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Show OPEN hearings on the President's Presi-dent's Supreme court bill were ended by the senate Judiciary committee, com-mittee, which Is now engaged in considering the News Review of Current ! Events the World Over President Demands Economy, Predicting Deficit of $418,000,000, but Asks Billion and Half for Relief Franco Creates Authoritarian State. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. measure In executive execu-tive sessions. It was believed the committee com-mittee would debate the' bill for several weeks. Boxes full of petitions peti-tions against the measure were presented pre-sented to the committee. com-mittee. Senator Hiram Hi-ram Johnson of Cal- REVISING his budget estimates for the fiscal year 1938 President Presi-dent Roosevelt told congress in a - : special message that the deficit probably prob-ably would amount to $418,000,000 exclusive ex-clusive of debt retirement re-tirement payments of $400,000,000 in stead of the "layman's" "lay-man's" balanced budget he predicted in January. He recommended rec-ommended the ap- idential yacht Potomac and cruise out Into the gulf after tarpon. A navy cruiser will accompany the yacht. The fishing trip will end at Galveston and Mr. Roosevelt will go from there to Fort Worth to visit his son Elliott While the Potomac is at sea Secretary Sec-retary Mclntyre will maintain headquarters head-quarters at Galveston with a small staff. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, British Brit-ish chancellor of the exchequer, ex-chequer, introduced in parliament the biggest budget since World war times and gave warning that national na-tional finances for several years to come would be dominated by expenditures ex-penditures on armaments. Ha caid that the government will require an outlay of 862,848,000 pounds (about $4,314,240,000) to carry out its plans and pay its expenses during dur-ing the next year. Revenue obtainable obtain-able he estimated at 847,950,000 pounds (about $4,239,750,000), leaving leav-ing a prospective deficit of 14,898,-000 14,898,-000 pounds (about $74,490,000). Chamberlain said the taxpayers would have to pay 3 pence more on each taxable pound of Income, bringing the tax up to S shillings or 25 per cent. He also announced a new tax on business profits and this especially was bitterly attacked by the Conservatives, led by Sir Robert Home. They argued that it would demoralize industry. FRANCISCO FRANCO is well on the way to becoming a real dictator dic-tator of the part of Spain his insurgent insur-gent forces control, and of the entire en-tire country if they win the war. By decree de-cree the general has merged the two chief rightist factions fac-tions under his leadership lead-ership and has outlawed out-lawed all other parties, par-ties, thus creating a one party authoritarian authori-tarian state. His decree de-cree left open the vi ay to restoration c. w ifornia handed in a RrTkhr't volume signed by Brookfaart m yoters of hig state, and a series numbering 25,000 came from the Women's National Committee for Hands Oil the Supreme Su-preme Court and Women Investors of America, Inc. One witness heard In support of the till was Smith Wildman Brook-hart, Brook-hart, radical former senator from Iowa. He said the President's proposal pro-posal was an Issue In the campaign because the opposition declared what he would do to the Supreme court. "It was specifically made an Issue Is-sue in the campaign," said Mr. Brookhart. "The President himself did not so urge it because he probably prob-ably had not fully made up his mind, but former Senator James A. Reed, the ablest, most brilliant and most forceful opponent the President Presi-dent had In the whole campaign, did present in detail the President's plan upon accurate information. He dared the President to deny his statement "There was no denial because Senator Reed was telling the truth and the President was content to submit the issue upon the violent arguments against it alone." Judge William Denman of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals Ap-peals at San Francisco, an appointee ap-pointee of President Roosevelt, argued ar-gued against Chief Justice Hughes' contention that a Supreme court working in two or more separate panels would be unconstitutional IN THE last five months strikes in the automotive Industry have cost the workers between $65,000,-000 $65,000,-000 and $70,000,000 In wages. And still, at the behest ol John L. Lewis and his C. I. O., they are planning further strikes. What they gain, beyond recognition of their union which probably could be obtained by negotiation wherever it is deserved, de-served, is problematical The figures fig-ures are from Ward's Reports, Inc., which says of losses to companies affected that the net volume of business busi-ness "delayed" by the strikei would approximate $200,000,000, but what proportion of this actually is lost cannot be