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The Tacoma Tmes o
VOL. 37. NO. 119
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FORESTERS of Washington
state college are sponsor
ing a forest fire prevention
week, commencing May 11
Which is a splendid idea. For
estry and the products of our
first great natural resource
continue to be the source of
greatest wealth for the state.
Any plan that will bestir the
public to the problem of keep
ing fire from our forests
merits support.
Two-thirds of our original
forest area in the Northwest
is still forested. It means
continual livelihood for thou
sands will come from these
forests. The time forest lands
will provide water power, rec
reation, timber, and soil pro-|
tection depends on how well |
the forests are managed andl
guarded against fire. We can
not continue to let the old say
ing of for every acre cut for |
timber, anot her has been
wastefully burned. |
It behooves everyone to be’
careful with fire so all may|
enjoy the great benefits found
in our splendid forests. |
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NOW the railroads havel
“gone and done it.” They |
are selling transportation on
a monthly installment plan.l
Effective in two weeks, 66
railroads have arranged a|
“travel credit plan,” whereby |
without a down payment, ar-'
rangements can be made to
get a ticket for a vacation or’
recreational tour by making |
pa, ments every 30 days. The!
plan, of course, is similar tol
universally-applied install-|
ment selling of household
goods and accessories.
This plan of leading rail
roads means the adoption of
modern sales methods $0 |
sorely needed to increase rail- |
way travel. The idea appears |
practical and increased volume
this summer will undoubtedlyl
prove the plan is worth con
tinuing. ’
S T T
BULLETINS
|
ABOARD PRESIDENTIAL |
SPECIAL EN ROUTE TO
WASHINGTON, D, C.—Presi
dent Roosevelt late Monday i
stepped into the congressional i
battle on the Hatch “clean poli- |
tics” bill and called for passage |
of the measure which would lim- |
it political activities of state |
employes paid in whole or in |
part by federal funds. l
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ROME—Premier Benito Mus- |
solini Monday discussed Italy’s |
preparedness for war with the ‘
prince of Piedmont, Italian
crown prince, it was anonunced
officially, shortly after the ’
prince had been received in
audience by Pope Pius. l
HYDE PARK, N, Y. Presi- |
dent Roosevelt Monday cut
short a visit to his estate here
and left by special train for l
Washington, l
Temporary White House |
headquarters offered no ex- |
planation of why the President
Jeft eight hours earlier than ex
pected. During his stay here he
had been in close touch with
state department officials at |
Washington, and received tele- |
phone summaries of latest de- l
velopments in Europe. |
WASHINGTON, D. C—The |
House Monday suspended its
rules and passed, 194 to 15, &
bill anthorizing the maritime |
commission to sell or charter |
ships now ameong its laid-up |
fleet, i
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HALIFAX, N, 8. The crew
of the 3.683-ton British freight
er Craig, which sank in a fog
off Flint rock, about 50 miles
east of here, was reported safe
at Egg Island today
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Logan-Walter Bill
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Action Promised ‘
WASHINGTON Rejecting an
appeal by Democratic lLeader
Alben W. Barkley, the senate
judiciary committee agreed un
animously Monday that action
should be taken at this session
on the house-approved L«)gm-!
Walter bill subjecting rulings by |
administrative agencies to judicial
Teview |
Barkley made a personal! appeal
to the committee to permit the
Jegislation to go over until next
year. He said it should be studied
more thoroughly by government
agencies. ‘
TACOMA, WASH ~ TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1940
'Washington
"
‘Judgeship
.
. Schwellenbach Is
| Appointed to
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| Spokane District
|
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WASHINGTON - President
Roosevelt Monday sent to the sen
|ate the long-expected nomination
of Sen. Lewis B. Schwellenbach
of Washington to be U. 8. district
| judge for the eastern district of
Washington state. z
The senate confirmed Schwel
lenbach as a United States dis
trict judge less than two hours
after the nomination had been
received from President Roosevelt.
