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Show the Salina sun, sauna, utah Loyalists Widen Front Xeira Review of Current Event 8 Spanish loyalists' drive to back the rebel forces to a safe distance from Madrid continued, with the government forces the front by expanding Court Plan May Have Died With Him . . Japan, China widening both flanks several miles. The main was in a southerly Face Another Crisis . . Treasury Backs 'First Lady' line of advance direction, slow but steady. It had progressed as far as a point halfway between Brunete and Loyalist forces were at(Ss tempting to acquire control of the Quernales river banks, there to dig ft in and protect the right flank while the main drive continues south. Rebel military strategists were not particularly distressed over the government advance, for they believe that if they can draw the major part of the Madrid garrison out into the open country and destroy it the advance will benefit them more than it will the loyalists. Artillery of both sides worked overtime as the rebel reinforcements came in to make the struggle more equal. The government was reported to be using dozens of Russian tanks. They are heavier and clumsier than the rebel tanks, but they carry field Convention. National Democratic the Rallies Joe Robinson pieces of great accuracy and pok tency. Still, a new kind of gun developed by the rebels stopped a number of them. Government planes were reporteSUMMARIZES THE WORLDS WEEK ddoing serious damage to rebel Western Newspaper Union. forces on the Basque front to the (Wash.), Brown .(N. H.), Caraway north. In the oast Gen. Sebastian Falls Face to Battle Duffy (Wis.), Johnson Pozas,. commander of the governSen. Joseph T, Robinson (Ark.), ment forces in the Saxagqssq-Terue-l Lewis (111.), WHEN (Colo.), Murray dropped dead of . Overton sector, claimed that Albarracin not Pep(La.), .), a heart attack in his apartment (Mont Jr. (Ga.) and only has been completely surRussell, per (Fla.), across from the United States capiWagner (N. Y.). Lundeen (Mum.) rounded, but also government troops tal, ' the Presidents was the Farmer-Laboritnow are lighting in the streets of the plan for securing The substitute for the original town. . new appointments Ashurst bill provides for appointto the Supreme court , ment of one new justice each year Mr. Eden Has a Plan bench,- even in its to every justice remaining on the amended form, died court after reaching the age of DLANS to maintain Ihe vention patrol of Spain in a with him. ' seventy-fiv- e years. fashion that will satisfy all the naThat is the belief ' tions concerned and insure against of close observers in Conflict? New the spread of t h e For Washington. conflict beyond the . "Joe Robinson was WAR between China and Japan believed almost inevitable borders Lj, .,:j the Presidents towSpanish have blown about er of strength in the as hopes of settling a new outbreak VS? like papers in .a legislative branch of of hostilities by diplomatic means storm. And when faded out. The fightT the government. He ' you get right down ing ensued as Japhad served the Democratic party JnL. anese gendarmes att0 it, that is abqut well in the senate since 1913, and as all they have tempted to take over the majority leader in the tipper the policing of Yuamounted to. house since 1932. Now anping and Lukow-kiaJoe Robinsons job it was to keep Anthony two villages in Eden, Britains fora smooth balance. between the conthe Peiping area, eign secretary, has servative democrats, largely of the Anthony near Marco Polo come up with a new South, and the more radical memEden one, as deft and perbridge. This, the bers of the party from the North' Japanese said, was haps .as futile as any which have and West, so that the objectives provided for in the gone before it. It provides for of the New Deal could be turned North China truce. the full of land out of the legislative mill. According to the and sea control of movements of Robinson never fought harder of the men and arms into Spain. French assertions than he did in his last battle. As he worked hard and long in an Japanese war office, Chinese soldiers and British warships would patrol fired upon the gendarmes and opened the coastline with German and Italattempt to get the "compromise court plan passed, often raising his up with trench mortars against the ian observers aboard (the Fascist voice and exerting himpelf mightily Japanese contingent at the Yuanping nations, indignant over the Leipin senate arguments, it- was 'ap- station. This action allegedly comzig incident, have withdrawn from to the a make the patrol.) This . arrangement to pelled Japanese he his night that colleagues parent was not well. Sen. Royal S. Cope- assault, costing 20 lives, in order to would operate only until a perland, the only physician in the sen- occupy the towns of Lungwangmiao manent scheme could, be worked Tungshinghwan. It .was said out, placing observers for the nonate, had several times asked him to and calm himself lest he. hasten his the Chinese troops had also