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SUPPORT IS GIVEN NEW GUFFEY BILL Favorable Action by House Committee Today Re ported Possibility. ■y the Associated Press. The possibility of favorable action by the House Ways and Means Com mittee today on the new Guffey Vinson coal control bill was projected by Representative Sam Hill. Democrat, of Washington after a two-hour closed •ession on the substitute measure. The committee member expressed this view to newsmen after repre sentatives of the Justice Department and the Bituminous Coal Commission had testified and were requested to appear again when the committee re convenes later in the day. % Representative Woodruff, Republic an. of Michigan, who opposed the original bill last year, told reporters he thought the new legislation was "all right" and said he was willing to ' “take a chance on it.” Representative McCormack, Demo crat, of Masschusetts. who fought, the old bill in the committee last year but voted present to allow it to reach the House floor, said today his mind Was “still open.” The Supreme Court yesterday de clared. with Government approval, that the Guffey act decision was to be effective immediately instead of after the usual 25-day period. The invalidated act provided for price-fixing and regulation of wages, hours and other labor matters. The proposed legislation omits labor pro visions and concentrates on price-fix ing. Huddleston (Continued From First Page.) the Alabama May 5 primary, but was forced into a run-off with Patrick. The News quoted both men on the incident as follows: Huddleston: "Mr. Patrick came in. accompanied by two or three or four men, and, walking up to me. thrust his finger into my face. * * * I . naturally assumed he was there for trouble I grabbed his extended hand with my left and struck him across the forehead with a bottle on the table. ’ I am amazed that such a thing could happen. It seems incredible." Patrick: “I walked over to the table, extended my hand to Huddleston, and we shook hands. Then I asked: why did you deny our street conversation (concerning money); have you entirely forgotten it?’ Then, before I realized what was happening. Mr. Huddleston picked up a catsup bottle and cracked me on the head.” Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Kaufman To Celebrate Golden Wedding Reception to Be Held for Relatives and Friends Tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Kaufman, life long residents of Washington, will celebrate their golden wedding anni versary tomorrow night with a gen eral reception for relatives and friends at the Mayflower Hotel. The occa sion also will mark Mrs. Kaufman's birthday anniversary. Among the out-of-town people here for the affair, which will be held from 8:30 to 11 p.m., are a daughter, Mrs. Louis Glaser; her husband and their children Louette and Tony, all of New ton, Mass. Also receiving with their parents will be Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Kauf man, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy King and Simon Nye, husband of the late Juanita Kaufman Nye, in memory of whom, several years ago, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Kaufman presented to the Washington Council of Jewish Wom en the Juanita Kaufman Nye Coun cil House, one of the Community Chest settlement house groups. The grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. William David Nye, Miss Elizabeth Ann Kaufman, Miss Louette Glaser, JKfl. 4N£> MfiS. Z>. J. KAUFMAN. —Harris-Ewing Photo. Muter Tony Glaser, Robert King and Master Daniel King also will be present. Unwed Mother Freed. With her 3-week-old boy, whom she abandoned last Friday in a downtown office building, back in her care, a young unmarried mother returned to her Colmar Manor, Md., home today after police released her on the prom ise she would keep the Daby. She said she had abandoned him because she was too poor to give him proper care. PARKS CONFERENCE WILL HEAR DELANO Fechner and Wirth Also to Speak at 16th Annual Meeting at Hartford Jane 1 to 3. Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and president of the American Planning and Civic Asso ciation; Robert Fechner, director of Emergency Conservation Work, which has charge of Civilian Conservation Corps camps, and Conrad L. Wirth, assistant director of the National Park Service, will be among speakers at the sixteenth annual meeting of the National Conference on State Parks, June 1 to 3, at Hartford, Conn. Details of the program, which will feature representatives of 47 States where parks have been established in the past three years with the aid of the Civilian Conservation Corps, were made public today by Miss Harlean James, executive secretary of the con ference and of the American Plan ning and Civic Association. Recreation and conservation special ists and spokesmen of the National Park 8ervice and National Resources Committee will attend. Miss James said that more than 350 Civilian Conservation Corps camps are engaged this month in park work. CYR, HUEY LONG’S FOE, IS GIVEN STATE JOB Former Lieutenant Governor An* nounce* HI* Appointment to Conservation Post. By the Associated Press. BATON ROUGE. La., May 28 —Dr. Paul N. Cyr, one of the late Huey P. Long’s bitterest enemies, now is an officeholder in the State administra tion Long controlled until his death last September. Dr. Cyr, Lieutenant Governor during Long's term as Governor of the 8tate, said yesterday he had been appointed to a position in the geological di vision of the State Conservation De partment. Dr. Cyr broke with Gov. Long over the hanging of Ada Bonner Le Boeuf and Dr. Thomas E. Dreher in the Lake Pallourde slaying of the woman’s hus band, James Le Boeuf. After Long had been elected to the United States Senate, Cyr claimed that Long was Illegally holding the two positions of Governor and Senator, and set himself up as the Governor in a Baton Rouge Hotel. / hahm^iIt^oIm^Soh f Bf/ \ Make* new or tight abort fee! I I eaay. Soothee tender, awolleo. rifTN^. / aching feet and atope the pain ol V |m / corn*, bunlona and ealluaea. Foi Free Sample and Walking Doll, ALLEN’S BOOT-EASE, LE BOV. N. V, SANITARY PROTECTION without NAPKINS OR BELTS St/t . . . . . . 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