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O II H O M I ' I. R
Review o f the History-Making Events o f the WorU
By E D W A R D W. P I C K A R D
C Wasters Newspspar Union.
Foreign Minister Eden talked about
Guffey Coal Act Is
the debts with Leon Blum, who
Declared Invalid
probably will be premier of France
IX members of the Supreme coart soon, but there was no Indication
of the United States ruled that that either one was planning to
the Guffey act to control the bitu make a payment Blum told the
minous coal industry is Invalid, and American club In Paris he hoped
another of the New the war debt “ misunderstanding”
D e a l experiments
might be cleared up, but he was
goes Into the dis Just trying to be pleasant to the
card.
This is the people of both America and France
act which President without spending any money.
Roosevelt u r g e d
congress to p a s s
notwithst a n d i n g Uncle Sam Stands by
doubts of Its con
Nine P o w er Pact
stitutionality “ how
T EWS that Ja|»an was greatly
ever reasonable.”
• enlarging her force In North
Five justices —
China
led the State department in
Sutherland, Butler,
Sen. Guffey
Washington to announce that the
Van Devanter, Mc-
Reynolds, and Roberts—Joined in position of the United States is the
the majority opinion which invali same as that outlined last Decern
dated the whole act. Justices Car- ber by Secretary Hull affirming its
doro, Brandéis, and Stone joined in support of the nine power pact that
a dissenting opinion in which they guarantees China’s territorial Inreg
upheld the a ct Chief Justice Hughes rity. At that time Mr. Hull said
this country has a binding faith in
held In a separate opinion that the
the fundamental principles of its
act was constitutional with respect
traditional policy. This government
to the marketing provisions but un
adheres to the provisions of the
constitutional with respect to the
treaties
to which it is a party and
labor regulations.
continues to bespeak respect by all
The court in the majority opin
nations for the provisions of treaties
ion held that there is no authority
solemnly entered into for the pur
in the Constitution for the control
pose of facilitating and regulating,
o f the coal Industry attempted In
to reciprocal and common advan
the Guffey a ct The act was not
tage.
valid either under the commerce
At the State department it was
clause or the welfare clause. Power
said that the reaffirmation of sup
was unlawfully delegated to set up
port of the nine power pact does
a coal code similar to the codes of
not mean that the administration
the invalidated N R A and the regu
will abandon its policy of declining
lations establishing working hours
to take the initiative in any attempt
o f miners were a violation of the
to curb Japan for violations of the
fifth amendment prohibiting the
pact. This was attempted by Henry
taking of property without due
L. Stimson, secretary of state in the
process of law. Mining, the court
Hoover administration, with the
declared. Is a local industry, the
gain of nothing but Japanese ill will.
state jurisdiction whereof the fed
Japanese military strength in
eral government has no authority
North China south of the Great
to Invade.
Wall is now said to be fully 13.000
Congress provided that if one part
men. There are al>out 80,000 more
o f the act were held unconstitution
in Manchukuo and still others in
al other parts should not be affected.
Inner Mongolia.
But the majority declined to accept
that arrangement, ruling that the
price fixing provisions were inex Italy Releases Alleged
tricably interwoven with the labor
Leader in K in g ’s Killing
regulations.
Senator Guffey, author of the act, Q R . ANTON PAVELIC, alleged
leader of Catashi, the Croatian
declined to comment on the opin
terrorist
organization, and accuse«!
ion, but it was said he was prepar
as
one
of
the “ master minds” In
ing a substitute measure.
t h e assassination
John Lewis, president of the Unit- I
of King Alexander
ed Mine Workers, said that “ it is a
of
Jngoslovakla in
sad commentary upon our form of
Marseilles,
has been
government when every decision of
set
free
by the
the Supreme court seems designed
Italian authorities
to fatten capital and starve and de
Released with him
stroy labor.”
was his lieutenant.
Eugene Kvaternik.
The two were ar
rested at Turin In
October.
1934. soon
HE resettlement administration
after the murder
headed by Rexford Guy Tug-
Dr. Pavelic
of Alexander, but
well was declared by the District
of Columbia court of appeals to be the French authorities who were
“ clearly unconstitutional delegation working on the case were never
o f power,” in a case involving a permitted to question them, and an
model community project in Somer Italian tribunal refused the request
of the French government for their
set county. New Jersey.
Going beyond the issue before extradition to France for trial.
them, the Justices of the Appeals
court called the entire relief ap Italy M ay W ith d raw From
propriations act of 1935 Into ques
tion. The act was Invalid and hence League of Nations
ECAUSE the Leagiie of Nations
R A was Invalid, according to the
council would not lnime<Jiutelj
court Legally, however, none of the
recognize
Italy's annexation of
rest of the act will be affected by
Ethiopia
and
the creation of the
the decision because the other mul
new
Roman
empire,
Premier Mus
titudinous activities of the New
Deal under the appropriation were solini recalled his representatives
from Geneva, and before long Italy
not before the court
may
quit the league entirely. At
Solicitor Gen. Stanley Reed said
present Its Is merely “ not partici
an appeal would be taken to the
patlng” In Its activities. The coun
Supreme court at once.
ell had adopted a new resolution
virtually condemning again Italy’s
ar D ebts W i l l Be
aggression In East Africa and then
adjourned until June 15.
