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"Hatch Clean Politics’ Bill Is Signed by Roosevelt;

Housing Measure Is Junked

*Step in Right Direction,’ President Comments on Disputed Measure.

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‘such agencies as the Reconstruction

Finance Corp, the Farm Security

Administration, etc., were not subJect to the bill. Nor, he said, are farmers receiving AAA benefits, He heid that employees belonging to young Republican and young Democratic Clubs, the League of Women Voters, the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. and similar organiza-

tions may retain their membership.

He held that war veterans receivIng pensions and retired men of the armed forces receiving pensions were not. subject to the bill... Nor are persons receiving social security benefits of any kind. Mr. Roosevelt declared he was sending his message to Congress “because there have been so many misrepresentations, some’ mediated, some deliberate, in regard to his attitude on the bill, and “because a number of. questions

. have been raised as to the meaning and application of seme of its pro-

visions.” ‘Better Government Seen

' ~He declared belief that the meas“ure would contribute to better Gov_ernment if it “is administered in

' accord with its spirit and if it is in

ministered without on or groundless

the future abuse, oppr fear.” ‘The President hled that the bill would not prevent an employee of the Government from answering “unwarranted attacks made on l¥im or his work or the work of his superiors or on the work of his subordinates, notwithstanding the fact that such attacks or misrepresentations were made for political urposes.” “It can hardly be maintained,” he

‘said, “that it is the American way

of doing things to allow newspapers,

| magazines, radio broadcasters, members and employees of the Senate

and House of Representatives and

| ell kinds of candidates for public | “office and their friends to make any

form of charge, misrepresentation, falsification or vituperation . . . with

‘complete immunity against reply

except by a handful of high execu-

- give officials. Hopes Public to Keep Watch

© “That, I repeat, would be un- | American because it would be un-

‘fair and the great mass of Ameri‘cans like fair play and insist on it. They do not stand for any gag act.” Mr. Roosevelt warned against ad-

| ministration of the act by some fu- | ture Administration in a manner | which “might well infringe the Con-

stitutional rights of citizens.” “I trust,” he said, “that public

| vigilance will for all time prevent

this.” With respect to extension of the no-politics proviso to state and local employees, Mr. Roosevelt said: “It is held by many who have ex-

amined the Constitutional question;

that because the Congress, under | the Constitution, may maintain the | integrity of Federal elections, it has ithe power to extend the objectives ,of this bill so as to cover state and | local Government employees who participate actively in Federal elec- | tions.”

3 BANDITS GET $95 AT FILLING STATION

| | Three men in a car bearing an Illinois license held up the attendant in the Bohn and Brandsford filling station, 440 W. 16th St., this afternoon and escaped with about 895. Two of the men were armed with revolvers and one stayed in the car. They escaped in a 1938 sedan.

ROYAL C. JOHNSON DIES

| WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U. P).— . Royal C. Johnson, 56, former Repre "sentative from South Dakota; Ried today at his home from a ‘heart attack. Mr. Johnson left Congress uring the World War to enlist in he Army as private, was promoted Tto a sergeancy,- was wounded and ‘veceived the Distinguished Service

! J.Cross, the Order of the Purple Heart

and the Croix de Guerre.

$ SOUTH BEND FIRM ACCUSED CHICAGO, Aug. 2 (U. P).—Til-

Jord E. Durley, trial.examiner ofl.

he National Labor Relations Board, today submitted an intermediate re- . port finding the Indiana & Michigan Electric Co., South Bend, Ind. guilty of unfair labor practices. He substantiated charges that the company discriminated in favor of an alleged company union.

unpre-.

LENDABLE CASH OF U. S. STILL $1,600,000,000

Roosevelt Denies Seeking to Avoid Statutory Debt Limitation.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U. P)— Government agencies have upward of $1,600,000,000 available for loans in the current fiscal year despite the death of President Roosevelt's lending bill, a survey indicated today. : Those agencies, paralleling the various sections of the lending bill, cannot make loans on exactly the same basis, however, as has been proposed by the President. ‘The House version of the bill which was killed yesterday would have made $1,950,000,0000 available. over. a period of years. Mr. Roosevelt said at. his press

{conference yesterday that defeat of

the bill would retard industry, prevent employment in private industry of many people now on relief, and cost the taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in the end. He declined to criticize Congress for its action, but added that the responsibility ‘must fall on Congress and that taxpayers, industrialists and the people on relief rolls have a distinct and proper right to ask the names of the people in the House

‘who killed the bill.

