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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1937)
SATURDAY. AUGUST 21, 1937 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON fW vat-- vi t iiiiiiiwiwi3r'w7llaii Justice Black JUSTICE Van Devanter, retired, J once was headed toward the United States senate but was shunted into the judiciary. When 61 years old he was promoted to the Supreme Court. Hugo L. Black started out in law and politics in Birmingham, some what the same as Van Devanter had years before in Cheyenne. Black got to the senate, gained fame as a fiery New Deal ally, and, following Van Devanter's retirement, h e was chosen, at 51, to serve in the Stinrpmp Court. But before con- Justice Black senting t 0 h i . appointment by President Roosevelt the senate had a fine-spun legal argument. The courtesy rule requiring instant con firmation of nominations of senators had been waved aside. Doubt even had been raised about whether there was a job open since Van Devanter merely 'retired." To this contention was added a legal theory that Black was inel igible because of his membership in congress when the law enabling justices to retire on full pay was passed. . Ku Klux Klin Ghost NEW YORK'S Senator Copeland also questioned the wisdom of the appointment. He quoted news paper accounts of Black's rise to the senate and charged he had been a Ku Klux Klan "sympathizer." Im perial Wizard Evans, however, said Black was not a klansman. And the senate voted 63 to 16 to okay him. (That was a bigger mar gin than either Chief Justice Hughes or veteran Justice Brandeis got in by.) And New Dealers believed it would give them a 6-to-3 margin in the court this fall. Scrappy Mr. Black seemed to lose some of his pugnacity while pre paring to switch from his $10,000-a-year place amid the senate clamor to a $20.000-a-year position in the quiet $12,000,000 temple of justice. "I'm tired," he said, as he sat in his office with Mrs. Black during the battle over his appointment. The next day former Federal Judge Levitt of the Virgin Islands asked the high court's permission to question Black's right to a place on the bench. Levitt cited the same legal points that some senators had raised. . The Race To Go Home CONGRESS raced along toward adjournment. (The eight month session, clerks estimated, has cost about $12,000,000.) One of the most generally dis cussed proposals, wage and hour legislation, was being "smothered" Representative Martin's word for It in the house rules committee. Democrats favoring the bill were embittered by the committee's failure to give it the right of way. The house passed the final big appropriation bill calling for $98. 830,375, with $20,000,000 of it ticketed for farm tenants' aid. For farm purchasing loans there was $10,000,000, and for conversion of the western "dust bowl" into a vast pasture, $10,000,000. Restorations to the NLRB of $876,500 precipi tated an attack on the board by Mississippi's Rankin and Michigan's Huffman. The he use also passed the hous ing bill. Approved in different form by the senate, it would launch a program of federal aid to states and cities in providing low-rent dwellings for low-salaried people. Special Session 'IP PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT told reporters in the middle of the week that calling of a special ses sion this fall to take up crop-control legislation still was on his "if list. A senate agriculture subcommittee decided to start hearings on the crop question in the south and west October 1. ' The President scolded congress (or tacking a price law onto an es sential tax bill, but he did not veto It. The rider permits manufacturers to contract for minimum retail prices on their goods. The President asked Frank R. McNinch, chairman of the federal power commission, to straighten out affairs of the federal communica tions commission, accused by Re publicans of favoritism and en couragement of monopoly. And the attorney general told the Bureau of Investigation to look into "nasi" training camps through out the country to see if they were breaking any federal laws. Mary Dewson's Record Mary T. Dewson has been chosen by President Roosevelt for a social security board post. Miss Dewson went into big-time politics in 1928 to help Al Smith, but refused to take a walk with him last year because she thought wealth was "stacked up" against the New Deal. She has served in the Democratic national commit tee's feminine division, on the NRA consumer's advisory board and on the National Consumers' League labor standards committee. (C"P!'" PT fnpvr'rihtrit. By Th4 Ap Ptatur. Srvie 2 At Home 'American Lord Macaulays' Their anchor for the salvation of the ship of state is Macaulay' s anchor: ''Supreme power ... in the hands of a class, numerous indeed, but select." . . . My anchor is de mocracy and more democracy. In this way President Roosevelt replied, at Roanoke Island, N. C, to his outspoken critics. He quoted the objections to democracy as ex pressed by Lord Macaulay, the 1 9th century historian who didn't believe America would make good, and added: "Almost, methinks, I am reading not from Macaulay but from a reso lution of the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Liberty League, the National Association of Manufactur er! or the editorials written at the be hest of some well-known newspaper proprietors." The occasion was the 350th anni