Show weekly news review rome berlin axis ha may y crumble if germany Is given colonies by josephil W la bille foreign at best germany italy and ja pan are unnatural bedfellows with nothing in common except tota total litan itari aniam and a grudge against the world flushed by her imperialistic victory at munich there is every reason to think germany might abandon italian and japanese alii alli ances if they stood in the way of her march to world power first step in this direction has been taken by fuehrer adolf hitler in presenting african colonial ato P k 1 1 aei U co A F R I 1 A 0 c pe own GERMANY IN AFRICA of onetime german possessions shown in black france holds mandates for To goland 1 and the Camer 2 great britain has minor interest in both british south africa 5 holds mandate for southwest africa 3 and britain a mandate for tanganyika 4 angola 6 is held by portugal demands to great britain and an d france what hitler wants and probably will get is return of togo land Camer southwest africa and tanganyika held under league of nations mandate by britain and france since the versailles treaty if they pay this price for peace britain and france will also agree to german arms equality british french gain through such a transact tion would be german friendship and an understanding that italy had better confine her imperialism to the mediterranean area on pain of corn com bained german franco british appo moreover II 11 duce would be forced to withdraw from spam spain next der fuehrer may turn his eyes to japan which now controls one time german islands forfeited after the world war since hitler s aggressive imperialism makes one conquest merely an appetizer for the next moreover since self pity ing germany looks angrily at any nation which controls large nes ries and resources japan may find her chinese conquest threatened nor do observers overlook the chance of a german italian breach over hungary s czechoslovakian claims now handed to the rome berlin axis for settlement musso mi ini hungary s friend wants czech oslo dissolved moreover wants hungary to get the common border with poland which she desires but hitler temporarily angry with hun and anxious to preserve a path 0 the east through czechoslovakia vill fight partition ff ri V U S railroads arguing before resident roosevelt s fact finding ommittee have claimed a 15 per ent pay cut is the only solution to heir problem labor which threat ns to strike if the pay cut is en arced says better management vill do the trick without waiting or the fact finding commission to aport railroad management has aken the matter into its own hands n three fronts northwest before the interstate orn merce commission have ap eared stockholders of two huge nes chicago north western and chicago milwaukee st paul pa their plan physical consoli bation of the two roads immediate y effecting operating economies of 10 a year and hastening ormal recovery of the two roads southwest an I 1 C C examiner as recommended reorganization of he missouri pacific line with sharp in its fixed interest debt viso uso recommended is consolidation f owned properties being operated is the missouri pacific system ex epting the missouri illinois rail oad south placed before the I 1 C C s a plan for merging the gulf mo lie ile northern railroad with the ohio line chief opponent s burlington railroad which owns 77 7 7 P per cent of G M an N stock chief chie significance of mergers and reorganizations is 1 that railroads ill become economically sound 2 labor will suffer through de ceased employment though wage avels probably will not be cut 3 cores of small communities ally built to follow the railroad railroads s ne of expansion will find them ives isolated without rail service clefense knotted inseparably in recent ws have been japan s conquest of hina and world democracy s at apts to strengthen their military gnomic positions against german alo jap aggression though eng nd rid and the U S have been rub g 9 noses in their trade pact ne october of 1938 will be remembered primarily as the month when america first stood up and barked at modern imperialism within 24 hours two barks came from washington first was dent roosevelt s precedent shatter ing condemnation of nations employ ing force japan exile germany and repression italy as mitru ments of national policy next day on the heels of japan s conquest of bankow the state department made public a 21 day old protest to tokyo against violation of china s open door policy this was but percussion in the new american overture of prepared ness chiming in are plans to strengthen military and naval forces so that the western hemisphere may work out its own interrelated salvation to the north at kodiak alaska the navy is quietly ing two bases accommodating at least long range patrol bombers thus if britain and france deny it the U S admits japan has be come the far east s no 1 power and bids fair to dominate the pacific unless stopped although generalis Gene simo chiang kai shek will continue battling japan in the hope his foe wi will ev eventually commit military and economic suicide there is little like lahood that china s door will be re opened to western nations unless japan wants it for a preview of things to come democracies need only look at Manchu kuo where sev en years of japanese proprietorship has both closed and locked the door WK ime gm kond how the wind is blowing TIME CLOCK film actors earn ing up to 1000 1 a week and all extras now punch