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Russian Note Shies Italy
FURTHER evidence of the com-
cist governments was revealed when
land, conference to end ‘‘piracy’’ on
the Mediterranean. The Nazis gave
the same excuses as Italy: That the
action of Soviet Russia in accusing
Italian submarines of sinking two
Russian merchant ships and
manding full indemnity made im-
possible, and that the whole affair
might better be ironed out by the
committee for non-intervention In
the Spanish civil war.
tween the Italians and the Russians,
it was feared the
lead to a break in diplomatic rela-
tions, if not to actual
flict.
Great Britain, Russia and France
went right ahead with their plans
for the conference. British Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden was
structed, however, to make no pro-
posals which would tend to divide
the Mediterranean powers into Fas-
cist and anti-Fascist groups. It was
believed he would propose that mer-
chant ships be allowed a naval con-
voy through the danger zones.
Britain, one of the chief sufferers
from the submarine attacks on ship-
ping, was embarrassed shortly be-
fore the conference was to begin
when a Spanish insurgent cruiser
(Italy is known to be aiding the in-
surgents) commandeered a British
merchantman off Palermo,
and confiscated her cargo of Rus-
sian oil consigned to the Spanish
loyalist government.
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Yanks in Far East "Kick
MERICANS in Shanghai,
Ty
n-
con-
ickarnd
sions, were successful in holding |
back 60,000 Japanese; it was said |
to be the severest opposition the
Japs have met since they fought
Japanese aerial bombardments
continued in the Chapei, Kiangwan,
Taichong and Yanchong districts of
Shanghai. The continued peril of
the international settlement and the
French concession spurred the
American, British and French con-
suls to demand of both the Japanese
that their forces be
from that vicinity.
Scores of noncombatants were daily
being killed and wounded there by
falling bombs and shells.
But Japan's long-awaited
push’ had not yet materialized.
was believed large
were being awaited. The Chinese |
man power was beginning to tell |
against the inferior numbers of the |
Japanese,
One of the war's most
military coups occurrec
hills west of Peiping when 4.000
Japanese troops were reported
wiped out by the Chinese in ambush
The Japanese line was said to have
been driven back five miles by the
onslaught, and Japanese |
were reported
worried than ever over the success
“big |
It |
reinforcements |
sensational
n the rocky
more
Another of the war's great hor-
rors was perpetrated when the Jap-
anese bombed a refugee train 30
miles south of Shanghai, killing 300
and wounding 400 noncombatants
Chinese bombers’ efforts at reprisal
were ineffective.
Only in the northern province of
There they captured the
capital city of Kalgan. A commis-
sion of 100 “prominent” Mongols
cabled Washington, demanding the
merce in the war-torn city asked
ate clarification of the
partment's stand.
were bitter toward President Roose-
newspaper men that Americans in
the war zone would remain there at
their own risk. No deadline for
evacuation had yet been set, and
when rumors spread that the United
Shanghai.
savings invested there vigorously
urged the President to adopt
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
abgye 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.
Opposition Surprises Nippon
JA ANESE naval guns and bomb-
ers carried the war 600 miles
south of Shanghai when they at-
tacked the port of Amoy, which
houses a huge Chinese fort and ar-
senal, opposite the island of For-
mosa. Their bombs carried little
effect and the shore artillery chased
the warships, completely disabling
one. The battle was but thirty miles
from Hong Kong, recently ravished
by a typhoon.
Elsewhere along the far-flung
front the Japanese were meeting
with opposition the caliber of which
they had not expected. Along the
Woosung front, 200,000 Chinese, in-
cluding crack German-trained divi-
to be associated with the Japanese
army) was setting up a new “pop-
ular” autonomous government un- |
der Japanese control.
me
OHN L. LEWIS, fire-eating chair- |
man of the Committee for In-
dustrial Organization, let fly a re- |
buke at President Roosevelt for im- |
: plied backwatering
on campaign prom- |
ises and hinted at
the possibility of a
third party in the |
elections of 1940. In |
a radio speech he
declared:
“It 0
behooves
at iabor’s table and |
who has been shel- |
tered in labor's |
house to curse with
equal fervor and fine impartiality
both labor and its adversaries when
they become locked in deadly em-
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 of
a half-million-dollar contribution to
the Democratic national committee
by the C. 1. 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.
“The exploitation of both classes
of workers has been the source of
panic and depression, and upon the
economic welfare of both rests the
best assurance of a sound and per-
manent prosperity.”
,
16,098,000-Bale Cotton Crop
THE fifth largest cotton crop yield
in the nation’s history was fore-
cast by he Department of Agricul-
ture, which estimated a 1937 crop of
16,098,000 bales. The cotton crop
September 1 was 75 per cent of nor-
mal, indicating an average yield
per acre of 228.5 pounds.
