den Zhumks aboul Japs Killing Chinamen ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— The formula still holds good. A Jap kills a Chinaman. That's another dead Chinaman. A Chinaman kills a Jap. That's a war. But before we get too busy de- ploring Japar's little way of disre- garding pledges so as to gobble more Chi- nese territory let us look at some records closer home. Since the republic was PS formed we have de- liberately broken 264 separate treaties with the original Red own- ers of this land. From these viola- tions of our solemn promises border wars Irvin S. Cobb frequently ensued. When the Indians started fighting we called it an uprising. When we sent troops forth to slaughter the Indians it was a punitive expedition to re- store law and order. If the white soldiers wiped out the Indians that was a battle. If the Indians wiped out the soldiers that was a massa- cre. Those who make history rarely get a square deal from those who write history. » . » Keeping Undercover. HIS is the protection, i, land where, in self- you hide your place of residence and have your tele- phone privately listed. The result 18, if your aged grandmother hap- pens along and doesn’t know your address, she can never reach you, but any smart stranger may ap- proach the right party—let us call him- a 'phone-legger—and, by pay- ment of a small fee, get the number instantly. So, in about two calls out of th you answer the ring to find at the other end of the line somebody with a neat little scheme, because here in movieland neat little schemes grow on every bush and gen itlemen promoting them are equally numer- us. Through long suffering, I've be- come hardened to this, but today over the wire came a winning voice saying the speaker desired to give me, as he put it, “a checking over for white termites.” I admit to a touch of dandruff and there have been times when I sus- pected fleas—we excel in fleas on this coast—but I resent the idea of also being infested with white ter- mites. I've about decided that, to mod- ern civilization, telephones are what cooties are to a war—nobody likes em, but everybody has "em. ree, » » - Camera Sniping. GNAPSHOOTING of famous folks 7 from ambush may be upsetting to the victims of the sniping, but the subscribing public certainly gets an illuminating eyeful every time one of the photographic magazines appears. Tve laid aside the current opy of a periodical which could be called either “The Weekly Expose" or “Stop, Look and Laugh." Among other fascinating, not to say illusion- ing, illustrations, I note the follow- just JUSL ing: A reigning movie queen with her mouth so wide open that her face looked like a ‘‘gates ajar’ design. If I had tonsils like hers, I'd have em right out. A political idol taken in a brief one-piece bathing suit. Next time they snap him, he would be well advised to wear more than a mere g-string. A Mother Hubbard would be better. Or, anyhow, a toga. A statesman is greatly handicapped when he suggests a barrel of leaf- lard with the staves knocked out. A close-up of Mr. John L. Lewis with the lips pouting out and a con- gested expression. Would not this tend to confirm the impression that lately Mr. Lewis bit off more than he could chew? This candid camera stuff is trans- ating into the pictorial fact the nightmare all of us have had-—that horrid dream of being caught out- doors with practically nothing on. * * * Field Days for Reds. [UNDER the warming suns of tol- erance and indifference and even tacit encouragement in cer- tain quarters, many of our -hot- house communists are changing from the pallid, timorous flowerlets of discontent into full-blown advo- cates of the glad new age when Lenin will take over Lincoln's niche in the gallery of the immortals and government everywhere will be of the Trotskys, but the Trotskys, for the Trotskys. True, there still remain some wavering souls who are so pink thev'd be red if they weren't so yel- low! But these quivering aspens shrink in number as their bolder comrades openly profess the blessed doctrine which is doing so much for the un- dertaking business in Russia. IRVIN 8. COBB, ©--WNU Service. Black Appointment v Declared or Not, It's War JHANGHALI'S ‘“war’’ of 1932 was a second-rate movie sham battle compared with what's going on over there now. The city of 3,500,000 in- habitants and its environs are a scene of destruction, terror, flames and death on a mass scale the hor- ror of which is unthinkable. Thousands upon thousands of ci- vilians lie dead, dying and wounded, and the toll increases day after day. No estimate has even been attempt- ed to determine the amount of cas- ualties among the Chinese and Jap- anese fighting forces. Indeed such an estimate today might be woefully inadequate tomorrow, for reports tell of whole brigades being shot or blown to bits in a single encoun- ter. Square mile after square mile, especially in the native Chapei dis- trict, has been gutted by fires that rise in the wake of bombs and artil- lery shells. Millions of men, wom- en and children face slower, even more terrible death by hunger, who is to bring supplies from the area is under terrific fire? Even ment life is fleeting, bombs and shells drop there, And with 1,000,000 refugees inside to be fed, shops are rapidly their doors to protect their wares from rioters. As this is