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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over IYo-idcnt Proposes Reorganization of Federal Judiciary, Judici-ary, Increasing Supreme Court Justices to Fifteen Fif-teen Efforts to Settle Motor Strike. By EDWARD W. PICKARD () Western Newsf-aper L'nion. pRESIDKNT ROOSEVELT elcctrl-1 elcctrl-1 (loci conH' Oss with a surprise mes-;if;e mes-;if;e proposing sweeping changes in the federal court system which i i Un i,... would allow him to 1 pack the Supreme ' . - Court with justices f - . who could be ex- ; ... I pectod to uphold the w constitutionality of , ''.." New Deal legisla- ?! j:'"''- A tion- ' '"",. '. "i He submitted a t , draft of a bill to ac- , '' ; complish this reor- f " $ ' J ganization. It pro- fc vides: president j That for every Roosevelt federal judge wUh a service record of at least ten years "continuously or otherwise" who fails to resign or retire within six months after reaching the age of 70 the President shall appoint another judge. 2. That the number of additional judges so appointed shall not exceed 50, the Supreme Court being limited lim-ited to 15 members, appellate and special courts to two additional members each and district courts to twice the present number of judges. 3. That two-thirds of the Supreme Court and three-fifths of other courts shall constitute a quorum. 4. That the chief justice of the Supreme Court shall transfer circuit and district judges to jurisdictions with congested dockets in order to speed up disposition of litigation. 5. That the Supreme Court shall be empowered to appoint a proctor to supervise the conduct of business In the lower courts. The President also proposed a reform re-form in the injunctive process which he declared would expediate Supreme Su-preme Court rulings on the constitutionality consti-tutionality of legislation and would further insure "equality" and "certainty" "cer-tainty" of federal justice. He said frequent injunctions which set aside nets of congress are "in clear violation viola-tion of the principle of equity that injunctions should be granted only in those rare cases of manifest illegality ille-gality and irreparable damage against which the ordinary course of the law offers no protection." He asked that congress forbid any injunction or decision by any federal court touching a constitutional question ques-tion without "previous and ample notice" to the attorney general to give the government an opportunity "to present evidence and be heard." His bill proposed that any lower court decision which involved a constitutional con-stitutional question be appealed directly di-rectly to the Supreme Court, where it would take immediate precedence over all other business. New Deal leaders in congress were expected to back the President's Presi-dent's proposals solidly, while it became be-came apparent that the conservative Democrats might align with the solid Republican group in opposing it. The latter group saw in the bill a direct attempt to get rid of some of the older justices of the Supreme Court who have proved continual stumbling blocks for pet New Deal acts. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, approaching 75, has voted sometimes to sustain, sometimes to invalidate New Deal laws. Justice Willis Van Deventer, 78, has invariably invari-ably opposed New Deal laws; so have James Clark McReynolds, 75; George Sutherland, 75, and Pierce Butler, 71. Louis Dcmbitz Brandeis, 80, has voted to sustain New Deal acts, except in the case of the NRA, rejected by unanimous decision. If the President is successful in putting over the proposed changes it will be the eighth time in the 148 years of the Supreme Courfs history that the number of justices has been changed. The largest number ever to sit on the bench was 10 from 1S63 to 18G6. and the smallest number 5 from 1S01 to 1S02. BROUGHT together by Gov. Frank Murphy at the demand of the White House, representatives of both sides in the General Motors strike were in al- , most continuous conference seeking a way to settle the 1 controversy. The ! corporation was s i represented by Wil- x M liam S. Knudsen. v x executive vice pres- v ldenu and John 3 Thomas Smith of i the legal staif. Act- ? ing for the strikers were John L. Lewis, 'llllmS-head 'llllmS-head of che C. I. O.. Knsen John Brophy, Its director, and Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers. It was reported that at one time the conference was near collapse. Then Governor Murphy received a message from the White House saying say-ing the President expected a settlement settle-ment During an interim the governor said both sides wer in earnest and doing their best. Judge Gadola in Flint had issued an injunction ordering the sit-down strikers there to leave the plants. The sheriff served notice to the men and they jeered him. They then sent