Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS UY BY JOSE 1111 ir laitine baule battle over income questions Tb threatens el entire entire 1940 census ir in it europe peace talk T alk revived when opinions are arc expressed in these columns they are arc phoso of the alio news analyst and not necessarily of 0 tills this newspaper Ite released leased by western newspaper union ig rr VIP SHOEMAKER ROSSELLI AND HIS 1118 COBBLING tris im answer census questions when they put polite CONGRESS census censure from washington to his racine wis office census director william austin rushed a telegram withdraw rosselli Hossel ll charges immediately dia tely you have disregarded instructions that belore before taking legal action such cases must be submitted to washington office lor for disposition you will be held strictly responsible lor for this procedure thus was closed the latest in a series of eruptions which threaten to wreck uncle sams 1940 decennial census james nos selli a kenosha wis wig shoo repair man hod had been handed a federal warrant for or refusing to answer census questions about his business the census taker also charged shoemaker rosselli had thrown him out answered rosselli rossella ll im answer census questions when they put polite everything can bo be exi ln I 1 walk out on him yes but I 1 dont chase him gaining steam at washington was the fight ot of sen charles tobey rep 11 11 to have personal in come questions stricken from the 1940 nose count franklin roosevelt had denounced it as an obviously political move and the census bureau was willing to let citizens zens 3 the question it if they wished but senator tobey was adamant said he tho the american people cry out hold enough I 1 those in authority will do well to face the issue I 1 after several days of this the senate commerce committee voted 10 to 5 to postpone temporarily its consideration of an anti personal question resolution meanwhile census taker austin wrung his hands for his house to house canvass Is to start april 2 should congress continue to squabble ho he knew not what would become of the decennial census also in congress wagner act twenty one changes in the present act were recommended to the house by a special investigating committee but defeat was predicted chief proposal divorcement of NLRB judicial and administrative istra tive functions clean politics act the senate killed a move to repeal the hatch laws prohibition of political activity by federal employees then began arguing a proposal to extend the act to state workers who get part of their pay from federal federa I 1 funds agriculture while the president signed legislation extending the farm mortgage moratorium five democratic senators introduced a bill to restore independence of the farm credit administration recently placed under the department of agriculture THE WARS peace in the north jorth early march found Fin lands warriors valiantly trying to save from the invading reds who let ot off excess steam by deliberately bombing a hospital in south central finland biggest news of the russo finnish war however was the effort all europe seemed making to bring these belligerents to peace background tor for this pence peace was the obvious fact that every european nation would gain by it scandinavia would gain by sidestepping side stepping the combined pressure of france britain germany russia and finland russia would gain by turning her attention to a sorry domestic situation knowing this observers were not surprised when london berlin brussels paris and stockholm began bristling with reports that sweden was mediating that the russo finnish war might be colled oft off at any moment Most likely terms surrender of the isthmus including rl part of lapland petsamo and the hango naval base As a deadline drew near the finns practically admitted such overtures had been made yet there was small chance they would be accepted more war in the west for the moment northern peace talk had no effect elsewhere in what was a day of wild and woolly warfare for the western front 20 britons were captured by the nazis 1 E rt g 0 n 45 M I 1 0 N other sources Source sources TS va MILLION TONS COAL SOURCES more from britain A now new wave of torpe doings bombings and mine explosions cost the neutral dutch 12 ships but britaina Brit ains foe of the week was italy which protested furiously when the allies clamped an embargo on italian coal imports from tho the reich within 48 hours 16 italian ships were hauled into british ports and their coal cargoes discharged rome threatened the situation would become serious unless britain down was no sign of this already getting more than a fourth of her coal from britain see chart chars italy seemed faced with the choice of declaring war an improbability or swapping her munitions and airplane motors tor for british coal avelles cission mission completing the first halt half of his european fact finding junket U S undersecretary of state sumner welles left berlin gathered his strength and his luggage in lau sanne switzerland then headed for paris in rome he had talked with a mild mannered benito mussolini in berlin he had met a tough and determined ter mined adolf hitler still on the calendar were two more visits mr welles was to fly from paris to london where prime minister neville chamberlain would probably restate his war alms principal aim destruction of the nazi rule then mr welles would return to rome tor for more conversations with 11 II duce before catching the conte di savola savoia for home beford he walks up the gangplank ol 01 observers thought summer welles velles could not possibly avoid planting his toot foot in the potentially dangerous italian coal squabble POLAND atrocity news from three sources this month camo came news of trouble in nazi mccu pled pied poland and czecho slovakia 1 in berlin it was revealed that deportation of jews to the newly established state southeast of lublin in poland has been s topped stopped because local administrators complained about lack of facilities at the same time berlin announced that time of worship in polish catholic churches was being limited because priests misused divine services for political purposes 2 in paris poland in ertic claimed that polish schoolboys had been executed at that men and women had been bee n executed there up to december 31 that poles from gdynia were e shot after being forced to dig their graves 3 paul ahall writing from paris tor for the chicago dally daily news new 3 had authentic sources jor for his information that polish landowners have been dispossessed and that thai czech children must submit when little germans in the same school bully and tense tease them RUMANIA prayers keystone of balkan security Is manias Ru neutrality often threatened the past six months by the economic tug of war being waged between russia germany france and britain cognizant of this pope plus pius prayed in early march that rumania might be preserved from the scourge of war what happened in the next three days made no sense but it did indicate that rumania was also praying first day rumania was reported rushing a little maginot line along her Bessar ablan border fronting russia second day it was announced by russia that soviet premier Vla cheslav molotov will soon visit bucharest to initial a non sion pact this was a shocker for russia has made no secret of her designs on Bes sarabia third day king carol opened his parliament promising to maintain a permanent man army regardless of cost adding it up observers wondered if king carol might not at last bo withering under pressure from all sides POLITICS biggest barrages Barrage for months franklin Frankl tn roosevelt has parried third term questions but each parry Is more difficult for each press conference brings more definite questions in early march the president returned from his caribbean vacation to face the biggest barrage yet only the day before his name had been entered in pennsylvanian Pennsyl democratic primary and correspondents were hun gry a got nothing except his remark that all third term rumors fell ell into one of f i four newspaper categories suggested ge ted by thomas jefferson 1 news 2 probabilities 3 possibilities bili ties 4 lies nobody knew into which of these categories the latest rumor fell but it bore earmarks out of washington came reports that tha t franklin Roosevel ts feud with john nance garner would burst into flames before illinois april 9 primary first crucial roos roosevelt evelt ga garner contest support somehow the wiseacres wise acres learned mr air roosevelt will plump this month for a new cealish presidential slate thus forcing an answer from the sphinx like ilke mr garner |