MOSCOW A curiotB bit of information just came from Russia. It concerns that sensational treaty between Hitler and Stalin. It was to have been ratified tonight by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Instead of ratifying it, the Soviet announces that ratification has to be postponed until later in the week. Rather puzzling, that one. One crmnoti e-aslly see-onys e#e>nd~T*e€^>g)iT"for The interpretation placed on it at Moscow is that Stalin himself ordered a delay of ratification because of the chaotic state of Du European 'politics today TOKYO A still further consequence of the Hitler-Stalin alliance is reported from Tokyo today. As you may remember^the news of tbs Moscow-Berlln Axis flabbergasted the statesmen of Nippon. The Cabinet of Baron Hiranuma almost automatically resigned. Even the war lords of Japan felt that the turning of Hitler to Stalin needed a complete change of orientatioh in Japanese policy. Baron Hiranuma declared that he held himself unequal to the Spell^t - A B i, - t MT ^ . Abe received the imperial command to form a new cabinet. And we learn that this has considerable meaning for us. It means that the anti-British, Anti-American war lords will take a back seat as a result of General Abe*s taking over the government. At least that Vs the gossip from Japan. Abe is supposed to be in favor of closer cooperation with Great Britain, Uncle Sam, and wilrh et her- -thigd-porrers^ And here* s a bit of news from Hong Kong which sounds TOKYO - 2 li*e a symptom or this new Japanese attitude. The war lords are withdr^TtSl^^ ^ r? AT^ c«Me*Aof Hong Kong which for weeks attack by the Japanese. iiiZs—^UNQCQ^_ m MP ay . AUGUST 28 v 19jQ. 06O£r^?EtrH^E¥ER5fBCOT: c^^vv ^jZsV^lr^$ truth about the news tonight, the big news Vxri£vLajQj2y' \\Qu>B, Europe, is that there isnft any1 Hundreds of A A thousands of words have come over the cables and through the air. Most of them convey nothing but conjecture, guesswork, rumor* The big question of the day, "Will there be war?" can eta. be answered by only one man, answered accurately, A Hitler, For the rest, your guess is as good as /\ anybody’s. The known facts that are actually new are so few you could put them in your eye without having your vision impaired, The most concrete of those known faets^t* bare, ___________ _ /",, 1 skimpy, and can mean^anything you choosel Bjr 1‘nat the arrival of the British Ambassador, Sir Neville Henderson, in Berlin, carrying the reply of the Chamberlain government to Hitler's demands. What that reply was is actually icnown to the LEAD o-nTrernr government and by now also to Hitler and his advisors* It is generally understood that Sir Neville’s message rejected the Nazi Fuehrer’s demandsJ ' is related that as he climbed aboard his plane outside London, a reporter shouted at him, "Good luekl"' To which he replied: ’’Thanks, I shall want all X can get.” (JDur Postmaster General Farley, visiting in Ireland, told reporters that he had inside information there would be no 1 war. As it’s impossible to know how sound Jim source of information may be, it** impossible to take much stock in such a 7 P A x statement A But^ here are the factors which are considered to weigh the scales in favor of peace^/ Though the British message to Hitler rejected his demands. the door open for further /V ^ talk. That’s one factor. Another is an official report from Home - if [ | ij i J i HI f I II I ! 1 m that Premier Mussolini is making every effort to lessen international tension and x support the cause of peace. Then again it is known that although twelve million men are mobilized in Europe, only one quarter of Mussolini’s are mobilized. It is also announced that there are constant consultations between the Duce and the m fjl I in Fuehrer. This leads to the rumor of a five power conference to LEAD - 3 settle the quarrels. Thp-r* -ic o „ ^ ^ - a report from Rome stating that Mussolini has been hard at vsor* trying to evolve a pease formula Also, another peace factor is that Hitler has not yet set any definite date for military action. V jfere. -gft the other side .V Hitler ^ A has made negotiations difficult by openly demanding not merely Danzig and a corridor across the Polish Corridor, but the entire Polish Corric’orto be returned to Germany I Then there's the fact that Hitler turned down Daladier's proposals, also of course the repeated proclamation that France and Great Britain will stand by their promises to Poland. I ^The German propaganda campaign -about Polish atrocities agSSak does not weigh in favor of peace. two