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' ’ n '~V’ ■V I ^ m I L M n [ i IVmmg Hgr#«w>»/ Cmrrtmt Bvemts SENATE KILLS COURT BILL VoHs 70 to 20 to Recommit . • . Elect Berkley New Majority Leader • • Spanish War Enters Second Year Senator Harrison (rlfht) Confratulates Senator Barkley. ~^^LiirWLdt IV, fiuduuui ^ aTnmurai>T7r*a nnxe» wirvat T SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK O WcfUrn Newspaper Union. 'Glory Be to Godl' T) YING for weeks, the scheme to add to the number of justices of the Supreme court finally choked its last gasp and left this world. On a roll-call vote the United States senate voted to recommit the Rob inson substitute for the President’s original'bill to the judiciary com mittee. The vote was 70 to 20, the most crushing defeat the President’s legislation has yet suffered at the hands of a house of congress. In an agreement made at a ses sion of the judiciary committee ear lier, It had been decided to let the opposition senators write their own bill, an innocuous measure for "ju dicial reform" not dealing in any way with the Supreme court. Sena tor Barkley, the new majority lead er, attempted to save the Presi dent's face by having the bill left on the calendar, but he never had a chance. When the roll-call came, even Senators Ashurst of Arizona and Minton of Indiana, two of the Supreme court bill's chief support ers. voted to recommit. "Glory be to Godl” said Sen. Hi ram Johnson (Rep., Calif.) when the results of the roll call were made known. The applause that bellowed forth from the senators and gallery alike left no doubt that the veteran from California had voiced the sentiments of the great majority. Low Irtarast for Farmarc B Y A vote of 71 to 19, the senate overrode the President's veto of a bill extending for a year low inter est rates on loans to farmers. It was a defeat even more crushing than the recommission of the court bill, and made the bill a law with out the President’s signature, for the house had previously passed it by a two-thirds majority over Mr. Roosevelt's veto. . Senator Barkley made a half hearted attempt to stave off the overwhelming vote, and the defeat was accepted by many observers as an expression of resentment over Barkley's having been elected ma jority leader instead of Sen. Pat Harrison of Mississippi. _♦— Berkley, 38; Harrison, 37 CEN. WILLIAM H. DIETERICH ^ of Illinois changed his mind at the last minute and today Alben W. Barkley, hard-fisted, blustering sen ator from Kentucky, is the majority lead er of the United States senate, suc ceeding the late Jos eph T. Robinson of Arkansas. The vote was 38 for Barkley to 37 for Sen. Pat Harrison of Missis sippi. The conservative VicePresident Democrats in the Garner senate had been as sured of 38 votes, enough to elect Harrison, on the eve of the secret election. But that night Dieterich, apparently under pressure from the Democratic party organization in Illinois, begged Har rison to release his pledged vote, in order that the President’s choice might head the party in the senate. The slim victory by no means patched the obvious party rift. Even the administration admitted that the President’s Supreme court bill was virtually dead, even then. Vice Pres ident Gamer visited Sen. Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, leader of the opposition forces, and invited the op position, which it was believed had enough votes to recommit the sub stitute court bill to the judiciary committee, to draft a new bill. President Roosevelt then told Sen ators Barkley and Harrison at the White House that four measures "must" be passed before the Janu ary session: The minimum wage, hours end child labor bill; the new AAA and MB; the Wagner Gov. Lehman in the federal tax laws. Congress was all for quick adjournment, the President was told. The possibil ity of adjourning congress, then re calling it in special session in the late fall, with committees continu ing to function in the interim, was then discussed, but what agreement had been reached was not an nounced. * % A Citizen Takes His Pen RUSHING blow to the Presi- dent’s court program, delivered at the time it hurt most, was a let ter written by Gov. Herbert H. Leh man of New York to Sen. Robert F. Wag ner of that state. The letter, made public, revealed Governor Lehman's opinion "as a citizen of the state of New York" that the bill would be "contra ry” to the "inter ests" of the people of the state. "Its en actment," the gov ernor wrote, "would create a greatly dangerous prece dent which could be availed of by future less well-intentioned admin istrations for the purpose of oppres sion or for the curtailment of the constitutional rights of our citi zens." * Bloody Anniversary nr HE Spanish' civil war entered * its second year. For the popu lations of rebel cities, the occasion was one for joyous celebration, with fiestas, bull fights and concerts the order of the