ad- intervention committee in all vanced into these points. seaports and airports from own death. counOfficials of the which men and supplies might leave While the senate was adjourned for Robinsons funeral, administra- cil claimed the Japanese moves for Spain, and in all Spanish ports tion leaders sought to rally support were in open violation of the truce. to see that none landed there. After so the court bill could be passed, They further accused the Japanese that, the sea patrol would be abol. even without the late senators lead- of conducting night army maneu-of ished. vers, using .real bullets instead forces But the opposition ership. blanks ordinarily employed in Silesia Still Puzzle were equally determined to take the As Emperor Hirohito Upper maneuvers. advantage of the psychological as- and Premier Fumimaro new accord-coulDEFORE-be Konoe conpect of the senate following RobinGenthe ferred and the with reached, leaders military sons death the desire to effect' a cabinet, the Japanese people franti- eva convention designed to reconpeace, finish the sessions business cally prepared for the war that cile the interests of both Poland in a hurry and get away from the loomed. and Germany in Upper Silesia, excapital. Silesia was once part Chinas gave government Nanking pired. The forces opposed to the bill orders to Gen. Sling Cheh - yuan, of both Upper and Austria, but Germany believed that when the issue came commander of the North China after the World war it was split be- would be successful forces, that his army was not to re- tween up again they and Poland. The Germany in recommitting the substitute bill treat for any reas.on, but was to be people of the two sections' have since, to the judiciary committee, an ef- prepared to make the "supreme that time freely with one fective way of killing it. The indica- sacrifice to hold its position until another, mingled on a live comcarrying tion of opposition greater thaq had Gen. Chiang k should arrive merce unhindered over the bounbeen expected in the house of rep- over the railroad dary lines set by the League of resentatives was another factor with 50,000 fresh troops. Nations. As the fighting continued .in the pointing to the eventual fall of the The diplomatic difficulties occurred bilk Peiping area, with no hope of an when no solution was forthcoming natwo' on in the Another battle was not long effective compromise for the problem of what to do with getting under way: to decide who tions demands, war seemed the the Poles who wanted to remain the new majority leader of the sen- probable result. in the German section and the Gerate should be.. Conservative Dem- -' Although an agreement. was re- mans who wanted to remain in the ocrats were anxious to wrest a ported to havd been made- between Polish section. measure of control from the White local Chinese and Japanese authori. ties at Tientsin, settling the dispute .House by backing Sen. Pat HarriMiles in One Hop! son of Mississippi, who has been to the satisfaction of both, the na- 6,625 the world still thrilling faithful to the President, but is tional government at Nanking has to the recent flight of three fundamentally conservative. The continued to insist thaf no agreement reached locally would be. Russian aviators from Moscow to more .radical senators backed W. Barkley of Kentucky, Demthe United States via the North Pole, observed. . ' . three more Russians did it again, ocratic national convention keynotp completing the longest er, who had been Robinsons as- Mrs. Roosevelt's Taxes in history. sistant as floor leader. Another prosflight Representative After flying 6,625 miles from the pect was Sen. James F. Byrnes of WHENFish (Rep., N. Y.) sought South Carolina, but it was believed to demonstrate the unfairness ot the Russian capital, Pilot Michael GroAndrei Yumoshev and his strength would eventually be tax invasion mov, investigation committransferred to Harrison. ' Danilin, made a Sergei Navigator tee, he demanded forced a cow pasture near in Another thing that had Washinglanding that the committee San ton guessing as a result of RobinJacinto, Cal. A leaking gasoline the i n investigate had exhausted their fuel supline sons death was the vacancy on the come of the wife of they battled heavy fogs which Supreme court left by the retirethe President from ply as over the west coast region. ment of Justice Willis Van hung radio broadcasts, Their time was estimated at flying Robinson, it was generally charging that she 62 hours and 17 minutes, believed, was to have received the was not paying a appointment. cent of income taxes ' upon those earnings. Obituary in Blue She had turned over EORGE GERSHWIN, composer in the Senate Struggle $39,000 to the Amerwho lifted jazz music up' to Democratic senators npWELVE Farmer-Laboritican Friends Service the level of the classics, died sude and one were committee, a Phila- denly in Hollywood after an operabelieved to hold the fate of the delphia $1 per broadcharity, tion for brain tumor. He was administrations substitute for the cast for herself