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Show THE BULLETIN W BATTLING TITANS: EEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Secretary Ickes accused Vice President Garner's campaign managers of talking like Republicans, because the managers said that the Wisconsin Democratic primary result showed to be a poor bet In the Wisconsin race. Garner made a stronger showing against Roosevelt than was expected, just as Dewey's striking victory, over Senator Vandenberg, surprised e Democrats got many. But back at the pugnacious Ickes by asking just when Honest Harold became a Democrat, anyway. This reminded Ickes that he used to be a progressive Republican. Postmaster Farley took a trip to Texas, where he fraternized with Garner enthusiasts, and everybody seemed happy enough. Farley said Garner was one of the great Americans, and Garner did not say very much in return. Farley indicated that he still wanted to be President but there was talk of a combination Garner-Farleticket of Dealish tendencies. Wendell Willkie, the Republican utilities magnate, sometimes mentioned as presidential timber, declared that he didn't have a look-i- .but that he would take a nomination if it blew Nazi Invasion of Scandinavia Draws Berlin Closer to Reds; Europe Awaits Rome Reaction third-termin- g by Western Newspaper Union. all-ti- y anti-Ne- w n, his way. Willkie also indicated that the present administration was out to "get" him, and kept a dossier about him into the bargain. Down in West Virginia, John Lewis made the potent threat of a third party: that ever recurring phenomenon of quadrennial American history. Lewis sketched out a vehicle consisting of Negroes, "professional" youth, "professional" old age, farmers, and unless the Democratic party snaps to attention and produces an "acceptable" platform. Landon of Kansas said that It was a Republican year, and Senator Wheeler of Montana said he was willing to run for President but not for vice president Wheeler ran for vice president on the LaFoIlette ticket back The above photo was taken when Sumner Welles (right), 17. S. undersecretary of state, visited Paris. With hint are Premier Paul Reynaud (left), then finance minister, and another French official. When the photo appeared in the French magazine, U Illustration, Nazi secret agents immediately charged that the map in the background showed a plan for partition of Germany. Issuing a denial, the French foreign office said the photographer had merely done a poor job of "touching up." At Washington, Sumner Welles said he hadn't even noticed the map at the time. Europe's long dormant warfare suddenly sprang into action. First aign wai a North sea battle in which German troop transport was lost If the world wondered how troops happened to be moving in the North aea, the answer was not long in coming. Fatalistically, Danes watched their little nation occupied by Germans. A few hours later Nazi troops, planes and warships descend-e- d on Norway, which Immediately declared war and asked for British-Frenc- h aid. Neutral for the moment were Sweden and Finland, caught between the Russ-Napincers. Immediate object of the German attack: To defeat Britain's North sea blockade and safeguard Swedish steel shipments bound for Germany. Immediately the European air was filled with question marks. Would this sudden turn of events draw Russia and Berlin closer together in a common drive against Scandinavia? Most Important what recation would thia abortive Nazi attack bring from Italy, sole major European power zi neck. Intensification of the blockade, the English chieftains stressed. Chamberlain his cabinet, but seemed to satisfy nobody very much. Winston Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, who now wears a yachting cap, was made director of all three unified armed services, Churchill and Chamberlain never have been friendly, and Churchill's elevation was received with mixed emotions. Following young Minister Cromwell's "boner" in Canada, came another "unfortunate" speech by Gordon Conant attorney general of d Ontario. Conant spouted that the allies might lose if the United States did not enter the war, in SQUIBS OVERSEAS: Holland is shipping valuable art objects- and pictures to peaceful Portugal Twenty paintings arrived, from a Dutch plutocrat in Amsterdam, to brighten up Lisbon. George VI, King of England and Kaisar of India, announced that his old military uncle got the Canadian job. John Buchan, novelist had governodied, and that left r-generalship wide open. Uncle, a bald Buchmanite, took the vacancy by storm. He is well-likeon the whole. His full name runs: Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, first lord of Athlone. Some 36 French parliamentary deputies, with communist views, got five-yejail terms, fines, loss of civil rights, and there was serious talk about the death penalty for red n propaganda in Paris. of private houses, hitherto banned, now was permitted to the police. Fritz Thyssen, big German Rhenish industrialist, who financed Hitler to power, once underground Nazi No. 1, arrived in Paris from Switzerland, en route to Portugal and the United States. Communists always used to claim that Hitler was Thys-sen- 's stooge, but Thyssen thinks different as