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FORECAST: Fair-and continued warm tonight and tomorrow.

VOLUME 56—NUMBER 122

| ONLY CHICKEN—

BUTTER USED

TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1945 ;

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RIPER” A\RDINE KNOW1.18

“<Benator ‘Brien-McMahon (Conn); : “that we haven't seen a chicken J in Washington in six months?”

said,

| plied. | but not the points to buy em.”

Over Midwest

Meat 'Famine'

By FRFDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press taff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July 31. . ~The wheat harvesters of the OWI's great American desert won't eat lettuce and . tomato sandwiches. That's official.

They also are growing weary of

. “fried chicken with gravy. That's | official, too.

And I wouldn't be surprised it

1 this dispatch gives you something of a jolt.

That is, unless you are suffering in Grand Island, Neb,

\' from too much chicken.

FJ » » THE MAYOR of Grand Island Joined 27 restaurant owners there in sending to the senate a resolu-

+ tion saying they'd have to close | shop ' unless they .got some red . point relief by Aug. 1. | morrow.

That's to-

_ The small business committee of the senate rushed by plane to Grand Island its investigator, Mrs.

| Catherine Guyon, to see what was | irking

the Nebraska restaura-

teurs. When the attractive, plump and gray-haired Mrs. Guyon got back

- she reported her findings to the | ; drooling committeemen.

: n ” ” THE TROUBLE seemed to he that there wasn’t anything to eat

| In Grand Island—except chicken — . stewed, boiled, roasted and especiLally, fried.

The citizens wanted meat. “Did you tell ’em,” inquired

“Yes, I told 'em,” Mrs. Guyon “and they were amazed.” » . o ’ “YOU MEAN,” demanded Sen-

. ator Allen J. Ellender (La.) “that | they are kicking because they | can’t get beefsteak?”

“That's right,” Mrs. Guyon ne“They - have the steaks,

She added that in Grand Island nobody gets butter—except.

| on his wafflessand his pancakes.

She said he gets waffles and pancakes, because he gets no

| ‘meat—except chicken.

“You've led .the committee to believe that this town is bursting with chicken,” commented Senator Kenneth Wherry (Neb.), “but in a few months there won't be any chicken.” ” » » “THAT'S right,” said Mrs. Giiyon. “There's just a surplus of chicken now. “And I can say that the working man of Nebraska is not satisfled with a tomato and lettuce sandwich.” Mrs. Guyon added that a res taurant serving fried chicken— and. nothing else—had to close because it could get no fat in which to fry it.

» ” s SHE SAID she went on to Olympia, Wash., where most of the restaurants already had closed because of no food—not even chicken, 8he talked ’em into reopening, she said, so they could put up a better argument with the OPA. The town’s leading lunch place, | she added, had to get along with egg salad sandwiches, of which the Olympians soon tired. » » ” SENATOR WHERRY called in the OPA’s bigwigs to tell why the Nebraskans had to eat chicken. As he put it: “Out in the great American desert of the OWI, there's plenty of meat and its hard to explain why the people can’t eat it.” Max MacCullough—the deputy administrator for rationing—did his best to explain on the basis of point values, Finally, he made this statement: ““It is difficult to operate a restaurant when substitutes are not available. It is also difficult for the housewife to operate Her kitchen.”

” » THE Senator gulped. As for me, I'm moving to Grand Island and I'm wasting no time. I've forgotten how fried chicken and gravy taste—but I'm willing to suffer,

FOUND SHOT TO DEATH BRAZIL, July 3I' (U, P.).~{ Harry Robert Halstead, 65-yéar-oid farmer, was found shot to death yesterday at his home near Cory. The widow and a.son survive,

{Neb.) said at a senate food hear-

Lawyers AeA Alter Ril

10 MAKE SOAP A "BYPRODUCT

Sorabings From an Army Cheese Spread, OPA Official Says.

