BLACK ^ ^ ,-3-e ^ ’ i '^<JUD. L-!',) (^PoliLleal opinion continites to ^eeth today over Supreme Court Justice Black and the Ku Klux Klan. The general tone of the comment is severe - holding that a member of the hooded order Is unfit for the Supreme CourtThere is even mention of that drastic word - impeachment. * One expression of sympathy and understanding for the Justice comes from the Governor of his native state, the Honorable Bibb Graves. Bibb says he does not know whether or » not Justice Black ever belonged to .the Ku Klux. But if he * did. Bibb is not one to point the finger of scorn. Because he himself was a Ku Kluxer. tfThere never was any secret about my membership,n he ad*it ted today. MI wras a joiner and I joined ft practically all the patriotic societies." He adds that he dropped out of the Klan when he became Governor in Nineteen Twenty-Seven. The "Birmington, Alabama Post" contributes its own mite of sympathy and understanding: "Mr. Black," says an editorial, "no doubt has regretted many times that he ever heard of the Klan." Then the "Birmington Post" continues: "The Klan^ scarecrow has been worked to death in Alabama and the issue itself is dead.” Meanwhile, in London Senator Black has nothing to say. Hefs virtually a prisoner in his hotel, besieged by American correspondents. They*re eager to ask, is he *3 has he been a A member of the KU Klux Klan?" Through the hotel manager. Justice Black sent word to them that he would give no answer, will not discuss the question. 4;r ‘ Here!s a last minute flash — from the Imperial Wizard oi the Klu hXux Klan. He takes a flin^ at Senator Copeland v/ho wx Taihile campaigning lor Mayor six in .Mew York, has been blasting against Justice Black & the Klan. tl TtX-e UJSiAsjt*. \d*4i Imperial Wizard Evans comes out with this* 1 111 ■!' A always supported Senator Copeland,11 he declares. "We 3 t±ii were S 1 - >v7 directly responsible for his election* to the Senate in 1928." He climaxed by adding — that the Klu Klux will vote for the Senator in the forthcoming election for Mayor. And that surely is givings iaaszgiaBBJithe Senator some most unwelcome support. : I! 5 \A\&£aJl SUPREME COURT Who was responsible for the President's Supreme Court plan^ which got along so badly? Who out the idea of appointing new members to sit along with the older justices, the whole complicated scheme which was turned dawn? There's an answer to that in the issue of the SATURDAY EVENING POST Just out, an a rticle .written by Washington correspondents Alsop and Catledgg of the NEW YORK TRIBUNE and TIMES, respectively. They say the man who originated the court plan was Attorney General Cummings, who is almost never mentioned as the inspirer of the scheme. The one man who is commonly credited with starting the court enlargement proposal, is Professor Felix Frankfurter, the brain trust professor. But the POST article says that Frankfurter opposed it, advised the President against it. XtSKXMaHxiniHr The most interesting personality point in this magazine revelation concerns Chief Justice MacReynolds, who has been a staunch New Deal antagonist. His name stands for the firmest opposition to the presidential plan for court reorganiza­ tion . Yet we are told that Attorney General Cummings got the idea SUPREME COURT - 2 from a memorandum dating way back to Nineteen Thirteen. That!s The where he got his inspiration, the beginning of th^fija^ memorandum Bgx&MjmggKx&flnaictxgttggiiKjctBuaa made a series of Supreme Court suggestions, -it was prepared for President Wilson by the then Attorney General - MacReynolds, who is now a Supreme Court Justice. MARRY At Washington, D.C., a lawsuit was filed today, and amid all the legal verbiage of whereas and wherefore, allege and affirm - one of the strangest stories is told. It»s a tale of government intrigue in Latin-America, a death threat by the Presidente, a forced marriage. Lewis Clarkson asks the annulment of his marriage to a lady of Peru. Clarkson is an American business man who used to live and transact commerce in Peru. The Senora is described as a mystery woman of deep . dark secrets. The legal documents filed in Washington today relate how one day, twelve years ago, i;i the old stately city of Lima, Clarkson was summoned to the palace of President^ Leguia. There, after the exchange of compliments, the President# spoke up and asked Clarkson to marry the mysterious Senora. Clarkson was astounded. He knew the Senora, had met her a year before. Moreover* he had heard a great deal about her. Today's legal papers describe her as follows: "A person of bad reputation commonly known to be involved in Peruvian political intrigues and to be supported by various MARRY _ g prominent government officials including the President# of the Republic.” ouch was the bride theAmeriean business man was asked to take, asked by the President* of Peru. He said - "Ho.” He repeated - "No.” Leguia, the President#, replied - that hefd better, or there might be an accidental shooting, some mishap of gunfire, and