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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over European Powers Agree on Blockade of Spain to Insulate the War Farm Tenant Program Supreme Court Controversy Grows. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. REPRESENTATIVES of the soft coal operators met with John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, in New York to start negotiations for a new wage and hour agreement for 400,000 miners. Mr. Lewis said to the operators: "There is no friction in our industry. indus-try. Peace dwells in the coal fields. I hope this conference will be successful suc-cessful in working out a new agreement agree-ment without loss of time to a single sin-gle worker." Thereupon he presented the demands de-mands of the union, which were promptly dubbed "utterly impossible" impossi-ble" and "quite amazing" by Charles O'Neill, president of the Eastern Coal Sales corporation. Chief demands made by Lewis are: 1. A six hour day and a five day week in place of the present work week of 35 hours. 2. An increase in daily wages from $5.50 to $6 in the north, and from $5.10 to $5.60 in the south. 3. Time and a half for overtime and double time for Sundays and holidays. 4. A minimum of 200 days' employment em-ployment each year. The operators proposed a 40 hour week with no increase in wages. CCAFFOLDING on the Golden Gate bridge at San Francisco collapsed and crashed through the great safety net, carrying with it thirteen men who plunged 200 feet into the bay. Ten were killed and the others seriously injured. The tragedy, first major accident during construction of the $36,000,-000 $36,000,-000 span, which is to open next May, was caused by a broken roller roll-er caster. The state industrial accident ac-cident commissioner said an inspector inspec-tor had twice reported that the scaffolding was unsafe, but this was emphatically denied by Philip $500,000,000 farm tenant bill now before be-fore congress would be made the basis for the new legislation. The President's farm tenancy committee, headed by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, recommended that congress make available "a definite sum each year for a number num-ber of years" for a land-purchase program, but mentioned no definite figure. Wallace said, however, he thought Jones' proposal for $50,000,-000 $50,000,-000 annual appropriation for ten years is "reasonable." '"pHOUGH President Roosevelt persisted in his intention to force through congress his measure to "reform" the federal judiciary, ?0 FAR as the internatiori.il non-l non-l intervention committee can do it, the war in Spain is now insulated. Representatives of 26 European nations na-tions agreed that no more volunteers volun-teers for cither side in the civil conflict should be permitted to enter en-ter the Iberian peninsula, effective at midnight February 20; and they laid plans for a complete blockade by land and sea that would prevent pre-vent the importation of any more men or war munitions. Only Portugal Portu-gal dissented, objecting to establishment estab-lishment of frontier guards on her territory; Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia ignored ig-nored the Portuguese protests and went ahead with the blockade plans, which are to be put into effect by March 6. The decisions were reached after France delivered a virtual ultimatum ultima-tum to her fellow committee members mem-bers to end their bickering and warned Italy she would not stand for "open invasion of Spain." The French were quick to place guards at all strategic points along the Franco-Spanish frontier. The international naval patrols presumably will not have authority f fry ' r v ;--v LA I ) law-makers who have been his warm supporters are coming com-ing out one by one in hot opposition to his plan to pack the Supreme court. Among them are Senator Bennett C. Clark of Missouri and Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, Mon-tana, both leading Senator Clark Democrats. They studied the scheme carefully before issuing their statements. state-ments. The announcements of these men was scarcely offset by a radio address by Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, dutifully defending the President's plan. Senator Clark said he was entirely entire-ly in accord with the minor proposals pro-posals in Mr. Roosevelt's scheme, but was totally unable'to agree with the provisions for packing the Supreme Su-preme court. Then came Senator Wheeler, stalwart stal-wart radical, with a statement which it was reported he made public pub-lic over the protests of the White House. He said in part: "I am, always have been, and will continue to be opposed to the usurpation of legislative functions by the courts; I am, have been, and will be opposed to usurpation of