STOP HITLER j diicJL -5 V There was a growing chorus of voices ih Europe today. It was chanting, nStop Hitlerl* Not in so many words, to be sure* But the meaning underneath statesmanly words is unmistakeable*/ > I The leader of the choir of course was England^ Prime Minister, \ Neville Chamberlain. In the House of Lords, his Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, was contradicting Hitler*s charge of last Saturday, the charge that Great Britain was again playing the game of King Edward the Seventh, trying to encircle Germany. "His Majesty’s government have no such intention," said the Foreign Secretary* But in the House of Commons, his chief, the Prime Minister, >> was saying: "There’s a new epoch in England’s foreign policy. When JUBTHfr promises military help to Poland^he means just what^he says - military help.A An<t~he- e-xylainod♦ "To have departed from our A A traditional ideas in this respect constitutes a portent in British policy so momentous that it will have a chapter to Itself when history is written." Then he added that he wasn’t going to be bothered by little frontier incidents, only with big things that might lie behind frontier incidents. deeiaT*ation^hat^lf:“-Poiand. should be trw threatened ^France and ou ra e?il v^e-^«me44a^e-iy-*-^^aXd->eoae--47^»^ieF---etiS4»i et a«e#^ Talking about Hitler*s charge of encirclement, the Prime Minister said: "It is fantastic•*’ Then he added: "The discussions contain no threat to Germany so long as Germany is a good neighbor•* Conservative Winston Churchill approved emphatically; Lloyd George congratulated the Prime Minister; the liberal and labor leaders also added their voices to the chorus* at London. The long, lean, aristocratic looking figure of Colonel Josef Beck, Foreign Minister of Poland, stepped out of a railway carriage at Victoria Station. The first man to greet him was Lord Halifax, who had rushed over from the House of Lords to meet the Polish leader* The immediate consequence of Chamberlain*s sensational change of policy w< ipproval from all his opponents In such a dramatic moment, an important visitor arrived BERLIN III jT _LI- ' ~ Sp—. Nazi Berlin^retorted to Chamberlain with snorts and jeers. sBm Nazi spokesmen T»niw^riHw«a ^i;ia inillt^1r |ltb 1|ti Hitler1 s A words on Saturday, his warning W small powers that pull chestnuts out of the fire for the big democracies^^df^get burned. Nazi officials today sent out a broad hint to Roumania, Jugoslavia and Poland to remember Czechoslovakia. Here*s a later dispatch from Berlin that came in a short while ago, a semi-official retort to Chamberlain from Hitler's Foreign Office. It sounds like for it A--------------- reads: "Germany will not remain passive to aggressive tendencies.n Then it -dcmeuncgs~' the policy of-othgr^uuiitri^e-to interfere^ ad - to OtgaiTh re3rai“.ion,^-ofe oonf idanoe-es hoi It then gets sarcastic about English policy, saying that England keeps a safe distance from the line of fire while setting two groups of powers against each other. RUSSIA The answer everybody would like to know is whether Soviet y\ Russia is in on the Chamberlain-Bonet play. Ex-Premier Lloyd George, A when he congratulated Chamberlain, said in effect: "That^s all very well, but you can’t win without the Soviets .11 To this the British spokesman made no reply. It’s freely rumored that Moscow is ready to help against Hitler. But the Poles, for their part, say they want none of it. There was a rumor that plans had been made for Poland to receive ■m±±x±jtE£ an unlimited supply of arms and ammunition from Russia. Warsaw said to that, nRothing of the sort. It would be contrary to Poland’s policy of strict neutrality to become a party to such an agreement .*1 ROUMANIA U. I AgtitettterhKtTrg not actually known yet 1m whether Roumania h will accept Chamberlain’s offer* It seems to have been widely taken for granted that King Carol would jump at it. And there»s a rumor in Paris that he has done just that. But it’s unofficial, there’s no frank statement on the subject from Bucharest. \J ^ <Se^_ vw*~'^tvUv ^ ^ HULL Secretary Hull contributed his bit to the general feeling about Hitler* He issued fc£B statement about the trading methods /A of the Nazis, described them as destructive to world commerce. It was a reply to a speech last week by Walter Funk, Hitler»s Minister of Economics, a speech in which Funk delivered a virulent attack on our policies, censoring the huge accumulation of gold in the U.S.A. And here are some of the things Hull said in reply. "Any obstacles which German trade faces in the United States as compared with any other country are entirely the result of German policy and practices." Hull then said that th^>rinciple of our trade policy is equal treatment to all countries. Germany has been invited to join in. But, added sw»v the Secretary, "the German authorities seem able to trade only on their own terms as they dictate them and by their own methods, ae-t Irey ""Shape—th e irr? ”— diTcrtrd trndt- from