Clarkson would be the victim. The marriage occurred shortly afterward, when four presidential secret service men came to Clarkson's home, and escorted him to the church. They were escorts who seemed quite likely to put into effect the presidential alternative - of a wedding or an accidental shooting. The marriage, under such circumstances, was hardly what you'd call a success, not one of those lifelong unions of bliss. Clarkson and his bride saw the last of each other several months later. They went their separate ways, and in Nine teal Twenty—eight Clarkson heard the Senorcs had died. Two years after that, things in Peru blew up with a revolution, and President* Leguia was^tej3e*£^^e«®«» More recently. MAKES h&ki# _ S Clarkson has discovered that the rumor of the Senora’s death was false *- sheTs very much alive. So now he wants the marriage annulled. He asks the District of Columbia courts to dissolve what may well be called na Peruvian shotgun wedding.” JaiOBOPM) Italy says -- No, Rome will not join the patrol against pit ate submarines in the MediterraneanAnti this refusal comes as a surprise. All day the news dispatches indicated that Mussolini was accepting ±s the proposal to take ... . pc.11 in a plan arranged at Nyon. rtrut 1:1 fact- there was an A acceptance earlier in the-day, Rome informed London and Paris that the Italians wguld join up. But there was one condition — Italy must be given a larger share the patrolling j»A} offer^ an equal share with Britain and France. low at the last moment we hear that this Italian reply was withdrawn, at the j&i request of British and French representatives. Apparently A they didn't want any of thafcondi ti on, didn11 want to discu ss it Be a new Italian reply was sent, the final one — which we hear at the last momentl-1 Refusal, rejection. So that leaves Mussolini out of the patrol against pirate submarines, which nearly everybody believes to-be his 0 own ^ the Luce doing guard duty against his own ships. That was the grotesque absurdity to whicn the Nyon conference was leading. But now the British and French fleets will do the ^UhOFiii -ij- patrolling and no statesman in Europe believes that the submarine attacks wil... continue — not in the face of the huge fleets that Britain and France have thrown into the Mediterranean, There1s a report that a submarine pirate was captured today — by the British battleship MALAGA off the coast of Greece. The rumor presents the story i&xX with much detail, including the feature that it was an Italian submarine, manned by an Italian crew. This story however, was denied in London. British Admiralty officials say that they heard nothing of the xxxx sort — the battleship MALAYA has made no such report PiiLEpTrNE might At Geneva today it^)ai;?gjcfcx]3Dsjt have seemed li^e an almost mystic echo --^one of the great chandeliers fell with a resounding crash. It might have seemed like some kind of preternatural sign that trouble and mishap always beset the theme of Palestine, that troubled Holy Land, (\ ^Partition of Palestine was presented to the league of Nations touay. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden made an address outlining the scheme to divide the Holy Land between the Arabs and the Jews, a third part under a British mandate — the Holy Places.^ We’ve heard a great deal about that plan in the past months, and the Foreign Secretary .merely repeated the well-worn reasonM^^* Then a translation of his speech was read, and right in the middle of it there was a startling interruption. Above the interpreter’s table hung a giant chandelier, with a glitter and a profusion of sparkling ^lass. suddenly two sections of the chandelier fell and landed on the table and shattered glo.ss P2,ew everywhere. League members jumped co their feet with startled fright. They thought it was a bomb of some kind* Put it was no more tnan a strange reminder of how things are always going wrong with Palestine. The China battle continues. And once more Americans are in peril. Today the Chinese and Japanese heavy artillery blasted each other — across the International bettiement. The Japanese big guns are on one side sribcfc and the Chinese batterl^on the other. So it was a cross-fire right A over the foreign area where the Americans are. All this — while the Chines attacks. #v\j£ n s attacks. BEERY A stalwart fighting man in the films is Wallace Beery, We’ve all seen him as the big fellow of the screen, rugged, tender-hearted, loyal. So it was wi.th a throb of sympathy we heard a few days ago that Wallace gat out a pistol permit to carry a gun. ^Because of a kidnap threat against his little adopted daughter Carol. And Wallace -Beery was ready to shoot iT to protect her.nf,Ifd hate to be a kidnapper and get in the way of the big fellowfs gun,” was the way-we all felt about it. Today, Wallace Beery’s gun went ’’Bang!", and he shot himself in the leg. It wasn’t the pistol he had to protect little Carol - it was a gun loaded witty blanks. On the movie set, Wallace Beery was a