| Show WEEKLY NEWS NEW'S ANALYSIS BY 81 JOSEPH l W. W LaBINE Balkans Draw Russ Attention Following Conquest In in Finland iii ant 7 Allies Retreat From role Near East EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE NOTE When When opinions arc are expressed c in these columns they arc are those of or the news analyst and not necessarily of or this newspaper Released by Western Newspaper Union Congress What Both o Houses Are re Doing sin In house and senate nate U. U S. S legislators busied es during Juring mid March the following subjects POLITICS Debate and a threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened filibuster delayed a senate vote on amendments to the Hatch clean politics act Aim To prohibit state employees who are paid in whole or in part with U. U S. S funds from engaging in political activity No 1 opponent was Sen Sherman Minton D. D Ind Passed was one amendment limiting political contributions contributions contributions con con- to CENSUS Okayed 9 to 7 by the senate commerce committee was a resolution to strike personal income questions from the 1940 census Secretary Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary of Commerce Harry Hopkins ruled D that tha t income questions questions questions ques ques- a may ay be answered answered an an- vered s In in sealed unsigned unsigned un un- un- un 3 1 signed letters il t rz j J. J Edgar Hoovers Hoover's s men G-men were accused in the senate senat com- com GEO NORRIS m merce committee o of using wire wire tapping and voice recorders to snoop into peoples affairs Meanwhile Sen i George Norris Ind Neb com- com EUROPE y p. p Peace in the North Finland stood alone against a huge opponent rr We c could not win vin the tear alone The inevitable end would have hate been the destruction of oj our country Thus spoke Foreign Minister Vaino Tanner as a peace delegation winged its way homeward from Moscow l The war was over and Finland would soon regain her vitality Field Marshal Baron Karl Gustav 1 figured Finland had lost men to Russia's Russia's Russia's Rus Rus- sias sia's which was proof enough that the vanquished army was far superior man for man But the war had left Finland a shambles its best men dead some of its best land lost to the invader see map Ahead la lay a tough job but the kind to which generations of Finns have become inured Gradually the true story leaked out First peace overtures had come from Finland two weeks earli earlier ear ear- li her lier e r v via i a aS S Sweden wed e n. n Major factor had been a Scandinavian vian visa defensive defensive sive alliance u which Finland Finland Fin Fin- y land agreed to sign with Sweden and VAINO AlNO V TANNER N Nor o r w way a y ahead Tough l job once the war was over And as the Finns busied themselves moving refugees from ceded areas their foreign ministry made haste to weld that alliance Peace will not again be broken promised Vaino Tan Tan- ner From Par Paris J Chicago Daily News Edgar Ansel Arise reported he knew why u Finland never appealed directly for allied aid Reason The German minister at Helsinki informed Finland that issuance of such an appeal would bring German troops to assist the Russians Reaction in the West That Russia's victory in Finland was a defeat for France and Britain Britain Britain Brit Brit- ain no observer could deny In about FBI's disgraceful and indefensible third term degree methods methods' in arresting charged with recruiting soldiers forthe forthe for forthe the Spanish loyalist army DEFENSE Passed by the house was a measure authorizing in the next two years for 21 warships 22 auxiliary vessels and 1011 fighting planes Meanwhile the senate weighed a resolution to probe U. U S S. plane sales abroad AGRICULTURE Certain to pass the senate and very likely to pass the house were boosts which brought the farm appropriation to more than one billion dollars Major Major Major Ma Ma- jor boosts for parity payments But there were growing fears that next years year's congress will willbe willbe willbe be left to worry about where the money is coming from Meanwhile its economy program shattered congress heard Franklin Roosevelt suggest once more that new taxes may be needed LABOR Of 17 amendments to the Wagner act suggested by a special house committee at least one seemed destined to pass Enlargement Enlargement Enlarge Enlarge- ment of the labor board from three to five members Arctic Sea THIS AREA z A W Q z w H c RAA fi I- I ROAD ACROSS FIN LAND TO SWEDEN 40 0 G 30 YEAR LEASE ON HANGO AND ENVIRONS ISLANDS IN J Lake t USH GULF r. r I I o F o ol LENINGRAD WHAT RUSSIA GETS Finland stood alone Scandinavia where Russo-German Russo pressure had helped bring peace the allies had lost considerable prestige In the Balkans and Near East where combined Russo-German Russo pressure has been kept to a 3 minimum minimum minimum mini mini- mum because of the Finnish war there sprang up overnight signs that the dictator nations had reached a working agreement Italy long fearful of Russian aggression in the Balkans was reported negotiating a trade pact with Moscow under Nazi auspices Meanwhile Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many also worked on a Soviet- Soviet Rumanian non-aggression non pact These things left Turkey out on a limb soon she will be forced to surrender surrender surrender sur sur- render her friendship with the allies allies allies al al- al- al lies and play ball with the Moscow- Moscow Rome-Berlin Rome triangle For Germany the biggest immediate immediate immediate imme imme- diate gain was a chance to beat the British blockade With Russia at peace the Nazis could now expect oil munitions and foodstuffs from Joe Stalin Reaction in the East No sooner had llad Russia ended one war than she started another one At least advices reaching Shanghai reported a resumption of hostilities on the Outer Mongolian frontier where a truce ended the fighting last September Since then border demarcation conversations have bogged down Though Tokyo angrily angrily angrily an an- denied new fighting she also lodged a strong protest with Moscow Moscow Moscow Mos Mos- cow against Russian airplane flights over J Jap ap territory in the southern half of Sakhalin island MISCELLANY l in the News i CAt Q CI At Washington the National Broadcasting company applied for permits to build television transmitting transmitting transmitting transmit transmit- ting stations at Chicago Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia and Washington C. C At Hollywood Walt Disney Productions Productions Productions Pro