time clocks each morning under new union contract with provision for over time work NOBODY A baby born to one of sad eyed jewish refugees living in a ditch in the czecho slovak german no man s land has been named niemand meaning nobody BANG WARFARE japanese troops patrolling streets of newly captured canton disperse tern terri fied fled chinese by merely pointing their guns and shouting bang U S LANDLADY women hold 25 per cent of all U S jobs apart from domestic service are beneficiaries of 80 per cent of all life insurance own 50 per cent of all corporate stock operate 60 per cent of savings accounts HAIR RAISING mrs dorothy kantack of chicago has won a di vorce decree against the bus hus band who protested against her new upswing coiffure r people eople 73 british royalty symbolically cor respond responds to the U S flag since the czech crisis proved great brit am ain s empire is becoming vastly in dependent a little flag waving is en proper first king george and queen elizabeth announced a k I 1 L 41 GREAT BRITAIN S MARINA Is she being exiled for usurpation 9 state visit to canada and probably to the U S latest news is that the popular 35 year old duke of kent becomes governor general of aus aralia next year to fun loving kent and his wife beauteous former princess marina of greece austra lia ila will mean virtual exile from their favorite diversion london night life though english papers discreetly failed to mention it part of the U S press called kent and his wife victims of royal jealousy the claim that slim elegant ma nna rina is usurping queen elizabeth s rightful place as ruler of british fashion at australia s lonely can berra where kent will receive 50 a year not a single night club will help break the tedium of this british siberia miscellany at anaheim calif miles of sur plus third grade oranges were dumped when federal diversion funds ran out leaving the 8 per ton price unsupported 0 at Preston burg ky 34 year old fleming tackett married 10 year old rosie columbus treasury inconveniently close to election day have come piecemeal report reports and offhand predictions concerning the U S fiscal situation when president roosevelt talks finance before congress on january 3 he hi may ask almost anything but right now as the president busies him fell relf with budget planning h he e cai can be guided by facts and forecasts facto facts despite upswing up swinging in 9 busi USI ness the U S treasury deficit for fo the current fiscal year jumped above one billion dollars october 20 leap ing forward several million dollar dollars a day gold reserves mounting since the european scare hit 14 revised the 1939 fisca fiscal deficit prediction stands at 3 second largest in new dea deal history by next june 30 when the 10 SECRETARY coolest of all concerned fiscal year ends the U S public debt will hit 40 compared with 16 in june 1931 forecast though pump prim ing will help business the 1940 et will be una balanced only by con minued spending can the adminis tra tion hold a mass vote for the 1940 election thereby forestalling the normal swing to republicanism but it is far more painful to pay than merely file away the bill and next winter s congressmen will present at least five new methods of making john public pay 1 A 10 per cent one shot in come tax levy to garner needed for increased armament 2 a processing tax to pay for the agriculture department departments s proposed domestic dumping program for crop surpluses 3 removal of tax exemption from future issues of fed eral state and local bonds also on official salaries 4 extension of social security to include farm la borers domestics bank employees seamen self employers etc 5 lowering of income tax exemptions exemptions under 1000 1 coolest of all concerned with fiscal aff affairs airs has been the man in direct charge secretary of the treasury henry jr unworried Unworn ed by mounting gold reserves we have plenty of storage space he predicts improved business condi eions will cut relief rolls and help the budget which observers now think will run to 8 only fear has centered around the british pound sterling whose declining tendencies have ad verse effects on U S commodity prices and export trade white house louse when its investigations first opened the dies congressional corn com cittee on un americanism confined most of its probing to fascism and neither of these isms has much support among U S politicians but with election time approaching and its witnesses be coming influenced by political fever it was natural that the probe should turn to a more popular ism communism first came the charge that secretary of labor frances perkins was impeachable for failing to support aggressive deportation proceedings against communistic harry bridges madam perkins re plied that she was awaiting court decision on a test case that pro ce edings could move no taster faster than the courts themselves next the committee asked why gov frank murphy of michigan had taken a passive interest in the 1936 sit down strikes only to learn that governor murphy had commented that some times events make laws malleable president roosevelt hopping mad by this time jumped in to charge the dies committee is providing a forum for politicians with elec tion year axes to grind though re calling that no such reprimand was forthcoming when the lafollette civil liberties committee held it its hearings impartial observers agreed the dies committee mi might have done a less job in 1937 or 1939 |