day. Gen. Francisco Franco, commander of the insur gent forces, publicly proclaimed it a "year of triumph." He ordered that all communications and public documents for the next twelve months be dated as of "the second year of triumph." In the first "year of triumph," more than a million persons, includ ing women and children, erere killed. The insurgents claim to have taken 34 of the M provincial capi tals of the country, and all of its colonies. They have captured six of the eleven cities of more than 100.000 Inhabitants: Seville, Malaga, Bilbao. Saragossa, Cordoba and Granada. The rebels lost little time in at tempting to regain their losses around Madrid. Franco unleashed the full power of his main army of 160.000 in a drive to recapture Bru- nete and other suburbs of the loy alist stronghold; they were met by at least 250,000 defending govern ment troops. Every weapon of war except gas was used. There was hand-to-hand fighting in the trenches and the greatest use of artillery since the World war as the fiercest battle of the Spanish conflict raged. The battle was opened by as spec tacular an aerial fight as the world has seen in years; insurgents were reported to have lost 27 planes against only four for the loyalists. If there were any definite gains made in a week’s fighting, they were probably on the side of the insur gents, observers reported, although the government estimated the reb els had lost 10,000 men. Japs Maul U. S. Women A SSAULT upon two America! women by sentries in the Jap anese embassy in Peiping brought vigorous protests, both orally and in writing, from the United Statef embassy. The two women, Mrs. Helen R. Jones of Detroit and Miss Carol Lathrop of Washington, D. C., were walking through the embassy when sentries charged them from behind sandbag barricades. While one sentry kicked Miss Lathrop in the side, another held off Mrs. Jones with the flat of his bayonet. When roughly Mwved. Mrs. J< ™ .u> ITKidaiw about Semi-Nude Fashions. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— Clothes may not make the man, but leaving them off cer tainly makes him foolish. And that goes double for the women. Whence arises the present-day de lusion that going about dressed at half-mast enchances the attractiveness of the average adult7 Our forbears of the Victorian era wore too much for health or happiness o r cleanliness. But isn’t it worse to offend the eye all through the lingering sum mer by not wearing enough to cover up the blotches, the blemishes, the bulges and the bloats that come with ma turity? Sun baths should be taken on a doctor’s prescription, not at the corner of First and Main. Women old enough to know bet ter are the worst offenders, seems like. If only they’d stop to con sider that the snail, which is naked, would lose in any beauty contest against the butterfly, which wears all the regalia the traffic will standi But even though it’s for their own good, you can’t tell ’em. If some body started the fad of going at the game while practically nude, inside of two weeks mumblepeg would be the national pastime—un til somebody else thought up a game to be played by folks without a stitch on. Or anyhow, just a stitch here and there. Irvin S. Cobb U: Doctoring Movie Scripts. SUALLY they lay these* yams on Mr. Sam Goldwyn, who thrives upon them and goes right on turning out successes, his motto being, "What’s grammar as be tween friends so long as the box office shows results?" But, for a change, this one is ascribed to an other producer, who proudly de scribes himself as a self-made man, which, according to his critics, is relieving the Creator of a consider able responsibility and putting the blame where the blame belongs. They also say no self-made man should stop with the job only partly finished. But then Hollywood la full of parties trying to push Humpty Dumpty off the wall. As the tale runs, this gentleman entered the conference chamber at his studio and aa, with a kingly gesture, he laid down a fat sheaf of typewritten pages, said to the assembled intellects of his staff: "Jumpmen, in all my experience In the picture business this is what you might call unique. Here is atn solutcly, posstiffiy the only perfect script I have ever read In my entire life. I tell you that before we start altering it" Strikes Versos Wars. D ID you ever notice bow like a war is a strike? The operator and his operatives are the shock troops that suffer the heaviest casualties. The owner risks his profits and perhaps his market and sometimes his plant The work er gives up his wages, frequently his job, occasionally his life. Stockholders see dividends van ishing and investments shrinking. Citizens see their communities dis rupted. Women and children go on short rations, many a time go ac tually hungry. For, as in a war, the innocent non-combatants bear most grievous burdens. Those who really garner in the spoils—professional agitators; finan