OCR Text |
Show f r AMfctClN FORK CITOEH b thinks .about: Third Term Ballyhoo. SANTA MONICA, CALIF. After a president has been re-elected it's certain that some inspired patriot who is snuggled close to the throne will burst from his cell with a terrible yell to proclaim pro-claim that unless the adored incumbent consents again to succeed himself this nation is doomed. Incidentally the said patriot' present Job and perquisites alio would be doomed, so h couldn't be blamed for privately brooding on the distressful dis-tressful thought You wouldn't call him elfish, hut you could call him hope fuL especially since there's a chance his tallyhoo may direct attention upon him as a suitable candi what date when his idol Irru B. Cobb says no to the proposition, prop-osition, lie might ride In on the backwash, which would be eve a nicer than steering a tidal wave for somebody else. Political observers have a name for this. They call It "sending up a balloon." It's an apt simile, a balloon being a flimsy thing, full of hot air, and when It soars aloft nobody knows where It will coma down if at alL It lacks both steering steer-ing gears and terminal facilities. There have been cases when the same comparison might have been applied not alone to the balloon v i fcyi f&ffet .ffnjfemao who Munched it - - ... So let's remaln..cfcn., Js traditional tradi-tional In our history that no prtfU 'delit'lrvef'tfattf'iSiBjiofairte'C der to find out how the wind blew and that no volunteer third-term 'boomer ever succeeded In taking the trip himself. ' Modern Prairie Schooners. WE'RE certainly returning with modern improvements to prairie schooner days when rest less Americana 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-ihaps per-ihaps right now the stork, with a future president In her besk, is flapping flap-ping fast trying to catch up with somebody's perambulating bungalow. bunga-low. So if s a fitting moment to revive the story of early Montana when some settlers were discussing the relative merits of various makes of those canvas-covered arks which bore such hosts of emigrants west-1 west-1 ward. They named over the Cones-toga, Cones-toga, the South Bend, the Murphy, the Studebaker and various others. From under her battered sunbon-net sunbon-net there spoke up a weather beaten old lady who, with her husband and her growing brood, had spent the long years bumping along behind an ox team from one frontier camp to another. "Boys. she said, shifting her snuff-stick, "I always did claim the old hickory waggln wux the best one there is fur raisin' a family In." Pugs Versus Statesmen. IT'S confusing to read that poor A decrepit Jim Braddock, having reached the advanced age of thirty-four thirty-four or thereabouts. Is all washed up, and, then, m another column, to discover that leading candidates to supply young blood on the Supreme Su-preme court bench are but bounding bound-ing Juveniles of around sixty-six. This creates doubt In the mind of a fellow who, let us say, is quite a few birthdays beyond that engendered en-gendered wreck, Mr. Braddock, yet still has a considerable number of years to go before he'll be an agile adolescent like some senators. He can't decide whether he ought to Join the former at the old men's home or enlist with the latter in the Boy Scouts. Quiescent Major Generals. SOMETHING has gone out of life. For months now no general of v ine regular army, whether retired K detailed to civilian Job, has tt$ted himself Into a Jam a rasp-. rasp-. berrv Jam, If you want to make a chesfeipun of it May be if I being officially gagged for so Joni while on active service-that service-that makel such a conversational Tessle out of the average brigadier when he goes into private pursuits and lets bis hair down. It's as though he took off bis tact along with bit epaulettes. And when he subsides there's, always another to ' take hla place. "' You see, under modern warfare the commanding officer is spared, He may lead the retreat but never the charge. When the boys go over the top la he out in front waving a 1 word? Not so you'd notice it By the new rules be'a signing papers in a bombproof nine miles behind the lines and about the only peril he runs Is from lack of exercise in the fresh air. Maybe, in view of what so often happens when peace ensues, w e . should save on privates instead of , generals. - IKVUf S. COBB. . ".; ; O-WNU Service, News Review of Current Events SEN. 'JOE' ROBINSON DEAD Court Plan May Have Died With Him . . Japan, China Face Another Crisis . Treasury Backs 'First Lady' 7. A fit Joe Robinson Rallies the Democratic National Convention. 1 i Falls 'Face to Battle)' WHEN Sen. Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas dropped dead of heart attack In his apartment across from the United States capi tal, the President's plan for securing new appointments to the Supreme court rfrY'p-Vlj bench, even m its ri amended form, died r'-r - i That is the belief I of close observers in v J , Washington. For fv f , i "Joe" Robinson was rC ' . v - i-. ih PoeLdant' tow-- Senator Harrison er oi sirengia in m legislative branch of the government He had served" the Democratic' "party well in the senate since 1913, and as the majority leader in the upper house since 1931 Joe Robinson's Job It was to keep smooth balance between the con servative democrats, largely of the South, and the more radical mem bers of the party from the, North and West so that the objectives of the New f Deal could be turned out of the legislative mill. Robinson never fought harder than he did in his last battle. As he worked hard and long in an attempt to get the "compromise" court plan passed, often raising his voice and exerting himself mightily in senate arguments, it was apparent ap-parent to his colleagues that he was not welL Sen. Royal S. Cope- land, the only physician In the sen ate, had several times asked him to calm himself lest he hasten his own death. While the senate was adjourned for Robinson's funeral, administration administra-tion leaders sought to rally support so the court bill could be passed, even without the late senator's lead ership. But the opposition forces were equally determined to take advantage of the psychological aspect as-pect of the senate following Robin son's death the desire to effect a peace, finish the session's business in a hurry and get away from the capital The forces opposed to the bill believed that when the issue came up again they would be successful in recommitting the substitute bill to the Judiciary committee, an effective ef-fective way of killing it The Indication Indica-tion of opposition greater than had been expected In the house of rep resentatives was another factor pointing to the eventual fall of the bill. Another battle was not long In getting under way: to decide who the new majority leader of the senate sen-ate should be. Conservative Democrats Dem-ocrats were anxious to wrest a measure of control from the White House by backing Sea Pat Harrison Harri-son of Mississippi, who has been faithful to the President but is fundamentally conservative. The more radical senators backed Al-ben Al-ben W. Berkley of Kentucky, Democratic Dem-ocratic national convention keynoter, keynot-er, who had been Robinson's assistant as-sistant as floor leader. Another prospect pros-pect was Sen. James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, but It was believed his strength would eventually be transferred to Harrison. Another thing that had Washington Washing-ton guessing as a result of Robinson's Robin-son's death was the vacancy on the Supreme court left by the retirement retire-ment of Justice Willis Van De-van De-van ter. Robinson, it was generally believed, was to have received the appointment Struggle in the Senate TWELVE Democratic senators and one Farmer-Laborlte were believed to hold the fate of the administration's substitute for the original bill which would Increase the. number of Supreme court Justices to 13. The administration was certain that the bill would receive re-ceive 'at least 38 votes, with 48 necessary to a majority since Senator Sen-ator Robinson's death. Forty-three senators were definitely committed against it Thirteen were still uncommitted un-committed as the battle raged on the senate floor and In the cloakrooms. cloak-rooms. The ..twelve uncommitted Democrats Demo-crats were: Andrews (Fla.), Bone PI ''in: U.PuJcaxd SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK a Wutra Newspaper Uoioa. (Wash.), Brown (N. H.), Caraway (Ark.), Duffy (Wis.), Johnson (Colo.), Lewis OIL), Murray (Mont.), Overton (La.), Pep per (Fla.), Russell, Jr. (Ga.) and Wagner (N. Y.). Lundeen (Minn.) was the Farmer-Laborlte. The substitute for the original Ashurst bill provides for appoint raent of one new justice each year to every Justice remaining on the court after reaching the age of seventy-five years. New Sino-Japanese Conflict? I7AR between China and Japan JXXjm fceVf vei ajmosi Inevitable s Jbop,of settling a. new outbreak of hostilities by diplomatic means m- faded but The fight 4 Inf ensued -as-. Jap-, 1 tempted to take over the policing of Yu-anplng Yu-anplng and Lukow-klao, Lukow-klao, two villages in the Peiplng area, near Marco Polo bridge. This, the Japanese said, was provided for in the North China truce. According to the assertions of the r sw..l6xJ Emperor Hlrohlto Japanese war office, Chinese soldiers fired upon the gendarmes and opened up with trench mortars against the Japanese contingent at the Yuanping station. This action allegedly compelled com-pelled the Japanese to make a night