k ^ . -^u^ti#^ ( I) I ‘f-3cf 16 * i?*IBLiJLD... ^Tonight13 Devs 00 the war In Finland sounds rather *’ ^ In credible a string of Tiotorles by the Finns over the Bed any* Yes, It sounds incredible — too good to be true*) It *8 too smch like wishful thinking to put a great deal of faith in bulletins like the following: !Two companies of Bed any troops wiped out in fleroe fighting in the Garellan Peninsula —* that's just north of Leningrad Ten Stalin tanks captured by the defenders. Bighteen Soviet planes shot down at various places^And, most startling of all, a rumor thi a big soviet cruiser has been sunk by Finnish cannon---- the eighty five hundred ton ^cruiser Kirov* That name has a reminiscent sound — Kirov, the big time soviet commissar who was shot by an anti*Stalin Bolshevik* That assassination touched off the savage blood purge which made the name of Stalin a synonym of killing* The cruiser Kirov is said to have been sunk in a red fleet attack against Finnish forts. \ All these reports of victory come from Helsin^, the eapitol of the Finns* However^ much we may discount them, the fact remains XP* "'X that the .soviet invasion doesn't seem to have got^very far today* / -r 17 add fInland Miat Impression is derlTed from the bulletins issued by both sides. Helsinki was air raided three times today* a triple bombing* Bmt there wasn't anything like as mach havoc as yesterday* The Bed army bombs dropped mostly in the quarters of the workers and blasted their houses --- not in the business center of big buildings as yesterday* The spviets hare occupied some border territory in the sector nearest tb Leningrad, but they don’t seem to hare been able to driwe ahead with any speed today* There were heavy attacks* but the resistance of the Finns seems to be holding* The soviet fleet in the Gulf of Finland was bombarding all day long, and there were reports of an attempt to land troops on the Finnish coast* red army units for a march on the oapital* There’s nq^later word to tell us whether the troop landing got anywhere* Only in the extreme north have we any word of swift jpvlet success* On the shore of the .ayot1o ocean» two hundred miles above the arctic circle, a bleak and sparsely populated land-- red regiments drove quickly and captured the finnish ^arctic port of letsamo 18 add finland* A» aarlier report told of Bed army units being landed in finland by the partohate route -- the much publicized soviet system of dropping soldiers behind an enemy line* (fhere^ no confirmation of this, merely stories of Bed invasion which wrought havoo* Befugees arriving at the nearby frontier of Borway, weeping and telling pitiful tales of fury and destruction* The refugees are nearly all women and children -- their men having remained behind to fight the rede* One of the most important bits of Finland war news Is on the political side* The soviets have set up a red government of ^finland* Moscow reports that at $ a border village a new regime has been formed to take the place of the government that defied the soviets — a regime consisting of finnish jreds• In almost any nation you can find some communists who will work for Stalin* The new mpscow-sponsored government is headed by a Finn who for years has been prominent in Bussian-Communist affairs, a member of the official jSt&lln group* And tonight we hear that the soviets are about to recognise 19 add. finland the Aaaooratlo flnAish republic, as the new outfit is called* Moscow summons the fioaish people to Bed Revolution, calls on them to support the new so-called government* A program is laid out— Finland to become a Soviet state affiliated ?;ith Russia, something like the way that Sovietised Mongolia is* So now we can see the obvious intention* Ihe red army invading Finland in the guise of giving support to the new Red regime* The rumor we had last night about the resignation of the Finnish cabinet turns out to have been true* The cabinet did resign and another has taken its place* It is solidly national in character, formed for defense if necessary, and for negotiation if possible* The word is that the new ministry is trying to get in touch with Moscow in an attempt to negotiate an armistice* But the Moscow indications are that the soviets will support their new Red govern­ ment in Finland and push their attempt to grab the country and Bolshevize it* - 0 - 12 • • • FOLZOW PDILAKD. •«• .American In&ign&tiofi orer the ruthless sssault on finland oontlnaed to seethe today* President Roosevelt expressed. It in one of the Most strongly worded denunciations he has ever Made* He said the brutal Soviet attack came as "a profound shook”*\ The President gave a written statement to the newspapermen at the press conference today* The statement declares: "The news of the naval and military bombings within the Finnish territory has caused a profound shook to the government and the people of the United States*” The President speaks of a "policy of force” and "wanton disregard for law*" "The people and government of Finlandr" declares the Presi­ dential statement, "have a long, honorable and wholly peaceful record idiloh has won for them the respect and