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Show WEEKLY MWS ANALYSIS British-Soviet Tension Grows In Wake of Nazi-Red Treaty; British Expedite. Aid to Finns (EDITOR'S NOTE -Woea opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and sot necessarily of this newspaper.) Beleascd by WeMen Ntwpapr EUROPE: , Showdown Ahead Almost six months to the day after Germany and Russia shocked the world with their non-Bggressioa pact, Berlin paused to hail a new phase of Nazi-Communist relations. Ratified with ceremony was a new and glistening trade treaty, which was but one part of a complex but vividly clear picture of what Is happening hap-pening in Europe today. Inevitably, it Is believed in most chancellories, a wedding of Russia and Germany, of Communism and Nazlism, will stack these military Juggernauts against the rest of Europe. Among ' the signs: Marxism. Writing in Dcr Angriff, Nazi Party Chieftain Dr. Robert Ley showed how leftism has grown in Germany by using the Marxian IfiWfuB yf3?ty'' IWVtWf 8 o HITLER'S DR. LET "Worker the world, unite!" Communist cry: "Workers of the world, unltel , . . This war is a .war of the mastery of money against labor . . . Therefore the working men and women must draw together togeth-er " Allies in Fialand. France and Britain were actively protesting against Scandinavia's reluctance to let allied volunteers pass through Sweden and Norway en route to the Finnish frontier, indicating a stiffen ing attitude toward Russian aggres sion. Even more pointed was par liament's decree permitting men over 27 to enter the Finnish cam' paign. Near East. Arrival of 100,000 Brit ish colonial troops in the Near East coincided with an alarming growth of war talk. The Balkans, led by Turkey, were forming a strong mutual-defense frontier against Nazi-Russian penetration. Russian frontiers of Turkey, Iran, Afghanis tan and India were strengthened, either for defense against the Reds or for a lightning allied stroke against Russian oil wells. The Wars In the West. Quiet, as usual, but continued sea warfare. In the North. Finnish troops retreated re-treated on the Karelian isthmus but Russia's gains were terribly costly. In mid-Finland, unreported for several sev-eral weeks, a United Vrtst corre spondent found the Reds have suf fered 50,000 casualties in the Pit- kaeranta sector alone. CONGRESS: Six Weeks Gone Either the President thought he had congress well in hand, or else he decided it was hopelessly rebel lious. At any rate he left secretly on a 10-day fishing trip in Caribbean waters, his movements shrouded behind be-hind an army of secret service men. His last acts were to (1) okay the $252,000,000 emergency defense bill NAMES in the news . . . JOHN D. M. HAMILTON. G. O. P. national chairman, called his committee com-mittee to order in Washington to name a place and date for the 1SH0 convention. HERBERT HOOVER JR. helped discover a new method of detecting oil by analyzing surface earth. Meanwhile, HERBERT HOOVER SR. forecast that European war demands de-mands will soon eat up surplus U. S. foodstuffs. GEOSGE KIOSSEITANOFF. Bulgarian Bul-garian premier, resigned because one of his cabinet members favored closer relations with Soviet Russia. JOSEPH E. DAVIES, ex-ambassador to Russia and Belgium, now special state department assistant, was named America's best dressed man. KING CHRISTIAN and the rest of Denmark's royal family gave up hot baths because of a coal shortage. FRITZ THTSSEN, exiled and ex-German ex-German steel magnate whose multi-billion-dollar fortune was confiscated confiscat-ed last December, also lost his citizenship. cit-izenship. ARTIE SHAW, band leader, and Actress LAX TURNER were married mar-ried at Las Vegas, Nev. RALPH M. VALENTINE of Los BY JOSEPH W. LaRlISE and (2) veto a bill to raise mail carriers' salaries. Congress meanwhile began its sixth week with members of the American Youth Congress hissing from the house gallery at everything every-thing in sight Still unsolved were such major problems as economy, foreign relations and the reciprocal trade act, indicating another long session. But plenty of legislation was in the mill: Neutrality. Passed by the senate 49 to 27 was a bill to boost the Export-Import bank's working capital cap-ital by $100,000,000, paving the way for non-military loans to Finland and China. Interest on foreign pol icy thus shifted to the house, where the G. O. P. expected to fight against loans to belligerents. Meanwhile the senate foreign relations committee kept postponing action on the proposed pro-posed embargo against Japan. Con gress watched with