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Show Scenes and Persons in the Current NeV ? My- - "mww r . l - ft l X ft 1 fv.. Vl . x 3 v . it m - of Eritrean colonial troops passing In review before Premier Mussolini In i recent. ,!! Monte Sacre, Italy. ustice Willis Van Devanter, oldest justice of the Supreme court in point i 2 who has resigned. 3-- E. Smith, former governor of New York and presidential candidate, j J Mrs. Smith, right as they sailed for Europe. News Review of Current Events the World Over Van Devanter Quits Supreme Court and Robinson May Get Place Cardinal Mundelein Enrages the Nazis Windsor Marriage June 3. . By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newtpaper Union. KING GEORGE and Queen went aboard the royal yacht Victoria and Albert at Ports-mouth and reviewed a tremendous naval parade of 311 fighting and commercial ships of eighteen na-tions at Spithead. It was a corona-tion feature, so thousands ' of of-ficial guests and uncounted private citizens also watched the Imposing procession of vessels. For these great commercial steamers formed a grandstand. Seventeen nations were represented by one warship each. The battleship New York was In line for the United States. At night every vessel was bril-liantly illuminated and their search-lights crisscrossed the sky as the guests dined and danced. Before going to Portsmouth the king and queen attended the tradi-tional luncheon at the guildhall in the city of London. THE tenth anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's famous flight from New York to Paris was ob-served in both those cities, but the hero of the event paid no attention to it To a questioning friend he aid: "I did It Whv should I cele-- ASSOCIATE JUSTICE WILLIS notified President Roosevelt that he would retire from the Supreme court ganda, charged the cardinal "spoke in a tone heretofore reserved for the lowest brand of agitators." The official news agency of the government alleged that "Mundelein defended the crimes of Catholic priests and laymen" on trial In Ger-man courts and called on Catholic bishops In Germany to make a re-ply. In Vatican City prominent church-men said Cardinal Mundelein had every right to speak his mind and that the Vatican would not concern itself with the speech, either to de-fend or to repudiate it The car- - bench immediately after the summer adjournment of the court on June 1, and there were rumors In Washington that his example would be followed by Chief Justice Hughes and associate Justices Sutherland and Erandeis when the dinal's attack seemed to meet with general approval of Catholics, Prot-estants and Jews In the United States. Under Instructions from Berlin, the counselor of the German em-bassy In Washington lodged with the United States government an in-formal protest against Cardinal Mundeleln's speech. IJ ITLER returned to Berlin from his summer house in Bavaria and heard from Industrialists gath-ered In extraordinary meeting that many of them would be unable to continue production satisfactorily because of the shortage of raw ma terials and skilled labor and the general financial situation. The bad conditions affect especially factories working with rubber, metals and foreign textiles. WALLIS WARFIELD will the duchess of Windsor when she is married to Edward, the duke, on June 3 at the Chateau de Cande. near brate it?" The colonel spent the day with Mrs. Lindbergh and young Jon In seclusion at their country home in Kent Even the telephone was disconnected. GEORGE L. BERRY, the new from Tennessee, has undertaken a difficult job. He an-nounced that he would try to restore peace between the American Fed-eration of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization, and that he would ask the President to sup-port his endeavors. Mr. Berry wants an impartial arbitration body to re-allocate organizing territory of the two groups, allotting certain mass producing industries to the C. I. O. While the rival unions in the Jones de Laughlin Steel corporation were voting' to see which should be the sole bargaining agent Philip Mur-ray, chairman of the C. I. O. steel organizing committee, changed his I tactics and told representatives of the Crucible Steel Company of America he would agree to a con-tract similar to that signed last March by steel producing units of the United States Steel corporation and adopted since that time by 120 companies independent of United States Steel. These contracts recog-nized the Lewis union as collective bargaining agent for its members only. Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube announced their mills would be shut down if pickets surrounded them, and that they would not sign contracts. Several thousand union workers halted operations of the Studebaker corporation In South Bend, Ind., de-manding a closed shop. Three thou-- sand employees of the Aluminum Company of America's plant at Al-coa, Tenn., struck for better pay. JHENRL RORABACK, public util- - and for years the Republican leader in Connecticut, shot himself to death at his sum-mer home in South Harwinton, Conn. He was sixty-seve- n years old and had been In ill health for some time. As a vice chairman of the Repub-lican national committee, Roraback took an active part in the national campaigns of both Herbert Hoover and Alfred M. Landon. He was the first conservative "old guard" to an-nounce his support of Landon. DR. JUAN NEGRIN has Caballero as premier of Spain. He is forty-eig-ht years old, a Snrlnlist and is backed hv the s V - J Monts, France. But whether she will be "her royal high-ness" is at this writ-ing still a disputed question. Edward, through his Ameri-can friend Herman L. Rogers, has vir-tually told the world that she will, the New Yorker saying contest over the President', court enlargement pro-gra-m Is settled. Speculation as to Justice Van r'f successor began at once and It was generally agreed that Joseph Robinson, Democratic lead-er of the senate, had the best chance for the appointment It was be-lieved he had been promised the place at the first opportunity some time ago, and his many friends In both parties were quick to ex-tend their best wishes. Of course there was talk of his Ineligibility be-cause of the recently enacted statute permitting Supreme court Justices to retire on full pay for life. The Con-stitution provides that "no senator or representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States which shall have been created or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time." But several authorities declared this would not apply in the present case. Some observers believed that Rob-inson was so useful to the adminis-tration in the senate that Mr. Roose-velt would seek to be relieved of bis alleged promise to give him the appointment Senator Lewis of Illinois predict-ed that by mid-summ- Justices McReynolds, Sutherland, Cardozo and Brandeis would resign. BY THE expected vote of 10 to 8 the senate judiciary committee rejected the President's Supreme court bill. The Une-u- p of commit-tee members had been certain for many days. Supporters of the meas-ure then turned to compromise, some of them backing the propos-al of Senator Logan of Kentucky permitting the appointment of "temporary" justices at the rate of one a year for every sitting mem-ber over seventy-five- . The opponents of the bill, however, rejected this and all other compromises, which was the only consistent course they could pursue. So the bill was re-ported adversely to the senate, and , the battle will continue in that body. It appeared that neither this set-back nor the retirement of Justice Van Devanter had changed the de-termination of the President to in-sist upon the passage of his bill as originally submitted. Senator Wheeler said Mr. Roosevelt should now withdraw the measure. Sena-tor Ashurst declared "everything that has happened since the bill was Introduced has helped it" and pre-dicted it certainly would be passed. Senator Borah asserted: "The Van Devanter retirement will have no effect on the court bilL The lines have already been drawn and will not change." CARDINAL MUNDELEIN of five hundred priests of the archdiocese, hotly at-tacked the German government its Mrs. Warfield to correspondents: "I think she auto-matically would be called that." It was taken for grunted that Mr. Rogers would not have said that without the approval of the duke. This widens the breach between Edward on one side and the British cabinet and Anglican churchmen on the other. The duke's friends as-sert that Prime Minister Baldwin and his associates have broken a promise concerning the marriage, and they and the duke are angry because, at the be-hest of the government, no member of the royal family will be present at the ceremony. The announce-ment of the marriage, Issued from the Chateau de Cande, said there would be only a few guests In addi-tion to the witnesses and the serv-ants. Though the entire controversy seems rather foolish, it appears to mean a lot to the British and it is interesting reading. NEW YORK asked and obtained congress an appropria-tion of $5,000,000 for its world's fair, with the provision that the money was to be spent by the fair com-mission. But President Roosevelt vetoed the measure; and in his mes-sage he rebuked congress for "an unconstitutional invasion of the province of the executive" in setting up a commission to direct the ex-penditure. " powerful Madrid general federation of labor. The key posts in his cabinet have been given to Social-ists, and the An-arc- - Syndicalists are left out of the government. Negrin promptly abolished the super-ior war council that had been conducting : i.-.