PKlJUnlES J? J. - t, IJ 4 - 0 . u&~ cry\ ^TTiose primary elections in Wisconsin tomorrow.^iil^sssst trrcni* A [ rcMt »i8al it) exTTgobed*. rrim m ,7* -' To be sure, Wisconsin only twenty-four delegates 7c -4** c JL) j , "Convent i S±y~r,lT7T But, for N reasons, the . /A 'V voters in Wisconsin tomorrow ' A*liJ expected to provide a test. T+3J"political wiseacres declare that from those returns we shall be able to get some ye&A idea of the comparative strength of Senator A-P-Ump- Vandenberg and (At 4L>cW^J Wisconsin i*r jMcut#* Tom Dewey as RepubliccJi candidates 7 ^ a will also be a proving ground for that troublesome third term issue. Trie inside dope from Madison is that the balance of power in^*TO~gTag^ will be in the hands of the LaFollette Progressives. And so far both Governor Phil LaFollette and his brotner, the Senator, have kept a cagey silence. They have refrained from indicating interest in either side, Republican or Democratic. So at present the inference is that the LaFolletSes will call the tune in Wisconsin. But tomorrow’s primaries may tell l |v»e :S**g± enty-four a different story* «ttCTr~~& -pr xu. ^ 'M ^v^vsr- hours frcm nowj^/^. Once again the threat of a third political party crops up. behind the threat is John L. Lewis, C.I.O. chief. He A admitted his menace was aimed principally at the Democrats, but he added that what he said goes for the Republicans also, ,-^qwc do^t much' fr^ thb One of the first considerations that comes up when ^ouTre organizing a new party is, what will you use for voters? Lewis has his answer pat. He proposes to try to take the ^abor union men, farmers, negroes and youth organizations. Thatfs what WeT 11 do if the Democrats at Chicago do not nominate a candidate to suit John L. Lewis. All this he said at Monongah, Vest Virginia, where there was a rally of the United Mine Workers. Lewis seemed particularly bitter at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, ne openly joined the curious campaign of attack against the G.-men that, ns* been lately. A A A A ’ i rig c ft« p rri g n ut*- o ia-nd q c j ^ pa inr 11 r"wt>-,nni,t'‘TrTnl i fliinrgss nnd-sugr^ti nnh for rmrb i trui A LEWIS - 2 ■b^gun by Mu! Lewis comes to bat with sne of-toh* mes* ewinua ef* (srk±j^i& charge® that the government is going to train men for industrial espionage. He spoke disparagingly about the fact that the government had asked Congress to appropriate nine million, eight hundred thousand 4 ? dollars for the whereas^HfsrBaclZiii spent only two million, eight hundred thousand on the same cause. TF* . \ 'vl also let it be known that he1!! join hands with \ the supporters of Dr. Townsend, the Old-Age Pension champion, heTs going to address the Townsend Convention inSt. Louis early in July and will ask them to support the C.I.O. has already A announced himself in favor of pensions of six dollars a month for everybody over sixty. zt J/ioVf J CONGRESS Only t*o more months for this session of Congress. Tnatfs a promise, or, should we say ;cory^p»A-i t frlrqt, a prophecy? \ a a Promise or prophecy, it ctme^ from Senator Barkley of Kentucky, —1 "TQ Democratic leader in the Upper House. President has A sent to Congress all the suggestions for new laws that he has in mind at this session. Consequently, there’s more than a fair chance for an adjournment by June First, if not sooner. CENSUS If a stranger had called at your house today and asked ho« old you were or soae other impertinent question, you would have been quite right to reply, nApril Fooll„ For the censuj takers aren't supposed to start out until tomorrow. Evidently the authorities thought April First was a rather too ticklish day on wnich to start such a quiz. -ff- pfiui?- luanji -^11 The air still rings with the indignant protests of Senator Tobey of New Hampshire. To counteract his and other criticisms, a message was sen^to the citizenry at large, by William Lane Austin, Director of the Census. Austin wants us all to understand emphatically that what we tell the census takers is strictly confidential. The reports, he says, cannot be used for purposes of taxation, regulation or investigation. What's more, they cannot be handed over to any other agency of the government, tax collector, or prosecutor. They are confidential, not by any census bureau reguiation but by act of Congress. Austin axso announced that the agitation ovtr the CtNOJS - 2 questions about income had been misplaced. There are just two questions on the subject, one of them calls for the amount of wages or salary received up to five thousand dollars a year. If you earned more than five thousand dollars, all you have to do is say, nover five thousand.” All that information about income is to be used only to compile tables of statistics. In spite of Austin’s message, Senator