cial buzzards eager to seize on bankrupted industries; lawyers with their writs and their injunctions; imported thugs masquerading, for one side or the other as honest mechanics—these might be likened to stay-at-home diplomats and profit eers and hired mercenaries who induce friendly nations to turn en emies so they may gain their own selfish ends. After it’s over, we realize that almost any strike might have been averted had common sense and common justice ruled, rather than greed and entrenched stubbornness and fomented hate. And the same is true of almost any war. For every real benefit to humanity came out of peace and arbitration, not out of battle and destruction. And here’s the final parallel: Ul timately, the supposed victor finds himself the actual loser. Tell me which army won any ^reat strike— or any great war—and 1*11 tell you who won the San Francisco fire and the Galveston flood. IRVIN S. COBB. ©—WMU Service. Crater Lake in Oregon Crater Lake in Oregon has the most romantic geologic history of any lake in the United States. Its rim was once the base of a volcanic mountain which collapsed and sank into the earth. Later it cooled, springs came out of the sides, snow collected and it filled with water. It is 6 miles in diameter and con tains the bluest water known to ex ist naturally today. There is no out let and no streams running into it end yet the water is always freak. Washington Digest g National Topics Interpreted By WILLIAM BRUCKART flllft NATION A VI. ASM INC wiYmi Washington.—Many times in these columns I have had occasion to r* , write in praise of Great Leader Senator Joe Bob- Passes On inson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader in the senate. His magnifi cent qualities, his capacity as a statesman and the regard with which he was held by Republicans and Democrats alike were such that further praise from this pen would be of little value. Suffice it to say that in Joe Robinson’s death the na tion is the loser because "he fought the good fight." But Senator Robinson's sudden death a few days ago has precipi tated a political condition of gravest importance. Although none of us who knew him nor those with whom he was associated in an official capacity could have foreseen his sudden death, I think it is proper to say that the passing of Joe Robin son may have more far-reaching in fluence upon his country’s history than all of his long and distin guished career in public life. That is to say, fate possibly has turned in this instance to the role it some times plays—the role of master strategist. The question may be asked: Why does the death of one man become so important? The answer is simple. Joe Robin son was the field marshal for the Roosevelt administration. Particu larly, he was the field marshal in the greatest legislative battle to reach the floors of congress since the days of slavery, and this coin cided with the daring adventure of an epochal administration. President Roosevelt leaned upon Senator Robinson to put through the senate a bill that would permit the Chief Executive to appoint addition al justices of^his own choosing to membership in the Supreme court of the United States. He leaned upon the Arkansas senator for many other things as well, but H seems to be the consensus of opinion that Mr. Roosevelt’s administration may well stand or fall by the success or failure of his program to reorganize the judiciary of the United States. It seems further that if the Presi dent fails to obtain congressional approval for this plan which would give the President domination over the court system of the country, he will have lost control of the legisla tive branch of the government for the remainder of his term. Few Presidents have been able to carry on successfully without the co-oper ation of the legislative branch. It is too early, of course, to say whether the death of Senator Robin son means defeat for the court pack- tng program. Nevertheless, most of the astute political observers In Washington—indeed, many of the President s own party in the senate —believe that the passing of the Democratic leader was a fatal blow to the President's power in con gress. This results from the fact that Joe Robinson was able to mold together many groups and cliques and hold them by the sheer power of his lovable personality in a co hesive, workable unit The country never will know how well and faithfully Joe Robinson fought for the President and his policies. I have said in these col umns heretofore and I repeat that I do not believe Senator Robinson favored all of the New Deal poli cies, in his heart. He was progres sive but he had sound ideas; he stood by the President and the New Deal with courage and capacity, but on many occasions, I have reason to believe, he fought for those prin ciples because he believed he should either fight as a member of his party or retire. Further, he knew that if he would retire