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VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON News Review of Current Events FLEET STALKS 'PIRATES' Britain, France Will Patrol Mediterranean for 'Subs' ... Japs Advance as Chinese Start Tactical Retreat their wake which have blown whole Japanese units to bits, and continu ing to throw a curtain of artillery fire in front of the invaders, The city of Shanghai is a mass of fires and ruin such as no one has ever seen there before. 'Keep Us Out of War1 RESIDENT ROOSEVELT, anx over conditions in F P ious Europe * SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK © Western Newspaper Union. Showdown on 'Sub' Piracy stake in China. The State depart ment replied that there was a broad distinction between getting out of the line of fire and relinquishing privileges established over the years. Vice consuls in many Chi nese ports were ordered to leave their posts. and the Far East, cut his vacation short and returned to Washington to discuss developments with his cabi net. After discussing the situation with Norman H. Davis, his Euro pean ambassador-at-large, and Ber nard M. Baruch, and getting re ports from the State department, he was said to be convinced that there was a real possibility of im plication of the United States in a foreign war. Baruch called Europe a tinder box, ready to explode at any time. In an address before an outdoor meeting of Dutchess county <N. Y.) citizens President Roosevelt had said, “World conditions are pretty serious. I am glad to say . . . that we are going to do everything we can in the United States—not only the people of the United States but the government of the United States —to keep us out of war.” He added that “it will take a lot of planning to keep us out of war.” Nazis Too Busy to Fight HITLER, German dicta A DOLF tor, struck what might have been a cheerful note, in conference with foreign government represen tatives at the Nazi rally in Nurem berg, when he declared that Ger many is too busy to become involved in any war. He said that the plans which he and other Nazi leaders have for the country would take from 20 to 40 years to complete, and that war might be disastrous to them. The Reichsfuehrer reiterated his belief that Germany’s colonies must be returned to her, to furnish a mar ket for her goods. He implied that Great Britain need have no fear of the Nazis maintaining naval bases in colonies, for the expense of that would offset the economic advantage created by them. (antl-communistic) agreement with Japan serves the same fundamental mission—to stand together in de fense of world civilization.” McGrady Quits Labor Post dward f . mcgrady , assistant secretary of labor, and chief E strike trouble shooter of Mme. Fran ces Perkins’ department, resigned to devote his talents to radio. He left his $9,000-a-year job to take the post of executive vice president in charge of industrial relations with the Radio Corporation of America, at a salary variously estimated at from $15.000 to $50,000. In a letter to McGrady. President Roosevelt expressed "deep regret,” and added, "Your efforts to main tain harmonious labor relations have always been in the public in terest and in fairness to workers and management.” McGrady had been one of the fed eral mediators who failed to achieve a settlement of the C. I. O. strike against "Little Steel.” In his new position, his services will be avail able to the government upon call, it was reported. REAT BRITAIN and France were massing the greatest de stroyer fleet ever operated in the Mediterranean sea, to police it and safeguard neutral shipping from at tacks by "pirate” submarines, as a re sult of the agree ment signed by nine powers at Nyon, near Geneva. The powers signatory to the pact also in cluded Greece, Jugo slavia, Turkey, Ru mania, Bulgaria, M. Litvinoff Egypt and Russia. Story of Govett’s Leap Italy and Germany had refused to Headache for the League attend the conference when Russia A T GENEVA, the Chinese delega- Explodes an Old Legend publicly accused Italy of operating ** tion framed an appeal against HANDS ACROSS EUROPE the “pirate” submarines which sank Japanese invasion, to be presented Jointly refusing to attend the $300,000,000 in New Money to the League of Nations. The ap Another gem of Australian legend two Russian ships, and threatened reprisals if Italy did not pay indem anti-“piracy” conference, Hitler SECRETARY OF THE TREAS peal, which urged peace-loving ary lore was exploded with the true URY MORGENTHAU has members and non-members to join story of how Govett’s Leap received (left) and Mussolini once more nity. The principal provisions of the show the complete accord of the agreed to issue $300,000,000 in cash in action against the "aggression,” its name, says a writer in the New against an equal amount of the agreement, which Germany and two Fascist