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Weather Forecast ’ " ""
From th. onited su|jsow^h«ABgre»u report. Today's News in Today's Star
Occasional showers late this afternoon 1 __,_,_ ._ . .
and tonight, probably ending early to- Today s news is tomorrow s history
morrow; not so warm tomorrow. Tern- The Star keeps you up to the minute
peratures today—Highest, 92, at 1 p.m.; ... .. , - ,
lowest, 73, at 5:30 am.; 91 at 2 pm. with the last-minute news.
. Cl0ii"9 New York Markets Sales,_Foge_18_ __w Ma.na As.pci.Ud Pro.._
87th YEAR. No. 34,792. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1939—FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. *** THREE CENTS.
Taft Willing to Run
For President in '40,
He Writes Ohioans
Senator Declares
He Is Pleased by
Indorsement
BACKGROUND—
Senator Taft has been promi
nent possibility for 1940 G. O. P.
presidential candidate since last
November when he won Ohio
Senate seat from the Democratic
t incumbent, Robert J. Bulkley,
and came to Washington cam
paigning against spending. Others
in running for G. O. P. choice in
clude Senators Vandenberg and
Bridges and New York District
Attorney Thomas E. Dewey.
Bs the Associated Press.
Senator Taft of Ohio expressed
a willingness today to become a
candidate for the Republican presi
dential nomination in 1940.
The son of the former President
and Chief Justice stated his position
In a letter to George F. Eyrich,
chairman of the County Republican
Executive Committee at Cincinnati,
which had indorsed him for the
presidential nomination.
“I shall be willing when the time
comes.” Senator Taft said, "to give
my consent to have my name desig
nated as the first choice by candi
dates for delegates (to the National
Republican Convention) throughout
the State.”
Senator Taft told Mr. Eyrich that
his work as Senator was “extremely
interesting” and that he preferred it
to any other job. He added, how
ever, that he would not “run away
from a harder job.”
"Whether I am a candidate for
any other office,” he wrote, “is en
tirely up to the Republicans of
unio.
Sees Unpleasant Job Ahead.
. The “unpleasant job ’ ahead of
v the next President, he said, is such
' that “no sensible man could be eager
to assume it.”
"Unless the whole present tendency
of the Government is redirected,"
he added, “we cannot long maintain
financial solvency or free enterprise
or even individual liberty in the
United States, but the leaders of
the movement against New Deal
fallacies must have the courage to
incur the unlimited displeasure of
every vested interest whose selfish
purposes conflict with a radical
policy of reform.”
"Furthermore,” Senator Taft con
tinued. "they must work out the very
difficult problem of continuing an
adequate provision for the less for
tunate people through relief, old-age
pensions, subsidized housing and
the like, on the one hand, while on
the other restoring financial solvency
and the spirit of business initiative
and expansion which alone can cure
unemployment. This is not going to
be easy or pleasant.”
Pleased by Action.
Senator Taft told Mr. Eyrich he
was "greatly honored and pleased by
the action of the Hamilton County
Republican Executive Committee” in
indorsing him for the presidential
nomination. •
Senator Taft's letter, made public
by his secretary while the Senator
was in Cincinnati, follows:
“Of course, I am greatly honored
k and pleased by the action of the
Hamilton County Republican Execu
tive Committee In asking me to per
mit my name to go before the voters
of Ohio as the first choice for Presi
dent of delegates to the Republican
National Convention.
"The unpleasant job which lies
before the next President of the
United States is such that no sen
sible man could be eager to assume
it. Unless the whole present ten
dency of the Government is redi
rected. we cannot long maintain
financial solvency or free enterprise
or even individual liberty in the
United States, but the leaders of the
movement against New Deal fal
lacies must have the courage to incur
the unlimited displeasure of every
vested interest whose selfish pur
poses conflict with a radical policy
of reform. Furthermore, they must
work out the very difficult problem
of continuing an adequate provision
for the less fortunate people through
relief, old-age pensions, subsidized
housing and the like, on the -one
hand, while on the other restoring
£_— 1 i__i a. i
iiiiaiiviai ouitvuvj nuu uiv. opuu in
business initiative and expansion,
which alone can cure unemployment.
This is not going' to be easy or
pleasant.
