| Show news e review of current events the world over president and attorney general defend supreme court packing plan open warfare between C 1 I 0 and A F of L franco threatens madrid by EDWARD W PICKARD western newspaper un on W ITH the repercussions from the president presidents s fireside radio address and the opening of hear ings by the senate judiciary corn com cittee the contro versy over the prop position to enlarge the supreme court took on renewed 40 heat mr roose velt s talk was so s generally heard over the radio that no ex tended report of it is needed he made an extraordinarily bitter attack on the president majority of the su roosevelt preme court that has repeatedly upset new deal leg isolation and avowed frankly his de termination to have a tribunal that will not undertake to override the judgment of the congress on legisla live po policy i y if the phrase packing the court means that then said the president I 1 say that I 1 and with me the vast majority of the american people favor doing just that thing now the court in addition to the proper use of its judicial functions said mr roosevelt has improper ly set itself up as a third house of the congress a super legislature as one of the justices has called it reading into the constitution words and implications which are not there and which were never in tended to be there we have therefore reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the constitution from the court and the court from itself we must find a way to take an appeal from the supreme court to the constitution itself we want a supreme court which will do justice under the constitution not over it in our courts we want a government of laws and not of men mr roosevelt divided the opponents of his plan into two classes the first firt he said includes those who fundamentally object to social and economic legislation along al ong mod ern lines and opposed him in the last election and of them he spoke with supreme contempt the second group those who honestly believe the amendment process is the best were told they could not expect faithful support from their strange bedfellows and that even if an amendment were passed and rati fied its meaning would depend on the kind of justices who would be sitting on the supreme court bench attorney general cummings ap feared before the senate judiciary committee to speak for the dent s court bill and he used much the same arguments mr roosevelt had employed senators borah and burke questioned him sharply and searchingly but he was agile in evasion however he did satisfy the opposition senators by admit ting bluntly that the purpose of the measure was to change the corn com alexion of the court to get men with liberal forward looking views senator dieterich Die tench of illinois sought to curb the questioning of mr cum but was squelched by borah dieterich Die tench has not committed him self on the bill but is now classed among its supporters his candidate for the federal circuit court of appeals in chicago district judge J earl major of springfield has just been nominated by the president assistant attorney general rob ert jackson was the second witness heard and the foes of the measure sought to prove by questioning him lum that there is no actual need for the judiciary bill to relieve congestion of federal dockets and therefore that the only purpose of the measure is to change the viewpoint of the high tribunal S with the way his ad plans are going for ward president roosevelt left wash ington for a two weeks stay in warm springs ga he went directly to his white cottage on pine moun tain from which he looks down on the foundation for infantile caraly sis sufferers it was announced that he would see few officials or other visitors there conducting all essen bial public business by telegraph and telephone temporary execl t tive ive offices were set up in kress hall at the foundation before leaving washington mr roosevelt said at a press conference that he and prime minister W L mackenzie king of canada had dis cussed the st lawrence waterway treaty during king s visit whether the treaty will be submitted to the senate at this session he said is not yet known it was rejected a few years ago T THE HE committee for industrial or has declared open warfare on the american federa tion of labor by authorizing its ex officials to issue certificates of affiliation to national internal dional state regional city and cen aral bodies and local groups when ever it is deemed john L lewis says the C 1 I 0 has hundreds of applications for affiliation and that he will take in any A F of L unions that wish to join his lus organization at the same time half a him hun dred organizers of the amen can federation of labor met with president william green to plan means of protecting the body against the C 1 I 0 and to hold the ranks of the craft unions in line they arranged for an intensive campaign to organize unions in steel to rival the C 1 I 0 s amalgamated association of iron steel and tin workers considered spreading the charge that lewis is allied with communist interests and the launching of plans to organize in the cement aluminum cereal and flour mill industries the organizers also discussed organization of gas sta tion attendants which would over lap with lewis plans to organize the petroleum industry the carnegie illinois company union which is bitterly opposed to the C 1 I 0 has not yet reached an agreement on affiliation with the A F of L general electric and some of the other big concerns that yielded to a certain extent to the demands of the C 1 I 0 followed the example of the steel companies in asserting that they still reserved the right to deal also with other unions or groups of employees eight thousand employees of the westinghouse electric and manu fac factoring turing company s pittsburgh plant demanded a 20 per cent raise m wages and it was feared they would start a strike if the demand were rejected because the chrysler motor corn com pany refused to recognize the united automobile workers of america as the sole bargaining agency for all its employees a strike was called in all its major units in detroit and other plants of the company were closed because of dependence on detroit production more than 50 workers were thus thrown into idle ness the union also called a strike at the hudson motor car company because they asserted officials of the concern were stalling in negolia eions on working conditions G EN FRANCISCO FRANCO J leader of the spanish fascists was reported to be about ready for a final