FINLANE ’Ilf1 ^<ttr i4} ^4o- \ Yesterday1s news from Finland left considerable doubt about the sitJa.ion of the rival armies on the Karelian Isthmus. Tonight the report from Helsinki is that the Finnish front has~l)een dented A isnB3d^53^j^jiadLJ it has d < A ^dr^arqr sgrtosni daaago <±o thc-gcneral of the fttouaoph^im Herefs the official communique issued by Finland*s War Department. \ It admits that Stalin's generals have been partially successful, have stormed a few gun positions on the advance guard of the Finnish line, in the sector east of Sunma. But the War Department adds that the Red advance was stopped before it had put tJB* artillery positions further back in serious danger. The statement from Finnish headquarters te&s-neAr- ***«i4. there, hag been any rcol dontr-in the1 itHrgr claims that No Man's Land on the t\arelian Istniuus is literally cluttered with thousands of dead and riwKxgHSxaxxxx dozens of broken-down Russian tanks. VAnd it reports further that the Russian attack has not been so fierce today. There was one response to the Finnish cry for help Great Britain, where it was officially announced that FINLAND - 2 the ChaaDerlain Government permits British subjects to enlist in the Finnish Ariny. It is said that t*o thousand Britons have already volunteered to fight against the hordes of Stalin on that frozen front. sob ;. iahin £S A statement in Berlin today has a special meaning ror The Nazis reserve the right to torpedo American ships going to the Mediterranean under certain conditions. That is, if those ships are bound either for Allied ports or for contraband control bases such as Gibraltar./ It doesn’t make any difference whether our ships are going to Gibraltar of their captain’s free will or by compulsion from the British Navy. That’s the latest Hitler’s Government. A It was made known in the course of a reply to protests from Holland. Last Saturday one of Hitler’s submarines torpedoed a steamship of the Holland-America Line. The steamer was bound from New York to Amsterdam. And the Dutch naturally sent in a prompt complaint. One point of the Dutch grievance was that the Nazis were picking on the smaller neutrals but not on the more powerful countries such as the United States. The Nazi Government attempted to justify the torpedoing of that peaceful Dutch liner on the grounds that she was going to stop at the British contraband control base off Dover, England. Consequently, the German sea lawyers figured her as having lost her neutral status. And the German sea lawyers say further that so far SUBSUMES - 2 from discriminating in favor of the United States, they consider they have the legal right to attack our ships if they intend to stop at Gibraltar. Of course if they donTt stop at Gibraltar, they are going to be overhauled by a British man-o-war and taken there by force anyway. So there*s a new headache for our State Department. The diplomats in Washington refused to comment’ on that German statement. But Secretary Hull was scheduled for a conference w'ith British Ambassador Lord Lothian this afternoon, and the Secretary of State intimated that the subject of their conversation would be British contraband control. ADD The most outspoken reaction in Washington to that German pronouncement came from Senator Pitman, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He pointed out that no American merchant ships are armed and declared that it would be unjustifiable and inhuman for such unarmed vessels to be submarined without notice. S id alsi, be unjustifiaV>le and inhurSfcn, added th^ Nevada Senator y government to subraarme a neutral Vessel departing from tfce f a belligerent country, M* it did notVnter that p\rt voluntarily. Pitman then said something which might provide a key to that conference between Secretary Hull and the British Ambassador T -stated that it is within the power of Great Britain to remcwe this grave danger, meamtng the-dangei^a^ 'onr if the British Government gives up its practice of forcing our ships into its ports for contraband control. government. SAFETY ZONE Tne Nazis will not stand for the declaration of Panama, They rex use to recognize that three hundred mile safety zone which the American republics tried to establish in that declaration. Of course in this the Nazis are only following the example of the British who long since rejected the declaration. French- ae -well mild corrid-^r of jdean. The Qerman attitude was expressed today in a note to the President of Panama. The Panamanian Government, in behalf of the other American republics, had protested the presence of the TP ill-fated pocket battleship GRAF SPEE off Montevideo. ''The Nazi reason for rejecting the declaration, in their own words, is that it is without grounds. A^—thc same timgj the-Naeis politely -say. at theV have \ full understanding the wish^jf the Are'Hcas tc/maintain k strict Neutrality l\But they express the converse of fhat the British and l^rench say, thj t the safety zone a IL i . be sful\nly if the British and French were kd^t out. to ther( yc\i are. CENSORSHIP A fresh complaint has been made against the British censors. It comes from three American citizens in Bogota, capital of Columbia. They say they’ve received letters sent by air mail from New York, whih should have reached them in two days but instead of that it took six days. And those letters, say the American citizens, had been opened and contained paper slips with the words "Opened by the uuKuxljs censor.” There appears to be some mystery about thir complaint. The head office of Pan-American Airwaythat the only place where the British itaSfe^opening our mail is at Bermuda, and letters to Columbia ^.a not go by way of BtrrfflKl** They go^bjerwey-of Jamaica. Mail transported by airships is not censored at Jamaica, according to Pan-American, Wu t‘il^profrafrly..