‘ As to my own position, the work
of Senator from Ohio is extremely
interesting and I prefer it to any
^ other office. I will not run away
from a harder job. but whether I am
a candidate for any other office is
entirely up to the Republicans of
Ohio.
Cites State Constitution.
"I realize, however, that the
peculiar provisions of our State con
stitution require that no man can
run for delegate without designat
ing on the ballot his first choice
for the presidency, and he cannot
designate any one without that per
son’s written consent. To refuse
(See TAFT, Page A-3.)
I-1
Laborite Likens
Chamberlain to
Vain Spinster
Bt the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 3.—Lord Snell,
Labor opposition leader. Injected a
bit of mirth into the House of Lords’
foreign affairs debate today with
these characterizations of Prime
Minister Chamberlain and Foreign
Secretary Lord Halifax:
“The Prime Minister appears to
display irritation and petulance * • *
which would be appropriate in a
vain and ample spinster trying un
successfully to become slim.
"No one is more adept at putting
polish on a dull case than Lord
■> Halifax and his admonitions to me
are always given with such lofty dis
tinction that I feel I ought to have
said grace before I received them.”
• I
SENATOR TAFT.
Detroit Police Drive
C. 1.0. Strikers From
G. M. Plant Area
•
Union Men Chorged
With Spreading Tacks
To Halt Traffic
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT. Aug. 3.—Police drove
C. I. O. United Automobile Workers
Union members and sympathizers
away from the area surrounding the
strikebound General Motors Chev- 1
rolet plant on Holbrook avenue to
day after what they said was a sec
ond attempt to stop factory auto
mobile traffic by spreading tacks and
broken glass on the streets.
The unionists retreated across the
city limits line of suburban Ham- '
tramck and booed the several hun
dred Detroit police.
Two are Arrested.
Two men. Abraham Schwartz, 33.
and Elerv Flewelling. 33. were ar
rested. Patrolmen Edsel O'Brien
and Paul Clor said the two had
driven a truck through the area,
scattering large roofing tacks on the I
pavement.
The police pursued the pair to the
U. A. W.-C. I. O. headquarters in
Hamtramck. There they said they
were menaced by a large crowd of
men who threatened to take the
prisoners away from them until 50
more policemen arrived.
Meanwhile George Googe. A. F. L. j
» vj/t vunigcu umi
the U. A. W.-C. I. O. toolmakers’
strike in 12 General Motors plants
was “an effort to force building
I trades workers out of the American
Federation of Labor into the C. I.
O.'s new United Construction Work
ers' Organizing Committee.’1
Mr. Googe issued an appeal to
Detroit A. F. L. unions to help the
Building Trades Council keep iis
contracts by going through U. A. W.
C. I. O. picket lines to work on
General Motors construction joos.
Prospects for settling the strike of
General Motors' skilled workers were
reported today to be the best they
have been since the walkout of 7.500
workers in 12 plants began July 5.
"We are getting pretty close to
gether.” remarked James F. Dewey,
Federal labor conciliator endeavor
ing to compose differences between
negotiators for the corporation and
the C. I. O. United Automobile
Workers, who called the strike.
Mr. Dewey said there remained
two obstacles to settlement, but did
not reveal them. The union's de- j
mand for a wage increase for tool
and die workers, engineers and
maintenance men has been reported
as being one of the main issues.
Pickets Visit Homes
Of Non-Strikers
CLEVELAND. Aug. 3 UP).—Roving
bands of pickets visited homes of
non-strikers today as quiet continued
to prevail at the strike-bound Fisher
Boby plant of General Motors where
46 were hurt in Monday’s rioting.
Police dispersed a group of 150
C. I. O.-United Auto Worker mem
bers and sympathizers at one home.
Relief From Heat
Is Forecast Here
Some relief from the current heat
spell is in sight for tomorrow, the
forecaster said today.
Occasional showers late this aft
ernoon and tonight are expected to
be followed by lower temperatures
tomorrow.
A third day with temperatures in
.the 90s was predicted for today,
however, along with fcbove-normal
ViiimUifif r'sl, U ; m _ ..1 ,1
--iiwui a tv
of 73 at 5:30 a.m., the mercury had
reached the 84-degree mark by 10
a.m.
