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DOMESTIC: V. S. & the War Major fear of congressmen who opposed the neutrality act last Oc tober was that its practical effect was to favor Britain and Franc-, who control the seas, meanwhile shutting off U. S. munitions sup plies to Germany. Released by the state department at year’s end were substantiating figures: In Novem ber, first month of neutrality’s op eration, France received export li censes covering $95,579,000 in muni tions exports: Britain, $14,970,000; Germany, none. Meanwhile New York port officials felt for the first time the press of war shipments. Bedded down in the foreign trade zone on Staten island were bombers, trucks, trench PLANE FOR BRITAIN Trench diggers, too. diggers, corned beef and miscellane ous war exports valued at $18,500,- 000, ad awaiting empty allied freight ers to.carry them across the sub marine-infested Atlantic. Items: 60 fast Lockheed recon naissance bombers, their bodies painted a dark brown and camou flaged with weird stripings; 1,500 Studebaker trucks and 1,000 White trucks, the vanguard of 6,000 to be sent to the war zone within the next two months (wired to many of them were crates carrying machine gun mountings, and spare parts); 13 trench diggers costing $3,000 each destined for the Western front, to be followed soon by li7S more. At Washington, the annual report of Interior Secretary Harold Ickes focused attention on America’s need for conserving her natural resources which he said were threatened by efforts to break down conservation programs in an attempt to reap quick war profits. What specific at tempts he had in mind Secretary Ickes did not say, but it is well known that army and navy depart ments have ordered strict conserva tion of domestic sources of certain strategic materials. ESPIONAGE: Dies to Murphy Much maligned during the two years his committee has investigat ed un-Americanism, Congressman Martin Dies of Texas has never theless managed to stir up trouble for Communist Earl Browder, Nazi Fritz Kuhn, Alien Harry Bridges, and many a lesser figure. For months the administration would not co-operate, but finally the justice department swooped down on Earl Browder, indicting him on false passport charges. This month Attorney General Frank Murphy begins co-operating so completely that Martin Dies is shoved to the background. Opened in Washington was a special grand jury probe to study “direct evi ¥7l T> T? A Q • Rumors Behind rUREUAOi. Wor i4 Headlines n w/4 T i . I DiirnnoA r\ f New Job: Once U. S. ambassador to Italy, and an official of the state depart ment since Woodrow Wilson’s ad- ministration, Brecken ridge Long is consid ered the best bet to suc ceed Joseph E. Davies as ambassador to Belgium. Davies has already tak en over most of Long’s present du ties as head of the special department for repa ration of Americans living abroad. Goering Trouble: C. The London Daily Herald reports •on good authority that Adolf Hit ler’s No. 1 aid, Field Marshal He - mann Goering, has fallen in dis favor and is living at his shooting chalet at Schorfheide, planning a comeback campaign “on his own terms." Neutrality Observers expect wholesale at tempts to transfer U. S.-owned pas senger and freight ships to registry of European neutrals, following the, maritime commission’s approval of a deal whereby eight U. S. Lines ships are sold to a Norwegian com pany for operation between NeW • It* r WEEKLY NEft'S ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaTUNE U. Reacts to European War As Shipments Crowd W harvest Ickes Warns Against ‘Raiding’ ‘ re - , . ... necessarily ot this newspaper.) - - Released by Western Newspaper Union HU ' JrnM LONG To Brussels? denee ’ of planned sabotage by rep resentatives of foreign governments in U. S. auto, airplane and muni j Dons factories. At the same time i rank Murphy began probing anti- Semitic activities, using the income tax. passport and foreign agent laws as his weapons. THE WARS: In the West Where Christmas left off, a violent blizzard began to stop all operations on the western front. Sidelights: <L Britain, expecting “real war” in the spring, ordered 2,000,000 more men prepared for army service. <1 In Paris Z.e Petit Parisicn pub lished a report from Italy that Adolf Hitler was ready to quit as chan cellor and purge his more radical Nazis to “convince the allies to make peace.” C Only sea activity was the decision of Germany’s freighter Tacoma to accept interment at Montevideo harbor rather than face capture by British ships waiting outside the har bor. In the North Attack-and-repulse tactics contin ued featuring the war between Fin land and Russia, the Soviet suffer ing bitter losses on all fronts from Petsamo to the Karelian isthmus. Main reason, as usual, was cold weather, an ally of the skillful Firms. Most gruesome story: Near Suomussalrni it was learned the outnumbered Finns had sur rounded Russia’s entire 163rd divi sion, waited three weeks in bitter cold while the Soviet supply lines broke down, then attacked to find the Russians so weak and frozen they could hardly move. Trapped were most of the 18,000 men, thou sands of them already dead. Far from an optimist, Finland’s President Kyosti Kallio knew such luck couldn’t hold out. As new waves of Rc . troops were rushed to the front he appealed for foreign volunteers. Already on the way were 50,000 Scandinavians, with more to come. WHITE HOUSE : Appointments As congress opened, President Roosevelt asked