By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
O FAR as the international non-
intervention committee can do
it, the war in Spain is now insulated.
Representatives of 26 European na-
tions agreed that no more volun-
teers for either side in the civil
conflict should be permitted to en-
ter the Iberian peninsula, effective
at midnight February 20; and they
laid plans for a complete blockade
by land and sea that would pre-
vent the importation of any more
men or war munitions. Only Portu-
gal dissented, objecting to estab-
lishment of frontier guards on her
territory; Great Britain, France,
Germany, Italy and Russia ig-
nored the Portuguese protests and
went ahead with the blockade plans,
which are to be put into effect by
March 6.
The decisions were reached after
France delivered a virtual ultima-
tum to her fellow committee mem-
bers to end their bickering and
warned Italy she would not stand
for ‘open invasion of Spain.” The
French were quick to place guards
at all strategic points along the
Franco-Spanish frontier.
The international naval patrols
presumably will not have authority
to stop vessels suspected of carry-
ing arms and men to Spain, but
will report ship movements to the
committee for action and will place
observers on the vessels to check
cargoes.
Supposing this blockade to be suc-
cessful, it may well be that the
Spanish civil war will die of inani-
tion. Then may be brought about
that which the international com-
mittee seeks—international media-
tion between the insurgents and
the loyalist government.
For the present both sides are re-
newing their efforts for decisive vic-
tory. The fascists, still driving hard
at the “life line” that connects Ma-
drid and Valencia, also are attack-
ing the capital itself again. Their
airplanes made two night bombing
assaults on the city and its envi-
rons, killing a number of persons;
and their artillery constantly shells
the highways to Valencia.
The loyalist government, at its
temporary seat in Valencia, took a
new mandate of absolute power
from all Popular Front parties
and mobilized all available man
power to oppose the insurgent
forces. All military classes of th
last five years were drafted for im-
mediate war service.
RIME MINISTER STANLEY
BALDWIN'S government of
Great Britain is asking for $7,500,-
000,000 to finance its “war plan in
time of peace,” and is meeting
with determined op-
position from the
Liberals, Laborites
and others in par-
liament. These es-
pecially object to
the plan for en-
largement of the
nation's land, sea
and air forces by a
3 $2,000,000,000 loan
Rl and increased taxa-
tion.
Commenting on
the British naval
construction program, Admiral Wil-
liam D. Leahy, chief of naval oper-
ations of the American navy, served
notice that any foreign nations ex-
panding their navies beyond the
standards of recent treaties might
expect that the United States would
match their construction. He said
it was his understanding that this
nation was definitely committed to
the maintenance of a “navy second
to none.” To maintain that prin-
ciple, he declared, it would be-
come necessary for the United
States to build new ships if other
powers did.
The present United States build-
ing program calls for start of con-
struction this year on two new cap-
ital ships. Great Britain already
has laid the keels of two new craft
and the program announced in Lon-
don calls for the start, after April
1, of construction of a third new
vessel. When Britain lays a third
keel, then this government is likely
to start similar construction.
Sec'y of Navy
Swanson
I A special message to congress
President Roosevelt urged legis-
lation to “improve the present in-
tolerable condition” of 3,000,000
farm tenants, presenting this four-
point program: ’
1. Action to open the doors of
ownership to tenants who now have
the requisite ability and experience.
2. Modest loans, with the neces-
sary guidance and education to pre-
vent small owners from slipping
into tenancy.
3. The retirement by public agen-
cies of land proved to be unsuited
for farming and assistance to the
families living thereon in finding
homes on good land.
4, Cooperation with state and lo-
cal agencies of government to im-
prove the general leasing system.
Congressional leaders promised
immediate action, and Chairman
Jones of the house agriculture com-
mittee said the Jones-Bankhead
$500,000,000 farm tenant bill now be-
fore congress would be made the
basis for the new legislation.
The President's farm tenancy
committee, headed by Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace, recommended
that congress make available “‘a
definite sum each year for a num-
ber of years’ for a land-purchase
program, but mentioned no definite
figure. Wallace said, however, he
thought Jones’ proposal for $50,000,-
000 annual appropriation for ten
years is ‘‘reasonable.”
HOUGH President Roosevelt
persisted in his intention to force
through congress his measure to
“reform’” the federal judiciary,
law-makers who
have been his warm
supporters are com-
ing out one by one
in hot opposition to
his pian to pack the
Supreme court.
Among them are
Senator Bennett C.
Clark of Missouri
and Senator Burton
K. Wheeler of Mon-
tana, both leading
Democrats. They
studied the scheme
carefully before issuing their state-
ments. The announcements of these
men was scarcely offset by a radio
address by Attorney General Homer
S. Cummings, dutifully defending
the President's plan.