versary of the birth of Virginia Dare, first child of English parentage born on this continent. The President stood in a hot enclosure of reconstructed Fort Raleigh, where Sir Walter Ra leigh's famous "lost colony" was es tablished in 1587. - A message from Anthony Eden was read by Congressman Warren: "The celebration of this event cannot fail to stir the heart of every Englishman, on whom it impresses vividly the part that his forefathers played in the foundation of this great country." U arena In Jfete York Timet Spoiling His Painting' To Beat The Dusf Liberal, Kas., business men have financed a $5,500 deep-well irrigation project serving 150 acres. They showed comparative cornfields to vis itors, during a mild dust storm this week. The watered corn was green and tall; the dry field's crop, sparse and stubby. Oklahoma's former Governor Mur ray, speaking at the demonstration proiect's dedication, urged that there be 250,000 deep wells. "They would pay for themselves each year of the drought," he argued. South Dakota's Governor Jensen listened to officials of 41 western counties of his state this week as they reported dismal drought conditions and appealed for more federal relief funds. Hot Trip Not Futile ' Mrs. Esther Worman stowed away on a freighter in England to get to America, find her husband and fetch him home. The ship's hold was so hot she had to strip to endure the trip. Authorities found her nude at Gal veston and ordered her deported. This week immigration officials also did what Mrs. Worman had wanted to do they found her husband, in New York. He was held on a charge of having entered the United States illegally in 1930. , Tennessee Killing Albert Gooden. 35, negro, was charged with slaying the Mason, Tenn., marshal. The. sheriff taking him to Covington this week reported that six masked men had seized the negro. The next morning searchers found his body, punctured by 30 bul lets, a frayed rope around the asm, handcuffs still locked. In Short . . . Portugal broke diplomatic rela tions with Czechoslovakia when denied the right to buy arms. Belfast police detained 13 men In connection with violence during the recent visit of King George. Maine rejected a one per cent retail sales tax in a state-wide referendum. ' Hundreds were homeless in Chile because of floods on the Bio-Bio and other rivers. NYA will help only about a third as many college students this year as last year. Seven men were killed by a steam explosion on the U. S. destroyer Cassin at' the Philadelphia navy yard. Married: Louise Hovick (Gypsy Rose Lee) to Robert Mizzy: Prin cess Maria Dolores de Bourbon of Spain, niece of ex-King Alfonso, to Polish Prince Czartoryski. Divorced: Manuel Komroff, writer, from Mrs. Elinor M. Bar nard Komroff, British artist. Died: Cyril McNeile. author of "Bulldog Drummond" stories; James Mclntyre, minstrel man. The WORLD This WEEK Two Cartoons 'Not Made For A Abroad 5 Roads To Santander General Franco's warriors appar ently were stalled last weekend in their lunge at the loyalist line's cen ter west of Madrid. Nor had they been able to complete an end-run on the east that would isolate Madrid from Valencia. So they took a fresh crack at Santander. in the sliver of loyalist land left on Spain's northern coast. Dopesters said that smacking down Santander would (1) pep up the in surgents and (2) permit them to throw more men into the other two battles. Advancing along five roads to Santander, the insurgents by mid week had seized Reinosa, a factory town, and carried their red and gold flag to within 25 miles of the goal. Loyalists reported Italy's "Black Ar row" brigade and 200 German planes were carrying the ball for Franco. 3 Adopted Children After Allied troops dismembered the Turkish Empire in the World war, Syria, Iraq and Palestine became mandates. France undertook to steer Syria and Britain to guide Iraq and Palestine toward nationhood. Arabs have raised so much hob with Jews in Palestine that Britain wants to operate on that mandate. Fearful of repercussions in Syria, "Papa" France has decided to have a talk about it with "Papa" Britain. Iraq, meanwhile, has been chang ing cabinets as the result of the as sassination of the army's chief. For mer Premier Jamal Madfai was com missioned to form the new govern ment and several exiled politicians packed up to return home. Among those in exile were some of the lead ers of Arab nationalism. 'Green Hen' Trouble Brazil's fascists wear green shirts, so some people call them "green hens." Their leader. Plinio Salgado, has a mustache like Hitler's and looks to Brazilians of German and Italian descent for support Brazil's presidential election is five months off, but already hot The two leading candidates are Jose America de Almeida and Armando de Sal lea Oliveira. Both were denounced, at a fascist rally in Campos this week, as hirelings of Moscow. A gun battle between the fascists and police followed. Eleven persons were killed. HUDSON TERRAPLANE PACKARD Sales S Service SERVING THE PUBLIC SINCE 1)2! STATE MOTORS, Inc. L. D. LAMBETH, Pres. Show The Clash Of Opinion On Wage-And-Hour ftarper in Birmingham Ag'BraA New Ground' Forecasts Col. Leonard P. Ayres, Cleve land economist: "Business activ ity will hold up well during the remaining months of the year." Bureau of Agricultural Eco nomics report: "There appears to be little doubt that we are still in the advancing phase of the business