he would not have the opportunity nor the influence to persuade the radi cal wing of the New Dealers to pro pose reasonable policies. In other words, the late Democratic leader was attempting to be a leader in fact as well as in name and many are the indications where he was able to pull the theorists and the radical New Dealers back from the brink of political destruction. • • • • In view of the facts I have re ported and the observations I have »;n made above . ^ b «- Louit BlU comes perfectly Doomed plain that the President is in a position where he can lose the pres ent court battle with ease. In fact, there are many observer^ who be lieve the court legislation will have to be abandoned and that congress will be quickly overwhelmed by that annual desire of representatives and senators to conclude their work and adjourn. Let us review the situation as re gards the court legislation. The President got off to a very bad start when the original bill to add six new justices to the Supreme court was presented. The original reasons he gave for demanding the new power he sought were shat tered within a few days after the draft of the bill reached the Capi tol He was forced to ******************* * * * * * * * * them. Mr. Roosevelt then came for ward with a second Set of reasons, namely, that the Supreme court as at present constituted could not and would not hold some of his social legislation constitutional. That set of reasons was knocked into a cocked hat when the Supreme court upheld the Washington state minimum wage law, the Wagner labor rela tions act and the social security taxes. Then came the resignation of Justice Van Devanter. Justice Van Devanter was one of the men whom Mr. Roosevelt had in mind as Unwilling and unlikely to see so cial legislation through the same glasses as Mr. Roosevelt saw the situation in the country. The Van Devanter resignation gave the President an opportunity to appoint a new member to the court. It also gave the senate an opportu nity to burst forth with expressions of its own ideas concerning the type of man who should succeed Justice Van Devanter and the senators were not backward in promoting the name of the Democratic leader, Senator Robinson. But Mr. Roosevelt thus faf has failed to fill the vacancy, and this failure has been interpret ed by the opposition among the President’s own party as an unwill ingness to select anyone but a radi cal for the highest court. In any event, those opposed to the court bill contend that the President’s de lay constitutes only another reason why he should accept "the inevi table defeat" of the court revision program. When it became apparent that the original bill for six new justices could not be passed because the Democratic-dominated senate judi ciary committee reported the bill with a scathing denunciation, the late Senator Robinson astutely of fered a substitute bill in tha nature of a compromise. This substitute bora the authorship of Senators Lo gan of Kentucky and Hatch of New Mexico. Even the substitute which provided for one additional judge a year until the Supreme court num bered eleven members has received the same bitter criticism that char acterized the first measure. Many members of the senate say they will fight it as long as they would have fought the original because It will give the Chief Executive control of the Supreme court just ee the ear lier one would have done. STAR DUST 5 Movie • Radio * ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE*** E verything goes in cycles in motion pictures, and just now the Russian cycle threat ens to monopolize the screen. No less than three of the most fascinating screen sirens are currently holding forth in the midst of Russian magnificence. There is Marlene Dietrich with Robert Donat in "Without Armor" for instance, Miss Dietrich and Rob ert Donat make a thrilling roman tic pair. Another of the Russian cycle is "The Emperor’s Candle sticks" in which Luise Rainer and William Powell appear as rival spies of Russia and Poland. Last, but by no means least, particularly for music lovers, is "Two Who Dared," with Anna Sten, who has been too long absent from our screens. At last George Raft is out of seclu sion and he is very so relieved. For months he has had to go without a hair cut for his role in "Souls at Sea’’ and to his eternal dis comfiture his shoul der-length hair was daily waved with a curling iron. He didn’t dare face the mugs who are his best friends looking like that. The day the picture was fin ished he celebrated tight haircut and • • President Roosevelt vetoed a little known and litlie discussed bill the D . other dey. It was Star Routt known as "H. R. BUI Vetoed 9409. An Act to Provide for the Renewal of Star-Route Contracts at Four Year Intervals." The title, of course, will mean little to moot of tboee who read these lines. But. this was a bill Intended to do justice to thoee underprivileged classes