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‘2.51- Inch Rain] Paralyzes |
Downtown ‘Traffic and Levels Wires.
FAIR SUNDAY FORECAST
Eileen Henshaw, 16, Killed “In Greencastle When Auto Skids.
’ LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a.m.... 67 10a m... T@'m.,. 66 1am... 68 8a. mh... 67 12 (noon). 68 ‘8a m.. 67 1pm... 69
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A * rainless, (2:2?) was promised Indianapolis by: the Weather Bureau today as the city - and - state mopped up and cqunted . damage : from yesterday's thunderstorm. and torrential rains. The series of storms claimed one life, Eileen. Henshaw, 16, Greencastle, was injured fatally when her car skidded on the wet pavement and overturned. Four companions were ‘hurt. = Indianapolis was flooded . “hy 2.51 inches of rain which Jen during the 24 ‘hours ending at 7:a. m. today. Wind and lightning which accompanied the storms late yesterday caused unestimable damage.
The rainfall during 90 minutes|
grees in less than a half hour.
: esterday afternoon measured 1.88 i /iignes. The - temperature dropped @° 25
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= The ‘second storm at 5:30 p. m. was not so severe, but the rain continued into the.night. . Meteorologist J. H. Armington,
said it will remain cool tonight, but |’
the’ mercury, will rise tomorrow: as skies, clear. : Downtown Traffic Paralyzed
‘Downtown ‘traffic - was paralyzed i
by: ‘the blinding downpour.’ Streéts
in: every section of .the . city . were}.
flooded. Utility wires were levelled.
Homes, stores and office buildings]
experienced intervals of darkness as lightning interrupted electrie service, ‘At least six places here were struck by htninhg. ' Drenched firemen naviga d. flooded | streets with difficulty. Trackless trolley ' and srieétear | ‘service was interrupted. Basements were ‘flooded. The Police and Fire Departments were besieged with calls. The Indianapolis Power & Light Co. emergency crews raced to every corner of the City as’ reports were" Teceived of felled wires. Pumpers Used in Hospital
Firenien used pumpers to clear the first “floor at Methodist Hospital. Some patients were moved to higher floors. | . A kitchen stove pipe, knocked down when lightning rocked the home of Anthony Corsaro, 1305 Hartford St. barely missed Mrs. Corsaro. She was placing a skillet
: in- the stove at the time.
‘ The bolt shattered the roof around the chimney and streaked down the stove pipes in both the kitchen and diniig room. . Walter Jenses, 4215 Otterbein Ave. was burned on the hands while ex- - tinguishing a small fire caused when lightning struck his home. Two manufacturing plants also were struck. The J. DD. Adams Manufacturing Co., 217 S. Belmont St., was without power for 15 minutes when a bolt hit the main transformer. Lightning ripped insulation from electric wires at the Acme-Evans Co., 856 Washington Ave. While the storm was at its height, 14-year-old - Dorothy Powers was taken to City Hospital with .injuries received in a fall’ from a swing at _her home, 1325. Carrollton Ave. Planes Fight 50-Mile Wind Two giant transport ‘planes from Chicago had difficulty landing at Municipal “Airport. Increased static hampered communication from the control tower to the pilots. The wind velocity at the field reached 50 miles an hour. The large CMTC tent at Ft. Harrison blown down. Pyramidal tents in which trainees took shelter were buffeted. Few sections of the State escaped. Charles Schmoe, 77, was Knocked unconscious when lightning ' struck his home at Bpggstown. Fifteen hogs were killed by lightning in the barn ‘on Walter Aldrich’s farm near Waldron. Heavy tobacco |crops in southern Warrick .County were ruined or destroyed.
SENIORITY HE HAD IT, 12 "YEARS (ON RELIEF
| DETROIT, July 29 (U. Py “They ey can’t do ‘this to me” an unidentified relief client | protested when: he was removed from the ~ welfare rolls. - “I've” got seniority.” : ‘Agents who ordered welfare payments discontinued because the ‘man’s family ‘incomé was ‘too large, said he had been on Telier 12 years.