Interest while Secretary of State Cordell Hull laid at Britain's door the responsibility for a German threat to torpedo U. S. ships in the war zone. Reason: Britain has detained U. S. vessels and taken them to contraband ports in the war zone. Defense. Less than 24 hours after It had okayed a $960,772,878 navy supply bill (cut $111,700,000 under budget estimates), the house naval committee repented and approved a $05,000,000 fleet expansion program. The latter bill would only authorize new construction; actual funds must come from separate legislation. Primarily Pri-marily concerned about the big supply sup-ply bill, the house expected to restore re-store part of the cut. Agriculture. The house agriculture committee okayed a $350,000,000 bill to expand scope of the farm tenancy ten-ancy act, insuring mortgages of tenants ten-ants who want to buy their own farms. ; Labor. Chairman J. Warren Madden Mad-den of NLRB told the house labor board committee that Reconstruc tion Finance corporation has agreed to withhold loans from firms found by NLRB to be violators of the Wagner Wag-ner act This created a rumpus. WHITE HOUSE: Missy' in Trouble Several days after President Roosevelt appointed State Under secretary Sumner Welles to make a European peace Junket arch- Republican papers like the Chicago Tribune published a juicy story. Its gist: The peace mission was conceived by Welles himself, who slipped in through the White House back door one day and outlined his idea in glowing terms before Marguerite "Missy" LeHand, the presidential secretary "who is rated to have "MISSY" A favorite in the throne room. more influence in the throne room than anyone else." Said the Tribune story: " 'Missy' thought it a grand idea and laid It before the President Mr. Roosevelt who was in a most receptive mood for a new peace drive, beamed and called in Mr Welles and commissioned him on the spot to set out upon the great adventure." Whatever the facts, the Presl dent's two ace diplomats showed up in Washington next day and were reportedly displeased. Up from Miami came Joe Kennedy, ambas sador to Britain. Home from Paris came Bill Bullitt ambassador to France. Why, they allegedly asked, did the President prefer Mr. Welles unseasoned opinions on Europe to their own painstaking studiesT Apprised of the gossip. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and White House Secretary Steve Early took pains to deny any rift. Said Mr. Hull: "I do not think a more capable cap-able person could be sent upon the European mission." While Sumner Welles sailed for Europe to visit chancellories in Lon don, Berlin, Paris. Rome, etc., an other presidential coup was com ing home to roost The Vatican, which holds no diplomatic status with the U. S. because of Protestant objections, nevertheless announced that Myron Taylor (whom the Pres ident named his "personal" envoy to Pope Pius XII) would be given official siatus as ambassador from the U. S. While Baptists fumed, the Vatican calmly pointed out th any agent must have diplomatic cre dentials if he is to be recognized. ! S ' 4, i r BUSINESS: Insurance Quiz TTnrtfF ih tpmnorarr national economy committee's spotlight in Washington went U. 6. insurance companies. When the examination was finished, this thriving enterprise had acquired a lot of unpleasant publicity. First witness was Leon Hender son, securities and exchange com missioner, who charged that me in surance companies hold a first mortgage mort-gage on U. S. business. He went on to prove it: SEC had studied 26 of the largest firms, find ing (1) that they seem to be drift ing from their orig inal object of writing life insur ance to han HENDERSON Fint mortgage? dling investments, invest-ments, and 7i that thpir tremendous concen tration of assets is probably rob bing business enterprise or iunas. Facts were interesting. From 1929 to 1938, SEC found, 26 companies took in 42 billions. Of this, iuj billions was not disbursed but went into reserve, surplus and contingen cy funds. Still more mteresung was the fact that SEC's 26 subjects increased in-creased their assets by 63 per cent from 1929 to 1935, yet life insurance insur-ance in force went up only 10 per cent Next day John A. Stevenson, pres ident of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance In-surance company, surprised TNEC and the nation by advocating a modernization of the 60-year-old mortality statistics, asserting that amounts collected for mortality have been too high in recent years. But he added, it makes little difference in cost to the policyholder since excess ex-cess income is returned