Show news bews review off of current events SENATE KILLS COURT BILL votes 70 to 20 to recommit elect barkley backley NOW new majority leader spanish war enters second year al senator harrison right congratulates senator barkley Gark lcy 40 f summarizes THE WORLDS world YS WEEK 0 western newspaper paper union glory bo be to godl god I 1 V D YING for weeks uie the scheme to A add to tho the number 0 of justices of the supreme court finally choked its last gasp and left this world on a roll call vote the united states senate voted to recommit the robinson substitute for the presidents original origin nl bill to the judiciary committee the vote was 70 to 20 the most crushing defeat the presidents legislation has yet suffered at the hands of a house of congress in ad an agreement made abst at a session of the judiciary committee earlier carlier it had been decided to lot let the opposition senators write their own bill an innocuous measure for judicial reform not dealing in any way with the supreme court senator tor barkley Bark lcy shenew the new majority leader attempted to save the presidents face by having tho the bill left on the calendar but he never had a chance when the roll call came even senators ashurst of arizona and minton of indiana two of the supreme court bills chief supporters voted to recommit r glory bo be to godl said sen hiram johnson rep calif when the results of the roll call were mode made known the applause that bellowed forth from the senators and gallery alike left no doubt that the veteran from california had voiced tho the sentiments of the great majority 4 low interest for farmers Y A vote of 71 to 19 the senate B BY overrode the presidents veto of a bill extending for or a year low inter est rates on loans to farmers it was a defeat even more erd crushing shing than the ot of the court bill and made the bill a low law without the presidents signature tor for tho the house had previously passed it by a two thirds majority over mr Roosevel ts veto senator barkley Dar kley made a halfhearted hearted attempt to slave off the overwhelming vote and the defeat was accepted by many observers as an n expression of resentment over Bark leys having been elected majority leader instead of sen pal pai harrison arrison II of mississippi barklay Bar kloy 38 harrison 37 EN WILLIAM 11 II DIETERICH DIETER ICIl S SEN of illinois changed his hi mind at tho last minute and today albon alben W Dark barkley lcy hard listed blustering senator from kentucky Is the majority leador leader of the united states senate succeeding the late joseph T robinson of U arkansas tile the vote was 38 tor for barkley to 37 tor for sen pat harrison of mississippi the conservative democrats in the n senito had been as garner gy of gg 38 votes enough to elect harrison on the eve of the secret election dut but that night Dieter dieterlen leh apparently under pressure from the democratic party parly organization in illinois bogged begged harrison to release his pledged vote in order that the presidents choice might head the party in the senate the slim victory by no means patched the obvious party rift even tile the administration admitted that the presidents supreme court bill was virtually dead even then vice president garner visited sen burton K wheeler of montana leader of the opposition forces and invited the opposition which it was believed had enough votes to recommit the substitute bill to the judiciary committee to draft a new bill president roosevelt then told senators barkley and harrison arrison II at tile the white house that four measures must be passed before the january session the minimum wage maximum hours and child labor bill bill the now new AAA and ever normal granary bill the wagner housing bill and legislation to plug loopholes in the federal tax laws congress was all for quick adjournment the president was told the possibility of adjourning congress then recalling it in special session in the late fall with committees continuing to function in the interim was then discussed but what agreement had been reached was not announced noun ced A citizen izen takes his pen 1 RUSHING blow to the presidents CRUSHING court program delivered at the time it hurt most was a letter written by gov herbert H lehman of new york to sen robert kobert F wagner of that state the letter made c public revealed 1 1 governor lehmans it t 1 opinion as a citizen of the state of new york that the bill would be contrary ryll to the interests of the people of the state slate its on en gov belinian Le linian act ment the governor wrote would create a greatly dangerous precedent which could be availed of by future less well intentioned administrations rations for the purpose of dupres oppression or for the curtailment of the constitutional rights of our citizens bloody anniversary tits THE HE spanish civil war entered its second year for the populations of rebel cities the occasion was one for joyous celebration with fiestas bull fights and contorts concerts the order of the day gen francisco franco commander of the insurgent forces publicly proclaimed it a year of triumph he ordered that all communications and public documents for the next twelve months be dated as of the second year of triumph in the first year of triumph more than a million persons including women and children were killed the insurgents claim to have taken 34 of tho the 60 50 provincial capitals of tho the country and all of its col colonies onles they have captured six of tho the eleven cities of more than inhabitants seville malaga bilbao saragossa cordoba cordob a and granada I 1 the rebels lost little time in attempting to regain their losses around madrid franco unleashed the full power of his main army of in a drive to recapture bru note nete and other suburbs of 0 the loyalist stronghold they were met by at least defending government troops every weapon of war except gas was val used there was hand to hand fighting in the trenches and the greatest use of artillery