| Show news aws L 1111 kj review of current events the world Worl dover over president proposes reorganization 0 of federal judiciary increasing 0 supreme court justices to fifteen efforts to settle motor strike 9 by EDWARD W PICKARD union PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT electrified congress with a surprise message proposing sweeping changes in ithe federal court system which would allow him to pack the supreme court with justices who could be expected to uphold the constitutionality floe of new deal legislation X he submitted a draft of a bill to accomplish com this reorganization it provides 1 that for every president preside federal judge with a roosevelt I 1 service record of at ilease ten years continuously or otherwise who fails to resign or retire tire within six months after reach ang ing the age of 70 the president shall appoint another judge 2 that the number of additional judges so appointed shall not exceed fifty the supreme court being limited to 15 members appellate and special courts to two additional members each and district courts to twice the present number of judges 3 that two thirds of the supreme court and three fifths of other courts shall constitute a quorum 4 that the chief justice of the supreme court shall transfer circuit and district judges to jurisdictions with congested dockets in order to speedup disposition of litigation 5 that the supreme court shall be empowered to appoint a proctor to supervise the conduct of business in the lower courts the president also proposed a reform in the injunctive process which he declared would expedite supreme court rulings on the constitutionality of legislation and would further insure equality and certainty of federal justice he said frequent injunctions which set aside acts of congress are in clear violation of the principle of equity that injunctions should be granted only in those rare cases of manifest illegality and irreparable damage against which the ordinary course of the law off offers ers no protection he asked that congress forbid any injunction or decision by an any ff federal deral court touching a constitutional question without previous and ample notice to the attorney general to give the government an opportunity to present evidence and be heard his bill proposed that any lower court decision which involved a constitutional question be appealed directly to the supreme court where it would take immediate precedence over all other business new deal leaders in congress were expected to back the presidents proposals solidly while it became apparent that the conservative democrats might align with the solid republican group in opposing it the latter group saw in the bill a direct attempt to get rid of some of the older justices of the supreme court who have proved continual stumbling blocks for pet new deal acts chief justice charles evans hughes approaching 75 has voted sometimes to sustain sometimes to invalidate new deal laws justice willis van deventer 78 has invariably opposed new deal laws so have bave james clark 75 george sutherland 75 and piere pierce e butler 71 louis dembitz brandeis 80 0 has voted to sustain new deal acts except tin the cast of the rejected by unanimous decision if the president is successful in putting over the proposed changes it will be the eighth time in the I 1 43 years of the supreme cour courts ts history that the number of justices has been changed the largest number ever to sit on the bench was 10 from 1863 to 1866 and the smallest number 5 from 1801 to 1802 B ROUGHT together by G gov 0 V frank murphy at the demand ot of the white house representatives ol of both sides in the general motors strike were in al t 11 most continuous conference seeking a way to settle the controversy the corporation was represented by william S knudsen executive vice president and john thomas smith of A the legal staff acting for the strikers bacu were john L lewis illiam S head bead of the C 1 I 0 knudsen john brophy its director and homer omer martin president of the united automobile workers it was reported that at one time the conference was near collapse T then hen governor murphy received a message from the white house say ing the president dent peeled expected a settle merit ment during an interim the governor s said aid both sides were in n earnest and doing their best judge gadola in flint had issued an injunction ordering t the he sit down strikers there to leave the plants the sheriff served notice to the men and they jeered him they then sent to governor murphy a bombastic message to the effect that they would resist eviction to the death the mayor city manager and police chief of flint asserting the people were tired of strikes and violence organized between and 1000 police reserves the police chief warned lewis he had better cau call oil off his strike if he want another herrin massacre A writ of attachment for forcible expulsion of the sit down strikers was obtained by the G M lawyers workers on the pacific M MARITIME coast ended their long strike by accepting working agreements that had been negotiated in san francisco and the 4 men returned to their jobs ships in all the ports long idle got up steam and prepared to resume business and the ticket offices were thronged thron ged with passengers Ship owners issued a statement staten bent asserting the end of the walkout would mean a business revival for 1000 industrial plants and export offices up and down the coast of the interior harold S SECRETARY ickes and the national resources committee of which he is i s chairman have produced a public works and national water program for the next six years and it was submitted to congress by president roosevelt with the recommendation that it should be adopted it involves the elpe expenditure irid of five billion dollars and calls for lump jump sum annual appropriations under harold ickes the regular budget for a list of approved projects and allocation of the funds to a permanent public works or development agency As the chief part of the plan mr air roosevelt presented congress with a list of some 2750 worth of water conservation project including a flood control program in the inundated ohio and mississippi river valleys in his transmission message the president warned congress against considering each project as a separate entity the report he said should of course be read in conj notion with the recommendations for highways bridges dams flood control and so forth already under construction estimates for f or which have been submitted in the budget during the depression he told congress we have substantially increased the