in divi dends. COURTS: 3 Decisions In Washington the U. S. Supreme court made news by three decisions: C On Lincoln's birthday, it saved four Florida Negroes from death, ruling that murder confessions were obtained by "secret inquisitorial" police methods after five days of continuous grilling which violated the Negroes' constitutional rights. C. It created a furore by ruling that federal courts, have no right to change National Labor Relations Board decisions on questions of disputed dis-puted facts in labor controversies. . It enjoined Arkansas from im posing a tax on gasoline (in excess of 20 gallons) carried in fuel tanks of interstate busses when the gasoline gaso-line is intended for use in other states. Three justices (Frankfurter, Black and Douglas) dissented, claiming the trade barrier question is a matter for congressional action. AGRICULTURE: Parity for '40 While the farm bloc was busy trying try-ing to wheedle $2004)00,000 for 1941 parity payments out of an economy-bent economy-bent congress, the agriculture department de-partment began using the $225,000,-000 $225,000,-000 authorized (but not provided for) last year. Payments would be made this year, it was ruled by the last congress, if 1939 average farm prices were less than 75 per cent of parity which is the 1909-14 average aver-age as, related to farm purchasing power. Since prices were belowj r n.. il--jHtv,"-1 : p y, '4 ' A parity, the agriculture department announced 1940 payments of 1.5 cents ($96,000,000) per pound on cotton; cot-ton; 10 cents ($57,100,000) a bushel on wheat; five cents ($48,600,000) a bushel on corn, and 1.7'cents ($300,-000) ($300,-000) a hundredweight on rice. AVIATION: Doom When Europe went to war, and especially when cash-and-carry neutrality neu-trality took effect everyone knew the U. S. aviation Industry was in for boom times. After six months of war the boom had surpassed expectations. ex-pectations. In southern California alone there was a backlog of some $200,000,000 in orders for the U. S. and foreign powers. But within 30 days, a survey indicated, mass delivery de-livery will begia on thousands of ships. Already filled since the boom began be-gan last summer have been orders for 1,450 combat planes; still uncompleted un-completed are 7,700 more. Major foreign sales have been to France and Britain, which ordered 5,000 ships. But only about 350 craft have been delivered of the 4,450 ordered by the U. S. army and navy. Meanwhile, however, the U. S. is profiting on more recent designs, hence will get the best of the new ships. Typical is the army's new four-motor bomber. Carrying four tons of bombs and a nine-man crew at 300 m. p. h. the ship wUl give any enemy a run for his money. MISCELLANY: Import From Poland . At Berlin. Field Marshal Hermann Goering announced 1,000,000 Poles will be imported to work German farms, bolstering the Nazi larder without taking men from the front lines. . At Albany. N. Y.. 8,000 taxpayers protested, apparently with success, a proposed $15,000,000 personal u come tax boost also demanding reduction re-duction in the pending $396,700,000 budget d At Washington the maritime com- Bruckart's Washington Digest 1940 Congress Sets the Stage For Executive-Legislative Battle Both Republican and Democratic Congressional Mem. Lers Are Ready for Tussle Over President Roose-vclt's Roose-vclt's Budget and Spending Plans. By WILLIAM BRUCKART VVNU Service, National Press BIdg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. - Congress soon will have completed the second month of its 1940 meeting and the most significant thing to come out of the session is a situation containing contain-ing all of the elements necessary for another good battle between the legislative and executive branches of the government It is much too early to enter a forecast that President Roosevelt and his opponents Democrats and Republicans will come to grips. But a slip of even small caliber on the President's part would throw him into the path of a substantial section of the congressional membership. mem-bership. That is exactly what some of the opponents hope will happen. It is, conceivably, a thing which Mr. Roosevelt and the New Dealers hope will be avoided. The condition stems from Mr. Roosevelt's budeet message. As I reported to you ear ly in January, the President's budget declarations sounded sound-ed real. A good many folks suggested, suggest-ed, however, that these pronouncements pronounce-ments had come at i , " ' the very beginning preuicieu a tuausc in the scenery be fore the end. Those observers appeared to feel that the