The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 1940 Page: 2 of 8
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ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBlNE
Iflces- World Sympathy!
HaE$H War Measures;
BlJ* Ss, Japan Protest Sea Action
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LINLITHGOW CBAIGIE LOTHIAN
There is trouble in the Lowlands and Rumania, too.
Immigration, in 11
1939 Shoots U|
FHghtlrdm Central Europ
After Grab of Austria
Cited as Factor.
Britain Buying 10,000 Combat
Planes in U. S Hope Psy-
chological Effect on German
People May Hasten Pepcc.
By DREW PEARSON
and ROBERT ALLEN
WASHINGTON,—Ftfw knew' that
Lord Riverdale, co-ordinator of Brit-
ish air defense, was In Washington
several days ago.
What Riverdale reported was that
the French and British now have
patched up their argument "Over^
Strategy, and the British have ac-*
ceptcd the French thesis that in the
-last—analysis—this—war—must—be-
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GREAT BRITAIN:
U. S. Trouble
h,
:: TF U. S. public opinion once favored
■c, ^ the British against Germany, it
bs^ shifted by late January until
moivl Amerlc ___
disdahron both sides. Reason:
British interference with American
" shipping, seizure of msgil and re-
fusal to recognize the ^CMmHe
trality zone thrown around't^ Wesf-
ern hemisphere. To -make i* wors^
all protests by Secretary of Stale
-Cordell Hull had been rejected per-
emptorily, until finally Mr. Hull
Slapped beck with an aide meihoire.
Its gisl: That U. S. vessels were
being held up' by the contraband
bassador Sir Robert L. Craigie a
note demanding amends, calling the
incident an "unfriendly act" and
warning that repetition would ag-
gravate Japan's anti-British septi-
ment. "=■ Next day, when a British
Ambassador Craigie fpjind thousand
of Japs milling around his em-
, bassy, while the press--'bleated
against his country^
Icoptrol three times as long asItalMrr
ships, therefore the U. S. could
charge discrimination. There was
every jign that thfs protest, like oth-
jers, would ISi. rejected. An- Wash-
ington Brjtish Ambassador Lord Lo-
thian saw unhappy limes ahead.
Indian Trouble
MOHANDAS K. GANDHI'S inde-
pendence demands for India
broke into print when Britain be^
^gan demanding war assistance^^fom
the empire. Locd Linlithgow, vice-
roy, thought after th^ war would be
time, enough to taTfc about Indian
independence. This provoked *-a
storm of protest, butGaridhi cau-
tiously urged a non-viojence. cam-
paign. Lord Linlithgow, relieved,
was willing to tfiscuss terms. But
he Was stiH playing with dynamite..
A LREADY irked because Britain
** has been friendly with China's
"rebel" Gen. Chiang Kai-shek,
Japan's ire was heightened when a
British warship stopped a Jap pas-
senger vessel in the Pacific.remo.v-
ing 21 German merchant sailors be-
ing returned to the Reich via Russia,
ext day Tokyo gaVe British Am-
r
Subzero weather in Chicago printed a dangerous handicap to Windy City fire fighters recently. Heavy
snow ttrMl freezing temperatures called for drastic measures. Firemen John Donovan, left, equipped with skis
and carrying a ladder, hastens to a fire Just outside the city's Loop. Right: A parked automobile sealed with
hcHvy coatipg of ice from water sprayed by firehose. After each blaze firemen were forced to chop their
hoses free from ice-covered streets. ' "
Lowland
VXT'HEN Witaston Churchill made
Y speech, demanding that Nettie
erlands and Belgium /join the allies
in fighting Germany, the press and
•governrnerrt of these-; countries
shouted angrily. To pJa-qWe^-them
without lusing Britain^ ®ft% P*ime
Minister Neville Chamberlain^next
sp€ ke, saying Britain was ready 'to
Help -Belgium, but would reserve the
righWAo decide when help was need-
ed. Far from placating the ryju-
trals, this speech only irritated them
mbre. In The Netherlands all par-
ties joined in telling Britain to keep
quiet. In Belgium it was loudly-pro-
claimed that the government can de-
cide for itself when and if it needs
help.
