BRISBANE THIS WEEK Two New Deal Upsets 25,000 Watch Frogs . In School Until 22 4 Round Trips to Europe of the United States and the United State Court of Ap- peals for the Dis. trict of Columbia. Two “far-reaching experiments” of the Roosevelt New Deal are declared unconstitutional, “The Supreme ‘eourt in a sweep- ing decision killed the Guffey coal act; the District of Columbia Court of Appeals held the Resettlement Ad- ministration under Professor Tugwell rlolates the fundamental law of the and.” Arthur Brisbane The decisions set forth that “these major experiments in socialization in- volve unlawful delegation of powers vested In congress and violation by the federal government of the rights of the states,” the Washington dispatch avers. The resettlement decision affected only that part of the relief activities ander Professor Tugwell's administra- tion, leaving undecided the remainder ©f the $4,800,000,000 voted to the Presi. dent last year. Much of the resettlement money has been spent and much more allocated, cancellation of which will raise prob- lems, At Angels Camp, Calif, 25.000 per- sons watched the annual Calaveras <ounty frog-jumping contest and saw “Can't Take It” cover a distance of 12 feet 8 Inches In three hops. Another frog, raised on the ranch of the late Will Rogers, was second, with 12 feet 2 inches, Twenty-five thousand human beings watched some frogs hop: not half as many would have gathered to hear Einstein lecture on relativity, It Is suggested that every American be compelled to go to school until twenty-two years of age to cut down the competition for jobs. It might be simpler to keep every. body In school until sixty and then give everybody a pension of $200 a month, What could be simpler than that? The average sensible American starts making a living long before he Is twen- ,ty-two and would do well to continue «on that basis, Sir Hubert Wilkins, who has flown in the Arctic, Antarctic and other queer regions by plane, erossed the Atlantic by dirigible recently, Says 8'r Hubert: “From almost anywhere In the United States, a business man conld spend Wednesday and Thursday golng about hig business, catch the dirigible by airplane Thursday midnight, spend two business days In Europe and be at his desk the early part of the pext week.” Prof. Raymond Moley says it was easler for Mussolini to conquer “muddy thinking” in the League of Nations ghan it will be to “prevail over the wud of Ethiopia In months to come.” New York police arrested a middle aged woman begging near a church and “acting strangely” She wore men's sghoes, five dresses, one over the other, wosits of $25,000. This should not discourage wise «harity. Not every old woman, beg &ing, has four extra dresses and $25. 000. But It might well thoughtless, indiscriminate &s criminals, Mussolinl is taking a census of the Ethiopians that remain. The mumber is between six and fourteen snillions, Exact figures are wanted. Ethiopians where and what to dig. “That need not horrify us, for it Is what we have been doing In this country for & long time. It will be better for the Ethioplans than killing and selling each other into slavery. Americans ask three questions: “What is the news? Who won the game? Have you heard the story about —7" For that reason, the suc- cessful newspaper pays attention first to the news, told accurately and vivid. ly, then it concentrates on sport, then on humor. Such dry things as opin. fons, editorials, books, In the rear. Fie- tion ought to be number four, but good Action is scarce and the other kind not prorth printing. * Antlreligious hatred persists in Spain. While Pope Plus In Rome was addressing representatives of Catholle newspapers, deploring Communism and the Hitler attitude toward the Catholie Congressional Quizzers Stir Dr. Townsend to Wrath— By EDWARD W. PICKARD OR two days Dr. Francis E. Town- send replied mildly to the questions of the house committee investigating the activities of the organization be. hind the old age pen- sion movement which the doctor started. Then the Californian lost his patience sud- denly, refused to an- swer any more “non- sensical” queries, spoke of “thick-head- ed congressmen” de- nounced the commit. tee for its “unfriendly attitude” and asserted the administration | wag 8 “hostile force” | behind the Inquiry. He declared he | would form a third party after the | November elections, Finally Doctor Townsend told the committee: *“I am retiring from this sort of Inquisition and I do not pro- pose to come back except under arrest, And I do refuse absolutely to make | any further statement regarding this movement to this committee” Escorted by Gerald K, Smith, former adherent of Huey Long, and another man, the Californian fled from Wash- ington to Baltimore. The committee decided to ask the house to cite him | for contempt, When he was questioned regarding large sums contributed by Townsend club members the physician sald the contributors had faith in him and that “we need millions to promote a move- ment of this kind and we will get them." His testimony developed that Doe. tor Townsend, his brother, Walter Townsend, and Gllmour Young own the assets of the Townsend organization, estimated now at about $80,000, and that Townsend club members have no property right in them. Doctor Townsend testified he has re- ceived about $685.000 in salary, divi- dends from the Townsend weekly and expenses, but now had only about $300 and his wife about $200 to show