By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
NNOUNCEMENT of their posi-
tion on the President's Su-
preme court bill by three more
Democratic members of the senate
judiciary committee
seemingly made it
certain that body
would report the
measure adversely
to the senate. The
line-up at this writ-
ing is 10 to 8 against
the bill. The three
who openly joined
the opposition were
Senators J. C. O'-
WSS Mahoney of Wyo-
Senator ming, Pat McCarren
O'Mahoney f Nevada and Carl
Hatch of New Mexico. With them
in opposition are King of Utah, Van
Nuys of Indiana, Burke of Nebraska,
Connally of Texas, Austin of Ver-
mont, Borah of Idaho and Steiwer
of Oregon. Those committed for the
measure are Ashurst of Arizona,
Neely of West Virginia, Logan of
Kentucky, Dieterich of Illinois, Pitt-
man of Nevada and Norris of Neb-
raska. McGill of Kansas and Hughes
of Delaware, still noncommittal,
were counted as being on the ad-
ministration side.
Senator O'Mahoney, one of the
enthusiastic New Dealers ordinarily,
said: ‘““The hearings have been com-
pleted. I have listened attentively to
everything that has been said, and I
have heard nothing to date which
of the court is either necessary or
desirable.”
Senator Hatch declared: ‘I do not
think congress has the power to
place men on the Supreme court
to affect decisions in any way what-
soever. To do so would be an ex-
ercise of judicial power by the leg-
islative branch of the government.
If we place men on the court to
change the trend of judicial opinions
we thereby invade the province of
the court and do that which many
people have charged the court with
doing.”
Senator McCarren addressed the
judiciary committee, in executive
session, for an hour and a half and
later said to the reporters: “In my
judgment, the Supreme court should
not be a department of government
subject to the will of either of the
other two branches of government.
While the Supreme court and every
other court that interprets the law
should at all times keep abreast of
the law and therefore be progres-
sive, it is not for any other branch
of the government to say it should
reform its views to carry out the
will of another branch. For that
reason I am opposed to and will con-
tinue to oppose the President's bill.”
The committee agreed to begin
voting on the bill and on proposed
amendments on May 18,
SENATORS, representatives, de-
partment heads, and almost ev-
eryone else in Washington official-
dom were worrying themselves over
expenditure reductions, taxes, rising
prices and falling revenues, and Su-
preme court reformation. But Pres-
ident Roosevelt was gaily sailing
the waters of the Gulf of Mexico,
angling for tarpon. He was on the
Presidential yacht Potomac, which
he boarded at New Orleans; his
vessel was escorted by three de-
stroyers, the Moffett, the Schenk
andthe Decatur. At Galveston Sec-
retary Marvin Mcintyre set up a
temporary White House, and Mr.
Roosevelt planned to land at that
city when he got through fishing.
IX months having elapsed since
. Mrs. Wallis Simpson was grant-
ed a provisional decree of divorce,
and the lady having behaved during
that period in a way —
approved by the
king's proctor, her
solicitors petitioned
the court to make
the decree absolute.
It was expected this
would be done after
the six days’ inter-
val required by legal
procedure.
When Edward, © al °
duke of Windsor, A
and Mrs. Simpson Mrs. Simpson
will be married is not yet known
to the public and probably not yet
determined by the principals in this
most famous of modern romances.
The duke was so angered by reflec-
tions on his fiancee and himself in
“Coronation Commentary,” a book
written by Geoffrey Dennis, that it
was reported he might set the wed-
ding date before coronation day;
but later there were rumors that
Mrs. Simpson, seeking to avert
further criticism, had persuaded
him to wait until after his brother
had been crowned. Edward demand-
ed that the book be withdrawn and
that the author and publisher apolo-
gize. This demand was complied
with, but nevertheless he had his
solicitors in London start suit for
damages on the ground of libel.
from all quarters of the earth
men and women of much, little
or no importance were flocking to
London for the coronation; the diplo-
soy
mats were trying on their new knee
breeches; the peeresses were buying
wigs to make their coronets fit more
comfortably; the officials, troops
and horses were being rehearsed
in their parts; the proprietors of
parade seats were desperately try-
ing to dispose of them at cut prices;
and hotel managers and tradesmen
of all sorts were preparing to make
lots of money out of this thoroughly
commercialized affair. It was said
by steamship officials in New York
that hundreds of Americans booked
for the coronation had cancelled
their passages, but despite this it
was certain London would be
thronged with visitors.