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Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach
|will be Washington's youngest
| judge. He is 45. An ardent New
| Dealer, he was at one time men-
SCHWELLENBACH
tioned as a possible appointee to
the U. 8. supreme court or a vice
'preaidentlnl candidate.
| Serving on the bench In
| Spokane will be a homecoming
for Schwellenbach, who lived
in the Inland Empire city
from 1902 ot 1914. As a boy he
sold newspapers on Spokane’s
streets, He was graduated
I from grammar and high
| school in Spokane. His history
| and public speaking teacher in
| high school was a young in
structor named Clarence C.
Dill, whom Schwellenbach suc~
ceeded as U. 8. senator in
1934,
" Six feet tall, weighing about
{2OO pounds, slightly stooped,
ESchwellenbach looks like a con
! servative business man. He dresses
| neatly in inconspicuous dark suits.
| He smokes many cigars.
i His slow, rumbling voice in
icreases in tempo and volume in
|oratory. In the senate he was one
|of six men who opposed the late
Huey Long. His debates against
the veteran Sen. William E. Borah
of Idaho were outstanding.
Schwellenbach’'s hazel eyes move
iwith a slow, fixed gaze behind
| horn-rimmed spectacles that con
| tinually slip forward on his nose.
|He likes to read current maga
zines and ancient law books.
‘ He was a bachelor until
| Dec. 30, 1935, when he mar
| ried Anne J. Duffy of Seattle
| in Chicago. He is an Episco
| palian.
In 1932 Schwellenbach was state
commander of the American
] Legion,
{ He was born in Superior, Wis,
{Sept, 20, 1894. He was the young
{est of four children. His brothers
|are Charles Henry Schwellenbach,
| Seattle business man, and Edgar
| Ward Schwellenbach, superior
| judge for Grant and Douglas coun
!ties. His sister, Mrs. Fred Men
gthrum. died in Spokane in 1934.
| Their father died in Spokane in
11908, The mother, Mrs. Martha
! Schwellenbach, lives in Seattle but
visits every year in Superior.
Lewis and his mother moved
to Seattle in 1914 when he en-
Schwellenbach Appoiniment
Staris Political Guessing
| By ARTHUR L. SCHOENI |
| OLYMPIA—The suddeu appoint
' ment and confirmation Monday of
| Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach as
f_deral judge for eastern Washing
ton reopened speculation on whom,
if any, Governor Clarence D. Mar
tin would appoint to finish the
| senator's term.
| If Schwellenbach leaves the sen
|ate immediately to take the post
| the governor probably would have
{to name a successor. If the sen
ator serves out the rest of the
| present congressional lerm, ex
A Queen
Latest deb to be crowned
““most beautiful” of the
1940 crop is Betty Provost
(above), of Garden City,
L. |, selected for her “"clos
sic combination of features,
figure and charm.” She's
choice of committee of ar
tists and other beauty ex
perts.
‘Stratoliner
|
Leaves Boeing 1
& |
Big Airplane Hops
To Portland Field
PORTLAND - A four-motored,
streamlined sub - stratosphere
monoplane, built by Boeing Air
ceraft Co. for Transcontinental &
Western Airways, landed at Swan
Island airport here at 9:18 a. m.
Monday, on a delivery flight from
Seattle,
The plane originally planned to
land at Portland’s new Columbia
airport, but was forced to alight
at Swan Island because of low
visibility,
Seventeen men were aboard the
33-passenger plane, first of five
bought by TWA.
Edmund T. Allen, director of
flight and research for the Boeing
Aircraft Co,, was at the controls
of the stratoliner. Vern Hyde of
the Boeing staff acted as co-pilot.
Others aboard were representatives
|of TWA, the civil aeronautics au
| thority, the Wright Engi~e Co., and
| the Hamilton Propeller Co.
I Th: Boeing crew will leave the
| ship at Portland and TWA pilots
will make a number of training
| flights over the city before taking
| off in the afternoon for San Fran
(’claco. with Otis Bryan, TWA's
chiei test pilot, at the controls,
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!Gtady Endorsed
For State Justice
~ YAKIMA-—The Yakima Bar as
| sociation has unanimously endorsed
| Thomas Grady, Yakima utwmey}
|and president of the Washington
State Bar association, for appoint
ment to the state supreme court to
succeed the late Justice James
| Geraghty of Spokane, }
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BANK TRANSACTIONS |
Tacoma .......cc00....53,604,000
l tered the University of Wash
| ington law school. Before he
| could take his bar examina
| tion, the United States was in
| the World war and Schwel
| lenbach enlisted. He served
| until February, 1919, and then
! opened his first law office in
Seattle on March 1, 1919,
{ During the early years of his
| practice, Schwellenbach success
(fully defended 12 criminals. His
113th eriminal case was his Jast be
‘3('auu the state of Washington
| hanged his client. 4
-
‘pecudtoudm.lunc,m;ovm
.| may decide to leave the post open
!gunulunflonmhtr election.
