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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE
Rumania May Be Next Victim
Os Soviet’s Westward Drive;
Dull War Hurts Nazi Morale
(EDITOR’S NOTE—When opinions are expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
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SPEAKING OF—
<L AVIATION. As Clyde Schlieper
and Wes Carroll landed their en
durance seaplane at Los Angeles
with a world’s record (726 hours
aloft, three days better than the old
mark), two Peruvian brothers left
Floyd Bennett field in New York on
a non-stop flight back to Lima.
C LABOR. Acting Navy Secretary
Charles Edison reported to the house
naval affairs committee that C. I.
O.’s United Automobile Workers un-
NAVY’S EDISON
No admittance.
the strike-bound factory to collect
vital U. S.-owned patterns and de
signs, was turned back by pickets.
Originally the incident was publi
cized by Michigan’s Republican
Rep. Clare Hoffman.
<[ AGRICULTURE. With U. S. soy
beans selling abroad six times bet
ter than in 1938 thanks to the war,
farm officials think 1940’s wheat,
beef and cotton crops might be
ooosted if Germany’s U-boats ham
per British-French communications
with their colonies. Otherwise beef
slaughter will drop because of poor
THE NEUTRALS:
Bogey Men
A warring p^tfir can line up its
weaker neutrak"neighbors either by
back-slapping or jaw-punching. The
former has more permanent advan
tages; the latter is useful under
stress. All Hallows’ eve found Com
rades Hitler and Stalin sticking bo
gey-man Jack O’Lanterns in many
a Balkan and Baltic window while
France and Britain tried to soothe
the frightened children. Italy just
sat. ' *• 1
Up north, where Finland was still
refusing mysterious Russian de
mands, Foreign Minister Eljas Erk-
GERMANY ) RUSSIA
5 r T ~
RUMANIAN ‘HOT SPOT’
Arrows at (1) show course of a pos
sible Hungarian drive to regain Transyl
vania and the minor provinces of Buko
wina and the Banat of Temesvar; (2)
show the Russian threat to Bessarabia;
(3) the rich Dobruja region, coveted by
Bulgaria. Most of this land was given to
Rumania at Versailles. Ils loss would
cut her off from the sea and finish her
as a power. But aid may come from
Yugoslavia (A), yr from the Allies,
Greece and Turkey at IB J.
ko told a patriotic rally to remem
ber “two ancient countries which
have been wiped off the map.”
But it was in the Balkans that
greatest fears arose. When Italy
calmly appropriated $873,000,000 for
an arms program which might be
nee-ded to drive nosey Russia out
of the Balkans, Rumania was genu
inely frightened. Working slyly, the
Soviet kept encouraging Bulgaria’s
demands for return of Dobruja (see
map).
King Carol knew what that meant.
Should trouble come with Bulgaria,
Russia could follow her Polish tac
tics by marching into Bessarabia to
“protect” White Russians. Mean
while Hungary would not be above
"saving” her own nationals now un
der Rumanian rule. International
observers were convinced this was
no joke, and so was Carol. He sum
moned his envoys to Turkey, Bul
garia, Greece and Jugo-Slavia for a
conference, and next day Premier
Constantine Argetoianu met Jugo
slavia’s Premier Dragisha Tsvetko
vitch for mutual defense talks. Ex
pected daily was some statement
from Italy: Would she demand that
Russia keep hands off, thereby
breaking with Germany? It seemed
a good bet.
THE WAR:
Rebound
When Swiss President Philipp Et
ter visited the intersection of Ger
man - French - Swiss frontiers, he
passed cigarettes to his own troops,
next handed them across the line to
French soldiers, then offered the
pack to the German guards. This
winter feeding prospects. Meanwhile
severe west and southwest drouths
endanger the nation’s breadbasket
again.
<L INDIA. When a British white pa
per postponed “until after the war”
consideration of India’s plea for
dominionization, the Madras provin-
cial govern
ment re
signed and
bitterness
grew apace.
Sir Samuel
Hoare, de
fending the
policy, re
plied that do
minion stat
us was im
possible until
“the Indians
themselves
i ionwasjeop
-1 ardizing the
navy’s avia
tion defense
program
through a
strike at the
Bohn Alumi
num & Brass
factory in
Detroit.
Said Mr.
Edison: A
naval inspec
tor, calling at
have settled their minorities prob
lem.” Commented India’s Mohandas
Gandhi: “I wonder if dominion status
has any meaning unless it is synony
mous with independence. India’s
co-operation in the war is not as
barren as Hoare believes. It . . .
will continue effective, if the Con
gress party remains non-violent.”
But violence may result if Britain
fails to back-water immediately.
<L LOUISIANA. When New Orleans
grand jurors howled after District
Attorney Charles A. Byrnes alleged
ly blocked their probe of tax cor
ruption, Byrnes resigned and was
replaced by Niels Hertz under ap
pointment of Gov. Earl K. Long.
