POLITICS —-T • - SUNOCO Tues., Sept, gg. 19.^0 This even Ing *s violent clash of* political principles reminds one of two philosophers in desperate opposition. One of them arises In defiance and declares. ^I*ve discovered that the moon Is made of green cheese, inlaid with vermilion boloney.” The antagonistic philosopher jumps up boiling with wrath and denounces: "You didn’t discover that!” he roars, ”1 did,” That's what you'd call a clash of principles - a Des Moines clash. Tonight at Des Moines, Governor Landon delivers the first of a series of addresses, as he swings around a circle in the middlewest. We know one thing he'll say. We've been told it in advance. Is it something that the New Deal will oppose with grim determination? Not at all. It's just the opposite. Let's go back to the fact tnat President Roosevelt handed to Secretary of Agriculture Wallace the job of working out a plan to help the farmers - this to be presented to Congress at its next session. And the plan was - crop Insurance It's a government scheme to insure the man behind the plough against a had season in wheat. cojrn_a1nd—cotton^------------------- POLITICS - £ The monaent this was made public, the Republicans raised a holler. They said the Roosevelt crop insurance idea was really a Landon inspiration. The Democrats were stealing Re- publicaix -founder. And to prove it, they published a section of the speech that Governor Landon is to declaim tonight, a section coining out in favor of crop insurance. The speech was already prepared, bad been written in fact, before Secretary Wallace’s announcement of Jr op insurance. So the Republicans charged that the New Dealers had learned POLITICS ; - s about tne crop insurance part of^Lancion*V speech tonight, and had swiped it. Governor Landon adds that for some time past he has been t.s.lklng crop insnrsnce with leeders of egricnlt'ui’e* To all oi this. Secretary Wallace denies the Administration has swiped, cribbed and plagiarized the Landon idea, "We thought of it ourselves,” is the gist of the SecretaryTs rebuttal. He declares he didn*t know.a thing about what was to be in. asserts that the Democrats had no * 1 o advance information about the crop insurance part of it. So there you have the violent clash of political | principlesnItfs my idea.,! nNo, it isn’t, it’s mine!” Iowa controversy, Des Mo£4iB& argu^^J^* The fever heat of these contradictions is such that the Republican candidate has called off his fishing trip for Friday. Or maybe that’s because the .Governor considers the middle west a critical area, and wants to devote his full attention to the campaign^ Anyway, it looks like we’ll have crop insurance. The campaign rises to melodrama when we hear about the iJEfcEMEmc international bandits. Those international bandits are POLITICS - 4 out to control the V A',? , Theyf re backing President Roosevelt. They*re backing Governor Landon. And they'll be in control if either Roosevelt or Landon wins. But they won't be in control I TflLrCfcr Lemke is going to win.1 That's what the Union Jtx fcandidate declares out in Illinois. Congressman Lemke anno’onces^ the American people are getting wise to the fact that bothrparties S O — ~kk 9 flocking to his banner. Which makes his election a sure thing. are backed by tiD* international bandits, ,are FORUM FOLLOW POLITJ.CS Tomorrow all the presidential Candidates will make a speech. They111 be heard by the same gathering - President Roosevelt, governor Landcn, Congressman bemke. Socialist Norman Thomas, Social-Labor!te John W, Aiken, Communist Earl Browder, and Prohibitionist Leigh Colvin, there were so many candidates. And theyfll all be on the same platform, at New York’s 'vVa Id o r f - A s t o ri a -- all except two. President Roosevelt’s address will be rece.rved over the radio, and .so will Governor Landon’s. The seven presidential candidates, by radio or in person, will speak to the NEW YORK .HERALD-TRIBUNE1S Si^Annual Conference on Current Problems, This year’s conference is devoted to - «The New Way of Living.11 It began today, with a gathering of women leaders from all over the nation. Mrs. Roosevelt, as First Lady of the Land, was to have presided. But she is still laid up in Washington with a touch of the ,iflu,t • So the gavel was in the hand of Mrs. William BrAwn Meloney, editor of the HERALD- TRIBtJh^ma^azine, Week.f Mrs. Meloney is the founder of Forum on Current problems. She read an address by Mrs. A. Roosevelt on "A Social Conscience for Better Living." That for today, and tomorrow will come the procession of the _ . —------ - ■ , SPAIN Tonight the news froa Spain recalls some other news from Spain, four hundred and forty-fear years