¡faulted A g a in
The Italians at Addis Ababa are
E ITH E R Great Britain nor
executing
many natives for espion
France has any Intention of
age
or
murder,
among them being
lng the Installments on the
the
giant
umbrella
carrier of Haile
erlcan war debt due June 15.
1 almost certainly all the other Selassie. A number of newspaper
tor nations except Finland will men have been expelled because of
ow the example of the two big “ anti-Italian activities and espion
s and again default. British age.” Among them were George
S
N
Tugwell’s Housing Hit
by Court Decision
T
B
Steer, correspondent for the ¡.on-
don Times and the New York
Times; Isadora Nebensahl. a repre
sentative of the llavus (French)
News agency; Alkeoa Anglopolo, a
Ilearst corres|*ondent, and M. I>.
Hoblllard, director of an Ethiopian
newspaper.
General Is the N e w
the coup, will be at the head of the
government until CoL David Toro,
hero of the wnr with Paraguay, re
turns from the Chaco, when Toro
will he Installed as president.
The Immediate objective of the
new administration was complete
settlement of n general strike which
the officer* asserted « a * Imperiling
the country’s economic stability.
The labor federation quickly BUS
pended the strike movement, ex
pressing solidarity with the army-
Socialist coup.
I-'ailur* to Subpotnj
Roosevelt Letter
N K:y,",N " * « ■ *
er computile* that
lins ■r* t
block th« govemateat'!
|H»wer program, met * )lk
the District of
COUrt « h e ,,
* 1|lfht
"
Premier of Poland
OLAND feel* that another Euro
pean war is more than likely
•’ «ht pf,
to break out soon, and she intends
« 11 r t
to be ready to take part in the con Inflation Bill Defeated
11 mon lai Immunity t*
flict. A new government haa in*en
the case, «
,.f J|>(— ^
installed with (Jen. Fellselnn Sla- by the House
refused to I.me Ul*
r i: ARE n«>t going to have any
woJ-Skladkowskl as premier and
m
currency inflation, at least be
minister of the Interior. The gen
eral took the oath of office wearing fore next action of cor.grr»». The Starhem bere Ousted
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Frazier-
1-emke
farm
mortgage
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his uniform, which was taken cs
Austrian Cabinet
symbolic of the government's pro^ financing bill, dragged out of com
gram. Poland will be adequately tulttee by a petition signed by 218 / ^ H A V KI.EOH Kl’jJT ,J
tly de
HMGG »«f Austria
armed.
Opposition leader* are house members, and then hotly
warned that they w ill be prosecuted, bated for a day, was defeated by been at outs with th*rk*<^
as they were by Pilsudskl after 1930 the decisive vote of 235 to H2. The lor. Prince Ernst v.>t> jtUf
bill called for the printing of three and now ,4(.
artiv«- young man am]
billion dollars f o r Its financing.
Borah Is Loser in the
«•ally
the »«de dictator of % {
The petition signers Included 150
Ohio Primaries
I>eroocrats, and before the vote try. This «a * scromplUfeil
m
ENATOR
W ILLIAM
BORAH every one of them was told by Pat resignation » ! the cabla* J
banked heavily on success In Boland of l'ennsylvania. the party r«- " iis t r m ti-.n •,.:¡i. d a t * , m í
the Ohio Presidential preference whip, that the President didn't want HtarhemU-rg left out.
primary, but the Republicans of the measure pause*] at this time and la not on!) « ham <*llor but tan
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that state turned
that If the member voted for the Dter of defense and
him down decisive
bill it would be Just too bad for him later.
ly in favor of their
\ on Hiarhemberg bad
IUrsidcs this potent argument the
“ favorite son.” Hob
gg by buHal
! I>emocrat!c leader* induced Pre*| od Lied 8c bus
ert A. Taft, son of
keeping
up
hi*
»a privat»|
' dent William Green of the Ainert
the late President
can Federation of Labor to Inter the llelmwehr, and ths hi
Taft. Of the 52
vene and be called together the fed frleti Hin« * * • ,-ir ! M cv . vji |
delegate*
to the
I
eration’s executive council and bad Ms general } - : vr i ;
Cleveland conven
It write a letter saying it was op
tion, Borah cap
posed to the bill because of the In
T u f w e i r » Report oo
tured only live, the
flatlon feature.
o t h e r s , including
Resettlement Work
the delegates at
F.SPONDING D s «csat» 1
large, being Taft Senator Boran Townsend Plan Petitions
lion, Rexford TugseB
men. The winning delegation wlli Reach Washington
report on the actlrpletdl
be virtually unpledged, because it
r 11 H th n e tn ck loa ■
"*-f
' ••rxt!«* d \
will vote for Taft only on the first
lions, the Townsend plan cara
■
be
is tie bail
s*ai _
ballot Mr. Borah did not take this van that started from Ix># Angeles
»!)«««] tig
defeat calmly. He gave out a state arrived in Washington and was met
r
ment in Washington accusing the at the foot of t’apitol hill by Repre
on the a
Republican organization leaders of sentative John II. Tolan of Califor
ti->n [**j rri
manipulating the votes of colored nia. a Tow nsendlte, and three other
has
citizens against him by promising congressmen.
