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Swept Federals Before Him
in Fierce Three-Hour
Battle.
By MRS. HELEN DORTCH
LONGSTREET.
Widow of the Confederate General.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY O!
NORTHERN VIRGINIA. GETTYS
BURG. BATTLEFIELD, July 2.—Thi
Army of Northern Virginia was asti:
by 3:30 o'clock this day, 73 years ago
getting ready for the bloody seconc
day’s battle on the sun-baked hills o:
Pennsylvania.
Longstreet and his staff breakfastet
before daylight.
Gen. Lee, who had been reconnoit
ering the Held since daylight, had de
cided to make the main attack froir
the right, with Hood's and McLaw’i
divisions of Longstreet's corps, sup
ported by four brigades of Anderson’i
division, of Hill's corps.
By 7 o'clock Longstreet was ridin(
over the Confederate lines on Semi
„ nary Ridge, disposing McLaw’s divisior
for battle.
In their more elevated position or
Cemetery Hill, the Federals wen
strongly fortified, while the Confed
erates had no entrenchments, al
though both armies were concealed bj
woods.
Federals Apprehensive.
Under tne ominous silence that
spread over the waiting lines, appre
hension among the Federals increased
—fear that Lee, content with the vic
tory of the 1st, would not assault the
strong position of the Union forces:
but would make some flank movement
which would force the Federals tc
abandon their fortifications.
Meade had received imperative
orders from Washington to keep hie
army between the Potomac and the
Capital. If Lee passed around to the
left of the Federal Army, as Long
street urged, Meade's position would
be untenable.
Hood's and McLaw's divisions moved
to the attack. Longstreet rode with
McLaw's.
At 3 o'clock, the heavy cannonading
commenced on Longstreet's right, was
followed by Ewell’s cannons on the
left. This was answered by thunder
ous volleys from the enemy, whose
cannon, mingling with the roar of
Confederate guns, swept every inch of
the wheat field and peach orchard
grounds accupied by Gen. Sickles,
which Lee had ordered Longstreet to
capture.
Watching from Seminary Ridge, the
commander-in-chief of the moving
line* of gray, saw- their length swept
by Federal batteries joined by infantry
fire, and as the Union guns decimated
the Gray columns, he saw them close
up and move ever onward.
Sickles' Line Forced Back.
Fighting stubbornly over every inch
of the ground. Sickles’ line was forced
back by the deadly Confederate fire,
to the position originally occupied on
Little Round Top.
In the hottest of the battle, to the
sound of Rebel yells, Longstreet, hat
in hand, led a Georgia regiment in
capturing a batten’.
The Confederates moved on the
gun* on the hill adjoining Devil’s Den,
where the fighting was heavy.
In lines broken by rocks and boul
ders, they ascended the heights on
the *pur of Devil’s Den, from which
the enemy fire poured unceasingly into
their thinning ranks.
Determined resistance of fresh
Union troops rushed from every part
of the Federal line, fought in vain to
halt the Gray columns.
Rocks and boulders, the dead and
dying, the batteries of a mighty army,
were powerless to stop the Gray wave
sweeping up the rugged slopes. Soon
the red flags of the Confederacy rip
pled from the hill near Devil's Den,
above three pieces of captured artil
lery.
Sickles Has Leg Torn Off.
Onward the Gray tide swept, driving
the Federals before them and envel
oping the northern slope of Round
Top. Gen. Sickles, with his left leg
torn off, fell to the ground in trying
to dismount. In fearful pain he
called to one of his staff:
“Quick, get something to tie it up
before I bleed to death.”
Longstreet, in the thick of the fight,
leading Wofford's Brigade, urged the
troops to the last of their reserve
power as they captured the wheat field.
Longstreet’s command made the
whole battle this day. No other part
of the Army of Northern Virginia en
gaged with him until Johnson and
Early made their attacks on the north,
three hours later than Lee intended.
Longstreet swept the field before him
for considerable time, capturing guns
and colors and driving the enemy from
his position. The dead and wounded
on the field of Gettysburg, as the fir
ing ceased on both fronts, the second
day. made a ghastly spectacle.
Between 12 and 14 thousand Union
soldiers and 6.000 Confederates lay to
gether, in death and agony, on the
parts of the field where they fell.
At the close of the second day's bat
tle, Longstreet had taken Devil’s Den,
the wheat field, the peach orchard and
the ridge along Emmittsburg road, with
lodgment at the base of Round Tops.
