ENGLAND <^. X — T.Vr... I *2~J^ ^f. There were serious debates in the British Parliament today. In the House of Lords, the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, uttered portentous words about foreign policy. In the Commons, Prime Minister Chamberlain got annoyed with a hechler, and said: T,The honorable member is very offensive .*1 But such affairs as Russian treaties, foreign relations, and things like that, took a back seat in Great Britain and indeed all over the British Empire. The major topic among Britons was the tremendous hit that their King and Queen - and most particularly their Queen - had made in the United States. T 0 say that the subjects of the King and Queen are pleased, would be an exceedingly British understatement. Every class in Great Britain, every party, people holding every different point of view, agreed that the royal visit to the United Stages has been one unqualified rr^ The jubilation is all the greater, because there had been grave misgivings in Britain. Some people, even in ftrit.ipfr official circles, had been afraid that the subject of the war debts might flare up and provoke some expression of discourtesy to the ENGLAND - 2 King and (^een. Others had been saying that we in the United States might misunderstand, might suspect that it had all been arranged to drag us into European quarrels on the British side. Majesties should be given what amounts to a Roman triumph when they return to England. Unquestionably they111 have an ovation then they set foot at Southampton, m ui) i TT iiii that will last ■to ^ all the way to London. And that be followed by a public '— /V thanksgiving service. Tonight of course the British King and Queen are ba< again on their own soil. They left their special train at Sherbrook on the Canadian side of the frontier. Governor George rsf v«r*mnnt. took oart in reception to the Sing and Queen. h three more days of official receptionsbefore they sail from Halifax on Thursday. of the official arrangements on team United States soil. That came from Mayor LaGuardia of New fork. He said that the reception In London this afternoon it was suggested that Their / There has been just one public criticism so far ENGLAND - 3 to the Kmg and Queen was nothing to what it might have been if it were done properly, ^nd he explained;- "The whole thing was messed up. If I»d had^my way," said the New ¥ork Mayor, "three times the number of people would have roared their welcome." Mayor LaGuardia*was sore because King George and Queen Elizabeth had not seen the reaX New* York, had not driven up Broadway through the heart of the city. And he put the blame on the British Embassy *s and our own State Department. As it was, one or two details, A A. New York' s pugnacious Mayor took matters into his own hands and overrode the State Department and the British Embassy. To which Mayor LaGuardia added: "The President laughed when I told him." This morning^ newspapers report that there was a loud chuckle in St.James’s Episcopal Church at Hyde Park. TxW* U/ y That was when the K^ctorj.in the middle of the service, announced: A Parish of gy James extends a cordial welcome fr-y the guests of our senior .arden.SxAKixroExxx the Presidet of the United States.” And he added: "One sees «hat happens when our parishioners bring their guests to church. If they all would church every Sunday." And then the do this they wrouid fill the ENGLAND - 4 rector continued! nYve appreciate the historic visit of Their Majesties to our Church, and I am happy to add our voice to that of the mother church in commending Your Majesties to the grace ard protection of Almighty God.11 ^ strange bulletin just came in from Poland. It sounds as though theie mii.nt be something startling behind it. Three large bombing planes, heavily armed with machine guns and bombs flew across the border between Slovakia and Polish territory. They came at to laadj^a large military airport near Deblln in Poland. Of course they were immediately surrounded by Polish 1 soldiers at the airport. The crews of those bombing planes surrendered to the Polish troops without a struggle. They v/ere Slovakian. They explained that they had fled across the bordei^because everybody in Slovakia was expecting at any moment that Slovakia would be occupied by German troops. Th6 Slovak fliers said they would rather see their planes, guns and ammunition in Polish hands than 9m seized by Hltler.*fc.