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Knox Urges Swift
Approval of Navy
Expansion Bill
Woodrum Hopes to Have
I Measure Ready for
Debate in 10 Days
Bt the Associated Press
Secretary of the Navy Knox
urged quick approval today of legis
lation which would give his depart
ment another billion dollars to bring
the Nation's naval strength to more
than 700 warships—enough for a
two-ocean navy.
Secretary Knox, appearing at the
Start of closed hearings by a House
appropriations subcommittee on
President Roosevelt's July 10 request
for $4,800,000,000 for the Army and
Navy, surveyed the Navy's needs
generally. The Navy would get
roughly $1,000,000 qoo. the remainder
going to the War Department.
Chairman Woodrum of the sub
rommittee said he hoped tp bring
the bill to the House for debate
within 10 riavo.
Meanwhile. Speaker Banklvead
and House Majority L.earier Ray
bum said there was a possibility
that a $25,000,000 bill to increase
power output of the Tennessee Val
ley Authority to permit production
of more aluminum for airplanes
might be called up lor action Wed
nesday or Thursday.
La Guardia to Testify.
Chairman May of tlie House Mil
itary Committee told the House that
Mayor La Guardia of New York
would appear before the committee
Wednesday to testify concerning the
Burke-Wadsworth compulsory mili
tary service bill.
The Navy disclosed yesterday that ]
[bur destroyers were being fitted out
lor use of the Marine Corps, evi- j
irncing efforts to speed creation of j
i "minute man" expeditionary force
■eady for any hemisphere emergency.
The destroyers are World War j
ships, recently recommissioned after i
rears of idleness. Naval circles un- \
lerstood they would be converted
nto high-speed transports, specially
timed and equipped to put ashore
tdvance forces at any hemisphere
joint where hostilities threatened.
At the same time, officials said the
Marine Corps has rapidly been in
•reased to a strength of approxi
nately 28 000 officers and men, with
he 34,000 goal in sight.
Two New Battalions
The fleet marine force is being ex
janded one-third by the formation
of two new heavily armed defense
jattalions.
In addition to the destroyer
transports, converted commercial
vessels are to be made a part of the
overseas force, informed members of
Congress understood. The liner Iro
quois and the cargo-passenger ship
Mormacpenn were acquired last -
week by the Navy for undisclosed '
purposes.
Hanes
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«titutp the first organized effort in
American history to keep the same
national administration in public
office beyond the historic two-term i
period. No matter how grave the
national emergency, the continua
tion in authority for three terms j
of this political machine, clothed;
as it is with tremendous public pow
er, is a still graver menace to Amer- '
ica We submit that this effort
should be resisted without regard I
to partisan politics by all who would 1
preserve democracy in the United1
States. We therefore propose, with ;
your approval, to enlist in your be- ,
half the support of Democrats who
believe with us that loyalty to1
country takes precedence over loy- j
Rlty to party."
In his message. Mr. Valentine said
te understood independent citizens !
vere volunteering their services to
Mr. Willkie.
“Count me in that group,” he con
tinued. "for I offer my services in
any w ay which will be useful to you.” i
Mr. Willkie arranged to leave here
today for the so-called "Daddy of
All Rodeos” in Cheyenne. Wyo., to
morrow.
He was expected to fly from Chev
rnne to Salt Lake City for a Latter!
Day Saints meeting and then re- !
‘urn here. Plans called for a stay
;n Denver tonight and then a train
trip to Cheyenne. Several train
pops were scheduled en route to
permit Mr. Willkie to make brief
talks.
Mr. Willkie spent yesterday
ttuietly in his apartment at a resort
hotel here. He set a talk today
with Representative Halleck, Re
publican. oi Indiana, who is making
arrangements for his acceptance
talk at Elwood, Ind., about Au
gust 10.
Havana
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trr-war relations with European
rowers.
It was announced, meanwhile,
from San Jose. Costa Rica, that the
Herman Legation there had with
Irawn its note of two weeks ago
'xpressing hope the Central Amer
ican states would no nothing “un
leutral" at the conference.
