The Willamina times., February 11, 1937, Page 2, Image 2

Thursday, February 11, 1937
TIMES. WILLAMINA. OREGON
Page 2
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
President Proposes Reorganization of Federal Judiciary,
Increasing Supreme Court Justices to Fifteen—■
Efforts to Settle Motor Strike.
By
E D W A R D
W.
P IC K A R D
© W estern Newspaper Union.
P R E S ID E N T R O O S EVE LT e le c tri-
* fied congress w ith a su rp rise m es­
sage proposing sweeping changes in
the fe de ra l co u rt system w hich
would a llo w h im to
pack the Supreme
C ourt w ith justice s
who could be expect-
ec* t0 uphold the con-
aMHjj s titu tio n a lity of New
Deal leg isla tion .
He su bm itted
a
d ra ft o f a b ill to ac-
com plish th is rcor-
ganization. I t pro-
v j(jes ■
1. T h a t fo r e very
President
federal judge w ith a
Roosevelt
service reco rd o f at
least ten years “ continuously or
o the rw ise ’ ’ who fa ils to resign o r re ­
tir e w ith in six m onths a fte r reach­
ing the age o f 70 the P resident s h a ll
appoint another judge.
2. T ha t the num ber of a d d itio n a l
judges so appointed sh all not exceed
fifty , the Supreme C ourt being lim ­
ited to 15 m em bers, appellate and
special courts to tw o a dd itio n a l
m em bers each and d is tric t courts
to tw ice the present n um ber of
judges.
3. T h a t tw o -th ird s of the Suprem e
C ourt and th re e-fifths o f o the r courts
s h a ll constitute a quorum .
4. T ha t the ch ie f ju s tic e of the
Supreme C ourt shall tra n s fe r c irc u it
and d is tric t judges to ju ris d ic tio n s
w ith congested dockets in o rd e r to
speedup disposition of litig a tio n .
5. T hat the Supreme C ou rt sh all
be empowered to appoint a p ro cto r
to supervise the conduct o f business
in the low er courts.
The P resident also proposed a re­
fo rm in the in ju n c tiv e process w hich
he declared w ould expedite Supreme
C ourt ru lin g s on the c o n s titu tio n a lity
o f leg isla tion and w ould fu rth e r in ­
sure “ e q u a lity " and “ c e rta in ty ” of
fe de ra l justice . He said freq ue n t in ­
jun ction s w hich set aside acts of
congress are “ in cle a r vio la tio n of
the p rin cip le o f e qu ity th a t in ju n c ­
tions should be granted o nly in those
ra re cases o f m an ifest ille g a lity and
irre p a ra b le dam age against w hich
the o rd in a ry course of the la w offers
no p ro tectio n .”
He asked th a t congress fo rb id any
in ju n ctio n or decision by any fe d e ra l
co u rt touching a c o n stitu tio n a l ques­
tion w ith o u t “ previous and am ple
notice ” to the a tto rn e y general to
give the governm ent an o p p o rtu n ity
“ to present evidence and be h ea rd .”
H is b ill proposed th a t any low e r
c o u rt decision w hich involved a con­
s titu tio n a l question be appealed d i­
re c tly to the Supreme C ourt, w here
i t w ould take im m e diate precedence
over a ll other business.
New Deal leaders in congress
w ere expected to back the P re si­
dent’ s proposals solidly, w h ile i t be­
cam e apparent th a t the conservative
D em ocrats m ig h t a lign w ith the
solid R epublican group in opposing
it. The la tte r group saw in the b ill
a d ire c t a tte m p t to get r id o f some
o f the older justice s of the Suprem e
C ou rt who have proved co ntin ua l
stu m b lin g blocks fo r pet New D eal
acts.
C hie f Justice
C harles
Evans
Hughes, approaching 75, has voted
som etim es to sustain, som etim es to
in va lid a te New Deal law s. Justice
W illis Van D eventer, 78, has in v a ri­
a b ly opposed New D eal la w s ; so
have Jam es C la rk M cR eynolds, 75;
George Sutherland, 75, and P ierce
B u tle r, 71. L ouis D em bitz B randeis,
80, has voted to sustain New D eal
acts, except tin the cast o f the N R A ,
rejected by unanim ous decision.
I f the P resident is successful in
p u ttin g over the proposed changes
it w ill be the eighth tim e in the 148
years o f the Supreme C o u rt’ s h is to ry
th a t the n um ber of ju stice s has been
changed. The larg e st n um ber ever
to s it on the bench was 10 fro m 1863
to 1866, and the sm allest n um be r 5
fro m 1801 to 1802.
