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“HELL” NOT SO HOT,
Dr. McNish Tells Geophysical
Union Heat Effect on
Magnetism.
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.
“Going to hell” might not be so
tough as it sounds.
The physical hell of the ancients
was a place in the center of the
earth, a place of everlasting fire and
molten brimstone, where damned
aouls burned eternally. The concept
had some support from the fact that
out of the depths came the lava of
volcanoes.
It would still be highly uncomforta
ble—a matter of 2,000 degrees—but not
so bad as it has been pictured accord
ing to data presented before the
American Geophysical Union yester
day by Dr. A. G. McNish of the ter
restrial magnetism laboratory of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Dr. McNish based his contention on
the fact that if the center of the earth
was as hot as has been claimed the
magnetic phenomena of the planet
would be very different. Iron loses its
magnetism when heated to extreme
degrees. The core of the earth, it is
generally recognized by geologists, is
made up of Iron or some similar min
eral.
Globe Powerful Magnet.
The globe. Dr. McNish pointed c\ut,
actually is a very powerful magnet.
He said:
Absence of any satisfactory theory to
account for the earth's magnetic con
ditions consistent with the view that
the interior of the earth is at a high
temperature calls into question the
validity of the temperatures assigned
to it. It is indicated that large fluc
tuations occur in the magnetic condi
tion of matter at great depths, which
progress rapidly with respect to geo
logical time. These changes are not
consistent with the view that the
earth's Interior is static. Study of the
magnetic fields arising from electric
currents induced by daily variations
and magnetic storms leads to the in
ference that at depths of 200 kilometers
the electric conductivity arises greatly
relative to that of the surface rocks.
If the heat and electrical conductivi
ties follow the supposed relationship,
temperatures of the interior of the
earth may be considerably lower than
is ordinarily supposed.
Dr. W. D. Lambert of the Coast
and Geodetic Survey described recent
conclusions on the core of the earth
from observations of gravity. It ap
pears, he said, "that the earth, on
the average, is twice as rigid as steel
and that this rigidity may be chiefly
in the layers down to depths of about
3.000 kilometers.” This would leave
open, he stressed, the possibility that
the center of the earth is liquid.
Transmutation Costly.
The old alchemists sought to change
lead into gold. This can be achieved
by the new physical methods, in in
finitesimally minute quantities and at
enormous cost. Physicists from a half
dozen laboratories told of such trans
mutations as iron into cobalt and
magnesium, oxygen into fluorine and
arsenic into bromine. More practical
■was the transmutation of such ele
ments as aluminum, titanium, barium,
lanthanum and cerium into radioact
ive materials, hitherto unknown in
the world, which may even have some
significance in medicine.
The new alchemy consists of bom
barding the elements, at tremendous
voltages, with dueterlum—the heavy
hydrogen first found at the Bureau
of Standards—or wtih alpha particles,
which are shot out by radium.
Some of these stick in the atomic
nuclen which they hit, at the same
time knocking out particles from the
nuclear masses, with the result that
the element, supposedly immutable,
changes into something else.
A science of society which can keep
pace with the physical sciences which
in the last few decades have revolu
tionized man's ways of life, was urged
at the annual banquet of the Ameri
can Physical Society at the Raleigh
Hotel last night by David SamofI,
president of the Radio Corp. of
America.
Danger to Civiliiation.
Otherwise, Mr. SamofI stressed,
“many of the gifts of science and
Industry are In the nature of a two
edged sword which may turn out to
be a weapon with which civilization
may destroy itself.”
The advance of this new social
acience, he said, "calls for the crea
tive imagination of a Newton and a
Maxwell, and Edison and a Marconi.
Obsolescence is a factor in social as
well as industrial machines and to
stand still is to go backward.”
"If the cause of civilization Is to be
advanced on a permanent basis,” he
continued, “we must learn to follow
a procedure similar to that of the
experienced surgeon. We must not
be afraid to operate, but it Is vitally
important to know when to operate
and when to advocate a less spectacu
lar and safer treatment. One de
cision may require as much courage
as the other.”
