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every justice remaining on the court
after reaching the age of seventy.
five years. Under its provisions the
President would be permitted &c
name one new justice this year (be.
sides filling the vacancy left by the
retirement of Justice Willis v a T
Devanter) and assure him of al
least one new appointment to the
court in each remaining year of his
present term of office. All Of the ap.
pointments would hinge on the de.
cision of justices seventy-fve OF
older on retirement.
The opposition Immediately
charged that the new bill was as
offensive as the old one Sen. Burton
X. Wheeler, Democrat, Montana,
said: The compromise is not going
to get through. The new bill is just
as Objectionable as the old, because
it seeks to pack the Supreme court
just like the original bill did" Sen.
Edward R. Burke, Democrat, Neb.
raska, said the 43 senators would
vote against any kind Of measure
that would increase the Supreme
court.
Some of the other provisions OF
the new bill were:
Authority for 20 additional ap.
pointments to lower courts in
the event that judges over seventy
fail to retire. The old bill would
have permitted so new appoint
ments altogether.
Speedy Intervention by the gov.
ernment in cases involving consti.
tutionality of federal laws, and
speedy appeal to the Supreme court.
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At LAST Shirley Temples
L Aparents have given in and
will permit her to speak over
the radio. She will stay up
until eight-thirty the night
that "Wee Willie Winkie"
opens in Hollywood, address
a countrywide audience and
then go home to bed without
seeing the picture.
This is more of victory for Shir-
ley than it is for radio executives.
All their money did not interest Mr..
and Mrs. Temple, who try to hold
Shirley's working hours down to a
minimum. But Shirley heard talk
on the studio lot about this player
and that one going on the radio and
she began to wonder why she
couldn't do it. She begged and
begged. Finally Mrs. Temple just
had to let her do it.
When Carole Lombard insisted
that her new contract with Para
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BY JEANNE
FRED MAC MURRAY WASHED
CARS FOR A LIVING
BY JEANNE

NECESSITY is the mother of in
Y vention, they say; and if that
is so l think someone should en-
phaSize that Courage is the ia
ther of opportunity. So many
times, when things look blackest, it
seems that only by drawing on re-
serve strength can we keep going.
Suddenly we find ourselves face to
face with opportunity. Everything
looked hopeless before. We were
really almost ready to give up.
And, then looking back, we wonder
how things could have seemed as
bad as they were.
Fred MacMurray was born in
Kankakee, H., in 1908, and spent
his boyhood in Beaver Dam, Wis.
He lived a normal small town life
for an American youngster. In 1925,
when he was seventeen, he was
awarded the annual American Le-
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Uncle Sam Checks Up

1NCLE SAM wound up the 1887
~ fiscal year with a net deficit OF
s2,707, ,347,1l0, or about s150, 200, 900
more than President Roosevelt esti-
mated last April, according to the
report Of the United States Treas
ury.
The gross national public debt
climbed to total of S36, 424 ,6l3, 1872
as of June 80, il was shown.
Receipts for the period just closed
were the largest in Is years,
amounting to SIS. .293, ,840. .236. COM
pared with s4,115,s56,6l5 for the
l936-37 year and about SIC. 900, 900 in
excess Of estimates. Expenditures
were So, los, 158, SAT, including S103,-
e33, $50 for debt retirement origi-
nally planned for that period but
carried over into the current year.
Completion of the debt retire
ment program as previously con-
templated would have called for the
expenditure Of S404. 525, 900. which
would have placed the gross deficit
above the So, 900, 0o0, 900 mark.
In the l936-37 period. recovery and
relief costs were more than $780,
600, 900 below the total for the year
before. amounting to S2,S46, 462, 932
against So. 290, ,927, 1863.
Reliable authorities around the
capitol said that as soon as all ap-
preparation bills for the 1888 fiscal
year were cleared, the President
would direct the heads of all govern
ment departments to impound 10
per cent of their appropriations, ex-
elusive of fixed charges, in an at
tempt to balance the budget. Ex-
perts said that maximum of $780,
O00, 900 could be saved in that way.
The prospective net deficit for 1888
was estimated at S400, 200, 900.
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Mediators Blame Steel

