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A—4 xxx DAVISON CHARGES TAPPING OF WIRES Alexandria Mayor Says He Was Advised to End Life During Investigation. By a Staff Correspondent o1 The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 24— Mayor Emmett C. Davison told a Federal Court jury today that his.tele- phone wires were tapped and he re- ceived several letters advising him to commit suicide while authorities were investigating charges that he con- cealed assets in a bankruptey proceed- ing. When the Mayor left the stand for the luncheon recess his attorneys an- nounced that Secretary of War Wood- ring would be called as a character witness. Davison, who is on trial as a result of the bankruptcy case charge, said while being cross-examined by District Attorney Sterling Hutcheson: “I know my telephone wires were tapped ‘plenty’ during the investiga- tion.” As Federal Bureau of Investigation agents helped in the case. Hutcheson asked: “Do you insinuate agents did the tapping?” “I don't insinuate anything, I am | merely stating the facts,” Davison re- plied, adding that on several occasions while he was carrying on telephone conversations voices would interrupt to advise him to commit suicide “as the best way out.” De All Charges. Davison categorically denied all alle- | gations of concealment of assets and making false statements in a bank- | ruptcy proceeding, as charged in two indictments returned by a grand jury last June As the trial went into its third day, Mrs. Davison, who recently underwent & major operation, appeared and will probably take the stand as a surprise Wwitness for her husband. Mrs. Davi- son was supported as she came into the building, by a nurse and her daughter, Mrs. Laura M. Heflin. She 1s expected to explain the transfer of savings and checking accounts in the | Citizens' National Bank of Alexan- dria, whieh were involved in the charges contained in the indictment Davison, the first witness for the de- fense, was on the stand throughout the morning explaining the intricate financial system of the International Association of Machinists, of which he is general secretary and treasurer, a Job he has held for 20 years. Said Account Overdrawn. Under questioning by Attorney Wil- liam E. Leahy, chief of defense counsel, and cross-examination by District At- torney Sterling Hutcheson, Davison explained he had overdrawn his ac- count with the association when he drew a check for $387.61 shortly before the petition in bankruptcy was filed. It was on the statement of Davison that he had no salary coming to him and no cash on hand that the charge was based. With the surprise appearance of Mrs. Davison and two other unan- nounced witnesses, the defense was ex- pected to take the remainder of the | day. The jury probably will not get the case before tomorrow, according to attorneys on both sides Judge Luther B. Way yesterday over- ruled a motion for a directed verdict argued by Leahy. Leahy has sought to show that while | Davison might have known of the accounts, they were in the names of | his wife and his daughter, and that he exercised no control over the ! money. One Had Joint Account. Testimony by officers of the bank showed Davison at one time had an account there and that he later transferred it to a joint ac- count with his wife. Mrs. Davison, according to the contentions of the defense, withdrew the money without the knowledge of Davison and de- posited it in her own name and that of her daughter. Leahy's plea for a directed verdict Wwas made after Mrs. Sadie Robinette, tary to Davison as general secre- treasurer of the International Association of Machinsts, had testified that she had supervised the drawing of a salary check for $387.61 at about the time Davison made his declara- tions. Davison denied knowledge of this check when he filled out the schedule. During the argument Leahy called attention to a ledger sheet taken from the files of the Machinists’ Association which showed, he claimed, that Davi- #on told the truth when he said no salary was due him from that organ- ization since the ledger carried a no- lation that the check represented an overdraft for nearly the entire amount Judge Way held that to grant the directed verdict plea would be to in- vade the province of the jury. Leahy and Harry F. Kennedy, who has represented Davison since before the petition in bankruptcy was filed, indicated today they will present only two or three witnesses before closing their case. Judiciary (Continued From First Page.) at the foundation of the Democratic structure. Sees No Conscious Purpose. “I do not mean to charge that