While drastic measures may be nec
essary, Mr. SamofI emphasized, “any
measure of unemployment relief ob
tained by placing a checkrein upon
technology or by arbitrarily hamper
ing man’s efficiency is unsound, un
economic and eannnot endure.”
Mother Refuses
To Leave Injured
Child at Hospital
But Doctor Says Girl, 8,
With Skull Fracture,
Improves at Home.
the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. May 1.—Eight-year
old Theresa Hodkowski, whoee mother
took her from a hospital before she
could be treated for a skull fracture
suffered in an automobile accident, re
mained at home today in an improved
condition.
State's Attorney J. Bernard Wells
said Dr. John J. Krager had assured
him the child was improving. The
physician advised against moving her,
however, and Wells said he would not
try to force her mother, Mrs. Mary
Hodkowski, to have her hospitalised.
Theresa was struck by a taxicab
yesterday and the driver took her to
the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Mrs.
Hodkowski, informed of the accident,
arrived at the hospital as physicians
and nurses began to work over the
child in an emergency room.
The woman took the child away and
refused to take her to any other hos
pital. Instead, she summoned Dr. Kra
ger and treated the child herself under
his directions.
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
FANTASIA.
PESTERED by reporters at a re
cent session of the National
Academy of Science here, a
biologist in desperation ad
mitted that 1,000 years from now it
may be possible to create men and
women in the laboratory.
This conjecture fascinated us not
because of its novelty, but because
the line of reasoning was so much
more specific than the usual Sun
day supplement logic which streaks
through such theories.
The general idea is this:
A part of the body of every one is
“connective tissue." It's what grows
over a cut when it heals. It is non
specific tissue, but it is made up of
cells like every other part of the body
and every cell contains within it all
the genes and chromosomes which
the individual has inherited from
his or her ancestors. Moreover, a
sample of this connective tissue can
be kept alive and growing indefinitely
in a suitable medium.
Now there arc also in the body cer
tain as yet unisolated chemicals known
as “organizers.” They shape undif
ferentiated tissue in certain forms—
faces, tails, legs, etc. Experiments
were reported here, for example, in
which an implantation of the “face
organizer” caused faces to grow on
the tails of tadpoles.
Thus the day may come when it
will be possible to take a suitable
amount of the culture of anybody's
connective tissue, shoot it into the
appropriate number of “organizers,”
and end up with an exact duplicate of
the person from whom the connective
tissue was taken. This would pro
vide a sort of earthly immortality,
like the Immortality of the protozoa
(surely you'vx heard about that).
Even more intriguing to us is the
prospect of a homemade twin, a fellow
whose conduct could be judged more
or less dispassionately, who would be
sent around to dull parties we didn't
want to attend, who would get up at
sunrise and perform our daily labors
while we lay abed and waited for pay
day.
Of course, people might start put
ting out 20 and 30 duplicates of them
selves, thereby correcting the present
muddled state of the world. Out of
all the confusion that would cause,
inevitably a more ordered civilization
would arise. Some mathematical law
assures that, we hope. When matters
reach a certain state of concentrated
disorder, they automatically take on a
pattern.
Regard a juggler’s Indian clubs, for
example. They are about as confused
as any Indian clubs we ever met, but
aint they got rhythm?
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SERVICE.
Visiting down in the ‘'dry" town
of Durham, N. C., last week, a
Washingtonian was seized with a
mighty thirst. Of course, there are
ways and means of taking care of
these problems, and he summoned
a hotel bell boy to do the job.
Told the lad he wanted some
whisky and soda. Few minutes
later the boy came back, with a
pint of whisky and a package of
baking soda.
Shows you what the South
thinks of the effete East.
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LINGO.
“rJ''HREE-LEAF clover, figure eight,
around the world, the machine
gun, walking the puppy, making It
sleep."
Strange phrases? Surrealism?
Not at all. Merely the language of
yo-yo artists, the names of various
tricks mastered by the expert yo-yo
spinner, who can make a walking
puppy turn into a machine gun at a
moment's notice.
