By EDWARD W. PICKARD ENERAL FRANCO'S revolution in Spain, already checked by serious defeats on both the north- ern and the southern fronts, was further embar- rassed by spreading revolt among the Fascist troops. His agents uncovered the plot and numer- ous arrests were speedily followed by numerous execu- tions by firing squads. The mutiny first broke out in Spanish Morocco, and Franco himself hurried there by plane. There were persistent re- ports that 1,000 Italian soldiers had been landed at Ceuta and were be- ing used to crush the mutiny. This was denied by the Fascist high com- missioner of Morocco. More than 100 high-ranking offi- cers, most of them belonging to the air force, were said to have been implicated in the plot which was seemingly well laid in all parts of Spanish Morocco and the southern tip of European Spain. Government troops were said to be pushing back toward Cordoba the Fascist forces which were trying to break through for capture of the rich coal and mineral territory about Pozoblanco. The insurgent army there, alleged to include 10,- 000 Italians and Germans, was in danger of being surrounded and an- nihilated. Great Britain and France official- ly warned Franco that they would no longer tolerate the stopping and searching of British and French merchant vessels by his warships. Gen. Franco agreement brought about a walkout of soft coal miners in the Pennsylvania and West Virginia fields and its spread to other fields was certain unless the controversy were settled. The mine operators dictating the stand taken by the latter. Edward F. McGrady, assist- ant secretary of labor, was trying hard to help bring about a settle- ance men were ordered to stand by in the mines, but about 400,000 men quit work. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT dis- cussed the labor situation with Secretary Perkins and Sidney Hill man, chief organizer of the C. 1. O. drive to unionize the textile work- ers. Hillman told him he was hope- ful the problems of the textile indus- try could be settled by co-operation and arbitration, and it was report- ed that he promised the textile workers would not attempt to use the sitdown strike. Senator Wagner of New York de- livered an address in the senate on the sitdown strike situation, charg- ing that the blame of it rested on a few giant corporations which, he said, have “hamstrung’’ the labor relations board by invoking injunc- tions in the courts and “who have openly banded together to defy’ the labor relations law. Deriding the call for new federal legislation to meet the crisis, Sena- tor Wagner declared that “the lack of power in the federal government to enforce the labor relations act and not any weakness in existing law is the root cause for the present economic warfare.” Representative Martin Dies of Texas appeared before the house rules committee and urged action on his resolution for a congressional investigation of the strike situation. He again called upon the President to intervene and pointed to section 5299 of the revised United States statutes as giving the chief execu- tive authority to take action in the event of such an occurrence as the Chrysler strike. The continued silence of the Pres- ident on the issue is “ominous,” Representative Charles L. Gifford of Massachusetts told the house. He warned the President against the rise to power of John L. Lewis. Negotiations for settlement of the General Motors strike were pro- gressing slowly, and officials of the corporation said that 10,100 em- ployees were idle in four plants be- cause of strikes in Pontiac and Flint, Mich. {UNDER pressure from his advis- ers to take a public stand con- cerning the sit-down strike, Presi- dent Roosevelt immediately after his return from Warm Springs held a conference with Vice President Garner, Senate Majority Leader Joe Robinson, Speaker Bankhead and House Majority Leader Sam Ray- burn. At its close Senator Robin- son, presumably voicing Mr. Roose- velt's views, said: “The government cannot initiate action under the circumstances thus far presented. It is felt that the sit. down strike situation in a general sense is improving. “There are two conditions under which federal action may be in- voked in case of acute strike condi- tions; namely where federal laws have been violated or where federal property, including the mails, is in- terfered with. “Unless one of these conditions exists, federal intervention or ac- tion, under the Constitution and de- cision of the courts, is not warranted. “The second condition is cases where state authorities, under the federal law, ask the services of fed- eral agencies in