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1 KLAN ISSUE DOGS BLACK N«wip«p#rt CUim Proof Ht'i Lift Mtmbtr. •. Rttf Ctilks Submarine Piratei ... Jflpj Big Pu»h Starts IV. PuJukA * M SUMMARIZES THE WORU • »MM Fiery Cross Haunts Justice P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT »uf- fered what was probably the moat embarraasing period of his en tire political career aa the whole country stormed over the publish' ment of what was claimed as docu mentary proof that Hugo L. Black, recently appointed a justice of the Supreme court, was and is a mem ber of the Ku Klux Klan. The series of articles, copyrighted by the North American Newspaper alliance and printed in the news papers which subscribe to its serv ice, Included reproduction of Black’s resignation from the hooded broth erhood, allegedly turned in to the organization in 1925 but never made known to the public or to the Klans- men in general. It also contained reproduction of the minutes of a Klan meeting in the following year at which Black was said to have become a life member and was given a gold ’’passport," one of the highest honors conferred by the or der. Implications of the revelations, if they are true, are manifold. Presi dent Rooeevelt asserted that he had no knowledge that Black was a member of the Klan when the ap pointment was made. He refused to comment further until Black re- . where he was g BUck. hounded for a by the presa. went Into and refused to WORLD'S WEEK HANDS ACROSS EUROPE Jointly refusing to attend the anti-"piracy M conference. Hitler (left) and Mussolini once a show the complete accord of two Fsec 1st poet did not get Into operation be fore there were any further attacks on shipping. They were embar rassed in conference by the Russian foreign commissar. Maxim Litvin off. who Insisted on naming Italy aa the pirate.** Russia et first refused to sign, on the grounds that the eec- at S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— We're promised a histori cal novel longer than any yet —«ay half a million words or so. Of course, the author probably uses some words at least twice, but that won’t re duce the gross tonnage un less they’re very short words. X can’t take it While atlll con valescent from "Anthony Adverse,” I was stricken down by "Gone With the Wind” and had such a relapse that even now I barely can hold on my stomach such comparatively light and trifling stuff as volume VET to ZYM of the en cyclopedia. When reading this modern bulk litera ture, it upsets me to find my legs going to sleep before I do. And the con stant pressure makes callouses on my second mezzanine landing. I admit these mass production books serve nicely as door stoppers end for pressing wild flowers. I also heard of a chap who detected a prowler under his window and dropped a frothy little work of Ac tion weighing slightly less than nine pounds on the back of the fellow's neck, dislocating three vertebrae. At last accounts, the surgeons were still picking long jagged chapters out of his spin#. In my present mood, what I crave la the romantic stuff of olden days. Irvin S. Cobb Ndhondl Topics Interpreted By WILLIAM BRUCKART Washington.—It always comes about that when a nation or an in- dividual acta with- What a out thinking a Me Mat problem through all of its angles, there is >a fine mess at the end. There can be no surprise, therefore, in the mess confronting this nation over the policies and laws affecting the relations between labor and cap ital. The condition probably consti tutes the worst mess.of any we have seen in the last five lyears—and the end is not yet. At the present time we And not only bitter strife between the old es tablished American Federation of Labor andj the Committee for Indus trial Organization headed by John L. Lewis; a national labor relations board that cannot be described by any stretch of the imagination as being unbiased, and political lead ers from President Roosevelt down the line are quite unable to deter mine what their position should be between the warring factions of la bor. Meanwhile, we find employers wholly unable to deal with either faction successfully because of the interference of the labor relations board and the instability of respon sible officials. * The case in point and the Incident that brings the situation immedi ately before the American people involves a comparative small num ber of worfcera but It exposes all of the fallacies that have been allowed pert of the law of the