| Show weekly news tvr rome roine berlin axis may 0 crumble amble if germany Is given chloi colonies tle S ally joaeph Jose lill W V ila oil ne IW j foreign at best germany italy and japon japan aro are unnatural bedfellows bed fellows with nothing in common ex except capt totalitarianism and a grudge against the world flushed by her imperialistic Imperl alls lc victory at munich there Is a very every reason to think germany might abandon italian and japanese alliances if they stood in the way of her march to world power first step in this direction has been taken by er adolf hitler in presenting african colonial 0 tt 44 Q C iro 07 A F R A Q ci 0 az t 4 p n GERMANY IN AFRICA of onetime german possessions 0 s s e ssi 0 ni shown in black france franca T holds ids mandates ates J for bogolan To goland d 1 I 1 and the cam cain croons 2 t greata great has minor interest in both british south alrica africa 5 holds mandate for southwest africa 3 anti and britain a mandate mand eite for tanganyika 4 angola 6 is held by demands to great britain and france what hitler wants and probably will got get Is return of togo land Camer southwest africa and tanganyika Tanga nylka held under league of nations mandate by britain and franco france since the versailles treaty it if they pay this price for or pence peace brit britain in and a nd france will also agree to german arms equality british french gain through such a transaction tion would be german friendship and an understanding that italy had better confine her imperialism to the mediterranean area on pain of combined german franco british opposition moreover II 11 duce would be forced to withdraw from spain next dor der fuehrer may turn his eyes to Japan which now controls onetime one time german islands forfeited after the world war since hillers Hit lers aggressive imperialism makes one conquest merely an appetizer for the next moreover since self pity ing germany looks angrily at any nation which controls large territories and resources japan may find her chinese conquest threatened nor do observers overlook the chance of a gorman german italian breach over Hun garys czechoslovakian claims now handed to the rome berlin axis for settlement mussolini Hun garys friend wants czechoslovakia oslo dissolved moreover wants hungary to got get tho the common border with poland which she desires but hitler temporarily angry with hungary and anxious to preserve a path to the east through czechoslovakia will fight haht partition transportation t U S railroads arguing before president Roosevel ts fact finding committee have claimed a 15 per cent pay cut Is the only solution to their problem labor which threatens to strike if the pay cut Is enforced says better management will do tho the trick without waiting tor for tho the fact finding commission to report railroad management has taken the matter into its own hands on three fronts northwest before the interstate commerce commission have appeared stockholders of two huge north western and chicago milwaukee st paul pacific their plan physical consolidation of the two roads immediately effecting operating economies 0 of f a year and hastening normal recovery of the two roads southwest an 1 I C C examiner has recommended reorganization of the missouri pacific line with sharp reduction in its fixed interest debt also recommended is consolidation of owned properties being operated as the missouri pacific system excepting the missouri illinois rall road south placed before the 1 I C C is a plan fos for merging the gulf mobile northern railroad with the mobile ohio une line chief opponent Is burlington railroad which owns per cent of G M N stock chief significance of mergers and reorganizations is 1 that railroads will become economically sound 2 labor will suffer through decreased employment though wage levels probably will not be cut 3 scores of small communities originally built to follow the railroads line of expansion will find them selves isolated without rall rail service Defer defense tse knotted inseparably in recent news have been japans conquest of china and world attempts to strengthen their military economic pu positions alons against german italo jap though england and the U S have been rubbing noses in their trade pact ne got lations october 0 of f 1038 will b bo 0 remembered primarily as the month when america first stood up and barked at modern imperialism within 24 hours two barks came from washington first was president Roosevel ts precedent shatter ing condemnation of nations employing force japan exile germany and repression italy as instruments of national policy next day on tho the heels of japans conquest of bankow the state department made public a 21 day old protest to tok tokyo yo against violation of chinas cainas open door policy tills this was but percussion in the new american overture over turo tura of preparedness chiming in are plans to strengthen military and naval forces so that the western hemisphere may work out its own interrelated salvation to the north at kodiak alaska the navy Is quietly preparing two bases accommodating at least long range patrol bombers thus if britain and france deny it the U S admits japan has become the for far no I 1 power and bids fair to dominate the pacific unless stopped although Gene generalissimo ralls chiang kal kai shek will continue b battling japan in the hope his too foe will eventually c commit military and a economic suicide there Is little likelihood that chinas cainas door will be reopened to western nations unless japan wants it for a preview of things to come democracies need only look nt at Manchu kuo where se seven V years of japanese proprietor proprietorship sh IP has