written, land forces, anese four to one, invaders sl poo in fore e ground fighting. Wheth- insecure, for the are forcing the be able to turn the tide of battle is problematical. At the same time Japanese warships—half the entire Japanese fleet be in the Whangpoo- ring ing shells upon huge concentr of Chinese soldiers. Eye-witnesses reported that the Japanese had concentrated some 40 destroyers, six naughts, an airpl many gunboats in the rivers Shanghai. Only through a clever maneuver did the Chinese prevent from gaining the upper reaches of the Whangpoo and shell- ing Shanghai from the rear. The Chinese, in a surprise attack, tured six Japanese merchant ships, sailed them into the heart of the channel and scuttled them, prevent ing passage. American authorities in Shanghai decided upon immediate evacuation by the 3,800 Yanks living there. The danger which confronted them was emphasized when stray Japanese bombs blasted the American Bap- tist mission, leav | must are showe ane carrier them ring the fate of 2 persons inside in grave doubt, United States marines were of course, tection they tionals, and reinforcements were quick in leaving San a Calif. to join them. The U. S. S. Augusta, flagship of Uncle Sam's China squadron, lay in the WHangpoo alongside the Japanese ships shrapnel flying about Americans were getting China on every availiable ship. It was not considered likely that Presi dent Re osevelt would invoke the neutrality long as no “official” state of war between Japan and China existed. This would involve the declaration of em- bargoes on arms and on the exten- sion of credits to both nations, a situation which would be of definite aid to the aggressor, Japan, since China is in far greater need of war materials. Japan continued to ‘“‘defend’ it- self, officially, from the wicked Chinese, whom its foreign office characterized as “prejudiced.” However, the ““defense’’ was being carried on in the other fellow's back yard. Japanese authorities con- tinued to insist that they meant no harm to the Chinese people, and that their aim was still for the co- operation of China, Manchukuo, and Japan. They also revealed that voluntary contributions to the na- on act so over Japan, had passed the $2,500,- 000 mark. a Question Black's Eligibility HE senate confirmed the Presi- dent's nomination of Sen. Hugo L. Black of Alabama to the Supreme court, 63 to 16, but only after a nority protested that the confirma- tion had been railroaded through. Six Democrats and ten Republi- cans voted against Black. The Dem- ocratic insurgents, led by Edward R. Burke (Neb.) and Roya! S. Cope- land (N. Y.) based their objec- tions principally upon charges that he was associated with the Ku Klux Klan, and therefore unfitted to sit with the high tribunal for reasons of racial and religious prejudice. The Republicans, notably William E. Borah (Idaho), argued that he could not legally become a member of the court. That his eligibility might be tested before the court itself was a possi. bility when Attorney Albert Levitt, Senate Confirms ickard ¥ Appointee in judicial mien. former special assistant to Attorney General Homer 8. Cummings, filed | a plea for leave to pray an order | for Black to show affirmatively why | he should be permitted to serve as an associate justice. He raised the same legal questions as the Repub- That Black could not become a | a senator the Sumners retirement | act was passed, permitting justices The Constitu- prov that no member of s shall be appointed to an was created or the | it of which increased his membership in congress. That no vacancy existed on the ourt any since Jus- ‘an Devanter had only signed, ides 3 3 which was way servi rice by at the Black ve politi- | ction cam- FTER months of wrangling over the Supreme court measure, the wages and hours bill, the ever- | normal- granary bill and other ad- musts’ the house of act upon in haste, with adjournment some day, | some Sine, The tee reported out th house appropriations commit- | year's last "‘de- measure to supply funds vernment operations over- looked in the regular budget. It alled for $78,500,000; two previous ficiency measures, a billion, had been passed. om turned down the executive department for in additional appropria- of the appropriations ended were $23,000,000 for ings, $3,000,000 for federal rticipation in the New York | world’s fair and $1,500,000 for par- ticipation in the San Francisco | world's fair. Funds for the opera- tion of the Jones-Bankhead farm ttee requests were denied altogether; appropria- tions for payments to federal land and the Federal Farm Mort- and the national ations board were sliced se- 3 banks labor rel: verely The house passed the low-cost | housing bill, but with so many al- terations that it had to go to a joint committee for the differences to be straightened out before it could be | sent to the White House. The sen- | ate had approved a bond issue of | $§700,000,000; the house shaved it to $500,000. The house also raised the percentage of funds which local communities must contribute to | projects; increased the limitation of | cost of a single dwelling to $5.000 or $1,000 a room; and cut the limit of any one state's share in the funds from 20 per cent to 10 per cent. The house also passed a bill de- signed to plug the tax loopholes by which, it