Two prostrations were report
ed yesterday as the heat con
tinued at a 90-degree level. William
Hardy, 22, of 416 N street N.W., was
treated at Casualty Hospital after
he collapsed while working at the
Kingman School, and Thelma John
son, 32, was treated at Georgetown
Hospital after she was overcome at
Thirty-fifth and O streets N.W.
Temperature. Humidity.
3 am.. 74 92
4 a.m.. 74 95
5 am- 73 96
6 am- 74 93
7 am.. 76 84
8 am_ 78 76
9 am.. 82 72
10 am- 84 67
11 km.. 89 60
12 noon_ 91 47
12:30 pm. 92 46
A
New Disorders
Feared After
5 Are Shot
Colorado T roops Speed
To Disarm Deputies
And Strikers
By the Associated Press.
GREEN MOUNTAIN DAM, Colo.
Aug. 3.—National Guardsmen hurry
ing with tanks and machine guns
to a Federal project where five men
were shot In labor disorders received
reports today that new trouble was
threatened.
A. K. Anderson, superintendent
of the $4,000,000 reclamation
project, telephoned the Guardsmen
at Kremmling, 18 miles north of
the dam site, that “back-to-work"
forces, which broke through a strike
picket line yesterday, were threaten
ing to chase 200 union sympathizers
The leader of the Guardsmen
urged Mr. Anderson to "hold the
men in check” until the Guard ar
rived and promised to disarm both
the union pickets and the “back-to
work" forces.
Colorado's Governor considered the
situation so grave that he indicated
he might take personal charge of
pacification efforts.
Five Men Shot.
The five men were shot In two
gull unities MS»li IllgUl.
A sikth man was gashed on the
head in one of the clashes between
armed and deputized “back to work"
forces and sympathizers with the
strike called July 12 by five craft
unions at the $4,000,000 Reclamation
Bureau project.
The injured:
Thomas Kellerhalls, about 35.
Denver, shot through the left eye.
His condition was critical.
Art Morrow. 43, Denver, shot
through the arm.
W J Blalock, 26. Denver, shot
through the left shoulder.
George Judy, 17, Yuma, Ariz.,
grazed on the right hip by a bullet.
Art Kuhlman, Denver, shot in the
leg.
Bill Deming. 28, Dillon, Colo.,
gashed on the head when pulled
from a truck.
200 Guardsmen on Way.
Gov. Ralph L. Carr declared a
“state of insurrection” last night at
Glenwood Springs, where he had
gone to meet former President Her
bert Hoover in Colorado for a fish
ing vacation.
Adjt. Gen. Harold H. Richardson !
immediately issued mobilization or
ders for the 45th Tank Company at
Golden, Colo.; Company B and Bat
tery B of Denver, Company A of
Craig and Battery C of Loveland,
By dawn approximately 200 Guards
men were on their way to the strike
zone, the first mobilized for active
duty in Colorado since 1927.
Attorney General Byron G. Rogers
said in Denver the order decreeing
“a state of insurrection" directed
the adjutant general “to move in
and take over and bring in law
abiding citizens to aid in restoring
order.” He said the order did jiot:
involve suspension of the courts and I
other processes of civil government
as would occur under a martial law
decree.
The dam site lies 150 miles west
of Denver on the Blue River, be
tween Dillon and Kremmling, Colo.,
a mile and a half above sea level.
200 Non-Union Men Armed.
Kellerhalls, Morrow, Judy end
Deming were injured when they and
other Denver sympathizers with the
strike, called by American Federation
of Labor unions, attempted to ap
proach the dam site, where 200 non
union men had been deputized and
armed.
Townsmen and ranchers of this
Mira aiuru me uacn iu woik group
in breaking through the union's
picket line Tuesday night.
Later, a “back to work” picket
line two miles south of Kremmling
halted a caravan of Denver strike
sympathizers with gunfire, and Bla
lock and Kuhlman were wounded.
Before the gunfire started, a small
bridge was dynamited on the high
way between Dillon and the dam.
In calling the guard, Gov. Carr ex
plained that “when two opposing
factions of several hundred people,
both armed, are shooting and fight
ing, this is the only action possible
for me to take.”