I'imes Special WASHINGTON, July 31.— {An OPA official, Henry G. Van Veen, acknowledged today that thousands of pounds of inedible butter may have been sold through an Indianapolis broker for soap-making pur-| poses. ; : 8 He added, however, that “it wouldn't have gone-to civilians any way,” because it-apparently was in-|% edible leavings from manufacture| of an “army cream spread.” “No part of this was ever in the civilian supply,” said Van Veen. ‘It was not considered as a factor in| § setting point values on. butter, y “The army has an item known as Carter's Spread. It is made by} combining butter and cheese. In the process of making this some .of the butter clings to the machinery. These scrapings apparently are the butter in question.” | ‘Assumes’y Sales Made

| He sald it ‘would nave been in-' Si | vestigated by the food and drug ad- | minisuration. declared inedible, and [taken over by the war fdod admin{istration. and sold io - soap companies, Van Veen said he did not “know” the sales had been made, but he “assumed” they were. Senator Kenneth 8S. Wherry (R.

today.

Smashed to bits at the basement level, this I all that F vemiains of the Century building freight elevator -which plunged seven floors that he ultimately would be turned | "Shown in the inset is Adrian C. Tibbetts, elevator operator, who leaped to safety on the seventh floor before the crash.

By VICTOR PETERSON

saved the life of Adrian C. Tibbetts, 442 N. Colorado st., when his freight elevator plunged seven floors in the Century building. ' No one was -injured in the crash although Miss Clista Hill, 313% E. Walnut st. _ suffered

excitement and was taken to City hospital. She was working in the Century garage office when the lift fell. The concussion blew

QUICK THINKING today |

nervous shock from the noise and |

ing that two sales amounting to 170,000 pounds of rancid butter had been made through the Indianapolis broker; E. Rauh & Son, “within the last few days.” He said 90,000 pounds of it went |

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PLAN TO WIDEN SHERIFF | PROBE

came about this way Ju week, Pvt,

pretty. | itati In the' letter, the 18-year-old Declines Invitation. | gin. ind lets. te 18-Seet-oid The civil rights committee of the corps pilots and navy ensigns Lawyers’ Association of Indianap-| could name their planes and olis may expand its investigation of| ships after pretty girls—but that affairs in the sheriff's office tq in-| an infantryman’s sole means of

Phil Whelan of New York City, an trainee here, “wrote a letter to the post newspaper asking for a 1 who would like to have his feet named after her,

clude the activities of attorneys op-| locomotion was his feet. eratirig with professional bondsmen. This was described today by Walter Myers Jr. committee chairman, as a “smelly situation.” Plans to question Sheriff Otto Petit and his new legal advisor, Assistant City Attorney Glenn Funk, at a meeting today went awry. The two declirted to appear. : Promising to “do my best to clean up affairs in the sheriff’s “office,” Mr. Funk declared in a letter-to Mr. Myers: : “Nothing could be gained by an abstract discussion . between your commitiee and me as to the general duties of the sheriff's attorney. _ Will Continue Probe ““I have no objgptions to advising| you that personally I will at no! time, either directly or indirectly; |

«frost,

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Ragweed Doing Fine—Kerchoo!

INDIANAPOLIS, the so-called “sneeze center of the nation,” is in for another terrific hay-fever season. The season opens “officially” on Aug. 15 and lasts until the first Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health board secretary, said that the ragweed is flourishing in the city because of the recent

“Isn't there some pretty girl who would like to have my feet named after her?” Whelan asked.

a. 3 y LETTERS have poured in at the rate of 100 a day since then. “Use my name,” a Terinessee girl said. “I'd be darned proud to have it- dragged through the mud of Japan. » “You ¢an call your feet after me,” wrote a Texas pretty. “I'll be glad to be a..candidate for Miss Bunion of 1945.”

“Don't feel too badly about not having a ship or a plane to christen. as an important job in this war.”

| ters,” i to a. bulging mail bag, G. 1's feet are doing just |

G.l's Letters Pack a Punch

‘THE FEET,’ AND HIS POTENT MISSIVE

T. MCCLELLAN, Ala, July 31 (U, P)—"“The Feet" is probably | phe Suily G. IL. in the army who wishes he was a centipede. all

infantry

THE SLIM, red-haired soldier | is somewhat mystified by the sud- |

den avalance of mail. “Heck, I didn't know this was going to happen,” he said. “I haven't even had time to read them all.

“If I tried to name my feet |

after all these girls I'd have to be a centipede.”

