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Show THE SMITIIFIELD SENTINEL, SMITHFIELD, UTAH Loyalists Widen Front loyalists' drive to THE Spanish back the rebel forces to a safe distance from Madrid continued, with the government forces the fruit by expanding Court Plan May Have Died With Him . . Japan, China widening both flanks several miles. The main of advance was in a southerly Face Another Crisis . Treasury Backs 'First Lady line direction, slow but steady. It had progressed as far as a point halfway between Brunete and Loyalist forces were attempting to acquire control of the Quern ales river banks, there to dig in and protect the right flank while the main drive continues south. Rebel military strategists were not particularly distressed over the government advance, for they believe that if they can draw the major part of the Madrid garrison out into the open country and destroy it the advance will benefit them more than it will the loyalists. Artillery of both sides worked overtime as the rebel reinforcements came in to make the struggle more equal. The government was reported to be using dozens of Russian tanks. They are heavier and clumsier than the rebel tanks, but they carry field Joe Robinson Rallies the Democratic National Convention. pieces of great accuracy and pok tency. Still, a new kind of gun developed by the rebels stopped a number of them. Government planes were reportV WEEK THE SUMMARIZES WORLD'S ed doing serious damage to rebel O WeiUra Simnb Data. forces on the Basque front to the (Wash.), Brown (N. H.), Caraway north. In the east Gen. Sebastian Falls Pace to Battle Johnson Pozas, commander of the govern(Wis.), (Ark.), Duffy TIFHEN Sen. Joseph T. Robinson (Colo.), Lewis (HL), Murray ment forces in the Saragossa-TeruW of Arkansas dropped dead of sector, claimed that Albarracin "not a heart attack in his apartment (Mont.), Overton Jr.(La.), Pepand only has been completely sur(Ga.) Russell, (Fla.), per across from the United States capiWagner (N. Y.). Lundeen (Minn." rounded, but also government troops tal, the Presidents was the Farmer-L- a borite. now are fighting in the streets of the plan for securing Hie substitute for the original town. new appointments Ashurst bill provides for appointto the Supreme court ment id one new justice each year Mr. Eden Has a Plan bench, even in its to every justice remaining on the amended form, died court after reaching the age of DLANS to maintain the with him. vention patrol of Spain in a seventy-fiv- e years. That is the belief fashion that will satisfy all the naof close observers in tions concerned and insure against Conflict? New the spread of the Washington. For conflict beyond the Joe Robinson was WAR between China and Japan the President's towbelieved almost inevitable borders Spanish er of strength in the as hopes id settling a new outbreak have blown about like papers in a legislative branch of of hokilities by diplomatic means faded out. The fightthe government. He storm. And when had served the Democratic party you get right down ing ensued as Japto it, that is about anese gendarmes atwell In the senate since 1913, and as the majority leader in the upper all tempt to take over they have the policing of Yuhouse since 1932. amounted to. Lukow-kiao- , and Joe Robinsons job it was to keep Now anping Anthony two villages in a smooth balance between the conEden, Britains forthe Peiping area, servative democrats, largely of the eign secretary, has near Marco Polo come up with a new South, and the more radical members of the party from the North bridge. This, the one, as deft and perand West, so that1 the objectives Japanese said, was haps as futile as any which have of the New Deal could be turned provided for in the gone before it It provides for North China truce. the full out of the legislative mill of land to the and sea control of movements of Robinson never fought harder According assertions of the men and arms into Spain. French than he did in his last battle. As he worked hard and long in an Japanese war office, Chinese soldiers and British warships' would patrol fired upon the gendarmes and opened the coastline with German and Italattempt to get the compromise court plan passed, often raising his up with trench mortars against the ian observers aboard (the Fascist voice and exerting himself mightily Japanese contingent at the Yuanping nations, indignant over the Leipin senate arguments, it was ap- station. This action allegedly com- zig incident, have withdrawn from parent to his colleagues that he pelled the Japanese to make a night the patrol.) This arrangement was not well. Sen. Royal S. Cope- assault, costing 20 lives, in order to would operate only until a perland, the only physician in the sen- occupy the tqwns of Lungwangmiao manent scheme could be worked It was said out, placing observers for the nonate, had several times asked 1dm to and Tungshinghwan. calm himself lest he hasten his the Chinese troops had also ad- intervention