CHAMBERLAIN "Tne soft answer that turneth away wrath ,11 cane from Britain's ^rime Minister today. It was largely the wrath of Uncle Sam and Japan that Chamberlain was hoping to soften,a# Some of his remarks were aimed directly at the two countries^ But for the most part he was saying kind words to all the neutrals, reassuring the small nations in Europe, telling them they had nothing to fear from Great Britain and France. He acknowledged the obvious facts that Britain1s war making must cause inconvenience, suffering and wv«a injury to the neutrals. He regretted them. "And donft anyone suppose that we are indifferent to the losses wrhich neutrals might sustain^')/'e ask them to consider that while we may have to take action which Causes them inconvenience, we have never sunk a neutral ship, never wittingly sacrificed a i single neutral life." Then he added:- "We mean tka* when the war is successfully concluded, to return to the idea behind our agreement with the United States." By that he meant the Reciprocal Trace Agreement. "We must put an end to the vicious policy of economic nationalization and autarchy, which did so much to upset the last great peace treaty." As for Japan, the British meant no discourtesy when A they took twenty-one German seamen off a Japanese liner near the coast of Japan. Britain wants to live in peace with Japan. But he did^t say whether he would give up those twenty-one German seamen that he had seized. Referring to us, Kfc remarked that Britain in the past n had been the largest customer in the United States for agricultural produce. Then he gave an explanation about his cutting down of certain imports from America. It was done in order that the their British might concent rat dollar resources upon the purchase of munitions and equipment in the United States. "But," he added, "don't let anyone suppose that we want to use these measures for any other purpose than prosecution of the war, or that we are indifferert to the effects of that curtailment." Chamberlain's speech had one immediate favorable reaction -r-nrifrt cjprretary of State Hull* He freely in Washington. That came from Secretary oi ■ j « freer trade among the nations welcomes Chamberlain’s promise tnat freer was one objective in the war The British Government is to take over the entire M. shipbuilding industry of Great Britain. That announcement was made to the House of Commons by Chamberlain today 3 * has already requisitioned cargo liners representing more than nine million tons ^From noji on, the number of merchant ships to be built and also the type will be determined not by the shipbuilders but by the Admiralty. jTALX Italy considers herself at war. That*s the latest bulletin from Home. But it should be added quickly that Mussolini's legions are not fighting either by air, land or sea. It's a figurative war, an economic war. And it is so announced by an editorial in the Duce's own newspaper. The fact that Italy is a non-belligerent does not mean that she is impartial. And it goes on, "Italy cannot afford to lose even one battle in the economic war. Italy is taking all economic initiatives. War is war, whether it be an economicone which keeps Italy on the ^ A defensive." ^ FINNS The latest from Finland is that the Bolsheviks made another determined attack in the extreme north. Ft- ^a- 8 -quite» <Slose to the ? ^ Norwegian border. The purpose.of"it-wa»~at drive through the narrow y /) Arctic Corridor of Finland, fifty-five miles south of the seacoast. It w~s a sudden attack and the Finns were taken by surprise. They fell back to a main line of defense, sat light, beat off the Russians, then made a counter-'attack, and drove the Russians into retreat. Evidently the Red armies had been reenforced as they made attacks with fresh troops on several other fronts. Buo the Firms claim to have repulsed them at every point. At Lake Marka, one of Stalin*s divisions is being besieged by the Finns. There was another raid by Red bombers on Rovaniami, the . 4 . j tvip Finns believe that the planes fourth since the war started. The I'inns from Petsamo, in the extreme north. The raiders oam* while came Wflc; at breakfast. The man next to a United Press correspondent was at d • *Aid*- "Look at the bombs!" The him pointed in the air and said.- no nothing but an instant later there was a, newspaperman could see , , feeling as though an earthquake were going enormous thunder ana a xeeiiifc on PJMS -_2 The correbpondent sav« a couple of windows from the opposite side float like a n'tcloud of snow. Then the windows of the hotel behind him were shattered. He thought at first that they were broken by concussion until splinters of bombs came through the.