Hundreds of girls wrote for

Whelan’s photograph. Army photographers, going into the field to immortalize “The. Feet,” found him ankle-deep in mud. = n n “TELL everybody that wrote that I'll get around to answering their letter,” “The Feet” - said:

| “But I don't know how. A New York radio singer wrote |

“Somewhere in that pile of let he said wistfully, pointing “is a letter

from my parents. But how am I

ever going to find it?”

THE PLAINTIVE PLEA FOR 85 POINTS,

search.

all from young widows. Each applicant, their letters say, meet the specified requirement of the young soldier whose object is 85 points. It all started last Tuesday night when the soldier's request went out over the wires of the United Press. From Cincinnati, O., a yeung widow, who described herself as being five-feet, two, with eyes of

rains. Dr. Morgan sald that the labor shortage has not improved since last summer. While the street commissioner's department is | doing its best, it cannot hope to cut all the ragweed growing in’ the city. He urged residents to 1 help hay-fever sufferers by cutting their © own neighborhood J patches of pollen carrying plants. | |

The sneezers of Indianapolis |.

seem to be in for it, but Dr. Morgan said that there were measures- for temporary relief. You can close the windows, install air conditionihg or wear a facial mask to protect: you from the ‘pollen,

blue, said that she had three blond-headed children, two boys and one girl. She said she saw the “advertisement” in the Post. » » FJ A BROWN-HAIRED, eyed widow in Philadelphia had a friend to write for her. The friend said “this girl was too bashful to write, and thought she would never be able to get marired again because she has three children.” The friend . described . her as being a young girl “who doesn't drink, or run around. And she never goes out as she thinks’ people will talk about her.”

TIMES INDEX

Amusements . 15 In Indpls. ... Eddie Ash ... 16|In Service ... Frank Aston: 12 | Inside Indpls: 8|Jane Jordan . 2({Mauldin ... .. . 17|Ruth Millett. 6 | Movies ... 1%|Obituaries ... David “Dietz . 11|Dr. O'Brien Editorials . .. 12|Fred Perkins Peter Edson . 12|Radio ...... . Fashions .... 14|Ration Dates Forum a Mrs. Roosevelt G.1. Rights ‘ Side Glances Meta Given .

Judge Minton Denies Hand In Revenue Post Flare-Up

By SHERLEY UHL Persistent reports. that he had hosen a successor to ‘Internal Revenue Collector Will H. Smith have been denied vehemently by Federal Judge Sherman (Shay) Minton. :

“There’s absolutely nothing to it,” declared Judge Minton last night when queried about recurrent rumors of his renewed participation in Indiana Democratic politics, ‘I know nothing about the Smith sin” he exclaimed. “I haven't Sok unyiising to do with it."

ton's home town. He is resting there prior to resuming duties on the Seventh circuit court of appesis at Chicago. State Demioeratic circlés “have been abuzz with reports of Judge Minton’s reputed re-entry into Hoosier politics . via the Smith ouster movement, As a result, con cern has been expressed in some factional quarters over the prospect of a federal Judge _ engaging in patronage Among other things, spokesmen. have implied, the outpokth Minton's Jmored” ssp,

Democratic

hazel- |

DUNN, N. C, July 31 (U. P.) —The soldier who wrote the editor. of the Dunn Dispatch last week seeking the acquaintance of a young widow with three children, today became the object of a widespread

L. B. Pope; the editor of the Dispatch, said today that his mail box was being fldoded with letters from: North, South, East and West,

A ROCK ISLAND, Ill, ‘widow describes herself as being “good looking, with dark eyes and dark hair, and four children. Since you want 85 points, I guess that makes it.” A brunet, with black eyes, wrote from Dayton, O. to say that “I am a young widow with three children, but I do need a husband as badly. as he needs the 85. points.” The item in the Denver Post brought this response: “I have three children, and I have my final decree of divorce. Object: 85. points is agreeable. RSVP.”

u n » ; THERE were other lettqrs from Painesville, O.; Racine, Wis; Elizabethtown, N. C.; Portland, Ore.; Lawrence; Ind.; Oshkosh, Wis., and Decatur, Ind.

Pope said he would like to pass | the letters on to the young man |

if he would identify himself.

