HALIFAX The new Foreign Minister of Great Britain has teen a stately figure for years. Nothing could be more stately than a Viceroy of India. And that was what Lord Halifax was £&£ yefii’3^ a^o . i erhaps some of you with acute meiaories may retort; Hjfte never heard of an Indian Viceroy named Lord Halifax.n That’s "true, ihe nobleman was Lord Irwin then. He has since succeeded to the title of Viscount Halifax. His taking over the Foreign Office creates a rather peculiar condition. He’s a peer of the realm, and therefore sits in the House of Lords, and is not a member of the House of Commons. It is the British custom for the cabinet ministers to appear in the Commons and answer to the M-iP^s for their policies. Lord Halifax can't do that. And therein lies one of the important points stressed by the opposition, the Labor Party, which is exceedingly angry about his taking over the Foreign Office. One viewpoint Is that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is taking foreign tffairs"for negotiations with Italy very much in his own hands. Since His Lordship, the Viscount, cannot appear before the House of Commons,^ will speak for the HALIFAX - 2 Foreign Office? The Prime Minister himself - that’s what Seville Chamberlain announced today* he1!! speak to the Commons on points of international policy. tef*w Anthohy Eden,\stated h^s position today\to a gathering of Vis constituents \ He related \ \ \ \ \ his Slaira that the British government IsJ^gHga^ingV^ith It^y on ti oasis if a , a now^or-never Varning from MussoMni. And he said the Bfitish-Malian tarns, whicii^he oppose^, may hatee the "gravest consequence^ for the liritish ekoire. The French were busy debating those British-Italian negotiations today. Chamber of Deputies staged a long discussion. Officially, itfs a question whether or not to give a vote of confidence to the government of Premier Chautemps - on the basis of foreign policy. But the real concern of the debate was*- is Great Britain in its new policy toward Italy abandoning France? That’s the worry. We are told that the French Premier and Foreign Minister were given assurances today by the British Am who told them that England is still hand m glov^ with France as much as ever. AUSTRIA ^The Nazi—Germans are still angry about yesterday’s declaration of Austrian indepdence. They say that in retaliation Navi influence will drive Chancellor Schuschnigg out.^ In Italy ( the jubilation still continues. Mussolini^ Fascists are curious, since the Duce and Hitler are supposed to be so hand in hand - the Rome-Berlin axis. So, the inevitable question is, *'Has the British move to strike up friendship with Italy already had results?1’ Is. Mussolini, in his eagerness for a settlement with Britain, showing signs so soon of drawing away from Hitler? because here's a dispatch from Rome announcing that the Italian army in k^ii:aDc±sxiiK±Kg Libya Is being reduced immediately* Libya is next door to Egypt and the Sues Canal, and heavy Italian forces there are mm an irritating threat against Britain* He certainly seems to be eager for a settlement. The Rome dispatch declares that a lot of Italian soldiers are being taken out of the colony - temporarily. The temporary being taken out of the colony is emphasized by the statement that the troops are being given anSTRIA - £ furloughs, a sort or vacation of three months in Italy. Their withdrawal will become permanent when and if a British-Itallan agreement is definitely made. Another indication of the Duce*a sudden good-will toward Englandt— London reports that it has word of a big rush in Italy to buy British goods* Italian importers are hurrying to place orders In England. That1s the immediate result of the British-1talian negotiations that are now going on. But what about Toscanini? Odd how m prominent^ (K K musician should be in the affairs of f. nation^’ When the Austrian surrender to Hitler was announced^ he declared that he wouldn*t go this year to conduct the great Mosart^Musical Festival at Salzburg. But now, after the Vienna Chancellor proclaimed that Austria would remain free - hov, does that affect Toscanini? That's what Austria wants to know. Today, the President of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra cabled to the -j _. jt a r+er our Chancellor ' s Maestro in Hew York. The cable rea speech, we joyfully await yOUr that the event reply to that? A shake of the head. 