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d FASCISTS SALK PARLEYS Sr Br**l wiffc Soviet Peered ... Amerkem in SKenqKei Demend Protection . •. Big Jep ’PutK’ Stil to Como IfPPIpH k y i iw.<l Rti- pi Back from jachUac trip, the President/showii with son James, ms cbeerfal enoa<h despite troables of Tanks In Far East. U/. IQlniertlrsi v ^ SUMMARIZES THE WORLD S WEEK lien Note Shies Italy ‘UBTHER evidence of the com plete screed of the two greet Fes i was reresled when id Italy In refusing to st the Ryan. SwtUer- to end "piracy'* on sions. were successful in holding hack 00 000 Japanese; it was said to bo the severest opposition the Japs have met since they fought II aerial bombards the Chapel. Kiaag d Y sac bong districts el ued peril ef ipiWTsI the B and French si feetr tseree be n mel eteiup ' hatsis were dmty there bp W«rt •let la detail la a M was revealed that Nippon la preparing more appropriations for her already heavy war cheat Hlrota blamed the Chinese central government for the present fighting because it refuses to "co-operate” with Japan in “maintaining peace" in eastern Asia. Japanese military action against China, he said, was taken to make impossible the re currence of the current hostilities. "Japan," he said, "has no other ob jective than to see a happy and tranquil Nprth China and Sino-Jap- anese relations so adjusted as to enable us to put into practice our policy . . . "Since China, ignoring our true motive, mobilized her vast armies against us, we can do no other than to counter by force of arms." The emperor, in addressing the houses of parliament, greatly im pressed his subjects with a review of the war, arriving at much the same conclusions as Hirota had. Tbe session of parliament was called to consider the appropriation of $592,000,000 for the campaigns in China, raising the total of the na tion's war chest to $737,000,000. % Dodd and Hull Disagree B Y 1HE time this la printed Wil liam E. Dodd may no longer bo United States ambassador to Ger- about «- * any Amen ta Wiieain. nmm * wuS f m M S kO># SOW—a ~%Sg aos yes m+wwhsnfi N ! •4 lares seentareemaMi I a e ■ me Vto Chsaeos ! i wwa buanuMae la Ml I i Meetao awntawee af Wa caw td ho wwFa aums wonahwhar : •■•w* •■wavae as Wo *wny ns «d nopHkg «*■» saw v i-e* owe *«eoow4 snw#eaaasi at th* Nazi party ^Hrnmgreas in Nurem | berg Secretary of SUte Cordell Hull rvfuaed to rommeol «pah Dnera nWb tuU# but atuwxetced lAat me la. led SU'»« be f*p rT,«n'.«4 •< ttm »« •%*% *«e • ate M-Urf a ImIb fiw Pnahaa Q+ beet. Aaoorwao «%erw> d edawoo m EadWh haevetaey M«W edadosaoW Wo* Wm •eeaw oea beeag tadon oeratf m a WwmWs aowuoo ba Wo Boat p«»aeo aaood own oawao bo eead Wo UhWaW IbebM m aa oonabaea WnWaanWi an awe Mahswano aoaoaw hnoa hb daaoOod Wos IhwM eo« ~ i ~ i~n waag *o<o. bod aaodo bowaaW eowawaBW w BorWb Wmaoao el aNWaaow at Wa mm iwe ■ Mbs in wwgN aaa aw mw w aw pssa P HOENIX, ARIZ.—A gentle man took me sightseeing through a cemetery that abounded in proud mauso leums and stately shafts. I figured he wanted to show me that rich folks continue to enjoy the utmost luxury even after becoming de ceased. How futile and how vain are most tombstone inscrip tions. They give the dates of birth and death — events in neither of which the departed had any say-so — unless he committed suicide. And Just as the av- Irvin S. Cobb erage graveside eu logy is a belated, plea for the defense, offered after the evidence is all in. so an epitaph is an advertisement for a line of goods which perma nently has been discontinued. Somehow this burying ground stuff reminds me of hired critics of other men's efforts. The difference between professional book review ers and the other obituarians is that the latter do their work after you pass on. but tbe reviewers can’t wall until you’re dead to write your literary death notice lor you. Maybe critics are to authors what Seas were te David Ha rum's dog; they keep authors from brooding eg EO CABAJ/) ta gwae a yocbto- ten