Lending ‘Funds - Surveyed

A survey revealed the following lending authority still at the command of agencies which can make loans similar to those proposed by Mr, Roosevelt: Reconstruction Finance Corporation, ‘$1,360,000,000. °° Export-Import Bank, $44,000,000. Rural Electrification Administration, $40,000,000. Farm Security Administration, $199,000,000. Several hundred millions also are available through the regular crop loan program. J

Sought Specific Legislation

President Roosevelt indicated that he did not think the objectives of his program could be achieved under the RFC’s authorizations. He said that specific legislation seemed necessary to take care of ‘litty bitty things.” Mr. Roosevelt denounced as unfair the allegation made by Administration opponents that the lending bill was designed to circumvent the 45-billion-dollar statutory limitation on public debt of the Federal Government; that the loans would he a Federal debt. He cited an example to suppor: his contention. Supposing, the President said, you have in your small town a ‘bank with one million dollars belonging to residents of the community. That one million dollars represents a direct debt to the people who put the money into the bank. Now, continued Mr. Roosevelt, would it be fair to call attention—in Congress, on the stump or editorially—to the fact that this bank has a debt of one million dollars? Wouldn't it be fair, the President added; to say the bank has a debt of one million dollars but also has assets sufficient to meet. the debt and more besides.

State WPA Waits Word From Capital

State WPA officials here today awaited word. from Washington as to the effect of the killing of the President's lending bill on the compulsory firing of all workers employed 18 months or longer. They believed that the killing of the prorosed lending measure also meant the death of a rider which had been attached last -week to

proviso of the 1940 Relief Act. “We don’t know just -where we stand,” said State Administrator John K. Jennings. “So we are just going. to leave everything ‘status quo.’ Congress will probably adjourn by Saturday, and then we’ll know for sure.”

LORD HOWARD DIES LONDON, Aug. 2 (U. P.).—Lorc Howard of Penrith, 75, who as Sir Esme Howard was Ambassador to the United States from 1924 to 1930, died last night at his home at Hindhead. He underwent an opera-

tion several months ago.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

ee Is the Traffic | Record od DEATHS TO DATE

County City 3

Injured ..... 1] Arrests sonvev 20 Dead -... So | Accidents ... 11 TUESDAY'S TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines Tried tions ' Paid erdese 10 10 $37

Violation Speeding Reckless ; (driving ...... © 0 0 Failng to stop ‘thru street.... 9 9 $7 Disobeying red light 0 0 Drunken driving 1 eo . 0 26 $26

we hi52 4380

Totals

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MEETINGS TODAY Kiwanis Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, noo

ions Club, luncheon, Hotel Washington, oon.

n 40-Plus Club, meeting, Chamber of Commerce, 7:30 p 12th Diet merivan Legion, “lunch.ok: Board of Trade, noon M. c a Camera. ¢ Club, meeting, 1 Y. » c ize) Society, Sons eof ‘the American Resolution, luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel,

rative Club of Indianapolis, Jur n, Columbia Club, noo Indians Hooter AL affie . cheon. Hotel Antlers noo Tug nd lis Junior Chamber of os luncheon. Canary Cottage, noon.

n. Association,

MEETINGS TOMORROW Advertising Club, luncheon, Canary Cottage, | -

lun 1s. Slub, cheon,.

Oil Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin, noon Construction League, Junchieon, Architects and Builders building, n Indianapolis Camera Club, Ofteeting, 110 E. Ninth St., 8 p. m.