committee in all vanced into these points. own death. seaports and airports from Officials of the counWhile the senate was adjourned which men and supplies might leave for Robinson's funeral, administra- cil claimed the Japanese moves for Spain, and in all Spanish ports tion leaders sought to rally support were in open violation of the truce. to see that none landed there. After so the court bill could be passed, They further accused the Japanese that, the sea patrol would be aboleven without the late senator's lead- of conducting night army maneu- ished. using real bullets instead of ership. But the opposition forces vers, were equally determined to take the blanks ordinarily employed in maneuvers. As Emperor Hirohito Upper Silesia Still Puzzle. advantage of the psychological as- and Premier Fumimaro DEFORE a new accord could be Konoe conpect of tiie senate following Robin- ferred with Genreached, the military leaders and the sons death the desire to effect a the franti- eva convention designed to reconcabinet, Japanese people finish the sessions business peace, cally prepared for the war that cile the interests of both Poland in a hurry and get away from the loomed. and Gerrtany in Upper excapital. Chinas Nanking government gave pired. Upper Silesia wasSilesia, once part The forces opposed to the bill orders to Sung Cheh - yuan, of both Germany and Austria, but believed that when the issue came commanderGen. of the North China after the World war it was split beup again they would be successful forces, that his army was not to re- tween in recommitting the substitute bill treat for Germany and Poland. The any reason, but was to be people of the two sections have since to the judiciary committee, an efto make the supreme that time mingled fective way of killing it The indica- prepared freely with one sacrifice to hold its position until another, carrying on a live comtion of opposition greater than had Gen. Chiang k should arrive merce unhindered over the bounbeen expected in the house of rep- over the railroad dary lines set by the League of resentatives was another factor with 50.000 fresh troops. Nations. pointing to the eventual fall of the As the fighting continued in the The difficulties occurred bill. Peiping area, with no hope of an when diplomatic no solution was forthcoming Another battle was not long in effective compromise on the two nagetting under way: to decide who tions demands, war seemed the for the problem of what to do with the Poles who wanted to remain the new majority leader of the sen- probable result. in the ate should be. Conservative DemAlthough an agreement was re- mans German section and the Gerwho wanted to remain in the ocrats were anxious to wrest a ported to have been made between measure of control from the White local Chinese and Japanese authori- Polish section. House by backing Sen. Pat Harri- ties at Tientsin, settling the dispute son of Mississippi, who has been to the satisfaction of both, the na- 6,625 Miles in One Hopl faithful to the President, but is tional government at Nanking has the world still thrilling fundamentally conservative. , T h e continued to insist that no agree- XyiTH to the recent flight of three more radical senators backed AL ment reached locally would be Russian aviators from Moscow to ben W. Barkley of Kentucky, Demobserved. the United States via the North Pole, ocratic national convention keynotthree more Russians did it again, er, who had been Robinsons as- Mrs. Roosevelt's Taxes p completing the longest sistant as floor leader. Another prosXXT'HEN Hamil-to- n flight in history. Representative Sen. was James F. Byrnes of pect After flying 6,625 miles from the Fish (Rep., N. Y.) sought South Carolina, but it was believed Russian to capital, Pilot Michael Grodemonstrate the unfairness of the his strength would eventually be Andrei Yumoshev and tax invasion Investigation commit- mov, transferred to Harrison. Navigator Danilin, made a Sergei he demanded tee, Another thing that had Washingthat the committee forced landing in a cow pasture near ton guessing as a result of RobinJacinto, Cal. A leaking gmwiinft investigate the in- San sons death was the vacancy on the line had exhausted their fuel supof come the wife of Supreme court left by the retirethe President from ply as they battled heavy fogs which ment of Justice Willis Van hung over the west coast region. radio broadcasts, Their was Robinson, it generally flying time was estimated at that charging she believed, was to have received the was not paying a 62 hours and 17 minutes. appointment cent of income taxes upon those earnings. Obituary in Blue She had turned over Struggle in the Senate EORGE GERSHWIN, composer $39,000 to the Amerr'WELVE Democratic senators who lifted x and one Farmer-L- a borite were ican Friends Service the level of the jazz music up to classics, died sudcommittee, a Phila- denly in Hollywood after an believed to hold the fate of the operadelphia $1 broadper administration's substitute for the cast for charity, kept tion for brain tumor. He was herself and paid bill nothing which His Rhapsody in Blue would increase original from her radio earnings was lamous the number of Supreme court whatever among the worlds muto the government. sic lovers, his opera, Porgy and justices to 15. The administration Assistant Attorney General Rob- Bess one of the most was certain that the bill would receive at least 33 votes, with 48 ert H. Jackson replied for her, ex- American of all musical individually works Ilia plaining to Chairman Doughton of Suwanee sold more than 2,000.