THE federal mediation board
L named by Secretary Of Labor
Frances Perkins, which reached a
deadlock and gave up in its efforts
to help the c. l. O.-affiliated Steel
Workers Organizing Committee and
the independent steel corporations
solve their difficulties, laid the
blame for its failure at the door Of
the steel concerns.
eve cannot but believe that the
bitterness and suspicion which sep
parate the two sides would be al
layed by a man-to-man discussion
around the conference table between
the heads Of the four companies
and the union representatives and
the only present possible hope Of
settlement lies in such meeting"
the boards report said.
I'VE further believe that the re-
fusal of the four companies to enter
into any agreement with the S. w.
o. c., regardless Of the number Of
employees whom it actually rep
resents, which could be demonstrat-
ed by a secret ballot election, is
not the way to industrial peace"
The report said that Tom Girdler.
chairman of the board of Republic
Steel and leader Of the companies
fight, stated that ''he would not
concant N n term contract because
he believed it necessary for the
proper operation of his company
that it should be in position to
meet the fuctuating price Of steel
by wage variations if it became
necessary.
On the board were Charles P.
Taft, chairman; Lloyd K. Garrison
and Edward F. McGrady.
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Cape Cod to do some stage acting.
Incidentally, Joan is said to be the
best rumba dancer in all Hollywood.
Wouldn't you love it if she would
dance in a film? If enough fans
wrote and asked her to. she prob
ably would. Stars love to get let
tiers that offer suggestions.
ODDS AND ENDS-Affer all, Fred
Allen toon't make a picture this sum-
mer. He did not like the story the
studio cooked up for him. 1t tcould
haze to be good to top his last fet0
radio programs OF the season. Every
one is wondering if Walter O'Keefe
can keep the pace Allen set . Dance
directors and scene designers Uho
think up those colossal numbers for
musical pictures are little annoyed
because Jeanette Macdonald Outdid
them in staging her ot0n Uedding J..
Eddie Cantor demands that Virgil
Miller be hired as can1eranldn on his
pictures. Miller has fUe handsome
sons and Eddie still has lot of un-
married daughters around the house.
g Western Newspaper Union.
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IsoIates PARALYSIS Germ

WHAT the medical profession
w considers major step in the
conquest of infantile paralysis was
taken when DR.. Edward Carl Rose
now announced to 100 physicians,
surgeons and medical research
workers in Glendale, Calf, that he
had isolated the germ which causes
it. DR.. Rosenow is professor of ex-
perimental bacteriology at tn e
Mayo foundation in Rochester,
MINI.
Work with spinal fluid taken from
nurses who had contracted the dis
ease at the Los Angeles general
hospital in 1884 enabled him to iso-
late the micro-organism.
DR.. Rosenow said that now the
germ has been isolated steps must
be taken to develop a serum sim.
liar to the serums used in fighting
other ravaging contagious diseases.
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N1awutd W. NEckGtd
~ SUMMARIZES THE WORLDS WEEK
WEEK
g Western Newspaper Union

transcript Of the evidence and briefs
Of both sides. The board will then
either order the Ford Motor COM
pany to cease and desist' its un-
fair practices or dismiss the unions S
charges. Appeal may be taken to
the United States circuit court Of
appeals, which has the power Of
enforcement which NLRB lacks.
The case may reach the Supreme
court if the Constitution is involved.
One OF the allegedly unfair practices
to which the U. A. w. A. objects is
distribution of anti-union literature
by the Ford company to its en-
ployees. The company charges that
a denial of this would violate con-
stitutional guarantees Of free speech
and a free press.
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through Steel Workers Organizing
Committee picket lines to resume
their labors. 1t took several days
to repair the damage sufficiently to
allow part Of the workers to return.
The blasts interrupted what had
been the nearest semblance of
peace-still not very near-since
the c. /. o. affiliate called the strike
on the big steel Independents who
refused to sign contracts with what
they dubbed John L. Lewis ire
sponsible organization" The strik-
ers' committee "deplored" the ex-
plosions and hoped no strikers had
caused them"
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-15
Most Primitive Indians

The Seminoles, the most primitive
Indians in the country, live on small
islands of about an acre that rise
above the water of the Florida Ev-
erglades. They hunt and fish in
long, narrow canoes which they pole
through the labyrinthine waterways.
Their houses have no walls, but con-
sist merely of platforms canopied
with palmetto leaves. Their fires
burn continuously. They are made
of trunks of cypress trees which
radiate from the fire like spokes
from a hub, and are gradually
pushed into the burning center.
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Floyd &S&o1'sz
ADVENTURES CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES Sy
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF
"Assassins of the Nile''
BY FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter

VOU know, boys and girls, have often said that you'll
find adventure close to home darned sight easier IMAM
you will roaming the world One who goes travelling IN
search thrills usually doesn't find any until he gets back
into his baiwick again. But there exceptions to
every rule-and here's of them. George c. Dorste OF
Bardonia Rockand county, N Y, met his biggest thrill
when he thousands of miles away from home and IN
strange exotic country.
landed there the course OF
his travels fireman steamer The steamer was
unloading consgnments OF various sizes at ports
1917
ship the Nile and anchored In the river
O he O Medinet FL Faiyum
The from a pier The weather
in particularly, the
beats with nensy i S to impossible for
native work. was at the height OF
the hot dripping sweat
all to knock of
the Of the day.
that Most Of them just walked to the
Topped the deck and
felows-Geoge
their clothes dived
Dandy Day for Lazy Sport.
il, off
and en for
beating the
hot that they glad back
the water again.
its scorchng the
One by the swimmers climbed back aboard
stayed Finally all Of them out Of
the And that George Dorste
distance from the ships side and about halfway between
pashed the heard calling
shore and looking native standing on the pier
George Had Only Been Linguist
native shouting language he didn't
understand Then suddenly he point toward the ship George
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-15
POET LAUREATE OF ENGLAND
WAS i. PORTER IN A SALOON

WHAT romantic occupation
w could you possibly predict for
a boy so adventurous that no one
could control him. so reckless that
the aunt who took care of him after
his father and mother died inden-
tured him to merchant ship at the
age of fourteen to curb him? That
was John Maseield's start in life
and today he holds the highest hon.
ors England can give any poet.
Born in Ledburn, Herefordshire,
England, in 1874, he sailed the seas
for three years. Leaving the ship
in port at New York city. he took
any odd job he could get. He
worked in bakery and in livery
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J o h n S I o wn, Pa,
scene of the most
violent alterations
among strikers. 10y
al workers and the
law in recent days.
Two explosions Grip
pied the principal
water mains supply
ing the plant just as
Cambria once more
had thrown open its
doors and nearly
half its $4,000 en-
ployees had filed
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Ford Tests Labor Board

THE national labor relations
l. board is receiving its most ex-
acting test in the hearings at De-
troit on the United Automobile
Workers union complaint that the
Ford Motor company is guilty of
unfair labor practices. The U. A.
w. u. is c. 1. o. affiliate; Ford is
opposed to the unions.
It was expected that the hearings
might take long time and may
eventually reach the United States
Supreme court. After the hearings
in Detroit board examiner will
draw up intermediate findings"
and send them to the NLRB in
Washington, accompanied by q
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-15
Marshal EOch'S Tomb

The tomb Of Marshal Ferdinand
Foch in the chapel of st. Ambrose
in the Invalides is in the form of a
memorial above a marble sarcoph-
agus. 1t was designed by the sculp-
tor, Paul Landowski, and consists
of group of eight poilus, who bear
on their shoulders bier covered
with laurel branches on which lies
the efigy of the marshal in his uni
form of war days. On three sides
of the base are reliefs showing the
armies of his command. On the
fourth side are the dates of his birth
and death.
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Pen for JERSEYS Parkers