Resting after the battle on ground his
men had captured, the "old war horse”
laid:
“It was the best three hours’ fighting
ever done by any troops on any battle
field.”
WILL OF SERGEANT
AIDS PARALYSIS VICTIMS
Residue of Kelly Estate of $10,000
Left to foundation at
■Warm Springs.
The Warm Springs (Ga.) Founda
tion for the care of infantile paraly
sis, in which President Roosevelt has
a personal interest, is the beneficiary
of the residue of the estate of Sergt.
John J. Kelly, U. S. A., retired, whose
will was filed for probate yesterday in
United States District Court. The
amount of the estate was not set forth,
but it was unofficially said the sum
would approximate $10,000.
Sergt. Kelly made Lt. Col. F. Gran
ville Munson, U. S. A„ his executor
and gave $5,000 to Lt. Col. Daniel B.
Faust, U. S. A. The former non-com
missioned officer left $400 to a nurse,
Miss Anna Mary Boyle; $200 to an
other nurse, Miss Josephine Belle Ash
ens, and $150 to another nurse. Miss
Olive P. Shadie. Miss Viola Carter of
1721 South Quincy street, Arlington,
Va„ was left $200, while Harry Carter
of the same address was left $200 in
the will, which was written on Janu
ary 20.
Sergt Kelly died last Wednesday.
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---75 Years ^4go Today-—
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
Lee Sweeps to New Gains in Struggle
THE DEAD: Casualties at Gettysburg have been heavy on both sides.
- *_ —Photo from "R. E. Leo" tBerlbner'*>.
This is the fifth in a series of
seven daily "dispatches" from
Gettysburg, written as if the
battle were being fought today
instead of 75 years ago.
By DR. DOUGLAS S. FREEMAN.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF
NORTHERN VIRGINIA. CHAM
BERSBURG PIKE, NEAR GETTYS
BURG, Pa., July 2, 1863 (10 p.m.).—
Fifty thousand veteran infantry of the
Southern Confederacy twice had vic
tory and perhaps the independence of
their country assured today but,
through delay and faulty co-ordina
tion of attack, they had to defer until
tomorrow the final assaults that are
to destroy the Army of the Potomac
and clear the road to the rich cities
of the East.
The right wing of the Southern
Army tonight seems securely anchored
where it cannot be turned; Lee's ar
tillery occupies better positions; the
cavalry cover the flanks; the morale
of the whole force is so high that a
renewal of the attack is considered
certain of success.
At the close of the victorious battle
yesterday, all the information of Con
federate headquarters was that only
two Federal corps, the 1st and Uth,
were on the hill south of Gettysburg.
During the night Gen. Ewell inter
cepted a dispatch, addressed to MaJ.
Gen. H. W. Slocum, In which the
statement was made that the 5th Fed
eral Corps (Sykes') was 4 miles east of
Gettysburg at 12:30 am. The Con
federate stafT concluded that, at day
break, only two corps would be con
! fronting Lee—the two that had been
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Bulletin
HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF
THE POTOMAC. Cemetery Ridge,
Near Gettysburg, Pa., July 2,
. 1863.—Hie rebels attacked today
and we have suffered losses on
| both flanks.
Gen. Sickles, who had taken
i up an unauthorised position in
advance of our general line on
Cemetery Ridge, was violently
attacked at 4 o'clock and driven
behind the ridge. But Gen. War
ren brought up troops in time to
drive back the Southerners try
ing to setae the Round Tops, also
on our left flank.
! To bolster the left flank our
right had been weakened, and
Ewell’s corps, attacking late in
the evening, broke into our posi
tion in the region of Culps Hill.
He probably still holds some of
our ground there.
But our latest news is that the
rebels are checked.
defeated yesterday—but that at least
two additional corps would arrive dur
ing the early morning.
Battlefield a Fish-hook.
It developed that Gen. Lee, late in
the evening, had decided to attack
Cemetery Ridge early this morning,
before the Federal reinforcements
could arrive there. If he could gain
that ridge he would be in rear of the
high ground known as Cemetery Hill,
which lies at the northern end of the
ridge and overlooks Gettysburg.
The whole Federal position has the
form of a great flsh-hook, the shank
of which runs from south to north,
bends at Cemetery Hill and reaches its
northeastern “point” at an ugly posi
tion known as Culp's Hill. Lee
planned to seise the shank of the flsh
hook. Then, by attacking up the
shank with the 1st and 3d Corps, while
Ewell assailed the bend of the flsh
hook from the north, he would seek
to destroy the Federals.
