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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Van Devanter Quits Supreme Court and RoLinson May Get Place Cardinal Mundelein Enrages the Nazis Windsor Marriage June 3. By EDWARD W. PICKARD (tj Western Newspaper Union. ASSOCIATE JUSTICE WILLIS VAN DEVANTER notified President Roosevelt that he would retire from the Supreme court bench immediately vmrmvw after the summer ., adjournment of the f : court on June 1, and t , ' there were rumors -v -in Washington that ; his example would if r be followed by Chief f f Justice Hughes and 'v,'y i associate Justices " j Sutherland a n d I ' Brandeis when the tL&kJi JLsA contest over the , n i i i. Senator Presidents court .... , . Hobinson enlargement program pro-gram is settled. Speculation as to Justice Van De-vanter's De-vanter's successor began at once and it was generally agreed that Joseph Robinson, Democratic leader lead-er of the senate, had the best chance for the appointment. It was believed be-lieved he had been promised the place at the first opportunity some time ago, and his many friends in both parties were quick to extend ex-tend their best wishes. Of course there was talk of his ineligibility because be-cause of the recently enacted statute permitting Supreme court justices to retire on full pay for life. The Constitution Con-stitution provides that "no senator or representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States which shall have been created or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time." But several authorities declared this would not apply in the present case. Some observers believed that Robinson Rob-inson was so useful to the administration adminis-tration in the senate that Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt would seek to be relieved of his alleged promise to give him the appointment. Senator Lewis of Illinois predicted predict-ed that by mid-summer Justices McReynolds, Sutherland, Cardozo and Brandeis would resign. BY THE expected vote of 10 to 8 the senate judiciary committee rejected the President's Supreme court bill. The line-up of committee commit-tee members had been certain for many days. Supporters of the measure meas-ure then turned to compromise, some of them backing the proposal propos-al of Senator Logan of Kentucky permitting the appointment of "temporary" justices at the rate of one a year for every sitting member mem-ber over seventy-five. The opponents of the bill, however, rejected this and all other compromises, which was the only consistent course they could pursue. So the bill was reported re-ported adversely to the senate, and the battle will continue in that body. It appeared that neither this setback set-back nor the retirement of Justice Van Devanter had changed the determination de-termination of the President to insist in-sist upon the passage of his bill as originally submitted. Senator Wheeler said Mr. Roosevelt should now withdraw the measure. Senator Sena-tor Ashurst declared "everything that has happened since the bill was introduced has helped it" and predicted pre-dicted it certainly would be passed. Senator Borah asserted: "The Van Devanter retirement will have no effect on the court bill. The lines have already been drawn and will not change." CARDINAL MUNDELEIN of Chicago, Chi-cago, addressing five hundred priests of the archdiocese, hotly attacked at-tacked the German government, its NwwsissKfiw? highest leaders and , J its p r o p a g a n da 1 methods which h e x x said were directed xx x I against the Roman x Catholic church and 5 x J designed to "take x X- x the children away . v x from us." He called xx Reichsfuehrer Hitler : N x , ' an Austrian paper-i paper-i i hanger and a poor one at that, and Cardinal charged the r e i c h Mundelein wRh breaking the concordat with the Holy See. He opened the speech by recalling recall-ing that after the World war the German government complained of "atrocity propaganda" aimed a t German troops by the allied nations. na-tions. He continued: "Now, the present German government is making use of this . same kind of propaganda against the Catholic church. "Through its crooked minister of propaganda it is giving out stories stor-ies of wholesale immorality in religious reli-gious institutions, in comparison to which the wartime propaganda is almost like bedtime stories for children. chil-dren. "It will be not only unwise, but cowardly as well, if we take the thing lying down and do not fight back every time the subject is brought up outside." The vials of Nazi wrath were immediately im-mediately opened and its press called on the pope to rebuke the cardinal publicly. Der AngrifT, personal per-sonal organ of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propa- ganda, charged the cardinal "spoke in a tone