Show news of current events SENATE KILLS COURT BILL votes 70 to 20 to recommit elect barkley new majority leader spanish war enters second year tv i 11 ake t n A w senator harrison right light congratulates senator barkley A WW W r P V Z summarizes THE TW WORLDS WEEK 6 0 western newspaper union glory be to godl DYING dadd YING for weeks the scheme to add to the number of justices of the supreme court finally choked its last gasp and left this world on a roh call vote the united states senate voted to recommit the robinson substitute for the presidents original bill to the judiciary committee the vote was 70 to 20 the most crushing defeat the presidents legislation has yet suffered at the hands of a house of congress in an agreement made at a session of the judiciary committee earlier it had been decided to let the opposition senators write their own bill an innocuous measure for judicial reform not dealing in any way with the supreme court senator barkley the new majority leader attempted to save the presidents face by having the bill left on the calendar but he never had a chance when the roll call came even senators ashurst of arizona and minton of indiana two of the supreme court bills chief supporters voted to recommit glory be to godi god said sen hiram johnson rep calif when the results of the roll call were made known the applause that bellowed forth from the senators and gallery alike left no doubt that the veteran from california had voiced the sentiments of the great majority low interest for farmers Bover BY t Y A vote of 71 to 19 the senate overrode rode the presidents veto of a bill extending for abear a year low interest rates on loans to farmers it was a defeat even more crushing than the of the court bill and made the bill a law without the presidents signature for the house had previously passed it by a two thirds majority over mr Roosevel ts veto senator barkley made a halfhearted attempt to stave off the overwhelming vote and the defeat was accepted by many observers as an expression of resentment over Bark leys having been elected majority leader instead of sen pat harrison of mississippi i barkley 38 harrison 37 SEN CEN WILLIAM H DIETERICH u of illinois changed his mind at the last minute and today alben W barkley hard fisted blustering sen ator from kentucky is the majority leader of the united states senate succeeding the late joseph T robinson of arkansas the vote was 38 for barkley to 37 for sen pat harrison garrison of mississippi the conservative Vice President democrats in the garner senate had been assured surd of 38 33 votes enough to elect harrison on the eve eye of the secret election but that night dieterich apparently under pressure from the oie democratic party organization in illinois begged harrison to release his pledged vote in order that the presidents choice might head the party in the senate the th fa slim victory by no means patched the obvious party rift even the administration admitted that the presidents supreme court bill was virtually dead even then vice president garner visited sen burton K wheeler of montana leader of the opposition forces and invited the opposition which it was believed had enough votes to recommit the S substitute ab court bill to the judiciary committee to draft a new bill president roos roosevelt evelt then told senators barkley and harrison at the white house that four measures must be passed before the january session the minimum wage maximum hours and child labor biu bill the new AAA and ever normal granary bill the wagner housing bill and legislation to plug loopholes in the federal tax laws congress was all for quick adjournment the president was told the possibility of adjourning congress then recalling it in special session in the late fau fall with committees continuing to function in the interim was then discussed but what agreement had been reached was not announced noun ced A citizen takes his pen C CRUSHING RUSHING blow to the presidents court program delivered at the time it hurt most was a letter written by gov herbert H lehman of new york to sen robert I 1 F wagner of that state the letter made AL p public u b I 1 I 1 c revealed governor lehmans opinion as a citizen of the state of new york that the bill would be contrary to the interests of the people of the state its en gov lehman act ment the th governor wrote would create a greatly dangerous precedent which could be availed of by future fatur e less well intentioned administrations for the purpose of oppression or for the curtailment of the constitutional rights of our citizens bloody anniversary tits THE HE spanish civil war entered its second year for the populations of rebel cities the occasion was one for joyous celebration with fiestas bull fights and concerts the order of the day gen francisco franco commander of the insurgent forces publicly proclaimed it a year of triumph he ordered that all communications and public documents for the next twelve months be dated as of the second year of triumph in the first year of triumph more than a million persons including women and children were killed the insurgents claim to have taken 34 of the 50 provincial capitals of the country and all of its colonies they have camtu captured red six of the eleven cities of more than inhabitants seville malaga bilbao bilao saragossa cordoba and granada the rebels lost little time in attempting to regain their losses around madrid franco unleashed the full power of his main army of in a drive to recapture bru net nete and other suburbs of the loyalist stronghold they were met by at least defending government troops every weapon of war except gas was used there was hand to hand fighting in the trenches and the greatest use of artillery since the world war as the fiercest battle of the spanish conflict raged the battle was