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BANK WILL PAY
Depesitors and Creditors of
Fletcher. American to Get $524,000.
A 10 per cent dividend to depositors and creditors of the Fletcher American National : Bank totaling approximately $524,000 has been authorized by the bank’s liquidating trustees. Funds for the payment have been deposited with the American ‘National Bank. Certificate holders
‘may secure payment by detaching
coupons No. 9 and 10 and presenting them to the American National Bank, the trustees said. Non-resident holders of certificates . of beneficial interest may present coupons to their local banks for collection, they announced. This declaration brings to 50 per cent the total amount of indebtedness paid by the ‘trustees, Otto J. Feucht, John -P. Collett and William N.. Fleming Jr. - Previous .payments of 5 per cent each were made in February, May, July and‘Nevember, 1936, and January and July, 1937. A 10 per cent payment ‘was made Feb. 9, 1938. In addition. depositors were paid 5 per cent of their: deposit in. February, 1933, and in August, 1933, the depositors received 50 per cent of the balance due them. From Aug. 23, 1933, when the reorganization plan of the Bank became effective, until Aug. 23, 1935, the trustees were not permitted to make any- payments to depositors. During this period a $1,200,000 loan from the Renconstruction Finance oorp: was paid in full.
‘Homing’ Ti wid On Final Test
AN FRANCISCO, July 29 (U. P.).— A «venerable hoptoad named T e d.d y hippity-hopped eastward - today in- one of the strangest ‘of _ transcontinental crossings and scientific experiments. Teddy, native of ‘a. quiet New England garden, has done a lot of traveling in his 30 years. His owner, Dr.. Fred H. Sidney, a Boston chiropodist, has taken him all over New England, then to Chicago and finally to Dallas, Tex. Always the - toad ‘has come home, like ‘a homing pigeon. Dr. Sidney set Teddy down here yesterday for the beginning of his supreme test. He was hopping at ‘a speed calculated to get him back to Boston about April 1, "1941.
|| FOUND. DEAD AT CAR STOP
An unidentified man, about 65 years old, was found dead today in an’ interurban shelter in ‘the 6500 block Madison Ave. by John Sam Hayese, R. R. ‘1, police reported.
dered the man’s body sent to City morgue. The cause of the death is
HOG PRICES STEADY Hog prices remained , unchanged 4 at Indianapolis today with the top price at $6775. There was no ac-
tion in the tattle and. sheep marpe
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Indiana’s highway costs. « . . Bach horizontal line is $1,000,000
Route 40 before 1919. . ¢ 0 »
Deputy Coroner Mark Mercer. or-.
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|20 Millions
Road Building—State’s Biggest Indhstry
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Expended
Total Construction «Bill Reaches $324, 946,000; 6000 Miles Paved and Work Expands Despite
Cries of
‘Politics.’
By NOBLE REED Only 20 years ago this summer the Indiana motoring public first began to seek a way out of the mud and chuckholes.. Of that modest effort was born the- biggest: industry’ in Indiana
today—road building. Controlled entirely by politicians, the business has grown from a mere $116,000 a year project to a vast industry that stretches ‘its “golden” ribbons of pavement to every hamlet in the sState—at a cost of more than 20 million dollars annually. Indiana’s highway construction bill to date is $324,946,000 with an unexpended balance of about $9,000,000 in the Highway Commission coffers as of last June 30.
. Court Battles: Recalled The rapid expansion has not been without | its attendant “growing pains.” Court battles have been waged over - the expenditure of many of
the millions of dollars with political maneuvers usually forming complicated backgrounds. There have been charges of handstaged monopolies on materials with millions of dollars at stake in the signature.of a single name. There have been veiled charges of politically maneuvered sales and contract
‘tieups by some groups who claimed
someone or other was getting too
much of the “gravy.”
But the road building industiy in Indiana marches on at a dizzy pace, smothering under the weight of its big spending all traces of rumors.