At daylight, when Gen. Lee ex
Scheid
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three miles into Arlington County,
where the shooting occurred. The
judge instructed the jury that the
officers were within their rights in
attempting to make an arrest any
where in the State of Virginia so long
as they were in "continuous pursuit”
of the fugitive car.
The jury apparently disregarded the
commonwealth’s effort to show that
Scheid and Knox followed Mr. Daugh
erty’s car after Scheid had an argu
ment with Mr. Daugherty while the
latter's automobile was parked in the
Palls Church premises of Mr. and Mrs.
George C. Frazier, parents-in-law of
Mr. Daugherty.
The defense produced witnesses to
show that the two officers were look
ing for a fugitive automobile thief
who abandoned his car near the Fra
zier residence early on the morning
of March 20 and escaped into the
woods. Scheid admitted to the Jury
that he walked into the Frasier place
and Mr. Daugherty ordered him off
the premises.
Scheid and Knox insisted that this
incident had nothing to do with the
fact that they chased a car which
passed them at the railroad tracks in
Falls Church early on the morning
of the slaying at a high rate of speed.
Judge McCarthy questioned Scheid
and learned that, while the policeman
visited the Frazier place and talked to
two men in a car on the drive, he did
not notice the car in particular and did
not learn the names of the men in
the automobile.
Scheid, in answering the questions
of the judge, said he neither knew
nor suspected that the car which he
and Knox persued for speeding was
the one in which the two men sat
when he questioned them at the
Frazier place.
Scheid Insisted that he and Knox
fired to puncture the tires and gaso*
1
amined the ground from Seminary
Ridge, there was every reason to
believe that this plan could be exe
cuted successfully. The Federate
were in strength on Cemetery Hill but,
so far as could be ascertained, they
had not then occupied the ridge to
the south of the hill.
Although an immediate attack by
the First corps would have carried
the Confederates straight to the crest
of the ridge, Gen. Longstreet did not
have his troops in position for an
advance. He is said to have opposed
Gen. Lee's plan for an assault and
is believed to have contended for a
movement that would turn the south
ern end of Cemetery Ridge. All his
movements today were made with a
slowness and a reluctance that sur
prised the army.
4N Feet From Victory.
Not until 4 o'clock was the attack
delivered, principally by Hood's and
McLaws’ divisions of Longstreet's
corps. Gen. Lee's plan had been to
advance up the Emmitsburg road, in
a general movement from southwest
to northeast, but as the Federal left
flank was found to be extended far
ther southward than had been sup
posed, the attack was delivered al
most frontally against two rocky emi
nences known as Round Top and Lit
tle Round Top. Some valuable ground
was gained here, though at consid
erable loss.
Farther up the shank of the fish
hook, MaJ. Gen. R. H. Anderson's
division of the 3d Corps co-operated
with Longstreet and assailed Ceme
tery Ridge directly from the west.
Wright's Georgia brigade swept across
the wide meadow that separates Semi
nary Ridge from the Federal position
and actually reached the summit of
the opposite ridge, but it lacked sup
port and had to fall back.
Perhaps the most substantial gains
of the day on the Confederate right
have been at a place known as Devil's
Den and in a peach orchard on the
farm of a man named Want. Artil
lery offlcers tonight predict that if
the Confederate batteries can hold the
peach orchard tomorrow they will
blast the Federate from their posi
tion when Lee delivers another as
sault.
Gen. Ewall had orders today to at
tack at the bend of the fish-hook when
line tank of the car operated by Mr.
Daugherty after they overtook the
machine on Cherrydale Hill. Both
officers denied previous testimony of
three prosecution witnesses that they
drove their police car without lights.
Scheid said he shot at Mr.
Daugherty's tires when the motorist
cut his wheels at him and attempted
to run him down. Scheid fired five
shots and his companion one. Bal
listics testimony traced the fatal bul
let taken from Mr. Daugherty's brain
to the service gun of Scheid.
In its acquittal verdict, the jury
apparently could find no connection
between the “argument” between
Scheid and Mr. Daugherty at the
Frasier home and the shooting on
Cherrydale Hill after the race by the
two town policemen to overtake a mo
torist who had speeded through Fglls
Church.
FILES FOR DIVORCE
A suit for divorce was filed in Reno,
Nev., yesterday by Mrs. Louisa G.
