LrT-»_.T SUNOCO. MONDAY. MARflW 2B. IQ-33 _ GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Not for months has Washington seen such a spectacle as afforded today by the Senate, Not only the galleries but the floor was jammed like a Broadway hit with standing room only. The galleries were filled with women, diplomats, celebrities from all over the land. Representatives came over from the House and stood at the rear of the floor watching that fight, the closest there / ~ ! has been since the New Deal came to power, ^It was a skimpy, slender majority, forty-nine to forty-two, that won the day for President l Roosevelt. And what an important day I For that Reorganization Bill j was closest to his heart, second only to the Supreme Court reform. which he lost so spectacularly last year, j If this vote too had gone against him, it would have been a bitter blow to the Only an occasional smile, an occasional piece of ir y, ert ivened the proceedings. The Senators were in earnest, in deadly LEAP - 2 iff ! I si earnest. , Sven a note • of paaeien tauteilng voiced It was noted that Senator Barkley, floor leader of the majority, looked old and worn, aged several years since he took over that^ifficult job from the late Joe Robinson. §Hg±dentally^. ' tbs=gk««^of Joe Robinson was brought twice into the debate. Senator Byrnes, wtrartisa charge of steering the bill, said: "You will be untrue to the memory of our beloved colleague, Joe Robinson, if you don’t vote for this.” And Senator Barklej^*aisi* ha vote against this measure will be a betrayal of Semtor Robinson who originally was Chairman of the Committee that handled it.” The—Irine-up--of—Deffieepatie-eenaters■ that -joined-tfa» Rapubl-ieans—i«-~ofipo64.b-ion is worth not-ing-» The leader of the n was Senator Wal stalwarts of theRooseveit partisans. opposition was Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, hitherto one of the A*, ■fconi s hing- on his^ side that ardent New Dealer, Bob Wagner of New York. BafcaaBt£iEKfc&&te.New York’s Senator Copeland, elected as a Democrat, sat throughout the proceedings next to Senator McNarry, the Republican floor leader. As a matter of fact, the passing of that bill was not LEAP - 3 merely a surprise but a sensation, ( ah the preliminary grapevine top, indicated that it *ould lose by periaap, a bare one or two votes. .li i — iA Vv>~trv\ ~ Such was the line-up on Saturday. a , t a.! , switched margin of seven. In other words, sas* five senators swtehErit over thi • V A weekend. In the Senate corridors, and in the press gallery. everybody was asking, why? Why they switch? The rumor, and this is only a rumor, is that the administration leaders simply bludgeoned the wavering ones. av<rr~±oiztheir-^ide^ foe suave aid irrisistible Jim Farley himself made personal calls upon senators, r-'y? —H t ^y w in the doubtful column. And of—coucs» one-third of <?Lo / the senators^come up for election next November. And of eouc-sw votes de^end^ considerably on patronage. Aaad=©£=« 0 BJ?w-the holding or withholding of W.P.A. Jobs has become a political weapon of mosfc persuasive impact. Howevey it happened, the F^esidentl^ party won, conservatives wrho x 3 ax®£iJeHX± 3 ixhix saw in his reorganizati TP menace to the Constitutiion, were defeated. At the same * fight Is not completely over. The Senate passed a bill different lead - 4 from the one put through the House. So this bill now has to be reconsidered in its entirety by the Representatives. The question lies now:- "Can the opposition to the reorganization muster enough strength in the lower chamber of Congress ~to SUPREME COORT This was another field day f0r the M y °r the Ne» Deal m the Supreme Court. The Tustiees hande, down a decision that is the most important of the year so far. It upholds the New Deal act of Congres governing utilities holding companies. specifically in favor of the clauses compellinr hnia,- _ ✓ mpexj-lns holding companies to TU 'tCue register and^imposing penalties. It was a slx-to-one vote, with Justice McReynolds uttering the only dissenting voice. The opinion was read by the Chief Justice himself. The case was brought by the Electric Bond and Share Company. The Company had asked the court to decide whether the A0t as a whole was constitutional. This the court declined to do, passing on merely certain clauses of the Act. Mfo* - which- he—au t hori ty—of—t4ae 1 *11' hi IIJ if ! 4 fl I ■r ■! p 1 I i I I 1 I today. There’s a curious situation in Reading, Pennsylvania, The old City Hall is no longer functioning as a seat of government. It is turned into a playground for children and a home for needy families. It all started \vhen a man with ten children, evicted for II if 1 I : : I i! not paying his rent, moved them into the City Hall. And he announced: I "We're here to stay until the Relief Board finds me a home. I»m tired of being evicted,” he said, nIfm not going through that again.” Then he added: ”The Relief Board has got to find me a home with rent ip' |] | 1 i i i paid one year in advance.” Twelve cots were set up in the office of the director of the Public Assistance Board. i; The answer of the Relif Board was to give all the clerks and workers a holiday. The director sent them home and said the relief offices in Berks County, Pennsylvania, would remain closed until the invaders left. To which the father of those ten children said: ”We’re here to stay.” While