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IN MEMORIAM.
yyHAT with all the furore over the
proposed Thomas JefTerson Me
morial one might suppose that some
body had suggested erecting a monu
ment here honoring the forgotten man.
Actually the Democratic statesman
has more streets named after him than
any other person so honored in Wash
ington.
There are four of them, none very
impressive to be sure, but still
weighty numerically.
The oldest is in Georgetown, com
ing in between Thirtieth and Thirty
first, and running from K to M
streets; the second, in northeast, was
opened not so long ago, and runs
from Fourth street to Eastern avenue;
the third, from Fifth street to Four
teenth street northwest, and the
fourth, called Jefferson place, extends
from 1218 Connecticut avenue west to
Nineteenth street.
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NEWSHAWKS.
Last week the Women’s Press
Club luncheon had an unusually
large attendance, many members
bringing several guests as for a
special occasion. After the group
was assembled, somebody said, "But
where’s Jane Cowl?”
One of the typed advance notices
sent out by the Luncheon Commit
tee v>as dug up for inspection. It
promised as entertainment features
“Miss So-and-So, lecturer on the
theater, and Jane Cowl.”
If the newspaper ladies had read
their papers carefully, they would
have known that Miss Cowl was
passing the week in Dayton, Ohio,
was not due here until April 26.
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Earthquake Recorded.
Believed to have occurred in the
North Pacific Ocean, 5,600 miles away,
a severe earthquake was recorded re
cently on the seismograph at Rath
farnham Castle, Dublin, Irish Free
State.
Thinks Capital, Labor and
Professions Should Solve
Problems.
Creation of a “supreme Court of
public opinion" in the form of a non
official council representative of labor,
capital and the major professions to
seek a solution of present economic
problems was proposed by Dr. Edmund
A. Walsh, S. J„ vice president of
Georgetown University, last night dur
ing his weekly lecture caurse in
Memorial Continental Hall.
The only function of the Govern
ment in connection with the economic
council, Dr. Walsh suggested, should
be to provide it a meeting place and
then lock the door and say:
"You shall not come out until you
have reached an agreement. If you
cannot reach an equitable solution,
the legislative power will be evoked
to effect by law what you confess
yourself incapable of achieving by
mutual co-operation. This is your
last chance. Regulate yourself—or
be forever silent when the sovereignty
of law shall speak after your default.”
Dr. Walsh was assisted by a group of
students from the School of Foreign
Service at Georgetown, who assumed
the role of delegates to the proposed
council from the various occupations
and professions.
Assisting Students.
They were Charles J. Cole and R
M. Sheehan, representing labor; Rich
ard J. Forhan, the Chamber of Com
merce; Reginald Martine, banking
institutions; Jack C, Corbett, Ameri
can Manufacturers' Association; J.
F. Gaghan, the lumber industry; P.
H, Grafton, the consumers of America;
R. E. Alfaro, G, R, Jennings, C. A.
Rocheleau and W. F. Carpenter, rep
resenting the various religions; D.
W, Weatherbv. National Education
Association: Chester S. Davis, agri
culture; William C. Waldo, National
Academy of Sciences, and Leonard R.
Raish, transportation and marine.
Acting as chairman of the council,
Dr. Walsh directed a general discus
sion of the major economic problems,
during the course of which the rep
resentatives of labor suggested that
since capital distributes dividends,
labor should have a share of the
profits.
Buying Power Support
Agreeing with this proposal, the rep
resentative for the consumers said:
"Anything that increases labor's
buying power, and consequently helps
to stabilize our national economy, mer
its enthusiastic support. For the finan
cial burden of widespread unemploy
; ent falls heaviest on us. the tax pay
ers, who are called upon at once to
shoulder new burdens for relief, for
Red Cross contributions, for Commu
nity Chest drives, increased taxes,
Federal, State and local: appeals for
charity and hospitals and for similar
emergency funds.
"We consumers are usually left out
of your economic planning. But we
are expected to pay the bills. We in
| tend to be heard hereafter."