kept and paid nothing ght. His Rhapsody in Blye bill which would increase whatever from her radio original was famous earnings among the worlds muthe number of Supreme court to the government. sic lovers, his opera; "Porgy and 15. to The administration justices Assistant Attorney General Rob- Bess one of the most individually was certain that the bill would re- ert H. Jackson replied for her, ex- American of all musical works. His ceive at least 33 votes, with 48 plaining to Chairman Doughton of "Suwanee sold more than 2,000,-00- 0 necessary to a majority since Sen- the congressional committee that copies, his musical comedy ator Robinsons death. Forty-thre- e the bureau of internal revenue had Of Thee I Sing, wa3 a senators were definitely committed advised Mrs. Roosevelt she need score, Pulitzer prize winner, and some of against it. Thirteen were still un- pay no tax on the receipts from his compositions, such as "Strike committed as the battle raged on the broadcast. He declared the rethe Band, "Soon, and "Somethe senate floor and in the cloak- sponsibility "is not that of Mrs. Up were sung and body Loves Me rooms. Roosevelt, but that of myself and danced to by millions. Many promThe twelve uncommitted Demoothers who were treasury officials inent critics called him the most crats were: Andrews (Fla.), Bone at the time. original force in American music. SEN. National Topics Interpreted I by William Bruckart Ntllcu! Prui Building Waahington, This article shall Washington. devoted not to politics nor to affairs of the gov-- F uture ernment of the na-Lepdert . 1 1 o ton exclusively but the future tha future leaders. It shall be, to that extent, a discussion of fundamentals about which I think there can be no controversy. First, let us take a quick survey. In the Capitol building of our own nation there is raging a bitter debate between two schools of political thought. The question is whether there 6hall be a law passed that will give to the President of the United States the powbr to appoint additional Justices to the bench of the Supreme court when and if present sitting members reach the age of and refuse to retire seventy-fiv- e from active work. In Spain, a' bitter political warfare moves on apace. It is over the question whether Communism of the Russian sort or Fascism of the Italian brand should be the dominant Influence in the government of that nation. In the Far East, along the Russian border, troops of the Japanese emperor and of the Russian dictator, Stalin, glared at each other. Their controversy also involves political bases. That controversy also Is complicated by economic condi- tions. It is a powder keg. Back in Europe, we And a dictator, Hitler by name, persecuting citizens of Germany almost without end. A political question there is Involved and it is complicated deepr and ly by religion apd to Ids. minions seek destroy, first, the Catholic church and, second, the Jews. f Somewhat set off by the great Alps, although woven intricately into the whole picture, is another distorted and disturbing condition. In Italy, Mussolini, having most of his people under his steel boot, is now preparing for new crusades. He has ordered all steel producing unit3 vin Italy to increase their production to the maximum 60 that war material will be available. Mussolini wants more territory; he wants to expand the influence of Fascism and he wants to build a gigantic world power in a military way with Rome as the center and with him as the head. b race.-Hitle- the keenest medical minds said he could not live and if he did live would be a hopeless invalid.' But Dr. West was mads out of the same mold from which came the founders of our nation and from whom, as founders, the traditions and the methods known now as the American way have grown. It was Dr. West who devoted, indeed, dedicated his life to the organization and development of the Boy Scouts of America. It is ndw an organization of more than two million boys and there are some six million who can becaljed alumni because they have grown too old to remain in the ranks of active Boy Scouts. I mentioned earlier that this was an army of peace, an army devoted to the maintenance of American traditions. No better proof of this need be given, if any were needed, than the notorious fact that repn resentatives from the three states Italy, Germany and Russia are missing from the encampment. In two of those states the Boy 'Scout movement has been superseded by a dictators decree which forces regimentation and militarizing of the youth. They are being trained for war. Happily most countries still pin their faith to the virtues summarized in the , Scout law the boys promise not to die, but to live, not to cringe but to blossom, by holding themselves ever trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friend- -' ly, courteous, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, clean, and last- but not least to maintain a reverence for total-iaria- . God. So, I think I can be pardoned for the feeling I have that' in this encampment