FORESTS. Over the weekend, forest fires , forest fires New York. Game wardens end volunteers managed to get them under control but today they broke out again. And now it t ' on a huge scale. Not a drop of rain has fallen since the heavy storms late in September. The beautiful Indian summer that people have been enjoying in the eastern states has resulted in woods that are dry as tinder. And the grounds are covered with a blanket of dry leaves. season opened In the Adirondack ttoUStfci'c*. The consequence was that twenty-five snail fires were reported In different spots. Game wardens reported that they had been caused by the carelessness -tfk of hunters. Officials o^New York*# Conservation Department took a quick survey of the forests and telephoned Governor Leh’.an at Albany The New York Governor thereupon immediately closed almost all the forest region in the Adirondacks.te^*^ hunting, n°t even any hiking, camping or picnicing. Hundreds of ao-roallfli counties of the Empire State are menaced At seven o’clock Saturday morning the deer hunting sports en were on their way to the woods this morning as the season forests - 2 for shooting pheassnts, squirrel and rabbits opened at noon today, Bui the sjowytaiB sportsmen were all turned back by game wardens. were all fire wardens, and state troopers, ^his afternoon woods were ablaze Q**Jl in the Catskills, that region has not^been closed to hunters. Jh Vermont, a thousand men are fighting a fierce fire in the forests of Glastonbury mountain near Arlington. In the nearby townSj factories and business houses are closed so that the men working there could join the fire fighters. btisimess ‘.There1 s a big business boom coming all over the world. How do we know that? Roger Babson says so. It isnft the first time he has made this prophecy, only hirtherto he confined his predictions to the United States. This time he includes the entire globe* This he conveyed In a message to the Annual Business Conference at Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. And says Economist- Prophet Babson: "Six months from now we may see the beginning of an entire era of peace and great prosperity." Such was the most optimistic utterance at the national Business Conference today. Other spokesman weren,t so cheery. P.W, Litchfield, President of Goodyear, sang a song of woe about the national Labor Relations Board PENDING Today comes another of those bits of A information from treasury. ln three months and a half, A. A our government has spent nine hundred million dollars more than it took in. DOCTORS, In Washington, D.C., the Department of Justice has started one of the oddest cases in the history of American law. It’s the charge of Uncle attorneys against the American Medical Association, the charge that the doctor’s association is conducting a criminal monopoly. The suit began today with the impanelling of a special grand jury, twenty-three picked men selected by a federal judge. And the court warned those grand jurors: ttDo not vote an indictment unless in your consciencious judgment there is a probable cause to believe the criminal statute of the United States has been violated." The accusation arises out of the objection of the tAfizleZ$ doctors to'group medicine Z7 A lot of the men and ■women who work A for Uncle Sam in Washington got together and organized a group health organization. The purpose^to obtain medical care for themselves and 'SSaSSi** wives and children at a low cost. The Department of Justice declares that the District of Columbia Medical Society thereupon threatened to expel all doctors who worked for the group health organization»or-^»«'"Woui<‘'^'tenr~®8,1®ui^,:*:i DOCTORS - 2 This is to be a test case. If the Department of justice succeeds in putting this one over, there will be similar prosecutions in other parts of the United States. csiifiraifiT The Supreme Court will soon setUe a question that has been raging all over the country for years. ThJquestionti** "Should Communists be deported from the United States?" Hot SpringSj Axisansas^ a man nained Strecker^ an alien^ was to be kicked out of the country because he was, a member of the party. H© appealed to the courts and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in his favor, said he should not be deported. Uncle Sam’s lawyers refused to let it go at that and today the Supreme Court has consented to review the case. If the justices should reverse the Circuit Court and decide against Strecker, it will be a matter of huge importance to the many people who are interested in Harry Bridges, the C.I.O. labor organizer who has raised so much cain on the Pacific coast. SPIES A weird -k. Philiips Oppenaeira story of spies and Nazi conspiracy was told in the New Xork Federal Court t oday . And the central figure was Rumerich, the deserter from UncleeSaa^s Army who pleaded guilty last