Show news review of current events the world over oater supreme court bars reservations to oath 0 of allegiance economy plans for post office department are arc announced by EDWARD W PICKARD VE justices of the F FIVE i united states su so preme court hove auve 1 I 1 ruled in the case of prof douglas 0 macintosh of tile yale divinity school that a fi foreigner who seeks american citizenship m u t 1 take ta ka tho the oath w with 1 ati no reservations 7 about taking up arms arm for the country in justice timo time of war macin sutherland tosh refused to swear abear CO without limiting tits hia obligation to bear arms and therefore Is 1 denied the right of naturalization the same decision doc lalon was made in the case of miss marle marie averill uland bland bogli he ahe and macintosh are canadians and both saw paw wartime service in IN tince justice howard sutherland who wrote the majority opinion held that alia the cases properly came the principle laid down in the case of mer pacI flat leader who was dented denied citizenship on virtually the same grounds lie ile discussed tho the broad omnipotent war power grunted granted congress by the alie constitution laying from its very nature the war when nece necessity ity calls for its exercise tolerates no qualifications or limitations unless found in the con or in applicable principles of international law the conscientious objector justice sutherland added la Is relieved from the obligation to bear arms arma to in obedience to no constitutional provision ex pressed or implied but because and only because it has accorded with tile the policy of congress thus thua to rel relieve lovei him chief justice hughes joined by justices ices holmes olmes II brandeis and S stone one dissented from the majority opinion WO other decisions of the supreme court during the week are of great interest one reversed the judgment of the circuit court of appeals sustaining tile the patent granted dr irving langmuir in on vacuum tubes used in radio and other speech reproduction processes aea tile the patent la is owned by tile the general electric company it wag atta attacked c k d by the do de F forest or t radio company which contended tend 1 d that unless the langmuir patents were set bet aside general klec elec would have a virtual monopoly of the radio tube now in common use I 1 in the second deel decision sion the alie powers of tho the federal trade commission to regulate advertising are restricted tho commission had ordered tile the ral adara adam company company of detroit to cease advertising an obesity remedy as safo safe unless accompanied by a statement that it should be taken under advice of a physician the aho cominos hold bold it had the right to protect tho the public in this way but the detroit concern that tile the body was trying to censor advertising in this contention it was upheld by the court AUGUST swiss scientist and ills assistant charles established a now new record by ascending feet in a balloon they are con convinced they reached tho stratosphere and that their observations will be of considerable value they started from augsburg bavaria Ha varla being hermetically scaled la in an aluminum ball suspended from a large tal but loon 18 hours later they landed on a glacier in the tha alps ot of Aus austrian triau tyrol they nearly suffocated because their supply of 0 oxygen ran short and they suffered buffered from froin hunger and thirst y time president ey I 1 hoover ML takes leg some cabinet member M to the lite raphean camp for st a weekend week end further plans toy for reducing governments the overhead are concocted first caroo came the ar army MY and navy do departments p art and then it was tho the turn of the post office department postmaster postmaster contral sen brown walter wallet brown and ills his assistants were ivere the guests and the victims and after tho the conference in tho the woods it was announced that a program had been adopted that would save eave in the present als fiscal nl year and that atiat would produce ninny many economies next year however llo weer it 1 ans emphatically stated that eill clency would ht t encased nc nt ased eased instead ot of dim finished and that there would bo be no decrease in personnel the statement indicated that the lie department has felt the depression it was estimated that due to business conditions revenues to the dl department part ment this year would bev ba S below the original estimates 0 s op OF agriculture I 1 hyde seems to bo be forest ailing these rapidan camp operations liy by planning considerable economies economics in bis department expenditures ahugh this to la difficult without curtailing inn services lie ile will be aldel aided during the year b by the termination of two emergency items drought relief an and highway construction these totaled providing ald aid for strick stricken n farmers and jobs jor for the unemployed drought loans will be collected from farmers banners next fall when their crops are harvested nested ha states which have borrowed from the lie emergency highway fund will repay thee money over a five year period through deductions from their regular shares of federal aid after deducting extension service a and land grant college funds between and remains tor for the departments actual expenses T THIS HIS years memorial day addre address Ss by president hoover was delivered in the memorial park at valley F forge orge pennsylvania where george washington an and tits his ragged troops spent a terrible winter years ago and where more than of th those oal patriots fire are burled buried the exercises of f the day were impressive two thou sand troops acted as escort to rest dent and mrs airs hoover and a battery from fired tile the salute in his address mr hoover reviewed tits his past policies in international mutters matters and outlined ills hla plans for the future the reduction of armaments the night preceding this the president was the guest of the union league club of philadelphia at a ban where lie he was presented with an oil portrait of himself E EXPERTS f from rom many lands were present when the in ter national labor con ference opened in geneva but tile the united states was not represented secretary of 0 labor doak appointed miss mary anderson chief of the comans womans bureau as the amor amer MISS mary marv lean lc delegate and she anderson sailed alay 12 with will tile the special hope that the conference might adopt an agree e e ment banning night work by women n hut but just after llosa anderson andern reached europe sir air doak sent IQ ri cable instructing tier her to stay awny away from geneva and auld giving tier lier other missions for the department making tits action public tile the labor imbor secretary merely said eald the state department part ment had deemed it wholly inadvisable to have tiny any one from the united states government at geneva either in or unofficial capacity