Argentina Opposes
Pan American Mandates
BUENOS AIRES. July 22 UP).—
Sources close to the Foreign Office
Indicated yesterday that Foreign
Minister Jose Maria Cantilo re
plied to * United States query with
reiteration of Argentina's opposi
tion to establishment of Pan Amer
ican mandates over Western Hem
isphere possessions of European na
tions.
The ministry declined to make
public the exchange of notes until
Argentina's position is announced
at the Havana conference, which
began today.
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HAN ANA.—TROOPS GUARD CONFERENCE—The grave nature of the Inter-American Confer
ence, being held in the shadow of the European war, was impressed upon delegates by armed
troops stationed inside and outside the capitol at the opening session yesterday. Secretary
of State Hull (centeri, George Messersmith (leftUnited States Ambassador to Cuba, and Mrs,
Hull are shown passing a line of the sharp-eyed sentries on the capitol steps.—A. P. Wirephoto,
Horner
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! world in respect to their mutual
problems, despite the feeling among
'some delegations that it might be
preferable to sacrificing any
strength of the program.
Mr. Hull made it clear soon after
his arrival here Saturday that he
would work for unanimity in con
ference action. Pointing out that :
real solidarity of the American na
tions rests on the principle of equal
ity. he said he always favored
unanimous action himself and that
as a rule it always had been the
spirit of Pan-American conferences.
The Secretary of State was care
ful. however, not to commit himself
to holding out for unanimity if it
should develop that action consid
ered vital by the majority of dele
gates could not win approval of all.
Other deleggtes had the impression
he would agree to majority votes
rather than make too great sacri
fice on fundamental issues for the
sake of unanimity.
Mr. Hull was spending all the
time he could spare from formali
ties of the meeting in •'button
holing'' delegates from the other
nations to talk over mutual prob
lems and proposals for action in |
effective informal fashion. In this
way he hoped to create a sense of j
understanding that would lead to
rapid agreement in the formal ses
sions.
Makes Informal Calls.
Arriving Saturday morning with
15 expert advisers and assistants
from the State. Commerce. Treasury
and Agriculture Departments, Mr.
Hull began his round of informal :
calls on Latin American delegations
that afternoon and continued them
throughout yesterday, except for a
brief formal visit to President
Laredo Bru of Cuba, until the
opening ceremonies of the meet
ing yesterday afternoon.
Armed with the Information
gained in these talks, in which he
said his "opposite numbers" from
the foreign offices of the other
American republics were thoroughly !
realistic about the need for in- :
creased co-operation to overcome
damaging repercussions from Eu
rope's war, the Secretary was pre- (
pared for a showdown with the
Argentine delegation arriving to
day.
It was not his way, howevei* to
give the appearance of trying to
force anything down the throats
of the Argentines or any of the
other national representatives. He
frankly said he preferred to let
others take the leadership in offer
ing definite proposals for action.
The Hull procedure was remi
niscent of his work at the 1938
Inter - American Conference at
Lima, which resulted in a declara
tion of solidarity providing the
machinery for calling such meet- !
ings as now in session here to con- ■
suit about emergency problems !
whenever they might arise to
threaten hemisphere security.
It was then that his technique of
informal "buttonhole” conversations
to lay the groundwork for formal j
sessions first startled the more cere
monially-inclined Latin Americans.
He found the Argentines then, as
now. undisposed to do anything
that would limit their own freedom
of action or seriously affront the
totalitarian states, which provided
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valuable markets for them. After
many discouraging days, pressure
from other delegates brought from
the Argentines themselves the soli
darity proposal that was so much in
line with Mr. Hull's own ideas that
he maneuvered its adoption, with
full credit to Argentina for initiat
ing it.
Hopes for effective action at this
meeting apparently lay in some simi
lar development. There is general
recognition that Argentina's situa
tion is particularly delicate. Her
economy depends upon outlets in
Enrope for her meat, wool and other
export products. Her officials are
skeptical of any plan of inter-Ameri
can economic co-operation to the
degree that it would result in retalia
tory measures against her by the
axis powers, unless the co-operative
program was assured of such prac
tical success as to relieve her per
manently from dependence on to
talitarian-dominated markets. They
realize, too, the immense practical
difficulties in the way of the United
States Navy offering real protection
to South American neighbors "be
low the hump" of the continent.