week to the charge that he sold our military secrets to the Nazis. And the plot which the United States Attorney outlined to was as weired as any fiction. Rumerich, he said, and subsequently Rumerich so testified, was hard up after he deserted from the Army. So he wrote to A Hitler newspaper. By that means he got a job with the Nazi Secret Service. The prosecutor said further that the Nazi spy ring in the UnitedStates was being deliberately organized b$i German officers from persons of either German birth or German origin. German government agencies are paying not only for military mobilization and defense plans, but for passport blanks. Some of the blanks are used to send Nazi agents to Russia. It was this part of the deal that trapped deserter Bumerich. And the planthat involved no less than forging the name of President Roosegelt on letterheads printed to imitate White House stationery. Rumerich himself was the first witness. Some of tne things he told illustrate the ease with which military secrets have been S£iiS - 2 obtained in this country. On one occasion for instance, Rumerich telephoned Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, said he was a major and asked for a certain report. A corporal answered the telephone, made no attempt to investigate and sent the report by messenger to Rumerich. Another spy got a job at the Cdrtiss-Wright Company in Buffalo, and there secured photographs of important parts of naval bombing machines. Judging from the proceedings in court today these United States are a paradise for foreign spies PANAMA Four Germans arrested in Panama to be tried as spies. Caught photographing one of the most important districts in the Canal Zone, some of the heavy fortifications. First the Army officers wouldn1t say whether their captives were spies or not. Tohay it was announced that they have been turned over to the Canal Zone police, charged under the Espionage Act and 1 held in fifteen thousand dollars bail each CHDRCHILL The wazis today made their answer to Winston Churchill»s broadcast of yesterday. Said the Hitler press;- Churchill is a humbug and works behind a Chinese wall of ignorance. Alfred Duff Cooper, the First Lord of the Admiralty, who resigned, was coupled with Churchill in the abuse. The paper also took occasion to have the usual fling at democracy with the words; "England and other democracies always cross the finish line one horse-length behind realities." NAZIS ominous report was published in Paris today. Nazi terror h»*o—bin Czechoslovakia. Hitler demands that all leaders of the anti-Nazi parties in Czechoslovakia be arrested and handed over to him. He wants the—bodie&»-(>£ all those Sudeten senators and deputies in the Czech Parliament who did not take the Nazi side. He also demands the presence of all those who were IT leaders of the Social-Democrats, Communists and Catholics. There’s no official confirmation of this.However, it is -csasxas* / Ilial published in three different Parisian newspapers today. The agreement between, Chamberlain and Hitler made no stipulation for the safety of any such people. In fact, it is expected that at almost any time Hitler will^demaiid the arrest and extradition of Ex-President Benes. An embarrassing question was asked in the House of Commons on this subject. A Conservative member demanded to know v.hether any gaarantee had been made for the safety of Benes- ifee government declined to answer. (\ i !:f h h if ^ i ■ I illI I 1 ' iii ! ! it 1 i ■ I 1 I answer. ggNES A1 friendly American gesture has been made to Ex-President Benes of Czechoslovakia. It came from the University of Chicago. President Hutchins invited him to lecture at the university. And Hutchins announced today he had learned indirectly that Dr. Benes would accept. If he does, he will be the second president of th« ' ’ -• ublic to lecture at Chicago. For two years President Mssyp* occupied hat HOLICS fbdlqw congress Ominous news from Vienna:- another drastic action by the Nazi authorities against the Catholics! They have takeft control of all schools away from the Archbishop of Salzburg. That is, they forbid the Archbishop to have anything to say about the religious education of the youngsters. An archbishop who had signed the manifesto expressing loyalty to Hitler CONGfujSB The gay city of New Orleans today was filled with Catholics, pilgrims from all over the world, a hundred thousand of them. They had. come for the Eucharistic Congress^=r£fc was opened ft today by Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago, represent^ the Pope, x T^e plight of Catholics living under the Nazi terror was one of the foremost topics^ Said Bishop Donohue of New York: "The Catholic Church has withstood persecution before, just as now^in Vienna." And he added: "But it has always stood firm, eventually the persecution ended, the Church was still