C* Aids result has been broad and decisive discrimination against JwJLJXvTjiVi American experts n SPAIN In Spain it*s reported that the executions which everybody expected have not taken place yet* But, hereTs a portentous note from Madrid- All the soldiers in the Madrid area who fought for the Republican government are ordered to report to concentration camps. That means a hundred and fifty thousand former Republican gmx fighters. Already twenty thousand of them have been founded up. In addition to these, fifteen hundred are under arrest, described by the Franco government as "Red criminals." ^hose who can prove that they fought tinder compulsion, were conscripted by the Republican government, will be assigned to^labor battalions. Also those who had Republican sympath^but committed no acts that are called crimes according to the Nationalist dictionary. The others will all be court-martialled. Aside from this, the chief effort of the Nationalist officials is to get food to a population that hasn’t had a square meal in months. M, leai3t’">iiieofe«a3f tho people iir'Madild havon*t» ^jiysieians say the malnutrition among children is pathetic frfrere "arr bhoueands -of— •• CHINA We haven*t been hearing much about the war in China lately. But there was a dispatch from Shanghai tonight that Soviet Russia is determined to keep it alive, help the Chinese struggle indefinitely against the Japanese invaders. Negotiations are on foot for a huge loan by Moscow to the Chinese Nationalist goven^nt. It won*t be in the shape of cash, but credit — airplanes, tanks, artillery, munitions. They*11 be used to the area in the northwest held by Chiang Kai-shekfs troops. the area contiguous to Russia FISHERIES One argument between Soviet Russia and Japan is about to be settled. At any rate, thatfs the word from Tokyo. It's that old controversy about fishing rights. Without fish. I H| ^ ^ , . _ ___ ,,___. . .ras that the Mikado! s government was on the verge of sending its fishing fleets out with warships to protect them if necessary. But now the Soviet has consented to an agreement which allows the Japanese to fish off the Siberian coast during Nineteenjrhirty-Nine. diplomats can do something to stop the Japanese fishermen from their present activities which are rapidly destroying the Alaskan their main In ojjr^ mm northwest, people are hoping that our own FROM SON OIL The National Munitions Board has appointed a committee to petroleum industry’s ability to furnish-the A ^ y\ * oil needed i^base of war. In view of petroleum1s importance in mechanized war the inquiry is significant ."^Some idea of what the committee will learn may be found in recent statistics from Washington on gasoline prices in various v/orld capitals. Gasoline was priced in Berlin at the equivalent of fifty-nine-^y^ point-* b 4»" ikx&t — wn per gallon, and in Rome at eighty-one cents; A whereas in Paris it was twenty-seven-point five and in London thirty-one-point-four. Those quotations suggest** the advantage the democratic countries enjoy In this regard at leastT^Also with bun^co if you’ve had your tank filled^lately you’ll appreciate the advantage of the United States over even the other democracies. In the list of twenty-five countries the American price was far the lowest. For that you can thank the fact that in this country competition and free enterprise play a bigger part in fixing prices than almost joqDUUuadEXjE anywhere else. RELIEF The revolt In Congress over relief money is as tough as ever. Partisans of the White House have been hopingjth&t the Senators would raise the ante, give the President the hundred and fifty million he asked for instead of the hundred million okayed by the House. But today a sub-committee of the Senate agreed with the House and threw out proposal toy the Roosevelt partisan# for a hundred and fifty millions ^^That wasn’t all. The Senators who are heading the economy bloc warned the New Deal leaders that if they don't take tjiat hundred million and like it, there’ll be a fight to reduce it^evon lowow^ seventy-five millions or less. Among the members of the economy bloc is the veteran Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. and one other Senator proposed to —~ iiurn v wif hundred million, and, as they put it, "to vote not one single cent," T.Y.A After nine months. Congress is about to make up its mind on the Tennessee Valley Authority. Nine months and seventy-five Congress^ about thousand dollars Jjjfc cost. the T.V.A,? It all depends on which side of the fence the Congressmen sit# "Splendid”, say the Democrats. "Terrible”, say the Republicans. The joint committee is split along strict party lines. The six Democratic members, after spending nine months and seventy-five thousand dollars, say the charges made by Dr# Arthur Morgan are without foundation, that the administration of theTermessee Valley Authority has been economical, efficient, i ^ Also, that the Board members opposed to Dr. Arthur Morgan exhibited great forbearance and