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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President Roosevelt's Message Ueljukes Supreme Court and Asks Increased Federal Powers Wisconsin University Regents Oust President Frank. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. '"pHIMLY veiled but unmistak-aljle unmistak-aljle was President Roosevelt's rebuke to tiie Supreme court in his annual message on the state of the y uw(-..--j Union. Standing tri-V- ,a umphant before the IT ' lopsidedly Demo- ,. cratic senate and i jx ',, , ' house in joint ses-$'-. A sion, the chief exec-... exec-... ' , utive said: i f'T" "The United I r'i"' 1 States of America, , within Itself, must -j i continue the task of V 4-.- j ' ' . J making democracy succeed. Preside.. ,.Jn tha, task the Koosevelt ,L.Bislative braneh of our government will, I am confident, con-fident, continue to meet the demands de-mands of democracy whether they relate to the curbing of abuses, the extension of help to those who need help, or the better balancing of our interdependent economies. "So, too, the executive branch of the government must move forward in this task and, at the same time, provide better management for administrative ad-ministrative action of all kinds. "The judicial branch also is asked by the people to do its part in making mak-ing democracy successful. We do not ask the courts to call non-existent powers into being, but we have a right to expect that conceded conced-ed powers or those legitimately implied im-plied shall be made effective instruments instru-ments for the common good. "The process of our democracy must not be imperiled by the denial of essential powers of free government." govern-ment." Sketching the program for his second sec-ond term, the President said legislation legisla-tion he desired at this time included includ-ed extension of the RFC, of his power to devalue the dollar and of other New Deal authorizations about to expire, deficiency appropriations, appro-priations, and extension of the neutrality neu-trality law to apply to the Spanish civil war. Conceding that NRA had "tried to do too much", he continued: con-tinued: "The statute of NRA has been outlawed. The problems have not. They are still with us." The President proposed federal . - - and' state supplementary laws to help solve the social and economic problems of a modern industrial1 democracy and challenged speculation, specula-tion, reckless over-production and monopolistic under-production as creating wasteful, net losses to society. so-ciety. It was indicated that later on he would seek enlargement of federal powers over industry, agriculture agri-culture and commerce. No members of the Supreme court were present to hear the rebuke re-buke by the President, but the house chamber was filled to its capacity ca-pacity and there was a spirit of jubilation that broke out in frequent fre-quent demonstrations. The loudest of these was accorded to Jim Farley, Far-ley, the genial national chairman being fairly smothered with congratulations con-gratulations for the November Democratic Dem-ocratic victory. THE senate and house met the day before the President addressed ad-dressed them and organized, with Mr. Garner of course as president ef the former and mDgmm-Speaker mDgmm-Speaker Bankhead x again ruling over I the lower chamber. I The one matter of interest in this pro- N ceeding was the se- - lection of Sam Ray- burn of Texas as V '-s majority leader of the house. He had N beaten John J. O'- J Connor of New York . ., , bam in the caucus, hav- ,, , . . , Rayburn mg the potent backing back-ing of Vice President Garner and presumably of Mr. Roosevelt. Of the total of 16 new senators only two were absent, Clyde L. Herring of Iowa and William H. Smathers of New Jersey, both Democrats. Two new Republican senators were sworn in, H. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire and Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts. Immediately after the President's address had been delivered on Wednesday, Wed-nesday, both house and senate hurried hur-ried with the neutrality resolution applying specifically to the civil war in Spain. The senate adopted it quickly by unanimous vote, but there were parliamentary delays in the house, and meanwhile the freighter Mar Cantabrico managed to get away from New York with Robert Cuse's cargo of airplanes and munitions for the Spanish loyalists, loy-alists, valued at $2,000,000. GLENN FRANK, president of the University of Wisconsin, was removed re-moved from office by the board of regents of that great institution, by a vote of 8 to 7, on charges that his administration has not been capable and that he has been extravagant ex-travagant in personal expenditures lor which the state paid. Allegedly, Dr. Frank was ousted because Gov. Philip La Follete demanded it. As one regent said: "He has not been very Progressive." Accused of