| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH JOSEP W lanine labine pan america faces ha hard rd job maintaining neutrality zone agree on more resti restrictions actions EDITORS NOTE when opinions are re espres expressed ed in these columns they and not necessarily of this newspaper are rc those of the news analyst released by western newspaper union PAN AMERICA violations determined to share the fate of Ws his ship capt hans langsdorf of the scuttled german battleship graf gra spee spec blew out his brains in a buenos aires hotel at port everglades fla rested the nazi freighter afrait ca driven to refuge when a british warship fired bred across her bow a few miles from shore A at t euis ellis island N Y I 1 were landed the survivors of germanas germanys Germ G anys luxury liner columbus scuttled off the virg virginia ginia capes rather than face inevitable capture by a british destroyer crewmen atlantic Ail antic ocean GERMAN LUXURY LINER COLUMBUS SCUTTLED HERE acm WAS HER E neutrality violations there will be teeth now were interned for 60 days but must then leave the V U S before he killed dirwell hir him well bell graf craf specs captain told sold how the ship had fooled her raiding victims by camouflaging once by changing her superstructure to resemble the british cruder renown london heard how its cruiser exeter had staged a valiant fight against graf craf spee spec until help ar armed said the report one seaman aho uno had both legs shot off commented that he was not doing too loo badly under somewhat adverse circumstances he died a few hours later the spee columbus and arauca araica incidents brought Eu ropes war to pan american shores for the first time and there was every indication that western hemisphere governments ern ments would tolerate tolerate no more of these carryings on guided by the U S nations which established a fanciful neutrality zone at panama city last october began laying their plans it was revealed that the U S had agreed to join brazil and argentina in helping uruguay force graf gra spee out of montevideo harbor had the pocket vessel refused to move stirred to even greater action by the columbus and arauca araica incidents pan america planned to put teeth in its neutrality declaration the teeth any belligerent warship that violates the principle of the neutrality zone will be accorded no assistance in american ports if a ship guilty of such violation seeks refuge or repairs in an american port it and its crew will be interned for the wars duration nobody expected britain and germany to pay much attention indeed a london paper pointedly remarked that american nations had no right of sovereignty over extraterritorial waters but washington at least hoped the restrictions would prevent fighting in american territorial waters already interned by argentina are the 1039 crewmen of graf craf spee who found themselves scattered hastily to provinces far from the ocean F THE WARS in n the west kot not all of Eu ropes mid december warfare took place in american waters see above the western front was i quiet juiet as usual but britaina Brit ains new security patrol over the north sea ran into a pack of mes ser schmidt trouble purpose of the patrol is to keep mine laying german planes at their bases during the early morning MEV 7 1 e I A ma J I 1 e 14 win A 1 C I from new york ex president herbert hoover sent Fin lands premier risto the his relief organization collected in its first week 41 L arriving in manhattan was james F montgomery U S minister to hungary reports said he would resign un unless less the state department allowed his wife to return to europe with him C L to reno came mrs orson welles wife of the 25 year old radio and stage dramatist awaiting a cLi divorce vorce 41 friends Friend in washington hinted ins john D state supreme court justice a democrat catholic midwesterner and liberal would be named to the U S supreme court to succeed another midwestern catholic the late pierce butler hours the customary time of departure but on one such morning helgeland Hel goland saw the biggest air battle in in history when it was over the nazi high command announced 36 of 52 british planes were shot down meanwhile admitting the loss of two ships london scoffed placing british losses at seven and german at 12 apparently the security patrol bogged down shortly thereafter for the germans no longer laying mines began dropping aerial torpedoes on british british merchant cr craft 11 lost by this and other means w were e r 23 allied vessels in three days other war news C L french navy minister cesar cam pinchi binchi figured the british had sunk 30 to 35 33 nazi U boats and that france had scored 10 times his conclusion the reich has lost between 42 and 47 of the 60 submarines she had when the war started fl L raring to fight cheering singing and shouting where the hell is hitler the vanguard of canadas expeditionary fo force ace in which observers noticed a few americ americans s docked in britain in the north lumbering down Fin lands arctic highway came a huge motorized soviet army while plucky guerilla fighters pecked away at the roadside russian casualties about men and tanks but it was victory of a sort and that was what moscow demanded A copenhagen newspaper reported that josef stalin was raging mad over his ardys failure in Fix finland iland having ordered a purge of military leadership and an investigation at the front day after this russian advance the resourceful finns made themselves warm while a blizzard drove the mercury to 25 below zero paralyzing the ill clad reds in the south only an ineffectual air raid on helsinki abo and hango disturbed finnish calm and that night they celebrated prematurely the sinking of dussias Rus sias warship october revolution it was badly damaged but managed to limp home to a league of nations committee the finns sent word that they could hold out all winter if they got planes and guns league secretary