BIRTHS

Girls Lois Ogden, at St. Vincent's. ward, Dora Hahn, at St. r Frank, Prank, Es rancis, Rae Riley, at St. Vincent's. Ropnels Allle Christian, at City. Frank, Wilma Purcell, at City William, Mary Scales, at Coleman. Boys Jaquis. Betty Merriman, n Coleman. Jasper, eora Fleming, Coleman. Charles, Juanita Bale Cy a Coleman. J., nk, Vincent's. Gerald, th onrn by St. Vincent's. Paul, oEisbett Oftendort, at St. Vincen

Burley, Ruth Brooks, at St. Yincent's. Harold, J Ruby McDaniel, at C Dona Louise Cox, at 48 N NE radley. Ra. nd, Lena Pavey, at 1002 Harrison. Leon, “Sarah Vandever, at 3515 Pleasant.

XE DEATHS 72,

Harve, Ea Y.

ohn Sowders. at 2957 Highland

| Place, cerebral hemorrhage.

Anna Green, 57, at 1336 Shepard, cereat Bombsrhidge. Ludlow, 70, at 1289 Kentucky, Bright 2 py George Shepard, 68, at Methodist, pulmonary embo Joseph Greenwell, cerebral hemorrhage. illiam H. Duncan, .75, at 850 = Biltmore. 2m in Vo renal diseas; William Toivisben, 64, at Veterans. cor onary thrombosis,

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FIRES

Tuesday 3:15 P. dence, food on stove 3:44 P. M.—1519 Fa Bosart Ave., vacant

4:45 P. M.—501 Kentucky Ave.r roof, overheated electric motor, no loss. M.—1065 Virginia Ave. 58 grocery, overheated electric moter, no loss Today © 4:02 id" garage, ox E. Michig n St. resi:

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the common man will be killed as soon as the reactionaries can get in their work.” . Among the 47 Democrats who yesterday joined 146 Republicans in

the lending wiii were Reps. Louis

' | Ludlow ana John W. Boehne Jr.of|

Indiana.

leadership in favor were Reps. Wil-

bee and Eugene Crowe. - The fate oi iegisiaiion still on tire books was uncertain, - - There appeared to be some chance that House action would be had on ‘the controversial -wage-hgur act amendments for which a rule ‘has been reported by Mr. Sabath’s committees Mr. Sabath said, however, he was not at all sure what would happen to the wage-hour bills.

Mr.. Rayburn was reticent after |.

the conference in the Speaker's office. He declined to make any statement on the leadership plans. The junking of the housing hill was not unexpected. ' It has been known that the measure would face even greater opposition than the main lending program of which it was intended to be a corralary. The bill would have permitted the U. S. Housing Authority to increase its bond issues by $800,000,000 to finance low-cost housing in slum areas.

Austin Rejoices

“The House action in killing the lending program was hailed by acting Republican leader Warren R.. Austin of the Senate. .He declared that “nothing has happened in a long time that will give so much encouragement to private -enterprise.” : “The people,” he declared, ‘are anxious to begin to ‘taper off Government spending because they realize that it draws private capital from the field of private enterprise into the field of Government expenditures.” : Administration Senators were downcast. Senate. Democratic ‘Whip Sherman ‘Minton (D. Ind.) Warned that “business will get into & tailspin if we don’t watci out.” - Senator Prentiss M. Brown (D. Mich.), who voted .for the lending program, however, expressed hope the House action might help business. Senator Pat’ Harrison (D. Miss.) said e sudden, approach of adjournment created odds of 9 to 1 that the Social Security amendments would never become law at this session.

May Vote on Awwendment

“It would be a most unfortunate thing if we don’t get a social security bill this session,” Mr. Rayburn said. He indicated that the House might be asked to vote separately oni the Connally amendment to increase Federal contributions for oldage pensions to $2 for every $1 paid ‘by the state, up to $15.. Mr. Doughton said he was confident the House would back up its previous stand for 50-50 contributions even in the face of the conference deadlock. New Dealers regarded the defeat of the lending bill as the climax of a series of successful rebellions in the House in which a generally solid Republican minority was aided to. victory by conservative Democrats. “The President has suffered several defeats this session,” said Rep. Arthur D. Healey (D. Mass), a member of the ardently New Deal group. “My guess is that they may react in his favor. Weshaven’t done much in this Congress to alleviate human suffering.”

- WHEAT GAINS A CENT CHICAGO, Aug. 8 (U. P.).—Wheat prices today rose about a cent on bullish crop news and improved export demands. - Corn prices followed the trend of wheat.

