FOREIGN RELATIONS No guns for the Spanish Left Wingers - that was the decision in two separate places today, Washington and Geneva, No American guns for Barcelona - decreed the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, as it voted on the Nye Resolution to lift the arms embargo and let American war materials be shipped to the Left Wing side in Spain. The Committee acted on the direct initiative of the administration. Secretary Hull conferred with President Roosevelt, and then he sent a communication to the Foreign Relations Committee in which .t.t, 0.~t~i j. he stated his opposition to any change in our^arms wmbaigeM ^ towards Spain. Secretary Hull ?duex pointed out that the Nye Resolution would lift the embargo on Left Wingers, but would keep it clamped on against the Franco armies - decidedly one-sided. He declared, moreover, that opposed likewise to a twojsided lifting of the embargo, letting American war materials go to both factions. The Secretary xfcxfcx* said that, might involve us UWangerous complications that are still inherent in the A Spanish situation. FOREIGN RELATIONS - 2 The Committee took, the cue and voted against the Nye Resolution. The vote was overwhelming - seventeen to one. If the resolution had by any chance been adopted. it might indeed have put us in opposition to the general policy in Europe - especially after the action of the Council of the League of Nations today. The Council turned down the plea made by the representative of the Barcelona government - the plea that the non-intervention agreement be lifted. The Spaniard# argued that the non-intervention embargo was bearing down only on the Left Wing side, while the Italians and Germans were notoriously helping Franco. Thatfs a good deal like the argument for the Nye Resolution over here - that our embargo really affects only the Barcelona side, since Franco is getting all the war supplies he wants. The Council of the League acted under the guidance of Great Britain and France. They opposed the Barcelona plea. A A, Only Spain and Russia voted for it. The Geneva attitude seems to he that the Spanish trouble will soon be settled by a ♦ Franco victory, and they refuse to back the loser FOREIGN relations - 3 Yesterday the League turned down Haile Selassie and Ethiopia. Today - Left Wing Spain. They seem to have no time for losers bPAlM In a late dispatch the Franco forces announce theyrve sprung a great trap, closing the last door of escape for force of Left Wing troops. All this hinges on the fact that in their drive to the sea and their push southward along the coast, tne nebels left abulge in their line. Hugged and difficult mountain country, easy to defend, so they had tp fight hard to straighten out that salient. They claim now they've pinched off the bulge.thereby trapping and surrounding defenders. The Franco claim A tonight is that tne Rebels now have a straight line from the are battered city of Teruel to the sea — and ^ ready for a fast push against Valencia. HBMLEIN The visit of the Czechoslovak Hitler to Londin has evoked an interesting rumor. Konrad Hdfnlein, chief of the Sudeten Germans, Is in the British capital conferring with all sorts of British political leaders and government hig-wlgs - including Winston Churchill^ Mieft^n^ying to get them to see his Sudeten point of view and snlist British help for the three and a half million Germans in Czeohoslovakia. The beguiling rumor states that Henlein's visit to London is not entirely according to Hitler. The Czechoslovak Fuehrer Is said to be assuring the British leaders that the Sudeten Germans do not want to be abonr turned orer to Nazi Germa.ny at all. They want autonomy, self-rule and lots of it - but within the framework of the Czechoslovak state. Oddly enough, just yesterday, I heard soaBfching along those lines from Ex-President Hoover, He visited Czechoslovakia and talked with many Sudetens and their leaders. And from them he got the impression that they didn^t want to come under the stern rule of Nazi Berlin any more than they wanted to be dominated by the Czechoslovakian government. Self-rule, freedom Is what they want. HF.NLETN - 2 The London rumor, however, gives us quite a Sudeten twister. They say that Henlein is wondering - if Nazi Germany took over the Sudeten Germans, what would become of him? Where would he land - the Czechoslovak Hitler? Wouldn't he be completely eclipsed by the big Hitler? Henlein is reported to have in mind the case of Dr- Seyss-Inquart who was the Austrian Hitler and in fact turned Austria over to his enlarged German counterpart. With the result - that Seyss-Inquart was promptly relegated