Show news review of current events the world over van jvan devanter quits supreme court and robinson may alay get place cardinal mundelein enrages the nazis windsor marriage june 3 by EDWARD W PICKARD western newspaper un on A ASSOCIATE associate JUSTICE WILLIS VAN DEVANTER notified president roosevelt that he would retire from the supreme court bench immediately after the summer adjournment of the court on june 1 and there were rumors in washington that his example would be followed by chief justice hughes and associate justices sutherland a and n d brandeis when the contest over the president s c court 0 u r t senator enlargement pro robinson gram is settled speculation as to justice van de s successor began at once and it was generally agreed that joseph robinson democratic lead er of the senate had the best chance for the appointment it was be lieveld he had been promised the place at the first opportunity some time ago and his many friends in both parties were quick to ex tend their best wishes of course there was talk of his ineligibility be cause of the recently enacted statute permitting supreme court justices to retire on full pay for life the con ution 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 rob inson was so useful to the adminis in the senate that mr roose velt would seek to be relieved of his alleged promise to give him the appointment senator lewis of illinois predict ed that by mid summer justices sutherland cardozo and brandeis would resign athe ty Y THE expected vote of 10 to 8 the senate judiciary committee rejected the president presidents s supreme court bill the line up of commit tee members had been certain for many days supporters of the meas ure then turned to compromise some of them backing the propos al of senator logan of kentucky permitting the appointment of temporary justices at the rate of one a year for every sitting mem her ber over seventy five the opponents of the bill however rejected this and all other compromise which was the only consistent course they could pursue so the bill was report cd ed adversely to the senate and the battle will continue in that body it appeared that neither this set back nor the retirement of justice van devanter had changed the determination of the president to in upon the passage of his bill as originally submitted Seri senator ator wheeler said mr roosevelt should now withdraw the measure sena tor ashurst declared everything that has happened since the bill was introduced has helped it and pre ducted dieted it certainly would be passed senator borah asserted the van devanter retirement will have no eff effect act on the court bill the lines have already been drawn and will not change CARDINAL p ARDINAL MUNDELEIN of chi LJ cago addre addressing sing five hundred priests of the archdiocese hotly at tacked the german government its highest leaders and its propaganda p a g a n da methods which he h e said were directed VC against the roman catholic church and designer design eG to take the children away from us he called fuehrer hitler an austrian paper hanger and a poor one at that and cardinal charged the r e i c h mundelein yh with breaking t the he concordat with the holy see he opened the speech by recall ing that after the world war the german government complained of I 1 atrocity propaganda aimed a t german troops by the allied na lions he continued now the present G german e r ni a n government is making use of this same kind of propaganda against the catholic church I 1 through its crooked minister of propaganda it is giving out stor ies leg of wholesale immorality in reli rell bious institutions in comparison to which the wartime propaganda is t j almost like bedtime stories for chil hadren dren a it will be not only unwise but cowardly as well if we take the jfe thing lying down and do not fight kiback rack every time the subject is brought up outside y the vials of nazi wrath were im av v m mediately edia tely opened and its press called on the pope to rebuke the lyl cardinal publicly der andriff per h bonal organ of dr paul joseph JT 7 goebbels nazi minister of kropa 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 Mun delem defended the crimes of catholic priests and laymen on trial in ger man courts and called on catholic bishops in germany to ma make ke a re ply in vatican city prominent church men said cardinal mundelein Mun delem had every right to speak his mind and that the vatican would not concern itself with the speech either to de fend or to repudiate it the car dinal s attack deemed to meet with general approval of catholics prot estante and jews in the united states under instructions from berlin the counselor of the german em bassy baggy in washington lodged with the united states government an in formal protest against cardinal mundelein Mun delem s speech H LJ returned to berlin from his summer house in bavaria and heard from industrialists gath ered in extraordinary meeting that many of them would be unable to continue production satisfactorily because of the shortage of raw ma and skilled labor and the general financial situation the bad conditions affect especially factories working with rubber metals and foreign textiles acome 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 monts france but whether she will be her royal high ness is at this writ ing still a disputed k question edward through his amen ameri can friend herman L rogers has vir dually told the world 1 that she will the ML fo new yorker saying mrs warfield to correspondents I 1 think she auto mati cally would be called that it was taken for granted ta that lat mr rogers would not have said that without the approval of the duke this widens the breach between edward on and the british cabinet and anglican churchmen on the other the duke dukes s friend 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 be best hest of