| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH IT ladine labine battle over income questions threatens entire 1940 census in europe peace talk revived EDITORS NOTE when opinions are arc expressed in these columns they and not necessarily of this newspaper are those of the he news analyst released Heleas cd by western newspaper union SHOEMAKER ROSSELLI AND UIS HIS COBBLING SHOP im census questions illicit they put polite CONGRESS census censure from washington to his racine wis office census director william austin rushed a telegram withdraw rosselli charges immediately you have disregarded instructions that before taking legal action such cases must be submitted to washington ashington jr office for disposition you will be held strictly responsible for this procedure i thus was closed the latest in a series of eruptions which threaten to wreck uncle sams 1940 decennial census james rosselli a kenosha wis shoe repair man had been handed a federal warrant for refusing to answer census questions about his business the census taker also charged shoemaker rosselli had thrown him out answered rosselli im answer census questions when they put polite everything Eve can be explain I 1 walk out on him yes but I 1 dont chase him gaming gaining steam at washington was the fight of sen charles tobey rep N H to have personal income questions stricken from the 1940 nose count franklin roosevelt had denounced it as an obviously political move and the census bureau was willing to let citizens refuse the question if they wished but senator tobey was adamant said he the american people cry out hold enough those in authority will do well to face the issue after several days of this the senate commerce committee voted 10 to 5 to postpone temporarily its consideration of an anti personal question resolution meanwhile census taker austin wrung tung his hands for his house to house canvass is to start april 2 should congress continue to squabble he knew not what would become of the decennial census also in congress wagner act twenty one changes in the present act were recommended to the house by a special investigating committee but defeat was predicted chief proposal divorcement of NLRB judicial and administrative istra tive functions clean polities politics act the senate killed a move to repeal the hatch laws prohibition of political activity by federal employees then began arguing a proposal to extend the act to state workers who get part of their pay from federal funds agriculture while the president signed legislation extending the farm mortgage moratorium five democratic senators introduced introduce d a bill to restore independence of the farm credit administration recently placed under the department of agriculture TREND how the wind is bl blowing owing RELIEF patterned after the successful surplus foods stamp plan a cotton stamp plan for distributing clothing among relief families will be cities started this month in five or six agriculture according to chicago crop authorities U S wi winter n wheat prospects in early march showed some improvement the over december I 1 condition thanks to better than norm normal al winter moisture and sn snow ow protection against sub zero weather ARMY the war department announced surplus and supplies were being sold to neutral nations item 90 six inch world war guns stored at aberdeen md proving ground since the world war were sold 1 as is and where is to brazil JEWRY to prevent arab uprisings britain restricted sale of palestine land to jews when riots followed neville chamberlains government won its first wartime censure move in the house of commons by to the house the palestine decree upheld ARM A THE WARS peace in the north early march found Fin lands warriors valiantly trying to save from the invading reds who let off excess steam by deliberately bombing a hospital in south central finland biggest news of the russo finnish war however was the effort all europe seemed making to bring these belligerents to peace background for this peace was the obvious fact that every european nation would gain by it scandinavia would gain by sidestepping side stepping the combined pressure of france britain germany russia and finland russia would gain by turning her attention to a sorry domestic situation knowing this observers were not surprised when london berlin brussels paris and stockholm began bristling with reports that sweden was mediating that the russo finnish war might be called off at any moment most likely terms surrender of the isthmus including vii pu ri part of lapland petsamo and the hango naval base As a deadline drew near the finns practically admitted such overtures had been made yet there was small chance they would be accepted more war in the west vest for the moment northern peace talk had no eff effect act elsewhere in what was a day of wild and woolly warfare for the western front 20 20 britons were captured by the nazis from fingland N 4 MIWON 1 t TONS 0 other sources 12 MILLION TONS COAL SOURCES afore aare from britain A new wave of torpe doings bo bomb mb ings and mine explosions cost cos t the