W HILE Democratic leaders in
congress were disputing over
various proposals for achieving the
economy demanded by the Presi-
dent, the house without a quiver
passed the second deficiency bill,
carrying $79,200,000. The Demo-
crats called it an economy measure
because the appropriations were 19
millions less than the amounts asked
by the department heads. But 15 of
those 19 millions represented merely
a reduction in the 30 million appro-
priation asked by the bureau of in-
ternal revenue for the refunding of
processing taxes collected under the
agricultural adjustment act. The
saving, it was pointed out, was more
a deferred ‘economy’ in that the
15 millions will be included in the
next budget.
“THIS is the outstanding finan-
cial blunder of the New Deal”
said Representative Hamilton Fish
of New York, Republican, speaking
of the administra-
tion's policy of ac-
cumulating gold at
$35 an ounce, or
nearly twice the cost
of production. Mr.
ish thereupon in-
troduced a resolu-
tion forbidding the
secretary of
treasury to pur-
chase any more gold
r
Rep. Fish 1oM
$25 an ounce.
“The American taxpayers’ de-
clared Mr. Fish, “under the ruin-
ous gold policy of the President and
the secretary of the treasury, have
become the ‘angels’ of Europe, and
are now engaged in helping to fi-
nance these countries in their mad
armament race.
gold upon us at exorbitant profits,
which, if we tried to sell back, we
the dollar.
financing of John Law's Mississippi
bubble. The American people have
been turned into milch cows. to be
milked by every foreign country.”
THE C. 1. O. steel workers’ or-
ganizing committee now claims
a majority of the 540,000 wage earn-
ers in that industry,
Philip Murray, committee chair-
man, told the convention of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel, and Tin Workers in Pittsburgh
that in the 10 months of the or-
ganization drive 325,000 members
have been enrolled, equivalent to
60 per cent of the steel pay rolls.
“We have driven the company
union out of American industry,”
Murray said. “No company union
can hope to live from here on. Ten
months ago the steel workers’ or-
ganizing committee started from
scratch. We had no members. To-
day we have built up 600 new lodges,
enrolled 325,000 members, and
signed wage contracts with 89 steel
companies.”’
Seventy-nine women and forty-
one men, arrested during the evic-
tion of sitdown strikers from
the Yale & Towne Manufacturing
company plant in Detroit were held
guilty of contempt of court by Cir-
cuit Judge Arthur Webster, They
were convicted for violation of an
injunction which the judges had is-
sued, directing them to leave the
plant.
Judge Webster imposed maximum
penalties of thirty days in jail and
$250 fines on George Edwards, Unit-
ed Automobile Workers of America
organizer, and Peter P. Sedler, who
said he was an employee of the Kel-
sey Hayes Wheel company. Ten
day jail sentences were given three
other persons. Sentencing of the oth-
ers was deferred to July 15.
WILLIAM GILLETTE, the vet-
eran actor who became fa-
mous in the role of Sherlock Holmes
and is remembered also for his good
work in “Secret "" and other
plays, died in Hartford, Conn., at
she age of eighty-one. He had been
“WO thousand members of the
United States Chamber of Com-
merce, gathered in Washington for
their 256th annual meeting, started a
vigorous campaign for change in the
industrial and economic structure
of the nation. To begin with, they
adopted resolutions calling for
amendment of the Wagner labor
relations act and the undistributed
corporate surplus tax.
The policies of the administration
were hotly attacked by several
speakers, Virgil Jordan of New York
city, president of the national in-
dustrial conference board, said the
government ‘‘has become an instru-
ment of forces alien to the enter-
prise principle of American life and
work who desire to destroy it and
replace it by the principle of ab-
solute subjection to the state, which
in nearly every other part of the
world holds the impoverished and
fear-ridden people in its paralyzing
power."
Assistant Secretary of Labor Ed-
ward F. McGrady asked the busi-
ness men to give the Wagner act
a chance to “work out.”
“Labor must move as a collec-
tivism,'' he said, ‘‘and must bargain
through its own chosen representa-
tives—just as the employer does.
Unless labor, grouped collectively,
can have its expert representatives
wholly independent of employer in-
fluence, speak for it with a power-
ful voice, there is no real bargain-
ing at all.”
ECURITIES controlling the $3.-
“7 000,000,000 railroad empire built
up by the Van Sweringen brothers
have been acquired from George A.
Ball of Muncie, Ind., by Robert R.
Young, Frank F. Kolbe and Allan
$3,121,000. The price paid
New Yorkers was $6,375,000,
Muncie man, however,
make a personal profit from
transaction for he had placed Mid-
america with its holdings in a char-
itable fund
Young said it was the plan of his
group ‘to shrink the entire corpor-
ate structure'’ rather than expand
it. He intimated that Midamerica
corporation would be eliminated, and
intricate financial structure.
ANPREW MELLO}, frequently
tacks, is again called on to defend
his business. Attorney General Cum-
mings
that the Department
trict court in New
York a suit to com-
pel dissolution of the
Aluminum Company
of America—which
Mellon controls—for
the purpose of
breaking ‘its mo-
nopolistic
Andrew Po
Mellon dustry.
the
weapon in regulating business.