The striking unions seek recogni
tion by the Warner Construction
Co. of Chicago, project contractor,
as collective bargaining agents. The
project is a unit of the $44,000,000
(See TROOPS, Page-aT4T)
Summary of Today's Star
Page. Page.
Amusements, C-2 Obituary ...A-12
Comics _C-6-7 Radio_D-5
Editorial ...A-10 Society_B-3
Finance_A-17 Sports _D-l-3
Lost, Found, D-5 Woman’s Pg., C-4
Foreign.
Britain is prepared to mediate in
Sino-Japanese war. Page A-l
Man to end in “ruins of slum,” Wells
predicts in new book. Page A-4
Floods may force Japanese to ease
Tientsin blockade. Page A-4
Forster promises destruction of rest
of Versailles. Page A-4
Italy hurls 50,000 against “invaders”
from French border. Page A-4
Notional.
New disorders feared in Colorado
dam strike. Page A-l
Senator Taft willing to accept
G. O. P. nomination. Page A-l
New fights in Congress threaten to
delay adjournment. Page A-l
Detroit police drive C. I. O. strikers
from G. M. plant. Page A-2
Hatch plans drive to extend politics
ban to State workers. Page A-2
United States-Canada-Alaska plane
service projected. Page B-2
Washington and Vicinity.
Woman, clothes soaked in kerosene,
is badly burned. Page A-l
President vetoes bill prohibiting
selling beer on credit. Page A-l
Murphy may clarify Hatch law at
conference today. Page A-l
i
Memorial parkway funds stricken
out by House group. Page A-2
Watchman captures jewelry store
robbery suspect. Page A-H
All Stinson litigation settled in
matron’s favor. Page B-1
Foster mother awarded child;
Thome case up today. Page B-1
Bondy to take over D. C. relief job
next month. Page B-1
Editorial and Comment.
This and That. PageA-10
Answers to Questions. PageA-10
Letters to The Star. PageA-10
David Lawrence. Page A-ll
Alsop apd Kintner. Page A-ll
G. Gould Lincftla. Page A-ll
Constantine Brown. Page A-ll
Lemuel Parton. Page A-ll
Sports.
Hutchinson set to show he’s real
hurler, says Baker. Page D-l
U. S. Davis Cup hopes brighten as
“pickup” pairs shine. Page D-2
Capital Club event adds to busy
year for linkswomen. Page D-3
Miscellany.
Service Orders. Page B-6
After Dark. PageB-14
City News in Brief. Page C-3
Nature's Children. Page C-5
Bedtime Story. Page C-6
Cross-word Puzzle. Page C-6
Letter-Out. Page C-6
Winning Contract. Page C-7
Uncle Ray’s Corner. Page C-7
Vital Statistics. Page D-S
4
("I REGARD THIS NEW » 1
LEGISLATION AS AT }
LEAST A STEP IN TifE "3?"
I^ICHT DIRECTION" j U.
Woman, Her Clothing
Soaked in Kerosene,
Found Aflame
Discovered in Home by
Husband After Rows
Over Daughter
Mrs. Mae P. Pearson. 40-year-old
Agriculture Department clerk, was
found enveloped in flames from her
kerosene-soaked clothing early to
day in her home at 621 Twenty
third street N.W. Police said they
were investigating the possibility
she had attempted suicide.
Last night. Mrs. Pearson had
turned her 13-year-old daughter,
Margaret, over to police of the
Women's Bureau "for protection."
She told Sergt. Veronica A. Devlin
at the time that she wanted to get
the child away from home.
This action, police were informed,
came as a climax to a series of bit
ter quarrels between Mrs. Pearson
and her husband. Robert W. Pear
son. over the handling of the child.
Margaret spent the night in the
Receiving Home for Children, and
this morning Mrs. Pearson ap
peared upset. At breakfast she
asked her husband if he had any
kerosene in the house. When he
told her he did not, Mrs. Pearson
suggested they send their 9-year
old son to the corner store for a
supply.
Mr. Pearson refused. He took the
boy with him to call on his mother.
Mrs. Mattie Pearson, whose aid he
sought in getting Margaret released
from custody.
When he returned to his home less
than an hour later, Mr. Pearson said
he saw a fire in the bedroom. Rush
ing into the room, he found his wife,
engulfed by fire, lying on a bed. He
took her into the living room, started
beating out the flames and called for
help.