] I the governor decided to
- rum for senator this fall, any
. one he names to finish out the
| term might furnish too strong
| opposition. With Schwellen
| barh a judge the way now is
f opened for selection of & fed
: eral judge for the Tacoma
: Vacancy.
.| The spot there vacated by Judge
, E. E. Cushman was not filled be
., (Continued on Page 3, Columa 1)
Industrial
Expansion
Looms H
. Mayor Kaufman.
' Chamber Manager
i
| Return from East
! Expansion of chemical, pulp and
metallurgical industries to the
Northwest appears certain, Mayor
J. J. Kaufmann declared Monday
upon his return from an industrial
! survey trip made in company with
|T. A. Stevenson, manager of Ta
;oom- Chamber of Commerce
| They arrived home Sunday even
iing after five weks' absence dur
ing which they scoured industries
of the middlewest and east for
possible new industries for Ta
| coma’s enlarged power facilities.
i “As a result of our talks
with many cerporation execn- |
tives, it Is our feeling that 1
expansion will be principally
| i chemical, steel alloys, pulp, |
| paper, copper, aluminum and
I zine,” Kaufmann said, l
“Nearly all of the corporations
! that use large blocks of power
| have been following developments
lout here in the Northwest wm|
{ real interest and are seeking com
’plete information about Gnnd{
| Coulee and Bonneville power pro
| jects and the raw materials, par-’
| ticularly ores, behind them in this
| territory.
“To our surprise a large
number of these executives
have never been to Puget
Sound and are not at all con
versant with the geography
| of the country or with the
| natural resources of the terri
| tory. All of them predict for
us & very promising future,
and feel we will have no diffi
culty in disposing of the power
we have available. In certain
industries, of course, the war
situation and serious shipping
problems may cause some de
lays.”
l Kaufman said he and Stevenson
| called on prospects in Missouri,
| liinots, Michigan, New York state,
| Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvanin
'and Ohio.
| “We have a number of live
| prospects,” said the mayor, “which
| we should follow up immediately.
;Wlthoul & doubt, there will be
| some industry moving in the near
future, either to Puget Sound or
the Columbia river The names
of such corporations must, of
(Continued on Page 3, Column 5)
Crap Game Ends
In Death of Three
MARTINS FERRY, 0. Wil
liam Sevastis, a 53-year-old wait
er, killed three men and wounded
two others because his boss would
not advance him wages during &
dice game,
Sevastis told police he lost his
bankroll in the game at the res
taurant late Sunday, He asked
Mike Manos, his employer, for &
salary advance Manos refused.
Sevastis, according to the story
given police, grabbed a gun from
behind the counter and killed
Manos. Then he fired blindly
killing two and wounding two
others of six men in the restau
rant.
Police found Sevastia seated in
front of the restaurant holding
the gun. He offered no resistance.
County Prosecutor Ross Michener
said he would be given a sanity
hearing.
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Bremerton Tops All
In Census Increase
BREMERTON, Wash. Bremer
ton showed & 50 per cent gain in
population in the past 10 years,
census figures disclosed Monday.
The population reached 15076,
compared with 10,170 in 1930. In
creased employment at the Puget
Sound navy yard, where 6,000 men
work, was credited with causing
the city's gain - greatest in Wash
ington state for the present census.
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Population Gain
For Walla Walla
WALLA WALLA A 13 per
cent population growth in the past
10 years was shown in preliminary
census figures here Monday
Enumerators placed Walls
Walla's population at 18,104, com
pared with 15976 in 1930 and
15,503 in 1920. Qfficials estimated
they still had from 500 to 700 per
soms Lo count.
