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Evening star., 1940-04-07
|LANDON STAKES ALL ON FIGHT FOR LIBERAL
Konson's and Dewey Victories O. P. Progresves

Thomas E. DeDey's pictory in the
Wisconsin Republican primaries and
Alfred NJ. Landon's influence as leader
OF Western Republicantsna, as factors
in the pdrty's 1910 national conuen-
tion, are appraised here by "the sage
of Emporid," an editor and Driter
,Dho has been an observer OF the
American scene for more than halt a
century and a confdant of the Ma
tion's political and industrial chiefs.
Two things have signalized the open
ing Of the Republican presidential pri-
mary campaign. First. the sweeping
victory of Thomas E. Dewey in Wisconsin
last Thursday, and second, the equally
significant victory of Alfred NJ Landon
in Kansas on Thursday.
In the West Dewey is regarded as q
liberal Republican. Landon challenged
the conservatives in every Kansas dis
trict and in the State convention and
won with a perfect score. His friends
thought that Landon challenged the
conservatives unnecessarily, that he was
looking for a fight, which was true He
wanted his victory to come without COM
promise.
Senator Clyde Reed early in the VIM
ter challenged Landon's leadership in
four Kansas districts. The fight for
his district delegates resulted in an
overwhelming rout of Senator Reeds
friends, who this year happened to be
Reeds ancient conservative enemies. In
the State convention Reed announced
that he would put his name up as one
of the big four convention delegates.
Last month Reed withdrew because he
was on the committee probing improper
practices in the presidential primary.
The committee appointment gave Reed
a good way out.
Landon, now with Kansas solidly back
of him. will 60 to the Republican con-
vention in Philadelphia an avowed
leader of Western Republicanism, def
nitely hostile to the control of his party
in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
and New England. In the West this
control is called the Joe Pew crowd"
Landon Fights for Liberal.
Landon will attempt to rally the West
ern Republicans around candidate who
will stand for liberal platform and q
liberal campaign. The old fight which
began in the Republican party 40 years
ago, with Theodore Roosevelt, and con-
tinued after his death under the La
Follettes and Senate farm bloc in the
Coolidge and Hoover administrations,
will be just as conspicuous at this con-
vention as it has been at any Republican
convention in all these 40 years.
During most Of these ~ years the La
Follettes, father and sons, have led the
progressive forces in the Republican
convention. They were uncompromis-
ing; they loved martyrdom. They pre-
sented their platform as minority re-
port rather hopelessly. Landon learned
his political strategy from the first
Roosevelt, who had no taste for martyr
dom, who took half q loaf when he
could get it, and Landon will make his
fight for liberal platform and Q pro-
gressive candidate. Landon will 60 as
far % he can In the convention and
trust to the Developments Of the cam
Evening star., 1940-04-07

