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Show Thursday. May News Review of Current Events the World Over Supreme Court IJill Opposed by Senate Committee, 10 to 8 Mrs. Simpson Applies for Absolute Divorce Fish Would End Our Cold Policy. W. PICK ARD By EDWARD & Wcitera Newspaper Union. of their ANNOUNCEMENT Supreme court bill by three more Democratic member of the ienate judiciary committee seemingly made 1 1 certain that body would report the measure adversely to the senate. The line-u- p at this writaw Ji ing is 10 to 8 against the bill. The three who openly joined the opposition were Senators J. C. of WyoSenator ming, Pat McCarren O'Mahoney of Nevada and Carl Hatch of New Mexico. With them in opposition are King of Utah, Van Nuy of Indiana, Burke of Nebraska, Connally of Texas, Austin of Vermont, Borah of Idaho and Steiwer of Oregon. Those committed for the measure are Ashurst of Arizona, Neely of West Virginia, Logan of Kentucky, Dieterich of Illinois, Pitt-ma-n of Nevada and Norris of Nebraska. McGill of Kansas and Hughes of Delaware, still noncommittal, were counted as being on the administration side. Senator O'Mahoney, one of the enthusiastic New Dealers ordinarily, said: "The hearings have been completed. I have listened attentively to everything that has been said, and I have heard nothing to date which has convinced me that any increase of the court is either necessary or desirable." Senator Hatch declared: "I do not think congress has the power to place men on the Supreme court to affect decisions in any way whatsoever. To do so would be an exercise of judicial power by the legislative branch of the government. If we place men on the court to change the trend of judicial opinions we thereby invade the province of the court and do that which many people have charged the court with doing." Senator McCarren addressed the Judiciary committee, in executive session, for an hour and a half and later said to the reporters: "In my judgment, the Supreme court should not be a department of government subject to the will of either of the other two branches of government. While the Supreme court and every other court that interprets the law should at all times keep abreast of the law and therefore be progressive; it is not for any other branch of the government to say it should reform its views to carry out the will of another branch. For that reason I am opposed to and will continue to oppose the President's bill." The committee agreed to begin voting on the bill and on proposed amendments on May 18. SENATORS, representatives, heads, and almost everyone else in Washington officialdom were worrying themselves over expenditure reductions, taxes, rising prices and falling revenues, and Supreme court reformation. But President Roosevelt was gaily sailing the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, angling for tarpon. He was on the Presidential yacht Potomac, which he boarded at New Orleans; his vessel was escorted by three destroyers, the Moffett, the Schenk and the Decatur. At Galveston Secretary Marvin Mclntyre set up a temporary White House, and Mr. Roosevelt planned to land at. that city when he got through fishing. . having elapsed SIX months Wallis was since Simpson granted a provisional decree of divorce, and the lady having behaved during that period in a way approved by t n e king's proctor, her solicitors petitioned the court to make the decree absolute. It was expected this would be done after the six days' Interval required by legal procedure. When Edward, duke of Windsor, and Mrs. Simpson Mrs. Simpson will be married is not yet known to the public and probably not yet determined by the principals in this most famous of modern romances. The duke was so angered by reflections on his fiancee and himself in "Coronation Commentary," a book written by Geoffrey Dennis, that it was reported he might set the wedding date before coronation day; but later there were rumors that Mrs. Simpson, seeking to avert further criticism, had persuaded him to wait until after his brother had been crowned. Edward demanded that the book be withdrawn and that the author and publisher apologize. This demand was complied with, but nevertheless he had his solicitors in London start suit for damages on the ground of libel. m,. s the officials, troops and horses were being rehearsed in their parts; the proprietors of parade seats were desperately trying to dispose of them at cut prices; and hotel managers and tradesmen of all sorts were preparing to make lots of money out of this thoroughly commercialized affair. It was said by steamship officials In New York that hundreds of Americans booked for the coronation had cancelled their passages, but despite this it wa certain London would be thronged with visitors. Democratic leaders In were disputing over various