Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1939 — Page 3

ING BILL AND ADJOURNMENT" [LAWYER PUTS | Duce Will Be Chief Factor LABOR TO FEEL WATER SAVING | Wien Hitler Decides for| NEW BLONS AS AT $2000 DAY| Peace or War, Simms Says CONGRESS ENDS *

Negotiators’ Side for Housing Defeats Viewed - ~ City Purchase. As Probable.

LY 31, 1939

CONGRESS HURRIES LEN]

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: Debate Is Limited; Jesse Jones Gets | 2 5 Veto on PWA Fund

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- NATIONAL AFFAIRS :

LENDING BILL cut almost in half by Senate before limiting debate on measure. ie

HATCH BILL decision may have been made by Roose-

Ship Fire Survivors Rescued d

Important Central European Statesman Believes Mussolini Will Turn Scales Against Conflict Because Strife Would Almost Certainly Penalize Italy.

(Sixth of a Series)

(Continued from Page One) By LUDWELL DENNY

velt on week-end cruise. . ADMIRAL LEAHY’S last report backs super-navy. HULL shoved upstairs by assistant presidents.

WASHINGTON, July 31 (U. P.) —The Senate, operating under limitation of debate, speeded its consideration of President Roosevelt's badly battered lending program today with a final vote likely before ” 8

the day’s end. : Preparations were made in the House for possible consideration of the program tomorrow. Progress in both Houses*appeared to increase chances for adjournment by the week-end. : Mr. Roosevelt did not return from his week-end fishing expedition until after 11 a. m. and|in conse- - quence his customary Monday conference with his legislative leaders was canceled. A

Speaker William B. Bankhead

gaid he believed the House should |"

consider and pass both the lending

bill and the related $800,000,000,

housing bond ‘authorization increase. He said adjournment time was still conjectural but admitted defeat of both measures would “greatly clarify the situation.”

Taft Amendment Accepted

The Senate approved an amendment giving Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones ‘velo’ power over $350,000,000 in loans to be made by the Public Works Administration. The amendment was offered by Senator Robert A. Taft (R. O.) and accepted by Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley. { The Republican leader, Senator Charles L. McNary, went home to Oregon today and left the fight in the hands of his deputy, Senator Warren R. Austin (R. Vt.).

Further Trim Sought -

As the Senate began its fifth full day of debate, the measure had been reduced to $1,640,000,000, compared with the $3,060,000,000 that the President originally asked. An attempt was made immediately to cut it still further. Senator Taft introduced an amendment to trim $75,000,000 from the | proposed $100,000,000 additional | lending authority for the export-import bank. Eoin “Every dictator in South America is planning a trip to the United States to pick up some of| the millions of dollars lying -around here,” Senator Taft said. i

“We Can’t Afford It,” VanNuys Argues. .

Times Special . | - WASHINGTON, July 31.—Having voted for all the curtailing amendments, Senator VanNuys (D. Ind) announced today that he now in-

tends to vote against the entire lendspend bill. : “There are some.items in it such as rural electrification, which I favor,” the Senator said. “But I will vote against the measure for the ¢ good, old-fashioned Hoosier reason that we simply can’t afford it. “There are a lot of things which 1 should like to have out on my farm, but I have tg forego them- until I get the money to pay for them. The same thing applies to the Government right now.”

OPENS SEWAGE PLANT BIDS

FT. WAYNE, Ind, July 31 (U. P.).—Charles R. Wermuth & Son, Inc. of Ft. Wayne today submitted a low bid of $1,197,708. for the proposed sewage disposal plant ‘here, the Board of Works announced.

listrative establishment out of poli-

| _To.Mr. Roosevelt's comment that serted that it “simply prohibits and

CLAIMS EF. D.R. LOOKS TO 1944

G. 0. P. Congressman Charges Hatch Bill ‘Doubt’ Is Pure Politics.

"By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer ‘WASHINGTON, July 31.—Republicans charged today that President Roosevelt's criticism of the Hatch Bill indicates an attempt by him to use the Federal patronage machine to control the 1940 Democratic Na-

tional Convention. launch life-boats.