loose fiscal policy based on attemptii
to eat your cake and have it. :
"All social legislation" cried Landor.
"is threatened by this loose fiscal policy
and don't view sound social program
as incompatible with sound financial
policy, and he makes it clear that he
wants sound financial policy in order
to insure the social reforms that are
threatened by the Presidents bad fiscal
administration.
That will be the liberal Republican
policy in the primary fight. If Dewe.
can win in the Missouri Valley in the
primaries scheduled for the next four
weeks, he is likely to bid definitely for
the liberals under the Landon leader
ship, which is fairly opportunist. At
present, the liberal friends of Landon
know that he has an open mind, that
he is watching the horses and seeing how
the jockeys handle their mounts.
The man who can come west OF the
Alleghenies and north of the Ohio and
carry the presidential primaries with
general policy to salvage the gains OF :
the Roosevelt administration, and then
finance them soundly, will get the
western delegates. Taft and Dewey
time and again have voiced exactly
the sentiments which Landon declared
IN his Thursday speech. Vandenberg
has voted for most of the Roosevelt
policies which Taft, Dewey and Landon
would salvage with sound finance,
Two Factions in Each Party.
Two definitely separate parties have
existed within the Republican party
through the 40 years back to the as
sassination of Mckinley. The liberal
Republicans have been led by Theodore
Roosevelt, La Toilette, Norris and Lam
don. The conservatives have followed
Penrose, Taft the elder, Cannon and
Coolidge. The two parties in the Demo-
cratic organization have survived from
the days of Bryan, through the Wilson
years into the administration of the
second Roosevelt. We have the anomaly
In this country Of two-party system
with two factions in each party which
split at the polls. The two liberal parties
can always unite in Congress. For in
stance, the liberal Democrats and liberal
Republicans make one congressional
group, and the conservative Republicans
and conservative Democrats make an
other
This congressional cleavage is much
more significant and important than the
differences between the two parties in
all these long years. Landon now turns :
up carrying the banner Of the first
Roosevelt unashamed. The difference
between Landon and Franklin Roose-
velt Is that Landon knows there are
four parties In two, and Franklin Roose-
velt thinks he can make one liberal
party out Of the Democrats. That one
party delusion Of Roosevelt Is RESPONSE
BILE for most Of his blunders In the last
four years. Landon's victory In Kansas
and Dewey's sweep in Wisconsin indi-
cate that the Republicans are at least
realists. They recognize frankly the
two parties within the Republican party
and do not blink the truth.
Rslsassd bv North American Nsvspsper
Allisnea)
Evening star., 1940-04-07
CHINAS PATRIOTS WRATHFUL OVER WANG
New Puppet Would Pull Jopons chetnuts Out of the Fire

A black japanese Army transport
quietly slipped out of the Shanghai Har-
Dor one day early in March and headed
toward the Yangtze River. Their guns
staring menacingly at the shores, five
steel-gray Japanese gunboats streaked
around the vessel, shrieking warnings to
Chinese junks crossing the course
Below the well-scrubbed decks of the
transport, in a saloon decorated with
the portraits of Nippon's monarchs, sat
youngish, round faced Chinese, talking
to uniformed Japanese officers.
The man was one Wang Ching-wei,
currently the most important pawn in
the bitter game Of power politics in Asia.
The transport was bearing him to Nam
king, where he was to confer with jap
anese military brain trusters" on the
establishment of new puppet federal
government" Wang's regime began
formally on March 80.
The convoy escorting the transport
well portrayed Japan's anxiety to SAFE
guard the life OF Wang-today her best
bet to terminate the exhausting war in
China and extract far-reaching con-
cessions from her unyielding foe.
Bodyguards, recruited from Shanghai's
gangdom, watched Wangs route from
his fortified headquarters in the 1nterna-
tional Settlement to the wharf On ar
rival in Nanking, Wang was put in an
armor- plated limousine and rushed to
his temporary ofnces under Japanese
military guard.
A Longedfor Target.
The precautions were well needed. A
million Chinese youths would have glad
" given their lives for pot-shot at the
man they regard as traitor. Only q
year ago, four young Chinese broke into
Wang's residence in Indo- China, assas-
sinated his trusted secretary, but failed
to find their quarry. Four years earlier,
another patriotic killer, disguised as a
press photographer, shot Wang with a
pistol concealed in a hooded camera.
Wang still carries the bullet in his body.
Wang was visiting Marking to receive
Anal instructions from the Japanese
Arnys political wire -pullers and to COM
plete year-old haggle with other Chi
nese puppets for the division of the
spoils.
The establishment Of Wang's regime
marks the opening Of q new stage in the
sino-Japanese war-a stage Of intrigue,
rather than of military action, Of further
anti-foreign restrictions, of bribery and
intimidation, and Of continued tighten
ing Of the Japanese stranglehold on
Chinese oronosrnv
Protected by Japanese bayonets, di-
rected by Japanese advisers" and
formally recognized by Toxic, Wang's
regime gives q color Of legality" to the
political and economic domination Of
China.
Who is this man Wang? What is his
background? What support can he find
among his own countrymen and what
are his chances of success?
Career Beset by Variety.
Wang's biography is a story of wars,
OF revolutionary activity, ceaseless In
trigue, prolific writing and sensational
ups and downs in public esteem and
power.
More than three decades ago, young
Wang threw himself into underground
Evening star., 1940-04-07

