of Europe. The most important news on that count c^nc~ fr^m It looks as though progress were being made in the movement to find a haven for the Jews in some continent. ^ JMS , Ufir. r some continent outside Prime Minister Chamberlain of England. He told the House of Commons that there were ten thousand square miles of land available in British Guiana^*which could be jcxxsuul thrown open to refugees from Germany, That sounds munificent, but there was also a sour note in the outlook that Chamberlain offered. The ground will have to be most carefully surveyed, he admitted. That region in. British Guiana is healthy and fertile, situated on a plateau inland. However, it1 s difficult to get to, a lot of it is forest land actually impenetrable And the proposition will have to be surveyed by experts. he had had from the government Tanganyika,one of the former German colonies seized after the World War. The government of Sawgauiiacxxiaid Tanganyika told the prime Minister th«it some ten Chamberlain also reported to’ the House a communication thousand acres were available there for settlement of Jewish colonies. There are rich valleys in Tanganyika. The native population is about five million, and there are already fifteen thousand Europeans there, including many German. Lots of people have said: "Why not let the Hews go to their homeland in Palestine?" Chamberlain's answer to that in the House was, "Palestine cannot provide a solution for the Jewish refugee problem." He didn't explain, but the explanation was hardly necessary. Small country, inhabited and surrounded by hostile Arabs. There was no little surprise today when it became known that the Nazis themselves have been working on a solution of the refugee problem. It was reported in Berlin th^t the Hitler government has opened negotiations with several republics in South And Central America. And it is said that the Minister from Santo Domingohad gone to Bavaria to confer with Fuehrer Hitler on the possibility of a German-Jewish settlement on Dominican soil. One interpretation of Germany's South American proposal is that itT s a slap in the face at the British and ourselves* The Nazis resent our efforts to find homes for German Jews. Hitler*s own newspaper says BGermany is doing everything possible to ease the situation of Jews who are willing to emigrate.B Another sinister bit of news leaked out fromGermany today. All school children were made to write down the names and addresses of all their kinsfolk living in foreign countries. The obvious inference is that German Jews who have relatives living in countries where protests against Nazi conduct are allowed, will be subject to special rigorous treatment. K2M There was a meeting of the German-American Bund last Friday night at Astoria, new York. Today the District Attorney of Queens County is trying to verify reports on some of the speeches pii lil ii T.lmgt A former police magistrate of were made^ A New York City charges that one of the speakers had urged the assembly to attack American Jews^y j Another called on the people to smash the shield of Abraham, and one of them referred to President Roosevelt as President "Rosenfelt” a^L So said that ex-magistrate. As a matter of fact, some newspaper readers will recall that Finley Peter Dunn used to have his once famous character. Mr. Dooley, constantly refer to Theodore Roosevelt as Teddy "RosenfeltT ^^ddy was himself one of the most enthusiastic readers of Mr. Dooley. Among the speakers at thjfi^meeting was Fritz Kuhn, national leader of the German-American Bund, who has been described as tne I Fuehrer of the Nazis in America. Kuhn will be instantly prosecuted. says the District Attorney, if he said any of the things he is reported to have said. DIES | Over the weekend, a lot of secret testimony was given before tne Dies Committee on Un—American activities. The witnesses were officials of Uncle Sani!s government. Who those officials were is known only to themselves and to the members of the committee. Their names are being withheld from the public because they don't want to come out in the open and repeat what they told the Committee. But today Chairman Dies gave out a sensational statement about what those officials testified. It indicated, he said, a most alarming situation in the government. There are certain individuals, he declared, in Uncle Sam's service, who make it a business to promoie class hatred within the ranks of government servants. "The government machine," said Dies, "government publications are deliberately used to promote and spread this class hatred throughout the United States." Dies also declared that there are at least two hundred organisations in the country^ spreading propaganda of racial hatred. Two different attempts have been made, he