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Show ! THE BULLETIN. TWNOIIAM. UTAH I HEADLINERS V MERRY FAHRNEY (above), patent medicine heiress, was ac-cused of love trysts with her first husband when she sought a di-vorce from her fourth, Count Oleg Cassinl. MRS. WILLIAM E. BORAH, thinking her late senator husband had been "poor," was surprised to find $207,000 in his safety de-posit box. MARRINER S. ECCLES, spending-lendin- g chairman of the federal reserve board, was re-appointed by the President over opposition. REP. JOSEPH MARTIN, G. O. P. house leader and dark horse presidential possibility, keynoted the Republican campaign at To-pek-a, Kan., by plumping for G. O. P. sponsored neutrality. ERNST VON STARHEMBERG, ex-vic- e chancellor of Austria, er of the Austrian heimwehr, was commissioned an infantry lieutenant in the French army. FATHER CHARLES E. COUGHLIN, Detroit "radio priest," heard the Justice de-partment was not going to inves-tigate him after all, despite a statement to that effect by the New York Jewish Peoples' com-mittee, which charged him with LAZARO CARDENAS, presi-dent of Mexico, announced flatly that further arbitration of expro-priated British and American-owne- d oil lands is "impossible." WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS IIY JOSEPH W. LalilNE Is 'Real War' Coming at Last? Hitler's Speech Viewed as Signal For Bitter Drive Against Allies (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Weitern Newipaper Union INTERNATIONAL: Cliarge and Answer The comments of a Catholic pri-mate in late January seemed des-tined to touch off a sequence that would lead Europe to a real war. At the Vatican, August Cardinal Illond reported that his primacy of Poland was the scene of mass shoot-ing, religious persecution and other atrocities by Nazi Germany. Add-ing Its two-bit- s worth, Poland-in-exil- e charged from Paris that Ger-many had executed 18,000 Polish leaders. These things, true or not, made Berlin downright mad, insulted and vengeful. Diego von Bergen, am-bassador to the Holy See, protested two months of fighting, in addition to unestimatcd tanks, horses, trucks and miscellaneous supplies. Fin-land's first major aerial offensive was assigned to Italian pilots flying Savoia-Merchct- ti bombers, who raid-ed an unnamed Soviet naval base. (In Moscow, Italy was warned against joining the Anglo-Frenc- h war bloc. Likewise, Norway and Sweden were warned not to aid the Finns. Never-thele-every conceivable aid thort of a declaration of war was being rushed from these countries. U. S. participa-tion was evidenced by (I) assignment of American volunteers to legion-naire unit, and (2) arrival in Nonvay of at least 11 American-mad- pursuit planes.) The Balkans In the Balkans where Rumania, Turkey, Greece and Jugoslavia met to plan a mutual defense bloc, dis-satisfied Hungary opened a bitter press campaign for the return of Transylvania, ceded to Rumania after the World war. CONGRESS: Farm Fight Sped through the house were dras-tic slashes in such items as postof-flc- e, treasury, emergency defense and Independent offices. Reason: Congress would tickle an economy-minde- d nation by avoiding new taxes kL ii or an increase in the national debt, thus safeguarding itself in an elec-tion year. In the senate appropria-tions committee there was mild balking at these economies, but they were destined to pass with minor adjustments. But when congress struck the farm bill it found a hot potato. Pres-ident Roosevelt asked $788,929,519 in his budget, making no mention of the much-demande- d $225,000,000 for farm parity payments. Bluntly the house appropriations committee slashed $154,530,000 from the budget ($72,678,000 for surplus commodities, HLOND AND VON BERGEN Did the Vatican start something f in vain. German executives In Po-land like Arthur Greiser, Arthur Seyss-Inqua- rt and Hans Frank made speeches and gave interviews, the general theme being an admission If stern measures against "chau-vinistic agitators" and sterner meas-ures against Polish Jews. But atroci-ties were denied; all reprimands, they asserted, were designed to make everybody happy. Adolf Hitler didn't bother to ex-- LABOR: Convention s End Denounced were President Roose-velt, Vice President Garner, Demo-cratic Hopeful Paul McNutt, Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the Re-- rips- - ft plain; he merely raved against his enemies. Occasion was the seventh anniversary of his rise to power. In his speech Der Fuehrers (1) prom-ised continued friendship with Italy and Russia; (2) tried to "pep up" Germany's war morale; (3) at-tacked Britain as usual; (4) at-tacked France, which was not usual; (5) announced the "real war" was about to start (London interpreted the speech as a surrender of