Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEI JOSEPH TF IF labine scandinavian peace endangered by pressure from belligerents finn defenses breaking down EDITORS NOTE when opinions are expressed e in these columns they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this bis newspaper ne leaved western newspaper paper union EUROPE while franklin roosevelt was fishing south of the panama canal his two special peace emissaries were on tho tha high seas en route to settle Eu ropes quarrels steelman myron C taylor would bould work from the vatican undersecretary of 0 state sumner welles would travel to italy germany france and britain seeking a basis for a postwar post war settlement they had to work fast because the european d dogfight was fast getting out ont of hand lit in scandinavia not only finland but norway and sweden sveden as well were being drawn into other peoples wars undoubtedly sympathizing with the finns stockholm and oslo governments had to stay on their good behavior or risk reprisals from germany that was why par far albin handson Han V A PER ALBIN sweden sympathized but swedish premier had to refuse fin lands plea lor for direct military aid the finns meanwhile were sagging badly surrendering key posts on the mannerheimo Man line lind before bedfor e rus sias relentless attack but losses were partially equalized by gains elsewhere northeast of laks lake ladoga cadoga tile the high command announced red sol diers havo have been killed hilled or captured wiping out the entire eighteenth di division I 1 ion oslo hod had an even holi hotter cr potato in id it its hands attacking germanas germanys Germ anys prison ship altmark within norwegian territorial waters a british destroyer had rescued the prisoners and scooted for homo hom e while nazi crewmen fled to the interior angry notes were exchanged norway finally calling its parliament to decide on a course of ac action tion why asked london had been allowed within norwegian territorial waters why asked berlin be alin had ha norway failed to protect altmark from the british talking back boldly for a small power brave norway bluntly told the british that the altmark case would probably be protested to the league of nations or some other tribunal nor was there much doubt that norway was within her rights lit in the west ivest there was no action between the maginot and siegfried lines but the allmark 11 mark incident stirred up reprisals at sea britain seized two na nazi zi merchant ships carrying manganese man ganes e from spain down to davey jones locker went britaina Brit ains destroyer daring with a loss of lives this was the sixth destroyer britain harlost has lost thus for far and brought baroug ht her total fleet fl et losses to td 25 vessels lit in the near east little more was heard of the british colonial troops landed recently nt at suez and dispersed throughout the troubled near east but russian frontiers of turkey india afghanistan tan and persia were still guarded closely against a possible red thrust biggest surprise come came from turkey where the government suddenly applied the na defense law and assumed virtual dictatorial powers meanwhile the ankara press warned civilians that as non belligerent allies of britain and france turks must be ready for a supreme effort this spring C CONGRESS trade pacts foreign policy held congressional attention as the house ways andl and mans means committee reported favorably bl y a resolution to extend for three years the administrations reciprocal trade program the program itself was no issue for glenn franks G 0 P planning committee okayed oklyed the low tariff idea in principle pla orle one day before the house took up the resolution see POLITICS instead G 0 P lined against democrat 0 on an amendment which would force senate ratification cation of each trade pact at present the administration can make without congles dional approval meanwhile congressional economy advocates cheered house passage of the naval appropriations bill which was below president Roosevel ts budget estimate in all this meant house and senate had cut about from budget estimates leading ken buckys sen alben barkley to remark that he thought new tax taxes Is could be avoided president roosevelt had asked a for emergency defense costs biggest problem before the senate was the agriculture appropriation bill from which the house had slashed the farm bloc wanted this cut restored also wanted for parity pa payments it if this program goes through the economies thus far would be nullified POLITICS go G 0 P in tm taw saddle by late february enthusiastic republicans public ans had taken the political ball completely away from the democrats who rested r insecurely on their laurels at washington the G 0 P national committee heard chairman john D M hamilton announce