ago. Then.the word went abroad that a Genoj captain had sailed away to the west, to reach the Indies. Months later, there was further word that this same sea captain had returned from the west, returned from the Indies - the We^fc Indies of course, not the jast, but they didn't know it then. " Why does the news from Spain today recall the memory of Christopher Columbus? Because the Republic of Santo Domingo has lodged a protest writh the Red government of Madrid. President Trujillo angrily denounces * KiULing by the Reds. In Santo Domingo, so they say, rests the body of the great, discoverer. And the man they’ve executed in Spain was the chief lineal descendant of Christopher Columbus, The Dominican him come to their island, where they receive him with honor. But now that nobleman's body has been found, riddled with bullets. Columbus, in reward for nis discovery, was granted noble rank and great privileges by Ferdinand and Isabelle. These rights SPAIN - 2 descended to his heirs. And the family of Columbus remained enabled in Spam as the Dukes of Veragua. Now the Red fury has struck with the hand of death at the lineage of Columbus. Uruguay too, is at odds with Left Wing Madrid - has broken diplomatic relations in fact, ^nd once more - executions. This time the killing of three women, three sisters of a diplomatic representative of the Uruguayan government at Madrid. The sisters disappeared eight days ago, so the government at Montevideo demanded information about .them. And now has it. ; |i |Ji The bodies of the three women were found among many others, victims of Red exeeutiQn|%%» in northern Spain. International trouble for the regime of the Socialist txte&itxsacm h ©1 I 1 Premi er^Cabalerro # A s having his trouble at home too. The Rebels have captured the. strategic town of Maqueda. That’s the cross-roads for the highway that branches to Madrid and Toledo. Jtrsd General Franco’s Moors and Foreign Legionnaires are driving on past Maqueda. On to Toledo, where the defenders of the Alcazar are continuing their bitter resistance. And Rebel SPAIN - 3 headquarters at Bu^os cries: "On to Madrid!1* The capital now is about two-thirds surrounded by a far flung ring of Fascists. The word tonight is that the Socialist Ministry is prepared to _ vyo -gw move out of Madrid and flee to Yalencia^ Catalonia aaaiBsSli® powerful Left Wing forces of the government of ' /V. A Barcelona. If this happens, the Left Wingers will conduct a last ditch defense in fegr-atagcfcfee a stern «3sn3E33JP Spain. GERMANY In the mountain country of Western Germany — there are no wooden guns. Not one dummy musket was seen today -- not one single great cannon made of a log of wood. And that tells a story. Under the disarmament clauses of the Versailles Treaty, the amount of weapons that Germany was allowed to have was strictly limited. Nazis used to parade their Storm Troops in war games » with wooden rifles. Even the regular defense army used wooden models of heavy artillery. But now no more. smashing of the Versaillies Treaty by Hitler is vividly revealed by the a manoeuvres now being staged in Western Germany. A1he Nazi hosts are mobilizing with overpowering quantities of the most modern mechanism of war. Today Hitler watched a sham-battle attack on Wirtej- burg Mountain. Tha attacking red army made a completely mechanized onslaught — war planes collaborating with tanks. The blue army defended the mountain with a concentration of anti-aircraft guns and tank-destroying artillery. Hitler GERMANY -2 observed with approval how cunningly the defending cannon were camouflaged against observation from the sky* manoeuvres also in something that concerns the whole civilian population* Along with those mighty war games, instructions have been issued to everyone of the sixty odd million Germans* Each citizen of *the Nazi Reich has been given secret orders* He must keep them secret, and he.must have them at all times* They are instructions of what he must do, should war break out* And these war instructions to every German are In specific detail, to the last point of German thoroughness* They even tell a man how many pairs of socks he should put in his knapsack — ihen war breaks out* New ways of war are revealed in those military T.ttAGPB Hff df- Today at the Leagua or Nations a delegation sat, >***<4 ~ J 6 Abro«n men and, one Amerioanl- |he Ethiopian delegation, of rtiioh Everett Colson is a member. They haven't been tossed otrt not yet# tt S. committee considering their st'atus passed the buck in two y ways* The big powers9 Great Britain and France cl wanted to accept the Italina contention that Ethiopia is no longer a nation, but an Italian province, and