Foreign
Joseph Stalin once said Russia
wanted ‘not one inch’ of foreign
soil. Last week Japan decided Dic-
tator Stalin had either changed his
mind or was at last throwing open
support to beleaguered China. But
best explanation of all was that big
Asia is still not big enough to hold
two stubborn powers.
Since 1931, when Japan marched
into Manchuria, American newspa-
per readers have heard periodical-
ly that Tokyo and Moscow were ‘‘on
the brink of war.” Only Russia's
autonomous Siberian army kept
land-hungry Japan from moving
into Soviet territory. But even that
was not enough to prevent periodic
JAPAN'S KAZUSHIGE UGAKI
He wanted less lawlessness.
outbreaks along a thousand miles
of ill-defined border, where
month the five-year ‘‘secret war”
crept into the open.
eight Soviet tanks stormed over a
ly-defined junction of Manchukuo,
came Soviet infantry,
battle’'s end, Tokyo boasted 800 Russ
casualties. Moscow admitted 68.
Next day, while eastern Japan
went under emergency regulations,
the war started again. By night-
fall the third day, Russia claimed
undisputed capture of Changkufeng
starting. Tokyo rushed 35,000 men
and 400 war planes to the frontier
while the Soviet pointed war trains
railroad.
Neither nation appeared to be giv-
ing an inch, which supported the
theory that one or the other must
eventually get out of Asia. At
Tokyo, Foreign Minister Kazushige
Ugaki daily sent fresh instructions
to his Moscow ambassador,
manding that Russia prevent ‘‘re-
currence of lawlessness.” Moscow
simply sent back the same de-
mands.
At Washington. the state depart-
ment hoped it would end in armed
truce. In Paris, the foreign office
said Russia had sent assurance that
no “‘actual warfare” would devel-
op. And by week's end a ray of
hope appeared in Japan's proposal
that time out be taken for peace
talk,
@® Japan's other war pushed closer
to Hankow last week as China once
more moved its government west-
ward, this time to ancient Chung-
king, 1,500 miles from Shanghai. At
Hangchow, Jap troops methodically
walked into a British owned hos-
pital, removing 103 wounded Chi-
nese soldiers. What happened to
them, nobody knew.
® Last winter Great Britain broke
off diplomatic relations after Mex-
ico seized its oil properties. On
July 15, the United States state de-
partment demanded prompt pay-
ment for American land seized since
1915. Mexico's total oil debt to Unit-
ed States-British interests is $400,-
000,000. Last week President La-
zaro Cardenas answered, acknowl-
edging the debt, but claiming there
was no obligation to make payment,
To say the least, Mexico's stand set
a precedent,
Domestic
Up through Panama canal and
homeward last week sailed Fisher-
man Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard
the U. S. S. Houston, where last
week he played Good Samaritan for
Machinist's Mate Oliver W. Halliwill
of the escort destroyer, McDougal.
Stricken with appendicitis, Halliwill
was shifted to the Houston on presi-
dential orders, later going under the
knife of White House Physician Ross
T. Mcintyre.
If Franklin Roosevelt had his fill
of fishing last week, he did not have
his fill of traveling. Announced at
the White House was a list of speak-
ing engagements that will keep him
jumping until late September, from
Georgia to Ontario, from New York
to Michigan, from North Dakota to
Tennessee,
® Only Brian Boru, Finn MacCool
and the Great Cuchulain were more
important to New York Irishmen
last week than Douglas Corrigan.
Arriving on the 8S. S. Manhattan,
America’s “mistake” Atlantic flier
got his Broadway ticker tape show-
er, city hall ceremonies and lunch-
eons after competing Manhattan
and Brooklyn committees ironed out
their disputes. Ahead for Douglas
Corrigan was all the excitement he
could stand in any American city
he will agree to visit,
Politics
Long before Tennessee Valley Au-
thority was a household term, Ten-
nessee’'s Senator George L. Berry
bought a large block of land in his
home state. When TVA's expansion
required the land, Senator Berry
tried to sell out for $5,000,000, finally
heard a court decide the property
was worthless. The stunt placed
him in Franklin Roosevelt's dis-
favor.
