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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS IiY JOSEPH W. LaMSE Pan America Faces Hard Job Maintaining Neutrality Zone; Agree on More Restrictions (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 Waitarn Newtpaper Union. PAN AMERICA: Violations Determined to "share the fate of his ship," Capt Hans Langsdorf of the scuttled German battleship Craf Spee blew out his brains In a Buenos Aires hotel. At Port Everglades, Fla., rested the Nazi freighter Arnica, Arni-ca, driven to refuge when a British warship fired across her bow a few miles from shore. At Ellis Island, N. Y., were landed the 400 survivors of Germany's luxury liner Columbia, Colum-bia, scuttled off the Virginia capes rather than face Inevitable capture by a British destroyer. Crewmen TTrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmrrrrm If fx r .Atlantic "X Ocean GERMAN LUXURT LINER COLUMBUS SCUTTLED HERE GERMAN FREIGHTER DRIVEN ASHORE BY BRITISH CRUISER Pacific GRAF SPEE WAS SCUTTLED HERE AFTER SEA FIGHT NEUTRALITY VIOLATIONS There will be teeth, now. were interned for 60 days, but must then leave the U. S. (Before he killed himself, Graf Spee'M captain told how the $hip had fooled her raiding victim by camouflaging, camouflag-ing, once by changing her superslruc-lure superslruc-lure to resemble the llritish cruiser Renown, Re-nown, London heard how its cruiser Exeter had staged a valiant fight against Craf Spee until help arrived. Said the report: One teaman, who had both legs thot of, commented that he was "not doing too badly under somewhat adverse ad-verse circumstances.'' He died a few hours later.) The Spee, Columbus and Arauea Incidents brought Europe's war to Pan-American shores for the first time, and there was every Indication Indica-tion that Western hemisphere governments gov-ernments would tolerate no more of these carryings-on. Guided by the U. S., nations which established a fanciful "neutrality lone" at Panama Pana-ma City last October began laying their plans. It was revealed that the U. S. had agreed to Join Brazil and Argentina In helping Uruguay force Craf Spee out of Montevideo harbor, had the pocket vessel refused to move. Stirred io even greater action by the Columbus and Arauca Incidents, Pan America planned to put teeth in Its neutrality declaration. The teeth: Any belligerent warship that violates the principle of the neutrality neutral-ity lone will be accorded no assist ance In American ports. If a ship guilty of such violation seeks refuge or repairs In an American port, it and its crew will be interned for the war's duration. Nobody expected Britain and Ger many to pay much attention; in deed, a London paper pointedly re-' re-' marked that American nations had no right of sovereignty over extra territorial waters. But Washington at least hoped the restrictions would prevent fighting in American tern torial waters. Already Interned by Argentina are the 1,039 crewmen of Graf Spee who found themselves scattered hastily to provinces far from the ocean, THE WARS: In the West Not all of Europe's mid-December warfare took place in American waters wa-ters (see ebove). The western front was quiet ss usual, but Britain's new "security patrol" over the North sea ran Into a pack of Mes-serschmidt Mes-serschmidt trouble. Purpose of the patrol is to keep mine-laying German planes at their bases during the earl morning IMAMS r in the news From New York, ex-President Herbert Hoover sent Finland's Premier Kisto Eyti the $100,000 his relief organization collected in its first week. C Arriving in Manhattan was James F. Montgomery, U. S. minister min-ister to Hungary. Reports said he would resign unless the state department allowed his wife to return to Europe with him. C To Reno came Mr. Orson Welles, wife of the 25-year-old radio ra-dio and stage dramatist, awaiting await-ing a divorce. C. Friends In Washington hinted Wisconsin's John D. Wickhem, state supreme court Justice ("a Democrat, Catholic, midwestern-er midwestern-er and liberal") would be named to the U. S. Supreme court to succeed another midwestern Catholic, the late Pierce Butler. hours, the customary time of departure. de-parture. But on one such morning Helgoland saw the biggest air battle In history. When it was over the Nazi high command announced 36 of 52 British planes were shot down. meanwhile admitting the loss of two ships. London scoffed, placing British Brit-ish losses at seven and German at 12. Apparently the "security patrol" bogged down shortly thereafter, for the Germans, no longer laying mines, began dropping aerial torpe does on British merchant craft Lost by this and other means were 23 allied vessels in three days. Other war news: C. French Navy Minister Cesar Cam- pinchi figured the British had sunk 30 to 35 Nazi U-boats, and tfiat France had scored 10 times. His conclusion: The Reich has lost between be-tween 42 and 47 of the 60 submarines subma-rines she had when the war started. C. Raring to fight, cheering, singing and shouting, "Where the hell is Hitler?" the vanguard of Canada's expeditionary force (in which