legislative leg-islative and judicial functions by the executive branch of the government. govern-ment. "There is nothing democratic, progressive, or fundamentally sound in the proposal advanced by the administration." Attorney General Cummings advanced ad-vanced these two reasons for sup- Hart, president of the construction company. nAUL V. McNUTT, former gov- ernor of Indiana, has been appointed ap-pointed to the desirable post of high commissioner to the Philippines, Phil-ippines, at a salary of $18,000 a year and with residence in a huge palace in Manila. Mr. McNutt is still considered one of the possibilities possibil-ities for the Presidential nomination nomina-tion by the Democrats in 1940. .It had been thought he might get a place in the present cabinet. 'TpHIRTY-EIGHT Germans have been under arrest in Russia for several months and are held without with-out trial. The German ambassador to Moscow, Count von der Schulen-berg, Schulen-berg, has made "serious" representations repre-sentations to the Soviet government and demanded that a representative representa-tive of the embassy be permitted to interview the prisoners. Presumably Presum-ably the men are suspected of espionage es-pionage and sabotage, in connection connec-tion with the anti-Stalin conspiracy. conspir-acy. r NE officer and five enlisted men of the marine corps were killed to stop vessels suspected of carrying carry-ing arms and men to Spain, but will report ship movements to the committee for action and will place observers on the vessels to check cargoes. Supposing this blockade to be successful, suc-cessful, it may well be that the Spanish civil war will die of inanition. inani-tion. Then may be brought about that which the international committee com-mittee seeks international mediation media-tion between the insurgents and the loyalist government. For the present both sides are renewing re-newing their efforts for decisive victory. vic-tory. The fascists, still driving hard at the "life line" that connects Madrid Ma-drid and Valencia, .-t?so are attacking attack-ing the capital itself again. Their airplanes made two night bombing assaults on the city and its environs, envi-rons, killing a number of persons; and their artillery constantly shells the highways to Valencia. The loyalist government, at its temporary seat in Valencia, took a new mandate of absolute power from all Popular Front parties and mobilized all available man power to oppose the insurgent forces. All military classes of the last five years were drafted for immediate im-mediate war service. J) RIME MINISTER STANLEY 1 BALDWIN'S government of Great Britain is asking for $7,500,-000,000 $7,500,-000,000 to finance its "war plan in time of peace," and is meeting porting the Presi- , dent's proposal: i New blood should : be injected into the judiciary in order : that the Constitution shall be construed ; in keeping with the changing needs pro- s duced by new com- plexities of national life. The ennppstinn nf and ten others were injured when a 5-inch shell exploded in the improperly improp-erly closed breech of a gun on the battleship Wyoming. The accident occurred during battle maneuvers off the coast of southern California. The men killed were: Capt. Edward Ed-ward J. Trumble, Alexandria, Va.; John Bauer, Cincinnati, Ohio; Albert Al-bert Enos, Cambridge, Mass.; Joseph Jos-eph W. Bozynski, Pittsburgh; Clinton Clin-ton Walker, Boykin, S. C; and Rich- ! I ' y 1 .. ... .. : v.. i i 1 with determined opposition op-position from the Liberals, Laborites and others in parliament. par-liament. These especially es-pecially object to the plan for enlargement en-largement of the nation's land, sea and air forces by a $2,000,000,000 loan and increased taxation. dockets in the feder- Atty- Gen-al Gen-al courts is largely Cummings due to the inability of aged and infirm judges to perform their share of the work. Investigation has shown, however ard Frye, Johnstown, Pa. EN. SENJURO HAYASHI, pre-mier pre-mier and foreign minister of Japan, in a formal statement of policy to the parliament, said his government would pay special atten- f , tion" to the adjust- ; ment of the em- i pire's relations with soviet Russia and f i China, and urged ;v those nations to ft cease their quarrels , with Japan and try ' $ i to comprehend " Japan's position and ' aims in East Asia. L..i&!-He L..i&!