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30.5, LINES SELECTED TO

FLY ATLANTIC!

Truman Approves Routes

For T. W. A., American, Pan-American.

WASHINGTON, July 5 (U.! P.).—The civil aeronautics] board today authorized Pan! American Airways, American | Export Airways and Trans-| continental & Western Air, to fly trans-Atlantic routes to Ro rope. All three of the companies were authorized to start their trans-At.

lantic services from the following cities in this country: Chicago, Detroit, Washington, Philadelphia, New York and Boston. The board also issued a decision approving the acquisition of American Export Airlines by Americar Airlines. The decisions tnus would put two

domestic air lines, both of them run- }

ning through Indianapolis—T. W. A. and American «through acquisition of American Export) ~into the international aviation business along with Pan American. Hitherto only Pan-American and American Export | have operated commercial service abroad. Approved by Truman The allocation of routes on the important frans-Atlantic service to Europe was approved by President Truman. He did not wait for the final outcome of a fight in the senate over proposals to change the

law regulating air routes. ‘The CAB's certificates today pro-|

vided for thie following services:

"FORECAST: Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with scattered thitnder showers ; cooler toright and tomorrow. .. VOLUME 56—NUMBER 100 [FUEHRER'S LAST DAYS—

Reporter Finds ' New Evidence of Hitler's Suicide

By JACK FLEISCHER United Press Staff Correspondent

BERLIN, July 5.—Two weeks ago Hitler's chauffeur. Erich Kempka, told me how the fuehrer

and Eva Braun had committed suicide in a bunker behind the Reichs chancellory. | Kempka descrived the sofa | where Eva sat, the hole in the | ground where the bodies were | burned, and other details such as the five jerricans used to. pour | gasoline on the bodies. | ' - - » | TODAY, in that bunker, I found everything just as Kempka had described it—even to the five jerricans with bullet holes in them. The evidence was circumstantial, but overwhelming, that the Suicide story was true. (B. B. C. Correspondent Richard Dimbleby, in a Berlin _ broadcast,

body originally thought to be Hitler's that of a bad double of Hitler's.)

» " ” * THE MOST sensational piece of evidence were the unmistakable

Kempka sajd Eva sat when she

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4 HURT AS BUS | - SMASHES CAR

Infant Among Injured as Brakes Fail.

| Four Indianapolis residents are,

said that doctors now called the |

blood stains on the sofa where. {

By LLOYD LAPHAM United Press Staff Correspondent CAMP BEALE, Cal, July §.— Eight hundred veterans of the

European and North African campaigns today prepared for pre-Pa-« cific furloughs after trips across the continent in two commuter type trains they said were filthy and infested with vermin. Meanwhile, army officials here and in Washington began an investigatioh of the trips and of reports that eastbound German war prisoners had passed one of the trains in Pullmans. Conditions ‘of an sighs ~car train

_ THURSDAY, JULY. 5, 1945

which brought: 500 soldiers here)

Entered as Second-Class Matter at PostoMcs

"HOME

FINAL

PRICE FIVE CENTS

dianapolis 9, Ind. 1lssued daily except Sunday

* coaches.” Delahunt said, “we were

from Ft. Miles Standish, Masg., were

described yesterday by Lt. Col. Peter DePaolo, former ‘driver in the Io! dianapolis auto races. A second train reached Camp Beale from Charleston, 8. C., a few hours later with 300 officers and men of the 15th air force aboard.! | DePaolo’s description of the assertedly grimy, vermin-ridden rail equipment “sounds exactly like our

veterans from the European the Boston to Camp Beale, Cal,

. Patterson continued that th

for all troops on long hauls,

vided by curtailing Short- aul sl

WASHINGTON, : July 5 (U. P.).—Undersecrétary of War Robert P. Patterson today confirmed reports that 500 .American

in day coaches, *

to the office of defense transpuriation concerning lack of _sieepers Provisions of accommodations is up to the. ODT and the railroads, he explained.