gat oaWgg lor gw igdmg porodee He's WV parade Medse Its gat Way dagt dare M a aalarad he W n0M ral and bead Hw graeao- Og gw at •■oo dope ghag Woea i and wg wd «g has heat Wa • wow «t eWak pat WatraoS Lea eato I Wow heeenewb* beads aaa gyeadr |MW Wap waged wura Ida gbpebse kHepara ba wsa— Wg amd gga aaow eeaaaOeewaa eod aeaeoaotg gel gadgeead • • • raeblaetM. D. a - More and more throughout the country are demanding Brutal that the President Japan invoke the terms of the American neutrality act with respect to the war—undeclared though it is—that is raging on Chinese soil These editorial expressions obviously will have considerable weight and will convince a very great number of American citizens that President Roosevelt ought to invoke the neu trality act and, by so doing, pro claim that Japan is the aggressor. That, in simple terms, is what a presidential announcement of ap plication of the neutrality act would mean. There probably has never been * brutality comparable to, tHe- un speakable outrage which Japan is committing in China; certainly, never in modern times. It is a stain upon the name of the Jap anese people and the smooth work ing of the Japanese military machine will never be able to offset the hos tility which the subjects of the Ris ing Sun are creating by this display of brutality. Although the Tokyo government has yet to say it is fighting a war. the Japanese aggression in China is just as much a war as though the United States and Canada had taken Further, if our President declared that war exifted between Japan and China, doubtless Japan would be encouraged to declare war on Chins formally. In that event the Jap anese immediately would establish a naval blockade of the Chinese coast • • • In some quarters in Washington,. one will hear arguments that the United States Some Say ought to keep its Handa Off hands off the Far , East situation. That school of thought takes the po sition that the United States is not obligated either from a moral stand point or from the necessity of pro tecting American interests, to use force in putting Japan back within its own borders. The basic reason why these think ers argue against a firm American attitude, however, is that China nev er has been subjugated. China has been attacked; it has been over run from many quarters and it is now being overrun again; but it has never been conquered. That sounds like • broad statement but history proves its truth. The Chinese through all of their thousands of years of history have managed to survive and maintain their racial characteristics and traditions. They never have sought additional terri tory They have been content to do things in thetr own wav and to sb- STAR | DUST ; I Movie • Radio * ♦** By VIRGINIA VALE*** R ADIO amateurs played a big part in the prepara tion of the dramatization cf Peary’s dash to the pole, pre sented recently. If they had not come to the rescue of the authors, Henry Lanier and Alan Bunce, it might have been a year or more before this program could have been heard. In dramatizing historical events it is necessary to get permission of all living participants to impersonate them on the radio, and of Peary’s North Pole expedition Matt Henson, the negro who was the only one to accompany him on the final dash, Capt. Bob Bartlett and McMillen still survive. It was easy enough to locate Matt Henson; he was right in New York. But BarUett and McMillen were off somewhere in the Polar seas. Lanier and Bunce appealed to va rious clubs of radio amateurs and for days the short wave channels were filled with calls to the taro po- 1 lar exploration ships. Finally com munication was established with the Bartlett and McMillen ships, and permission to go ahead with the pro- $ra m obtained. Wfam at Otk** Few *' • Ml cf the week la at breathtaking- irnaue of all = • V M • H mm 'rads as Fra Us# Xa 1 eons Wo snoonaa s Mm wrtm m Woo’s mows bra 1 •wmd wOoo Wd Jim • cofura* wooa H Wkoorawa S-mwg MB dm wMaawaMbanaam i