Herfz’ first act: To close the hear
ing, where it was being charged the
city lost hundreds of thousands of
dollars through the alleged tax rack
et. Next day the U. S. stepped in
with a federal grand jury.
did not look like a German-French
war. Neither did the communiques.
Said Berlin’s: “No special happen
ings.” Said Paris: “Very reduced
activity during the night.”
There was no sign of peace be
hind German lines, however. Al
lied reconnaisance revealed about
1,500,000 Nazi troops concentrated
on Swiss, Belgian, Netherlands and
French frontiers, indicating a possi
ble invasion of the lesser neutral
states. Opposing thrtn were the
same number of French troops and
about 158,000 British. •
Still the war did not start despite
frontier jitters which were height
ened when the Reich cut telephone
communications all along this 500-
mile frontier. Observers believed
only bad weather or Adolf Hitler’s
whim stood between German troops
and a large-scale offensive. There
was also a chance Hitler awaited
support from Russia.
Nazidom had no fear of an allied
offensive, but that very assurance
constituted an even greater fear.
Poorly fed and nervously strained,
Germany cannot endure a long war
of attrition such as Britain and
France will no doubt wage. Some
observers believe the “war of
nerves” which Hitler used to such
advantage earlier this year is now
rebounding, and that Naziism may
soon give way to army rule.
CONGRESS:
To the House
British-French cheers reverberat
ed across the Atlantic when the U. S.
senate passed, 63 to 30, the adminis
tration’s neutrality bill which per
mits cash-and-carry sale of, muni
tions to belligerents. Berlin was re
sentful and Rome was sad, the lat
ter forecasting a longer war if
America aided the allies. In Rus
sia, the newspaper Izvestia com
mented sourly that “war in Europe
was met by Wall Street with poorly
disguised rejoicing in expectation of
profits on war orders.”
(The U. S. was already on bad terms
with Russia since the U. S. S. City of
Flint, seized by Germany, had been taken
to far-north Murmansk, repaired, and re
leased by the Soviet to her German prize
crew. All U. S. diplomatic efforts to lo
cate the Flint’s American crew were ig
nored, but it was learned the 41 men
were aboard as the ship sailed for Ger
many. Stopping at Tromsoe, Norway, the
Flint was ordered away.)
Still awaited was the house vote
on neutrality. Administration lead
ers arranged to have the rules com
mittee bring out a simple resolution
sending the measure to conference
with the senate, a move made possi
ble by the house’s passage of a
modified version of the program
last summer. Then the only house
vote on the embargo would center on
a resolution to instruct house agents
to insist on the partial arms em
bargo. If the resolution failed, quick
agreement was certain since most
conferees are pro-repeal.
As house debate opened, admin
istrationists forecast victory by at
least 30 points. Isolationists, insist
ing the result would hinge on about
10 votes, hoped pressure from back
home would sway fence straddlers
to their side.
But after neutrality, what next?
Although Franklin Roosevelt wanted
congress to go home, many an anti-
New Dealer wanted to sit pat until
the war was over—whether a year
or a decade.
I
.
GANDHI
Subtle warning.
BAKER COUNTY NEWS
COURTS:
Black Tom
In 1916 and 1917 German saboteurs
did a good job of blasting U. S. mu
nitions factories to kingdom come.
Two cases in point: The Kingsland,
N. J., plant, and the Black Tom ter
minal at Hoboken, just across the
Hudson from Manhattan. After 20
years of bickering. Nazidom’s Dr.
Victor Huecking deserted the mixed
claims commission last June, just
before Imperial Germany was found
responsible for the disasters. Sto
ry’s end: In Washington, what was
left of the mixed commission award
ed approximately $50,000,000 to
Americans, including $21,157,227 in
damages plus 5 per cent interest.
Though Adolf Hitler will have no
truck with the case, Germany has
a special deposit account in the U. S.
treasury of between $23,000,000 and
$26,000,000 to meet the award. The
treasury also holds about half a
billion “paper value” in German re
public bonds, but it looked like
American claimants would be lucky
to get the principal, minus intetsst
POLITICS:
Third Term Talk
In late October a Gallup poll
showed Franklin Roosevelt’s popu
larity to be greater than in 1936,
when he got 62.5 per cent of the ma
jor party vote. Gallup rating today:
64.9 per cent. Less emphatic, third
term sentiment rose to 43 per cent
compared with 40 before the war.
But many anti-third term voters said
they might change their minds if the
war continues.
Much bigger political news was
the feeling in Washington that Pres
ident Roosevelt will not seek a third
term, an undercover sentiment that
has made many an anti-New Dealer
support his neutrality bill (See CON
GRESS).