the government no member of the royal family will be present at the ceremony the announce ment of the marriage issued from the chateau de cande said there would be only a few guests in addi add tion to the witnesses and the ants though the entire contro controversy vercy seems rather foolish it appears to mean a lot to the british and it is interesting reading efrom EW YORK asked and obtained 1 from congress an tion of 5 for its world fair with the provision that tle tl e money was wag to be spent by th fair corn com mission but president roosevelt vetoed the measure and in his mes sage he rebuked congress for an unconstitutional invasion of the province of th the executive in setting up a commission to direct the ex pend iture when the message was read in the house the republicans roared with laughter and the democrats or some of them raged sam me reynolds of tennessee and john I 1 0 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 1250 1 ap prop nation for a naval air base on the columbia river in oregon and the appropriation of 5 for the construction of a national high way through the blue ridge moun bains in virginia and north caro lina was attacked but the latter was saved when chairman dough ton of the ways and means commit tee said I 1 have it on the highest authority that the president favors it incidentally the highway will run near a large farm mr dough ton owns in north carolina PRESIDENT p RESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent to the senate a number of state department appointments assistant secretary of state welles was wag nominated for the post of un der secretary of state assi assistant tant sec see rotary R walton moore who vied with welles for the 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 mm min ister to the irish free state alvin mansfield owsley of texas as mm min ister to norway and edwin L neville of ohio as minister to siam ING GEORGE and queen eliz kabeth xv abeth went aboard the royal yacht victoria and albert at port mouth and reviewed a tremendous naval parade of fighting and commercial ships of eighteen na eions at Spi thead it was a corona tion feature so thousands of of facial guests and uncounted private citizens also watched the imposing procession sion 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 bril illuminated and their search lights crisscrossed the sky as the guests dined and danced before going to portsmouth the king and queen attended the aradi dional luncheon at the guildhall in the city of london TA HE 1 tenth anniversary of charles A lindbergh Lind berghs s famous flight from new york to pans paris was ob served in both those cities but the hero of the event paid no attention to it to a questioning friend he said I 1 did it why should I 1 cele brate if the colonel spent the day with mrs lindbergh and young jon in seclusion at their country home in kent even the telephone was disconnected CEORGE EORGE L BERRY the new v 1 senator from tennessee Tenn Tennee eee see has undertaken a difficult job he an bounced that he would try to restore peace between the american fed aeration of labor and the committee for industrial organization and that he would ask the president to sup port his endeavors mr berry wants an impartial arbitration body to re allocate organizing territory of the two groups allotting certain mass producing industries to the C 1 I 0 while the rival unions in the jones laughlin steel corporation were voting to see which should be the sole bargaining agent philip mur ray chairman of the C 1 I 0 steel organizing committee changed his tactic and told representatives of the crucible steel company of america he would agree to a con tract similar to that signed last march by steel producing units of the united states steel corporation and adopted since that time by companies independent of united states steel these contracts lecog nihed 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 thou thousand cand union workers halted operations of the studebaker corporation in south bend ind demanding a closed shop three thou sand employees of the aluminum company of america americas s plant at al coa tenn struck for better pay J HENRY public util aties magnate and for years the republican leader in connecticut shot himself to death at his sum mer home in south Har harrinton winton conn he was sixty seven years old and had been in ill health for some time As a vice chairman of the republican national committee took an active part in the national campaigns of both herbert hoover and alfred M landon he was the first conservative old guard to an bounce his support of landon DR JUAN has succeed ed caballero as premier 0 f spam spain he is forty eight years old a socialist and is backed by the powerful M madrid a d r 1 d general federation of labor the key posts in his cabinet have been given to social ests and the an archo are left out of the government promptly abolished the super bior war council that had been conducting juan the defense against franco s forces and turned over direct command of the spanish gov eminent armies to his win the war I 1 cabinet he announced his govern ment would maintain inflexible or der within loyalist spain gen emilio mola continued his fierce attacks on bilbao threaten ing to destroy utterly the capital of the semi autonomous basque gov eminent 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 IT WAS officially announced in 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 ny in the far east the victims were alleged to be and to have wrecked railroads CHRISTIAN X king of denmark A and all hi subjects celebrated the monarch monarchs s silver jubilee in copenhagen and throughout the 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 a joint session of parliament a re caption at the palace a procession through the streets and a gala dm din ner and a 2 tOrL blight parade |