Patterson said the sleeper accommodations could only be pro-

[promised Pullman accommodations at the first division point. We never <+got them. | “We were crowded three men to a seat'so that.at night one of the three had. to sleep in the aisle while | [the ether two tried to stretch out | on thé seats.” | DePaolo, who was ‘senior officer aboard the first train, said the size | | of his group called for 17 Pullman |

ater had been transported from

e armed services had protested

eeper service for civilians,

train,” members of the 15th air! force contingent declared. |Ray K. Delahunt, a P-38 pilot from “Soot a half inch thick” covered |Los Angeles said. the rhen after near-sleepless nights| Delahunt and another Lightning, in the overcrowded day coaches, Lt.| pilot, Lt. Thomas K. Folls, Glen- |

| sleepers. Instead. they got eight! dale, Cal, got so fed up with the | commuter coaches in which insect | uncomfortable trip. they “jumped” [life scurried in and out of cracks in| the train in Kansas City, they said.| the seats, he declared. “When we left Charleston in day | The train's 7s Dblumbing, was So |

TRUMAN TELLS NAVY T0 SEIZE TIRE FACTORY

Acts to End 19-Day Strike At Goodyear After Davis Cites Need.’

| President Truman today ordered the navy to seize the Goodyear Tire |& Rubber plants at -Akron, O, {scene of a persistent. 19-day strike. The navy followed quickly -with an order to strikers to report to work at the 6 a. Mr. Truman acted after the

union, the United Rubber Workers 'of America (C.1.0., refused to abide by repeated war labor board orders for the 16,700 strikers to re= turn to work. The strike began

[June 16.

Capt. H..J. Clark, Washington

PAN AMERICAN—Its existing in City hospital today after their naval officer in charge, said the

route” to London is

extended | passenger car was hit from the rear workers would be subject to all

through Europe and the near east by a Hoosier Lines bus north of penalties under the law if they

to Calcutta, India, via. Brussels, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, Istanbul, Ankara, Beirut, Baghdad, Teheran and Karachi.

Barcelona Added Between = Vienna

will serve Budapest and Bucharest and other schedules will serve Belgrade. Likewise, between Ankara and Karachi, some Pan-American, schedules will serve Teheran and | others will serve Beriut and Bagn-| dad. Barcelona is added to PanAmerican's present route between Lisbon and Marseilles. AMERICAN EXPORT—Previously authorized to provide service - to Spain and Ireland, is now permitted operation to Moscow. The line will operate. by way of Labradour, Greenland, Stockholm, Helsinki and Leningrad. American Export also will fly to Moscow via Newfound land, the Azores, Foynes, Glasgow, London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Berlin and Warsaw, terminating at Moscow. Flying for Army T. W. A—Authorized to operate

to Bombay through Newfoundland, |

Foynes, Paris, Berne, Rome, Athens, | Cairo, Jerusalem, Basra and Dhahran. It also gets a Southern route

to Lisbon, Madrid, Algiers, Tunis |

Tripoli, Bengasi and Cairo. In ad- | dition it is permitted to. operate a southern route.by way of Lisbon | and Madrid to Rome. connecting there with the northern -leg. Pan-American is the only U, 8.| air carrier which heretofore has had

permanent authorization for northi|-

Atlantic service. It holds certificates to operate to London and Marseilles via Bermuda, the Azores and Portugal; and-also to London via, Eire. American Export now holds tem-'

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SUB IS OVERDUE, PRESUMED LOST,

WASHINGTON, July 5 (U. P.. «The navy today reported that the submarine U. 8. 8. Trigger is over~ due from patrol operations and must be presumed lost with all its officers and crew. The lope brings to 45 the number of American submarines sunk or missing during this wat. A submarine of the Trigger type normally carries a crew of 80 to

and Istanbul Pan:American on some schedules]

| Greenwood on Road 31. One is in critical condition. The injured are: LARRY RAY PERDUE, 3 months, | 2121 Martha st., critical. CLARICE PERDUE, 10, of 542 Birch ave. condition serious. MRS. BERDINE PERDUE, 25, of 542 Birch ave. condition good. WANDA PERDUE, 17, of 542 Birch! ave., condition good. a Meanwhile over the holiday two | | were k killed in traffic accidents. They are Andrew Mickels, 25, ry or and Lula Maude Sullivan, 20, Switzerland county.