tense measures, with Fascist press talk
ing anew about participation in war.
Meanwhile, the Associated Press re-
ported from Bucharest that Turkish
consent had been given to allies for
passage of warships through Dardan-
elles for blockade purposes in Black Sea
roadway for Russian oil en- route to
Germany.
While allied diplomacy revolved mostly
around London, Paris government OF
Paul Reynaud rocked along somewhat
unsteadily.
Convening on Tuesday, Chamber OF
Deputies adjourned two days later with
out committing itself on at
French titude toward Reynaud cab
Unrest met. Leading restless faction
which may force Reynaud
out in coming week is Georges Bonnet,
one-time Ambassador to Warrington.
Seeking to appease those impatient Of
French war policy. Reynaud went on
air Wednesday night to promise there
will be mo phoney peace"
Also in Paris, French military tri-
bunal imposed maximum five-year SEN
tences on SO former Communist Deputies
Carrying on campaign for ever-in-
creasing unity between British-F French
nations-at which German propaganda
thrusts continually are directed-Lon-
don sources on Friday proposed common
allied parliament to help fusion of two
nations Into one military and economic
Evening star., 1940-04-07
By William Allen White.

paign to push his fight nearer to his
ideas
In his Wichita speech before the Re-
publican State Convention Thursday,
Landon indicated he was willing to let
most of the Roosevelt achievement stand
in principle-social security, collective
bargaining, floor for wages and a
roof for hours of labor, control of utili-
ties and regulation of the stock market.
In this speech Landon scarcely men
toned foreign relations. Evidently the
liberal Republicans under Landon's lead
ership wish to fight "the irresponsible
fiscal policies of the Roosevelt admins
tration" as the vital issue. In the
climax of his speech Landon declared
that sooner or later will come the horri-
flying possibility of unlimited imitation,
and imitation is the hall entrance to
chaos. When the middle classes
sturdy. thrifty, capable of indignation
and organization at the same time-are
plundered, 1t is they who turn into the
streets and overthrow government"
Debt Alone Is Landon's Target.
And in this significant sentence, indi-
eating that the Western Republicans
will not promise to sweep the whole
New Deal of the statute books. Landon
declares, 1T is not the legislation of
the New Deal" meaning, of course, labor
legislation. social legislation, regulatory
legislation, that is drawing us toward
this chaos, but it is the loose debt
making habits of our present admins
tration." Then he declares, to sum it
all up (and this is the core of his speech
and his proposed platform, and this
opinion will reflect the character of
his choice for PresidenD. THE Repub-
hcan party must favor government poll
cies that will stand neither for the un-
restrained plutocracy nor an irresponsi-
BILE democracy"
In this speech Landon writes the blue
print for his candidate: He must be "a
man who believes in collective bargain
ing, and can make it work; a man who
can make a floor for wages and a ceiling
OF hours for labor; who can devise a
sound farm policy and make it work, but
who believes that in the maintenance of
these reforms many changes press for
consideration; man with wisdom and
understanding, who realizes that when
Government takes away financial assist
ance from one industry, fairness and JUS
tice require that it cut out all simultane-
ously, including the high protective
taritf. The farmer alone must not be
called upon to take the cut"
This is high treason to New York and
New England, to the home markets
club in Boston and to the Joe Pew crowd
in Pennsylvania. And the blow is not
softened when Landon declares I'VE
need man who can do the Job that
Roosevelt has so conspicuously failed to
do-the Job Of organizing and welding
the conflicting interests Of the country so
that we can all pull together"
Roosevelt Motives Not Questioned.
In his speech Landon did not question
Roosevelt's motives; Landon did not
brush aside the Roosevelt objectives, but
he accepted most Of the Roosevelt poll
cies In principle, and declared their fall
ure to b the defect and weakness Of q
Evening star., 1940-04-07
Wars 37st Week
By John C.. Henry,