Rumanian Trouble
KING CAROL of Rumania has re-
mained cautiously, neutral de-
Spite 13&titsh wc>oing. But in mid-
January, .when German trgopg were
reported . occupying the southern
part of Russian Poland the British
struck again, confident Carol would
ac.cept.their aid gratefully. Instead
they got The shock of their lives:
Pressed by Germany to fulfill oil
contracts, Rumania clung to neu-
trality and barked at British-French
oil firms operating there. She in-
sisted they provide their share of
petroleum to -help Rumania fulfill
her contracts with Germany, thus
fought out in the air.
' The factor which finally influenced
this policy was the now recognized
failure of the British blockade. Mote
and more German merchant ships
have-been slipping through.^"
As a result of all this, Lord5 River-
dale 0ew to Canada and the United
States to arrange for the-largest air-
plane manufacturing campaign in
United States alone, Britain will buy
10,000 combat planes.
Simultaneously the British are
stepping up the*f own airplane pro-
duction, now t,000 ajripnth, so that
by March or April thej^ will "Up-
turning out 2,000 planes mortt%.
TOrterea^wtlve British are partic-
ularly banking upbn the American
planes is because of their effect
upon German psychology. So far
the German people have discounted
any air offensive from the Allies.
However, British government lead-
ers believe that not even the most
efficient Nazi censors can keep from
the German people the impact of
what the purchase of 10,000 Ameri-
can planes will mean. ... ^
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THERMS GOLD IN THEM GALS
WASHINGTON.—Admission of 82.%
998 immigrants to the United State*
in the fiscal year 1939, the l«rge t3
number since 1931, was reported
Immigration Comnjissfoner JAr
L. Houghteling. - . J
"It is necessary," Mr. Houghte^
ing said, vto call attention to the
phenomenon of a steady increase in
immigration from -eentjral Europe
since the German annexation et
Austria in March, 1938. The in.
crease of quota immigration from
27,762 in 1937 to 62,402 in 193&-Ssf
been largely attributed tp^tlje pres-
sure' imposed" by certain European
governments to drive into exile ele-
ments "of'their population uncon-
genial to the ruling group."
—The number of non-immigrants
Finnish soldiers examine field pieces and othe'i4 spoils of war captured from the Russians in fierce
.fighting near the Karelian peninsula front. A recent Soviet dispatch solemnly announced that Russia wouldj
declare war on Finland unless that country returned all munitions material which she had captured. The
Finns are reported to have taken great stock of ammunition and other war sinews from the Red troops. -
providing oil to run Nazi planes to
bomb English-French territory!
Join Forces tip Fight I<ong Machine ]—Heroine Weds
CONGRESS: :,
Yes, but—-
"Do I think the budget should be
balanced? Yes. Do J think expendi-
fures should be cut doxfai?, Yes. Do
1 think taxes..^should be increased?
iYes. But if you say 'Morgenthnu, what
feind of taxes should there be?' I caW.
hot answer that because I do not know."
This apparently frank recitation
from the secretary of the treasury
:wartto more than he had promised
several months earlier, yet it made,
Jiig headlines. . On budgeUbalarrcing
. and decreased.expenditures he'prob-
ibtyv was more outspoken than the
President, but not on new-,taxes.
JMeyer has any administration
spokesman suggested what kind of
levies congress Should enact this .ses-
sion, and H!>pry Morgenthau's state-
ment before "the house appropri-
ations committee failed to clarify
matters. - *-
Biggest news , was Mr. Morgen-
thau's contention that the federal
debt limit should be hiked five bil-
lion dollars above the .present $45,-
P00,000,000 mark with whidh it is
now flirting dangerously (see graph).
He remarked that there was "no
particular danger involved" in this
act, -but his ^audience apparently
thought otherwise. Trimming des-
perately, congress lopped $11,491,000
from the treasury-postofflce supply
bi|l, bringing to $128,143,300 the re-
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: TREND
How the wind is-blotving ..