for their efforts, De. F. E, Townsend. OV. ALF LANDON eaptured near. ly all the New Jersey delegates to the national convention, defeating Sen. ator Borah about 4 to 1 ia the popular vote. This victory gave the Kansan a total of more than 200 votes to start with at Cleveland, and his manager, John Hamilton, claimed he would have at least 300 of the 501 voles neces sary to nominate and would win on the second or third ballot The statement by Herbert Hoover taking himself out of consideration for the nomination is generally judged to have helped Landon, With Mr. Hoover out of the picture it will be difficult to hold California, Texas, and other pe- tentially Hoover voles away from Landon, James A. Farley, postmaster general and also Demoeratie national chair. man, told the Miehigan Democratic con- vention he believed the Republican Presidential nominee will be “the gov. ernor of a typical prairie state” and that his election, if he won, would be Farley criti cized the man he did not name as de- vold of experience in national affairs, and predicted that if he Is the Repub llcan standard bearer “even Kansas” will not be in the Roosevelt doubtful column, ONSTITUTIONALITY of the rall road retirement system was con- railway enterprises. The lawyers ar- gued that the pension law and a tax law enacted at the same time are to act of 1084." The two separate acts, one provid. employees, preme court ruled unconstitutional the 1084 law in which a levy and a pension The government contended that the alleged relation between the two acts could not be proved, and that the rail roads were suing, in effect, to enjoin collection of a tax. Such a sult, the government contended, was barred by federal law, The government further defended its rallroad retirement sys tem as an exercise of its constitutional power “to provide for the common de- fense.” OSTPONEMENT of action on the Patman-Robinson chain store bili until next session was urged on the house rules committee in a letter from National Co-operative Counecll, the Na- tional Co-operative Milk Producers’ Fed- eration, the Farmers’ National Graln assoclation, and the Northwestern Farmers’ Unlon Legislative committee. —— ECRETARY OF WAR DERN allo- cated nearly $138.000000 for river and harbor Improvement projects throughout the country that had been recommended by the engineering corps, Of this sum, £103,458,839 will be used for entirely new waterway and port improvement while £34,408,150 will be employed in maintaining existing river and harbor facilities, G3 members of the Supreme court \J of the United States ruled that the Guffey act to control the bituminous ccal Industry is invalid, and another New Deal ex- periments goes into the discard. This Is the act which Pres! dent Roosevelt urged congress to pass not- withstanding doubts of its constitutionality “however reasonable.” Five justices—Suth- erland, Butler, Van ps — 1 Roberts — Joined Sen. Guffey lon which invalidated the whole act Justices Cardozo, Brandels, and Stone Joined In a dissenting opinion in which they upheld the act, Chief Justice Hughes held In a separate opinion that the act was constitutional with re spect to the marketing provisions but unconstitutional with respect to the labor regulations, The court in the majority opinion held that there is no authority in the Constitution for the control of the coal industry attempted in the Guffey act. The act was not valld either under the commerce clause or the welfare clause, Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania, gu thor of the act, lost little time in In- troducing a substitute measure, copcen- trating on price fixing and omitting the labor provisions which were outlawed by the Supreme court. John I. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers, de clared that organization would “Join in requesting congress to enact the bill at once,” He thought the measure would “operate to maintain the equilibrium of the coal industry pending further study of stabilization of the Industry.” A plea to all coal operators to sup port the new bill was made by Charles O'Nelil, legislative chairman of the Na- tional Conference of Bituminous Coal Producers, Some congressional leaders, however, thought it unlikely that the new Gaff fey bill could be passed at this session. ERBERT H. LEHMAN announeed suddenly In Albany that he would not be a candidate for a third term as governor of New York, saying: “I feel the time has come when I may ask re lease from the cares and responsibifities of the governorship.” But leaders of the Demo eratic party, Including President Roosevelt, National Chairman James A. Farley and Senators Wagner and Copeland undertook to persuade Mr. Lehman to run for reelection. They all agreed that his retirement would be a loss to the state and the party and that he should be “drafted.” The immediate political result of the governor's surprise action was that New York again became a doubtful state for the presidential campaign, In the minds of many politicians. The morale of Republican leaders In the state Improved, and Democrats began speculating as to which of a group of five or more candidates could be groomed for the gubernatorial nomina- tion this fall If Lehman persisted in his determination. ENERAL rejoicing marked the In. augural of Dr. Miguel Mariano Gomez as president of Cuba-the first elected by the people since Gerardo Machado. The new executive, a lawyer and revolutionary leader who has twice been