that it*s absurd to have representatives of nations that A A, exist* But HKrut (A* Russia* The little fellows wonderedrirh A A that was opposed by the smaller countries, and one big country- at the League would do for them, if .the^ happened to be conquered* And Soviet Russia backed them up* So the decision wee to pass the question along to the World Court* Let the World Court decide whether Ethiopia should be represented in the League* That was passing the buck — number one* But wbat about the stBTtus «f Ethiopia until the ? World Court renders its deoision, which will take montha, ■ii£y tfa*. ? Shall Haile Selassie's delegation keep its plaoej The commit- T.EAGOE -2 tee passed that along to another oommltee -• of jurists* The jurists will decide whether the Ethiopians will stay in the League, until the World Court says what*s what* It will take the jurists a little while to form their decision* So meanwhile the Ethiopians stay* VU.2, And^ Italy stays out* Mussolini stubbornly demands that the League shall recognize his conquest of Ethiopia* So tonight in the League there are representatiwes of a conquered country and an exiled king* Ethiopia still at Genera* Ererybody is ions — like Germany, Japan and at Genera, with a few except* Italy^ J2>t f fight Tonight's big fight in Philadelphia is causing- plenty of people to ask questions - mostly about the.burly blonde bruiser who'll be in there battling against the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis. Vijho is he? And why? Most people won't know how to pronounce his name. He's an Italian, although the sons of sunny IfIt" are not commonly blue-eyed, flaxen-haired giants^ His name is Ettore, which in Italian means "hector”. „ fie'll have to be a "hector", A A 9 toft-gagfr tonight - to bomb the Bomber^as Max Schmeling did. Philadelphian, which is a most distinguished thing - as they'll tell you in the vicinity of William Penn Square. He's strictly a Philadelphia product, a local phenomaifcatt. The City of Sleep is intensely loyal to its ^favorite ^spns. Philadelphians of old always believed that Lou Tender could beat Benny Leonard^in spite of much evidence to the contrary. Philadelphia was loudly loyal to Tommy Lougbjfedn. Its contemporary pugilistic enthusiasm is Ettore's claim^to distinction are two. Firstly - hejs a Ettore. His second claim to distinction is that he beat Leroy Haynes three times. Now, who is Leroy Haynes? He's a gentleman FIGHT - 2 n FCdjJU of color^ra* knocked out^the giant Italian, Prime Carnero, in faster time than did Joe Louis. Haynes was regarded as a menacing threat to the Bomber, ihe only trouble was that Haynes could never TF* get by the blonde Italian, Lttore. So there you have the Philadelphia battler who tonight will do the mauling against S Joe Louis* two handed hitting. Mauling is right - Ettore is strictly that kind of fighter. He's always in there close, clubbing and bruising. He*s no knock-'em-dead puncher, just tough and tireless - of the wear-* em-down school of the manly art of i . modified murder, as Bill McGeehan used to say. The odds are all on the Bomber. Everybody expects him I to put the sleepy town Champ to sleep - everybody except Philadelphians. Meanwhile, one thing is certain - the City of ' f; ;':v- „ L Brotherly Love is having it§ biggest pugilistic night since nearly ten years ago. It's just one day shcr t of ten years that Gene Tunney, in most unbrotherly fashion, left-jabbed the heavyweight crown off the swarthy brows of Jack Dempsey. MA.CCORMA.CK Ordinarily I'm loyal to tho writing cl ass, the sub-species of authors. I'm agi^ the publishers. But this time I’ve got to decide against an author, and support the whole publishing end of it. John McCormack is a master of style in singing. And maybe his prose ±x style is gorgeous, if you can read it. But how can you read it if he writes illegibly? John is writing the story of his life. He’s doing it on a singing tour, in odd moments aboard ship, in Pullman cars, in hotel rooms. He refuses to learn how to operate a typewriter, so it’s handwriting. Manuscript is right. Ant John is scribbling the story of his life and his singing in a cheap six-penny tablet. And the §cotch-Irishman thriftily writes on both sides of the page, which is a deadly sin to a publisher © Moreover, his scrawl is said to be virtually undecipherable. Some of it looks like Greek, and the rest of it like Chinese^ That’s the way he sends his manuscript injto hi a publisher. So the publisher cen't teli what John ........ - himsslf oan't tell what he means. Maybe means Maybe John UA.ncORMA.CK -2 X can’t tell what I mean, and SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.