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will be nine justices on the bench next
Autumn, and the only question is
whether Mr.. Roosevelt will attempt a
recess appointment and bring on a
controversy which really would be
avoided if he sent in regular nomi-
nation to the Senate instead of q
recess appointment.
Three men are believed to be in the
lead in the Presidents consideration
of a prospective appointment. They
are Stanley Reed, the present solicitor
general; Judge Sam Bratton Of New
Mexico, a former United States Sena-
tor and at present on the Circuit
Court of Appeals for the tenth cir
cult, which sits in Denver and the
Southwest, and Judge Joseph c.
Hutcheson, jr., of the Circuit Court OF
Appeals for the fifth circuit, which
sits in New Orleans and the South.
Mr.. Bratton has been on the Federal
bench since June, 1898, when Presi-
dent Roosevelt appointed him. Mr.
Hutcheson has served since 1918, when
President Wilson appointed him. He
is So years old.
There would probably be very little
delay in the confirmation of any of
these three. Mr.. Reed was slated for
the bench when he was made solicitor
general and is familiar with the work
of the Supreme Court. Mr.. Bratton
is popular with the members of the
Senate. Mr.. Hutcheson is regarded as
judge of the Brandeis type, and with
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would the head
the
Lincoln changed and such
could longer be kept
So the purchase OF Alaska hit
issued for $l400O00. the
second uarrant for s800o00
But history Lanes
memorandum that the United
In mineral deposits"
Who well be of the
for sl00O0 said he
sonalv held his -
And what the which Mr.
Dmond
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dation"
mniraion after aboa presidential
yacht.
fho also uent the ship State
members OF a bona fde ProgreSsiueS
And the old
the
afhaion
and direct the
Neighbor League.
which his Territory purchased from
Of Congress
II he kneW the he
Theth the original uarran for S,200000 phooa
display the really the
purchase OF Alaska and the
learned
Here it is called to this explorer
and longtime student of Alaska, Harry
After his death there found the files of the
Secretary of
It, he states that he learned
National
According
rants for the Alaskan The story
learned from Senator
Before Civil War of
Alaska from Russia
1t was considered too high the matter lay
The Civil War broke Britain
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thing. For it Is generally recognized
now that the Presidents court meas
ure was not merely one isolated at
tempt at increase of power for the
Executive 1t was the completing key
stone for a number of related meas
ures, for what Gen. Hugh johnson
speaks Of as deliberate underlying
but unspoken design to change the
form of government, and to make the
American Government-again to quote
Gen. Johnson-"the most dangerous
on earth"
This design, this attempt at revo-
luton by ruse, was at first recognized
by few who in the beginning were
voices crying in the wilderness. Later
it came to be seen by many thought
full students and by many members
Of Congress, including several of the
independent Democrats who under
took to check the design by defeating
the Presidents court measure.
Through the publicity attending the
court fight, and in other ways, recog-
| milton Of the deliberate but unspoken
design has now spread out through
| the country. The current issue Of the
Texas Weekly sees that the program
| Of the Presidents advisers represents
more than the schemes of few So
| cial frontiersmen' at Washington; it
| embodies a determination to modify
| our form of government and the eX-
| isting economic order in a funda-
| mental way" This suspicion through
out the country, flowing in to Wash
ington, reinforces the suspicion now
felt by members of Congress.
Grounds for Suspicion.
At time when suspicion is gen.
eral, persons who try to be prudent
and accurate fear they may suspect
too much and try to keep their poLse.
Is there any item in the legislation
now being hurried through the closing
| days of the Congress which justifies
/ suspicion that it may be funda-
mental part of the plan to, as Prof
Tugwell once put it, make over
America?
Some of the legislation asked for
by the President and now being passed
seems harmless enough. The Presi-
dents request for six secretaries GER
tainly contains no danger provided the
| secretaries are to be really secretaries
| only. True. Gen. johnson, in his
| careful analysis of proposed legislation,
was suspicious of the six-secretary
system The new executive system" 4"
Gen. johnson said, will be tied to the
central dynamo by command
| exercised as Napoleon did it, dictatori-
ally and on sextuple spy system"
But President, the present one or
any future one. is entitled to six sec
| retaries or more-if any one man
| could make effective use of more than
six secretaries And the power to use
| the six as the secondary rank in a
dictatorial hierarchy disappears if the
| dictatorial hierarchy is itself pre-
| vented from coming into existence by
refusal of Congress to pass the meas
ures which will bring it about
The one pending measure that seri-
ously excites the suspicion of many is
the so-called wage and hour" meas
ure. One hesitates to express sus-
picion Of this or any other measure
without analyzing it and pointing out
the grounds for suspicion. But the
wage and hour measure is extremely
| intricate. I have not read it; very
| few have read it. So great has been
the number of new measures and so
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BOY SCOUT LABORATORY
IN CAMPING PROJECTED
L. L Mcdonald Chosen for Post.
Several Administrative Changes
Are Announced.