Times-Acme Telephoto,

Some of the 227 survivors of the burning Japanese freighter Bokuyo Maru being taken aboard the tanker Associated in midPacific on July 19. Three lives were lost as the freighter burst into flames, but the remaining passengers and the crew were able to

The assertion came from Rep. Charles A. Plumley (R. Vt.) as Mr. Roosevelt returned from a week-end cruise, during which he may have decided whether to sign.or veto the measure lifting the relief organization and most of the Federal admin-

‘Anonymous 6’ Shove Hull Out

] ASHINGTON, July 31 (U. P.) —Secretary of State Cor-

dell Hull soon will have to move ‘his historic offices on the second floor of the State, War and Navy Building to make room for the six new assistant Presidents, it was learned today. Secretary Hull and other topranking State Department. officials will be moved to the fourth floor. It was understood that the six assistant Presidents, men “with a passion, for anonymity,” and their office help will occupy all the second floor. The Budget Bureau will be moved from the Treasury into the first floor of the building. War Secretary Harry Woodring and the few remaining offices of * his Department are moving out to make way forthe Budget Bureau.

tics. The President has until Thursday to act on the bill, which, among other things, would bar Federal jobholders from being delegates to party conventions. Past conventions sometimes have been controlled by these employees. Points to Old Decision

“Congress has at last applied the ax to political spoils in the Federal administrative services,” Rep. Plumley said. “To find the President now reaching out ®or every spacious argument of evasion against the bill is a most disheartening spectacle. “First he intimated the measure was unconstitutional, in that it abridged the right of free speech and free assembly to Federal payrollers. That argument was decided the other way by the courts some 40 years ago. It was determined that the Government is free to impose| The Navy Departmen: moved out whatever reasonable conditions it| during the World War. will upon public officeholders.”

enor samen: is TRAIN HOLDUP FAILS; 9 BANDITS WOUNDED

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the bill was vagué, Mr. Plumley as-

forbids all electioneering by Federal employees, and fixes mandatory criminal penalties for such activiHes. There is nothing vague about t’ . The congressman charged that the President, “in his eager desire to protect the existing spoils machine within the Federal bureaucracy, resorts to these flimsy reasons for his attack upon the bill. His evasions' indicate he plans to lean heavily upon the payrollers for contributions and political organizations in the 1940 campaign . ..”

BODY SOUGHT IN RIVER

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. July 31 (U. P.).—Searchers today dre attempting to find the body of George Fletcher, 17, who was drowned here yesterday afternoon when the boat in which he was riding sank. Six other persons in the boat were

Army airmen’s payroll. The money was consigned from the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank to the First National Bank of Ranfoul. U. 8S. postal inspectors at Chicago immediately began an investigation to determine whether there was a connection between this attempt and recent - railroad mail robberies at Belvidere, Ill, Beloit, Wis, and Kewanee, Ill. Three or four men dressed in overalls participated in the previous robberies, which occurred at the station platform in each case. The wounded bandit, Waldon, wore blue overalls. : | In the previous attempts the bandits escaped with pouches but failed to obtain large payrolls re-

saved.

portedly in the consignment.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record

Violation Cases Convic- Fines ; Tried tions Paid

City 40 33

Speeding . Reckless driving 1 Failing to stop through street 2 Disobeying red

light Prunken driving 1 All others Bese, 9 11 |

Totals

MEETINGS TODAY te Operators’ Association, meeting, oe 1 Hotel, 7:30 2. m. 1 ‘Scientech Club, luncheon, Board of Trade, BC Service Club, luncheon, Hotel Lincoln, DoNorth Side Realtors, luncheon, Canary

ee Francaise, luncheon, Hotel Wash-

ington. noon.