bounce he would welcome a chance to ahl whip p franklin roosevelt in the 1940 campaign then the committee decided to hold its convention in philadelphia on june 24 next day at miami democratic chairman m an jim parley farley hurriedly set july 15 as date for his democratic convention ven tion republicanism had more enthusiasm than originality col robert R mccormick publisher of the chicago tribune which hates the new deal to death dragged out the moth eaten red herring in a speech at jackson mich birthplace of the M gm 4 drw W e g M 1 11 94 K URA 3 N W RAM 1 I 1 GLENN FRANK not entirely critical republican party colonel mccormick saw communism in everything he looked at censorship in the U S malls mails and on an open conspiracy between the white house and the kremlin more sanity characterized the G 0 P program committees page report prepared by a man strategy body under dr glenn frank former president of the university of wisconsin criticized were 1 pump priming 2 emergency monetary powers 3 legislative I 1 tive control over wages and hours 4 the U S housing program 5 government competition with business and gi 0 the new deal power program tile the committed comm ittes proposals embodied quite a few democratic tenets indicating how tar far the G 0 P has swung away from rockbound conservatism ism proposals 1 I 1 return of gold standard 2 20 per cent cut in federal expenses and a balanced budget by 1912 3 amendments to the wagner act 4 a reciprocal trade program to safeguard agriculture 5 improvements and slon sion of social security 6 protective 11 not restrictive U S regulation of busi business nem 7 a farm pro gram which would embody party payments RELIGION interdict at cleveland for seven years rev louis lol loi zedda was assistant to rev martin compagno at holy red redeemer c emer catholic church in Clev elands italian lan district when reverend compagno died archbishop joseph named rev vincent caruso rus 0 as his successor parishioners angry because reverend zedda was not appointed twice refused to let the new priest in their church finally came the showdown aided by 60 policemen and uniformed knights of columbus and st john msgr floyd L begin escorted reverend caruso to the church the crowd hooted and yelI edlgo home while small boys threw snowballs at the plumed escort thoroughly angry monsignor begin stood on the running board ot of bis automobile e and invoked an interdict until holy redeemers 1000 parishioners accept reverend caruso they can re cerve no sacraments of the church crept when endanger in danger ot death CRIME forgiven or given one of supreme court justice frank murphys Murp hys last duties as attorney general was to indict 16 persons charged with recruiting soldiers at detroit mich for the communistic muni spanish republican army alter after the case had dragged along several weeks justice murphys Murp hys successor decided to drop the entire case said attorney general robert E jackson evenhanded even handed and impartial justice would not localize prosecutions of this character to detroit nor nar confine them to only one side of 1 them the spanish wa war r nor I 1 even to the spanish war itself unless we are able to proceed with all the cases arising during that 1936 38 period it would be manifestly unjust to single out these detroit indictments THE WEATHER torm in the east carefully watched by congress wag wa a tremendous winter storm that swept from maine to 0 washington and westward to ohio boding swollen streams and floods congress w watched it because cuts made in the new york state flood control appropriation lation may have to be restored thus hurting the economy program death toll was placed at 71 of which 25 were reported from new england englana T PEOPLE E OPLE carol to rome aronte CM rome it was reported ru manias king carol will arrive late in march for conversations with aith premier boulto mussolini presumably in search of italian secured balkan neutrality C flat at washington chios sen vie vic donahey dropped out of the buckeye presidential primary as a favorite son candidate making chios 52 Ve relegates legates a free for all prize tor for what whatever e v e r cand candidate ida te con can get them fl L britaina Brit ains lestle leslie korc ilore bellshaw ex war minister ousted january 5 found the censor had chopped 44 lines from the sunday newspaper story he wrote on shall we fight for finland now i ASIA retreat from faraway far away came the news that defending chinese troops were repelling Ja japanese offensives fen at opposite ends of the country in province to the south the chinese sold said their vanguard had advanced to within 1 I miles of thirteen hundred miles to the north similar victories were reported in Suly shuiyuan tian province japs said their troops were returning from successful expeditions |