hope that the allies might somehmo be split. Italians heard Hit-ler with indifference, perturbed be-cause he spent more time polishing ap-ples with liussia than with Italy.) Western War In Britain, where a cold wave and fuel shortage had made bigger news than the war, Adolf Hitler's declara-tion suddenly struck home. Waves cf Nazi bombers swept down the coasts for the second consecutive day, destroying (according to Ber-lin) 19 ships. Just as France's Pre-mier Daladier had warned a few hours earlier that total warfare would start soon, so did Britain's Neville Chamberlain indirectly hint at the same thing when he made a speech containing strong overtures toward neutrals like Japan and the U. S. (Japan uas still protesting British seizure of 21 Nazi sailors from a Jap steamship. But she had more serious troubles closer home. Kusso-Ja- p bound-ary discussions broke down, indicating the Manchukuoan-Mongolia- n war may start again soon. Also broken down was electric power, , Reason: Fuel shortage.) Nortliern War In the Soviet-Finnis- h war, Russia's manpower and resources were being drained by defeat on five fronts. Helsingfors estimated officially that 250,000 Red troops had been lost in publican party and Democratic ma-jorities in both houses of congress. Flayed was the National Labor Re-lations board and the house com-mittee now investigating it. Tabled were 47 resolutions endorsing Pres-ident Roosevelt for a third term. Handed to the omnipotent union ex-ecutive board (whose powers re-mained uncurbed) was the right to endorse whatever Democratic pres-idential candidate it chooses, and to support him with union funds. This done, John Lewis sent his United Mine Workers home from Columbus. They had served him well: They had given him an audi-ence for his startling speech de-nouncing the President; an oppor-tunity to launch his presidential campaign for Montana's Sen. Bur-ton K. Wheeler; a carte blanche to ladle U. M. W. campaign funds into whatever coffer will best serve his purpose. JUSTICE: Anti-Tru- st Restraint Since last autumn Trust Buster Thurman Arnold has secured indict-ments against 519 persons, 124 cor-porations, five trade associations and 34 labor unions, carrying on a popu-lar campaign against combinations in restraint of trade. Considerably enlarged over last year, Arnold's division is operating on a $1,300,000 budget but is still too small to prose-cute all cases now scheduled. When budget estimates were pre-pared last autumn he asked for $2,208,000 for the 1940-4- 1 fiscal year. Instead the budget bureau granted $1,209,000 or $100,000 less than Ar-nold's current appropriation. All ef-forts to get the fund increased have met with opposition in the economy-minde- d house appropriations com-mittee, despite the fact that Arnold's WALLACE AND JONES The patient was half dead. $49,975,000 for sugar benefits, for farm tenancy loans) and sent it to the floor. In the ensuing argument 1940's en-tire economy drive seemed destined to rise or fall Secretary of Agri-culture Wallace was highly critical. He asked for a permanent scheme of subsidies, pointing his argument by suspending the cotton export pro-gram. Next he hinted the house could expect "political reprisals" if it dealt too severely with the farm-ers. Most incensed was Texas' Rep. Marvin Jones, who argued all after-noon after the appropriations com-mittee presented the revised bill un-expectedly, giving the farm bloc no chance to prepare its defense. Said he: "It's pretty bad to perform that big an operation without letting us see the patient until he is half dead ..." Failing in the house, farm leaders planned a fight in the senate to re- - TREND How the wind is blowing . . . INCOME A seven-yea- r study by the Northwestern National Life In-surance company of Minneapolis showed that John Public was profit-ing from the war whether he ad-mits it or not: In 1939's last quarter, his check climbed to the farthest point ($13) above living costs since days. COMMUNICATIONS The U. S. Supreme court ruled a federal court of appeals has no supervisory power over the federal communications commission. Case: A court order demanding that FCC reconsider its action on the petition of a Potts-vill- e. Pa., radio station. RUBBER Standard Oil com-pany of New Jersey announced ac-quisition of American rights for pro-duction of buna synthetic rubber from I. E. Farbenindustrie of Ger-many. MARITIME To avoid U. S. -- British friction over contraband control, London may soon permit European-boun- d U. S. ships to pass the con-trol at St. John, New Brunswick. AVIATION air-ways has ordered four-engi- sub-stratosphere planes with a 300-m- . p. h. cruising range to outfly com-petitive Italian and German ships. store the cuts. Also in congress: C The senate foreign