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Show Neirs Itcvicw of Current Even ts BLACK NAMED FOR COURT Choice Surprise to Senate . . . Chinese Central Army Clashes with Japanese . . . Legislation in Tangled Mess Cutting Madrid from Sea OLOWLY but determinedly Gen. Francisco Franco's rebels are pressing their campaign to cut Madrid off from Valencia and the sea. Latest advances of well-mobilized and mechanized troops, following fol-lowing up co-ordinated attacks, brought the insurgents near to the capture of Salvacanete, which is only 30 miles from Cuenca. Cuenca is the provincial capital, and from it emanate most of the roads upon which the loyalist government is depending to keep open the traffic between the two cities. Reports revealed that the rebels were also opening a new drive on Santander, last government stronghold strong-hold on the northern coast, and had already made important advances. The drive followed an attack made upon them by Asturian miners fighting fight-ing under the loyalist colors. The miners acted quickly in a surprise move, advancing far enough to throw hand grenades into the insurgent insur-gent trenches. Then the rebels opened up with machine gun fire and half the attacking band was killed. Franco's officers claimed. That all might not be going as well as General Franco insisted was rtwe.0 "-y- ftKjfninimi? . v - Japanese Soldiers Bring Their Own Beer to Peiping. M SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union Nominee Draws Rebuke AXTrH his customary exercise of the dramatic, President Roosevelt Roose-velt nominated Senator Hugo L. Black (Dem., Ala.) to fill the vacan- committee doesn't know how to write such a bill and make it stick, in view of the Supreme court's decision deci-sion on the AAA. Now the Southern bloc has made it clear that it will not push through the President's much-desired wages and hours bill, as dictated by William Wil-liam Green, president of the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor, unless southern farmers get their cotton loans. Furthermore, the Southerners Southern-ers under the capitol dome are now asking for loans as high as 15 cents a pound, and in some cases even 18 cents. The South is not any too well in accord with maximum hours indicated when he was forced into the paradoxical act of shelling one of his own cities, Segovia. This was done, it was reported, to quell a rebellion among the insurgent forces. It was also said that the insurrection had been spreading among several provinces. Meanwhile, other nations were on the point of being involved again. There was a riot among rebel troops at Toledo, and Italian soldiers were alleged to have aided in quelling the uprising. Four merchant ships one British, one Italian, one French and one Greek were attacked at-tacked in the Mediterranean by three "mystery" planes. Great Britain Brit-ain blamed the rebels and demanded demand-ed an answer to its protest Italy blamed the red loyalists. The loyalists loy-alists blamed the rebels, the rebels blamed the loyalists, there were lots of talk and back talk, and nobody got anywhere. j ! Peiplng Gets "Protection" ' Although Nanking is pre-! paring to wape a destructive ; war. do not be afraid. "The Japanese army will protect fV'1 I 3 - ' 1 cy on the Supreme court bench caused by the retirement of Justice Willis Van-Devanter. Van-Devanter. Senator Black had not even been mentioned for consideration previously, previ-ously, ' and the appointment ap-pointment was a complete surprise to his colleagues. and minimum wages anyway. The result of the whole affair is a complete stalemate. Somebody will have to give in; somebody probably prob-ably will, and there will be old-fashioned old-fashioned "hoss - trading" on a wholesale scale. For congress wants to adjourn before the snow flies. Southerners in the senate were also worried when Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York succeeded in winning recognition to debate an anti-lynching bill, the type of which the South has been successful In blocking since the Civil war. Some were of the opinion that the bill, already al-ready passed by the house, mij;ht be defeated by filibuster (Senator Bilbo of Mississippi threatened to filibuster until Christmas) but more believed that the Southern members would consent to its passage to nut t or years it has Senator Black been a c u s t 0 m when a senator is appointed to high office, for