| Show WEEKLY TOPS NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH TV rumania may be next vacti victim M 0 of soviets westward drive dull war hurts nazi morale EDITORS NOTE NOT EWhen when opinions are expressed in these theise columns they are those of the he news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper released by western newspaper union SPEAKING OF 41 AVIATION As clyde leper per and wes carroll landed their endurance seaplane at los angeles with a worlds record hours aloft three days better than the old mark two wo re peruvian ruvian brothers left floyd bennett held in new york on a nonstop non stop flight back to lima ial a LABOR acting navy secretary charles edison reported to the house naval affairs committee that C I 1 L 0 s united automobile workers union on was jeopardizing ard izing the navys avla tion defense program through a strike at the bohn aluminum 4 drass brass facto fa atory in detroit said mr E edison dison A NAVYS EDISON navolin naval inspect spec no admittance tor calling at the strike bound factory to collect vital U S owned patterns and designs was turned back by pi pickets crets originally the incident was publicized by republican rep clare hodman man C agriculture with U S soy leans beans selling abroad six times better than in 1933 1038 thanks to the war farm officials think wheat beef and cotton crops might bo be boosted it if germanys germanas Germ anys U bonts boats ham per british french communications with their colonies otherwise beef slaughter will drop because of poor THE NEUTRALS bogey men alen A warring power can line up its weaker neutral neighbors either by backslapping back lack slapping or jaw punching the former has more permanent advantages the latter Is useful under stress all li hallows allows eve found comrades and stalin sticking bo geyman gey man nian jack OLan terns in many a balkan and ana baltic window while france and britain tried to soa soothe e too the frightened children italy J just st sat sal up north where finland was still refusing mysterious russian demands foreign minister ellas erk RUSSIA 11 pup hu 1714 Q ihl T RUMANIAN nU MANIAN SPOT arrows Irro tvs of at fl show shoto possible flun garlan farian drive to regain transylvania orarn starlia and the minor minor provinces province i ol of owina wd and iha banat ol of Tem eivar W 2 show shoto the russion russian threat fo 0 o Bes sarabia 3 the rich dobruk region coveted by Rul bulgaria gatia most alost of 01 this land was grim given to rumania nt as versailles its iti toss loss would cut her 0 off irons from the sea and finish her ter as a but bits aid may lay come irons yugoslavia A or from the tha Alli allies vs greece mid and turkey at as B ko told a patriotic rally to remember two ancient countries which have been wiped off the map but it was in the balkans that greatest fears arose arosa while italy calmly appropriated for an arms program which might be needed to drive nosey russia out of the balkans DaL kans rumania was genuinely frightened working slyly the soviet kept encouraging bulgaria bulgarian Bulga rias 3 demands for return of dobruta see map king carol know knew what that meant should trouble conic come with bulgaria russia could follow her polish tactics by marching inlo Bes sarabia to protect whito white russians mean while hungary would not be above saving her own nationals now under rumanian rule international observers were convinced this was no joke and so was carol ile he summoned his envoys to turkey bulgaria greece and jugo for a conference and next day premier constantine met jugo sl avias avlas premier dragisha tave tsvetko ako tko for mutual defense talks expected daily was some statement from italy would she demand that russia keep hands bands off thereby breaking with germany it seemed a good bet 4 THE WAR rebound rid when swiss president phil ipp etter visited the intersection of german french swiss frontiers he passed cigarettes to his own troops next handed them across the une unc to french soldiers t then hen offered the pack to the german gli guards ards this winter feeding prospects meanwhile severe west and southwest droutha endanger the nations breadbasket again fl 41 INDIA when a british white pa per postponed until after the war consideration of indias andias plea for or the madras provincial govern m ment c n t r ie e signed and bitterness grew apace sir samuel hoare defending the policy replied that do minion status s if was imps si fexa ble until the K M indians them selves have subtle warning settled their minorities problem commented indias andias Mo mohandas bandas gandhi 1 I wonder it if dominion status has an any meaning unless it Is syn synonymous ony with independence indias andias go co operation in the war Is not a as barren as hoare believes it will continue effective it if the congress party remains nonviolent non violent but violence inay may result if britain falls fails to backwater back water immediately C 4 LOUISIANA when new orleans grand jurors howled after district attorney charles A byrnes allegedly blocked their probe of tax corruption byrnes resigned and was replaced by niels hertz under a appointment P of gov earl K long liertz hertz first act to close the hearing where it was being charged the CRY city lost hundreds hundri eds of thousands of dollars through the alleged tax tai racket next day the U S stepped in with a federal grand jury did not look like a german french war neither did the said berlins no special happenings said paris very reduced activity during the night there was no sign ot of pence peace behind german lines however allied revealed about nazi troops concentrated on swiss belgian netherlands and french frontiers indicating a possible invasion of the lesser neutral states t k opposing them were the same number of french troops and about british still the war did not st start art despite frontier jitters which were wera heightened when the theR Retch elch cut telephone communications all along this no mile frontier