observers ob-servers noticed a few Americans) docked in Britain. In the North Lumbering down Finland's arctic highway came a huge motorized So viet army while plucky guerilla fighters pecked away at the roadside. road-side. Russian casualties: About 30,000 men and 200 tanks. But it was victory of a sort, and that was what Moscow demanded. A Copenhagen Copen-hagen newspaper reported that Josef Stalin was raging mad over his army's failure in Finland, having hav-ing ordered a purge of military leadership lead-ership and an investigation at the front. Day after this Russian advance, the resourceful Finns made themselves them-selves warm while a blizzard drove the mercury to 25 below zero, paralyzing para-lyzing the ill-clad Reds. In the south only an Ineffectual air raid on Helsinki, Abo and Hango disturbed dis-turbed Finnish calm, and that night they celebrated prematurely the sinking of Russia's warship October Revolution. (It was badly damaged, but managed to limp home.) To a League of Nations committee commit-tee the Finns sent word that they could hold out all winter if they got planes and guns. League Secretary-General Secretary-General Joseph Avenol got to work Immediately, sending Helsinki assurances as-surances that Britain and France would provide supplies, but not men. LABOR: Probe More unsavory each day became the testimony in a house committee's commit-tee's investigation of the National Labor Relations board. Starting with the allegation of minority Boardsman William Leiserson that his fellow members (Warren Madden Mad-den and Edwin L. Smith) were "partial," "par-tial," the testimony went on to allege: al-lege: C. That Boardsman Smith had taken "extra-legal" action in attempting to settle a knitting mill strike; more- DEFENSE: Navy Day As Europe's war came nearer home (Se, PAS. AMERICA), two items of domestic news drew more attention than usual: C. At Washington the navy department depart-ment awarded a $20,016,699 contract for airplanes to the Consolidated Aircraft corporation at San Diego. C. At Quincy. Mass., the navy test-ed test-ed its newest airplane carrier, the $21,000,000 Wasp, which steamed on a trial run along the New England coast with its secret deck equipment equip-ment shrouded by tarpaulins. AGRICULTURE: Woe In today's unhappy agricultural plight, one of the sorrows of improved im-proved production methods is that increased acreage yields only glut the nation's already overfilled granaries. gran-aries. Thus, at year's end, the U. S. department of agriculture sadly announced an-nounced that despite acreage slashes In 1939 total farm production produc-tion was In many cases above last year's. Best example was corn, which yielded 29.5 bushels per acre compared com-pared with last year's 27.8 bushels and the 10-year average (1928-37) of 23 bushels. Reason for this boost was the new hybrid variety which Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace Wal-lace has promoted among the tall corn growers of his native Iowa. Although Al-though corn acreage harvested was the smallest since 1898, production was 2,619,137,000 bushels, the largest larg-est with one exception (1937) since 1932. Among wheat, corn, oats, rye and barley, the only other increased grain crop was barley. Total grain production was 4,626,000,000 against 4,868,000,000 in 1938. Winter wheat (but not spring) was up 13,000,000 NATHAN WITT A conspiracy t over that he had attempted to spon sor boycott of the mill's products by a Boston department store. C. That Philip G. Phillips, regional NLRB director at Cincinnati, bad written his superiors that the city editor of 'the Cincinnati Enquirer was a "swell guy and a dear friend of mine," and had kept ou of print a series of articles critical to NLRB. When the city editor and his boss denied this. Director Phillips said that his "language was ill-chosen." Earlier it was brought out that C. I. O. had refused to drop a com plaint against a Cincinnati firm because be-cause the employer refused to rein state a worker discharged for communistic com-munistic activities. CThat Nathan Witt. NLRB secretary secre-tary whom Boardsman Leiserson would have fired, "plotted" with C. I. O.'s Steel Workers Organizing company to force Inland Steel into a written agreement providing for exclusive bargaining. Commented Committeeman Harry Routzohn (Rep.. Ohio): "I think this constitutes consti-tutes a conspiracy." After several days of this, committee com-mittee members were reported ready to ask congress for major amendments in the Wagner act So did several other groups, including C. L O. and the National Association of Manufacturers. v A A THE LEW SUN, LEIII. UTAH Bruckarfs Washington Digest Closing Session of Congress To Set Stage for 1940 Campaign Proposals to Aid Party in Power Sure to Appear; Effort Will Be Made to Make Money Bills a Political Focus ; Trade Treaties Expected to Draw Fire. By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bid., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON.-It is generally possible to forecast in broad out-line out-line what will happen in the session of a congress that winds up a second sec-ond term of an eight-year national administration. That broad outline will include the annual appropriations appropria-tions for running the government, the promotion of several legislative legisla-tive proposals designed to aid the political party in power when its presidential nominee gets out on the hustings, and much talk by representatives rep-resentatives and senators. Congress, Con-gress, and a Washington dateline, make fine springboards, and the politicians pol-iticians who are "in" make full use of the opportunity. Since the last session of congress In the Roosevelt administration is upon us, it seems that a prediction on several phases is indicated. 1. The coming session Is going to be longer than some of the politicians politi-cians would like. Contrary to the average of such sessions, the national nation-al legislators are likely to be here until almost the middle of June. The length of the sitting probably will be determined by the dates of the Democratic and Republican national na-tional conventions, and there is every ev-ery reason to believe these will be later than usual 2. Appropriation bills will occupy a great deal of the time in the early weeks of the session, as usuaL But contrary to what hat been the situation respecting re-specting the money bills, there is going to be a determined de-termined effort to make them the center of an issue, a political focus. Tangled up with the appropriation appropria-tion bills this year will be a delicate question involving the national debt because President Roosevelt is going go-ing to put up to congress the question ques-tion of increasing the present national nation-al debt limit from 45 billions to 50 HYBRID CORN (Exhibited by C. E. Troyer of LaFon-tuine, LaFon-tuine, Ind., who used it to win the "corn king" title at Chicago's international interna-tional livestock show.) bushels over the preliminary estimate esti-mate on a harvested area 12,000,000 acres less than in 1936. Soy beans registered 87,409,000 bushels compared com-pared with the estimate of 63,000,-000 63,000,-000 bushels. The cotton yield, unusually un-usually high, averaged 236 pounds per acre from the smallest acreage in 40 years. Tobacco also set a new yield record of 911 pounds per acre, total production also reaching a new high of 1,769,639,000 pounds. Other farm news: C. Signed in Washington was a supplementary sup-plementary trade agreement between be-tween the U. S. and Cuba, restoring tariff reductions on sugar and tobacco to-bacco imports which were terminated terminat-ed by presidential proclamation when Europe went to war. Cuban tariff reductions were granted on peanut butter, salmon and mohair products, that nation also agreeing to maintain improved treatment for U. S. rice. 41, President Roosevelt told reporters he intended to sk congress to raise the $550,000,000 "owed to the treasury" treas-ury" as a result of farm parity payments pay-ments and other agricultural expenditures ex-penditures which were approved by the legislators, but not provided for. POLITICS: Farm Vote For several months many political forecasters have believed 1940's presidential election will be won or lost in the midwestern farm belt. As the preseason campaign drew to a close (it will start again after congress adjourns) it became apparent ap-parent that Republicans concentrate most of their ammunition on the progressive-minded farm belt First Democrat to see the light was Montana's Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, himself a potential candidate, candi-date, who warned that westerners would vote the Republican ticket unless the Democrats nominate a "liberal" Explanation: "... their natural tendency has been with the Republican party and they could see no reason to change if a conservative con-servative Democrat is nominated." Meanwhile the rumor spread that smart Republicans may try to swing to their cause two of the West's foremost liberals Minnesota's Minne-sota's Sen. Henrik Shipstead. a Farmer-Laborite, and Wisconsin's Sen. Robert M. LaFollette. whose doughty father once dominated the G. O. P. Key man in this campaign cam-paign Is Minnesota's youthful Gov. Harold Stassen, a Republican whose masterful fence-straddling has welded weld-ed a strong party consisting of progressive pro-gressive Republicans and disgruntled right-wing Farmer-Laborites. Already committed to supporting Shipstead In the Republican primary. pri-mary. Governor Stassen could easily eas-ily extend his idea into neighboring farm states, where discontent with the administration's reciprocal trade program may prove a No. 1 talking point for Republicans in 1940. f ' - : J - r--:?::--: X i . '-"nv : " - ''. i 1. l -'.phi . ' SOME FORECASTS Next session of congress will be longer than politicians would like. 1 Republicans will seek a big domestic do-mestic issue. Roosevelt will ask 50 billion debt limit. Garner will be on watch for New Deal fumbles. Senator Wheeler may join contest con-test for delegates. billions. And it must not be overlooked over-looked that the question of national revenue taxation is bound to figure fig-ure in this controversy