calculated. Keeping "foreign agitators" out of the picture, the representatives of General Motors of Canada and of the workers at Oshawa, Ontario, reached a settlement of the strike in that plant. The company agreed to raise wages and shorten work hours, but does not recognize the United Automobile Workers ol America. J. L. Cohen, Toronto attorney at-torney who represented the strikers, said the settlement was "eminently satisfactory." "Let me tell Lewis here and now that he and his gang will never get their greedy paws on Ontario as long as I'm prime minister," said Premier Hepburn. He thereupon let it be known that he was prepared to push through legislation that would exclude the C. I. O. from Ontario if this becomes be-comes necessary to save the pulp-wood pulp-wood and mining industries from C. I. O. control. The executive board of the union at a meeting In Washington decided decid-ed to postpone until November the drive to unionize the Ford company plants. TEST flights by the army air corps' new big bombing plane were being made at Seattle, Wash., where it was built by the Boeing Aircraft company. This machine is the largest military airplane in the world, with an all metal fuselage fuse-lage 100 feet long, a wingspread oi 105 feet, and a cruising range of 6.000 miles. It weighs about 40,000 pounds unloaded and 75,000 pounds when carrying a full complement ol fuel and armament It has four twin row engines of a new type which will deliver 1,400 horse power each for takeoff. The speed is about 250 miles an hour. There are five streamlined blisters on the new machine ma-chine which are emplacements for small quick firing cannon, Instead of machine guns. These cannon will outshoot any guns mounted on any other military airplane in the world and make the great machine virtually virtu-ally impregnable. j PATROL of the coasts and borders bor-ders of Spain by the navies and land observers of Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany, as arranged ar-ranged some time ago by the international in-ternational non - intervention committee, com-mittee, Is now In effect Under the command of British Vice Admiral Geoffrey Blake, aboard the battle cruiser Hood, the British beet patrols the northern coast on the bay of Biscay. Germany Ger-many patrols the southwestern coast while France guards Spanish Morocco and the Balearic islands and Italy the eastern Mediterranean Mediterrane-an coast Merchr.n. vessels of the committee's commit-tee's 27 members entering Spanish territorial waters must first call at specified ports and take aboard nonintervention non-intervention committee supervisors who will have the right to exambij the cargo. proprlation or President 5oo,000,000 for relief, Roosevelt Bnd he demanded rigid economy to combat an anticipated antici-pated drop in federal revenues amounting to $600,000,000. Mr. Roosevelt also said there must be a careful survey of the nation's tax structure and intimated that a new tax bill would be introduced at the next session of congress. In correcting the over-estimation of revenue and the under-estima-tion of expenditures the President Indicated that the national debt will rise over the 36 billion dollar mark. Though he made no specific recommendations rec-ommendations as to economy the President spoke sharply about "special "spe-cial groups" who are exerting pressure pres-sure to bring about increases In government expenditures. It was understood he referred especially to the farm tenancy program proposing propos-ing an annual expenditure of $135,-000,000; $135,-000,000; the Wagner housing bill calling for an expenditure of $50,-000,000 $50,-000,000 a year and the Harrison-Black Harrison-Black education bill calling for allocations among the states beginning begin-ning at $100,000,000 for the first year and reaching a maximum of $300,-000.000 $300,-000.000 a year. Mr. Roosevelt had rejected these measures at a White House conference confer-ence and his attitude provoked various va-rious prominent senators and representatives rep-resentatives so much that they declared de-clared they would favor cutting down the relief appropriation he ' asked to one billion dollars. Among the Democratic leaders taking this stand were Senator James F. Byrnes of South Carolina representing represent-ing the appropriations committee and Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. Mis-sissippi. Said Senator Byrnes: , "I think the President's estimate of one and a half billion dollars for work relief is too high. It would make possible a monthly expenditure expendi-ture of $125,000,000. Each month it will be possible for Mr. Hopkins to further reduce the number on the relief rolls and consequently reduce the expenditures. "It is my purpose not only to urge that the work relief appropriation be limited to one billion dollars but that the law require larger contributions contribu-tions from the sponsors of projects. If the sponsors could be required to put