LONDON The English Parliament I a /^**SL I-W ^ ^-€’--v^v^o ,7^7 today over the blockading of Tientsin by the Japanese. A significant part of the deoate in the Commons was that the protest came from a conservative member of the House. He asked the Prime Minister whether he would inform the Japanese government that the indignities to the British subjects may have serious consequences for Japanese nationals in British territories throughout the wo rid .'TV Prime Minister Chamberlin replied with the information that the Foreign Minister, Lord Halifax, was about to see the Japanese Ambassador on that subject this afternoon, and he added:- nI have no doubt the Foreign Secretary will make it clear to the Japanese Ambassador what we think of these intolerable insults.n In other words, "youbetter ’-e careful how you kick people around - remember there are quite a few of yours on our our territory.” _________________I PiULiPPiKtyt When Congress passed the Tydings-iicDuffie Act, giving independence to the Philippines, everybody supposed that question was settled for good and all. But now it appears that the Filipinos themselves regret their long campaign for independence. More and more during the last few months one bears opinions that gixExrasy giving away the Philippines is a mistake. A few weeks ago I started to write a magazine article for the COHMENTAT0R about Judge Haussermann, the Number One 77Cz American citizen of Manila. /NJudge iJawSHgErffiaiH?- told me that the giving away of the Philippines would be not merely a pity, but a disaster. He declared that it, mean# the complete obliteration of the white man, not merely from the Far East, but from the Pacific. Great Britain would be forced out of Singapore, the French out of Xndo-0hina, the Butch out of their East Indies. And probably even Australia would fall to the Japanese. Today we encounter another angle on that Philippine question. The angle is this:- The United States is more likely to get into war with Japan over the Philippines if she gives them up than if PHILIPPIIjEvS „ 2 she holds them. ^ym-any- Tesldenl'^nf-afe^e * -nL4~eotaeg Vv,P.Courtney, Associate Editor of COLLIEKS, who was sent over to ^hilippines to investigate that question. And Courtiiey-comgg the\.Iiann-p> r^-nT ...... ^,,^11 Sthe poss^ reayt^edf biliti#s of the Yhilippir^es. If ^e hold \n toXthem, \he United States will pe completely selxVsufficXent. CoiXrtneV s report bear^out what>Judge H^ussermar^ told that\the Phil\ppim o^fer a^new front^r, a Jsdace of Wiormous ^alth^ ■^SsL *s__ And here^ a curious statement^-rr-^thart- Dill Gunrt^^quotes a Japanese publisher in 'Aokyo as uttering these words:- "Most Japanese will agree with me that by holding the Philippinesi America can guarantee the peace of the Pacific for generations to come." PDuul*-™> giffa- r-;Uh P-h-ilil>pij^^^r e y as” SCIENCE Many solemn warnings have been handed out that the next war would be destructive, so devastating that it would completely wipe out everything we know as civilization. The question came up at a meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a meeting of the AmerieanAssociation for the Advancement of Science. That warning was answered by Dp.R.F.Moulton, who is not only Secretary of the Association but a distinguished astronomer and mathematician. And he declared that warning to be nonsense, at least in effect. Because, he explained, nour civilization today is too solidly HjttxxnBhBd established and deeply entrenched.” He said people wno talk about the destructive powers of science seem to have lost sight of the even greater constructive abilities of scientisits. "Modern civilization and the men who make it are in their morning hours. Lul we Scientists on the of humanity for a long time to come’.