Lindsey against Douglas A. Lindsey,
owner of the Llndsey-Nicholson Corp.
automobile accessory firm in Alexan
dria, Va.
* Charging cruelty, the petition seeks
support for Mrs. Lindsey and joint cus
tody of a 13-year-old child, Douglas
Griffith Lindsey. According to the bill
of complaint, the couple was married
in Alexandria on November 21, 1923.
They lived in Jefferson Park, Alex
andria.
In Bathtub 10 Honrs.
PHILADELPHIA, July 2 OP).—
Christian Oberholzer, 41, summoned
police when he returned home and
found the door locked. Entering by
a window, they discovered Mr. Ober
holzer’s 89-year-old mother, Mrs. Ber
tha Oberholxer, in the bathtub, too
weak to get out. She said she had
been there 10 hours.
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GEN. JAMES LONGSTREET.
Doesn’t Move Fast Enough.
Longstreet assailed the shank. The
veteran troops of the 2d Corps were
ready, but when Early's division
charged, Rodes' was not in position to
co-operate promptly. Before Rodes
could climb the hill. Early was forced
to retire. Officers w’ho participated in
this assault are lamenting tonight
what they consider the loss of a great
opportunity. They say that Early got
within 400 feet of the Federal bat
teries on Cemetery Hill and that if
he had been able to seize and to hold
those guns, the Federals would have
lost the stronghold of their artillery.
In these abortive operations on the
right and on the left, many distin
guished Southern leaders were killed
or wounded. Gen. William Barks
dale of Mississippi fell at the head of
his brigade. Brig. Gen. Paul Semmes
was mortally wounded. The gallant
John B. Hood was hit. Perhaps the
most serious Individual loss is that
of the brilliant young North Caro
linian, Maj. Gen. W. Dorsey Pender,
who, at 29 years of age, was regarded
as one of the most promising South
ern officers. Tomorrow, the army
swears, it will be avenged of the blood
of the brave.
REPORT DUE TODAY
IN DEATH INQUIRY
Chemical Analysis Made to Find
if Mrs. Esther Lewis Was
Victim of Poison.
Special Dispatch to Tha Star.
PRINCE FREDERICK, Md„ July 2.
—State’s Attorney Arthur W. Dowell
expected to receive today a report of
a chemical analysis ordered to deter
mine if Mrs. Esther Lewis, whose body
was found floating in nearby Lyons
Creek on June 20, might have died
from poisoning.
Mr. Dowell said that when the report
arrived he would confer with State po
lice officials before deciding whether
to make it public immediately. The
analysis was made by Dr. Howard J.
Maldeis, Baltimore city post-mortem
physician, after an autopsy performed
here by Dr. Page C. Jett showed Mrs.
Lewis had not drowned, but failed to
disclose the cause of death.
Pending study of Dr. Maldeis’ find
ings, Investigators still are working
on the theory that Mrs. Lewis, a Bu
reau of Engraving and Printing char
woman, died from an overdose of ether
or chloroform at the start of an at
tempted illegal operation by a Wash
ington physician, Mr. Dowell said.
A Washington street car conductor,
quoted by police as admitting he had
given Mrs. Lewis the money for an
abortion because he believed he was
the father of a child she normally
would have given birth to next fall, waa
released under $1,000 bond aa a ma
terial witness last night after being
held in jail here for questioning since
June 23.
Brasil's new Immigration law is con
sidered by Brasilians to be more liberal
than former legislation.
I
ROOSEVELT HANDS
Will Not Attempt to Block
Van Nuys’ Renomination,
Senator Minton Says.
BACKGROUND—
Open rupture between Senator
Van Nuys and the Indiana State
administration came about last Au
gust when the Indiana Democratic
Editorial Association met at French
Lick. Gov. Townsend made ad
dress interpreted as rebuke to Sen
ator Van Nuys for his opposition to
President Roosevelt's Supreme
Court reorganisation bill.
B1 the Associated Pres*.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 2.—Senator
Sherman Minton, Democrat, of In
diana, a stanch supporter of the New
Deal, said today neither President
Roosevelt nor his chief political ad
viser. Postmaster General James A.
Farley, would attempt to block a
rapidly spreading movement among
Hoosier Democrats to renominate his
senior colleague, Senator Frederick
Van Nuys. at their State convention
here July 12.
"So far as both President Roosevelt
and Jim Farley are concerned,” Sen
ator Minton said, "the Indiana Demo
crats are perfectly capable of making
their own selection. They are not tak
ing any interest in the Indiana situa
tion."