proposals for achieving the economy demanded by the President, the house without a quiver passed the second deficiency bill, WHILE carrying $79,200,000. The Democrats called it an economy measure because the appropriations were 19 millions less than the amounts asked by the department heads. But 15 of those 19 millions represented merely a reduction In the 30 million appropriation asked by the bureau of internal revenue for the refunding of processing taxes collected under the agricultural adjustment act. The saving, it was pointed out, was more a deferred "economy" in that the 15 millions will be included in the next budget. '"pHIS is the outstanding flnan- cial blunder of the New Deal" said Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, Republican, speaking of the administra- tion's policy of acgold at $35 an ounce, or nearly twice the cost of production. Mr. cumulating Fish thereupon in- troduced a resolution forbidding the secretary treasury chase any merce, gathered in Washington for their 25th annual meeting, started a vigorous campaign for change in the industrial and economic structure of the nation. To begin with, they adopted resolutions calling for amendment of the Wagner labor relations act and the undistributed corporate surplus tax. The policies of the administration were hotly attacked by several e t t i .1 . i a r vsi i i m speakers. Virgil Jordan of New York incity, president of the national dustrial conference board, said the government "has become an instruWashington. Several weeks ago, ment of forces alien to the enterprise principle of American life and I reported to you the apparent for presi-Muwork who desire to destroy it and Cut acUon in dential abof it the replace by principle the direction of a solute subjection to the state, which Spending curb on spending. in nearly every other part of the world holds the Impoverished and I have written about this subject people in its paralyzing many times and I have no regret that I have done so, because for a power." Assistant Secretary of Labor Ed- half dozen years our government ward F. McGrady asked the busi- has been spending money too rapidness men to give the Wagner act ly. The President's latest message chance to "work out" "Labor must move as a collec- reviewing the budget situation intivism," he said, "and must bargain dicates that the Chief Executive at last has started his thoughts in the through its own chosen representatives just as the employer does. direction of curtailed spending. InUnless labor, grouped collectively, deed, Mr. Roosevelt's message to can have its expert representatives congress in which he asked for billion and a half dollars for rewholly independent of employer influence, speak for it with a powerlief purposes was characterized by ful voice, there is no real bargain- quite a new note of firmness in his ing at all." discussion of the need for cutting government costs. I think it is fair to say that in previous messages controlling the SECURITIESrailroad empire built the President gave little more than up by the Van Sweringen brothers lip service to the cause of economy have been acquired from George A. in government His previous sugBall of Muncie, Ind., by Robert R. gestions to congress lacked force. Young, Frank F. Kolbe and Allan Not so with the current call for P. Kirby. all of New York and com- reduction in expenses. It had the paratively unknown in high finance. earmarks of determination but it The securities are those of the yet remains to be seen whether he corporation which Mr. Ball will insist strongly upon his contwo at auction bought years ago for clusions when the showdown with $3,121,000. The price paid by the comes. New Yorkers was $6,375,000. The congress The President's message was inMuncie man, however, does not in several respects beside make a personal profit from the teresting the note of firmness, mentioned transaction for he had placed above. He confessed, for example, with its holdings in a char- that there was no chance for a balitable fund. in the next fiscal year. anced budget Young said it was the plan of his There is no chance, he disclosed, group "to shrink the entire corporfor achieving the "layman's ate structure" rather than expand even That "layman's balance" it. He intimated that Midamerica balance." to be explained for, my underought would be and corporation eliminated, standing of economics does not conprobably several other of the intermore than one kind of template locking holding companies by which the Van Sweringens built up their budget balancing, namely, income equalling outgo. But Mr. Roosevelt, intricate financial structure. in his campaign last year and in his to congress last January, message NDREW A MELLON, frequently of "layman's balance" as spoke the target of administration ata balance of income and tacks, is