-00- 0 necessary to a majority since Senthe congressional committee that ator Robinsons death. e copies, his musical senators were definitely committed the bureau of internal revenue had score, Of Thee I Sing, comedy was a advised Mrs. against it. Thirteen were still un- pay no tax onRoosevelt she need Pulitzer prize winner, and some of the receipts from his compositions, such as committed as the battle raged on the Strike broadcast. lie declared the re- Up the the senate floor and in the cloakBand, Soon, and Someis not sponsibility that of Mrs. rooms. body Loves Me were sung and Roosevelt, but that of myself and danced to The twelve uncommitted Demo- others by millions. Many promwho were treasury officials inent crats were: Andrews (Fla.), Bone at critics called him the most the time. original force in American mniffl Kara Review of Current Events SEN. 'JOE' ROBINSON IS DEAD National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart National Prau Bulldlnr Waahlngton, This article shall Washington. fct devoted not to politics nor to affairs of the gov-F ufure eminent of the na- t i o n exclusively Leadere but to the future l the future leaders. It shall be, to Naval-camer- o. IX C. the keenest medical minds said he could not live and if he did live would be a hopeless invalid. But Dr. West was made out of the same mold from which came the founders of our nation and from whom, as founders, the traditions and the methods known now as the American way have grown. It was Dr. West who devoted, indeed, dedicated his life to the organization and development of the Boy Scouts of America. It is now an organization of more than two million boys and there are some six million who can be called alumni because they have grown too old to remain in the ranks of active Boy Scouts. I mentioned earlier that this was an army of peace, an army devoted to the maintenance of American traditions. No better proof of this need be given, if any were needed, than the notorious fact that rep- that extent, a discussion of fundamentals about which I think there can be no controversy. First, let us take a quick survey. In the Capitol building of our own nation there is raging a bitter debate between two schools of political thought The question Is whether there shall be a law passed that will give to the President of the United States the power to appoint additional Justices to the bench of the Supreme court when and if present Bitting members reach the age of seventy-fiv- e and refuse to retire from active work. In Spain, a bitter political warfare moves on apace. It is over the question whether Communism of the resentatives from the three Russian sort or Fascism of the Italstates Italy, Germany and ian brand should be the dominant Russia are missing from the eninfluence in the government of that campment. In two of those states nation. the Boy Scout movement has been In the Far East, along the Rus- superseded by a dictator's decree sian border, troops of the Japanese which forces regimentation and milemperor and of the Russian dicta- itarizing of the youth. They are tor, Stalin, glared at each other. being trained for war. Happily most Their controversy also involves po- countries still pin their faith to the litical bases. That controversy also virtues summarized in the Scout is complicated by economic condi- law the boys promise not to die tions. It is a powder keg. but to live, not to cringe but to Back In Europe, we find a dicta- blossom, by holding themselves ewtor, Hitler by name, persecuting er trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendcitizens of Germany almost without ly, courteous, obedient, cheerful, end. A political question there is thrifty, clean, and last but not Involved and it Is complicated deep- least to maintain a reverence for ly by religion and race. Hitler and God. So, I think I can be pardoned for his minions seek to destroy, first, the Catholic church and, second, the feeling I have that in this enthe Jews. campment lie the seeds of a continued free America, waiting the Somewhat set off by the great Alps, although woven intricately in- time to take root and bloom into to this whole picture, is another dis- manhood. It is from these and from torted and disturbing condition. In these alone, that we can hope to Italy, Mussolini, having most of his maintain in our beloved nation a people under his steel