the conscious purpose of the present public policy is to establish authoritarian government without popular or judicial restraint. But the consequence of the President’s proposal, if adopted, will be a first step, and a long step, toward this result in its effect on the public mind. When German democraey be- gan issuing emergency decrees, it was not seeking to destroy itself and yet that was the result.” The university head said an em- ergency must be serious, indeed, to Justify repudiation of the principles of constitutionalism in a democracy. ““The time has come,” he added, “for 8 healthy skepticism for the existence of an emergency justifying revolu- tionary proposals. Continuation of em- ergency emphasis can become the negation of self government.” In conclusion, Woods declared the spirit of the world is too antagonistic to democratic tradition “to permit us to think that we can remain immune if we once abandon the rigors of con- stitutionalism for the facile argument that the end justifies the means.” “If the time has come to modify the constitutional position of the court, 1t should be done in a straightforward and constitutional manner,” he said. “Temporary maladjustment is no ex- cuse for weakening an institution, which, even hostile critics must admit, has so well protected the American people from the tyranny of public ofi- cials.” The Princeton presidént, at the out- that F. B. 1| yesterday F. Byrd, who sat nearby. | she returned last month from London and Cannes. THE EVENING S STAR. WASHINGTON “Aunt Bessie” at Hearing Mrs. D. Buchanan Merryman (left), Mrs. Wallis Simpson’s “Aunt Bessie,” was an attentive listener during Representative Lemke’s testimony at the Senate hearing on the Supreme Court She sat at the front of a section reserved for Sen- ators’ and Representatives’ parties with Mrs. Jonathan Bryan of Richmond. They were the guests of Senator and Mrs. Harry It was one of Mrs. Merryman’s few public appearances since her visit with Mrs. Simpson at —A. P. Photo. set of his testimony, said his sympa- thies always have been on the side of social betterment and he recog- niced social change as inevitable and necessary. of wisdom to destroy one desirable others will be improved thereby.” The witness said the greatest vigi- lance is needed “to protect our finest political tradition, the judicial inde- pendence of the Supreme Court.” He added: “The President does not propose to | remove the Supreme Court from the | political field, nor does he deny us | the right to use its judgment in broad areas closed to the courts of England. | But, on the ground that it has not | used its judgment well, he would com- | pel it to a different judgment. He | has invented a scheme by which he hopes to control the opinions of the | court. That is what the proposal amounts to “While the undated resignation of | the new appointees may not be de- | | manded and filed in advance, the re- sult will amount to the same thing. Innd Americans have always abhorred | appointment to any office, judicial or Imher\\-x.se, under such conditions.” Dodds charged the President’s pro- posal ‘“‘adroitly appeals to a very com- | bination of prejudices.” He listed among them resentment against the Supreme Court, which has been made to appear an obstructor of recovery | and social justice, and resentment against those who approve of Supreme Court decisions and are, therefore, lumped with economic royalists and the resentment of youth toward age in a period of economic depression. Dr. Dodds Criticized. for referring to the President's court advance the undated resignation of any new justices he might nominate to the Supreme Court under the re- organization plan. Dodds withdrew the word scheme, | but stood by his other assertion, con- tending the fundamental purpose of the reorganization is to change the color of the Supreme Court by select- ing justices in sympathy with the President’s viewpoint. The Princeton executive told Sena- tor Burke he believed any nominee not in sympathy with the New Deal would be impelled by his own con- sclence to advise the President of his attitude, thereby nullifying his chances of appointment Senator Austin, Republican, of Ver- mont, drew from the witness the as- sertion that it would be extremely unwise for Congress to deprive the Supreme Court of the power of judi- cial review. In this connection, Senator Austin put into the record a speech by Dr. Charles Pergler, dean of National University Law School, at a meeting of the Baltimore Bar Association last year, in which Dr. Pergler pointed out several European countries had found it necessary to set up