| Show r a W summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 8 0 western newspaper union falls face to battle baffle W WHEN HEN sen joseph T robinson of arkansas dropped dead of a heart attack in his apartment across from the united states capitol the presidents plan for securing new appointments to the supreme court bench even in iii its amended form died with him ta that is the belief of close observers in in r 4 washington F for 0 r joe robinson was A the presidents tower of strength in the senator legislative branch of harrison the government he had served the democratic party well in the senate since 1913 and as the majority leader in the upper house since 1932 joe robinsons job it was to keep a smooth balance between the conservative serva tive democrats largely of the south and the more radical members of the party from the north and west so that the objectives of the new deal could be turned out of the legislative mill robinson never fought harder than he did in his last battle As he worked hard and long in an attempt to get the compromise court plan passed often raising his voice and exerting himself mightily in senate arguments it was apparent to his colleagues that he was not well sen royal S copeland the only physician in the senate had several times asked him to calm himself lest he hasten his own death while the senate was adjourned for robinsons funeral administration leaders sought to rally support so the court bill could be passed even without the late senators leadership but the opposition forces were equally determined to take advantage of the psychological aspect of the senate following robinsons death the desire to effect a peace finish the sessions business in in a hurry and get away from the capital the forces opposed to the bill believed that when the issue came ap pp up again they would be successful in re committing the substitute bill to the judiciary committee an effective way of killing it the indication of opposition greater than had been expected in the house of representatives was another factor pointing to the eventual fall of the bill another battle was not long in getting under way to decide who the new majority leader of the senate should be conservative democrats were anxious to wrest a measure of control from the white house by backing sen pat harrison of mississippi who has been faithful to the president but is fundamentally conservative T the h e more radical senators backed alben W barkley of kentucky democratic national convention keynoter who had been robinsons assistant as floor leader another prospect was sen james F byrnes of south carolina but it was believed his strength would eventually be transferred to harrison another thing that had washington guessing as a result of robinsons son s death was the vacancy on the supreme court left by the retirement of justice willis van devanter robinson it was generally believed was to have recel received ved the appointment struggle in the senate T TWELVE WELVE democratic senators and one farmer laborite were believed to hold the fate of the ild administrations ministrations substitute for the original bill which would increase the he number of supreme court justices to 15 the administration was certain that the bill would receive at least 38 33 votes with 48 43 necessary to a majority since senator robinsons death forty three senators were definitely committed against it thirteen were still uncommitted as the battle raged on the senate hoor floor and in the cloakrooms the twelve uncommitted democrats were andrews fla bone wash brown N H caraway ark duffy wis johnson colo lewis M murray u r r a y M mont 0 n t overton la pepper fla russell jr ga and wagner N Y lundeen mum was the farmer laborite the substitute for the original ashurst bill provides for appointment of one new justice each year to every justice remaining on the court after reaching the age of seventy five years new sino sine japanese conflict W WAR AR between china and japan was believed almost inevitable as hopes of settling a new outbreak of hostilities by diplomatic means I 1 faded out the fighting 4 ensued as japanese A I 1 gendarmes gen darmes attempted to take over the policing of yu ahping and lukow kiao two villages in the neiping area area near ear marco polo bridge this the 1 1 japanese japanese said was provided for in the north china truce emperor according to the Hi niro hito assertions of the japanese war office chinese soldiers fired upon the gendarmes gen darmes and opened up with trench mortars against the japanese contingent at the yuanying Yuan ping station this action allegedly compelled the japanese to make a night assault costing 20 lives in order to occupy the towns of and it was said the chinese troops had also advanced into these points officials of the council cl claimed almed the japanese moves were in in open violation of the truce they further accused the japanese of conducting night army maneuvers using real bullets instead of the blanks ordinarily employed in maneuvers As emperor hirohito and premier Fumi maro konoe conferred with military leaders and the cabinet the japanese people frantically prepared for the war that loomed chinas cainas government gave orders to gen sung 0 cheh yuan commander of the north china forces that his army was not to retreat for any reason but was to be prepared to make the supreme sacrifice to hold its position until gen chiang kai shek should arrive over the neiping bankow railroad with fresh troops As the fighting continued in in the neiping area with no hope of an effective e compromise on the two nations demands war seemed the probable result although an agreement was reported to have been made between local chinese and japanese authorities at settling the dispute