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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBlNE Probe Into Moseley Activities Reveals Race Consciousness; Rome-Berlin Pact Discredited (EDITOR’S NOTE—When opinions sre expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. RACES: Semitism Last October top dim executives met Movie Czar Will Hays to dis cuss how anti-Semitism might be checked insofar as it affects movie revenues. Last November Father Charles Coughlin made a radio speech tempering criticism of Ger many’s Jewish pogroms by com menting that Communist persecu tion of Christians was worse. Nazi sources, he said, had told him 56 of the 59 top men in Russia’s Com munist party were Jews. This spring came “Equality,” a magazine boasting prominent “Ary ans” on its editorial board and dedi cated to combating anti-Semitism. At the same time Collier’s maga zine found there was at least enough talk about the subject to justify a popularized treatise by Harvard An thropologist Earnest Hooton on the Jew’s “highly evolved and special ized characteristics of mind, tem perament and personality.” Readers of the Hooton article found themselves realizing that Ger many’s horrible pogroms have at mm; ' ••. *- •— ' .. I GENERAL MOSELEY “Hou> strange . . least made America conscious that there is such a problem. This real ization became the more acute when Texas’ Rep. Martin Dies brought his un-Americanism investi gation committee back into session with the following unsavory allega tions: Maj. Gen. George Van Horn .*Tose- ley, who retired from the army last autumn after throwing sharp shafts at the New Deal, is active in a nation-wide anti-Jewish organiza tion. Moseley joined a drive financed by New York’s Dudley Gil bert, who sent "confidential reports” he received from a night club “wait er” to James Erwin Campbell, re serve army captain of Owensboro, Ky. Campbell, in turn, issued re ports to “key people” throughout the U. S. Dies said Gilbert had no intention of stirring up race hatred but thought he was doing a “patri otic service in anticipation of a rev olution.” Sample Moseley statements re ported by the Dies committee: (1) “The fact is that the most serious problem confronting Amer ica today is just this problem of the Jew and how to get rid of his in fluence definitely—locally, national ly and internationally.” (2) “If the Jews bump me off be sure to see they get the credit for it from coast to coast. It will help our cause.” Notified of the charges, General Moseley abruptly closed his own private “un-Americanism” investi gation in California’s Imperial val ley and flew to Washington in an swer to a Dies subpoena. His com ment: “How strange . . . that a patriot can discuss openly and frankly the problems involving Irish men, Italians and Germans . . . but let him mention any internation al ’isms’ or Zionism and their in creasing control of America, then he is attacked on all sides . . . even his life may be threatened.” ITALY: Axis Breakup? In 1914 the homeland of Julius Caesar broke its triple alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary be cause Trentino and Trieste were not forthcoming. Next year Italy went to war on the side of the Allies. European history has q way of re peating itself; Benito Mussolini, who last year saw everything to gain in an alliance with Adolf Hitler, and who has just signed a 10-year “in vincible” military pact with Ger many, may well be floating helpless against a current he cannot buck. Plainly top-heavy, the Rome-Berlin axis nowadays gets most of its ora torical support from Nazidom; though Mussolini chimes in, almost every speech indicates he would like peace ^ith democracies. Left unspoken afe the reasons he fears the man he calls friend. Reasons: (1) If Balkan Yugoslavia breaks up, the area inhabited by Slovenes is almost certain to be grabbed by Germany from its Austrian outpost. providing the Reich with an outlet to the Adriatic sea and thence to the Mediterranean. Much though Germany’s friendship might be val ued, Italy cannot afford to let Hitler become a Mediterranean power. <2) Italians dislike Russians, but both in heritage and ambition Adolf Hitler’s nation is like Soviet Russia. An allied Berlin and Moscow would control Europe, a possibility which grows less remote as German-hating Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov retires from office and both Hitler and Stalin cease shouting at one an other. Such a pact would leave It aly in the cold. (3) Strong though her Mediter ranean position may be, Italy is still weaker than the combined fleets of France and Britain. Mussolini is also alarmed at recent Anglo- French gains in the Mediterranean, especially their pacts with Greece and Turkey. And though he counted on Spain as an ally against democ racies, Mussolini finds Generalis simo Francisco Franco hobnobbing too affectionately with Germany to his own exclusion. Franco hobnobs also with French, Swiss and Dutch bankers, seeking a