Senator Clark said he was entire-
ly in accord with the minor pro-
posals in Mr. Roosevelt's scheme,
but was totally unable to agree with
the provisions for packing the Su-
preme court.
Then came Senator Wheeler, stal-
wart radical, with a statement
which it was reported he made pub-
lic over the protests of the White
House. He said in part:
“lI am, always have been, and
will continue to be opposed to the
usurpation of legislative functions
TA
Senator Clark
will be opposed to usurpation of leg-
islative and judicial functions by the
executive branch of the govern-
ment.
“There is
progressive, or
nothing democratic,
fundamentally
the administration.”
porting the Presi-
dent's proposal:
New blood should
be injected into the
judiciary in order
that the Constitution
shall be construed
in keeping with the
changing needs pro-
duced by new com-
plexities of national
life.
The congestion of
dockets in the feder- Alty. Gen.
al courts is largely Cummings
due to the inability of aged and
infirm judges to perform their share
of the work.
Investigation has shown, however,
that the second reason is unsound.
Commenting on Mr. Cummings’
speech, Senator Glass of Virginia
Re y
country is in infinitely greater need
of an attorney general than of addi-
tional judges on the Supreme court
or of judicial wet nurses for six of
the present members of the court.”
Senator Minton of Indiana de-
fended the plan in a radio address
but probably did it more harm than
good, for he frankly admitted the
purpose of the administration is to
change the personnel and views of
the Supreme court, in order that
President Roosevelt's New Deal
program will be held constitutional.
Other senators who came out
against the President's plan were
Nye of North Dakota, radical Re-
publican; Bone of Washington,
Democrat; Burke of Nebraska,
Democrat; and Van Nuys of Indi-
ana, Democrat. On the other side
were McAdoo of California; Thomas
of Utah and La Follette of Wis-
consin,
Senators Bone and Wheeler intro-
duced a resolution for a constitu-
tional amendment that would give
congress the power to override Su-
preme court decisions by a two-
thirds vote of both houses, but only
after a national election involving
congressional seats has intervehed
so that the people have had a
chance to speak on the issue.
The American Federation of La-
bor and Labor's Nonpartisan league
declared their support of the court
packing scheme, and the National
Grange expressed its opposition.
Legislatures of many states adopted
resolutions for or against the plan,
most of them being in opposition.
Mr. Roosevelt received several
groups of senators, some of whom
are among those opposing the pack-
ing of the Supreme court, and re-
iterated his intention to push his
plan through without mod-
ification. He
voted for a New
going to get it,
EPRESENTATIVES of the soft
coal operators met with John
L. Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers, in New York to start
negotiations for a new wage and
hour agreement for 400,000 miners.
Mr. Lewis said to the operators:
“There is no friction in our indus-
try. Peace dwells in the coal fields.
I hope this conference will be suc-
cessful in working out a new agree-
ment without loss of time to a sin-
gle worker.”
Thereupon he presented the de-
mands of the union, which were
promptly dubbed ‘‘utterly impossi-
ble" and ‘quite amazing” by
Charles O'Neill, president of the
Eastern Coal Sales corporation.
Chief demands made by Lewis
are:
1. A six hour day and a five day
week in place of the present work
week of 35 hours.
2. An increase in daily wages
from $5.50 to $6 in the north, and
from $5.10 to $5.60 in the south.
3. Time and a half for overtime
and double time for Sundays and
holidays.
4. A minimum of 200 days’ em-
ployment each year.
The operators proposed a 40 hour
week with no increase in wages.
WCAFFOLDING on the Golden
“J. Gate bridge at San Francisco
collapsed and crashed through the
great safety net, carrying with it
thirteen men who plunged 200 feet
into the bay. Ten were killed and
the seriously injured.
The tragedy st major accident
during const tion of the $36,000,-
000 which is to open next
May, was caused by a broken roll-
er caster. The state industrial ac-
cident commissioner said an inspec-
tor had twice reported that the
scaffolding was unsafe, but this
was emphatically denied by Philip
Hart, president of the construction
company.
others
span,
AUL V. McNUTT, former gov-
ernor of Indmna, has been ap-
pointed to irable post of
Phil-
$18,000 =a
the de:
high commissioner to the
ippines, at a
year and with residence in a huge
palace in Manila. Mr. McNutt is
still considered one of the po il
ities for the Presidential nomina-
tion by the Democrats in 1040, It
had been thought he might get a
place in the present cabinet.
