BODGLT _ ZlTjLdb.j / 0; The fight in Congress on President Roosevelt* s r.e% budget began ^n earnest today. It *asn!t a partisan scrap, no pitting of the G.O.P. against the Democrats, for a Democratic Senator was just as vehement about it as the Republicans. Senator Pat Harrison, Chairman of the Finance Committee, opened the ball, asked for a vote on hi<s motion for a joint committee of Senators and Representatives to study the question. Vice-President Garner tried to rush ££ through without any further cr ado, started to put to a vote. But j^y^jhTtczaii , /v Vandenberg of Michigan beat tne Vice-President to the gun, jumped to his feet and started talking. He picked most particularly on the money that Mr. Roosevelt had asked Congress to appropriate for defense. And he said Pat KarrisonTs scheme would be a flop unless we have a rock bottom realistic study of what we e&b. for our mohey' in past appropriations for defense. Then he singled out the item of sixty-four millions to fit out vessels for neutrality patrol. We canTt broach that problem realistically, said Vandenberg, unless we study the fundamental policy behind this so-called safety belt. It may, *az said ae not a safety belt but a provocation belt. y A- BUDGET - 2 Then he took a whack at the idea of monster battleships, sixty thousand ton super-superdreadnoughts. Tfh^t also should be A inquired into most meticulously. Then another Republican Jumped into the fray, Taft of Ohio, enB^£^£2xar candidate* for the presidenC^a%=a» j rnlrratior .u He said he didnft believe the President was interested in balancing the budget. The most voluble attack was delivered by Democratic Alva Adams of Colorado^ tte'-g'gl*- the President has put this^ baby on our doorstep but the Congress is in a position to meet the situation. ae too picked on the question of appropriations for defense."We are told," he said, ntnat we have to cut relief and take money away from the farmer to build battleships.^ "M' * m Then he cried out rhetorically:- "To fight who? To fight nobody." A Joint Senator Adams declared that he was in favor of that^p^xi committee but he added that it couldn't do the job properly in six years. LTNCft The prediction in V/ashington about the Anti-Lynching bill caiae true today. The House passed it by a large majority, and sent it up to the Senate. This is one of those periodical quarrels, " two years ago, the Senators filibustered /i tnj& bill to death. Its principal provision is that if the A official of any state or country fails to prevent a lynching, he’s to be fined by the federal government. And today the Congress en put another joker into that anti-lynch bill. This provides that state and county officials will be fined if they fail to prevent acts of violence in labor troubles. The Congressmen passed it by a vote of two hundred and fifty-one to a hundred and thirty-two. rilCfiBLKG A nev» slogan was invented^for American business men^ not-e^arfiv inunn^H^ kn^r -■■lL j | -^^|1T-| 8 ngfi*S^<|f _________ _ ***** Donald Hichberg, formerly an ardent New Dealer -nd bead of the N.R.A. He made a speech to the Chicago Association oi Commerce. ^The slogan he proposesjW^lnpoc men te adop^ y t^CLy i-a~ v— ar i gi iTTrt —l^~.n&y-^wegen^shock a lot of business men since it wagr-^y paraphrase ^--SSa-wam—rr75±r^r<mrpv^ “€> 0 X 0 « W v. '| ^^said to the Chicago Commerce Associatiomwas^ nBusiness men of America, unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." They must united, he explained, for their own preservation, for the survival of self-government in the U.S.A. Karl wiarx SaGf business^ A y KjZ~tA/"V> , TOLERANCE Everybody!s taking polls these days, trying to find out what everybody else thinks. The American League for Tolerance ha« been considering the question, who the most tolerant man, > /> ^ A the most tolerant woman, n * Nineteen Thirty~Nine. The most A A tolerant woman was voted to be Mrs. Roosevelt, because of the way the First Lady took up the cause of Marian Anderson, The most tolerant man was pronounced to be Dp. John Haynes Holmes of the New York Community Church. The most tolerant deed during the year was that of Dr* Emanuel Chapman, editor of "Voice", who organized a Catholic organization to fight anti-Semitism. SPIES Fiction stories in magazines about spies who steal airplane plans are not entirely phoney. They have at least a foundation of fact as a sub-committee of Congress learned. The sub-committee made public today the information which was given by J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the F.B.I. Mr. Hoover told how the blue-prints of one of Uncle SamTs army bombers were stolen from one of the great airplane factories on the west coast. Fortunately, however, the G-men found the traitor and recovered the plan. Eut this bit of treachery revealed one