+Tivnpy -T1 ih -.nnvrfr mmat were iHxtajm /A interned and held for questioning. FAK LAST Fresh trouble in the Far East, a nev, challenge thrown down by Japan! The French and British concessions in the great northern port of Tientsin are to be blockaded by the Japanese. That sounds like serious business. Uncle Sam was officially notified through the American Consulate General in Tientsin. But this new order doesn’t concern us since we have no concession. There are American business interests thgga, but mostly in the British concession. the Japanese and British governments. The Japanese made a demand upon the British to turn over certain Chinese whom the Japanese described as terrorists, fellows who attacked the Chinese friendly to Japan. The British refused to turn them over. Hence this blockade order. All this came out at the same time as the news of threats on the life of the British Ambassador to China. A strong bodyguard is now protecting Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, King George's envoy in those parts. Everybody who approaches This blockade order is the outcome of an argument between the embassy at Shanghai has to run the gauntlet of policemen, detectives, and soldiers of the Seaforth Highlanders. the embassy WEST POINT /I A ^ A modern army officer S» got to be a gnui great deal A more than a soldier.. That’s what President Hoosevelt told the graduating class at West Point today, and what he said brings home to all of us a picture of what we should have to face in time of war. The President told the new second lieutenants that "when the supreme test of war comes, an army, to be effective, must command the cooperation of all elements in national life.” And the President continued:- ’’The men then charged with the national defense, must be able to bring into harmonious action the civilian instruments of production, and of transport, and of They must deal "with labor, with industry, with management, with agriculture, and costs•” Mr. ItoosevtOt urlged the\raduat\ng cachets:- ”\et y careers a IsjaaoiapoiXM co\tinuous\ study\ of commend inf your a problems/outside as uell 11 inside/the mil it I ne&essar^ preparation 1 workl ” i^or ttL greatist su^pe it ary /field, as the ess in'^our chosen Ip other words, when war comes, be prepared to seeyan ^ officer ^your elfeo* no matter^ your occupation. Business men may now have some inkling of how their federal taxes may be changed. Nothing is definite as yet, but the tax sub-committee of the House Ways and Means Committee has 1^% some news trickle out. At the same time it was announced that all the proposals of which the Congressmen have agreed so far are juHKfcxfcx tentative. They are complying with the suggestions of Secretary Morgenthau of the Treasury, ideas he has been advocating for some time, to help business ."^One thing the sub-committee proposes to do is to drop the undistributed profits tax. Instead of that, they would have a flat eighteen per cent tax on all corporations that earn more than twenty-five thousand dollars a year. Corporations that earn twenty-five thousand or less, will find no change in their taxes. Banks and insurance companies will be taxed the same rate as other corporations. The sub-committee will also-repeal the present limitation of two thousand dollars on capital losses. Those are Just some of the highlights of the changes that will be offered to Congress. subcommittee- -&n -taxes House and"the Senate. LANDON Boston University today made Alfred M. bandon, a Doctor of 5 . La> speech, the ex-candidate had interesting things to say about the political scene, for one thing, he said: "It is always difficult to dramatize the moderate, middle of the road position. In tact,'1 he added, "it is always sneered at by the extremists of eitner the left or the right." And he went on; nWerre not going to find peace and prosperity until a large enough group says to the extremists of the left and of the right, TA plague on both your housesl,T' The former Governor of Kansas went back to the days of Nineteen Twelve, when he ucwd1 Republican A — Progressives, and ttffiSaid^ ’"We used to be called Socialists and radicals because we believed that the rights of the users of property must be considered as well as those of the owners." Then he declared; "Nowlin NineteenThirty—Nine, we are classed as reactionary because we*re still standing on middle ground between the two extremes.*' lindon holds that the main political issue today A between the rights of the users and the rights of the LAND ON - 2 owners. The New Deal, he declared, believes the rights of the users are greater. To which he addeds ‘'This belief is identical with the belief of the Fascist and Communist governments.,, STRIKE '£9r‘V*Y> Another bat tie has .been'^'Ct«rrtr^6 in the union labor v/ar. A The opening gun Vk’as fired in Michigan by Homer Martin, who used to be President of the Automobile Workers C.I.O. union.aad- as^-itt034-jrpe<>pie ^know^"==he^ took his followers »fr^ntogtobid^e ^workers over into the American Federation of Labor and as a test of strength he called his men out on strike from three General Motd^rs plants at Flint, Michigan. According to news reports. refused to deal with his outfit as a bargaining agent. Said William S. Knudsen, President of General Motors, nWe will not 7T take sides.” The plants are being operated by workers who are Vk,embers of the C.X.O. American Federation of Labor picket lines surround the factory, but the C.I.O. men walked through the picket lines without even *“fe±ush% VAGRANT A magistrate in New York City had a problem put up to him today. The problem was, y ”IS a man a vagrant i he has a hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars?™ There has been a lot ^to-do in New York ^jDout a gentleman rk aboi named Erickson. New York officials, including Mayor^iahuai»4«rr a y have been casting sour looks on this Erickson. They say he's a gambler. ot the only one in New York City. The reason this Erickson is being picked on is because it was discovered that he associated with certain public officials, particularly in Brooklyn. He was brought to trial on a charge of perjury in connection with his application to carry a pistol. Those charges were dismissed by a county judge. So the authorities and brought Erickson to trial again,.accused him of disorderly conduct^ Specifically, they claimed, hefs a bookmaker. So when he was arraigned in a police court today, his counsel produced a manila envelope containing a hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars worth of stock certificates. The magistrate in that court said he would need time to think that one over» ^ JAIL BREAK Out in Colorado, six young convicts broke out of the state reformatory. Not only escaped but kidnapped the warden. Those jail-breakers oat west didn't do any harm to the warden though they did kidnap him. The prison officials soon set bloodhounds after them and four of them were caught in the Colorado Mountains, twenty-five miles away from Buena Vista. And they had only a short while left to serve GOLF There's a new golf champion in the United States today, a new athletic hero. He's Byron Kelson, who won the National Open IteampiOTtshtp in the play-off at the Philadelphia Country Club. It w<as a dramatic, colorful affair, dramatic in more ways than one. For the man who has succeeded to that much coveted title was a comparative newcomer to fame. It wasn’t until he played himself into the play-off x± that the name of this boy from Texas began to be mentioned from mouth to mouth among men. And his victory included a dramatic, spectacular bit of playing just as sensational as any proverbial hole in one. This happened in the playing of the fourth hole at that Philadelphia Country Club. It’s what golfers call a dog leg ball, and that’s one of the few golf terms that other people can understand. His opponent, Craig Wood, played the hole perfectly, making it in four strokes in spite of the fact that it was not only a dog leg but a dog leg over water. But the red headed newcomer from Texas did something stroke even more startling. For his second^ta^on that dog leg MCMOcwnw* hole over water he played an iron shotwhich bounced three times GOLF - 2 and then while spectators held their breath trundled straight for the cup, lingering a fraction of a second on the rim, and dropped dovm. Byron Nleson had made that hole in two strokes. From that he went on to become national open golf champion of . Beat Craig Wood by three strokes! America PAINTING The most curious form of thievery xw^rnyyiciBYwiP it seems to me is stealing a famous picture from a public art gallery. After the man who gets away with it can!t do anything with the canvas except hang it up in his own room and look at it when he is alone, and then hide it carefully. and puzzling canvas was discovered in Italy. It had been stolen theft, he said, was patriotic. He did it in revenge for the number of art treasures that Napoleon had swiped when he said to a» his soldiers: "Beyond the Alps lies Italy, and lies, and lies, O and lies.^ Of course that affair is ancient history, but evidently it provided an inspiration to others, -for oifeS*' another crafty picture thief got busy in Paris and at that same museum, the all good Americans go to get dutifully bored. Nevertheless, several years ago an ingenious Italian startled the world by swiping the "Mona most famous most famous museum £ Later on, that much advertised 3 * m : A by an Italian who the Louvre. The motive of his A A A Louvre, where PAINTING - 2 Iftnile hundres of* such, dutiful Americans were prowling around the g thief stole a Watteau. £££9 a canvas quite famouns among painers and art connoisseurs. It’s called "The Indifferent." Officially, the value is four million Francs,-a hundred and six thousand and fifty dollars. Actually, the value is purely a matter of thinking up a number. If you had it, such a picture couldn't be sold and nobody would dare buy it. Whoever got away with it did so by cutting the wire on which the picture hung, sticking M under his coat and A walking off. For all its fabulous worth, that famous Watteau, so famous that I never heard of it before, is ten and a quarter by eight inches. We’ve heard of art for art's sake, but here surely Is an example of stealing for the sake of stealing.