because the national treasury has been in the red more spending than receipts in the seven years of Mr. Roosevelt's Roose-velt's administration and two years of Mr. Hoover's adminlstratjon. Proposal to Create Second Budget Sure to Draw Fire 3. National defense expansion of the army and the navy obviously will get attention and here, again, the question of taxation appears. Mr. Roosevelt has suggested to some of the senate and house leaders lead-ers that there should be a separate listing of these expenditures and a separate tax to pay for them. That is to say, the President Is thinking, at least, of creating a second, and distinct, budget covering such outlays out-lays of money Just as he has resorted, re-sorted, heretofore, to the use of separate budget listings for "regular" "regu-lar" and "emergency" expenditures. expendi-tures. 4. Another controversial proposition proposi-tion will be the President's proposal to extend the life of the reciprocal trade treaty program. If one expects ex-pects fire from the trick budget plan, there is likely to be found a no-man's land, filled with gasses of the latest poison, hand grenades and machine gun strafing, between those who favor and those who oppose extension ex-tension of the trade treaties. 5. In addition to the trade treaty program and tied to it in a fashion that makes a skein of tangled yarn appear simple of solution, is the widespread demand that congress revise the general agricultural program. pro-gram. Many farmers and farm organizations, or-ganizations, as well as numerous politicians, are chasing Secretary Wallace and bureau farmers and farmerettes, in full cry. They are demanding changes and Mr. Wallace Wal-lace is resisting. - " Schism Within Democratic Party Due for Finish Fight 6. Lastly, there is the politics of ne picture. This new session will be somewhat different than the ordinary or-dinary run of "last" sessions because be-cause of the schism within the Democratic, Dem-ocratic, or majority, party. Real Democrats are determined to get control of the party back in their Hands; New Dealers, who have been unning the show with Increasing power to themselves until lately, are faced with what many observers be- . . . MAY JUMP Senator Burt Wheeler ex pected to bid for delegates. tieve to be conservative trend in the country as a whole. The best evidence evi-dence of this is the great strength admittedly shown for the Democratic Democrat-ic presidential aspirations of Vice President Jack Garner. There will be other candidacies that must be watered and fed with artificial ar-tificial stimulants. It looks like Sen. Burton Wheeler of Montana may jump out one of these days to contest for delegates to the Democratic convention against Mr. Garner. Each man will have his partisans, as will Paul McNutt, former Indiana governor, who holds himself in the spotlight through being be-ing social security administrator. But make no mistake about the vice president's ability to break up New Deal plays, if I may use a football term. Conservative Tinge to Most Republican Aspirants The Republicans have presidential presiden-tial aspirants, also. There are three of them in the senate Taft of Ohio; Vandenberg of Michigan, and Bridges of New Hampshire. Some others may be found in the house of representatives. That is, there are those who are thinking of themselves them-selves as dark horses. Except for Vandenberg, there is a distinct conservative con-servative tinge to most of the fellows fel-lows whose hats may be noted in the Republican ring. Hovering over the candidacies in each of the two parties undeniably Is the mist of a possible third term decision by President Roosevelt I do not believe Mr. Roosevelt is going go-ing to run again, but he has not said so. Politically, of course, he would be foolish to announce it too early for the reason that once be takes himself out of the race, the wild scramble begins and Mr. Roosevelt loses controL The political possibilities of the coming session are many. There is, of course, the evident move on the part of New Dealers, to drag the foreign situation further and further fur-ther into the limelight. That has the dual effect ef-fect of enabling appeals to patriotism and of helping voters to forget mistakes and grievances. IunderstandthatRepublican wheel-horses wheel-horses are moving to make issues out of purely domestic problems and alleged shortcomings of the New Deal administration. The undercurrent undercur-rent of information seems to indicate indi-cate that Mr. Garner will make his campaign on proposals for Improvement Improve-ment of conditions at home. Will Result in Shaping Policies for Campaign The presidential candidacies will maKe themselves felt likewise in the decisions which will be taken by congress on various of the nthBT questions that I enumerated at the outset or this discussion. And when I say "presidential candidacies I speak broadly of all of them, wheth er me aspirants be in. or out of, congress. It is to be temmh that the current session, win suit as much in shaping of policies to be fought out in the campaign of 1940 as in determining which of