Show news review of current events the world over new deal sighs relief as supreme court 0 Ks gold laws president urges congress to extend two more afore years by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper union pobe PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVELT and the new dealers breathed easier after the united states supreme court handed down its decision sustaining invalidation of gold clauses in f I 1 private contracts i r J I 1 s but not cot on federal I 1 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 bonds while it was t held that the government I 1 11 I 1 kl I 1 must pay I 1 1 off its bonds in gold 1 11 1 I 1 or its equivalent in devalued currency I 1 I 1 mother another ruling that the court of claims K had bad no jurisdiction president over such cases means that it would roosevelt velt be impossible for holders of federal bonds to collect on their old gold basis in other words the goldell of a 1000 federal bond Is entitled to a technical value of 1090 but in reality it would be impractical to make any collection of that amount since the court of claims is the only tribunal before which suits against the government may be taken and other courts may not enter entertain tal n such suits without a special act of cain c on gress eresa the court also held that those who held gold certificates had no cause u of action and nd could not sue the government the power of congress to deal with currency was fully upheld brielly the ruling said 1 congress has the power to nullify promises to pay in gold contained in the bonds of private corporations po rations 2 A gold certificate Is worth only its face value in present devalued currency congressional cong power over the currency includes the right to establish circumstances under which gold certificates need not be redeemed in gold or its equivalent I 1 congress has no authority under the constitution to abrogate the payment ln in gold clause of government bonds but as no actual damage has hag been done therefore there Is no do basis for suit for recovery the decision was read by chief justice charles evans hushes hughes who voted with justices brandeis stone roberts and cardozo in the majority dissenters were justices me reynolds van devanter sutherland and putter butler the four so called con sen allies not only this country but the entire world awaited what hat the nine lonely old men of the supreme court had to say about the roosevelt velt monetary policies the de casion Is ranked with the courts decisions in the dartmouth college case in ISIS 1818 which upheld the sanctity of contract and la in the dred scott slavery case in 1817 which had much to do with hastening the outbreak of the civil war satisfaction within the administration allu dills was evident at once justice Reynolds Uc was spokesman tor for the dissenters he unleashed a scathing attack on the majority views nis ills voice vibrant he be said the constitution as we have known it Is gone if given effect the enactments here challenged will bring about confiscation of property rl rights gilts and repudiation of national obligations just men regarded spoliation of citizens by their sovereign with abhorrence hor rence but we are asked to affirm that the constitution has granted power to accomplish both no definite delegation of such a power exists and we cannot believe the farseeing framers who labored a kith hope of establishing jus tice and securing the blessings of liberty intended that the expected government should have authority t to annihilate its own obligations and destroy the very rights which they bare endeavoring to protect notified that chief justice blugh hughes was reading the decision president roosevelt went to the cabinet room where he listened to telephonic re ports from an aid the chief ex ev ecith e was prepared to take swirl action to protect the credit of the government in cage an adverse lie dc cadon was handed down dolyn but execl the orders were unnecessary the carefully prepared pro program gram was not needed TWO WO more ears years of the nith clarification of policies more effective enforcement of codes rind the granting of unquestioned power to the federal government were nere n ere urged by the president in a friel message sage to cong congress ress the national recovery act terrol june 10 this year abandonment would be unthinkable he sak said naming the act as the bagg biggest gest factor in giving re employment to ly people ile he said congress must maintain the fundamental principles of the net to establish at least a minimum fair air trade practice and labor relations standard stan pleading that child labor oust must tay out and that fixing I 1 of wages and hours was practical and necessary answering recent protests of labor a he said the rights of employees freely to organize for the purpose of collective bargaining should be fully protected ne he urged more strict flip application of anti antitrust trust laws condemned monopolies no Do and private price fixing opposed hindrances to fair competition and proposed further protection of small enterprises a against discrimination and oppression ills suggestions if adopted keep code violators from behind the bars the llie way to enforce laws codes and regulations relating to industrial practices Is not to seek to put people in jail he said admitting some mistakes the president was well satisfied that the had done a good job considering si its short existence only carping critics and those who seek political advantage and the right fil again to indulge in unfair practices or exploitation of labor or consumers deliberately seek to quarrel over the obvious fact that a groat great code of law of order and of decent business cannot be created in a day or a year mr roosevelt declared all details of the legislation were left to congress while this Is in progress the senate finance committee proposes to conduct the nye mccarran investigation of the administration and codes the judiciary subcommittee reported no funds available but the inquiry which has tile the presidents app approval roial will be attempted without money M ORE than men were report ed killed or wounded in a skirmish in the demilitarized zone which lies between Manchu kuo and china north of tile the clash was bet between veen the recently formed peace preservation corps and the militia the reace preservation er corps which has the approval of the chinese government was receiving money and arms from the japanese it nas alleged the militia Is supported by local chinese interests while the hattle hattie was r raging wang wel premier of the chinese nationalist government and kold kobi IIi Ill rota japanese foreign minister expressed themselves as desirous of peace between the two nations F fingerprint INGER PRINT records of every citizen of tile the united states on file in washington along with those of john diall dillinger er al A capone and even john D rockefeller jr would go far toward ending