- -i highest leaders and its p r o p a g a n da methods which he said were directed against the Roman Catholic church and designed to "take the children away from us." He called Reichsfuehrer Hitler "an Austrian paper-hang- er and a poor When the message was read in the house the Republicans roared with laughter and the Democrats, or some of them, raged. Sam Mc- Reynolds of Tennessee and John J. O'Connor of New York especially voiced their resentment and open threats were made to cut down the relief appropriation demanded by Mr. Roosevelt The house killed a $1,250,000 ap- - Juan Negrin tte defense against Franco's forces and turned over direct command of the Spanish gov-ernment armies to his "win the war" cabinet He announced his gov-ernment would maintain "inflexible order" within loyalist Spain. Gen. Emilio Mola continued his fierce attacks on Bilbao, threaten-ing to destroy utterly the capital of the Basque gov-ernment unless it surrendered. He was so near to success that the British government warned British ships in the harbor to leave as soon as possible. IT WAS officially announced in Russia that forty-fou- r persons, convicted of carrying out espionage and sabotage plots "according to the orders of the Japanese secret propriauon lor a naval air base on the Columbia river in Oregon; and the appropriation of $5,000,000 for the construction of a national high-way through the Blue Ridge moun-tains in Virginia and North Caro-lina was attacked. But the latter was saved when Chairman Dough-to- n of the ways and means commit-tee said: "I have it on the highest authority that the President favors it." Incidentally, the hiphwav will one at that," and Cardinal charged the r e i c h Mundelein with breaking the concordat with the Holy See. He opened the speech by recall-ing that after the World war the , German government complained of "atrocity propaganda" aimed at German troops by the allied na-tions. He continued: "Now, the present German government is making use of this same kind of propaganda against the Catholic church. "Through its crooked minister of propaganda it is giving out stor-ies of wholesale immorality in reli-gious institutions, in comparison to which the wartime propaganda is almost like bedtime stories for chil-dren. "It will be not only unwise, but cowardly as well, if we take the thing lying down and do not fight back every time the subject is brought up outside." The vials of Nazi wrath were im-mediately opened and its press called on the pope to rebuke the I cardinal publicly. Der Angriff, per-- sonal organ of Dr. Paul Joseph f Goebbels, Nazi minister of propa- - run near a large farm Mr. Dough-to- n owns In North Carolina. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent to a number of State department appointments. Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles was nominated for the post of un-dersecretary of state. Assistant Sec-retary R. Walton Moore, who vied with Welles for the post of under-secretary, was nominated for the newly created office of counsellor of the Department of State. John Cudahy, former ambassador to Poland, was nominated as min-ister to the Irish Free State; Alvin Mansfield Owsley of Texas as min-ister to Norway, and Edwin L. Ne-ville of Ohio as minister to Siam. service," were executed at Svobod-n- y in the far east The victims were alleged to be Trotskyists and to have wrecked railroads. CHRISTIAN X. king of Denmark, subjects celebrated the monarch's silver jubilee in Cop-enhagen and throughout the king-dom. The festivities were marked by characteristic simplicity but clearly demonstrated the affection the people have for the tall sixty-six- - year-ol- d ruler who has been on the throne for twenty-fiv- e years. In the gaily decorated capital there was joint session of parliament a re-ception at the palace, a procession through the streets, a.id a gala din- - ner and a torchlight parade. I WHO'S NEWS I THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Pa Hon Gallant Crusader Against the Marijuana Weed NEW YORK. The good do isn't necessarily interred with their bones if they have wives. The late Hamilton Wright's world war on narcotics has been shoved on down through 19 years of tireless fighting by his widow. At Richmond, Va., recently, Mrs. Wright pleaded to the National Con-gress of Parents and Teachers for united and effective action against the marijuana weed, murderous Mexican narcotic smoked by school children. She calls it the "most pernicious of drugs." In New Mexico, twelve years ago, the state narcotics commission found growers and cigarette manu-facturers pressing s campaign among children, and they found the children smoking marijuana. They passed s law. The use of the weed crept on to New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Tex-as and several southern states. At the Richmond congress, Mrs. Wright represented the federal bu-reau of narcotics. In 1921, she be-gan her service as one of three In-ternational members of the opium advisory committee of the League of Nations, and has since waged her flght'against the drug traffic in ev-ery country where it originates. She was Elizabeth Washburn, the