'V of yesterday has not made him chant,© his mind. NO EEL "i?FtLe3Uf A new tragic note )W entered tsSaw* i-h. ^ ^ /! the tragic case of Carl von OssietzKy, the Nobel Peace Prize winner. Remember the story as we heard it some time ago? Von Ossietsky, the pacifist was In a Nazi concentration camp, because he was a pacifist and anti-Nazi. And thereupon the Nobel (Committee awarded him the Peace Prize for NineteenThirty-Six. It was wondered then whether the prisoner in the concentration camp would be allowed to receive the forty thousand dollars. Later we heard that von Ossietsky had been set free was ill, in a hospital. Today in Berlin a fifty-one year old lawyer went on trial for swindling. The charge is this:- at the time when it was doubtful whether Ossietsky would be allowed to have the Nobel forty thousand dollars, the lawyer undertook to get it for him - for a fee of six thousand dollars. Ossietsky gave the lawyer a power of attorney, and the Idwyei got the y fourteen ttioutscind dolXsirs They say he admits that he gave fawsiKEn io of it to an eighteen year old sweetheart, tie lent other to friends of his. When he was all tnrough, the Nobe reduced to six thousand, which is all thousand dollars was NOBEL - 2 that Carl von Ossietsky got. He comxDlained to the police, and now the lawyer is being prosecuted for fraud. tt*** bitter aftermath in the drama of the prisoner in a Hazi concentration camp, who won the Peace Prize jabak J a pan uitidp a. stgnii leant uiovs today "with rssoect to sfesx its puppet stste of Mancnukuo. It was decreed that in the /K IA* w A q SL. case of war Manehukuo «*«» to become a part of Japan, Tokio A A. Administration . In Japan proper it's the law that in war time the Army v,;ill have dictatorial powers over economic affairs — business, finance. ho now that same thing will apply to Manehukuo, The Japanese ^roiy there will exercise a dictatorship, ***, ^vetr ^^iSLeu . * ^>o ~t£j£ CHINA Today1s American warning to Japan grows out of the series of representations in the Far East. The Japanese in China Issued notice, saying they were undertaking military lit operations in central China, and they «rned Americans that ( they might be in danger. The fef®e^e«i"being! - clear ouU / The attitude of the American representative in the Far East was the Japanese might go ahead with their military operations in ^central China, but that didn't interfere with the right of Americans to stay there if they wanted to - and be protected. The Japanese issued another warning, demanding that Americans mark their property in such a way that the Japanese could recognize it as American. United States Ambassador Grew replied that he would issue no such order. He said that Americans were marking their property voluntarily - but even if they didn’t, the Japanese would be held responsible if it were destroyed. All this today officici:l<' Washington to Tokyo. It tells Japan that Americans have right to live in China, any J&panesI dlltwy°“' any^American^roperty ^°they would be held responsible. un I S18 The hot argument about airplane versus battleship, came ^ to a cl imax today with official word from the White House. Congress has been wrangling so much about the relative powers of sky ami sea, that now the President speaks his verdict and he is Commander-inChief of the iMavy, His decision favors — battlsehips. He declared today that giant dreadn.augb.ts were st the dominating element of sea power. While the President was saying this, he was being borne ;u|l out by some techinical figures given before the House Committee on iMaval Affairs. Hear Admiral Arthur B. Cook, Chief of Naval Aernautics, was the expert witness. He described the fire of a modern dreadnaught with nine sixteen inch guns, cannon shooting 2100 pound shells. Each guns would hurl one hundred shells an hour., making nine hundred shells for all teau He d eclared it would take four hundred and fifty airplanes to deliver an equal explosive power in the form of bombs. He reckoned that a squadron of fifteen battle­ ships would shoot the same amount of destruction per hou i ^ it •'up fifteen battleships would be dropped by 6750 bombers. He said ne about a cost axaxxix® billion cost over two billion and a quarter AHi^r*** While the 6750 bombers would Bo, according to the Admiral, those fabulously expensive sea giants provide a cheaper form of destruction than bombers, which cost so much less per unit. PROFITS The Military Affairs Committee of the House has put Its o.<ay on o bill to stop wer profiteering. They^ve been wrangling about it, because some lawmakers think it would give the government powers too broad and sweeping. The bill proposes to give to the President the right to establish a price limit if the United States goes into a war - to stop profiteering. Also - powers for a drastic wartime regulation of industry. There’s one thing in the bill that has nothing to do with profiteering - it specifies a draft, conscription, making all men between twenty-one and thirty-one liable for military service. TNTFRIOK Ac cor.ling to what the Appropriations Committee of the lower Bouse voted today - the Department of the Interior will get a hundred and twenty-five and a half million, which is two million less than ws asked. In this Secretary of the Interior Ickes will get money for publicity, but not as much as he asked. This publicity item caused a lot of argument, and the amount was scaled down. STOCK aAf-KET The Stock Market went up a bit Suring the latter part of the