CARL V. 'CASTLE DIES

Carl V. Castle, Beech Grove, died today at the pool room he operates at 226 .S. Illinois St. He was 47. Deputy Coroner Mark Mercer £N/e a tentative verdict of heart disease.

0. K. HOOVER PORTRAIT WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U. P.).— A Democratic Congress today appropriated $2500 to procure an oil por-; trait of former Republican President Hoover for the White House.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

By U. 8. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Thundershowers tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy with showers and somewhat cooler. Sunrise’ ...... 4:44 | Sunset ...... 8:58 TEMPERATURE s 1988—

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 3. m... Total precipitation since Jan. 1

's. | Excess since Jan,’ 1

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Thundershowers tonight, tomorrow partly cloudy, showers in west and

northwest portion tonight and in east and south portions tomorrow, IlUinois—Mostly cloudy, thundershowers tomorrow except in extreme northwest portion; somewhat cooler in north and westcentral portions tonight, ang in southeast and extreme south portions#tomorrow.

Lower Michigan—Local showers tonight and tomorrow; cooler tomorrow

“Ohio—Cloudy, scattered showers in west and north portion tenis, showers tomorrow followed by slightly cooler.

Kentucky—Mos(ly cloudy, scattered showers tomorrow and in west Sortien fonigin; warmer in southeast portio: ooler in ¢xtreme west portion Fug ‘slightly I or tomorrow.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES 6:30 A. M. Stations

Omaha. Ne ] DIL tharEh Portland, - Ore.

3an Antonio, Tex San _ Francisco St. Louis Tampa,

Nas! J

Adipurment, of of Congress |

voting against refusing to consider .

Hoosiers’ voting with the party | liam T. Schulte, William H. Larra-|

.| (die sinkers) in the Chrysler New

l alleged pro-C. I. O. bias.

extreme south portions; cooler in extreme]

7 Russians’

RULING CALLED BLOWTOC. 1.0.

Labor Board Rejects Plea For Employer-Wide Bargaining Units.

By. LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer

‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—The Labor Board's plant-election: de‘cisions in the three automobile cases are serious blows to the C. I 0. and follow other C. I.°O. defeats in the Board's recent meat packing decisions. : In the Chrysler, Briggs and Motor

rejected the C. I. O. claim to em-ployer-wide bargaining units and ruled in favor of tne ‘plant unit preferred by the company and the A. F. of L. In the only case in which a

separate craft unit was claimed— that of the A. F. of L.-machinists

Castle, Ind. plant—the Board upheld the craft against the C. I. O. industrial claim. Paradoxically, at the very hour the Board was ruling against the C. I. O. in the auto cases, the House was appropriating $50,000 for a special investigation of the board for

Smith Bitter in Dissent

The bitterness bred in Congress and the Board over .the C. I. O.-A. F. of L. fight for supremacy was

shown not only on the House floor and in the Senate hearings yesterday, but also. in. the dissenting goinion of Board member Edwin S. mith in the auto cases. He charged the majority, which consists of the new “reform” member, William M. Leiserson, and Chairman Madden, with helping the A. F. of L. alsthe expense of the C. I. O. The A. F. of L.-Martin faction desired no elections pending court decision in the.suit over legal right to the name and contracts of the Automobile Workers Union. But argued that single plants (except two contiguous Chrysler. Detroit plants) were the proper bargaining units, instead of all-employer plants in one unit as desiredsby the C. I. O

Both Claim Majority

Though both C. I. O. and A. F. of L. officially claim a majority in each plant, neither submitted proof to the Board. On the basis of the spring conventions of the rival factions, it is widely believed that the C. I. O. has a ‘much larger over-all membership than the A. F. of L. faction but that the latter has more in certain plants. Existing Chrysler and Briggs union contracts are contingent on the Board's decisions. The Board decisions in favor of plant elections therefore will make the A. F. of L.-U.. A. W. the bargaining union in any plant where it polls a majority, while an employer-unit decision would have virtually destroyed the A. F. of L.-U, A. W. and left the C. I. O. supréme. a hough General Motors’ petition in ‘the current tool and die strike involves somewhat different issues and was not acted on yesterday, the outcome of the Chrysler-Briggs-mo-itor products - elections will directly influence the C. I..O0.-A.' F. of L. battle for control at General Motors,

FREUD CRITICALLY ILL

LONDON, ‘Aug. 2 (U. P.).—-Dr. Sigmund Freud, 83, father of psychoanalysis, is gravely ill at his home in the suburb of Hampstead. Dr. Freud, a refugee from Nazi

products. cases yesterday .the Board|

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Times Photos

; Ne dives were barred as boys and girls from the City’s 35 playgrounds compeied in the annual water

There were more than 100 entrants.