said, to unite these two hundred organizations into one group. An investigator for DIES - 2 the committee explained why those efforts had failed. Said he: "They failed because they couldnft decide on who was to be the super-fuehrer ." Also they realized that if they got together in one group* many of their sources of revenue would dry up on them. BONDS People who own bonds of the government that used to be Austria seem to be out of luck. The State Department made an announcement on the subject today. When Hitler took over Austria, Secretary Hull x±gmixKXMi±*x± sent a note to Berlin. He notified the Nazis that they h-"" —tn ~impr>r>fo ttr make good any money owed by Austria to the United States and to its citizens* In Nineteen Twenty, Uncle Sam sent Austria grain and flour wcrth In other words, the Nazi government took over Austrian assets but are not making good on* the liabilities. A — % c more than twenty-four million dollars*. American citizens have than twenty-four million dollars^American citizens have that Germany’s replies to his note have been unsatisfactory. CZECHS Representatives of Czechoslovakia signed on the dotted line again, the dotted line of an agreement with. Nazi Germany. 11 *3 which finally fixes the border between Czechoslovakia and Germany and accepts all the revisions of the original agreement. another issue. They’ve given the Nazis the right to build an automobile highway from Breslau in Germany to Vienna, passing north an \ tiie Czecil terri1;ory* This isn’t exactly new, it was foreshadowed several weeks ago. But what is new is the admission that this highway will be a corridor across Czechoslovakia, just as the Poles have a corridor across Prussia. German police stations and German customs houses will be located at all crossings. And the Czechs give the Nazis the strip of land two hundred feet wide and forty miles long. Similarly, they donate territory to the Germans to build a canal between the But the Czechs came to terms with Hitler on still River Danube and the River Oder. FRANCE Advices from Paris bring word that the French government embarrassed by the anti-Semitic campaign in Germany. Ever since Munich, Premier Daiadier and Foreign Minister Bonnet have been working on a friendly agreement with Hitler, the no-more-war policy, It is even reported that the papers have been signed, that France and Germany definitely undertake to xs give up any idea of going to war in future. But public opinion in France is almost as violently aroused against the Nazis as in England and the United States, The consequence is that the French government the unhappiest countries in Europe. For one thing, there^ a strong feeling against England, a belief that the Chamberlain government is going to let the French down still further. And strikes are on the increase in several parts of the country. The labor unions decline to accept the decrees of trie Daiadier Cabinet, the increased taxes* the increased working hours, which they've been doesn't dare ■e make-that agreement with Hitler- X * Other dispatches convey the idea that France is one of and told will be necessary if France is to cope with possible enemies. DEVILS ISLAND When Leon Blum was Premier of France one of the reforms he proposed was to abolish DeYil's Island as a place of imprisonment for criminals. The Daladler Government revoked the Blum policy. stsx said France could not afford to maintain the criminals in prisons at home. Jt-'prlsott ship was about to start for that place of horror, the first in a couple of years^with six hundred and seventy-three convicts aboard. Gales delayed the sailing of the ship* Over the week-end there was a sanguine mutiny on small ^ ^ * § * island off La Koehelle where those criminals were being held^for the prison ship. Twenty of them sustained bad knife wounds. But the authorities rushed negro ±x soldiers, Senegalese troops to put JL down tha^ mutiny, Meanwhile the news that Daladler had revoked Blum1s reform A* aroused indignation all over the country# Protests came from every part of Mu France* Late today the government was obliged to u. ,0 .».