to the decorative but quite unimportant post of Governor-General of Austria - where he's an ornamental nobody. Instead of being a big frog in a little pond, hefs a mere tadpole in the ocean. Henlein doesn't want to be tadpoled in that fashion. So he's telling the statesmen in London that the Sudeten Germans don't want to bring about the downfall oslovak state, 4enHs--wa»fe-^-be^i*ed-^JJa»L--&ei*many^ A- of the Czechoslovak They just want autonomy and self-government — with Henlein as their Hitler. I dorr41—kn^w-hew-much-bruth-^here -lrS-in-thiST-but -ib-may- ba—ene-crf'™jfehose-'il.luinlna'bing~gl±mp&«s -behind—the—scenes, inside tna facade-. REFUGEES Today on one ship alone three hundred Jewish refugees arrived from Germany. The United States liner MANHATTAN brought them. They are lawyers, doctors and business men - refugees from anti-Semitic pressure in Hitlerland. And so the stream of Jewish refugees comes to our shores. About a thousand have arrived in the past three weeks - a prompt resdlt of the Roosevelt plan to give welcome to oppressed minorities. Today, the President asked Congress to appropriate seventy-two thousand five hundred dollars, to be spent in the move to bring fcfte refugees — the money to be used during the A remainder of the Nineteen Thirty-Eight fiscal year. three Congress having passed the billion dollar spending and lending bill last night -- the Senate passed the big .Wavy Bill today. How it goes tothe White House for the Presidential signature. The last move of the opposition in the Senate was to start an attack on one provision of the bill — a clsue that puts it up to the President to deeide whether or not the Wavy should build those forty-five thousand ton super-giants. The opposition lost out on that final point. So, the bill the President will sign leaves it for him to say whether or not we shall have the forty-five thousand ton monsters. MANEUVRES Well, the enemy has been bombing Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven, Connecticut, and the Newark-airport^ The hostile black fleet landed forces at Norfolk and Newport News, Virginia, and established an air base at Kitty Hawk, North of those enemi A where the Wright brothers flew the first airplane. Carolina, Nice of those enemies of ours to pick out Kitty Hawk A All of that sounds pretty ominous, but I’m just giving At you the bad news first, and the good news last - for a happy ending. The Army Air Corps is winning the battle. The sky defense of our Atlantic coast is successful, in spite of a few g hit here and there. 0 places getting hit hei?e and there^ Our sky fighters have shot down five hundred enemy planes, and destroyed two aircraft carriers — as the great flying fortresses struck the black fleet with disastrous blows. On our side we’ve lost only a hundred and seventeen planes, less than one—fourth of our sky forces in the fight. I don’t quite know how the technicians of the Air Corps arrive at these complicated xia strategies and conclusions. but they have it down to a science - an esoteric science, and maneitvres - 2 today tliey gave out the account of the mammoth air battle that I»ve just related. America is safe! I Wli ROOSEVELT The President today took a whack at - the inventories. Well, any harassed bookkeeper can tell you that the taking of inventory can be a burden and a trial for the bookkeeping soul. But the President meant inventories in the sense of stocks of goods on hand, an over-supply of goods which ought to be sold. He said some way should be found to prevent the piling up of -'hLoQ$ -—- inventories, accumulation of merchandise A and heT s looking for ways of doing it. The President attacked the inventories as a prime cause of the present slump, and he placed a share of the blame on the price level. Prices should be lower, he thinks. All of which makes one wonder about the old law of supply and demand, according to which - when therefs more than can be sold, prices go down. correct the price level* What can be done about it1? The President said he didn*t quite know. The N.R.A. was mentioned and there were a few presidential words, kind and fonder for that one-time paragon of the New Deal. Anti-trust - seems to be the latest possibility. ROOSEVELT - 2 The President said he thought the congressional study and investigation of the monopoly situation which he recommended to Congress might bring out useful inforqiation - might develop an idea which could be used to sweeten the discord between the inventories and the price level* SURPLUS Today the federal Surplus Commodities Corporation began an investigation, oi a state ol* surplus at Qrangetown, New