^'Uor do they fear that civilization will be destroyed.” whole hcive 210 fecir of deterioi’&tion BARTER Uncle Sam and John Euil are bent on shoWlng Hitler that Germany is not the only country that can do foreign business by barter. An agreement was signed in London today, an agreement between ourselves and Great Britain. It provides for the trading of thirty million dollars’ worth of American cotton for thirty million dollars’ worth of British rubber. And, to guard against any possibility of these stocks being dumped cheaply in the markets, they are to be held as war stocks for at least seven years, unless war were to break out sooner. Of course this agreement has to be ratified by the Senate of the American States. Senator Jim Burns of South Carolina is going to take it under his wing, plead for it before his fellow senators. i f I r r t- move i r>r be expanded. w-iOJ_try—to- make BimfcAtfi r n rrringemant s-a^trh," ote with this one n Hrn—1 "i n t mere - sh^ulbe-anyrH^ffAculltf—^.n :: u ^ a DAGH Back in the War days of Nineteen Fifteen, a grave group of mountain peasants made history in a small way. For forty days they successfully fought off the Turkish soldiers. That gi lant episode was made into a novel by the German writer, Franz Vierfel, /£ ^called:- f,The Forty Days of Musa Dagh." grimmer And new it seems that a still fate confronts the peasants of Musa Dagh. £hat mountain since the War has been under French control, and the French government is on the verge of signing a defensive alliance with the Turkish government. One clause of the treaty provides that France should surrender the province of Alexandretta to Turkey. And that province of Alexandretta includes the mountain of Musa Dagh. And thatfs why Tkie'iTcxxityyKCTMlE the peasants of Musa Dagh are now in a desperate mood. XXayxXsiM ±jQ*x±x±a±xx±Hx2iyx±a Their representative told the French officials in Syria, "The Turxs shall never take us alive. If France abandons us to our enemies, we will kill our wives and children with our own hands and die on the uattlel leld.M The whole tribe will ssmais commit suicide sooner tnan fall into the hands of the Turks. neutrality Some time next week i^tir “Sxnsppinrtun'L .^nii tackle ciCKle a job that has been postponed all ^neutrality bill. J^The approach of yearr the fctSEfc distasteful ^ t. At a press conference last week^^a Prcpieluitmuiq him, thBt it was ^^asir^ia , fif£ar«4 hy R0prAaa>ntrtiva BAooa-of hCTr-¥-rciO Mr.Roosevelt exj-iained that if Congress would adjourn without acting and that if a war broke out, it would put the United States in a difficult ear of Srwpiitjlicati Representative Edith IfePw Rogers of Massachusetts. She wants to knew what frho Pr^gictent means by what information,b* has that makes him think a war might break out. A N So she's going to offer a resolution which will oomrey u requiLjfe' u non tnu Pr--—^ M n 1 ^ ask him t6 Place before the ^ouse Msuch information as may be in his possession which indicates th^t position. That phrase, "if a war n actual war is imminent. j 4- vi £> P t > p <;ident will be asked to do this She adds that the Fresiaem, be not incompatible with the public interest. There- provided it b© tiot ThereT s NEUTRALITY - 2 tt; the string tcyfrhal- rssolvitica. The chances iw» doubfc are fifty- to-one ttwh* if the White House has any information not available to newspapers, it would be declared incompatible with the public interest to make it public n ^vJALUS Another vivid nnH i 13 ilna dramatic tale wa, h. . hear(i today by the naval court of incuir-r . t ' ‘n*°,1* «"•» •*‘**-*«. i,.« * Hear Admiral Cole, the seasoned chief of the P rt tne Portsmouth Navy Yard. routed illustrated the extraordinary speed with which Uncle Sam's Navy can novo to * ■n°Ve to 0°fe •'ith an emergency. It was on May Twenty-Third, said the Admiral, that -razed something was wrong with the S^UALUS, when he found he was unable to make contact by radio r- oy radio. It was then, and before he -/J?0 defLnL.e, cu. “ ■’t.t.tlon ,t «„ london, C„™lUoU,, „„ snip l&GZKj to oe made ready instantly and to stand by for an mer^ency ca^l. rhe next thing he did, without waiting for any news, was to radio a command to the submarine SCULP IN, sister ship of the SQUALUS, to go immediately to the spot where the SQUALUS had dived and see whether something was wrong. All thisy==l^i=2aB=sS2ai*e25fc» before .Admiral Cole had any knowledge that s^mgthing^ha#==^9mr~wT51lg wliil the SQUALUS3^1/ -<A^ y J2 q , . 1ft <.»t '. tt ?