and a half A /\ millioi’rw<?n»~upriea arms, admittcdly-at theii! waitiuic. atatiuniy many pnrto uf the CicrmnTT-hrndci -ai u^lugt^v The Polish government today protested against that German atrocity propaganda. Also, railway service in Germany has been tremendously cut down. Some of the crack express trains are traveling several hours late. The first actual formal proclamation of mobilization J*as made in Europe today. However, Atmvfctmiby one of the A A LKAD - A great powers. The government of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands mobilized army, navy and air force in view of the A- fact that German soldiers are digging in on the German side of the Dutch border. RATIONS Every store* every shop, every place, where things can he houfcht in Germany, was crowded with housewives and others.today. They were hurrying to stock up with the necessities of life before their government starts holding them down to strict and limited rations. One shop in Danzig hung out a sign reading:- "Store closed for three hours on account of the crowds." Surely a novel reason for eloseing a storel CHILDREN One of "the peculiar spectacles throughout Great Britain today was that of thousands of school children going through a grim rehearsal, 1 earning what they have to do^in case. e#=wst% Some of them got up at six o*clock in the morning and rushed off to school. Over their shoulders, instead of text books, they carried gas masks. However, their teachers carefully avoided any mention of the word "horror." They were not told anything about the terrors and brutalities of war. They were taught that it is all a sort of lark and 'ct case they have to leave the cities where they live^will be just like a holiday. Arrangements will be made to billet all city children in country homes with the government paying the bill. CANADA The government of the Dominion of Canada has already begun A special train pulled into Halifax, Mova Scotia, today, carrying equipment, crews and officers for an anti-aircraft defense establishment. At the same time, a flight of seven royal Canadian bombing planes were sent to the Eastern provinces from Canary, Alberta. I O^O-O^O — 42-J. y<~2. c^dQp i i SPAIN Here’s the latest about SpainAAccording to London, FrancoJ s Ambassador, the Duke of Alba, has given assurance to both Great Britain and France, that no Spanish naval bases and airdromes will be used by any belligerent jAARKET A curious phenomenon of the day was the behavior of the Stock Markets all over the world. terrific stock exchange excitement. Instead of that, the brokers and traders were amazingly calm. This is due partly to one action of the British government which forbade the sale of any foreign securities ovaied by Britishers. That kept a round billion dollars1 worth of stocks off the market. At any rate so say the Wall Street experts. They point out that in nineteen Fourteen, the condition that selling orders from Europe. Another contributor to this extraordinary calm was the fact that in spite of all these war scares, business in the Of course the price of wh6at went up everywhere. In the money market, the English Pound took a drop, went down forced the closing of Exchange was a huge volume of United twenty-five cents in flew York. that is, they no longer Sweden and Finland dropped out of the Sterling bloc no longer fix their currency rate according to tne English Pound. AMERICANS Many thousand. Americans in Europe went through some anxious hours. So many vessels cancelled their sailings and others cancelled their landing at British ports. One American liner sailed for New York with passengers sleeping on cots in the public rooms of the vessel. However, they received cheery A /v news today. Our embassy in London has been at work making arrangements to help them get home. A Dutch liner has been chartered to take some of the people who couldnU get passage on the regular lines, American citizens living abroad are acting as volunteers to help tourists get home. Some of the Americans in Italy will have to work their passage,tooawt The sailings of Italian passenger liners have been cancelled. So/many of the travelers will have to come home on a freighter. H^nkthe law reads that if • freighter carries passengers, the captain must sign on a larger crew and seventy-five per cent of the crew will have to be The cruiser TRENTON and two destroyers are now stationed in the up in order to obey the law. American citizens. So some of the tourists will have to sign the law. Aside from this, in case of emergency. Uncle Sara’s