"All-Time Peak Set in 1937
Construction costs reached an all- | time peak .in 1937 when $24,988,000 was spent. During the year ending June 30, 1938, the bill was $20,811,000 and during the last year, $22,447,000 was spent. Total receipts last year
| were $23,764,589.
Every penny of it comes out of the pockets of those who use.the roads, the higgest haul coming from gasoline taxes. The State’s share of that revenue last year was $11,500,000. Various motoring license fees make up the balance of the revenues. The cost of keeping in repair the roads that already have been built runs more . than $4,000,000 a year and the maintenance bill will be
greater during the ensuing year be<
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TWO OHIO ACCIDENTS
TAKE LIVES OF EIGHT
FREMONT, O,, July 29 (U. P.).— Eight persons were killed and four injured in two automobile accidents which : oecurred almost simultaneously on slippery roads near Fremont today. * A collision on U. S. 20 involving three autos and a truck killed Frank Benadum, Lakewood, O.; Alvin Deveney, Detroit, and Alvin Jr.; Mrs. Delia Weil, Mansfield O., and Misses Blanche and Florence May Covenay, Lakewood, Burned to death when their auto sideswiped a truck on State Road 12 ‘were Miss Louisa Dierick, Chicago, and ‘Byron Ellis, Philadelphia. The|Tar
truck driver was hospitalized in. 8 critical condition, A
Doctors Doctor Fellow.Doctor
R. GERALD . MARESH, a Methodist Hospital interne, was stricken. with appendicitis yesterday as he assisted other doctors in an appendectomy. - Dr. Maresh first felt pains. in his right side while he aided in a routine operation. Three hours: later he was rushed to an emer- - gency operation after fellow internes. diagnosed his .case as: appendicitis. Both the first: patient and Dr. Maresh were “doing well,” hospital staff members said today.
FOUR..CCC. ENROLLEES PERISH IN BRUSH FIRE
OROVADA, Nev. July 29 (U. P.). ~—Four CCC enrollees were burned
to death today in a brush fire which they were fighting to control. A fitth was missing. The dead: George Kennedy, Walter James, Frank Barker, Ernest R. Tippin. Frank:Vitale was missing. The bodies were found huddled together on a ‘hillside after 500 CCC firefighters and 200 citizens brought under control the fire which had denuded about 8000 acres. The boys were trapped when a 45 -mile-an-hour gale suddenly shifted.
; Fenents an partisan or
our ANOLS, STATE FRENDS
Orders Funds Disallowed ~ For Indiana Pamphlet ‘Booming Him.
‘EMBARRASSED,’ HE SAYS
Seeks 40 Avoid Anything Partisan or Personal’ . In New: Job.
WASHINGTON, July 29 (U. P.). —Federal Security Administrator
"| Paul *V.- McNutt ' today - denounced |
“over-enthusiastic friends” in the
| Indiana: Unemployment Compensa-
tion - Division who published a pamphlet “booming “him * for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Mr. McNutt told them that he “is
. | anxious - to - avoid -anything which
could be possibly construed as promoting partisan or personal interSten in connéction : with his new job, In a memorandum : last. night to Oscar Powell, director of:the. Social Security. Board, the Hoosier not only disclaimed responsibility - for = the publication but:ordered Mr. Poweil to disallow funds covering the cost of that particular - [issue : of the
| pamphlet.
The cost, estimated here at about $128, may have to be paid by Clarence ‘A. Jackson, Indiana Unemployment Compensation: Director, out of his own pocket, it appaered. - Orders Policy Followed i ‘Mr. McNutt also ordered Mr. Powell ‘to issue instruetions “that the policy outlined above is to be followed in connection with any: partisan activity or effort in behalf of any individual.” “My attention has been directed to the ctirrent issue of the Indiana Unemployment’ Compensation Advisor, published ' by" the Unemployment Compensation Division of the State of . Indiana,” he wrote. “Although this publication is nothing but a house organ, I ‘have heen embarrassed by the cover page of. this particular issue, evidently the result of thoughtless action of over-en-thusiastic friends. “I am anxious to avoid anything which could possibly be construed as rsonal in-
cannection Refers to’ Book's Cost
‘wherefore, it is my. Ct that Bill. -
the Social - Security Board disallow a sum equal to the cost of this particular issue . ..-and that instructions be issued that. the: policy ;outlined above be followed in connec-
[tion with any partisan activity. .