He succeeded in putting out the
blaze. An Emergency Hospital am
bulance and No. 23 Fire Engine
Company responded. Mrs. Pearson
was removed to Emergency Hospital,
where it was said she had received
second and third degree burns and
was in critical condition.
Police learned that Mrs. Pearson
had bought kerosene this morning
from a neighborhood store.
Margaret was still in the Receiv
ing Home today and was not in
formed of the tragedy. Sergt. Dev
lin said that mother and daughter
appeared deeply attached. Mrs.
Pearson told her, the policewoman
said, that she planned to have the
Board of Public Welfare try to find
a new home for the girl.
Sacks Urges Roosevelt
To Run Once More
By the AssocL. »a Prsss.
Representative Sacks, Democrat,
of Pennsylvania said he urged Pres
ident Roosevelt today to run for a
third term and predicted he would
carry Pennsylvania again.
Mr. Sacks said the President made
no comment.
Virginia Mother,
Clawed by 'Bear',
Saves Children
By the Associated Press.
CLINTWOOD, Va„ Aug. 3.—Mrs.
Dollie May Baker, severely bitten
and clawed by an animal at first
described as a bear, was back in
the Cumberland Mountains near the
Kentucky border today, but not in
her own home.
The attack yesterday, in which
the young mother fought off the an
imal to protect a baby in her arms
and a 3-year-old child at her feet,
caused the Bakers to give up their
home, at least temporarly.
Later information of the attack,
in which Boss, a shepherd dog.
routed the animal after it had in
jured Mrs. Baker, led hunters to
believe the beast was a panther
instead of a bear.
She told them the animal pounced
from the roof as she stepped from
her door with the children. She
threw the older child in a rain bar
rel and protected the baby against
the animal with a club until Boss
came to the rescue.
President vetoes Bill
To Prohibit Sales
Of Beer on Credit
Breweries Trying to Get
U. S. to Aid Collections,
Executive Asserts
President Roosevelt today vetoed
an act of Congress aimed to pro
j hibit the purchase of beer on credit
i by retailers of the District and in
doing so. he sent a brief message to
i Congress saying, among other
i things, that in all his recollection
he knows of no legislation which
has ever undertaken that some spe
i cial kind of industrial product be
sold by the manufacturer solely for
cash.
The President made it clear that
in his opinion the brewers have
I attempted by this legislation to
! make the Government protect them
' in a matter of collections.
The President’s message to the
House, where the legislation origin
ated, said:
“I return herewith, without my
approval, H. R. 5137. an Act ‘to pro
hibit the purchase of beer on credit
by retailers in the District of Co
lumbia.’ So far as I can recollect, I
know of no legislation which has
ever undertaken to order that some
special kind of industrial product
be sold by the manufacturer solely
for cash. To establish the principle
that retailers must pay cash for any
special article opens the door to
similar legislation, not only for the
District of Columbia but for the en
tire country, whereby the Congress
could select this, that or the other
product and command that the
manufacturer thereof cease selling
it on credit.
“I understand that this bill Is
urged by brewers because they have
not had wholly favorable results
from selling beer in the District of
Columbia to retailers by the usual
credit procedure. This bill would
allow whisky to continue to be sold
on credit. The question of unfav
orable experience on the part of the
orewers seems to me to be wholly a
matter that lies within their own
selling practices. They should con
tinue to sell only to such retailers as
they have had good experience with.
That is the usual custom adopted by
manufacturers throughout the Na
tion.
“FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.”
The anti-beer credit bill originated
in the House under the sponsorship
of Chairman Randolph of the Dis
trict Committee, who had been ad
vised such legislation was needed to
protect wholesalers who, it was said,
had been losing thousands of dollars
a year in bills that they had been
Unable to collect from retailers who
went out of business.
Another purported object of the
bill was to preclude brewers from
getting indirect control over liquor
establishments through extension of
credit to retailers.
Opponents of the bill had-argued
that the retailers should not be pro
hibited from buying beer on credit
since that is the only alcoholic bev
erage that can be sold on credit to
the consumer.