again called on to defend meaning outgo with the exception of expendihis business. Attorney General Cum tures for relief and for retirement min gs announced of the public debt I have heard it that the Department described in many quarters as a of Justice had filed trick balance which I truly believe 1 P.. in the Federal Disshould be called since it is not an trict court in New it balance. York a suit to com honest In the January message, Mr. me oi uisbuiuuon pel Aluminum Company Roosevelt talked at length about the of America which necessity for business taking on Mellon controls for workers who were then on relief the purpose of rolls. Only in that manner, he emcould there be a reduction breaking "its mo- phasized, control" in relief rolls. nopolistic In the more recent message, the Andrew of the aluminum inPresident omitted any reference Mellon ac this dustry. By tion the government revives the to the responsibility of industry for act as a legal reducing relief rolls by Sherman anti-truworkers. That is not strange. weapon in regulating business. The fact is, according to the govThe suit named 36 officers, direcernment's own records, that industors, and stockholders of the comtry is taking on workers at a more pany, including Mellon. Twenty-fiv- e rapid rate than the administration affiliated and companies subsiiiary were named Other had expected. But still there is no members of the Mellon family hope of a balanced budget this year. So we must look elsewhere to find named with the former Treasury head are Paul Mellon, Richard K. the reason. Instead of one, we find Mellon, Jennie King Mellon, Sarah two reasons. The first and most imMellon Sea if e, David K. Bruce, portant of the two is the fact that, of Mellon, and Ailsa Mellon by whatever analysis you make, the New Deal is guilty of continuing to Bruce, his daughter. waste money by hundreds of milThe suit charges that the company is a monopoly in violation of lions and it was not until a few laws and that it has weeks ago that any serious effort the anti-truwas made to choke off this drain, power to fix arbitrary and discriminative prices. It charges the de- assuming the current effort is serefendants with conspiracies to rious. strain and monopolize, attempts to That statement sounds complicatmonopolize, and monopoly in vio- ed, and dull. It is not either one. act. The unvarnished truth is that Seclation of the Sherman anti-truretary Morgenthau and the flock of A letter addressed to H B. experts, trained only in theory, with Mitchell, president of the civil whom he has surrounded himself, President were unable to calculate what the service commission. Roosevelt placed a ban on specupresent taxes would produce in revlation in securities by government enue. Or, to say the same thing in officials and employees. There was a few words: Revenue receipts were no official explanation of this act, far below what the Treasury experts but for some time there have been guessed they would be. rumors that some persons high up In Thus, the picture seems to be the New Deal have been making a clear. On the one hand, the Presiin of the lot money by speculating dent heretofore has allowed the alstock markets after gettinp tips on phabetical agencies to run hither probable White House moves. and yon in their money spending spree. On the other hand, the lack SENATOR HARRY F. BYRD of of competent financial men in the Democrat, prepared Treasury again is glaringly shown. for introduction in the senate a bill To get back to the question of providing for the consolidation of the Home Owners' Loan corporacurtailed spending 1 should like to tion and the Federal Housing adcall attention to ministration. This merger, said Mr. Sounds the President's Byrd, would result in a saving of language in his Strong; but latest more than $24,000,000 a year withmessage. out impairing the work of the units. He said that he proposed to use "every means at my command" to b y President the deficit next year. That INTERVENTION for the time eliminate statement sounds strong enough. 1 of 25,000 being at least, a strike question, however, that it can be freight handlers on eight railroads called a program of retrenchment. that threatened the food supply of In other words, Mr. Roosevelt was New York city. The President ap- content in his message to congress pointed an emergency board of simply to criticize, if not to dethree members to attempt a settle- nounce, extravagant outlays insofar ment In his proclamation he said as new commitments are conthe dispute threatened "substantial- cerned. ly to interrupt interstate commerce During the last tew weeks, Mr. within the state of New York and Roosevelt has called upon the variother states in the eastern part of ous agencies of the government for the country to a degree such as to statements of their financial