Substitutes as Executioner and Takes Longer

OSTON, .Aug. 2 (U. P).—A substiute executioner worked in the death chamber of Charlestown State Prison early today and fook 42 ‘minutes to do the job the old master would have done in 15. The identity of the executioner was kept ‘secret. Substituting for Robert -G. Elliott, executioner for six states,’ who is ill, he was brought. in. to execute Wallace. Green; 22, and Walter St. Sauveuer, 19, who murdered a shopkeeper in a. $3.50 holdup. ~ ‘Green: was ' strapped into the chair. * ‘Warden J, W. Lanagan signaled the executioner.. After one shock, a physician stepped forward, listened in his stethoscope, said: ' “This man is not fully dead.” The warden signaled the man at the switches again and Green was given another shock. The physi‘cian listened, said: “This man is. not fully dead yet. 9» . Green was given a third shock “and the physician shook his head. A fourth shock brought the same report. Finally/ after the fifth shock, the physician said: “I pronounce this man dead.” Executing Green took 20 minutes. Mr. Elliott * ordinarily requires three to five minutes. Three shocks were necessary to kill St. Sauveuer.

DAM STRIKE ENDED BY ARMED CITIZENS

GREEN MOUNTAIN DAM, Colo., Aug. 2 (U. P.). — Contractors prepared to resume work on the $4,000,000 Green Mountain Dam today under the guns of 200 businessmen, sheriff's deputies and “back to work” laborers who broke ‘up a picket line to assure continuance of the project. Officials of the Warner Construction Co. said they expected operations to be normal within a few days. : Businessmen from Kremmling, Colo., organized a 50-car caravan last night. They drove to the strikebound ‘project, enlisted the aid of sheriff's deputies and more than 100 non-striking employees, and routed the 40 A. F. of L. pickets.

FLIER ‘SET RECORD

BUT REMAIN ALOFT

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Aug. 2 (U. P.).—Hunter'and Humphrey Moody, brother aviators, Decatur, Ill. having set ‘a new world endurance record. for light planes, remained aloft today and said they would stay up as long as humanly possible “to make it tough” for anyone who attempts to break their record. They equalled the previous mark of 218 hours and 43 minutes at 5:43 p. m. last night and after another hour of circling over the municipal airport in their 55-horsepower mono-

Jplane recéived official recognition for

8 new record.

44 MISSING OFF LAUNCH MANILA, Aug. 2 (U. P.)—Fortyfour persons were missing tcday after a motor launch eapsized in high seas off Cape Capines. Thirtysix of the 80 persons aboard, passengers and crew, were saved.

SAYRE SUCCESSOR NAMED

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt today nominated Dr. Henry F. Grady of California to be Assistant Secretary of State. He was named to succeed Francis Sayre. Mr. Sayre was made High Commis-

Austria, has been in delicate health for many years. 5

. | Monday.

sioner to the Philippine Islands.

IREPORT ON WPA

DUE NEXT FALL

Investigators Busy in City.

Will Take Data Direct ‘To Washington..

' ¢ Information gathered here by investigators for the House Committee probing WPA operations will be made public when the committee resumes activities next fall, it was learned today. Two investigators, Matthew J. Connelly and George J. Shillito, arrived in Indianapolis from Washington last Thursday by plane. They have completed an investigation in Ohio and after their stay here they will -be assigned to Illinois, Earl Chesney, in charge of the investigations said yesterday in Washington. Mr. Connelly said they could not divulge any information and that all announcements of their work must come from headquarters in Washington. : ‘Major objective of the House committee is to prove or disprove charges that WPA ‘labor has been used .on private property.