ARTHUR BRISBANE
WILL IS PROBATED
—
All Estate Beyond Debts and Real
Property to Go to Family's
Benefit.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 1.—The will and
codicil of Arthur Brisbane, which his
lawyers said was probated yesterday
before Surrogate Joseph Donahay of
Monmouth County, N. J., bequeaths
all of his estate beyond debts, ex
penses and real property to a group
of trustees, to be managed for the
benefit of his family.
The petition recited merely that the
world's highest paid newspaper writer,
who died last Christmas morning,
possessed real estate worth "more
than $10,000” and personal property
of "more than $10,000,"
The will was dated October 6, 1934;
the codicil, March 7, 1936, nearly 10
months before his unexpected death.
After providing for payment of
debts and expenses and devising ex
tensive real estate holdings in New
York State to a corporation. Mr. Bris
bane bequeathed the remainder to
the trustees under an indenture of
trust dated February 10, 1931.
The indenture was made for Mrs.
Brisbane, his four daughters and son
and other members of his family.
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Monkey Cake Eaters.
DENVER (tfh.—Skipper, a civilian
simian, was the ring-tailed darling of
the Denver City Park monkey colony.
Mrs. Henry E. Shannon, wife of a
real estate man, let Skipper celebrate
his first birthday by giving a party for
the 21 monkeys at the Zoo. They ate
individual cakes.
Handwriting Expert’s Role
in Crime Solution Told
by Harbo.
The role that handwriting experts
play in solution of crimes and of mys
teries where no crime has been com
mitted was related before the Na
tional Association of Penmanship
Teachers and Supervisors yesterday
by R. T. Harbo, administrative assist
ant to J. Edgar Hoover, head of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
"Handwriting identification is a part
of the broader field of document ex
amination, which is one of the oldest
and most valuable of police sciences,”
Harbo said. "Document identification
includes, in addition to the study of
handwriting, the study and compari
son of paper, paper perforations, inks,
pencil deposits, carbon sheet deposits
annd typewriter ribbon markings.
"It may be generally stated that the
identification of two specimens of
handwriting is based on the fact that
handwriting is an Individual process
and that no two persons have exactly
the same combination of habits in
connection with their writing. The
writer is not aware of the existence
of many of these habits, and this fact
makes it possible for the handwriting
experts to make identifications even
when there have been deliberate at
tempts to disguise the writing."
Dr. Fiank W. Ballou, superin
tendent of schools, was another speak
er on the convention program at the
Wardman Park Hotel. Discussing the
ultimate goats of the congressional
demonstration in character education
in Washington schools, he said the
general educational program and
theory must be changed "if character
education is to be included as one of
the desired results of public educa
tion."
Miss Bertha A. Connor, director of
handwriting, Boston public schools,
spoke on "Handwriting Today.”
The annual banquet and dance of
the association was held last night
with the Washington Teachers’ Com
mittee as hosts.
The convention will close this after
noon with a business session.
Speakers at the session this morn
ing were to be Dr. C. E. Waters, chief
of the organic chemistry section, Na
tional Bureau of Standards, on
"Inks"; Bourdon W. Scribner, chief
of the paper section of the bureau,
on "School Paper"; Dr. John G. Kirk,
director of commercial education and
handwriting, Philadelphia, on "The
Current Trends in the Supervision of
Handwriting," and Rev. George John
son, Ph. D., associate professor of edu
cation at Catholic University, on "De
velopment Through Discipline.”
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AMY JOHNSON HINTS
AT TRANS-SEA RACE
■
I Noted Woman Flyer Begins Navi
gation Study Under Comdr.
Weems at Annapolis.
By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS. Md„ May 1.—With a
j New York-to-Paris race with French
and Rumanian flyers a possibility,
Mrs. Amy Johnson Mollison, famed
British woman flyer, today began an
intensive two-week course in air navi
gation here, under the tutelage of
Comdr. P. V. H. Weems, U. S. N.,
retired.
Miss Johnson, as she prefers to be
known, arrived here last night with
Col. Alexis Illyene, former Russian
Army flyers in the czarist army, and
j colleague of Comdr. Weems.