' MEETINGS TOMORROW Rotary Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel,

Bog3ro Club, ‘luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel,

BOercator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,

BOO, rersal Club, Juncheon, Columbia Club,

BOR nights of Columbus, luncheon, Board of

Teds eran Service Club, lunchegn, Canary

Lu Cottage, noon. | Credit Group, luncheon, Mane arile the William. H’ Block Co., NOOR. en’s Club, luncheon, Y. M. C. A, noon. >

None 2.00 3.00

15.00 5.00

$30.00

MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists trom official records $n the County Court House. The Times, therefore. is not responsible for srrors in Ta Beechm! 29 t 1544 8 i an; o ; Monidian: Kathryn L. Goldman, 24, of 3423 8. Meridian. _ . | : Jesse E. Rader, 217, of 126 8. New Jersey; Mareile, E. Nichols, 21, of 23 3 nl on; Ww.

oole, 36, of Wi chard Po Lucile Stone, 30,

ashin ton. ington. ath" Washington 24, of 442 Spruce; Mildred Louise Fo 18, of 15 11 Zisioss. T Fra r ance ' : perihing: Sares Maxine Wycofl, 17, of 775 Morgan. . * . Ira L. Crumly, 8 of 646 Ft. Wayne; Edna Johnso! . Ft. Wayne. po neon. 3 9%. Lebanbn, Ind.; \ E. North. of 1711

0 M. of 3614 Sane Fortmer, 19, of

$5.00 | To.

odist. Roy, Phyllis Ewart,

arteriosclerosis

Leslie Earl Brandenburg, 22, of 2618 E. Michigan; Opal Marie Smith, 19, of 406

. Harris. Paul Frederick Campbell, 22, of 420 N. Noble; Betty D. Jones, 17, of 925 Massachusetts. William Francis Raymond, 21, of 928 virginia; Anne Mildred Stout, 23, of 1144 Lexington. Samuel Leonard Metsker, 53, Noblesville, Ind.; Donna Mildred Glore, 44, of 2115 Singleton. > Roy Edwin King, 25, of 1104 N. Hamilton; Doris Elaine White, 19, of 936 N

Hamilton, . George - Harris Williams, 22, of 602 S. Jinete Lena Maxine Stroup, 17, of 439 Roland Kelse Woessner, 27, of 1633 Ave.; Leona Helen Kaiser, 25, of ish Ave. Weldon Lowe, 24, Howard Cound.: Lois Irene Zinn, 21, of 3744

Pojvilis Koad, f 503 California; Lul ve Ree 0 alifornia; Bell Glenn, 51, of 516 Agnes St 8 8 ky oi

Louise Wright, 83, at Methodist, lobar pneumonia. Rebecca Bennett, 82, at 839 Charles, cardiac asthma. Ida May, 73, at Methodist, coronary occclusion. Mary Thacker, 52, at 428%2 E. Washington, carcinoma.

FIRES SATURDAY 12:59 A. M.—At Iowa and 8. M sted automobile backfire, $1 loss. eridisn :58 A. M.—20 West St., leaking artiflcisl as, Jetective gas Irs Michi — an . Sts., malicious false Salarm. Shigen s SUNDAY 2:04 P. M.—1130 Villa Ave. smoking furnace. 2:42 P. M.—2034 Boulevard Place, overstuffed chai:, cause unknown, $2 ioss. . Allen Stewart, 31, o 2:45 P. M.—60 board Esther D. Stewart, 30, of 1 and cover, electric iron overheated. Josep. H. augh, 39. Hazel D. Wilkens, 37, of 24 Cassie Downe

. Illinois; 8 Drake St., ironin . Market.

15 1by. , 25. of 646 Douglas St.; yiries M. Washington, 26, of 1015°N. MisKirk Crawford, 20, of 640%; S. West; Matdaret Roof, 16, of 629 S. West. Wi 11; 49 W

OFFICIAL WEATHER

By U. S. Weather BUreat au)

4 INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Fair and 2D atterson; somewhat warmer tonight; tomorrow fair E and warmer. Sunrise ...... 4:42 | Sunset ..,...7:00 TEMPERATURE —July 31, 1938— 1:00 p. m..... 75

° BAROMETER 6:30 a. m...30.03

jam H. R. Simpson, 26, of . 26th St.; Ellen Lucille Florence Starks, 16, of 958 N. Sheffield.