Pro- progenitor of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck became a abig abig abig big business enterprise by filing in intention intention intention in- in to raise new capi capi- tal C. C At McAllen Texas a passenger train jammed a truck carrying 50 citrus workers killing 25 CI L At Beirut searching parties started started started start start- ed after pilgrims returning from Mecca holy city of Islam who were reported lost on the desert C. C At Washington a survey by the department of labor showed that in 36 1935 two-thirds two of the nations nation's families were living liying on 69 a month or a year C. C At New York the national industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial conference board discovered U. U S S. S living costs rose one half of 1 per cent in February over January PAN Pl AMERICA Blues Song Ever since Europe went to war wai last autumn U. U S. S business men mer have hoped to capture the profitable South American trade which heretofore heretofore heretofore here here- belonged mostly to Germany and Britain Loans and credits were arranged American solidarity was preached and good neighborliness ness became the order of the day More realistic the U. U S. S department of commerce sent its experts to di dig digout digout out the facts Six months later the experts reached a 3 conclusion Until definite action is taken on the dc de- defaulted defaulted de- de faulted obligations of South American Ameri Ameri- can countries until the U. U S S. S investing public will have confidence in South American political conditions conditions conditions condi condi- and until the fear of expropriation and nationalistic legislation is overcome a large in increase increase increase in- in crease in our exports to and imports imports imports im im- im- im ports from Crom South America canno cannot be expected Major difficulty was that South American imports from the U. U S S. S far outweigh U. U S S. imports from the south a 3 situation which is robbing robbing robbing rob rob- bing the little countries of their gold golc and silver AGRICULTURE l IF eather and Crops In Texas farmers were planting cotton Up in the Dakotas they were limbering up for spring seed seed- ing At Washington the U. U S S. S weather bureau decided the time tim was ripe for a report and forecast I Points Q L Because soil moisture stands a alow at atlow I low ebb spring wheat producing states will yield under-normal under supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies this year unless heavy rains rain or snows fall within the next few feu weeks C Q Drouth also plagues the winter wheat belt from Nebraska south into Texas and from Colorado east into the Ohio valley Although some sections had heavy midwinter precipitation precipitation precipitation pre pre- poor moisture conditions condition during the autumn germination months will cut even deeper into inte already small plantings C Q normal Below precipitation was also recorded along the Atlantic seaboard seaboard seaboard sea sea- board but it was too early to base crop forecasts on it E. E L Out west where northern California California California Califor Califor- nia was just draining of ofT flood waters waters waters wa wa- the bureau reported unusually heavy precipitation during the winter CHINA Thin Ice Primary topic of Far Eastern interest interest interest in in- terest right now is the Russo- Russo Finnish peace See EUROPE which may turn the Soviet behemoths behemoth's behemoths behemoth's behemoths behemoth's be be- attention eastward once more None could tell whether the Reds would reopen their dormant war against Japan in Outer Mongolia Mongolia Mongolia Mon Mon- golia meanwhile aiding Chinese Generalissimo Chiang shek Kai-shek or 01 whether they would work alone Either development seemed possible possible possible pos pos- sible an uncertainty which made inconsequential the manifesto issued is issued issued is- is sued at Shanghai by Japanese Puppet Puppet Puppet Pup Pup- pet Wang Vang Ching Said he A Anew Anew Anew new pro-Japanese pro government will willbe willbe willbe be established in China almost im im- im- im mediately Although he regretted that now is not the time to reveal his plans for readjusted Sino-Jap Sino relations Puppet Wang appealed for a renunciation of General Chiang At Tokyo Premier Mitsumasa issued an abstract and high- high sounding statement promising Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese support of the Wang govern govern- ment But abstractions from Tokyo and Shanghai only emphasized Japans Japan's helplessness Since Premier was vague and since Puppet Wang could tell China nothing about his new governments government's plans it was wasa a safe guess that the entire peace structure was skating on thin ice POLITICS Third Terns Term in England Most are keenly interested interested interested inter inter- ested in a third term for Franklin Roosevelt for they feel his foreign policy works in their favor In mid- mid March readers of the London Daily Mail smacked their lips over a story by the well-informed well diplomatic correspondent Wilson Broadbent Said he It HIt is now established beyond any doubt that the report of Undersecretary Undersecretary Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles on his tour of European capitals will directly affect Mr Roosevelt's decision decision decision deci deci- sion regarding a third term Should no peace loophole be revealed revealed revealed re re- re- re and the war develops into a fierce European struggle then President Roosevelt certainly will run for a third term Where Mr Broadbent got his beyond beyond beyond be yond doubt information Americans Americans Americans Ameri Ameri- cans in London could not discover What mystified them still more but suddenly seemed more logical was the very antithesis of this conclusion conclusion sion namely that President Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt would be a cinch for re-election re if he succeeded in bringing peace to Europe Other political news CI CIn In New Hampshire first primary election placed a full slate of Democratic convention delegates at the disposal of Franklin Roose Roose- velt Republicans who drew the biggest vote elected an delegation as requested by Sen H. H Styles Bridges New Hampshire's presidential hopeful C. C At Kokomo Ind Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt said she didn't know anything about a third term U After being the wife of a 3 public official cial for years you learn to accept what life gives you |