-b ezhnaring- inor-s^sf^tfti s iri The soldiers of Uncle Sam would be out of luck if they had to go into battle tomorrow. Such is the statement of an officer in the army. Major Marston of Uncle SamTs Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, declares that our doughboys would be annhilated if theyforeign tank £rVA-r"? ct, detachments, that is, with the defensive weapons which^w»-*r^ I K’ now using. In the present European War, says Major Marston, all belligerents have array of tanks and mechanized i*. A / A ferces- 'tmi. ^Hfp!ie ~ts in sore need of A anti-tank weapons. TttEEDSIJUIR With full military honors the late Lord Tweedsmuir was buried at Ottowa today. Canada’s Governor-General y/as preceded by an escort of the Governor-General’s personal foot guards, the Fourth Princess Louise Dragoon Guards, the Cameron Highlanders, and other units of the Canadian Army. His casket was carried by eight pallbearers, representing the Army, Navy, Air Force and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. His widow. Lady Tweedsmuir, was accompanied by her second son, the Honorable Alastair^uchan. Her eldest son is in England with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. In ii a f n n h , it w n ■ a s -one -»f ^ iacX^lw«acr In the front pews were the Administrator, Sir Lyman Duff Chief Justice of Canada^ Prime Minister MacKenzie-King, an array of lieutenant-governors from the various provinces, archbishops. bishops, cabinet ministers, members of the Privy Council,^ judges. In London, meanwhile, people were discussing the possible successor to Lord Tw?eedsinuir. Some observers were prophesying that the choice for tne new Governor-General lay between the DuKe of Devonshire and the Earl of Elgin. The father TttKEDSiiiUIR - 2 of the Duke of Devonshire was Governor-General at Ottowa from Nineteen Sixteen to Nineteen Twenty-One. But it has also been suggested tt'-t an exceedingly popular and useful appointment would be that of the Duke of VMndsor.ta A £ lw> ROQSLVbLT IMiere has President Koosevelt gone? That seems to be the big mystery today. N0body kno*s, Ut least nobody will tell^o^ why there is so much secrecy surrounding his departure from Washington.efl^a All we kjiow is that, accompanied by aides, physicians and secretaries, he left the White House in a snowstorm, rushed to the station, and got aboard a special train on the Southern Railway. Usually, Mr. Roosevelt takes the public into his confidence when he^ going on a vacation or fishing trip. But this time it!s all veiled in darkness. The guessing is that he’s going for a cruise in the Gulf Stream. And that’s backed up by the known fact that the cruiser TUSCALOOSA, accompanied by a couple of destroyers, sailed into Pensacola |Jay at eight o’clock this morning and dropped anchor. Furthermore, the naval air station at Pensacola reported that the warships were under order to sail tomorrow morning. So the inference is that they’re taking the President for a sporting cruise. LA? OR The Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board gave out some interesting information today. Firms of whom the Labor Board disapproves, that is firms whom the Labor Board finds to have violated the Wagner Act, will get no loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, This is the result of an arrangene nt between the R.F.C. and the Labor Board. Each week the Reconstruction Finance Corporation will submit to the^a list of firms who want government loans. But the loans will get a final oKay only if they are approved by the ESI*©* Board. Vc-trw /< ^ A /the Tiie blizzard .ttis/ove ba northeastern states came from West Virginia. fcfc=£effB*r^hat1 s what the Weather Bureau says. A storm of marked intensity centered over that state and at half past four this morning was moving east on the wings of a gale. Storm warnings were ordered flown all the way from the Virginia Capes up to Eastport, Maine. And^inland, that, blizzard rais*4phavoc with traffic. Icy highways, snowdrifts. It was reported as the heaviest snow of the winter in Pennsylvania and Jsre* ttsidsacfcdaxcwcstfnpa New York. More than eighteen inches at Pittsburgh and twenty inches at Cambria, Pennsylvania. Virtually all the highways in West Virginia^blocked, motor transportation crippled, also the airlines. Even train service delayed. Many accidents because of icy highways. And the warning broadcast by highway police in several states is, "Don’t drive your car unless you absolutely have