N I A R IT IM E w orkers on the Paci-
fic coast ended th e ir
long
s trik e by accepting w o rk in g agree­
m ents th a t had been negotiated in
San F ra n cisco and the 40,000 m en
re tu rn e d to th e ir jobs. Ships in a ll
the ports, long idle, got up steam
and prepared to resume business,
and the tic k e t offices were thronged
w ith passengers.
Shipowners issued a statem ent as­
sertin g the end of the w alko ut would
m ean a business re v iv a l fo r 1,000
in d u s tria l p la nts and 500 e xpo rt of­
fices up and down the coast.
O BO UG HT
together
by
Gov.
F ra n k M urph y at the dem and
o f the W hite House, representatives
of both sides in the General M otors
s trik e were in al-
m o s t
continuous
conference seeking
a w ay to settle the
controversy.
The
co rp oratio n
w as
represented by W il­
lia m
S. Knudsen,
executive vice pres­
ident,
and
John
Thom as S m ith o f
the legal sta ff. A ct­
ing fo r the s trik e rs
W illiam S.
were John L. Lew is,
Knudsen
head o f the C. I. O.,
John B rophy, its d ire c to r, and
H om er M a rtin , president o f the
U nited A utom obile W orkers.
I t was reported th a t at one tim e
the conference was near collapse.
Then G overnor M urph y received a
message fro m the W hite House say­
ing the P resident expected a settle­
m ent.
D u rin g an in te rim the governor
said both sides w ere in earnest and
doing th e ir best.
Judge C adola in F lin t had issued
an in ju n c tio n ord ering the sit-down
s trik e rs there to leave the plants.
The sh e riff served notice to the
m en and they jeered h im . They
then sent to G overnor M u rp h y a
bom bastic message to the effect
th a t they would resist e victio n to
the death. The m ayo r, c ity m an ­
ager and police c h ie f of F lin t, as­
sertin g the people were tire d of
s trike s and violence, organized be­
tween 500 and 1,000 police reserves.
The police ch ie f w arned L ew is he
“ had b e tte r c a ll off his s trik e i f he
doesn’t w an t another H e rrin m as­
sacre.”
A w r it o f a tta chm en t fo r fo rc ib le
expulsion of the sit-down s trik e rs
was obtained by the G. M . law ye rs.
C E C R E T A R Y of the In te rio r H ar-
old Ickes and the natio na l re­
sources co m m itte e of w hich he is
ch a irm a n have produced a public
w orks and natio na l
w a te r p ro gram fo r
the next six years,
and it was s u b m it­
ted to congress by
President Roosevelt
w ith the recom m en­
dation th a t it should
be adopted. I t i n ­
volves the expendi­
tu re of five b illio n
dollars and ca lls fo r
lum p sum annual
H arold Ickes appropriations under
the re g u la r budget fo r a lis t of ap­
proved projects, and a llocation of
the funds to a perm anent pub lic
w orks or developm ent agency.
As the c h ie f p a rt of the plan, M r.
Roosevelt presented congress w ith
a lis t of some $2,750,000.000 w o rth
of w a te r conservation projects, in­
clud ing a $116,000,000 flood-control
p ro gram in the inundated Ohio and
M ississipp i riv e r valleys.
In his transm ission message the
P resident warned congress against
considering each p ro je c t as a sep­
ara te e n tity . The rep ort, he said,
“ should, o f course, be read in con-
j nction w ith the recom m enda­
tions fo r highw ays, bridges, dam s,
flood co ntrol, and so fo rth , a lre a d y
under construction, estim ates f o r
w hich have been subm itted in the
budget.”
E S P IT E the w a rm opposition of
D D e m o cra tic Senator J. W. B a il­ O F IN A N C E fo r another ye ar
ey of N o rth C arolina and others, T the social se cu rity board, v e t­
in clu d in g the few Republicans, the erans’ a d m in is tra tio n and about
senate passed the house deficiency
re lie f b ill c a rry in g an a p p ro p ria ­
tio n o f $948,725,868.
Senator B a ile y spoke in su pp ort of
h is am endm ent w hich would req u ire
a m eans test, or “ pauper’s o a th ,”
as some have called it, fo r states,
counties, and th e ir p o litic a l subdi­
visions to secure fe de ra l aid fo r
th e ir
re lie f req uirem en ts. T h e
a m e ndm ent was rejected w ith o u t a
»•«cord vote.
th ir ty other federal agencies, the
house appropriated one b illio n , fo r­
ty - s ix m illio n d ollars. The b ill,
passed w ith o u t a record vote, c a r­
rie d a la s t m in ute am endm ent pro­
v id in g th a t none of the funds ap­
p ro priate d should be a vailab le to
pay fo r the expenses o f any con­
gressional
investigation.
