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PALACIOS BEACON. PALACIOS, TEXAS
May 27, 1937
Crowned King and Queen of England
The
SUPREME
COURT
AND HOW
IT WORKS
London.—Still arrayed in their regalia of the most glorious coronation the world has ever seen. King
George VI and Queen Elisabeth are shown on the balcony of Buckingham palace as they responded to the
cheers of thousands of their subjects who gathered outside. Between them are the Princesses Elizabeth and
Margaret Rose. International News Radiophoto.
American Peeress
Paying Homage to George VI
ARLINGTON
and tlw Hill of Right i
By UOBELT MERRILL
shall private prop-
^ erty be taken for pub-
lic use, without just compen-
sation.”
That's from the Bill of
Rights, an important part of
our federal Constitution.
On many occasions the Supreme
court, acting as our National Um-
pire, has been called upon to pro-
tect citizens under the clause. Some-
times it has saved citizens from los-
ing their homes without being ade-
quately compensated.
The most notable instance In-
volved Arlington the home of Mrs.
Robert E, Lee, wife of the Con-
federate general. Today it is the
famous national cemetery across
t h e Potomac from Washington,
where rest our soldier dead.
Union Takes Arlington.
Here is the story—from t’le rec-
ords of the court:
During the war between the
states. Union forces took possession
of Arlington, and the wife of the
famed southern leader was forced
to retire behind the Confederate
lines.
In 1862, Congress passed a bill en-
titled, "An Act for the Collection
of Direct Taxes in the Insurrection-
GtA/imt (yverife
By Edward W. Picliard
Justice Van Dcvanter
to Ouit the Bench
VVsociate justice of the Supreme
court, Informed President Roosevelt
that he would retire from nctlve
service on that tribunal on June 2.
He conveyed the information In a
letter sent to the White House
shortly before the senate judiciary
committee was to vote on the Pres-
ident's bill for enlargement of the
Supreme court.
Justice Van Dcvanter, who Is
seventy-eight years old, has been
one of the so-called conservative
group on the Supreme court bench.
Edward and Wallis to
Marry on June 3
r>DWARD, duke of Windsor and
Lz former king of Great Britain,
and Mrs. Wallis Warfield are to be
married on June 3 at the Chateau
de Cande. This was announced In
London. In the controversy between
the government and the duke, who
was backed up by his brother, King
George, and their mother, concern-
ing official recognition of the mar-
riage, the government seemed to
have won. It was understand the
wedding would be extremely pri-
vate and that no member of the
ary Districts within the United royal family would be present.
States.” Under this measure com- There will be only a few guests in
missioners were appointed to levy
and collect taxes and, in default of
payment, to sell the property against
which they were charged.
addition to the witnesses and the
servants. Lieutenant Forwood, the
duke's equerry, carried to Bucking-
ham palace information of the
London.—Lady Astor, the former
Nancy Langhorne of Glenwood, Va.,
abown at the coronation.
International Newt Radiophoto.
the monarch.
International News Radiophoto.
Hold Seats All
Night
for Coronation
vided that property taxes in the
district including Arlington had to
be paid by the owner in person.
On January 11, 1864. taxes to the
sum of S92.07 were due oi the Lee
estate. Since she was behind the
Confederate lines. Mrs. Lee was un-
able to appear personally to pay
them. She sent an agent to make
the payment fo. her, but, because
of the arbitrary rule, the money
was refused.
Then the estate was sold to pay
the taxes. The United States gov-
ernment bid it in.
Confirms Lower Court.
Mrs. Robert E Lee died in 1872,
and her son inherited the right to
reclaim the estate. Asserting that
the government claim to his boy-
London.—Sealed on his throne in Westminster abbey. King George VI hood home w„ unjust he petitioned
receives the homage of his peers, immediately after being ceremonially congress t0 return it to him. When
crowned, by the archbishop of Canterbury. One is shown jcneeling before that effort faj|ed he instituted suit
! against the officers in charge.
| The lower court decided that the
, tax sale was invalid, and, therefore,
| the United States had no rightful
; title to the property. But the depart-
I ment of justice appealed. The case
: v. ent to the Supreme court of the
United States for a decision. It at-
' firmed the lower court.
Referring in its opinion to the 5th
: Amendment of our Constitution—the
Amendment which provides that:
I "No person shall ... be deprived
. of life, liberty, or property without
due process of law nor shall private
property be taken for public use
; without just compensation,” the
j Supreme court said:
“If this Constitutional provision is
a sufficient authority for the court
to interfere to rescue a prisoner
from the hands of those holding him
under the asserted authority of the
government, what reason is there
that the same courts shall not give
remedy to the citizen whose proper-
ty has been seized without due proc-
ess of law, and devoted to public use
without just compensation?"