Blames Brakes

Early this morning the Hoosier Lines bus, driven by ‘Grover Clements, 23, Anderson, crashed into the rear of a car driven by TilmonPerdue, 542 Birch ave. Mr. Clements said that his air brakes did not hold. The crash hurled the car from the road and into a wooded section. A Mr. Perdue, his wife, Berdine, and three children, Clarice, Wanda and Edward, a sister-in-law, Mrs, Mary Elizabeth Perdue, and her | baby son Larry Ray were in the car. The. Perdues were returning from a vacation in Tennessee. Larry Ray's father, Cpl. Hildreth Perduc,| is stationed in Germany:

A" fire and an airplane crash| claimed the lives of three on the 4th. i. At Terre Haute, Charles Conway, [3s, and his wife, Marguerite, 30, died when fire swept their apart- | ment building. At Bunker Hill naval air station a cadet was killed when his plane collided with another on the runway. Authorities withheld the name.

‘SUNTAN HOLIDAY— MORE RAIN IS DUE

Put away your suntan oil—the | weather bureau says more rain! Moderate temperatures and cloudiness were on today's menu, with scattered thundershowers scheduled tonight. Cooler weather and more clouds and rain were predicted for tomorrow.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

12 (Noom).. 82 1pm

Police Need Affidavits to

Move on Local law enforcement agents, {n= dicating fortune tellers are usually |

too shifty for direct attack, said

today they could move only if sup- | plied with affidavits signed by actual victims. “We'd go out and crack ‘em ally

TIMES INDEX

Fortune Tellers

if we had absolute legal evidence of | their operations,” said Police Chief | Jesse McMurtry. “Unfortunately, the police department doesn’t have enough funds to send investigators around to have! their fortunes told. “Consequently, we'd ‘require co-| operation from patronizers, and |S most of those fall for that stuff hook, line and sinker.” Prosecutor Sherwood Blue said clairvoyants “know the law from A to Z. . . . And they can smell a policeman a mile away. In the past, we've managed to close some of

from the Better Business Bureau.” Their ‘statements followed - disclosure by Times Reporter Donna Mikels yesterday that the crystal

6lat will in

+33 ball hocus-pocus clan is functioning ‘ndianapolie will be “the

despite. a

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them with the help of investigators

| people of the.) United States.”

failed to report to work. 1. V. Watson, president of the U.

{R. W. local at the Firstone Tire &

Rubber Co. -was not available for comment on what effect the Presi-

dents’ order would have on the five-| |day- -old strike there.

Mr. Truman moved on the recommendation of Economic Stabiliza= {tion Director William H. Davis. Davis sald the Goodyear produc[tion was “urgently needed by our military forces.” Provide Protection

duty tires, aircraft tires, refueling hose and other rubber products for war use.

thorizéd the navy to take any action | necessary—including use of armed forces—to provide protection for the plants and all persons employed in

their families’ and homes. Navy control will end within 60] days after the secretary of navy | determines that the productive efficiency of the plants has been restored to a level prevailing prior to the strike.

Strike Not Authorized

According to Davis, union representatives said that the underlying | cause of the work stoppage was ° ‘an | accumulation of grievances,” but | the local declined to abide by WLB | requests that these grievances be settled through normal government channels. The international union has described the strike as unauthorized and as in violation of the union's no-strike pledge. The army reported that the plants involved produce more than one-third of the airplane tires made in this country, as well as “substantial numbers” of ‘other tires. Davis said the army regarded the strike as so serious that it “threatens to upset operational: plans in the Pacific.”

SEN. WAGNER CITES LABOR PEAGE PATH

Only Fascists Can Be Free Of Strife, He Says.