T his
am endm ent was aim ed at senate
investigations such as the L a F ol-
lette and W heeler inquiries.
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
’Twa« N oi W o rlli
T h e E x ira C om I
In a w est o f England ch urch the
banns between tw o parishioners
had been reud fo r the firs t tim e .
A fte r the service the v ic a r was ac­
costed by the prospective b rid e ­
groom .
“ M r. Goodbody, I'v e been th in k ­
ing, and, seems to me I ’d ra th e r
have h e r s is te r.”
“ You can please y o u rs e lf," re­
plied the v ic a r. “ B ut, of course,
fresh banns m u st be p u b lish e d ."
“ A h ." A pause "S h n ll I have
to puy another h n lf c ro w n ? "
“ O f course you w ill. ”
“ O h.” A long pause. Then, w ith
sudden resolution. " A w , w ell,
leave ’em be us ’ tis .”
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Brief Resume of Happenings
of the Week Collected tor
Our Readers
The Plight of Spain.
EVfclRLY HILLS, CALIF.—
In the bloody task of utter­
ly destroying herself Spain can­
not complain that she lacked
for hearty co-operation on the
part of some of her sister coun­
tries.
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Tuiigeiit— I.lim county turkeys, «11
N arraK ansetts, grown by Mr. and
Mrs. A. D. Hudson of T angent, took
a lion’s share of aw ards at the All-
American turk ey show a t Grand
Forks, N. D., last week.
Albany— Albany’s bonded Indebt­
edness was reduced to $13.600 d u r­
ing 1936, according to the annual
report of E. R. W illiamson, city
treasu rer. T he rep o rt show s a c u r­
rent bond debt of $139,195.9 4.
R oseburg— The ltoneburg Legion
convention commission, which m an­
aged th e 1936 American Legion state
convention here, on January 19 of-
flclally reported th a t a profit was
made from th e venture. The profit
was exactly 22 cents, left over af-
te r all expenses had been paid.
N orth Bend— North Bend’s ship­
yard, K ruse Hanks company. Is plan­
ning to build Its second sardine purse
seining boat th is year, and will have
it completed In time for the pilchard
Beason here next sum m er. The boat
will be m ade largely of Port Orford
o r w hite cedar, native to southw est­
ern Oregon.
Heppner — W heat
farm ers
from
Columbia basin counties In Oregon
and W ashington met at the Lexlng-
ton grange hall for discussion of soil
erosion. A ttendance a t this m eeting
was from W’asco, Jefferson, Sher­
man, G illiam, Morrow and U m atil­
la counties in Oregon as well as from
Douglas county, W ashington.
Prtnv ille— The warmest syiot In a
tall pine tree In sub-zero w eather Is
a t th e very top, W. J. Buckhorn and
R. L. Furnlss, of the forest service
bureau of entomology, discovered,
in checking therm om eters placed In
th e Ochoco forest last November.
Purpose of the study is to determ ine
the effectiveness of sub-zero tem pera­
tu re s In aiding pine beetle control.
Pendleton— The tusk of n m asto­
don, an anim al three tim es the size
of an elephant and weighing perhaps
20 tons, was unearthed recently near
Holdman by members of a county
road crew who thought It was petri­
fied wood. M ajor Jay Thom as Arne-
son, Pendleton geologist. Identified
it as a mastodon tusk and placed Its
age a t from 1,000,000 to 3,000,000
years, tow ard th e close of the P leist­
ocene period.
Openly o r se cre tly, h a lf o f the
great European powers are c o n trib ­
u ting to the bloody
ruin a tio n , so that,
when
the
finish
conies, th e y 'll have
spoils o r dubious
prestige or both and
that ill-fa te d land
w ill be a b urying
i ground and a deso­
lation.
A fellow gets to
I w ondering w hy this
o r th a t governm ent
chooses fo r an em ­
blem
some noble Ir v in S. Cobb
crea ture when the
tu rk e y buzzard or the grave-rob-
bing hyena would be so app ro prl-
ate.
F ierce w inte rs and devastating
floods m ay be cu ring us here on
this side o f the w ater, but nt least
we have been spared the a ffliction
of having fo r our next-door neigh­
bors c e rta in nations.