special tribunals to pass on constitutional questions. This was done where written consti- tutions had failed to provide for judi- cial review. | Questioned on Corwin. Senator Logan also questioned Dr. | ward 8. Corwin, head of the Prince- | ton University Law School, who testi- fied in support of the bill last week. “Don’'t you regard your associate, Prof. Corwin, as an expert on consti- tutional questions and a man of judgment?” Senator Logan asked. “Yes,” replied Dr. Dodds, “but he has temporarily deviated on this ques- tion.” Senator Andrews, Democrat, of Florida, speaking in the Senate yester- day in behalf of his proposed consti- tutional amendment to reorganize the Supreme Court, said the voters should | have the right to decide what changes are to be made in the tribunal. “There is & persistent and well- founded belief in this country,” he said, “that if we are to increase or decrease the number of justices on our Supreme Court, or prescribe a rule to be followed when declaring an act of Congress void, or designate a given age at which a justice should retire— that it should be ordained and estab- lished by the people themselves through amendment. * * * “Judges, like other men, are by nature creatures of environment and, naturally, they would be better able to render a more satisfactory serv- ice—for the general welfare of the entire Nation—if they were selected from the inhabitants of each major district.” The amendment proposed by An- drews would provide a selection of a Chief Justice fromjthe country at large and one te justice from each of the judical clrcuits. “But it is not.” he said, “the part | social institution in tHe thought that | Senator Logan criticized Dr. Dodds | plan as a “scheme” and forsaying the | President, in effect, is demanding in | Dodds about the attitude of Prof. Ed- | Racing (Continued From First Page.) things. the stock market and horse : In North Andover. a shortage of $41,000, which we feel quite sure was due to gambling on the horses; in Townsend, a shortage of $18,000, which the collectors stated was due to betting on the horses; in Worcester, a shortage of $38,000, which was like- wise stated to be due to the horse races, and in Holden, a shortage of $29,000, also stated to be due to gambling on the races “In my contact with the bonding company I have been given to under- stand that these cases of public ¢ cials are only small items compared with the effect in commercial lines.” The other letters were from police officials of various towns, but Bates declined to make their names public. As the committee went into execu- tive session, Chairman Norton issued a prepared statement in an effort, she said, to “clear the atmosphere” sur- rounding the racing bill and to stop “any further misinformed discussion relative to it.” Mrs. Norton Wants Revenue, After alleging “unfair and one-sided publicity” with regard to the bill, Mrs. | Norton declared her opinion “that not only are the people of the District of Columbia entitled to witness horse racing within the District without | having to travel 15 or 20 miles to the adjoining State of Maryland, but the District government, being in dire need of revenue, should receive this revenue instead of presenting it to | the State of Maryland.” Declaring that erection and main- tenance of a track “would furnish considerable employment and help to alleviate some most distressing con- | ditions.” the chairman then reviewed | CRE FLEES SHP AFRE N PACF Few Remaining Subdue Blaze—Location of Craft Undetermined. BY the Associated Press. HONOLULU, March 24—Battling flames far out in the Pacific, the motor ship Fijlan reported today the fire was brought under control after most of the crew had taken to life boats. Meager radio messages received by the Coast Guard here indicated a gas- oline explosion in the forward hold seriously injured two Chinese of her crew of 30 and forced most of those aboard to take to the life boats tem- porarily while a skeleton crew fought flames. First word relayed by the British freighter Janeta through the Pago Pago Naval Radio Station said only that the erew had taken to small boats after an explosion last night. Early today the Fijian wirelessed: “Fire now under control. Two Chi- nese badly injured. Gasoline explo- sion in fore hold.” Confused as to Location. ‘The reports left Coast Guardsmen confused as to the freighter's position, varfously reported in three widely separated spots in the South Seas. Flood Bros, San Francisco ship- ping firm operating the craft, ac- cepted as most likely a report she was 5 miles south of Aurh Island, in the Marshall group, 2,500 