WASHINGTON, July 5 (U. P.).— “Only a Fascist nation can be free of labor strife,” Senator Robert F. Wagner (D. N. Y.), said today. To counteract that, strife, he said, there must be “vigorous and . wise administration of the national labor relations act to help us emerge from the war and reconversion with a strengthened economy / and the rights of labor unimpaired.” Wagner spoke at the inauguration of Paul M. Herzog of New York as chairman of the national labor relations board which admin'isters the NLRA, sponsored by | wagner when it was enacted in 1935.

ot proposed revision of the | statute, Wagner said that “we must | pass only the kind of amendments to the Act which help to improve it, not those which will help “destroy it.” He said “there are some” who are talking about destroying the act. Asked later if he referred to the Ball-Burton-Hatch bill, Wagner parried ‘with, “I didn't mention Jt, did I?” Organized labor has condemned the proposed. new federal industrial relations measure, = Herzog Diadged that the NLRB servant of all the

m. shift tomorrow |

The plants were producing heavy-|

The President's seizure order aii- 5

them or seeking employment, and!

PYLE PREMIERE |

WASHINGTON, July 5 (U. P.),~|

Meredith, on the Hollywood set for “Story of G. I. Joe.” war Ur SSPUAGSHS J in. tomorrow's world premiere of the film at’Loe

Before Ernie Pyle Toft on his Tast amsigaaint to the. Pacific, he posed with his movie double, Burgess | Meredith (right) will play the famed Hoosier |

Japan Twice Daily.

By WILLIAM F. TYREE

United Press Staff Correspondent GUAM, July 5.—The Japanese radio said two powerful American air fleets totaling some 300 Superforts, Lib- | erators and fighters attacked the Tokyo area, the port of | Nagasaki and targets on ‘Honshu | and Kyushu today.

The pre-invasion softening up of the Japanese homeland roared

BULLETIN

CHUNGKING, July 5 (U. P..— Japanese troops withdrawing from Indo-China in junks and sampans skirting the Asiatic coast“line are under attack by a concentration of U. 8. 14th air force planes, Lt. Gen, A. C. Wedemeyer announced today. Japanese forces in Indo-China virtually have been cut off from overland © communication with South China by the Chinese offensive which has reached. the “| Indo-China border...

through its 30th straight day with morning and afternoon assaults paced by Superforts and Liberators (with a strong fighter screen, Tokyo broadcasts. reported. The raiding forces were reported

ws.

1a BOWL OF JAM—

| Largest Crowd Ever at Butler Sees Fireworks

_ SPECTATORS at last night's July 4th .shindig at the Butler bowl constituted “the - biggést

PROGRAM READY

Cowan Only ly Celebrity to Be Here Tomorrow. |

Indianapolis made last - minute preparations today for the city-wide; tribute to Ernie Pyle and the world premiere. of his “Story of G. I. Joe.” The Ernie Pyle day program tomorrow is under the sponsorship of

lgr university area.” Police Chief Jesse McMurtry said today. Far north ~ side - traffic jammed for a _ square mile surrounding the bowl. Thousands un-

crowd ever assembled in the But- .

was |

ranging widely over the main Japanese islands in what had become virtually a non-stop offensive by daylight. Meanwhile, Tokyo appeared nervous . as, the -Soviet government in Moscow opened talks with Chinese and Mongolian leaders. The prime minister of the Mongolian people's republic arrived in

WARSAW POLES BET U. S. OKAY

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WASHINGTON, July 5 (U. P).— Hoosier Heroes—

The United States will- break off | relations with the Polish wovern- TIN] ARE DEAD B-2 + }

| mént-in-exile late today or tonight and formally recognize the. newborn Polish government of national

Yank Fleets Blast

DePaolo Charges G. L > + Redeployed In F hy, T ais

clogged, DePaolo said, he Jeared an outbreak of disease, At Omaha the men saw strings of empty Pullmans deadheading east,

‘DePaolo asserted, and wondered why

the .sleepers weren't assigned to them. Rumors swept the train that German prisoners of war had been seen riding Pullmans. But Brig. Gen. Oscar Abbott, Camp - Beale com- | mander, said he had interviewed 200 men from the train and that none had actually seen any German war | prisoners. ; A war department spokesman in

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SPAATZ HEADS AIR WAR ON JAPS; U.S. SPEEDS PRE-INVASION RAIDS

Ernie With Film Double Before Last Assignment

Bombing Expert Is Given Overall Command. |,

| WASHINGTON, July 5 (U.