governments. invoked Article 17 of the League York Herald Tribune. treasury’s "steril Italy were invited to join, were: William Romaine Govett was sup covenant, which would invite Japan 1. Mediterranean shipping will be nese, heeding at last the advice ol ized” gold. The to sit in on the council of reply. If posed to be a bushranger of the move was believed restricted to the regular ship lanes, German officers generally conced to have been made the accused nation refuses the invi Sixties who roamed the hills and which will be patrolled by French ed the “brains” of the central army, because of recent tation sanctions may be applied valleys, murdered police and track and British warships, in both the began a strategic retreat to the against it. Japan has definitely in ers in the bush, plundered on the weakness in the eastern and western stretches. If “third area of defense” mapped out market dicated she intends to reject any highways and robbed banks and tav for govern erns in the townships. His career Italy agreed, she was to be al by these same officers after the ment bonds and a such invitation. lowed to patrol the Tyrrhenian sea. Shanghai conflict of 1932, which was 16 per cent decline The Chinese statement charged supposedly ended when he was cor that since mid-August Japan has nered near the falls by the police, 2. Patrolling navies will attack conducted under identical condi in the stock market thrown 60,000 troops into the and, preferring death to surrender, and attempt to destroy any sub tions. over a period of he jumped over the falls. Woosung-Shanghai area. marine which attacks merchant Included in the Japanese drive to about four weeks, But that is not the true story. ships other than Spanish, without break the 20-mile Chinese line from “ The intention of Japan . . . can- In addition, the first giving passengers and crew op the Woosung forts to Liuho were open market com- Secretary not otherwise be interpreted than to Govett joined the surveying staff in portunity to leave in lifeboats, as more bombings and shellings of the mittee of the federal Morenthau dominate Shanghai . . . and to at New South Wales under the survey outlined in the 1936 London naval heavily populated Chinese districts reserve board announced that it had tack Nanking, the capital,” the or general in 1827. He surveyed of Nantao, Chapei and Lunghwa, authorized the twelve federal re statement said. It also declared that much of the wild terrain lying be treaty. 3. Signatories expressly declare with women and children account serve banks to buy additional the Japanese blockade of the entire tween the Grose and the junction of the Capertee and Colo rivers, and that they do not concede belligerent ing for most of the enormous casu amounts of short term government Chinese coast was illegal. from Springwood to Mount York. alty list rights to either party in Spain. securities. 4. Patrol ships arriving on the While he was attached to a work The Japanese conquest of North In some quarters, the treasury’s scene of an attack too late to pre Hopei appeared to have been move was interpreted as an about Hitler: 'Stand by Japan* ing party in the Blue mountains he vent i| will be authorized to attack clinched with smashing victories at face by the administration, reversing A DOLF HITLER, in a manifesto jumped across one of the ravines or any submarine in the vicinity, pro Machang and Tsinghsien. Tsingh- its year-old policy of trying to pre ** to the German nation, offered chasms. When he related his ex vided they are satisfied it is the sien is 40 miles south of Tientsin vent an untimely inflation. to stand by both Italy and Japan in perience to Sir Thomas Mitchell he guilty one. and only 16 miles from Tsangchow, a “defensive fight against bolshe was complimented on his pluck and vism.” He charged that the “two told that the spot would be called 5. These measures will be execut where the principal Chinese de ed by the British and French fleets fenses of the area are located. From 16,098,000-Bale Cotton Crop major wars” now going on (the Govett’s Leap. After serving sev anywhere in the Mediterranean with Tsangchow to Paotingfu there exists HE fifth largest cotton crop yield Sino-Japanese and the Spanish civil eral years on the surveyor general’s in the nation’s history was fore wars) were the result of "attempts staff Govett returned to England, the exception of the Adriatic. East a strong, unbroken Chinese line where he died in 1848. ern powers will protect neutral which includes the finest Chinese cast by the Department of Agricul to spread communism.” shipping in their territorial waters. war equipment and the country’s ture, which estimated a 1937 crop of The Reichsfuehrer ’ s speech was Popular imagination readily takes 16,098 000 bales. The cotton crop read to the Nazi party congress in in a tale so full of spirit and adven 6. Signatories agree not to let any