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WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy tonight, possibly rain
Wed. Temperatures: High, 60; low,
44. Sun rises, 4:44; sets, 728,
THREE CENTS IN TACOMA
Director
Rupert Emerson, Harvard
professor, has been named
director of Division of Is
lands and Territories of the
U. S. Department of the
Interior, to shape federal
policy in these American
possessions,
Satko Complying
With Court Order
The 40-foot “Ark of Juneau”
Monday resounded with the blows
of Paul Satko's hammer as he re
modeled it in accordance with a
Jjuvenile judge’s instructiona.
This time, Satko said, he would
not be denied his chance to start a
new life in the foreats around Cook
{inlet, Alaska. He sailed from Ta
coma three weeks ago, after spend.
ing a year constructing his boat,
but it went aground at Seattle and
juvenile authorities took six of his
seven children to protect them from
their father's “folly.” Seamen said
the ark would keel over in a
breeze.
King County Judge Willlam G.
Long released the children, how
| ever, on condition that Satko would
lrcmcdy hazardous conditions on |
' his boat. i
, With a convoy of power cruisers,
Satko and his 10-year-old daugh
-I‘"' Hazel, who is too old for juve.
'nile authorities, sailed the boat to
| Everett in six hours Sunday. An
unemployed welder who is certain
'he will never find another job in'
this country, Satko Immediately |
began to install & “reduction gear.” |
He Loped to be on his way in|
“about three days.” !
. His six minor children and Ml'
{wlla rode to Evereit in a friend’s
‘automobile,
‘ s SRS RS &Lk
Troy Reports g‘
Early on Job |
. OLYMPIA An hour and & balf |
‘before hin office officially opened
for the day, Washington's attorney !
genernl, 33-year-old Smith Troy,
showed up for work Monday and
took over full duties of hig new
post. !
. Troy was appointed last week
but spent most of his time clear- |
ing up county legal matters with
his successor, Prosecutor Jobn 8.
Lynch i
He sald he was ready to assist
Lynch in trials of Wiliam A, Cole |
and E. Pat Kelly, former mu’l
officials indicted by the recent !
igrm Jury, but pointed out Doane |
Brodie, former Mason counly
prosecutor, had worked closely
with the jury and was capable afi‘
pandling the trisls with Lyneh ‘
The men will be Lried later In tht!
petit jury term which opened '
Monday. {
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|
Apple Sales Hit |
i
By Ship Shortage }
YAKIMA ~The Yakima Valley
Traffic and Credit association Mon- |
day planned to complain to tho']
U. 8. maritime commission because
of a shortage of ships in Pacific '
;mtwmwurrycppmwbwu‘l
‘! America. !,
Manager Tvan Pletle of the aano- |
clation sald most Yakima apples|
&t present are sent 1o South Ameri- |
ca on foreign flag ships from At- |
lentic ports, but more could be
soid if there were & regular, de- ||
pendable ship service avallable '
| from Pacific cosst ports. |
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Wind Storm
|
2 Washingtonians
Among Victims:
Ship Is Grounded
PORTLAND -« High winds
which at times reached & velovity
‘of 87 miles an hour Saturday night
and early Sunday, In this sres
'cnu.od the drowning of four pers
‘wons and pushed the freighter
Washington on & jetty in the
Columbia near St Helens
i Dead were George A. Dunn, 88,
pharmacist, and Donald K. Boen
bright, street oar operator, both
of Portland; Burl Redd, 32, of
Wallula, Wash,, and Norman Mor
[ton, 19, of Attalia, Wash,
Dunn and Bonbright were
drowned near St Helens when
| thelr fishing boat was swamped,
Redd and Morton apparest-
Iy were solzed by panic whes
& wheat barge on which they
| were riding broke loose from
its tug and theratensd to go
over Celllo falls, 14 miles east
of The Dalles. They loaped
into the ehurring waters
ahove the falls and were
drowned. The barge escaped
unsenthed and piled up on &
rocky ‘sland ut the head of
the falls,
The 3.472-ton Washington, of
the United States Line, outbound
in ballast to lond lumber on Coos
bay, grounded in the Columbis
near 8t Helens. River pilot J. L
Starr reported the aceident was
caused by stesring gear trouble,
| Bome of the ballaat was taken
loff and the bost was refloated,
| then brought to Portland for ex
’lmln.llon
i The Washington has been
dogged by trouble and had
tied up here in drydock for
' overhauling. The staamer, &8
. route from Viadivesiok, had
. semt out an NOS 1,700 miles
west of Tatoosh on April 7,
' when her fuel lines became
- clogged with water.
