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Show I i i s ! SOUTH CACHE COURIER Mussolini Says Italy Must Be CuM&vifc (yVWlfy By ! X7 ILLIS VAN DEVANTER, as-- v sociate justice of the Supreme court, informed President Roosevelt that he would retire from active service on that tribunal on June 2. He conveyed the information in a letter sent to the White House shortly before the senate judiciary committee was to vote on the Presidents bill for enlargement of the Supreme court. Justice Van Devanter, who is seventy-eigh- t years old, has been one of the conservative group on the Supreme court bench. I so-call- ed Edward and Wallis to Marry on June 3 , U'DWARD, duke of Windsor and former king of Great Britain, and Mrs. Wallis Warfield are to be married on June 3 at the Chateau de Cande. This was announced in London. In the controversy between the government and the duke, who was backed up by his brother, King George, and their mother, concerning official recognition of the marriage, the government seemed to have won. It was understood the wedding would be extremely private and that no member of the royal family would be present. There will be only a few guests in addition to the witnesses and the servants. Lieutenant Forwood, the dukes equerry, carried to Buckingham palace information of the dukes final plans. He also invited the London Daily Mail and London Daily Express to send reporters to the wedding. These papers have been most friendly to Edward and Mrs. Warfield. ( President Insistent on His Complete Program TN CONFERENCES i with Demo-crati- c congressional leaders and department heads, President Roosevelt was insistent on the carrying out of his program without any compromises. He made it clear that he still demanded passage of his bill for enlargement of the Supreme court as it was submitted and that he would not be satisfied with fewer than six new President associate justices, Roosevelt although his ad- visers told him frankly that the measure in this form faced probable defeat in the senate. Mr. Roosevelt also demanded the following legislative action: A substitute for the outlawed NRA, covering minimum wages and maximum hours, child labor, and the regulation of industrial trade practices. ' An appropriation of 1 billion 500 million dollars for work relief in the 1938 fiscal year. A start on farm tenancy legislation, providing federal loans for sharecroppers and other tenant farmers with which to purchase their own land. The declaration by congress of an integrated, national power, flood control, and navigation policy, contemplating the ultimate development of the nation into eight regional TVAs. As for economy measures, the President rejected the senate plan calling for a mandatory horizontal slash of 10 per cent in all appropriation bills and indicated a preference for the house plan, which would give him discretionary power to reduce all appropriations by 15 per cent. t Process Tax Refund Case Won by Government DECISIONS involving the constitutionality of the social security act were handed down by the Supreme court, but that tribunal did give an opinion that upheld the provisions of the 1936 revenue law restricting refunds of processing and floor stock taxes illegally imposed by the agricultural adjustment act. The treasury was saved nearly a billion dollars by this deciO sion. While the 1 ! i all self-sufficie- nt Edward W. Pickard Justice Van Devanter to Quit the Bench ! ) jVT EMBERS of Italys corporative guild, which includes phases of Fascist life, held their annual meeting in Rome and loudly cheered Premier Mussolini when he declared that Italy will make herself economically even if she has to work 25 hours a day. II Duce asserted his program Meur IMJ taxpayer was undoubtedly hurt when he paid the tax, if he has obtained relief through the shifting of its burden he is no longer in a position to claim an actual injury and the refusal of a refund in such a case cannot be regarded as a denial of constitutional right, said the opinion. Another decision upheld the chain store tax law enacted by the Louisiana legislature at the order of the Western Newspaper Union late Huey Long, the court holding that states may tax chain stores on the basis of the number of units in the chain outside as well as in- side the state. Inconsistency Is Cry of the Economists F CONOMISTSwhat intheycongress termed the ed appalling inconsistency of the majority, but the spenders went right ahead with their spending plans. The house passed the appropriation bill for the Department of the Interior, which measure carries $40,000,000 for the reclamation bureau to be used for the building of dams and reservoirs to increase the acreage of tillable land. At the same time the house agriculture committee introduced a new farm bill, the main object of which is the controlling of excessive farm surpluses and which calls for the expenditure of $287,000,000 annually. This latter bill is based on the recommendations of Secretary Wallaces farm conference of February but it was declared it did not as yet have the full sanction of the administration. $115,-000,0- 00 Viscount Snowden, British Labor Leader, Is Dead pHILIP active SNOWDEN, Self-Sufficie- nt who in his days was regarded as the brainiest man in the Labor party of Great Britain, died of heart disease at the age of seventy-two. Twice he served as chancellor of the exchequer, and then was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Snowden of Lord Ickornshaw. Snowden had been crippled since h e was twenty - seven, when he was knocked from a bicycle. He was a pacifist, an atheist and a Marxian Socialist, and he had a vitriolic tongue that made him feared in parliamentary debates. Though he had disagreed violently with Ramsay MacDonald when the latter was Laborite prime minister, MacDonald said when Snowden died: A great man of our age has passed by. was a guarantee of peace and a surety of the life, the future and the power of the Italian people. He continued: For us it is impossible in a world armed to the teeth to abandon such a policy. It would mean putting ourselves tomorrow, in case of war, at the mercy of those who have all and who can make war without limitation of time or consumption. Fascism does not wish to absorb the economic life of the people, because Fascism doesnt wish to become paralytic as happens under bolshevism. Ambassador Dodd Hears of American Fascist Plan American WILLIAM E. DODD, to Germany, has stepped into the limelight and the result may be embarrassing to him and to the administration. In a long