the men shall be selected by the re spective party conventions. Consider for example, the Roosevelt Roose-velt proposal for continuation nf trade treaties. Or. take the ques-tion ques-tion of continued heavy spending and the resulting debt that U hi piled up for future generations to pay. on wnich Mr. Roosevelt lately challenged Senator Taft to show how me ouaget can be balanced in tw years. Or. examine the general ai ricultural problem. Any one or aU oi wese may -nake or break the ef forts of those new in the field. WHO'S NEWS k ti THIS 'm WEEK More tw'u' ' U1 Pit 1 used in gasoline J 'H'J ehemiV.l . -Prided where h; ,.WUar.iiJ sea-water. extricl U By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK. Old Senator Joseph Cafflaux of France, who knows a lot about money and trade, says Germany will be licked by her pov-... pov-... erty in natur-Caillaux natur-Caillaux Still ai resources, Guides French & At n f l0 Bearing Monetary Policy Ktrg ef long and bitter conflict more bitterly bitter-ly assailed in the past than perhaps any other man in France, he commands com-mands respect as he keeps on croaking, croak-ing, "Victory fa war is often destroyed de-stroyed by finance," and he is still a powerful guiding force in French monetary policy. He bas known glory, riches, Jail, exile, calumny, foelisk adulation, adu-lation, scandal, exaltation, bitterness bit-terness and disillusionment, and with bloodshot eyes and ent-thrust ent-thrust Jaw, he's still en his feef when the gong ends the round. His fortune was sunk in the defense de-fense ef his wife for killing: Gaston Gas-ton Calmette hi 1914. He re turned from banishment to full vindication in the espionage ease against him, te become premier and later finance minister of France. He has shaded down his green trousers and yellow shoes and green vest to more somber hues, but his is still the toughest political hide anywhere extant Whn in RENO NPvTTr" HOTEL tLDENT i .wr.. BROKEN LENSBPiipnJ Oculist' Price. , rerlPtioi fi!-j Broken knUi kj THE OPTirii .. 7W J DOUf t 114 Bwton Baildint g.l, 1 'U t . WALLACE TAYLOR. K So. Wert Tempi, Sell L.ITSr. "W.rU'l Ha.. D.. . HARKINCTOKki i Sr t."0" . . a i m na g. Liberal Allowance on your old u exchange for new. J. FRESHMAN. SIT Bo. Main St Silt I .i. n " Meliorists Have Not Yet Found The Golden Key WHEN this writer began newspaper news-paper work in Chicago, people in Halsted and West Madison streets seemed to be about as badly off as European war victims of today." I knew Hobart Chatfield Tay lor and was interested in his work with Jane Addams at Hull House, the pioneer social settlement They were devoted and unselfish, but when I looked around the Hull House neighborhood several years ago, nothing seemed to have changed much. , Mr. Taylor's son, Wayne C. Taylor, grew up in this shadow of misery, and now moves into a sort ef pantograph enlargement enlarge-ment of the same. He is en route to Finland, te study and organize relief there. The social settlement theory, as bravely expounded and lived by the elder Mr. Taylor and Jane Addams, Ad-dams, was that "all men are brothers," and, If fortunate citizens citi-zens will live in neighborly intercourse in-tercourse with the unfortunate, "a little leaven win leaven the whole lump." The younger Mr. Tylor catching step with his times, was a realist who believed that the way ahead lay in understanding of basic economic eco-nomic forces and in the application of progressive and enlightened techniques tech-niques of government He became special adviser to President Roose velt on foreign trade; assistant ad minis tra tor of the AAA; vice president presi-dent of the Export-Import bank of Washington; assistant secretary of the treasury. He withdrew from the last-named office last February. dissenting from what he considered the treasury department's policy of snapuig money procedure to foreign policy. Like the Hull House meliorists, melio-rists, H would seem that the economist innovators and renovators reno-vators have not yet found the golden key. A comparison ef notes by father and son as to what's WTong with West Madison Madi-son street Europe and in-between points, and what to do about it, would, I am sure, be interesting. Mr. Taylor was graduated from Yale in 1918, served m the World war, and was engaged in the banking bank-ing and brokerage business in Chicago Chi-cago before going to Washington in lasj. Surgical Instruments, Hoepiui $ Trusses Manufacturer! of Abdomint porter Elastic Stockinet The Phyuciau SqddIt Cannim 4S W iinrf South St Salt Lake lit!. TT WOULD be hard to say whether 1 big, swart, dead-pan CoL Fulgen- cio Batista, Cuba's Dower man. headed in from right or left Possi-Pf::- i r hly power it ' :au,re the main idea urr-oioerftlM with all such Hard to Place current ,v . ,. vators, and their pohtical orientation is merely e ,go toe newl vwum were reporting that Batist. was swaging righL Qewj that the Cuban flmm.mi.. U backing bin, for election to the csmency. Also news Is the mere fact that they are having a preaiden-tial preaiden-tial election I. Cuba. 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