play ing politics in this affair, the La Follete group replied that there is no politics in their attitude in the sense of political party affiliations or convictions, but that they have been extremely patient with Dr. Frank over a period of years, and that he has shown himself incompetent incom-petent in many ways. The "trial" of President Frank occupied two days and aroused intense in-tense interest throughout the country, coun-try, especially among educators. Chairman of the Board H. M. Wilkie and Regent Clough Gates were the prosecutors. Dr. Frank made vigorous vigor-ous reply to the charges against him, declaring most of them to be "false statements." He explained that he had spent university money for his household furnishings because be-cause there were none in the big mansion provided for the president, and he forced Gates to retract some accusations. As far as neglect of his duties for outside writing and lectures Dr. Frank noted that most of them were in Wisconsin, for which he never took any pay at all. He has been out of the state 137 times in ten years, he said, and eighty-eight of those trips were specifically with educational groups, alumni bodies or other university business. The remaining engagements, he said, were with groups whose problems prob-lems were related to the problems arising in the various schools. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION CORPORA-TION flatly refused to consider collective bargaining in its 69 plants except through local management. Whereupon 300 dele- " gates from those "W, plants in ten cities fj' - -j met in Flint, Mich., and granted to a " , "board of strategy" power to order a , 4 general strike. The ; f 1 board is headed by skJ S Homer Martin, in- K Cf M ternational president ; 1 of the United Auto ; j M mobile Workers of --i-d America, one of the A p 31oan Lewis C. I. O. unions. un-ions. Eighteen of the corporation's plants were already closed by sit-down sit-down strikes and walkouts, and 50,-000 50,-000 of its employees were idle. The auto workers in their Flint meeting, besides creating the board of strategy with power to call a strike, approved of eight demands on the corporation ranging from recognition rec-ognition of their union to higher wages and shorter hours. They also appointed a committee to negotiate with the corporation. Alfred P. Sloan, president of General Gen-eral Motors, is on record as insisting in-sisting that no one union shall be the bargaining agency for the corporation's cor-poration's employees. As he left New York for Detroit he said: "Let them pull workers out. That's the only way I know to find out how strong the union is." Homer Martin has declared that "the question of recognition of the union is not negotiable." William S. Knudsen, executive vice president of General Motors, declared the company never would agree to collective bargaining on a national basis and, despite strikes, would continue to produce automobiles automo-biles as long as possible. Still there was hope of a peaceful settlement for the G. M. officials seemed likely, at this writing, to agree to a conference with the board of strategy. James F. Dewey, Dew-ey, conciliator for the Department of Labor, and Governor Murphy of Michigan were active in the effort to further negotiations. One stumbling stum-bling block was the insistence of General Motors that the sit-down strikers must get out of the Fisher Body plants in Flint before any conference Could be held. Judge E. D. Black of Flint, who issued an injunction against the Flint strikers, was bitterly attacked by the union men. Martin petitioned the Michigan legislature to impeach the jurist because he admittedly owned General Motors stock and so allegedly had violated Michigan law by taking jurisdiction in the matter. The prime object of the C. I. O. is organization of the steel industry, and the crisis in the automotive industry in-dustry was not expected by Lewis and his associates or wanted at this time. However, they are giving the auto workers their full support, morally mor-ally and financially. IT WAS announced at the White House that President Roosevelt's eldest son, James, will become a full fledged White House secretary and draw a salary of 510.000 a year after June 1. Until the beginning of the new fiscal year, James will act .as secretary but will be on the public pay roll as administrative officer drawing $7,500. At the elevation of James to the secretaryship. Assistant White House Secretaries Stephe.i T. Early and Marvin M. Mclntyre will also become full secretaries. IN'NESOTA'S new governor. El- j mer A. Benson, in his inaug- ! ural address took a hard s'.ap at j the Supreme court. Suid he: "I recommend that you petition congress to submit a constitutional amendment which would remove from the Supreme court its assumed as-sumed power to declare unconstitutional unconsti-tutional laws passed by congress pertaining to child labor, regulating working conditions in industry and agricultural and industrial production, produc-tion, providing security against old age, unemployment and sickness and social legislation generally. "Progressive America stands i helpless to enact needed social and J economic reforms while a reactionary reaction-ary Supreme court has usurped au- j tocratic powers never intended by the framers of the constitution." ANDREW W. MELLON, Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh multimillionaire and former for-mer secretary of the treasury, has offered to present to the nation his magnificent art col- . .' tnnn i lection, valued at t-'- $23,000,000, together ' ,. 