relations com-mittee heard Jesse Jones express doubt that private investors would subscribe to a Finnish bond issue, as suggested by Mississippi's Sen. Pat Harrison. Probable outcome: An Export-Impo- rt bank loan for supplies. C House hearings: (1) Labor board committee, which heard NLRB de-fended by its chairman. Warren Madden; (2) ways and means, which discussed the reciprocal trade act G. O. P. opponents of Secretary Hull, who fathered the act, dug back 11 years to prove he has changed his mind about tariffs. (Michigan's Sen-ator Vandenberg introdueed a bill pro-viding for a foreign trade board to re-place both congress and the adminis-tration in framing trade treaties.) C. Michigan's Rep. Frank Hook in-serted statements in the Congres-sional Record purporting to show that Texas' Rep. Martin Dies had been in collu-sion with a fascist "Silver Shirt" leader. When Hook's informer ad-mitted the charges were based on forged papers, the house demanded an apology. C President Roosevelt celebrated his fifty-eight- h birthday by asking con-gress for $7,500,000 to build 50 small-town hospitals as an experimental program to better the nation's health. division will probably collect in fines during the current year. Unless his fund is increased, observers believe the anti-tru- cam-paign is apt to bog down. PEOPLE: 'Glub' In New York John Barrymore cel-ebrated the Broadway opening of his play, "My Dear Children," with a night club party. When he found awaiting him both his daughter, Diana, and his estranged fourth wife, Elaine Barrie, he chose the latter. Stomping out angrily, Diana shouted denunciations on "that woman." When reporters asked Miss Barrie if this was a reconciliation, she an-swered: "Ask John." Said the cocktail glass: "Glub." It was good publicity. PENSIONS: 3,700 Checks Mailed from Washington late last month were 3.700 checks to workers and their dependents in 48 states, constituting the first monthly bene-fits from U. S. old age insurance. Recipients: Wage earners over 65 who have retired, their wives, wid ows, children or dependent parents Highest checks were $42 for mar-ried couples 65 or over, though the average is $49 for married couple id $26 for unmarried workers. Bruckort's Washington Digest Democratic Political Pot Now at Boiling Point, but Lull Is Due Attack on President by C. I. 0. Lewis Is Followed by Exaggerated Claims for Roosevelt Delegates in Florida and Ohio ; It's All Part of the Game. fit I 'iV'""s lv aQ If I..- .- A They Part Company 'No Third Term,' Thunders C. I. O. Lewis. litical students that Mr. Lewis can not pull the entire labor vote, or even a strong majority of it, for anybody. I personally have believed for a long time that political cater-ing to the "labor vote" was simply catering to a myth. But there have been other things happening along the Democratic front. In Florida and in Ohio, the pot boiled over. We were treated, in each instance, to some of the usual political bunk. Senator Pepper, who frequently By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bldj;., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. The Democratic political pot has come to the boiling point. High political temperatures have prevailed now for several weeks. The condition probably will continue for several weeks more be-fore there is a lull. But a lull will come. Political strategists, presi-dential aspirants and wheelhorses will not be able to maintain the current pace until convention time. If they attempt it, there is only one end possible: the Democratic party will be split beyond any hope of repairing the damage. There is one thing to be noted, even now: New Dealers, near-Ne- Dealers and New Deal payrollers have put on one of the really great drives to insure the renomination of President Roosevelt for a third term. They have hit in every direc-tion. Some blows appear to have been effective. The payrollers hope all of their efforts have brought fa-vorable results, but that seems im-probable. In the period under discussion, there likewise has been a terrific attack upon the present New Deal leadership. This came originally from John L. Lewis and his C. I. O. labor organization. It dragged with it some others who might or might not have become so active at the moment Sell. Burton Wheeler of Montana, for instance. Lewis Support Like 'A Kiss of Death' The Lewis attack was important solely because it represented the final stage of a break between him-self and Mr. Roosevelt. I have heard many persons say it was a break of luck for the President. Mr. Lewis doesn't rate so much, any announces his importance as a Democratic leader in his native state of Florida, came into Washing-ton and announced that the Florida delegation to the Democratic na-tional convention would be