*- ^r w<wtj-prepared bef r>rehmi4^ Then let's see a little further how the Navy reacts to SqUALUS - 2 “* -V— bad WhlCh eVeU then WaS Weiehed a„d sailed Wdlatel, for Portsmouth. And by twelve * Jr y one, nineteen minutes to one, i“xrx:“ ““ Eleven minutes later the sriir aaer the SCULPIN radioed in:- "We now see the In mariifer bUOy v,hich released. " (ereupon Admiral Cole telephoned to t\e Navy Yard ^ BoSt°n and V tne Chief Naval Opektions at Wa^Wton. He \hus reported Vhat the SQulhUS was dovm\and apparentA in trouble. He then proceeded to ^uat himselA aboard a navyVu^ personal supervision the\tug started Vattling to Under faJU^vt. oA~-t£s On the following day the Ssraugf arrived ~n th» in I A A J and the rest we know. And that-1 o the w^ay-the Unrbed--Stat-eo ^avy oporatoo in* ft r4ght The court of inquiry adjourned today and will not ^ —<2— ‘M —6^ i convene again until the SqUALUS has been-fi^n tT^hrtT^gy ^ vrs^rJCtJ^ <y~z , filibuster There's a peculiar situation in that filibuster in the Senate. 0ne of the leaders of thj. group of silver senators is ^ey Pitman of Nevada. a mio ^ ^ a rule he s one of the wheel horses of the administration, a strong upholder of New Deal movements. But by Joining in this filibuster throwing Tand into the ^7^ ^ A -A machinery passing^wo of the President's pet measures, the money bill and the new NineteenForty Relief Bill. Senator Barkley, the majority leader, apparently got sore at his Democratic "colleagues today. He said if they didn't / quit# he was going to crack down. When somebody asked him, "What do you mean crack down?" the Kentucky Senator did not reply. Senator Pitman explained in passionate terms the attitude of himself and his western colleagues. "The western states' are not going to be bulldozed constantly by departments of the government." 'Uid he continued;- "We've suffered a great deal in the ** west^ relying on administrations, but now we're going to rely on Congress." At another stage of the debate he declared that three hundred and eighty thousand people had been thrown out of jobs on account of Secretary Morgenthau.s PT.LIBUSTEH - 2 silver policy. ihat sounds a little baffling since figures have been offered to show that no more than eighteen thousand people are employed in the United States producing silver. LOAN PROGRAM ics today started picking on President Roosevelt’s new lending program, the program to make loans of i ! three billions, eight hundred and sixty millions over a period of the next few years. The President declared no "4nj Hie gyv’e-wunont,^ nothing out of the taxpayers’ pockets. Everything be self-liquidating. And /< that’s the feature that-, wew criticized by Hgprtp'l i eawlbenat or Reed of Kansas, ^ S^id^- ’’X don t think the President would know a self-liquidating project from a forty-five thousand ton I a battleship.” m -d-:- "This administration has lost all ■ j sense of proportion in its spending.” . j S' -t -3— ^ ■ i~ir "I" Vi .fCi irt A was a conference in the White House on that particular subject. The President sent for all the leaders of tne administration/' jcretary iJorgenthau, Jesse Jones of the R.E.C., Budget Director lith. Senator Barkley, Senator Pat Harrison, Chairman of the mance Committee, Senator Wagner, and several otners. iVwao-- f! timat^d that "tVhe main Oppose h the meeting wh to le^ed ^nance tYat 3 Puss 1 ' 1 A latest V ff or ts \y the President w \ b i:\ress tlcut out\all tax XxemptxoS^on the\bo V pnance t\at *V . . nditg program. No mye tctx i ^ ooseveVt 1 OFFICIALS President Roosevelt has picked the heads of two of the new government agencies he has created. mean the agencies he established under the powers given him recently by Congress One of the most important ikiHgjsxix of these is the Federal Loan •> Agency, the body established by merging a lot of other government agencies, including the Construction Finance Corporation. The head of this new loan agency is Jesse Jones of Texas, Chairman of the C. This was more or less expected. In fact it has been rumored that there would be^tehe—denc-^pay^itt the ranks of the New Deal if Jesse Jones did not get that important job. Another of the new reorganized bureaus is the Hew -§ 5 f I i 'll •J 1 Works Agency. To head ©# that, Mr. Roosevelt nominated John M. Carmody, who up to now head of Rural Electrification A 4t i . m li i Ad1 minis tr a t i ctw VIRGINIA DAxtB Everybody knows that Virginia Dare was the firsborn in America, The thing that nobody Knows and many people would like to know^ is whatever happened to Virginia Dare. V.hat became of Sir Walter Raleigh’s lost colony at Roanoke Island in North Carolina; It has been one of the outstanding mysteries of early American history. And now it Is believed th^Mri+ifl* mystery may be solved. A Virginia Dare’s grandfather, John White, was the English Governor Goon after thesettled on Roanoke Island, White sailed back for England to get more supplies. Wlion h^rrtvrn rd _ hrx&fj. he found a great deal of political excitement, There was the Spanish Armada for one thing. Naturally, at such ' v-v'v^c—"C^- times the colonists in ¥±rgrrvi^ were perforce forgotten, bo several years elapsed and It was not until rifteen Ninety-One, that Governor White was able to return to Americd. and when he did cam*' %aok— t q r-Lo■Roanokc Ialafyi» he could find no trace-® of his daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter^no trace* of the colony that he had left except a plundered camp-site. It was generally believed that the colonists were wiped out by Indians, but that was only a conjecture. VIRGINIA DAHE - 2 Two years ago, a motorist in North Carolina f ound a piece of quartz with words carved on it. He found it by accident, some fifty miles away from RoanoKe Island. The inscription on that piece of quartz was:- ’’Ananias Dare and Virginia went hence unto Heaven Fifteen Ninety-One.” On the other side of that piece of quartz was a message in seventeen lines, a message that needed to be translated, since it was in Elizabethan English. And this was the meaning of it. I quote:- "Father, soon after you went to England we came hither. Only misery and war for two years. Above half dead ere two years more from sickness, twenty-four surviving. Soon after this the savages, feigning the spirits were angry suddenly murdered all save seven of us. My child and Ananias too were slain with much misery. We buried all about four miles east of this river upon a small hill. Names are all written there upon a rock. To any savage who will show this unto you and show' you hither we promise to give great plenty presents.” Tnese words were signed ’E.R.D. , which presumably meant "Elizabeth White Dare.” Of course the discovery of that piece of quarts w^s VIRGINIA DARE - 2 Tw° years ago, a motorist in North Carolina f ound a piece of quarts with words carved on it. He found it by accident, some fifty miles away from Roanoke Island. The inscription on that piece of quartz was:- "Ananias Dare and Virginia went hence unto Heaven Fifteen Ninety-One." On the other side of that piece of quartz was a message in seventeen lines, a message that needed to be translated, since it was in Elizabethan English. And this was the meaning of it. I quote:- "Father, soon after you went to England we came hither. Only misery and war for two years. Above half dead ere two years more from sickness, twenty-four surviving. Soon after this the savages, feigning the spirits wrere angry suddenly murdered all save seven of us. My child and Ananias too were slain with much misery. We buried all about four miles east of this river upon a small hill. Names are all written there upon a rock. To any savage who will show this unto you and show you hither we promise to give great plenty presents." These words were signed E.W.D. , which presumably meant "Elizabeth White Dare. Of course the discovery of that piece of quarts was VIRGINIA DAIiE - 3 an exciting find of enormous importance to historians. Ever since then they’ve been looking for the rock that Eleanor Dare mentioned, the rock placed over the bodies of her dead husband and daughter. Today, Dr. H.J.Pearce, President of Brenau College in Georgia, announced that he has found that rock. It is a heavy granite stone and on it are carved these words:- . "Here lieth Ananias Dare and Virginia, father, savages murdered all save seven. Names written here, may God have mercy." Signed "Eleanor Dare."