t . v . a . In Washing ton, ten men Vvere named today - and nine accepted The lower House named five Representatives, and the Senate named five Senators - and one declined* It all concerns the T.y.A. The ten lawmakers were named to the joint committee^ representing both Houses, to investigate the great federal project in the Tennessee Ifaxtim Valley - the charges and the counter-charges* But who is the senator that refuses to serve on the joint committee? Who is the individual w&m&m not only out of step but won’ t join in the step at all? Why, that individualistic perennial. Senator Borah* When the statesman from Idaho learned that he had been named he immediately declined; and he explained it to the reporters this ways ”1 don't believe in investigations by town meeting," said he. "If it had been a committee of three or five Senators* I'd have been glad to hav^ nr* if it had h^en So, Ax according to Borah of Idaho, senators are all right and a committee of three or five members of the House^' ^summarized: "I've never seen any good come out of Joint investigations." Representatives are all right, but they don 't mix - something like cats and dogs* CONVENTION Twenty-three years ago* in Nineteen Fifteen, New y^rk State held a constitutional convention. The convention drew up a new Constitution for the state, which, however, was turned down by the voters. So the big doings didn!t amount to much. There was one small side angle, however, that did count for.a good deal. >a»a%#r of no 0ne of the delegates was a young of no particular renown, rather new at the business of lawmaking. He came from no distinguished family of long political tradition, was an alumnus of no stately university. In fact, hefrom the ± slums of New York1s east side, began life working in a fish market, and had been sent to the legislature by Tammany, He was distinctly TP from the sidewalks of New York. His name - Alfred E. Smith. The presiding officer of the convention was that most distinguished elder statesman from the Republican Party - Elihu Root. After the complicated proceedings were over, Elihu Root spoke his opinion this way:- "Of all the men at the convention, Alfred E. Smith is the best informed on the business of the State of New York." So, it was at a Constitutional Converttion where A1 Smith of the sidewalks of New York first distinguished himself In a big CONVENTION - 2 way as a master of the art of law and government. We all know how the story continues - four times Governor of the State of New York, a national political figure and a candidate for the presidency of the United States. Now what happened today? We find the story rounding out with an appropriate touch. Today, a New York Constitutional Convention assembled to draft a new basic * charter for the State. And one of the first things it did was to elect as its Honorary President - Alfred E. Smith. So mark it down this way for the man in the brown derby:- He made his mark in the New York -iQukjzJild Constitutional Convention of Nineteen Fifteen. ^He^was-^isarely elected president in Nineteen Twenty-Eight. And in Nineteen — A Thirty-Eight - hefs elected President of the New York Constitutional Convention, ThatTs as neat and round as a brown derbyI SPAIN At three oTclock this afternoon, in Barcelona, a dramatic thing happened - something to make any modern human being stop and wonder. It was - the sudden stoppage of all electricity in a great metropolitan city, the complete failure of light and power. Earlier in the day, there had been a temporary stoppage of electricity in one or two sections. But at three o’clock it was utter and complete. Suddenly - street cars came to a stop on boulevards. Electric trains on suburban lines came to halt wherever they happened to be running. The wheels of machines in factories slowed abruptly to a standstill. If it had been night-time, most people would have been made aware by - lights out. As it was, inhabitants of houses and the crowds thronging the cafes came to attention when the radio, right in the middle of programs, snapped into silence. Barcelona plays its radios loudly, and there are plenty of them. So that was the dramatic sign - when music was cut off in the middle of a measure, when speakers broke off in the middle of a sonorous Spanish word. V/hy? That was the swift question - and swiftly answered. The government Issued a statement explaining that the electricity SPAIN - 2 had been shut off because of repairs to power stations and transmission lines* The people had their own answer - they didn*t have to do much guessing. They knew, what I»ve 3ust been told in A a letter from a radio listener. Fred Smith, a New York engineer, writes as follows nIn Nineteen Twelve arjflmerlcan construction company