AGRICULTURE ~ Mortgage-
payments of 75,000 farmers
tig land bank commissioner
; wiinrfe^eased by a reamor-
plan extending payments
r>ger periods. Cause: Sec-
r of Agribufture IJenry Wal-
new full, control over the
credit adnYinistration.
ICATIONS — Federal
tiona commission is
a tentative re-alloca-
radio broadcast wava
conform with the North
reffofial agreement.
V Canada,-Cuba,
' NATIONAL DEBT
•• -$5000,000,000 next?
ductions' frpm- administration esti-
mates already in the mill. With
enough such reductions congress
hopes to avoid both new taxes and
a boost in tha-<*eftt;.limit. _ >
Also in congress A '
C To a^cl^Finland without taking re-
spoDsibility, the sen^t^ banking and
currency committee rigged up a
"finesse formula" to increase the
Export-Trriport bank's revolving
fi&Jd<-by *100,000,000. Still to be
adopted by congress, the measure
would let Jesse Jones give Finland
an extra $20,000,OQO for non-military
purchases. However, sinpo-tmly a
third of the present $10,00b,000 loan
has been used. Banker Jones doubt-
ed whether Finland would be inter-
ested. Reason: The Finns want
munitions, not food and clothing.
C. In th6 house ways and means com-
mittee,' pros and cons continued
fighting over the reciprocal trade
act, which expires June 1. A breach
lb agricultural Opinion was evi-
denced when Farm Bureau Presi-
dent Edward O'Neal testified for the
tr^de program while National
Grange Master L. J. Taber spoke
against it
4. Th&iiouse okayed 348 to 21 a reso-
lutiop—extending Martin Dies' un-
American investigating fcommittee.
C North Dakota's G. O. P. Sen. Ger-
ald P. Nye was named .to the senate
foreign relations committee to re-
place the late Senator William Borah
of Idaho, whose remains were es-
cofted back home to Boise by 10 sen-
ators f^lofrinff-state rites in Wash-
ington.
C As U. S.-Canadian conferences on
tha proposed St. Lawrence seaway
Weh> adjourned. Congressmen from
interested states (like Ohio, New
BUttnes«tai Michigan and Wis-
ing up interest tor
to buikl tha dMp
.. 4 ■ ■ X&rrJ:
Mrs. Jock Ethel du font Doris Duk^
W hitney Roosevelt Cromwell
Most interesting table at the Jack-
son day dinner was No. «4„ immedi-
ate!^ under President Roosevelt's
nose, and occupied b.v three of the
admitted in 1939 was 185,333, com-
pared wi.th 184,H02 the year before.
•Flood of Visitors' Denied.
"This vefy small increase in the
number of visitors, transients and
resident aliens returning froi^
abroad,"- the commissioner com*
mented, "is clear evidence that sen-
sational stories appearing m news*
papers and magazines that floods; erf'
irs are bctr
this country on any sort of excuse,
are not based on cold facts."
Of the 82,998 immigrants admitteff
43,450 were Hebrews, 6,708 Italians;*
5j524 Germans,- aijd 5,078 British
^fter Germany and
principal sources of immigfation
wf^e—Canada. ..ILaly^ Paland
CTj^fiostovBlcin.' Canada's "total of
10,501' W3.& .tftt small^st for three
years.' v -
Of immigrants admitted 44,474
were listed as having no occupAtion.
Commercial and skilled labor cate
^orierf led among the others, immi-
gration Of labbrefs being only a thinf |
as great as the number which emU
grated from the United States hf r
the same period.. . . . fel
Rush Early in the'Year.
Admission. ;^)f immigrants from
Germany and Austria in 1939 ex
ceeded the quota for the year' bo*
cause* there was a rush in the first
few months of that year of alicn^l
with 1938 visas—valid for- four f
months afteT the date of issue-
while the whole 1939 quota was is
sued in the first. 10 months of the
year.