his nomination to be considered con-sidered in open executive session. But when Senator Ashurst (Dem., Ariz.) proposed this in Senator Black's nomination, objections came forth immediately from Senator Sen-ator Burke (Dem., Neb.) and Senator Sena-tor Johnson (Rep., Calif.). They asked that the nomination be referred re-ferred to the senate judiciary committee com-mittee for "careful consideration." This was viewed in the light of a distinct rebuke for the nominee. Senator Black has been a militant leader in the fight for the President's Presi-dent's wages and hours legislation. As a justice he would have the opportunity op-portunity to pass upon measures regulating public utility holding you." Leaflets contain- ' Ing these words fluttered flut-tered from the skies to corr.e to rest in the hands of residents resi-dents of the ancient Chinese capital, I'eiping. As the air- : planes which spread the news , hummed overhead, a brigade of 3,000 Japanese soldiers. In com- tmperor k'in.T..h mand of Mnj. Gen. Torashimo Kawabe marched throuch the city, trikinR possession of It in the name of Tokyo. What would be the result of the new Japanese domination apparently apparent-ly be;:un by MaJ. Gen. Kawabe was a matter for speculation. Chinese residents, long sinre convinced that the inevitable would happen, took it calmly cnotii;h. Some of them voiced their belief that tlio former boy emperor of China, Tsuan Tunc (Henry I'u-Yi), s:nre 1 DD t Emperor Kaiig Tell of Manehukuo, would return re-turn to his throne in IViping. Ho would then rule over North China as well as Manchukuo. ns a puppet for whom Japan would pull the strinus. New York's Share Cut CEMATOR KOLiERT F. WAG- N Elt'S (Pern., N. Y.) $7:1'), 0(10.- (inn housing bill was passed by the senate, CI to in. but tho senator ! scarcely recounted it when his fel- ' lows wore done with It. Senator Wagner and other ndmln- Istration leaders struggled frantical- ly to defeat nn amendment by liar- ry F. I!yrd (Dem., Vn.) limiting the ' cost of housing projects to $1,000 n : room or $1,000 a family unit Result j of tho struiti'le: Tho ; companies, authorizing federal ! loans and grants for publicly-owned ! power plants, and fixing prices in the soft-coal industry. He was. as the chairman of the Black commit- tee to investigate lobbying, the cen- j ter of a storm of public opinion j during the early months of 1930. i Black practiced law in Eirming- j ham after being graduated from tiie 1 University of Alabama in 190G. At fifty-one, he is one of the younger j members of the senate. ; Shells Pepper Great Wall i A LTIIOUGH war was still wjth-1 wjth-1 out benefit of official declara tion, the army of the Chinese central cen-tral government clashed with the Japanese invaders for the first time. The Eighty-ninth division, from the provinces of Suiyuan and Shansi began be-gan the attack at the Nankow pass of the Great Wall, 30 miles northwest north-west of Peiping, the Japanese said. Through this pass the Japanese have been able to move reinforcements reinforce-ments from Manchukuo, its protectorate, protec-torate, and the Chinese wanted to gain control of it. They wiped out a whole battalion of Japanese soldiers sol-diers in the opening battle. The Japanese opened up immedl-i immedl-i ately aftervard with heavy artillery fire which the Chinese failed t President Roosevelt "on the .spot." They explained that if he did not sign it he would-lose the negro vote so essential to the third term that is being whispered about, and that if he did sign It the Democratic South would drop him like a hot potato. Senate O.K.'s Court Reform A LL that was left of the admin-istration's admin-istration's sweeping court reform re-form proposals passed the senate In an hour without a record vote. Tins was the procedural reform bill for the lower federal courts. It was In the nature of n substitute for the Sumncrs bill In the house of representatives, repre-sentatives, and went back to the house for what was expected to be a peaceable conference. The bill, as summn ried by Sen. Warren R. Austin (Rep., Vt.), who wrote most of it, Included: Provision making It the duty of the District court, in any constitutional constitu-tional suit between private citizens, to notify the Department of Justice that upon a showing by the attorney general that the United States had a probable Interest the government would be made a party to the suit. Permission for the