for Mr. Roosevelt for a third term. That sounded all right. Closer investiga-tion, however, seemed to indicate that Senator Pepper was talking through his headgear. If my infor-mation is correct and it came from a trustworthy source, the facts are that every move to direct the Flor-ida vote towards Mr. Roosevelt was badly licked. Indeed, the word that came to me from Florida was that Senator Pepper was spanked by his home folks. He tried to steer the Roosevelt ship and had the rudder taken out of his hands by the state convention by the rather lopsided vote of 72 to 37. And the impor-tant, yet unpublicized, phase of the meeting was that the boys who wielded the paddle upon the loqua-cious Senator Pepper are known to be for Mr. Garner. In Ohio, State Chairman Arthur Linback apparently tried to do the same thing as Senator Pepper did in Florida. He made a lot of an-nouncements about where the Ohio delegation would go. Again, upon my own information, the Ohio dele-gation appears likely to go in a dif-ferent direction from any of those pointed out by the state chairman. Those Making Clamor more. That is. his affirmative sup-port is something like a "kiss of death." It will be recalled how Mr. Lewis called Vice President Garner "a poker- -playing, whiskey drinking, evil old man," last summer. That at-tack by Mr. Lewis surely did more to boost the Garner presidential candidacy than any other one thing that has happened. It convinced hundreds of thousands of voters that Mr. Garner must be a pretty good guy if he disagreed with n strikes and attempted dictatorship of the government by the C. I. O. The evidence is that Mr. Lewis gave Paul McNutt a boost, too, by his espousal of a declaration that the Democratic party had not kept faith with organized labor. Mr. Mc- Nutt, former governor of Indiana and present federal security admin-istrator, is sticking right close by the New Deal; so close, indeed, that he is not going to seek the Demo-cratic nomination unless Mr. Roose-velt gets out of the way. It is held, therefore, that when Mr. Lewis tried to pin back the Roosevelt ears, he inferentially helped Mr. McNutt for the reason that only a few political students here believe Mr. Roosevelt was damaged by desertion of the Lewis following from the New Deal to which they gave half a million dollars in the 1936 campaign. As regards the Garner candidacy, observers seem to feel that the Lew-is outburst was another feather in thnir ran Mr Hfimop .... .. . Mr. Linback obviously wants to curry favor with the New Dealers. But Ohio sources, political observ-ers mainly, advise me that there is small chance of Mr. Linback con-trolling the delegation to the Demo-cratic national convention. In the first place, there has been no slate of delegates made up and the pri-mary is quite a way in the future. So, it is made to appear that Mr. Linback, like Senator Pepper, was doing a bit of popping off in the hopes that he could start a band-wagon movement, with him in the driver's seat. has said he wants the nomination and wants to be elected and he made no mention at all of the possi-bility that Mr. Roosevelt may want to run for a third term. Thus, when Mr. Lewis said the Democratic par-ty had broken faith with labor he obviously meant with his own fac-tion of organized labor he could not have hit Mr. Garner as much as the New Dealers. Mr. Garner certainly is not of that stripe. Strange That Wheeler Should Encourage It The demonstration of the United Mine Workers in favor of Senator Wheeler at their Columbus, Ohio, convention, obviously was staged, conceived and promoted by Lewis. The C. I. O. boss has been getting closer and closer to Senator Wheel-er. He has given every indication of wanting to endorse the Montana senator, openly. I cannot help won-dering why Senator Wheeler encour-ages it. It strikes me that Senator Wheeler must know how a C. I. O. endorsement will be taken out in the country the small towns and among the farmers. ' Moreover, there is a growing belief among po- - From Mississippi, some days ago, there came word of an effort to get a resolution through the state legis-lature that would have praised the New Deal administration and New Deal policies. It fell flat. These states that I have men-tioned, however, give some indica-tion of the scope of the drive by the New Dealers. Obviously, they want Mr. Roosevelt renominated and for in that direction lies their political future. They are unlikely to get anywhere, to hold their jobs, unless Mr. Roosevelt leads. I doubt that Paul McNutt would keep the bulk of them in office if he were to be elected. It is abso-lutely certain that Mr. Garner would get rid of them. Another thing: the last few weeks has shown the same group in the van of the demand for a Roose-velt third