Lee Sells Home to U. S.
Thus the Supreme court had up-
held the Lee title—but while the
government was in possession, it
had converted part of the estate into
the cemetery and buried thousands
of soldiers and sailors there. An-
other part had been made inte a
military post. Lee, therefore, agreed
Various rules were drafted by the ' duke's final plans. He also invited
appointed commissioners. One pro-[London Daily Mail and London
Daily Express to send reporters to
the wedding. These papers have
been most friendly to Edward and
Mrs. Warfield.
London.—Under the famous Hons guarding Lord Nelson’s monument at Trafalgar square, early comers
held seats all night that they might have a good view of the coronation procession. More than 6,000,000 per-
sons saw the pageant. International News Radiophoto.
Commoner Is Crowned Queen
Chair of State
President Insistent on
His Complete Program
TN CONFERENCES with Demo-
I cratic congressional leaders and
department heads, President Roose-
velt was insistent on
the carrying out of
his program without
any compromises.
He made it clear
that he still demand-
__ed passage of his bill
8 for enlargement of
R the Supreme court
pR . gJajsjf as it was submitted
ant* ttlat he wou*d
not be satisfied with
fewer than six new
President associate justices,
Roosevelt although his ad.
visers told him frankly that the
measure in this form faced probable
defeat in the senate.
Mr. Roosevelt also demanded the
following legislative action:
A substitute for the outlawed NRA,
covering minimum wages and maxi-
mum hours, child labor, and the
regulation of industrial trade prac-
tices.
An appropriation of 1 billion 500
million dollars for work relief in the
1938 fiscal year.
A start on farm tenancy legisla-
tion, providing federal loans for
sharecroppers and other tenant
farmers with which to purchase
their own land.
The declaration by congress of an
integrated, national power, flood
control, and navigation policy, con-
templating the ultimate develop-
ment of the nation into eight re-
gional TVAs.
As for economy measures, the
President rejected the senate plan
calling for a mandatory horizontal
slash of 10 per cent in all appropria-
tion bills and indicated a preference
for the house plan, which would give
him discretionary power to reduce
all appropriations by 15 per cent.
The house appropriations commit-
tee already had yielded in the mat-
ter of the work relief appropriation,
making it a billion and a half. A
brigade of fifty women organized
to sell Arlington to the United States j (he Workers’ Alliance of America
and the government acquired tille gathered in Washington to demand
after "just compensation. [ that congress appropriate $3,000,000,-
1000 for relief in 1938, and will sit
in the house gallery during the de-
That was an outstanding case, but
in other cases, too, the Supreme
court has assured similar protection
to men and women who appealed to
: it for justice.
On one occasion a citizen’s prop-
erty was taken by government offi-
cers under the impression that the
ground had been ceded to the Unit-
ed States in an Indian treaty. An
appeal carried up to the Supreme
court resulted !r. its restoration to
the owner, even though the govern-
ment had erected a garrison and
other buildings on it.
© Western Newspaper Union.
London.—The archbishop of Canterbury is shown here placing the
crown upon the head of Queen Elizabeth, in Westminster abbey. It
was the first time in 250 years a commoner had been crowned Queen
of England. She is the former Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, daughter of the
earl of Strathmore. International News Radiophoto.
London.—While sitting in the
chair of state, King George VI
makes responses to the prayers of
the archbishop of Canterbury.
International News Radiophoto.
Find Oil, Coal, Salt In Arctic
Oil, coal and salt deposits were
discovered in the Russian Arctic by
expeditions which returned to Mos-
cow. Salt layers at a depth of 1,000
feet were discovered in numerous
places. Salt domes were uncovered
on the Taimyr coast of Khatanga
bay and near Kozhevnikov bay. Coal
deposits several yards deep were
found along the Khatanga and Ana-
bar rivers by two expeditions which
covered more than 1,500 miles by
boat, and on foot. Combustible bi
tuminous slates, which can be used
as fuel, are along the upper
reaches of the Anabar river. These
layers seem to be connected with
the oil-bearing strata recently found
on the Olenek river.
bate.
Process Tax Refund Case
Won by Government
KTO DECISIONS involving the
x constitutionality of the social
security act were handed down by
the Supreme court, but that tribunal
did give an opinion that upheld the
provisions of the 1936 revenue law
restricting refunds of processing
and floor stock taxes illegally im-
posed by the agricultural adjust-
ment act. The treasury was saved
nearly a billion dollars by this deci-
sion.