Thus, unanimity upon the type
of action felt necessary by a majori
ty of the Americas will depend upon
success in convincing Argentina that
the chances for successful mainte
nance of full economic and political
independence of the hemisphere will
be better through a strong co-opera
tive program rather than any indi
vidual dependence upon Nazi good
will.
The strength of the program
finally adopted probably will be de
termined by how far Argentina is
willing to go. unless the principle
of unanimity is abandoned.
Tobacco Growers' Picnic
The annual picnic of the Mary
land Tobacco Growers' Association
will be held Thursday at Seaside
Park. Md., it was announced today.
Addresses will be made by Gov.
O'Conor, Senator Tydings, Mayor
Jackson of Baltimore and Repre
sentative Sasscer. Other features
will include tobacco judging con
tests. swimming and dancing.
I
Suffrage
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by interrupting him several times to
ask questions. These members in
cluded Representatives Rees, Repub
lican. of Kansas; heavy, Democrat,
of Washintgon, and O'Brien, Re
publican, of New York.
Mr. Rees pointed out that since
the Democratic party is in favor of
suffrage for the District and is in
control of tlie administration, he
did not know of any reason why
Congress cannot go ahead and enact
legislation to give the people here
a vote.
Mr. Randolph said it would be his
purpose, as speedily as possible, to
have those in charge of suffrage
legislation give it consideration. At
tire same time, he declared it is ‘'sig
nificant'' that Chairman Sumners
of the Judiciary Committee before
which a jpint resolution providing
for national representation is pend
ing "found himself in agreement
with voting privileges for the peo
ple of the District.”
Regrets G. O. P. Inaction.
Further. Mr. Randolph said he re
gretted that the Republicans at
their convention in Philadelphia last
month did not include a local suf
frage plank in their party platform.
"This is a subject of importance
to birth parties.” he declared. "It
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is a subject that goes to the basic
principles of this country.”
Mr. Randolph explained the plank
was inserted in the Democratic
party's platform because the party
believed those in Congress inter
ested in suffrage would use the plank
as a vehicle for arriving at a plan
to remove the shackles of disen
franchisement.
A few moments later he said he
had observed increasing sentiment
in C*;>ngress in the last several years
for national representation for the
District—a plan that would give the
people here the right to vote for
President and Vice President and to
elect representatives in the House
and Senate.
Representative Leavy interrupted
to compliment Mr. Randolph for the
‘ forceful” presentation he made be
fore the Democratic Platform Com
mittee in Chicago to have a suffrage
plank written into the platform.
He added that if the Republicans
had put a similar plank in their
platform, action on the suffrage
question would be doubly sure.
Representative Rees pointed out
if a suffrage resolution is brought
before the House there would be a
vote on it. Mr. Randolph answered
by saying he hoped Representative
Sumners soon would get action by
the Judiciary Committee on the
national representation resolution so
the House could vote on it.
Representative O'Brien expressed
the opinion that a number of peo
ple born in the States and now
living in Washington would prefer
the privilege of voting here instead
of "back home.” and would make
a fine contribution to the operation
of the Capital City.
‘‘If the voting privilege is ex
tended.” said Mr. Randolph, "I am
sure they will exercise that priv
ilege with a great deal of intelli
gence and civic interest.”
Representative Randolph made
the suffrage speech instead of call
ing up any local legislation on the
House calendar which he described
as being of "a very highly contro
versial nature.” Today was the final
so-called ‘District day” of the
month.
Hitler Presents
Armored Train
To Mussolini
By thy Associated Presj.
ROME, July 22.—Premier Musso
lini received an armored train from
Adolf Hitler today, intended to pro
tect II Duce against air attacks
during his travels.
The train, consisting of two cars
with German crews, was presented
by Gen. Ritter von Pohl in a formal
ceremony, during which II Duce
watched its guns shoot at air targets.
Gen. von Pohl told Mussolini that
Hitler wished for it to protect “your
life, which is precious not only to
the Italian people, but also to the
German nation.”
Mussolini thanked him "for this
gift, which is another sign of the
unbreakable brotherhood of arms
which unites Germany and Italy in
peace and in war.”
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