Europe's war was mostly a con-
versational one last week, insofar
As actual combat was involved, but
there was no lessening of intensity
OF diplomatic intriguing. British
cabinet shake-up, new threats Of
German blitzkrieg and ever-tighter
allied blockade measures captured
most of the headlines.
Evening star., 1940-04-07

lie realization that Wang is playing Nip
pon's game, whose objectives are her own
selfish ends. The best that Wang can
do in these circumstances is to garb
Japan's gains with fictitious legality and
to enjoy power in the cities occupied by
Japanese garrisons. It Is not unlikely,
however, that patriots bullet will find
him, setting Japan on a search for a
new puppet.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-10-10
NOTES OF A NEW YORKER

Two years ago Martha Scott ar
rived in New York from James
port, Mo-, with $50 to carve herself
a niche in the Thittir. Carleton
Alsop was socially prominent ra-
dio producer He gave Martha
the role of Alice Blair in one of his
WOR serials because she needed a
job to eat and because the script
called for an unknown youngster out
to achieve fame and happiness in
the Big City The hero of the
strip drama was man-about-town
author patterned after Alsop's per-
sonality The struggling Alice
of the continuity eventually married
the dashing hero.
Just as the struggling Martha
Scott, promoted from the hungry
Rehearsal Club days-through her
playing in the stage and screen "Our
Town" and "The Towards of Vir-
ginia"-was married the other day
in Fifth Avenue church to the pop
ular Carleton Alsop.
One of the Roosevelt boys was in
La Conga the other. night and a
drunk started getting chummy. "My
father and your father" he hic-
coughed, "yoosh'd to be clash
matesh. Sho l want you to know
we're for your pop" The Roose-
welt boy Strengthened the chaps
coat.
"Yoosh don't have to hold me up
he sulked.
'I'm not holding you up replied
the Presidents son. I'm just
Strengthening out the Willkie button
in your lapel"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-10-10

VI Ills OWu duu UIlC
of the top instructors of the game.
In rating Snead as highly as we
have, Jimmie thinks your CORE
spondent is a trifle curious in the
cupola-as follows
An Expert Disagrees
Dear Grant:
1 happened to see your article
about Sammy Snead. How a man
like you who has seen as much golf
as you have can compare Sammy
Snead's swing, which has a decided
loop (Which is preventing him from
winning big tournaments), with a
great swing like Harry Vardon's
battles me.
What do you mean about Hagen,
Sarazen and j. HI. Taylor being
swingers? They certainly were not
swingers, but decided hitters. And
if you are writing on the subject of
swingers, how can you possibly
overlook Byron Nelson who, per-
sonally think, is much better
swinger, and better grooved, than
Snead has been last two years.
To the layman your article might
appeal, but to someone like myself
who knows little about it, it is
really funny.
Sincerely yours,
Jimmie Donaldson
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-10-10
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JAPAN GETS AVIATION FUEL

JAPAN GETS AVIATION FUEL
The new iron and steel scrap en-
barge finally shut off one of Japan's
key military supplies.
But through a loophole as big as
a barn door, Japan had been able,
despite this supposedly stringent
embargo, to obtain all the U. S. gas
it needs for the bombers that are
raining death and destruction on
helpless Chinese cities and villages.
This loophole is the little-noticed pro-
vision that limits the embargo only
to a certain super-grade of gas-87
octane and over.
This type of fuel is essential for
modern aerial warfare. Without it
planes are not able to attain the
great speeds necessary in dog fights
and raids such as take place night
and day over Britain.
But Japan is not up against that
kind of battling. Its bombers and
fighter planes face no aerial opposi-
ton. They have the skies to them
selves. They don't need super-gas.
They can do just as well on lower
octane fuel. Their job is no differ
ent than an ordinary transport
planes. They haul out load of
bombs, dump it and fly back.
The story is told in the following
unpublished government figures. In
the month after the imposition of the
so-called embargo, Japan imported
from the United States 1877, 026 bar
rels of lower grade gasoline, or more
than 20 per cent of all such exports
during that period.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-10-10

C u d In 6 Bobby
Jones, pick the West
Virginian as one of
the top stylists since
the first Scotchman
socked a rock with
a shepherds crook
and complained of
the greens.
Snead may be the
dream swinger" to
many, but he isn't
to Jimmie Donald
son, an able stylist
&c liz 0r ~~I AVA
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-10-10
SPY CENTER