confirmation of his two most recent appointees: C. Charles Edison, assistant secre tary of the navy since January, 1937, and acting head of the department since last summer, chosen for full secretaryship. «. Daniel W. Bell, former acting budget director, named undersecre tary of the treasury to succeed John Hanes, resigned. TREND: Suppression Freedom of speech and press suf fered three times in two days: C. At Cambridge, Mass., the city council voted to ban the words Lenin and Leningrad from all printed mat ter in the city, but the mayor re fused to sign the measure. C. At Chicago. President James C. Petrillo of the local federation of musicians demanded that two stage productions (George White’s Scan dals find The Man Who Came to Dinner) delete references to John L. Lewis, head of A. F. of L.’s arch foe, the C. I. O. C. At Mexico City, the chamber of deputies voted to exclude all reli gion and religious instruction from schools. York and Liverpool. Purpose of transfer: To escape ban imposed by U. S. neutrality law. Quints: «, Resignation of Dr. Alan Roy Da foe as a guardian of the famous Di onne quintuplets may pave the way for their return to the home of the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliva Di onne. Strategy: C. Both Republicans and Democrats (the latter in self-defense) will prob ably concentrate their major 1940 presidential campaign in the mid western states, normally a G. O. P. stronghold. For this reason lead ers of both parties are urging Chi cago as convention city. Tragedy: C. University of Nebraska’s Dr. J. E. Weaver predicts that the most ruinous drouth in history will strike the middle-western “dust bowl” next year. Already dry, the dust bowl re ceived only temporary relief from light snows. Protest: H Agricultural business interests are planning a campaign to demand that the Farm Credit administration be removed from the hands of Sec retary of Agriculture Henry Wal lace, on charges that his recently ex propriated control over FCA will re sult in loosened credit restrictions, thus endangering the investments of FCA stockholders. NEWSOU|| Know your neics Perfect score is 100; deduct 2(1 )>otnts for each ques tion you miss. Score of 00 is excel lent; 60, average; 40, poor; 20, don't tell anyone! VltliSi.. 1. Arrow points to section of Turkey very much in the news re cently. Why? 2. The former Ethel duPont and her husband were injured in a Virginia auto crash. What’s her married name? 3. Ex-President Herbert Hoover heads a relief agency which lias sent more than $300,000 to aid the citizens of what country? 4. Choice: Pope Pius XII set a modern precedent by visiting: (a) the Western front; (b) his birthplace; (c) the Italian king. 5. Name the former U. S. am bassador to Belgium who has just been named “special assistant” in the state department at Wash ington. (Answers at bottom of column.) CONGRESS: News Quiz Two months ago only a few Amer icans realized that Cordell Hull’s re ciprocal trade act comes up for congressional renewal this year. To day that issue ranks No. 1 on the agenda, threatening to inject itself into 1940’s presidential campaign. The question: Should America sub scribe to Hull low-tariff policies or G. O. P. high tariffs? At least three opponents of tire Hull idea (two of them Democrats) spoke their minds as congress un locked its oratorical floodgates. New York’s G. O. P. Rep. Daniel Reed charged Joseph Davies had been brought back from his Brussels am bassadorial post to serve as “super lobbyist” for Cordell Hull. South Dakota’s Sen. W. J. Bulow keynoted opinion in his chamber by indicating it wasn’t so much the act itself he opposed; what counted was that the Sijnjjl fflmm 'HU?. i n NEBRASKA’S BURKE A realistic view. senate should ratify each treaty. Most realistic attitude was that of Nebraska’s Sen. Edward R. Burke: He favored the “long-range view” that taking down tariff walls would eventually benefit all countries, but declared agriculture in some states is so depressed it would “require at least a few years to get it back on its feet.” What most senators W3nt is a chance for some old-fashioned log rolling, hence observers thought the trade act would be renewed only, if congressional ratification is includ ed. Other issues: Pensions. Unexpectedly injected was a campaign (sponsored by “poorer” states) to make the U. S. take a bigger share of pension costs. Under law the U. S. matches states dollar for dollar up to S2O per month. Agriculture. Henry Wallace pol ished off his “certificate plan’’ to syphon $300,000,000 annually from consumers to finance the farm pro gram. Farmers would get income certificates valued at the differential between market price and “parity price,” these to be purchased by processors. Taxes. Henry . Morgenthau not only opposed the certificate plan as a consumer tax in disguise, but pointed out the consumer already pays 61 per cent of the taxes. A bigger issue: Whether to raise taxes or hike the national debt limit, which reaches its ceiling next year. Defense. While the President planned an enlarged defense pro gram, two Republicans (Ohio’s Sen. Robert A. Taft and Idaho’s William Borah) warned against it. PEOPLE: No Communist At Washington, Harvard law school’s Dean James M. Landis re ported he had found Harry Bridges, west coast C. I. O. leader, is not a Communist, thus closing the deporta tion hearing at which Dean Landis officiated. News Quiz Answers 1. An earthquake, followed by a blizzard, killed at least 20,000 there. 2. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. 3. Finland. 4. (C) is correct. It was the first visit of a pope to a temporal prince In more than 70 years. 5. Joseph E. Davies. DON’T BELIEVE IT! —i Radio Sound Men Fool Public With Strange Noise Gadgets Ti ADIO'S demand for sound effects that make a storm or police I raid sound real to millions of listeners has created a new profes sion of sound effects men who, on a moment's notice, can fill any re quest —no matter how crazy—from a producer. Harry Saz, with the National Broadcasting company at Hollywood, illustrates in these pictures how the great deception is accomplished: y j* A -• vV '\- -y / . .. ... fSjl SKg I J* J 11 1 ! I f m Je IB m aaßp %l| .c. ifci If 4L....AV . . .. ■ . -A I U II M b : m I gES ■ .'Em 1 >'v* : EjEm Rain pattering on a tin roof for the radio audience. Harry Saz is shown creat .. jB effect by dropping grape seeds from a sprin kling can onto paper. PU W : B m m Below: Here comes the show boat! Saz blows a riv- 111 erboat horn churns a box of tea ter with a crank that turns small paddles. Above: A thunderstorm over t-omytSK* m 9 the prairies. <ax uses a huge I drum made of a single piece I 1 H °/ steer hide. ZSS&SBI' aft jB . ■. SHBBINWtIB ESSS3 Ilk V ; -', m B t.. > 111 *•’• • •> •i --. •>: \ " -• ’ w jBMHBtiaBj, 3B ■ «<•:■ ■WBEiflßittfc.. •:.<i»jUkMdißHlH''. i*.:- ' JHI Christmas chimes didn't sound like the real thing over the radio, so Saz tried hitting a discarded brake drum with a small hammer. It worked, and that's what you hear over the radio each Yuletide. Fifteen thousand records of different sounds in this libraryl »*«&••?) -, Current Wit# CONSOLATION The vicar asked one of his parish ioners to help him in his visiting work. “Oh, yes,” said she, “I should b* delighted.” “Weil," said the vicar, “call and see poor old Macdonald; he’s just lost his wife. Try to cheer him up a bit." So the good woman called and found the old man sitting in his armchair with half a bottle of whisky on the table and a glass beside it. “Is that the only consolation you’ve got?” she asked, pointing to the whisky. “No, ma’am—l’ve got three more bottles on the shelf.” Subtle Method A man named Smith had drowned in the river, and a policeman was sent to his home to break the news to his wife. “Don’t scare her to death,” his superior officer warned. The officer wended his way to the door. When Mrs. Smith answered the summons, the visitor asked: “Is this where Widow Smith lives?” “I am Mrs. Smith,” said the Jady, “but I am not a widow.” “What will you bet?” the caller inquired. KNEW BLT ONE OF THEM PIC Bobbie —I’ve got to tell teacher to day who were the great women rul ers of the world. Do you know any, daddy? Dad—l’ve lived in the reign of but one, my son—she’s coming now to get you ready for school. Gone for Good Recently an old southern Negro who claimed to be “having symp toms,” went to see a doctor. The doctor plied him with questions. Among other rather personal ques tions, he asked: “And how are your kidneys, Uncle George?” To which George replied: “Well, Doc, dey is all grown up now and some ob ’em is married.” Short on Luck Andy—How’s Lady Luck been treatin’ yo’-all lately? Sambo—Not a’tall well, Andy. Ize done wore out three foots from graveyard rabbits, an’ Ize’ almost come to der conclusion dat Ize'll hab ter go ter work. Pawnshop Boogy Boogy—As soon as cold weather comes I have to stop playing bil liards. Woogy—Why? Boogy—Every time three balls get together they remind me of my overcoat. Wrong Village Tourist—What a quaint little vil lage! Truly one-half the world is ignorant of how the other half lives. Native—Not in this village Mister; not in this village. Even in Death Bjones—My dear, I have left In structions in my will that I am to be cremated. Mrs. Bjones—Just like you to go and leave ashes all over the place. ASKED A GOOD DEAL Mrs. Gabb—and she has a per fectly lovely apartment, my dear. They must ask a good deal for it. I’m sure. Mrs. Stabb—They do—they’re ask ing for the rent all the time. Needed a Harness Boss—Why do you want to leave the works, Pat? Are your wages to small? Pat—The wages are all right, sir, but I’m afraid I’m doin’ a horse out of a job. Velocity Defined Science Teacher— What is veloc ity? Janey It s what a person puts a hot plate down with. HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS Suede shoes can be given new life by polishing with plenty of or dinary shoe polish and hard rub bing. They will be better for wear ing in bad weather. * * * Almost all fruit stains may be removed by soaking them in boil ing water. In case ary member of the family upsets a cup of chocolate or tea, use cold water to remove the spot. In the case of coifee, pour boiling water from a height; brushing the stain with borax beforehand helps. * * * Removing Mud Spots. —Always allow mud spots to dry and then they can be quickly brushed or rubbed off without leaving any stain. * * • An excellent light crust for meat pies can be made with half flour and half freshly cooked and mashed potatoes. Less fat is re quired than when all flour is used. * * * Seven drops of lemon juice add ed to a pint of cream before whip ping it will cause it to beat up in less than half the time it would without the juice. * * • Economy Note. —Small pieces of toilet soap that accumulate in the bathroom should not be thrown away. Add water enough to cov er them and put on stove until dissolved. 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