labor relations act was forced ihrwigb by Senator Wagner Mew Yack Mew thus far maka it appear that the members of that board are aligned with John L. Lewis and the tactics he has employed. If they are, and if President Roosevelt wants to pro tect trade unionism in this country, it seems to me he ought to get rid of the members of that board and name commissioners who can be fair between the two labor groups whether they want to consider the rights of those who pay the wages or not. • • • On top of the situation I have de scribed comes a fresh outburst from . John L. Lewis in Lewia* the shape of a Outburst threat against those officially re sponsible for administration of fed eral affairs. In fact, few persons could have heard the Lewis Labor day radio speech without realizing that the shaggy haired C. I. O. lead er was telling Mr. Roosevelt to re frain from placing any obstacle in the C. I. O. pathway. Some com mentators went so far as to aay that Mr. Lewis had slapped the President's face in that speech. It will be recalled how some time ago the President told the newspa per correspondents in a press con ference that he was taking no aides between the A. F. of L. and the G L O. The expression be used was a line from Shakespeare "A plague on both your bouses " I quote Mr. Lewis* reply to that remark: "It 10 behooves one who has supped at labor's table and arbe be* sheltered to labor's house to curse with equal fervor end fine im partiality both labor and its adver saries when they be came locked to deadly Thus M becomes plain. I believe, that Mr Lewis to determined to da torwsrd with Me lobar probtossto to ad pohtsre. From Mo to Atesandru Ye. I Lender Lewie tore bwsdredo af STAR | DUST * * J Aiovic • Radio * J** By VIRGINIA VALE*** M'T'HE Prisoner of Zenda” -I- threatens to become everybody’s favorite picture. Girls love iNi^eause it is ten derly romantib; boys are crazy about it because it is a thrilling adventure story, and the old folks like the pomp and circumstance of the court scenes. Of course,^ the mere fact of Ronald Colman’s pres ence is enough to bring crowds to the box offices. He plays a dual role and the only complaint is that Madeline Carroll does not play two parts too. She is probably the most utterly charming hero ine of the year—any year. —-k- Hollywood had a lot of surprises recently that sent all the girls scurrying out to buy presents. Miriam Hopkins up and eloped with Anato 1 Litvak. the director, and Alice Faye and Tony Martin rushed off to Yuma. Ariz.. and got married r 4 Religious differences Ja had caused the breaking of their en gagement sever a! Miriam tunes, she being Catholic, hr Jewish. To make matterr more complicated both had anti- marriage clauses to their contracts with Twentieth Century-Fox The studio boa forgiven them, but par exla are said to be still pouting Mr Litvak. Miss Hopkins' new groom, baa Just finished directaq Claudette Cetoerf ■ Tonight s Our Might" at Warner Brothers , No thrfv vitt 9% w t fnc Iwiti lo a scene that took place to a market ke toststod en hevmg res’ peeve Uwkeyv. and cti«rhena Tht Jenny (angrily)—You cannot gay I ran after you. anyway. Jack—No. I can’t My that. Tho trap doesn't run after the mouae, but it gather! it in just the same.” Nucleus Architect—Now, if you’ll give me a general idea of the kind of house you need . . . Client—I want something to go with a door-knocker my wife brought home from Oxford. An antique collector has left over four hundred clocks in his will. Someone is going to have a busy time winding up the estate. Second Thought He had just moved into his new house, and was painting ‘‘No hawkers or canvassers” on his front gate. When he had finished he stepped back to admire his efforts, and a thought struck him. Dipping his brush into the paint again, he add ed the words: "Except with sam ples.” LIGHTS OUT Bobby Bug—Say Miss Sweet let me escort you through that long black tunnel. Fee those ptxoniag a M la best to get a large rood map. This will tell yea everythtog yeo o»ol to know, cscept how to fold M op agato. ladligotorfi Fra too -John, you don't rare for me aa much aa you used to. You al ways used to give me the larger helpings; new yen take them fer yourself '* "Darling, yen cook much better Father—What are yon df r.g. Freddie* Freddie—Hath mg. father Father (sternly t —There Ip no sorb thing M nothing’ Fieddio Oh. yea. there to see your eyes and you'll Marked "There's a price on your —Why* Have I done wrong?” Y u vo forgotten to take the price ticket off your new hut — Tho principal provisions of tha agrvoment. which Germany and Italy were Invited to join, were L Mediterranean shipping will be restricted to tha regular ship lanes, which will be patrolled by French and British warships, in both the aastorn and western stretches. If Italy agreed, she was to be al lowed to patrol tho Tyrrhenian aea. 2. Patrolling navies will attack and attempt to destroy any sub marine which attacks merchant ships other than Spanish, without first giving passengers and crew op portunity to leave in lifeboats, as outlined in the 1936 London naval treaty. 