opened by as spectacular an aerial fight as the world has seen in years insurgents were reported to have lost 27 planes against only four tor for the loyalists it if there were any definite gains made in a weeks fighting they were probably on the side of the insurgents observers reported although the government estimated the rebels had I 1 ost lost men 4 japs maul U S women A A upon two american ra women by sentries in the japanese embassy in neiping brought vigorous protests both orally and in writing from the he t united states embassy the two women mrs helen R jones of detroit and miss carol lathrop of washington D C were walking through the embassy when sentries charged them from behind sandbag barricades while one sentry kicked miss lathrop in the side another held off mrs jones with the flat of his bayonet when the women were released the they y were roughly shoved mrs jones being forcefully lucked kicked from behind sino japanese crisis J aust after a verbal agreement agi cement between chinese and japanese military commanders had appeared to have prevented an impending renewal renel of the sino japanese war the japanese government officially announced that heavy concentration of chinese troops had been made at neiping Pei ping constituting a direct act of i aggression against japan at the same time the N government claimed that 17 bapat japanese troop trains carrying soldiers were en route to north china from corea and Manchu kuo earlier japanese troops were said to have arrived in north china to supplement the regular garrison of at gen sung cheh yu an chairman of the hope political council and commander of 61 the chinese forces in north china nad had complied verbally with the japanese ultimatum for peace although he re refused fused to sign anything in a talk with gen kiyoshi katsuki the japanese commander he apologized for the clash between japanese troops and the chinese twenty ninth army at Lukow kiao klao july 7 the incident which perpetrated the new crisis and expressed t the e reg regrets of the council he said that he would dismiss miss sev several era of his officers as a punishment gen sung assured the japanese he would evacuate the area west of neiping Pei ping and would do his utmost to suppress communism and anti japanese activities part of the agreement was that both chinese and japanese troops should be withdrawn from the walled city of suburb of neiping Pei ping but chinese troops refused to withdraw when they alleged it became certain the japanese had no intention of withdrawing either in the midst of many conflicting and confusing reports the outcome of any truce was problematical to say the least europe short on grain ethe began to worry about the possibilities of a hungry winter as early threshing indicated a serious grain shortage germanys germanas Germ anys shortage was estimated at tons the deficit will be met partly with increased consumption of potatoes and sugar beets and partly with cheap plentiful corn from southeastern europe it is expected even so that germany will have to buy to tons from other foreign countries experts estimated that the german harvest for 1937 would be 10 to 20 per cent below the average for the years 1930 35 poland from which germany has been able to buy grain in the past will not be able to sell any this year while hile hungarian rumanian and ju go crops will be smaller than last year because of drouth it was believed that lf it the current drouth continued the farmers of great britain would likewise suffer rainfall in the past month has been about one fifth normal of the baltic countries only lithuania it is believed will have a crop equal to her needs crops suffered badly in latvia esthonia and finland only spain in all europe with an increase of 15 per cent over last years grain harvest appears likely to enjoy a well filled bread basket de valera Is reelected re elected IF HIS party fianna fail can keep in power that long eamon de valera will be presided president of the executive council of the irish free state for another five years H he e was elected to the nations highest office by a vote of 82 to 52 in the dail eire eirmann arin parliament de valera in favor of severing all ties with great britain won even the vote of the labor group which does not endorse his party it was believed that de valera would go ahead with legislation necessary to implement the new constitution ution approved in the plebiscite of july 1 he would in that case set up a senate and elect a president by popular vote as the constitution provides if de valera is elected president to serve seven years political experts say he will virtually disappear from politics and his party will break up static wrecked hindenburg Hm denburg T PHE HE spectacular crash of the zeppelin hindenburg killing 38 36 at lakehurst N J last ilay may 6 was probably caused by an unseen spark of static electricity which jumped from the atmosphere to the frame of the dirigible at least this is the theory of the board of inquiry which investigated the accident and reported to secretary of commerce daniel C roper the experts considered every other possible cause fire sabotage brush dascha discharge r ge of electricity from sharp points on the ship broken propeller blade radio transmitter spark lightning and structural failure and decided that their theory most nearly fitted the birc circumstances um attending the disaster inventor of wireless dies var MARCONI who al the lives of an all of us when he invented the wireless died di e d suddenly of a heart attack at t his home in rome he was sixty t three ahree years old had been in good health and was planning the construction of a new radio station in the vatican at the time of his death premier mussolini paid homage to the great inventor kissing the dead man mans S forehead in reverence |