sinister fact. That big aircraft factory had no means of protecting such invaluable military secrets. men went to work,^devised a system to protect secrets, a system which is being installed in some four hundred and fifty plants throughout the country. also told the Congressmen that a special unit has been set up in the F.B.I*> known as the General Intelligence Division. The men of this outfit are occupied entirely with running down espionage and sabotage. And they!ve made a complete file of all grpups, all organizations, all individuals who are engaged or likely to be engaged in those treacherous pranks. HKDS & feaCteo Communist pleads guilty. Nicholas Dozenberg, formerly a leader of the Red Party in America, admits in court t:iat he used an American passport which he had obtained by false declarations, he was arrested on the west coast and when he was brought east he made considerable ridicule of the charges. Today, however, he ffessed up, and government officials say that he also having been a secret agent of the Soviet. And—they^-eay- he -eftcs- made photograpui^ of >A teHMjjrs htfid »pproaoh4>6 in-stimo f^reign-e^wtjpy-;—Trrey--^ooi-t—s^ay FINNS | An American correspondent with the Finns describes the road as being literally strewn all the way with the bodies of men, horses and material of all Kinds. One part of that road, seven kilometers Aong, so badly cluttered up with Soviet wreckage that it was difficult to walk. Fragments of vehicles, ranging from ten ton tanks to machine guns mounted on skis. It»s also reported thatother parts of thd Red Army are surrounded. The Bolsheviks have been trying to help their beleaguered comrades by sending planes over to drop supplies, some of which fell inside the Finnish lines. AIK RAID Earlitr today tnere was quite a bit of excitement about a uig naval battle reported to have taken place over the North Sea. The report came from a point in Denmark, where the people heard lou.. cind continued explosions such as might have been made by bombs or anti-aircraft guns. Later in the day, this sensation simmered down to not much more than a reconnaissance raid that British air squadron made i over Helgoland and the German sea base on the island of Syltj* near the Danish border. Later still, there were official announcements, the Germans claiming that three out of nine British __^ planes had been shot down, in London ^ 7 j was lost, and two Germansw A T\ < r* ’ll «xrsr±j be fireworks on the banks of the Thames next Tuesday. Prime Minister Chamberlain^ Government has promised a debate over the dismissal of War Minister Hore-Belisha. seems to guarantee that the whole matter will be dragged out into the open. The professional soothsayers in Britain were hi busy today drawing inferences from Chamberlain1s speech of yesterday. It is believed to mean that the Allies are planning a definite attack on Nazi Germany. But the may be stretching a /> point, fchen you consider that what Chamberlain actually said ss J ”Although we are not actually fighting on land, we are making A preparations to do so with the greatest effect when the right moment comes." Notice the words:- "when the right moment comes." c.c.c. President Roosevelt today received the annual report of the C.C.C., the Civilian Consevation Corps. According to the Act of Congress that established it, the C.C.C. is supposed to go out of business June Third, Nineteen Forty-Three. But according to the report of the Corps, thereTs enough work to justify its being continued until Nineteen Ninety. Work projects suggested by departments of the federal and state governments could keep of fifteen hundred camps busy anywhere from thirty to fifty years. A * bioff Bioff, the Hollywood laoor leader, is now on the black books of Uncle Sam. vwt——rm*<>4«i—tetTTrtr There has been a great deal of cmes^w about Bioff, who enjoys the ^ yv nickname of Czar of the Hollywood studio workers. At the time when he was threatening a strike in Hollywood, Westbrook Pegler dug up the facT that he had been convicted of a crime in Chicago. What’s more, it appeared according to the records that though he had been sentenced to six months he had served only six dpys of it. Then there was the effort to extradite him, bring him back to Cnicago, a proceeding that "Vi. was postponed by Governor Horjer of Illinois. Following ew that, Colonel K p * h *- Knox published an editorial CHICAGO ’(^1 DAILY NEWS, whereupon Governor Horner sued^Colonel and the HEWS- for libel. This time it’s not the law of Illinois or California facing Bioff, but the clutches of the^ hiof^ wlbfr-hii v Lug ohi Los Ang^:teF^T>r>rr>T,1'*irl Hi ii nhiirrtwr iiirTme —Cpeoif ifrallaL^j^e that in ....... . T'~>4yti r r i ti T—he paid on nn i HL j ting f-ive tn'*n4^ irr SAFETY Uncle Sam, li^e the National Safety Council, has been