BETTER FOOD CALLED WAY TO SAVE SOULS

BOSTON, ang Aug. 2 (U. (U. P.) —A wellfed man is a future saint, but “startling indeed would be the list of the souls which in the history of the world have been damned by bad food,” Zion's Herald, centuryold Methodist weekly, said ‘editorially today. In a plea for “better cooking in the interest of Christian progress,” the ‘editorial said that churches were waging “an all but losing fight with restaurants for the souls of men.”

{000 POLICE ‘READY’ FOR RIOT AT DETROIT

DETROIT, Aug. 2 (U. P).—One thousand police were standing by

for riot duty today as the United |P

Automobile Workers Union (C.I.0.)

| massed additional pickets at Gen-

eral Motors plants affectéd by the union tool and diemakers strike which was a month old today. Eight pickets were arrested and several in-

-| jured in a battle between police and

pickets at the Fisher plant 37 late yesterday. Negotiations between General Motors executives and U. A. W.-C. 1. O. officials continued, meanwhile, under direction of Federal Labor Conciliator James F. Dewey.

CLEVELAND, Aug. 2 (U. P.).— A mass meeting of strikers from the Fisher Body Co. plant was called today to discuss the riot zone restrictions placed about the plant by Safety Director Eliot Ness: after fighting between policemen and pickets, in which 100 were injured

HOG PRICES RISE Buyers yielded : to demands for higher prices on hogs at Indianapoiis today after a two-hour deadlock. The practical top price rose to $6.70 with a 10-cent advance in weights over 160 pounds. Lighterweights and pigs sold 15 to 40 cents lower.

PATIENT CUPID REWARDED REGGIO DI CALABRIA, Italy,

Aug, 2 (U. P.).—Francesco Serrano,| .

88, and Giovanni Miniti, 76, martied today at St. Mark’s Church. They had been courting since 1880.

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mounting clase to the 2,000,000 mark, began large scale air maneuvers in the northwest and sent troops into the forests near France for Rhineland maneuvers. Fascist Italy inaugurated huge air and land war games in the Po Valley to test her ability to repell an offensive from France. A United Press survey revealed that Danzig has about 6000 men under arms, including the regular police force and not 40,000 as has -| been. reported. In the Far East, where a Japanese naval spokesman at ‘Shanghai declared the Japanese Navy could not ‘be defeated by any war fleet in the world; - Britain again protested against. anti-British activities in Japanese-controlled areas of China. But the Japanese merely increased their pressure against foes of the “new order in East Asia.” Americans as well as Bribons and were denounced as enemies in a spreading wave of agitation in the Japanese-centrolied

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British Bolster Stand With Ships; U.S. Protests Attacks by Japanese|

nese Government planned to recall Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi from Washington, ostensibly to report on the United States denunciation of the 1911 commercial treaty with Japan. “The United States Embassy at Tokyo formally protested to the Foreign Office against a series of attacks by Japanese soldiers on Americans in China. The attacks have been considered grave by the U. S. State Department and American consuls have been compiling a list of more than 600 such incidents since the Japanese began their conquest of China. Japanese ‘militarist leaders in China were quoted as saying they would never relax their hostility to Great. Britain, .

Britain also opposed Japanese demands for co-operation in floating Japanese-sponsored currency in North: China and it was believed that consultation with the United States and France had. stiffened that: opposition. , * At Shinghai, the American-owned |G Theme withdrew motion

the film. , Touching directly on the Par Eastern situation, Great Britain and Soviet Russia agreed to modify their naval agreement to permit Russia to build battleships up to 45,000 ton—the biggest type of fightwe ship yet planned. With the pan nations rushing their fighting strength to a maximum this month, diplomatic speculation centered on the possibility of important developments in Spain and in Central Europe. _ In Spain, according to reports to the French frontier, Gen. Gonzalo Queipo de Llano is pressing Gen. Francisco Franco to concede the demands of the military leaders for creation of a military dictatorship, replacing the present mixed Cahipet and toning down the Falangist (Fascist) influence in pain. In Central Europe, the Hungarian Nazis charged the Government with having aided in formation of an anti-German legion in’ Poland. The charge was officially denied, but the maneuver was similar to

lazi tactics in the past designed to

‘Butterfly, after Japan had protested

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ing beauty contest. her the blue ribbon. . County WPA recreation division.

