Show news review of current events CONGRESS READY TO QUIT senate shelves court farm bills spanish conflict reaches crisis fighting continues in north china 44 wn wai lilt V I 1 x 1 11 sen harrison right congratulates sen barkley Sy byaw A 4 aW we V F F yn summarizes THE TW WORLDS WEEK 0 western newspaper union aw lets go home WITH W ITH supreme court bill becom bitted bitted to the senate judiciary committee a new substitute bill for reform of only the lower courts due to be reported out ol of the committee and a new senate majority leader selected to take the late senator robinsons Ws place the overwhelming sentiment of the members of the seventy fifth congress was to pack up their bags and get as far away from washington as possible even measures which president roosevelt had insisted bear the must label were being shoved aside with dispatch as vice president garner sought to heal the party wounds inflicted during the bitter court battle and salvage as much of the presidents legislation as he could the first to be buried was the new AAA and ever nor mal granary bill the senate agriculture committee shelved it until the next session the committee authorized james P pope idaho democrat and sponsor cosponsor co of the bill to prepare a senate resolution to lay the plans tor for regional hearings on a comprehensive farm program during the remainder of the summer and report back in january it seemed certain that the presidents legislation for governmental reorganization would be left over until next session when the record of three months hearings by the joint congressional committee was made public it was revealed that committee members have not even come close to agreement on any of the main points involved majority leader barkley said that the white house still wanted the wages and hours bill the wagner low cost housing bill and a judiciary bill passed as well as legislation to plug tax loopholes the wagner bill meanwhile was reported out of committee and it was expected the senate would act upon it quickly it would set up a federal housing authority with power to issue in bonds over three years to make loans for low cost housing construction glory be to godl god I 1 YING for weeks the scheme to DYING dadd add to the number of justices of the supreme court finally choked its last gasp and left this world on a roll call vote the united states senate voted to recommit the robinson substitute tor for the presidents Cs 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 ot 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 thi 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 godl coill said sen hiram johnson rep calif when the results of the roll call ivere 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 griat great majority Is this the beginning AS S JAPAN brought airplanes into action for the first time since the new sino japanese crisis developed and threw all available strength into a campaign against the chinese twenty ninth army in north china it was feared that the expected long japanese military offensive had begun while it was difficult to assimilate many conflicting and confusing con reports there was good ground tor for the belief that all attempts at a truce had failed tor for a while at least the japanese airmen rained bombs upon chinese military barracks around Pei neiping ping and pressed infantry and artillery attacks along the neiping railway and ohp highway to the sea entrance of japanese marines into the chinese chapel district of shanghai sent 20 men women and children fleeing into the international settlement in search of protection it was rumored a chinese mob had killed a japanese sailor provoking japanese reprisal meanwhile the threat of real war continued to hover as the chinese army refused to leave positions in and near neiping Pei ping in what japan considered violation of the peace agreement K madriss Mad rids moat of blood HE spanish government was de THE trending Tf tending ending madrid against the insurgent forces in the most terrible battle of the entire civil war and the most important it last it was too furious the whole loyalist cause apparently rested on resisting this the most vicious attack the rebels had yet made gen francisco francos army under his personal supervision was making advances but at such loss ot of men that the cost might be too great insurgents stormed loyalist entrenchments trench ments directly in the face of point blank machine guns losses were so terrible that thousands of aou wounded lay without food or water among thousands already dead and decaying in the hot sun infantry tanks cavalry and artillery were supplemented by airplane bombers in one salient men were fighting including the cream of both armies the loyalist position was admittedly the most serious of the whole war and upon the governments ability to withhold against the attack rested the fate of the best units in its army it was reported that italian troops had joined the rebels for the battle while the madrid conflict was in full sway the insurgents sprang a surprise air attack on barcelona in the early dawn advance planes dropped flares which lighted up the city then came additional planes dropping bombs on the easy target and turning machine guns on citizens ci ti who attempted to flee at least 65 persons were killed and injured low interest for farmers Y A vote of 71 to 19 the senate Bover BY overrode rode the presidents veto of a bill extending for 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 with out 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 barkley 38 harrison 37 EN WILLIAM H DIETERICH S SEN of illinois changed his mind at the last minute and today alben W Sar barkley kley hard fisted blustering senator from kentucky is the majority leader of the united 01 states senate succeeding