neutral dutch 12 ships but britaina Brit ains foe of the week was italy which protested furiously when the allies clamped an embargo on italian coal imports from fram the reich within 48 hours 16 italian ships were hauled into british pa ports arts and their coal cargoes discharged rome threatened the situation would become serious unless britain backed down but there was no sign of this already getting more than a fourth of her coal from britain dee see chart italy seemed faced with the choice of declaring war an improbability pro bab tty or swapping her munitions s and airplane motors for british coal welles Aff mission ision completing the first half of his european fact finding junket U S undersecretary of state sumner sum ner welles left berlin gathered his strength and his luggage in lausanne switzerland r land then headed for paris in rome he had talked with a mild mannered benito mussolini in berlin he had met a tough and determined ter mined adolf hitler still on the calendar were two more visits mr welles was to fly from froin paris to london where prime minister neville chamberlain would probably restate his war aims principal aim destruction of the nazi rule then mr welles would return to rome for more conversations with 11 II duce before catching the conte come di savoia tor for home before he walks up the gangplank observers thought sumner welles could not possibly pos sibly avoid planting his foot in the potentially dangerous cangero us british italian coal squabble NAMES in ill the news GEN GEORGE C U S army chief was welcomed to hawaii by a flight of 60 army planes embarrassing note two ships collided in midair but pilots parachuted safely FRANK GWATKIN and CHARLES RIST HIST frenchman constituted a special allied apple polish ing expedition to soothe U S anger over difficulties tf arising ayelo from the german blockade ASHTON GWATKIN biggest complaints apple polisher pla ints 1 censorship of U S mails 2 taking U S ships into contraband control ports arriving in washington the delegation was closeted with secretary of state CORDELL HULL MOST REV HEV SAMUEL A was enthroned new nev roman Cal catholic holic archbishop of chicago 1 POLAND atrocity news from three sources this month came news of trouble in nazi mccu pied poland and czechoslovakia czecho slovakia 1 in berlin it was revealed that deportation of jews to the newly established state southeast of lublin in poland has been stopped because local administrators complained about lack of facilities at the same time berlin announced that time of worship in polish catholic churches was being limited because priests misused divine services for political purposes 2 in paris poland in exile claimed that polish schoolboys had been executed at that men and women had been executed there up to december 31 that poles from gdynia were shot after being forced to dig their graves 3 paul ghali writing from paris for the chicago daily aws had authentic sources for his information that polish landowners have been dispossessed and that czech children must submit when little germans in the same school bully and tease them RUMANIA prayers keystone of balkan security is Ru manias neutrality often threatened the past six months by th the e economic tug of war being waged between russia germany france and britain cognizant of this pope pius prayed in early march that rumania might be preserved from the scourge of war what happened in the next three days made no sense but it did indicate that rumania was also praying first day rumania was reported rushing a little maginot line along her border fronting russia second day it was announced by russia that soviet premier molotov will soon visit bucharest to initial a non sion pact this was a shocker for russia has made no secret of her designs on Bes sarabia third day king carol opened his parliament promising to maintain a permanent man army regardless of cost adding it up observers wondered if king carol might not at last be withering under pressure from all sides POLITICS bigin biggest yest Bar barrage raffe for months franklin roosevelt has parried third term questions but each parry is more difficult for each press conference brings more definite questions in early march the president returned from his caribbean vacation to face the biggest barrage yet on only ay the day before his name had been entered in pennsylvanian Pennsyl democratic primary and correspondents were hungry for a comment but they go got t nothing except his remark that all third term rumors fell into one of the four newspaper categories suggested by thomas jefferson 1 1 news 2 probabilities 3 possibilities bili ties 4 lies nobody knew into which of these categories the latest rumor fell but it bore authentic earmarks out of washington came reports that franklin roosevelt feud with john nance garner would burst into flames before illinois april 9 primary first crucial roosevelt garner contest support somehow the wiseacres wise acres learned mr roosevelt rooseve it will plump this month for a new cealish presidential slate thus forcing an answer from the sphinx like mr garner |