mayor of Havana, took the oath of office in the ball room of the presi. dent's mansion in the presence of 400 foreign and Cuban officials, The guns of Cabanas fortress across the harbor fired a twenty-one gun salute and on the signal all public bulldings were il laminated and thousands of makers began parading the streets. President Gomez appeared on a bal cony and told the shouting throngs that he would do his best to maintain a constitutional government “by the Cu. bans and for the benefit and Interest of all Cubans.” In his first message to congress he assured the nation that personal rights would be respected. Among his policies he listed “ample tolerance to all ideas, ample guaran. tees for all rights and sufficient energy to maintain order and the necessary Stewie agalost offenders against the wi! ERE gy Wg eet has any intention of paying the installments on the American war debt due June 15. And almost certain- ly all the other debtor nations except Finland will follow the example of the two big ones and agaln default. Brit- ish Foreign Minister Eden talked about the debts with Leon Blum, who prob- ably will be premier of France soon, but there was no indication that either Just trying to be pleasant to the people of both America and France without spending any money, like to have the issue cleared up, for as Jong as they are in default they are subject to the restrictions of the John- any person in the United States to pur- chase or sell the bonds, securities or other obligations of any foreign gov- ernment or to make any loans to such a government while that government is In default in payment of its obliga- tions to the United States. ENITO MUSSOLINI advised Prince von Starhemberg of Austria not to start any domestic trouble because he was ousted from the cabinet by Chan- cellor Schuschnigg, and when the prince returned to Vienna the cabinet fixed things up neatly by decreeing that the country should have three fuehrers. Schuschnigg, the unofficial dictator, becomes national leader of the fatherland front; Eduard Baar von jarenfels, the new vice chancellor, is national commander of the front mil- itia; and Starhemberg continues as sports leader and head of the Norther hood Protective association, NTATIONS that are especially hard i up might consider the method sald to be employed by Romania, A Bu- charest newspaper asserts that govern. ment employees have been pald largely in counterfeit money, vast quantities of bogus 100 lel pleces having been issued In sealed bags by the ministry of finance, That ministry then announced that the counterfeit coins would not be re deemed and that persons who passed them would be prosecuted, HE resettlement asdministration headed by Rexford Guy Tugwell was declared by the District of Co- ilumbla court of appeals to be “clear ly unconstitutional delegation of pow. er,” In a case Involving a model com- munity project in Somerset county, New Jersey. Golng beyond he Issue before them, the justices of the Appeals court called the entire relief appropriations act of 1035 Into question. The act was invalid and bence RA was Invalid, sec- cording toc the court. Legally, however, none of the rest of the act will be affected by the decision because the other multitodinous activities of the New Deal under the appropriation were pot before the court, R. ANTON PAVELIC, alleged lead er of Ustashl, the Croatian ter rorist organization, and accused as one of the "master minds” intheassassination of King Alexander of Jugosiavia In Mar seilles, has been set free by the Italian anthorities. Released with him was his lien tenant, Eugene Kvater. nik. The two were ar. rested at Turin in Oc tober, 1004, soon after the murder of Alexan- der, but the French aun- thorities who were working on the case were never permit. ted to question them and sn Italian tribunal refused the request of the French government for thelr extradi- tion to France for trial Dr, Pavelie OSE LUIS TEJADA BORZANO was forced to resign the presidency of Bolivia by a junta of army officers and Socialists who staged a bloodless coup d'etat in La Paz. Col. German Busch, acting chief of the general army staff, leader of the coup, will be at the head of the government until Col. David returns from the Chaco, when Toro will be installed as president, the United States Is the same as that ritorial Integrity. traditional policy, This government adheres to the provisions of the treaties to which It is a party and continues to bespeak respect by all na- tions for the provisions of treaties sol- rocal and common advantage, At the State department it was sald that the reaffirmation of support of the nine power pact does not mean that the administration will abandon its pols fey of declining to take the Initiative in any attempt to curb Japan for vio- the pact. This was at Henry L. Stimson, secre state In the Hoover adminis: of nothing but SARA DELANO ROOSEVELT, aged mother of the President, fell hile on a visit In New York some ago and Is ald up at Hyde Park with an impacted hip rnd eracked bone. She made light of the Injuries but Mr, Roosevelt was gravely con. cerned. He spent the weekend with his mother. . A TICKET FOR FLORENCE The old lady rapped on the window of the tiny station booking office, “1 want a ticket for Florence,” she anonunced, After vainly hunting through several inrge rallway guides the clerk came back to the window with a somewhat ruffled head and temper, “And where 1s Florence, anyway?” he