The large Japanese fishing colony
on Terminal island in Los Angeles
harbor is soon due for a cleanup
by Uncle Sam
This colony has long been under
suspicion as nerve center of for
eign espionage on the West coast.
More than one of the fishing YES
sells is radio-equipped, and intelli-
gence officials have evidence that
some of the colony's sea-going deni-
zens double in brass as spies.
No action has been taken up to
now chiefly because of state depart
ment qualms about kicking up an
international ruckus. The suspects
were kept under scrutiny but moth
ing was done to get rid of them.
But with Japan taking the bit in
it's teeth in Indo-China and showing
signs of further adventures, the
state department has withdrawn it's
red light. Under a plan worked out
with California and Los Angeles Of
ficials, the fishing village will be
dispersed.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-10-10
Getting the Low Down on Crops

Agriculture is the crop report service gives complete picture j"
YIELD production utilization sales prices and vaue Of more s
Offices information carefully guarded unit! the crop report IS
released prevent speculative Of aduanc information These
photos sho,Uho is gathered.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-10-10

Where millions focked on pleasure
bent
And marveled merrily
I'll drill and drill for Uncle Sam
And think of Gypsy Lee!
Where "Streets of Paris" once held
forth
I'll master arts of war;
Of they would only leave 'em there
1t won't be such bore);
Where crowds filed to the midway
sights
I'll drill on soldier grub;
Baked beans and stew won't taste
so bad
Served near the "Terrace Club"
I'll learn to swing rifle near
The Living Pictures" gay,
And capture lovely models in
My fancy twice day;
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-10-10
U. S. FLYING FORTRESSES

lying OfCiGSSeS Oh CQe v. ..
army and powerful twin-engined
ply patrol bombers of the U. S.
navy-for Britain
The negotiations have been going
on for several weeks simultaneously
with conversations regarding the Sc
curing of air and naval bases on
strategic British islands in the Pa
cifc.
The British are urgently in need
of long-range, great weight-carrying
planes of the "Flying Fortress" and
ply type. Lack of ships of this
kind is a vital weakness in British
air power. They have no planes
capable of operating east of Berlin,
which makes it impossible to strike
at some of the Nazis' key war pro-
duction centers located in what were
formerly Austria and Czechoslo-
vakia.
A fleet of Is 'Flying Fortresses,
which have cruising radius of over
5000 miles, would bring the war
home to the Germans where it
would hurt most. Also, the British
could strike smashing blows at
Italian industries-a and Italy is the
Achilles heel of the Axis.
The naval Phys are needed in the
crucial Mediterranean struggle
With range of 1000 miles, these
mighty flying boats could destroy
Italian submarines, transports and
supply ships. Italy has to transport
everything she needs in her African
offensive across the Mediterranean,
and the Phys could cripple this
| jugular vein.
These planes also are needed to
meet assault on Gibraltar, key to
British control of the Mediterranean
They also would put Britain in a
much stronger position to meet
Spanish Intervention.
The army has total of SO ely.
ing Fortresses" plus number Of
others in production, which are com.
ing from the factory at the rate oil
about seven a month.
The British would like to. make
an arrangement to obtain every 9th.
err new ship. Army officials say
this would not delay U. S. rearming
but would enable the manufacturer
to expand his facilities and achieve
greater output.
The navy is amply supplied with
Phys. 1t already has 1876 in service
and 200 more being produced at the
rate of one every SO hours. The
new ships are considerably faster
and more powerful than most of the
1856 in service. Navy heads declare
that so of these planes could be
spared without any impairment tt
navy air power.
The British plan to fly the gian
planes direct across the Atlantic
and crews of English and Amer
Jean airmen are being assembled il
Canada for this purpose.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-10-10

Top: Statistician C. E.. Burkhead OF
the Maryland office interviews farm
er. Belo,O: Field reports on specula-
tue crops being removed from the
double-locked boz in the offices of the
Secretary of agriculture. Right: One
Of the armed guards stationed at the
entrance of the crop reporting rooms.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-10-10

Fl OW good swinger is Sammy
- Snead compared to the best OF
all time? Snead has yet to win
national crown and yet many, in