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Show XV Mkly Xmvs l!;viv 1 Big Asia May Be Too Small For Stubborn Russia, Japan by Edward W. Picknrd Foreign Joseph Stalin once said Russia wanted "not one Inch" of foreign soil. Last week Japan decided Dictator Dic-tator Stalin had either changed his mind or was at last throwing open support to beleaguered China. But best explanation of all was that big Asia is still not big enough to hold two stubborn powers. Since 1931, when Japan marched Into Manchuria, American newspaper newspa-per readers have heard periodically periodical-ly that Tokyo and Moscow were "on the brink of war." Only Russia's autonomous Siberian army kept land-hungry Japan from moving into Soviet territory. But even that was not enough to prevent periodic ' , ; 4 f : i ! " ""Va, . ' ; ' ' 1 ii JAPAN'S KAZUSHIGE UGAKI He wanted less lawlessness. outbreaks along a thousand miles of ill-defined border, where last month the five-year "secret war" crept into the open. At 8 p. m., one night last week, eight Soviet tanks stormed over a hill near Changkufeng at the roughly-defined junction of Manchukuo, Russian Siberia and Japanese Korea. Ko-rea. Behind them in a pall of smoke came Soviet infantry, while overhead over-head soared planes that severed rail connections between Manchukuo's inland Kirin and coastal Yuki. At battle's end, Tokyo boasted 800 Russ casualties. Moscow admitted 68. Next day, while eastern Japan went under emergency regulations, the war started again. By nightfall night-fall the third day, Russia claimed undisputed capture of Changkufeng but it appeared the fun was just starting. Tokyo rushed 35,000 men and 400 war planes to the frontier while the Soviet pointed war trains eastward along its Trans-Siberian railroad. Neither nation appeared to be giving giv-ing an inch, which supported the theory that one or the other must eventually get out of Asia. At Tokyo, Foreign Minister Kazushige Ugaki daily sent fresh instructions to his Moscow ambassador, demanding de-manding that Russia prevent "recurrence "re-currence of lawlessness." Moscow simply sent back the same demands. de-mands. At Washington, the state department depart-ment hoped it would end in armed truce. In Paris, the foreign office said Russia had sent assurance that no "actual warfare" would develop. devel-op. And by week's end a ray of hope appeared in Japan's proposal that time out be taken for peace talk. Japan's other war pushed closer to Hankow last week as China once more moved its government westward, west-ward, this time to ancient Chungking, Chung-king, 1,500 miles from Shanghai. At Hangchow, Jap troops methodically walked Into a British owned hospital, hos-pital, removing 103 wounded Chinese Chi-nese soldiers. What happened to them, nobody knew. Last winter Great Britain broke off diplomatic relations after Mexico Mex-ico seized its oil properties. On July 15, the United States state department de-partment demanded prompt payment pay-ment for American land seized since 1915. Mexico's total oil debt to United Unit-ed States-British interests is $400,-000,000. $400,-000,000. Last week President La-zaro La-zaro Cardenas answered, acknowledging acknowl-edging the debt, but claiming there was no obligation to make payment. To say the least, Mexico's stand set a precedent. Domestic Up through Panama canal and homeward last week sailed Fisherman Fisher-man Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard the U. S. S. Houston, where last week he played Good Samaritan for Machinist's Mate Oliver W. Halliwill of the escort destroyer, McDougal. Stricken with appendicitis, Halliwill was shifted to the Houston on Presidential Presi-dential orders, later going under the knife of White House Physician Ross T. Mclntyre. If Franklin Roosevelt had his fill of fishing last week, he did not have his fill of traveling. Announced at the White House was a list of speaking speak-ing engagements that will keep him jumping until late September, from Georgia to Ontario, from New York to Michigan, from North Dakota to Tennessee. Only Brian Boru, Finn MacCool and the Great Cuchulain were more important to New York Irishmen last week than Douglas Corrigan. Arriving on the S. S. Manhattan, America' "mistake" Atlantic flier got his Broadway ticker tape shower, show-er, city hall ceremonies and luncheons lunch-eons after competing Manhattan and Brooklyn committees ironed out their disputes. Ahead for Douglas Corrigan was all the excitement he could stand in any American city he will agree to visit. Politics Long before Tennessee Valley Authority Au-thority was a household term, Tennessee's Ten-nessee's Senator George L. Berry bought a large block of land in his home state. When TVA's expansion required the land, Senator Berry tried to sell out for $5,000,000, finally heard a court decide the property was worthless. The stunt placed him in Franklin Roosevelt's disfavor. dis-favor. Last week George Berry fell in his own state's disfavor. From Memphis the powerful Crump political po-litical machine swept over Tennessee, Tennes-see, nominated one Thomas Stewart for senator in the Democratic primaries. pri-maries. Also defeated was Gov. Gordon Browning by a political amateur. am-ateur. Prentice Cooper. Republicans, still hopeless in the South, held no primary. Franklin Roosevelt had kept his hands out of the Tennessee family squabble. But as America went to the polls last week in other states, first primary returns to reach New Deal headquarters showed the score tied 2-2, the alleged "purge" having failed to jell: In Virginia, Sen. Harry Flood Byrd's machine defeated two "100 per cent New Deal" congressional aspirants, William E. Dodd Jr., and R. Bruce Shafer. Winners, who will probably be elected next November, were Rep. Howard W. Smith and ex-Rep. ex-Rep. Colgate W. Darden, who beat both Shafer and the incumbent Norman Nor-man R. Hamilton. In Missouri, Sen. Bennett Champ Clark was renominated after helping help-ing scuttle the Roosevelt judiciary and reorganization bills. Most important im-portant result, though, was Gov. Lloyd C. Stark's