since the world war as the fiercest battle battla of the spanish conflict raged the battle was opened by as spectacular an aerial fight as the world has seen in years insurgents were reported to have lost 27 planes against only tour four tor for the tha loyalists if there were any definite gains made in a weeks fighting they were probably on the side of the insurgents observers reported although the government estimated the rebels had lost men japs maul U S women A upon two american awoden ia women by sentries in the japanese embassy in neiping brought vigorous protests both orally and in writing horn from the united states embassy the two women mrs helen H R jones of detroit and miss carol lathrop of washington D C were walking through the embassy when sentries charged them from behind sandbag barricades while one sentry kicked miss lathrop in the side another held off mrs jones with the flat fiat of his bayonet when the women were released they were roughly shoved mrs jones being forcefully chilly kicked from bt sino japanese crisis J JUST after a verbal agreement agre emen between chinese and japanese military commanders had appeared to have prevented an impending re newal of the sino japanese war the th japanese go government officially an bounced that heavy concentration of ol 01 chinese troops had been made at al Pei neiping ping constituting a direct act ol of aggression against japan at the same time the government claimed that 17 japa nese troop tralis s carrying soldiers were en route to north china from corea and Manchu kuo earlier japanese troops were said to have arrived in north china to supplement tho the regular garrison of at gen sung cheh yu an chairman of the hopel political council and commander ol of the chinese forces in north china had complied compiled verbally with the japanese ultimatum for peace although he refused to sign anything in a talk with gen kiyoshi katsuki the japanese command commander he apologized for the clash between japanese troops and the chinese twenty ninth army at Lukow klao kiao july 7 the incident which perpetrated the new crisis and expressed the regrets of the council ile he said that he would dismiss several of his officers as a punishment gen sung assured the japanese he would evacuate the area west of neiping Pei ping and would do his utmost to suppress comm communism cism and anti japanese activities part of the agreement was that both chinese and japanese troops should be withdrawn from the walled city of suburb of neiping Pei ping but chinese troops refused to withdraw when they alleged it became certain the japanese had no intention of withdrawing either in the midst of many conflicting and confusing reports the outcome of any truce was problematical to say the least europe short on grain E EUROPE began to worry about tile the possibilities of a hungry winter as early threshing indicated a serious grain shortage germanys germanas Germ anys shortage was estimated at tons the deficit will be met partly with increased consumption of potatoes and sugar beets and partly with cheap plentiful corn from southeastern europe it is expected even so that tha t germany will have to buy to tons from other foreign countries experts estimated estimate d that tho the german harvest for 1937 would be 10 to 20 per cent below the average for the years 1930 35 poland from which germany has been able to buy grain in the past will not be ba able to sell year while hungarian rumanian and ju go crops will be smaller than last year because of drouth it was believed that if the current drouth douth continued the farmers of great britain would likewise rainfall in the past month has been about one filth fifth normal of the baltic countries only lithuania it is bulleted bull tull eved will have a crop equal to her needs crops suffered badly in latvia Esth esthonia onla and finland only spain in all europe with an increase of 15 per cent over last years grain harvest appears mely likely to enjoy a well filled bread basket t do de valera Is reelected re elected I 1 TF F ms HIS party flanna fianna fall can 1 keep in power that long eamon de valera will be president of the executive council of the irish free state fur for another five years he was elected to the nations highest office by a vote of 82 to 52 in the dall eirmann parliament de valera in favor of severing all ties with great britain won even tile the vote of the labor group which does not endorse his party it was believed that de valera would go ahead with legislation necessary to implement the new constitution ution approved in the plebiscite of july 1 ile he would in that case set up a senate and elect a president by popular vote as the constitution provides if de volera valera is elected president to serve seven years political experts say he will virtually disappear from politics and his party will break up static wrecked hindenburg THE HE spectacular crash of the zeppelin hindenburg killing 36 at lakehurst N J last may 6 was probably caused by an unseen spark of static electricity which jumped from the atmosphere to the frame of the dirigible at least this is the theory of the board of inquiry which investigated the accident and reported to secretary of commerce daniel C roper the experts considered every other possible cause fire sabotage brush discharge of electricity from sharp points on oil the ship broken propeller blade radio transmitter spark lightning and structural failure and decided that their theory most nearly fitted the circum stances attending the disaster 4 inventor of wireless dies MARCONI who altered GUGLIELMO the lives of all of us when he invented the wireless died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in rome ile he was sixty three years old had been in good health and was planning the construction of a new radio station in the vatican at the time of his death premier mussolini paid homage to the great inventor kissing the dead 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