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& c. It COURT FIGHT ISN'T ENDED Uwywt i— Judfciwy S«l TV**t*n*d . . Sun*'**! S*y> P»opl« Lot* Control of Gorommont D Dace and Der Relchafaehrer Review Nasi Troops la Munlcli. Sf&ilmitocl W, T^icJcajul * ^ SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK ! • Wo«t*n> Nowapapor Unlo*. Bor for Free Courts C ONVINCED that the Independ ence of the federal judiciary is atm threatened, despite the defeat of the plan to enlarge the Supreme court, the American Bar association. In session in Kansas City, voted unanimously to authorize a commit tee to keep up the fight to preserve the freedom of the courts, as rec ommended by a special committee. That committee said: “There ap- to the Bonneville dam near Port land. and thence to Seattle. After a pleasant visit with his grandchildren, Mr. Roosevelt board ed the destroyer Phelps and went to Victoria, B. C, for a “good neighbor” call on Lieutenant Gor emor Hamber. His schedule thereafter included a night at Lake Crescent, Wash., drive around the Olympic peninsula ending at Tacoma, and then the eastward trip with stops at Grand —————— -—— r ■« easiwara trip wun stops ai urano pears to be no likelihood that efforts ^oulee and Fort Peck dams. Grand to re-make the courts of the United States will not be renewed. Your special committee is of the opinion that the association ought to main tain Itself in readiness to meet such issues as they may recur, rather than to rely upon Impromptu or ganization for the purpose ” The lawyers listened to many speeches, both attacking and de fending President Roosevelt's court program and his appointment of Hugo Black to the Supreme court. The climax to all this came when Hatton W. Sumners of Texas, chair man of the bouse judiciary com mittee, arose to talk. He had a prepared address, but shifted to an extemporaneous talk in which he declared the people have lost control of the government of the United States and it has passed into the hands of a million people in its ex ecutive department, in which only one man was elected, and which the people could not control “What are we going to do about h?" Sumners cried. “Are you will ing to join a battalion of death to save the Constitution and the gov ernment? “As we look to the future, we are rapidly approaching a crisis when it will be decided whether our eco nomic system and our government will stand or fall “I mean actually. A very serious situation is before the people. It means we have got to do some thing soon. We have got to balance the budget We have got to decen tralize government responsibility." Cummings Hasn't Quit Fight A ttorney general Cum mings in his press conference intimated strongly that the admin istration inteiyls to push for the court reforms the President has de manded. To support this position he produced the annual report of the Judicial conference composed of the chief justice and senior circuit Judges. It recommended appoint ment of 16 additional federal Judges. “In this report” said Mr. Cum- ings, “the judiciary has capitulat ed. They admit now there is con gestion and delay in the judicial sys tem. They ask for additional judges to provide relief. This is a com plete capitulation and a welcome CMahonty Butts In PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, on the * way to Seattle, first entered the “enemy’s” country when he crossed the border of Wyoming, the state of Senator Joseph O’ Mahoney. leader of the anti • Supreme court enlargement forces. Mr. Roose velt’s train reached Cheyenne in the ear ly morning, and there, among the welcomers, was Jo seph, though he had pointedly not been invited to board the train. He walked alongside the Presi dent’s ear and Mrs. Roosevelt emerged, shook his hand and asked after Mrs. O’Mahoney. The senator then entered the pri vate car and he and Mr. Roosevelt shook hands and said “Hello." but the atmosphere was decidedly chill- fmgi he took leave of the party at Casper, Wya, after accompanying fee President and his group oo a drive about feat city. Tim Chief Executive spent two fe Yellowstone National park, m la Boise, Idaho; Forks, N. D.. and St. Paul and few hours in Chicago to dedicate the new Boulevard bridge over the mouth of the Chicago river. Soviet Helping China? J APANESE officials in Shanghai asserted they had learned that Marshal Galents • Bluecher, com mander of the Russian Far East armies, was directing the Chinese campaign against Japan by tele phone from his Siberian headquar ters. According to Domel the Japanese news age^ry. munitions and other military supplies are being trans ported by trucks into China across the province of Smkiang from So viet Siberia. If these reports are true it may be Stalin has decided the time has come for Russia to take sides with China openly, and that would make things tough for the Japanese invaders. Russia Warns Japan T DKYO officially notified Moscow that the Chinese were plotting to attack the Russian embassy in Nanking with planes disguised as Japanese aircraft, for the purpose of involving the Soviet government in the Sino-Japanese conflict With the equivalent