assault costing 20 lives, in order to occupy the towns of Lungwangmlao and Tungshlnghwan. It was said the Chinese troops hud also advanced ad-vanced into these points. Officials of the Hopel-Chahar council coun-cil claimed the Japanese moves were in open violation of the truce. They further accused the Japanese of. conducting night army maneuvers, maneu-vers, using real bullets instead of the blanks ordinarily employed in maneuvers. As Emperor Hirohito and Premier Fumlmaro Konoe conferred con-ferred with military leaders and the cabinet the Japanese people frantically franti-cally prepared for the war that loomed. China's Nanking government gave orders to Gen. Sung Chen yuan, commander of the North China forces, that his army was not to retreat re-treat for any reason, but was to be prepared to make the "supreme sacrifice" to hold its position until Gen. Chiang Kai-shek should arrive over the Peiping-Hankow railroad with 50,000 fresh troops. As the fighting continued In the Peiping area, with no hope of an effective compromise on the two nations' na-tions' demands, war seemed the probable result Although an agreement was reported re-ported to have been made between local ChrnesnTJapanese authorl-ties authorl-ties at Tientsin, settling the dispute to the satisfaction of both, the national na-tional government at Nanking has continued to insist that no agreement, agree-ment, reached locally would be observed. Mrs. Roosevelt's Taxes WHEN "Representative Hamilton Hamil-ton Fish (Rep., N. Y.) sought to demonstrate the unfairness of the tax invasion investigation commit tee, he demanded that the committee investigate the 1 n come of the wife of the President from radio broadcasts, charging that she was not paying a cent of income taxes upon those earnings. She had turned over $39,000 to the American Amer-ican Frlonria Srvli Rep. Fish committce, a Philadelphia Phila-delphia charity, kept $1 per broadcast broad-cast for herself and paid nothing whatever from her radio earnings to the government Assistant Attorney General Robert Rob-ert H. Jackson replied for her, explaining ex-plaining to Chairman Doughton of the congressional committee that the bureau of internal revenue had advised Mrs. Roosevelt she need pay no tax on the receipts from the broadcast. He -declared the responsibility re-sponsibility "is not that of Mrs. Roosevelt, but that of myself and others who were treasury officials at the time." , ( . ' Ah , UiumwM-mm aWsssmsssi Loyalists Widen Front THE Spanish loyalists' drive to push back the rebel forces to a safe distance from Madrid continued, con-tinued, with the government forces widening the front by expanding both flanks several miles. The main Una of advance was to a southerly direction, slow but. steady. It had progressed as far as a point halfway half-way between Brunete and Naval-carnero. Naval-carnero. Loyalist forces were attempting at-tempting to acquire control of the Quernales river banks, there to dig 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 be-lieve that if they ean draw the major part of the Madrid garrison out Into the open country and destroy de-stroy it the advance will benefit them more than it will the loyalists. Artillery of both sides worked overtime over-time 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 pieces of great accuracy and potency. po-tency. Still, a new kind of anti-tank gun developed by the rebels stopped a number of them. Government planes were reported report-ed doing serious damage to rebel forces on the Basque front to the north. In the east Gen. Sebastian Fozas, commander of the government govern-ment forces in the Saragossa-Teruel sector, claimed that Albarracin "not only haa been completely surrounded, sur-rounded, but also government troops now are fighting In the streets of the town." Mr. Eden Has a Plan pLANS to maintain the non-Inter- vention patrol of Spain in a fashion that will satisfy all the nations na-tions concerned and Insure against the spread of the conflict beyond the SR. JAbJfePrterj(,: 3 haveblown about L.I 1 ltlr tASaAei In a auw f u (V Am S storm. And whan ysa-sti-sight'4ewa to it that Is about all they have amounted to. Now Anthony Eden, Britain's for- ftlffn iM(n haa Ajon' come up with a new one, as deft and per- haps as futile as any which have gone before it It provides for the full re-establishment of land and sea control of movements of men and arms into Spain. French and British warships would patrol the coastline with German and Italian Ital-ian observers aboard (the Fascist nations, indignant over the Leip zig incident have withdrawn from the patrol). This arrangement would operate only until a permanent per-manent scheme could be worked out planing observers for the non intervention committee in all non- Spanish seaports