reconstruction loan neither Italy nor Germany can give. So far as Mussolini is con cerned, the Iberian peninsula is a bigger question mark today than one year ago. (4) Several times the past year Italy has risked war to help Hitler, first in Austria, next in Sudetenland, next in Czecho-Slovakia, then in Me- mel. Each time the home folks wondered what Italy would get in return, and after one solid year of such risks they have received noth ing but barren Albania. If Hitler marches into Danzig and drags It aly into a futile war, H Duce will risk internal blowup. Such are possible reasons why French Ambassador Andre Fran co is-Poncet met Italian Foreign Min ister Galeazzo Ciano in Rome re cently for amicable discussion on French-Italian trouble points. Since modern treaties apparently mean nothing, there is a good chance Italy might junk her new German pact for a settlement with France and Britain. Britain’s reluctance to sign a treaty with Russia might be founded on the hope that Germany and the Soviet would get together, thereby alienating Italy. BUSINESS: Competition Wanted Under NRA the government forced industry into collusion, strict price levels being enforced to a point where competing bidders usu ally found their individually arrived- at quotations identical. But since NRA was invalidated identical quo tations have often continued, pro viding Trust Buster Thurman Ar nold, assistant attorney general. THURMAN ARNOLD . “.. . just getting started . . .” with what he terms prima facie evi dence of collusion. That a government which five years ago fostered collusion now fights it may seem inconsistent, yet a return to orthodox business philos ophy has again made men believe that competition is the life of trade. Up before the house appropriations sub-committee, Trust Buster Arnold explained the justice department will need $520,000 more next fiscal year simply to carry on an anti trust campaign which—after 40 years—“is just getting started.” No violent campaign is planned, Mr. Arnold explained, but five re gional offices will be opened (New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Oklahoma City, San Francisco) and such na tion-wide investigations as that of the oil industry will be co-ordinated. With individual actions at Madison, Wis., New York and on the Pacific coast, Mr. Arnold’s oil inquiry will center on whether producers must not divest themselves of control of the retail filling stations, a prac tice he charges is collusive in that it holds up prices, stifling competi tion. Mr. Arnold on oil: “My point is that either we are going to have competition in the oil industry or if that is impossible it has got tc go to congress for regulation—one of the two.” SPAIN: Freedom? “The lai£ is the logical outcome of Germany’s view, voiced ever since the outbreak of the Spanish war, that fight ing there is something which concerns only Spaniards.” Such was the Berlin foreign of fice’s comment on February 18, 1937, when the Reich passed a law which forbade German citizens to enter Spanish territory and partici pate in Generalissimo Francisco Franco’s war against Premier Juan Negrin. In May of 1939, two months after the war ended, with 14,000 Ger man “volunteers” just coming home from Spain, Germany got around to repealing the law. If Europe thought this situation just a bit humorous, it could view FRANCISCO FRANCO irhat price dignity? with alarm another chapter of Ger- man-Spanish relations now being written. In Madrid, while Franco forces announced all German and Italian arms used during the wur (bombers, pursuit planes, heavy ar tillery, tanks, trucks, technical equipment) would be retained, a committee of 12 German tradesmen was en route from Berlin to nego tiate an economic and financial treaty with Spain. Heading the group was Dr. Hel- muth Wohltat who negotiated the treaty with Rumania last March. Observers thought Wohltat treaty making had reached the pattern stag?, for Spain will be treated just about the way Rumania was. Reich contractors will build roads, rail ways, fortifications and other mili tary establishments for the new Spain. More vital, however, is the general provision for exchange of Spanish raw materials (especially ores and foodstuffs) for German fin ished products. Thus will Spain be drawn positively into the Rome- Berlin orbit. While this was going on. Dictator Franco reviewed his much-post poned “victory” parade, then spoke as if his nation were free from Ger many and Italy: “We want a great Spain, but we place our dignity above all. We shall not tolerate any attempt against our sovereign ty because it would be useless.” AGRICULTURE: Trouble Ahead This spring the bureau of agricul tural economics forecast a July 1 wheat supply of 1,018,900,000 bush els, only 2,100,000 bushels short of the figure where farmers must vote on acreage quotas for next year. Dry weather in spring wheatlands cut crop prospects, however, and by mid-May Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace was able to avoid an embarrassing election-year acre age referendum by cutting the July 1 estimate to only 974,000,000 bush els. A further help: In 1940 farm ers can plant 62,000,000 acres to wheat, 7,000,000 more than this year. A week after this announcement, however, it appeared the adminis tration’s farm program is bound for another bogging down, another year like miserable 1934 and 1936^ Care fully checking weather bureau re ports, Mr. Wallace found early May rainfall in the wheat belt was far below normal, with drouth spread ing fast and damage to spring crops already heavy. Percentages of nor mal rainfall thus far: South Da kota, 36; North Dakota, 45; Nebras ka, 59; Kansas, 74; Montana, 55. Though on the average far better than 1934, conditions were bad enough to make Mr. Wallace name a drouth committee who will aid farmers if the worst comes. Trend How the wind is blowing . . . JOBS—Of 100 universities‘and colleges surveyed by Minneapolis’ Northwestern National Life In surance company, 63 find greater demand for graduates than a year ago. STAMPS—Coin-operated mail boxes which weigh letters, stamp them and drop them into a de pository for collection, are being installed at New York. POWER—Of 1,670,000,000Amer ican horsepower, 92.7 per cent constitutes transportation horse power, installed exclusively to move people and goods. FOOD—U. S. bureau of dairy industry scientists have perfected a new food article with two sur plus products—skim milk and cull potatoes. These, with a little salt added, are made into wafers, chips, sticks or croutons, and oven dried to crispness. i-toyd ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI “Down the River Road’ H ello, everybody: Here’s a yarn that packs thrills enough to last through a whole night. At least, it did for Mrs. Dorothy Murphy, the Bronx, N. Y. Many years ago, Dorothy was living on a farm in the Chestnut Ridge section near the little town of Dover Plains, N. Y. She set out to drive to the railroad station three miles away, and before she got back she’d had enough adventures to last a lifetime. That was in February, 1914. Dorothy was just 18 years old. Her aunt had been spending two weeks with the family and it was she whom Dorothy drove to the train on that cold February evening. Automobiles weren’t so common then. What Dorothy drove was a surrey, drawn by an old, half-blind horse named Brownie. The train pulled out of Dover Plains at 6:45 p. m., and Dor othy turned the horse around and headed for home. Already it was dark—a moonless, starless night. The way back lay along a steep, rough, unfenced country road that climbed for nearly three miles before it reached Chestnut Ridge. On one side of it lay thick woods covering an up ward slope of the ground, and on the other was a steep de clivity. For part of the distance, that declivity straightened out into a tall cliff. And there was nothing to prevent a carriage from going over it, if it approached too close to its edge. That was Dorothy’s first thrill—the prospect of driving over that road in the dark. She hadn’t thought darkness would fall so soon that night, and she was scared stiff of that cliff. As she drove along, and the dark ness deepened, she couldn’t see her hand before her face, and she gave Brownie a free rein, hoping that his instincts would keep him on the road. Dorothy Felt the Wheels Slipping Over the Edge. They, were going along the top of that cliff, and all was going well. And then, all of a sodden, Dorothy felt the wheels slipping over the edge. Poor, half-blind old Brownie had failed her. He ADVENTUROUS AMERICANS By Elmo Scott Watson Pretty Patterns That Are Oh So Practical! Her arms were aching and her head was swimming. She hear Brownie wander off. had gone too close to the edge! The surrey gave a sodden larch and Dorothy was thrown ont into space! Says Dorothy: “I clutched at the air as it slid past me, like a drowning man clntches at straws. My hands grabbed some boshes growing out from the side of the cliff and I hong on for all I was worth. And there I was, between earth and air, and with nothing to save me from death on the rocks below but my pre carious hold on those shrubs.” Dorothy says that time has no meaning under such circumstances. The minutes seemed like years. Her arms were aching and her head was swimming. She could hear Brownie and the surrey wandering off in the darkness. Evidently the old horse had pulled the surrey back on the road after she had been thrown out. For a terrible moment she clung to the bushes, and then her fingers encountered a branch of a small tree growing along the side of the cliff. She caught it with one hand—then the other—and drew her self up over the cliff to safety. She lay on the ground for a while, sick %nd weak. Then, having recovered a little, she got up and stumbled to the road. Brownie and the surrey were nowhere in sight. Dorothy started walking toward home. You’d think she’d had enough adventuring for one night—but the big thrill hadn’t