the arguments were going on, the children were Playing up and down the corridor of that City Hall. Another family f I Hi! I ij iii . ■ I; is expected to move in soon. A long table has been set up * fice. the director’s office. There the family eat and play yiJUOEisx pi IJ So one consequence of this bit of direct action is that no relief wonThas beef done at all in^. Colonel Edward House, the King-Maker from Texas is dead. The advisor of Wilson — man behind the scenes in the World War — his last writing was on the subject:- "How to Keep out of War:n nWe cannot keep out of war by folding our hands and doing northing or by drawing in our horns wherever they clash with some alien interest. Wor can we assure peace by congressional resolution! So he wrote for the issue of Liberty just out. His political testament is against isolation. And he was against isolation in nineteen Seventeen. SPAIN The the v Jc^z. -fight though a new Rgfe»3^yieto»y» General Francois Italians tonight are only eighty—four miles from Barcelona. There is rumor that the great medieval City of Lerida haj| fallen into Italian hands. However, this isn't conf *8^SSitrswf!=©fMB«T3i5£g,ti*0^ The main body of the armies of SxxxjsjsjtxxxHd Franco and Mussolini are well over the Cinca River, which is the natural boundary of Catalonia. The defenders in their retreat had dynamited all bridges for xaoc fifty miles. But that didni^t stop the Rebels. They waded through the river, fcbBi# rifles over their heads, wAtfe the icy water txf> ?^ mct 4 to their chins. The offices of the American Embassy consulate, are to be moved from Barcelona^ Thfft^-S-^'^pre-trhy^^ciuay (U. indication that the capture of the Catalonia capital is expected any ^^aaiisujaQ matter wha1r*iiappieai6 ■ > MUSSOLINI There is something a bit puzzling in tonight's ±rr=±b news from Home. Anxiety 4 official circles^of-l-talT^ For about the sixth time in many days the Fascist regime warns France not to interfere in Spain. The report is that Mussolini himself is gravely concerned. French As 4 interference not at all improbable! Fhis of course comes at a time when there is no Mussolini himself is-not interfering in Spain. A It^s reported in Home tonight that is taking active precautions, ready to move ul ah liirrtimnw notice upon any suspicious action by the French Government. All this is particularly significant toda^^^^Italians were celebrating the Fifteenth Anniversary of the reorganization ,K _ , r^.^M of thev air force. General Valle, commander of- the a*r A said to Mussolini: "The air force impatiently awaits the ------ test". In other words an open war against th supreme A class power would be welcome to Mussolini*s air fighters. VIENNA In Austria t^-Hazis seem to be making a olean-up of almost everybody distinction. VWvO aeient-ielf they’ve arrested 4a a professor who won the Nobel A prize, and one of the foremost physiologists the world. Another. li|a professor of criminal psychology. ■the--faculty -of- the ■ • tfnive-re-rty of Vt~enna7~-ortcc—t-he--f>rid:e—and glory of- Seu-thonotci'n Eu-repe --- They-'-dirsmi-e sed^nt^her—Nebei—prir^e-^ivlTtrr bo Minictw of -Welfares In Berlin Hitler made a speech to eighteen thousand worshippers? vMost of it ssa devoted to denouncing ©haacsjfclwr Schussnigg* the—men—he—defeatedi—The Fuchrtrr told- he had given Schussnigg the greatest opportunity WM*4*S. And th of his life, ^utr^chussni^^did not accept it. And then he said: ?’’Schussnigg attempted an impertinent, aa^ miserable fraud, worked himself up until he described ££&*&£» Schussnigg’s actions as treason. His speech was punctuated by shouts from the crowd- shouts of ’’Hang Schussniggl PRAGUE The government of Czechoslovakia is getting fed up with Nazi propaganda. That much can be Judged from an announcement by Prime Minister Hodza. "It is true," he said,"that the German minorities are to be given new freedom. But that doesn’t mean freedom to agitate against the state. Propaganda against the government must cease. At the same time," he said, ”we are sure that the German government has no intention of interfering with the internal affairs of Czechoslovakia." And he added the reassuring words that his country is stronger than ever and that there is no international danger on the horizon. HUNGARY I Wonders wiXl never1 ces.se. Another European country to pay its debts to Uncle Sam. Hungary. The money the 11 Hungarian Government has been owing us is not a war debt. As president Roosevelt pointed out to Congress today, it was actually a relief loan contracted in May after the War was over. What Hungary really borrowed was not money but food. The original sum amounted to only one million, six hundred thousand dollars, but by Nineteen Twenty-Four the interest had made the debt swell to nearly two millions.j The Hungarian Government now wants to make a compromise which President Roosevelt says Congress should consider seriously. MEXICO There were dramatic sequels to the teacant^lSS^oday. I This morning's announcement by ^the^Treasury^brt^the ^rice ■ I f: silver in London. Thereupon the Treasury issued another statement^ JL w ^ 0 ^ ^that the price of foreign silver in New York I was cut from forty-five to forty-four cents an ouncej the first change of quotations in two years. Another event today was the visit of six big oil men to the State Department. There they ha^ a long conference with Secretary Hull. But