Tobey of New Hampshire continued his charges. He said in many districts active Communists have been hired as census enumerators and district supervisors President Roosevelt has postponed his visit to Warm Springs, Georgia. He had intended to leave immediately. But his physician advised him that to go south now for a change of climate and change of diet, would be unwise. So the plan at present is that Mr. Roosevelt will gd to Warm Springs A about April eighteenth. is now admitted that the cold with which ^ was supposed to have been afflicted was actually an attack of influenza. iii.THi BOOK Tha€ German White Book with its charges afcainst American Ambassadors, brought repercussions in Washington. A Senator Reynolds of North Carolina wants to have Ambassador Bill Bullitt put on the griddle, examined by the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, and asAed what he really said to Count Potocki, the Polish Ambassador. Reynolds also wants A Sumner Welles to tell all. He things the Under-Secretary should be compelled to make a full statement about that European mission for President Roosevelt, where he went, with whom he talked, what was said, what was done. Reynolds is the Senator C l ^O wno returned from Europe making remarks which some people in added that what Bullitt is charged with having said privately to the Polish Ambassador is suspiciously like the things that Minister Cromwell said publicly in Canada. Almost in the same breath Reynolds offered a resolution in the Senate. He wants to place the Upper Chamber on record as being in favor of having Uncle Sam recognize defacto governments wherever they are established, provided they in turn recognize tt.iiTh BOOK _ 2 t;‘e rignts of American citizens. This resolution mas a decided the slap at *to*xj}»iiKyx 3 f not onlyARoosevelt policy but also at some of the preceding Republican administrations. Ever since tne Japanese seized Manchuria, the United States has definitely declined to recognize any acquisitions of territory made by force or governments set up as a result of aggression. In the House, the German White Paper was taken up oy Representative Hamilton Fish. The Republican from New York wants a five-man committee to make a full investigation of that Nazi document, l^sh mau^^jne stateirb^nt whicnvsome peoole w^bll :onsider ka:;r,»r wheii he said:I canno\ concemye tha theNyGer^an ^^*eign Office would fabricate d forve c^cumentt.” And heNadded that it is certainly ir\the int overnmen\ to main^tin peaceful relatione with us. Fish even t>aked of iidbeachment A wIf,” heN d, "up n ation thX facts warrant impeachment of \ny Ajue Germ* aiabassadorV>r minister, or evkn the PresMent, for \akint secret commrttments, \hen it is\the dut\of the initiat»e impeacewent proceedings. of Representatj-vei COtdj Here1s ironic Early tnis year, A A A the British blockade threatened the Italians witn a shortage of coal. So Italy bought somewhexe^near ninety thousand tons 3 #- t£j> from WesfrVirglnia. TOio, Italians paid twenty dollars and ten cents a ton for shipping that coal from minehead to Italian ports. The coal itself^oniy cost jLfcxxsBH around two dollars a ton. All this comes to light because the soft coal miners have sent a petition to • ( They want ships. Europe is crying for coal, and American mines have plenty to sell. CLTKJ9. V\j££-*2 But to get it across the ocean. The Coal A Exporters Association points out that there are a hundred old o freignters which Uncle Sam built twenty-two years ago, freighters that arenTt doing anybody any good, just rotting ,ut their anchors. If some of them could only be reconditioned and put into commission, the coal mine operators could get their coal to Europe, they could employ more miners, and the United States could push up its coal export trade fifty per cent. CH1WA It has been quite a while since we heard anything important & S from tne Far East# 4»an announceuent131 Chungking, capital of the Caine se Govern .-lent* t^-7qcrrt^r~lntGPO'!M-^Sg^ There was a meeting of the Peoples Political Council at which Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek stood up and gave utterance. One of the claims he made was that in the last six months no fewer tnan two hundred and thirty thousand Japanese soldiers had been killed. Chiang claims further that the Japanese are stalemated in China, cannot successfully operate the territory theyJiold, cannot move without disastrous losses. He also said that China has been getting more help than ever from Russia in the last few months, not only Russia but other nations, and he added that the new twenty million dollar loan from the United States has been a great encouragement. As for Wang Ching-wei, the former Chinese Premier whom the Japanese have set up as a puppet ruler, Chiang Kai-shek describes him as a rebel. ue said further that Japan faces a hopeless outlook, the Mikadofs armies can’t win any more victories in China,while at bogie_his subjects are under-going severe CHINA - 2 sufferings because of the war. I A Thgt iF>r^Chiang Kai-shek sees it) rather A A says it. The Japanese, of course, tell a different tale. FLOODS Every yetr %e have a story of floods, an old, old story, tut tnis year the place names are slightly different. This time it’s the Susquehanna River that starts the forced march of the hungry waters. And the center oflneCsis V*ilkesfcarre, Pennsylvania. As#?