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K id na pe rs' Ransoms.
I T ’S a ll w ell enough to pass an
* act m aking paym ent o f ransom
to a kidnaper a c rim in a l offense—
as though heartbroken parents would
hesitate to pay ransom s to get
th e ir babies back, no m a tte r w hat
the penalty fo r so doing m ig h t be!
And can you see any A m erican ju r y
convicting those parents? The au-
th or of the law is no doubt w e ll-in ­
tentioned but there is another law ,
called the law of hum an nature,
w hich m ost su re ly would defeat his
purposes.
By the w ay, a person who should
know w hat he's ta lk in g about, te lls
me th a t three out o f every fo ur
known kidnapers d urin g recent
years have been cx-convicts w ith
records as repeated offenders.
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STATERS SELECTED
Oregon State College — Two in-
! structors, prom inent in th e school
of secretarial science, have been se­
lected as guest instructors in the
1937 sum m er session of th e U niver­
sity of Southern California, Dean
L ester B. Rogers of Southern Cali­
fornia has announced. Mrs. Minnie
DeMotte Frick and Mrs. B ertha Stutz,
both associate p r o f e s s o r s In the
school, w ere nam ed on th e list of 60
j prom inent educators chosen from
I leading universities over the country.
An auth o rity on shorthand, Mrs.
F rick has w ritten several books on
speed-w riting. Mrs. Stutz will teach
educational m ethods in a p p l y i n g
shorthand and typing to courses giv­
en In high schools. She also teaches
applied stenography.
A cco rding to M urco Polo, when
an a s p ira n t to priesthood in In d ia
a rriv e d ut the m onastery, the fa ir ­
est young g irls belonging to it
cam e fo rth to m eet h im , and gath­
e rin g round, w ould o verw h e lm
h im w ith em braces und kisses.
The old priests, m eunw hile, w ould
stand by, keenly w atching . I f he
betrayed any pleasure n t the ca­
resses o f the g irls , he was a t onco
re je c te d ; but if he su bm itted h im ­
| self to th em c o ld ly , and w ith un­
m oved face, he was a d m itte d to
the priesthood.
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Chinese Lady'« Tiny Feel
“ L ily ” feet three inches long,
b e a u tifu lly tapered b ut p u in fu lly
c rip p le d , are s till a curse of China
despite 30 years of crusading
j against them . In H ankow , 90 per
i cent o f a ll w om en o ver th ir ty s till
I have bound feet.
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D o T his
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F or
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C o ld
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Take a Bayer
Aapirin U b U U
w ith a full fiera of
water at first aign
of a cold.
Optimism De Luxe.
L IK E the s p irit o f a gentlem an
1 in New Y o rk who started dredg­
ing operations in E ast riv e r. He
set out to d ig up a m in im u m of $4,-
I f th r o a t la
800,000 in gold and s ilv e r fro m the
•ora also, gar-
ooze, and to date has salvaged 96
gle twice with
cents, tw o rusty fry in g pans and a
I B a y e r ta b le ts
diraolved In H
penknife—and is s till probing.
of water.
F o r gorgeous o p tim is m I can
th in k of but one case to m atch this.
I was on the F rench R iv ie ra one
sum m er. T hey’d been s h iftin g the
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ra ilro a d tra c k s along the G rand
The modern way to ease a cold is
Corniche. T his le ft a disused tu n ­
this: Two Bayer Aspirin tablets the
nel. So, week a fte r week, a beard­
moment you feel a cold coming on.
ed gentlem an sat a t one m outh of
Repeal, if necessary, in two hours. If
the em pty bore w ith a sign over his
you also have a sore throat due to
head re a d in g : “ T his p ro pe rty fo r
the eold, dissolve 3 Bayer tablets in
glass of water and gargle with this
sale.”
When I le ft he was s till
twice. T he Bayer Aspirin you take
there, w a itin g fo r somebody who
was in the m a rk e t fo r a second­ ' internally will art to combat ItVW.
aches, pains whieh usually accompany
hand tunnel.
a cold. The gargle will provide almost
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tale of all was told here one m orning
recently by Arbo Stew art, tran sien t,
who said th a t he had spent the night
in a four-foot snow bank a t the sum ­
m it of th e Blue m ountains, w ithout
an overcoat. The story was corrobo­
rated by S tate Police Sergeant W al­
te r F o ster and Sheriff Bob Goard,
who were called yesterday to "g e t
the body” of a man reported frozen
to death.
