Show news review of current events the world over dictator stalin foresees another european war spanish g rebels nearing ra madrid simpson affair may alay lead to kin king edwards abdication by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper un on V E S situation according to seasoned observers is settling do down wn to a fight to the finish be tween communism and fascism and the several na eions are lining up accordingly josef stalin soviet dicta tor is said to be convinced that an other great war is at hand and that russia must act 10 promptly to take what he considers her proper part in the conflict the ja ef stalin civil war in spam spain and the developments are providing the fuel for starting the fire russia repeats her eions against germany and italy of giving aid to the spanish rebels the fascist governments deny the charges and make countercharges against moscow the soviet govern ment appears to be on the point of quitting the committee for non inter bention in spain and sending war munitions to the hard pressed radi cal government at madrid dispatches from moscow said stalin had been informed by his military advisers that as few as 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 spam spain these supplies having been bought by subscriptions from russian workers should stalin decide to come out openly in aid of the leftist govern ment of spam spain the nazis and fas casts may be counted on to re double their already existing cam laign against communism and many nations would soon be in evolved in the quarrel with bili ties that terrify thinking persons the world over klementi soviet corn com for defense didn dian 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 manpower man power equipment training and resources A russian language paper print ed in new york said the soviet press bureau in london had an bounced that stalin would come to america after the november elec tion for medical treatment that he would visit president roose velt and later would go to mexico all of this was promptly denied of filially fici ally in moscow and by the soviet embassy in washington CLOSER LOSER operation cooperation between germany and italy in the fight on communism was assured by an arrangement for institutes in ber lin and rome for italo german youth leadership in which the hit ler youth organization and massoll in s balilia a fascist youth body are to unite baldur von 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 leam learn what II 11 duce s fascists have done for their country neither institute will at tempt to imitate the other rach said GS gi FRANCO headon head of the spanish insurgents ordered the immediate taking of madrid and each day the state of the defenders of the capital became more desper ate the rebels closed in relent lessly making effect effecting iNe 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 spam spain she appeared in toulouse france and departed for an unannounced des ti nation J AMES CO COUZENS independent republican senator from mich igan ican died in a detroit hospital after a long illness and immediately following an operation to relieve poison poisoning mg he was sixty four years old mr couzens was one of the wealthiest men in congress his riches being a result of early as with henry ford in the automobile business he was twice elected mayor of detroit and was appointed to the senate in 1922 to fill out the term of sen ator truman H newberry As a senator he frequently disregarded party lines and since the election of president roosevelt he had sup ported many new deal measures before the recent primary he an bounced that though a candidate for mation as a republican he intended to support mr roose velt for re election reelection 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 ably 20 for the help of un fortunate children he ile established the children s fund of michigan with an endowment of 10 p within the ranks of the 1 american federation of labor has not yet been achieved for the executive council of that body ad journea without settling the dispute between the green and lewis fac eions the council will meet again No november ember 14 in tampa and two days later the federation will open its annual convention in that florida cita if there are developments meanwhile the council or federa tion may discuss the quarrel ac cording to president green he said the matter is temporarily closed and added that so far a as s 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 ERE scandal and goss p have no proper place in this de apartment part ment but the affaire simp son as the french would term it has progressed until it assumes world importance As ar range ments are be ing mg made for the quiet and contest un ed divorce of mrs wally simpson american friend of king edward VIII of england it is ru mored in london so biety circles that the ir king edw edward rd 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 of this rumor is the reported fact that plans are being made for renting the farms of the Sand landringham ringham estate in nor folk which is the king kings 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 sue suc cession would be decidedly popular with the people of england the abdicating king might revert to the dukedom of cornwall which pro vides a net income of about 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 can tenbury recently appealed to 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 ba b the sunday referee which prints an article declaring the king may marry by spring that this would result in postponement of the coro nation and that tradesmen have been insuring themselves against such a delay PERSONAL p reports of A bial and vice presidential candi dates made public by the senate campaign expenditures committee show that president roosevelt gave a contribution to the 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 contrib con tribu u eions 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 and spent knox reported perso personally nall y receiving 35 and spending 35 before nomination and the knox for dent committee received and spent norman thomas socialist can didace reported his party had col lecter 5 and spent 6 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 volun submitted a financial report the report showed that the organ had received since january 1 and spent PROF JEROME DA DAVIS VIS of the yale divinity school nationally known liberal is being dropped from rom the yale university faculty his 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 aca demic freedom or liberty of speech is involved in this case said an gell davis is pres president of the amen can federation of teachers chair man of the national religion and a d labor foundation and president of the eastern sociological conference he said he be thought it likely that the teachers federation would take s some ome action in his case ato Q REAT BRITAIN is determined to keep out of the communist fascist conflict if possible sir Os wald mosley and his black shifted fascist followers have been trying to f t stir up trouble in england and in con sequence the cabinet decided to put a ban ar abet on all political uni um forms it was ex 41 uw pecked that when parliament bled the government 4 would announce drastic action to sl sir oswald roswald su suppress the mosley organization or at mosley least to put a stop to its demon st rations and parades in leeds manchester and the east end of 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 adai advice ce from berlin and rome it I 1 is s r reported and widely believed that mosley s tactics of del deliberately I 1 beritely bera tely leading his Black shirts into jewish c commom ties are based on advice given him by paul joseph goebbels hitler s propaganda minister jan N AFTERMATH of the lind bergh 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 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 de fend ants hoped to reap large re wards and sums of money by pub lishing the true story of the faked solution of the celebrated case TT WAS announced at the white I 1 house that president roosevelt had written to heads of 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 I 1 vision and technical capacity the impact of science on hu man life produces social eions as well as advances in pro power he held he men tinned I 1 unemployment bani rupt bupt cies and relief the engineer he said has a responsibility to help design mechanisms to absorb the shocks of the impact of science FOR COR some time there have ap feared in print stories about how japan was establishing air and submarine bases in the former german islands of the south pacific over which she holds a league of nations mandate it has been expected 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 fortify fortifications cat ions 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 islands for military purposes following establishment of a south seas bureau in april 1932 all japanese armed forces and men of war have been withdrawn gradually from the islands the report says adding that th natives of the is lands never h have a v e been subjected t to 0 military training CHARGES CHARGES filed in washington by v 1 the federal trade commission accuse five trade association of at tempting to corner the automobile parts and accessories business the groups which ordered to show cause why they should not be corn com belled to cease their alleged corn com bine are the national standard parts association detroit the mo tor and equipment wholesale as chicago the automotive trade associations of greater kan sas city mo mississippi valley automotive jobbers association and the southwestern jobbers assoria tion their officials also are defendants fend ants in the suit men and one woman alj perished in the waters of lake erie when the canadian ship sand merchant foundered off cleveland during a gale seven men ing the captain were picked up after clinging to life boats for eleven houis northern italy was shaken by earthquake shock that were wee felt as far away as and aus tria twenty persons were killed by tumbling walls and thirty others were injured |