was alleged, the wealthy have been, legally or illegally, avoiding the payment of income taxes which the; have a moral if not a legal right to pay. The ex- tremely complicated bill carried unanimously after only two hours’ consideration. on Strange Doings at Sea [FOUR insurgent airplanes dropped 25 bombs upon the Danish ves- sel Edith and sank it in the Medi terannean, came the report from Barcelona. The crew of 20 and a French observer for the non-inter- vention control were rescued by two fishing boats. The owners of the vessel, in Copenhagen, said it was their twentieth ship to be captured or bombed by the rebels. The captain of the French freight. er Peame reported to authorities that a torpedo had been fired upon his ship by an unidentified subma- rine which floated beside his ship for several minutes off the Tunisian coast, When the Spanish tanker Campea- dor was sunk in the Medite roy an, the rebel command issued a communique taking the full blame. But the captain of the tanker in- sisted an Italian destroyer sank it. Compaign Altormath "TURNED down by the house rules committee when he demanded a special investigation, Rep. Bertrand H. Snell of New York, Republican floor leader, has carried direct to At- torney General Homer 8. Cummings his charges of violation of the fed- eral corrupt practices act by the Democratic national committee. The charges arise from National Chair- man James A. Farley's ingenious method of replenishing the party's treasury by selling Democratic con- vention books, autographed by Pres- ident Roosevelt, for $250 each. In a letter to Cummings, charged: 1. That sales of the book, auto- graphed by the President, in 1936, at $250 each constitute an illegal collection of campaign funds and a direct viblation of section 313 of the corrupt practices act. 2. That a Colorado man was the “victim of eleven specific acts of reprisals’”’ by the resettlement ad- ministration and threats to ‘put him out of business” since his refusal last October to subscribe $500 to the book sales campaign. 3. That a New Yorker was ap- proached by a Democratic campaign committee agent with promise of White House intervention in return for a $25,000 subscription or retainer. Snell attached affidavits and a synopsis of the evidence he had fur- nished the house rules committee. a Rebels Press Santander EPORTS from the insurgent command said that 35 villages and 1,000 prisoners had been cap- Snell and the tiny remaining slice of the northern Spanish coast held by the government. The gov- ernment admitted that some ad- General Franco's forces were threatening the main defenses of the Santander area. Franco, in his new drive, was us- cs which eventu- the downfall of ally brought about Bilbao after a many months. Bombing planes and artil- lery were pounding the fortifications while other airplanes poured ma- chine gun Insurgents planned the Santander advance to require as little man- power as possible, so as to leave the Madrid front to start a separate offensive there if They admitted the loy- vad caught them napping with siege of fire upon trenches. causing them to abandon the San- drive temporarily, but de- clared that “That will not happen this time.” a Rumor Has Farley Guiting S “Genial Jim" Farley ing to resign as postmaster ra) to become the executive head of an automobile firm? That's what his in Washing- ton say, and Jim has not denied the rumor, as he has promptly denied similar rumors in the past. Farley, it is said, seeks to re- habilitate his per- sonal fortunes. As postmaster general 4 he has lost $10,000 a year over his salary of $15,000 and is, ac- cording to his friends, today in debt, The story went that he would be- come an executive of the Pierce- Arrow Motor corporation, that 5,000 new shares of stock would be deliv- ered to him, and that he would also be allowed to share in the $100,000 stock purchase warrants. Wonder if the Pierce-Arrow sales force is watching the charts for Maine and Vermont? ow, French Lifeline Periled? HE Paris press disclosed that France considers herself in dan- ger of losing her possessions in the Near East and of having her air route connections with the Far East severed because of revolts in Syris. Censorship of the news out of Syria is strict, but some reports have leaked through which indicate the revoit recently quelled was a serious one. According to one dis- patch the population is extremely dissatisfied with the terms of the Franco-Syrian treaty signed last September 10. As soon as the prop- friends Jim Farley treaty provides, a unified Syrian French hold in the Levant. Large sections of the population differ in religion from the Syrians in Damascus. They are willing to be France, as they have been for cen- turies, but they do not want to be subjected to the will of the Damas- cus politicians. wf Protests Lease of Ships 1A NACION, influential newspaper of Buenos Aires, Argentina, caused some stir by vigorously pro- testing the proposed leasing of ob- solete United States warships to Brazil, declaring that such an act would upset the balance of naval power in South America. Secretary of State Hull had writ- ten a letter to the senate naval com- mittee asking congressional authori. ty for the leasing of over-age war vessels to South American repub- lics. 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