Show review of carz current ent E events cents COURT FIGHT ENDED lawyers see the judiciary still threatened says people lose control of government t om tom A 3 if aw i AN Z A J L 11 II duce and der fuehrer review nazi troops in munich U y summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 0 western newspaper union bar for free courts that the independence CONVINCED of the federal judiciary is still threatened despite the defeat ot of the plan to enlarge the supreme court the american bar association in session in kansas city voted unanimously to authorize a committee to keep up the fight to preserve the freedom of the courts as recommended om mended by a special committee that committee said there appears to be no likelihood that efforts to remake re make the courts of the united states will not be renewed your special committee is of the opinion that the association ought to maintain itself in rei rea diness to meet such issues as they may recur rather than to rely upon impromptu organization for the purpose the lawyers listened to many speeches ba both th attacking and defending president Roosevel ts court program and his appointment of hugo black to the supreme court the climax to all this came when hatton W of texas chairman of the house judiciary committee arose to talk he had a prepared address but shifted to an extemporaneous talk in which he declared the people have lost control of the government of the united states and it has passed into the hands of a million people in its executive department in which only one man was elected and which the people could not control what are we going to do about it cried are you willing to join a battalion of death to save the constitution and the government ern ment As we look to the future we are rapidly approaching a crisis when it will be decided whether our economic system and our government will stand or fall fail 1 I mean actually A very serious situation is before the people it means we have got to do something soon we have got to balance the budget we have got to decentralize government responsibility I 1 if cummings chasn t quit fight ATTORNEY A GENERAL CUM ra in his press conference intimated strongly that the administration ad aln intends to push for the court reforms the president has demanded to support this position he produced the annual report of the judicial conference composed of the chief justice and senior circuit judges it recommended appointment of 16 additional federal judges in this report said mr cumings the judiciary has capitulated they admit now there is congestion and delay in the judicial system they ask for additional judges to provide relief this is a complete capitulation and a welcome one butts in PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT on the A way to seattle first entered the en country when he crossed the border of wyoming the state of senator joseph 0 mahoney leader of the anti supreme court rt enlargement forces es mr roose belts velt train reached cheyenne in the early morning and there among the wel comers was joseph though he had pointedly not been invited to board the senator train he walked 0 mahondy alongside the presidents car and mrs roosevelt emerged shook his hand and asked after mrs the senator then entered the private car and he and mr Roose roosevelt veli shook hands and said hello but the atmosphere was decidedly chilling he took leave of the party at casper wyo after accompanying the president and his group on a drive about that city the chief executive spent two days in ili yellowstone national park and then went on to boise idaho to the bonneville dam near portland and thence to seattle after a pleasant visit with his grandchildren mr roosevelt boarded the destroyer phelps and went to victoria B C for a good neighbor call on lieutenant governor hamber his schedule thereafter included a night at lake crescent wash a drive around the olympic peninsula ending at tacoma and then the eastward trip with stops at grand coulee and fort peck dams grand forks fork N D and st paul and a few hours in chicago to dedicate the new boulevard bridge over the mouth of the chicago river soviet helping china JAPANESE officials in shanghai asserted they had learned that marshal balents bluecher commander of the russian far east armies was directing the chinese campaign against japan by telephone from his siberian headquarters according to comei the japanese news agency munitions and other military supplies are being transported by trucks into china across the province of Sin kiang from sf viet siberia if these reports are true it may be stalin has decided the time has come for russia to take sides with china openly and that would make things tough for the japanese invaders X V russia warns japan to TOKYO thay 0 officially notified moscow that t the chinese were plotting to attack the russian embassy in with planes disguised as japanese aircraft for the purpose of involving the soviet government in the sino japanese conflict with the equivalent of oh yeah russia retorted with a stern warning that it would hold japan responsible for any bombing of the embassy intentional or accidental the soviet officials said they considered the reported plot a pure prevarication showing the intention of some japanese ane S e military powers to bombard the soviet embassy intentionally and then try to escape responsibility with callous brutality japan continued the air raids on canton and other large chinese cities the bombs slaughtering thousands of helpless civilians the utter contempt for protests of western nations shown by japan seemed warranted by the failure to insist on respect for the nine power treaty guaranteeing the territorial integrity of china for this failure generalissimo