Col. Illyene said Miss Johnson spoke
I of a flight in June. He said that &
race from New York to Paris with a
prize offered by the French govern
ment was still in process of forma
5 tion and that the aviatrix also spoke
! of a “possible” flight around the
I werld.
I Plans are by no means definite, he
added.
! Miss Johnson will attempt to master
| the intricacies of the Weems sys
' tern, used by aerial navigators the
world over, in the short period of
time by working at least 10 hours a
day, Col. Illyene said.
LIQUOR, CASH STOLEN
26 Cases Taken From Store on
Eighteenth Street.
Twenty-six cases of liquor, valued at
$711, were stolen last night from the
store of Myer Sigel, 2442 Eighteenth
street, he told police today. In addi
tion, the robbers took $40 from the
cash register.
The robbers gained entrance to the
store by cutting away metal bars
which guarded a rear window, Sigel
said.
Denhardt on Stand
Brig. Gen. H. H. Denhardt pictured in the witness chair at
New Castle, Ky„ as he read letters from Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor,
whom the commonwealth charges he murdered. Some read
“Henry dear” and ended with “Love, Verna." Denhardt claims
Mrs. Taylor killed herself. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
A Family Reunion in Seattle
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, arriving in Seattle for a family visit, was greeted at the airport
last night by her grandchildren, Curtis Dali (left) and Eleanor Dali. Her son-in-law and daugh
ter, Mr. and Mrs. John Boettiger, also shown, met Mrs. Roosevelt in San Francisco and flew with
her to Seattle. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
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LA FOLLEnE BODY
Cases of Conflicting Testi
mony Weighed—Inquiry
Reopens Monday.
In recess until Monday, the Senate
Civil Liberties Committee this week
end planned careful study of several
instances of directly conflicting tes
timony given under oath during its
hearing into violations of civil liber
ties in Harlan County, Ky.
Principal instance of contradiction
involves an alleged attempt by Sheriff
T. R. Middleton to persuade Hugh
Taylor, former deputy whose murder
was alleged to have been attempted by
Deputies Frank White and Wash
Irving, to hide out during the Sen
ate probe.
Taylor and his wife previously testi
fied that Middleton had offered him
$2,000 or an increased salary of $150
per month to stay away from the in
vestigation. Middleton admitted yes
terday he had offered to pay Taylor
his salary while he was convalescing
but denied any mention of $2,000 or
any desire to keep the wounded man
away from the committee.
After two hours of angry question
ing of Middleton and George S. Ward,
secretary of the Coal Operators As
sociation. Chairman La Pollette yes
terday adjourned the hearing and or
dered both of the above. Pearl Bass
ham, the "little Napoleon" among the
anti-union operators; Mr. and Mrs.
Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence How
ard and Bill C. “Thug" Johnson to
be on hand Monday afternoon.
OFFICIALS TO DEDICATE
NEW PICNIC GROUNDS
The newly constructed picnic areas
built by the Civilian Conservation
Corps at Fort Hunt, Va., on the
Mount Vernon Memorial Highway,
were to be officially dedicated this
afteroon by Interior Department offi
cials and their families. The pro
grram was scheduled to start at 1
o'clock.
First Assistant Secretary Theodore
A. Walters of the Interior Depart
ment was to be guest of honor. Arno
B. Cammerer, director of the National
Park Service, and his associate, A. E.
Demaray, and C. Marshall Finnan,
superintendent of the National Capi
tal parks, were invited.
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MERCHANT FINED
Robert Klevitt, 36, a merchant, of
413 Fourth street southwest, yester
day was fined $100 by Police Court
Judge Edward M. Curran on six
charges of violating the weights and
measures laws, each case involving
short weights in the sale of meat
and chickens. Klevitt previously had
demanded a jury trial but withdrew
the demand and pleaded guilty.
Denhardt
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truck driver employed at Mrs. Taylor'*
laundry in La Grange. Denhardt de
scribed Woolfolk as jealous and *aid
Woolfolk’* attentions to Mrs. Taylor
caused her to take her own life. Den
hardt testified that the widow told him
Woolfolk warned her not to marry
the general.