the preservation of law and order and in the prevention of violence. “Neither condition has so far aris- en. Except in instances where in- terstate commerce is interfered with, where a federal law is disre- garded, the federal government does not, and cannot under the Con- stitution, initiate action.” EVEN Democrats joined the six Republicans on the house agri- culture committee and disapproved the President's proposal to al- lot $50,000,000 to assist farm tenants to buy farms on easy credit terms. This majority of the committee ob- jected to the program because it would put the government into the real estate business. The proposition 1s contained in one section of the farm tenant bill and would author- ize the secretary of agriculture to buy farms for resale to tenants on terms that would give them as long as 45 years to pay. The interest rate would be 3 per cent. Sponsors of the measure probably will try to get it through the senate, and after house refusal to agree it would then go to conference. Only the day before the President had given out his farm tenancy program as follows: 1. Continuation of rehabilitation loans, most of which would go to people living on land which the gov- ernment believes can be made to pay. 2. Purchase of submarginal land so that it can be taken out of cultiva- tion and put into timber or grasses. 3. Federal purchase of land for resettlement of families taken off submarginal land and purchase of tenant farms to give tenants a chance to own the land they are tilling. SENATOR GEORGE NORRIS of ‘J Nebraska is intent on his plan for the creation of a national power authority similar to the Tennessee Valley authority, and he intends to in- troduce a bill for this during the pres- ent session of con- gress. This he an- nounced after con- ferring with the President, and he intimated the idea was approved by Mr. Roosevelt. He has experts at work investigating its feasibility and map- ping out the details. “All rivers of the United States should be controlled by the nation if their nature is subject to it by na- tional flood control policy,” the sen- ator said. "Whenever the river will develop power, we should take ad- vantage of it. I've always regard- ed power as a subsidiary or by- product of flood control.” A LINK with a past era was broken by the death in Wash- ington of Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln at the age of ninety years. She was the daughter-in-law of President Lincoln and the mother and grand- mother of his only living descend- ants, Mrs. Charles Isham, Mrs. Jes- sie Randolph and their three chil- dren. Mrs. Lincoln was the daugh- ter of James Harlan, who was a senator from lowa and later sec- retary of the interior. In 1868 she married Robert Todd Lincoln, the martyred President's son. In the administrations of Presidents Gar- field and Arthur her husband served as secretary of war, and under President Benjamin Harrison, he served as minister to England. Aft- erward he was general counsel and then president of the Pullman com- pany. D ICTATOR JOSEPH STALIN of Russia, in his official capacity as secretary of the central com- mittee of the Communist party, de- mands a new purge of the party, so we probably will read soon of another mass execution of hundreds under arrest. “I think it is clear,” said Stalin, ‘that the present wreck- ers and diversionists—no matter whether they have masked them- selves under the flag of Trotzkyism of Bukharinism-have lost their in- fluence in the worker's movement and have become simply an unprin- cipled and idealless band of profes- sional wreckers, diversionists, spies and murderers. “It is quite clear these gentlemen should be destroyed, exterminated mercilessly as enemies of the work- ing Class and enemies of our coun- try. Sen. Norris CCORDING to a survey made for the Corn Belt Farm Dailies, an increaging share of domestic meat requirements is coming from European countries and Canada, at the expense of American live stock producers. Importations of pork from Poland early in March were running at rec- ord high levels, while increased shipments were unloaded at New York from Denmark, Lithuania, It- aly, Hungary, Holland, Germany, Estonia, Czechoslovakia, Canada, and Argentina. The United States in normal times supplies Europe with meat, the farm papers pointed out. *‘It must be obvious that through restricted production and reciprocal tariff agreements we have adopted tion of meats ume,” the survey commented. bey May were and pre: James W, bassador to many, bassador; John J. A. E F. in the war, Gen. Pershing Rodman retired, special representatives. secretary of mission. Col. James