‘The Washington Daily Néws produced the frontpiece of the publication yesterday, together with a pithy dispatch by John O'Rourke, headed: “Helping - Hand, From the Taxy ~The publication previously had been ‘condemned on. the Senate floor by Senator H. Styles: Bridges (R. N. H) and in Indiana by Republic-
an State Chairman Arch ‘N. Boobitt.|
Mr. McNutt, accompanied by his wife and daughter, was ‘to leaye for Cleveland tonight. “He will address the International. Poultry
Congress ‘Peace Day celebration 8
there tomorrow.
‘HUMAN BOMB’ HELD: ‘BANK LOOT SPENT
pakeas CITY, Mo., July 29 (U. P.). — John Thornburg, 27, the former Sunday School teacher,’ who rigged himself into a “human bomb” for a fantastic $5000: bank holdup, at Chanute, Kas., then splurged the loot .on a’ four-month spree which included the New York: World Fair,
was in jail here today facing one or
more ‘long prison terms. ‘He was held - incommunicado ‘in the Jackson County jail where he was brought - by G-men after his capture late yesterday .by police at Nevada, Mo. The Federal authorities had taken from -his: trousers pocket $2.78 "in. change, all’ thas was left of his swag. “I'm glad it’s all .over,”" he told officers. “If I had the words of the greatest of orators, I couldn't explain why I did it. I. ‘didn’t need the money. I guess I spent it mostly traveling. 1 didn’t have any plans.”
: “DUCE'IS: 56 TODAY : BERLIN, July 29 (U. P.).—Adolf Hitler sent Benito Mussolini a message of felicitation today: on: Sig.
: Mbssolinfs: 56th Birthday.
Here’ 8 Vigil -
OB TRA UT, a little 14-year-old. 1D fellow with alot of wanderlust and courage, was in a critical condition at City: Hospital today. His right foot had been mangled by the coupling on a freight train’ on which he was homeward bound. Bill. Traut, 15, who saved his brother and pal. from death, divided his time between Bob's bedside and the Wheeler Rescue Mission where he ‘is “being cared for until Bob is, .able to “continue. _home, : william Traut Sr. a WPA worker, the boys’ father, Mrs. Traut and five other children were- at their = Cleveland home, hoping, praying for: Bob's recovery’ and the eventual return of the boys. The boys had been over. at. Stanton, Mo., helping their grandfather with the wheat thrashing. They knew, the financial circumstances at home. The thrashing finished, :they ‘decided to return home “on their ewn.” ‘The freight trains east were the answer, They were cuddled together between twe cars when the freight crossed Holt Road today. Bob was asleep. For some reason the brakes were applied. Bob's foot was crushed. between the couplings. - Bill, fearing his kid brother would fall off, held him. until the train stopped. Bob didn’t-show his pain. Bill: didn’t realize
[Bo 1 5, Saves Brother, - But Both Need Bravery
ILL lifted bis brother from the 2 train. He saw the blood, then fashioned a tourniquet fom a handkerchief and . wrapped it _around the ankle. That saved Bob from bleeding to death, Hospital officials said. Bill carried his brother to the home of Paul Jenkins, 6172 Cornell Ave. Mr. Jenkins called the Sheriff’s office and the ambulance arrived soon. Bill went along to the City Hospital. He kept his vigil while hospital officials awaited permission from the parents to operate on Bob's foot. Bob came’ through the operation all right, but he's a sick boy. He's: in serious condition The hospital people: didn't think it was wise for Bill to be" there while the operation was. in. progress. -So Pred Wood got Bill ali washed up, ‘decked him out.in clean-cloth-ing and took him around to the “Wheeler Rescue Mission. The Mission said he could do light chores four hours a day to earn his keep and he. could spend the rest of the time at his brother's bedside. : Mr. Wood took him, t00, 7 the Travelers’ Aid ‘Society. The folks there said that if Bob's foot can be put in a cast within .a few days, they’ll sénd both boys back home together.