Chinese Won't ‘Cooperate’
APAN'S aim in the undeclared
war is to make China submit
once and for all to her will, the
Japanese government virtually ad-
mitted through its foreign minister,
Koki Hirota. The seriousness of
Japan's intentions were obviated
when Emperor Hirohito, departing
from precedent, referred to the con-
flict in detail in a public statement
from the throne, and when it was
revealed that Nippon is preparing
more appropriations for her already
heavy war chest,
Hirota 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 North 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.
The 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.
B Y THE time this is printed Wil-
liam E. Dodd may no longer be
United States ambassador to Ger-
nany. In an interview he vigorously
g opposed any Ameri-
can representation
at the Nazi party
congress in Nurem-
berg. Secretary of
State Cordell Hull
refused to comment
upon Dodd's atti-
tude, but announced
that United
uld be rep-
at the con-
ference will
celebrate Hitler's
rule by Prentiss Gil-
bert, American charge d'affaires in
Berlin.
Secretary Hull explained that the
action was being taken merely as a
friendly gesture to the Nazi govern-
with whom he said the United
States is in complete diplomatic ac-
cord. Diplomatic reports have in-
dicated that Dodd, now vacationing
here, had made himself unpopular
the
States we
resented
which
Ambassador
W. E. Dodd
Hitler government's policies. Ru-
mor had it that he might not re-
turn to his post
soso
McGrady Quits Labor Post
DWARD F. McGRADY, assist-
ant secretary of labor, and chief
strike trouble shooter of Mme. Fran-
ces Perkins’ department, resigned
to devote his He
left his $9 000-a-year job to take the
post of executive vice president in
charge of industrial relations
the Radio Corpo America,
at a salary v: at
from $15,000 to
In a McGrady, Presi-
dent Roosevelt expressed *‘deep re-
gret,” and added, “Your efforts to
maintain harmonious labor rela-
wll
talents to radio
with
£50.000
letter to
management
McGrady had been one of the fed-
eral mediators who failed to achieve
a settiement of the C. 1. O. strike
against ‘Little Steel.” In his new po-
sition, his services will be available
to the government upon call, it was
reported.
ann
DOLF HITLER, in a manifesto
to the German nation, offered
to stand by both Italy and Japan
vism."" He charged that the “two ma-
jor wars'' now going on (the Sino-
Japanese and the Spanish civil
wars) were the result of “attempts
to spread communism.”
read to the Nazi party congress in
form.
timed in view of the current friction
between Italy and Soviet Russia
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.”
Pon
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-
ras boundary as “territory in dis-
pute.” Hondurans claimed it was
an affront to their sovereignty,
citing the Spanish award which both
sides accepted in 1906 and which
was supposed to have settled the
territory question. Hondurans were
further incensed when Nicaraguan
radio speakers hinted the Honduran
army couldn't lick a postage stamp,
and proposed sending troops into
Absent-mindedness isn't con-
fined to the professors, says the
Commentator.
The late Dwight W.
once telephoned his secretary
from Philadelphia, to inquire,
“What am 1 in Philadelphia for?"
Secretary Henry A. Wallace,
when he was in Czechoslovakia,
packed his passport in a trunk
that was shipped to London, while
he set off in the opposite direc-
tion,
And J. David Stern, publisher of
Morrow
phia Record, was hurrying along
Helper of Humanity
He who helps a child helps hu-
manity with a distinctness, with
an immediateness, which no other
help given to human creatures in
any other stage of their human
life can possibly give again.—Phil-
lips Brooks.
the street when he met a friend.
“Come on and have lunch with
' the friend said.
“If we go nearby,”
“I'm late as it is.”
They entered the nearest res-
taurant and sat down. Stern com-
plained that he didn’t know what
was the matter with him, he didn’t
seem to be hungry.
“Beg pardon, sir,” the waiter
said, *‘but it’s no wonder, sir. You
Stern said.
minutes ago.”
Clouds Pass By
The clouds I feared and wor-
ried about, and concerning which
I wanted much precious
strength, lost their frown and re-
vealed themselves as my friends.
Other clouds never arrived-—they
were purely imaginary, or they
melted away before they reached
my threshold.—J. H. Jowett,
580
A Great Motto
NE of America's great busi-
ness organizations has adopt-
ed a motto for the guidance of
its people-—a little five-letter word
with a big meaning. It has been
cut in huge granite letters over
the entrance of a recently con-
structed building used as a train-
ing school. It is made the theme of
many employee discussions. It
hangs over the desk of company
executives. The word is THINK.
Educators, philosophers, preach.
throughout ages have
written and talked about it. Rodin
gave statue
called “The Thinker.” “Think” is
a significant word. It represents
the only means by which human
progress hed, It
vs who have lazy
minds, means
mental effort. all the
are caused
because people don't think. Thou-
sands fail in life simply because
they don’t think. Others give great
inventions to the world because
they do think.—The Pick-Up.
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