"Jr., 82, of Indianapolis; Busy Marie Harelson, 25; of Indianapolis. John Wesley Smith, 22, of 144 W. Sth: Yiols . Mary = McConnaha, 21, of 1023 John Lucas, 21, of Columbus, Ind.; Mildred Bishop, 19, of 840 N. East. dM

BIRTHS | |Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 6:30 a. m._. Total precipitation since Jan. 1 , Girls Excess since Jan. 1

James, Cora McDowell, . f ’s.1" owell, at St. Vincent's MIDWEST WEATHER

David, Ldihtan tfleck. ut 3 Vincents orge, Jeane oung, & . Vincent's.| Indiana—Generall ir tonight and toFred, Mildred Bordenkecker, at St. Vin-|morrow; somewhat ier tonight a cent’s. : in vicinity of Evansville; warmer tomorLou, Mary Feeney, at St. Vincent's. row. Charles, Elsie Germaine, at St. Vincent’s.| mjineis—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; somewhat warmer in central and north portions tonight, warmer tomorrow. Lower Michigan—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; somewhat cooler in extreme north portion. Ohio—Fair and slightly warmer tonight and tomorrow. : / Kentucky—Fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tomorrow and in est . central portions ‘tonight.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES 6:30 A. M. Station, Weather. Bar. Temp. Amarillo,” Tex. .....,.Cloudy 29.86 62 Bismarck, N. +O, 59 70 67

on Chicago Cincinnati .. Cleveland .. enver ... .e Dodge City, Kas. Helena, Mont. Jacksonville, Fla.

. Mary Pettit, at City. Frank, Geneva King, at St. Francis. = Walter, Jeanette Meyer, at St. Francis. Bert, Mary Venderveen, at St. Francis. Sam, Mary Nahmios, at Methodist. Leonard, Selma’ Binnion, at Methodist. H. B., Genevieve Keehn, at Methodist. Richard, Louise Lundy, at Methodist. Emery, Helen Owens, at Methodist. Boys Dale, Alvis Griner, .at City. James, Virginia May, at St. Francis. Edward, Mary Servis, at St. Francis. Ray, Eleanore Emery, at St. Francis. Charles, Mary Harbison, at St. Francis. Forest, Roberta Byard, at St. Vincent's. Paul, Martha Heaton, at St. Vincent's. Ray, Elizabeth Coons, at St. Vincent's. Forrest, Opal McGinnis, at St. Vincent's. Herbert, Gladys Gandy. at Methodist. John. Irene Wills, at Methodist. James, Royse Flower, at Methodist. William, Dorothy Winzenread, at Meth-

at Methodist. at Methodist,

Kay, Louise Williams, Twins “John, Thomasine Finney, at St. Vincent's. sonia AE

DEATHS william Hayes, 67, at 28556 N. Delaware,

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081s. Sisle Campbell, 42, at Methodist, carcls at 1117

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U.S. IS CALLED FOE OF JAPAN

Linked to Britain, Russia; London to Send Admiral To Moscow.

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reported today to man 130. reserve ships put into action while the big home fleet steamed northward for August maneuvers in a position that would be taken to bl German sea lanes ‘in event of r. Aerial and land forces also will maneuver

| this month.

In Paris, Naval Minister Cesare Campinchi announced that France was building 83 warships, totaling 340,000 tons, with the intention of having a fleet of 750,000 tons. Most important, he said, the French Government will build up to 100 submarines to offset the German-

Italian underwater fleet.

Danzig, which was concentrating its defense measures after mobilizing 4000 men in an area the size of Marion County and with about the same population, formally charged Poland with attempting to boycott its exports. The Free City’s note threatened reprisals.

In the midst of these prepara-|

tions, high sources in : Paris said that Britain had taken up with France the problem of advancing a concrete and workable peace plan in Europe when and if the new security front becomes so strong that it can offset the danger of new aggression that might start a general

Truce Agreed on but New Clash Is Expected In Few Hours.

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alongside the plant, but it formed again quickly. A patrolman on a horse, Joseph Pataky, 35, was injured by a swinging club. Police were forced to fire several shots into the air to hold back the crowd. : Firemen aided them by pouring water volleys.