boot, is now political system which warrants Communism nor Fascism; preparing for new crusades. He has neither ordered aU steel producing units which desires liberty and peace and in Italy to increase their produc- which challenges the cockeyed theotion to the maximum so that war ries that government must care for material will be available. Musso- the people rather than the people lini wants more territory; he wants care for their government. It seemed to me, therefore, to be to expand the influence of Fascism and he wants to build a gigantic something of a sour note that the world power in a military way with National Youth administration Rome as the center and with him which set up a hideous looking, boxlike structure near the center of as the head. the capital city from which literature could be distributed to the Boy of residents Through many years Scouts. This structure looked for Washington and visitors to the capital of the nation all the world like a soft drink stand Building have gloried in a at a cheap carnival and I, personally, resented the action of Nafor Future greensward borders the Poto- tional Youth administration officials mac river within the District of Co- who ordered its construction. I felt lumbia. It is a justly famous park, this way because the National Youth made more beautiful by such state- administration is predicated upon ly structures as the monument to the very theory that I have just George Washington and the great condemned a theory that governcitadel of beauty erected to the mem- ment must serve as a father for everybody and that it must lay ory of Abraham Lincoln. And, to add down rules to which all must subto this beauty is the vista across the river where stands in grandeur scribe. It is the nearest thing to the beautiful home that was the the regimentation that is going on In residence of Robert E. Lee main- nations under dictators that exists in our government today. taining throughout the years the respect that a nation has for a great Cabled dispatches from Russia inmilitary leader. It reposes, or seems to repose, in peace and quiet as do dicate again that the dictator, . lin, is determined the thousands of men who rest in the hillsides of Arlington National Heavy Hand to rid the Soviet of anyone and evof Staiin cemetery. eryone who In this peaceful setting for ten be opposed to him. The officialmay anthoudays, more than twenty-si- x Soviet sand boys the leaders of the fu- nouncements of the ture were congregated in a Na- government tell of the liquidation tional Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of numerous individuals who have of America. Tents were everywhere. objected to Stalins tactics or who Uncounted boys in the khaki shorts, are seeking to revise the Soviet in Russia Liquidation which is their uniform, flitted about system. the city or held various maneuvers means that those individuals were or staged dramas of the ages in a executed by a firing squad. A dead great arena. Among them was a man can cause no harm to the asof a dictator. sprinkling, and the number was not pirations The Stalin administration armore than a sprinkling compared to the boys, of the scoutmasters and ranges for the liquidation of its mature men who constitute the lead- opponents by coercion of confesand this is followed up by ership of this great army of youth. sions I hope I may be forgiven for inter- what the Soviet calls a trial in a of justice. The courts of jusjecting here an expression of my court tice are owned and controlled by has been my personal feelings. It lot to work hard from the time I Stalin; they decide as they are told decide and there is no such thing put off swaddling clothes. The work to as an impartial court in Russia beI have done and the experiences I cause the government owns the have met had a tendency to make me callous, somewhat cynical. But courts and names the judges who I must confess that on half a dozen are to do the government's bidding. Private advices from abroad seem occasions as I wandered through this tented city, I gave thought to to show that there is a very serious underneath the surface in my own boyhood and to two boys uprising for whom I am responsible, I felt Russia. Thousands of Russians have a swelling of pride, a satisfaction grown tired of having one man deof heart, that I live in a nation termine whether they shall live or which has given me the right to die and they yearn again- for a system of courts which will deliberty and progress. Moreover, there came to me the termine their guilt or innocence in thoughts of the future of my own accordance with honest evidence two boys and the millions of others presented and not in accordance with the way the governing clique just like them future leaders of a wants justice administered. nation that holds forth such possibilAs the Russian judiciary is conities as are best evidenced by the structed under the mailed fist of encampment of those twenty-sithousand then within the range