does Hitler. Thyssen opposed the war last fall: hence the break. Thyssen's vast properties, In allegedly, were confiscated. Paris, too, were Fritz MandeL Austria's former No. 1 industrialist and of Hedy Lamarr, and Prince Starhemberg, Austria's 1 landlord. Starhemberg once had been a Nazi. Tory-minde- - and that Canada had better exert every effort to snare Uncle Sam in the toils of Mars. Secretary Hull was annoyed, as were congressmen. d, THAT TALKIE WAR: Everybody was making speeches In England, France, Germany, Canada, and elsewhere. Mainly, they were fight talks, intended to convince neutrals, enemies, and home publics that this was not a phoney war. Premier Reynaud of France was especially insistent that the war was and broadcast as much by radio to the United States. ar Night-invasio- e, He assured Americans that the allies would win, and would inaugurate a "real" peace. In Germany, Airmaster Goering, Fibmaster Goebbels, and Labor-bos- s Ley also talked their heads off. The Goering said, usually In speech to some of his student flyers, that Germany was going to strike a deadly blow in the western theater of war, whenever Hcrr Hitler decided to finish off the allies. It all sounded very impressive. Pudgy Dr. Ley, ever bellicose, got well-balanc- off some of his generally pungent observations, which tend to take an angle. Prime Minister Chamberlain said he was "10 times" as confident as he was last September, and he and his generals gave the impression that somehow, they had the Nazis on the western front According to these gentry, Hitler had lost his golden opportunity for an overwhelming Blitzkrieg attack, and that from now on the Fuehrer was going to get it economically, in the anti-capitali- st out-bluff- NAMES 1924. As to Third Termism, the President's wife and mother made statements that told little or nothing. Mrs. Roosevelt senior, said she would like to have Franklin home Mrs. again. Roosevelt junior, cheered for Tradition. Definitely, electoral-yea- r chaos was on the increase. till at peace? gen-u-in- Gordon D. Conant, attorney general of Ontario, who urged Canadians to help enlist active support of the V. S. in the allies' cause. and also many Canadians, who believe ardently in handling the Santa Claus next door with consummate tact Said one Canadian parliamen- tarian: "That's not the way!" Chamberlain's talk of increased economic warfare threatened Jugoslavia in the Adriatic, and Norway's coastal waters, bauxite and iron MISCELLANY: destined for Germany being the priMayor LaGuardia of the Big Town mary English objectives. Norway persuaded John Lewis, C I. O. to avert the threatened N. Y. said she would defend, with arms if need be, the freedom of her ship- C subway strike, which would have ping. Italy was infuriated by the tied up everything in the metropolAdriatic situation (Mussolini con- itan belt The Mayor assured Mr. siders the Adriatic as his lake); and Lewis that the city's transit unifiJapan, in the Far East growled cation plan would take over y against John Bull. And speeches subcontracts, bargaining were made, too, in Norway, Jugoject only to judicial decision. Lewis slavia, Italy, and Japan. came to town, and it was a close COUNTING SHEEP: with police reserves mobilized, call, s Roosevelt told that and the buck teeth of plain citizens his income was more than $5,000, while Senator Tobey continued to on edge. Lepke Buchaltcr, convicted by census attack the " data. He charged that some of the Dewey in his New Yorker census "snoopers" were commu- cleanup operations, got a life term nists, others the creditors of their in General Sessions. Judge Freschi victims, and still more the enemies did the good deed. Abraham Kid of the Secretary Hop- Twist Rcles cleared up 20 Brooklyn kins, badgered on all fronts, had murders: one victim, it was dissent forth 120,000 of these was buried alive in the dread closed, estion to the creatures, "prey" mated 135,000,000 Americans. Hop- Canarsie marshes. Reles was trys ing hard to save himself from "cointo act pokins told his that is, from the electric lite. How polite they would act with ing" Senator Tobey, remained to be seen. chair. Seventeen rough young New YorkWEAPONS: Christian ers, of the ft The U. S. battle fleet eased out Front, under indictment for planof its San Diego Pacific base, for ning to overthrow the United Slates seven weeks of maneuver on Fleet government and for alleged smugProblem 21 activity designed to gling of weapons out of armories, teach the boys in blue how to pro- were to be tried by jury under a tect our West coast and Pacific out- middle-ageHausfrau, ofllciating as posts. A Japanese admiral protested, but nobody pa.d much attention Glenn Gucrtin, age five, is learnex-N- o. big-sh- ot private-compan- census-taker- in the news Mahatma Gandhi, in India, told some of his more troublesome followers that if they started up a civil disobedience campaign before he gave the word, they could get along without him as leader. This was exactly what some of the younger, more radical Indian leaders like Subhas Chandra Bose wanted to do. Bose was very vocal, in favor of complete independence for India, and that right now! Wang Ching-we- l, Japanese puppet chief in China, was burned in effigy in New York's