lie the seeds of a con- tinued free America, waiting the time to take root and bloom into manhood. It is from these and from these alone that we can .hope to maintain in our beloved nation a political system which warrants neither Communism nor Fascism; which desires liberty and peace and which challenges the cockeyed theories that government must care for the people rather than the people care for their government. It seemed to me, therefore, to be something of a Eour note that the National Youth administration which set up a hideous looking, boxlike structure near the center of the capital city from which litera, ture could be distributed to the Boy of residents Through many years Scouts. This structure looked for Washington and visitors to the tal of the nation all the world like a soft drink stand have gloried in a at a cheap carnival and I, perBuilamg sonally, resented the action of Nafor Future greensward borders the Poto- tional Youth administration officials mac river within the District of Co- who ordered its construction. I felt lumbia. It is a Justly famous park, this way because the National Youth upon made more beautiful by such state- administration is predicated the very theory that I have just structures to as monument the ly condemned a theory that governGeorge Washington and the great citadel of beauty erected to the mem- ment must serve as a father for everybody and that it must lay ory of Abraham Lincoln. And, to add down rules to which all must subto this beauty is the vista across scribe. It is the nearest thing to the river where stands in grandeur the beautiful home that was the the regimentation that is going on. in residence of Robert E. Lee main- nations under dictators that exists in our government today. taining throughout the years the a has nation for a that respect great Cabled dispatches from Russia inmilitary leader. It reposes, or seems dicate again that the dictator, to repose, in peace and quiet as do I11! Is determined of men who rest in the thousands Heavy Hand the Soviet the hillsides of Arlington National of anyone and ev- of Stalin cemetery. eryone who may In this peaceful setting for ten be opposed to him. The official anx thoumore than twenty-sidays, Soviet, sand boys the leaders of the fu- nouncements of the government tell of the "liquidation ture were congregated in a Na- of numerous individuals who have tional Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America. Tents were everywhere. objected to Stalins tactics or who Uncounted boys in the khaki shorts, are seeking to revise the Soviet in Russia which is their uniform, flitted about system. "Liquidation the city or held various maneuvers means that those individuals were or staged dramas of the ages in a executed by a firing squad. A dead man can cause no harm to the as- -' great arena. Among them was a of a dictator. pirations sprinkling, and the number was not The Stalin administration armore than a sprinkling compared to for the of its ranges "liquidation of the scoutmasters and the boys, mature men who constitute the lead- opponents by coercion of confessions and this is followed ership of this great army of youth. what the Soviet calls a trialupin by& I hope I may be forgiven for intercourt of The courts of jusjecting here an expression of my tice are justice. owned and controlled by personal feelings. It has been my lot to work hard from the time I Stalin; they decide as they are told to decide and there is no such thing put off swaddling clothes. The work as an impartial court in Russia be- -, I have done and the experiences I have met had a tendency to make cause the government owns the me callous, somewhat cynical. But courts and names the judges who I must confess that on half a dozen are to do the governments bidding. Private advices from abroad seem occasions as I wandered, through this tented city, I gave thought to to show that there is a very serious my own boyhood and to two boys uprising underneath the surface in for whom I anq responsible, I felt Russia. Thousands of Russians have a swelling of pride, a satisfaction grown tired of having one man deof heart, that I live in a nation termine whether they shall live or which has given me the right to die and they yearn again for a system of courts which will deliberty and progress. Moreover, there came to me the termine their guilt or innocence in with honest evidence thoughts of the future of my own accordance and not in accordance two boys and the millions of others presented with the the way governing clique like them future of leaders a just nation that holds forth such possibil- wants Justice administered. As the Russian judiciary is conities as are best evidenced by the structed under the mailed fist of ' x of those twtnty-siencampment thousand then within the range Stalin, courts are a farce. Without such a court structure, however, of my vision. ' a dictator could not perpetuate his power. He must have control Then, no tribute to these future own of courts in order to carry out the leaders of our