“While the taxpayer was undoubt-
edly hurt when he paid the tax, if he
has obtained relief i through the
shifting of its burden he is no longer
in a position to claim an actual in-
jury and the refusal of a refund in
such a case cannot be regarded as
a denial of constitutional right,”
said the opinion.
Another decision upheld the chain
store tax law enacted by the Louisi-
ana legislature at the order of the
late Huey Long, the court holding
that states may tax chain stores
on the basis of the number of units
in the chain outside as well as in-
side the state.
_<* '1 W’dlfcTM h\-U ifrlfVT L'niflB
“Inconsistency” Is Cry
of the Economists
TpCONOMISTS In congress de-
Cz nounccd what they termed the
"appalling inconsistency” of the
majority, but the spenders went
right ahead with their spending
plans. The house passed the $115,-
000,000 appropriation bill for the De-
partment of the Interior, which
measure carries $40,000,000 for the
reclamation bureau to be used for
the building of dams and reservoirs
to increase the acreage of tillable
land. At the same time the house
agriculture committee introduced a
new farm bill, the main object of
which is the controlling of excessive
farm surpluses and which calls for
the expenditure of $287,000,000 an-
nually. This latter bill is based on
the recommendations of Secretary
Wallace's farm conference of Feb-
ruary but it was declared it did not
as yet have the full sanction of the
administration.
Viscount Snowden, British
Labor Leader, Is Dead
DHILIP SNOWDEN, who in his
L active days was regarded as the
brainiest man in the Labor party of
Great Britain, died of heart disease
at the age of sev-
enty-two. Twice he
served as chancellor
of the exchequer,
and then was elevat-
ed to the peerage as
Viscount Snowden of
Ickornshaw, Lord
Snowden had been
crippled since h c
was twenty - seven,
when he was
knocked from a bi-
cycle. He was a
pacifist, an atheist
and a Marxian Socialist, and he had
a vitriolic tongue that made him
feared in parliamentary debates.
Though he had disagreed violently
with Ramsay MacDonald when the
latter was Laborite prime minister.
MacDonald said when Snowden
died: “A great man of our age
has passed by.”
Heart disease also carried off a
picturesque figure in American poli-
tics, Percy L. Gassoway. former
cowpuncher who served one term
as congressman from Oklahoma
after being a judge in that state. In
Washington he always wore exag-
gerated cowboy garments.
Viscount
Snowden
A1 Smith Sails for His
First Visit to Ireland
M OTWITHSTANDING his certain-
L x ty that he would be seasick,
Alfred E. Smith sailed on the steam-
ship Conte di Savoia for his first
ocean voyage and first trip to the
old country. As he departed, Alsaid:
"This is a regular pleasure trip.
I've never been to the other side
and I'm going now, and I want to
have a good time. Ireland? Yes, I'm
going to Ireland. A priest wrote me
that he knew where my grandmoth-
er's house was in Westmeath, and
I’m going there and look it over. I
have no relatives there, but I want
to look over Ireland.”
Steel Industry Tackled
by Lewis’ C. I. O.
pHILIP MURRAY, chairman of
L the steel workers' organizing
c-mmittee of the C. I. O., called the
first major strike in the campaign
of Lewis and his as- ^
sociatcs to unionize
the steel industry. Hr ^
On his order the cm- ■ 1
ployees of Jones & t j
Laughlin Steel cor- fyl
poraticn plants in M
Pittsburgh and Ali- Iffl
quippa walked out ^
after Murray had 1'*,'/■
failed to get from ■■ jz M
the company a ^ SB
signed collective ■■ SO
bargaining contract, philip Murray
The strike call af-
fected 27,000 men. Thousands of
pickets surrounded the Jones &
Laughlin mills and kept non-union
workers from entering.
Next day the strike spread to the
plants of the Pittsburgh Steel com-
pany at Monessen and Allenport,
Pa., where 5,930 men went out. Mur-
ray said it was inevitable that the
Republic, Youngstown, Bethlehem
and Crucible steel concerns would
be involved very soon.
The Jones & Laughlin corporation
agreed to sign a contract if the
union won a majority vote in a gov-
ernment-supervised election.
Treasury’s Silver to Be
Stored Near West Point
A NNOUNCEMENT was made by
D the Treasury department that
approval had been obtained from the
secretary of war for the use of a
four acre tract near West Point,
N. Y., for a depository to store
silver.