^atii 2 do» into the ht>tel dining room., 6 e- he camc-t-e- 4 he- ecag-lus-len bhet—having breakfast-during air air laid wau-ftot-attch" m«f»« —SHWAWW more dangerotrshan chaving-% Meanwhile, Mie Finnish Minister in Paris making gloomy and ominous prophecies. He told the England: and Anericai newspapermen in—Itar^s that if help doesnTt come, the finns Ccnnot hold out. The Finnish resistance is a miracle, he said, but you can*t expect mass production^ miracles. SON SPOTS FOLLOW COLD '-cr There 1 s a new^coid wave reported on its way. 1 ^fcj£Qrope> The information comes from a celebrated Italian scientist at Faenza. fte reports that Italian astronomers have discovered two new spots on the sun, huge ones. And he adds, that means another cold wave. They will attain their highest development, he says, between February Second and February highth; and Arctic temperatures ■^ 4 ^-*c<rvo- x ^ will swoop down upon Europe, ’there*s a terrifically heavy snowfall A' in Holland, with traffic held up, highways blocked, trains running late. Maybe fchafc-** a forerunner of that prophesied cold wave. A This Italian man of wisdom adds the prophecy that the earth will shake with considerable violence in southern Europe, and the Balkans. Th^^hTtui find himself at outs with American ^ , seismologists, most of whom claim that i/ ts impossible to propnesy earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. <*=**—L-Umrunul. Father Bernard Hubbard , the Glaoier-Pri^rh^repheeie^^ voic&nic ■ eruption -in-Alaska srcnji alfflos.t:ito the COLD V K ™ ““ s‘,*u tt*t ■v55“/r=tS^“^1" some parts or trie country, tty tk^atar the worst on record, in one respect at any rate. More drivers of motor cars had to be dug f4- out ftpw snowdrifts, more motors had to be thawed out, than ever A -rT'- ,1 before, reported by the American Automobile Association. In Boston, the emergency calls received by the Associasisw were a hundred and sixty per cent higher than they were January a year ago. And in one part of the country there’s rejoicing today over the vanishing of the cold. That's in Florida. There were freezing temperatures in the ncr them and northwestern part of the state last night. But today the thermometer registered seventy. Visitors threw aside their fur coats and flocked to the beaches once more, which was what they were down Florida for. ROADJ5HOW (PHILADELPHIA tfUST) Out in they1 re having one of the biggest congregations of people the Windy City cLrxf ever saw. Theya on the shore of Lake Michigan for the Thirty-Seventh Convention and Road Show of the American Road Builders Association. More than forty-five thousand people are there, not laymen*, but men engaged in one way or another in the building of highways - state and federal highway officials, contractors, engineers, manufacturers of materials for roads. They've come from all forty-eight states of the Onion and thirty-six foreign countries. In the international Amphitheatre, the road show covers eight acres of floor space. There you see on one side huge a thP other side the most minute instruments eighty ton cranes and on the otner s of precision. ± sTmawn-t3rTQ3S-b»iM^ -au—the- —^ tt karnly snow^wincLow~ jj T Lina Jaighswy 1 DIES A little bit of excitement in Congress at last! The national legislature has been in such doldrums for the last few weeks that you might have supposed the lawmakers were hibernating* They certainly havenft been contributing what is supposed to be their fair share of the nation’s news. But today at last ------ - hsosei the atmosphere was lively with shouts^of "forgery", "pollution", "nefarious acts!" And the hubbub was all over one member of the House who wasn’t there - Martin Dies, Chairman of . ^ "^L the Committee on Un-American activities. He’s stil^home^sieif at Orange, Texas. The seeds of this rumpus were sown ten days ago when Republican Representative Hook of Michigan came to bat with some letters which tended to show that Dies had been mixed up with certain persons in the Christian Front. The papers included letters apparently written by William W. Pelley, the Silver Shirt executive session of the Dies boy. Last night there was an Committee, after which the Acting published the accusation that tho Chairman, Representative Starnes, ^.e letters had been manufactured ■ DIES - 2 and sold by a man who is Peliey’s agent in Wasnirg ton* So on the floor of the House this afternoon, Cox of Georgia and Keefe of Michigan, the latter a Republican, jumped up to the defense of Dies and made a pungent attack on his accuser. Representative Hook. They demanded that Hook*s remarks shoreta be expunged from the record and that Hook himself be made to come before the House