nation and to the under the guise of law all of the nation which . bred ., Tnoute them can or will whims and fancies and hatreds that be complete with- he possesses. A nation of free people fo West out mention of does not long remain free after its Dr. James E. West, Chief Scout courts become subjected to the diExecutive. Dr. West was an orphan rection and control of one man. boy. Worse, he was a cripple. And Judges who can administer justice to add to these handicaps, there without fear or favor are the first was a period in his early life when perquisite to liberty. Writers Unto. Nmptpii IS DEAD Naval-carner- . D. C. that 'JOE' ROBINSON THE o. anti-tan- JlcJcsJul lA -- e. - non-inter- Sino-Japane- -4 se v, , o, - non-Spani- sh Hopei-Chah- ar a Kai-she- Peiping-Hanko- w . - flITH Al-b- en SLabout: Third Term Ballyhoo. SANTA MONICA, CALIF. a president has been its eertain that som re-elect- inspired patriot who is snuggled close to the throne will bursjl from his cell with a terrible yell to proclaim that unless thq adored incumbent consent again to succeed himself thi j nation is doomed. Incidentally, the said patriot's present job and - perquisites also) would be doomed, so he be. couldnt blamed for privately brooding on the distressful thought. You wouldnt call him selfish, but you could call him hopeful, especially since theres a chance his ballyhoo may direct attention upon him as a suitable 'Candidate when his idol says no to the proposition. He might ride in on th backwash, which would be e v e D nicer than steering a tidal wave for somebody else. Political observers have a name for this. They call it "sending upj a balloon. Its an apt simile, a! balloon being a flimsy thing, full of hot air, and when it soars alofi nobody knows where it will coma down if at all. It lacks both steerJ ing gears and terminal facilities. There have been cases when the same comparison might have been applied not .alone to the balloon) but to the gentleman who launched it. So lets remain calm. Its tradi tional in our history that no presi dent ever had to go ballooning in on der to find out how the wind blew and that no volunteer third-terboomer ever succeeded in taking the trip himself. m Modern Prairie Schooners. certainly returning modern improvements to prairie schooner days when restless Americans are living on wheels and housekeeping on wheels and having babies on wheels. Only the other day twins were born aboard a trailer. And who knows? per-- 1 haps right now the stork, with 4 future president in her beak, is flapJ ping fast, trying to catch up with! somebodys perambulating bunga- -' WERE low. So its a fitting moment to revive the story of early Montana when! some settlers were discussing the! relative merits of various makes of arks which! those bore such hosts of emigrants westJ ward. They named over the Conestoga, the South Bend, the Murphy j the Studebaker and various others.1 From under her battered sunbon-n- et there spoke up a weather beaten old lady who, with her hustand and her growing brood, had spent th long years bumping along behind an ox team from one frontier camp to another. she said, shifting her "Boys, snuff-stic"I' always did claim the old hickory, waggin wuz the best one there is fur raisin' a family in. canvas-covere- d k, Pugs Versus Statesmen. confusing to read that poor decrepit Jim Braddock, having reached the advanced age of thirty four or thereabouts, is all washed up, and, 'then, in another column,! to discover that the leading candidates to supply young blood on the Supreme court bench are but bounding juveniles of around sixty-siThis creates doubt in the mind of a fellow who, 'let us say, is quite a few birthdays beyond that engendered wreck, Mr. Braddock, yet still has a considerable number of years to go before hell be an agile adolescent like some senators. He cant decide whether he ought to join the former at the old mens home or enlist with the latter in the Boy Scouts. x. . non-sto- Go-Pil- ot -- De-vant- Q thirty-ei- Quiescent Major Generals. COMETHING has gone out of life. For months now no general of the regular army, whether retired or detailed to a civilian job, has talked himself into a jam a raspberry jam, if you want to make a cheap pun of it. Maybe its being officially gagged for so long while on active service that makes such a conversational Tessie out of the average brigadier when he goes into private pursuits and lets his hair down. Its as though he took off his tact along with his epaulettes. And when he subsides theres always another to take his place. You see, under modem warfare the commanding officer is spared. He may lead the retreat, but never the charge. When the boys go over the top is he out in front waving a sword7 Not so youd notice it. By the new rules hes signing papers in a bombproof nine miles behind the lines and about the only peri he runs is from lack of exercise in the fresh air. May be, in view of what so often happens when peace ensues, w should save on privates instead ol generals. IRVIN S. COBB. -- WNU Service. . |