Certainly he is discouraging nom
ination talk. Observers learned he
told lowa’s Sen. Guy Gillette that
the tall corn state’s convention dele
gation should go unpledged. It was
also believed he discouraged Gil-
STEVE EARLY
"It would have been kind . . .”
lette from instructing his lowans
for Secretary of Agriculture Henry
A. Wallace. Reason: Wallace lacks
political “it.”
Wallace himself got his fingers se
verely burned. In San Francisco,
he remarked that the President is
“the best qualified man ... to
guide this country in a serious in
ternational crisis.” Back in Wash
ington the President refused com
ment, but Secretary Steve Early an
swered for him: “It would have been
kind and polite of the speaker to
have consulted the victim before he
spoke.”
Tentative Toss
<L At Washington, Oregon’s Sen.
Charles L. McNary tossed his hat
in the G. O. P. presidential ring but
left a string attached to pull it back.
He would allow his name to be
placed before the convention, said
Mr. McNary, for the purpose of aid
ing farm areas to select a candidate
and platform. But: “In no sense am
I interested except for the purpose
of getting together on some candi
date before we go to the conven
tion.”
PEOPLE:
Papal Slap
In his first encyclical, Pope Pius
XII did not mention Russia or Ger
many by name, but said: “. , . the
PIUS XII
"Robs ... of vigor"
Czecho-Slovakia, Austria) rights and
impedes agreement and peaceful in
torcourse.”
<[. At Rome, Premier Benito Musso
lini celebrated Fascism’s birthday
by urging the nation to “build and
go forward.” Shunned was any men
tion of the war.
<J. At New York died Alice Brady,
46-year-old stage-screen actress who
won an “oscar” from the Motion
Picture acadamy for her work in
“In Old Chicago." /
At Phoenix, Ariz., Trunk Murder
ess Winnie Ruth Judd knocked at
the door of the state insane hospital
from which she had escaped one
week before.
ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI
“The Madman With the Bottle"
Hello everybody:
You know they say troubles never come singly—which is
just another way of saying that Old Lady Adventure is never
content with giving you just one sock on the jaw. I don’t know
how true that is, but it certainly worked out that way in the case
of Hattie Rohr of Chicago.
Hattie’s big bout with Old Lady Adventure came in the win
ter of 1917. There was trouble enough in the world then, with
out having the old girl with the thrill bag on your neck. The
war was on and the influenza epidemic was sweeping the coun
try. Hattie, in those days, was just an eleven-year-old girl, liv
ing with her mother and dad and three sisters on a farm be
tween Clare and Dodge City, lowa. Her name then was Hattie
McLaughlin.
The flu epidemic struck the McLaughlin family in Janu
ary. It brought down Hattie’s dad anther three sisters, and
that left Hattie and her mother to do "all the chores around
that big farm. It was one of those days when everything
seemed to go wrong. Mother had just come from upstairs to
call the doctor. Dad and the three sick girls were worse.
While they were waiting for the doctor the party-line phone
rang. It was the school teacher, down with the flu herself, who wanted
Hattie to go to the schoolhouse and post a notice saying there would be
no school that day.
Already tired from her morning’s work, Hattie struggled
more than a mile through the snow to post that notice. She found
two small children shivering in the cold, waiting for the school
to open, and tiok them to her home and phoned their father to
come and get them. And no sooner had he come and gone with
his pair of kids than Hattie heard another knock on the door.
Stranger Comes In for Tea.
A strange man was out front. He said he was a telephone lineman
from Clare, and wanted to know if he could come in and get warm.
Hattie and her mother asked him in and gave him a cup of tea to warm
him up. While he was drinking his tea and eating a piece of corn
“She was out of her chair and darting across the room. Reaching
out quickly she grabbed the knife!"
bread, Hattie and her mother went on with their work. Nothing unusual
happened until he had finished eating and drinking. Then the stranger
got up and walked over to the stove.
It was such an unusual movement that Hattie stopped to watch him.
He backed up against the stove as if to warm himself, but Hattie saw
one of his hands slide into his pocket and come out holding a tiny bottle.
There was a pot of beans boiling on the stove. Slowly, shielded
by his body, the stranger’s hand crept up and emptied the con
tents of the bottle into the pot of beans!
Her mother hadn’d seen it, but Hattie was standing in such a position
that she could see every move he made. She was startled—frightened.
An older person might have said nothing, for fear of precipitating
trouble. That mother and child were defenseless, with dad ill in bed up
stairs. But kids of Hattie’s age don’t stop to think of those things. She
let out a scream and then, impulsively, she darted across the room and
knocked the bottle from the man’s hand.
Out Comes a Long, Thin-Bladed Knife.