Trial Ends Second Week.
The trial ended Its second week
today. The case was not expected
to go to the Jury before next Tuesday.
R. O. Sherberg, Cook County, 111.,
chemist, in his testimony yesterday
attacked the paraffin tests of Den
hardt’* hands made by the State. He
termed them “unreliable.” The State
contended the tests showed that Den
hardt had fired a gun shortly before
the widow's body was found in a
roadside ditch.
Another defense expert, Maj. Seth
Wiard of Washington, D. C., told the
Jury the death gun was pressed
“closely” against the widow’s breast.
The State had offered testimony
designed to show that the gun was
discharged at a distance which pre
cluded the suicide theory.
MRS. ROOSEVELT PLANS
WEEK’S STAY IN WEST
Grandchildren Welcome Her on
Arrival at Seattle Airport
From San Francisco.
Ft the Associated Press, •
SEATTLE, May 1.—Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt settled down today for
a week's vacation with her grandchil- j
dren and their mother and stepfather, ,
Mr. and Mis. John Boettiger.
She had not seen the grandchildren,
Eleanor and Curtis Dali, since they '
left the White House shortly before
Christmas.
When Mrs. Roosevelt and the Boetti- I
gers arrived here by plane yesterday
from San Francisco the children were
at the airport to meet her.
Mrs. Roosevelt made it clear to in
terviewers that, except for a civic wel- !
come Wednesday night, she intended
to spend her whole time quietly with
the family.
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MAN, 71, IS FOUND DEAD
IN TUB OF HOT WATER
Former Veterans' Administration
Employe Is Discovered by
Hotel Employe.
Joseph A. Weise, 71, former employe
of the Veterans’ Administration, was
found dead in a bathtub filled with
hot water at the Occidental Hotel last
night.
Police said Weise. who had lived at
the hotel about three years, apparently
slipped and fell into the tub, judging
from the position in which he was
found. Friends said he was crippled
in one leg and had fallen several
; times recently.
Hot water was still running into
the tub when the body was found by
Raymond Deaver, hotel employe, who
entered the room after failing to get
a response when he knocked on the
door about 8 p.m.
Detective Sergt. Walter S. Beck said
Weise had no relatives here other than
a young niece. He said he had gotten
in touch with a nephew, Joseph Stein
brunner, in Cincinnati, and that burial
arrangement were being made.
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SORORITY SESSION
Three District chapters of Sigma
Phi Omega, women's national ac
counting sorority, will take part in
the organization's national convention
here Tuesday and Wednesday. They
represent Benjamin Franklin Uni
versity, Southeastern University and
Strayer College of Accountancy.
Miss Nora Ellis Maddox, chief of
the administrative audits division of
the Social Security Board, will be
speaker at a dinner at 8 p.m. Tues
day in the Y. M. C. A. Building.
Miss Marion A. Mitchell, national
president, will preside.
Justice Roberts,
High Court Pivot,
Is 62 Tomorrow
Gained National Fame
in Prosecuting Tea
pot Dome Cases.
Br the Associated Press.
Justice Owen J. Roberts, youngest
member of the Supreme Court, whose
vote has been considered the decid
ing factor in several recent decisions
on administration laws, will be 62 to
morrow.
He was one of five justices voting
to uphold the Washington State mini
mum wage law and the Wagner labor
relations act. He voted last year
against a New York minimum wage
law for women.
Roberts gamed national prominence
in prosecuting the Teapot Dome ofl
cases for the Government after the
Harding administration. President
Hoover appointed him to the court ir:
1930.
An honor graduate of the University
of Pennsylvania Law School, Roberts
taught there as instructor and pro
fessor from 1898 to 1918. Later he
entered private practice in Philadel
phia.
FIGHT ON COUNT
Friends and Enemies of Bill
Resumed Broadcasts
Last Night.
Br the Associated Press.
Friends and enemies of the Presi
dent's Supreme Court bill resumed
their radio broadcasts last night as
the Senate Judiciary Committee,
which now stands 10 to 8 against the
measure, dropped hostilities over the
week end.