MURPHY HINTS HATCH BILL 0. K,
Tells Friends and Probably President Measure Is Constitutional.
WASHINGTON, July 29 (U.P.).— Attorney General Frank Murphy has. indicated - to officials that he considers ‘the Hatch Bill -Constitutional. Therefore, advocates of the legis-
lation which would take most Fed-|
eral office holders out of politics believe President Roosevels will make it law by signing it.” ; uasive reports
tte ho some form to Mr. evelt his, views on the Hatch
If it develops ‘that the Attorney General has formally held the biil to be Constitutional, the likelihood of a: veto would diminish to almost nothing. But Mr. Roosevelt raised "| gerreral * Constitutional questions against the legislation at his press conference yesterday. He wondered whether a: Government employee would be permitted by it to. participate’ in the campaign meetings: of a friefid' or contribute even: unsolicited funds to that friend's ‘campaign. Hes ‘Hatch Denies “Vagneness'
Advocates of “the legislation almost snorted their : repudiation of the idea that a Federal employee would. be. prohibited by the Hatch Bill from such activities. : Senator Carl A..Hatch (D. N. M.), author: of ‘the bill, said that he had used the exact language that has been: in effect in civil service rules for 50 years. He said that language
‘had heen thoroughly construed by
usage ‘and ° that he had opposed
‘efforts -to: change the language: to
something -that would have to be
construed anew.
“1 think the: questions raised. -by the President have a useful purpose in that Federal employees gener-
‘ally, wanting to. know what they
can; do politically under the Hatch Bill, will‘ find that they need only
refer to civil service: rules ‘and: in-
terpretations given them over many years. Pod © 300,000 Are Included
Senator Hatch said his bill would cover 300,000 employees, and added: “It will be no more difficult for them to obey this law and understand it than for the 500,000. civil service employees who are now under exactly the same prohibitions. This is another reason why I used the language I did—it places all employees on the same basis politically, as should be the case.” President Roosevelt has until Wednesday to approve or veto the bill. He is studying it on a week-
end cruise, possibly with Mr, Murphy’s opinion at’ hand.
‘Let’s Forget,’ ’ ' Says: Tarkington, at 70; But Penrods and Sams Won ’t Have It So
KENNEBUNKPORT, Me., July 29 (U. P.).—Booth Tarkington, observing his 70th birthday, said today that he favoréd establishing a ‘‘society for ignoring birthdays. in round numbers.” * “I shall be the same persen after my 70th birthday as I was before,” said the Ereafor .of Penrod and Sam.:
when I was 4, that I could feel a change in myself overnight. people seem to think'it important when you reach 30 or 50 or 70.”
. ‘People, both here and abroad, i
thought it . important : enough to
shower Mr.’ Tarkington with birth-|
day greetings. :
There would - be: no birthday |
party, Mr. Tarkington said, adding: “My father lived to be 91. When he’ was 88 he said he was not old enough yet to glory in it. tainly have: no ‘cause .to celebrate.” Forty years have elapsed since Mr.
Tarkington - wrote his ‘famous “The|
“It is not as I imagined ie) was! But |:
I cer-|
Gentleman From Indians." but. isl a
is active. last W
Looking” back “across the years,
. |Mr. Tarkington philosophized:
“All that really counts is what
| {you've found out—and sometimes it
doesn’t seem to be a great deal.” Before making that remark, which seemed to sum up his philosophy;
“IMr, Tarkington denied possessing
j. |one.