Senator Van Nuys, who was rebuked
publicly last August by Gov. M. Clif
ford Townsend for his opposition to
the President s court reorganization
bill, has announced plans tc seek re
election as an independent if denied
the Democratic nomination. The
strong Statehouse organization has
threatened to defeat him in the con
vention.
Asked whether he would support
Senator Van Nuys if the campaign to
renominate him is successful, Senator
Minton replied:
"If the party wants Senator Van
Nuys, of course IH support him.
The drive to obtain the nomination
for Senator Van Nuys appeared to be
gaining momentum as the result of a
conference between Gov. Townsend
and his lieutenants late yesterday. The
Governor said Thursday the 2,262 dele
gates would be given an opportunity to
renominate Senator Van Nuys if they
desired.
Senator Minton, who attended the
conference, said the Van Nuys situa
tion was “far from being settled.”
Authoritative sources disclosed he sug
gested that Philippine High Commis
sioner Paul V. McNutt be chosen to
oppose Raymond E. Willis, Angola
publisher and Republican nominee,
in the November election.
$1,000,000 SPAID
ESTATE INDICATED
Executor* of W. B. Hibb» A Co.
Senior Partner List Amt*
to Court.
The petition for the probate of the
will of the late William w. Spaid,
senior partner in the investment brok
erage firm of W. B. Hibbs A Co. here,
filed yesterday in United States Dis
trict Court, indicates that it is worth
around (1.000,000.
At the time of his death in New
York City on May 21 he owned a two
thirds interest in the partnership of
W. H. Hibbs & Co., the paid in and
contributed capital of which amounted
to *1.500.000, the executors advised
the court. Further, he possessed shares
of stock, bonds, bank deposits, prom
issory notes and other obligations and
various items of personal property
estimated to be worth *55.000.
The executors likewise advised the
court that when he died, he left an
undivided one-third interest in the
premises at 1325 Massachusetts ave
nue N.W.. property which is assessed
for taxation at *27,824.
The only known debts that Mr.
Spaid left aggregate (8.500, principally
those incident to his last illness and
funeral expenses.
Hie bulk of his estate was left to
members of the family, the widow,
Mrs. Ada Bain Spaid of the West
chester Apartments here, and his son,
William Spaid, Tuscon (Aria.), at
torney, and member of the Arisons
Legislature. The widow and son, as
executors, filed the petition for pro
bate of the will through the law firm
of Whiteford, Marshall, Hart A Car
mody. The will was drawn on June
27, 1934.
W. M. HORTON RITES
ARE CONDUCTED HERE
Former Navy Tard Machinist and
Band Leader to Be Buried
in La Plata, Md.
Funeral services for William Mal
colm Horton, 62, retired Navy Yard
machinist and one-time leader of the
District National Guard Band, who
died Wednesday at his home. 1833
Bay street S.E., are being held to
day in the Nally funeral home. 522
Eighth street S.E.. with the Rev. F.
W. Johnson, pastor of Grace Baptist
Church, officiating.
The funeral services are in charge
of the Masons. Burial will be at La
Plata, Md., where Masonic rites will
be held at the grave.
Mr. Horton, besides leading the
band, had written a number of pieces
of music and formerly conducted his
own orchestras in several Washing
ton theaters. He retired about eight
yean ago from the Navy Yard and
about that time gave up all public
appearances as a musician.
A native of Fairfax Court House,
Va., Mr. Horton came to Washing
ton about 45 years ago. He was a
member of the Osiris Lodge of Masons
here. Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Effle Virginia Horton; a daughter,
Mrs. Opal Horton Swindell; three
brothers, Henry, Draper and Augustus
Horton; a sister, Mn. Opal Trace
well, and one grandchild.
WELFARE BOARD NAMED
WARRENTON, Va., July 2 OP).—
Circuit Judge J. R. H. Alexander
yesterday named L. W. Trenis of
Catlett, 8. W. McCarty of Delaplane
and Eugene W. Allen of Warren ton
members of Fauquier County’s new
Public Welfare Board.
The board, like other county boards,
will help administer the State’s new
relief program, which becomes fully
operative September 1.
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Promoted by Commission
VIVIAN CARLSON.
LEWIS H. FISHER.
Promoted to division chief by the Civil Service Commis
ston, Carlson, head of the new Service Record and Status
Division, becomes the first woman division chief in the organize
tion. Mr Fisher was promoted to be head of the new Retire
ment Division._—Harris <fe Ewing Photos.