The committee, however, was pre
pared to resume executive sessions this
week, looking toward a vote on the Will
by May 18.
The National Lawyers’ Guild, back
ing the bill, sponsored a series of din
ners last night which were addressed
by members of Congress and other
speakers. To all of them a group of
five speakers, headed by Senator
Green. Democrat, of Rhode Island,
spoke by radio from Washington.
Speak in New England.
At the same time, two Democratic
opponents of the bill. Senators Bailey.
Democrat, of North Carolina and
Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska, were
addressing New England audiences,
the former at Hartford. Conn., and the
latter at New Haven.
Senator Burke said the President's
court bill is a clear violation of the
spirit of the Constitution, that it
“does not even touch the evils which
are alleged to exist," and that “it
strikes at the very heart of our inde
pendent judiciary.”
"I do not believe that the people
are deceived.” he said. "They would
welcome the prompt withdrawal or
defeat of this proposal. When that
has been done, when Congress and the
President make up their minds to be
content with the exercise of the vast
powers than the people have been
willing to surrender, we will begin to
make real progress."
Three Courses Open.
As part of the Lawyers' Guild pro
gram, Senator Green said there are
three courses open to the Nation in
dealing with the conflict between the
administration and the Supreme Courr,.
“First, to do nothing." he said. “This,
in my opinion, will prove fatal to our
existing institutions. Second, to amend
the Constitution. This. I believe to be
both unnecessary and entirely im
practical. Third, to make such changes
m the Supreme Court as may be made
within the Constitution. Let us act in
the best way open to us. That way, I
am convinced, is the way we are now
discussing—the way the President has
proposed.”
John P. Devaney. president of the
Lawyers’ Guild, said the organization
indorses the President's proposal "as
the only immediately available method
to make possible current legislation
now imperatively needed."
DR. A. H. COMPTON TALKS
TO RELIGIOUS LEADERS
Nobel Prize Winner Speaks at
Luncheon Session in
Lee House.
“Science and religion can be justi
fied only in so far as they give to
man that which he wants and needs,”
Dr. Arthur H. Compton, Nobel prize
winner in physics in 1927 and present
head of the physics department of
the University of Chicago, yesterday
told more than 80 local religious lead
ers at a lunceon in the Lee House.
Long active in the religious field
himself, Dr. Compton was the guest
of honor of the Laymen’s Missionary
Movement here, along with F. J.
Michel, secretary of the movement
in Chicago, who told of the progress
made by the organization during the
last 10 years.
Lawrence Choate, leader in the
movement here, presided at the
1 session.
Church 130 Year* Old.
ALTON, HI.. May 1 (>¥»).—’The 130th
anniversary of the founding of the
first Baptist Church in Madison
| County will be observed here Sunday.
HITLER THREATEN
REVOLTING CLERGY
Hits Catholic, Protestant
Opposition in Speech to
50,000 Workers.
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, May L—Adolf Hitler
threatened bluntly today to "withdraw
the clergyman’s license"" from any who
tries to "disturb our community
spirit.”
He lashed out at opposition—Cath
olic and otherwise—in a speech at the
Lustgarten, often the scene of wildly
cheering Nazi gatherings. But to
day’s reaction was one of moderate
applause.
Some 50,000 workers gathered in
the huge square between the museum
and the former imperial palace. An
unbroken wall of 45-foot swastika
banners flanked the square on both
sides.
Many women and some men fainted
under the hot sun.
"If anybody tries through ency
clicals, sermons or other religious
measures to disturb our community
spirit we will simply withdraw the
clergyman's license from such," Hitler
cried.
"It will not do for certain circles
to criticize our morals when they have
the greatest reason to be concerned
about morals in their own ranks."
Hitler’s speech provided further
repercussions of the fight between
Nazism and Catholicism.
Nazis have been accused by Pope
Pius, in an Easter encyclical, of vio
lating the 1933 Gprman-Vatican con
cordat setting up separate spheres of
Influence in the Reich.