about which Mr. Roosevelt has often spoken in his fireside chats over the radio. The men who would have benefited by this piece of legis lation were the star route carriers of the mails—the service that dates back to the stagecoach days of America and the service from which originated the Postal depart ment’s famous phrase, "tha mails must go through." The star route is the only means by which a good many thousand persona are able to receive mails on anything like a modern basis because this service reaches the out-of-the-way inland towns where railroads are not yet and possibly never will be in opera tion. I watched this legislation go through the house without dissent ing vote; I saw Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, attack the bill in vicious language and then I saw the senate pass it by a vote of nearly two to one. In addition, I know that the rep resentatives of these little known carriers (little known except to those whom they directly serve) had tried for a number of years to obtain a basis of pay that will let them live. They finally were able to convince Postmaster General Farley that unless they were paid more money the number that would go broke in carrying out their con tracts would be amazingly large. I have not the slightest doubt that this group ought tOLbe paid more money for the work they do because their present basis of compensation is shamefully low—so low that if they were members of a labor union, they would all go on strike. No change has been made in the basis of compensation or in the method of contracting for this serv ice sinee it was organized in 1845, except in minor ways. Three quar ters of a century or more is a long, long time. The President’s action in vetoing this legislation, therefore, is very difficult to understand. His action is made the more inconsis tent, many persons believe, because the additional coat to the govern ment would be insufficient to main tain the smallest unit of the hun dred New Deal agencies which tha President has created. UWaa smeared on the vaseline lavishly. Ever since a coart forced Mae West to break down and admit that she really was married twenty-six yean ago to one Frank Wallace, the has been la seclusion. Couldn’t stand having people stars at her Intently looking for wrinkles, while they eonnted on their Angers—eight een and twenty-six make forty-four. In those odd moments when they are not discussing Mae West's age. Hollywoodiana are raving over the beautiful newcomer, Zorina, who is under contract to Sam Goldwyn. She is an enchanting young woman about nineteen years old. Born in Norway, not far from the Arctic Circle, the went to school in Berlin, joined the Monte Carlo Ballet Russ# company when the was visiting m Mexico City, and because of her two years association with this troupe now has a alight Russian accent. Rudy Valise spends many of his evenings nowadays at a night chib in New York where his friend Jackie Osterman is making a comeback after a long stretch of hard luck. Vallee Is a great story teller, and one of his favorites concerns Jack Benny. Vallee whole-heartedly ad mires the drastic way in which Jack Benny treated a hostile vaudeville audience years ago. Benny came out on one aide of the stage merrily saying "Hello folks" only to face a bunch of tough-looking ruffians who glowered at him. Continuing right on across the stage, he exited from the stage saying "Good-by folks" and walked right on out of the theater never tq^etum. Martha Baye mads the hit of her life and smashed all box-oAce rec ords making personal appearances at the Paramount theater in New York recently. The audience simply could not get enough of her. They surged down to the footlights when her act w*as over, shot questions at her, begged her to sing one more song, and then just stood and yelled when her voice threatened to give out. Frankie Masters, NBC star and band maestro says “it pays to work your way through col lege." Frankie start ed out to earn his way through the com merce school at the University of Indiana by strumming his banjo in the band. Soon the band be came more profitable than commerce and he had engagements at hotels and leading night clubs in Chica go and other big cities. Frankie is starred with Eddie Guest on the "It Can Be Done” program. ODDS AND ENDS-There it • fan in Grand Rapids, Mich., who writes Gene Autry o sixteen-page letter of criticism and comment eviry time a new picture of his is shown. He not only reads every line appreciatively, he tries to correct all those faults in his next picture .. . Every one is marveling at Connie Bennett’s good sportsmanship in letting Roland Young get most of the laughs in her first comedy ’’Topper" ... Paul Muni has bam Frankie Masters best of all scram actors all who have seen "Tha Life of Emile ’ole." And Muni says this is tha vary last biographical picture ha anil Ha doesn’t Smrei far a long time. • W~ r