demanded, “That's her, the little dog sitting over there with the luggage,” snswered the old lady sweetly, SMALL MATTER “Do you like your school, Jimmy 7" “Yes, sir; we have a fine school but 1 think they oughtta get a new teacher.” True Observation The professor of economics had been talking steadily fo. more than an hour, and his class was becoming a trifle restless, “Take any article, for instance” he droned on. “When it Is bought it goes to the buyer—* “What about weary voice, The professor gazed over his glasses at the interrupter. “Well,” he sn wd, “what atput 1t7 “When coal's bought doesn't it go to the cellar?” asked the youthful stu. dent, coal? Interposed a Seems Reasonable S8choolmaster—Now Willie, if the earth's axis Is an imaginary line, can you hang your clothes on it? Willie—Yes, sir, Schoolmaster—Ha, ha! That's good And what sort of clothes, Willie? Willle—Imaginary clothes, sir, He's No Grocery Tramp—Could you spare me some thing for a cup of coffee? Scotsman—Hoots, mon! D'ye think I carry lumps o' sugar around in my pockets? Poor Fellow Perey—0, me, I'm not thin-skinned I'm the first to laugh at my own silly foolishness, Girl Friend—What a Jolly life you must lead! Clock-Watch Teacher—1 certainly wish 1 conld find some way to make this class pay attention while I'm talking! Brizht Boy—Why don’t yom put the clock behind your desk, teacher? BRIDGING OVER r i i oa % OP IRS * 7) ~~7 “They say her husband is in finan. tial straits and they could not get along but for her card winnings.” “She sort of ‘bridges’ over their dif culties, so to speak.” No Change Little Barbara Lee was visiting with bathroom scales. Her mother Informed “Mother, every time I weigh, 1 weigh the same price ["=Indianapolis News. He Dared you were a brave man, Deserted Dt you miss the summer bourd- ers “Yep,” replied Parmer Corntossel. “Now me an’ the hired man has to do the complainin’ about the cookin’ all by ourselves” Vital Spot Bympathiger «= Poor little fellow! Where did that cruel boy hit you? Little Boy—Boo, hoo! We were hay- ing a naval battle and he torpedoed me in the engine room.—Pathfinder ARIA AA i 2.2 8.88 25 4 STAR DUST Movie « Radio %%% By VIRGINIA VALE %% 30 2 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 3624 2 000000 2 2 2 F YOU'D like to see a motion picture that has everything, be sure to be on hand when “Under Two Flags” is shown in your neighborhood, It's great! Ronald Colman donned his Foreign Le- gion uniform again for this one. Claudette Colbert gives a fine perforin. ance, and so do Rosalind Russell and Victor Maclaglen, cast is good. And the story! you're familiar with it: it has popular ever sinee JELrs ugo, In fact, the whole No doubt heen Ouida wrote it, met that the reticent broken down and talked ap tographed terviewed almost anything happen, New York on he back to from Now Garbo has i0- been | EO into training. well ne Microphone fright is a strange thing, as the news reels show you over and over again. Take the case of Nellie Grainger, the air line hostess who showed such remarkable courage when the plane she was working on crashed not long ago. Her bravery saved two lives, But when she posed for the news reel boys she was so frightened that she could hardly speak! a Sylvia Sidney wanted to dodge the people who appeared to interview her from East, but she had a good excuse—ma up polsoning, an that causes f& good many of the stars to suffer, and when she traveled aiiment in some cases does lasting damag self na Want to enter a beauty contest, giris? If you do, you'll be interested in knowing how at least one experi. enced judge works. He is Max Fac. tor, Hollywood's make-up king, who has judged more tham 1,400 beauty contests during the 27 years he has been in Hollywood. Here's the way he picks winners, Skin and complexion get 15 points, Regular, well-formed features especial. ly large, clear eyes, count for 15 more. Five points for soft, well.groomed hair, and five for slender, well.manicured hands. And 15 ‘each for a well-pro. portioned figure, graceful carriage, a pleasant, vibrant personality, and in. herent intelligence and poise. sn fl ine These are the days when a talented child is a better investment than stocks, bonds or real estate. The great. st difficulty i= that, provided yon have the child, you've got to be a talented parent as well, for success is likely to spoil the child, and then movie and radio contracts go by the board Young Walter Tetley, who is fifteen now, and began his career when he was six, has the right kind of mother: consequently he Is now heard on about 12 important network radio shows each week—Town Hall Tonight, the March of Time and Showboat among them. — Buck Jones experienced one of his worst moments recently in Max Fac tor's studio. Buck is Fianning to do his next “western” in color, and wanted some advice on make-up for it, so he | went naturally, to Factor, who has spe. cialized in Technicolor make.ups ever gince Hollywood began going color-mad; he's respon. sible for the realistic effects in “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine” And though Buck has been in pictures for years, he was em- Buck Jones walked into the salon and had to tell the hostess, in front of a lot of beau. tiful ladies of the movies, just why he was Shere, son fl Radio has done something to Fif Eer fiery temperament used to be the listening in, how she rages inwardly, she goes on
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