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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Supreme Court Bars Reservations lo Oath of Allegiance Economy Plans for Post Office Department Depart-ment Are Announced. By EDWARD v PICKARD tjMVE jii.stl. es of the " United Slates Supremo Su-premo court have ruled, In the case of I'rof. Douglas C. Mac-lntosh Mac-lntosh of the Vale (llvlnlly school, that a foreigner who seeks American citizenship must take the oath with no reservations ahout taking up arms for the country In Justice tlme of Wilr Mncln. Sutherland tosn refllse( t0 swear allegiance without limiting his obligation obli-gation to bear arms, and therefore Is denied the right of naturalization. The same decision was made In the case of Miss Marie Avcrill Bland. Both she and Macintosh are Canadlatw 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 Itosika Schwimmer, pacifist leader, who was denied citizenship on virtually virtual-ly the same grounds. Lie discussed the broad omnipotent war power granted congress by 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 Con-stitution or In applicable principles of international law." "The conscientious objector," Justice Sutherland added, "is relieved from the obligation to bear arms In obedience obedi-ence to no constitutional provision, expressed ex-pressed or Implied; but because, and only because, It has accorded with the policy of congress thus to relieve him." Cliliif Justice Hughes, Joined by Justices Holmes, Brandeis and Stone, dissented from the majority opinion. '"pWO other decisions of the Supreme court during the week are of great Interest. One reversed the Judgment of the Circuit Court of Appeals Ap-peals sustaining the patent granted Dr. Irving Langmuir in 1925 on vaccum tubes used in radio and other speech-reproduction speech-reproduction processes. The patent Is owned by the General Electric company. com-pany. It was attacked by the De Forest Radio company, which contended con-tended that unless the Langmuir patents were set aside General Electric Elec-tric would have a virtual monopoly of the radio tube now in common use. In the second decision the powers of the federal trade commission to regulate advertising are restricted. The commission had ordered the Ral-adam Ral-adam company of Detroit to cense advertising an obesity remedy as "safe" unless accompanied by a statement state-ment that it should be taken under advice of a physician. The commission commis-sion held it had the right to protect the public in tills wny, but the Detroit concern complained that the body was trying to censor advertising. In this contention It was upheld by the court. PROF. AUGUST PICCAKD, Swiss scientist, and his assistant, Charles Kipfer, established a new record by ascending 52,500 feet in a balloon. They are convinced they reached the stratosphere and that their observations observa-tions will be of considerable value. They started from Augsburg, Bavaria, being hermetically sealed in an aluminum alum-inum ball suspended from a large balloon bal-loon ; IS hours later they landed oa a glacier In the Alps of Austrian Tyrol. They nearly suffocated because their supply of oxygen ran short, and they suffered from hunger and thirst. EVERY time President Presi-dent Hoover takes some cabinet member to the Rapidan camp for a week-end, further furth-er plans for reducing thegovernmont's overhead over-head are concocted. First came the Army and Navy departments, depart-ments, and then it was the turn of the Post Office department postmaster Postmaster General Gen Brown V alter Brown and his assistants were the guests and the "victims," and after the conference in the woods it was announced that a program had been adopted that would save $38,000,000 in the present fiscal year and that would produce many economies next year. However, It was emphatically stated that efficiency would be increased Instead of diminished dim-inished and that there would be no decrease in personnel. The statement indicated that the department has felt the depression. It was estimated that due to business busi-ness conditions revenues to the department de-partment this year would be $5S,-000,000 $5S,-000,000 below the original estimates. Secretary of agriculture Hyde seems to be forestalling these Rapidan camp operations by planning considerable economies in l is department expenditures, though this is diflictilt without curtailing Important Im-portant services. He will be aided during dur-ing :'ie year by Hie termination of two emergency items drought relief and highway construction. These totaled 51011,000,000, providing aid for stricken farmers and jobs for the unemployed. Drought loans will be collected from farmers next fall, when their crops are harvested. States which have borrowed from the $80,000,000 emergency emer-gency highway fund will repay the money over a live-year period through deductions from their regular shares of federal aid. After deducting extension service nnd land grant college funds, between $40,000,000 nnd $50,000,000 remains for the department's actual expenses. ' I VHIS year's Memorial day address by President Hoover was delivered deliv-ered in the memorial park at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, where George Washington and his ragged troops spent a terrible winter 153 years ago, and where more than 3,000 of those patriots are buried. The exercises of the day were impressive. Two thousand thou-sand troops acted as escort to President Presi-dent and Mrs. Hoover and a battery from Phoenlxville fired the salute. In his address Mr. Hoover reviewed his past policies in international matters and outlined his plans for the future, especially concerning the reduction of armaments. The night preceding this, the President Presi-dent was the guest of the Union League club of Philadelphia at a banquet ban-quet where he was presented with an oil portrait of himself. N P XPERTS from -J many lands were present when the International In-ternational labor conference con-ference opened in Geneva, but the United Unit-ed States was not represented. rep-resented. Secretary of Labor Doak appointed Miss Mary Anderson, chief of the woman's bureau, as the Ainer- Miss Mary ican delegate and she Anderson sailed May 12' with the special hope that the conference might adopt nn agreement agree-ment banning night work by women. But just after Miss Anderson reached Europe Mr. Doak sent her a cable instructing her to stay away from (leneva. and giving her other missions for the department. Making his action public, the labor secretary merely said the State department de-partment had deemed It "wholly inadvisable" in-advisable" to have any one from the United States government at Geneva, either In official or unofficial capacity. XIRS. HARRY PAYNE WHIT-'-l ney's memorial typifying the heroism of the men who went down with the Titanic in order that