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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Dictator Stalin Foresees Another European War Spanish Rebels Nearing Madrid Simpson Affair May Lead to King Edward's Abdication. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. pUROPE'S situation, according to i seasoned observers, is settling down to a fight to the finish between be-tween Communism and Fascism, Josef Malm and the several na-I na-I tions are lining up j accordingly. Josef Stalin, Soviet dicta-j dicta-j tor, is said to be I convinced that an-; an-; other great war is ; at hand and that s Russia must act j promptly to take j what he considers ' her proper part In the conflict. The civil war in Spain and the developments therefrom are providing the fuel for starting the fire. Russia repeats her accusations accusa-tions against Germany and Italy of giving aid to the Spanish rebels; the Fascist governments deny the charges and make countercharges against Moscow; the Soviet government govern-ment appears to be on the point of quitting the committee for nonintervention noninter-vention In Spain and sending war munitions to the hard pressed radical radi-cal government at Madrid. Dispatches from Moscow said Stalin had been informed by his military advisers that as few as 100 planes could settle the Spanish war in favor of the government and that Russia could send them almost immediately. The Russians already have sent five shiploads of food and clothing to Spain, these supplies having been bought by subscriptions from Russian workers. Should Stalin decide to come out openly in aid of the leftist government govern-ment of Spain, the Nazis and Fascists Fas-cists may be counted on to redouble re-double their already existing campaign cam-paign against Communism and many nations would soon be involved in-volved in the quarrel, with possibilities possi-bilities that terrify thinking persons the world over. Klementi Voroshilov, Soviet commissar com-missar for defense, didn't allay the alarm any when he said in a formal statement: "The Soviet Union is prepared to meet the enemy anywhere he chooses to taste the force of our arms. "We are ready with man-power, equipment, training and resources." A Russian language paper printed print-ed in New York said the Soviet press bureau in London had announced an-nounced that Stalin would come to America after the November election, elec-tion, for medical treatment; that he would visit President Roosevelt, Roose-velt, and later would go to Mexico. All of this was promptly denied officially of-ficially in Moscow and by the soviet embassy in Washington. CLOSER co-operation between Germany and Italy in the fight on Communism was assured by an arrangement for "institutes" in Berlin Ber-lin and Rome for Italo-German youth leadership, in which the Hitler Hit-ler Youth organization and Mussolini's Mussoli-ni's Balilla, a Fascist youth body, are to unite. Baldur von Schirach, Nazi youth leader, so announced to a great gathering in Berlin. In the Berlin institute Italian youth leaders will be" educated in conditions and achievements under the Nazi state. In Rome, Nazi youth leaders will learn what II Duce's Fascists have done for their country. Neither institute will attempt at-tempt to imitate the other, Schirach Schi-rach said. GENERAL FRANCO, head of the Spanish insurgents, ordered the immediate taking of Madrid and each day the state of the defenders of the capital became more desperate. desper-ate. The rebels closed in relentlessly, relent-lessly, making effective use of bombing planes and armored tanks. President Manuel Azana and some of his cabinet ministers slipped out of Madrid and appeared in Barcelona. Ostensibly they were making a tour of the loyalist fronts, but the general opinion was that they had fled from the capital to make a "last stand" in Catalonia, which province always is radical. Anyhow, Azana took over an office in the Catalan parliament building for himself and his secretarial staff. Senora Azana has quit Spain. She appeared in Toulouse, France, and departed for an unannounced destination. des-tination. JAMES COUZENS, independent Republican senator from Michigan, Mich-igan, died in a Detroit hospital after a long illness and immediately following an operation to relieve uremic poisoning. He was sixty-four years old. Mr. Couzens was one of the wealthiest men in congress, his riches being a result of early association as-sociation with Henry Ford in the sitomobile business. He was twice elected mayor of Detroit and was appointed to the senate in 1922 to fill out the unexpired term of Senator Sen-ator Truman H. Newberry. As a Benator he frequently disregarded party lines, and since the election of President Roosevelt he had supported sup-ported many New Deal measures. Before the recent primary he announced