NEW YORK HOLDING PRIMARY ELECTION

NEW YORK, July 31 (U. P).— New: York City’s primary elections were held today with the chief interest centered on bitter fights for Tammany Hall district leaderships. - Candidates for city-wide nominations to public office were virtually unopposed. in the major parties. I'he Republicans will nomniate general sessions Judge Jonah J. Goldstein for mayor. The Democrats will nominate Kings County District Attorney William O'Dwyer. Both were unopposed. Mayor PF. H, LaGuardia has announced he will nut be a candidate for re-election, Bronx Democratic Leader Edward J. Flynn sought to win the Tammany leadership {rom ‘Edward Loughlin,

open a door into the garage.

Expelled From

Spain, Laval in

U.S. Custody

BULLETIN PARIS, July 31 (U. P.).—Pierre | Laval landed from Spain today |

Linz, Austria, and was taken into |

protective custody by the United States army, it was announced | officially, i

MADRID, July 31 (U. P.) —Pierre |

|Laval was expelled by Spain today. |

He took off in a plane from Barce- |

lona airport ofthe first lap of what | tresses - warned 12 Japanese probably will be a trip back to industrial dities by leaflet to-|

France to face trial for his life.

| The plane flew east out over. the| day that they were next on | Mediterranean, presumably for Bol- |

| zano. northern Italy, from which |

But he entertained no delusions

over to France. yesterday:

music, I can, too.”

receive Laval with the possibility

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FINDS EUROPE'S :

Capehart Sots. Need for New Philosophy.

Europe's liberated nations are

| ‘still dominated by a handful of | people” while the remainder of the |

population continues downtrodden, |

| Boarding - the elevator at the fifth floor, Mr, ascending to the seventh to pick | up freight.

Tibbetts was | | am I glad I did,” ne has worked at che Century build«

and the top of the shaft is but a space of about two feet. *

| “I didn't think it was going to |

fall.” Mr. Tibbetts said. wasn't going to take any chances so I jumped.

“But 1 | | ing

vator fell until I neard the crash, I was too busy getting off and

ing 15 years. : The tall of the levator, which was demolished, broke a water

pipe in descent which partially | flooded the basement and the first |

floor. Police and fire squads, as well as members of the city. buildcommission, were on the

| scene,

“1 didn’t even realize the eles |. Age |

12 MORE JAP CITIES PUT ON |

BOMBING LIST

at the Hersching airport near 30 Fleet Knocks Out 1023

Enemy Ships and 1247 Planes in 21 Days.

By WILLIAM F. TYREE United. Press Staff Correspondent

GUAM, Wednesday, Aug.

l.—American Superfor-

the B-29 fire-bombing list.

Meanwhile thg rampaging 3d fleet |the former Vichy premier had fled was revealed to have destroyed or

to Barcelona last May in the hope gamaged at least 1023 enemy ships

lof finding refuge from allied justice.| ang 1247 planes in 21 days of un-

paralleled pre-invasion raids.

A fleet of Superforts, dropping He told newsmen 790000 “death list” leaflets on the 112 cities with a combined popula-“I-guess-1f Petain -can..face the. tion of 1,300,000, repeated during the : {night the first bold pre-raid an(A Paris ‘dispatch said France | nouncement made to the Japanese was making hasty preparations to py the 20th air force four days 8go. war that he may be called to testify In| centers were warned then to flee {for their lives; and six of the citles jet promptly: bombed. - Four of} e cities were ré-visited with leat-

Citizens of 11 middle-sizea

he today.

~ Freodawn Attack essage from Maj. Gen.

Oy ot rrr followed a caring

| P ROGR E S S S LOW {pre-dawn surface bombardment of | Shimitzu,

100 miles southwest of |

| Tokyo by destroyers of the 3d fleet,

'carrving the sea-air offensive into day that President Truman wi _|land on British soil late this week take special action to release miners.

its 22d -day.

| Warned to evacuate in the face of {the dreaded fire bombs were the Icitizens of Hakodate, on Hokkaido; and Mito, NaMai: edented in royal history.

