MOLOTOV ) ^knr, b, !j ^f. There was a jangle of familfiar, well worn phrases In the news today. Ringing throughout the world came such sentiments as;- nthe hopeless crisis of capitalist society,” ’’the senile and decaying governments of capitalist countries,” ’’the exploited and oppressed masses”, ’’the supper strata of capitalist society”, ”the plundered wealth of the bourgeois nations”, and so forth, and so on, etcetea. Xes, it isn’t difficult to guess. It was Soviet Russia sounding off. The Wwenty-Second Anniversary of the October Revolution is Being observed in Moscow, and the Reds are celebrating with a thr e-day orgy of typical Bed Communist speeches. The man who flung out the phrases I have just quoted was Molotdv, Premier and Foreign Minister of the Onion of Socialist Soviet Republics. Also, mouthpiece for tne real Number One Stalin. The most important thing that Molotov said was that the Soviet Union will not be drawn into the war no matter what happens. And he elaborated that ’’certain plans for extending the war by involving the Soviet Union have gone ' /ry. ’’The Soviet people have once agc^n shown,” he said, ’’that they do not dance to the music of others.” Aid he boasted that only MOLOTOV - n the Soviet Union Is consistently keeping the peace* In Poland? Molotov did not specifically mention the United States but made several cracks by inference. The larger portion of his oration was directed to the villany, crimes, wickedness and general all-wrongness of capitalism. His speech was delivered at a rallyin the Moscow Opera Houst, and foilowedythe publishing of a Communist Manifesto by the Commintern, the first manifesto since the war broke out. The gist of the manifesto was to call on the workers of Great Britain and France to revolt against the war. It denounced thhra as aggressor nations^ The manifesto also took a crack at us, with a phrase to the effect that "the American bourgeoisie is interested in intensifying the war so that its uncrowned munitions icings can reap huge profits." The Communist manifesto,, came after the speech by Earl Browder, the American Molotov, at Boston last night. It was Br-wderTs first speech since he had been indicted for getting passports under phoney names, ne hntigpat^t^m^xifesto by twelve hours. In fact, he went a bit further, fea manifesto ^10LOTOV - 3 :■■■ . ca.£.-Led for revolution in Britain and France, but the American Commissai virtually called for a revolution in the United States^/ Specifically/ he said that the European War places the Socialist revolution on the | order of the day as a practical question. He attacked President \ Roosevelt as a spokesman for Wall Street and ally of economic royalists. Here1s the French reaction to the Communist ~t+A*^u { manifesto andMolitov epeech. f The French Government is gelng to tlie lirit to v:ipe out the Conuaunist party from A the French Republic. The Minister of the Interior made that ann .•uncenent soon, after the Comnunist manifesto' vjasjfpu'bliEhea He described the Coairmists as. being Just as bad enemies as the Geroans. pHe declared that the Government would sweep all of GoEL'-unism. and irliatever is left of it from all French cities, towns, municipalities, and villages CATHOLICS A warning about the war was issued to Roman Catholics in America today. The conflict in Europe must not be sold to Catholics as a holy war. So said Dp. Edward Lodge Curran, President of the International Catholic Truth Society, speaking at a congress in Cincinnati. This prominent Catholic said that there is only one reason why England and France are not allies of Russia: because the Soviet turned them down. Wl——IHWI *111 'll 'Ml— I mm The first famous war among Britishers is Leslie Howard, star of stage and cinema^ He wasn1t at the front. it was in England that he was injured. But it rates as a war casualty, because it wasconsequence of the driving home in his car^to his country-place in car ran into him, knocked out several teeth and injuries. blackout, he was Ess ex. Another caused AIR BATTLE (The principal and only spectacular bit of war news today •••^an air battle over tne Western Front. The French military communique describes it as a violent affair, the biggest so far in this war. "Nine French pursuit planes," says the French War Office, "attacked a squadron of twenty—seven German pursuit planes* Nine Germans were shot down, of which at least seven came down in our territory^" French addj^- "Our complete squadron returned undamaged." Naturally, that communication, which is official created ta?