£ i 77* — "“3 » MOSCOW The dramatic trial of six Englishmen and eleven Russians in Moscow is almost over. Today the prosecutor summed up his case against the prisoners. The % gist of his plea wag ■ death for ±hs six of the eleven Russians, and mercy for the six Englishmen. In fact, the Russian prosecutor entirely exonerated / one of the six Englishmen^ £&. ^ The defense is still to be heard from. After the prisoners* lawyers have had their say, they themselves will be allowed to make any statements they want. *%. It is expected the verdict and sentence will be published on Wednesday. ■k'*""'5’1 OIL i1 "L fT?'' Siaod fiypiiitogj i. j-^eports from s>ashington today indicate that President Roosevelt in the next few weeks will be up against a serious fighr. Hitherto his plans have rone over in jig time and with only the most formal sort of opposition. In fact, the first six weeks A* of his administration he had things practically his own way. omens of rebellion In the congressional ranks. Both Senators and Representatives are showing noticeable hesitation about complying with the President’s proposals off hand. In the first six weeks many members of Congress voted for measures which they had ast even read through. Today they are not only reading them, they are reading them carefully and several times. powerful interests xx which were pretty v/ell silenced in the early But those six weeks are over and there are signs and weeks of the administration are beginning to find their voices. LEAD - 2 For instance, ^fa^cfaj^. bankers are putting the brai&aL on measures which were designed to make banks safe for depositors. Deposition has also made itself more loudly heard Al^£ISSJ%he bill to protect the imfciiK* A A unsound stocks and bonds. The real estate interests are up in arms against the proposals to finance cheap building projects with government money as part of the new public works program. They say too, that big railroad men donft care for aEKstctEniix President Roosevelt's plan for a federal coordinator of transportation companies. So the next few weeks will be a severe test of the President's mettle. He will have to put through his extraordinary nlans in the face of an opposition that is becoming every uay more organized and more vigorous. [jLJ, LABOR ihe Senate reasserted itself today on the subject of the thirty hour weeic, Ihat was the bill of Senator Black, ajfrothe-j?-?"-®!* -from the—Onh-tee- S ta too—nbi- ua rm nufaotur g d in factories where the hours of work were than six hours A. a day, five days a week. Democratic leaders demanded that this bill be reconsidered. The motion came up in the Senate today and was turned down by a vote of fifty-two to thirty-tw^o. In other words, the Senate stands by its guns and refuses to alter the bill as »C . originally passed. 3=n—S3?ySo now it up to the House, It is known, or at any rate it is generally believed in Washington,that President Roosevelt is in favor of the principle of Senator Black1s bill. But not of the measure as it stands at present. Mr. Roosevelt would like one that would be more flexible, one that would permit of working hours being regulated so as not to inflict hardship on manufacturers in certain industries. While the Senate was reasserting itself on the labor question the House of Representatives was busy with the armament problem. The House adopted a resolution authorizing declare the President to^tssls^zs^ an embargo on the shipment of arms to nations which are at war, This resolution was introduced at the request of Secretary of State Hull. President Hoover asked for 4r*~*--^T7Trr,^~T1rf but Congress alsaya turned him down. vote of £52 to 110. INFLATION The fcHKxyx bogey man of currency inflation raised his head once again today in the bnited States Senate. His reappearance has been expected for some time. Senator Long^ the celebrated Louisiana Kingfish, JueaxihEx appeared as the leader of the inflationists. Congressional leaders believe this is one of the v*veh£^ formidable of the fights that ^resident Roosevelt is going to be up against. Senator Hughi^ for his part claims that the Present is pledged, as he puts it, unqualifiedly pledged, to inflating the currency at once. He argued that the depreciation in foreign currencies meat* leading Uncle Sam*s dollar straight to the slaughter The inflation question came to light in the form of amendments offered to the administration^ farm relief bill. One of these mesrues is offered by Senator Vvheeler of Montana /v who wants free silver coinage at sixteen to one/t&a r&k MW Hugh&y nong declared^that the Farm Relief Bill, ka wi rhoi11. currency fits the farmer about as well as a sock would fit a chicken.” He went on to point out that Uncle INFLATION - 2 Sam’s foreign trade is being killed all over the world because countries with, depreciating currencies are