Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1937, Page 5

SPAIN'S SHIPPING 10BE UNHINDERED Neutrality Patrol Will Per- mit Trade Vesseis to Ge Through. BY the Assoctated Press. LONDON, March 26.—Official Brit- ish sources said today refusal of the Spanish government at Valencia to | permit interference with its shipping ‘would not affect the four-power naval neutrality patrol because the patrol does not have jurisdiction over gov- ernment or insurgent shipping. Publication of the text of the Va- lencia note declaring the Spanish government will “provide itself with arms and ammunition wherever and however it can” attracted little in- terest in official circles. Informed sources said supervision by the naval patrol would not be im- peded in the slightest. The original plan was to include the Valencia and Burgos (insurgent) re- gimes in the international control scheme to prevent arms and men reaching Spain, but they objected and were eliminated. Ships May Pass Patrol. Accordingly, officials said, both | Bpanish government and insurgent vessels may sail past patroling war- | ships. | But official sources said the exemp- tion of the Spanish government and insurgent shipping was of little prac- tical importance, since 27 countries are pledged to keep war materials out of Spain. Vessels of both sides engaged in the eivil war might try to obtain war ma- terials from countries not parties to the control plan, but official circles said they did not expect either to ob- tain much help this way. For the present, the Canary Islands, now held by insurgents, are exempted from the control scheme, but it was | expected Great Britain would press for | their inclusion if Gen. Francisco Franco should obtain any important help through transfer there of ecargoes from countries not participat- ing in the agreement. Seeking to Ease Tension. Meanwhile, the British government fooked to the Easter holidays to ease the tension between Great Britain and Italy over the Spanish civil war. | The government held fast to its determination to avoid hasty action end prevent heated attacks in parlia- ment against Italian Premier Musso- lini from forcing the issue into an open official incident. As officials left their offices to re- main in the country over Easter, they declared the blasts in the House of Commons to be only “the personal opinions of the members,” and hoped Italy would come to consider them as intended ‘“for home consumption only.” | Unless Rome takes new offense at While there is no indication to date that Indians are planning to go on the warpath over the matter, the | Supreme Court “packing” issue has been dumped squarely into the laps of the redskins by John Collier, Indian commissioner, it was learned today. That is to say, the Great White Father's side of the court question has been presented, simply and forcefully to the Government's aboriginal wards. If the Indians have read Chief Jus- tice Hughes' letter to the Senate Ju- diciary Committee, however, they must be a little confused. The two versions of the problem do not agree at all. Chief Collier would have the Indians believe that certiorari petitions “often are disposed of by a single judge,” and that research work leading to such a decision “frequently is delegated to secretaries.” That is the *“common belief,” he asserts, and “necessarily is a correct belief this follows from a mere- ly statistical consideration of the num- ber of petitions disposed of each year.” Chief Justice Hughes, on the other hand, told the Senate Committee that certiorari petitions are passed on by all nine judges, and if even so few as four—and sometimes three or two— so desire, the petition is granted. Defense Printed in Magazine. Collier makes a vigorous defense of the President’s court-scalping foray in a signed editorial in his news magazine Indians at Work, published by the Office of Indian Affairs “for Indians and the Indian service.” “Is the debate over the Supreme Court @ proper subject matter for an editorial in Indians at Work?” Collier asks, and promptly replies: “Decidedly, yes * * * Indians are reminded of their own peculiar indebtedness to depend- ency on the Supreme Court. But in addition, Indians are wholly concerned with the preservation and the increase of efficient, productive democracy in the United States. “No debate reaching, as the court debate does, to the heam of the hu- man and social problems of our coun- try, can be outside the discussions and concern of the Indians—the most re- cently enfranchised of our citizens, and the irdividuals of the whole country most dependent upon the Federal institution.” In his editorial pow-wow with the Indians, Collier says that “all of those crying to high heaven against the President’s proposal admit that some of the reforms he is advocating are necessary.” A “legislative analogy,” he declares, was the Interior Secretary’s effort to obtain from Congress power to sim- plify the legal status of alloted In- dian lands. The effort failed, he points out, because of elimination of a clause the language used in Commons— “Stand up to Mussolini,” shouted mili- tant David Lloyd George—observers believed British efforts to calm the troubled international situation would be successful. Failure of Great Britain to resist | Italian imperialism is