redeprive that section of the country quirements and something of a reof essential transportation service." view of what they have done with A dispute between rival workers' ballyunions balked efforts of the national previous funds. Considerable hoo accompanied announcement of mediation board to effect a settleof governmental rement Under the railway laboi act, this survey But again, there was no quirement the President forced a postponement for at least 30 days while evidence of specific determination oy the Chief Executive as to what mediators work. covernmental activity should be re t.t ty mats were trying on their new knee breeches; the peeresses were buying wigs to make their coronets fit more comfortably; members of the TWO thousand States Chamber cf Com- the of to purmore gold from foreign Rep. Fish tries at more than $25 an ounce. "The American taxpayers" declared Mr. Fish, "under the ruinous gold policy of the President and the secretary of the treasury, have become the 'angels' of Europe, and are now engaged in helping to finance these countries in their mad armament race. All of the nations of the world including Soviet Russia, have naturally unloaded their gold upon us at exorbitant profits, which, if we tried to sell back, we probably could not get 50 cents on the dollar. "This insane and costly gold policy Is almost on a par with the high financing of John Law's Mississippi bubble. The American people have been turned into milch cows, to be milked by every foreign country." coun- - st fear-ridde- n Mid-ameri- ca Mid-amerl- g st -- son-in-la- w C. I. O. steel workers' committee now claims a majority of the 540,000 wage earn- THE ers in that industry. Philip Murray, committee chairman, told the convention of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers in Pittsburgh that in the 10 months of the organization drive 325,000 members have been enrolled, equivalent to 60 per cent of the steel pay rolls. "We have driven the company union out of American Industry," Murray said. "No company union can hope to live from here on. Ten months ago the steel workers' organizing committee started from scratch. We had no members. To day we have built up 600 new lodges, enrolled 325,000 members, and signed wage contracts with 89 steel companies." women and forty-on- e Seventy-ninmen, arrested during we evic tion of sitdown strikers from the Yale & Towne Manufacturing company plant in Detroit were held guilty of contempt of court by Circuit Judge Arthur Webster. They were convicted for violation of an injunction which the judges had issued, directing them to leave the plant. Judge Webster imposed maximum penalties of thirty days in jail and $250 fines on George Edwards, United Automobile Workers of America who organizer, and Peter P. Sedler, Kcl-sey said he was an employee of the Hayes Wheel company. Ten day jail sentences were given three other persons. Sentencing of the others was deferred to July 15. e GILLETTE, the who became famous In the role of Sherlock Holmes and is remembered also for his good work in "Secret Service" and other plays, died in Hartford, Conn., at the age of eighty-onHe had been 111 since last autumn. John G. Pollard, chairman of the board of appeals of the Veterans' of all the earth administration and former FROM and quarters governor women of much. litti of Virginia, passed away in n or no Importance were flocking to of bronchial pneumonia. He London for the coronation; the diplo was sixty-siyears old. WILLIAM e. Wash-lngto- x st 6. 1937 what .about: Touring Accommodations. Advance Information MONICA, CALIF. Good-by- , SANTA the Commuter Dear. If comof 6ake home tor dinner tonightj et can't t out of a two lately us, 1 u sena you a wire. parison, r.fj Wife Don't bother, Milburn. on a little trip, stayed one motor read it already found it la I've a at wayside night coat pocket. your at next the and night stricted or entirely eliminated.' It camp was like charge of bird shot It the most expensive tourist Difference Quite There was no target hotel in three states, rates scattered. Abie Vill you please expU mentioned except in a general way. $25 Uiliw CUV V UCtWCCll il.il per day per sucker. There has been some talk that and the company VX117 tags pence? At the tourist camp, possibly Mr. Roosevelt's message was mixed but neighborly and, for Ikey You can valk down de and promise to use every means at the most treet vidout shillings. his command for curtailing ex- ant The part, pleas only really intended been have penditures may note was Oul, Monsieur as a message to bis own subordi- discordant the adin a lady bouillon, "Consomme, hors nates that definite orders were to joining cabin who, at d'oeuvres, fricassee poulet, pom-mfollow; that he intended bis suborall hours, kept wakde terre au gratin, demitasse dinates should see where they