« •« or rrr... .hi, Island was indefinately postponed. t! i Ha, ha, here* s an old friend among news items, those War Debts again. It’s certainly a hardy perennial. An English newspaper brings the problem up. The English editor does a bit of wishful thinking with the prophecy that the new trade treaty between Uncle Sam and John Bull may be the forerunner of a settlement of the debt question. The repudiation of those debts didnft worry Europeans much until Congress passed the Hiram Johnson Act; the law which makes it impossible for countries owing money to Uncle Sam to float any loans here. Ever since then, of course, not a government except Finland, has been able to borrow American money. In Washington, the State Department said that the trade treaty had absolutely no effect whatsoever on the Johnson Saw. The law is in force and the only way foreign countries could get around it is to comply with it. KENNEDY In the City of Cleveland* thereTs an employee of Uncle Sam whose name alis&sV deserves to become immortal. The name is Raymond Kennedy, and he has been government inspector of materials for the navy. Why make him immortal? He has quit his job because "Every year I’m supposed to inspect propellers, airplane engines, A submarine parts, in huge quantities. If I did it, as the specifications say, I'd have to be in five different factories at the same minutes,” And he explains further: ”So what do I do. any closer to than you have." Then he adds: "in the United States there are some two thousand inspectors just like myself, costing the government about two million a year.” And ksxxxy says Honest Man Kennedy: "To carry this pretense any further would be incompatible with my oath of office and dictates of my conscience.” he didn* t think he was earninc h-i s esla-mr ttenotc. o QTr-nl qvi q +-4 r»v.. I make out reports saying that I’ve seen things that I haven1t been STRIKE The strike which began in Chicago today threatens the dinner tables of millions of people. Those famous stockyards, the largest livestock market in the world, are virtually paralyzed. It1s a C.I.O. strike. The livestock handlers walked out just as the market was k about to open at six o'clock this is the culmination of arguments between the Union and A the stockyards company»4hat—have-boen-g-^in^on fog aovoral According to the police only a hundred and seventy-eight men are out| according to the Union leaders five hundred men are on strike out of seven hundred. The Annual International Livestock Expafition is due to A open in five days. The police say that the stockyards handlers have been threatening to walk out around this date fcsx every year for several years. A special force of a hundred Chicago cops is preserving order at the stockyards. But not a single transaction was accomplished today. ROGERg Four years ago, the name of George w. Rogers was cheered wherever it was heard, Rogers was the radio operator aboard the MORRO CASTLE when she caught fire. But for the pluck and endurance of George Rogers, many more people would have been burned to death or drowned. He was the hero of the day, <Z Today, George W. Rogers was 43ft prisoner at the bar in A a New Jersey court, Accused of having tried to kill another man with a bomb in order that he might get his job. Rogers recently had been employed as the radio operator on the Bayonne Police Force. Last March, a bomb exploded at headquarters. The lieutenant who was the superior officer of George Rogers was severely injured, badly mutilated. After a long investigation, Rogers was accused of having committed that crime in order that he might be promoted. The police lieutenant who was injured was not only his superior officer but his closest friend, and he said at the time: "I wouldn't believe Rogers had done that unless h4 admitted it himself.” When court opened today, Rogers said he didn t want a jury, he was willing to be tried just by the judge. SUICIDE At Hastings-on-^ Hudson, a well-to-do man died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Superficially, his death had the earmarks of suicide, and the police were about to let it go at that. But after a while, they didn’t care for the way in which the dead man’s widow answered their questions. Her comment was so flippant and full of wisecracks that finally they took the lady into custody. After nine hours’ questioning, the cops say she admitted that she had helped her husband to kill himself. She < took the hose off the vacuumleaner so that he could put it on the A exhaust pipe of his automobile, then gave him an eggnog and went downtown shopping. She also took several snapshots of him, presuably mementoes. When she returned, he was dead^she turned 25* m VL^fn) off the engine of his car, and report ftafcnre* she is accused of manslaughter in the first degree. U me ana draw-if-r^H* Lu iLl11 himochfm It^so came to light, th* police say, that the lady A is the beneficiary of a ten thousand dollar insurance policy that her husband took out. WEATHER Here's a bit of news about which there is no question, for it's sure to interest everybody,* Thanksgiving Day— weather, You may be skiine. sleiehimr or skating on Turkev Day* All over Canada and over the northwestern states, vast masses of cold air are sweeping towards the east. They'll reach the middlewest tomorrow and will land on the Atlantic coast probably by Wednesday afternoon, and as they come they'll send thermometers toping everywhere.