Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE Battle Over Income Questions Threatens Entire 1940 In Peace Talk Revived NOTE When opinions are expressed In these they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this Released by Western Newspaper Union SHOEMAKER ROSSELLI AND COBBLING SHOP census questions they put I Census Censure From Washington to his office Census Director William Austin rushed a charges You have disregarded lions that before taking legal action such cases must be submitted to Washington office for You be held strictly responsible for this procedure Thus was closed the latest in a series of eruptions which threaten to wreck Uncle Sam's 1940 decennial James a shoe repair had been handed a federal warrant for refusing to answer census questions about his The census taker also charged Shoemaker had thrown him Answered answer census questions when they put polite can be I walk out on yes But I don't chase Gaining steam at Washington was the fight of Charles Tobey N. to have personal income questions stricken from the 1910 nose Franklin Roose- I volt had denounced it as obviously political and the census bureau was willing to let citizens refuse the question if they But Senator Tobey was Said American people cry Those In authority will do well to face the issue After several days of the senate commerce committee voted 10 to 5 to postpone temporarily its consideration of an anti-personal question Meanwhile Census Taker Austin wrung his for his house-to-house canvass is to start April Should congress continue to he knew not what would become of the decennial Also in Wagner Twenty-one changes in the present act were recommended to the house by a special Investigating but defeat was Chief Divorcement of NLRB judicial and administrative Polities' The senate killed a move to repeal the Hatch law's prohibition of political activity by federal then began arguing a proposal to extend the act to state workers who get part of their pay from federal While the President signed legislation extending the farm mortgage Ave Democratic senators introduced a bill to restore independence of the farm credit recently placed under the department of THE Peace in the Early March found Finland's warriors valiantly trying to save from the Invading who let off excess steam by bombing a hospital in south-central Biggest news of the Russo-Finnish was the effort all Europe seemed making to bring these belligerents to Background for this peace was the obvious fact every European nation would gain by Scandinavia would gain by side-stepping the combined pressure of Russia and Russia would gain by turning her attention to a sorry domestic Knowing observers were not surprised when Paris and Stockholm began bristling with reports that Sweden was that the Russo-Finnish war might be called off at any Most likely Surrender of the isthmus part of and the Hango naval As a drew the Finns practically admitted such overtures had been yet there was small chance they would be More War in the For the northern peace talk had no effect In what was a day of wild and woolly warfare for the western 20 Britons were captured by the l I v tons Other Sources Vz MILLION TONS ITALY'S COAL SOURCES More from A new wave of bombings and mine explosions cost the neutral Dutch 12 But Britain's foe-of-the-week was which protested furiously when the allies clamped an embargo on Italian coal imports from the Within 48 hours 16 Italian ships were hauled into British ports and their coal cargoes Rome threatened the situation would become serious unless Britain backed but there was no sign of Already getting more than a fourth of her coal from Britain Italy seemed faced with the choice of declaring war or swapping her munitions and airplane motors for British coaL Welles Mission Completing the first half of his European fact-finding S. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles left gathered his strength and his luggage In then headed for In Rome he had talked with a mild-mannered Benito In Berlin he had met a tough and determined Adolf Still on the calendar were two more Welles was to fly from Paris to where Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain would probably restate his war Principal of the Nazi Then Welles would return to Rome for more conversations with II Duce before catching the Conte for Before he walks up the observers thought Summer Welles could not possibly avoid planting his foot In the potentially dangerous British-Italian coal Atrocity News From three sources this month came news of trouble In Nazi-occupied Poland and Czechoslovakia In Berlin It was revealed that deportation of Jews to the newly established state southeast of in has been stopped because local administrators complained about lack of At the same time Berlin announced that time of worship in Polish Catholic churches was being limited because priests divine services for political In claimed that Polish schoolboys had been at that men and women had been executed there up to that Poles from Gdynia were shot after being forced to dig their Paul writing from Paris for the Chicago Daily had for his information that Polish landowners have been and that Czech children must submit when little Germans in the same school bully and tease Prayers Keystone of Balkan security is Rumania's often threatened the past six months by the economic tug-of-war being waged between France and Cognizant of Pope Pius prayed in early March that Rumania might be preserved the scourge of What happened in the next three days made no but It did indicate that Rumania was also First Rumania was reported rushing a little Maginot line along her border fronting Second It was announced by Russia that Soviet Premier Molotov will soon visit Bucharest to initial a non-aggression This was a for Russia has made no secret of her designs on Third King Carol opened his promising to maintain a permanent army regardless of Adding It observers wondered If King Carol might not at last be withering under pressure from all Biggest Barrage For months Franklin Roosevelt has parried third-term But each parry is more for each press conference brings more definite In early March the President returned from his Caribbean vacation to face the biggest barrage Only the day before his name had been entered in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary and correspondents were hungry for a But they goi nothing except his remark that all rumors fell into one of the four newspaper categories suggested by Thomas Nobody knew Into which of these categories the latest rumor but it bore authentic Out of Washington came reports tha Franklin Roosevelt's feud with John Nance Garner would burst into flames before Illinois' April 9 first crucial Roosevelt-Garner contest the wiseacres learned Roosevelt will plump this month for a New presidential thus forcing an answer from the i |