HIHEN Paul H. Wendell, former
w Trenton, N. j., lawyer, "con-
fessed" to the Lindbergh baby kid
naping, the execution of Bruno Rich
ard Hauptmann was delayed three
days. Now Ellis Parker, sixty-five,
chief of the Burlington county de-
tectives, and his son, Ellis, Jr.,
twenty-six, have been sentenced to
serve six and three years, respec-
lively, in the federal penitentiary
by Federal Judge William Clark in
Newark. They were convicted of
conspiring to seize and torture Wen
del to extract from him the false
confession. Their attorneys an
nounced an appeal would be fled.
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senate, apparently
with the blessings of
Majority L e a d e r
Joseph T. Robinson
and the chief execu-
tive. In form an
amendment to and
substitute for the old
Ashurst administra-
ton bill, the n e W
draft authorizes ap-
pointment of one
new justice to tn e
court each wear for
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mount lnclude a
clause giving her
permission to make
one picture a year
for any other COM
pany she chose, all
the little companies
scurried aroun d
looking for stories
that might interest
her. One picture
with a star like
Lombard, they fig
ured. W VI d put
them in the big
fhootarc and ~ the
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big money. And now Carole has
gone and broken their hearts. She
has signed contract with Selznick
to make one picture a year for
him for five years.
R-K-O has . grand surprise all
ready for Irene Dunno. They have
found q dizzy, hilarious character
for her to play In a perfectly-mad
comedy-the kind she loves. 1t Is
the role Of q rich. giddy girl who
wants to be q detective and who
goes around detecting whether any
one wants her to or not. THE Mad
Miss Minton" Is the name, and
here's hoping it Is half as good as
everyone expects 1t to be.
4
There are a lot of people on the
M-G-M lot who think that Greta
Garbo is just about the grandest
person alive and one of them is
Charles Boyer. When their current
picture, Countess Halewska" was
about half finished, he went to the
director a little worried. He had
discovered that his part was much
longer than hers. Breezily the di-
rector told him not to give it an
other thought Miss Garbo knew
all about that before the picture was
started and insisted that no changes
be made. THE picture must be
good" she said mot all Garbo." :"
4
Weary Of waiting around the War
ner Brothers studio watching song
and dance stars overworked while
there was rarely a part for her,
Josephine Hutchinson asked for a
release from her contract and got
it. Immediately Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer signed her for one OF the
most thrilling roles of the year. She
will play the lead in He Who Gets
Slapped" with Spencer Tracy and
Robert Taylor in the cast.
4
Meanwhile, the same studio that
is making Miss Hutchinson so hap
py, is making Joan Crawford un-
happy. She suspects that the story
finding department forgets her for
months at a stretch and just pick
out any old story that is left over as
a vehicle for her. Rumor has 1t that
she would like to break away and
go to work for Sam Goldwyn. May
be she will. And you know what
grand pictures he makes.
4
After all, the Bennett sisters, Joan
and Constance, won't play the pic
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III I = loA oAAO N@AN
double in the popu-
lar novel, Stand
m" Joan Blondell
has been borrowed
from Warner Broth
ers and will play
both parts. Con-
stance was not keen
about playing the
vicious, calculating
star and Joan is in
tent on going to the
Summer Stock thea
tor ~ Dennis IN
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'Compromise' Takes Bow

CENATOR M. M. LOGAN. DEM
- ocrat, of Kentucky, presented the
compromise" version Of the Pres
idents Supreme court bill to the
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-15

great reptile and ship
figure pointing He Immediately
the conclusion that aboard had dropped something
the side and wanted him to retrieve it.
He slowly ship. The native
right yelling but George paid attention And
then suddenly he a thing that looked like floating
in a a wrinked a
of CLASSY just showing above the surface!
crocodie
great him the
from him. shudder went through Georges body
distance least seemed George
that beast could catch him in less time than it takes
tell the
He Looked Like Good Meal to Crocodile.
swimming exhaustng
for And the crocodile following along behind
distance
playing
self the before those cruel closed
him?
swimming franticany, he pier
other terrifying discovery greeted him. AS he made enzed ef
climb the
couldn't Those piles with slippery
make headway them And all the time, the
coming slowly
knew must inevitably furnish its evening meal
George with He still cawing
franicaly smooth piles the
the dock Suddenly the native picked
and hurled the
crocodile missed. The native
and that found its mark hit the beast the ived
beneath the surface.
Natives Accurate Peg Saves Georges Life.
BY that time boat had launched from the ship
ing the water Georges pmates pulled hard the
reached George crocodile
"As they pulled out of the water" George 81
consciousness a minute 1
the boat had the hpn time
of the crocodile which had
lowing along not
And George that he'd
and pull the trigger.
Service
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No Water, No Steel, No Jobs

n YNAMITE temporarily stopped
II a back-to-work movement in
the great Cambria works Of the
Bethlehem Steel corporation at
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-15

After all, the Bennett sisters, Joan
and Constance, won't play the pic
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When Carole Lombard insisted
that her new contract with Para
The Washington times., 1937-03-03
.L0NGHI GIVEN
CANADA POST

Marquis Alberto Rossi Longhi,
Counselor of the italian Embassy,
today confirmed his, appointment
as Counsel General of the Italian
government in Ottawa, Canada.
The transfer will be effective
April /, the marquis said.
The marquis explained that the
transfer is merely promotion ad-
vancing him to an independent
post where he will be first in
command" whereas as counselor
here he has been second in COM
mand."
Marquis Longhi said his sue
cessor as counselor here will be
named within two weeks by Count
Galezzo Ciano, son-in-law of II
Duce and Minister of Foreign Al
fairs.
The marquis said it is his inten-
ton to leave Washington for OF
iowa Immediately after Easter.
The Marchioness Rossi Jonghi, he
added, will remain at their apart.
ment in the MayfloWer Hotel until
arrangements can be made for
entering their two sons in Cana
dian schools. The sons are Ro.
berto, 13, junior at Georgetown
Prep, and Fabrizio, II, who is be.
ing tutored privately.
The Washington times., 1937-03-03
1900 Needy's Plight
Being Told Via Radio