of “Oh. yeah?", Russia retorted with a stern warning that it would hold Japan responsible for any bombing of the embassy, inten tional or accidental The Soviet of ficials said they considered the re ported plot a "pure prevarication showing the Intention of some Jap anese military powers to bombard the Soviet embassy intentionally and then try to escape responsibility." With callous brutality Japan con tinued the air raids on Nanking. Canton and other large Chinese cities, the bombs slaughtering thou sands of helpless civilians. The ut ter contempt for protests of western nations shown by Japan seemed warranted by the failure to insist oo respect for the nine-power treaty guaranteeing the territorial integ rity of China. For this failure Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek blames especially the United States. “This war." said he, “will last as long as Japanese aggression lasts in China.” The League of Nations adopted a resolution severely condemning Japan for the aerial bombardment of defenseless Chinese cities, and Tokyo, indignant, charged the league of acting without verifying the facts. To the protests of five great powers, previously filed, the Japanese government replied with the assertion that the bombing of Nanking was "necessary for our purpose.” The British public is becoming in creasingly aroused against Japan and there is a general demand for a boycott of Japanese goods. The government has permitted an air craft company to take a big order for fighting planes that will soon be shipped to China, and they may be manned by independent British pilots. —V— Yarnell's Policy Win* ADMIRAL HARRY YARNELL ^was decidedly opposed to the policy of Washington to withdraw American warships from Chinese waters in the face of danger. His protests have been considered by the general board of the Navy de partment and his program ap proved. Consequently our naval vessels will remain there to protect our nationals “as long as the pres ent controversy between China and Japan exists." . be has got rti of sAfed The*# organisers have let out: Victor Reuther, one of the leaders la the General Mo tors strike at Flint. Mich., last win ter; Robert Kan ter. Stanley Novak. Melvin Bishop and William Tonn of Detroit; R. D. Richter of Saginaw; Charles Rigby, Ohio; Frank McMil lan, Kansas City; .Eugene Stauder, Frank Barter and Frank Schutz, Indiana. Martin also announced he had promoted Loren Houser to be or ganizational director for Detroit El mer Dowell was made director of all General Motors locals in the na tion. R. J. Thomas, international vice president has been appointed director of all Chrysler locals, and Richard T. Frankensteen, director of the organization program among Ford Motor comphny employees. Lester Washburn of Lansing, Mich., leader of fee “labor holiday" last spring, was made director of the U. A. W. for western Michigan, and Charles Madden, Pontiac, di rector of eastern Michigan outside of Detroit _-k_ Italy Win, "Parity" G reat Britain »nd Franc, yielded to the demands of Mus solini and granted “parity" to Italy in the anti-piracy patrol of the Med iterranean. That sea was divided into three zones. The Italian zone includes the extensive Italian coast line, the Tyrrhenian sea around Sardinia an<l in the east the coast of the Libyan colony. The Aegean sea is assigned to Britain; and France will guard the Syrian coast and the sea lane between Marseilles and Algiers. All three zones extend east to the Suez canal since all three powers are interested in keeping open feat gateway to the East War Dance for Duce B enito mussolini/ visiting Adolf Hitler for the purpose of composing and presenting to the world a statement of the intentions and demands of the Italian and German governments, was received by the Nazis with great en thusiasm. II Duce. on the way to Ber lin. stood on a hill in Mecklenburg with Hitler and witnessed a big war dance staged by the reichsfuehrer that displayed the re gained military might of Germany most impressive ly. Hitler's best officers and troops, aimed with the latest weapons of death, put on a sham battle partici pated in by all land and air forces. In the nearby Baltic the German warships showed bow they chase *Red” submarines; and at Wustrow the anti-aircraft batteries gave a demonstration of their effectiveness. The huge munitions plants in the Ruhr district were visited and the throngs of workers, given a holiday with pay, cheered the two dicta tors heartily. Every city and vil lage was decorated. In Berlin there tremendous demonstrations and elaborate festivities in honor of the visitor from Rome. In the midst of the display of war strength and preparedness. Hit ler and Mussolini made speeches declaring their devotion to the cause of peace. At the same time they insisted the world must grant to Germany and Italy the recognition and the rights they feel are their due. After a grand review of the Nazi army, the two dictators conferred privately. Details of the conversa tion were kept secret, but officials said n Duce and Der Fuehrer not only discussed German-Italian co operation but also talked about an understanding