general joseph agenol got to work immediately sending helsinki assurances su that britain and france would provide supplies but not men LABOR probe more unsavory each day became the testimony ony in a house committees investigation of the national labor relations board starting with the allegation of minority Boards man william leiserson that his fellow members warren madden and edwin L smith were partial the testimony went on to allege 1 41 that Boards man smith had taken extralegal extra legal leall action in attema attempting epting to settle a knitting mill strike more 4 R 1 NATHAN WITT A conspiracy over that he had attempted to sponsor a boycott of the mills products by a boston department store cihat philip G phillips regional NLRB director at cincinnati had written his superiors that the city editor of the cincinnati enquirer was a swell guy and a dear friend of mine and had kept out cut of print a series of articles critical to NLRB when the city editor and his boss denied this director phillips said that his language was ill chosen earlier it was brought out that C 1 I 0 had refused to drop a c complaint om against a cincinnati firm because the employer refused to reinstate a worker discharged for communistic muni activities L lahat that nathan witt NLRB secretary whom Boards man leiserson would have fired plotted with C I 1 0 s steel workers organizing company to force inland steel into a written agreement providing for exclusive bargaining commented committeeman harry rep ohio 1 I think this atutes a conspiracy after several days of this committee members were reported ready to ask congress for major amendments in the wagner act so did several other groups including C 1 0 and ad the national al association of 01 manufacturers DEFENSE navy day As Eu ropes war came nearer home tsee see IAN 1 AMERICA two items of domestic news drew more attention than usual 41 1 at washington the navy department awarded a contract for or airplanes to 0 o the consolidated aircraft corporation at san diego 41 at quincy mass the navy test ed cd its newest airplane carrier the wasp which steamed on a trial run along the new england coast with its secret deck equipment shrouded by tarpaulins agriculture 7 woe in unhappy agricultural p plight 1 g h t 0 one n of t the h e sorrows 0 w 0 of f i improved m p rio v e d p production red 0 n mo methods err h 0 ds i is s t that h a t increased acre acreage ige yields only glut the nations already overfilled granaries I 1 thus at years end the U S I 1 department of agriculture sadly announced that despite acreage slashes in 1939 1930 total farm production was in many cases above last years best example was corn which yielded bushels per acre compared with last years bushels and the 10 year average 1928 37 of 23 bushels reason for this boost was the new hybrid variety which secretary of agriculture henry wallace has promoted among the tall corn growers of his native iowa although corn acreage harvested was the smallest since 1898 1893 production was bushels the largest with one exception 1937 since 1032 1932 among wheat corn oats rye and barley the only other increased grain crop was barley total grain production was against 4 in 1938 winter wheat but ut not spring was up ahw az i ril I 1 il v i t HYBRID CORN exhibited by C E troyer of lafontaine nd ind aho used it to atvin the file corn king title at chicago s international lite stock show I 1 bushels over the preliminary estimate on a harvested area acres less than in 1936 soy beans registered bushels corn compared with the estimate of bushels the cotton yield unusually high averaged pounds per acre from the smallest acreage in 40 years tobacco also set a new yield record of pounds per acre total production also reaching a new high of pounds other farm news C L signed in washington was wa s a supplementary tary trade agreement be tween the U S and cuba restoring tariff reductions on sugar and tobacco imports which were terminated by presidential proclamation when europe went to war cuban tar tariff iff reductions were granted on peanut butter salmon and moh mohair pir products that nation also agreeing to maintain improved treatment for U S rice C 1 president roosevelt told reporters he intended to ask congress to raise the owed to the treasury as a result of farm parity payments and other agricultural expenditures tures which were approved by the legislators but not provided for POLITICS farm vote for several months many political forecasters have believed presidential election will be won or lost in the midwestern farm belt As the preseason pres cason campaign drew to a close it will start again after congress adjourns it became apparent that republicans concentrate r ate most of their ammunition on the progress progressive ive m minded ind ed farm belt first democrat to see the light was sen burton K wheeler himself a potential candidate who warned that westerners would vote the republican ticket unless the democrats nominate a liberal explanation their natural tendency has been with I 1 the he republican party and they could see no reason to ch change ange if a conservative serva tive de democrat macrat is nominated mea meanwhile the rumor spread that smart republicans may try to swing to their cause two of the bests foremost ibe liberals rals minne botas sen henrik a farmer laborite and ins sen robert M lafollette whose doughty father once dominated the G 0 P key man in this campaign is minnesotan Min youthful gov harold stassen a republican whose masterful fence stra straddling addling has welded a strong party consisting of progressive gres sive republicans and disgruntled right wing fa farmer labo labovites laborites rites already committed to supporting in the republican primary governor stassen could easily extend his idea into neighboring farm states where discontent with the administrations reciprocal trade program may prove a no I 1 talking point for republicans in 1940 |