The government recently sentenced
three Catholic chaplains to long prison
terms on charges of aiding a united
Catholic - Communist front against
Nazidom. Several Catholic brothers
received sentences on immorality
charges.
Hitler, in a 50-minute address, also
aimed a side blow' at Jews, who, he
said, controlled the destinies of Soviet
Russia. He said "none of the Soviet
leadership has arisen from the prole
tariat, they are ruled by another tribe.”
The workers cheered this.
Then Der Fuehrer pleaded with
both workers and employers to in
crease production without demanding
higher prices or higher wages.
De Valera
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adopted for like purposes by any group
in the League of Nations with whicn
the Eire (Ireland) is or becomes asso
ciated for the purpose of international
co-operation in matters of common
concern.”
This section, some observers believed,
left a loophole for continuance of
common action with the British Em
pire in matters of foreign policy.
The constitution would give the
Irish Free State the ancient name of
the country, “Eire,” and establish
Gaelic as the predominant national
language. De Valera used both Gaelic
and English in publishing the docu
ment.
[The London press received the
declaration of sovereignty with calm,
cool skepticism. The censervative
Telegraph termed it a “dream consti
tution." declaring that Eire "cannot
be sovereign because its authority will
not be recognized by Ulster.” The
Mail quoted J. M. Barbour, Ulster
; (Northern Ireland) minister of com
merce, as saying: "For De Valera to
! speak for the whole of Ireland is fan
tastic. There is nothing to prevent
him from putting the idea in his con
stitution, but it is too absurd to con
template. We stay where we are "]
(The Post, official conservative or
gan. termed the document a reflection
; of De Valera's “implacable and pe
1 dantic mind * * * and love of make
believe, so dear to the Irish charac
ter. )
Inspiration From V. S.
The provisions of the constitution
suggested De Valera found inspiration
from the United States Constitution
and the papal encyclicals, notabiy
those of Pope Leo VIII. It opened
with a prayer to the Holy Trinity.
The keystone of the new legislative
set-up would be the presidency, with
the executive elected for terms of sev
en years by direct vote of the people.
The excutive would appoint, on nom
ination of the Dail Eireann (Lower
House of Parliament), a prime min
ister, or taoiseach, to head the cab
inet. Composition of the Dail would
remain unchanged.
De Valera's present post is “pres
ident of the executive council.’’ The
highest executive office formerly was
that of governor general, appointed
by the crown.
That position disappeared last De
cember when Donal Buckley, an old
Irish Republican, appointed by King
George V in 1932, signed the Dails
act abolishing his £10.000-a-year job
< 550,000)—in effect abolishing his
own position.
Proposes Novel Method.
Under the new constitution the gap
caused by abolishment of the gov
ernor-generalship would be filled by
the President. Exclusive legislative
powers would be held by the two
houses of the Parliament, Dail and
Seanad Eireann. or Senate.
De Valera abolished the former
Senate a year ago, declaring it frus
trated the wishes of the people. The
new Senate would be chosen by a
novel method. The prime minister
would nominate 11 members and the
49 others would be elected in voca
tional panels after each general elec
nun.
Three senators each would be elected
by the National University and Dublin
University and the others would be
chosen to represent language, culture,
education, agriculture, fisheries, or
ganized and unorganized labor, in
dustry, commerce, public administra
tion and social service.
The old constitution, conferred by
British royal proclamation in 1922,
would be discarded and with It its
system of military tribunals for politi
cal offenders, these to be replaced with
special courts to try cases in which
juries are likely to be Intimidated.
The constitution would carry guar
antees of fundamental rights of per
son, family, education, private prop
erty and religion, recognizing the
Roman Catholic Church as guardian
of the faith of the country's majority,
but denying no rights to other re
ligious. Divorce would be barred un
der the provision that “no law shall
be enacted providing for the grant of
a dissolution of marriage."
Directive principles of social policy,
based on papal encylicals, were out
lined for the guidance of Parliament.
During the three years after the con
stitution becomes effective, Parlia
ment, subject to discretion of the
president, would be permitted to
amend the document.