«x®eia3fcta* enthusiasm in Paris^ a1 01 ^,-sra^rwtiaetmgfiafe* id~T"o«ctftbeT- h»ar(i the 1 ottrep- fyr .th«-Fre«eja-A4rr-foyoe^e=gfte3r^po.1n±=±» demonstration of superiority of not only their planes but of French pilots. a later dispatch reports that the pilots in this battle were flying pursuit planes made in the U.S.A. AIRCRAFT QybBLg ovemment has told aircraft manufacturers what regulations theyfli have to observe while fulfilling the huge volume of orders for nations at war, Ihe provisions of the Espionage Act passed during the World War, will be enforced. Copies of all contracts to supply planes to foreign governments must be filed with the War Department, also the Navy Department. In one respect, however, the government eases up on the airplane makers. There was a rule forbidding them to sell aircraft abroad until eighteen months after the particular type of the new models had been designed. That rule is to be suspended for the time being. It is a pretty stiff one and stood in the way of a lot of sales. The rule now applies only to apparatus held secret by the United States Military Establishment and miliry A planes of special design held exclusive for the Army and Navy. FLINT Tlie Il-fc-pi—the— ea-^e- ^-sio—tnese daya^ in^hlr^teo^doocnbed ao< juc4>"-^n^—dapn——aftrer as«stS5c^. / Yesterday the Berlin Government protested the action of the Norwastern^G t > v ^»niTTttrrrV in releasine the CITY OF FLINT and interning tne Geriaan^saf^i,®:i,:s^ The Norwegian Government rejected the protest,. ^ Today the Nazis repeat their objection. Norway repliejf again with a polite but definite turn-down. The Norwegian Foreign Office points in detail to the Hague Contention and shows wherein its actions with regard to the CITY OF FLINT are in the most strict accord with international law Nevertheless, the CITY OF FLINT is still anchored in the harbor of Bergen. Captain Gainard could have taken her out at any time in the last twenty-four hours, out he hasn't. Mrs. J. Borden Harriraan, our Minister to Norway, has been on the spot in Bergen, attending personally to the matter of that now world famous little American freight ship. It was she who announced that! the CITY OF 25 ) FLINT has been declared free to go wherever her captain wished. / T'ne buessing around Bergen is that the ship's cargo FLINT - 2 will be sold at auction in Bergen. In tnat vvay the skipper will Some of the newspaper men on the dock ibaxxx were shouting questions to the sailors WR^^eTc«==£»iusKh±Hg lounging a€t~ around-^the rail of the CITY OF FLINT. One of them was asked where he thought they would go next, and he replied:- "Brother, your guess Is better than ours. V.'e get most of our news on the radio. Last night we heard we were going to England. Then another program told us we were going straight to America." Then that American seaman added, speaking for his shipmates. avoid all dangers of c "We wish We1’/© been on this thing more than a month^" Some American ship' ovners seem determined to try to yet their share of wartime freight# in spite f the neutrality act and President Roosevelt's proclamation. The United. States line made a petition today to the Federal hart11me Co:m.ilesion. The President of the United States Liner asked for permission to transfer nine of its stsll vessels' from the American flay tc ireethe flag of Panama. The Commission replied that it would have to take time to think about that and look up the law. 7\ ...net be decided v/hethe^or not such a transfer would he a violation of the neutrality act NAVY The plan of the Navy Department to build a hundred and twenty-six more ships will probably be okayed by Congress, Carl Vinson of Georgia, Chairman of the Naval Sonmittee of the Ho^se, has a bill pending to appropriate one billion, three hundred million more dollars for our fleets. And Speaker Bankhead of the Ho Lieves that when Congress convenes again the law-makers will allow every reasonable demand for national defense. In addition to a hundred and twenty-six new fighting ships, the Navy will get twenty-four hundred more airplanes. FOREIGN POLICY It v.as predicted in Washington today that Congress next year would take a firm stand against Japan. The man who predicted it was none other than Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. He has a resolution pending before the Senate which would authorize President Roosevelt to embargo shipments to Japan soon after January Twenty-Sixth. It’s on that date that the treaty with Japan will expire, the treaty of amity and commerce, which the his resolution will have much serious opposition in Congress. The motive for his resolution is not resentment tecause of what the Japanese have done to the Chinese, but for what the Japanese have done to Americans. The Japanese Government, said Senator Pittman,has realized that it can ignore all our protests about the actions of the Japanese toward our citizens because it knows that we have nothing to back them up. Therefore, State