By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, July 29-The Boy
Scouts OF America announced last
night the appointment Of National
Camp Director L. L. Mcdonald as
camp chief" to conduct Laboratory"
experiments in camping and equip
ment at the Schif Scout Reservation,
Mendham, N. ].
Other appointments announced
were: Ray o. Wyland. assistant d.
rector of the division of program in
charge of education and relation
ships; Dwight M. Ramsay, former
Chicago regional executive, assistant
director Of the division Of operations,
and Jamboree Activities Director
Lorne w. Barclay, national director
OF activities and camping.
Other personnel changes were the
transfer of Chicago Council Executive
Perry Lint to similar post in New
York; his replacement in Chicago by
Ralph Nodine, who will be succeeded
as New England regional executive by
Donald w. Meyer. for IA years New
York and New Jersey official.
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What's Back of It All
New Deal Drives for Party Realignment With Good
Neighbor League Playing Prominent Role.
BY H. r. BAUKHAGE.

X.
the Good Nebor League which removed Stanley
dictatorship and made Walter A.
president. contains significance than
L 1t of definitely cyalizng
n fo
realonmen forces
label
the Nation The court fight
the Good Neighbor
the under its obeces within
Meanwhile drive to make the Nationwide
begin Skeleton already Solicitation
bershp / 48
Several
fcas have already taken
An
signal completion of
The avowed of the
1t be stated that purpose of
administration let the
liberals could toloW Thus the
separated.
Then Messrs Wheeler oMahone ped fence taking
followers with them,
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Each group sus-
poets the other
m a Y. by som e
parli a mentary
device, violate the
agreement made
when the Presi-
d e n t $ court
m e a ure " as
voted back to the
Senate Judiciary
Committee a n d
to death.
But the atmos-
phere of suspicion
covers a W j d e +
field than t h is.
It Affects every
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FATHER is RELEASED

MEDIA. Pa, July % lP).-Albert
R. knight of Lansdowne, charged
with attempting to kill his three
daughters by setting fire to his home,
was released from Delaware County
Prison yesterday in $4,000 bail, posted
by bonding company.
The State charged knight, for
mer oil executive, tried to kill his
daughters to collect $4,000 insur-
ance he held on their lives.
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TWO DEAD, WIFE SHOT
IN DOMESTIC QUARREL
Father, Apparently Foiled in At
tempt to Take Daughter Away,
Runs Wild With Gun.

BY the Associated Press.
BUFFALO. N. Y, July 29.-Bueu G.
Tallman, II, yesterday shot and
wounded his estranged wife, killed her
cook and then committed suicide,
Frank J. Mccarthy assistant detective
chief, said, in quarrel over the Tall
mans 10year-old daughter.
Mccarthy said he learned Tallman
had gone to his wifes home to visit
their daughter Sally. who is 10 today,
and evidently attempted to take her
away with him.
The girl broke away as he took her
to cab, Mccarthy said he learned
and her father followed her back into
the house and started shooting with
. revolver.
Mccarthy said letter headed dates
on which last saw my child" was
found in Tallman's pocket.
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One Killed in Mine Cage.