to Governor Murphy a bombastic message to the effect that they would resist eviction to the deaih. The mayor, city manager man-ager and police chief of Flint, asserting as-serting the people were tired of strikes and violence, organized between be-tween 500 and 1,000 police reserves. The police chief warned Lewis he "had better call off his strike if he doesn't want another Herrin massacre." mas-sacre." A writ of attachment for forcible expulsion of the sit-down strikers was obtained by the G. M. lawyers. XTARITIME workers on the Paci-fic Paci-fic coast ended their long strike by accepting working agreements agree-ments that had been negotiated in San Francisco and the 40,000 men returned to their jobs. Ships in all the ports, long idle, got up steam and prepared to resume business, and the ticket offices were thronged with passengers. Shipowners issued a statement asserting as-serting the end of the walkout would mean a business revival for 1,000 industrial plants and 500 export offices of-fices up and down the coast. SECRETARY of the Interior Harold Har-old Ickes and the national resources re-sources committee of which he is chairman have produced a public l j ii-uq, works and national E ' water program for ? v j the next six years, f ?j and it was submit- s ted to congress by - i President Roosevelt ?& 3 with the recommen-O recommen-O dation that it should i H be adopted. It in- s ,,. i J volves the expendi-4 expendi-4 ture of five billion I Jollars and calls for lump sum annual Harold Ickes appropriations under the regular budget for a list of approved ap-proved projects, and allocation of the funds to a permanent public works or development agency. As the chief part of the plan, Mr. Roosevelt presented congress with a list of some $2,750,000,000 worth oi water conservation projects, including in-cluding a $116,000,000 flood-control program in the inundated Ohio and Mississippi river valleys. In his transmission message the President warned congress against considering each project as a separate sep-arate entity. The report, he said, "should, of course, be read in conjunction con-junction with the recommendations recommenda-tions for highways, bridges, dams, flood control, and so forth, already under construction, estimates for which l ave been submitted in the budget." "During the depression," he told congress, "we have substantially increased in-creased the facilities and developed the resources of our country for the common welfare through public works and work-relief programs. "We have been compelled to undertake un-dertake actual work somewhat hurriedly hur-riedly in the emergency. "Now it is time to develop a long-range long-range plan and policy for construction construc-tion to provide the best use of our resources and to prepare in advance against any other emergency. " The committee that drew up this program includes, besides M r . Ickes, Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring, WPA Administrator Harry Har-ry Hopkins, Secretary of Agriculture Agricul-ture Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Secretary oi Commerce Daniel C. Roper, Frederic A. Delano, uncle of the President, and Charles E. Merriam, University of Chicago professor. r ESPITE the warm opposition of Democratic Senator J. W. Bailey Bail-ey of North Carolina and others, including the few Republicans, the senate passed the house deficiency relief bill carrying an appropriation appropria-tion of S948.725.S68. Senator Bailey spoke in support of his amendment which would require a means test, or "pauper's oath," as some have called it, for states, counties, and their political subdivisions subdi-visions to secure federal aid for their relie requirements. The amendment was rejected without a record vote. Out of the total allocated in the bill for "relief and A'ork relief," about $650,000,000 was expected to be given tc the Works Progress Administration. Ad-ministration. From this fund aid will be given to victims of floods in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. . TO FINANCE for another year the social security board, veterans' vet-erans' administration and about thirty other federal agencies, the house appropriated one billion, forty for-ty - six million dollars. The bill, passed without a record vote, carried car-ried a last minute amendment providing pro-viding that none of the funds appropriated ap-propriated should be available to pay for the expenses of any congressional con-gressional investigation. This amendment was aimed at senate investigations such as the La Fol-lette Fol-lette and Wheeler inquiries. C"EVEhISH work, day and night, r by 120.0.30 pick and shovel laborers la-borers all down the Mississippi from Cairo appeared to have won the fight to save the fertile lands along the river from the great flood. But engineers warned that the danger of inundation was not yet