cycle." Bernard G i m b e 1 , merchant: "Continued gains for depart ment stores are expected for the fall, but those who look for phenomenal gains are likely to be disappointed." People Poisoner For The Poor? Mrs. Anna Hahn, 31, comely im migrant mother, was indicted Mon day in Cincinnati for two murders. Police said Mrs. Hahn had received between $50,000 and $70,000 in the last eight years from elderly Ger mans, and were investigating deaths of several of those old folk. "I know I am innocent of this hor rible crime." she protested, adding that her only ambition had been to have "enough money to take care of the poor unfortunates, the old people and the children." The Racket-Buster Runs Thomas E. Dewey, ex-choir singer, is only 35. He went to Gotham from a little town in Michigan and made his mark, a big dent, in the under world's upper crust. Two years ago he gave up a $50,000-a-year private law practice for a special f 16,895 job, prosecuting rackets. Now he is running for Npw York county distrjnt attorney. "For 20 years Tammany Hall has controlled criminal prosecution," Dewey de clares. "And for 20 years the power of the criminal underworld has grown. This alliance must be broken." Personals Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was re ported seeking a home in France. Former Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York got a job with the transit commission which enabled him to qualify for a city pension. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was in troduced by one policeman to another policeman at waterbury. Conn., as lthe sweetheart of all the world." 8tSJUiAlL Alva v.SA.'5SC,. iwi'w 11 - Vord's Theater Flyers . . . Lost In Arctic Third Time's Unlucky Sigismunu Levaneffsky started the Russians' North Pole hopping game two years ago. He failed ihen. But to show he could do it he took off with five others in a four-motored plane last week for his country's third as sault this lummei on the Arctic air road to America. (The first two were successful.) Forty hours passed. That was as long as his plane was deemed able to fly. But it contained camping equip ment and six weeks rations. Faint radio signals and word from Eskimos that they had heard plane motors kept home folk hopeful. Levaneffsky had flown into Siberia in '33 to rescue Jimmy Mattern; and this week Mattern darted 2,600 miles from Oakland, Calif., to Fairbanks, Alaska, to join the American and Ca Oddly Enough Subway Chicken O. Henry dubbed New York "Bag dad on the Subway." Sure enough, a subway train looked like Bagdad the other right. For there sat a man dreamily plucking feathers from a chicken while murmuring, "She loves me. she loves me not." The bird squawked; other passen gers protested. "I'm not hurting him," the man insisted. "I'm a retired bar ber. I could pluck your eyebrows and you would go to sleep while 1 was do ing it." But they took him to court. "It takes time to cook a mature bird like that," he told the judge. "I just wanted to get the rooster ready be fore I got home." Truth Is Stranger . . . In Action. "Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl." In reality, ro mance often has an O. Henry twist at the end as did this week's Okla homa true story: The boy, 19, met the girl, IS. He lost her for two years when she was sent to the State Training School for Girls at Tecumseh. He found her this summer when the institution's super intendent let some of the inmates have dates as an experiment. And he married her last Sunday so the state paroled her to him. 'a n Legislation j I Doyt in PhltaMphl Xnord 1937' nadian airmen in the hunt for him. Sir Hubert Wilkins. in New York, prepared a plane with which to enter the quest, too. Levaneffsky also had figured in the historic rescue of the icebreaker Chelyushkin's shipwrecked crew in '34; and Russians promptly planned another great northern search for him like that one. Plane Comes, Plane Goes Germany'. 19-ton seaplane Nord meer flew across the Atlantic early this week, landing at Port Washing ton, N. Y., just as the Pan-American Clipper III was being warmed up there for a flight across in the op posite direction by the same route. The American plane then made its crossing to the Azores with equal ease. Coming Up Sunday National Rifle Matches open. Camp Perry, Ohio. Italy to launch second 35,000 ton battleship, the Littorio. Aionday United Autn Workers conven tion opens, Milwaukee. Tuesday Seventh-Day Baptist general conference opens, Shiloh, N. J. Labor Weir Vs. NLRB Ernest T. Weir, 62. a typical busi ness man in appearance, heads the fast growing National Steel Corp., of which the Weir ton Steel Company is the biggest unit. The steelmaster won a tiff with NRA over his firm's employe-representation system; this week he was opposing NLRB with the employe representatives' aid. But two former Weirton employes testified at a hearing in New Cum berland. W. Va., that they had been discharged for no. joining the repre sentation group; another declared a CIO organizer had been beaten up by a "hatchet gang." Senator Rush D. Holt told an antl CIO rally in Weirton, W. Va., on the eve of the hearing, that NLRB was "just no other alphabetical way to spell CIO." Working On The Railroads The five "operating" brotherhoods of railroadmen (300,000 strong) were conferring this week with manage ment representatives. They wanted wazes raised 20 per cent. The 14 "non-operating" brother