President Roosevelt President was playing a bit of politics with the general subject of economy spending. But congress, generally, decided to take the President at his word, "If," they appeared to be saying, "the President really wants econ omy; if he wants to reduce govern ment spending, boy, oh! boy, we will be with him in a big way." So it has come to pass that the President's own proposal conceiv ably can throw him into a place where plainly he does not wish to be, at least from a political standpoint Heretofore, it will be recalled, there have been frequent declarations for reduction in government spending and each time it has been overcome by backdoor operations of New Dealers. Economy-Minded Legislators Dominate Scene As far as the play has progressed on the open stage, the economy minded members of the house and the senate appear to dominate the scene. They have cut deeply into several of the President's pet proj ects. They have cut, or have pro posed to cut, deeply Into the President's Presi-dent's program for national defense for which Mr. Roosevelt had ideas costing billions as against former years when the cost of army and navy development was measured in hundreds of millions. Moreover, the legislators have shown courage in nicking agricultural spending for a good many millions, and that hurt Secretary Wallace and his crew. Now all of this has been going on when the "inner circle" of New Dealers still are clamoring for continuation con-tinuation of the fun they have been having in spending taxpayers' money. There is some doubt too, that Mr. Roosevelt has changed over completely. Attention might be called in this connection to the fact that in the national budget itself, Mr. Roosevelt left numerous avenues of escape from what appeared to be a definite commitment towards retrenchment as stated in the budget message. Secretary Wallace touched ofT the match on one of these. Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt said the agriculture appropriations appropria-tions had been squeezed down by the budget bureau to the very limit If the funds were sufficient according accord-ing to the President there had to be a continuation of good business. A good many of the folks in the department de-partment of agriculture have been saying both publicly and privately that the volume of business is going to slide off during the late winter and spring. Thus, more money will be needed. Wallace Wants Share Of Government Spending In the complaints by Secretary Wallace is another tipoft. The secretary sec-retary feels that there is no logic in cutting the total expenses of the government gov-ernment completely out of his share of the swag. He fails to understand STAGE IS SET While William Bruckart feels it is a bit too early to make a definite def-inite forecast that the President and tongress will come to blows over governmental items like the budget economy, waste, and spending, he feels that congress has set the stage for such a battle. Naturally, the President doesn't want such a battle but his opponent oppo-nent don't mind, says Bruckart mhv the cuts have not been made proportionately in amounts of estimates esti-mates for other agencies of government govern-ment I think he has his teeth in SECRETARY WALLACE something, there; but why pass over this, point to suggest that if and when the congressional enthusiasm for economy wanes it will be easier to vote money for the agriculture program than for any other. It is just plain good politics. I imagine many members of the house and the senate feel that way, too. They believe be-lieve they can always find justification justifica-tion for voting money to farmers. While none can say definitely what goes on in the President's mind, there are many who believe. Mr. Roosevelt would have preferred to see congress raise the present debt limit from $45,000,000,000 to $50,000,-000,000, $50,000,-000,000, rather than take him so seriously se-riously on the suggested reduction in spending. It seems logical. He offered three propositions in his message: mes-sage: retrenchment in expenditures, raising the debt limit and laying new taxes. Now, most anybody knows that congress will do very little about new taxes in an election year. That left a choice between the curtailment curtail-ment of spending and raising the debt limit. The debt limit is more than just a sore spot It is practically prac-tically a .carbuncle on the neck of congress, because there are so many thousands of letters coming in as a warning against getting the nation further into debt. Nothing was left therefore, but the program