even started. She had only walked a few steps when she heard a sound that froze her blood in her Veins—the baying and yelping of dogs. Wild Dog Pack Pursues Terrified Dorothy. Dogs don’t sound so dangerous—but Dorothy knew better. A short time before she had seen the body of a boy who had been killed and partially eaten by these same dogs. They were wild animals—descendants of dogs who had run away from their mas ters to live in the woods and had reverted to type. Every once in a while, in those days, packs of that sort appeared in the woods in various places throughout the country. And they still do, in wild, outlying regions. A single dog would run at the sight of a man, but in a pack, and in the middle of the winter when they were half starved, they would attack almost anyone. Dorothy knew all too well what would happen if this pack caught up with her. She turned, stumbling, into the woods and ran until she found a tree. It was a tree with a low fork of its branches—one she could climb. She began pulling herself up into it. The yelping of the pack was coming nearer and nearer. She wasn’t a minute too soon. She had hardly clambered into the lower branches when they were on the spot, yelping and snarling at the bottom of the tree. “And there I was,” she says, “perched in the tree while the hunger-maddened brutes howled and snarled below. I still turn sick and cold all over when I think of that moment. The worst part of it was that I was afraid I’d grow weak or faint, or so numb from the cold that I’d fall out. I knew what would happen then.” With the First Streaks of Dawn the Dogs Left. Hour after hour Dorothy clung to that tree, wondering why her folks didn’t miss her and come looking for her. Wondering why they didn’t realize something was wrong when the horse and buggy came home without her. She didn’t know that old Brownie, turning completely around in his struggles to haul the surrey back on the road, had wan dered back to town and was spending the night in an open horse shed. Her folks thought Dorothy had decided to spend the night with relatives in town, as she often did, so they didn’t worry. And all that night, she crouched in the tree racked by the cold and harried by terrible fears. As the first streaks of gray appeared in the sky, the dogs slunk off through the woods, and when she thought it was safe she came down and crawled to the road. She couldn’t walk, but a farmer, driving to the milk depot, found her in the road and brought her home. Dorothy says she’s written this story for us other adventurers to read, but she adds, “Usually, I don’t think of it if I can help it.” (Releasted by Western Newspaper Union.) Works of Fifteenth Century More than 200 working models of the outstanding inventions of Leo nardo da Vinci, one-man phenome non of the Fifteenth century, are on display at Milan, Italy. A three year, world-wide search for original drawings of Da Vinci’s inventions has resulted in this exhibition. A great artist, painter of “The Last Supper,” Da Vinci was also an en gineer, architect and inventor. To- Genius on Display in Milan day, more than 400 years after his death, the basic principle of his “dif ferential” is still being used in ev ery automobile. His “pile driver” is copied almost exactly today with a few modern embellishments. The original principles in his rolling mill, printing press, concave glass polisher, olive press, saw mill, pul ley system and canal locks are used today the world over. Fightin’ Irishman IT ARLY in the Nineteenth century i an Irish lad named Jimmy Shields ran away from his home in County Tyrone. The ship on which he set out for America was wrecked off the coast of Scotland and he I was one of only three survivors. Undaunted by this experience^the boy set out again. An Atlantic gale drove this ship upon a reef off the Carolina coast and Shields, who had been aloft, was thrown to the deck with both legs broken. The boat was wrecked but by an almost miracu lous chance he was rescued by a i passing vessel. After recovering from his injuries, he enlisted in the army and fought in the first Seminole Indian war in Florida, after which he headed for the new state of Illinois. There he made a living for a time by teach- , ing French in the French village of , Kaskaskial Then he studied law, soon passed the bar examinations and within a few years was successively elected representative in the legislature, state auditor and justice of the Illi nois Supreme court. At the out break of the Mexican war he raised a regiment and fell desperately wounded at the Battle of Cerro Gordo. Chosen United States senator from Illinois he served for six years, was defeated for re-election and moved to Minnesota where he was again sent to the senate. At the outbreak of the Civil war he was made a brigadier-general and was again desperately wounded in bat tle. But he survived and was again elected to the United States senate —this time from Missouri. When he died in 1879 Shields had the distinc