wild west hero, cleaning out a bunch of bandits, p Pistol in hand, he was, about to blaze away, when he slipped, and down came his pistol hand and he shot Tonight he’s bandae-ed up (iiitti powder A himself in the knee, fl burns- which the doctor calls extensive. He won’t be able to go on with the picture for a week or so. Lucky it didn’t happen while the big fellow was defending little Cargi^shooting at the kidnappers have drilled his ieg^^ough.a=dn3JS3?e«— CHAPLIN Charlie ohaplin is on the warpath, and heTs threatening to sue. It seems that somebody in Hollywood owns a set of isiiiaclix old-time Chaplin two-reel comedies, and thl^i producer plans to X revive them in up-to-date feature versipn. He wants to join them together filling in with some newly made shots, and add an up-to-date sound track with music. What would you call that? Charlie Chaplin calls it a hodge-podge^ He announces today that he's against the idea, and if they try to go ahead with it - he'll go to law. V»e have a denial today that there's to be a new Charlie Chaplin, Charlie on the screen minus the funny mustache, the enormity of shoes, and the vast bigness of pants. reported that Charlie is to appear in a picture in a completely different guise, a new self. This - in a feature that he is preparing for Paulette Goddard. She was his leddln^ lady in his last whimsey, "Modem Times," and it is said they're married but that's never been announced. Today, in Hollywood, the Chaplin press representative declares that Charlie himself will not play in the Paulette CHAPLIN - 2 Goddard picture. He is merely writing it, and will direct it. ThereTX1 be no new Charlie Chaplin on the screen. ODDITIES nihen the National Inventors Congress meets, curiosity is sure to abound. So at Des Moines, Iowa, all sorts of odd contraptions are on display today, a sponge-lined bathtub for example, I suppose the idea is you roll yourself around and rub yourself along the sides to get clean. '-'But the invention that takes my fancy is an elastic wedding ring. It expands automatically as the finger increases in'circumference, The inventor says it answers a long-standing need - the bridegroom puts a tiny ring on the delicate finger of a slender bride, but a few years later that same bride is a perfect forty-eight and her finger is about the size of a sausage. So what's needed is an expanding wedding ring. And now science is taking care of that at the inventors’ congress. Science has also made a timely discovery, right up to the minute. It's something that happened seven million years At least I think this figure is in the octillions. It has eighteen zeros after the forty-two. QCCITIES - g Vlell, anyway, there was an explosion that long ago and that far away. And the astronomers have just found it out. Thiough the giant telescope at Mt.Wilson, California, they discovered a supernova, which has just flashed a tiny pinpoint of light. An exploding star. That sidereal blow-up created a glare five hundred million times brighter than the sun, but so far away tha^it has taken seven millioh years for the light to reach the earth. It's in the Constellation of Perseus - in case youTd like to make a trip out there into astral space and check up on this latest wonder of science. But here’s a wonder just as astonishing. Miss Bernice Ross was riding along on the highway near New Haven, Connecticut, when her car took a skid and went off the road. It rolled over three times, then bounced over a sea-wall. 9 ] whereupon it turned a complete somersault in the air, as it crashed down twenty feet on to a beach. The doctor s report on Miss Ross -nshe received a severe shake-up. It s a won e wasn’t shaken right out into astral space all the way to the sh'JTes air and constellation of Perseus, shr^e^ ’ j\ SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW. ^ QCCITIES - 2 ttell, anyway, there was an explosion that long ago and that far away. And the astronomers have just found it out. Through the giant telescope at Mt.Wilson, California, N yjSL they discovered a supernova, which has just flashed a tiny pinpoint of lirht. An exploding star. That sidereal blow—up created a glare five hundred million times brighter than the sun, but so far away thai/it has taken seven millioh years for the light to reach the earth. Itfs in the Constellation of Perseus - in case you’d like to make a trip out there into astral space and check up on this latest wonder of science. Bernice Ross was riding along on the highway near New Haven, Connecticut, when her car took a skid and went off the road. It rolled over three times, then bounced over a sea-wall, But here’s a wonder just as astonishing. Miss whereupon it turned a complete somersault in the air, as it crashed down twenty feet on to a beach. The doctor s report on Miss Ross -’’she received a severe shake— up.” It’s a wonder she wasn’t shaken right out into astral space^ all the way to the constellation of Perseus, SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW. 5^shakes m^off the air and