ROTTERDAM, Yorkshire, July 20
P,.-One miner was killed and lo
were injured yesterday in Kilnhurst
colliery when cage carrying men to
work crashed. If safety device had
not eased the force Of the fall many
might have been killed.
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MOVIE WAR CONTINUES
Italy Acts to Force Own Produc-
tionS on Screen.

ROME, July 70 (Pl.-The italian
government Ia st night intensified its
campaign against foreign moving pic
lures, ordering exhibitors TO present
one Italian flm for every two for
eign pictures
A royal decree embodying the meas
ure, becomes effective September /.
At preesnt, three foreign Aims may
be exhibited for one Italian.
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chairman OF the Judiciary Committee rocked it sleep until he
lost majority Of the Majority
Mr. Gamers Texas kept from the House
desire the Supreme
possible
1t all adds
Tor democracy All enemies popular making
In celebration OF the Fascist Washington.
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In a m e a justice
who would sit in
the October term
OF t h e court
an d perh a p S
longer, depending
on whether the
new justice were
confirmed at the
session of Con-
ess beginning
next January.
One view taken
has been that by
this method Mr..
Roosevelt would
make it embar-
RAISING for t he
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own perfect copy.
The varia tions
become his sigma
ture. And so with
bullets-scratches
made by the bar
rel are distinctive
+ or e a c h & u n.
Variations are
signid C a n t t o
prove innocence
or guilt.
In cola boration
with the Justice
Department, Sou
der has handled
about IS criminal
-, ea, "
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BY MARK SULLIVAN.

H~ USPIC1ON Dogs Final Steps
OF the Congress" is the head
line over a dispatch by Mr..
- Arthur Krock from WASH
ington to the New York Times. Mr..
Krock's article deals mainly with mu-
tual suspicion between the independ-
ent Democrats who opposed the Presi-
dents court measure and the admin
istration Democrats who supported it.
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Upper House
The solid South alarmed at the regulate
and OF labor mitigate the tenancy
the lynchng tradition At the last
Roosevelt the "sab
made deal by nhch his judiciary
passed in return for abandonment OF labor legislation
the C. L. o. and pledge to inlpound
7h1to his c7ednthe President refused
to take beating rather than his
program 10 the indecent objectionable
The mining States Of the West OF
absentee corporations which
States Many Western liberals"
remote controa COAL gold silver
transportation and hnance The Delaware
cars tearing lest reform Of the
eyed oronzed drawing of the
Of heeler
number OF ambitious Democratic
which they had deliberately muddied
Tor the partys nomination in 1910
OF the Roosevelt
ture some OF Roosevelts defeating
Sepe1a otter-end Senators
Old illness combined to
glorious fling OF uresponbty meeting and
he Presidents only focus of
ana party dlsceded John l.
series of strikes while the split between
Federation Labor further weakened
Committee Nation
ing unlimited
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the South. France tipped the
Union off that the British were
ready to recognize the Confederacy
and perhaps give aid and comfort
with their feet.
The North looked around for
a friend, found Russia and struck
a bargain. Her ships were to ap-
pear off both coasts The Union
was to bear the expenses for this
naval demonstration, to be paid out
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An American
YouS Should
Know
DR.. Souder of Bureau
of Standards HELPS
Solve Crime Cases.
By DELLA PYNCHON.