heretofore reserved for the lowest brand of agitators." The official news agency of the government alleged that "Mundelein defended the crimes of Catholic priests and laymen" on trial in German Ger-man courts and called on Catholic bishops in Germany to make a reply. re-ply. In Vatican City prominent churchmen church-men said Cardinal Mundelein had every right to speak his mind and that the Vatican would not concern itself with the speech, either to defend de-fend or to repudiate it. The cardinal's car-dinal's attack seemed to meet with general approval of Catholics, Protestants Prot-estants and Jews in the United States. Under instructions from Berlin, the counselor of the German embassy em-bassy in Washington lodged with the United States government an informal in-formal protest against Cardinal Mundelein's speech. XJ ITLER returned to Berlin from his summer house in Bavaria and heard from industrialists gathered gath-ered in extraordinary meeting that many of them would be unable to continue production satisfactorily because of the shortage of raw materials ma-terials and skilled labor and the general financial situation. The bad conditions affect especially factories working with rubber, metals and foreign textiles. TI7"ALLIS WARFIELD will be- come the duchess of Windsor when she is married to Edward, the duke, on June 3 at the Chateau de Cande, near f"Wl"'V Mn's' France. But I , i whether she will be i "her royal high ly1' . ness" is at this writ- I earn,, ing still a disputed i -5x' question. Edward, f through his Ameri- j can friend Herman sw. ? L- Rogers, has vir- v tually told the world i X ,w-'fJ that she wiu- the I .-j L New Yorker saying Mrs. Warfield to correspondents: "I think she automatically auto-matically would be called that." It was taken for granted that Mr. Rogers would not have said that without the approval of the duke. This widens the breach between Edward on one side and the British cabinet and Anglican churchmen on the other. The duke's friends assert as-sert that Prime Minister Baldwin and his associates have broken a pre-abdication promise concerning the marriage, and they and the duke are angry because, at the behest be-hest of the government, no member of the royal family will be present at the ceremony. The announcement announce-ment of the marriage, issued from the Chateau de Cande, said there would be only a few guests in addition addi-tion to the witnesses and the servants. serv-ants. Though the entire controversy seems rather foolish, it appears to mean a lot to the British and it is interesting reading. TSJEW YORK asked and obtained -L ' from congress an appropriation appropria-tion of $5,000,000 for its world's fair, with the provision that the money was to be spent by the fair commission. com-mission. But President Roosevelt vetoed the measure; and in his message mes-sage he rebuked congress for "an unconstitutional invasion of the province of the executive" in setting up a commission to direct the expenditure. ex-penditure. When the message was read in the house the Republicans roared with laughter and the Democrats, or some of them, raged. Sam McReynolds Mc-Reynolds of Tennessee and John J. O'Connor of New York especially voiced their resentment, and open threats were made to cut down the relief appropriation demanded by Mr. Roosevelt. The house killed a $1,250,000 appropriation ap-propriation for a naval air base on the Columbia river in Oregon; and the appropriation of $5,000,000 for the construction of a national highway high-way through the Blue Ridge mountains moun-tains in Virginia and North Carolina Caro-lina was attacked. But the latter was saved when Chairman Dough-ton Dough-ton of the ways and means committee commit-tee said: "I have it on the highest authority that the President favors it." Incidentally, the highway will run near a large farm Mr. Dough-ton Dough-ton owns in North Carolina. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent to the senate a number of State department appointments. Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles was nominated for the post of undersecretary un-dersecretary of state. Assistant Secretary Sec-retary R. Walton Moore, who vied with Welles for the post of undersecretary, under-secretary, was nominated for the newly created office of counsellor of the Department of State. John Cudahy, former ambassador to Poland, was nominated as minister min-ister to the Irish Free State; Alvin Mansfield Owsley of Texas as minister min-ister to Norway, and Edwin L. Neville Ne-ville of Ohio as minister to Siam. TING GEORGE and Queen Eliz-abeth Eliz-abeth went aboard the royal yacht Victoria and Albert at Portsmouth Ports-mouth and reviewed a tremendous naval parade of 311 fighting and commercial ships of eighteen nations na-tions at Spithead. It was a coronation corona-tion