Senator Tydings, Democrat, • of
Maryland,^ponsored the bill in the
Senate ami in his report on the
measure said its sole purpose was
to prohibit the purchase of beer on
credit by retailers in the District.
I
Murphy May Clarify
Hatch Bill Regarding
Nearby Workers
Mayors and Council
Members in Doubt
Over Status
t
Attorney General Murphy may
clarify today the position under
the Hatch bill of Federal employes
holding elective municipal offices irt
the Washington area, it was indi
cated this morning.
Mayors and councilmen in towns
like Falls Church, Va.: Seat Pleas
ant, Md., and Takoma Park. Md.. are
still in doubt as to their status under
the law despite the message which
the President sent to Congress yes
terday when he signed the act.
Informed sources of opinion gave
out the view unofficially that the
law does not require the resignations
of incumbent local officials. The law
forbids Government employes to
“take any active part in political
management or in political cam
paigns ana makes no specific ref
erence to those already holding mu
nicipal posts.
However. Mayor Henry T. McCuen
of Glen Echo, Md„ who works in
the Friendship Post Office substa
tion, announced he intended resign
ing at once, even though he under
stands he is not required to do so.
He said he would call a special meet
ing ofr the Glen Echo Town Council
in the next few days and present
his resignation. His term of office,
and the terms of most Maryland
municipal officirfs, run until next
May.
The Maryland mayors involved
receive no compensation. Mayor L.
P. Daniel of Falls Church has a
drawing account of $200 a year and
receives fees for certain judicial
duties.
The debate over whether the in
cumbents can continue in office
seems to turn on the word "man
agement” in the bill. Whether
holding office involves political man
agement is a point yet to be de
1 termined.
, Interpretation Asked.
The question of the real applica
tion of the law is expected to be the
; major topic at Mr. Murphy's press
conference this afternoon,
i Meanwhile, the Justice Depart
ment was receiving numerous re
quests for an interpretation of the
bill. »In his message to Congress on
| the legislation, President Roosevelt
1 said:
"I am asking the Attorney Gen
j eral to take the necessary steps
through the new Civil Liberties unit
j of the Department of Justice in
order that the civil rights of every
1 Government employe may be duly
| protected and that the element of
I fear may be removed.”
The Mayors of Falls Church, Seat
Pleasant and Takoma Park, all of
i whom are Government workers, in
j dicated they planned to confer with
I the Justice Department on then
obligations under the law. They
mean also to confer with their
councilmen on their positions. The
statute has created uncertainty in
points as far as Annapolis, where
several ^ members of the Town
Council-* are said to work in the
Naval Academy grounds.
Procedure to Be Set Up.
The Justice Department reported
it had not had time to act on any
individual cases. It was indicated
it is establishing a procedure to
handle- such requests in line with
the President's suggestion.
The Civil Service Commission for
its nnrt was stuHvincr tVto nam ctatnta
with an eye to determining whether
it required the commission to revise
the commission regulation permit
ting civil service employes to par
(See POLITICIANsTPage A-4J~
Texas Sheriff, Bullet
In Heart, Gets His Man
By the Associated Press.
RUSK, Tex., Aug. 3.—Sheriff Bill
Brunt of Cherokee County and I.
Creel, a tavern keeper, were shot to
death and a woman wounded in a
roadside pistol duel early today.
The woman, Myrle Stanley, 25, an
employe of Creel's Tavern, said the
6-foot, 29-year-old officer fired the
shots which killed Creel and wound
ed her in the leg as he was slumping
to the Rusk-Jacksonville highway
with a bullet in his heart.
She told County Attorney Ellis
Lewis that Sheriff Brunt halted the
Creel car, which was loaded with
beer, by shooting a front tire and
that Creel then fired at the sheriff.
*
Britain Ready
To Mediate in
Chinese War
Japanese Warned
By Halifax on
Hostile Acts
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 3.—Foreign Secre
tary Lord Halifax declared tonight:
that Britain would be prepared to |
use her good offices “if and when
they could usefully be employed” in j
mediate the Chinese-Japanese con
flict.
He made this statement in a for
eign affairs debate in the House of
Lords after he had given Japan an
indirect warning that anti-British
agitation in North China could only
worsen relations between Britain
and Japan “with all the conse
quences that that deterioration must
inevitably bring.”