~ RIMlNALS are up against
scientific crime detection.
I The Bureau Of Standards
~ quiet, blue-eyed, distinguished
DR.. Wilmer Souder, chief OF the identi-
ncatlon laboratory painstakingly iden-
tines forged documents, fatal bullets.
He has withered alibis, made the
perfect crime" difficult.
Variation from standard Is the basis
Of all our work, souder says. In hand
writing, either through laziness or
carelessness, the individual adopts his
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conservatives" announcing COM
plete rout of the New Deal forces.
But the administration ex-
plains, as the allies frequently did
in their official communiques dur
ing the World War after a re-
treat, that its forces have retired
to previously prepared positions in
the rear and are consolidating
their lines"
X
The first sign OF the "conSoli-
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Senate, by aid Of clandestlne dis
loyalty and sabotage high in Con-
gress and the administration.
And finally, the Presidents
bill was handled badly at the out
set. The fact that Attorney Gen.
eral Cummings drafted 1t should
have aroused suspicion. Mr..
Roosevelt made the mistake Of not
trying to persuade his party lead
ers to support 1t in advance OF its
announcement. Senator Ashurst.
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Of the bar in his section OF the coun-
try.
(Copyright, 1879
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HE opinions OF the 1uers page are their o,pn not
necessariy The Stars Such opinions presented
The Stars eDOrt to giDe all sides questions
readers although opinions contradictory
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
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We, the People
Presidents Defeat on Court Bill Seen Victory for
Reactionary and Fascist Forces
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

BY JAY FRANKLIN.
Presidents peoples judiciary bill
Democratic senators-every whom elected by
the series F.
and the New Deal Of progressive reformhave
themselves In the position Of politicians accepted other
votes Tor and appropriated them themselves for another
washington
rejected Woodrow
doubledeaing,
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How did 1t happen? Who
where the senatorial sparrows who
killed the Cock Robin Of the New
Deal? Why did they violate the
most elementary Of democratic OBJ
legations and betray the people who
elected them?
Out OF the welter Of cross
purposes and countercharges a
few facts emerge. facts which
fatally reflect the unrepresentative
and trresponsible character NJ tho
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IIIS ItQUtSJ IIIdI IIIt hIIUTIIty
General advise him by formal opinion
whether a recess appointment to the
Supreme Court would be legal.
The mere fact that the opinion was
asked has led to the widespread belief
that Mr.. Roosevelt planned to wait
till after Congress adjourned and then
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Early Naming
of Justice
Urged
Constitution Gle arly
Forbids Recess Ap.
pointment Now.

BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
- RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has
> stirred up a good deal of sus-
picion, perhaps unjustified, by
his renneSt that the AttnrneY
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The Committee for the Nation
with unlimited funds purpose block action in th
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
Change the Route

THEIR houses being wrecked by vibration and their
sleep made hideous by the noise Of busses the resi-
dents of Buchanan Street. between Georgia Avenue and
Eighth Street. deserve than the sympathy of their
fellow -townsmen.
They deserve ACTION to remedy the condition,
action both the part of the Capital Transit Company
operator of the buses, and the Public Utilities Com
mission.
Residents of the section want the busses rerouted
not because they don't like busses but because condi-
tions Buchanan Street make it utterly mpracticabe
as route for the machines.
On this street which, by the way, is not regular
commercial route of the vehicles but simply 'dead
head" transit street. the huge machines must climb
steep HILL necessitating the shifting into lower gears
of the motors.
This necessarily sets up racket and also causes
vibration of the street which is in turn trans
mitted to the adjoining houses.
Plaster cracked and even glass broken as result
1t would seem that the Public Utilities Commission
could find street which the busses could be
operated which would not have these drawbacks for
residents.
The Washington times., 1937-03-09