lork — super-surplus, surplus plus. People on relief getting so much of it they're begging for relief. The Federal ourplus Commodities Corporation buys up surplus farm produce to Keep farm prices from slipping too badly, and then it distributes the surplus as relief for the needy. The distribution, they say, hapoened to get concentrated on Orangetown, New iorii, and see what ha jpenedl First of all — oranges to Orangetown. The place-name derives from the Royal House of Orange and not the tropical citrus fruit, which doesn1t grow in upstate New York. bo the needy could nave used a few oranges - but not so many. In a space of three weeks Orangetown received seventeen thousand five hundred pounds of the golden citrus fruit. That should .figure more than fifty thousand oranges. The needy on reliei ate oranges until they hated the name of their town* Boys started playing baseball with oranges, hitting squashy home runs. The abundant fruit crop in New Yor . State is apples. I Know, bee; use I'm a Dutchess County farmer, with an orchard SURPLUS -L- produces tons ot usel0ss spple s. Orange town needed. no appJ es — buts got tnern. Great snipraents of^, _ -^S-XAAifc -- - A for an up-to-date variation of coals to Newcastle. One week Orangetown received nine thousand, four hundred pounds of beans, sent as a one month supply. Local belief Director Poole says he has been giving families on relief three times as much beans as they've been consuming. And jos still he has seventy-four |ut bags in storage1. The relief families aw A howling for relief from beans. The overabundance sent local farm prices into a severe slump - to the indignation of the local farmers. One week two thousand three hundred and ten dozen eggs arrived, and the local price of eggs dropped as much a& twelve cents a dozen, — to the chagrin of the local chicken farmers. ¥et the main idea of the surplus buying was to keep farm prices From slipping. All this draws a counter-blast from relief authorities in Albany, who deny that too much 'was sent and suggest the over-abundance was caused by a lack of storage facilities. Anyway, the surplus corporation in kxkx Washington is invest ing, and will find much chance to study its favorite subject ox - ’pluses. There1s a mountain of meaning in the report from DEAN Lawrenceville, Georgia, that Frank S. Leavitt today qualified weighing over three hundred pounds. He has a long beard, a most luxuriant crop of spinach. And he’s a wrestler. In other words, Man Mountain Dean. Ji«±sT?ehowned as a ponderous comic in those grunting, groaning, slugging, bone busting bouts they politely call wrestling. flrien Man Mountain Dean is in the ring. charge head on, butting like a goat. But| you should see hin^. leap with both feet on a prostrate antagonist, descending on him like a mountain and jumping up and down. % The Man Mountain in Georgia politics - well, byJJeorgel Candidate for the legislature. Candidate Leavitt, a lot of Leavitt - a lot of levity. as a candidate for the state legislature - a man mountain meaning. For Candidate Leavitt Is mighty of paunch and haunch. his corpulent tummy Is an outstanding mark for an opponent to MAYOR It seems that the bellicose affair of Sprague and Hague has fizzled out. It was a sensation indeed when across the wire came flashing the news that Mayor Sprague of Dallas, Texas, declared he would hand a punch in the nose to Mayor Hague of Jersey City, Sprague punching Hague in the noset - A that-would—-the—public -a—fever^—if-ntyt-the-ag-ee-. it all had something to do with the Hague dictatorship in New Jersey, the suppression of free speech and especially the suppression of the two western congressmen who were going to make a Jersey City speech denouncing the Hague dictatorship hut didnTt. That seemed to offend the Sprague democracy a6 Dallas, Texas, Wherefore the h story about nose-punching - Sprague punchew Hague, A The immediate repercussions were from Jersey City, which idyllic community is not unfamiliar with the phenomenon called - a punch in the nose. The Jersey City dictator, who has sometimes been described as a hard-boiled egg, was reported ready for the fray, willing to slug it out, fist for fist, nose for nose. So the alternative suggested itself Sprague^in the nose. that Hague might punch MAYOR - 2 Now, however, it*s all denied, with the publication in Jersey of a telegram that Sprague sent to Hague. The telegram as quoted says: "The story regarding statements made by me was wholly unauthorised and far from the truth." Signed Sprague. And in Dallas a Sprague statement is issued as follows: "Of course I had no intention of taking a poke at himi"