Show eirv of current events SENATE KILLS COURT BILL votes otos 70 to 20 to recommit it I 1 elect barklay barkle Y ne now M majority loader leader spanish war enters second yoa year I 1 I 1 ik 3 I 1 9 M k M V M 1 I 1 I 1 ar fw i if I 1 1 11 11 I 1 I 1 6 J 1 I 1 L 1 I 1 ar i 1 1 a 1 I 1 d 1 I 1 1 1 e ai a 1 1 19 I 1 a 1 1 I 1 Z 4 I 1 li 1 r I 1 v 1 4 I 1 1 1 0 I A 34 t I 1 lk C 1 I 4 I 1 41 4 1 1 1 a I 1 W at 1 6 I 1 1 I I 1 5 1 0 o W 3 A I 1 I 1 F Y f r V k 7 j i 7 1 ak V I 1 7 7 i 11 1 A ki v 1 1 4 0 V fa 41 r I 1 m I 1 I 1 7 I 1 I i 1 dezii 1 I 1 i k e 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 j 6 Y I 1 4 15 11 i 1 20 T 1 1 1 I 1 1 4 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 it 11 I 1 b i fv I 1 4 N 1 i I 1 1 E a senator harrison right congratulates senator barkley Dark lcy A 0 0 0 a IP F A summarizes THE WORLDS 0 newspaper glory bo be to godl at n YING for weeks the scheme to io A 0 add to tho the number of justices of the supreme court finally choked its I 1 last gasp and left this world on a roll call vote the united states senate voted to recommit tho the robinson substitute for the pros presidents identa original bill to the judiciary committee the voto veto was 70 to 20 we the most crushing defeat the presidents legislation has yet suffered buffered at the hands of a house of congress in an agreement m made de at a session sion of the judiciary committee car iler her it had been decided to let the opposition senators write their own blu bill I 1 tin an innocuous measure for judicial reform not dealing in any w way I 1 1 with the supreme court senator t r barkley the new majority lead er attempted to save the presidents face by having the bill left on the calendar but he never had a chance when the roll call came even senators ashurst of arizona and minton of indiana two of the supreme court bollt chief supporters voted to recommit glory be to godl godi said sen HI ram johnson rep calif when the results of the roll call were made known the applause e that bellowed forth from the senators and gallery alike left no doubt that the veteran from california had voiced the sentiments of the great majority low interest for farmers A vote voe of 71 to 19 10 the senate BY overrode the presidents veto of a bill extending for or a year low interest rates on an loans to farmers it was a defeat even more crushing than the of the court bill 0 and made the bill a law without ou ithe tho presidents signature tor for the house had previously passed it by a two thirds majority over mr Roosevel ts veto senator barkley made a halfhearted attempt to stave off the overwhelming vote and the defeat was accepted by many observers as an expression of resentment over Bark leys having been elected I 1 m majority a leader instead of sen pat harrlson harrison of mississippi barkley Bark tey 38 hart harrison ison 37 EX WILLIAM H S SEN of illinois changed change d his mind at the last minute and today alben W berkley barkley hard listed blustering senator from kentucky Is the majority leader I 1 of the U united states senate succeeding 1 15 the late joseph T robinson of 1 1 1 11 arkansas the vote I 1 was 38 for barkley I 1 to 37 for sen pat harrlson harrison of mississippi I 1 1 f 1 4 I 1 I 1 the conservative democrats in the Vice T i nt senate ge had been as garner gy of 33 38 votes ag enough to elect harrlson harrison on the eve of the secret election but that night dieterich Dle Die apparently under pressure from the democratic party organization in illinois begged hur har alson 1 I 1 to release hla his pledged vote in order that the presidents choice might head the party in the senate the slim victory by no means patched the obvious party rift even the administration admitted that the presidents supreme court bill was virtually dead even then vice president garner gamer visited son sen buryn ton 3 IS 1 wheeler of montana montan n leader of the opposition forces and invited the tha a opposition which it was believed had enough votes to recommit rn it the substitute bill to the judiciary committee to draft a new bill president roosevelt then told senators barkley and harrlson harrison at the white house that tour four measures must be passed before the january Y ae session the Milli minimum mum wage maximum hours and child labor labaz I 1 AAA anil granary bill the housing bill and legislation to plug loopholes in the federal tax laws congress was all for quick adjournment the tha president was told the possibility of adjourning congress then recalling it in special session in the tit 0 late tall fail with committees contin U ing to function in tho the interim was then discussed but what agreement had been reached was as not announced noun ced A citizen takes hi Hs s P pen on I 1 C CRUSHING bushing blow to the presidents court program delivered at tile the time it hurt most was a letter written by gov herbert 11 lehman of new york to sen robert F wagner of that state N A the letter made z A public revealed I 1 governor lehmans opinion as a citizen 1 of the state of new york that the bill would be contra ry to the interests of the people of the state its en gov lehman act ment 11 the governor wrote would create a greatly dangerous precedent which could be availed of by by future less well intentioned administrations for the purpose of oppression or for the curtailment of the the constitutional rights of our citizens bloody anniversary tits THE HE spanish civil war entered its second year for the populations of rebel cities the occasion was one for joyous celebration with fl estas bull fights and concerts the order of the day gen francisco franco commander of 0 the ansur gent forces publicly proclaimed it a year 0 of triumph he ordered that all communications a and nd p public documents toy for the next twelve months be dated as of the second year of triumph in the first year of triumph more than a million persons including women an and d children were killed the insurgents claim to have taken 34 ot the 50 provincial ovin cial capitals of the country and all of its colonies they have captured six of the eleven cities of more than inhabitants seville malaga bilbao saragossa cordoba and granada the rebels lost little time in at tempting to regain their losses around madrid franco unleashed the full power of his main army of in a drive to recapture bru note nete and other