successful challenge chal-lenge of the Pendergast machine's supremacy. Stark's candidate for the state Supreme court, Judge James M. Douglas, easily floored the Pendergast nominee. In Kansas, New Dealer George McGill won renomination to the senate. sen-ate. But chief interest centered in Former Gov. Clyde M. Reed's successful suc-cessful G. O.. P. senatorial fight against Radio Evangelist Gerald B. Winrod. In West Virginia, New Dealers Jennings Randolph, John Kee and Joe Smith won congressional renomination renom-ination hands down. Crime When youthful Thomas E. Dewey became New York's district attorney, attor-ney, Manhattan expected fireworks. Many a bombshell has fallen in pretrial pre-trial accusations against Tammany's Tam-many's James J. Hines, one-time New Deal patronage distributor and alleged political fixer for the late Dutch Schultz's policy ring. Last week came two more bombshells. First was an agreement that J. Richard (Dixie) Davis, disbarred attorney at-torney and alleged mouthpiece for the Schultz gang, would turn state's evidence and testify against Hines. Second was a bill of particulars in which Tom Dewey's predecessor, predeces-sor, William C. Dodge, felt once more the lash of New York's ambitious am-bitious crime buster. Not waiting until August 15 for the opening of Hines' trial, Dewey presented his particulars last week before famed Justice Ferdinand Pecora. One particular: par-ticular: That ex-District Attorney j. - , fj, 1 ! I v I : ! v i irinimiii if i-ii.' i- im.J WILLIAM C. DODGE For the moment, uninlimiduted. Dodge was among public officials "influenced, Intimidated or bribed" by Jimmy Hines. Tom Dewey's mistake apparently lay In insufficient particulars. Because Be-cause the bill admitted there were other alleged intimidation victims "not at present known," because Dodge and two New York magistrates magis-trates were not specifically charged with a crime, Justice Pecora next day directed the district attorney to show cause why it should not be barred. Unintimidated for the moment, William Dodge thundered: "This outrageous out-rageous and malicious assault upon my character is unjustified!" Miscellany Dead two hours after smothering under blankets in his parents' car, three-month-old Robert Didier of Chicago responded to adrenalin injected in-jected by a surgeon at Wheeling hospital. Next day Robert was home, chortling happily in his crib. Meeting at San Francisco last week, Women's Christian Temperance Temper-ance Unionists held daily "fruit juice hours" as a challenge for society so-ciety to forsake its cocktail hours. Business Last week as Russia and Japan moved to war, American dollars and gold moved over the Atlantic. When nervous European capital scurried for cover, gold soared from $34.77 to $34.94 an ounce, a new 16-month 16-month high. In two days, continental continent-al hoarders absorbed $26,715,000 in yellow metal. Sports Several months ago fabulous Byron By-ron (Whizzer) White turned down a $15,000 offer to play professional football with the Pittsburgh Pirates next autumn. Reason: Whizzer's combined scholastic-athletic accomplishments accom-plishments at the University of Colorado Col-orado had won him a Rhodes scholarship. schol-arship. He would accept it immediately. immedi-ately. But last week after careful deliberation delib-eration Whizzer White found a way to have his cake and eat it. Rehearsing Re-hearsing for a radio program at Denver, he took time off to announce an-nounce acceptance of the Pirate contract and postponement of the Rhodes scholarship until next January. Janu-ary. Elated, Manager Art Rooney forecast fore-cast a National league championship champion-ship for his Pirates. From Washington, Wash-ington, where the Redskins had just signed Sammy Baugh to a three-year three-year contract at the biggest salary in professional football's history. Owner George Marshall wired Rooney Roo-ney that it might be wise to hire the Pitt stadium for the Pirate-Redskin game October 2. People Back to her Parisian home last week via the Normandie went petite pe-tite Simone Simon, her one-year contract with a Hollywood producer at an end. While ship's photograph- i. s Jf. , m l " i I r- i i T 1 I ! 1 f ? -I 4 , - I (!' i SIMONE SIMON She may never come back. ers snapped, Simone Simon pointedly pointed-ly announced she may never come back to the United States. One reason was that United States cinema audiences have not been enthusiastic, en-thusiastic, but a more important reason was her clash with the internal in-ternal revenue bureau. To her suite on the Normandie went a tax collector col-lector to be certain Simone Simon had paid $4,000 due on last year's earnings. Kneeling on her bed the homing actress crooned: "I have paid my tax and I wouldn't get you in trouble for the world." Almost unnoticed on the same boat was blonde Ariane Borg, also bound for France with the story that an American producer had spent $70,000 "grooming" her for pictures that were never made. Having learned to speak English, ride, fence, walk and dance, twenty-two-year-old Miss Borg wondered what she would do with her skill. Twelve years ago many a theater marquee blazed the name Al Kvale to jazz-mad America. He was their idol, the scholarly boy saxophonist who won thousands of fans by playing play-ing "Looking at the World Through Rose Colored Glasses." Last week a charity ward at Chicago's Cook county hospital opened its doors to Al Kvale, broke, suffering from convulsions. con-vulsions. To the rescue came his two noted brothers, Mayo clinic's Dr. Walter Kvale and Minnesota's Congressman Paul Kvale. One-time cinema actress Pearl White thrilled an earlier generation by jumping from trains, changing airplanes in midair, bouncing from madly running horses. Her most noted serial: "The Perils of Pauline." Paul-ine." Last week at American hospital hos-pital in Paris, Pearl White, 49, died. At Richmond, Va., tobacco heir J. Louis Reynolds won court custody cus-tody of his year-old son from Melon Fortescue Reynolds, sister of Thalia Fortescne Massle, who once figured in a Hawaiian murder case. |