started an eighty million dollai^roject in Catalonia, building dams and power houses supply ^ Barcelona a million horse­ power a day. I joined the Company in Nineteeri Thirteen,” Engineer Fred continues, "and soon was made superintendent of transmission A lines in the Province of Lerida. The World^ War made us close down construction on the huge project, but not until we had three power houses finished and transmission lines completed to Barcelona. v Thi&-«^orrespondsmi t hatvFrancq rwi» oil# r>£- tiaBaft-a^Qw»gr-4fie»g»o othep5*isfo all-impor^gtR^'^g" Barcel'Oim^aOTu thoee other tw<»;» --he~w$*it^e, rup?r^f ^ nr>yr>»»d ...t^Mida^-over-somyHrhi rty-miles ^ Ifewhe can do ^ha-ty-^e--gan rob Barcelona immediately of ninety per cent of its power for ixataox tramways, subways, light, factories and munition SPAIN - 3 plants. So those American povier plantsFranco’s objective a battle for a million horsepower a day. These general facts were in the minds of the people In Barcelona when all the electricity in the town suddenly went * orfK They knew, moreover, that the Rebels were driving hard agiinst captured* the power house thmwm had fallen- The city was electrically dead until three thirty, and then there was a sudden movement of electrical life. The radios began to emit sounds ■from loud speakers again, -but in a flickering way. It was only a brief flurry, and the electricity was off again. That lasted until ten minutes past four, and then the street cars, electric trains and factories began to run again and the radios began going at full blast. Not throughout the whole city, though. Tonight, one large district of Barcelona is still without light or Ilr—The authorities have switched to emergency electrical plants, which a tbe xfnxxKgLKXgEaxyjiaiiy serve xoi the power house^afe&Bffip^. A power. emergency city use only, or SPAIN - 4 of "bile" Hycl pq — eXso3 The Rebel seizure of those American built plants^woui^' demoralize the munitions Industry Catalonia, and Catalans produce ninety per cent of the munitions of Left Wing Spain. On top of that. FrancoT s battalions have cut the lines of communition for munitions between Barcelona and Madrid. The latest is that the Rebels are battling their way into the City of Tortosa v> which lies at the head of the delta of the Ebro River. They have virtually reached the sea, and thereby split Left Wing Spain in two One dispatch relates that Franco cannon have opened xaa a bombardment of the highway and railroad, the Left Wing lifeline along the coast, and have cut it with shell fire. There’s internal strife in the Barcelona g over nine nt, a cabinet shake-up. Premier Negrin^has taken full power, and has deposed Minister of War Prieto - who since the beginning of the Civil War, has been the power behind the Left Wing throne. In the new cabinet that has been formed, the Minister of War is a Communist to ^ chief, while the post of foreign affairs^s-expeated to go: to SPAIN - 5 representative of former Premier Largo Caballero, who is backed by the Anarchists. One report tells that a committee of jewelry experts is busy in Barcelona appriaising the value of the hoards of jewelry in the possession of the Barcelona government treasure they faaA A seized. It looks as if a sale were intended -and one recalls the jewels of the Czar and Russian nobles seized by the Bolsheviks and sold all ewer the world. Left Wing President Azana has moved his residence from Barcelona - miles to the north, and on the road to France. And the American Embassy has moved, also to the north - on the road to France. All of these are elements of the Barcelona picture tonight, which looks like a picture of impending doom. And they say that the word of doom is about to be spoken — that Fnsjs Franco is about to issue an ultimatum to Barcelona. "Surrender - or all the forces of war will be let loosePT The report is that the Left Wing chieftain has a manifesto ready, telling the city that if it does not yield, it will be immediately assailed with an overwhelming SPAIN - 6 drive of all the weapons of modern war - on the ground, from the sea and from the sky. The threat includes a military drive in full force, a bombardment by warships that are now steaming along the coast. And a cataclysmic bombing by swarms of war planes, a double and redoubled version of those murderous air raids that have made the world protest ADD SPAIN JLEJudtx And hereTs Government has sent a A the latest. In desperation, the Barcelona note to London and Paris, appealing for help. They ask that the Non-Intervention Agreement be called off so that war supplies can be shipped into Spain and aid staving off that inevitable doom. GEHIvlAN BISHOPS There's one place in Germany most f amous in medieval church history - Fulda, the