to.” There is some consolation from the weather sharks - they say this present cold spell won’t last long. But a earning is issued for fruit and vegetable growers down South, - anotner freeze due in Florida. PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBIT The First International Salon of Nature Photography ' In r* iimiji in the New England Museum of Natural History, has attracted attention from photographers all over the world* was judged tocay by a committee headed by Explorer Bradford Washburn* ax The winner of the silver challenge cup which h&U* awarded for the finest ohotograph in competition i r ‘ l -^T tf*k**«*Ut ptTturp Despite the international situation, entries poured in ta the Neiy England Museum for months, -ineludintr prints from China, Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Canada, France, England, Sweden and New Zealand. Of the seven hundred pictures submitted eftly two hundred and thirty three have been- selected to hang /V /[ in the Main Hall of the Museum.-- the-suhjeots-ge-veped -wdde :t:Cr-jr^ant -^nd an-TmeT as w^-Hr-§us-s nu&beg—o/ gupcrh—so'eiilg" sliu Lsr This salon is xx a part of the new program that explorer Bradford Washburn has now directed for nearly a year in order to bring this New England Institution back to life and the prominence which it enjoyed over a century ago. TtiJNIS A judge in Massachusetts doesnH seem to think so much of tennis players. Mrs. Sara Palfrey Fabyan, the third ranking womanT s champion, brought suit against her husband for divorce. She charged that Fabyan had been cruel and abusive. By way of backing it up, she said that the young husband* s cruelty consisted of not liking tennis and speaking disrespectfully of her tennis friends. (Could it be that he used the phrase invented for them by Westbrook Pegler, "tennis bums?**) Whether he did or whether he didn*t, that Massachis etts Judge did not consider that a lack of respect for tennis and its -h-> c> devotees was cruel and abusive conduct. He dismissed the lady’s A petition. GRAVY Let. v* now eonsltiei- r* a a the tragedy of a spot of gravy. on a dress suit. For several months, the fashionable ladies of the San Francisco Social Register have been delighted by the charms and graces of Captain Louis Pellsier. He was so charming and talked so well, that several of them gave him jobs to decorate their rich homes on Nob Hill. They understood he was a daptain in the French army, a foreign agent, also heir to a million dollar fortune in South Africa. Then the opera season opened in San Francisco. Naturally, every fashionable figure had to attend, and Captain Louis Pellsier, in a handsome dress suit, was amon^ those present. That was his downfall. For it led to the arrest of the handsome captain^ Arrest on a charge of having rented that dres suit, and not returning it. brought to light an interesting story. Captain A Pellsier had not returned the dress suit because he had spilled gravy on it and he thought the owner would be angry. But the owner was still angrier because the dress suit didnH show up at all. he would rather have had it, gravy and all, than no dress suit. GRAVY - 2 Then Captain Louis Pellsier admitted to the judfee that he was not a foreign agent, not a captain in the French Army, not heir to a million dollar fortune in South Africa. ^He was Just plain, ^ > vv ^^ _ co.i.aon garden^ variety Aaericaaj not a refugee from war torn Kurop ^ U) but a refugee from America's own dust bowl. And are thsix there 7 red faces on Nob Hill today all because of a spot of gravy on jfc_cLgesg- l \ w> GLAMDUK John Held, Jr., the illustrator, stuck his neck out the other day when he made rude remarks about glamour. He yfcrinr A- fit A % specifically on the glamour girl of whom we^ve been hearing so much -qttfrke --enou gh John Held says that the Ann Sheridans wiih Lx l n < y their oomph, the Brenda Fraziers^and the Dorothy Lamours with their ^ !£Lza&*xh are just so much spinsctra ^tb-o PtLx TtsaA rude remark^iJM^t^pl^P^P^ some of the aagui^icowi . of Hollywood. ' Hollywood. They retorted writh equally rude remarks about John Held, Jr. •with the «—w heg-^iwgyuB -juxkeh—eyrYtach■ -Bo-1noV\Tiat are we going to LTW j do about those glamour girls? Cheer up, theyT11 be grandmothers A one of these days A motto most appropriate to Valentine's Day had been adopted by a bureau of the government w Chicago. It's quite an interesting idea. No i.ian may be discharged by his employers in Illinois for tka±yk* anything that he does when he's in love. You may think it's a gag, but apparently it isn't. On the contrary, it's a rule formulated by the Illinois Division of Unemployment Compensation and a notice to this effect was posted in that bureau at Chicago today. Mis conduct because of a decline in efficiency due to love or love-sickness, must not be considered as a lawful reason for discharging a worker. Any man who is so discharged is immediately entitled to benefits from the Unemployment Compensation Fund. The Bureau spates in so many words that "love is in the same class with floods, earthquakes and other cataclysms of nature known as 'acts of God4'n will-?*;-' » ■*fi—iovtr- end