miles south- west of Honolulu. Earlier radio mes- sages placed her near Arutua in the Tahitian group, 2,000 miles south of Hawaii, and near the Fiji Islands, 1,500 miles south of the Marshall Lslands. The Fijian asked that a doctor be sent to care for the injured, but Coast Guardsmen could not imme- diately locate & ship anywhere nearby. Sailed March 2. The Fijian sailed from San Fran- cisco March 2 with general cargo for the South Seas and the Antipodes, under command of Capt. Alfred Parker. Ironically the Fijian was one of the rescue ships which sped to the aid of the motorship Silverlarch when fire threatened her 10 days ago. Her crew was taken off. Formerly Silveroak. The Fijian was identified by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Marine Department as the former Silveroak of New York, now under charter to Flood Bros., San Francisco shipping concern TAKEN FROM SHIP. 17 NEW YORK, March 24 (%) —Seven- teen men who lined the rails of the Norwegian steamer Bjerkli for more than 20 hours while water seeped into | Boston today, safe in a sturdy Coast Guard cutter. They didn't even get their feet wet. A half dozen vessels searched through buffeting waves in a north- | west gale in the ‘graveyard of the North Atlantic” for the pin point which was the freighter Bjerkli before the cutter Chelan spotted the 1,100-odd- ton boat. ‘The unpracticed hand of an ama- teur radio operator aboard the Bjerkli, who dispatched a distress call Monday evening, made locating the vessel dif- | ficult. A heavy sea was running and | the Bjerkli was down by her head, | ready to give up the ghost, when res- cue was effected some 400 miles south | of Sable Island, due east of Cape Cod. | Seven of the Bjerkli's seamen missed | out on the anxious wait for help. They | started & sit-down strike for higher | wages and shorter hours shortly before the vessel touched at Norfolk last week and were left ashore at the Vir- ginia city. A.D.S HANER DIES OF HEART ATTACK the introduction and consideration of | previous racing legislation here Answering the charge that the | present measure was railroaded be- cause no hearings were held, she pointed out that hearings on the pre- vious and similar bills were available. She next reviewed the circumstances of the committee vote in favor of re~ porting the bill, emphasizing that, be- fore her own vote in open session, there was a 7-to-7 tie. Two Proxies Accepted. With her ballot making it 8 to 7 in favor, she continued, two proxy votes in favor of the legislation also were accepted, and later a tardy member of the committee was allowed to regis- ter his vote against the measure. The count then was 10 to 8 in favor. “Since this bill was reported out,” | “I have received a | number of letters from organizations | in the District in opposition to the | she continued, establishment of a race track here, creating some doubt in my mind that | the majority of the people want the track at this time.” Expressing resentment that for the first time in her six-year term as chairman of the committee, she should be accused of railroading a measure or that a bill has been op- posed “not on its merits,” she con- cluded: “If the people of the District are interested they will have another op- portunity to demonstrate whether or not they have changed their attitude on a race track in the District of Co- lumbia since the hearings held a year | or more ago.” . C. C. C. Funds Urged. Representative Johnson, Democrat, of Oklahoma urged the House yester- day to authorize funds to continue 630 C. C. C. camps which he said would close July 1 unless money is made available. Retired Veteran Employe of Old ; Capital Traction Co. Was | Near 83d Birthday. | Alexander D. Shaner, retired vet- eran employe of the old Capital Trac- tion Co. and later employed for sev- | eral years at the tobacco and candy stand in The Star club room, died yesterday of a heart attack at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Greeta E. Lynch, Bethesda, Md. He would have been 83 on April 11. Employed by the Capital Trac- tion Co. for 39 years, Mr. Shaner first drove the old horse cars, later ran the cable cars and finally was motorman on the electric cars. He was retired about 11 years ago and then worked a few years at The Star. A native of Shepherdstown, W. Va., Mr. Shaner had lived in Washington since coming here to work for the | street car company. About nine months ago, however, he moved to Bethesda to be with his daughter. He leaves two other daughters, Mrs. N. H. Petrola and Mrs. Thomas B. White, both of this city; a son, Stanley A. Shaner, Arlington, Va.; two sisters, Mrs. Laura B. Brooke, Richmond, Va., and Mrs. Walter F. Reeves, Hagers- town, Md.; 13 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. F‘ugeml Kservlces will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in Park View Christian Church, following brief services at Chambers’ funeral home, 1400 Chapin street. Burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery. Alexander D. Shaner. IBRANCHES IN PRINCIPAL CITIE! FACTORY SPECIAL FOR ONE WEEK ONLY ! ! ! Table Pads 4 Heatproof Liquid-proof Washable ‘White Tep Made to measure for Any Shape Table Phene or write: Representative will measu 1 anytime, Calls made anywhere, e FREE suburban Handy Asbestos Pad Co. Maryland Bldg.