themhusband up, des (laces, and tell that mug in selves could lop off spending plans, ing her A for the the corner to keep his lamps off and could put their own bouses in apparently of telling purpose me moll, see?" Masonic Craftsorder. I hope it works out that way. him another thing man. On the other band, I entertain very about him that she serious doubt that such a procedure didn't like. will ever cause such individuals as At the exclusive the impetuous Mr. Harry Hopkins, establishment were Irvin S. Cobb on cut down to relief administrator, many guests wno his spending. Mr. Hopkins loves to seemed to be suffering from severe spend money. He seems to be hap- attacks of nervous culture, being piest when he has billions to spread tearful. I'd say. that, if ever.they around, regardless of whether the behaved naturally, they'd give themspending plans really accomplish selves away. Mainly they were dull. aid for the destitute. I suspect that Waxworks, even when animated, congress alone can curb Mr. Hop- usually are dull. kins and the only way congress can But stopping at a $25 a day hotel do so is by declining to appropriate ' -, r" r"-has one advantage, I find- - Afterextra money for him. ward, you can go around bragging What I am trying to say in using that once you stopped at a Mr. Hopkins as the "horrible exhotel. This should be a great ample," is that Mr. Roosevelt has help socially. taught his subordinates to spend money as freely as they can. To a Dealing With Snakes. considerable extent, he has let conCONNECTICUT congressman gress have a taste of new spending is pushing an act to prohibit morsels and what politician does not importation of venomous serpents like to spend moneyl Therefore, the from other countries for exhibition President is confronted with the ne- purposes. His fear is that an earthcessity of educating both his own quake or something might shake the subordinates and congress to the zoo apart and liberate a lot of deadnew order of conserving taxpayers' ly reptiles that would start multimoney. If he does not accomplish plying and constitute a new menace this, we will be saying in another to the lives of such of the populace six months what we have said many as have thus far escaped being times that we are confronted with killed by automobiles. (One way Jar from Ogde or national bankruptcy. Without presuming to assume that Salt Lake City, good in I cannot believe that the budget- the gentleman Is a bit of an alarmcoaches or chair cart.) ary situation looks any different like to point out that he can I'd ist, difWe have the FASTEST TRAINS The than it did last January. of adherents for this millions obtain ference in the picture is that Mr. measure among to San Francisco, all AmerRoosevelt at last has begun to see icans meals on the in an amendment by tacking some of the dangers in the situation to his bill Pacific Limited. bars the that providing which he either failed to see or likewise shall be put up against forei$31 ROUNDTRIP to San Franelected to ignore last January. gn-born communists. $32 ROUNDTRIP to Los y cisco; in who believed were few There that the tax receipts were goAngeles via San Francisco both How Times Change. fares good in ing to amount to the estimate given standard Pullmans (berth extra). congress by the President The fact I JUST read what I once knew for that they have fallen short of his myself but had forgotten in the calculations by four or five hundred rush and bustle of these latter days. million is a serious thing but it is It related to the attitude which For information, set or writ D. JE. Owen, not so serious that a remedy can America, considerably less than half Gen. Azt.f 41 So. Maim St., Salt Lake City not be worked out. The remedy, it a century ago, held toward unescortseems to me, is a simple use of a ed woman. For instance, as recently simple practice among Americans: as 1890 not many respectable hotels When you do not have the money, would permit one of them to regisdeny yourself some of the things ter. SALT LAKE'S NEWEST HOSTELRY you would buy if you had the cash. Some time after 1900 in fact, as I remember, it was about 1910 a Oar lobby Is delightfully air Mr. Roosevelt's message asking prominent lady was asked to leave cooled during the summer months for a billion and a half for relief one of the smartest hotels in New Radio for Every Room served to get the York city because she dared to light 200 Room 200 Bath Relief collective mind of a cigarette in the public lounge. As a women for at bar drinking congress off the Message forward-lookin- g Supreme court well, not even the most n could liberal conceive of so packing plan only temporarily. The 'a. relief message caused quite a stir incredible a sight as that in the house of representatives' And now just look at the darned where there has been a decided