Plight of the 5000 needy Dis
trict residents, who can get neither
jobs nor relief, are being told in a
series of radio broadcasts, the first
of which was given last night over
Station WJSV in cooperation with
the Community Chest.
Chest officials decided that if
some of the needy would tell their
stories over the air. work might
be found for them. The 5000 are
In the "employable" category, cut
off the relief rolls a year ago. The
Board of Public Welfare made an
unsuccessful attempt to obtain a
$830,0O0 deficiency appropriation
to aid these families during the
winter. The Budgt Bureau and
District Commissioners turned
down the request.
The Washington times., 1937-03-03

MOSCOW, March 3 Q.N.sJ.
An official decree was published
today ordering all Soviet children
from the age of 8 upwards to re-
ceive instruction in military science
and strategy. This introduction
will continue until they reach full
military age.
The decree also provides for the
manufacture of millions of minia-
ture bullets, gas masks, guns and
toy parachutes, airplanes and auto
mobiles to aid in training the chill
dren for war. Their games, it was
decreed, must be directed toward
application Of their military les
sons.
The children will be instructed
by military experts under the dl-
rection of the commissariat OF
The Washington times., 1937-03-03
Concerts Planned
For Business Men

A series of special-invitation pro-
grams for Washington'S business
firms and Government depart
ments will be held here next week
If the $4,000 goal set for the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra's sus-
tanning fund campaign is raised,
it was announced today by Walter
Bruce Howe, secretary of the SYM
phony association.
Stating it has long been a desire
Of the association to express in a
practical way its appreciation of
the support given its work by busi-
ness and Government leaders Of
Washington, Mr.. Howe explained
that the special concerts had been
included in the plans for the 1887
38 season at the request of Hans
Kinder, conductor of the or
chestra.
The Washington times., 1937-03-03
Flames Kill Miner
And DOq AT His Side

O'FALLON, Ill, March 3
GN.SJ.-Henry Scherer, 83-year-
old coal miner, and his dog, fox
terrier, were burned to death yes
terday when fire destroyed the
three-room house in which the
aged man lived alone. When the
blaze died down firemen found
the bodies of the miner and his
pet lying side by side.
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ICKES 4 YEARS
AT INTERIOR
MARCH 6

Saturday, March 6. will be the
fourth anniversary of the entrance
of Harold L. Ickes into the Roose-
veltian official family, the Secre-
tary of the Interior announced to-
day with the observation:
"T guess that establishes some
kind of a record"
Although he admitted that any,
thing may happen between now
and Saturday, Ickes said that on
the basis of mortality rates o. in
surance companies he has every
reasonable expectation" to still be
Secretary of the Interior when
March 6 arrives.
In addition to his longevity in
the Interior post, Ickes claimed
further distinction in that only two
of the 80 Interior secretaries who
preceded him served more than
four years. These, he said, we're
Lane with six or seven years and
Work, with five.
The Secretary was right as far
as he went, a check of Interior De-
partment records revealed. Frank
lin K. Lane served years II
months and 26 days under Presi-
dent Wilson. Hubert Work lasted
for 5 years 4 months and 10 days
under Presidents Harding and
Coolidge. But there were two other
old-timers who went over the four
year mark. These were Columbus
Delano, with 4 years IL months
and 10 days under President Grant
and Ethan Allen Hitchcock, who
stayed a ripe years and 13 days
with Presidents Mckinley and
Teddy" Roosevelt.
The Washington times., 1937-03-03
MEDICAL
CLINIC OPEN

ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 3.
A medical clinic for boys whose
parents are unabletto pay for treat
ment was opened yesterday after.
noon in the Alexandria Boys Club
building by the Alexandria XII.
wants Club.
Diagnosis and treatment will be
given free Of charge by DR.. w.
Clyde West on Tuesday and Fri
day afternoons between 3 and 4
p. m. The clinic will be open to
all boys of the city, whether or not
they are members of the club.
An approved system of clinical
and social study records will be
kept of all cases by w. Travis Will
son, managing director of the club.