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Show Xe irs Rerieic of Current Events COURT FIGHT ISN'T ENDED Lawyers See the Judiciary Still Threatened . . . Sumners Says People Lose Control of Government i s I; I n Dnce and Der Reichsfuehrer Review Nazi Troops in Munich. S&W W.-Pleluaid SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. Bar for Free Courts CONVINCED that the independence independ-ence of the federal judiciary is still threatened, despite the defeat of the plan to enlarge the Supreme court, the American Bar association, in session in Kansas City, voted unanimously to authorize a committee commit-tee to keep up the fight to preserve the freedom of the courts, as recommended rec-ommended by a special committee. That committee said: "There appears ap-pears to be no likelihood that efforts to re-make the courts of the United States will not be renewed. Your special committee is of the opinion that the association ought to maintain main-tain itself in readiness to meet such issues as they may recur, rather than to rely upon impromptu organization or-ganization for the purpose." The lawyers listened to many speeches, both attacking and defending de-fending President Roosevelt's court program and his appointment of Hugo Black to the Supreme court. The climax to all this came when Hatton W. Sumners of Texas, chairman chair-man of the house judiciary committee, com-mittee, arose to talk. He had a prepared address, but shifted to an extemporaneous talk in which he declared the people have lost control of the government of the United States and it has passed into the hands of a million people in its executive ex-ecutive department, in which only one man was elected, and which the people could not control. "What are we going to do about it?" Sumners cried. "Are you willing will-ing to join a battalion of death to save the Constitution and the government? gov-ernment? "As we lock to the future, we are rapidly approaching a crisis when it will be decided whether our economic eco-nomic system and our government will stand or fall. "I mean actually. A very serious situation is before the people. It means we have got to do something some-thing soon. We have got to balance the budget. We have got to decentralize decen-tralize government responsibility." Cumffiings Hasn't Quit Fight A TTORXEY GENERAL CUM-MINGS CUM-MINGS in his press conference Intimated strongly that the administration admin-istration intends to push for the court reforms the President has demanded. de-manded. To support this position he produced the annual report of the judicial conference composed of the chief justice and senior circuit judges. It recommended appointment appoint-ment of 16 additional federal judges. "In this report" said Mr. Cunnings, Cunn-ings, "the judiciary has capitulated. capitulat-ed. They admit now there is congestion con-gestion and delay in the judicial system. sys-tem. They ask for additional judges to provide relief. This is a complete com-plete capitulation and a welcome one." O'Mahoney Butts In p RESIDENT ROOSEVELT, on the ' way to Seattle, first entered the "enemy's" country when he crossed the border of Wyoming, the state of Senator Jo-",h O'- . - Mahoney, leader oi the anti - Supreme :i court enlargement j forces. Mr. P.oose-. P.oose-. , veil's train reached ' j Cheyenne in the ear- I ? ly morning. and '. ' . there, among the Y welcomcrs, was Jo- 6 , ,Jt: scph, though he had Y pointedly not been " invited to board the Senator trajn ,e waLkccl O'Mahoney olonitr.ide the President's Presi-dent's car and Mrs. Roosevelt cmcrgfd, shook his hand and asked after Mrs. O'Mahoney. The senator then entered the private pri-vate car and he and Mr. Roosevelt hook hands and said "Hello," but the atmosphere was decidedly chilling; chill-ing; he to'.k leave of the party at Casper, Wyo., after accompanying the President and his group on b drive about Uiat city. The Chief Executive spent two days In Yellowstone National park, find then went on to Uoifte, Idaho; to the Bonneville dam near Portland, Port-land, and thence to Seattle. After a pleasant visit with his grandchildren, Mr. Roosevelt boarded board-ed the destroyer Phelps and went to Victoria, B. C, for a "good neighbor" call on Lieutenant Governor Gov-ernor Hamber. His schedule thereafter included a night at Lake Crescent, Wash., a drive around the Olympic peninsula ending at Tacoma, and then the eastward trip with stops at Grand Coulee and Fort Peck dams, Grand Forks, N. D., and St. Paul, and a few hours in Chicago to dedicate the new Boulevard bridge over the mouth of the Chicago river. Soviet Helping China? JAPANESE officials in Shanghai " asserted they had learned that Marshal Galents - Bluecher, commander com-mander of the Russian Far East armies, was directing the Chinese campaign against Japan by telephone tele-phone from his Siberian headquarters. headquar-ters. According to Domei, the Japanese news agency, munitions and other military supplies are being transported trans-ported by trucks into China across the province of Sinkiang from Soviet So-viet Siberia. If these reports are true it may be Stalin has decided the time has come for Russia to take sides with China openly, and that would make things tough for the Japanese invaders. Russia Warns Japan TOKYO officially notified Moscow that the Chinese were plotting to attack the Russian embassy in Nanking with planes disguised as Japanese aircraft, for the purpose of involving the Soviet government in the Sino-Japanese conflict. With the equivalent of "Oh, yeah?", Russia retorted with a stern warning that it would hold Japan responsible for any bombing of the embassy, intentional inten-tional or accidental. The Soviet officials of-ficials said they considered the reported re-ported plot a "pure prevarication showing the intention of some Japanese Jap-anese military powers to bombard the Soviet embassy intentionally and then try to escape responsibility." With callous brutality Japan continued con-tinued the air raids on Nanking, Canton and other large Chinese cities, the bombs slaughtering thousands thou-sands of helpless civilians. The utter ut-ter contempt for protests of western nations shown by Japan seemed warranted by the failure to Insist on respect for the nine-power treaty guaranteeing the territorial