—1410 H St. N.W. P!\one National 8670 the vessel's hull were on their way to | D. C., WEDNESDAY. STORE WALKOUT FEARED INBOSTON Police on Special Duty as “Sit-Down” Threats Are Heard. B7 the Associated Press. BOSTON, March 24 —Police made mobilization plans today in what Police Supt. Edward W. Fallon described as a move to guard against “serious labor trouble” in the downtown shopping area. Fallon said he had learned “indi- rectly” that a “sit-down” strike might be called in department stores and that cleansers and dyers might strike at the same time. He declined to reveal the source of his information. He canceled all officers’ days off starting today and ordered day men who ordinarily go off duty at 5:45 p.m. to remain on duty tonight. Meanwhile New England officials of the Committee for Industrial Organ- ization announced plans for enrolling 250,000 textile workers in this area. Hyman Blumberg, chairman of the organization’s Textile Workers Com- mittee in New England, said he hoped, within six or eight weeks, to have sufficient numerical strength to enable his group to confer with employers “to adjust any differences.” Willlam Hutchinson, president of the Boston local, Retail Store Employes union, last night sald a strike would be considered only in the event current negotiations failed. He said the union sought a 20 per cent wage increase and a 40-hour, five-day work week. New Bedford led yesterday's succes- sion of increases, the New Bedford | Cotton Manufacturers Association an- houncing the scale adjustments for 20,000 workers. The new scale, effec- tive April 12, and the second in five months, calls for a weekly pay roll increase of $40,000 This boost was announced after a meeting with representatives of the New Bedford Textile Council, which indicated an intention of submitting | the new scale to the C. I. O. with a | request that it be “recognized as the | minimum for this industry North and | South.” Upward of 5,500 Woonsocket, R. T.. | mill employes, 380 Medway operatives and 600 North Andover textile ma- chinery workers boosts. Ten per cent increases were an- nounced for 7,000 workers in 21 Woon- socket textile mills as Mayor Joseph | Pratt moved to effect an arbitration | conference to end strikes of from two | to five weeks' duration in six other | mills. In Medway, 380 operatives received | similar raises, while 600 employes of a { North Andover textile machinery com- pany were granted equal boosts | _In Pittsfield 800 workers of the Berkshire Woolen Co. and 300 of the | | Wyandotte Manufacturing Co. were | given varied raises. likewise received 1 SETTLEMENT DISPUTED. | Five-and-Ten Stores Deny They Are Bound by Agreement. PROVIDENCE, R. I, March 24 (#). —Providence retail stores. reopened | vesterday after a city-wide, one-day | strike by the Committee for Industrial | recent Organization, were literally swamped | by thousands of Easter shoppers that | thronged throughout the day. Several hundred of the shop girls | in department and other stores who were actually C. I. O. when the city-wide strike | the downtown district | | | enrolled with the was called Sunday afternoon, con- sidered the one-day strike a lark, | albeit & profitable one, with wage in- | creases assured and no time dotked! | for the day off. Meanwhile, as the union took stock of the gains made by the one-day strike that actually brought closing {of 83 downtown stores in addition to | 12 closed voluntarily on Saturday, managers of some of the stores af- fected by the strike said they had not | been represented in the negotiations which brought a settlement of C. I. O. demands. Managers of the stores of the F. W. | Woolworth Co., S. S. Kresge Co., the J. J. Newberry Co., W. T. Grant Co., and F. and W. Grand Co., said they did not consider themselves bound by the terms of the agreement. ‘They further said they had already granted ‘wage increases to employes, which in some instances bettered the increase | obtained by the union. Principal department stores and scores of smaller specialty .!hopsl agreed to an increase of 10 per cent for employes receiving $15 or less, Tiq per cent for those receiving $15 to $20, and 5 per cent for those receiving $20 to $30. Pawtucket, R. I, merchants, at a meeting yesterday, voted to increase wages commensurate with the new rates to be put into effect in Provi- dence. The increases will affect 2,000 workers. Science Club Names Officers. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., March 24 (Special).—Lucy Sasscer has been elected president of the Science Club. recently organized at the Marlboro | High School. Other officers include | Ella Gott Woolen, vice president; Susan J. Smith, secretary; Eugene Rector, director of micro-science; Carl Weaver, aviation adviser, and Eleanor Bradburn, artist. “Sa CHOI LILIES TULIPS Open Evenings Sunda; for EASTER BLOOMING PLANTS at their freshest and best, AZALEAS HYDRANGEAS CORSAGES Tastefully Arranged Very Moderate Prices Better Flowers Y Please leave your orders as early < 900 14th St FLOWERS TELEGRAPHED ANYWHERE MARCH 24, 1937. Chosen Queen in Bermuda FARLEY CRITICIZES COURT PLAN FOES Democrats Opposing Presl- . dent Seen “Lending Aid to Enemy.” | By the Associated Press. AUSTIN, Tex., March 24.—James A. Farley told a joint session of the ‘Texas Legislature today he thought Democrats opposing the method but | not the spirit of President Roosevelt's court modification plan were “lending | aid and comfort to the enemy.” “I think they are making a grave | error,” the Postmaster General and chairman of the Democratic National Committee said Frances Wells of Washington, 16-year-old daughter of Car- veth Wells, famed author and explorer, has been chosen Ber- muda’s Easter Lily Queen, to rei this month. Miss Wells, who attends the spending the Easter vacation in Bermuda with her mother. gn over the island festival late Fairmont Girls’ School hereMis r. Wells was born in Bermudayas were his father and grandfather. Wheeler (Continued From First Page.) Amity bill in line with the Hawes-Cooper and Ashurst-Sumners acts, which for- bid transportation of prison-made | goods into States which ban their sale. | The Supreme Court unanimously up- | held those laws. | Sees Largest Market Closed. | He said enactment of the proposal | and of the Nunan-Moffat bill pend- ing in the New York Legislature “would close the largest market in the United States to the products of child labor.” In line with arguments made in the Senate Judiclary Committee’s hearings late yesterday by Repre- sentative Lemke, Republican, of North Dakota, Wheeler contended | much of the difficulty encountered by | legislation in the courts re- sulted from poor draftsmanship and inadequate defense by Government counsel I'm against N. R. A.,” he said “Nevertheless, I believe legislation like N. R. A. could be phrased in a constitutional manner. The Justice Department picked out the worst pos- sible case, involving the ‘sick chicken’ | in New York, on which to make that contest in the court.” i The Wheeler bill would define child | labor as “‘employment of & minor un- der the age of 16 years.” Exceptions would be granted for employment of children in farming. Transportation of child labor prod- ucts into States which prohibit their sale would be barred. The articles would have to be labeled as produced by children, showing the hours they | worked and how much schooling they had. Burke in Agreement. Senator Burke, Democrat, of Ne- | braska, another opponent of the bill, | agreed with Wheeler's position. “I have been convinced by a state- ment which Solicitor General Stanley Reed made last May,” he said, “that | there is ‘a large reservoir of unused power’ which Congress could tap.” | Meanwhile, friends of the Federal child labor amendment said it would | be extremely difficult to complete rati- ‘ fication this year. They voiced this | opinion after the Massachusetts House | rejected ratification late yesterday.| 188 to 13 Miss Katharine Lenroot, chief of the Children’s Bureau, said the ap- | proval of eight States still is needed to put the amendment in the Constitu- | tion and that the question is not be- fore that many Legislatures. She ex- pressed hope, however, that there would be some special sessions at which ac- tion might be taken. “The amendment still is a very live issue,” Miss Lenroot contended. She said she understood it is pending now in the Legislatures of Georgia, Mary- land, Nebraska and Missouri and prob- ably would be soon in the Florida Leg- | islature, which meets next month. Four State Legislatures have rati- fled the amendment and six rejected it | this year. Ratification was approved in Nevada, New Mexico, Kentucky and Kansas, while it was rejected in North Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Con- necticut, New York and Massachusetts. Easter Rites Announced. ARLINGTON, Va., March 24 (Spe- cial).