in southeastern Eu rope—the inclusion of Austria. Hun gary, Jugo-Slavia, Bulgaria, and possibly Rumania in a general Eu ropean realignment. S'oted Merchant Diet E DWARD a. FILENE. best known of all Boston's merchants, died of pneumonia in the American hos pital in Paris. He was seventy-seven years old. Besides being a business man. Mr. Filene was a noted social economist He was sometimes called the apostle of mass produc tion and distribution. Only ten days after he took charge of the American legation in Vienna. Grenville T. Emmet died of double pneumonia. He was sixty years old and was a former law partner of President Roosevelt He was minister to the Netherlands in 1933 and was given the Austrian post last July. More Woe in Palestine G reat Britain’s contested plan to divide Palestine be tween fee Jews and the Araba, wife a slice for herself, came to fee front again when Lewis Andrews, British commissioner of Galilee, was assas sinated by a group of terrorists in Nazareth. Three men, two in Eu ropean garb and one in peasant clothing, ambushed Andrews and shot him and his bodyguard to death. Andrews had gained the enmity of extremists because of the strictness of his rule as district commissioner. ~~~i ^7 about: S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— I took part in ft parada celebrating old daya la Cali fornia, riding in an andent open carriage with our post master here—he calls Jim Farley *'Jim”—and our con gressman, who like practical ly all Democrats in good standing in the southern part of the state, craves to be the next nominee for governor. If any more aspirants bob up, there won’t be anybody left to vote for them. This cer tainly has been a banner year for or anges and candi dates. Our outfit got ,a lot of cheers from the crowds and a per fect ovation when passing a given point where the Elks also were giv ing away beer. All three of us felt pret- Irvin g. Cobb ty proud of our selves until we realized that prob ably the applause wasn’t meant for us. There must have been thou sands in that crowd who’d never be fore seen a horse-drawn pleasure vehicle. If Lady Godiva, dressed only in her long hair, rode on a white horse through any modern city street, there’d probably be ten who’d hur rah for the horse against one who looked a second time at the lady. Sight of a white horse would be a treat to one and all, whereas in these days of nudism and public un dressing on the beaches—but that will be about all for that laternattonal M W ITH the great powers tottering on the brink of hostilities to a more tottery extent than usual; with the Spaniards still willing to fight to the last Italian from Brother Musso lini’s loan collecUon: with China battered to a bloody hash-meat In what would closely resemble a war If only Japan had so declared It, which must indeed be gratifying to the ghosts of the thousands al ready slain and the homeless ref ugees from ruined cities—this seems a mighty good time for us to keep our shirt on. Kindly recall that other historic occasion when Uncle Sam felt called upon to hop Into a mess cooked up by foreign nations and. as a result, not only lost his shirt but has never since been able to collect the laun dry bills for washing the said shirt This, If you get the drift is a subtle reference to those defaulted Euro pean debts. Let us. therefore, highly resolve that no matter how great the pres sure from within or without—mainly lt’0 be. as was the case before from without—we ll keep the old shirt on. # • # Claaatfytag Berea. I 'VE been classifying bores. Class B bores are those still using the lapel clutch or buttonhole grapple, whereas a class A bore Is one whose boast Is that he never lays a finger oo you—just holds the victim by psychic power. Lately I’ve met what I should call a super A type, the same being a gentleman who, in addition to hav ing perfect technique otherwise, had been imbibing garlic to excess—and didn’t care who knew It When fi nally rescued, they had to use a pulmotor on me. Meeting this champion teminded me of what I heard the late Wilson Minzer say to a gentleman who in sisted on boring Wilson while suf fused with the afterglow brought on by combining bourbon whisky and Bermuda onions in his diet. His hiccoughs were not only frequent but had echoes to them. Finally, when Wilson was practi cally ready for artificial respiration to be applied, he said: “Dear sir, your breath would start the windmills turning in an old Dutch painting." • • * Typical Texans. I USED to think a typical Texan was one who said he was going to send you a ten-gallon hat and then didn't do it But he is a sub species. A really orthodox Texan tells you he’s giving you a pair of genuine Texas steer horns. They’ll be along as soon as he can have them shipped. But he never ships ’em— feat’s what makes him typical So many typical Texans have vol unteered to send me sets of long horns that if all these parties were laid end to end, you’d have one of the finest consecutive strings of born liars ever seen. But they wouldn’t stay that way; they’d rise right up and start looking for Easterners' to promise long helms to. Not that I’m craving any long horns. They stretch so far from tip to tip they make you think of a muskellunge fisherman trying to show you how much that biggest one measured. If you hang them low, they prong people in the eya. It you hang them high, they’re chiefly useful for cobwebs to drape on. And no self-respecting wife will let you hang them anywhere. IRVIN «. COBB •-wirv Washington Digest j By WILLIAM BRUCKART /fflnh- '''Tyj. ill 71MII Washington.