day, in spite of a couple of pieces of news calculated to discourage buying. Both concern the automobile industry. The Chrysler Company skipped a dividend, because of the uncertain state of business, uncertain profits- ^nd.General / Motors declared a salary reduction' for all employees except workers covered by union contracts. * cJ? and big for salaries in the higher brackets, \ for small salaries pr.RsaiHG The nev'S about Gener-al Pershing is doubly melancholy tonight, because the immedic t- facts are optimistic, even gay. The General is a bit better, staged a r-H^nj \n iij, niness - <3L so much so that he jc-Ked v^ith his aide, sergeant. He smiled, /\ and made a cheery remark. All of this viould be heartening to hear, if it were not for the physician*s continued report - almost no chance. The war Commander of the A.E.F. is not expected to recover. CRASH In the news this morning - a morning - a tragic aiijfcrash of a millionaire private plane. And it's the sane story all over millionaire private plane. And it’s again - this evening. Ranch of .VIIlian Randolph Hearst, the multi-millionaire publisher was waiting for the arrival of distinguished guests - by air:- lord Plunkett, member of the Irish Parliament and friend of King leorge, and Lady Plunkett, daughter of the famous actress, Fanny Ward. Lady Plunkett inherited a million dollars from her father, andlady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth. The third guest was James Lawrence, son of Sir Walter Lawrence, a wealthy Londoner. They were flying from Burbank to San Simeon in a plane owied by thsxHEStKXtxniSKS^xp a Hearst newspaper. A4—t- -irr'the^empboy stood waiting on the porch of the As the famous publisher. , with other guests about him, e San Simeon mansion, the plane the private Hearst airfield. It turned to come back, but plunged suddenly, crashed, and burst CRASH - £ into flames. Lord and Lady Plunkett were killed instantly. So was the pilot. The third passenlfe^L. All, ln slght of vvllliam Randolph Hearst and his guests, as they stood on the porch of San Simeon. s plane crash news comes from Reno - city of divorces. And two of the personalities involved have (M sl figured abundantly in divorce court affairs. Mrs. Lois Clarke A deRuyter Spreckels Clinton, she knows Reno well, having gone through three divorces there in the last six years, one of her ex-husbands, Number Two, Adolph Spreckels, heir to a sugar fortune. He too has been in the divorce courts three times. The lady, her ex-husband, and two friends, flew from San Francisco to Reno for a party in divorce town. Jay be they were renewing sentimental memories of the severance of m«rriafae. After a few hours of merry-making in Reno, they got plane to fly back to San Francisco. The pilot took off, but at a hundred feet the speeding plane side-slipped and crashed. One Wing hit the ground and the plane went over and over like a cart wheel. The fusilage crac ed open, and the occupants were flung CRASH - ? The pilot was killed. Mrs. Lois Clarke deRuyter Spreckels Clinton was badly ihjuz-ed. Her ex-husband, Adolph Spreckels, was injured too, but not so seriously - as were the other two passengers. The lady and her ex-husband now have to remember Reno ^ A in addition to their divorces. A mansion Near Greenwich, Connecticut, there's a Rockefeller mansion which they-re go Ins to tear down - and they-ll hare trouble doing itm Ih'eyri! :lave to blast that Rockefeller home with dynamite, it*s so powerful^and massively built. Percy Rockefeller was a nephew of John D., the king of oil. He had a three hundred acre estate near Greenwich, and this has now been sold to be turned into a real estate development. They’ve pot to remove the millionaire mansion, which is built of massive concrete- walls aasw three feet thick - all afeat special^ reenforced construction. Why did Percy Rockefeller build his home like that? That was revealed today. He had a strange phobia, a haunting terror. He was afraid of earthquakes. II* lived in mortal fea of the tremplors that shake the ground. So he built his home - earthquake-proof in the most elaborate way - so indest , . . + fn ta]/-e it down. And.he that now they’ll have to dynamite it to w s ..■Minn dollars in earthquake carried policies totalling a milim insurance. KIDNAP Here's an old gag in a new setting 9 a venerable wheeze dramatized with a thrill. At Buffalo, a passerby saw two men seize a woman, toss her into an automobile, and go speeding away. The quick-witted onlooker took the lixKEKKBXiamkKXx license number of the car, and dashed to the nearest police station, announcing - kidnapping. Swift detective v/ork, as the cops checked the license number, and put a phone call in to the owner of the car. ny.'ho was the lady you kidnapped?” shouted the police. To which the voice on the other end of the wire responded - ’’That was no lady. That was my wife." Anyway, that's the way the P t - pss renorts it - an old wheeze in a new setting.