E ugene— Alton F. B aker of E u ­
gene has been re-elected president of
W allam et council of the Boy Scouts.
The o th e r officers a re John J. Rog­
ers, vice-president for Lane county;
Ned C. Kelley, vice-president for
Coos and Curry counties; E. H. W ie­
gand, vice-president for Benton coun­
ty; Dr. E. J. W ainscott, vice-presi­
dent for Douglas county; Clarence
Lombard of Eugene, tre a su re r; H er­ i
man Scullen, scout commissioner
POLICE COURSES SET
A Severe Test
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P endleton— The stran gest w inter
Salem— D efinite selection of sub­
jects to be ta u g h t a t classes for po­
licemen throughout th e sta te was
made a t a m eeting of the police tra in ­
ing com m ittee of the L eague of Ore-
gon Cities here la st week.
Subjects to be ta u g h t include law
! of a rre st, law of search and seizure,
evidence, patrol duties, traffic reg-
i ulatlon, relation of sta te police to lo­
cal police, federal crim es and federal
jurisdiction, arson detection, Inves-
i tlgatlon a t scene of crime, report
w riting and record-keeping.
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Quick Relief with
Bayer Aspirin Tablets
South A m e rica n E xp lorers.
F R E C E N T years, those hardy
adventurers who set fo rth to
invade the last g re a t unexplored
area, in te rio r South A m e rica, seem
to fo llo w a re g u la r routine, to w it,
as fo llo w s:
F irs t—They s ta rt off.
Second—They get lost.
T h ird —They are rescued.
B ut w ouldn’ t it save w ear and
te ar and nervous s tra in if the rescue
expedition w ent on ahead so it could
get settled down in ca m p a ll nice
and com fortable and be w a itin g fo r
the explorers when they staggered
in, exhausted fro m to tin g a ll those
tons o f m a te ria l fo r fu tu re lec­
tu re tours? The m odern discover-
: er is g a lla n t, but a p p aren tly has
I no m ore sense of d ire c tio n than an
egg-beater and seem ingly could get
lost on top o f a m arble -to p table.
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The Charms of Music.
CCORDING to a m ed ica l pro­
fessor in P ennsylvania, sam ­
ples o f w hisky, when subjected to
a m usical sound tre a tm e n t fo r sev­
en hours, produce a liq u o r w hich
equals one th a t has been aged in
wood fo r a t least fo u r years. But
w hy get excited about this? I ’ ve
known c e rta in brands of classical
m usic w hich, in one evening, have
aged a grow n m an to a point w here
he figures the present C h ristia n era
m ust be about over.
Only a few weeks ago, being soft­
ened by the s p irit of the approach­
ing holidays, I suffered m y s e lf to be
lured to a Chopin re c ita l and got
jam m ed in and couldn’t escape
and fin a lly staggered fo rth in to the
n ig ht feeling th a t M ethuselah had
little i f anything on me.
A
IRVIN S. COBB.
C o p y rig h t.— W N U äervlce.
instant relief from soreness and raw-
ness of your throat. Your doctor, wo
feci sure, will approve this modern
way. Ask your druggist for genuino
Bayer Aspirin by its full name — not
by the name "aspirin” alone.
2 F U L L D O ZEN FO R ?5c
Virtually lc a Tablet
THE OTHER WOMAN LIVES
IOST AROOND THE CORNER
m ay seem unreasonable, b u t
men cannot understand why
I a T m ost
woman who Is usually happy
and loving should have recurring
periods wnen her whole character
seems changed, lie cannot appre­
ciate the distress, tho discomfort
th a t all women m ust endure. He
does n o t know w hat it Is to do
housework with an aching hack
and falling energy. AH ho does
know Is th a t other women seem
more cheerful by comparison.
Are you such a threo-quarter
wife?
D o n 't lot the ordoals th a t ai
women faco causo you avoldab«
discomfort or endanger your horn«
Do as so many wise women havf
—try Lydia E. Pinkham 's Vego
table Compound.
F or threo generations one wom­
an has told another how to go
'■smiling through” with Lydia E.
Pinkham 's Vegetable Compound.
I t helps N ature tone up tho sys­
tem . thus lessening tho discom­
forts from the functional disorders
which women m ust endure In tho
three ordeals of life: 1. Turning
from girlhood to womanhood. 2.
Preparing for motherhood. 3. Ap­
proaching “middle age.”
D o n 't no a three-uuarter wife;
take LYDIA K. P IN K H A M '8
V EG ETA BLE C O M PO U N D and
Oo "Hmlllng T hrough.”
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