Show WEEKLY NEWIS ANALYSIS RY BY JOSEPH ff LOME labine U S reacts to european war As shipments crowd wharves ickes warns against raiding 9 EDITORS NOTE when opinions are expressed in these columns the they are arc those hose of he news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper I 1 n by western newspaper union I 1 DOMESTIC U S the arlar major fear of congressmen who opposed the neutrality act last oc tober was that its practical effect was to favor britain and france who control the seas meanwhile shutting off U S munitions supplies to germany released by the state department at years end were substantiating figures in november first month of neutral itys operation era tion france re received export I 1 licenses covering in munitions exports britain 6 germany none meanwhile now new york port officials felt for the first time the press of war shipments bedded down in the foreign trade zone on staten island were bombers trucks trench 14 PLANE FOK BRITAIN trench diggers too goo diggers corned beef and miscella ne ous war exports valued at I 1 all awaiting empty allied freight 1 ere era to carry them across the sub darlne infested atlantic items CO 00 fast lockheed reconnaissance nals sance bombers their bodies painted a dark brown and camouflaged with weird strivings pings 1500 studebaker trucks and 1000 white trucks the vanguard of to bo be sent to the war zone within the next two months wired to ninny many of them were crates carrying machine gun gun mountings and spare parts 13 trench diggers costing each and destined for the tha western front tobe to bo followed soon by more at f washington the annual report of interior secretary harold ickes focused attention on americas need for conserving her natural resources which ho he said were threatened by efforts to break down con conservation on programs programs rams in an attempt to re reap ap quick war profits what specific attempts te apts he had in mind secreta secretary ry ickes ickis did not say any but it Is well known that army and andi i navy departments have ordered strict conserva tion of domestic sources of certain strategic materials ESPIONAGE dies to murphy much maligned during the two years his committee has investigated un americanism congressman martin dies of texas has nevertheless managed to stir up trouble tor for communist earl Brow browier Browd per cr nazi fritz frits kuhn allen alien harry bridges and many a lesser figure for months the administration would not operate cooperate co but finally the justice department swooped down on earl provider Dro vider inducting indicting indic ting him on false passport charges this month attorney general frank murphy begins operating cooperating co so completely that martin dies is shoved to the background opened in washington was wasa a special grand jury probe to study direct evl cal dence of planned sabotage by representatives of foreign governments in U S auto airplane and munitions factories at the same time frank murphy began probing antl anti semitic activities using the income tax passport and foreign agent laws tit as his weapons THE WARS lit in the west where christmas left off a violent blizzard began to stop all operations on the western front sidelights 4 fl baital britain n expecting real war I 1 in n the spring ordered more men prepared for army service fl in paris pans le petit parisien published a report from italy that adolf hitler was ready to quit as chancellor and purge his more radical nazis to convince the iha allies to moke make peace sl fl only sea activity was the decision of germanys germanas Germ anys freighter to accept interment at montevideo harbor rather than lace face capture by british ships waiting outside the harbor harboe in the north attack and repulse tactics contin aed featuring the war between finland and russia the soviet suffering bitter losses on all fronts from petsamo to the isthmus main reason as usual was cold weather nn an ally of the skillful finns most gruesome story near it was learned the outnumbered finns had surrounded dussias Rus sias entire division waited three weeks in bitter cold while the soviet supply lines broke down then attacked to find the russians so weak and frozen they could hardly move trapped were most of the men thousands of them already dead far from an optimist Fin Xin lands president kyosti kallo knew such luck hold out As now new waves of red troops were rushed to the front he appealed for foreign volunteers already on the way were scandinavians with more to come WHITE HOUSE appointments As congress opened president roosevelt asked confirmation of his two most recent appointees ti lit charles edison assistant secretary of the navy since january 1937 and acting head of tho the department since last summer chosen tor for full 41 daniel W bell former acting budget director named undersecretary of the tro treasury a sury to su succeed john hones resigned TREND suppression freedom of speech and press suffered three times in two days fl 91 at cambridge mass the city council voted to brin ban the words lenin and leningrad from all printed matter in the city but the mayor refused to sign the measure iii at chicago president james C petrillo of tho the local federation of musicians demanded that two stage productions george whites scan dais and I 1 ahe he man alan IV alpho ho came to go dinner delete references to john L lewis head of A F of L s arch foe the C 1 I 0 41 at mexico city the chamber ot of deputies voted to exclude all religion and religious instruction from schools CONGRESS news quiz two months ago only a few am americans realized that cordell hulls reciprocal cipro cal trade act comes up for or congressional renewal this year today that issue ranks no I 1 on the agenda threatening to inject itself into pres presidential campaign the question should america subscribe to hull low tarin policies or G 0 P high tariffs at least three opponents of the hull idea two of them democrats spoke their minds as congress un looked locked its oratorical floodgates flood gates new yorks G 0 P rep daniel reed charged joseph davies had been brought back from his brussels ambassadorial bassa baisa dorial post to serve as super lobbyist for cordell hull south dakotas sen W J bulow keynoted keynotes key noted opinion in his chamber by indicating it so much the act itself he opposed what counted counted was that tho the nr BURKE A 4 realistic view senate should ratify each treaty most realistic attitude was that of braskas nebraskan Ne sen edward R burke lie M favored the ho long range view that taking down tariff walls would eventually benefit all countries but declared cle agriculture 0 gri culture in some states is so depressed i essed it would require at least a few years to get it back on its feet what most senators want is a chanco chance for same s ome old fashioned logrolling roU Ingi hence observers thought the trade act would be renewed only y if congressional ratification is included other issues ren tensions unexpectedly injected was a campaign sponsored by poorer states to make the U S take a bigger share of pension costs under law the U S matches states dollar tor for dollar up to 20 per month agriculture henry wallace pol dished off his certificate plan to dyphon annually from consumers to finance the farm program farmers would get income certificates valued at the differential between market price and parity price these to be purchased by processors taxes henry not only opposed the certificate plan as a consumer tax in disguise but pointed out the consumer already pays 01 61 per cent of the taxes texes A bigger issue whether to raise taxes or hike the national debt limit which reaches its ceiling next year defense while the P resident president planned tin an enlarged defense program two republicans chios sen robert A tatt taft and idaboy willian william borah warned against it it PEOPLE no communist at al washington harvard law schools dean james M landis reported he had found harry bridges west coast C 1 I 0 leader Is not a communist thus closing the deportation hearing at which dean landis offic officiated |