Frances Wright, 14, of 2923 E. Washington St. (left), won the baths. Barbara King of the recreation division awards: The carnival was sponsored by the Marion

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Slashing of City’s Budget

Most of the 1940 budget requests of City department heads. probahly will be pared to 1939 levels at a meeting today of City officials head-ed-by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and’ City Controller James Deery. The officials said they would reduce the requests if the proposed in-

UTILITY BUYS GAS. PURIFIER

$62,200 P4id for Equipment To Facilitate Removal Of Sulphur.

Equipment designed to facilitate the removal of sulphur from gas was purchased by the Citizens’ Gas & Coke Utility today at a cost of $62,200. Known as the Koppers Seaboard Process, it will supplement the present rust method of removing hydrogen sulphate, the foreign matter in gas which causes blackening of pots: and pans. Utility officials said the process will save $17,000 annually by ceasing constant replacement of the iron oxide in the rust boxes, which now is used to remove all the sulphur. The Seaboard process removes 96 per cent of the sulphur by circulat-

ing the gas through soda ash, offi-;

cials said. The rust method will be used to remove the remainder. The new equipment will be installed at the Utility's Prospect St. lant. Officials said it will last “practically forever.”

MARRIAGE ILLEGAL, EX-JURIST CLAIMS

OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 2 (U. P.).—Fred Branson, 59, white-haired former Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, declared in court today that his New York marriage to Madeline Braniff, his former secretary, was illegal+under Oklahoma, statutes and that her suit for © $500 monthly separate malnjsnance should be rejected by court Appearing as his own attorney, the wealthy oil man entered a demurrer motion on .the contention that his wife, socialite sister of Tom Braniff, president of Braniff Air-

grounds, that he was not legally divorced from his first wife at the time of the ceremony at Tarrytgwn, N. Y. in 1930, and that she had “pressured” him into the ceremony.

: 7 STRAUSS SAYS:

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Boys' SHORTS, 2 for $1

POLO SHIRTS, 2 for $1

ANKLETS, 6 pairs, $1

Bo ays’ WASH SUITS,

PAJAMAS: special—$|

ways, had not established sufficient |

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To 1939 Levels Erpoctad |

creases caused a rise in the tax ule, : Every department but two has re- a

quested increases. Two factors will determine action® The valuation of property for next year and the amount the City. will receive from the gasoline tax.

Increase Foreseen Officials said they foresee a ‘rise. in the valuation because of the 193839 industrial expansion and upswing in all kinds of construction. : They said, too, that they probably will count on $100,000 from the gas tax, the same amount that was realized this year.

The division of this gas tax money

was expected to precipitate a fight between the | Engineering, Streets and Park Departments. ~ At least one cent has been cut from the potential 1940 rate by the payment to the City general fund of $50,000 by the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility, in lieu of taxes.

Airport Figure Stands

The Works Board already has requested the same budget for Munic~ ipal Airport this year as last in spi of a protest by I. J. Dienhart, super~ intendent. Mayor Sullivan said that the budget will not be announced untiliit is complete and ready for presentation to City Council.

7 BOY SCOUTS KILLED

IN MEXICAN CRASH

CHIHUAHUA CITY, Mexico, Aug. 2 (U. P.).—Seven Mexican Boy

Scouts were killed instantly and. 21

other persons injured, 11 seriously, when a bus in which they were returning from a camping trip collided last night with a heavy truck 15 miles south of here. The truck driver, Encarnacion Espinoza, was held in jail in “piotective custody” after - threats .of lynching were reported to: police. The accident occurred in . the mountains 15 miles southwest of here when the truck, loaded with sand, met the bus on a curve near the top of a hill. «

STOCKS RALLY LED. BY UTILITY: SHARES

NEW YORK. Aug. 2 Aug. 1.00. Py. rt Utility shares were best performers in a strong stock market today on the theory that the Government's entrance into the utility field would be arrested by the death of the Lending Bill. : Earlier unfavorable market sentis ment to the House’s action changed to the other side anc prices steadied in the first hour after a weak opens ing. Gains ranged to more than & point.

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