Europe now is the careful avoid.
ance of the SlurS and insults
which used to greet Americans
in the newspapers and maga-
zines and in the music halls.
Four or five years ago, when
was last over there, / must have
seen a thousand caricatures of
the rapaciOus, snaggle.tOOthed
old Uncle Sam, crOuching be-
hind his money bags and watch
ing the rest of the world starve
with great satisfactiOn-that or
a similar theme. This time,
didn't see even one.
mot having free press, they
turn opinion on and off like a
kitchen faucet, over there. Just
now it is not only expedient but
tremendously important for
these countries to be on good
terms with as. Aside from the
competition for American tour
lists, they all think that Uncle
Sam, II he is salved up a bit,
will again do what he has al
ways done in the past-IOan
them a lot of money, to put it
vulgarly. So they register good
will.
CYNICAL?
Talking with officials and
with sophisticated persons gen.
orally, you find a keen interest
in American culture, but, / be-
lieve, a keener, though tactfully
restrained interest in American
money. I was surprised to find
a large number of important
persons wanting to know all
about this Senator Johnson.
That question was revealing in
the light Of the johnson bill,
which makes the deadbeat ma
tiOn pay up before getting an.
other loan. 1t Seemed to re-
veal what was uppermOst In
their mind"
Possibly my friend was undulJ
cynical about our European
friends. Certainly any evidence
Of good will in this world de
mentia Of hate and suspicion
should be accepted and treasured
and returned in kind. Chauvin
ism, insularity and jingoism nevel
did anybody any good. But I dC
believe our country should be boti
informed and wary, as IL shapes
its policies for this day Of new
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
Greatest Show of Earth
By Frank Miller Smith

'plete control over all District
legislation in Congress.
A practice was started Q year
or so ago under which the District
Commissioners are compelled to
send all proposed legislation.
whether it has anything to do
with money or not, to the bureau
for it's o. K. before it can go to
Congress.
Now, instead Of sending the
drafts of the bills to Representa-
tive Mary T. Norton, chairman Of
the House District Committee, and
Senator William H. King, chair.
man Of the Senate District Com
mittee, direct, the measures are
sent to the Vice President and the
Speaker to be laid before the
Senate and House and referred to
any committee they see fit.
The practical results so far have
been that the bills have gone to
the same committees anyway but
II for any reason the Administra-
ton doesn't want them to, they
could go to the Committee on Dis.
position Of Useless Executive Pa.
pers. And it Is understood this
doesn't set very well with the two
chairImen,
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
An Urgent Job

rIGHTEEN hundred families living in homes with
- onlv the most primitive sanitary facilities appeal to
this session of Congress to lift them out of bygone era
and set them down in conditions which are worthy of
this time and this place-the National Capital.
Dsgraceful and disgusting conditions prevail in
tions of this city within Jew minutes walk OF Ihe
Capitol where sits Congress.
These conditions constitute shameful blot on city
dedicated to national service detraction from
the shoutings about "mode city,, and menace to the
lives not only of those who live in the specified houses
but to the entire community including those high Of
ficals responsible for the conduct Of the government
Unouestionably the denial of reasonably decent
conditions the residents of the affected section OF the
Capital is in large responsible for the shame
full position of the District OF Columbia on various
public health lists.
We're these same conditions found in some outlying
section of the country in mountainous and mac
cessibe area they would be cited to Congress as con-
vncng arguments on behalf of another great expert
ment for bringing ''the abundant llfe' to the
people,
The fact that they are found at the backdoor of Con-
gress that the responsibility for remedyng them rests
primarily upon Congress- must not be allowed to pre-
vent or delay the application Of a remedy.
Representative Ross Collins of Mississippi chairman
and his colleagues the District subcommittee of the
Appropriations Committee might we'll make the elimi
nation of this unhealthy condition the first provision
of the bill which they now preparing.
That bill, it is reliably reported, will provide for
spending fortyseven million dollars of the Districts
money.
These primitive homes could be given the benefit of
connection with the system and the water system
at total cost to the District of hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
No way could be found to spend that amount of money
to better advantage than to extend to these homes the
sewer system.
The good people who live in and own these homes
taxpayers just much the residents of any other
section Of the city.
They deserve and should be given the oppor-
tunty to use the sewer system to the upbuildng of
which their tax dollars have contributed but which has
stopped short of being accessible to them.
Knowing Representative Collins and those who are
serving with him the District subcommittee,
confident that is only necessary to call their attention
to this archaic condition to have it remedied.
Probably of the members aware that
such situation prevailed within short distance of
their Offices
After reading the series of articles in The Times de-
failing the conditions look to this subcommittee to
nova Immediately toward q remadv