Show THE WARS western JV estern front strangers ara sat sal d prime f m anand wn aes r and ll 11 an 15 reporters were ousted dirom from the gallery A few minutes later the house of commons began its first secret session since the world war subject organization of supplies for the persecution of war there was probably a lot of explaining pla ining to do first lord of the admiralty winston churchill was probably asked why germanys germanas Germ anys bremen was allowed to slip through the blockade and reach 14 A q BREMEN why mr air churchill hamburg homeward rio bound from Mur mansk ai the admiralty t y had announced a british submarine had sighted lighted the bremen but did riot not attack because it is would have broken j in international arna dional law germany scoff edas his report but failed to tell why the e bremen was culled coiled home so suddenly brorn f from the alleged solely safety of a liui bus sian llan fort port sir john simon probably had to explain why britain and france had merged their economic structure into what english Engli sli financiers called an unbreakable combination of financial power but aside from these matters the allies could be fairly well pleased with the was progress pl progress ogress I 1 II i TT Ws ekr day after germany had announced her ber war aim was military destruction of the enemy three british cruisers sent the nazi raider admiral graf craf spee spec limping into the harbor of montevideo uruguay with 36 dead after a 14 hour running fight same day however this gain was offset when the british destroyer duchess duches collided with another warship and went down with men intensified warfare was also seen on the western front where nazi raiders provided a mysterious touch by attacking at night wearing black hoods and cloaks northern front russia could not blame little finland for the loss of her steamer Indi indle girka uka which went down off the coast of faraway far away japan with a loss of probably lives but the kremlin did pout that Fin lands white clad ski units were using bandit tactics in sudden attacks wrote one war correspondent to his moscow paper the enemy does not engage in open battle hidden under white robes they suddenly dart from the woods to shoot at our advancing units then in all haste they run frequently taking off their boots to ski only in their stockings finally after 14 days of ignominious defeat the russians reportedly rushed up men and 1000 airplanes to bisect little finland whose troops were slaughtering hundreds of reds each day disabling tanks and capturing light artillery artill ery pieces britain announced she would send war materials to aid the helsinki government while italy continued sending planes and pilots BUSINESS asphyxiation ever since its passage the 1935 public utility holding company act has been fought tooth an and d nail by americas no I 1 holding company associated gas and electric company last year a senate investigating committee was outsmarted in its sensational search for mysterious H C hopson associated gasp gas guiding spirit meanwhile the f firm irm fought henry Morgen thaus treasury department over a tax dispute but several months ago agreed to pay crux of the holding company act is a death sentence clause providing for integration of all utility systems geographically and economically no this month its long argument apparently lost associated gas asphyxiated asphyxia ted itself resigned because of ill III health was president J I 1 mange replaced by roger J whiteford said the new chief it is my purpose to give my attention at once to simplic simplification cation of the corporate system integration or consolidation of its properties and adjustment of the voting power pt 0 I 1 i 1 t jk az tj WHITE HOUSE trade pact at his press conference president roosevelt nosed his ship of state smack into a brewing storm that will break soon after congress convenes he agreed with secretary cordell hull that the reciprocal trade treaty act should be renewed in 1940 though the act has been attacked by most republicans many democrats and a growing body of farmers mr roosevelt said it has resulted in many american export gains the president also i received a message from finnish president kyosti knost kallio thanking him for his sympathy toward finland the president announced the red cross is sending for finnish aid meanwhile the finns were negotiating to buy gas masks here C joined Cali fornias rep H jerry voorhis in attacking the dies un americanism committee of which vol voorhis is a member for the un demo democratic cratic way in which it r released e a report charging 13 consumer organizations with communist activities tivi ties the report said voorhis was purely and simply the opinion of J R matthews committee research director who released it before other committeemen knew it was being prepared C L named 12 new rear admirals for the navy 41 attended the white house diplomatic reception where assembled the washington envoys of warring finland and russia germany and france japan and china ahm i a THE NEUTRALS might fron from t rome pin n non warring european nations news was made by I 1 C L dussias Rus sias ambassador to ital italy y nicolai Gor elchin who arrived in rome just as soviet troops reached the finnish frontier and left abruptly for home without waiting to present his credentials reason uniformed young fascists have stormed romes russian embassy daily protesting the finnish invasion C L italis editor virginio gayda who hinted how britain might woo and win his nations support said he italy must have certain free exits all of which dardanelles Darda nelles suez and gibralter are now controlled by britain fl L an explosion in manias Ru cellulose plant at Zar nesti killing 80 injuring following quick on the heels of train wrecks and oil plant fires the incident W was as blamed on foreign agents who are pressing rumania from all sides side LABOR NLRB probe introduced before the house committee investigating the national labor a relations board was evidence designed to show NLRB is badly in need of a housecleaning house cleaning chief protestor was the boards dr william leiserson whose charges of bias on the part of fellow board members edwin L smith and warren madden were interspersed with revelations from the boards correspondence spon dence files Con conservative ve probably favoring the american federa tion 0 of f labor against C L I 1 0 dr leiserson has been a minority no non operative cooperative co member evidence on this and other points C dr leiserson tried I 1 to force re LEISERSON moval boval of the non cooperative board secretary nathan witt wilt charging he lacked impartiality unsuccessful he occasionally declined to participate in board decisions whereupon the other members recommended disciplinary action fl one such case involved the presidents son in law seattle publisher john boettiger Boel tiger who complained ol of a board ruling but expressed the hope that Leiser sons failure to p participate ar indicated a change of policy fl 41 elinore herrick regional NLRB director for new york protested that two of witts wilts assistants had conducted an investigation in her office in ei a manner fone one might expect from the russian Russ fan 0 G P U but not from fellow administrators of an agency of the american government ii J |