grand assault on madrid he assembled a tre force of tanks and artillery before guadalajara and captured sever al towns near b y threatening the im lm mediate cutting off the capital capitals s last road to the east I 1 military observers predicted that the greatest battle 0 f G gen n franco the war would soon be fought on the line between the and tajo rivers gen jose miaja loyalist c corn mander in the madrid area charged that 7 italian troops were taking part in the attack on guadalajara these men he asserts were landed in m cadiz on february 22 two days after the international neutrality committee s ban on permitting vol to enter spain was was de dared effective the shelling and capture of the spanish liner mar Cant abrico by a rebel vessel was a spectacular event in the war she was carrying a cargo of planes and munitions from the united states for the loyal ests and sought to evade the insurgent cruisers by taking the name of an english ship but ac cording to a story printed in new york the complete plan of her movements was revealed to the agent of the rebels in that city and cabled to their headquarters headquarter in spain also according to the sonly only member of the crew who escaped capture the crew found the captain was communicating with the in sur gents and executed him at sea the mar abrico with fire in her holds was taken to ferrol it w was a s presumed most 0 of f t the h e spaniards aboard were slain CLARENCE A DYKSTRA city I 1 manager of cincinnati since 1930 was selected as president of the university of wisconsin by the executive committee of the ansti aution s board of regents if he ac cents the place he will succeed dr glenn frank who was ousted be cause he was not satisfactory to the la follette regime dykstra is fifty four years old and a graduate of the university of iowa W WITHOUT a record vote the house passed the new duffey vinson coal bill which takes the place of the measure knocked out by the supreme court it would set up government regulation of the soft coal industry through a corn com mission in the department of the interior sa H HITHERTO on a temporary basis the united states man mari time commission is now permanent ly established or will be as soon as the senate acts on nominations sent in by the president mr roose velt selected as chairman of the commission joseph P kennedy of new york former chairman of the securities and exchange commission he is a millionaire banker and business executive and a stanch supporter of the new deal the other members named are thomas M woodward rear admiral henry A wiley retired edward C moran jr former maine congressman and rear admiral emory S land retired moran wiley and land were named to the temporary commission appointed last fall to cope with the maritime strike kennedy once served the bethlehem shipbuilding corporation as business administrator in that capacity he met and became a warm friend of the then assistant secre tary of the navy franklin D roosevelt he was active in the presidential campaigns of 1932 and 1936 W ILLIAM ABERHART social T credit premier of alberta canada has introduced a bill that would give his government full con arol over every business industry trade and occupation in the province and would force every man woman and child to pay a personal license fee to carry on his or her work the bill gives the cabinet the power to refuse to grant or renew a license to any person or business operating in the province and to impose a maximum fine of 50 for individuals and for corporations or a ail sentence of up to ninety days for attempting to carry on without the government s permission another law proposed by aberhart gives the administration power to fix minimum and maximum prices for all commodities and services and to prescribe standards of ethics methods practices or terns T D STALIN t yet cleaned up the russian communist party to his own satisfaction and it seems probable that more men once prominent among the bolshevists will go to trial as trai tors foremost ost among these anfor are alexis former pres ident of the council of people s commis sars or premier and nikolai buk harm former editor 11 of the government alexis bykov organ these two were expelled from the communist party the other day on charges of anti party activity and it is believed in moscow they and a score of others will soon be tried for conspiring to overthrow the stalin regime for ten years was pre mier of the soviet union and before that during the civil war he had the job of provisioning the red amy though succeeding to len in ins s position he did not have his power for stalin reserved that for himself DR R WILLIAM T HORNADAY LJ one of america americas s foremost nat ura lists died at his home in stamford conn at the age of eighty two he was the first director of the new york zoological park retiring in 1926 doctor hornaday was a devoted advocate of the conserva tion of wild life and steadily worked for the protection of migratory fowl and for federal game refuges one of the leaders of the republican party passed with the death of mark L requa in los angeles he was national committeeman from california from 1932 to 1936 was a close friend of herbert er and for years a dominant figure in politics on the west coast during the world war mr requa was di rector of the oil division of the unit ed states fuel administration and the wee weed ends he es are still remembered supplied by the depart ment of commerce show that the live stock producers who predicted the united states would be forced to depend on foreign meat imports this year were right during jan uary the arrivals of pork at domestic ports set an all time record for any month and the im ports of meat were far in excess of those a year ago this condition is blamed on the drouth and the fourbear four year federal crop control pro gram meat imports in january aggregated 30 pounds compared with 19 in january of 1936 and only 7 14 pounds in 1935 dressed pork imports alone reached the record figure of 5 pounds compared with 2 in january 1936 and only in 1935 heavy imports of pork continued during the first three weeks of feb auary government figures for re at new york indicated during this period foreign nations shipped 2 pounds of pork to new york which exceeded imports for any february canada proved to be the largest source of supply for the american market imports of all kinds of meat from canada during the first month of this year were inia innately tely 17 pounds an in crease of per cent over the 5 pounds imported in january of last year I 1 |