Chinatown. Some 3.500 local Chinese participated. and his rival, the Wang Ching-wc- i were the patriot Chiang two bright young men of the Chinese George Washington. Dr. Sun Yat-seKai-she- n. personal-financi- Congress Avoids Vital Problems And Seeks Early Adjournment al "D-A- well-to-d- census-taker- anti-semit- ic d fore-woma- Finland and Russia resumed diplomatic relations, and Ivan Zotuv to his ire. The navy, also, had unto be a hobo. His first solo was named as new Russian min- der construction a flying boat boast- ing (in a snowstorm) was 12 jaunt ister to Helsinki. He was moved ing 8t tons and 9.000 horsepower, His second milrs. there from the same job in nearby which will be good fur a round-triwas a affair. But his third Latvia. Zotov is considered hostile to Japan, where the hostile admirals was tops: ISO miles as vagrancy to the allies. grow. on a bus. away-fram-ho- p ! stowaway Embroidered Initials Are Newest Vogue Curtailment of Expenditures and New Tax Program Are Neglected by Legislators Because of 1940 National Elections. old-lin- (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinion! arc expressed la then column, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of thia newspaper.) INVASION: Bruckart' s Washington Digest By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. When the third consession of the Seventy-sixt- h the current session congress vened last January, two great national questions confronted the legislators. Two affirmative actions were crying to be taken. These were curtailment of expenditures to live within the government's income and an increase in taxes to make a start toward paying off the greatest debt this nation ever has known. Each was vital Of the two, the curtailment of spending probably was the more important but each question was a political bomb inasmuch as 1940 happens to be a year of national elections. Almost four months of the session have wasted away, after the man ner of passing time. The two problems of January and February and March and April remain as the problems of May. Now, I believe it can be said that there will be an adjournment early in June without anything having been done beyond lip service and just plain William In other Brnckart. words, the rather long title the third session of the Seventy-sixt- h congress can well be shortened to congress." A hurried a of what has transpired, seems to show where the blame should be placed. It should be plumped in the laps of some demagogues who wear titles of senators of the United States. Lest this look be characterized as too hurried, let me say that the house membership is not entirely guiltless. But credit must be given where credit Is due and the house, as a unit really made something of an effort to reduce the deluge of dollars that has come to be a silver stream to voters. It made some cuts not nearly enough, but some dema-goguer- y. "do-nothi- look-aroun- d, In spending. It did not do a thing, however, in the matter of laying new taxes to help reduce the $45,000,-000,00- 0 national debt It dodged those taxes like they were poison. Taxes and appropriations, of course, must originate in the house under the terms of the Constitution, and so the house must answer for at least a part of the sin of the session. New Request for Relief Now Made by Whit House President Roosevelt is playing ball with the spenders, as usual. April seems to be a good month for the spenders. Each year, in April, there have been White House requests for more spending money. This year, a request for an additional $150,000,-00- 0 for relief payments already has reached the house from the President. It is money which the President says is needed to carry through the relief program to the end of the fiscal year which is July 1. Last year, the relief appropriation was figured to be sufficient but the money got away, somehow. So, there is the call for $150,000,000 more for the next two months. But that is not all The President is asking for $1,500,000,000 a billion and a half for relief payments through the fiscal year of 1941 which .begins July 1. I don't know whether the house members are going to have the courage to reduce that amount to $1,000,000,000 or not because all of Mr. Roosevelt's statements about the needs have been designed to muster voting strength on his side. Also, these statements attack business as "not doing its part" which is a theme that sounds strangely familiar. I think we have heard it at least a dozen times. Anyway, in the view of the spenders in the New Deal, business has failed absolutely to employ workers, after seven years of planned economy and idealistic thinking. As to this business of planned his economy, Secretary Wallace-andepartment of agriculture people are asking for big gobs of money. It was they, acting through stooges In the senate, who struck the biggest blow at whatever ideas the house had on saving money. I do not blame the farmers. If they can get money handed to them, free and for nothing, why not take it The stupidity is on the part of Mr. Wallace and his crew. They do not seem to realize that the farmers are taking the money and laughing about the new found sucker in Washington, who is trying to get extra this time. G' "do-nothin- ABCs are fun when they're y wreathed with flowers and embroidered on everything from handkerchiefs to household lazy-dais- Pattern linens. 