tion of being the only man in Amer ican history who had served as sen ator from three different states. * * • Patriot and Painter QEN. GEORGE WASHINGTON. besieging the British in Boston, wanted accurate drawings of the enemy’s positions. So a young Con necticut Yankee volunteered to get them. He crept close to the British lines and made sketches which pleased the commander so much that he made the young fellow a colonel and his second aide-de-camp. The young colonel next served as adjutant-general to General Gates and in 1778 accompanied General Sullivan as a volunteer against the British in Rhode Island. When this expedition proved unsuccessful, he resolved to give up soldiering. He went to London to study under Benjhmin West and soon became the favorite pupil of that great painter. When Maj. John Andre, the British adjutant-general in America, was caught and hanged as a spy, the young painter seemed to the British the logical man to be used for reprisal. So they put him in prison. Instead of protesting, the truculent young Yankee boasted that he had been an aide to that ‘arch rebel,” George Washington, and was proud of it. Only the intervention of his paint er friends. West and Copley, saved him from hanging. Lucky for America that they did) Otherwise John Trumbull might never have lived to paint such great historical works as “The Battle of Bunker Hill,” "The Signing of the Declara tion of Independence,” and “The Surrender of Cornwallis at York- town”! • • • Franklin's Nephew \A7 HEN Benjamin Franklin sent his 19-year-old nepftew, Benja min Mecom, to Antigua in the Lee ward islands in 1752 to run the newspaper he had established there four years earlier, he wrote to his sister, Jane Franklin Mecom: “That island is reckoned one of the health iest in the West Indies. My late partner there enjoyed perfect health for four years until he grew care less and got to sitting up late in taverns which I have cautioned Ben ny against.” Presumably Benny foDowed his uncle’s advice but he was too much of a Franklin not to be restless. He soon became dissatisfied, even though Franklin increased his share of the profits, and wanted to “go it on his own.” So Franklin sold him the press which he moved to Bos ton. There in 1758 he issued the first separate edition of Franklin’s ‘Father Abraham’s Speech,” later famous under the title of “The Way to Wealth.” Unfortunately Benny didn’t apply its lessons to himself. He became something of a fop, strutting around in fine clothes instead of sticking to work. Failing to prosper, he moved the press to New York in 1763 but had no better success there. Then he went to New Haven where he rented a press from Postmaster Parker, whose deputy he became. But he failed to make good there, as he did later in Philadelphia and Burlington, N. J. Benny Mecom had inherited his uncle’s name but none of his genius for making a success. Finally about 1776, he went mad. • Western Newspaper Union. COMEWHAT formal, so that you ^ can wear it smartly for shop ping and runabout, is the wide shouldered dress with buttons down the scalloped bodice and braid used to give the effect of a bolero. The circular skirt has a charming, animated swing to it. In batiste, linen or flat crepe, it’s a dress you’ll thoroughly enjoy all summer long. Indispensable Slacks Suit. If you’re planning to have a lot of outdoor fun this summer (and of course you are) then a slacks suit is an indispensable part of your vacation wardrobe. This one includes a topper with front gath ers that flatter your figure, well- cut, slim-hipped slacks, and a bo lero with wide revers that you can wear with daytime frocks, too. Denim, gingham, flannel or gab ardine are practical materials for this. The Patterns. No. 1741 is designed for sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 40 and 42. Size 16 re quires 4% yards of 35 inch mate rial with nap. Three yards of braid. No. 1750 is designed for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 40. Size 14 re quires 3% yards of 39 inch mate rial for slacks and bolero; % yard for topper. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1324, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, DL Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) How Women in Their 40’s Can Attract Men Her.’* food .dric (or m woman dorbs h«r Chant* (usually from 88 to 62), who fear, shall loaa bar appeal to men. who worriea about hot flaahea, loan of pep. dlasy apolla, upset nerves and moody spells. Got more fresh air, 8 an. sleep and if you often aoeomp WORTH > physical resistance, thus helps thru l vadty to enjoy life and assist ealmint Jittery nervee and disturMnf symptoms that ' company change of life. WEUi [ TRYING! Human Pity More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple Human pity that will not forsake us.— George Eliot. A wonderfal aid for boils where a drawing ageut la indicated. Soothing and comforting. Fine fog Practical. 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