checking up on motor car accidents in Nineteen Thirty-Nine. We improved considerably all over the country, says the census bureau, and thatTs a message will keenly interest oar sponsors, the Sun Oil Company. Deaths from automobile casualties dropped four per cent in all the major cities in the United States Some individual cities have an even better record. For instance, at Pontiac, Michigan, the fatalities dropped seventy-two per cent. SNOW In the Teton fountains of Wyoming, the snow lay thick on all tae highways. For two winters, the State Highway Department ^ their^fjfows on * he job, ke^^^th^passes open, even the principal Teton pass which is two miles high. This year the state government thought it ^00 expensive. So the rangers of Jacxson County, Wyoming, went in for a bit of direct action. Three hundred of them got together, went to the garage i of the State Highway Department, and took all the equipment, snow plows. graders, shovels, everything useable. Then they went to hway acros Kjcxi work to open the main highway across the state.into /\ i Idaho. Asg^they.* f’If tne Governor and the Highway Superintendent don’t like it^St^y^eQi^r^let tiiem come out here and try to stop us." WINDMILLS It -ffurkt^ be interesting to see tint country dotted once again with v.indmilis• The general idea wats that they catre obsolete. Bu^ a distinguished scientist says nNoT1, He’s Dr. Brooks, Director of the Meteorological Observatory of Harvard University, Dr. Brooks declares that wind-power v.ould be much more reliable than water-power. drought He points to the of last summer, during which the Harvard savants made surveys of the situation. And those surveys proved that wind-power in New England is steadier than water-power, kXJLX already ee-e-n at work devising a new type of windmi] rho eteettio—juioes. Engineers OLD-UP A sombre little man with a gun went into a gas station at Cleveland last night, ne leveled his weapon, and took twenty-six dollars away from the xzs at the cash register. Tnen, instead of running, he sat down in a chair, threw his gun on the floor and fa handed ax the attendant one of his nickels.irrowa "That’s for the telephone," he said. "Go ahead and call the police." The desk lieutenant was a little bewildered by the report of the robbery. For when he asked tfiS\je£S5Ffi&5Ef£* where the /i had gone the reply was, "He’s right here." When ^ 'A /, the patrol car came, the man wouldn’t give his name. All he gave was the explanation that he wanted to amuse himself. DODGE A former telephone operator, who earned fifteen dollars a week, now gets an estate of a million and a quarter* She*s the girl who married Daniel Dodge, heir of the famous motor magnate You may remember the tragedy of her honeymoon in Canada, when her husband was drowned. Ever since his death there has been a battle in the courts. Before he married her, Daniel Dodge made a settlement of a quarter of a million, which was supposed to cut her out of any^share of his estate. But under the law of Michigan she was able to ignore that. Young Dodge left eleven millions. but six will be swallowed up by inheritance taxes The dispute was settled today, by a decision of a probate judge, who gave the young ?iidow one—quarter of the remaining five millions. So tnat's all she gets, a pittance of million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Since her husband died, she has been studying in a girls 1 college at Ontario, studying now to <S2- get along on million and a quartei• QUINS r The Dionne Quintuplets are the of arguieno. You may recall that Oliva Dionne has been waging a long battle to gain legal control of the Famous Five. One of the : irst consequences of his success is a proposal to show the quintuplets at the New York Worldfs Fair next summer. The idea is to have a special building for themnot allow them to go T>,at proposal quickly provoked opposition. Judge Valin of Ontario, Chairman of the Board of Guardians, says he!s emphatically opposed to any such idea. if- _ Thinks,v would nit be good for the^^^ieft^ei^— 2 »ct”They ought to stay in Ontario where they can receive proper care and protection A under the supervision of the Ontario Government^ <T*\. SPEECH 1 Tne National Press Club of Washington heard some interesting opinions irom *::ie voice instructor who has been teaching mts . Roosevelt to speak. lad^nas no use for the broad of Ilf ii says it doesn^ belong in American speech. She just cA&~ck: can't stand people who say "cahn't". Somebody apparently asked her, what about the southerners? And this voice instructor replied that they are nice to listen to but difficult to understand. As for the Britishers who criticise American pronunciation she says they had better not talk. Almost every Englishman has a trace of Cockney. -pggT&t'gl ^^ >h-£i 22 A ^ V\i 2 ^J