—Some weeks ago when the Treasury was parading a lot of names of r inatng well known indi- the Goat viduals before a joint congression al tax comtnittee. I discussed the purposes of the investiga tion and reached the conclusion that the whole affair was staged. If I remember correctly, I called it a vaudeville stunt, designed by the Freasury to save its face for having made bad guesses as to tax collec- Jons. The tax collections, as ev- :ryone knows, were much below lew Deal estimates and somebody lad to be the goat So, it was nat- oral to make rich men the goat by :alling them tax evaders. At the same time. I reported to you the fact that there was a differ- mce of opinion among Treasury subordinates. Some of them wanted to make a great show of names of individuals who had resorted to practices not prohibited by law in order to reduce their taxes. I did not know at that time how serious the disagreement was with in the Treasury. It has only lately come out into the open. As a result, two important Treasury officials have quit their jobs and have gone back to private life. I refer to Mor rison Shafroth and Russell L Ryan, chief counsel and assistant chief counsel respectively, of the bureau of internal revenue. These two men know more about tax evaders and tax avoiders than anybody else in the Treasury but they had one grievous fault They wanted to be booest about the whole situation. That was a fault because being hon est did not make possible a flam boyant display of hatred tor taxpay ers who had employed legitimate means to pay as little tax as the law permitted. As far ss 1 can ascertain. Messrs Shafroth and Ryan wanted to co operate fully with the highempe in the Treasury in so far as a tax lo ves Uga lion by a joint congressional committee would point the way for improvement of the law. TTiey knew, as many others know, that the internal revenue laws have boles in them. The smart lawyers and smart taxpayers naturally have taken advantage of these holes in the law because they are human despite the fact they are rich. So. the chief counsel and bis assistant proposed to Secretary Murgenthau and Treasury General Counsel Her man Otiphant that the investigation be made along lines of a scientific character, that close study be given to some of the methods that had been employed to avoid taxes, la other words. Shafroth and Ryan were anxious to develop legislation on the basis of the experiences which they had had and loopholes they bad found to be in common use. But their fault was honesty, as government officials would not be denied the vaudeville perform ance and the columns upon columns of publicity which Mr. Morgenthau and Mr. Oliphanl not to mention President Roosevelt desired to see. a # e I stayed through all of the bear ings before the joint congressional committee. They Stooping ran for fourteen Low days. Each day the Treasury trot ted out another official as the wit ness before the committee and he was armed with a prepared state ment which he read for some two hours to a committee that sat back in easy chairs and smoked cigars in comfort—while newspaper men avidly wrote stories about rich men. some good and some bad. who had committed the heinous sin of paying as little tax as the law permitted. The resignations of Shaf*oth and Ryan rather convince me that the Treasury stooped to about the low est level it has reached in recent years. Of course, it was not the first time in our history that income tax has been used for political in timidation. Reprisal is a strong word to use about government of ficials but I cannot escape the feel ing that the Treasury used that in vestigation as a method of reprisal against many men who had opposed the New Deal < 1 reach that conclusion on the basis of a review of the names which Messrs. Shafroth and Ryan refused to parade before the com mittee but which the Treasury itself used as the principal actors. Not more than three of the eighty-odd names presented to the committee had contributed to the Democratic national campaign fund a year ago. The tactics were not far from those employed by the late Huey Long in enforcing his will upon the people of Louisiana. I can add to this a statement of the fact that Under-Secretary MagiU, who had charge of present ing the so-called evidence before the committee at the capitol believed the Treasury was not following an entirely wise course in the methods it employed. But Mr. Magill went along wife the scheme and there ware many ct the correspondents covering that hearing who felt he tried to do the Job fairly. So now Morrison Shafroth and Russell Ryan are back in private life and in their places are men picked by Mr. Oliphanl