Show news review of current events the world over supreme court bars reservations to oath of allegiance economy plans for post office department are arc announced by EDWARD W PICKARD IVE justices of the FIVE united states supreme court h have a v e r iq ruled in the case of prot prof douglas 0 macintosh of the yale divinity school that a foreigner who seeks american citizenship must take taka the oath with no reservations about taking up arms for the country to in ju justice tice time of war blacic auth and n d tosh refused to swear allegiance without limiting his obligation to bear arras arms and therefore Is denied the right of naturalization the same decision was made in the case of miss bliss marle marie averill bland both he and macintosh are canadians and both saw wartime service in nance france justice howard sutherland who wrote the majority opinion held that the cases properly came within the principle laid down in the case of fist leader who was denied citizenship on virtually the same grounds lie ile discussed the broad omnipotent war power granted congress by the constitution buying baying from its very nature tile the war power when necessity calls for its exercise tolerates no qualifications or limitations unless found in the con or in applicable principles of international law the conscientious objector justice sutherland added Is rell relieved eved from the obligation to bear arms in obedience to no constitutional provision expressed or implied but because and only because bec it ling has accorded with the policy of congress thus to relieve him chief justice hughes II joined by justices holmes brandeis Br andels and stone dissented from the majority opinion T IP WO other decisions of the supreme e me court during the week are of great interest one reversed the judgment of the circuit court of appeals sustaining the patent granted dr irving langmuir in 1025 on vacuum tubes used in radio and other speech reproduction processes the patent Is owned by the general electric company it was attacked by the de forest radio company which contended that unless the langmuir patents were set aside general electric would have a virtual monopoly of the radio tube now in common use in the second decision the powers of the federal trade commission to regulate advertising are restricted the commission had ordered the ral adam adain company of detroit to cease advertising an obesity remedy as safe unless accompanied by a statement that it should be taken under advice of a physician alie the commission held it had the right to protect the public in tills this way but the detroit concern complained complain d that the body was trying to censor advertising in tills this contention it was upheld by the court AUGUST riccard riC CAnD swiss P scientist and his assistant charles kipfer established a new record by ascending feet in a balloon they are convinced they reached the stratosphere and that their observations wilt will be of considerable value they started from augsburg bavaria Ka varia being hermetically sealed in an aluminum ball suspended from a large balloon 18 hours later they landed on a glacier in the alps of austrian tyrol they nearly suffocated because their supply of oxygen ran short and they auff uttered Cred from hunger and thirst VERY time president boover takes some borne cabinet member to the rapidan camp 1 V for a weekend week end further plans for reducing the governments aver overhead are concocted first came the army and navy departments and then it was the turn of the post office department postmaster postmaster general aen brown g walter wallet brown anil and his assistants were the guests and the lie victims and after tile conference in the woods it was announced that a program had been adopted that would save in the present fiscal year and that would produce many economies next nest year however it was emphatically stated that efficiency edl clency would ht inzen incensed ln eased sed instead of diminished and that there would be no decrease in personnel the statement indicated that the department has felt the depression it was estimated that due to bustness business conditions revenues to the department part ment tills year would be below the original estimates OF agriculture S llado seems to be forestalling these rup idan camp by planning considerable economies in its his department expenditures though this is difficult without curtailing important services ile he will be aided during the year by the termination of two emergency items drought drou glit relief and highway construction these totaled providing aid for stricken farmers and jobs for the unemployed drought loans will be collected from farmers next fall when nhen their crops are harvested states which have borrowed from the emergency highway fund will repay the money over it a five year period through deductions from their regular shares of federal aid after deducting extension service and land grant college funds between and remains for the departments der ailments actual expenses THIS T HIS years i ears memorial day address by president boover was ft as delivered in the memorial park it at valley forge pennsylvania where george washington and his ragged troops spent a terrible winter years ago and where more than of those patriots are burled buried the exercises of the day were impressive two thousand troops acted as escort to president and mrs hoover and a battery from Phoenix phoenixville ville bred the salute in his address mr hoover reviewed his past policies in international matters and outlined his plans for the future especially concerning the reduction of armaments the night preceding tills this the president was the guest of the union league club of philadelphia at a ban where he was presented with an oil portrait of himself 5 E from many lands landi were present when tile the international ter labor conference opened in geneva but bill the united states was not represented g S seer Secie tary of labor doak appointed miss mary anderson An deison chief of the womans comans bureau as the amer ainer miss mary lean cn delegate and site she anderson sailed may 12 with allt the special hope that the conference might adopt nn an agreement banning night work by women but just after miss bliss anderson reached mr doak sent her a cable instructing tier her to stay away front from geneva and giving tier her other missions tor for the department making his action public the labor secretary merely said the state department part ment had deemed it wholly inadvisable to have hae any one from the united states government go eminent at geneva either in official or capacity MRS RS HARRY PAYNE ney memorial typifying the heroism of the men v who ho went down with the titanic in order that women and children might be saved was un veiled on the banks of the potomac la in washington in tile the presence of president and mrs hoover llo oer and many other prominent persons secretary of state stimson presided at