1 with a $9,000 000 . building for its hous- feeing fee-ing in Washington i ' and a fund for its f " i maintenance and m- ; 3 crease. The offer is made through Presi- i-, i snw J dent Roosevelt, with A 3 whom Mr. Mellon 'A has been in correspondence corre-spondence and con- Cr"? ference on the mat- Mellon ter. It will be submitted to congress con-gress with the President's favorable recommendation. The Mellon collection, part of which is stored in the Corcoran art gallery in Washington, includes many paintings of highest importance impor-tance and some fine works of sculpture. sculp-ture. Lord Duveen of Milbank, head of a celebrated art firm, says that its actual value is more than $50,-000,000 $50,-000,000 and that it is the "greatest collection ever assembled by any individual collector." T TALY sent a note to the French and British governments offering offer-ing to withdraw her support from the Spanish Fascists provided all other nations withdrew their support sup-port from the loyalists. This was Mussolini's reply to the Franco-British Franco-British note urging that no more volunteers be permitted to go to Spain. Evidently it would call for long negotiations before nonintervention noninter-vention became effective. Hitler had not answered the nonintervention non-intervention note, but the German authorities indicated that their "war" of reprisal on the Spanish loyalists for seizure of a German steamship had ceased. Probably realizing that his hope of final victory was slim unless he was ably seconded by Mussolini and Hitler or could speedily capture cap-ture Madrid, General Franco directed di-rected a renewed and violent attack on the capital. Both Madrid and Malaga suffered severely from Fascist air bombardment. The Spanish government at Valencia Val-encia filed with the League of Nations Na-tions a protest against alleged violation vio-lation of its territory and its waters by Germany and Italy. But Germany Ger-many isn't in the league, and Italy defies it, so the protest seems futile. CROWN PRINCESS JULIANA of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld were made man and wife at The Hague, and all the Dutch people rejoiced exceedingly. There were two ceremonies, cere-monies, a civil one conducted by the burgomaster in the town hall and a religious one in St. James church. The tall, plump bride wore a silver robe over her wedding dress and Bernhard was in the full dress uniform of the Blue Hussars. Eefore the wedding there had been a series of disturbing incidents, inci-dents, including "insults" to the Nazi flag of Germany and protests by Reichsfuehrer Hitler. But apologies apol-ogies and explanations cleared everything ev-erything up and Hitler sent to Queen Wilhelmina a cordial telegram tele-gram of congratulations on the marriage mar-riage of her only daughter. The only other wedding permitted permit-ted in Holland on that day was that of "the other Juliana," a peasant girl who was born at the same hour on the same day as the crown princess. prin-cess. SUBMISSION, conviction and pardon par-don of Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, Hsueh-liang, who kidnaped Dictator Chiang Kai-shek of China, apparently appar-ently hasn't ended the trouble started start-ed by him. Dispatches from Sianfu said a majority of Chang's former Manchurian army, numbering 250,-000 250,-000 troops, had joined red troops of Shensi and Kansy provinces in open revolt against the central government govern-ment to establish a vast communist empire in northwest China. Reliable sources said that between be-tween 5,000 and 10,000 persons were killed during the Shensi rebellion while Chiang was held captive, and the Sianfu authorities feared a renewal re-newal of the slaughter there. Sandbag Sand-bag barricades and trench fortifications fortifica-tions were constructed around the city. ADMIRAL ALBERT GLEAVES, U. S. N. retired, died at his home near Philadelphia at the age of seventy-nine years, thus ending a career that carried him through two wars and won for him honors from five nations. During the World war Admiral Gleaves was commander of the American cruiser and transport trans-port force and thereafter was known as "the man who took them over and brought them back." |