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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Hitler Seeks Way to End Misadventure Of Mussolini Against Battling Greeks; Farm Group Asks New 'Parity' Loans; Lord Lothian, British Envoy, Dies (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed fn these eolomns, they are tbo&e of the news analyst and not necessarily ef this newspaper.) j .iRoinast-H by Western Newspaper TT"'"" ; " . - - - X ' : CANAL ZONE. A picture by the Signal Corps, C. S. A., showing Secretary Sec-retary of Navy Frank Knox (left) as he inspected the army's coastal defenses, de-fenses, "Somewhere in Panama." Shown left to right are: Secretary Knox; Maj. Gen. Jarman, commanding the Panama coast artillery brigade; bri-gade; Lieut. Gen. Van Voorhis, commanding the army's Canal forces; Captain llickey, 15th naval district chief of staff; and Lieut. Col. Carl Kohsenberger. LIFE JOBS: fie Top Resignations of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Associate Asso-ciate Justice James McReynolds from the Supreme court are expected expect-ed shortly after the inauguration. It has been gossip in the capital for weeks that Hughes offered his resignation, resig-nation, but was prevailed upon by the President to withhold it until after the campaign. The appointments, which are for life, are greatly sought after by lawyers law-yers who regard it as the highest honor that can come to their professions. pro-fessions. Many have been mentioned for the two places, but there is some indication the chief justice place may be filled from members now sitting, either Mr. Justic Stone or Mr. Justice Douglas. If such would happen, the President could make three appointments instead of two. For the other places there has been mention of Senator Minton of Indiana, who was defeated in the recent campaign; Leon Henderson of the SEC, and Attorney General Jackson. Appointment of Jackson might raise to cabinet status Francis Fran-cis Biddle, now solicitor general. LOSS: One Ambassador "It's like a plank had dropped out of things," was one official reaction reac-tion in London to the news that Lord Lothian, British ambassador to the United States, had died in Washington, Wash-ington, D. C. Victim of a uremic infection. Lord Lothian was ill but a few days and died at the age of 58 years. Night before his death he had been forced by his illness to cancel an appearance before the American Farm Bureau federation meeting in Baltimore. However, in a speech written by him and delivered by Neville Butler, counselor of the British embassy, Lothian made a strong appeal for more aid by the United States for the British war cause. Announcement of his death followed fol-lowed only by a few hours the news of the speech. Popular in Washington circles, Lothian was respected by his superiors su-periors and his countrymen at home. Official British sources said quite frankly that his influence in Washington would be sorely missed in these, critical days. Lord Lothian came to the United States as ambassador am-bassador in 1939. PEACE TALK: On Many Fronts While cannon roared and ships were torpedoed into the deep, talk of peace broke out in Europe. But there was no peace. The fury on land, sea and in the air did not abate, nor did there seem much chance that the peace moves would be successful. In England a motion was made in commons by Independent Labor-ites Labor-ites from Glasgow that the government govern-ment seek a negotiated peace. The government's reply was made by Maj. Clement Atlee, Labor leader, who said the choice was not war or peace but "war and what kind of peace." The motion was defeated 241 to 4. The following day in a Northampton election a candidate who campaigned on a "stop the war" platform was defeated 1,167 to 16,587. In Germany there were indications indica-tions that Adolf Hitler was seeking a formula to bring an end to the Italian misadventure against Greece. The effort was handled by Franz von Papen in Turkey who sought to have that pation intervene with Greece. This was important since any German move to help Mussolini would require movement of Nazi troops through Bulgaria or Jugoslavia Jugo-slavia and risk involvement with Turkey. But Greece was in no mood for a cessation of hostilities. In Portugal there were rumors of underground movements seeking peace. Many looked upon this as the most logical step of all, since Hitler would rather trust dictator-controlled dictator-controlled Portugal than either the pope or President Roosevelt. Also Portugal has for 400 years been allied al-lied to England. FARM PROGRAM: Loan Advocated The American Farm Bureau federation, fed-eration, meeting in Baltimore, advocated advo-cated a program, which through the use of government loans, would peg prices of major crops considerably above current market quotations. The federation, which has been pro-New Deal, admitted the plan would require congressional revision of the present agricultural legislation. legisla-tion. The present