feature, so thousands of official of-ficial guests and uncounted private citizens also watched the imposing procession of vessels. For these great commercial steamers formed a grandstand. Seventeen nations were represented by one warship each. The battleship New York was in line for the United States. At night every vessel was brilliantly bril-liantly illuminated and their searchlights search-lights crisscrossed the sky as the guests dined and danced. Before going to Portsmouth the king and queen attended the traditional tradi-tional luncheon at the guildhall in the city of London. THE tenth anniversary of Charles A. Lindbergh's famous flight from New York to Paris was observed ob-served in both those cities, but the hero of the event paid no attention to it To a questioning friend he said: "I did it. Why should I celebrate cele-brate it?" The colonel spent the day with Mrs. Lindbergh and young Jon in seclusion at their country home in Kent. Even the telephone was disconnected. GEORGE L. BERRY, the new senator from Tennessee, has undertaken a difficult job. He announced an-nounced that he would try to restore peace between the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization, and that he would ask the President to support sup-port his endeavors. Mr. Berry wants an impartial arbitration body to reallocate re-allocate organizing territory of the two groups, allotting certain mass producing industries to the C. I. O. While the rival unions in the Jones & Laughlin Steel corporation were voting to see which should be the sole bargaining agent, Philip Murray, Mur-ray, chairman of the C. I. O. steel organizing committee, changed his tactics and told representatives of the Crucible Steel Company of America he would agree to a contract con-tract similar to that signed last March by steel producing units of the United States Steel corporation and adopted since that time by 120 companies independent of United States Steel. These contracts recognized recog-nized the Lewis union as collective bargaining agent for its members only. Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube announced their mills would 'be shut down if pickets surrounded them, and that they would not sign contracts. Several thousand union workers halted operations of the Studebaker corporation in South Bend, Ind., demanding de-manding a closed shop. Three thousand thou-sand employees of the Aluminum Company of America's plant at Alcoa, Al-coa, Tenn., struck for better pay. JHENRL RORABACK, public util- ities magnate and for years the Republican leader in Connecticut, shot himself to death at his summer sum-mer home in South Harwinton, Conn. He was sixty-seven years old and had been in ill health for some time. As a vice chairman of the Republican Repub-lican national committee, Roraback took an active part in the national campaigns of both Herbert Hoover and Alfred M. Landon. He was the first conservative "old guard" to announce an-nounce his support of Landon. DR. JUAN NEGRIN has succeeded succeed-ed Caballero as premier o f Spain. He is forty-eight years old, a Socialist and is backed by the -"-5 powerful Madrid ijxxTc. general federation of F labor. The key posts m in his cabinet have I I been given to Social- L2sCt4fST!! ists, and the An-V An-V ' . archo - Syndicalists s I are left out of the I government. 1 Negrin promptly k abolished the super- s- ior war council that sS had been conducting Juan Negrin the defense against Franco's forces and turned over direct command of the Spanish government gov-ernment armies to his "win the war" cabinet. He announced his government gov-ernment would maintain "inflexible order" within loyalist Spain. Gen. Emilio Mola continued his fierce attacks on Bilbao, threatening threaten-ing to destroy utterly the capital of the semi-autonomous Basque government gov-ernment unless it surrendered. He was so near to success that the British government warned British ships in the harbor to leave as soon as possible. TT WAS officially announced in l Russia that forty-four persons, convicted of carrying out espionage and sabotage plots "according to the orders of the Japanese secret service," were executed at Svobod-ny Svobod-ny in the far east. The victims were alleged to be Trotskyists and to have wrecked railroads. CHRISTIAN X, king of Denmark, and all his subjects celebrated the monarch's silver jubilee in Copenhagen Cop-enhagen and throughout the kingdom. king-dom. The festivities were marked by characteristic simplicity but clearly demonstrated the affection the people have for the tall sixty-six-year-old ruler who has been on the throne for twenty-five years. In the gaily decorated capital there was -joint session of parliament, a reception re-ception at the palace, a procession through the streets, and a gala dinner din-ner and torchlight parade. |