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VOLUME 85. No. 58. ' NOB&b, AUftlU. ~MONDAY, JULY 0. I»:»4r«r Cfy: 10 «-nt*.,
LATE
TELEGRAPH
NEWS
(By The Associated Press)
NICE France, July 8, With a
promise to be "good” sailors (ram
the U. S. warships Arkansas and
Wyoming wool crt shore leave
sgsii tonight along the RlvierLi
after a - dressing down by niv#!
authorities (or last night’s adven
tures in which twenty-eight were
■ wounded. French police' and the
American consul at Nice trad a
conference and agreed that' the
crews of the battleships should*
not be punished for the lights in
dulge^ in by a few of their fel
lowmen.
(By The Associated Press)
BUCHAREST, Roumanta, July
8, Once boy king of noumanit
aid the only king in . history de
posed by his own father, will in
beret $400,000 when he becomes
of age in 1042. It is the .Rift of
", a., woman who anew taught hfm
hip abe’s, Mtpe. ^ Helene Negru
Chan, widow of a former Ruman
ian minister in Vienna, who also
served lit tlie cop^t of St- James.
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(Sy The Associated Press)
RAtPLD COTV, South Dakota,
July 8, Three men in a sealed
ball, manufactured air to sustain
life today after locking them
selves in to test their gondolu pre
paratory to a stratosphere balloon
flight they hoped would extend
fifteen miles above the earth. The
take-off was scheduled for the first
suitable day. next- week. Their
only contact with scores of help
ers stationed in the moonlit vat
ley bowl, from where the Nation
al Geographic Army Air Corps
sponsored stratosphere hop will
start, was by radio.
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(By The Associated Press)
wushinGton. a patrol was
set over the department today to
make sure that government work
ers heed the warning of Secretary
Tckes against loafing. Ickes gave
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four thousand public works and in
terior department employees three
quarters oV ah hour a day off yes
terday to deliver and Impromptu
lecture against wasting the govern
ments time.
For testing silk stockings a
machine has been bu|Jt by United
Spates Bureau of Standards ex
perts that subjects them to strains |
like they undergo when wearers
walk up stairs.
Attracting attention in dark
ness, fog and rain as well as Jn |
sunlight, a new stop light ftf
automobiles consists of two fans
shaped disks, in four colors that
revolve in opposite directions.. [
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German optical instrument mak
ers have, developed a form of perl
scope that enables a ^watchman to
see all four aides, the floor and
celling of a bank vault at once
by looking in an eye piece. - J
Invented by a Georgia School of
Technology aeronautical expert, a
novel three wheeled vehicle resem
bles both an automobile and air
plane and runs on two roar wheel)
alone at higher speeds, being steer
ed by large vanes.
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GERMANY Pl.KADH FOR
UNDERSTANDING AND
SOUNDS wIk noth
(By The Associated l’resa)
KOHNIGSBU-KG. Germany, July
9, Rudolf Hess, Cabinet Minister,
known a^ Hitler’s second half, in
an address Sunday, pleaded for an
understanding with France and'
sounded a warning against Impend*
Ing war. _ •"
He further defied any nation to
invade Germany. His speech was
broadcast over Germany, and trans
latlons put on the entire world.
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His speech is regarded as anta.*.
ing. not only because of Its appeal
to France, but also it Implied n
warning of war which threatens
Europe, and its defiance of In
vaders. • ,
Switching suddenly from Ger
man to French in describing the
miseries of war, Hess declared that
war means "Unhappiness for ns
unhappiness for you; unhappiness
for the whole world."
Hess wanted that’ Germany
would defend itself to the last man
against any Invaders.
Shortly before closing his ad
dress Hess paid tribute to the
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peace pact with Poland. and
pleaded. “May the governments of
other people on our frontiers al-j
so see greater security thorugh
peaceful pacts and treaties of un
derstanding. rather than heaped
up war materials; that is our
hope.”
«By The Associated Press)
JAINDQN, July 8, French quar
ters here today expressed renew
ed Iiope Louis Rarthou, Foreign
Minister of France, will be able
to induce the British to turn the
naval conversations into a general
arms conference. The apparent
fJStie finite post ponement of t ho
next meeting of the disarmament
conference steering committee was
cited in support of this plan, but
International circles doubted Bar
jthon would succeed.
IMn looking
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8t'i‘PORT OF KNOLA* l>
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(ny The Associate Pt>:,«)
JXXNIDOCV, July 9. Louis Barthoh
French Minister, came to London
today to ask the assurance that
Great Britain will once more
team up with France in the event
0-f a war with Oennany.
DANGER OF GENERAL
STRIKE IS MORE
FORRIDDING TODAY
TKAMMTER8 GOING TO
GO ON STRIKK
iEy The Associate! J*n>*e)
RAN FRANCISCO, July if, Walk
out votes by teamsters here in
tensified the threats ot a general
strike, as the National Longshore
men Board brought the new Feder
al Labor Disputes Board to its
first tests.