both closed and locked the door trend how the wind is blowing TIME CLOCK film actors actor s earning up to 1000 a week and all extras now punch time clocks each morning under new union uni an contract with provision for overtime work NOBODY A baby born to one of sod sad eyed jewish refugees living in a ditch in the czecho slovak gorman german no mans land has been named niemand meaning nobody BANG WARFARE japanese troops patrolling streets of newly captured canton disperse terrified chinese by merely pointing their guns and shouting baegl U S LANDLADY women hold 25 per cent of all U S jobs apart from domestic service are beneficiaries of ad 80 per cent of nil all life insurance own 50 per cent of all corporate stock operate 60 per cent of savings accounts HAIR RAISING mrs dorothy kantack of chicago has won a divorce decree against the husband who protested against her new upswing coiffure co liTure people british royalty symbolically cor responds to the U S flag since the czech crisis proved great brit ains empire is becoming vastly independent a little flag dag waving is entirely proper first king george and queen elizabeth announced a i W I 1 KIS N I 1 ZA Z fa 1 X ak ax J GREAT MARINA Is she being exited exiled for usurpation state visit to canada and probably to the U S latest news is that the popular 35 year old duke of rent kent becomes governor gen general eral of australla australia next year to fun loving rent kent former princess marina of greece australia will mean virtual exile from their favorite diversion london night life though english papers discreetly failed to mention it part of the U S press called kent and his wife victims of royal jealousy th claim that slim elegant marina is usurping queen elizabeths rightful place as ruler of british Ir 1 hion ohlon at australla alias 3 lonely canberra where kent will renelva receive a year not a single night club will help break the tedium of this british siberia miscellany ie at anaheim Ana helm calif miles of surplus third grade oranges were dumped when federal diversion funds ran out leaving the 0 8 per ton price unsupported e at Preston burg ky 34 year old ld fleming tackett married 10 year old columbus columb us treasury I 1 inconveniently close to election day have come piecemeal reports and offhand predictions concerning the U S iscol fiscal situation 10 lo n when president roosevelt talks finance before congress on january 3 he may ask almost anything but right now as the president busies himself with budget planning he can be guided by facts and forecasts facts facial t despite up swinging busl ness the U S treasury deficit tor for the current year jumped above one billion dollars october 20 leap ing forward several million dollars a day gold reserves mounting since the european scare hit revised the 1939 fiscal fisca I 1 deficit prediction stands at second largest in new deal history by next june 30 when tho the fiscal year ends the U S public debt will hit compared corn pared with in june 1031 1931 forecasts though pump prim ing will help business the 1940 budget will be unbalanced only by continued spending can the istra 1 10 1 l 0 SECRETARY coolest of 01 all concerned tion hold a mass vote for or the alio 1040 election thereby forestalling tho the normal swing to republicanism but it Is far more painful to pay than merely ilia alle away the bill and next winters congressmen will present at least five new methods of making john public pay 1 A 10 per cent one shot income tax levy to garner needed for or increased armament 2 a processing tax to pay for the agriculture departments proposed domestic dumping program tor for crop surpluses 3 removal of tax exemption from future issues of federal statland state and local bonds also on official salaries 4 extension of social security to include farm laborers borers domestics domestico bank employees seamen self employers etc 5 lowering of income tax exemptions under 1000 coolest of all concerned with fiscal affairs has been the man in direct charge secretary of the treasury henry jr unworried by mounting gold reserves we have plenty of storage space he predicts improved business conditions will cut relief rolls and help the budget which observers now think will run rull to only fear has centered around the british pound sterling whose declining tendencies have adverse effects on U S commodity prices and export trade white house when its investigations first opened the dies congressional committee on un americanism confined most of its probing to fascism and neither of these isms iams has much support among U S politicians but with election time approaching and its witnesses becoming influenced ced by political fever it was natural that the probe should turn to a more popular ism communism first came the charge that secretary of labor frances perkins was impeachable Impeach abla for falling failing to support aggressive deportation proceedings against communistic harry bridges madam perkins ferkins replied that she was awaiting court decision on a test case that proceedings ce could move no faster than the courts themselves next next the committee asked why gov frank murphy of michigan had taken a passive interest in the 1936 sit down strikes only to learn that governor murphy had commented that sometimes events make laws malleable president roosevelt hop hopping P ing mad by this time jumped in to charge the dies committee is providing a forum for politicians with elec dec year axes to grind though recalling that no sach reprimand was forthcoming when the lafollette Folletto La civil liberties committee held its hearings impartial observers agreed the dies committee might have done a less job in 1037 or 1939 |