—Rev. Ira P. Harbaugh, pastor | of the Wilson Boulevard Christian | Church, announces that special serv- | ices will be held at the church Thurs- day with a communion service and | Friday with a cross service at 7:45 pm. Sunrise services will be held at | the church Easter Sundav at 6:30 am. A special Easter musical pro- gram will be given at the evening service at 7:45 p.m. it with Shaffer’s Flowers” CEST CUT FLOWERS d including: RAMBLER ROSES ERARIAS HYACINTHS SPIREAS, ETC. « . . Better Service as convenient. Phone Natienal 0106 (Cor. “Eye”) | ments (Continued Prom First Page.) in the civil war, which Italian Am- bassador Dino Grandi refused even to discuss yesterday, was not on the agenda. Under way in the non-intervention group was a sudden move to offset any Italian threat to the non-inter- vention plan by asking the United States to join the neutrality circle. The delicate diplomatic situation was believed to have been highspotted by a formal protest from the Italian | government stating Premier Musso- lini’s uncompromising objection to slaps delivered by the British press at the “Italian defeat” in Spain. The British attitude, it was said, would be influenced sharply by the tone of the note which was sent to London for consideration by the cabi- net today. The protest. based on press com- on the insurgent Spanish Army’s defeat in Guadalajara Prov- ince, where the Spanish government charged 30,000 Italian troops were fighting, was handed in Rome to British Ambassador Sir Eric Drum- mond, who immediately forwarded the note to London Second Italian Threat. The second threat to cordial Anglo- Italian relations under the recently signed Mediterranean accord came from Italy’s abrupt refusal before the Non-intervention Committee even to consider the question of withdrawing volunteers from Spain—the next point in Great Britain's project to isolate the civil conflict from the rest of | Europe. The old question of Italy in Ethi- opia arose to plague the cabinet as the third possibility to cause a rupture between Italy and Britain Official pressure was reported to have been brought to bear to postpone the scheduled heated debate in the House “I am not aspersing the motives or | the sincerity of any member of our | party in Congress in opposing the 1Pxes\dz:m'.s court plan, but where it is merely a matter of method I think | they are making a grave error and | are lending aid and comfort to the enemy s e e “Ratified” by Election. The November election, he said, ratified the acts of the administra- | tion. The return of an unmatched | majority in the House and Senate could not, he declared, “be construed | honestly as anything but a mandate | for instantaeous action” toward the | President’s “great objective—the permanent contentment of the United States.” Contrasting economic conditions to- | day with those of 1933, Farley said “We would be very much farther along | the road to prosperity if, unfortunately ‘Lne Supreme Court of the United States had not decided in its wisdom | that such things as the Agricultural Adjustment Administration transcend- | ed in some mysterious way the power | of Congress and therein violated the | Constitution Sees Farmers' Approval, “It is too bad that law did not meet with the approval of a majority of the Supreme Court. However, I do not think that any cotton raiser or cattleman, who, under its provisions and the activities of the Government's loaning agencies got a breathing space that enabled him to get on his feet again, feels at all ashamed of vh§ means and methods that saved him Farley said 27,000,000 persons told the President in November to fulfill his program, but after the President canvassed every process he found it necessary “to get over the barrier of an inflexible, reactionary point of view entertained by five of the nine eminent jurists on the high court” ) “And this,” Farlev continued, “is what those oppose< to the measure a group that nzcurally embraces the standpat Republican members of the Senate, the Liberty Leaguers outside and every agency that opposed the President's re-election—call ‘packing Maybe He's Right. ARAPAHOE, Nebr., March 24 (#.— J. H. Scott, Arapahoe stockman, in- advertently spread powdered asbestos instead of fertilizer to his lawn. 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