L. Collins will be aid to Gen. Pershing, and Commander Frank E. Beatty will be aid to Admiral Rodman. The battleship New York, flagship the grand fleet in British pate in the international naval re- view off Spithead on May 20. tion were upheld by the Su- preme court in decisions that in Two of them were administration, justices, with four dissenting. This last opinion was given in the case of the court reversed its position taken a year ago in upsetting similar leg- legislature. Justice Owen J. Roberts had swung over to the other side, Constitution does not change with the ebb and flow of events.” This was a slap at the by Chief Justice Hughes. provisions of the railway labor act requiring railroads to engage in col- labor disputes. The opinion was read leaders of the ad- by from it an indication of what the Wagner labor relations act, now in litigation. The Wagner act does not apply to railway workers. the case of the Virginian Railway collective bargaining. The Supreme court also upheld the constitutionality of the new Frazier - Lemke farm mortgage moratorium act. The decision, read by Justice Louis D. Brandeis, whose opinion condemned the earlier Fra- zier-Lemke act, was unanimous. The law was passed to replace a similar statute which the court held unconstitutional in the spring of 1935. ENATORS, some fifteen in num- ber, who have not committed themselves on the President's bill to enlarge the Supreme court, are earnestly trying to bring about a compromise that would enable them to go along with Mr. Roosevelt without laying themselves open to charges of supporting a plan to pack the court. Sev- eral compromise measures have been devised, one of which is that of Sen- ator Carl Hatch of New Mexico, a Democrat and a member of the judiciary committee that is holding hearings on the ad- ministration bill. President's bill so that no more than two additional justices could be appointed in any one year. Furth- ermore, it would provide for a flex- ible court with a membership vary- ing between fifteen and nine judges. The additional appointments, made upon the failure of justices past 70 to retire, would not e per- manent increases, They would be offset by failure to fill an equal num- ber of vacancies caused by sub- sequent retirements, Further witnesses for the opposi- tion, appearing before the judiciary committee, included Dr. Irving Gris- what Nine about: Departed Spirits. ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— Continued failure of medi- ums to claim the reward offered by the late Harry Houdini, who communication with the spirit world, makes me think of a thing that happened at the first seance ever held down in my neck of the woods. The operator was summoning the departed dear ones to order. A lanky youth desired to speak with his father, Presently, a shad- owy figure appeared between the cabi- net's dark curtains and a voice uttered “is that you, Paw?" inquired the seeker. “Yes, son,” swered the voice. “Paw, air you in heaven?” Seemingly startled, the ghostly ap- parition hesitated a moment be- fore giving what might be taken for an affirmative sound. “Paw, air you an angel?” manded the son. Again embarrassing delay, then a diffident mumble. “A regular angel with wings and everything?” Once more a low grunt. “Say, Paw,” cried the youth, perk- ing up, “whut do you measure from 0° Irvin 8. Cobb de- an Matrimonial Adventures. Jj ERETOFORE some of the au thorities have held that the first the hardest in matri- but the peak of wd for married coup- sixth year by Los Angeles’ city attorney. On the side he runs a bureau for handling the funds assessed for family sup- port against separated or delinquent parents. So he ought to know about it, if anybody does. Well, personally, have the theory that the danger peri 1 always did no woman she got numb. 8s just a long-distance five years unless After that it’ Senatorial Shifts, NAMING no names, a little bird “ Yjust in from Washington whis- pers that one senator, under the in- fluence of alternating psychic waves 1ifted three times on the plan to make the Supreme court over. First he was against it, then for it, then against it again, and is now threat- ening to change once more. They'll be taking bets on him at Lloyd's Once in a while we get a states of country butter in an icebox— takes the flavor of everything near Maine's Statesmen. HERE is but one answer to the attitude assumed by both of Maine's senators, who show a pro- nounced inclination to balk at what- gress and especially at the plan to mold the Supreme court somewhat closer to the boy scout model. If these here foreigners don't like this