that would reduce available funds for the fun-loving spenders. These things present a picture which seems to show that the President's Presi-dent's strategy may have failed. That is to say, he may have expected expect-ed that congress would take the proposition of raising the debt limit as the easiest way out of its dilemma. dilem-ma. It is sheer conjecture, of course; yet it has a basis in any sound analysis of what has happened. hap-pened. President Is Missing Economy 'Sound Waves' Undoubtedly, however, the Presi dent's advisors have failed to catch the sound waves that are reaching congress from "back home." There is a tremendously heavy mail on the subject of waste and spending and debt arriving in congressional offices. of-fices. This reaction is highly important im-portant It reveals something more than just a desire on the part of many voters to see the government spending brought within bounds. It discloses, I believe, quite a definite trend away from New Deal ideals, because somehow, there is a growing grow-ing conviction in many sections of the country that it is the reforms that are costing money. This word from home has resulted thus far in offsetting the great pressure pres-sure of various groups who are vociferous in their demands for more money. We had a flock of young voters the American Youth Congress around town ten days ago, and their leaders were unanimous unani-mous in their calls for more money. They were as well trained as any college cheering section that I ever have seen. Of course, they may win out yet but at the moment they are not winning much support for added money. As of this time, then, congress surely nas gone forward in a most determined fashion to cut off some of the excess spending. It has resisted re-sisted pressure thus far. The battle lines are well formed thus far. But as I said at the beginning one cannot predict with finality concerning con-cerning the course of congressional temper when primaries are getting closer. The things to watch for are these: as time goes on and the days of the session become fewer, win there be a lot of messages from the President Presi-dent asking a few hundred thousands thou-sands here, a few millions for over there, a hundred-odd million for something else? Such as these were not included in the budget They will be an extra, added attraction, as the circus press agent says. Kr 7;;' i WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features WNU Service.) NEW YORK. It is pleasant, indeed, in-deed, to get something on Ho-ratio Ho-ratio Alger. Here's a boy who won his way to eminence by watching a clock, al-Alger al-Alger s Theory though h of ClockWatcher was 38 years - a cu.t old and had Gets a Setback been Just , clock-puncher Instead of a watcher before this hair-pin turn in his career ca-reer routed him to fame. We cite Dr. Frank Conrad, the "father of radio broadcasting," recently awarded the gold medal of the American institute for his "guiding genius in developing the world's first radio broadcasting system." The master clock which ticked off his higher destiny bung in the plant of the Westinghouse company in Pittsburgh. It was a highly reputable old clock, but Mr. Conrad didn't altogether trust it. He and another employee em-ployee made a bet as to which had the more accurate watch, through a week of time-keeping. Mr. Conrad "refused to accept the decision of the office clock. In an unused garage near his home at Wilkinsburg, he rigged a crude receiving apparatus to catch time signals from the naval na-val station at Arlington, Va. He caught them, but he also caught some added starters which he could not at first explain. Employing Em-ploying a primitive direction-finding direction-finding device, he located them as apparently springing from a slag heap about a block away. He didn't find the source there, but he did find it a few steps farther on with one John Coleman, Cole-man, among the lonely impresarios impresa-rios of the first feeble birth cries of radio. That was in 1912. Mr. Conrad incidentally in-cidentally won the bet on his $5 watch against its $40 rival, but he forgot all about mere time signals. He and Coleman teamed their researches re-searches and began filtering ghostly phonograph recordings through the intervening slag heap. The rest is an old story the historic KDKA Harding broadcast, Dr. Coleman's 200 radio patents, his honorary doctorate doc-torate from the University of Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh and his award of the Lieb-man, Lieb-man, Edison, John Scott, and Lamme medals. He is still curious and