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Continuing Here
' The drive to boost Tacoma's
{ptppul-llm figure up Lo over
100,000 continusd Monday with in
creased confidence that the mark
would be reached.
In her office in the Rust bulld
ing,. Mrs. Kathryn Malstrom,
Plercs county director of the cen
sus, worked with relentiess vigor,
and just as busy waere her sssist- |
ants i
Mrs, Malstrom had time enough |
to say that the census drive was |
heing prosecuted with full lnn-‘
in & vigorous attempt to reach the |
100,000 mark
Names and addresses of per
sons not reached by the snumer
ators conlinued to be submitied
during the day, as city and Cham - :
ber of Commerce officiala pushed
forward in their efforis to gt .
complete count of the eity's In- |
habitants ’
s G
Crew of Shi |
P s
BAN FRANCINCO - The m‘!
guard culler Ariadne brought the |
28-man crew of the lumber schoon. !
or Daisy Mathews to Ban Fran- |
cisco Monday, leaving the ecraft |
to break up on the rocky coast'
240 miles Lo the north
The Bid-lon wvessel, en routls |
from Coos bay, Oregon, o Ban|
Francisco, ran inlo & heavy m!
Friday night off Point Bt George. |
Its cargo holds soon filled 'll.h;
water, and only s deckioad of!
jumber kept it aflcat. Capt, O. J. |
Carisen and his men remained
with the craft until wide seams
opened under the heavy pounding
and the coast guard advised It
would be impossible to tow it 0]
port. It was pulled on the beach |
where preliminary investigation
showed it beyond salvage. |
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1 ,1 ’ 7! *l:‘7«"3
Admiralty Admits Loss of Crulser,
But Brands Untrue German Report
~ 30.000-Ton Vessel Sunk Saturday .
RERLIN-—The DNB official news el
Ohancellor Adolt Hitler andl King :imfiu
changed ietiors in which they exprostd *full agresment s e
future politionl attitude of both countviens foward seh sther.”
| The exchange of lsttars was said 1o Bive nlen plave in the
Intter part of April, 1 "
| (The Tase officinl Russion news agency Mporiod from Meseow
inst week that Germany sad Russin were in SEMRIRE B 8 fogals
1 the continued neutrality of Sweden.) : {
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| LONDON—The Pelish navel #atf Mandey reperted et e
| Polish deatrayer (irom was sunk by au alr bomb while sngiged
- aperations off the Norweaginn sonsl, :
PARIN—The French official radie Monday snneunced that he
Fronch destroyer Bison was sunk by termen alp stieeh in the
North sen May &,
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THE EUROPEAN WAR TODAY
| Germany clalmed new serial vietories Mendsy sver the' Belah
| navy, but Adolf Mitler concentrated his chief sfforis on INtenstying
ichulwlrummmomm ;
The German high command claimed that snother British haty ‘
lmd been heavily hit by German sir bombs off e, that o
| munitions dump had been exploded, and that & Britiah srine had
| been captured by a destroyer, i
The British admiralty snnounced that the LSTO-lon o )
Afridi, with & normal complement of more than 200, had e
|by German planes during the allied withdrawsl from the 8l Now
‘w.flu\h.uo‘flmmmmm' Fman slaime
| of Saturday that s 30,000-ton battiehip had Deen sunk. =
Ny I g N PR L
In Norway, ‘""M,«w
swiftly mopped up the sentra
front east and north of Tee
hjem and moved M
such & rapid pace that Berlin re
ported the advance forces were al
ready half way to Narvik, pre
sumably somewhers around Mos
joen. The mountaing north of Mos-
Joen and Mo, however, provide »
formidable barrier to land advance
toward Narvik,
In Nurvik jeell, Britieh
about 5,000 1o 4,000
under sioge nenr the lron sre
port has settled down inte »
“sitakrieg” because of snow
stormn.