iMwnooo wfiboas as sammaf as Wo oaoWwsw gooomow m Wd Wo Jonooooo OMWO cowl Vbooo Wwt oagmood Wo •erara sow «d Brawns a «d mi ’pOWMSOOf’ Cboaoao •omoo «i Woos o waamaoaad odW W* oo* oomog aw a sow * wraonownao ra Jowwawao aomwak J*' ass mak ing raody to Wave Yanguo waters, panic spread among Uw Yanks In Many business men. with lifetime invested there vigorously the President to adopt "a foreign policy with a strong front and keep the American flag wav ing.” One veteran Yank resident cir culated a petition demanding that the President "get off his yacht, get on his feet and get some guts above them.” American missionaries and busi ness men protested that the Unit ed States’ position in the Far East was largely the result of their life’s work, and insisted on a more stead fast attitude to keep the American stake in China. The State depart ment replied that there was a broad distinction between getting out of the line of fire and relinquishing privi leges established over the years. Vice consuls in many Chinese ports were ordered to leave their posts. Oppo$ition Surprises Nippon J APANESE naval guns and bomb ers carried the war 600 miles south of Shanghai when they at tacked the port of Amoy, which ef e cty ■ dw Cf 1MB la a radio i declared: •’ll 111 owe who has supped el labor s table end who has been she! . . . . , in labor’s bouse to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly etn brace.” This was regarded as an answer to the "plague on both your houses" which President Roosevelt called down on extremists of both sides in the "little steel" strike. In his cam paign for re-election he had “supped at labor’s table” to the extent ol a half-million-dollar contribution to the Democratic national committee by the C. I. O. Lewis suggested that it would be a wise move for labor and agricul ture to wage their battles together politically. "Labor has suffered just as our farm population has suffered," he said, "from a viciously unequal dis tribution of the national income. "Tbe cxploitaUon of both classes of workers has been the source of end depression, and upon the of both rests the f aMOJkstrv «f MB*w eadewwf «w»4ttMk Fawn dBMHB ee e dwwe fVC' »•* WdflBMB | bran twra edwnwo bwra B WWWMdMd M flhMMB ■mum * * .» l MMi e» W • M4 Md draw wg* swWm •» wrae en raw ew era m ft* 'dVW* I be i " cf MW C & u SV s Mwi* Mbwbnwi wura Mi ft wR ■ In e Italy going were! were the result ef "attempts to spread communism.” The Reichsfeuhrer s speech was read to the Nazi party congress in Nuremberg while he sat on the plat form. It could not have been better timed in view of the current friction between Italy and Soviet Russia over submarine piracy in the Medi terranean. Germany and Italy’s "community of interests” have emerged in re cent months, he said, "more and more an element in the defense of Europe against chaotic imbecility.” His manifesto continued: "Our (anti-communistic) agreement with Japan serves the same fundamental mission—to stand together in de fense of world civilization." 1 " ^ Postage Stamp War H ONDURAS and Nicaragua were on the verge of running up the curtain on their own little show in honor of Mars, the god of war—all over a postage stamp. Nicaragua issued a stamp bearing a map which showed an area along the Hondu- lud M* ra* rad MM MM* «Mi MMM • BM* M mb MbH ■ «mM Mw*wbm raw mi Ww wwh* dswun ra* au Mr bmma M wo MMflrp «m wyww !