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“It takes thinking to evolve a philosophy;” he had said. “Young people don’t have any because they
| feel things keenly. When your emo-
tions are affected you do less thinking. By ‘young people’ I mean ev-
-|erybody under 80; and I'm still
young enough not to have any philosophy.” . “For aspiring ‘writers, he had this advice: -
“Fiction, to be exvelient, suit
P come from a depth of feeling and| -|be doné without thought of any fi-
nancial Jeward, & Dessert to |conce: on a. properly done and re price to be obtained be a secondary affair. I think the deview is best.
phy on July 26!
terday.
: One Murr
‘Reel Doesn't
Make Movie
SANTIAGO, Chiie, July 29 (U. P.).—Somebody - stole the first reel of Hedy LaMarr's . undraped. film “Ecstasy” from * the projection room of the Im- - perio Theater last night. Police were handicapped be- ~ cause it was uncertain whether the thief was a man with ‘a _ discerning eye for feminine beauty or one who had assumed leadership of a moral ‘crusade. A capacity audience shuffled its feet through the shorts, The harassed manager explained what had happened. Fortua. he a. the 2iidietes. nthe Pina ER ‘ apr ars in the Trude. pe So the picture was ‘then shown, ‘starting with. the second reel. e
PEDESTRIAN 8 a
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VICTIM OF H OF TRAFFIC
Unidentified Man, About 60, Wied: in Michigan St.
“AR unidentified poesia was struck and killed by .an automobile today, increasing the year’s death toll here to 33. Six others were hurt in 17 traffic aceidents. The unidentified. man, about 60, was struck hy a ‘car police said was driven by Miss Myrtie Walters, 610 » 41st St., at Michigan and Spring Ss. Miss Walters told police that she did not see the man: until a few feet away from: him and made a futile attempt to swerve her car to avoid hitting him. Another -pedestrian, Albert Catt, 51, of 139%. 8S. Illinois" St., was cut on the head when struck by an auto on S. Illinois St., 100 block. Police said the driver was William Austin, West. Lebanon, Box 426. ‘Albert McDonald, 49. of 703 Massachusetts ,Ave., was injured when struck by a car which police said was driven by Robert McKim, 404 E. 12th St. at’ Massachusetts and Park “Aves. He was taken to City Hospital with leg injuries. . Chest injuries were received by Richard Collister, Carmel, when he lost contrel of his car. The ma-
chine struck a tree on“ Washington |
Blvd., 5300 block. He is in - St. Vincent's Hospital. * Mrs. ‘Catherine Kistner, 36, of 1028 Virginia Ave. was cut. and bruised n : collision on w. 10th St., 3300 ock.
“Yancy White, ‘34, R. R. 13, Box
113B, was hurt seriously when, ac-
‘cording to deputy sheriffs, he went
to ‘sleep at the wheel of his car and went into a ditch at 59th St. and Road 13.
CHILD-MOTHER, 14, PROUD OF ‘BABY BOY
' KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 29 (U. P.).—Mrs: Theda June "Palmer, who will be 15 years old in September, held her seven-pound two-ounce baby today and said she was “just terribly proud of him.” The baby was born shortly after midnight. Standing ‘beside ‘the hospital bed was' Max Palmer, her 22-year-old husband. He said’ he was: mighty proud, too. : - WHEAT PRICE GAINS. CHICAGO, July 29 (U. P.) —Short eovering ‘near: the ‘close boosted wheat prices nearly a. cent on the Chicago Board of Trade today. All grain prices, were ‘higher than yesBuying was attributed to higher prices in othér North American markets and ‘fears: over damage to the spring- wheat ‘Crop:
WATER "PURCHASE TOPIC
Fred Bates Johnson, local attorney, will discuss the proposed purchase of the Indianapolis. Water
Co. by the’ Sty 3h me: Service Chub uncheon at . the Hotel .
Lincoln
ponents hoped to
WPA TBHONTH FIRING HALTED BY HARRINGTON
Await. New Instructions; He. Wires After Senate Softens Rule.