Her mother turned to see what was the matter. At the same time,
the stranger reached inside his coat, pulled out a long, thin-bladed
knife, and slashed Hattie across the legs. Blood began to flow from a
long deep cut. Dazed at the turn affairs had taken, Hattie backed
away, staring at the man. The man stood, knife in hand, staring back
at Hattie. Her mother was staring at both of them. For a minute there
was a deathly silence.
The man made no other move—said nothing. Hattie and her mother
were too frightened to speak. They began to realize the fellow was stark
mad. Hattie sat down, took off a stocking and tied it about her wound.
The man stood looking, first at her, then at her mother. He waited
until she was finished tying up her bleeding leg, and then he walked
across the room to where her mother was standing, breathless and para
lyzed with fright, AND RAISED THE KNIFE.
And again Hattie acted impulsively. In an instant she was out of
her chair and darting across the room. Reaching out quickly, the
grabbed the knife!
The man gave toe knife a quick pull. It came out of Hattie’s
hand, cutting it clear to the bone at the base of the thumb. Cry
ing out in pain, she grabbed at her wrist with her other hand.
The madman shoved her away, and knocked her mother down.
For another moment Hattie stood dazed. The man fell on her mother,
sat on her chest and began choking her. And at last, a sudden change
came over Hattie. Before, she had been frightened—trembling. Now
she became furious. A red mist seemed to drop before her eyes. She
grabbed up a piece of wood from the pile beside the stove, raised it over
her head and brought it down, as hard as she could, on the madman’s
head.
The man rolled over and lay still. Hattie’s wrist was still
bleeding and her mother tied it up tightly to stop the flow. They
got ropes and tied the maniac’s hands behind his back and then
well—then Hattie keeled over in a dead faint.
When she came to, the doctor had been to the house. He had sewed
ap Hattie’s wounds and she had never known a thing about it. The doc
tor also took the madman back to town and turned him over to the
police. They found out later that he had escaped from an institution
down in the South, where he had been put for murder.
And when they analyzed that pot of beans Into which he Lad emptied
that bottle, it was found that they were poisoned!
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Maternity Death Rate Could Be Cut in Half
The lives of 6,000 mothers could
be saved every year by prompt and
proper medical care, Dr. Phillip R.
Williams, of Philadelphia, said re
cently at the first American Con
gress of Obstetrics and Gynacol
ogy.
The maternal death rate in the
United States is lower than ever be
fore in history, but it is still “dis
gracefully high” in view of the pres
ent knowledge of medical men, Dr.
Williams said.
The death rate of mothers de
clined from 57 out of every 10,000
during 1936 to 49 out of every 10,000
in 1937. Dr. Williams pointed out,
however, that this might be cut in
half if physicians made use of all
available knowledge and if pros
pective mothers asked for med
ical attention early.
In addition, the lives of about half
of the babies who die in childbirth
or soon after might be saved by
application of medical methods
which are not now generally ap
plied. During 1937, the last year
for which statistics ar* available,
119,931 babies died. t
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illustrations of it and of stitches;
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To obtain this pattern send 15
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Please write your name, ad
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Revealing Death
Men may live fools, but fools
they cannot die.—Young.
Relief At Last
ForYourCough
Creomulsion relieves promptly be
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Increase secretion and aid nature to
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No matter how many medicines you
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you a bottle of Creomulsion with the
understanding that you are to like
the way it quickly allays the cough
or you are to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
Another’s Secret
I may give to one I love, but
the secret of my friend is not mine
to give.—Philip Sidney.
Put l ust ”3 drops” in
I each nostril lor quick
from Spring
head cold discomforts.
PENETROL
Riches Trickle Away
Beware of little expenses; *
small leak will sink a great ship.—
Franklin.
Pull the Trigger on
Lazy Bowels, and Also
Pepsin-ize Stomach!
When constipation brings on acid indi
gestion, bloating, diz.ejr spells, gas, coated
tongue, spur taste, and bad breath, your
stomach is probably loaded up with cer
tain undigested food and your bowels don’t
move. So you need both Pepsin to help
break up fast that rich undigested food in
your stomach, and Laxative Senna to null
the tngger on those lazy bowels. So be
wire your laxative also contains Pepsin.
Take Dr. Caldwell s Laxative, because its
Syrup Pepsin helps you gain that won
derful stomach-relief, while the Laxative
Senna moves your bowels. Tests prove the
power of Pepsin to dissolve those lumps of
undigested protein food which may linger
1,1 Xour stomach, to cause belching, gastric
acidity and nausea. This is how nensin
mng your stomach helps relieve it of such
distress. At the same time this medicine
wakes up lazy nerves and muscles-in your
bowels to relieve your constipation. So see
how much better you feel by taking the
laxative that also puts Pepsin to work on
that stomach discomfort, too. Even fin
icky children love to taste this pleasant
family laxative. Buy Dr. Caldwell’s Lax
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