dignity. And, the Democrats add, ”this cannot be said of Dr. Arthur E. Morgan.” The three Republican members of that joint committee say the report of the majority is nothing but a whitewash, that no complete investigation has been made, and that the T.V.A. needs to be curbed because it is more powerful financially and politically than all the southern states within which it operates. And there you are, teke-youlu-pie&u INCOME TAX Uncle Sam's Treasury had a pleasant surprise. Receipts from income taxes last month were larger than expected. Wage earners paid in five hundred and five million odd dollars March Ww Fifteenth. That’s twenty-five per cent less than in March, Nineteen Thirty-Eight, but it is twenty-five per cent more than officials of the Treasury had expected. According to these figures. K will take in over two fcllion dollars before the end of the year. SMALL BUSINESS Harry Hopkins, Secretary of Commerce, comes to bat for small business men. tte want-g-Conferess—to help—thefr ». with'Tesearck> Theref s a bill already before Congress to establish research stations in several regions of the U.S.A, give Hopkins wants it amended so as to sue specific help to small business men, enable them to increase their efficiency, widen their markets, improve their competitive position. Says the Secretary of Commerce: "The limited resources of small businesses have prevented them from undertaking studies that big corporations have made. The tragic result is that their mortality has been exceedingly high, their finance and credit problems few* acute, their operating techniques not as efficient as they might.he." MONTGOMERY There was almost a riot on Capitol Hill in Washington today. Through all committee rooms there ran the whisper: ^Robert Montgomery is hereln Immediately pencils were thrown down, typewriters shoved aside, and a stampede of ladies young and m m. & old to ene-aft’-'thw committee room*. There sat & bb handsome aressea for California weather in a gray single-breasted suit without any vest. He was testifying before a Committee. The nonchalance for which he is famous in movies was not so apparent on the witness stand. Observers report that he was chewing constantly on the rims of his spectacles while he was giving evidence. Th© handsome young man appeared as director of the •yw Screen Actors Guild. There’s a bill pending by which Congress proposes to prohibit the "block booking" and "blind selling" of 'P& jz ~C%£p» movies. Montgomery is agin Says he: "If you pass that bill, you’ll cut Hollywood’s output in half; you’ll affect the thousand employment of some two hundred and eighty-two^persons." Then* he added: "Methods of production and distribution are not result of/thirty years’ experience and perfect. But they’re the LABOR For three days not a hand has been lifted in the soft coal mines of eight states. Three hundred and eignty-eight thousand miners are idle, earning no money. They* re all waiting the outcome of negotiations between John L. Lewis and the coal mine operators in New York. While the workers are waiting in anxiety and idleness, the negotiators today did nothing, they postponed their talks until ten o’clock tomorrow morning. Meanwhile, the strike of truck drivers in southern New England produces a condition ••fcamiriy described as paralyzing. It has been going on for three weeks now, in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Tod^r the Arbitration Board of Massachusetts got into the game and isftrying its hand on that deadlock. PLANE CRASH An airplane crash in Arkansas three years ago has been somewhat of a mystery ever since. The Bureau of Air Commerce investigated and was able to discover no signs of explosion or fire, no structural defect. Apparently both motors of that airliner ram smoothly and sweetly when it came to grief at Goodwin, Arkansas, and killed seventeen people. The weather was perfect. During the investigation, a theory came to light that one of the passengers had interfered with the pilot, walked into the control room, pistol in hand. kast week a negro farm-hand found a rusty revolver, three miles from the scene of the crash. He found it, moreover, on the spot over which the plane had flown just before it made its fatal dive. This curious news comes to light today. A Memphis newspaper learned about the finding of that gun and got possession of it. The serial numbers on the pistol are now being traced and maybe tljat tragic mystery will be solved. HITLER To call a policeman "Hitler" in New York will cost you five dollars. There was a strike of employees of a company that makes soft drinks. The place was picketed and a patrolman told one of the strikers to move on. The striker shouted back; "Who do you think you are. Hitler?" The cop didn’t like it, so he took the man in, charged him with disorderly conduct. Said the magistrates "You have the wrong attitude. You must not denounce a police off leer.f and call him by a foreign name when he is only doing his duty* Five dollars finel"