-He called attention SugIyama to the fact that " y Japan no longer is bound by any naval limitations treaty but declared de-clared "there shall be no change in our policy of strict adherence to the principle of nonmenace and non-aggression." non-aggression." Hayashi's cabinet decided on a budget reduction of approximately RVz per cent; Lieut. Gen. Hajime Sugiyama, the new war minister, objected ob-jected to any cut in the hug3 army budget, but it was reduced slightly. T ESTORATION of the Hapsburg dynasty in Austria was openly advocated by Chancellor Kurt ! . Scc'y of Navy Commenting on Swanson the BrUish naval construction program, Admiral Wil-i Wil-i liam D. Leahy, chief of naval operations oper-ations of the Amei-ican navy, served notice that any foreign nations expanding ex-panding ' their navies beyond the , standards of recent treaties might expect that the United States would match their construction. He said it was his understanding that this nation was definitely committed to the maintenance of a "navy second to none." To maintain that principle, prin-ciple, he declared, it would become be-come necessary for the United States to build new ships if other powers did. The present United States building build-ing program calls for start of construction con-struction this year on two new capital cap-ital ships. Great Britain already has laid the keels of two new craft and the program announced in London Lon-don calls for the start, after April 1, of construction of a third new vessel. When Britain lays a third keel, then this government is likely to start similar construction. that the second reason is unsound. Commenting on Mr. Cummings' speech, Senator Glass of Virginia said: "I think it indicates that the country is in infinitely greater need of an attorney general than of additional addi-tional judges on the Supreme court or of judicial wet nurses for six of the present members of the court." Senator Minton of Indiana defended de-fended the plan in a radio address but probably did it more harm than good, for he frankly admitted the purpose of the administration is to change the personnel and views of the Supreme court, in order that President Roosevelt's New Deal program will be he'd constitutional. Other senators who came out against the President's plan were Nye of North Dakota, radical Republican; Re-publican; Bone of Washington, Democrat; Burke of Nebraska, Democrat; and Van Nuys of Indiana, Indi-ana, Democrat. On the other side were McAdoo of California; Thomas of Utah and La Follette of Wisconsin. Wis-consin. Senators Bone and Wheeler introduced intro-duced a resolution for a constitu- TN A special message to congress President Roosevelt urged legislation legis-lation to "improve the present intolerable in-tolerable condition" of 3,000,000 farm tenants, presenting this four-point four-point program: 1. Action to open the doors of ownership to tenants who now have the requisite ability and experience. 2. Modest loans, with the necessary neces-sary guidance and education to prevent pre-vent small owners from slipping into tenancy. 3. The retirement by public agencies agen-cies of land proved to be unsuited for farming and assistance to the families living thereon in finding homes on good land. 4. Cooperation with state and local lo-cal agencies of government to improve im-prove the general leasing system. Congressional leaders promised Immediate action, and Chairman Jones of the house agriculture committee com-mittee said the Jones-Bankhead Schuschnigg, who committed his government party to that proposition. proposi-tion. He intimated that a plebiscite plebis-cite would be held to decide the question. The chancellor asserted that increasing in-creasing official support would be given to the campaign to place Archduke Otto of Hapsburg again on the throne which his father, the Emperor Karl, "temporarily renounced" re-nounced" November 11, 1918. The archduke is twenty-four years old. HEADED by President Roosevelt and Vice President Garner, 1,600 Democratic government officials, offi-cials, state committeemen and prominent figures in the worlds of business and sports honored James A. Farley with a banquet in Washington. Wash-ington. Mr. Garner was master of ceremonies and called the roll of distinguished guests by states. Mr. Roosevelt made a speech, which v. as carried to the country by radio. tional amendment that would give congress the power to override Supreme Su-preme court decisions by a two-thirds two-thirds vote of both houses, but only after a national election involving congressional seats has intervened so that the people have had a chance to speak on the issue. The American Federation of Labor La-bor and Labor's Nonpartisan league declared their support of the court packing scheme, and the National Grange expressed its opposition. Legislatures of many states adopted resolutions for or against the plan, most of them being in opposition. Mr. Roosevelt received several groups of senators, some of whom are among those opposing the packing pack-ing of the Supreme court, and reiterated re-iterated his intention to push his plan through congress without modification. mod-ification. He said the people had voted for a New Deal and were going to get it |