to the satisfaction of both the national government at has continued to insist that no agreement reached locally would be observed ft mrs roosevelt s taxes HEN representative hamilton W WHEN fish rep N Y sought to demonstrate the unfairness of the tax invasion investigation commit tee he demanded 1 l that the committee jsck investigate the income i n y of the wife of ul I 1 the president from radio broadcasts charging that s she he was not paying a cent of income taxes upon those earnings she had turned over to the amer ican can friends service rep kep jsn ish committee a philadelphia charity kept 1 per broadcast for herself and paid nothing whatever from her radio earnings to the government assistant attorney general robert 11 jackson replied for her explaining pla ining to chairman doughton of the congressional committee that the bureau of internal revenue had advised mrs roosevelt she need pay no tax on the receipts from th the e broadcast he declared the responsibility is not that of mrs roosevelt but that of myself and others who were treasury officials at the time loyalists widen front HE spanish loyalists drive to THE push back the rebel forces to a safe distance from madrid continued with the government forces widening the front by expanding both flanks several miles the main line of advance was in a southerly direction slow but steady it had bad progressed as far as a point halfway between betwee n brunete brunese an and d naval carnero loyalist forces were attempting to acquire control of the river banks there to dig in and d protect protect the right flank while the main drive continues south rebel military strategists were not particularly distress distressed sed over the government advance for they believe that if they can draw the major part of the madrid garrison out into the open country and destroy it the advance will benefit them more than it will the loyalists artillery of both sides worked overtime me as the rebel reinforcements nen ts came line in to make the struggle more equal the government was reported to be using dozens of russian tanks they are heavier and clumsier than the rebel tanks but they carry field pieces of great accuracy and potency still a new kind of antitank anti tank gun developed by the rebels stopped a number of them government planes were re reported rt doing serious damage to rebel forces on the basque front to the north in the east cast gen sebastian pozas commander of the government forces in the saragossa teruel sector claimed that albarracin not only has been completely surrounded but also government troops now are fighting in the streets of the town C mr eden has a plan PLANS to maintain the non inter 1 bention patrol of spain in a fashion that will satisfy all the nations concerned and insure against the spread of t h e conflict beyond the sp spanish anish borders have blown about am 11 1 like papers in a storm and when you get right down to it that is about f all they have amounted to now anthony eden britaina Brit ains foreign secretary has anthony come up with a new eden one as deft and perhaps as futile as any which have gone before it it provides for the full re establishment of land and sea control of movements of men and arms into spain french and british warships would patrol the coastline with german and italian observers aboard the fascist nations indignant over the leipzig incident have withdrawn from the patrol this arrangement would operate only until a permanent scheme could be worked out placing observers for the nonintervention committee in all non spanish seaports and airports from which men and supplies might leave for spain and in all spanish ports to see that none landed there after that the sea patrol would be abolished U upper p per silesia still puzzle DEFORE a neo ne accord could be breached J reached the 15 year old geneva convention designed to reconcile the interests of both poland and germany in upper silesia expired upper silesia was once part of both germany and austria but after the world war it was split between germany and poland tile the people of the two sections have since that time mingled freely with one another carrying on a live commerce unhindered over the boundary lines set by the league of nations the diplomatic difficulties occurred when no solution was forthcoming for or the problem of what to do with the poles who wanted to remain remain in the german section and the germans who wanted to remain in the polish section miles in one hopi hop ato WITH ITH the world still thrilling to the recent flight of three russian aviators from moscow to the united states via the north pole three more russians did it again completing the longest nonstop non stop flight in history after flying miles from the russian capital pilot michael gromov copilot co pilot andrei Yu and navigator sergei danilin made a forced force d landing in a cow pasture near san jacinto cal A leaking gasoline line had exhausted their fuel supply as they battled heavy fogs which hung over the west coast region their flying time was estimated at 62 hours and 17 minutes obituary in blue f EORGE GERSHWIN composer 3 who lifted jazz music up to the level of the classics died suddenly in hollywood after an operation for brain tumor he was thir ty eight his rhapsody in blue was famous among the worlds music lovers his opera porgy and bess one of the most individually american of all musical works his suwanee sold more than copies hi his s musical comedy score of thee the I 1 sing was a pulitzer prize winner and some of his compo compositions composition sitio ns such as strike up the band soon and som somebody c loves me were sung and danced to by millions ns many prominent critics called him the most original force in american music |
