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Show WEEKLY ISM'S ANALYSIS I'.Y JOSEPH 11". Liii!.E Battle Over Income Questions Threatens Entire 19 10 Census; In Europe; Peace Talk Revived (1 1)1 1 OK'S NO I E When opinions are expre ssed in these columns, they are lliose of the news analyst ami not necessarily of this newspaper.) , It. -;:(1 hy W';it'.-rn N e 'N K r . A: r L'l.iori . 1 : f ! ) I f i - i L j : J ; ...,,---'r. T'.; 1 frwerf jf f : 4 SHOEMAKER ROSSELLI AND HIS COBBLING SHOP "I'm tmsu e.r crnsus iui'Miont u licn they put polite." THE WARS: Vcaca in the North? Early March found Finland's warriors war-riors valiantly trying to save Viipuri from the invading Reds, who let off excess steam by "deliberately" bombing a hospital in south-central Finland. Biggest news of the Russo-f'innish war, however, was the edort all Europe seemed making mak-ing to bring these belligerents to peace. Background for this peace was the obvious fact that every European Euro-pean nation would gain by it. Scandinavia Scan-dinavia would gain by side-stepping the combined pressure of France, Britain, Germany, Russia and Finland. Fin-land. 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 be-gan bristling with reports that Sweden was mediating, that the Russo-Finnish war might be called off at any moment. Mostlikely terms: Surrender of the Karelian isthmus (including Viipuri), Viipu-ri), part of Lapland, Petsamo and the Hango naval base. As a "deadline" "dead-line" drew near, the Finns practically practi-cally admitted such overtures had been made, yet there "was small chance they would be accepted. More War in the West? For the moment, northern peace talk had no effect elsewhere. In what was a day of wild and woolly warfare for the western front, 20 Britons were captured by the Nazis. (:oN(;ii;.sS: Census Censure From Washington to his Racine, Wis., (.dice Census Director William Austin rushed n telegram: "H'iilulrmo Itos.irlli churiti' immti-diiitrly. immti-diiitrly. ) oil win ilitri'ititrdrd inslruc-Hum inslruc-Hum tlml hrnrt- lal.msi Ifital action stit h rme must hi' suhmittnl to Wash-tinjun Wash-tinjun offici: for tli-imsilion. You will hi: hrhl strutly resitmsihle for tins fit media t' ..." Thus was closed the latest in a series of eruptions which threaten to wreck Uncle Sam's l'JIO decennial census. James Rosselli, a Kenosha, Wis., shoe repair man, had been handed a federal warrant for refusing refus-ing to answer census questions nhout his business. The census taker also charged Shoemaker Rosselli Ros-selli had thrown him out. Answered Rosselli: "I'm answer census questions when they put polite . . . Everyt'ing can be explain. I walk out on him, yes . . . Hut I don't chase him." Gaining steam at Washington was the light of Sen. Charles Tobey (Rep., N. II.) to have personal income in-come questions stricken from the l'.MO nose count. Franklin Roosevelt Roose-velt had denounced -t as "an obviously obvi-ously political move." and the census cen-sus bureau was willing to let citizens citi-zens refuse the question if they wished. But Senator Tobey was adamant. Said he: "The American Ameri-can people cry out, 'Hold! Enough!' . . . Those in authority will do well to face the issue . . . !" After several days of this, the senate sen-ate commerce committee voted 10 to 5 to postpone temporarily its consideration of an anti-personal question resolution. Meanwhile Census Taker Austin wrung his hands, for his house-to-house canvass can-vass is to start April 2. Should congress continue to squabble, he knew not what would become of the decennial census. Also in congress: Wasner Act. Twenty-one changes in the present act were recommended recommend-ed to the house by a special investigating investi-gating committee, but defeat was predicted. Chief proposal: Divorcement Divorce-ment of NLRB judicial and administrative admin-istrative functions. 'Clean Politics' Act. The senate kilkxi a move to repeal the Hatch law's prohibition of political activity activ-ity by federal employees, then began be-gan 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 a bill to restore independence of the farm credit administration, recently recent-ly placed under the department of agriculture. POLAND : Atrocity Neics From three sources this month came news of trouble in Nazi-occupied Poland and 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 polit-ical purposes." (2) In Paris, Poland-in-exilc claimed that 136 Polish schoolboys had been executed at Bydgoczcz; that 6,000 men and women had been executed there up to December 31; that 350 Poles from Gdynia were shot after being forced to dig their graves. (3) Paul Ghali, writing from Paris for the Chicago Daily News, had "authentic sources" for his information in-formation 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 Rumania's neutrality, often threatened threat-ened the past six months by the economic tug-of-war being waged between Russia, Germany, France and Britain. Cognizant of this. Pope Pius prayed in early March that Rumania Ru-mania might be preserved "from the scourge, of war." What happened hap-pened in the next three days made no sense, but it did indicate that Rumania was also praying: Fifst day: Rumania was reported report-ed rushing a little Maginot line along her Bessarabian border fronting front-ing Russia. Second day: It was announced by Russia that Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov will soon visit Bucharest to initial a non-aggression pact. This was a shocker, for Russia has made no secret of her designs on Bessarabia. Third day: King Carol opened his parliament, promising to maintain main-tain a permanent 1,600,000-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: Biggest Barrage For months Franklin Roosevelt has parried third-tei'm 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 'he biggest barrage yet. Only the day before his name had been entered in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary pri-mary and correspondents were hungry hun-gry for a comment. But they got nothing except his remark that all third-term rumors fell into one of the four newspaper categories suggested sug-gested by Thomas Jefferson: (1) news; (2) probabilities; (3) possibilities; possi-bilities; (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's feud with John Nance Garner would burst into flames before Illinois' April 9 primary, pri-mary, first crucial Roosevelt-Garner contest support. Somehow, the wiseacres learned Mr. Roosevelt will plump this month for a New Dealish presidential slate, thus forcing forc-ing an answer from the sphynx-like Mr. Garner. Ha MILLION f TONS V MILLION 1 Other Sources f Vz MILLION TONS ITALY'S COAL SOURCES More from Britain? A new wave of torpedoings, bombings bomb-ings and mine explosions cost the neutral Dutch 12 ships. But Britain's foe-of-the-week was Italy, which protested furiously when the allies clamped an embargo embar-go on Italian coal imports from the Reich. Within 48 hours 16 Italian ships were hauled into British ports 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 (see chart) Italy seemed faced with the choice of declaring war (an improbability) im-probability) or swapping her munitions muni-tions and airplane motors for British Brit-ish coaL Welles Mission Completing the first half of his European fact-finding junket, U. S. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles left Berlin, gathered his strength and his luggage m Lausanne, Lau-sanne, Switzerland, then headed for Paris. 'In Rome he had talked with a mild-mannered Benito Mussolini. In Berlin he had met a tough and determined de-termined Adolf Hitler. Still on the calendar were two more visits. Mr. Welles was to fly from 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 conversa-tions with LI Duce before catching the Conte Di Saroia for home. Before he walks up the gangplank, observers ob-servers thought Summer Welles could not possibly' avoid planting his foot in the potentially dangerous British-Italian coal squabble. |