warm regard of the people and government of the United States*” The President added that he was conferring with Congressional leaders, and there is no doubt about the advice that a number of them will give him -— break off diplomatio relations with Communist Hosoow* "We should never have recognized Soviet Russia" declared Representative 13..add follow finland loafe Mason of Illinois• And be added: "I would be most happy to see relations broken off*1* And Congressman Martin Dies of Texas announoed that at the next session of Congress he will present a resolution for a diplomat­ ic break with the Stalin regime* There's nationwide sympathy for 7inlandt but not os the part of some American Beds. The American Communists can be trusted to do their part for Bed Blotator Stalin* (Today the BAIIX WORKER, official organ of the communist party in the united States, came out with a blast against president Roosevelt for his effort to persuade the Soviets to respect the Independence of Finland. ) "The plight of the Finnish people tn proclaims the DAILY WORKER, "can be laid at the doorstep of President Roosevelt, whose recent direct intervention gave the Finnish ruling classes the *go ahead' signal for their collaboration with the British war Intrigues ti 14— *dd follow fho newspaper of the imerloao Comrades goes on to deolare that Soviet Bossla Is merely defending Itself against Finland, that yesterday’s s invalon consisted of nothing more than necessary steps for defense* CHS DAILY WORK EE merely repeats the words of Stalin-- that the giant benevolent Soviets were threatened by ferocious little Finland* The American Reds echo their master’s voice* The DAILY WORKER today tells President Roosevelt that if he wants to do any Intervening, he should try It with the Allies and get them to maAe peace with Vast Germany* It sounds as if the Comrades were echoing Hitler's voice also. One thing significant of the hlg^ esteem in which the Communists are held right now is the news that the Russian Pavilion at the lew Yorh World's Fair is to be immediately dismantled and torn down* World’s Fair crowds during the past summer never failed to remarfc the towering structure, with the Red star of Communism biasing high* The Red star in fact was the highest thing at the world’s fair. higher than any American flag* And that aroused a good deal of indignation* It seems rather||impudent of the Reds to take advantage of the wprhd’s fair situation to top the whole place with their 15 *dd follow finland oommuxilstic symbol* But that’s to go now* It had bom sxpeoted that the SOTlets would oontinue to be represented at next year's edition of the Fairs and that the Bed Star would go on beaming brightly above every thing else* But today thu word oame -- take down the Soviet Pavilion right away* Stalin's emissaries in lewYork explained that this decision has nothing to do with American indignation over the Soviet blow against Finland KROPOTKIN A Russian Princess who lives in this country. Princess Kropotkin, who writes for Liberty Magazine, send s me a letter written to her by an American girl who had been to Finland. One paragraph of it reads:- "People who have never seen the country, or known the peasant people in their villages and heard their songs over the many lakes, or seen the pine-clad ridges, and the heather on the moors, and the Gulf of Finland when the ice breaks, perhaps cannot understand why murder of Finland would be more terrible than the destroying of any other country ... w To which Princess Kropotkin herself adds; "It hurst awful bad to be a Russian and to think what Russia may do in a few days to a decent, seif-respecting and, alas, helpless nation €• • • (kllBS). Those magnetio ainei have beeoae acre mysterious than erer*; How we hear —* that they are not only magnetio but also aoooustlo* Vashlngton naval eirolea have word that the British have got hold of several of those German weapons of mystery and terror, and find that they’re touched off not only by the magnetic attraction of an iron hull f# but also by the sound of a ship's prepellors.^ The huge masses of high explosive lie on the bottom, and explode on the bottom. They are so powerful that the force of the explosion going upward through the water is enough to wrecfc the ship. They have delicate magnetic and aocoustio devices, so that they are touched off either by magnet­ ism or by sound. The report continues that the first fields of megnetic mines were laid by submarines. Presumably the huge bombs were equipped with some hind of timing device mlufcmii so that they 'wouldn't explode until the submarine had a chanoe to deposit them and get away« U Boats cannot return to the area where mines have been laid, or they'd be blown up. They can't mahe replacements. That Is done by war planes-* A the parachute mine. Aerial mine-laying, however, can only be done on a smaller scale—- add Miae8. - 2 .. planes not such good mine lasers as sabmarines* So, it would se that the mystery terror of the sea must be a diminishing thing - after its first great burst of hayoo* - 0 - «*. •Onoe again toftay tha prooeadlogs of ilia Dies Conmittea vara dramatlsad by