things! move already to continue appropriHardships de Luxe. ating huge sums of federal money for relief purposes, but it held the our plutocratic classes senate off the court question no WHEN to go simple, they go HOTEL longer than one business day. simple, regardless of what it costs no I think there has been ques'em. tion more frequently asked in my A rich couple have just completed time in Washington than: "Will the a trip out here, following the ancient Wales $l.SO to 93.0Q President's bill to pack the Supreme trails of the early pathfinders'. Like Tha Hotel Tempts Square has a court pass?" true pioneer stock, they roughed it atmoshighly desirable, friendly ImmacI have watched the ebb and flow in specially built twin trailers, each phere. You will always find it and comfortable, ulate, supremely of the tide of sentiment in the senabout the size of a pullman but thoroughly agreeable. Vou can therefore understand why thia hotel 1st ate constantly since the court packmuch more complete, and were HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ing plan was submitted. As the towed by a couple of You can also appreciate whys situation now stands, I believe Mr. The servants, only six in number, a mark of distinction to stop Ifa at Roosevelt has the odds In his favor. had to put up with two much cheapthia beautiful hostelry There is probably a margin of from er cars. C. ROSSITER, Mgr. ERNEST five to ten votes on the President's During the entire trip there was side. Whether that will be the state no dressing for dinner and thus, of affairs when a vote comes, I with true democratic spirit, was think no one can foretell because the primitive plan of the expedition the vote in the senate is going to carried out Every hardship enAND be close. countered enroute such as the Many informal polls of the senate champagne getting all jolted up and have been taken. The results have the caviar coming unglued in the varied somewhat They have vacan was cheerfully endured. An ried of necessity because there are armed guard was maintained a t many senators who remain nonnight to repel kidnapers and hostile ' committal, and who are unwilling Indian tribes. i at this time to take a position for I wonder how Jim Bridger and Kit or against the President's scheme. Carson ever stood it with no butler One may properly ask why this along in fact not even a second is. The answer is politics. A good man. THE ITS IRVIV S. COBB. many senators do not know how their home states feel about the WNU Service. LOMOND HOTEL BEN plan. That is, they are not able to determine whether there has been Ogden's Finest . , One of Utah's Best now Time Flics a crystallization of sentiment for 350 Rooms 350 Baths When it is considered that a watch or against the thing. $2.00 to $4.00 178 of is made approximately up Consequently, these senators are Air Cooled Corridors Delightful Rooms 50 of which undergo motion, trying to wait outside of the playing parts. Grill Room Coffee Shop and that the total number of the field until they can tell whether Spacious Lounge and Lobby involved operations manufacturing can in be justified Courteous Service going they is at least 1,500, some idea of the against presidential wishes or caEvery Comfort and Convenience that accompany problems design will be found at pitulating to the Preside. it's combecomes apparent. mand. It is to be remembered that watchmaking THE HOTEL BEN LOMOND that so small are of the parts Many if they turn against the President, OGDEN, UTAH magnifying glass is necthey antagonize the administration a powerful examine "COME AS YOU ARE" them in detail. essary to and particularly the Farley politiCHAUNCEY W. WEST, GlN L MOD, of cal machine. It is rather unhealthy Every available utilized in the for a New Dealer or Democrat to an inch must be the WNU W 1837 compactness attain to watch oppose the Farley machine. that characterizes the new mode. Another reason why many senaFor Instance, the balance wheel tors are keeping their own counsel AL MORRISON'S Million Dollar Bmmuty Formula swings between the third and fourth on the court packing scheme is that of clearance a Plmsles. RbABmatlnai. Conn. Numbness, only with wheels Callouses. Chapped Kklnl No JniB. Blackthey believe there will be something 0.006 inch. Screws for the balance heads sMaappear Inaiedtatly, Wrinkled in the nature of a compromise ssd RwarthyleattSkin reaterfd to nHtnral examples than 2c each week. Munuy eeanty. Coat come out of the hearings and senate wheels are alsoA striking sock If not satisfied. 2Ao pestpald. thimble can hold of minuteness. Ai, MORRISON judiciary committee consideration. 7,800 screws. Mleslea St. - See Fraaalses, CalM. C Western Newspaper Union. COSTKIOHT, iser es r y mm.- to San Francisco A Jan-aur- Southern Pacific J Temple Square Rolls-Royce- s. IN UTAH f 1 Aiiyr?: o |