Kurume, on Kyushu, Hachioji, Maebashi, Toyama, goaka, Nishinomiya-Mikage, jzuru, Otso, Fukuyama and Nagano,

Aecording to Mr. Tiboetts a an in-

said He |

Leap Saves | Operator As Elevator Drops 7 Floors

spector from the Maryland Casu-. alty Co. inspected the elevator Fridev. This was not a city inspectior. The insurance company’s inspector's division could not Le reached for omment. According to the report of City Inspector John McGregor, a bolt came out of the .device con=trolling the elevator's lift, The car was inspected in March of | this year and ok'ed for opera- . tion as soon as certain condi-

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Senator Homer E. Capehart sad | today. + Home during the congressional |recess, the Republican senator asserted: “Those running Europe today have the same philosophy that| Were warned for the second time. retarded the contfhent before the| The Honshu cities of Tsu, Aomori,

war. Condition’s

lon the main island of Honshu. 53 Cities Fired

able changing the original leaflet announcement.

them. “Europe will ‘never get anywhere City first named. 'unless it establiShes truly demo-| Destruction by fire of

progress toward

| cratic governments bulwarked by doomed cities would cost Japan an- | millions ~ and millions of . middle other group of her important mid-

class wage-earners,” said Senator | Capehart. The backbone of democrac America) he pointed out, its its y middle class, “something that is hadly lacking in Europe.” This was the theme of Setaior]

Capehart's address before the In-|

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SENATOR. STRICKEN WHILE ON TRAIN

Of these, Hakodate, Kurume, Nagaoka and Nishinomiya - Mikage

haven't | Ichinomiya, Ogaki and Ujiyamada|eién dignitary to Britain for a few

changed. " As yet, he added, the/and Uwijima on Shikoku were allies haven't made any consider-|devastated Saturday, 24 hours after

| Koriyaka; on Honshu, was the 11th based on a desire to honor the

“country’s economic

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Hot ad Hotter, | Gloomy Guess |

OIL UP your pre-war fans and patch up your bathing suit ‘cause the weather man is predicting rising temperatures for this

afternoon, tomorrow and Thurs- |

day. The temperature is expected to reach into the 90s” today and to soar higher tomorrow, The official five-day forecast

predicts that temperatures will |

be 9 degrees above the average for Indiana and Illinois with showers Friday and Saturday.

LOCAL TEMPERATURE a.m ....'73 10am. ... 7a m. ig + 3 am .... 4 12 noon .... 1pm. ae 81

Laborites i in Commons Will Still Revere

+ ‘South Dakotar's Condition

Is Critical.

HURON, 8S. D., July. 31 | —Senator Harlan J. Bushfield (R. S. D.) ‘suffered a massive cerebral | hemorrhage today shortly after | boarding a train. His condition was| | described as “very critical.” | Senator Bushfield, who will be 163 Aug. 6, was en route home to | Miller, S. D. He was returning from Washington where he had

{participated in the United Nations!

{Charter debate in the senate. A former governor of South] | Dakota, Bushfield had stopped off | here. He was stricken shortly be-| fore. 10:30 a. m (C. W. T. just

after he had boarded a train for)

Miller | The senator was taken to a local | hospital amination hage.

revealed the

UP).

where a preliminary ex-| hemorr- |

WAR PLANTS MENACED BY COAL FAMINE

Ickes and Aid Urge Army to Release 30,000 Coal Miners to Prevent ‘Coldest Winter of War.’

WASHINGTON, July 31 (U. P.).—C. J. Potter, deputy - solid fuels administrator, predicted today that if present coal shortages continue much American industry would be forced on a four-day week next winter. He said the industries likely to be affected include steel mills.

Ickes, testifying with Potter, told the senate war investigating. committee that next winter would be “the coldest of the war” unless sufficient miners were - released quickly from military service to in-

TRUMAN MAY VISIT BRITAIN E2555

Ickes London Hears tars King will I re ran the Greet Presi dent | armed services by Oct. 1, and release

of additioan! men for the railroads | would go far to prevent the coal LONDON, July 31 (U. P.).—Well- | shortages and resultant industrial | informed Whitehall sources said wl shutdowns.