Stalin, courts are a farce. Without such a court structure, however, of my vision. a dictator could not perpetuate his Then, no tribute to these future own power. He must have control leaders of our nation and to the of the courts in order to carry out nation which bred under the guise of law all of the Tribute them can or will whims and fancies and hatreds that be complete with he possesses. A nation of free people to West out mention of docs not long remain free after its Dr. James E. West, Chief Scout courts become subjected to the diExecutive. Dr. West was an orphan rection and control of one man. boy. Worse, he was a cripple. And Judges who can administer justice to add to these handicaps, there without fear or favor are the first was a period in his early life when perquisite to liberty. Wtatarn Nawipaptr Unloa. total-iari- ! that - x an anti-tan- IV. fticluuul el non-inter- -1 Sino-Japane- se non-Spani- sh Hopei-Chah- ar u Kai-she- Peiping-Hanko- w what about: Wrd Term Ballyhoo. QANTA MONICA, After president has its certain kSS Inspired patriot who is smiX close to the throne will from his cell with a terribleburst to proclaim that unless th. adored incumbent consents ff.m J succeed himself this re-elect- ed doomed. the .aid nd Perquisites! jJ? be doomed, so he couldnt be blamed for privately brooding on the dis- tressful thought. You wouldnt call him but you elfish, could call him hopeful, especially since theres a chance his ballyhoo may direct attention upon him Incidentally, pr5f as a suitable candidate when his idol aya no to the proposition. He might ride in on ths backwash, which would be eves nicer than steering a tidal wave for somebody else. Political observers have a tor this. They call it sendingnmt up a balloon. Its an apt simile, a balloon being a flimsy thing, fuQ of hot air, and when it soars aloft nobody knows where It will come down if at alL It lacks both ing gears and terminal fopiiitiff There have been cases when the sti-e- same comparison might have been applied not alone to the balloon but to the gentleman who lannpw it. So lets remain calm. Its traditional in our history that no president ever had to go ballooning in on der to find out how the wind blew and that no volunteer third-terboomer ever succeeded in taking the trip himself. Modern Prairie Schooners. TXTERE certainly returning with modern improvements-- to prairie schooner days when restless Americans are living on wheels and housekeeping on wheels and having babies on wheels. Only the other day twins were born aboard a trailer. And who knows? perhaps right now the stork, with a future president in her beak, is flapping fast, trying to catch up with somebodys perambulating bungalow. So its a fitting moment to revive the story of early Montana when some settlers were discussing the relative merits of various makes id arks which those bore such hosts of emigrants westward. They named over the Conestoga, the South Bend, the Murphy, the Studebaker and various others. From under her battered sunbon-nthere spoke up a weather beaten old lady who, with her husband and canvas-covere- d et her growing brood, had spent the long years bumping along behind an ox team from one frontier camp to another. she said, shifting her Boys, snuff-stic-k, claim the wuz the beat a family in. "I always did old hickory waggin one there is fur raisin Pngs Versus Statesmen. confusing to read that poor Jim Braddock, having reached the advanced age of thirty-foor thereabouts, is all washed up, and, then, in another column, to discover that the leading candh dates to supply young blood on the bounSupreme court bench are but ding juveniles of around sixty creates doubt in the mind a a fellow who, let ua say, is quite ena few birthdays beyond that Braddock, Mr. yej wreck, gendered till has a considerable number be an ag years to go before hellsenators. adolescent like some to cant decide whether heoldought men join the former at the the latter in the home or enfist-wit- PS ur ix-This Boy Scouts. non-sto- Co-Pil- ot De-vant- thirty-ei- ght. Forty-thre- Quiescent Major General. COMETHING has gone out of For months now no general the regular army, whether retirea or detailed to a civilian Job, talked himself into a jam m want to berry Jam, if you a cheap pun of it. EaSf Maybe its being officially . active on while for so long that make such a eonvetMUg Teasie out of the average when he goes into private pursu and lets hie hair down. as though he took off hi tact with his epaulettes. And wjum subsides theres always take hie place. ar You see, under modern is W officer the commanding He may lead the retreat, butnever S the charge. When the biqriwawng , front in out the top is he notice d word? Not bo you the new rules hes signing Pb b in a bombproof nine milea a the the, lines and about exercise he runs is from lack of the fresh air. what so nfic9 May be, in view of happens when pence enu" instead gt should save on privates generals. BVW 8 C()uB. K- - mull BaMilM. |