term. Men like Secreta-ries Wallace and Ickes, Senator Guf-fe- y of Pennsylvania, Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. Ambassador Davies, are making the original pro-nouncements. The lesser lights pick up the song and sing it. It would be interesting to know what the total payroll is of the men now heading the Roosevelt third-ter- drive. But soon the lull will arrive. Sen-ator Wheeler's demand that Mr. Roosevelt announce now whether he is, or is not. going to seek a third term will get exactly no further than the front pages of newspapers. The Peppers and the Linbacks will have had their say and their pro- nouncements will measure exactly as much as a summer shower in ultimate importance. It is all a part of politics. I believe I am go-in- g to have a lot of fun around the middle of June when I look back over the files and see who was im portant in January and February Mem-- ICED fiO-lUNDiS-ffl Mrs. Borah May W.ite . . . Mrs. Taft Can Speak . . . New Con-versations Between Nazis and Soviet Worry Allies. By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN WASHINGTON.-Pla- ns for the fu-ture are still uncertain for "Little Borah' as Mrs. William E. Borah, widow of the senator, is affectionate-ly known. Except for one thing the decision to give up the spacious, beautifully furnished apartment in which she and the senator lived for many years. It was their only home. They had none in Idaho, when thpv returned there in the summer they lived in a Boise hotel The senator left a small estate which, with the $10,000 which wid-ows of members of congress re-ceive, will enable Mrs. Borah to live comfortably. Borah could have made big money, but he always re-fused. He had many offers of le-gal cases; and a few years ago he was handed a contract by a news-paper syndicate for $52,000 to write a weekly, 1,200-wor- d article. But he rigidly adhered to the rule that he was an employee of the people and that they were entitled to his full time. Borah was so meticulous about this that when, during his fourth term, congress increased senatorial pay from $7,500 to $10,000 a year, he refused to accept the addi-tional $2,500 until Mrs. Borah has a sister in Mos-cow, Idaho, and another In Port-land, Ore. She will visit them be-fore deciding where she will Bet-ti- e permanently. In the past, she has had a number of requests to write about Washington and about her many experiences in the offi-cial and social world. She has always declined, but now she may turn her gentle wit and charm to such work. Merry-Go-Roun- d. Mrs. Bob Taft, wife of Ohio's G. O. P. "favorite son," doesn't play bridge, but she can make a better political speech than her husband . . . The SEC is quietly investigat-ing a Wall Street "bear raid" on securities of the $800,000,000 Stand-ard Gas & Electric company, fol-lowing inside reports that the raid was staged by utility interests as part of a campaign to discredit the More to Blow About . . . Mrs. 'Bob' Taft helps Girl Scouts blow out birthday candlelights. She can also blow about making belter speech than her senator husband. SEC . . . E. R. Stettinius, able young head of the U. S. Steel cor-poration, is high among the possi-bilities' for assistant secretary of navy, made vacant when Charlea Edison was elevated to the cabinet . . . Townsendites have picked St Louis and June 30 as the place ana date for their convention this year. Politicos are much interested in the timing, because it is before the national nominating conventions. In 1936, Townsend teamed up with Fa-ther Coughlin against both Roose-velt and Landon. War Pessimism. The confidential war reports re-ceived by government agencies have not been too optimistic of late re-garding the Allied positions. This pessimism has nothing to do with the sudden mobilization of the Dutch and Belgians, which had be-hind it only the fact that the canals which constitute the best defense against Germany were frozen, and the lowland countries suddenly real-ized how easy it would be for the Nazis to cross. Chief reason for pessimism is the very mediocre success of the Brit-ish blockade, plus rumblings of new conversations between Russia and Germany. How far these new conversations have gone is impossible to say. But they revolve around the Rus sian failure in Finland and the fact that the Russian transportation sys- tem has broken down. This gives the Germans an excelient excuse to become the technical doctors of the Soviet. In fact. 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But a lull always follows fever-ish moments in politics. The Lewis blast against Roosevelt, the Wheeler demonstration at the C. I. O. meeting, and boasts in Flor-ida and Ohio about delegates, will soon quiet down, and we'll have a few weeks of quiet. |