and apologize to Congress and the country. These remarks were made in Hook’s absence. But he retorted by means of a statement issued by Ms secretary. The statement was to the effect that Hook has affidavits swearing to A the fact that the papers he offered are genuine, authentic. Then Hook added the slam that if there MxmxtsximxMVf should be any question of forgery, the Dies Committee is guilty of conspiracy to bribe persons to commit forgery to cover up their past nefarious acts. Th«P Republican A Schafer of Wisconsin went'^op t©'~tfe»- pisct®^caft 4 asked whether it wasn’t a fact that the accusation that the big-shot in the conspiracy was Gardner Jacxson, legislative lobbyist for John L. Lewis's Non-Partisan League. DIES - 3 And the repercussion xrom that accusation was an offer from Gardner Jackson to appear be!ore the House or before any committee and answer questions. All of which locks like the makings of another pretty^thtim^om WALLACE Secretary Wallace is on the warpath. He’s furiou_> about the cuts that the House Conuuittee on Ways and Means made in the Farm Appropriation Bill. He accused the ^ A economy-minded Congressmen of trying to scuttle his farm program s and he warned them tfcjrt they are inviting punishment at the polls A in November. He said that if thtse cuts go through he’ll talk plenty to the voters about it. He’ll ask the farmers in the campaign which way they think they’re most likely to be'taken care of in Nineteen Forty-On®• And then he asked one of the newspaper men in Washington:— nIf those cuts go through, *do you think the farmers will take it out on the administration or on the Republicans?” There were indications 6f a f ight on the economy program. The leaders of the farm bloc in Congress, Congressmen representjSricultural districts, are going to A* meet and plan concerted measures. Martin Jones of Texas, Chairman of the Committee on Agricult ure^ia-^M* U umi . j 88 exasperated as Secretary VialJc'('e> said the reduction thrust a dagger into the heart of agriculture. madden The National Labor Relations Board told Congress part of its own side of the story. J. Warren Madden, Chairman of the Board, was a witness before the House Committee that is holding an investigation. One thing he offered was a pile of letters from business men praising the behavior of the Board. Madden then presented another claim to the Corgressmen. He said that there had been fewer strikes, shorter strikes, and fewer workers involved since Senator Warner1s much debated act came into effect. It was true, he admitted, that in Nineteen Thirty-Eight, there were more strikes than in any previous year except Nineteen Thirty-Seven. However, he pointed out the number of workers involved was less than in any year since Nineteen Tnirty-Two. And he added further that after the United States S uet erne Court upheld the Wagner Act, declared it lawful and constitutional, there was a striking decrease in labor trouble. Marriner & Eccles of Utah is to be reappointed Chairman of the Federal Reserve System, His term will expire at midnight tonight. Reporters asked the President whether Eccless would be reappointed and i4r. Roosevelt replied that K would be a pretty good guess. MRS* aQRAH The late Senator Borah was generally supposed to be a poor man. It /.as quite certain that he had virtually no sources of income outside of his ten thousand a year as a Senator#sa®ii fle was^offered tremendous fees to practice law,^offers turned^down. So one sequel to his death has provided Mrs. Borah with the surprise of her life. When^hi* safety deposit box was A ^ two hundred and seven thousand A opened dollars, partly in thousand dollar bills, partly in government securities. Mrs. Borah explained that she had always believed the Senator would leave her well provided for. They’d lived well but modestly, and she knew Borah had insurance policies in three companies. But now, in addition to^to#*- 1 h » m ^ . d G. a j Qk two hundred and seven nae ttiat- ■fti.ee little n^st--egg thousand dollars A goitfttta. beauty Most of us had been generally taught to believe that a lion was a pretty useless animal, good only for showing in the zoo or a circus when he’s alive and after he’s dead just another rug on the floor of father’s den. tWktFin ancient Egypt they found A another use for simba, as the Africans call the beast. They cut him up, tried out his fat, and put it on the head of a bald-headed man. They mixed it with lard from hippopotamus, crocodile and other beasts that you can see in the zoo. To finish the treatment, they took the jawbone of an ass, yes, the same that Samson used to kill Philistines with. They ground up the donkey’s denture, mixed