hoods recently made the same de mand for their 800,000 members, and got 5 per cent boosts this month. But the Illinois Central. Burlington and Milwaukee announced this increase in pay necessitated a decrease in em ployment. Terror Tales The United Rubber Workers ac cused the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., at Gadsden, Ala., of "terrorism." The company, in effect, answered "ditto." The NLRB has proceeded to hear the charges and counter charges. Labor Notes Maritime lajor disputes continued along the Atlantic coast. Manufacturers and CIO leaders made settlements reducing the ex tent of the silk strike. AFL announced it would compete with CIO for support of agricultural and white-collar workers. Five persons were injured in a riot at the strike-bound National Cooper age and Woodenwara Co. plant in Peoria, 111. Angry Dragon JAPAN taunted the Russian bear early in July about islands in the Amur on Man. choukuo's frontier. The bear wai busy, scratching and pawing spies) out of his fur. His growl did not found as though he would fight. Japan's army then jumped on the Chinese dragon's tail and quickly sliced oft the Peiping-Tientsin sec tion. Japan's navy soon sidled toward the dragon's head and heart, Shanghai and Nanking. Then the angry dragon roared and spat fire. American, British, French and Ger man women and children ran for their lives. The dragon is so big that in pre vious bouts the Japanese have been able to treat him the way fast box ers handle Primo Camera. But the dragon's hide is tough from years of punishment, his head is hot with hate, and lately he has been im proving his technique. So the thousands of mere men perching on Shanghai rooftops this week witnessed a first-rate fight for the heavyweight championship of the Orient. Bain Of Death THIS is what they saw: Chinese planes slipping out of clouds to bomb a warship docked near the Japanese consulate. . Chinese artillery and infantry rush ing forward 'o keep the Japanese from getting a foothold the way they did in '32. . . . Japanese naval bombers gracefully wheeling over the city of 3,500,000 before dump ing explosives. Steadily mounting horror. . . . Fires crackling around oil tanks. . . . More than 50 Japanese war ships scurrying up and down the river, hurling broadsides. . . . Chi nese rushing and scuttling six Jap anese steamers to blockade the Whangpoo. . . . Searchlights pick ing out targets. . . . Countless bodies sprawled in the litter of broken glass and masonry. U. S. marines and European soldiers landing hurriedly. , . . Armored cars driving back hungry rioters. . . . Hotels and stores barri caded against looters. . . . Hot steel raining on the streets. . . . American women and children going out to ocean liners- through showers of anti-aircraft shell fragments and fire from snipers along shore. . Defense At Any Cost BEFORE the battle was a week old it was more destructive than the five-week fight at Shang hai five years earlier. More than 100,000 men were engaged. About 1,400 non-combatants, including some Americans, had been slain; 1,600 wounded. Front lines grew longer; more men were needed to hold them. Planes carried the war sparks on up the Yangtse valley. Japanese land forces were reported backing up but not whipped yet. In North China, meanwhile, the 65,000 Japanese soldiers sitting on the dragon's tail called in help to hold it down. Fighting continued near the great wall. But an under ground separatist movement, to make peace with Japan regardless of the Chinese central govern ment's stand, gained momentum. "We are determined to defend our territory at all costs," said China's General Chiang Kai-shek despite the widespread opinion that his gladiators needed more training before tackling Japan. "The Chinese grow presumptu ous and advance two steps it ths Japanese concede one," the attack ing navy growled as it promised "more effective measures for sell defense" despite the fact that ths Tokyo treasury was not in shape for more than a three-month war ... American Interests 'po PROTECT Americans, 1,200 X marines were ordered from San Diego to Shanghai. Congress was asked for $500,000 for relief and evacuation work and Manila prepared to shelter 2,700 refugees. Senators Nye, Bone and Clark thought President Roosevelt should invoke the U. S. neutrality law in other words, deny American arms, munitions and loans to both sides. Commerce Secretary Roper re ported that in the first five months of this year Uncle Sam's exports to Japan were $140,325,000 and sales to China $26,256,000. Purchases from Japan totalled $92,392,000 and from China $51,653,000. Because the bulk of America's exports to Japan were cotton and oil, vast sections of the United States had a bread-and-butter in terest in the Asiatic fight. Roper declared: "We do not wish to sacri fice any proper trade relationship." England and France, meanwhile, joined in proposing a truce. The League of Nations wondered what to do if China brought the matter of Japanese aggression up when the league council meets in September. John Bull Is Annoyed "This promiscuous sinking of ships Is getting a bit steep," the British ad miralty's spokesman remarked this week regarding the Mediterranean perils of nevigators. "We are simply telling the world we will take acuon. That's (1st. If one of our ships is at tacked without warning, we will sink whoever did it Thai s it in a out-shell"