and airports from which men and supplies might leave for Spain, and in all Spanish ports to see that none landed there. After that, the sea patrol would be abolished. abol-ished. Upper Silesia Still Puzzle BEFORE a new accord Could be reached, the 15-year-old Gen eva convention designed to recon cile the interests of both Poland and Germany in Upper Silesia, expired. ex-pired. Upper Silesia was once part of both Germany and Austria, but after the World war it was split between be-tween Germany and Poland. The people of the two sections have since that time mingled freely with one another, carrying on a live com merce unhindered over the boundary boun-dary lines set by the League of Nations. The diplomatic difficulties-occurred when no solution was forthcoming for the problem of what to do with the Poles who Wanted to remain in the German section and the Germans Ger-mans who wanted to remain in the Polish section. 6,625 Miles in One Hopl WITH the world still thrilling to the recent flight of thre Russian aviators from Moscow to the United States via the North Pole, three more Russians did it again, completing the longest non-stop flightin history. After flying 8,623 miles from the Russian capital, Pilot Michael Gfo- jnov, Co-Pilot Andrei Yumoshev and Navigator Sergei Danilin, made a forced landing in a cow pasture near San Jacinto, Cat A leaking gasoline line bad exhausted their fuel supply sup-ply as they battled heavy fogs which hung over the west coast region. Their flying time was estimated at 62 hours and 17 minutes. Obituary in Blue GEORGE GERSHWIN, composer who lifted Jazz musie up to the level of the classics, died sud denly in Hollywood after an operation opera-tion for brain tumor. He was thir ty-eight His "Rhapsody In Blue" was famous among the world's mu sic lovers, his opera, "Porgy and Bess" one of the most individually American of all musical works. His "Suwannee" sold more than 2.000 - 000 copies, his musical comerf score, "Of Thee I : Sing," was a Pulitzer prize winner, and some of his compositions, such as "Strike Up the Band." "Soon," and "Some body Loves Me" were sung and danced to by millions. Many prominent prom-inent critics" called him the most original force in American music. Is r - "- New Streamliner Speeds British Train IV" ta.i,.Vai Specially constructed to make land and Scottish railway's new travel The high-speed express FALSELY IMPRISONED Ernest Mattlce, thlrty-three-year-old candy salesman of Denver who was freed after serving six months of two sentences of life Imprisonment Imprison-ment for the kidnaping and assault of Mrs. Margaret Cykosz, twenty-two-year-old waitress. Gov. Teller Ammons of Colorado signed the pardon par-don after Frank NeilL twenty-six years old, and Arthur Parker, twenty-one years old, confessed to the assault charge. They denied the charge of kidnaping. Dr. Ward Elected .J llllll MIT J llll IJ JPSJ III II.. ! " . IMS ..!-? n v i l Dr. Edward A. Ward (right) of Saginaw, Mich., elected president of the American Osteopathic association representing 10,000 physicians, surgeons and specialists at the association's annual convention In Chicago Chi-cago recently. With him Is Dr. Arthur E. Allen (left) of Minneapolis, Minn., who was chosen president-elect, to take office at the 1938 convention, conven-tion, which will be held about mid-year. The office of president-elect la a new one. Soviets Establish Post on Top of the fol ; ; i f mwm - ... Shows the camp established at the nrM.M IMl. Km BAAM 1m I n U m J ' "-v" " uui-ivBiuujiu. igur memoers oi me expedition will remain ai i" r"-lng r"-lng conditions and atmospheric phenomena. It Is planned to establish a base there for a service between Moscow and the United States. the London to Glasgow Journey in six and a half hour, , I streamlined train, the Coronation,' has set a new speed recorder la shown'gettlng Into Jta 'stride near Watford, England, on a recest f r -Forgotten picturea. gathering, dust for years In an old ifc,i the hope of new life to Mrs. Alida Clark, seventy-nine yean M,i wood, DL, a suburb of Chicago. She swapped one of the with Arthur Lloyd, Jr., of Oak Park, an antique dealer, Uti spaniel, shown in the picture here. When the dealer cleaned I j was uua vj an an auuion mai a was me worn oi an oia rn ter, Jean Baptiste Greuze. Head of Osteopaths V- At - .' v t a trim m pole by the expedition. Parts of the planes, first to l"fn TT ... .... ... . . it .vol Of . ft' ' -i' s 4'. "Puppy Love" Uncovers Old Art 4, n ' 1 V 'I' I v V V Screen Star's Tiny Son Plans Athletic Career Emblazoned on the fast sweat shirt are the kttta future alma mater of fc one-half year old Nona! Barnes, son of Josa Kk star, by her former bow Norman reaches coIWj University of California geles, will be his choie . m . 'T i . -UCL- - r 1 ii ii |