The foreign secretary said the
government intended to protect Brit
ish interests in China and to carry
out its obligations to third powers.
The Tokiq formula agreed to by
Britain July 22 as a basis for nego
tiations on the Tientsin dispute, he
declared, indicated no change of j
policy in the Far East. He said
those who insisted it did “ignore
both the plain terms of the formula
and the interpretation of the for
mula that the government them
selves have placed upon it.”
Debate Shifts to Lords.
The debate shifted to the Upper
House the attacks on the govern
ment's insistence that Parliament
recess as usual during August and
September, a period which many be
lieve will bring international ten
sion.
In a vigorous protest against the
recess. Liberal Lord Davies said
members of all parties shared the
feeling that the government might
makp far-rpflrhinfir riprisinns hpfnrp
October 3, when Parliament is
scheduled to reassemble. He asked
that legislators be consulted before
such steps are taken.
Lord Davies declared there were
suspicions as to the government's
real intentions in negotiating with
Moscow for a British-French-Soviet
mutual assistance pact and charged
that delays in reaching such an
agreement were the result of British
j "dilatory tactics.”
Storm Over Adjournment.
A storm was raised in Commons
, yesterday on the government's ad
journment motion. Between 30 and
40 Conservatives refused to vote
after Prime Minister Chamberlain
made the question one of confidence
I in his government. He won, how- 1
' ever, by 250 to 132.
Anti-appeasement circles expressed ;
fear that Parliament's failure to con- j
stitute itself a watch dog on inter
national policy during the August
September recess would result in
“another Munich.”
But as these opposition groups
“viewed with alarm” the parallel
they drew between the present situa
tion and events that preceded the
Munich dismemberment on Czecho
slovakia last September. Prime Min
ister Chamberlain went ahead with
the next step in his European policy !
—a military mission to Moscow.
With Gen. Charles Huntziger, com- I
mander of French troops in the Near
East, in London as probable liaison
officer, British and French general
staffs arranged consultations on
plans for their talks with Soviet
Russian military men.
Departure Expected This Week, j
It was expected the British and I
French missions would leave this
week end for Moscow, comparing
notes en route. Each mission prob
ably will include about 20 advisory
experts on military and naval
matters.
Government circles continued
hopeful for an agreement soon on a
definition of "indirect aggression" [
which still stood in the way of a ;
British-French-Russian mutual as- i
sistance pact.
During House of Commons de
bate yesterday, before Mr. Cham
berlain won his vote of confidence,
Geoffrey Mander, Liberal, put into
words the suspicions of the anti
appeasement group:
“The Prime Minister’s attitude has
confirmed the worst fears of all
those who think that directly Par
liament is up (recessed), there will
be a tremendous move in the direc
tion of appeasement and that the
Prime Minister will do all in his!
power to bring about a situation i
which will place us in the gravest
danger.”
The anti-appeasement group in
Commons included not only Liberals
and Laborites, but a group of Con
servatives, members of Mr. Cham
berlain's own party. They sought
to have the house reassemble
August 21 for a one-day "watch
dog” session.
Mr. Chamberlain contended that
the government was ready for an t
emergency and saying that the
members would be called back in
case of unexpected international
developments.
Preliminary Conference
To Be Held in London
PARIS, Aug. 3 (/Pi.—The French
government announced today its
military mission to Moscow would
go to London tomorrow' for prelim
inary conferences with the British
mission. Both will sail Saturday
for Russia for general staffwtalks.
Britain Claims Device
To Locate Submarines
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 3.—Lord Stanhope,
first lord of the admiralty, an
nounced yesterday that Great Brit
ain had a secret apparatus for
locating submarines.
He told the House of Lords other
countries were aware of the value
of the device and added, “I do not
think they have got this apparatus
or anything like it.
“When this country declared that
if submarine attacks in the Mediter
ranean continue we should be jus
tified in sinking any submarines
in that area, submarine attacks
promptly stopped.’’
9
ft
Fund Demands
Threaten Delay
In Adjourning
Farm Money Asked
By Wallace; Housing
Vote Near
BACKGROUND—
Coalition of Republicans and
anti-New Deal Democrats in Con
gress has upset numerous phases
of administration program, in
cluding neutrality, relief and huge
lending program. The legislative
battles have prolonged session,
which leaders have hoped to end
Saturday.