FIVE-WAY SPLIT-UP
OF CHINASOUGHT
Chinese in Peiping Regime
and Japanese Advisers
Draft Plans.
By the Associated Press.
PEIPING, July 3.—A plan for end
ing the Chinese-Japanese war by carv
ing China into at least five autonomous
units was being drafted today, it was
reported, by Chinese members of the
Peiping provisional government and
their Japanese advisers.
It was admitted the plan had little
chance of early acceptance by the
Chinese government of Generalissimo
Kai-shek, but it was believed to be an
Indication of the basis on which Japan
would be glad to terminate the con
flict, now only five days from its first
anniversary.
Japanese sources indicated Euro
pean powers would be offered spheres
of influence as a bid for European ac
ceptance of Japan's partial conquest
of China, giving the whole scheme a
general resemblance to the plans of
imperialists of 40 years ago, when the
break-up of China was imminent.
S Autonomous States.
The five automonous states en
visaged by the draft plans were said
to be:
North China—UndeT the present
Peiping provisional government.
Inner Mongolia—Under Teh
Wang, Japan’s Mongol friend, who
heads the present, Mongolia feder
ation with the capital at Kwelbua,
in Suiyuan Province.
East China—Under the Japa
nese-dominated Nanking ’’re
formed government of China."
Central China—Under the pres
ent Chinese government at Han
kow.
South China—Under a combina
tion of Kwangtung-Kwangsi pro
vincial leaders.
Would Recognise Chiang.
Authoritative sources said Japan
would be willing to recognise Chiang
Kai-shek as head of the Hankow re
gime if he'would accept.
The draft plan was said to provide
for the following spheres of influence:
Japan in North China and Inner
Mongolia.
Germany in Shantung, where she
had an economic foothold before
the World War.
Britain in the lower Yangtse Val
ley. including Shanghai.
Prance in South China.
Both Sides Want Peace.
The Tientsin Times, influential
British-owned newspaper, declared in
an editorial both Hankow and Tokio
were anxious to conclude peace despite :
their declarations of determination to
flght to the end. It said both sides
now were willing to consider peace pro
posals from the other.
However, an influential Chinese be
lieved to express the normal patriotic
Chinese view, declared Chiang Kai
shek “would be a simpleton If he fell
for this Japanese inspired attempt to
practice the old imperialistic principle
of divide and rule.”
U. S. JOBLESS INCREASE
IS REPORTED BY GENEVA
America Only One of 3 Showin*
Boost Second Quarter of '38,
I. L. 0. Declares.
Bt the Associated Press.
GENEVA, July 3.—The United
States was one of only three countries
in which unemployment increased in
the second quarter of 1938 compared
to the first quarter, the International
Labor Office announced today.
Statistics compiled by the organiza
tion showed an increase of unemploy
ment in nine countries compared to
the second quarter of 1937, but in all
of them except the United States,
Canada and Belgium there was an im
provement over the first quarter of this
year.
United States figures based on Am
erican Federation of Labor calcula
tions: 11,139,107 unemployed second
quarter of 1938 ; 8,313,838 second quar
ter 1937; 10,973,000 first quarter 1938.
COINS ARE READY
XT. S. Mint Completes Work on
Chinese Contract.
The Bureau of the Mint announced
today it has finished work on an order
from the Chinese government for 6,
479,890 Chinese coins.
The coins, dollars and half dollars,
were minted at San Francisco with sil
ver furnished by China. The process
ing cost also was paid by China.
The order was placed about a year
ago, about the time the Japanese in
vasion began.
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280 U. S. BUILDING
PROJECTS LISTED
Treasury and Pott Office Program
Will Cost $130,000,000, With
$58,000,000 Arailable.
Bt the Associated Press.
The Treasury and Poet Office De
partments decided yesterday to con
struct 380 public building projects tn
many parts of the country.
They Include post offices, court
houses, annexes and remodeling Jobe.
Sixty million dollars worth of such
construction was authorized at the
last session of Congress, in addition to
*70,000,000 approved at the 1937 ses
sion. This made a total of *130,000.
000, which may be obligated by con
tracts by June 30, 1939.
In this area *135.000 will be spent
to extend and remodel the poet office
at Annapolis, Md.
The officials said that with yester
day's list of projects, the entire
amount had been allocated. More
than *58.000.000 of the authorized
total has been appropriated. The re
mainder must be provided by subse
quent sessions of Congress.
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