Show news rev review bew 0 of f current 9 events even ts the world over supreme court bars reservations to oath of allegiance economy plans for post office depart y ment mant are arc announced by EDWARD W PICKARD FIVE justices of the united states su preme brome court h have a v e V ruled in n the case of 6 v I 1 prof douglas 0 macintosh of the yule yale divinity school that a foreigner who seeks seeka american citizenship must take the oath with no reservations about taking up arms for tile the country in justice time of war macin sutherland tosh refused to allegiance without limiting ills his obligation to bear arms and therefore la Is denied the right of naturalization the same decision was mado in the case of miss morle marle averill bland both ehe and macintosh are canadians and both saw wartime service in france justice howard sutherland who wrote the majority opinion held that the cases properly came within the principle laid down in the case of hoilko flat leader who was dented denied citizenship on virtually vIr tUPI tho the same grounds ile he discussed the broad omnipotent war power granted congress by tile the constitution saying from its very nature the war power when necessity calls for its exercise tolerates no qualifications or limitations unless found in the constitution ution orin or in applicable principles of international law the conscientious objector justice sutherland added la is relieved from tile the obligation to bear arms amis in obedience to no constitutional provision expressed or implied but because and only because it lias has accorded with the policy of congress thus to relieve him chief justice hughes II joined by justices holmes Br andels and stone dissented from tho the majority opinion T TWO WO other decisions of the supreme court during the week ire are of great interest one reversed the judgment of the circuit court of appeals sustaining the patent granted dr irving in 1025 on tubes used in radio and other speech reproduction processes the patent Is owned by the general company it was attacked by the de forest ilailo company which contended that unless the Langin patents were set aside general elec dec trie would woul d have hae a virtual monopoly of the radio tube tilbe now in common use in the second decision tile the powers potters of the federal trade commission to regulate advertising are restricted the commission had ordered the rial ral adam company of detroit to cense cene advertising an obesity remedy as safe unless accompanied by a statement that it should be taken under advice of a physician tile the commas sion elon held it had the right to protect the public in this woy way but the detroit concern that the hody body was trying to censor advertising in tills this contention it was upheld by the lie court AUGUST swiss PROF tits his assistant charles lupfer established A new record by ascending feet in a balloon they aro are convinced they reached tile the stratos stratosphere phero and that their observations will be of considerable value they started from augsburg bavaria being hermetically sealed in an aluminum ball suspended from a large balloon IS 18 hours later they landed on a glacier dincler in the alps of austrian tyrol they nearly because their supply of oxygen ran short and they suffered ered from hunger and thirst EVERY time president hoover takes daae agine cabinet member to tho the camp for a weekend week end furth er cr plade for reducing the governments overhead are concocted first come came the army and navy depart i merits and then it wa was the turri turn of the post 0 f f I 1 c a 0 department postmaster postmaster general G gen en grown brown walter crown brown and ills assistants were nere the i guests and the victims and after the conference in the woods it was announced that a program had been adopted that would save in ilie present fiscal year a ind nd that bouli produce runny many economics next year horev How everIt i er 4 it was emphatically stated that would be Ibe increased instead of diminished and that bce would be no do decrease crease in per personnel vonnel the statement indicated that tho the department has felt the depression it was estimated that duo due to bustness business conditions revenues to the do department part ment this year would be 58 below the original estimates T ills years memorial day address addres t by president hoover was waa delivered in the memorial park nt at valley forge pennsylvania where george washington WaA hington and ills his ragged ra aged troops spent a terrible winter years ago anti and where more than of those patriots are burled buried the exercises of the day were impressive two thousand troops acted ns as escort to president and mrs hoover and a battery from Phoenix phoenixville ville fi fired red the salute in ills his address mr air hoover reviewed his past policies in international matters and outlined tits his plans for the future especially concerning the reduction of armaments the night preceding this the president was the guest of the union league club of philadelphia at a banquet where he was presented with an oil portrait of himself f from r 0 m E EXPERTS many lands were present when the international ter labor conference opened in geneva but the united states was not represented secretary of labor doak appointed miss mis mary anderson chief of the womans comans bureau as the amer miss mary ican can delegate and she anderson anderaon sailed may 12 with the special hope that the conference might adopt an agreement banning night work by women hut but just jus t after miss anderson reached europe mr air donk doak seni sent her a cable instructing her to stay away from geneva and giving her other missions for the department making ills his action public the labor secretary merely said the state department part parti ment nent had deemed it wholly inadvisable to have any one from the united states government at geneva either in or capacity RS HARRY WHIT MRS na memorial typifying the heroism of the men who went down with the titanic in order that women and children bo be saved was un veiled on