3. Signatories txpressly declare that they do not concede belligerent righta to either party in Spain. 4. Patrol ships arriving on the scene of an attack too late to pre vent it will be authorized to attack any submarine in the vicinity, pro vided they are satisfied it is the guilty one. 5. These measures will be execut ed by the British and French fleets anywhere in the Mediterranean with the exception of the Adriatic. East ern powers will protect neutral shipping in their territorial waters. g. Signatories agree not to let any at their own submarines put to sea In the Mediterranean unless accom panied by a surtaca In certain "axorciaa' T. Signatories will not permit for- M metier what to aa effort to rv treat talo a com pie la rout, result, the Japanese for tho being are the heavy kwers la men. rather than tho Chinese. No Help for Munitions Ships A NY American merchant vessela ** which carry arms or other im plements of war to China or Japan will do so at their own risk. Presi dent Roosevelt warned shipping coo- corns. This policy applies to all of tho articles listed in his proclama tion of May 1, 1937, when he in voked the neutrality act against both parties in the Spanish civil war. The President’s order also forbade any government-owned vessel from carrying war materials to China or Japan. Unless war is declared he has no control over other American shipping, but he warned shippers that if ships carrying such cargo are;, bombed or attacked they need eipect no action on the part of the United States. Copeland Loses in Primary 'T'WENTY-ONE arrests were made as violence dogged the polls in New York city’s most spirited may oralty primary in years. Senator Royal S. Copeland, who ran for the Republican nomination although he was supported by Tammany Hall, lost the honor to Mayor Florello H. La Guardia, fusion candidate for re- election. Copeland mada his bid for tho G. O. F. nod by bitterly nppoo teg President Moo—volt, but tho stamp et Tammany a tugbor average Vkat sot mo to line was being t'other night at a party where a poor lit lie four year- oM. having alreaffy the pitiable as surance ot a veteran prima was fetched to to give lions She never again could imper sonate natural babyhood though, more's the pity* And her pert small brother was encouraged to domi nate the talk. Mark my word for it. that kid la going to come to no good end—not even a well spanked end, which would help. • • a Mr. Pine—’ Coop. IN THESE topsy-turvy times lib- I eral-minded patriots . who are striving to steer a middle course between ultraenthusiastic left-wing ers and ultraconservative rightists might do well, methinks, to follow the example set by Mr. Pincus. Mr. Pincus had opened a clothing store. Immediately on one side of him was the clothing store of Mr. Ginsberg and immediately on the other side was the clothing store of Mr. Dreifus; and three clothing stores in a row were too many even for Essex street. So the adjacent competitors framed a plot to put the newcomer out of business. Next morning their rival, coming down to open up, found over Mr. Dreifus’ establish ment a flaming legend, to wit: BANKRUPT SALE And above Mr. Ginsberg's door was this equally prominent an nouncement: CLOSING OUT SALE Within an hour, smeared across tha entire trout id Mr. Pincus' store, exactly In between the other two. ef eo-dseby eg tool II feeee Ung aganel toe em- toey decline to >mo In other words. : toe peetoeo that the re to lions act was the tew at the land and the was the sole arte- at the court action I do not know anything about the merita at the workers' claim that the manufacturing company had mis treated workers, had fired men for union activities or had engaged in attempts to break up union organ ization. Those claims may be fully justified; indeed, the chances are that there was anti-union activity on the part of