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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Supremo Court Bill Opposed Ly Senate Committee, 10 to o Mrs. Simpson Applies for Absolute Divorce Fish Would End Our Gold Policy. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. ANNOUNCEMENT of their posi-tiun posi-tiun on the President's Supreme Su-preme court bill by three more Democrntic members of the senate p-.-.w,, judiciary committee j ' boemint'ly made it i certain that body would report the measure adversely i y I to the senate. The j V' line-up at this writ-i writ-i ing is 10 to 8 against ':; tne biU- Tne three . : who openly joined k'". r ' the opposition were f 4 ; Senators J. C. O'- " Mahoney of Wyo- Senator ming, Pat McCarren O'Mahoncy ot Nevada and Carl Hatch of New Mexico. With them in opposition are King of Utah, Van Nuys of Indiana, Burke of Nebraska, Connally of Texas, Austin ol Vermont, Ver-mont, Borah of Idaho and Steiwer of Oregon. Those committed for the measure are Ashurst of Arizona, Neely of West Virginia, Logan of Kentucky, Dieterich of Illinois, Pitt-man Pitt-man of Nevada and Norris of Nebraska. Neb-raska. McGill of Kansas and Hughes of Delaware, still noncommittal, were counted as being on the administration ad-ministration side. Senator O'Mahoncy, one of the enthusiastic New Dealers ordinarily, said: "The hearings have been completed. com-pleted. I have listened attentively to , everything that has been said, and I ' have heard nothing to date which has convinced me that any increase of the court is either necessary or desirable." Senator Hatch declared: "I do not think congress has the power to place men on the Supreme court to affect decisions in any way whatsoever. what-soever. To do so would be an ex- ercise of judicial power by the legislative leg-islative branch of the government. If we place men on the court to change the trend of judicial opinions we thereby invade the province of the court and do that which many people have charged the court with doing." Senator McCarren addressed the judiciary committee, in executive session, for an hour and a half and later said to the reporters: "In my judgment, the Supreme court should not be a department of government subject to the will of either of the other two branches of government. While the Supreme court and every other court that interprets the law should at all times keep abreast of the law and therefore be progressive, progres-sive, it is not for any other branch of the government to say it should reform its views to carry out the will of another branch. For that reason I am opposed to and will continue con-tinue to oppose the President's bill." The committee agreed to begin voting on the bill and on proposed amendments on May 18. SENATORS, representatives, department de-partment heads, and almost everyone ev-eryone else in Washington officialdom official-dom were worrying themselves over expenditure reductions, taxes, rising prices and falling revenues, and Supreme Su-preme court reformation. But President Pres-ident Roosevelt was gaily sailing the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, angling for tarpon. He was on the Presidential yacht Potomac, which he boarded at New Orleans; his vessel was escorted by three destroyers, de-stroyers, the MofTett, the Schenk and the Decatur. At Galveston Secretary Sec-retary Marvin Mclntyre set up a temporary White House, and Mr. Roosevelt planned to land at that city when he got through fishing. SIX months having elapsed since Mrs. Wallis Simpson was granted grant-ed a provisional decree of divorce, and the lady having behaved during that period in a way ssrwv Nx approved by the i king's proctor, her f ,'s solicitors petitioned .. the court to make L the decree absolute. p,." f- It was expected this " would be done after f the six days' inter- js val required by legal procedure. j When Edward, i f duke of Windsor, and Mrs. Simpson Mrs- &"pson will be married is not yet known to the public and probably not yet determined by the principals in this most famous of modern romances. The duke was so angered by reflections reflec-tions on his fiancee and himself in "Coronation Commentary," a book written by Geoffrey Dennis, that it was reported he might set the wedding wed-ding date before coronation day; but later there were rumors that Mrs. Simpson, seeking to avert further criticism, had persuaded him to wait until after his brother had been crowned. Edward demanded demand-ed that the book be withdrawn and that the author and publisher apologize. apolo-gize. This demand was complied with, but nevertheless he had his solicitors in London start suit for damages on the ground of libel. FROM all quarters of the earth men and women of much, little or no importance were flocking to London for the coronation; the diplo mats were trying on their new knee breeches; the peeresses were buying wigs to make their coronets fit more