daughter of the late Senator Wi-lliam Drew Washburn, who had been minister to France. Hamilton Wright traveled, agitat-ed, organized, wrote and lectured for years against narcotics. When, in 1918, he went to Paris as a mem--: ber of the peace conference, he was killed In a street accident Mrs. Wright highly placed socially in Washington, left her pleasant home and her four children and picked up her husband's gage where it had fallen. In China, Turkey and Persia, she fought against the world tide of poi-son. She traced the green capsule of the poppy, from the fields of Yun-nan and Shensi provinces to the slums and stews of world capitals. She rounded up the story of the for-eign wars waged against China to make her admit Indian opium. With Ellen La Motte, who wrote "The Backwash of War," she pieced to-gether a narrative as unlovely as any chaplet of horror which ever rested on the brow of the nations. There are so many things to be against these days, it is hard to pick your opponent Why not just take marijuana weed? This writer speaks with feeling on this subject, having observed one citizen chew-ing another's ear off in a mountain hamlet in southern Mexico, quite a few years before the weed became an extra-curricul- Interest In American high schools. I had joined in singing the quaint "La Cucaracha" song about the cockroach that got so full of mari-juana weed that he couldn't walk home. There was nothing in the song about the drug's peculiar in-citement to mayhem. The song will become distasteful to anyone who has seen mariiuana 'at work also my experience near Mazatlan, where a peon was shooting up the town and lunging at passersby with a machete. It was about eleven years ago that the Brooklyn police arrested Andrew Iluerta, a Mexican sailor, who was selling marijuana ciga-rettes. In a backyard In Queens, he showed them a knee-hig- h crop of marijuana. This led to the arrest Of racketeer, rrnvinr Hia uronfl J selling cigarettes to soldiers. Every year or so there is an ar-rest The cigarettes are made from the dried leaves and the flow-ers of the weedwhich is known as "wild tobacco" and looks like a to-mato vine. It is a tough growth ana so is tne naoit. II somebody bites you on the subway, you will know what is the matter. All states, as Mrs. Wright reports, have laws against its growth or use, except South Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee. But so far as this writ-er can learn, there has been no unified or vigorous action, there is meager information and there is ac-cumulating evidence that with re-peal, some of the more resourceful liquor racketeers became agricul-turists. Lost Atlantis Again. For more than thirty years, Pro-fessor Leo Frobenius has been tak-ing the shine off our modern civili-zation by demonstrating that a lot of it is old stuff. The famous Ger-man archaeologist, lecturing in the United States, is one of the leading defenders of the lost continent of Atlantis theory. Now sixty-fou- r years old, he delves tirelessly in In-dia, Africa, Egypt, Tripoli and Tur-key. The son of a German army officer, also an author and scholar, he made his first expedition in 1904. Of all savants, he has turned up the most convincing evidence that many strata of great buried civili-zations underly our house of life. Consolldnted News Feature! WNU Service. EXPOSITION P; " rr ' , . a: Fit h 1 f 1 'J I The crown of Queen o! 2 ft Lakes Exposition tt G p Ohio, sits becomingly od4 b head of twenty-two-yeai-- t ret Meek. She was self: fee among scores ol Qevelas! 1 1 New Turf Champions of America """ miimiwuM iiiiu .Kinn..inrii ill 'mmi ftftriftrrifiiiil-iiimn- AM. if -- ' " Winning both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Cup at Pimlico, Md., War Admiral, son of the famous Man o' War, has become the lead-ing horse of the year, "and his "Jockey, Charles Kurtsinger, the leading rider. The new champion has earned nearly $50,000 for the owner, Samuel D. Riddle. CENTENNIAL GRADUATE Miss Margery McMaster of Sewickley, Pa., a member of the graduating class of the University of Pittsburgh, celebrating its sesqui-centenni- al this year, who receives her degree exactly 100 years after the 1837 graduation of her great grandfather, Andred McMaster. Here's Way to Outwit Milk TK ! h - - " " r i p 1 io I- - ' : ' b it'll : f Thieves will find It difficult to get away with milk If this by a Rochester, England, resident becomes popular. The w -- device consists of two hinged clips and a small padlock, i ' has one key, the duplicate is held by the wife of the roan the gadget. f Blaze Perils Waterfront of San Francisco ; .J h In r - ' ' f ft i f 't - - rv s - - if i - xWA" h Firein hiS T8 i" nt 8 plor in San Francisco during a mysterious conflaPjJ St,bL ame-- : VeVen hours before bought the fire under of uS Lvied up at ? f Pen d by the blaze whic sent great clouds of black smok I Eight firemen we injured and ninety-fiv- e were overcome or temporarily blinded by |