facilities and developed d the resources of our country for the common welfare through public works and work relief programs we have been compelled to undertake actual work somewhat hurriedly in the emergency N now ow it is time to develop a long range plan and policy tor for construe construction to provide the best use of our resources and to prepare in advance against any other emergency the committee that drew up this program includes besides air M r ickes secretary of war harry H woodring administrator harry hopkins secretary of agriculture henry A wallace secretary of labor frances perkins secretary of commerce daniel C roper frederic A delano uncle of the president and charles E merri merriam am university of chicago professor r D ESPITE the warm opposition of democratic senator J W bailey of north carolina and others including the few republicans the senate passed the house deficiency relief bill carrying an appropriation of senator bailey spoke in support of his amendment which would re require q u i ire a means test or haupers paupers pau pers 0 oath a th as some have called it for states counties and their political subdivisions to secure federal aid for their relief requirements the amendment was rejected without a 0 record vote out of the total allocated in the bill for relief and work relief about Oo was expected to be given to the works progress administration fro from this fund aid will be given to victims of floods in the ohio and mississippi valleys T ta 3 FINANCE for another year the social security board veterans administration and about thirty other federal agencies the house appropriated one billion forty six million dollars the bill passed without a record vote carried a last minute amendment providing that none of the funds appropriated pro should be available to pay for the expenses of any congressional investigation this amendment was aimed at senate investigations such as the la follette and wheeler inquiries work day and night F aby by pick and shovel laborers all down the mississippi from cairo appeared to have won the fight to save the fertile lands along the river from the great flood but engineers warned that the danger of inundation was not yet over however most of the levees were holding and the winds that had been driving the waters against them were subsiding about in inhabitants of the valley had bad been forced to abandon their homes but the red cross and other relief agencies were caring for them at cairo and hickman were plenty of coast guard boats and barges ready to rescue the people if the emba embankments n k gave way floodwater from a break in the bes bessie sie landing tenn tann levee all but encircled tiptonville onville tenn and spread over adjacent thousands of acres backwaters continued to bar harass lowland dwell dwellers eri in mississippi and louisiana but engineers remained firm in the conviction the worst definitely would be over when the crests pass arkansas and tennessee harry hopkins administrator and other members of the special flood relief committee named by president roosevelt went to the flood areas with the expressed intention of seeing that the job of caring for the refugees was well done mr air hopkins indicated he was prepared to spend the entire deficiency work relief budget for or flood relief if necessary D DI 1 STANLEY HIGH religious L publicist who has been prominent among the administration supporters is out of presidential favor ile he has been cashing in on hi his s clo closeness serless to the white house by writing for periodicals and his latest article entitled whose party Is it in the saturday evening post brought this statement released by assistant white house secretary early the president announced the death of the official spokesman in march 1933 he now announces the passing of the so called authoritative spokesman those who write as one of the presidents closest advisers though high was not named mr early left no doubt as to who was meant ITALY and turkey settled their disputes in conferences between their foreign ministers count galeazzo ciano and dr tewfik aras italy will wili participate in the Alon montreux treux convention which gave turkey the right to rearm the dar canelles da nelles and turkey is assured that italian ambitions to possess turkish anatolia have been abandoned it was believed mussolini considered er ed the time ripe to make friends with turkey first allaying turkish suspicions and defining spheres of influence in the hope italy could woo turkey from friendship with moscow S C of state ratael rafael montalvo of cuba announced that pedro martinez fraga h had a d been appointed cuban ambassador to washington he has been serving as minister to london and will succeed ambassador guillermo patterson who has been transferred to mexico city T THIRTEEN of the russian conspirators spira tors tried in moscow for plotting the overthrow of the stalin re reime regime ime were condemned to death by the trial court and their pleas for mercy were rejected bv the presidium of the communist executive committee they were ordered shot within 48 hours after sentence was pronounced one of 0 the execl said they died like soldiers to the surprise of G gregory r the world four of sole in OV the leading defendants were saved from the firing squad being sentenced fenced to terms of imprisonment these were karl radek once noted journalist and gregory ov former soviet ambas ambassador to london given ten years each and al S ilov and V V arnold ordered confined for eight years the judges said these tour four men while guilty of treason did rot actually participate in and wre wrecking ck activities it was the belief ot of neutral observers that they had been spared in order to get their testimony against the scores of men still under arrest rol POL CHARLES A LINDBERGH celebrated his thirty fifth birthday in rome whither he had flown with mrs lindbergh in their ne new v plane from the eternal city th they ey flew to tripoli to spend a few days with gen italo balbo governor of 0 libya and himself a famous airman then they planned to continue to egypt F FEDERAL agents and missouri Miss ourt state troopers were led by robert kenyon a twenty year old moronic police character to a thicket fourteen miles from willow springs where lay the body of ur dr J C B davis whom kenyon h had ad and allegedly killed be before fa re attempt ing to collect 5 ransom kenyon confessed the crime and was rushed to jail in kansas city to save hirn him from lynching lunching lyn ching there he told a wild story of one nighthawk who he said forced him to write the ran som note and then murdered th doctor |