up 50 per cent of the cost of the projects we would not have applications appli-cations for a billion dollars during the next fiscal year." Senator Joe Robinson, majority leader, made an earnest plea for economy in all directions; and Senator Sen-ator Charles L, McNary, Republican Republi-can leader, assured Senator Robinson Rob-inson that the Republicans would co-operate In every way possible with the Democrats in their "belated" "be-lated" efforts to balance expenditures expendi-tures with income. In the house the economy program pro-gram lost a point when Representative Represen-tative Vinson of Kentucky succeeded succeed-ed in getting through his $1,000,000 stream pollution bill. TWO cabinet members , were quick to comment on the President's Presi-dent's economy orders. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace forecast an immediate curtailment of the administration's farm activities. activi-ties. Federal aid to farm tenants, production control and the ever-normal grjiioj&bre among the projects proj-ects tJJitfle economic ax, Mr. WaUafesaid. He is still hopeful that the crop insurance program to be applied to the 1938 wheat yield may be salvaged. Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper and his first assistant Ernest Draper, joined In predicting that business recovery will not be retarded re-tarded by the apparent inability of the administration to balance the budget in the 1938 fiscal year as the President anticipated in January. They said they regarded lagging treasury revenues as a temporary condition and added: "The present headway of business is so strong that it will offset the effect of a probable deficit" PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT announced an-nounced his plans for another fishing trip to begin April 28 and last two weeks or longer. This time he is going to angle in the Gulf of Mexico while congress struggles with his latest recommen-dations. recommen-dations. After leaving Washington T his first stop will be at Biloxi Miss. J From there he will go by motor to New Orleans pausing en route at f Beauvoir, the old home of Jefferson Davis that is now a home for Con- federate veterans. At New Orleans Mr. Roosevelt will board the Pres- f Gen. Franco of the monarchy in Spain "if the nation needs it," and the monarchists of the Carlist and Bourbon persuasions agreed that if this takes place, the king shall be Prince Juan, youngest son of Alfonso XIII. He is known as prince of the Asturias and is twenty-three years old. "The new Spain needs a new king" said a Carlist leader. "We traditionalists prefer the prince of the Astairias who is a known sympathizer sym-pathizer with the ideals of the new Spain." GOV. LEWIS O. BARROWS of Maine has lined up with other state executives who will not stand for riotous and illegal tactics by strikers. When an unruly mob of 1,000 men tried to storm two of nineteen factories in Auburn involved in-volved in a general shoe strike and the local authorities were unable un-able to handle the situation, Governor Gover-nor Barrows ordered out eight companies com-panies of the National Guard. "I'll order out the entire military forces of Maine, if necessary to preserve pre-serve constitutional authority," the executive said. "When there is open defiance to the orders of our courts and our officers of the law, there is little difference from anarchy. We shall not tolerate this situation for a moment." The trouble followed a state Supreme Su-preme court injunction, issued by Judge Harry Manser, outlawing the shoe strike which affects about 6,-500 6,-500 workers. The mob had been aroused by speeches by Powers Hapgood, New England secretary for the C. I. O., and other organizers. organ-izers. W FORBES MORGAN who was the able treasurer of the Democratic national committee during the 1936 campaign and who resigned to take the presidency of the Distilled Spirits Institute, died suddenly In a committee room of the Ohio state capitol in Columbus. Mr. Morgan, a relative of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt by marriage, was a major in the World war. BY UNANIMOUS vote, nearly 4,000 Daughters of the American Revolution, Rev-olution, in their forty-sixth annual congress in Washington, adopted a resolution opposing the President's Supreme court enlargement bill. If declared against "unbalancing" the federal tripartite system of government govern-ment and favored submission of the issues raised by the President to the people through a constitutional amendment PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent to the senate the nomination of Mrs. Florence Jaffray Harriman of Washington as minister to Norway. She is the widow of J. Borden Harriman, Har-riman, New York banker, and has been active in politics for a number num-ber of years. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., who now holds the Norway Nor-way post, was nominated to be ambassador am-bassador to Poland. f |