European squadron is standing by. AnffiRiCANS - 2 Mediterranean and will be used to evacuate Americai^if necessary. In France American residents and travelers got a slight foretaste of what war means cablegramsttad uhp Hiua to the Commissary Police to be okayed before the cable companies would esaons consent to accept them* And passengers who landed from the French ifher NORiiAhDIB tgday got a similar foretaste* They were not allowed to send any radiogram during the course of the voyage. Even messages sent to the passengers were censored. And at night the great steamer tore across the Atlantic with lights out. FORD Here's the opinion of Henry Ford on world events. "There will be no war", he says. "It's all a big bluff." His reasoning is that, "They don't dare have a war and they know it." You may recall that in Nineteen Fifteen, {ienry Ford chartered that famous "Peace Ship" and gave a lot of people free passage to Europe in it to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas, says that all wars might be prevented if people would only leave the cities and go back to the land, England1 s reason for going to war, says Henry Ford, is that she doesn't make enough use of her land. Then he told of the challenge that he had taken up iriEngland, A prominent Britisher had told him that the British Isles couldn't raise enough food* Ford said he didn't believe it, bought up a lot of small farms, and consolidated them into a cooperative organization. Last year, he said, his cooperative farm had sold fifty thousand dollars' worth of brussels sprouts alone. So I suppose we may take it that his recipe is, more brussels sprouts and fewer anti-aircraft guns. On© of th.© first casualties of the war, before it*s even declared, was a farmer’s wife in New York State, She’s a woman of Polish blood, married to a man of German origin. They had a heated discussion over the quarrel between Hitler and the Poles. It ended by the German farmer taking a shotgun and shooting his Polish wife. However, he did not kill her. and the chances are she may recover cL-r"ls€^, -- fj Pi ;1 SpUALUS After ninety-seven days of trying, the salvage men of Uncle Sam's Navy have finally raised the submarine SQUALUS to the surface. With her grim cargo of twenty-six dead men, she was brought up today from the forty fathoms of water where she had been lying more than three months. It was an aises* herculean “job ting of salvage that the Navy accomplished, a heart-breaking job too, with many setbacks and disappointments. Curiously enough, a dispatch from Liverpool, England, of this same day, brings word that the British submarine THETIS was also brought up from the deep. The THETIS sank only a few days after the SQUALUS. It was no elaborate salvage job, however, that brought the British under-water boat back. She was washed in by the tide this morning, carried in shore eight and a half miles by the current. PI££ borne more interesting testimony was given to the Dies Committee today. It concerned William W. Pelley, the rabid anti-Semite and Fascist agitator. ne*s the man who organized the so-called Fascist Silver Shirts. An investigator for the Dies Committee has been looking into Pelley^ record. And he testified that Pelley was convicted at Ashville, Worth Carolina, for having violated the Worth Carolina Securities Law. He was sentenced to imprisonment but his sentence was suspended on payment of a fine and costs. However, he was put on probation for five years. Pelley, in addition to organizing the Silver Shirts had founded a printing press for the printing of books and papers on spiritualism and the Occult. The thing went bankrupt in NineteenThirty—Four and the prosecution of Pelley followed. The investigator charged Pelley with having diverted more than a hundred thousand dollars of the funds of that printing press to nis personal account and other enterprises. DICKINSON Here’s an opinion that ought to interest Shep Barclay, Ely Culbertson, Oswald Jacobi, in fact all bridge players. Bridge, says a certain public character, may be the begirmirg of crime. Thatfs the latest opinion from Governor Lureh Dickinson of Michigan. He was addressing a conference of the Seventh Day Adventists of eastern Michigan, nThe criminal,11 he said, "has to start somewhere. And he may start at a bridge game and the next thing we know he’s after something of large dimensions." That’s almost as harsh as some of the compliments the partners in a bridge game fling at each other after they’ve gone down five tricks in spades, double and vulnerable 3 i.