great monastery of Fulda. It was founded by St, Boniface, apostle of the Germans, and for many a long dark century was the center of learning and ecclesiastical power in the darkness and wilderness. At Fulda walk the shadows of great abbots and Prince—bishops of old* hnd Nineteen Thirty-Eight, there in this Year of Grace the Bishops ( of Germany gathered to decide their policy toward the Nazi election which is to ratify Hitler's seizure of Austria, They had to take in mind the action of their colleagues, the bishops of Austria, ¥teia-gyTriBw»aliidhctey These, headed by Cardinal Innitzer of Vienna, .vote# Nazi in the forthcoming plebiscite. Aid A that was the cause of something of a stir in Rome, with the statemeni that the pro-Nazi action of the Austrian bishops was taken without ^ »i, consultation with the Vatican.sharp-^attentlon:--focnsedzxin^-'rtba. Di A question - "What^^^the German bishops do, confronted by the same question in their meeting at monastic Fulda?" Today we are told. The German bishops, headed by Cardinal Faulhaber of Munich, decided - No, They voted - not to issue GERMAN BISHOPS - 2 a pastoral letter, as the Austrian, bishops did*. They111 not advise German Catholics to vote Nazi in the election. Their policy is - silefioe.y) This they^^M^on the advice of Cardinal Faulhaber, who expressed his opinion that if the bishops were to declare themselves for or against in the election, it would constitute - political action** 'They are keeping out of politics - that*© the action, of action, of the German bishops as they decree - silence, A JAPAN Tne Far East provides us with a neat little danger angle this evening. Quite an Asiatic tv/ister in the most recent row between Japan and Soviet Russia - with Japan protesting to Moscow that the Soviets are aiding the Chinese against Japan. Today a spokesman for the Mikado Ts Foreign Office declared himself thusly:- ££i 5 *£HX±jt±x±. nThe SovietT s mere apology to the Japanese Government will not avail," No, Tokyo will not be content with an apology from Moscow. But tax who said Moscow is apologizing? That’s the tricky reply twist. The Sovietfs^joq^btMBt to the Japanese protest is an outright rejection - a refusal with a jeer and a jibe. Moscow points out that it has a perfect right to sell war munitions to the Chinese. c£t~ Why not? Where is the war? That’s a neat thrustthe fact that Japan is waging an undeclared war. Moscow concedes nothing, no apology or anything else. So there seems to be some sinister kind of logic or illogical in today’s Tokyo statement:- an apology from the Soviets j L'M z *- wiH not suffice. one man saying ”1 will not apologize", and the otrier replying, "I will not be content with your apology." The Japanese give us another sinister bit today, most I’Ve hear a.bo'al s r a volt JArAS - 2 darkly sinister for the Chinese.if true, in me stern China, with the MO'hmtnne dans there on the ram.ps.t:e against the Chinese Communists. Those central Asian Mosleas have a terrific history of ferocious revolt. Their fanatic relit.ion puts them frequently at odds with ,„hat they no doubt - ould call - the heat ten Chinee. .And when those warlike sons of the prophet get tangled up with Chinese Comunism - that might cause a wild explosion. The Japanese claim it has - a Hohamntedan revolt in westerii China I Ok •b -t£q ^~7 Th _ /hoTt-o.- k^i v r vxj 2 L hz JT^ l l-VWl CAlv^ -C a ^ c^ A-Htr -tt n PNjC- £>IT down At Heading, Pennsylvania the City Hall^it do»vn strike ended today, after lasting since March *c6. The ^achemer family. Poppa, Momma and nine kids, moved out after holding the fort in the City Hall for eleven days. The family on relief, moved A in, because they expected to be evicted from their home. They fAa-Ji experienced that sort of thing several times before, and were tired of being evicted. Ho they just moved in^the City Hall, and made their home there. The officials, nonplussed, but not knowing what to do * ji let them stay there. Today ne sit-down family picked up and moved out — to a hotel, an abandoned hotel where another family on relief is holding the fort. They explained it all — this way; They found that their relief check was cut from twenty dollars to fifteen dollars and eighty cents, because while living in the ^ity Hall they paid no rent or light and fuel bills. That was a fast one nulled by the relief authorities. Hecondly the school board ordered the children back to the class-rooms * and the schoi was twenty-five blocks avv -y from the City Hall, ^hat made it ratner a long trip. The abandoned hotel is only twelve clocks away _ much easier. ioIT-DOV/fri Old Heading tom has had a curious example of the rather sli^-shod, good-natured way that democracy sometimes works*— ©ut with a smile. Jv-tTvO