observers believed only bad weather or adolt adolf hillers Hit lers whim stood between german troops and a large scale offensive there wils was also a chance hitler waited awaited support from russia had no fear of an allied offensive but that very assurance constituted an even greater fear i poorly fed and nervously strained germany cannot endure along war of attrition such as britain and france will no doubt wage some observers believe the war of nerves which hitler used to uch such s advantage earlier this year Is now rebounding and that may soon give way to army rule CONGRESS to the house french cheers reverberate rever berat ed across the atlantic when the U S senate passed 63 to 30 the administrations trat ions neutrality bill which permits cash and carry sale of munitions to belligerents berlin was resentful and rome was sad the latter forecasting a longer war it if america aided the allies in russia the newspaper commented sourly that war in europe was mot met by wall street with poorly disguised rejoicing in expectation of profits anwar on war orders the V U S was already on bad terms with ali um a since the U S S city of flint seized by germany had ciz been een taken to lar far north Mur mansk repaired and released by the soviet to her german prize ile creta all U S diplomatic efi efforts r to locate tho the flints Anse american rican crew were ignored but it is ivas ims learned the 41 men n were aboard cs the ship sailed jor lor germany stopping at all soe norway the flint was ordered away still awaited was the house vote on neutrality administration leaders arranged to have the rules committee bring out a simple resolution sending tho the measure to conference with the senate p v move made possible by the houses passage ot of a modified version of the program last summer then the only house vote on the embargo would center on a resolution to instruct house agents to insist on the partial arms embargo it the reso resolution lutlo n failed quick agreement was certain since most conferees ore are pro repeal As house debate opened adain admin forecast victory by at least 30 points isolationists insisting the result would hinge on about 10 votes voles hoped pressure from back home would sway fence to their side but after neutrality what next although franklin roosevelt wanted congress to go home many an anti new dealer wanted to sit pat until the war was over whether a year or a decade COURTS black blach tom in 1910 and 1017 german saboteurs sabot eurs did a good job of blasting U B S munitions factories to kingdom come two cases in point the kingsland N J plant and the black tom terminal at IIo Ilo boken just across the hudson from manhattan after 20 years of bickering Nazi doms dr victor deserted the mixed claims commission list last june just before imperial germany was found responsible for the disasters sto rys end in washington what was left of the mixed commission awarded approximately to americans including in damages plus 5 per cent interest though adolt adolf hitler will have no truck with the case germany has a special deposit account in the U S treasury of between and to meet the award the treasury also holds about halt half a billion paper value in german republic bonds but it looked like american claimants would be lucky to get the principal minus interest POLITICS third term talle talk in late october a gallup poll showed franklin Roosevel ts popularity to be greater than in 1030 1930 when he got per cent of the major party vote gallup rating today per cent less emphatic third term sentiment rose to 43 per cent compared with 40 before the war but many anti third term voters said they might change their minds if the war continues much bigger political news was the feeling in washington that president roosevelt will not seek a third term an undercover sentiment that has made many an anti new dealer support his neutrality bill see CONGRESS certainly he is discouraging nomination talk observers learned he be told iolas sen guy gillette that th the e tall corn states convention delegation should go it was also believed he discouraged discourage d gil Cs t S 11 N 11 Z R 4 STEVE EARLY it would have been kind lette from instructing his lowans for secretary of agriculture henry A wallace reason wallace lacks political it wallace himself got his fingers severely burned in san francisco he remarked that the president to is the best qualified man to guide this country in aser a serious lous international ter crisis back in washington the president refused comment but secretary steve early answered for him it would have been kind and polite of the speaker to nave consulted the victim before he spoke tentative toss fl L at washington Or egons sen charles L mcnary tossed his hat in the G 0 P presidential ring but left a string attached to pull it back lie ile would allow his name to be placed before the convention said mr mcnary for the purpose of aiding farm areas to select a can candidate didace and platform dut but in no sense am I 1 interested except tor for the purpose of getting together on some candidate before wp go to the convention PEOPLE papal slap in his first encyclical pope plus pius XII did not mention russia or germany by name nam e but said 11 the state with unlimited authority breaks the unity of the supranational society V AIX J robs the law of natto nations ns of its foundation and vigor and leads to the viola rius PIUS XII mi uon tion of oth robs ol of tiger ers poland czecho slovakia austria rights and impedes agreement and peaceful intercourse ter course fl L at rome premier benito mussolini celebrated fascists Fasci sms birthday by urging the nation to build and go forward shunned was any mention of the war C L at new york died alice brady 46 year old stage screen actress who won an oscar from the motion picture academy for her work in in old chicago at phoenix ariz trunk murderess winnie ruth judd knocked at the door of the state insane 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