The treasury’s 1936 building plan
contemplated the expenditure of
$600,000 on the depository. It will
be similar in some respects to the
gold depository at Fort Knox, Ky.,
except that the silver will not be
stored In vaults. The capacity has
been estimated at 70 tons of silver.
Ask Me Another
Q A General Quiz
© Hell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
1. Who would tnko over the du-
ties of the Chief Justice of the
United States if his office were to
bec ome vacant?
2. When did Magellan circum-
navigate the globe and how long
did it take him?
3. Was Washington our first
President?
4. What is the average visibility
from u ship at sea?
5. How much silver has been
mined in the world since the dis-
covery of America?
6. What is a lee tide?
7. When the Supreme court was
organized what was the average
age of the justices?
8. How old is the Pasteur treat-
ment for rabies?
9. When was the first corner-
stone of the original Capitol build-
ing at Washington laid?
10. How far do the United States
airlines fly daily?
Answers
1. In case of a vacancy in the
office of Chief Justice or of his
inability to perforin the duties and
powers of his office, they shall de-
volve upon the associate justice,
who is first in precedence, until
such disability is removed or an-
other Chief Justice is appointed or
duly qualified.
2. He started in 1519 and it took
him 1,093 days.
3. Washington is called our first
President because he was the first
President elected under the Con-
stitution of 1787; the Presidents
who preceded him were simply
presiding officers over the Con-
tinental congress.
4. About ten miles.
5. Only enough to make a solid
cube 115 feet square.
0. A tide which runs with the
wind.
7. Just under fifty years.
8. Half a century old.
9. The southeast cornerstone of
the original Capitol building at
Washington was laid on the 18th
of September, 1793, by President
Washington with Masonic cere-
monies. The north wing was fin-
ished in 1800.
10? The equivalent of seven and
one-half times around the world.
Finds Way to Have
Young-Looking Skin
at 351
IT’S utterly wonderful how
1 quickly this scientific
creme takesaway "age-Jilra”
—in only 5 nights! At 30—
35 —40 even, women now
thrill to rose-pctally soft,
smooth, youthfully clear
skin! This Golden Peacock
- of'
Blench Creme acta the only way to free skin «
dull. ugly, old-looking him of semi-visible dark
ening particles! A revelation for ugly blackheads,
surface pimples, freckles, too! Try it! Get
Golden Peacock Bleach Creme at any drug
or department store, or send 50c to Golden
Peacock Inc.t Dept. E-325, Paris, Tenn.
Deep Water
Smooth runs the water where
the brook is deep.—Henry.
Do something about
Periodic Pains
Take Cardiff far functional pains
of menstruation. Thousands of wom-
en testify It has helped them. If
Cardiff doesn’t relieve your monthly
discomfort, consult n physician.
Don't Just go on suffering nml put
off treatment to prevent flu* trouble.
Besides easing certain palus, Car-
diff aids In building tip the whole
system by helping women to get
more strength from their food.
Cardui Is a purely vegetaole medicine
which you can buy at the drug store and
take ut home. Pronounced “Card-u-i.**
Variable Clime
Love is a pleasing but a various
clime.—Shentone.
What SHE TOLD
WORN OUT HUSBAND
She could have reproached him for
Uia “all in" com-
his fits of temper—his “al
plaints. Bu’ wisely she saw in his
frequent colds, his "fagged out,’*
"on edge” condition the very
trouble she herself had whipped.
Constipation! The
very morning after
- taking NR (Na-
ture’s Remedy),
as she advised, he
felt like himself
again — keenl;
alert, peppy, cheerful. NR—th
safe, dependable, all-vegetable
laxative and corrective — "
worksgcntly.thoroughly.nat
urallyTltstimulatestheelim-j
inative tract to complete,
regular function-
ing. Non-habit-
forming. Try a 4
box tonight. 25c
— at druggists.
'Quotations"
The difficulty is not that enough
treaties have not been signed, hut
tliut enough treaties are not being
kept.—Sir A listen Chamberlain.
The only good conversation today
is embalmed in hooks. — Fannie
Hurst.
It is still the greatest, the freest
and the sanest country in the world,
and 1 still get tin* greatest kirk in
life coming hack to America. —
iudwin Lewis aim.
1 think if you can see the funny
side of s^me tilings it's easier now
ami theify1 Mrs. Franklin I). Roose-
velt.
The public schools and some of
our colleges have taught the musses
just enough to mukc them discon-
tented.—-Chase S. Osborn.
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Mrs. J. W. Dismukes and Sons. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 27, 1937, newspaper, May 27, 1937; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth724304/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Palacios Library.