and serious crimes says attorney general homer S cummings ue ile urged umed that all americans obtain tree free fingerprint cards from the fingerprint ger prInt department imprint their marks and send the results to washington VICTOR VECTOR A de from his position of second ranking officer of the AAA in the recent shake up which involved several alleged radicals resigned I 1 in n protest chester 0 davis administrator had not accepted the resignation and secretary of 0 agriculture wallace was attempting to persuade christgau to change his mind wallace hinted that there had bad been differences between christgau I 1 and A 11 II lauterbach chief of the 11 1 AAA dairy section F over the mill milk polley policy N A of undersecretary rexford ar 1 guy tugwell V I 1 I 1 christgau was also supposed to have encountered friction with other members of the department part ment alls ae secretary rise to new mw rumors wallace w i i that brain g trucker y Tug vell will ill resign before his influence in tile the AAA Is too severely curtailed by the demotion and outer ouster of ills his confreres contreres con freres meanwhile amendments to the agricultural ri adjustment act were declared to conceal dangerous arbi arary and autocratic powers over farmers manufacturers rind distributors tribu tors or of farm products by the legislative committee of the agricultural industries conference in washington the committee cited the provision that tile the AAA rally require that it a licensed processor pur chase only from those who sl aln n contracts tt it charges that tile the amendments make no for the farmer to express himself in the matter of econies Hc onies hut but contain provisions tor for price control mar bets production and purchasing through indirect restriction of th ohp farmers farmer marlet market those alje ae provisions are equivalent to a licensing of the former farmer according to the committee the entire economic we life of com mun muni ties ittes could tie be directed from cwashington washington the committee said B anuno UNO IJ escaped the electric chair at least temporarily when a writ of 0 error rr filed by defense se attorneys att ornea earned him a stay of execution een sentence tence which was to be carried out a at it trenton N J march 18 the bronx carpenters lire life Is sare safe at least until september or october since a further appeal can be made to the court of pardons if the court of errors and appeals falls to uphold the writ lloyd C fisher and frederick A pope presented the lie appeal after n brittle battle with chief defense counsel edward J reilly w who ho subsequently threatened that either he or F isher fisher would have to withdraw from the defense the hearing bearing will probably take place at the next session of the court which begins may hay ZI 21 part of the dissension among defense attorneys was thought to exist because reilly keilly never challenged the assumption that the body of the dead baby was that of Lind berghs son george FI poster foster former investigator vesti gator for the defense declared that the baby could not have been lindes because it was four inches taller than charles A lindbergh jr was in ID a less identifiable condition than would have been possible in the mild weather following the and was embalmed embalm ed B leaking DItE lB AKING the tenth command ment Is breaking the law la in england alexander frederick churchill sim of Coo bookham cookham kharn dean berkshire coveted the perfect serving mald maid of his neighbor herbert mercer stretch and enticed her away front from him for this the civil court fined filled sim it assessed him another 1250 for asserting in a telegram that stretch borrowed money front from the maid edith saville whose affairs were the talk of john bulls island where perfect serving maid are hard to get et and hard bard to keep sim was als also forced to pay court costs totaling 2000 X THE heels of the supreme 0 ON courts gold ruling former president herbert hoover demanded re ot of the gold standard in t the it e I 1 united states as A the only way to restore I 1 1 1 confidence in our currency this A I 1 1 could only be done I 1 by making T the dollar 11 I 1 immediately con A I 1 I 1 1 fit at the pre 1 ent 53 59 cents or of gold the modern method of specie payment herbert the only thing living hoover ex president sald said that such action would put more of the unemployed mm darn back bach to work than any other oilier step thi tila united states stales should take the load lead in returning to the standard he said declaring that there Is ig no need deed to wait for foreign nations before we ro reestablish establish the gold Stall standard dard and restore confidence in our currency they would ile he hound bound to follow some time they are more afraid of our doing juat this than they tire are of any american mana managed ged currency I 1 ONIS inmates mates shot and THIRTY killed a guard in a spectacular break from the Okla oklahoma boma state pals on at granite the only male penal institution administered by a worn an warden arden i thirteen were captured shortly afterward and a man hunt is on tor for the others tile the fugitives used two guns which had been smuggled to them forced a trusty turnkey to open up for them cor railed 20 visitors in the visitors room and using them for a shield made their escape her prison at al ready the subject of investigation into its moral and managerial standards the warden mrs G A mother walters was wag ordered replaced by il a man gov E W mar land declaring that a woman juit cant manage a prison defiantly antly she refused to clear out until completed investigations had vindicated ler D EALM LEADER HITI EH re refused fused to exercise ills his prerogative of mercy and two berlin so clety women were be headed by the executioner for divulging mill tary secrets another woman and a polish nobleman were sentenced to life imprisonment at hard work the execution of the two women was carried out at dawn with such secrecy that it was hours before their exact fate could be learned the two women went to their death with a calm courage that should be an example for the strongest men at an eye witness It ness re ported the sensational publicity awakened likened by the execution was ex e peeled to induce littler hitler to commute ma te the sentences of to tn men spies scheduled to he be be headed in the same manner soon to curb the inroads of STEPS S japanese landholders in the ibe rich hemp growing groin provinces or of parao davan tire are being taken by the lip pine government strict application of insular laws governing land holding by aliens wa w ill ho be made tie a cording to eulogra rodriguez secre tary of ng agriculture who schemes a athole ho lemle aile cancellation of sublease of public lands which mitch lie maintains are illegal A recent survey ro ilo asserts shows the japa nese control acres in the I 1 pr olnee nce anil and that lenses leasel to I 1 acres are illegally he |