the ceremony tile the statue Is the contribution 0 of f more than american women M an italian born naturalized citizen of the united states was executed by a firing squad in rome after being convicted of plotting to kill mussolini an and d of other activities against r fascism as admitted his guilt but said his plans had been abandoned and he was about to return to america when arrested investigation of I 1 the building material industry especially those phases of it involved inched in the letting tf f contracts contract for government buildings I 1 has been begun by W the federal trade commission nils sion it Is believed that the inquiry will throw ali row a lot of light on the long existing fight senator between the indiana limestone irestone ll men and the granite and marble men of new england such nt at least Is the hope of senator henrik of min I 1 manne ne r sola 0 ta who introduced the resolution I 1 ca calling ailing for the investigation the trade commission announcing that preliminary work already had been started said in this inquiry the commission ft III investigate and report facts relating to the letting of contracts for the construction of government build ings particularly with it a vie vlear w of de ter mining whether or not there are or have hae been any price fixing or other agreements understandings or corn com of interests among uala nuts partnerships or corporations engaged in the production manufacture or building materials with respect to tile the prices or other terms at or under which suet such materials will be furnished contractors or bidders for such construction norh corti senator said it ho 0 introduced the resolution because of f complaints that such collusion between the purveyors pune of building bull din materials did exist and because of further fuit lier con coin plaints plaines pla ints seemingly a aimed at tile the handling bantiling of contracts by I 1 the government itself that specifications e tor buildings were so framed that they unfairly limited the sources from which materials could come the eyestone graulty marble controversy tro troy versy ersy tails rails in the litter latter category the charges charge are that indians In dianas edco cates have been too influential and have some somehow hov or other put indiana limestone into the specifications for or too many government buildings P E from 1111 R 4 mania and expulsion from the royal family of thit that country la Is the fate arranged tor for queen helene II elece the estranged wife of 0 king CaroL According to patria the official organs organ of tile the party in bucharest a decree has been bee arntt queen helene helena fid ed tor for submission to the new parliament confirming helens exclusion and declaring that she istuk Is no longer entitled to the rights and honors accorded to royalty parliament Is expected to adopt th the measure as soon as it as sem bles and helene will we leane tile country permanently soon thereafter terminating her uncertain marital status of more than two years observance of the queens saint day last thursday was forbidden in an order issued by war minister and authorized by premier helene divorced carol while lie was in ift exile in 1928 with magda lupescu when he made a draina dramatic tic flying r return e to bucharest last year slie she spurned his overtures toward a reconciliation on and steadfastly refused to vo be crowned with him REFORM and retrenchment in the army of japan have been decided upon by war minister gen jiro anil chief of staff gen hanal kan karayn a ya and gen Nobuyo nobuyoshi muto In Ins rictor sUtor general of af military education the army personnel will be reduced by and the savings will be devoted to making thearty the army the best equipped in the tha world the people had hoped that the money would go toward tightening lightening their tax burdens but the war minister explains that only COO a year will fill be saved through the readjustments just ments planned and tilts this anio amount while hardly noticeable in any tax reduction program will greatly aid the nation in placing the army on a level with that of soviet russia and other countries which maln maintain effectively equipped forces new republican S government Is far from being stabilized yet its troubles both external and internal continue to cause some uneasiness according to the authorities in andalusia m martial a r I 1 a I 1 law which was proclaimed there several weeks ago may have don francisco to be continued in agilera Agit ilera definitely because of the turbulence of the communists al so martial law has been reinstated in elda valencia where there was a violent revolt last december the a army now under command of don francisco aguellera Agu llera the new captain general Is kept in readiness to sup pro any uprisings anywhere of either communists of royalists elections in catalonia resulted in complete victory tor for colonel francisco macias party the assembly therefore will be dominated by those who demand autonomy for catalonia under tile the authority of 0 tile the central government the other day the republican government issued a decree guaranteeing absolute freedom of worship to all relli religions lons the pope regarded this as a clear violation of the concordat still in existence between spain and the vatican and lie sent a formal protest to madrid after a conference with cardinal segura the expelled primate of spain C CHINA appears to be on the brink of another civil war president chiang kal kai shek bitterly denounces the communist rebels of Kwan tung and kwangsuk provinces and says say the nationalist tion alist government Is forced to choose between accepting communists into the party which it will wll not do or resorting to war large bodies 0 of f troops were reported to be moving t toward canton to attack the insurgents THROUGH tallen its chairman J weston alien the national crime commission makes a report asking ull all states to pass a uniform la law regulating theft information ownership records and registration t to check tile the growing evil of automobile and the use of stolen cars by criminals the committee also recommends the enactment by congress of the e bill wh which fell makes criminal th lie e tra transportation aporta in interstate or forel foreign agn c commercio com merco 0 of f property stolen or taken e conlous ly by fraud or mill ahli the I 1 intent ent to steal or purloin the bill pa passed ed the house of representatives but did not nol reach the senate during the last sea slon sion of congress HAVING changed III his mind about appealing from lila his conviction aind d sentenia sen tenca for bribery albert 13 fall former secretary of the interior lias has asked tile the supreme court ot of tha th united state s s to reverse the iov of the district court of appeals aih brief attacks tile the vail validity tilty of tit the in and the Pa mission ef cf evidence IM 0 test wa N iii 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