endangering world peace, Lloyd George charged. “Barn some respect for Britain, Lloyd George shouted. ‘“Mussolini is no fool. He knows with whom he is dealing. “If he had been dealing with men who spoke in the name of Britain, with the might of Britain behind them, he would not have talked like that. I hope the time will come when we shall talk in a straightforward, fearless manner.” Denounce “Wavering” Policies. Opposition spokesmen, in a House tensely silent, assailed Il Duce for “brutal butchery” in Ethiopia and for alleged Italian intervention in Spain, denouncing what they described as | wavering British policies. The attack came after disclosure of | Anglo-French agreement on the ne- | cessity of preventing the landing of | further volunteers—especially Italians —In warring Spain. British and French representatives discussed the possibility of using warsaips to halt troop transports to Spain, but post- poned any definite decision. “I'd rather have Italy’s anger than Italy's contempt,” said the elder states- man. He taunted the government for its efforts to avoid a break with Mus- solini over the non-intervention crisis. Linking Ethiopia and Spain in principle, he condemned what he called “brutal, cowardly and horrible massacres” at Addis Ababa. “Have we completely abandoned | every attempt to restore the indepen- dence of Abyssinia?” he demanded “a protest now would be too late to save | the lives of thousands brutally butch- | ered. But it is not too late to save the | lives of perhaps hundreds of thousands of men and women in the months to come.” He charged Mussolini was being per- mitted to dominate Britain's life line of empire through the Mediterranean; in fact, that Mussolini npenly has be- come dominant in the Eastern Medi- terranean and now is seeking to sup- port & Fascist state in the Western Mediterranean. Itallan newspapers published only fragmentary versions of the debate and informed opinion in Rome was that the attacks would not bring any reply from Italy other than the general contempt expressed by Mussolini in his speech March 23 for the hostile British attitude. Parliament recessed at the height of the debate for the Easter holidays and will not reassemble until April 6. A renewal of the general attack against Italy on charges of interference in Spain and brutality in Ethiopia was expected then. | | .| | Spain (Continued From First Page.) Posoblanco, intense artillery, rifle and machine gun fire from both sides swept nearly all of the no-man’s-land from the northwest around west to the southeastern edge of the city. Both sides, it was reported, con- tented themselves with long-range fighting in the first real sunshine within a fortnight. The Guadalajara front, about 60 miles northeast of Madrid, was quiet, but insurgent headquarters announced Gen. Franco's airmen executed a suc- cessful bomb attack on a government airdrome at Alcala de Henares, 20 miles east of the city. Three Planes Fired. ‘Three planes were fired and several were damaged by splinters from the bursting bombs. One was caught as it tried to take off to battle the at- tacking sauadron. (Madrid dispatches mentioned an attack on Alcala de Henares, but said the bombers did not inflict important from the Wheeler-Howard bill intro- duced in 1834. Hopes for Different Result. “The debate over the President’s | court proposals,” the editorial states, ‘is taking a course not unlike the de- bate over the Wheeler-Howard act in 1934. Let us pray that the course of legislation will not be the same.” Great White Father Roosevelt's de- mand for enlargement of the Supreme Court, Collier explains, is ‘so con= servative, actually,” that it was “pro- posed 24 years ago by none other than that member of the present Supreme Court who is ranked with the ultra- conservatives, Mr. Justice McReyn- olds.” If resignations and deaths of justices “happen not to come,” he says, “‘then the President and Congress may find themselves confronted by a court ‘packed’” by some earlier President whose political philosophy may have been the opposite of the prevailing philosophy.” Stressng that about 800 petitions returned from a visit to his front lines in Northern Guadalajara Province, re- ported to have motored within about 50 miles of Madrid, the objective of long months of insurgent siege and offensive. His trip carried him 10 miles with- in what Madrid’s defense command claims as government territory, ac- companying aides pointed out. At one point the general noted a roadside sign saying “10 kilometers to Torija.” Torija is about 43 miles northeast of the capital. Government Starts Push. Spasmodic fighting for weeks on the southern front has been marked by tit-for-tat bombing forays of rival airmen, but the Pozoblanco drive was the first full-force offensive by the government since it lost the seaport Malaga February 8. In the gray dawn of the govern- ments’ “zero hour,” when the for- ward thrust was started, riflemen- grenadiers clambered out of their trenches and charged across a no- man'’s land dotted with bodies of men who had fallen days, even weeks, before. Snipers on both sides had prevented recovery of the dead during the long period of waiting. Government planes and tanks and armored cars pointed the offensive, strafing both insurgent front and rear positions. Both