The army so far has declined to.

and be greeted by King George. | Informants reported that the king will go to some British port, probably Plymouth, to welcome Mr. Truman to Britain in a meeting IndicaI tions were that the meeting would] occur Thursday or Priday. That presumably meant that the Big

Three meeting will end. “I don't think it's possible to get

Breaks Precedent enough coal to those areas,” Potter Court circles said the King's Te, said. :

ported journey to welcome a for- “What Pm saying is that all ine dustry, including the steel mills, will be on a four-day week uext winter.” Ickes and Potter ‘said a lack of coordination among the countries administering occupied Germany is

Sees Acite Shortages (The. only “complete” “soliftior,, Potter said, would be the sary surrender of Japan. pry Potter asserted that “the greatnortages” would hit New England, actue shortages also in the Great Lakes region.

hours will be the first time the sovereign ever paid such an exceptional honor. It was said to be

United States and repay courtesies

the 12/tendered him during his visit to partially responsible for Europe's

America. need of American coal. This is a The British urged Mr. Truman .,ntributing factor in the shortages to make a state visit to London on’ here. Proposes Snyder for Job After hearing the testimony, Chairman James Mead (D. N. YJ | said that what was needed was

Tomato Prices {+ ‘inter-agency co-operation.” | He asserted that the man to do Due fo Weather | the job. should ‘be Jolin W. Snyder | new - director of the office of war | mobilization and. reconversion. Senator Harold H. Burton (R. 0.) said he thought “a*little international co-operation” was needed. Senator Joseph A. Ball (R. Minn.) added that ‘a little intelligence in the army” would help. And Sehator Harley M. Kilgore (D. W. Va.) insisted the real need was a “boss and not an umpire.” Ickes emphasized that unless

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PATMAN DEFENDS EMPLOYMENT BL

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JF YOU'RE paying more for tomatoes this year than last, you can blame the weather, not | black market activities, according to the OPA.

Our three-months of cold and | rainy spring have made home- | | grown - field tomatoes late in | | putting in a ripe appearance. { In their stead local markets have | | only shipped tomatoes, with costs | | averaging 40 cents a pound, explained Walter Deuser, food price specialist. These are brought { in from Texas and other Southern states. | This week,

however, home- | grown tomatoes are beginning to | come in, Mr. Deuser stated, and | prices may be expected to drop |

| quickly to 13 to 25 cents, and ‘ a ae hope e .

There is no flat ceiling price, | but rather a sliding scale which | : permits a 40 per cent mark-up | WASHINGTON, July 31 (U.P. over the retailers’ cost, Mr. —The United States will travel | Deuser sald. . “the road to serfdom” unigss the full employment bill becomes law, Rep. Wright Patman (D. Tex.) de--clared today, Patman, who joined in introduc- { ing the bill in the house, testified

» ” ; Traditions Born i In Days of Dueling |at a senate banking and currency

By EDWARD J. BYING When Britain's newly elected house of commons meets this week. . When, ¢ on Aug. 15, King George formally opens parliament . . . Men who are planning a fundamental transformation of their and social system will act in typically English fashion. They will demonstrate the Englishman’s ability to combine even the most unorthodox - political views with an almost religious respect for ceremonies hallowed by tradition.

» nn THE WORD “commons,” usually applied to the lower chamber of Britain's parliament, is a misnomer.

tn| time-honored

The members of the lower’

| outs are ‘sotualy. the sepeesen

committee hearing that the -roadto serfdom” is the road of inaction

- If labor's sweeping victory

rather than bullets.

served. They add up to what system tick

Oxford.

”

a ‘revolution, it is a bloodless one brought about by ballots Behind this eapability of the free processes is a long chain of historical events and tradition, of freedoms won and pre-

Dr. Edward J Byng was for years general manager of the United Press in 16 countries in Europe, and was a student at

and defeatism.” “It is the road that we shall in= | evitably traverse,” he.said. “if the ful employment bill should be rejected by the congress or emascuslated through amendments that reduce it to merely a statement of pious hopes.” Patman made a section-by-sec-

in the recent British election is

makes the British governmental

a °

“commoners.” oR ‘it has long been a habit to" ‘apply -the term “commons” collectively tothe members of the lower chamber themselves. The first job o a new house of commons us sSlechion of speaker.

i of the bro cedure is DB xlly. Irtected | Ww ancient cus tom. A way ‘

tatives of Britain's commons who, | incidentally, are ofteh termed |

IN THE reign of Qleen Eliza~ on beth when Sir Christopher Yel | snauid be uncle to arovide. fail em | verton ‘vas elected speaker, he ployment as sot’ in the budget, the | made a speech asserting his un- : the slack worthiness. #38 ov | The house answered tim with i “Aye! We

the tnanimous ery:

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“Administrator Harold Ei

New York and Virgil withers