the presenee of the first lady of the land. Yesterday Mrs* Franklin D. Hooserolt fade two appearances* because of her interest in tfee imerioan youth congress, vhioh organisation has been described as dominated by Communists* Yesterday she took half a do sen of the youth leaders to lunch at the Vhlte House, and today she did the same thing all over again---- entertained six of them at a White House luncheon* Todayfs witness was Joseph Lash, executive secretary of the imerioan Students Union* Testimony before the Dies Committee has alleged that the students union is run by the Beds* Lash himself has been denounced before the committee as a former Socialist who turned Communist* Today the .first lady of the land sat beside this witness and talked things over with him* Then she listened attentively as he| \ test ifled* Lash was questioned by Jimmy M* Matthews, chief investigator for the Dies Committee* Matthews himself used to be a oommurixSt n jp sympathizer---- “a fellow traveler* Lash testified that he had been a member of the ^socialist party * DIS3 — 2 . thirty lad Matthews ashed hi* to explain why he resigned* "I believed,” Lash replied, ”the socialist party was subordinating the interests of the people as a whole to the interests of factional strife*" "Vas that issme crystalised by your experience in Spain T" Matthews demanded* 'u: "It was one of the things," Lash replied* ftp a socialist he had gone to £pain in the interest of the Left Wing cause* And what he saw there persuaded hi* to resign fro* the jpciallst party* He added that he had written a letter of explanation and had sent it to the newspapers* "Unfortunately,” he testified today, "it was aade use of only in the oooununist press* I regret that,” he added. The testimony went on with a reference to the international situation, the Hltler-Stalin deal, the Iazl~Soviet line-up, and the Red army attach on Finland, the state of affairs so unhappy for aany an Aaeriean red* "The easiest thing to do,” said Lash, ” is to sacrifice the communists to the Lions right now, particularly since C add Dios*—3 I 1 I disagres with thea so riolsotly* But thoy haT« cooperated Tory I ardently with the iaerloan student anionvw he added. **Vow their E F I polloy is changing, and no one kaofc has denonnoed that change more thand,’' I i S One statement made hy investigator Matthews was---- that jptrl Browder, chief of the American communists, claimed credit for the organization of the Students Union* Answering this, up spoke a young 1 lady from Yasaar, secretary of the Students union* "If Mr. Browder claims credit he may do so," said she* "If Mr* Matthews wishes to claim credit, he may do so* nut there are many people connected with this organization who have never heard of either of these gentlemen*" "Ho, they never even heard of Browder, so how could they he reds ?* 10 . MAVBRIGK.... San intonio, Taxns, is haying a trial thatfa of national intarast* Tha defendant ia Maury Mar©rick, mayor of San intonio, and formar mem bar of Congrasa. Maury Mayarioh made haadlinea aa a foramoat liberal in congress and as mayor ha became the center of a storm when he issued a permit for a Communist rally in Sen intonio* low he’s on trial for election irregularities, charges that he 1 § paid poll taxes for yoters —- paid the fee for them so that they could vote for him* today a witness at San intonio was Kiss Hebeooa Taylor, an official of the International Ladies Garment Workers union* She testified that Maverick offered to pay the poll taxes for members of the Union* ^ He told her, she said, that he'd raise the funds and that David Dublnsky, president of the union, had promised a contrib­ ution to the Maverick campaign* She added that Dub insky himself later confirmed this and urged the Union local to work hard for Maverick's election*^ "bb these charges are brought against the Mayor in an effort "1 * •£(]£• • • Paid Dpr—SUB- SC HowYork Hy l>*a l Xow»3.1 thoaaa Blaetatone Hotel ehtoago. DSWSY... • ^Thoaaa 2. Bevey oame out for the Bepablloan dob in at ion todaytjhs we heard last night^he would, id iapreaatwe delegation ef 1 t^s>law ~^»^vvWj(L£yl n leadera fashed Bln to entar ^th a paw «wanrit^iw Bep uhl loan did—' ---------------------------------------------v with a brief deolaratlon of what he stood for* "Competent government and stable business,” Is the Dewey slogan* About getting Into the primary oontests In the various stater the lew York district attorney said that would be determined later* He added, though, that his name would not be entered In the primary election in his own native state, Iflohlgan* Because Hlohlgan also happens to be the home state of another prominent presidential possibility — Senator Tandenberg. "I will not attempt to get delegates from the state of Hlohlgan,” said Tom Dewey* "I believe - A that Senator Tandenberg is entitled to the delegates from his own state*" A A Dewey responded that he will not make a primary fight in any state asked about other states that have favorite sons; where there is mhat he called"a ' - 2 And now, Hugh, will you tell us about our Hu Blue Sunoco teat is tne talk of America, and sign off for me?