M hiis RS HARRY PAYNE pain WHIT neya memorial ts typifying pitting the heroism of the men who went down with the titanic in order older women and children might be saved was un an veiled on the banks of alie potomac in washington in the presence pre ence of president rind mrs airs hoover IIo oer and many other prominent persons secretary of state stale presided at the ceremony the statue Is the contribution of more than american women M on an italian born naturalize 1 citizen of 0 tile the united states 3 tates was aa executed by a bring squad in rome home after being convicted of plotting to kill and of other activities against fascism admitted hla his guilt but said ills plans had been abandoned and lie he was about to return to tg america when arrested T of the building material industry especially those phases of it involved in the letting of contracts for government buildings has been begun b by i the federal trade commission it Is believed that the inquiry wilt will throw a lot of light on tho the long existing fight senator between ua the indiana limestone men anti and the granite and marble men of new r england ng such nl at least Is tile hope of senator henrik of minnesota ta who introduced the lie resolution calling for the file investigation the trade commission announcing that preliminary work already had been started said in this inquiry the commission w will III and report facts relating to the letting of contracts top for the construction of government build ings particularly with a view lew of determining ter mining whether whet lier or not there are or have hae been any price fixing or other agree agreements meriM understandings or coin of interests among in dIvId bals partnerships or corporations en gagel in the production manufacture or sale of building materials with r respect to tile the prices or other terms ni at or under which such lunte materials rials will be furnished shed contractors or bidders for such construction work senator ShIp stend said bald lie he intro duped deuced the resolution because of c complaints m that such collus collusion lon between the purveyors of building materials did exist and because of further fu lier com coin pia ints seemingly aimed nt at the handling of contracts by the government itself that specifications for buildings were so eo framed that they unfairly limited the sources from which materials could could como come the limestone granite barbio marble controversy tr tro 0 versy mils falls in the latter category the charges are anro that In dianas navo cates have been too influential in fluent lal find and have somehow or other put indiana limestone into the de specifications for or too many government buildings from humania E EXILE 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 the of oolicia licia 1 organ of the th Zar anist party in bucharest a decree has been draft queen helena el ed for submission to the new parliament confirming fl helens elens exclusion and declaring that she Is no longer entitled to the rights and lionora 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 r terminating tier lier uncertain carlt marital at status of more than two years observance of the queens queena saint day last thursday was forbidden in an order issued by war minister and alad authorized by premier jorge jorga helene divorced carol while he be was in exile in 1028 1928 with magda lupescu Lupe when lie he made a dramatic flying return to bucharest last year ear she spurned ills his overtures over turea toward a reconciliation oncil on lation and steadfastly refused to be crowned with him REFORM bariny and retrenchment in the hie army of japan have been decided upon by war minister gen alro chief of staff gen kanaka hannya and oen gen nobuyoshi Nobuyo muto inspector general of military education the army personnel will be reduced by and the savings will be devoted to making the army the best equipped in the world the people had hoped that the money would go toward lightening their tax burdens but the war minister explains that only TOO a year will be saved through the readjustments just ments planned and this amount while hardly noticeable in any tax r reduction lon program will greatly aid the nation in placing the army on a level with that of soviet russia and other countries which maintain ef fictively teeth ely equipped forces PAIN new re ite S bublie publican an gov government ern k 4 I 1 Is far from being stabilized yet ct its troubles both external and intern internal ai continue to cause some uneasiness Ac according cordin to the authorities in andalusia m martial a r t I 1 a I 1 law which was pw claimed there several weeks ago may have don francisco to be continued in Agu aguellera llera definitely because of the turbulence of the communists AS al so martial law has been reinstated in eatla valencia where them was a violent revolt last december tile the army now under command of dou don francisco francl aguellera Agu llera the new captain general la Is kept in readiness to sup press any uprisings uprising anywhere of either communists of royalists elections in catalonia resulted in incomplete complete victory for colonel francisco macias party the assembly therefore will be dominated by those who demand autonomy for catalonia under the authority of the central government tile the other day the republican Republic um government issued a decree guaranteeing absolute freedom of worship to 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 CHINA C HINA appears to be on the brink of another civil war president chiang kal shel bitterly denounces the communist rebels of Kwan tung and provinces and says the nationalist tion alist government Is forced to choose between accepting communists into the party which it will no not I 1 do or resorting to war large bodies of troops were reported to be moving toward canton to attack the insurgents tallen its chairman J weston alien the national crime commission makes a report asking all states to pass a uni forin law re regulating theft information ownership ir records c and registration to c heck check tile the growing evil of automobile thefts and the use of stolen ears by criminals the committee also recommends recommend a the enactment by congress of the bill which makes criminal the transportation in interstate or foreign commerce 0 t property stolen or tak taken en feloniously by fraud or with it the intent to steal or purloin the bill bili passed the house of represent representatives a tives but did not reach geheb the senate during the last session of congress HAVING ahn changed aged tits lila mind about appealing from tits hla conviction an and I 1 sentence for bribery albert n fall former secretary of the Inte interior vior has asked tile the supreme court of the united states to reverse the of tile the district court of appeals llev brief attacks the validity of the in and the of certain ev evidence la mi W butr m laic |