— T^nr {.ftp1 ItTs also news fr-wtay that *tnere^» no danger in Pittsburgh. ter did cover some L ancr there fsc^’ oi the streets of the steel capital. But. A ^.o cause for fear at that crucial triangle. A . V ^ . , nc- i t ^ c iPEFtllJi Wilkesbai tt^e itr s another mhm The folks of A /I that Pennsylvania coal metropolis^iave to put up with a peculiar law.fewisy* Smoking illegal in Wilkesbarre. A gasoline storage tank burst and \i ImimiPTn1 spread over the flood waters. A half-burned match, a lighted cigar or cigarette butt, might have A In the Cjty^ o£rring?;r.nn^rrrghft next door to V.ilkesbarre, three storage tanks blew up with a roar. 'Kingston was already devastated by flood. The fire just put a climax on the peril. 1 FLOODS - 2 For a while an expanse of flood waters was covered by a mass of flames, but they burned themselves out. And the flood story is by no means confined to Pennsylvania, -i-n Connecticut, the Housatonic is over its banks. FLOODS - 3 t;am >»i> rirer mignt br+n* Hrv< u«^. a T CqH»geticTt tv^Minr t.nf—r^fci^v—^ f u In New Jersey, the Delaware wzft fourteen leet above normal, threatening a flood at Trenton, with several low lying iilghwayg^under water. in West Virginia, the Ohio was two feet above flood level at Wheeling, and officials of the steel plants were advised to shift their moveable machinery. A cpvv Vv_^\ t In ■—Irhe peup1,,e>--rHr-^rtTT,^^>t^rit-»t,M •• Out in California, two people died and more than a thousand families left their homes to escape peril from the Sacramento River. Twenty thousand acres are inundated in the IF Golden State.'‘Altogether, the death total from floods in VVaJt-ervv , various parts of t hexagon try want. ~np to fourteen. Here1 5 the latest prediction -t^rrr ■hrtngn—e-mnrf' wat^y!, "It comes from Uncle Sam's Weather Bureau at Harrisburg. At Wilkesbarre, the £ xxs * hr ) ulxm & crest of the Susquehanna will be at FLOODS - 4 tne thirty-four foot level by two oTclock tomorrow morning. By two ofclock tomorrow afternoon there111 be a crest of twenty-two feet and one-tenth at Sunbury; twenty-one feet at Harrisburg by one of clock Wednesday. The people of V.ilkesbarre, Plymouth, Kingston and Sunbury are all standing by in case of orders to evacuate. Twenty thousand people are homeless already. -rf ace .yanui.t.nri ....... mi h- ■ h ,^ hp . h ■in.J fift.. fci;n7rr?rmt-'' inrw rijftTjjma-e- Herefs odd one:- The Chamber of Commerce of ■£ Ketchikan, Alaska has passed a resolution expressing deep commiseration for those Americans living in rigorous climates in the States! In other words, thws# ^ A Alaskans are razzing us. I They say they have had no snow this winter. down here* This past weekend when Bill Stern dandled the news so nobly for rae, I was in the snowy Adirondacks. In fact, left there last night in a blinding snow storm. Up in the White Mountains, where the snow is nearly one hundred feet deep in Tuckerman Ravine, they are getting ready or big ski races next weekend and the weekend after that. But listen to the way this Alaskan resolution reads:- ’’There has been no snow or ice here whatever this winter. Our lawns are green, bushes are budding, flowers are growing*' MS we have even been able to pick roses and A go ithout overcoats and winter underwear.” Therefore, continues this formal Alaskan resolution^ T,Be it resolved ALASKA tnat we express our warmest sympathy for the peoole of the A unfortunate Eastern and Southern states and recommend tnat tney .pend their winters in Southeastern Alaska." Bob Crawford the Alaskan Flying Baritone sends me that one. CHE: TRl^E^ Ah, but here!s some pleasant springtime ne.vs:- The blossoms of the famous Japanese cherry trees in Washington will make their belated appearance in two weeks. They should have been out already, but the freak spring has delayed them. But the latest is th t they will be in full blossom during the week beginning April Fourteenth -- the single blossom trees. The double blossom trees, a week later. This is a forecast and promise by the National Parks and Planning Commission. So fill up your tank with Nu Blue and let’s meet in Washington! But that sounds like me playing April Fool on Hugh — by talking for him.