Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE Boost in Relief Fund Forecast As House Joins Spending Leave Tax Bogy for Next Year When opinions are expressed in these they are of tho news analyst and not necessarily of this I Released by Western Newspaper Coup de Grace have just done the most tragic thing in the history of the You have shown a reversal of the spirit congress adopted from the beginning in trying to live the budget feel this afternoon very much like poet who 7 was of the funeral of all my hopes And them one by Not a word teas not a tear was shed When the mournful task ivas Thus did Virginia's Clifton Woodrum scold and eulogize his fellow congressmen who had Just administered the coup de grace to a great and idealistic The 1940 congressional economy Until the senate added to the farm VIRGINIA'S WOODRUM He felt house skinflints had slashed more than that from early budgetary They had saved almost enough to avoid the new tax levy which Franklin Roosevelt wanted in order to avert a boost in the debt But senate now found its way to the Upped above the budget request were and NYA and it was this particular increase that made Virginia's Wood-rum wax Next Item would be for which the President asked but everyone knew that this figure would be Sole remaining bulwark of economy was the house appropriations which was rumored about to slash from the navy Meanwhile it was a safe guess that congress would shun new taxes this It's an election the debt limit won't be exceeded until next and a new congress will then be in Also in C Flayed by customarily ardent New Dealers like Key Joe and Pat a resolution for three-year extension of the administration's reciprocal trade act neared its showdown in the Chief Whether the senate should retain ratification Franklin Roosevelt promised to veto the bill if the senate perennial and controversial anti-lynching already passed by the went to the senate floor after an okay by the judiciary C Inserted in the Hatch anti-politics bill by a house committee was a clause forbidding expenditures of more than by any national political party in any C. Hearings opened on the chain store tax flaming torch and cause celebre of Texas' Wright First Weaver legal for the congressional committee on internal opined that the measure was Rea- 1 It proposes a graduated based on the number of Myers pointed out that the Constitution requires that taxes be levied geographically WHITE Return Down the bay at New York went some 25 reporters to meet the Incoming di A few minutes in her card they faced a dark-suited and handsome diplomat Behind him was a talk with Adolf two meetings with Benito long and private discussions with Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Had he Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles might have pulled big news from his bulging Instead he am mighty glad to see and I'm glad to be With that he caught a train for Washington where rumors were already mounting Revived was the favorite chestnut that Sumner Welles report held the key to Franklin Roosevelt's third term Said the If Welles felt a European peace was in the the President would Judging by European news Welles read the American it looked like a third Telegram to the wisdom of the Soviet government and to our valiant Red the plans of the warmongers who attempted to fan the flames of war in northeastern Europe again failed Such was the telegram sent to Dictator Josef Stalin the day Russia made peace with It came not from friendly Germany but from hostile France from Soviet Ambassador Jakob Two weeks later Envoy recall at request of the French government created a mild diplomatic flurry that echoed across the English Britain and Russia were at swords points over British seizure of a Soviet freighter in the After several days the excitement had apparently died but not a big question ENVOY Cof his wires Did Envoy a seasoned send this wire as a deliberate attempt to shatter Franco-Soviet In Premier Paul Reynaud's new cabinet made an auspicious start in its aggressive campaign against Summoned home one by one were all of France's chief among them Ambassador to Italy Andre Francois-Pone Premier Reynaud his best to keep Italy away from Berlin and Meanwhile Great Britain was also starting trade negotiations with but more important for the moment was creation of a five-man The War For two days the British blockade worked its way into the and and threatened to cut off Germany's merchant trade with There was still a chance it might but the Nazis began fierce warfare In the North sea with the apparent purpose of diverting British attention from the Meanwhile spring flowers began blossoming on the western Arm Stuff At dawn of Bolivia's soldier marched against the presidential palace at La resolved to assassinate the provisional president and seize the Out to meet went Chief of Staff Ichazo with two machine guns and a handful of loyal Into the enemy ranks went an army recapturing tanks which the plotters had In a few minutes the war was Achievement Skies were overcast but radio reception was Pilot A. F. Olson nosed his Northwest airliner Into the night toward Just west of Helena a bolt of lightning from ripped the fabric from the right aileron and gave Pilot his two fellow crewmen and 21 passengers a good When Pilot Olson landed at Billings he also brought home the That night the nation's 21 commercial airlines completed a full year's flying almost miles with not a single crew or passenger While operators slapped themselves on the actuaries figured this record made it safer to fly than to Back into the headlines after his vacation in Florida went Texas' Martin Dies and his investigating Current Russia and While Chairman Dies announced plans to witnesses as fast as we can locate his operatives swooped down on Pittsburgh Communist headquarters in search of a Red who used the name D. on his party membership Also hard at work was New Jersey's J. Parnell a Dies who told reporters that of school textbooks used in the U. S. contain subversive passage right after another with the surrounding they may mean but when they are put with other selected passages they fit together and the result is Sherman Vengeance At Washington last year an A. F. of L. teamsters' union allegedly to make concrete mixing companies hire union teamsters to drive mixer About this time the anti-trust division of the department Justice began casting a suspicious eye at the sorry plight of America's building construction Taking a long Trust Buster Thurman Arnold slapped a charge of Sherman act violation against Washington's The That this interrupted building therefore the union had restrained Protesting loudly that unions do not fall under the Sherman A. F. of L. cooked up a demurrer and a motion to dismiss the In late March Federal District Judge Peyton Gordon surprised everybody by upholding the maintaining the Sherman act applies to unions where their objectives are not Day it struck at the Sherman act a A unanimous Supreme court ruling held that patent owners may extend their legal monopoly to their product after it reaches the and specifically may not impose price-fixing restrictions j Case on which the ruling was maae was that of the Ethyl J which has licensed refiners to manufacture anti-knock gasoline with Its patented leas and in turn has made the refiners license dealers who sell it to the |