an-nounced that, though a candidate for renomination as a Republican, he intended to support Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt for re-election. This was an act of political suicide, and he was defeated by Wilber M. Brucker. Senator Couzens was noted for his great contributions to charity. The chief of these was the gift of probably prob-ably $20,000,000 for the help of unfortunate un-fortunate children. He established the Children's Fund of Michigan with an endowment of $10,000,000. D EACE within the ranks of the American Federation of Labor has not yet been achieved, for the executive council of that body adjourned ad-journed without settling the dispute between the Green and Lewis factions. fac-tions. The council will meet again November 14 in Tampa, and two days later the federation will open its annual convention in that Florida city. If there are developments meanwhile, the council or federation federa-tion may discuss the quarrel, according ac-cording to President Green. He said: "The matter is temporarily closed," and added that so far as he knew, no peace overtures had been made by the CIO leaders. Mr. Green declared the ten suspended unions could not be admitted to the convention. MERE scandal and gossip have no proper place in this department, de-partment, but the "affaire Simp son." as the French would term it. King Edward nas progressed unm it assumes world importance. As arrangements ar-rangements are being be-ing made for the quiet and uncontested uncontest-ed divorce of Mrs. "Wally" Simpson, American friend of King Edward VIII of England, it is rumored ru-mored in London society so-ciety circles that the bachelor monarch will abdicate in favor of his brother, the Duke of York, and marry the attractive woman who has shared so much of his time in recent months. In support of this rumor is the reported fact that plans are being made for renting the farms of the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, Nor-folk, which is the king's private property. Also, there is a story that this estate may be sold to the Aga Khan, the immensely wealthy spiritual head of the Ismaili sect of Mohammedanism. Should Edward give up the throne, it would eventually be occupied by Princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Duke of York, and this succession suc-cession would be decidedly popular with the people of England. The abdicating king might revert to the dukedom of Cornwall, which provides pro-vides a net income of about $350,000. There is nothing in British law to prevent the king from marrying whomsoever he pleases, but no ruler of the country since Henry VIII has wedded a commoner. Court gossip in London says that Prime Minister Baldwin and the archbishop of Canterbury Can-terbury recently appealed to Edward Ed-ward for greater discretion in his relations with Mrs. Simpson and were hotly rebuffed by the king. English newspapers imposed on themselves a voluntary censorship in this affair, but it has been broken by the Sunday Referee which prints an article declaring the king "may marry by spring," that this would result in postponement of the coronation, coro-nation, and that tradesmen have been insuring themselves against such a delay. PERSONAL reports of Presidential Presiden-tial and vice presidential candidates, candi-dates, made public by the senate campaign expenditures committee, show that President Roosevelt gave a $500 contribution to the Democratic Demo-cratic county committee of Dutchess county, New York, his home, and had spent $10 for postage. Vice President John N. Garner reported that he had received no contributions contribu-tions and made no expenditures. The Republican candidates, Gov. Alf M. Landon and Col. Frank Knox, reported they had had no personal receipts nor expenditures since nomination, their campaigns being financed by the Republican national committee. In getting the nomination Landon received $163,480 and spent $164,572. Knox reported personally receiving $35,754 and spending $35,557 before nomination, and the Knox for President Presi-dent committee received $133,818 and spent $143,259. Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate, can-didate, reported his party had collected col-lected $5,614 and spent $6,504 to date. John Zahn, National Greenback party candidate, reported he had received $1 and spent $2.50 toward his election. At the same time the American Liberty league, nonpartisan, voluntarily volun-tarily submitted a financial report The report showed that the organization organ-ization had received $419,282 since January 1, and spent $461,851. PROF. JEROME DAVIS of the Yale divinity school, nationally known liberal, is being dropped from the Yale university faculty, and charges that this is because of his "economic opinions." President Angell denies this, asserting that the budgetary situation was the sole reason for allowing Davis' contract to lapse. "No abridgement of academic aca-demic freedom or liberty of speech is involved in this case," said Angell. An-gell. Davis is president of the Ameri-. Ameri-. can Federation of Teachers, chairman chair-man of the National Religion and Labor foundation and president of the Eastern Sociological conference. He said he thought it likely that the teachers' federation would take some action in his case. GREAT BRITAIN is determined to keep out of the Communist-Fascist Communist-Fascist conflict if possible. Sir Oswald Os-wald Mosley and his black-shirted Fascist followers have been trying to ; stir up trouble in ; England and in con- t sequence the cabinet decided to put a ban on all political uni- ; forms. It was ex- s pected that when parliament reassem- bled the government would announce j drastic action to suppress the Mosley organization or at f 5 V , Sir Oswald Mosley least to put a stop to its demonstrations demon-strations and parades in Leeds, Manchester and the east end of London, Lon-don, where these Fascists like to create ugly feeling against Jews. The public demand in England for action against the Fascists has been strengthened by the revelation that Mosley takes his advice from Berlin and Rome. It is reported, and widely believed, that Mosley's tactics of deliberately leading his Blackshirts into Jewish communities communi-ties are based on advice given him by Paul Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister. AN AFTERMATH of the Lindbergh Lind-bergh kidnaping case is the indictment of Ellis H. Parker, chief of detectives of Burlington county, N. J.; his son and three other men by a federal grand jury at Newark, N. J. The indictment charges the defendants took possession of Paul H. Wendel in New York, forced him to confess that he kidnaped Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., and held him in New Jersey while revisions were made in the confessions as the older Parker ordered. The government charges the defendants de-fendants hoped to reap "large rewards re-wards and sums of money" by publishing pub-lishing the "true story" of the faked solution of the celebrated case. IT WAS announced at the White House that President Roosevelt had written to heads of 100 schools and colleges throughout the country asking the educators to determine whether courses at engineering schools are so "balanced" as to give students the necessary "vision and flexibile technical capacity." The "impact" of science on human, hu-man, life produces social dislocations disloca-tions as well as advances in productive pro-ductive power, he held. He mentioned men-tioned "unemployment, bankruptcies bankrupt-cies and relief." The engineer, he said, has a responsibility to help design "mechanisms to absorb the shocks of the impact of science." FOR some time there have appeared ap-peared in print stories about how Japan was establishing air and submarine bases in the former German Ger-man islands of the South Pacific over which she holds a League of Nations mandate. It has been expected ex-pected that the league's mandate commission would investigate these reports, and now Japan seeks to forestall such action by a formal report to the league in which she asserts she has "no fortifications, military or naval bases" in those islands. The Tokio government says it is scrupulously observing that part of the mandate which forbids the use of the inlands for military ; purposes. j Following establishment of a south seas bureau in April, 1932, all Japanese armed forces and men ol war have been withdrawn gradually ; from the islands, the report says, adding that the natives of the is- ! lands never have been subjected to military training. CHARGES filed in Washington by the federal trade commission accuse five trade associations of at- j tempting to corner the automobile parts and accessories business. The ' groups, which were ordered to show j cause why they should not be com- ! pelled to cease their alleged com- bine, are the National Standard j Parts association, Detroit; the Motor Mo-tor and Equipment Wholesale association, as-sociation, Chicago; the Automotive Trade associations of Greater Kansas Kan-sas City, Mo.; Mississippi Valley Automotive Jobbers association and the Southwestern Jobbers association. associa-tion. Their officials also are defendants de-fendants in the suit. EIGHTEEN men and one woman perished in the waters of Lake Erie when the Canadian ship Sand Merchant foundered off Cleveland during a gale. Seven men, including includ-ing the captain, were picked up after clinging to life boats for eleven hours. Northern Italy was shaken by earthquake shocks that were felt as far away as Jugoslav:a and Austria. Aus-tria. Twenty persons wer killed by tumbling walls, and thiny other were injured. |