the banks of the potomac tn in washington in the presence of president and mrs hoover and ninny many other prominent persons secretary of state stimson presided at the ceremony the statue la Is the contribution of more than american women ICHELE an italian M born naturalized citizen of the united states was executed by a firing squad in rome nomo after being convicted of plotting to kill mussolini and of other activities against fascism admitted tits his guilt but said his plans had been abandoned and lie he was about to return to america when arrested T investigation of I 1 the building ma ina aerial industry especially those phases of it involved in tile the letting ting of contracts for government buildings gs has been begun by the federal trade commission it Is believed that the inquiry will throw a lot of light on the long existing fight senator between the indiana limestone men and the granite and marble men of nw new england such at least Is 3 the hope of or of who introduced the resolution calling for the investigation the trade commission announcing that preliminary work already had been started said in this inquiry the commission will investigate and report facts relating to the letting of contracts for tle construction or of government buildings particularly with a view of determining ter mining whether or not there are or have been any price fixing or other agre agreements emonts understandings or corn com of interests among individuals partnerships or corporations en in the production manufacture or sale said of building materials with respect to the prices or other terms at or under which such materials will be furnished contractors or bidders for such arcu construction work senator said bald he introduced the resolution because of complaints that such collusion between the purveyors of building materials material did exist and because of further complaints pla ints seemingly aimed at the handling bandling of contracts by the government itself that specifications for buildings were so framed that they unfairly limited the sources from which materials could come the limestone granito marble controversy tro versy falls in the latter category the charges are that In dianas ad advocates vo have been too Influent influential ini and have somehow or other put indiana limestone into the specifications tor for too many government buildings from ru EXILE mania and expulsion from the royal family of that country is the fate arranged for queen helene the estranged wife of king carol according to patria batrla the official elal organ of tile the Zar anist party in bucharest a decree has been draft queen helene helena ed for submission to the new parliament confirming helens exclusion and declaring that she is 13 no longer entitled to tile alio rights and honors accorded to royalty parliament Is expected to adopt the measure as soon as it assembles sem bles and helene will leave the country permanently soon thereafter terminating her uncertain marital status of more than two years observance of the queens saint day last thursday was forbidden in an order issued by war minister and authorized by premier jorga helene divorced carol while he wa was in exile in 1028 with magda lupescu Lupes cn when lie he made a dramatic flying return to bucharest last year she spurned tits his overtures toward a reconciliation oncil on lation and steadfastly refused to be crobu crowned ed with him PAINS new republican S government awk Is far from being stabilized yet its troubles both external and internal con dinue to cause some 6 uneasiness according to tile the authorities in andalusia Andalus lii m martial a r t I 1 a I 1 law which was proclaimed there several weeks ago may have don francisco to be continued in aguilera definitely because of the turbulence of the communists also martial law has been reinstated in R elda ida valencia where there was a violent revolt last december the army now under command of don francisco aguellera Agu llera the new captain general Is kept in readiness to suppress any uprisings cuprisin up as anywhere of elthea communists of royalists elections in catalonia resulted in complete victory for colonel francisco macias party the assembly therefore will be dom by those who demand autonomy for catalonia under the authority of the central government the other day the republican government issued a decree guaranteeing absolute freedom of worship to nil all religions the pope regarded this as a clear violation of the concordat still in existence between spain and the vatican and lie he sent a formal protest to madrid after a conference with cardinal segura the expelled primate of spain HINA appears to be on the brink C CHINA of another civil war president chiang kal kai shek bitterly denounces tile communist rebels of nw and provinces and says the nationalist tion alist government Is forced to choose between accepting communists into the party which it will not do or resorting t to 0 war large bodies of troops were reported to be moving on toward canton to attack the insurgents I 1 its chairman J weston THROUGH allf Pi the he national crime commission w wakes a kes a report asking all states to pass a uniform law regulating theft information ownership records and registration to check the growing evil of automobile thefts and tile the use of cars that are stolen by criminals the also recommends the enactment by congress of the bill which makes criminal the transportation in interstate or foreign colli commerce merce of property stolen or taken feloniously by fraud or with the intent to steal or purloin the bill passed the house of representatives but did not reach the senate during the last session of congress HAVING avina changed his mind about appealing from ills his conviction and sentence for bribery albert 11 fall former secretary of the interior has asked the supreme court of tin the united states to beerse the decision of the district court of appals appala Ap pals ill brief attacks tho the validity of tile the in and the f of certain bertah evidence A ISSI western newspaper Mw paper tIn binlon lon |