the corporation and that it should receive a legal kick in the panU for these things. But whatever that Situation is the fact remains that the national labor relations board consistently has horned into every controversy and, whether it means to be that way or not, iU actions have been favorable to the Lewis Committee for Indus trial Organization. Further, among the most extreme of the New Dealers themselves, one frequently hears the observation that the labor relations board has given no consideration at all to the rights of the employer. Of coirse, the board claims it is acting under strict construction of the law. Then it holds that con gress intended it to take the place of the courts in deciding as between labor groups. It is to be remem bered, however, that all members of the board are appointees of Presi dent Roosevelt and the presumption naturally follows that Mr. Roosevelt must approve of the board’s poli cies. It is too much to suppose that the board would act against the wishes of the man who named iU individual members. All of these facts make it appear that instead of having a labor poli cy. wo have on the statute books a law that has tod — straight into tho pahttral !y agr tnp hod a _ Ik— too Pro**— woo vteMtog ver •totoo fro— which too— wr hero at toe United States hod appoood too P—dent's ptoo to Inrvoooo too So——no court by appo—to— et too own chaootoR Among tho— senators ere— Wheeler at Montano. Rurha et Nebraska. Clark of Misoonn. and O' Mahoney Ml Wyoming They noted further that aa—a rep—sent*lives oho had keen outspoken la apposition to tho court toll ere— privileged to ha tha President visit ihotr home dis tricts. The— political students arrived at the cone too ion 1 ha— mentioned de spite thondec Lara lion of Postmaster General Farley who. as chairman of the Democratic National commit' said that there would be no re prisals against senators and repre sentatives who had opposed the court biU. Mr. Farley's promt— of no reprisals came, however, after the now famous radio speech by Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania. Mr. Guffey is chairman of the Dem ocratic senatorial committee which has the job of promoting election of Democratic candidates for the sen ate. When he said, therefore, that opponents of the court bill ought to be defeated and listed the names of a number of senators who should not be re-elected, it does seem that there may be a connection between the Guffey speech and Mr. Roose velt’s inspection trip. Some com mentators have been uncouth enough to assert that the inspection trip- by the President was for the purpose of determining whether it would be possible for the New Deal to obtain destruction of those Demo crats who had disagreed with the White House. Aside from the court bill, it seems entirely reasonable to suppose that Mr. Roosevelt desires to gain knowl edge of the country’s general tem per. He has refrained from an nouncing whether he will call a spe cial session of congress this fall to take up agricultural legislation, say ing only that he will decide later. Secretary Wallace is very anxious that this shall happen. Officials of his department have been traveling by plane, train and motor through the country during tho last two tha in an effort to build up son- wrote Willio after wards, "to about as big ns teocte oo ak fan— carrying a tos BlondrII is she has be— working too hard and refuses to start on the new picture scheduled for her. Kay Francis is trying to break her contract . . . —ys that she signed it only be cau— they promised to give her the leading role in ‘Tonight's Our Night." And after all. they gave the role to Claudette Colbert. —k— Bing Crosby’s absence from his radio program still leaves a big gap in Thursday night's entertainment, but at last there is a new picture of his to be seen and heard while we wait for his return to the air waves. "Double or Nothing" is pleasant and casual and ami able, just like all Crosby pictures. Three of the songs w are real hits—“It’s the Natural Thing to Do,” “It’s On—It’s Off," and "The Moon Got Into My Eyes." Martha Raye is there with her frenzied buf foonery, and Mary Carlisle makes the prettiest heroine he ever had. ODDS AND ENDS—Ever tinea Nal son Eddy joined Ida Lupino and Char lie McCarthy in that goofy spy travesty on the Sunday evening coffee hour, ra dio and picture fans have been beg ging him to play in a motion-picture comedy . . . 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