they wouldn't say wrhat they had been talking about, In Mexico, one of the oil companies, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, asked for an injunction against the government^ petitioned the court to prohibit the Mexican treasury from attaching the Company's funds. The Mexican government wmm proposing % to seize five million Pesos for back taxes. TTCPLORBR The Russian scientists who spent ten months on an Arctic ice floe are receiving their reward. The leader of the expedition, named first assistant to the Administrator of the Northern Sea Route. That’s one of the big jobs in Soviet land. The Administrator ,is none < ' Uc-€L <S~rvccc<0j2 explorer in Russia. The other members of that is none other than Professor Otto Schmidt, the most celebrated Arctic X A were also rewarded^ -Eachthirty thousan^Roubles in cash and A X decorated with the Order of Lenin. AIR CRASH From far off Japan comes a tale ^r-eat courage infinite pathos. It*s an aftermath of the wreck of an army airplane in \\ hie a seven of the Mikado * s officers were killed. The crash happened last week. The remains of the plane weren't found until today. And that brought to light that one officer, a ma^r* vmrf lived in the cockpit of that observations on air currents in the mountains, where the plane had crashed. After using up all the paper he could lay his hands on, he scribbled further notes on the surface of the plane, ^e hoped the information he was handing down would enable other flyers to avoid similar accidents in those mountains.^ He also wrote his last will and testament and a letter to words of that gallant major were: "I am sorry to die here. I should A have died inChina." And he continued: ”1 wish everybody happiness for five days. He had passed the time writing, making his wife and children111 lad outyaghty- last in another world. *May you fly better in this world A Banzai, His ATR CRASH - 2 Tiotr® to his children;* h»=»aiflbt- «Your father died f\ for his country, watches from above. must be strong and obey your mother.11 Mt. Mansfield Friday evening, in signing off, I mentioned that I was catching a train Tor Vermont, in search of snow. In my mail today are a number of letters saying: Don't you realize summer is nearly here? Whoever heard of skiing in March and April? All of them implied that surely I was kidding. Well, I found the snow, found it four feet deep on Mount Mansfield, and on Saturday it started snowing, and during the night another sixteen inches fell. wide to take part in an annual downhill race, on a spectacular trail called the Nose Dive. fans of this sport know, the Spring snow is the best of all. 1 There'll be plenty of snow uo that way for another month or so. Skiers had gathered on Mount Mansfield from far and r This isn't the time to put your skis away. As all true word of warning; non u on mountain Just a trails. Yesterday afternoon, just as we were about to start back for New York, we heard a cry for help, from far up the mountain. MT. MAiNSFIKLD - 2 Several of the fastest skiers hurriedly put on their sealskins and started climbing at top speed. Roland Palmedo, one of the veterans of sid-ing in this country, and Jacques Charmoz, Chief Instructor to the Chilean army, to the rescuel Far up the mountain they found a wellknown Hew Xork lawyer and Socialite, Livingston Longfellow, himself an excellent skier, lying in the deep snow, with a broken leg. _______________ _ a famous Swiss skier, dashed off to the Nose Dive trail, where the Government has a small coffin-shaped structure containing a toboggan for just such emergencies. The boys made a splint out of two ski poles, and got Livingston Longfellow off the mountain shortly after nightfall* Longfellow had made the mistake of coming down, all alone, after the races. Fortunately there was one skier left on the mountain, who happened to find him, and whose ca'lls brought a rescue party. Longfellow, good skier though he is, had apparently come abruptly upon an tandc* open brook, just the sort of thing you find at this season So, don* t miss the Spring skiing. But don,t do it al riot There was an amusing scene along one of the most famous of waterfronts, the Embarcadaro of San Francisco' ££ recalled the old A days oj . the Fortj —Niners, when gold coins were less precious than eggs. hr ing- te There was the usual crowd of longshoremen, warehouse men and sea-faring men along the Embarcadaro, Suddenly, from nowhere, a stranger dressed in rough clothes appeared and became conspicuous. Digging into his pockets he brought his hands out filled with twenty dollar gold pieces. These he, threw spank into the mob. You can imagine what followed. Fists and legs flew like trip-hammers. The pavement was littered with fragments of torn clothing. A few of the strongest emerged from the scrap with black eyes, bleeding noses, clutching in their hands the gold pieces they had fought for. When it was all over, people looked around for the stranger who had started the trouble. Like the man mho met Lewis Carroll's Boojum, "He had softly and silently vanished away and never was heard again.” When the news became known, it aroused the curiosity of RIOT - 2 Uncle Sam's men. The agents of Mr. Whiskers, as Uncle is so^times called, would like to know the identity of the fellow who dared to own fistfuls of twenty dollar gold pieces which has been against the law for some five years.