! Police Chiel on Spot

and asked the crowd to disperst and go home. Strike leaders

of the streets, which he had asked them to keep clear, but believed they should be allowed to stand along the sidewalks. ‘ Bob Travis, a U. A. W. leader, charged that “the riot 'was precipitated by police to protect about 25 ‘rats’ inside the plant.” The battle began when the first non-striker’s auto started through the Coit Road gate of the plant and was grabbed by pickets,

oe who attempted to overturn it,

New Battle for Every Car

Six mounted police charged into the pickets to clear a path for the car. A paving brick came sailing through the air from crowds lining the tree-lawn and yards across the street. It smashed the car’s right window. , The pickets reformed their lines,

arrivals joined it. More cars of nonstrikers arrived. .- : “Hold your line!” the strike leaders shouted and the pickets refused to budge. More bricks flew from across the street. . Some struck non-

. | strikers’ cars, others those of police.

Police fired six tear and cleared the gate. into the yard.

gas - shells Two cars sped

car was a signal for a new battle. Grenades Are Thrown | Police “jumper-

repeaters,” tear grenades which bob

said.

based his value of the company on the historical cost, the attorney

“His extreme conservatism in arriving at his value,” Mr. Johnson continued, “is indicated by the fact

|that he depreciated the property

about 25 per cent, which is more than three times as much as the accrued depreciation claimed during eiter of the two rate cases by any engineer, even the engineers representing ‘the Indiana Public Service Commission and the City.” , Points to Long Study Mr. Johnson said that, as a citizen, he could not see how “any rea-

sonable man can fail heartily to favor this purchase and sale, except

lhe be one who is conscientiously “| opposed to public ownership regardless of the profit inuring therefrom.”

“The facts which were the basis of my own conclusions were studied

2 |over a period of weeks by the Mayor, I representatives of City Council, the

Board. of Trustees for the Utility District, members of the Mayor's official family, a group of respon-

Mr. Dickerman,” he said. “The above group,” he added; “unanimously recommended the purchase of the property at the price asked and in that position has been strongly supported by two out of the three Indianapolis newspapers of general circulation, the management of both of which have from the beginning been in close One newspaper, he said, stated that the Dickerman report revealed that if the City does not acquire the property it will be placed in the unusual position of paying most ‘of the company’s expenses in the 1932 and 1933 rate .case. ;

| Doubts Deterioration

“The fact is,” he said, “that if this property remains in private hands, the consumers, under the law, will continue to pay these expenses, but if the City acquires the property, that will not be an operating charge. «It is stated that ‘the physical condition of the system is glossed over in the expert's report . . . thus far, the only information on the vast underground investment has come from the promoters.’ ” . Mr. Johnson said the Dickerman report stated there is no reason to think the underground system ‘had deteriorated from specific corrosion or electrolysis to any important degree and that equipment is adequate to meet the requirements of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for Class A designation.

HELEN YOUNG DIES AT HOME FOR AGED

Miss * Helen Young, for nine years a guest at the Indianapolis Home for the Aged, 1731 N. Capitol Ave. died there yesterday. She was 80 and had fallen July 4. Services are to be at 10 a. m. Wednesday in the Home and burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery.

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which were growing steadily as new

Each arrival of a non-striker’s|

around so pickets can’t grab them

Miss Young has been an Indianapolis resident for 20 years.

000 Pickets Battle Cleveland Police

him in the chest and hounced. off before it exploded. Its force knocked the officer over the small iron fence guarding the lawn. Strikers complained that mounted police were clubbing strikers indiscriminately. : ee

‘Last Fling" Ends

Police Chief George J. Matowitz |; appeared personally at tHe scene

told Chief Mato- |: witz they were willing to stay out|:

‘Velma West, left, and Mary Ellen Richards, who. were cap by police in Dallas, are shown as they were taken into the Ohio State Women’s Reformatory at

sible and representative citizens and!

where; Mrs. West was |Funeral services were sentence - for. the |ranged

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Broad shoulders are the Duce’s pride.