bombs and aerial ma- chine gun fire were reported to have thrown the insurgent rear guard into disorder. Insurgent Bomber Struck. ‘Twelve bombers raided enemy posi- tions at Penarroya, about 15 miles southwest of Jjust west of Alcaracejos, among other points. An insurgent Junkers plane was struck down when it attempted to drop provisions to 1,000 persons be- sieged in a mountain-top shrine of the Virgin De La Cabeza in adjoining Jaen Province, On the Guadalajara front deserters coming across the battle lines con- firmed government pilots’ reports yes- terday that the Italians had been withdrawn from the front lines in the sector. Government sources said an “enor- mous number” of corpses had been found in “certain places, indicating those in the front line had been shot by others behind them.” PONTIAC Sixes & Eights IMMEDIATE DELIVERY| WE NEED USED CARS Flood Motor Co. Direct Factory Dealer the front lines near| Alcaracejos, and Villaneuva Del Duque, | THE FEVvENING Indians Given Collier Version Of Supreme Court Controversy Commissioner’s Story of Disposal of Cases by Subordinates Clashes Sharply With Letter of Chief Justice. for certiorari reach the Supreme Court each year, the Indian commissioner tells his wards that “almost never is oral argument permitted on these pe- titions” and that ‘“usually they are denied—and almost never is an expla- nation vouchsafed by the court.” As an instance of the court’s action on certiorari cases. Collier cites an Indian land title case five or six years ago, involving a century-old dispute in the Pueblo country of New Mexico. “Knowing the policy of the Supreme Court toward petitions for certiorari,” Collier says, “and knowing that under conditions as they existed this policy was in fact & necessary one, because otherwise the court would be swamped utterly by the cases admitted for re- view, those who prepared the Pueblos’ petition and those who financed it en- tertained almost no hope of getting the case into the Supreme Court at all. They justifiably believed that if they did get into the court they would win. 10 Denial “Matter of Course.” “It was a matter of course to have the petition denied, and denied with- out explanation. And out of court, without a hearing, without a word as to the reason why, went this case along with hundreds of others at the October term of the court.” This case, he comments, will help Indians realize that there are “mul- tiple reasons” for the President’s pro- posal “that added justices shall be placed on the Supreme Court to in- crease its power to do business and to help bear the load of elder justices.” It is impossible for the court “as now made up” to “meet its responsibility,” the Indians are told. “It was never the intent of the Constitution or of the people,” he con- cludes, “that the court should delegate to one of its members the practical determination of issues in litigation under conditions where he, in turn, would be compeled to delegate to a secretary much or all of the research upon which his decision would be pre- dicated. “It is no friendly act, either to the Constitution or the present court to de- mand that such an un-American way of handling business shall continue to be forced upon the Supreme Court.” Gude’s Tulips, Roses Azalea Plants Cut Flowers Corsages “ A LOT for a litHe" is the experts. 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It was not clear, however, whether they had agreed on the specific wording of the amend- ments. Asseriing that he had signed the statement, one opposition Senator said: “I don’t see how any one sign- ing this statement could possibly vote for the Roosevelt bill, although I do not understand that we are definitely pledged to vote against it” Attorney General Cummings sub- mitted to the Senate yesterday a 183- page report detailing thousands of .operation of New Deal laws injunction suits aimed at stopping the‘ His re- port, requested by the Senate, showed that 1,898 suits were filed against the| A. A A alone. ‘Young B. Smith, dean of the Colum- bia University Law School, testified yesterday that some recent Supreme Court decisions had created “a situa- tion that is manifestly unsatisfactory anA calls for corrective action.” Willing to Supply Draft. ‘The action should be by constitu- tional amendment to require retire- ment of aged justices, said Smith. He agreed to supply Burke with a draft of an amendment embodying his sug- gestion. 3 Burke suggested that only one judge be compelled to retire in any one term. He was undecided whether to link the retirements with the per- manent size of the court, but indicated those steps would be divided into two amendments. The last witness yesterday was Dr. Gould Wickey of Washington, general secretary of the Council of Church Boards of Educatiom. He declared: ‘“The Christian educators of America believe that a democracy rests on free- dom and libesty, not on force. Ws fear the President’s proposal becausam we see that through it an enthroned radicalism could eract laws of educa. tional slavery and religious intoler. ance.” When the hearings resume after Easter, the opposition will start its second week of testimony, presenting Erwin N. Griswold, professor of cone stitutional law at Harvard; Walter E. 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