suburbs of the loy nilst stronghold they were met by at least defending government troops every weapon of war except gas was used there was hand to hand fighting in the trenches and the greatest use of artillery since the world war as the fler fiercest battle of the spanish conflict raged the battle was opened by as spectacular an aerial fight as the world tins has seen in years insurgents were reported to have lost 27 planes against only four for or the loyalists it there were aay any definite gains made in a weeks fighting they were probably on the side of thi lh insurgents observers reported although the government estimated the rebels had lost anet japs maul matil U S women A ASSAULT upon two am american women by sentries in the japanese embassy in neiping brought vigorous protests both orally and in writing from the united st states a t es embassy the two women 11 mrs r S helen R jones of detroit and miss carol lathrop of washington D C were walking through the embassy when sentries charged them from behind sandbag barricades while one sentry kicked miss lathrop in the side another held oft off mrs jones with the flat of his bayonet when jha were roughly shoved mrs jones being forcefully kicked from behind sino crisis JUST after a verbal agreement between chinese and japanese military commanders had appo app appeared ared cared to have prevented on an impending renewal of tho the sino japanese war the japanese Japa noso government officially on in bounced that heavy concentration of 0 chinese troops had been made at Pei neiping ping constituting a direct act ot of aggression against japan at the same time the government claimed that 11 17 japanese troop kraii s carrying soldiers were en route to north china from corea and Manchu kuo earlier japanese troops were said to have arrived in north china to supplement the regular garf garrison lion of at gen sung cheh yu an chairman of the hopel chabar political council and commander of the chinese forces in north china had compiled verbally with the japanese anese ultimatum for peace although he refused to sign anything in a talk with gen Klyo katsuka Katsu kl kt the japanese commander he apologized for the clash between japanese troops and the chinese I 1 twenty ninth army at Lukow kia klao july 7 the incident which perpetrated the new crisis and expressed the regrets of the hopet hopel council ile he said that he would dismiss several of his bis officers as a punishment gen 0 sung assured the e japanese Jopa neso he be would evacuate tho area west of Pei neiping ping and would do his utmost to suppress communism and anti japanese e activities part of the agreement was that both chinese and japanese troops troop should be withdrawn from the walled city of suburb of Pei neiping ping but chinese troops refused to withdraw when they alleged it became certain the japanese had no intention of withdrawing either in the midst of many I 1 conflicting and confusing reports the outcome of any truce was problematical to say the least europe short on grain EUROPE E began to warry about the possibilities of a hungry winter as early threshing indicated it a serious grain shortage germanys germanas Germ anys shortage was estimated at tons the deficit will be root mot partly with increased increase consumption ot of potatoes and sugar beets and partly with cheap plentiful corn from southeastern tern europe it Is expected even so that G germany r will have to buy to tons from other foreign countries experts estimated that the german harvest for 1037 1937 would woul bo be 10 to 20 per cent below the average for the years 1930 33 35 poland from which germany has ha 11 been able to buy grain in the past will not be able to sell any this year while hungarian rumanian and ju go crops will be smaller than tha n lost last year because of drouth it was believed that if the current drouth continued the farmers of great britain would likewise suffer rainfall in the past month has been about one fifth normal of the baltic countries only lithuania it Is bell believed eyed will have a crop equal to her needs crops suffered badly in latvia esthonia Esth onla and finland only spain in all europe europ el with an increase of 15 per cen cent t over last years grain harvest appears likely to enjoy a well filled bread basket do valera Is re elodea I 1 TF F HIS party flanna fianna pall fall can keep in power that thai long eamon bamo 11 de valera will be president of th the e executive council of the irish free state for another five years no he was elected to the nations highest office by a vote of 82 to 52 in the dall elreano parliament de valera in favor of severing all ties with great britain won even the vote of the labor group which does doe not endorse his party it was believed that do valera would go ahead with legislation necessary to implement the new constitution ution approved in the plebiscite of july 1 ile he would in that case set up a senate and elect a president by popular vote as the constitution provides it if do valera Is elected president to serve seven years political experts say he will virtually disappear from politics and 03 party will bleak up static wrecked hindenburg THE T HE spectacular crash of the zeppelin hindenburg killing 36 at lakehurst N J last may 0 was probably caused cabied by an unseen spark of static electricity which jumped from the atmosphere to the frame ot of the dirigible at least this Is the theory of the board of inquiry which investigated the accident and reported ported to secretary tit of commerce daniel C roper the experts considered every other possible P cause fire sabotage b rush brush discharge of electricity from harp paints on ane ship broken propeller blade radio transmitter t ran spark lightning and st structural ruc tural failure and decided that their theory most nearly fitted the circumstances attending the disa disaster 3 t C r inventor of wireless wt beless adles di et f G MARCONI who al bored the lives of all ah of us when he ha invented tho the wireless died suddenly ol of a heart attack at his home in rome he was sixta tarco years old had bad been in good health and was planning the con construction st ruction of 0 a new radio station in the vatican at tho time of hs his death premier mu soana ellI davd hi hAna Anage geto to jhb gleat inventor kissing the dead mans forehead in reverence |