will take a sharp look at anything interesting or important which alertness has led him into diligent research in botany, biology and astronomy. He has a lined, leathery face, steel-gray steel-gray hair and, naturally, ever-watchful ever-watchful eyes. TF THERE are any good ball play- ers among the European refugees, refu-gees, they can get good jobs and nice pay in the Caribbean league, . .... working for uenerai irujillo Gen. Rafael After Players for LeonidasTru- Caribbean Team oss..f the Dominican Domini-can republic. He has been angrily accused of raiding the American National Negro league, and the Pittsburgh Crawfords have been mourning that no dark-skinned shortstop is safe when the general starts building up his infield. The little, brown, diligent head-man of Santo Domingo is unpredictable. Since he took power 10 years ago, the junta ot exiles here has been stacking him up as another Hitler. Bat just now, be signs a contract admitting 500 families of exiles from Germany and Poland, donates do-nates them 24,000 acres of land and says provision wiU be made for 100,000 additional settlers set-tlers in the future. The contract con-tract grants citizenship to the newcomers and pledges- their freedom from "molestation, discrimination dis-crimination or persecution." He was a farm boy who learnea fighting and ball-playing with the marines, during an eight-year period, pe-riod, ending in 1924 with the end of occupation. He's a fast shortstop. In the Dominican army he romped up through grades from private to general. In 1930, he tipped over old President Velasquez and took the country. In the framework of a democracy, he made himself him-self a 100 per cent dictator and his enemies admit that he has made a tidy little nation out of a jungle. He put the opposition in jail. He has the cleanest of the Latin-American Latin-American countries and boasts that there is neither crime nor unemployment unem-ployment in Santo Domingo. He decreed that all automobiles should have lettered on their license plates. viva Trujillo!" He also had con gress officially proclaim him, "ben' eiacior or the fatherland." He has a beautiful residential es tate, patrolled night and day by the army, and three country estates. where meals are served on sched ule, as he has implanted the tradition tradi-tion that he is apt to appear anywhere, any-where, an, time and he really is. f X" Opportunity,; Bie . - ; A Powerful Fuel Ornitholopi rista an gooa reasoi albatrosses reasons to belkv. .!! jr arouncl the -J several their great lives. w? for days byoceaV; very seasick when staiLT' deck Of a mnvin -u: Dllip, tsSSss In a new South n-,t,. . I the heat oonaii i.. . :"t"4 the grinding machine is H mai me neated air it '.1 rfrarnn nft K - . UM - . "i u ana waste Sufficient to hear ..T story building, except invent VV VUUlii A number of America i.- not only handle the legal afair their clients, but are also re& ed to take charee of j-.i-.-i . . ".V"1M uetaus as puying and fumiiJ iiomes, aavismg on marriage p ners, paying bills and evenst ing servants. in most outboard mnfmu races, the fuel used is a ex. of alcohol, benzol and castor because it is more powerful any high-test gasoline. Collie Evidently Young Manh But a Peep for theRim The young man had just t posed to the most beautiful gi the world. She had accepted and now he stepped into a jd er s to buy an engagement r: He examined various rings,: finally picked up a beautiful: mond. "What's the price of this?" inquired. "That," replied the assfc "is $250." The young man s eyes pets He whistled loudly and k then pointed to a second rbg. "And this one?" he askei "This one, sir," said the e ant, eyeing the price-tag, "is whistles!" CONSTIPATE) Dcn't Let Gas, Kerve P; sure Keep You Miser:: When ooMtipsted two throw WR XIAO; auuuiuuu"a i W'A bowels and press on nerva in Ui tract. This nerve pressure often 1 aohee, a dull, Jav feeling, losi v Ind &Mme: SECOND: ffe -J i i fnrminff uAa 1UUU BUIULO V uvt . , ; ;.J on bout atomach, acid indigestion, burn. Dioating you up iuiu. - i bbbd for breath. Then you cut -1 can't sleep. Your Btomaca W- ; tired out, pouchy, ana w ANCED Adleriks contaimoj taw and five earminauvra ,R""j",Tj ,j ACTION. ItreBeyeithataiiaH at once, ana usuauy ?1."rair, than two hours. No waiting focow- Sold at all dnt Contagious Laughter While there is infection in ease and sorrow, there in the world so irresistiW -tagious as laughter and fft mor. Charles Dickens. Needed One No one is useless . J who lightens the other. Uianes JllC Tj Hotel, J tfmple ssn HIGHLY R j DASH IN KATHERS..V Salt bte's NtW r s |