• RP*b . ms swra bad uowwo «f Mb dbt** w eed wowamoMk vacua wu, «f wo swum ebua Mi aaaraMM ba ara ■BMWM* Hb MBjMab^MjBV^IW oom bora w ftaM ad Mwa mMm ra ro hi Osrwas* and ara aaowtod la Ma aMdsal SUM raa iMday bp a i ef Maas surratraraara am mm Mora af art. ITs said Wot af ike artiste Wausshres are wg la aa Itchy sort ef way. la ether words, they’re all right If you don't get ora ef 'em on you. • • • I 'M ALWAYS I On the occasion of ora really his toric battle between a brace of dis tinguished writers. I yawningly left the scene before Messrs. Sinclair Lewis and Theodore Drieser quit swapping hard words and started swapping soft blows. And it was just my luck to be out here recently when Ernest Heming way threw a book—or maybe it was a publisher; anyhow some such hard, knobby object—at Mr. Max Eastman and Mr. Eastman retort ed with a tremendous push which damaged Mr. Hemingway not at all The typical writer, no matter how red-blooded his style may be, packs all his wallops in his pen and never in his fist. There have been excep tions. Once Rex Beach gleaned out a night club all by bimseU. but his opponents were hoodlums, not fel low-writers. He had something sub stantial to work on. 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It dore raraw that they >auM get ragrther becauae of the cuauniwuty of mtrrrsU but nth- IT the United SUITS lacks Iradrr- thlp In tbe circumstance, or there •re some bugs under the British and French chips about which we Jo not know. I repest that in the face of Japan's devastating actions and the ever-growing threat of her overlordahip in the Far East, these three powers ought to. work out an understanding by which they can trim the wings of the Japanese war birds. • • • As the fighting continues on Chi- aese soil as one disturbing act after another is Tough committed by the Problem Japanese, I imag ine many persons are going to inquire why the United States does not brave world diplo macy and invoke the neutrality act in that eventuality, there ought to be a clear understanding of the various implications and results that would flow from such an Amer ican action. In the first instance, Japan is now virtually self-sufficient .n the matter of munitions. 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A4a> , rarar ef Wr apwraaird la the remark that the cowdlUew u arw- eral Ihouaead mtlra acreaa the Ah lanuc. - H la, brwevsr. a most aig- niScant step breauer France, along with the United States and Great Britain, long has held to the idea that private initiative and private brains always are better than gov ernment initiative and government brains. I call attention to this develop ment for another reason. It hap pens that about three years ago members of President Roosevelt’s so-called Brain Trust were planning exactly the same thing for the Unit ed States. Strangely, the terms by which the French government, which is now completely socialistic, took over the railroads of France are identical with those which were under consid eration by the Roosevelt Brain Trust, It may be news to many persons to learn that the bunch of theorists who infest our government once actually drafted a bill for action by congress to nationalize the Ameri can railroads. That bill would have taken over the rail lines for their bonded indebtedness and dould have left nothing at all for the stock- Holders. The French radicals have that thing in national- railroads. It may be that "It can’t happen btbrw rww are ra* rarwra* W»W>w % • a avowr mw*a bMdar < SWp«mMam*<m kahw I •rare md mrhrra* am •orv prasaat »*«d* te psrarar. mw temnya BrarawM orwwr. ksrws be bed tea Btera afl anr ee Wr pwsvre wew ahri sbwB were bsMv BH Wr way ba playrd Wr rawrtmawa •rrwr where hr defends Ida masher Tbra they rmarmbrved the trad •hwte—dac lhaar aaS af lha Mm v a alts and sahatMatrd thrm fra the I era apawlaanra prrfarmawcr ba gave later. Carole Lombard is going to have such fun in her next Paramount picture. "True Con fessions.” She plays the part of a con firmed liar, such a habitual liar that she even confesses to a murder that she did not commit John Barrymore will support her, playing an eccentric amateur detective who falls for every false clue, and Fred MacMurray will be the patient, long-suffering hero, who is the victim of her weird false hoods. —k ■ ODDS AND ENDS: Greta Garbo has become a Deanna Durbin fan . . . Gloria Blondell, sister of Joan, will moke her screen debut in “Accidents Will Happen." For a long time Wm- not give her a job because looks so muck Uka Joan they it msgkt ba • IB Carole Lombard