there." JEWS Mussolini has replied to oyr protest concerning the treatment of American Jews in Italy. The answer was sent today by Foreign Minister Count Ciano to Secretary Hull. The details have not been made public, but the Fascist big shots believe the word will: be satisfactory to Washington. However, it's understood that Ciano is saying to Hull that altho American Jews cannot be exempted as a w&ole from the rdcent decrees issued by the Italian Government special consideration will be given to special cases. ATATURK A piece of medical news from Turkey may have grave political consequence. Dictator Kemal Ataturk, seriously ill. Stricken yesterday. His condition was reported as improving slightly during the night; but today still serious. The strong man of Istanbul — successor of Sultans; Kemal, who abolished tat the Caliphs l LOBDQfl The trade treaty between John Bull and Uncle Sam will soon be an accomplished fact. The latest word from London is that Prime Minister Chamberlain expects to announce it when Parliament reassembles on Hovember First. At the same time, he will proclaim the long expected agreement with Mussolini, It is reported that when the Anglo-American treaty goes into effect, the U.S.A, will have the same privileges in the British market that Australia and Canada now have, lower tarrif rates on many things. On the other hand , we are to lower our tarriff on a considerable list of goods. The treaty with Mussolini principally concerns affairs in the Mediterranean, that troublesome Spanish question, and Ethiopia. CAM ADA Here's interesting news from Canada!— £^,4bout that deep sea waterway in the St,Lawrence River which it was hoped would do so much to help relations between us and our neighbors on the north. Some people have had the idea that the principal opposition to it came from this side of the frontier. But it develops now that Canadians do not want it# ■ 'fne other day, Premier Hepburn of Ontario issued a A IT Ji statement against it. Today he was joined by Prime Minister DupXlssis A of the Province of Quebec , who said: f,I have opposed the plan ever since it was first broached by President Hoover in Hjjmeteen^ Thirty-One. is first broached by President Hoover in " - H- r /7 j JEMKIKB It looks as Ii the speed record on wheels will stay in England — at least until next summer. There was an American threat to take it away — Ab Jenkins and his racing giant, the r[Mormon Meteor, becond". Ab,s an o^d friend of ours, a Blue Sunoco user in many a daring test of speed. I have a wire from him saying that the condition oft the Bonneville Salt flats is bad right now, unsafe for driving three hundred and fifty miles an hour and up. Bo his whirl at the record held by Captain Eyston of England will have to wait until next summer. S a LL i The distinguished Mss Wally Rand, the lady who made fans famous passed a few nours this afternoon in what is vulgarly called "the sneezer." Yes, indeed, Sally Rand .bubbles and all ***& Hollywood^ It wasn't her bubbles that landed her there, nor even the absence of them, Sofaras I can judge it was the lady's excessive modesty, Whe was doing her bubble dance when a couple of candid camera experts tried to snap her. Miss Rand -fbz went into action with all the weapons at fcHte command. A iadjTi Agyhow the vul^gr charge against her was>assault and battery. -‘hZ* into the corridor and let them shoot apicture of her standing with the police lady. And that got the goat of «f*$# Sally Rand who said: "I'll jump out of a window or I'll pose standing on my behind jsx bars in the bulloen a.z the County,Court house 32 r — h* But even that wasn't the reason she was thrust into the bullpen. j?he was at the Court House arranging for bail in the A head, but I won't have my picture taken with a policewoman." That SALLY RAMP - 2 ~ in turn got the goat of the policewoman who said; "Come on -- ^ young lady, you're going to the bullpen.1' It wasn't for long however. Just to keep the record straight, Kt-^Rand is no A- A longer in the BODGE A hundred ‘thouss.nd doXlurs is a nice sum to earn in a year. It must be particularly nice to earn it playing tennis and having fun. Box fighters, to be sure, have earned twice and three times that much for a mere few minutes* in the ring. Still — tennis players don*t have to stand up to a barrage st± in the face such as Jack Dempsey received from Gene Tunney, or as Max Sehmeling got from Joe Louis. Tennis players don't get cawliflower ears. One hundred thousand dollars! That*s what Don Budge of California, the sensational amateur Tennis Champ, is asking if he turns pro. And a sports promoter says he offered him a guarantee of segenty- five thousand for one tour, with a percentage easily that ought to raise the -nte to a hundred thousand. The red headed Budge says:- a hundred thousand or nothing. And I say SO LONG UNTIE TOMORROW.