heaviest artillery. Apparently the Chinese plan of re September 1 was 75 per cent of nor of their own submarines put to sea Nuremberg while he sat on the plat ture as that woven around Govett’s in the Mediterranean unless accom treat was to withdraw defending mal, indicating an average yield form. It could not have been better Leap, and so the bushranger epic troops from the range of Japanese per acre of 228.5 pounds. panied by a surface vessel, except timed in view of the current friction was evolved. A visitor to the falls naval guns in the Whangpoo and in certain "exercise” zones. between Italy and Soviet Russia is struck by the wild beauty of the Yangtse rivers. The Chinese were 7. Signatories will not permit for over submarine piracy in the Medi place. Situated near Blackheath on Yanks in Far East 'Kick* eign submarines in their waters un reluctant to leave positions which terranean. the saddle of the Kanimba and they claimed had been held against A MERICANS in Shanghai, con- less in urgent distress or on the Germany and Italy’s “community Grose valleys, the falls are in rough the Japanese invasion, but the Ger ** stantly in danger of their lives, surface and accompanied. man advisers finally won them over cabled Washington, demanding the of interests” have emerged in re and barren country surrounded by It was plain that delegates knew to the theory that these positions protection of United States ships. cent months, he said, “more and a rugged tangle of gorges, ridges that explosions might occur in half had been held at a cost far out of The American Chamber of Com more an element in the defense of and unfathomable chasms, with pre Europe against chaotic imbecility.” cipitous and craggy sides in every a dozen European capitals if their proportion to their importance. merce in the war-torn city asked His manifesto continued: "Our direction. pact did not get into operation be Japan has depended largely upon Secretary of State Hull for immedi fore there were any further attacks the naval guns for most of her ar ate clarification of the State de on shipping. They were embar tillery shelling and, attacking far partment’s stand. Some of them rassed in conference by the Russian ther back from the river, will lose foreign commissar, Maxim Litvinoff, that advantage. The presence of were bitter toward President Roose who insisted on naming Italy as the Japanese warships was an impor velt, who. from his yacht, had told "pirate.” Russia at first refused tant factor in the heavy Chinese newspaper men that Americans in to sign, on the grounds that the sec casualty list, which totaled 20,000 the war zone would remain there at No deadline for ond provision was no protection at killed and 30,000 wounded. The in their own risk. all. merely requiring submarine vaders lost 10,000 men killed and evacuation had yet been set, and when rumors spread that the United commanders to be "gentlemanly” an unestimated number wounded. States flagship Augusta was making before sinking ships, and that it im The first strategic stage of the plied recognition of both Spanish Chinese fighting in Shanghai—as ready to leave Yangtze waters, pan parties as belligerents. Britain’s planned by the German officers— ic spread among the Yanks in Anthony Eden was reported to have was to slow down and harass the Shanghai. Many business men, with lifetime convinced the signatory powers that landing of Japanese reinforcements; it would be impossible for a sub the second, to divide the Japanese savings invested there vigorously marine to sink a ship under those lines, and the third. to deprive the urged the President to adopt “a foreign policy with a strong front conditions. Japanese of the use of their naval and keep the American flag wav guns. ing.” One veteran Yank resident China's German Strategy Realizing what is going on, the circulated a petition demanding that APAN'S long-awaited "big push” Japanese command has ordered the President “get off his yacht, in China was believed definitely rapid advance no matter what the get on his feet and get some guts "on” as the Japanese assumed vir cost, in an effort to change an or above them.” tual control of North Hopei, and derly retreat into a complete rout. American missionaries and busi made important thrusts into the Chi As a result, the Japanese for the ness men protested that the United nese lines at Shanghai, after the time being are the heavy losers in States' position in the Far East was most terrible fighting of a month ol men, rather than the Chinese. The largely the result of their life's latter have been covering their ma work, and insisted on a more stead- undeclared warfare. Back from yachting trip, the President, shown with son James, At about the same time, the Chi- neuver well, leaving land mines in fast attitude to keep the American I seems cheerful enough despite troubles of Yanks in Far East. T J