senior circuit Judge to reassign district Judges within that circuit for II which originally passed the nmend- ' ment '10 to nn, defeated a motion to reconsider by 4-1 to 39. The bill originally called for cx- i I turn. Indeed the latter were silently retreating into positions they j thought more secure. As shells fell in the city of Nankow, fires were I seen to arise from heavily populat-I populat-I ed areas. The Chinese, however, were said to be well equipped with trench mortars with which to defend de-fend the pass once they considered their position satisfactory. Japanese warned that all of their forces in North China, some 40,000 fighting men, would be loosed upon the Chinese if they made any attempt at-tempt to return to the old capital in Peiping, now held by the invaders. South Demands Crop Loans OONGItKoS regarded ndjourn-merit ndjourn-merit ns possibly farther ofr than ever as the wage-hour bill got all tangled up with surplus agricultural agricul-tural control rind cotton loans In what looked like a hopeless mess. With the Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture estimating n Ja.aOO, 000 bale cotton cot-ton crop, about 3,000,000 bales more than can be consumed, Southern representatives rind senators were demanding surplus crop loans. The Commodity Credit corporation has authority to make such loans. In a press conference, President H.oos'-velt Indicated that. U" had no ml'Tition of piT'mil I ing a 10 cent col-ton col-ton loan until congress passed ,he agricultural control program and ever normal granary bill which Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture; Wallace says i?i necessary before Ihe new session In January. Trouble Is tho house. of clearing congested dockets. (If necessary, a judge may be transferred trans-ferred from one circuit to another.) Permission for direct appeal to the Supreme court, If .'today notice is given, from any decision of a District court against the conslitu-tionality conslitu-tionality of an net. Ilouirornont thai, all suits for Injunction In-junction against the operation of federal statutes to be heard by a three-judge court, Including at least ono circuit court of appeals Judge. Shanghai Smells Smolco I A JAl'ANlsSM oITicer and n pea- man tried to enter tho Shanghai Shang-hai airport, now under Chinese military mili-tary control, In a high speed aulo-mobile. aulo-mobile. Chinese guards, nfler trying try-ing to halt Ihem, shot mid killed them. The Japanese claimed the road on which the men were traveling travel-ing was part of the International settlement, set-tlement, rind threatened the severest sever-est reprisals unless the Chinese made satisfactory explanation. Tho Incident hid fair to touch ofr n terrible eonl!ict on the seeno of the war of JOX!. When Japanese warships Ihrealonod the Shanghai wharves, Chinese national troops began be-gan pouring Into the eily from every ev-ery direction. .Simultaneously eame reports 1 1 1 : 1 1, two boatloads of Nip-pnnoso Nip-pnnoso soldiers were headed to niig-""'it niig-""'it Ihe garrison In Shanghai, anil that Ihe taidden Ingress of Chinese troops had virtually blocked off Ihe entire city, Isolating Ihoiisands of foreigners from the oulside world. penditures up to $l,r00 a room or $7,000 n family unit. Opponents conceded that the I'.yrd amendment would prohibit tho building of tho type of houses Senator Wagner had in mind in New York City. Purgo Toll to Date: 320 CKVKNTY-TWO Husslans In Fast Siberia were lined up and shot by tho government, bringing Ihe total to-tal number of eastern executions In Kussia's purge of "Trol.ky isls" to 3::0. The TZ, described ns rightist right-ist terrorists, wero charged with operating along the Siberian railroad rail-road for the Japanese secret service. serv-ice. II. was alleged tho accused had wrecked n train, killing H persons and injuring 41). Arrests of ollieials in charge, of various branches of the Soviet economy econ-omy who had failed to Inako their production iiolas continued. Momorliil for Will Rogers 'I""!!!': memory of Will lingers, America's lately beloved gum. chewing philosopher, will bo en-shrined en-shrined to lining manner near his Clarenioie, Olila., home nfler the President signs n bill which has now been passed by both bouses of eon-gtcss. eon-gtcss. It appropriales Ij.;,u0,000 f,,r n memorial to Will; the slain f ok-lalioma ok-lalioma also will be required to furnish fur-nish $.,00,000. |