'P.).—Gen. Carl A" Spaatz, who commanded the Hh: air forces in the strategical warfare which destroyed Ger-

| man resources from the air, | will ‘direct the strategic air attack ion Japan, Underseeretary of War

X: | Robert P. Patterson announced! to- | day. Spaatz will HEN the 20th air force, whose B- W's have been battering Japan's oy resource s for more than a year, and the 8th airfeh force, which is | now being: re- | deployed from? Europe to the Pacific. 3 Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Lemay, who has commanded the 21st bomber command, will Gen. Spsatz become commander of the 20th. air force under Spaatz’ overall command. Gen. Henry H. Arnold has held command of the 20th heretofore in addition to commanding the entire U. 8. army air forces. Lt. Gen. James A. Dooliitle already has been designated to come mand the 8th air force in the Pacific. Like Lemay, he will function under Spaatz’ overall command,

Probably on Guam

The new strategic command will be known as United States strategic air forces in the Pacific. Its headquarters have not yet been designated, but it was speculated they probably would be on Guam where { Adm. Chester W. Nimitz maintains Pacific fleet headquarters. | Okinawa was regarded as another | possibility. Lt. Gen. Barney M. Giles, who has been deputy commander of the {20th air force, will serve as deputy commander under Spaatz. Spaatz will report directly to | Amel who has been named ecutive agent” of the joint chiefs

Binee wo

the Indiana University clubs of Indianapolis. Lester Cowan, prodticer of the film, will be the only Hollywood!

able to wedge in, viewed the fireworks exhibition from automobiles parked on side ‘streets. In some | choice spots, cars double-parked. . nn ” : ““IT WAS a record crowd at

unity at Warsaw. it was learned. The action will complete the switch in this country’s Polish policy which began at the Crimea conference when the United States; Britain -and Russia agreed to pro-

An infantryman has lost his te) "- att for this. purpose, Patterson on Luzon and an artilleryman has | said.

{dled as a result of injuries re- Tactical Air Fore ceived in ‘an accident in Germany, actical Aly Forces

according to today’s casualty lists. | 10° Organization of the other air Also a B-29 pilot is missing ever | {commands in .the Pacific will net

National Labor Relations|

a a eseis Sete

Butler, as far as we're concerned,” the chief observed. “It reminded me of the old Speedway days.” “I'd say at least 20 or 30 thousand people were packed up in that neighborhood.” ; The show was a revival of the Sahara Grotto display, discontinued for several -years past. Pirworks were augmented by the Sahara Grotto and American Legion drill teams. Brilliant fireworks portraits of Gen. MacArthur, Gen, Eisenhower and Adm, Nimitz were the ‘top ‘features. Clowns, circulating in and among the audience, added to the. festivity, » » -

RIVERSIDE amusement park | also enjoyed a “record crowd.” said its promotion manager, F. A. Holmes. Elsewhere in town, perfect | weather sent thousands to swimming pools and picnic grounds.

Ernie Pyle Day

11 a. m.~Arrival of Producer Lester Cowan at Stout field. 12 (noon) ~~ Start of military parade. ; 1 p. m.—Band concert on Monument Circle. 4 p. m.—Reception at Indianapolis Press club. : 6 p. m~Dinner in Claypool hotel. : J:45 p. m.—Guests Loew’s theater, 8 p. m.—Exterior premiere program outside Loew's, 8:30 p, m.~Stage program and

world premiere of “Story of G. IL Joe” at Loew's,

leave for

celebrity here. Burgess Meredith, star-of the picture, and his actress wife, Paulette Goddard, today notified the local committee that they would be unable to attend. Mr. Cowan will arrive at Stout! field at. 11 a. m. tomorrow and a!

side. And on the South side, Garfield park was overrun with (Continued on Page 1—Column ol outings.