A total of 6,498 aliens applying {
for entry were debarred, 8,202 were
deported under warrant and 9,599)
adjudged deportable were allowed
-toldepart at-their own expense,
the deportees 1,638 were criminall
aliens. Deportation is becoming
more difficult since foreign countries
are becoming unwilling to accept]
the return of their own citizens.
''There 1s a reason," Mr. Hough-1
ran^sec
Louisiana Democratic primaries,. enibraces James A,, Noe, third pf&ce
candidate. The vote given Jones entities him to a run-off election against
Long til February. Noe announced he will swing h^s support to Jones in an
attempt to beat Long, a brother of the late "Kingfish" HUey Long.
Jessie 'Simpson, beauty contest
winner and photographers' model
who lost her legs^in a train acci-
dent in 1937, has a "hair-do" for
the most important event of Jier
life-i-her marriage to James Stew-
ard; of Hackensack, N. J. Miss Simp-
son! is proprietor of the Hackensack
beauty shop.
wealthiest-women in America.; They
were: . . ... „ ;
Doris Duke Cromwell, wife of the
new minister to Canada and heiress
Of the vast Duke tobacco millions.
She is a contributor to the Roosevelt
campaign fund.
Ethel duPont Roosevelt, daughter-
in-law of the President. Her family
owns the biggest' munitions and
qhemicaHndustry in the world, and
controls the biggest automobile in-
dustry-^-Genergl Motors.
Mrs. Jock Whitney,-whose family
p owns part of Pan-American airways
I and is^one of the oldest-of the 'jFirst
.Sixty Families of America."
_None over 30 years old., together
they h'ave a . finger in a siteable
amount of American wealth. Yet
they are great favorites with Roose-
velt. 4
- And whilp Speaker Bankhead
opined ^on the many liberal, if not
radical reforms of the New Deal,
these three looked very bored, ~ but
very, very beautiful.
Florida Ship Canal.
Dynamic Senator Pepper of Flor-
ida once again will bring mk- Florida
Ship canal before
teling declared, "to believe
many deportations will be prevent |
ed during the coming fiscal year
this reason and because of the ii^l
creasingly unsettled . conditions |
abroad." *
In 1939 it was found impossible I
to deport 345 aliens for whom wtt> |
rants had been issued.
iAbe Lincoln' and Wife Visit White House Harvard Thespian
A railroad accident didn't prevent Mr. and Mrs.. Raymond Massey
from reaching a dinner party given by President and Mrs. Rooievelt.
Their train stalled en rente to.Washington from Chicago, the pair com-
plited the trip by plane. Massey, an ibtor, has won fame through
his portrayal Abe Lincoln. ,f.*' ■ ' , -
Peter Saltonstall, IS, son ef Got.
Leverett Saltonstall df Massachu-
setts, Makes his debut as wit, mim-
ic and actor in the Harvard dra-
matic v club play, "Too Late to
Laugh." v
congfes^, asking
for^&ct^On at this
session.
Its proponents
have a new argu-
ment and a new
money plan. Their
money plan has
two alternatives.
One would be for
the federal gov-
ernment to under-
write bonds of the
Senator Pepper Florida ship canal
authority. The
other which is^Jpjfalerred
would be^toF RFC to buy the bonds
of the authority. " This could be done
under existing powders of the RFC.
Disclosed for the first, time is the
fact that last year, a syndicate df
British banks, including the qiant
Midland bank, offered, to buy bonds
of the c&nal to the" total suffft'of $190,-
000,000 sufficient to cover the entire
cost aPconst'ructiqn. ' •
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Democratic Convention. ■*
" The Democratic national commit-
tee meets on February 5, which is
before the.Republican national com-
mittee meets. ;-That doesn't mean
the Democrats have' abandoned
their determination to hold their
convention after the Republicans.
However, the Democratic strategy
'is nof -only to nominate after the
Qi O. P. but, even moarevimportant,
to force % Republican convention as
late in. >the summer as ~possi$tfe. .
Tha, Democratic -theev^Tis %
shorter the campaign, the bettor.
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