Department, denounced. And Pittman says he doesn^t it think A A the treatment will be - economic pressure, probably an embargo 'jPMHHMRPMMMIHHMIlHi | VKNEZUELA TREATY Secretary Hull has concluded another reciprocal trade % treaty. It Is with Venezuela, the twenty-second of these reciprocal agreements that he has negotiated in accordance with the program so dear to his heart, Ifrtp e—proggaa, inoldont thatr-Congrcoo authariged-1 a fc^ years ago and la now loudly regretting- Stet—only ■Republicans, but Democrats, are crying out that thoge must- bo an this tatrelness o~f treaties being made without the sanctionj into 0f CuiigfTaiKU The treaty with Venezuela will go.in.effect on 'Vv ^ December Sixteenth. It includes %xx£ tariff reductions on several products that go from the United States to Venezuela MiiTHER wmmmmsmmm % ii § p Old Man Weather played some curious tricks over the weekend. We’re not so much surprised when we hear of snow way down east in Maine, Mew Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. But heavy snow fell in northern and western Virginia, ilfisKR Highways blocked, power lines down, communications interrupted, motorists marooned. Fifteenito ,twenty inches of snow not only in -trvOt the Blue Ridge Mountains, also in the Shenandoah Valley. A New Englanders were clearing away not only snow but fallen trees and sign boards, smashed window panes, and boats that were piled up on beaches by th*l sixty mile northeaster. Fourteen /v /\ people xilled in New England, as a result of the storm. HUGHES Howard Hughes, millionaire^ machinery manufacturer, round-the-world f3,ier, also movie producer, is the central figure v in a strange argument. All picture fans will probably remember nHellfs Angels”, the sensational success that Howard Hughes produced some years ago. A writer, named Kichard Barry, acstf'him \ * ^ ^ for plagarism, the fundamental idea of ”Reli5 s Angels” was his, and that he copyrighted it in two stories, under his name, one in NineteenEleven, and the other in Nineteen Twenty-two. Howard Hughes ha4 a different version of it. he says he got the idea from a man named Mackay, and that Mackay got it as long ago as Nineteen Sixteen, in a bar room in Cuba, got it from a man who told it in a cocktail conversation. The District Court decided in favor of Howard Hughes, also the Circuit Court of Appeals, said the movie was not a plagarism <5^ those stories by Richard Barry. An appeal was taken all the wray up to the Supreme Court of the United States, but today the nine justices declined to have anything to do with it, will not review th^ 3 ^ decisions. So Howard Hughes wins again. ^3 um; RAVEN One case decided by the Supreiae Court tod^y will interest everybody who travels on railroads. The Ne?^ Haven line wanted to cut out passenger stops at eighty-eight stations in Massachusetts and five stations in Rhode Island. The idea was economy5 The New Haven obtained permission from the Federal A Bankruptcy Court. But^the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities wouidn*t allow it. The matter was appealed, went up through all the tribunals, and the Supreme CourtAdecided that the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities is right. ' PT; - - T' ^IL Ftv.-.UD I Six men, several of them big-shots, and tir,o corporations, ’’•ere Indicted today by a federal grand Jury in Nev, York, accused of having used the mails to defraud. They are charged also with having violated the Securities and Exchange Act. And the United States Attorney declares that the people they defrauded were prominent characters, persons of high standing. One of the indicted men used to be a public official in Delaware, another is Vice-President of a bank in Jiew Jersey, The foremost of these defendants Colonel on the staff of. Governor —Hew Jersey. Governorfc- kl A A Colonel is accused of having organized a bank, made loans to dummy corporations, and diverted more than a hundred thousand to his own use. BOY Last August, a seventeen year old lad in Brooklyn was arrested for breakf-£ig into a store. When he v>as brought up in court, his sister Nora, fourteen years old, pleaded for him so well taat it moved the judge to an unusual decision. Instead of sentencing the seventeen year old lad, he parolled him and put him in charge of Nora, his little sister. said that under her care her big brother had kept out of mischief and was treading the straight and narrow path. Said the judge ’’That’s fine. I’ll suspend sentence but he’s still under probation.” Word came today that the boy is now in a C.C.C. camp* out in Idaho, getting along splendidly, living a new kind of life an<^ and, what's more, grateful to .the judge,^grateful to his little a /'jtbb Six weeks later, the little girl came back into court