women and children might be saved was unveiled un-veiled on the banks of the Potomac in Washington in the presence of President and Mrs. Hoover, and many other prominent persons. Secretary of State Stimson presided nt the ceremony. cere-mony. The statue is the contribution of more than 20,000 American women. TV.flCHELE SCIIIRRU, an Italian born naturalized citizen of the United States, was executed by a firing fir-ing squad in Rome' after being convicted con-victed of plotting to kill Mussolini and of other activities against Fascism. Fas-cism. Schirru admitted his guilt, but said his plans had been abandoned and he was about to return to America Amer-ica when arrested. T INVESTIGATION of the building material ma-terial Industry, especially espe-cially those phases of It involved in the letting let-ting of contracts for government buildings, lias been begun by the federal trade commission. com-mission. It is believed that the inquiry will throw a lot of light on (f'V-'WW." 3 f the long existing fight Senator between the Indiana shipstead limestone men and the granite nnd marble men of New England. Eng-land. Such, at least, is the hope of Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, Minne-sota, 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 re-lating to the letting of contracts for the construction of government buildings, build-ings, particularly with a view of determining de-termining whether or not there are or have been any price fixing or other agreements, understandings or combinations com-binations of interests among individuals, individ-uals, partnerships, or corporations engaged en-gaged in the production, manufacture or sale of building materials with respect re-spect to the prices or other terms at or under which such materials will be furnished contractors or bidders for such construction work." Senator Shipstead said lie Introduced Intro-duced the resolution because of complaints com-plaints that such collusion between the purveyors of building materials did exist and because of further com plaints, seemingly aimed at the handling han-dling of contracts by the government itself, that specifications for buildings were so framed that they unfairly limited lim-ited the sources from which materials could come. The limestone-granite-marble controversy con-troversy falls in the latter category. The charges are that Indiana's advocates advo-cates have been too influential and have somehow or other put "Indiana limestone" into the specifications for too many government buildings. P,. V I- 3j EXILE from Rumania Ru-mania and expulsion expul-sion from the royal family of that country is the fate arranged for Queen Helcne, the estranged wife of King Carol. According to Patria, the official organ of the Zaranlst party In Bucharest, a decree has been draft- Queen Helens ei for submission to the new parliament confirming Helen's exclusion and declaring de-claring that she Is no longer entitled to the rights and honors accorded to royalty. Parliament is expected to adopt the measure as soon as It assembles, as-sembles, and Ilelene will leave the country permanently soon thereafter, terminating her uncertain marital status of more than two years. Observance Ob-servance of the queen's saint day last Thursday was forbidden In an order issued by War Minister Stephanescu and authorized by Premier Jorga. Helene divorced Carol while he was in exile in 1928 with Magda Lupescu. When he made a dramatic flying return re-turn to Bucharest last year she spurned his overtures toward a reconciliation rec-onciliation and steadfastly refused to be crowned with him. REFORM and retrenchment In the army of Japan have been decided upon by War Minister Gen. Jiro Min-aml, Min-aml, Chief of Staff Gen. Hanji Kanaya and Gen. Nobuyoshl Muto, inspector general of military education. The army personnel will be reduced by 25,000 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 min-ister explains that only $-1,000,000 a year will be saved through the readjustments read-justments planned, and this amount, while hardly noticeable In any tax reduction program, will greatly aid the nation in placing the army on a level with that of Soviet Russia and other countries which maintain effectively ef-fectively equipped forces. SPAIN'S new Republican Re-publican government govern-ment is far from being stabilized yet. Its troubles, both external exter-nal and internal, continue con-tinue to cause some uneasiness. According to the authorities In Andalusia, martial law which was proclaimed pro-claimed there several weeks ago may have Don Francisco to be continued in- Aguilera definitely because of the turbulence of the Communists. Also, Al-so, martial law has been reinstated in Elda, Valencia, where there was a violent revolt last December. The army, now under command of Don Francisco Aguilera, the new captain general, is kept in readiness to suppress sup-press any uprisings anywhere, of either Communists of royalists. Elections in Catalonia resulted in complete victory for Colonel Francisco Macia's party. The assembly therefore will be dominated dom-inated by those who demand autonomy for Catalonia under the authority of the central government. The other day the Republican government gov-ernment 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 he sent a formal protest to Madrid after a conference with Cardinal Segurn, the expelled primate of Spain. CHINA appears to be on the brink of another civil war. President Chiang Kai-shek bitterly denounces the Communist rebels of Kwantung and Kwangsi provinces and says the Nationalist Na-tionalist government is forced to choose between accepting CommunisVs into the party, which it will not do, or resorting to war. Large bodies of troops were reported to be moving toward to-ward Canton to attack the insurgents. THROUGH Its chairman, J. Weston Allen, the national crime commission com-mission makes a report asking all states to pass a uniform law regulating regulat-ing theft information, ownership records rec-ords nnd registration to check the growing evil of automobile thefts and the use of stolen cars by criminals. The committee also recommends the enactment by congress of the bill 1 which makes criminal the transportn- tion in interstate or foreign commerce of property stolen or taken feloniously felonious-ly by fraud or with the Intent to steal or purloin. The bill passed the house of representatives but did not reacli the senate during the last session ses-sion of congress. HAVING changed his mind about appealing from his conviction and sentence for bribery, Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the Interior, lias asked the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse the decision of the District Court of Appeals. His brief attacks the validity of the indictment in-dictment and the admission of certain evidence. (x). 191. Western Newat)c Union.) I |