country, why don’t they go back where they came from? * * . The Game | Poker, ALIFORNIA'S attorney general gambling. poker, as generally played nowa- eran would call it anything except a sacrilege against an ancient and the ocean? play the other fellow's chances as well as your own; to try to figure when to raise and when to call and when to quit; to try to pick the right moment for bluffing, since the bluff is the real soul of the thing—that's poker, my masters, an American- born pastime, hallowed with age, ennobled by usage, beloved of the fathers. IRVIN 8. COBB. ©--WNU Service. ‘Seeing’ Bridge The only bridge in the world that can ‘see’ has been completed at Kincardine, Scotland. Equipped with three electric “eyes,” the huge swinging center span automatical- ly aligns itself with the roadway when closed. All three “eyes” are located on one end of the swinging span, says the Washington Post. One sees the span does not over- shoot the mark, another that it does not undershoot, and the third —— i j i “l "M GLAD I'm rot on the serv- | ing committee this week ” muses Mrs. Smith of Walnut street, as she takes stock of her- self in the mirror preparatory to! leaving for the church supper. *'1| look entirely too swell for me— why, I'm almost excited! I al-| ways knew surplice waists were | becoming, but how becoming I/| never knew till now. That little | deceptiveness is just what I need, and these sleeves are the most comfortable things! If about half our circle wore dresses like this | ft would be better for all con- | cerned: so many of us have out- grown the tailored streamlined styles. Now, Mrs. White for in- stance—"' Enter an Admirer. “Why Mother, you look de-love- ly in that shade of blue! And you look real stylish, too—you ought | to be going to a Coronation.” “Oh, I'd much prefer the church | supper, dear. I'll be a somebody there in my new dress but at a | Coronation I would be little po- tatoes. By the way, what did they say about your new jumper at school?" “Mother, I meant to tell you. Mary Jane and Betty are both go- ing to coax their mothers to make one just like it. I said maybe you would loan them the pattern, | would you?” “Why of course. Did you tell them it took me only two after- noons to make yours including two blouses?” Enter “The Duchess.” “Sis, you're pretty young to be talking about clothes so intelli- gently. When you get a figure that clothes really count on— ahem, like Yours Truly's for in- stance; then it might be different ~oh Mother, how nice! I'm crazy about it. Gee, such smart lines! Remember, you promised to help me with a new party frock next week if 1 did well with this shirt. waister. I wish all dresses were as easy to sew and as swell to wear as it is." i “Perfectly cut patterns spell | success for any frock, Kay; your party dress is as good as made right now. But I must be on my way or I'll be more than fashion- ably late for the affair. Bye, bye -be good girls and see that Dad- dy gets something to eat.” Jones—Now, there's Shelley don't you think he employs too many metaphors? Binks-—Yes, I think he ought to give American workmen a chance.—Hartford Courant. A psychologist states that he remembers being spanked at the age of two, for upsetting a pot of give. That's just the type of ex- Te Pattern 1268 is for sizes 36 to Size 38 requires 5% yards of material. Pattern 1906 is for sizes 6 to 14 years. Size 8 requires 13% yards of 39 inch material for the jumper 1% yards for the blouse. Armscye and neck edges of jump- er require 2% yards of 1% inch bias facing Pattern 1226 is for sizes 14 to 42 bust). Size 16 re- terial. New Pattern Book. Send for the Barbara Bell Spring Pattern Book con- Ex- clusive fashions for children, Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 247 W. street, New York, N. Y. Patterns 15 cents (in coins) © Bell Syndicate. —WNU Service. CARDUI In this modern time something wonderfully worth while can be done for practically every woman who suffers from functional pains of menstruation. Certain cases can be Others may need a physician's treatment. Cardul has two widely demon- strated uses: (1) To ease the im- mediate pain and nervousness of the monthly period: and (2) to aid helping women to get more strength from their food. Radiant Sunshine Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. —J. M. Barrie. Stomach Gas To Hurt Heart "The gas on my stomach was so bad | could not eat or sles Even my heart seemed to hurt. friend sug- Adierika. The first dose | took Pd me relief. Now | eat as | wish, sleep fine and never felt better™ Mrs. Jas. Filler. 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