Last week George Berry fell in
his own state's disfavor. From
Memphis the powerful Crump po-
litical machine swept over Tennes-
see, nominated one Thomas Stewart
for senator in the Democratic pri-
maries. Also defeated was Gov.
Gordon Browning by a political am-
ateur, Prentice Cooper. Republicans,
still hopeless in the South, held no
primary.
Franklin Roosevelt had kept his
hands out of the Tennessee family
squabble. But as America went to
the polls last week in other states,
first primary returns to reach New
Deal headquarters showed the score
tied 2-2, the alleged ‘‘purge’’ having
failed to jell:
® In Virginia, Sen. Harry Flood
Byrd's machine defeated two ‘100
per cent New Deal” congressional
aspirants, William E. Dodd Jr., and
Winners, who will
probably be elected next November,
were Rep. Howard W, Smith and ex-
Rep. Colgate W. Darden, who beat
both Shafer and the incumbent Nor-
® In Missouri, Sen. Bennett Champ
ing scuttle the Roosevelt judiciary
and reorganization bills, Most im-
portant result, though, was Gov.
Lloyd C. Stark's successful chal-
lenge of the Pendergast machine's
supremacy. Stark's candidate for
the state Supreme court, Judge
James M. Douglas, easily floored
the Pendergast nominee.
® In Kansas, New Dealer George
McGill won renomination to the sen-
ate. But chief interest centered in
Former Gov. Clyde M. Reed's suc-
cessful G. O. P. senatorial fight
against Radio Evangelist Gerald B.
Jennings Randolph, John Kee and
Joe Smith won congressional renom-
ination hands down.
Crime
When youthful Thomas E. Dewey
became New York's district attor-
ney, Manhattan expected fireworks.
Many a bombshell has fallen in pre-
trial accusations against Tam-
many’'s James J. Hines, “one-time
New Deal patronage distributor and
alleged political fixer for the late
Dutch Schultz's policy ring. Last
week came two more bombshells.
First was an agreement that J.
Richard (Dixie) Davis, disbarred at-
torney and alleged mouthpiece for
the Schultz gang, would turn state's
evidence and testify against Hines.
Second was a bill of particulars
in which Tom Dewey's predeces-
sor, William C. Dodge, felt once
more the lash of New York's am-
bitious crime buster. Not waiting
until August 15 for the opening of
Hines’ trial, Dewey presented his
particulars last week before famed
Justice Ferdinand Pecora. One par-
ticular: That ex-District Attorney
WILLIAM C. DODGE
For the moment, unintimidated,
Dodge was among public officials
“influenced, intimidated or bribed”
by Jimmy Hines.
Tom Dewey's mistake apparently
lay in insufficient particulars. Be-
cause the bill admitted there were
other alleged intimidation victims
“not at present known,” because
Dodge and two New York magis-
trates were not specifically charged
with a crime, Justice Pecora next
day directed the district attorney
to show cause why it should not be
barred.
Unintimidated for the moment,
William Dodge thundered: “This out-
rageous and malicious assault upon
my character is unjustified!”
Miscellany
Dead two hours after smothering
under blankets in his parents’ car,
three-month-old Robert Didier of
Chicago responded to adrenalin in-
jected by a surgeon at Wheeling
hospital. Next day Robert was
home, chortling happily in his crib.
@® Meeting at San Francisco last
week, Women's Christian Temper-
ance Unionists held daily ‘fruit
juice hours’ as a challenge for so-
ciety to forsake its cocktail hours.
Business
Last week as Russia and Japan
moved to war, American dollars
and gold moved over the Atlantic.
When nervous European capital
scurried for cover, gold soared from
$34.77 to $34.94 an ounce, a new 16-
month high. In two days, continent-
al hoarders absorbed $26,715,000 in
yellow metal,
Sports
Several months ago fabulous By-
ron (Whizzer) White turned down a
$15,000 offer to play professional
football with the Pittsburgh Pirates
next autumn. Reason: Whizzer's
combined scholastic-athletic accom-
plishments at the University of Col-
orado had won him a Rhodes schol-
arship. He would accept it immedi-
ately.
