Evening star. [volume], June 16, 1937, Page A-9, Image 9

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IT
Wins Extraordinary Finan
ce Powers as Commu
nists Drop Opposition.
BACKGROUNL—
The French government has been
wrestling unth an estimated deficit
of 40,000.000.000 francs ($1,760,
000.000) in expected ordinary and
extraordinary expenditures for 1937.
(The extraordinary expenditures
are tfiose not included in the ordi
nary budget of about $2,211,000,000.
which itself was left unbalanced by
some $211,000,000 when adopted
January 2.)
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, June 16.—Socialist Premier
Leon Blum's government rode out the
worst crisis in its year-old history
today and won the Chamber of Depu
ties' approval of its demand for ex
traordinary financial powers.
Just when Communist dissension
within the ranks of Blum's own follow
ers seemed to presage the cabinet's
resignation the break w-as repaired
and Blum gained victory in what
amounted to a vote of confidence.
The victory came in the Lower
House s approval, 346 t.o 247, of a bill
authorizing it to take whatever finan
cial action it saw fit between now and
July 31, without waiting for parlia
mentary' sanction.
Rlum Appeals to Deputies.
Tomorrow the Senate is to begin
debating the measure, adopted in the
Chamber after a 21-hour, night-long
session during which Blum appealed
to the Deputies to be faithful to him.
Specifically, the bill would authorize
the government for a month and a
half "to take by cabinet decree any
measures necessary for the reconstruc
tion of public finances, as well as the
protection of savings, money and pub
lic credit." Three months later the
measures would be submittad to Par
liament.
Communists in Parliament battled
Blum's plan from the start. The Peo
ples Front, a union of Left parties
which won last year's general election
and made possible Blum's selection as
premier, was split in two.
Increased Charges Protested.
Paul Vaillant Couturier, a Com
munist Deputy, declared in the Com
munist publication Humanite that his,
party opposed giving the government,
the financial power it sought because
the authority would be used to "tap
the working classes" in increased rail
road fares, postal rates and the price
of tobacco, which the government
manufactures.
Blum let it be known he would
resign if the Communists held out.
Hurriedly the Communist party's di
rectors met and decided not to wreck
the People's Front.
Dog Creates Lot of Holy Smoke.
PERRY. N. Y.—The Congregational
Church furnace has a big patch, but
deacons hope next Sunday's services
can be conducted without interrup
tion.
The Rev. Charleton E. Opdyke
operated on the heater with tin
snips after a disturbance from below
drowned out even the organ.
A neighborhood Scottish terrier
stepped out of the opening, carrying
a dead w'oodchuck in its teeth.
•-•
Nurse Strike Settled.
TOKIO, June 17 (Thursday) (TP).—
A strike of 70 Japanese student nurses
in the St. Luke’s American Hospital
was settled amicably today. Terms
were not announced.
HUSBAND HEARS WIFE,
DYING, ACCUSE HIM
Mother of Two Vainly Pleads Life
Be Saved—Blames Jealousy.
Murder Charged.
F.\ the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, June 16.—Hand
cuffed to officers, Setrak Arefkian stood
by an operating table yesterday and
heard his dying wife accuse him of
killing her.
Arefkian's wife, Anna. 27, mother
of two children, whom he brought to
this country from his native Armenia
14 years ago, was not conscious of ]
his presence in the room as she
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with a hatchet.
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