I hadnt seen yen at the press table before. This case la confsslng. I thought I might help yea la getting It In straight It's like this a few concise sentences be brraght the courtroom hnb-bn- b Probably the world's first form of the tetenhona was used by Shi lluang Ti. that ancient Chines emperor who combined conquest with con struction. His communicating system was a rudely constructed hollow brass tubine extending between guard stations placed at dose InGreat tervals alone the 1,500-miWall of China, according to rw-duEngineering. le Maryland Single Taxers Hyattsville, Md, adjacent to the nation's capital, waa' the first comWooden Barrels Taxed munity in this country to try the RaeifclmifM hma vilnemA a. tax on single tax for local revenue purall empty wooden barrels entering poses. A law passed in 1892 fixed the single tax system, but it was the country. unconstitutional shortly declared thereafter. ct Articulate Porpoise The porpoise is the only articulate fish. Its C At Bombay, Mohandas K. Gandhi indicated he favored an "honorable compromise" with Great Britain over Indian independence demands. But: "Many 'i's' have to be dotted and many t's' crowed." C At Washington. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. said he was opposed to using U. S. funds to take over holdings of British-held American securities to insure orderly liquidation. S65,000-a-ye- ar trust-bustin- EXPERIENCE, ADVENTURE, TRAVEL AWAIT YOU Pocarello Hotel Bannock Cote ami Ceffee MS to IMS SURGE MILKERS WALLACE St Be. ll easy-goin- g of American Journalism, in which public officials sometimes owe their high status to an understanding 17. S. Hat Edge II and li witaeat GOOD PAY ENLIST TODAY la Air Corn, Infantry, Field Artillery, Ceaat Artillery, Enrincer. 8kraal Corp. Medical Carps. 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ARMY Bates II Is IS A State St. Be. FOR Salt Lake Hotel Plandome ..." something taderstaadable. I managed to write a story about It without breaking my arm and get my first pat en the back from a city editor who waa no spendthrift with each gestures. The voltairean little Judge Landis was like that and any newspaper man who ever knew him will insist mat his honorarium as baseball commissioner isn't half MEN WANTED! HOTELS Whea la KENO. NEVADA, step at the HOTEL GOLDEN Reaa's mrseet aad pepalar keieL Into Hearing rumors that U. S. wheat exports would diminish this year (see DOMESTIC), the department of agriculture and Commodity Credit corporation decided to unload while the chances were good. Simultaneously came two announcements: (1) WNTJ Prolific Redwood Uegion million acres of and one-ha- lf giant redwood forests 97 per cent of the world's growth containing many trees thousands of years old and hundreds of feet tall are located within the Redwood Empire of northern California and southern Oregon. One Light Distribution 15 to 25 per cent more curFrom Book ef Isaiah is for good distriburent required The Book of Isaiah contains more tion of in a room that has dark material than that deaJing directly rather light than light woodwork, it is with the prophet himself. A series said. to added it of editors of later date THIS (EDITOR'S NOTE When tplnlons are expressed In these columns, they re these ef the new snslyst sad not necessarily of this newspaper.) Location of Panama Canal The Panama eanal is nearer to New York than to Los Angeles. No wonder that thousands of Us visi- mm from New York. 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While England and France have, traditionally, a free press, the human contacts between the correspondents and high officialdom are still lacking, and both countries are snarled in censorship troubles. At the start of the war, liberal opinion noted with satisfaction that France and England had appointed, respectively, to their ministries of information, a distinguished literary man and playwright and a leading scholar. It seemed to be an exemplification of their war aims. But like the brass hats of the past they didn't seem to understand newspapers or newspaper men. The scholarly Lord MacMillan ef England has faded into the background, and his press censor, Vice Admiral C. V. Usborne, Is replaced by the clubby and gregarious Sir Walter T. Monck-ton- .' In France, Jean Glradoux, the playwright Is still minister ef information, bat his office Inspires bitter stories in the American press about fantastic restrictions. 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