2435 contains a transfer pattern of nine 3 inch wreaths, three 1 and two inch alphabets; illustrations of stitches; color schemes. Send order to: Scwlag Circle Needlceraft Dept. Mew Torh U Eighth Ava. Enclose IS cents la coins for Pattern No. Name Address d $200,-000,0- Debt and Tax Problems Have Been Avoided Now, as to the matter of taxes. It will be recalled that President Roosevelt told the, house early in the session that there had to be new taxes or a raising of the debt limit if congress spent more money than the budget estimates. He suggested that the taxes must offset any House Attempted Redaction spending that he had not recommended. Well, the house ways and In Federal Appropriation means committee looked over the To give the house the credit that situation. There were half a dozen was its share, however, it must be of the committee members who shown that the house appropriations wanted to start laying new taxes to committee thus far has reduced ap- cut down the national debt They propriations submitted by President argued that the interest on the debt 1350-odd Roosevelt in the sum of well over a billion dollars a million. The senators, sitting smug- being would be reduced as a burden year ly at the north end of the nation's if the debt itself, were reduced. capitol building already have put But something happened. There was back $209,000,000 of the amount and nothing more heard about laying there is more certain to come. new taxes, either from President After the system and the manner Roosevelt or from the leaders of of operations, I think it may be ex- the ways and means committee. pected that there will be comproor In consequence of this mises between the senate and house rather lack of decision to policy, act in obon their differences, and so the net new revenue, there is just result of the bunk on economy for taining as much chance for a start to a this session will be a huge "0." balancing of the budget this year as Even where the house has tried se there is for a snowball to grow largriously to reduce spending, the sen er in the nether regions. Come to ate has blocked It think of it there hasn't been any The condition provides a rather talk about budget balancing in reaccurate reflection of the make-u- p cent weeks. I reckon the war in of the two houses of congress. The Europe made responsible officials house members have become nerv- forget about such minor matters as ous about the spending policies. having the nation live within its inof the come. Something like two-thirhouse membership can be called AH of these things have happened conservative, as distinguished from in the face of a conviction by stuNew Dealers. In the senate, howdents of business within the New ever, the story is different That Deal that the coming summer is body is predominantly controlled by not one to which we can look forthe New Deal type of thinking, and ward with satisfaction. The volume spending is its forte. of business has been falling off. Last So, the country spent a lot of monyear's profits produced taxes that ey paying its legislature last winter are now being paid and the tax reand it is left holding the bag an ceipts have been larger than was astoundingly empty bag because a expected. But if business is "slow" group of senators and such house this summer, what about tax remembers as still hold on to the New ceipts by the federal government Deal for political salvation refuse that are payable next year? to turn off the spigot in the walls of All in all, therefore, it strikes me the United States treasury. Anyone we cannot do very much concan trace through the items of that of the third session of gratulating spending put back in appropriation Seventy-sixt- h the The congress. bills by the senate and find the an President still maintaining silence There are on swer, namely, votes. the question whether he will seek plenty of house members who would a third term, has not done a single have done the same thing except to whip the legislative leaders that their colleagues shamed them thing into line for action on these preinto having some sense dominantly important national about affairs of the nation. CONGRESS? William Bruckart says that the current session of congress, which he predicts will adjourn early in June, has stamped itself as a session. This is true according to Bruckart because congress has avoided two vital issues confronting it when first convened last January. These issues were (1) curtailment of expenditures, and (2) n new tax program. Both are jnmbshclls in an election year " 2435 V. 8. Geographic Center The geographic center of the United States is near Lebanon, Kan. To locate it on your map you look for latitude 39 degrees and 50 minutes; longitude 98 degrees and 35 minutes. About 12 miles north of Lucas in Osborne county, Kansas, the base point of all North American continent maps is marked by a concrete block which stands about six inches above the ground. Every house and lit on the continent is tied up with that little concrete block located in the plains of the state of Kansas. 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