integrity integ-rity of China. For this failure Generalissimo Gen-eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek blames especially the United Stales. "This war." said he, "will last as long a3 Japanese aggression lasts in China." The League of Nations adopted a resolution severely condemning Japan for the aerial bombardment of defenseless Chinese cities, and Tokyo, indignant, charged the league of acting without verifying the facts. To the protests of five great powers, previously filed, the Japanese government replied with the assertion that the bombing of Nanking was "necessary for our purpose." The Pritish public is becoming increasingly in-creasingly aroused against Japan and there is a general demand for a boycott of Japanese goods. The government has permitted an aircraft air-craft company to lake a big order for fighting planes that will soon be shipped to China, and they may be manned by independent British pilots. Yarnell's Policy Wins ADMIRAL HARRY YARNELL was decidedly opposed to the policy of Washington to withdraw American warships from Chinese waters In the face of danger. His protests have been considered by the general board of the Navy department de-partment and his program approved. ap-proved. Consequently our naval vessels will remain there to protect our nationals "as long as the present pres-ent controversy between China and Japan exists." Auto Union Shake-Up j CEVERAL times Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Automo-bile Workers of America, has intimated inti-mated that there were too many radicals among the leaders of that union. Now, allegedly for reasons of economy, he has got rid of some of them. These organizers have been let out: Victor Reuther, one of the leaders in the General Motors Mo-tors strike at Flint, Mich., last winter; win-ter; Robert Kanter, Stanley Novak, Melvin Bishop and William Tonn of Detroit; R. D. Richter of Saginaw; Charles Rigby, Ohio; Frank McMillan, McMil-lan, Kansas City; Eugene Stauder, Frank Bartee and Frank Schutz, Indiana. Martin also announced he had promoted Loren Houser to be organizational or-ganizational director for Detroit. Elmer El-mer Dowell was made director of all General Motors locals in the nation. na-tion. R. J. Thomas, international vice president, has been appointed director of all Chrysler locals, and Richard T. Frankensteen, director of the organization program among Ford Motor company employees. Lester Washburn of Lansing, Mich., leader of the "labor holiday" last spring, was made director of the U. A. W. for western Michigan, and Charles Madden, Pontiac, director di-rector of eastern Michigan outside of Detroit Italy Wins "Parity" GREAT BRITAIN and France yielded to the demands of Mus- j solini and granted "parity" to Italy in the anti-piracy patrol of the Mediterranean. Med-iterranean. That sea was divided into three zones. The Italian zone includes the extensive Italian coast line, the Tyrrhenian sea around Sardinia and, in the east, the coast of the Libyan colony. The Aegean sea is assigned to Britain; and France will guard the Syrian coast and the sea lane between Marseilles and Algiers. All three zones extend east to the Suez canal since all three powers are interested in keeping open that gateway to the East War Dance for Duca BENITO MUSSOLINI, visiting Adolf Hitler for the purpose of composing and presenting to the world a statement of the intentions and demands of the ! eJ""J Ilalian and German f" i governments, was ; - V: received by the k sxt. , 'f- Nazis with great en-''. en-''. thusiasm. II Duce, i ' i on the way to Ber-j Ber-j ; lin, stood on a hill in ! -.3r-V'; Mecklenburg with I i . ' , jC--; I Hitler and witnessed , ; . ' a big war dance I . staged by the' - d reichsfuehrer that Adolf Hitler displayed the re- j gained military ! might of Germany most impressively. impressive-ly. Hitler's best officers and troops, j armed with the latest weapons of ' death, put on a sham battle partici- i pated in by all land and air forces. I In the nearby Baltic the German warships showed how they chase ; 'Red" submarines; and at Wustrow i the anti-aircraft batteries gave a demonstration of thir t :i c'.-vuness. The huge munitions pi in's in the . Ruhr district were visited and the ' throngs of wnrkcrs. given a hoiiday i with pay, cheered the two dicta- j tors heartily. Every city and vil- j Inge was decorated. In Berlin there , were tremendous demonstrations and elaborate festivities in honor of j the visitor from Rome I In the midst of the display of j war strength and preparedness, Hit- ; Ier and Mussolini made speeches declaring their devotion to the cause j of peace. At the same Ume they insisted the world must grant to Germany and Italy the recognition and the rights they feel are their due. After a grand review of the Nazi j army, the two dictators conferred privately. Details of the conversa- ; tion were kept secret, but officials I said II Duce and Der Fuehrer not j only discussed German-Italian co- ! operation but also talked about an : understanding in southeastern Eu- . rope the inclusion of Austria, Hun- gary, Jugo-Slavia, Bulgaria, and ' possibly Rumania in a yencr.il Eu- ' ropean realignment ! Noted Merchant Dies ! EDWARD A. FILENE. best known of all Boston's merchants, died of pneumonia in the American hos- I pital in Paris. He was seventy-seven ' years old. Besides being a business j man, Mr. Filene was a noted social economist He was sometimes called the apostle of mass production produc-tion and distribution. Only ten days after he took charge of the American legation in Vienna, Grcnville T. Emmet died of double pneumonia. He was sixty years old and was a former law partner of President Roosevelt, lie was minister to the Netherlands in 11)33 and was given the Austrian post last July. More Woo in Palestine GREAT BRITAIN'S contested plan to divide Palestine between be-tween the Jews and the Arabs, with a slice for herself, came to the front again when Lewis Andrews. British commissioner of Galilee, was assassinated assas-sinated by n group of terrorists In Nii.arcth. Three men, two In European Eu-ropean garb nnd one In peasant clothing, ambushed Andrews and shot him and his bodyguard to death. Andrews had gained the enmity of extremists because of the strictness of his rule as district commissioner. |