~The answer to that question is an unqualified “No.” Such is the virtually unanimous opinion of diplomatic, observers with whom I have talked here. : While Britain and France: practically threw Italy into the arms of Germany, the Italian people unmistakably want peace and Premier Mussolini is said to have no inteution whatever of allowing his country to be dragged willingly into an unwanted war. : 8 And Herr Hitler almost certainly “will not, start a war without

Sig. Mussolini’s support.

Keeping peace may require them.

That the Duce,

But Sig. Mussolini will long as a reasonable alternative is

Here are some of the reasons to want war: A lightning war is no longer

With the first shot, Italy would lose Ethiopia. The German plan for using Italian troops to overrun Egypt from Libya and Ethiopia, and seize the Suez Canal, is now blocked by Turkey’s engagements with Britain and France. Thus approximately 65,000 Italian troops in Ethiopia would be cut off from supplies and left at the ‘mercy of Ethiopian rebels plus British and French troops.

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TALY is dangerously short of oil, steel, coal, cotton, rubber and other vital raw materials. As she would be immediately bottled up in the Mediterranean, by British control of Gibraltar and Suez, her only remaining source - of supply would be Germany, which needs every ounce of her own IEServes. Even if Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Jugoslavia were overrun and stripped of everything they possesed, the axis powers would still be short. And Italy, which would be the first to feel the pinch, is enough of a realist to know that Germany

would not deprive her own armies

in order to replenish the Italians’ supplies. Sig. Mussolini is not entirely un= aware of the real nature of the German-Italian alliance. He knows it is a marriage of convenience. He knows the honeymoon will end the moment ‘the crisis is past. He must foresee that if the axis were defeated the Italian nation would be reduced to a second-class power. And if the axis were victorious, it is axiomatic that the larger partner dominates the smaller.

Germany is already twice the

size of Italy, and several times as

. strong. Furthermore, the Germans

Italians just as the Italians despise the Germans. Il Duce would never tolerate becoming a vassal of Der Fuehrer.

NE of the chief factors beO hind the axis understanding is a common hatred and fear of bolshevism. The German-Italian rapprochement began with the Anti-Comintern Pact.

. despise the:

As a practical statement, Sig.

Mussolini is aware that a long war would leave both sides prostrate, easy prey to the same forces which left the Communists on top in Russia. »All experience since 1914 proves that a modern large-scale war cannot be quickly won, even if one side” is vastly superior in planes

and other equipment, as is Japan ;

in comparison to China. The Chaco, Spanish and SinoJapanese conflicts all became wars of attrition. Even the conquest of Ethiopia took nearly a year and a half, ‘ Certainly Britain and France would not surrender in a hurry. : Benito Mussolini is one of Europe’s dblest statesmen. Even his enemies admit that he has performed a miracle in his own country. A man smart, enough to ‘achieve such a transformation is smart enough to avoid deliberately’ wrecking everything he has thus far accomplished. He is smart enough to count the odds “against him. ; _ Hence, unless all other exits are barred, he will hardly risk so desperate a gamble merely to help Herr Hitler become the boss of Europe. This, at any rate, is the view of one who knows Sig. Mussolini bet-

| ter than most.

NEXT—Italy Prepares for Peace. fee MULES KICK FATAL ANGOLA, Ind., July 81 (U. P)— b ar- | here today for Roscoe For‘a farmhand who died late

.By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor RoE, July 31.—The road to peace leads to Rome. Unquestionably it is Adolf Hitler who there is to be peace or war. But the decision will on certain outside factors, chief of which is th Benito Mussolini would blindly follow the Fuehrer’s

like the Fuehrer, probably will use the threat of war in an effort to obtain what he wanst from Britain and France is not doubted. That such tactics are dangerous, might easily get out of hand, is also true. not deliberately plunge Europe into war so left open. At any rate that is fhe privately expressed opinion of a Central European statesman who has known the Duce probably as intimately and as long as any foreigner. why Premier Mussolini is said not

possible. Perhaps it would have been a year ago, but not now. The sides are too evenly balanced.

resume publication of the newspaper.