The suit named 36 officers, direc-
subsidiary and affiliated companies
were named co-defendants. Other
members of the Mellon family
named with the former Treasury
Mellon Scaife, David K. Bruce, son-
in-law of Mellon, and Ailsa Mellon
Bruce, his daughter.
The suit charges that the com-
pany is a monopoly in violation of
the anti-trust laws and that it has
power to fix arbitrary and discrimi-
native prices. It charges the de-
fendants with conspiracies to re-
strain and monopolize, attempts to
monopolize, and monopoly in vio-
lation of the Sherman anti-trust act.
N A letter addressed to H. B.
Mitchell, president of the civil
service commission, President
Roosevelt placed a ban on specu-
officials and employees. There was
no official explanation of this act,
probable White House moves.
ENATOR HARRY F. BYRD of
Virginia, Democra:, prepared
for introduction in the senate a bill
providing for the consolidation of
the Home Owners’ Loan corpora-
tion and the Federal Housing ad-
ministration. This merger, said Mr.
Byrd, would result in a saving
more than $24,000,000 a year wi
out impairing the work of the units,
[NTERVENTION by President
Roosevelt averted, for the time
being at least, a strike of 25,000
freight handlers on eight railroads
that threatened the food supply of
New York city. The President ap-
pointed an emergency board of
three members to attempt a settle.
ment. In his proclamation he said
the dispute threatened “substantiale
ly to interrupt interstate commerce
within the state of New York and
other states in the eastern part of
the couniry to a degree such as to
deprive that section of the country
of essential transportation service.”
A dispute between rival workers’
unions balked efforts of the nations!
mediation board to effect a settle
ment. Under the railway labor act,
the President forced a postpone
ment for at least 30 days while
mediators work.
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Touring Accommodations,
ANTA MONICA, CALIF.—
For the sake of comparison
two of us, out lately on a little
trip, stayed one night at a way-
side motor camp and the next
night at the most expensive
tourist hotel in three states,
rates $25 per day per sucker.
At the tourist camp, the company
was ‘mixed but neighborly and, for
the most part, pleas-
ant. The only really
discordant note was
a lady in the ad-
joining cabin who, at
all hours, kept wak-
ing her husband up,
apparently for the
purpose of telling
him another thing
about him that she
didn't like.
At the exclusive
establishment were
many guests who Vin S. Cobb
Waxworks,
usually are dull.
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Dealing With Snakes.
A CONNECTICUT congressman
' is pushing an act to prohibit
importation of venomous serpents
from other countries for exhibition
purposes. His fear is that an earth-
ly reptiles that would start multi
plying and constitute a new menace
to the lives of such of the populace
thus far escaped being
Without presuming to assume that
‘“ UNT ALMA, there's just one
thing I don't like about my
it's so attractive I'm
to his bill providing that the bars
How Times Change.
JUST read what I once knew for
priate it when I'm not losking.
Outside of that I'm crazy about it,
and I think vou're swell to make
it for me. Why-—"'
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Why
Imagine anybody's
dress since you've taught
me to sew-my-own 1 never want
anything. I just make it and that's
This sport for in-
took me only after-
dress,
stance,
noon.’
Praise From Auntie.
“I think you do wonderfully well
with your sewing, my dear. You'll
my clothes the first
thing I know. 1 especially
one
feel
It related to the attitude which
America, considerably less than half
a century ago, held toward unescort-
ed woman. For instance, as recently
as 1890 not many respectable hotels
would permit one of them to regis-
ter.
Some time after 1900-—in fact, as
1 remember, it was about 1910—a
one of the smartest hotels in New
in the public lounge.
As for women drinking at a bar—
even the
things!
Hardships de Luxe.
It does
and it's so
the shoul-
diet but in
nd slender.
Don’t you see, girls, how im
tant I* is to
particularly becoming? It's a
ing by this theory that give
women such enviabl
The Patterns.
Pattern 1280 is designed in sizes
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Pattern 1233 is designed in sizes
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The collar
through
ders. I guess I should
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‘em.
about the size of a pullman but
much more complete, and were
towed by a couple of Rolls-Royces.
The servants, only six in number,
had to put up with two much cheap-
er cars.
During the entire trip there was
no dressing for dinner and thus,
the primitive plan of the expedition
carried out.
countered enroute—such as
the caviar coming unglued in the
can — was cheerfully endured. An
armed guard was maintained at
night to repel kidnapers and hostile
Indian tribes.
I wonder how Jim Bridger and Kit
Carson ever stood it with no butler
along—in fact, not even a second
man.
IRVIN 8. COBB.
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