over. Hew-ever, Hew-ever, most of the levees were holding hold-ing and the winds that had been driving the waters against them were subsiding. About 200,000 iw-haoitants iw-haoitants of the valley had been forced to abandon their homes, but the Red Cross and other relief agencies agen-cies were caring for them. At Cairo an Hickman were plenty of coas: guard boats and barges ready to rescue the people if the embankments embank-ments gave way. Floodwater from a break in the Bessie Landing, Tenn., levee all but encircled Tiptonville. Tenn., and spread over adjacent thousands of acres. Backwaters continued to harass har-ass lowland dwellers in Mississippi and Louisiana but engineers remained re-mained firm in the conviction the worst definitely would be over when the crests pass Arkansas and Tennessee. Ten-nessee. Harry Hopkins, WPA administrator, administra-tor, and other members of the special spe-cial flood relief committee named by President Roosevelt, went to the flood areas with the expressed intention in-tention of seeing that the job of caring car-ing for the refugees was well done. Mr. Hopkins indicated he was prepared pre-pared to spend $790,000,000 the entire en-tire deficiency work relief budget for flood relief if necessary. r R. STANLEY HIGH, religious ' publicist who has been prominent promi-nent among the administration supporters, sup-porters, is out of Presidential favor. He has been cashing in on his closeness to the White House by writing for periodicals, and his latest lat-est article, entitled "Whose Party Is It?" in the Saturday Evening Post, brought this statement released re-leased by Assistant White House Secretary Early: "The President announced the death of the 'official spokesman' in March, 1933. He now announces the passing of the so-called authoritative authorita-tive spokesman those who write as 'one of the President's closest advisers.' ad-visers.' " Though High was not named, Mr. Early 'eft no doubt as to who wa: meant TTALY and Turkey settled their l disputes in conferences between their foreign ministers, Count Ga-leazzo Ga-leazzo Ciano and Dr. Tewfik Rustu Aras. Italy will participate in the Montreux convention which gave Turkey the right to rearm the Dardanelles, Dar-danelles, and Turkey is assured that Italian ambitions to possess Turkish Anatolia have been abandoned. aban-doned. It was believed Mussolini considered consid-ered the time ripe to make friends with Turkey, first allaying Turkish suspicions and defining spheres of influence, in the hope Italy could woo Turkey from friendship with Moscow. SECRETARY of State Rafael Montalvo of Cuba announced that Pedro Martinez Fraga had been appointed Cuban ambassador to Washington. He has been serving as minister to London and will succeed suc-ceed Ambassador Guillermo Patterson, Pat-terson, who has been transferred to Mexico City. THIRTEEN ot the Russian conspirators con-spirators tried in Moscow for plotting the overthrow of the Stalin regime were condemned to death by the Mai court r and their pleas for " j - ' mercy were reject . ! ed by the presidium I a of the communist t executive commit ! jJJJ , tee. They were or L sf,x dered shot within 48 jT 1 hours after sentence f-was f-was pronounced f " v" One of the execu F x ;- t tioners said "they ''- J f died like soldiers." To the surprise of Gregory the world, four of Sokolmkov the leading defendants were saved from the firing squad, being sentenced sen-tenced to terms of imprisonment These were Karl Radak, once noted journalist, and Gregory Sokolnikov, former Soviet ambassador to London, Lon-don, given ten years each; and M. S. Stroilov and V. V. Arnold, ordered or-dered confined for eight years. The judges said these four men, while guilty of treason, did not actually participate in terroristic and wrecking wreck-ing activities. It was the belief of neutral observers that they had been spared in order to get their testimony against the scores of men still under arrest for participation in the conspiracy. COL. CHARLES A., LINDBERGH celebrated his thirty-fifth birthday birth-day in Rome, whither he had flown with Mrs. Lindbergh in their new plane. From the Eternal City they flew to Tripoli to spend a few days with Gen. Italo Balbo, governor of Libya and himself a famous airman. air-man. Then they planned to continue to Egypt. FEDERAL agents and Missouri state troopers were led by Robert Rob-ert Kenyon, a twenty-year-old moronic mor-onic police character, to a thicket fcurteen miles from Willow Springs, where lay the body of Dr. J. C. B. u;.vis whom Kenyon had kidnaped and allegedly killed before attempting attempt-ing to collect $5,000 ransom. Kenyon confessed the crime and was rushed to jail in Kansas City to save him from lynching. There he told a wild story of one "Nighthawk" who. he SPid, forced him to write the ransom ran-som note and then murdered the doctor. |
