IVE justices of the United States Su- preme court have ruled, in the case of Prof. Douglas C. Mac- intosh of the Yale divinity school, that a foreigner who seeks American citizenship must take the oath with no reservations about taking up arms for the country In time of war. Macin- tosh refused to swear without limiting his obll- bear arms, and therefore is denied the right of naturalization. The same decision was made in the case of Miss Marie Averill Bland. Both she and Macintosh are Canadians and both saw wartime service in France. Justice Howard Sutherland, who wrote the majority opinion, held that the cases properly came within the principle laid down in tke case cf Rosika Schwimmer, pacifist leader, who was denied citizenship on virtual. ly the same grounds. He the broad omnipotent war rranted congress by the Con saying: “From Its very when necessity Justice Sutherland allegiance gation to discussed power istitut fon, nature, the calls for cations Con- principles of tolerates no qualifi tions unless found in the stitution or in internation hal law. iscientions objector,’ or limita £1 HHeahla appiicadie * Justice added, "is rel from tion to bear arms In obedl- ence titutional provis pressed or implied; but it has a ieved to no co he Cause, Iv Root Oniy Decnuse, poll hief Justice Justices Ho lissented. from T WO oth court great int Judgment of the Circuit Court of Ap- sustaining the patent granted Dr. Irving Langmuir in 1925 on vaccum tubes used in radio and other speech- reproduc owned by pany. It R week are of the he thie during One reversed erest, peals tion processes, the General Electric com- was attacked by the De Forest ad company, which con- tended that uniess the Langmuir patents were set aside General Elee- tric would have a virtual monopoly of the radio tube in common use, in the second the of the federa rae de com regulate a are restricted. The commi had orde red the Ral- Det roit to cease sity oD as nied by . that it should be taken now decision powers iission to af state ment der advice of sion held the concern comp trying to censo contention it was The com to pro public in this , but the Detroit he body was sing. this upheld Oy t Kipfer, ascendir shed 4 new recor feet In a balloon, d they reached the that th eir observa- tions will be of considerable value. They started from Augshurg, Bavaria being hermetically sealed in an alum- inum ball suspended from a large bal- Joon: 18 hours later they landed on a glacier in the Alps of Austrian Tyrol. They nearly suffocated because thelr supply of oxygen ran short, and they suffered from hunger and thirst, . ests bil ig 52,500 They convinces stratosphere and are VERY time Presi- dent Hoover takes some cabinet member to the Rapidan camp for a week-end, furth- er plans for reducing thegovernment's over. head are concocted, First came the Army anG Navy depart. ments, and then it was the turn of the Post Office department, Postmaster General Walter Brown and his assistants were the guests and the “victims,” and after the conference in the woods it was announced that a program had been adopted that would save $38,000,000 in the present fiscal year and that would produce many economies next year. However, it was emphatically stated that efficiency would be Increased instead of dim finished and that there would be no decrease In personnel, The statement indicated that the department has feit the depressig. It was estimated that due to busi. ness conditions revenues to the de. partment this year would be $08. 000,000 below the original estimates, Postmaster Gen. Brown ECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE Hyde seems to be forestalling these Rapidan camp operations by planning considerable gconomies In his department expenditures, though this is difficult without curtailing im- portant services. He will be alded dur. ing the year by the termination of two PICKARD emergency items—drought relief and highway construction, These totaled £160,000,000, providing aid for stricken farmers and jobs for the unemployed. Drought loans will be coliected from farmers next fall, when their crops are harvested. States which have borrcwed from the $80,000,000 emer- gency highway fund will repay the money over a five-year period through deductions from thelr regular shares of federal ald. After deducting extension service and land grant college funds, between $40,000,000 and $50,000,000 remains for the department's actual expenses. HIS year's Memorial day address by President Hoover was deliv. ered In the memorial park at Valley Forge, Pennsylvanla, where George Washington and his ragged troops spent a terrible winter 153 years ago, and where more than 3,08 of those patriots are buried, The exercises of the day were Two thou- sand troops acted as escort to Presi dent and Mrs. Hoover and a battery from Phoenixville fired the salute, In Hoover reviewed his in International matters his plans for the fut concerning the reduction of Impressive, ure, especi armam Ti ‘he night dent League clu quet re he was presented ofl portrait