comfortably; the officials, troops and horses were being rehearsed in their parts; the proprietors of parade seats were desperately trying try-ing to dispose of them at cut prices; and hotel managers and tradesmen of all sorts were preparing to make lots of money out of this thoroughly commercialized affair. It was said by steamship officials in New York that hundreds of Americans booked for the coronation had cancelled their passages, but despite this it was certain London would be thronged with visitors. WHILE Democratic leaders in congress were disputing over various proposals for achieving the economy demanded by the President, Presi-dent, the house without a quiver passed the second deficiency bill, carrying $79,200,000. The Democrats Demo-crats called it an economy measure because the appropriations were 19 millions less than the amounts asked by the department heads. But 15 of those 19 millions represented merely a reduction in the 30 million appropriation appro-priation asked by the bureau of internal in-ternal revenue for the refunding of processing taxes collected under the agricultural adjustment act. The saving, it was pointed out, was more a deferred "economy" in that the 15 millions will be included in the next budget. ''TPHIS is the outstanding finan- cial blunder of the New Deal" said Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, Republican, speaking F of the administra- 1 tion's policy of ac-V ac-V cumulating gold at $35 an ounce, or i i nearly twice the cost of production. M r . I m ' $ Fish thereupon in- st-S . I troduced a resolu- v N tion forbidding the hn v secretary of the j?' treasury to pur-Jfj pur-Jfj chase any more gold " from foreign coun- Kep. Fish tries at more than $25 an ounce. "The American taxpayers" declared de-clared Mr. Fish, "under the ruinous ruin-ous gold policy of the President and the secretary of the treasury, have become the 'angels' of Europe, and are now engaged in helping to finance fi-nance these countries in their mad armament race. All of the nations of the world including Soviet Russia, Rus-sia, have naturally unloaded their gold upon us at exorbitant profits, which, if we tried to sell back, we probably could not get 50 cents on the dollar. "This insane and costly gold policy is almost on a par with the high financing of John Law's Mississippi bubble. The American people have been turned into milch cows, to be milked by every foreign country." THE C. I. O. steel workers' organizing or-ganizing committee now claims a majority of the 540,000 wage earners earn-ers in that industry. Philip Murray, committee chairman, chair-man, told the convention of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers in Pittsburgh that in the 10 months of the organization or-ganization drive 325,000 members have been enrolled, equivalent to 60 per cent of the steel pay rolls. "We have driven the company union out of American industry," Murray said. "No company union can hope to live from here on. Ten months ago the steel workers' organizing or-ganizing committee started from scratch. We had no members. Today To-day we have built up 600 new lodges, enrolled 325,000 members, and signed wage contracts with 89 steel companies." Seventy-nine women and forty-one men, arrested during the eviction evic-tion of sitdown strikers from the Yale & Towne Manufacturing company plant in Detroit were held guilty of contempt of court by Circuit Cir-cuit Judge Arthur Webster. They were convicted for violation of an injunction which the judges had issued, is-sued, directing them to leave the plant. Judge Webster imposed maximum penalties of thirty days in jail and $250 fines on George Edwards, United Unit-ed Automobile Workers of America organizer, and Peter P. Sedler, who said he was an employee of the Kel-sey Kel-sey Hayes Wheel company. Ten day jail sentences were given three other persons. Sentencing of the others oth-ers was deferred to July 15. WILLIAM GILLETTE, the veteran vet-eran actor who became famous fa-mous in the role of Sherlock Holmes and is remembered also for his good work in "Secret Service" and other plays, died in Hartford. Conn., at the age of eighty-one. He had been ill since last autumn. John G. Pollard, chairman of the board of appeals of the Veterans' administration and former governor of Virginia, passed away in Washington Wash-ington of bronchial pneumonia. He was sixty-six years old. TWO thousand members of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, gathered in Washington for their 25'.h annual meeting, started a vigorous campaign for change in the industrial and economic structure of tiie nation. To begin with, they adopted resolutions calling for amendment of the Wagner labor relations act and the undistributed corporate surplus tax. The policies of the administration were hotly attacked by several speakers. Virgil Jordan of New York city, president of the national industrial in-dustrial conference board, said the government "has become an instrument instru-ment of forces alien to the enterprise enter-prise principle of American life and work who desire to destroy it and replace it by the principle of absolute ab-solute subjection to the state, which in nearly every other part of the world holds the impoverished and fear-ridden people in its paralyzing power." Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Ed-ward F. McGrady asked the business busi-ness men to give the Wagner act a chance to "work out." "Labor must move as a collectivism," collec-tivism," he said, "and must bargain through its own chosen representatives representa-tives just as the employer does. Unless labor, grouped collectively, can have its expert representatives wholly independent of employer influence, in-fluence, speak for it with a powerful power-ful voice, there is no real bargaining bargain-ing at all." SECURITIES controlling the $3,-000,000,000 $3,-000,000,000 railroad empire built up by the Van Sweringen brothers have been acquired from George A. Ball of Muncie, Ind., by Robert R. Young, Frank F. Kolbe and Allan P. Kirby, all of New York and comparatively com-paratively unknown in high finance. The securities are those of the Mid-america Mid-america corporation which Mr. Ball bought at auction two years ago for $3,121,000. The price paid by the New Yorkers was $6,375,000. The Muncie man, however, does not make a personal profit from the transaction for he had placed Mid-america Mid-america with its holdings in a charitable char-itable fund. Young said it was the plan of his group "to shrink the entire corporate corpor-ate structure" rather than expand it. He intimated that Midamerica corporation would be eliminated, and probably several other of the interlocking inter-locking holding companies by which the Van Sweringens built up their intricate financial structure. A NDREW MELLON, frequently the target of administration attacks, at-tacks, is again called on to defend his business. Attorney General Cum-pmfio'-irfMJ! mings announced I J that the Department , 1 of Justice had filed ' - in the Federal Dis-trict Dis-trict court in New I " v York a suit to com- I S d pe' dissolution of the rj Aluminum Company I 'a of America which I j Mellon controls for f f f i "le purpose of UN J breaking "its mo-kJ mo-kJ ..j&JUJi nopoiistic control" Andrew 0f the aiuminum in-Mellon in-Mellon dustry. By this action ac-tion the government . revives the Sherman anti-trust act as a legal weapon in regulating business. The suit named 36 officers, directors, direc-tors, and stockholders of the company, com-pany, including Mellon. Twenty-five subsidiary and affiliated companies were named co-defendants. Other members of the Mellon family named with the former Treasury head are Paul Mellon, Richard. K. Mellon, Jennie King Mellon, Sarah Mellon Scaife, David K. Bruce, son-in-law of Mellon, and Ailsa Mellon Bruce, his daughter. The suit charges that the company com-pany is a monopoly in violation of the anti-trust laws and that it has power to fix arbitrary and discriminative discrimi-native prices. It charges the defendants de-fendants with conspiracies to restrain re-strain and monopolize, attempts to monopolize, and monopoly in violation vio-lation of the Sherman anti-trust act. IN A letter addressed to H B. Mitchell, president of the civil service commission, President Roosevelt placed a ban on speculation specu-lation in securities by government officials and employees. There was no official explanation of this act, but for some time there have been rumors that some persons high up in the New Deal have been making a lot of money by speculating in the stock markets after getting tips on probable White House moves. SENATOR HARRY F. BYRD of Virginia, Democrat, prepared for introduction in the senate a bill providing for the consolidation of the Home Owners' Loan corporation corpora-tion and the Federal Housing administration. ad-ministration. This merger, said Mr. Byrd, would result in a saving of more than $24,000,000 a year without with-out impairing the work of the units. INTERVENTION by President 1 Roosevelt averted, for the time being at least, a strike of 25,000 freight handlers on eight railroads that threatened the food supply of New York city. The President appointed ap-pointed an emergency board of three members to attempt a settlement. settle-ment. In his proclamation he said the dispute threatened "substantially "substantial-ly to interrupt interstate commerce within the state of New York and other states in the eastern part of the country to a degree such as to deprive that section of the country of essential transportation service." A dispute between rival workers' unions balked efforts of the national mediation board to effect a settle-r.Tent. settle-r.Tent. Under the railway labor act. the President forced a postponement postpone-ment for at least 30 days while mediators work |