Times Labor Writer > WASHINGTON, July 31.—Organized labor faces Jove Congressional defeats this weék following its earlier losses.

will decide whether ecessarily be based question ‘whether

lead. are probable in the wage-hour, re-"’

lief and housing ‘battles, and are * possible in the struggle over social

ation of the La Follette civil-liberties investigation. There is virtually no hope for ‘final action on such labor measures as the amendments to the - Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Law. Following the Senate's adverse vote on the McCarran amendment to the spend-lend bill, there seems now no chance that labor’s strike-and-lobby pressure will succeed in restoring - the “prevailing wage’ rates on relief projects or in pre- ": venting other relief pay cuts. Un=" ¢ employment relief appropriations

or $784,000,000 less than last year, 7. | despite labor’s demand for increases.

Division Saps Strength

The growing strength of the anti~ labor forces in Congress is attributed to the national swing toward conservatism in general, and to the: A. P. of L.-C. I. O. division in par-.

ecclesiastic and journalistic

Vice President Garner’s personal - habits definitely helped the anti-

|ate last week, and is expected to i (have an even greater cumulative effect this week. . The Senate's passage of the Tydings. amendment tothe spend-lend pill, restricting political contributions of labor unions, was a direct retaliation against Mr. Lewis and the C. 1. O. contributions to New Deal campaigns. . With the Senate now beginning to - compete with the House in slaps at labor, there is less chance of the

because the situation $100,000 appropriation extending

the life of the La Follette investigation of employers’ “oppressive labor practices.” .

Together on 2 Issues

In the House this week labor's - major battles will be to prevent emasculation of the Wage-Hour Law by the Barden amendments to remove protection from more than. 2,000,000 workers, and to concur in . the Senate's Murray amendment

PUBLICATION ENDS FOR BUFFALO TIMES

BUFFALO, N. Y., July 31 (U. P). ~The Buffalo Times, 60-year-old evening and Sunday newspaper, ceased publication with yesterday's editions. Its withdrawal from the field leaves Buffalo with one daily evening paper ard one daily morning and Sunday publication. The Times was founded in 1879 by. the late Norman E. Mack and sold by him to the Scripps-Howard Newspapers in 1929. The paper was relinquished to the control of George Lyon, editor, and Earl J. Gaines, business manager, a year ago. A committee representing The Times’ approximately 350 workers sought means today of obtaining financial backing so that they might

compulsory dismissal of WPA workers on. the rolls 18 months. The spend-lend bill, though on the Administration “must” list, at best will

The Murray WPA rider will have .

velt-Harrington support. ie ~ On this WPA rider and on. the .. wage-hour issues, the A. PF. of L. and C. I. O. are standing together. ~ Liberalization of the Social Se- . curity Law, with its $825,000,000 °

and employers, is deadlocked in , cenference. The issue is the Sen- ~ ate Connally amendment, which. would help old-age pensioners by a Federal contribution of $10 of the first $15 of the monthly grant, and . an equal Federal-state contribution - thereafter. Pid Labor also has a stake in the Ad-

dollar expansion of the Housing ~ Authority program. It is In a pre- 3 carious staté because of the House °

It was anonunced that printers had agreed to raise $8000 as a contribution. may be riddled if DOCTOR'S WIFE KILLED = killed. : : MORRIS, Ill, July 31 (U. P.)— 8 Dr. F. L. Morehouse, Borocco, Ind.,| ' MERCER FUNERAL HELD today was in a critical condition as| HOLLYWOOD, Cal, July 31.— a result of injuries received in an|Funeral services were held today for automobile accident. yesterday in|Beryl ‘Mercer, veteran actress of which his wife was killed and his|London’s Drury Lane, New York's * ddughter injured. Witnesses said |Broadway and Hollywood’s. movies. ' fie Morehouse car collided with a She died last Friday at the age - ruck. ie of 57. > : {

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Labor defeats before adjournment ' *

security amendments and continu- "S

have been reduced to $1,755,600,000, °°

ticular. John L. Lewis’ blast against . \

labor blocs in the House and Sen- By

liberals blasting out of the Byrnes :y Audit and Control Committee. the -;

modifying the relief provision for .

have hard passage .in the House. ..

even a worse fight, despite Roose=

three-year tax savings to workers .

ministration bill for an 800-million- 5

revolt against the President, and = not - actually 3+

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