men who are likely to obey orders regardless of the whims of Mr. Oliphant and Secretary Morgenthau. ft ft ft Another instance of official ac tion that seems to indicate a bad trend in govern- Indtcatea ment lately has Bad Trend occurred. This in cident was propa gated by the federal power commis sion, one of the numerous federal agencies that is supposed to be largely judicial th character but whicfci is equipped at the same time with administrative powers. The facts are these: There was a group of men who served as directors of the Associat ed Gas and Electric company These same individuals were direc tors for numerous corporations that are subsidiaries of that same com pany. The federal power act provides that the commission may require directors of one power company to divest themselves of connection with any other power companies— one of the strongest features at the law. The commission Is empowered to make Its own investigation of igse interlocked directorates and en on its own motion may require such directors to appear and give the commission satisfactory reasons why they are holding places on the boards of more than one corpora tion. This also is a sound provision at law and undoubtedly works to the benefit of all consumers of light and power. Before I proceed further, let it be definitely understood that I have not a great deal at respect for the Associated Gas and Electric com pany. Its record doe* not warrant my respect as an obseper Un doubtedly. however. Its manage ment compile* with the terms of its corporate charter but as a great public utility it has obligations to the public beyond the terms of Its charter and It Is my opinioo that the moral obligations are such that this age demands full observation of Tea Towels Done In Cross Stitch l This brings us to the crux of th* power commission action. Lata In September Vice Chairman Seavey of the commission had ordered th* group of directors referred to above to show cause why they should not be compelled to relinquish vartowr positions oo other boards of direr tors. A bearing data was set A few days before the hearing date, the directors la question resigned the positions to which the commit sion objected and then their a tier ney issued a statement which said, i in effect, that they had resigned because they were convicted m th* minds of the commissioo before the commissioners had heard the case He used rather strong language, perhaps too strong in expressing his views. Upon publication of the attorney’s 1 statement Vice Chairman Seavey . promptly ordered him to appear be- | fore the commission to give hn reasons for the statement and to defend himself against disbarment from practice as a lawyer before th* commission. Now. lest I be midunderstood. I do not know the attorney. Mr. Pax son; I know nothing about th* mer its of the case in question. But It is significant that an agency of Uu government suddenly decides that it can prevent a man from earning his living because he criticized mem bers of that agency. • • ft Occasionally, situations develop in national politics that provide a real laugh. One of Just a them is not at Big LaugJi hand. It results from the nasty controversy that swirls around the head at Hugo Black of Alabama, newly appointed associate justice at the Supreme court, who is charged with being a member of the Ku KIux Klan. Terrible as is the charge and worse if it eventuates that Mr. Jus tice Black still is subject to the oath of the invisible empire, there is hu mor In the way a lot of senators and other government officials are running to cover. It has been al most a scramble among Democrat ic senators to let the public know by issuing statements that they would not have voted for Senator Black’s confirmation as a member of the court if they had known he was a klansman. It makes one laugh again when one recalls how carefully the majority of the Demo crats in the senate refused to hear evidence or hold any sort of a hear ing concerning Mr. Black's qualifl." cations. They did this by voting down a motion for hearings. 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A True Sentiment That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, be cause we have laid up In our minds the knowledge of other lands and other institutions, and other races, and have enkindled afresh within us fee instinct at a common humanity, and of fee uni versal beneficence of fe* Creator. —Dean Stanley, CamtipdUef? NO c*TS COSJS LESS! INSIST ON GENUINE Do fee best, th* but be R all on fee courage and CARDUI Others la tbis modern Mae wonderfully worth while cam be l for practically every mommm s soffera from fmrtloonl polos aroet roar ion. Orta I a emmm relieved by taking CarduL aay need a physician's treat Cardui baa two widely St rated oae«: (() To mediate pain and fee monthly period; and (2) to aid In building op fee whole system by helping women to get morestreng-.*) from their food. ROLLS DEVELOPED Aar MM ran t«4at lie SaailanS. at*M savar laSa Valaa Fn.l, Mr aal, ^ 4 vaiwaaia •asia>waa "TC V ■all Y—r F Hot la / *1 Jock Rabbit Co. 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