letter to Senators Buckley of Ohio and Glass of Virginia he urges all Democrats to unite in support of the President and thus avert a dictatorship in the United States. It was assumed he meant the Presidents Supreme court enlargement bill should be supported, since that is the measure that split the party in congress. Dodd, former professor in the University of Chicago, said he had been told by certain friends that an American, not named, who owns nearly a billion dollars, was prepared to set up a fascist regime which presumably he would control. There are individuals of great wealth who wish a dictatorship and are ready to help a Huey Long, he wrote. There are politicians, some in the senate, I have heard, who think they may come into power like that of the European dictators in Moscow, Berlin, and Rome. Congressional leaders were quick to take up Dodds assertion, Senator Borah of Idah6 leading off with the declaration that the ambassador was an irresponsible scandal monger and a disgrace to his country. I have an idea, said Borah, that his supposed dictatorship is the figment of a diseased brain. In the house Representative Fish of New York denounced Dodd, and demanded that he be recalled. Thomas Nast, who drew this cartoon, wrote on the bottom of With Charity to All, With Malice Toward None. Abraham Lincoln. it: Angel of Mons Story Made Plenty Realistic TPHE legend of the miraculous in-tervention of angelic bowmen under the patron saint of England, St. George, during the British retreat from Mons in August, 1914, was invented by the English author, Arthur Machen. He wrote a story called The Bowmen which appeared in the Daily News of London on September 29, 1914. This was an entirely fictitious account of how, during the days when the British were hard pressed by the ene iy, an English soldier happened to utter the motto (in Latin): May St. George be a present help to the English. Immediately after he had spoken, h. saw beyond the trench, a Jong line of shapes, with a shining about them. They were like men who drew the bow, and with another shout, their cloud of arrows went singing and tingling through the air toward the German hosts. This story was immediately taken up as an authentic record, states a writer in the Detroit News. A -- Heart disease also carried off a picturesque figure in American poli- Danish Kings Silver tics, Percy L. Gassoway, former Celebrated Jubilee one term who served cowpuncher as congressman from Oklahoma CHRISTIAN X, king of Denmark, and all his subjects celebrated after being a judge in that state. the monarchs silver jubilee in CopA1 Smith Sails for His enhagen and throughout the kingdom. The festivities were marked First Visit to Ireland characteristic simplicity but by XT OTWITHSTANDING his certain-t- y demonstrated the affection clearly that he would be seasick, the have for the tall people Alfred E. Smith sailed on the steamwho has been on the ruler ship Conte di Savoia for his first throne for twenty-fiv- e years. In the ocean voyage and first trip to the decorated there was gaily capital A1 old country. As he departed, said: a of parliament, a resession joint This is a regular pleasure trip. at the palace, a procession Ive never been to the other side ception the through and Im going now, and I want to dinner and astreets, and a gala torchlight parade. have a good time. Ireland? Yes, Im of Norway and GusHaakon Kings going to Ireland. A priest wrote me tav of Sweden were among the notthat he knew where my grandmot- ables present. hers house was in Westmeath, and Im going there and look it over. I have no relatives there, but I want House Refuses to Make to look over Ireland. the CCC Permanent "D EMEMBER, this is the Presi-dent- s Steel Industry Tackled pet project. He wants the CCC made permanent, not exC. O. I. Lewis by tended for a two year period. PHILIP MURRAY, chairman of So shouted Representative Wilthe steel workers organizing committee of the C. I. O., called the liam P. Connery of Massachusetts first major strike in the campaign at the members of the house. But the house would not heed the imof Lewis and his asplied warning and voted, 224 to 34, sociates to unionize in favor of giving the CCC two more the steel industry. years of life. This was in commitOn his order the emtee of the whole, and next day thia ployees of Jones & action was confirmed. Laughlin Steel corin poration plants Wants President to Call Pittsburgh and walked out Monetary Conference after Murray had T EPRESENTATIVE DIES of Tex-a- s failed to get from has proposed to congress the company a that President Roosevelt call an international monetary conference for signed collective bargaining contract, the purpose of seeking an equitable The strike call afdistribution of the worlds supply of fected 27,000 men. gold and silver. Specifically, he would have the conference: pickets surrounded n 1. Stabilize currencies on some Laughlin mills and kept workers from entering. permanent basis that would prevent Next day the strike spread to the wide fluctuations in their purchasing plants of the Pittsburgh Steel com- power. pany at Monessen and Allenport, 2. Establish a bimetallic gold Pa., where 5,900 men went out. Mur- and silver base for the currencies. ray said it was inevitable that the 3. Distribute the worlds gold and Republic, Youngstown, Bethlehem silver supply more equitably so as and Crucible steel concerns would to give each nation proper support be involved very soon. for its currency and an adequate The Jones & Laughlin corporation medium of international exchange. agreed to sign a contract if the 4. Make available to the countries union won a majority vote in a govern- involved the raw materials which ment-supervised election. they need. Fading fight, Dims the sight, And a star gems the sky gleaming bright. Horn afar to the United States Volunteers which stands in the Place des Etats Unis m Paris. The statue is the work of Jean Boucher, the figure on top being inspired by his memory of an Ame- Frances memorial sixty-six-year-o- ld Drawing nigh, Falls the night. Dear ones, rest! In the West, Sable night lulls the day on her breast. Sweet goodnight! Now away, rican doughboy. BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG LEE commanded To thy rest. GENERAL force of 75,0 a men at the Battle of Gettysburg. General Meades army numbered more than 85,000. Army Bugle Call A DOUGHBOY OF WORLD WAR DAYS A && Ali-quip- pa non-unio- i? of', V ri mm The American doughboy who fought to make the world democracy. The picture is from a drawing by Capt. Harry Towns |