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C Washington Mar 10 With With one exception the AdminIstrations AdminIstration's Administrations Administration's Admin Admin- program of National Notional Defense Defense De De- renEe is moving movies through Congress wi with h almot j es S s much and ease as ai tho New Deal measures measures moved four or five years cars ago The House of Representatives turned down the proposal to lo establish stab stab- lish a naval base on time the Island of Guam in Pa mirl-Pa Pacific mid but otherwise there has been beon such complete bi bipartisan bir bi- bi r partisan artisan support of the Army and Navy program rs to Indicate that thai Senators and Representatives ne- ne Hove lieve that the thc folks back home homo are worried about the condition ot of world affairs s and dont don't want the United hulled States to lb to be he caught ca unprepared pare pared I as we wo were when matters came to tho time climax of war wal in I 1917 17 At A At t I the hc same game time lime Congress is trying to Io bo Je careful about making makin warlike gestures in the direction of any particular nation though there thero havo have been several speeches by irre- irre mom members bers of or both hoth Houses HonSCH which if if taken might ht easily stir sUr up bad feeling abroad J Fear Team of giving too much lluch offense to Japan Is ig time the reason behind the thu refusal al l to ol make ale n neval va I improvements In n Guam Gunn That little island was a al allotted allotted al- al 1 to lo the United Stales b by bythe bythe the Treaty of Versailles sat at the same samo time that Japan was given several smaller islands not too far away Both nations are forbidden h by tho terms of the Treaty to fortify their island posse possessions Whether hether dredgIng dredging in ing out the harbor of Guam to accommodate accommodate ac ac- ac- ac r. r few battleships or building a drydock or cr a repair shop for ships ma making J Jn n the tho island o a na naval va I base would violate the tho Treaty Treat t r Versailles nobody on Capitol Hill Hillis is quite suro but the tho point on which the tho Guam Improvement plan was defeated vas Was that It could and probably probably ably would be he interpreted by Japan as n threatening gesture To rl Tu Restore Confidence Apart from Will war mea mea- measures meathe the clear purt purpose ose of the Administration Ad Ad- Administration ministration now appears to be to I restore the tho confidence of business t that lat there will be lie no more moio experiments m ments ts by the time Government of oC a kind to frighten investors Numerous sl signs ns point to a real desire to encourage encourage en en- coura courage c business s in the time hope hOlle that the time wheels ot of industry can be started I revolving at like their I C. C r no n. n d I r spec Tho The ending of or the controversy between bet between be be- t tween tile the Tennessee Ya Valley lle Authority Author Author- It ity and tho the Commonwealth Southern South South- ern electric power interests is ono of these signs T VA V finally brought ht out Commonwealth for eighty million million million mil mil- lion dollars regarded as a fair all all' price h by Jill all concerned and Inti the President announced that bat there would bo ho no nomore nomore nomore more Government competition with l l Continued on OD last page paie This Week In Washington DC BC Continued from page pago one that Professor Felix Frankfurter t would get the thc Cardozo seat but till the are at nt sea as to the present pres- pres Mr ent vacancy the fifth which Roosevelt will have had hall to fill fin since he became President The retirement of Justice Brandeis Bran Bran- dels lIels on full pay for the rest of or his life he life he Is almost 83 now and i iii DOOr poor health was not entirely un unexpected unexpected un- un un-I un expected but It Is believed that too President himself had no Intimation i that It would come so BO soon HOOD Jerome Ierome Krank Huck I In New Deal circles the pressure I L is being put on oil Mr 11 Roosevelt to appoint ap av- point Jerome Frank of the Securities SecurIties Securities and Exchange Commission Commission- Mr l Frank Is very hl highly regarded l Dy by j everyone In Washington as an anable anable anable able lawyer and Is In a sense a prote pro pro- te tege e of Justice Brandeis The rho on- on being urged against him are that he lie Is an Easterner and a Jew r I The President Is said to feel t that l lt t tIt It would be poor policy for him hits to t I name another Jew to the Supreme Bench so soon after afler appointing justice Frankfurter even though he lie would replace another Jew And th the Senators and aid Congressmen from ln the West Nest are becoming Insistent that the region west vest of the Mississippi should be represented on the Court The theory Is that at there are lems peculiar to the West which only a Westerner could property I pass Dass upon The candidate most strongly urged I Is Judge Sam Gilbert Bratton of th the J Federal Circuit C Court urt of or New Mea Mex ico Judge Bratton Is a native or of Texas lexas a former Cormer UI United States Senator Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor from Crom New Mexico and has an excellent record and reputation as B It ItI I Jurist He resigned from the Senate I after ter being re-elected re in 1930 to ac ae- ac- ac I the appointment I to the CI Court of ot Appeals It Is la known known t I the President like likes a him very vr- vr rJ i. i i p personally and there the e la is lathat little d that he would be confirmed it Ir ir no m mated to the Supreme Court r Other Western Vestern candidates are tre l ing ag put forward among them I mer Senator Lewis 13 ii u back of or Washington a Wisconsin who was defeated tom to- election last Pall Fall lie Is an f z l lawyer awyer but hut never held a jUdi post Too Much Economy m S Some me of the SAna Senators tors and Rep are wondering Whet they have let their sudden spurt economy go o too far They cut f of the Public Buildings tion bill 1111 around half million i Tars lars to put out t new roofs on the the ti wings s of the Capitol 1 The old Dots loofs have been in is p pj pIa since 1853 and the architect of aa C Capitol warned committee memo the other da day that If It there sh she shebe be an unusually heavy snowfall Washington Congress had b bet adjourn In 1922 a heavy snow crushed roof root of a Washington ton movie thea and several hundred persons we we d killed The though of or their ro rod crashing down on their heads head 1 giving members the Jitters and the thi thiIs theIs theis Is talk of restoring the Item for f fr new roof W 11 The Thc old roof beams are of woo woi for it was built long before str tural lural steel Into Ther There came use e eno no danger however of ot the gri r Dome of or the Capitol falling d dIt dot doW It is made of at iron cast-iron in bolted together and has stood s sin n 1865 1 I |