BULLETIN.
A House coalition of Repub
licans and Democrats today
killed President Roosevelt's
$800,000,000 housing bill for
this session. The House re
fused even to consider the leg
islation by a vote of 190 to 170.
B> the Associated Press.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace's
demand for more farm money head
ed such a variety of last-minute ap
peals for funds at the Capitol today
that week end adjournment plans
once more were threatened.
While the House neared a show
down vote this afternoon on the ad
ministration's $800,000,000 housing
bill—for which defeat was predicted
by Republicans—Secretary Wallace
and a group of other officials and «■
Congressmen beseiged the Senate
Appropriations Committee while it
»Luuieu me session s tnira and last
deficiency appropriations bill.
Approved by the House yesterdav,
the measure carried $54,000,000 com
pared to budget recommendations of
t215.000.000.
The Secretary of Agriculture told
Senators that failure of the House to
provide $119,000,000 for the Com
modity Credit Corp., the agency
which makes loans on cotton, corn,
wheat and other major farm pro
ducts, threatened the entire farm
program.
He urged that the committee re
store to the bill the full sum, which
the House eliminated at the insist
ent behest of an economy bloc.
Balks At Prediction.
Senator Adams. Democrat, of Col
orado, acting chairman, said there
was no chance the committee would
complete hearings and send the bill
to the Senate today. If the sched
uled adjournment Saturday night is
to be attained, the Senate thus will
have to act on the bill in haste.
Speaker Bankhead of the House
told reporters the prospects were
that Congress would adjourn Satur
day night, "but I don't make that
prediction—yet.”
"It's all conjecture to know what's
going to happen in the next 48
hours,” he added.
Meanwhile, it was disclosed at the
White House that in anticipation
of final congressional action on sev
eral hundred bills, President Roose
velt had'asked interested Govern
ment agencies to report to him on
the measures in advance.
Stephen Early, press secretary,
said the President had asked him
to-instruct all agencies to study bills
"already in the mill"—244 were
passed by the House in one day this
week—and report on them immedi
ately.
The President's usual procedure is
to ask a report on a bill after it
das cleared Congress and is ready
for his signature or veto.
Conference on Security.
At the Capitol, Senate leaders of
the deadlocked conference on so
cial security amendments met for
an hour, but said afterwards they
had made no progress toward re
conciling differences in.the legisla
tion as approved by the Senate and
the House.
Should this bill fail of passage it
would mean that, barring action in
a special session, old age insurance
payments could not be started in
January. 1940. as the bill provides,
(See CONGRESS7Page~a"7T) ‘
Mrs. Charles C. Haslet Dies
Of Motor Crash Injuries
Mrs. Charles C. Haslet, wife of
a writer in the Washington Bureau
of the Associated Press, died In
Gallup. N. Mex., today of injuries
suffered Sunday night in a motor
car accident near Grants, N. Mex..
according to a dispatch received
here.
Mrs. Haslet was taken to a Gallup
hospital after her car skidded in a
rainstorm, crashed through a high
way guard fence and plunged down
an embankment, the Associated
Press reported.
Mrs. Haslet's 14-month-old son
escaped injury. Her sister-in-law,
Miss Edith Haslet was injured, but
not seriously.
Friends here said Mrs. Haslet was
en route to Washington from Cali
fornia, where she had been visiting
her father, who is ill. Her home
here is at 1515 North Adams street,
Arlington, Va. The body will be
taken to Wellington, Kans., her for
mer home
Magyar 'Guards'
Challenge 31
Nazis to Duels
Bt the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST, Aug. 3.—Thirty-one
Nazi members of Parliament were
challenged to duels today by mem
bers of the Hungarian “Ragged
Guard,” who pharged they had
been termed 'rabble” in parlia
mentary debate.
The Guardists are extreme Na
tionalists, who fought as a free corps
in the annexation of Ruthenia in
the breakup last March of the
Czecho-Slovak Republic.
The men, who take pride in the
name "Ragged Guard,” asserted
that Kalman Hubay, Fuehrer of the
Nazi Arrow-Cross party, referred to
them as “rabbi*,” which Hubay de
nied.
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