able to undersell us. What the Kingfish proposed is an appropriation of a hundred <> million dollars for the purC^Ml of silver.TajSftit he would have coined at somewhere between fourteen and fifteen to one. Democratic leaders say -W-isfc all these inflation proposals will be defeated. But they admit there will be a hard fight.triaoscfcrstfc. % WHITE HOUSE The v,eatrier Man playjed a nasty x trick on the Washington A t St^JlsLri youngsters and their egg-rolling ceremonies on the White House lawn today. Nevertheless, thousands of hrrtfcr children and grown-ups were on the spot. As the President *n ~t(jl khz ft&MLa t himself remarked to the crowd: y ,TThere seem to be as many grown-ups here as there are children.” ■8px=nsmsxs*mB& t Mr. Roosevelt also said: nI wish I could’ join you.11 Mrs. Roosevelt was with the President, as well as their daughter Mrs. Dali, and their two grandchildren. The egg-rolling had to be postponed several times on account of the rain, but the sun eventually came out and the^n#^/- FRANCE Monsieur Eduard Harriot, former Prime Minister of France, is on his way to the U. S. A. He left on the lie de France for New York and will be in Washington the end of this week for tte long anticipated conversations with President Roosevelt on the subject of war debts and world economic problems. It wTas made known today that M. Harriot's status ±± is that of an observer and not a negotiator. This because in order to take part in any definite negotiations he would have had fee: either bring with him h or promise the payment of France's debt instalment on which she defaulted last December. As the French government is in no position at present either to make or definitely promise this payment right now, because the Chamber of Deputies says hesz no, M, Herriot will come to Washington in an unofficial capacity just ' as several representatives of Uncle Sam have been visiting Europe the last few years. MacDONALD Meanwhile Prime Minister MacDonald of Great Britain on the high seas is completing -hs?*. program for his activities in A Washington. The British Prime Minister is on the Berengaria holding daily conferences with his advisors. He v/as also in touch with the U. S. A. by radio. As a result of these conversations it became known that he has agreed to make two speeches to us Americanos while he is here. «£®K' anything the Nazis stand for. less than Leon Trotzky, a man decidedly out of sympathy with come under Nazi rule. The authority for this statement is no AUSTRIA Ihe latest^is that the Republic of Austria will soon A letter from Trotzky who is said to be particularly well informed about the situation in Austria, has been made public in Vienna. The former Chief of the Red Army says the Socialist government in Vienna is to blame, that their policy Is passive and sterile, a Hitlerite Government in Austria he, therefore, thinks is inevitable. At the same time he does not believe the union between Austria and Germany will come to pass. Thet, he thinks, will be prevented by France and the other Ksmjdsxiss:?: countries controlled by France. MANCHURIA There1s reassuring news from the Far East for those who have friends and relatives in Asia. A good deal of alarm had been felt and expressed concerning the safety of Aanericans in the town of Changli which was bombed yesterday by the Mikado*s airplane' Today reports come to the State Department from Uncle Sam*s ^onsuliate General in Tientsin giving the information that all Americans there are safe. At the same time we xkxm learn that the Japs are planning to advance still further south of the Great Wall. Of course, there* s nothine- particularly astounding in this. The Chinese have been saying for years that the little brown men from Nippon intended to grab a large area of Chinese territory. Uncle Sam’s diplomats in Peiping and Tientsin are considering evacuation of all Americans in the war zone. There’s considerable property belonging to in that zone and ^ K th^ lines of hostility seem to be widenin'- all the time. CHINESE PRONUNCIATION From time to time I receive letters asking me Just how to pronounce the name of that city and province over in China which is spelled J-e-h~b-l. In Boston there1s an office known as the Chinese Service Bureau. The head of it is my friend, an Americanized, volcanic, and charming gentleman of China, hy name Doctor Tehyi Hsieh. Dr. Tehyi Hsieh dropped in to see me so I asked him to set me right about that pronunciation, once and for all. He says there are various way^ of saying it, depending on what part of China you come from. The Southern Chinese call it Chee-hoel. The people of the North pronounce it Ruh-hor. He says they pronounce Peking — Pai-ching, and Nanking — Nanching. So I guess we'd better use the ordinary Anglicised pronunciation? That is, pronounce them the way they looks- Jehol (Jay-hoi), Peking, and Nanking. PIRATES, In the China seas the days of Captain Kidd are still alive. It became known today that pirates have attached and captured a customs cruiser belonging to the Chinese Government. Two British subjects were killed in the fight. The Chinese government ship has been seized as booty. -id. %*> "do ^€> 01 /vu/nt* iH STEEL The v/eek begins with one piece of encouraging news, that is, an increase in the steel industry. The magazine "Steel" issues a report today that production is up three points. This brings it to twenty and a half per cent capacity. It is due in considerable part to an uplift" in the production of motor cars. There are indications, too, of more buying BtixraiixH by railroads. ADD STEEL Incidentally a significant statement was made today by a prominent industrial executive, Myron Taylor, the chairman of the Board of^TJnited States Steel Corporation. It is significant because Mr. Taylor among financial men is celebrated for being mrayx exceedingly cagey and kbbc : ~l(ji l4}a$2 $ in­ cautious. And .this is what Mr. Taylor said to his stock- ^ • holders today: * * f,Better times areshead.” He said further that the steel industry^in operating at roughly^Sl per cent^pf its capacily^has reached highest the point seetr since March 1932** In conclusion Mr. A Taylor repeated the statement, nWe are on the way to better things.!T 0 % BASEBALL 0^2 ^ '^7 Baseball fans in Bostbn have a legitimate complaint. It*s almost a week since the season opened and the Boston fans * r still h5svj»/to see their first game, this year. Even today ^ A rain caused another postponement in the Hub, The controversy between Mrs. Pearl Buck, missionary Missions, and novelist, and the Presbyterian Board of Foreign is getting more attention every day. It became known* that Mrs. Buck, whcmmost people remember as author of that V fascinating book ttThe Good Sarthw has refused to appear before the Board to answer charges of heresy. These charges were publicly brought against her by a Presbyterian clergyman in Philadelphia. The Reverend gentleman of Philadelphia accuses Mrs. Buck of irreligious liberalism. Mrs. Buck wrote sA a magazine article a few months ago and several of the statements in it are "te several Presbyterians. In one A * part of the article she criticized the Board of Foreign Missions for the kind of people they send out to preach in foreign countries. In one paragraph she wrote as follows: nf can never have done with my apoldsgies to the Chinese people that in the name of a gentle Christ we have sent to them ignorant people, arrogant people, and superstitious people.1' BUCK - 2 So the people who object to those statements want Mrs. Buck tried on charges 'of heresy. Mrs. Buck declined to modify or qualify any part of her article and her husband made public her refusal to come to New York to talk matters over. i2 GOLDFISH An amusing burglary story came to light in the courtroom in Brooklyn today. The burglars, two young men of sixteen and seventeen, were accused of having broken in to a building where goldfish are being bred. They gained entrance by breaking a window, and were starting to steal some of the valuable goldfish. owned by some Japanese, had already suffered serious depredations. As they put it themselves, ’’associates from the Land of the Rising Sun took the loss of several thousand fish stoically enough. So last night -the Japanese, armed with shotguns, kept watch over their goldfish.. Near dawn their vigils were rewarded. The Tvo young men broke in. A-t this one ol the waiting Japanese was struck by nervousness in the trigger finger and his un went, O j i . The youths souawked loudly sno jumped. ihey jumped rignt into a Nov/ it so happened that this goldfish plant which was A but it began to be real American pain in neck huge tank full of water and gold-iish. jfKSZ&L GOLDFISH - 2 As the Japanese went on to describe the affair: "There were fish to the right of them, fish to the left of them, fish in their pant^ legs and fish under their collars, ^Tish •w^aest in - 4 their hair b«r fear usas* in their hearts, for they could nrrfcr swim." / /V ---- A So the Laps fished out the burglars and turned them of those goldfish over to the police. And the chief grievance % i ^ experts is that the finersion of th«<burglarous youths scared Uj-aLaa43r thousands of valuable goldfish. A. x --- suths im thMtank A A IMSURA^iCE This week is an anniversary in the insurance world. I suppose you might call it "Be Kind to Life Insurance Men Weei." By way of a reason for this celebration they are pointing out that in 193S American life insurance companies paid to their policy holders and other beneficiaries the tidy sum of three billion one hundred million dollars. Well, here^ hoping they don*t have to pay yours for a long, long time — and So Long Until Tomorrow