But last week after careful delib-
eration Whizzer White found a way
to have his cake and eat it. Re-
hearsing for a radio program at
Denver, he took time off to an-
nounce acceptance of the Pirate
contract and postponement of the
Rhodes scholarship until next Janu-
ary.
Elated, Manager Art Rooney fore-
cast a National league champion-
ship for his Pirates. From Wash-
ington, where the Redskins had just
signed Sammy Baugh to a three-
year contract at the biggest salary
in professional football's history,
Owner George Marshall wired Roo-
ney that it might be wise to hire the
Pitt stadium for the Pirate-Redskin
game October 2.
People
Back to her Parisian home last
week via the Normandie went pe-
tite Simone Simon, her one-year
contract with a Hollywood producer
at an end. While ship's photograph-
SIMONE SIMON
She may never come back.
ly announced she may never come
back to the United States. -
One reason was that United States
cinema audiences have not been en-
thusiastic, but a more important
reason was her clash with the in-
ternal revenue bureau. To her suite
on the Normandie went a tax col-
lector to be certain Simone Simon
had paid $4,000 due on last year's
earnings. Kneeling on her bed the
homing actress crooned: “I have
paid my tax and I wouldn't get you
in trouble for the world.”
Almost unnoticed on the same
bound for France with the story
that an American producer had
spent $70,000 ‘‘grooming’” her for
pictures that were never made.
Having learned to speak English,
ride, fence, walk and dance, twenty-
two-year-old Miss Borg wondered
what she would do with her skill.
@® Twelve years ago many a theater
marquee blazed the name Al Kvale
to jazz-mad America. He was their
idol, the scholarly boy saxophonist
who won thousands of fans by play-
ing “Looking at the World Through
Rose Colored Glasses.” Last week a
charity ward at Chicago's Cook
county hospital opened its doors to
Al Kvale, broke, suffering from con-
vulsions. To the rescue came his
two noted brothers, Mayo clinic's
Dr. Walter Kvale and Minnesota's
Congressman Paul Kvale.
® One-time cinema actress Pearl
White thrilled an earlier generation
by jumping from trains, changing
airplanes in midair, bouncing from
madly running horses. Her most
noted serial: “The Perils of Paul-
ine.” Last week at American hos-
pital in Paris, Pearl White, 49, died.
@® At Richmond, Va., tobacco heir
J. Louis Reynolds won court cus-
tody of his year-old son from Helen
Fortescue Reynolds, sister of Thalia
Fortescue Massie, who once figured
in a Hawaiian murder case.
WASHINGTON. — 1 had finished
myself
The news
It was
implications.
quite down in the dumps.
On page one, there was an ac-
Sen. George Berry was
his
colleague, was fighting tooth and
state was the objective, and
Marshall’s Apology
Thomas R. Marshall, Vice
President of the United States
in the Wilson administration,
once said: “lI have only one
apology that I know of to make
for my political life. I apolo-
gize to the American people
Jor having been in favor of the
election of United States sen-
ators by the people.” There,
thinks William Bruckart, is
the key to today’s problem.
Let state legislators pick U. 8S.
senators, he says, and we'll be
rid of the demagogue who is
elected by his ability to prom.
ise more than the opposition.
there were countless charges of the
use of money, federal relief money,
state payroll money, other money.
on next door.
“Happy” Chandler was seeking the
ate and Sen. “Dear Alben”
wanted to be renominated
gone into Kentucky to tell the vot-
Again:
federal relief money, state payroll
of federal judgeships so that there
would not have to be a bitter pri-
Votes Backfires
Here in Washington, there was
Mr.
Roosevelt for a third
It was a statement that im-
mediately caused a backfire from
In another place, I read how Gov-
ernor Earle of Pennsylvania was
calling the state legislature into spe-
vestigating some of the governor's
acts. The call for the special ses-
sion had been preceded, of course,
by a terrific political fight over the
Democratic nomination for United
States senator in Pennsylvania,
which was won by Governor Earle.