law permits loans up to 75 per cent of parity rates. The proposed legislation would make loans to farmers at rates equivalent to 85 per cent. Edward A. O'Neal, federation president, said parity prices based on current conditions were about $1.12 a bushel for wheat, 15.75 a pound for cotton and 81.5 cents a bushel for corn. Coupled with the high loan feature would be a system of marketing quotas and heavy penalties for farmers who sold in excess of their allotments. TRAVELERS: Sea and Air President Roosevelt studied . the Caribbean defense situation first hand, on the ground. On the U. S. S. Tuscaloosa he visited French-owned Martinique, British-owned Antigua, in the Leeward islands, as well as American territory. The duke and duchess of Windsor reversed that schedule, coming from the Caribbean Bahamas, where the former king is governor, to Miami, Fla. The voyage was entirely informal in-formal and was to give the duchess an opportunity to visit a dentist. Col. William J. Donovan, wartime commander of the "Fighting Sixty-Ninth," Sixty-Ninth," was a passenger on the Europe-bound Clipper plane under the name "Donald Williams." Last July Colonel Donovan visited England mysteriously just before the swap of U. S. destroyers for British air bases in the Western hemisphere was announced. an-nounced. On this trip his destination destina-tion is unknown and his mission un-revealed. EPIDEMIC: But Not Serious Developing in California and sweeping eastward with reduced strength, an epidemic of influenza sent thousands of people to sick beds but at no time became serious in the eyes of medical authorities. Greatest cause of rejoicing among them however, was the fact that the type of influenza was not the deadly one that covered the nation in 1918-1919. The present type contained con-tained none of the forms of pneumonia pneu-monia present in the World war epidemic, i However hundreds of men in army cantonments were placed in hospitals hos-pitals and precautions were set up among the civilian population. Doctors Doc-tors mostly ordered rest and sleep. Right at the moment, there is no sure way of controlling influenza, according ac-cording to the public health service. Medical science is better than in 1918, however, in at least one case the virus which causes the malady has been isolated. War Goes On In Italy, Premier Mussolini was continuing reorganization of his combat forces. Added to the retirement retire-ment list was Marshal Pietro Badoglio, hero of Ethiopia and commander com-mander of all armed forces; Gen. Ettore Bastico, governor of the strategic stra-tegic Dodecanese islands; and Admiral Ad-miral Cavagnari, chief of the naval staff who had served Italy in five wars. The "invasion of Greece" begun a month earlier was turning into a debacle. Italian forces had lost all supply bases and airbases in southern Albania. Many of the bases had been built and equipped since Italy took over Albania and all were aimed at carrying oh the march toward the Aegean. How far into central Albania the Italians would be forced to retreat before finding a new defense line was uncertain. un-certain. In Egypt the British opened another an-other blitz against the Italians. For weeks the army of Marshal Graziani sat at Sidi Barrani, 75 miles within the Egyptian border. Then the British struck. In the first three days they took 4,000 prisoners, killed the commanding officer of the post and captured his assistant. All this was aimed at pressing a concerted drive to crack Italy and put a wedge into the Axis alliance. Within Italy there were reports of anti-Fascist riots aivd murmurs of discontent. Otherwise on the war front: C Britain pressed its case for financial finan-cial aid from the United States and the movement was highlighted by an expression from Jesse Jones, administrator ad-ministrator of the RFC, that he regarded re-garded England as "a good risk." Sir Frederick Philips, British undersecretary under-secretary of the treasurer, conferred in Washington on English holdings in the U. S., which may not be sufficient suf-ficient to last another year. C. The U. S. navy reported its building build-ing program was ahead of schedule and one new ship was being turned out every 12 days. MISCELLANY: C Turkish newspapers reported that approximately 200 Jewish refugees bound from Bulgaria to Palestine were drowned when their ship broke to pieces in rough seas near Istanbul, Istan-bul, Turkey. C. After 55.000 uneventful trips on the Chicago-Cleveland route, a United Unit-ed Airlines Mainliner with 16 people aboard crashed at the Chicago airport air-port during dirty weather. Ten were killed, six injured. C. For 10 years a gray-haired man lived in Johnson City, Tenn., raised a family, attained a splendid reputation repu-tation and became a member of the police force. Then it was revealed he was E. E. Sapp. wanted by Texas police after his escape on a 99-year term in connection with murder of his first wife. Fingerprints in another an-other case trapped him. |