27 Million Britishers Vote In General Election Today

LONDON, July § (U. P).—An strongholds last night for his final estimated 27,000,000 voters went to|speech of the campaign. the polls for Britain's first general Ignoring catealls and exploding | election in 10 years ay. Politi- firecrackers tossed by hecklers in cal observers saw a possibility of | the crowd, Churchill declared that a swing to the left -that could|the course of all Europe hinges unseat Prime Minister Churchill's|on the British election. =~ Conservative government. “They. are looking from the conAll signs pointed to one of “the | tinent to see which way Britain is closest contests in British history, | going to go,” he said. “If there matching the bittaviss of the sam. | shaaid be a landslide to the left, | many . .countries on the continent

an toe ism but. 1nta ¢he YRistes of so-

"Churchill himseif laid down a slide not into decent social-

—+-—American recognition of the new-|

They were packing them in at. ! the Riviera club on the north’

mote jointly a more democratic! Tinian and five men have been! Polish- government. It was to be|wounded. based on the Soviet-sponsored provisional government then functioning at Lublin. Arthur Bliss Lane, who has been i waiting here for several months for 'a settlement of the Big Three dis{pute over Poland, teft this morning. by plane to take up his as-! signment as U, 8. ambassador to Poland.

DEAD Pfc. Roy W. Whalen, ton st. on Luzon. y S. Sgt. Hugh E. Morris; 2101. N Pennsylvania st., in Germany. MISSING

Capt. David G. Sims, ‘1128 N. Oakland. ave., .over Tinian. -

WOUNDED

: rd Second Lt. Robert M. Woliver, | The formation of the new War-|R. R. 7. Box 574, over Japan. saw regime was completed last week| Pfc. Theodore A. Pfeiffer. when Poles from. within Poland and |Churchman ave., on Okinawa. from abroad were brought into the| Seaman 1-¢ Robert Edwin Pitzprovisional government, now seated! gerald, 612% 8S. West st. at Warsaw. |U. 8. 8. Bunker Hill Marine Pfc. Rex. G. Campbell, | ly-formed government has been TR -R-—A--Box. 85, -Acton, on. Okiwithheld pendiag a pledge -on the |nawa. (part of the new Warsaw govern-| Seaman 2-¢ Maurice Abner Diliment to give the people of Poland jon, 248 N. 9th st. Beech Grove, “free, unfettere lt elections” based !in Japanese. suicide raid. lon the secret ballot and universal {suffrage. The new government now has made that promise. Britain. was expected to join the! United States in ditching the London regime and recognizing’ the new government of of national unity,

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{be affected in any way by this |change,” Patterson said. It would be reasonable to specu- { late, he added, that the other army air forces now in the Pacific—the { 7th, 5th and 13th—would be cona tactical air forces. Strategic air forces are assigned lthe task of knocking out enemy in- | qustries. transportation . facilities {and other behind-the-lines estab {lishments which feed the fighting | forces. Tactical forces work in closer conjunction with our land and sea | forces, hitting mostly at front lines and immediate supply lines. Cities Badly Battered

| Spaatz, who has returned from Europe, will elaborate on details of

.the new strategic forces in a few

| days, Patterson said. Diggussing the Pacific air war, Pattéfson said the six major inor cities of Japan have been

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Gen. MacArthur fo Attend

Premier Curtin

| MORGENTHAU MAY - | CANBERRA, July § (U. P.).— wation of Australia from thvasion

Fig here today for the special tate funeral to be held tomorrow |

fo Australian Premier John ‘Curtin

Surin died from heart disease at Sometelin. With President | ER

Seen as Paving Way, official residence. He died In his sleep.

{ WASHINGTON, July 5 (U. P).—| MacArthur immediately sent the | Secretary of Treasury Henry Mor- | Duke of Gloucester word he would | genthau Jr... conferred with Presi- speed here by plane from the South dent Truman today and it was be- | Pacific battle areas. The Duke, In a lieved that he was preparing to re- message to Curtin’s wife, called his sign from the cabinet soon. death Treasury sources were confident! {tralia.” | nas Morgenthau, with the seventh In Manila MacArthur issued the war loan drive v | following Sm oy had “He was one of the reat hl wartime

Gen. Douglas MacArthur was hur-|

“a shattering blow to Aus- |

will be his immemorial monument, I" mourn him deeply.” After the service here, Curtin's body will be flown 2000 miles across Australia to bé buried at the little Karrakatta cemetery, at Claremont, in. West Australia, from where he

was 60 years old when he died, Acting Prime Minister Francis M. Forde will continue to run the gov ernment untl the Labor party elects A

first went to parliament in 1928, He “*