chiang kai shek blames especially the united states this war said he be will last as long as japanese aggression lasts in china the league of nations adopted a resolution severely condemning japan for the aerial bombardment of f defenseless chinese cities and tokyo indignant charged the league of acting without verifying the facts to the protests of five great powers previously filed the japanese government replied with the assertion that the bombing of was necessary for our purpose the british public is becoming increasingly crea singly aroused against japan and there is a general demand for a boycott of japanese goods the government has permitted an aircraft company to take a big order for fighting planes that will soon be shipped to china and they may be manned by independent british pilots Yar nells policy wins A HARRY YARNELL awas was decidedly opposed to the policy of washington to withdraw american warships from chinese waters in the face of danger his protests have been considered by the general board of the navy department part ment and his program approved consequently our naval vessels will remain there to protect our nationals as long as the present controversy between china and japan exists auto union umon shake up IQ EVERAL times homer martin 0 president of the united automobile workers of america has intimated that there were too many radicals among the leaders of that union now allegedly for reasons of economy he has got rid of some of them these organizers have been let out victor reuther one of the leaders in the general motors strike at flint mich last winter robert hobert kanter stanley novak melvin bishop and william tonn of detroit H R D richter of saginaw charles rigby ohio frank mcmillan kansas city eugene stauder frank bartee and frank schutz indiana martin also announced he had promoted loren houser to be organizational director for detroit elmer eimer dowell was made director of all general motors locals in the nation R J thomas international vice president has been appointed director of all chrysler locals and richard T director of the organization program among ford motor company employees lester washburn of lansing mich leader of the labor holiday last spring was made director of the U A W for western michigan and charles madden pontiac director of eastern michigan outside of detroit K italy wins parity G CREAT REAT BRITAIN and france VJ yielded to the demands of mussolini and granted parity to italy in the anti piracy patrol of the mediterranean that sea was divided into three zones the italian zone includes the extensive italian coast line the sea around sardinia and in the east the coast of the libyan colony the aegean sea is assigned to britain and france will guard the syrian coast and the sea lane between marseilles and algiers all three zones extend east to the suez canal since all three powers are interested in keeping open that gateway to the east ir war dance for duce B DENITO ENITO MUSSOLINI visiting L adolf hitler for the purpose of composing and presenting to the world a statement of the intentions intention S and demands of the italian and german v governments was received by the nazis with great enthusiasm thusia sm II 11 duce on the way to berlin stood on a hill in mecklenburg bur with hitler and witnessed a big war dance staged by the fuehrer that adolf hitler displayed the regained military might of germany most impressively hillers Hit lers best officers and troops armed with the latest weapons of death put on a sham battle participated in by all land and air forces in the nearby baltic the german warships showed how they chase red submarines and at wustrow the antiaircraft anti aircraft batteries gave a demonstration of their effectiveness the huge munitions plants in the ruhr district were visited and the throngs of workers given a holiday with pay cheered the two dictators heartily every city and village I 1 3 ge was decorated in berlin there were tremendous demonstrations and elaborate festivities in honor of the visitor from rome in the midst of the display of war strength and preparedness hitler and mussolini made speeches declaring their devotion to the cause of peace at the same time they insisted the world must grant to germany and italy the recognition and the rights they feel are their due after a grand review of the nazi army the two dictators conferred privately details of the conversation were kept secret but officials said il II duce and der fuehrer not only discussed german italian cooperation but also talked about an understanding in southeastern europe the inclusion of austria hungary I 1 jugo slavia bulgaria and possibly rumania in a general european realignment it noted merchant dies E DWARD A FILENE best known of all merchants died of pneumonia in the american hospital in paris he was seventy seven years old besides being a business man mr filene was a noted social economist he was sometimes called the apostle of mass production and distribution only ten days after he took charge of the american legation in vienna grenville T emmet died of double pneumonia he was sixty years old and wes was a 2 former law partner of president roosevelt he was minister to the netherlands in 1933 and was given the austrian post last july more woe in palestine fine r REAT contested aplan VJ plan to divide palestine between the jews tind and the arabs with a slice tor for herself came to the front again when lewis andrews british commissioner of galilee was assassinated by a group of terrorists in nazareth three men two in european garb and one in peasant clothing ambushed andrews and shot him and his bodyguard to death andrews had gained the enmity of extremists because of the strictness of his rule as district commissioner |