There was a steady ineresse In
Lhe efforts of Germany, with the
aid of Ilaly, to keep allied powers
guessing as o whers Oermany
will strike next snd whether the
"rucm.wulmu-wunm
side of their sxis partner.
} Hitler's purpose was nob
only te divide the sttention of
Meitaln and Franee between
twe such dislant fronts a»
Norway and the near sast but
to keep the small seutrals of
southesstorn Burope in line
and to emphasize to Premier
Beuito Munsolini the ad
vanlages of cospernting wilth
Gormsany .
The fascist press, which asays
what Mussolinl wanls it 1o say, s
carrying the hod for the usually
aulapoken Nasi newspapers direct
ed by Propagands Minister Joseph
Goshbels, by predicting that Ger
many will invade the Brilish
Inies
While the Nasis restricted
themseives 1o claiming that
the German sir fores had
demonstrnted | bs supanionity
over British sen power, fhe
Malisn newspapers and
spokonmen declared in one
volos that sew Germen busss
in Norway would be wsad for
sttack om the British loles by
submarines, alfplsnes snd pos
sibly By wsn expeditiensry
tores, |
The lalian newspaper Corriers
Pandsno, owoed by Alr Marshel
Haly Malbo and regarded ap &
moutlhpiscs for fascist m'
circles, charged that Hritain sl
ready had staried preparing saval
and alr bases in Greace for an b
tack on Italy.
The principsl significance of
such & charge (regardiess of
* e seomrney ) s that 16 Begine
making an sdvance case for
possible Itanlian sction in
aouthenstern Furope.
The allies have powerful naval
forces in the ecastern Mediter
ranean and have given CGreecs &
gusrantee of ald against any ag
gressor and probably have made
up their minds that they will nol
again be caught napping as they
were in Norway. |
One of the pringipal factlors
‘working against an esplosion s
A of p
-| Bo far the Hritish have made every )
t | effort to convines the werld '
. | these cisima are not e and i
I«Eth~w
- | that he cannot count on his -
.| ful wir forve to he the desiiing
- | tautor against Bvilain's navy,
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Eyes of England
LONDON. -Prime Minister Noo
ville Chamberisin may sve he
de ..lluw"!‘n* by
debale on
promising immediate and effsctive
,‘emmnmu-p
; Mdmflm
| wemy and ale fores would cone
| dwet all cosrdinstion sctivities
with Winston COhusehilh firsd
lurd of the admiralty and ssates
Aefenas ru silling
chairman and seting as spolce
man 167 the cabinet when full
cabinet authorily was Seess
sary to any desislon.
Lrespits vigorows criticiem of the
government in newspapers, includs
Ing -:munm“.,z
sition leaders, it was forscast 3
| Chamberisin would take his cabls
| net sate through Tuesday's debale.
& Chamberialn and Churchill were
| expected 10 he the chisf governe
| whieh is likely to continue -
| Thursday.
| L e (st
§ AMERICAN LEAGUS
[(lovelnnd 410 208 005 11 &
| Bastos .. 100 600 108 11 &
| Batieries: Hudlin, Humphties
(45, Jungels (4), Buber (8) and
| Hemsley, Dickman, Wisen (8)
[m Poavock
| Ohienge .. 101 000 4062 & &
| Phirdelphis 901 008 00x—3 & &
Hatteries: Rigne asad Treshy
Potier 200 Hayes,
Detroit ... 000 001 8026 % &
New Yerk 010 102 0004 T 3
| Batteries: Eals (7). snd Tebe
| betts, Suilivan: Ruffiog. Murphy
18y, Grissom (§)) and Diokey,
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| NATIONAL LEAGUR
New York 001 000 8001 § 1
| Cinectanatt 161 007 Sonß 14 &
| Batteries: Gumbert, P. Dean (7}
l.udm,mflm
| bardai
: e e e R,
Says NLRB Member
Aided in Election
| WASMINGTON—A Dies com
[ mittee witness charged % 2
| that Wawin 8, Smith, & member of
,wmmmum
| conference with Harry ki
| €lO maritime labor leader, t 0 Wre
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