The governor preferred to have the
investigating done by members of
the state legislature, if there was to
be an inquiry, rather than by an in-
dependent group. The only way to
prevent it was by a law taking away
There were other states involved,
too. Senator McAdoo, who is seek-
ing renomination as the Democratic
senatorial candidate in California,
was under fire. Some of his cam-
paigners, it was charged, were us-
ing coercion as well as federal re-
lief funds, while out in South Dakota
opponents of Governor Berry, now
the Democratic nominee for the
United States senate, were bringing
forth a new set of charges. They
informed the senate committee here
that the Farm Security administra-
tion in South Dakota had been send-
ing out a press release that had
nice things to say about Governor
Berry. The press release was two
years old, of course, but the FSA
was mailing out many of them to
voters—and paying no postage on
them. It was another case of using
the franking privilege, said the ac-
cusers.
Politics Hits New Low With
No Change in Sight
It was enough to make one sick at
the stomach; here was politics in a
new quagmire, and no signs to in-
dicate that it is not a permanent
ing to be the type of men coming in-
to the United States senate with such
ted? -
ca
And then, rather in disgust with
the whole thing, I turned to 2 new
book. The volume is titled ‘“‘Nota-
ble Virginia Bar Addresses.”
Among the 27 speeches listed
there, I decided to read that by the
dress, like all of the others, was in-
and the obligations of the lawyer as
well as the layman.
speech, I came across this passage:
“lI have only one apology that I
know of to make for my political
life. 1 apologize to the American
people for having been in favor of
the election of United States sena-
tors by the people. My reason for it
reason of
I had gotten tired of
of legislators in Indiana by letting
the people elect the United States
senators. was an altruistic
movement to make that change in
"
Now, i
but, ladies and gentlemen, when it
a million dollars to elect a senator,
if the old fas!
government would not have been
better.”
Answer to Today's Problem
Given in 1920
And right there, I believe, is the
guts of the present day problem.
Mr. Marshall had held many elec-
tive offices and the speech from
which I quoted the above passage
was made while he was vice presi-
States. He was
and a student of poli-
He saw in 1920 where we, as
a people, were going and I have no
are meeting now.
When Senator Norris of Nebraska.
once a Republican, then a Demo-
crat, and now labeled as something
ed States senators, he accomplished
(1) He made it possi-
ble for the purest type of dema-
Bogue to win elections by his ability
to “promise’’ more than the opposi-
tion, rewards, political patronage,
pork barrel returns to the state and
(2) he assured that vast sums of
money can-—indeed, must be—used
And, in am-
made it possible for any administra-
tion, any dominant party, in con-
trol of the federal government to
build up national and state ma-
chines jointly by using federal money.
Too Many Senators Out for
Greatest Amount of Swag
I grant that corporations, “vested
interests,” formerly had too much
to say about the election of United
States senators by state legislatures.
tional administration and particular-
ly a better senate under that condi-
tion than under the system where
every voter casts a ballot directly
for a United States senatorial nom-
inee,
the present
nothing more or less than salesmen
who are trying to collect for their
which they can put over with their
brother senators. That is why, too,
day after day, we have watched
cliques formed and trading done
over legislation in the senate. The
senators either are trying to make
good on demagogic promises or they
in the next campaign.
he was performing a great service
firmly convinced he did quite the
contrary. For, be it known, were it
not for Mr.
amendment to the Constitution of
the United States there could hardly
be such an outrage committed as
that by Mr. Hopkins. It must be
remembered that Mr. Hopkins nev-
and is responsible to him alone. So
when Mr, Hopkins flirts with a state
electorate, there can be no other
interpretation placed upon his ac-
tion than that he is using the influ.
ence available as a result of his dic-
tatorship over relief distribution.
It all depends, of course, upon
how one views the functions and
purposes of the United States sen-
ate. If one wants the senate to be
just a glorified house of representa-
tives, able to maintain itself solely
on what pap it is able to lay in
the laps of voters—then, we ought
to keep the present system. If, how-
ever, one believes as I do that the
senate is comprised, or should be,
of senators of the United States in-
stead of senators of a state variety
unconcerned with the Union of
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