75.5 (»41
the passage of federal anti lynch
“ We have traveled 8.000 mile*
s pend Of
ing legislation which he has op and endured hardships to bring to
amount, the
posed as unconstitutional
The you the signature* of 10,581.000 per
stated. JÄ
Idaho senator added:
has l**0 I?*
son* who Insist that the Town*«*nd
“ The Republican party will go plan be enacted Into law,” Miss
a total sf r:
into the campaign laying great l>il* Jean Johnson. le:i«ler of the
S23 obligated
stress upon Constitutional Integrity Townsend yontb movement In San R G Tu8 " « '
and the preservation of state rights. Diego, told Tolan.
incumbered.
“ The men who are in control of
Up to April 15, acconB**
the party, and who will likely be
report,
the n-seltU-raent
in control of the convention, will Former Governor Small
tion had taken options os *
write its platform and name Its can oí Illinois Dies
acres of land, of which
: m
didate. have already demonstrated I EN SMALL, twice governor of 8,400.000 a c r e s . co«tlng
that they care nothing about con
Illinois and prominent in the had become legal commJ
stitutional integrity or the preserva politics of the state for nearly forty of May 7. the report •»*
turn of state rights, that their ta
la n Kankakee | persons. Including 3561 <* t»(
on this subject is hypocritical and hospital from an embolism result- pay roll, were employed It
intellectualiy dishonest.”
Ing fr«»m an operation. He was sev- tion with the land »c«]oUlÖ®l
Ohio Democrats paUad ...... . enty-thr«-.- year* old. Mr. Smalls gram.
500.000 votes in the primary, nearly j career was rather stormy. His en-
of
3*1 subsistence
100.000 more than the Republicans, cmles were many and bJtter. and projects, const ruction bas bee*
and they expressed their preference be fought them courageously; his j,}«>fed on l r I* In projrre«*-
for Mr. Roosevelt over Col. Henry Wends were devoted to him, an«! anr] fjnal plans have **** *
Breckenridge to the tune of 16 to 1 . he was always loyal to them. In for 4 . The re,«ort Urt* ^
They also renominated Gov. Martin addition to his eight yeers as g«*v- urban homing project^
L. Davey, who will be opposed by “ rnor, he served two terms ns state from a f31.UH0.0tw) aIU*c*tMi
John W. Bricker, Republican, In treasurer.
Moreover, he was de- this purpose. They are 1«
November.
feated for governor four tlnu-s. He M«l., Hound nr«*ok. It L
About twenty of Pennsylvania's nought the Republican nomination kee, and Cln«’lnr..ifL
On rural rv*hi*t*llltatlon. t
«lelegatlon to the Republican con- * 8 *ln In the recent primary but
ventlon were pledged to support the was defeated.
says the RA has car«**!
popular choice of the state, which
than NZ'.OiO fnaiillr*-
habilitation advance* to
m r,
er name being be officially
entered at
“clients.” the admlnlitiwj*
the April 28 primary. The delega- ^hip Canal and Quoddy
existid flOC.uuu.«*«'Jthro0<,i
tion, which is uninstructed, has now D RESIDENT ItoosK V H L T w a*
bandone«! for
voted that those members must K»*en ^ supposed to have abandon«
their pledge on the first ballot or tl,e present the Florida »hip canal W P A Directors Mustnt
until It becomes manifestly lmp«>s- and Passamaquoddy tidal power
sible for their choice to win. This projects f«»r which the h««u*o refused H ave Armed Guards
ORKS PROGRESS AP;
action was taken on motion of for to appropriate further fun«ls. But
)X
TRATOR HARR' 1 WPA 1
mer Senator David A. Ileed, who Senator Robinson of Arkansas was
issued
K L H n order I lo »«ate
8 » not t»«
will he the state representative on called to the White House for a r o n - __
ference and returned to the house rector* 1 Instructing
inniru«
th'® . jpJ*
the platform committee.
to introduce a resolution autlmriz- ploy armed
n.°ekiist
workers and n«d to
Ing
the
President
to
appoint
engi
President of Bolivia Is
.
I
neering boards of review for the ers who organize.
Compelled to Resign
The order was l**,,ed
^ 1
two schemes.
JOSE LUIS TEJADA SORZANO
The hoards would present their c«»nference with ' '*f,,r._injstT*^B
^ was forced to resign the presl findings by June 29. and. If favor New York cl.,' «
I
. employed
dency of Bolivia by a Junta of army able, the President would have au
officers and Socialists who staged thorization to set aside $ 10 , 000.000 guards to prote« t M*
a bloodless coup d’etat In La Paz. for the canal and $9,000,000 for Pas- anti W PA d«IDOI
gl
Col. German Busch, acting chief of •H ma quoddy out of ¿nailable relW Rldder asserts were «
the general army staff, leader of money.
Communists.
P
tu» corre»,Nimi-nc, ^
dent Roosevelt « fMj
Jerome Frank. «
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