LENDING BILL REDUCED
G. 0. P. and Samsaniaiel ‘Seek More Cuts as Long : ‘Session Impends.
—Work Projects Commissioner: -F | C. Harrington today directed state
missal of persons on ‘WPA rolls. for | 18 months. / - Col. Harripgion issued his order because of the Senate's action last night in approving a rider. .toPresident Roosevelt's = lending. bill |
dismissal Proviso of the’ 1940 relief | act.
round of. its stormy.
Barkley “Bewildered
forced WPA vacations, the Senate chopped $850,000,000 from the. program last night, Bringing the total down to $1,640,000,000, compared . with Mr. Roosévelt’s request for
1 $3,060,000,000 and committee ap:
proval of $2,490,000,000.
predicted quick approval of the original measure, were in an embarras-
“| sing position.
“I don’t know anything about anything,” Senate Majority: Leader
‘| Alben W. Barkley (D. Ky.) shouted
angrily at reporters who asked him early today whether the bill had a chance of passage. That statement was his: only comment after a 12% <hour session during which he had been under firé nearly continuously by members ‘of ‘a Republicansconservative Peme« cratic coalition.
Road Still Rocky
Senator Barkley summoned the Senate to meet at 10 a.m. (Indidhapolis Time), and indicated again
| that he would hold it in dession until
“was ~“ paken, He ~ threatened to do: that Jesiordiy. Ns gave up at 11:30 p. m., when Senator. Rush D. Holt (D. W. Va.) blockéd his effort to obtain limitation ot deLe e. : attempt to: obtain passage to- toddy did not promise to be easier. Senator Robert A. Taft ® OJ planned. to offer amendments to t. the. bill below its present figure; nd some Democrats were preparing similar ones. Col. Harrington's telegram - to all Istate: administrators said: “Senate. yesterday - adopied amendment to lending bill which; if ‘finally enacted into law, will repeal Section ‘16 ¢B) of Emergency’ Relief . Appropriation Act and substi tule provision ‘giving preference in assignment to persons . certified three months or longer and await< ing assignment, over persons ‘con-
longer. s Exemptions Provided “Amendment ‘also provides cer= ‘tain exemptions allowing consider able = administrative discretion. Pending final action on this, amendment. by Congress, no further terminations should be made under Section 16° (B) of act until further
Such instructions will be transmit= ted at earliest possible moment.” |
week were not good as: the Senate dallied ; over the lending hill. and House leaders appeared ready .to rest until the Senate "disposes % it. ’ At a caucus of ‘House Democrats last night a resolution . adopted pledged continued support of the President’s “great social and economic program.” Several speeches were made on the need for solidarity within the party. But. signifi(Continued on Page Three)’
SECOND BIKE SEXTET
Those six boys staging the bioyels marathon on. Addison . Ave.;: : 360 Rack, were shouting “copy cat” toay «Bix other boys in the same: neighborhood ‘started ‘another marathon to smash the record of the other six and the 268-hour Indiana bicycles riding record. “Bike riders, soft~ ball players and even the rain are all staging marathons, whats. next?” asked a Spectator,
STOCK LIST WAVERS: RAIL SHARES LOWER
NEW YORK, July 20° (U. P)~ Stocks declined irregularly. in dull trading today as many traders .de=s serted the market for an extended
| week-end holiday. Railroad shares
were lower on elimination from the ng Bill of Rppropriation for. rail a
NOTED CHARACTER ACTRESS IS - DEAD
HOLLYWOOD, July 29 (U.. P). <n Beryl Mercer, 57, who as. a .chiid played stage rales in London's. Be Poona Chant ollywood's tresses, died in the Santa’ hospital yesterday. ‘She had. been in. grea sor it underwent iqr ope:
WASHINGTON," July 29: . Py |
WPA administrators to suspend’ dis |
which would modify the compulsory | The lending bill entered another passage today | badly torn and flier, but its cay
ar it more. |
Besides softening the rule on en< |
Administration leaders, who Tad |
tinuously employed - 18 months or -. |
instructions are received by - you.
Prospects for adjournment next ;
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