"TI HIRTY-EIGHT Germans have
been under arrest in Russia for
several months and are held with-
out trial. The German ambassador
to Moscow, Count von der Schulen-
berg, has made repro
sentations to the Soviet government
and demanded that a representa-
tive of the embassy be permitted
to interview the prisoners. Presum-
ably the men are suspected of es-
pionage and sabotage, in connec-
tion with the anti-Stalin conspir-
acy.
salary of
“serious”
NE officer and five enlisted men
of the marine corps were killed
battleship Wyoming. The accident
off the coast of southern California.
The men killed were: Capt. Ed-
Al
bert Enos, Cambridge, Mass.; Jos-
ard Frye, Johnstown, Pa.
EN. SENJURO HAYASHI, pre-
mier and foreign minister of
Japan, in a formal statement of
policy to the parliament, said his
government would
“pay special atten-
tion" to the adjust-
ment of the em-
pire's relations with
soviet Russia and
China, and urged
those nations to
cease their quarrels
with Japan and try
to comprehend
Japan's position and
aims in East Asia,
He called attention
to the fact that
Sugiyama
naval limitations
the principle of nonmenace and non-
aggression.”
Hayashi's cabinet decided on a
budget reduction of approximately
8% per cent; Lieut. Gen. Hajime
Sugiyama, the new war minister, ob-
jected to any cut in the huge army
budget, but it was reduced slightly.
R ESTORATION of the Hapsburg
dynasty in Austria was openly
advocated by Chancellor Kurt
Schuschnigg, who committed his
government party to that proposi-
tion. He intimated that a plebis-
cite would be held to decide the
question.
The chancellor asserted that in.
creasing official support would be
given to the campaigr to place
Archduke Otto of Hapsburg again
on the throne which his father, the
Fmperor Karl, “temporarily re
nounced’ November 11, 1918. The
archduke is twenty-four years old.
H EADED by President Roosevelt
and Vice President Garner,
1,600 Democratic government offi-
cials, state committeemen and
prominent figures in the worlds of
business and sports honored James
A. Farley with a banquet in Wash.
ington. Mr. Garner was master of
ceremonies and called the roll of
distinguished guests by states, Mr.
Roosevelt made a speech.
Club
adventure to tell.
they're in a jam.
That's where they turn out
the window
All during that
other,
id of the afternoon,
as left alone
day
He and the bo
the
says, ''is a large
runs a flexible saw blade,
velded +
after an-
along toward the
do a special job and Russ
ng one machine
saw. “A band saw,” he
It has two wheels about
Around these wheels
18 feet long, the ends
but about
‘his machine
various patlerns
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ANd ordinary,
meant
clicks
or that very reason.
ss heard
THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN
And his mind wasn't working
That flexible
long,
had caused all those clicks
the crack
AN ANGRY SNAKE.
LIKE
his neck.
machinery.
his legs seemed to freeze.
sd haddy
wheel.
wheel and start it
NECK.
the wheel at any moment.
“I looked at the switch
on the other side of the room.
It was way over
I could do to help myself.”
And there was.
arm without moving
the nearest piece of board.
and move his body a little.
Russ found he could move one
He stretched that arm toward
He'd have to take a chance
ran the machine.
stop.
“Boy,”
I hope you
“Commodity Dollar” Was
Invented Many Years Ago
The “commodity dollar” was ac-
tually in use in Hingham a century
ago, states a writer in the Boston
Globe.
Manuscripts uncovered in the
Watertown Public Library by the
Federal Historical Sources Survey
show that Hingham paid its min-
ister on a commodity dollar basis
in 1803. The minister was Rev.
Henry Ware, afterward the first
Hollis professor of divinity at Har-
vard.
Rev. Henry Ware went to Hing-
ham in 1787 and the inference is
that his salary was $500 a year,
enough and plenty in a period of
low prices. But during the late sev-
enteen-nineties there had been a
“very great demand
prices for all
life’’ and the m
wits’ end to make both ends meet,
for his salary remained stationary.
The remedy adopted by the par-
ish was to adjust his pay on the
basis of the average prices of
great staples between 1787
1803, and this settiement of
problem was accepted by the
Kings, Other Commanders
Participated in Battles
In the days of the old-style field
battles, especially at critical mo-
ments, kings and chief command.
ers themselves went into action.
Reclining on the crossed pikes of
six grenadiers, Charles XII of
Sweden, sorely wounded, had him-
self carried into the thick of the
slaughter. Gustavus Adolphus died
while leading his horsemen. In the
meantime his adversary, the great
Duke of Friedland, rode through the
glare of his baleful eye.”
, gathering up
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but not to get
the two pieces together, id you
will have quite good crumbs for
eggs and bread crumbing or for
stuffing.
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