the late joseph T robinson of arkansas the vote was 38 tor for barkley to 37 for sen pat harrison of mississippi the conservative democrats in the vice pre president ident senate gate had been as garner of 38 votes enough to elect harrison on the eve of the secret election but that night dieterich di apparently under pressure from the democratic party organization in illinois begged harrison to release his pledged vote in order that the presidents personal choice might head bead the party in the senate the 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 F wheeler of montana leader of the opposition forces and invited the opposition to write its own bill 40 hurt in strike riot the independent afteel ALTHOUGH steel plants were back at work there was still plenty of discord along the labor front forty persons were injured in a wild riot among pickets of the steel workers organizing committee affiliated with C 1 I 0 loyal workers and police at the corrigan mckinney plant of the republic steel corporation in cleveland A mob of strikers hurled rocks from a hillside upon cars of employees parked in the valley about the plant loyal workers attempted to drive the strikers away and at one time of them rushed out of the plant and set upon the pickets police tried to break up the fighting relying chiefly on their tear gas guns one striker was killed when a moving automobile which was being stoned got out ot of control and ran berserk through a picket line in buffalo there was a serious food shortage because ot of a strike ot of 1000 wholesale grocery truck drivers and 1000 butchi butchers ers at four meat packing plants As C 1 I 0 and A F of L unionists operated cooperated co in their demand for closed shops residents of the city were forced tc motor to the country lor for butter eggs and vegetables joe robinson s successor T THE HE democratic state committee of arkansas nominated gov carl E bailey to be the late joseph T robinsons successor sc cessor as united states senator he is forty two years old traditionally having been nominated nominated by the state committee bailey is as good as ea elected acted but he may be opposed 0 in the elections which he will call himself sep 1 14 by a re publican public arr or by other gov orv bailey democrats running as independents rosser venable who opposed robinson in the 1936 primary had indicated that it if bailey were nominated he would run in opposition opp position ion the state republican committee was reported seeking see kingan an opponent for the governor A year of reclamation applications for grants under applications alast last years agricultural conservation program covered acres two thirds of the count rys crop land and represented an esti mated farmers H R tolley agricultural adjustment admin adain intrator reported nearly acres were diverted from crops which deplete the soil acres received the benefit of soil building practices conservation payments tor for the year totaled benefit and rental payments total expenditures by AAA during 1936 were including administrating expenditures and liquidation ui of obligations outstanding when the supreme court held sections of the original AAA unconstitutional tut ional 4 de valera Is reelected re elected F HIS party fianna fail can I 1 IF keep in power that long eamon de valera will be president of the executive council of the irish free state for another five years he was elected to the nations highest office by a vote of 82 to 52 in the dail eirmann 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 approved in the plebiscite of july I 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 K football couldn coulden t save it OT even the excellence and popularity NOT Nu of edward patrick SUP slip Mad igans football teams could save little st marys college at oakland calif from the auction block it was knocked down to its security holders for the only bid after it had failed to pay interest on its bonded indebtedness of since 1934 when madigan came to st marys from notre dame in 1921 it had 71 students his football teams made it famous and built the enrollment up to it was indicated he will remain as coach at a reported salary of a year and 10 per cent of the gate receipts receipts last year yea were japs maul U S women ASSAULT awoden upon two american women by sentries in the japanese embassy in neiping brought vigorous protests both orally and in writing from rom the united states embassy the two women mrs helen K R jones of detroit and miss carol lathrop of washington D C were walking through the embassy when sentries charged them f 0 behind sandbag barricades one sentry kicked miss lathrop is the side another held oft off mrs jones with the flat of his bayonet when the women were released they were roughly shoved mrs jones being forcefully kicked from behind static wrecked hindenburg T THE EE spectacular crash of the zeppelin hindenburg killing 35 36 at lakehurst N J last 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 eve evege other possible cause fire sabotage 7 brush discharge 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 circumstances attending the disaster A citizen takes his pen blow to the presidents CRUSHING A court program delivered at the time it hurt most was a letter written by gov herbert H lehman of new york to sen robert F wagner of that state the letter m made ad e p public u b I 1 I 1 c revealed governor So over vernor nor lehmans opinion asa citizen of the state of ofner bew york that the bill would be contrary to the inter ests of the people odthe state its en gov lehman act ment the gov arnor wrote would create a greatly dangerous precedent which could be availed of by future less well intentioned administrations it for the purpose of oppression or for the curtailment of the constitutional rights of our citizens |