The teamsters served notice that'
unless definite progress was gained
they would abandon their trucks,
Thursday.
General strike proposals gained
Impetus here, Oakland, Portland
and at Seattle. The longshoremen
board Invokes full authority un
der the new law, as open public
hearings on the disputes were be
gun. '
The general strike proposal has
already been supported by fifteen
of the one hundred and twenty
trad* unions.
TACOMA, July 9, This city con
Unued to be a scene of much act
ivity, with freight pouring onto
the docks to be loaded for Alaska.
The loading of the “Zapora!’ and
“(Norco’’ starts today.
(By The Associate 1 Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 8, With
troops in continued control of the
Waterfront the strike sutiation yes
terday moved steadily toward to*
morrows opening of the President’s
Board’s public showdown meet
ings. Labor prepared for the op
ailing of that session with a meet
ing at the Labor Temple at which
the newly named Strategy Comml
tee of fifty headed by Harry Brld?
es, their Australian chairman.
Bridges efforts to have the strat
egy committee act at once for n
city wide general strike got no
where yesterday. '‘We did not
discnes the general strike at all,”
said Edward Vandeleur, President
of the Central Labor Council, af
ter the meeting. “We met solely
to discnss with the marine strike
committee, the plans for our ap
pearance Monday before the Presi
dent’s board. Throughout all of
California, extremists drive toward
a general strike continued.
At three p.m. yesterday, union
representatives from all trades were
gathering for a mass meeting in
the Eagle's Hall, on a call of
Bridges, alien chairman of the
longshoremen's and Joint strike
committee.
OLD LIMITATION OVER
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JUNEAU, July 9. Alaska forests
and highways were alloted >671,
067.06 for this years construction,
maintenance and repair, which
breaks down the old limitation of
three hundred and fifty thousand
dollars
R008KVHLT STEAMING
ACROSS CARIBEAN
(By The Assoclatea Press)
HARRIMAN IS
SENTENCED TO
PRISON TERM
PARIS, July fl, Cynicism ap-1
psared as the keynote of French
reaction to the "Olive Branch"
(waved by Germany.
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High official comment is lack
ing. but political observers as
cribed the gesture of friendship
made by Jtudolf Hess, Hitler’s
aide, to twu sources. One is, an
effort to wipe out the memory of
the bloody purging of political
foes during the second revolii-j
tlon in Germany, and the other Is j
the activities of Louis Barthou in
London, which may have caused '
the address.
Editorial comment reflected
skepticism of sincerity of the ov
ertures for peace and continued
"good will.”
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H)RMKR bank pkkhidknt
TAKKN TO JAfli
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(By The Associated Presa’
»NKW TORK, .Inly S. Joseph
Harriman. former President of the
Harriman National Hunk and Trust
Co., was taken to the Federal Pri
son at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania to
start a four and one-half yeare
sentence, following his conviction
on charges of falsification of re
cords and mis-applying funds cf
his hank.
United States Bureau of Stand
ards tests havp shown that steel
proscenium curtains provide the
best protection for theater audi
ences against fire, lasting t vyic» *
as long as steel framed asbestop
curtains.
PRESIDENT, SON
ARRESTED FOR
LIOUOR SMUGGLING
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IjglOR >8ML(i(il.lN(r
KING UNITED STATES
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(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, July 8, Henry Relfel,
President of the Brewers and Dis
tillers Limited, Vancouver, B.
C., and bis son George Reifel,
were arrested herP Friday night
by U. S. Customs agents and "ac
cused of being leaders in an inter
national liquor conspiracy.
They were released after post*
ing oue hundred thousand dollars
bond. Each defendant, along with
several others not yet arrested are
charged -with having smuggled
hundreds of thousands of cases of
liquor into the United States dur
ing the last few years.
United States Attorney J. Char
AiBOARI) DESTROYER HOUS
TON, July 9, President Roosevelt
steamed across the Carlbean Sea
toward Colombia. He received
first hand Information of social
conditions before leaving the Unit
ed States Island possessions.
Dennis said that K. Whit tuck
er, special assistant 1’. S. Attorney
General had tiled in the federal
court a civil suit asking a total
judgement of seventeen and one
quarter million dollars from the
Kelfels and others, asserting that
the sunt was due for duties, cur
toms, penalties, and internal rev
enue taxes. He alleged, that It
had been eva/led.
■Attorney I>onald E. Ergerman,
representing „ihe defendant is
sued a statement on hi*
client’s behalf, defying £ any
violation of the law and declar
ing "There's spite work behind
these arrests.”
He said the men were in Seat
tle on business at the time of
their arrests. The complaint*
stated that the alleged conspiracy
started about three year* ago and
continued up to January first,
1934. The complaint alleged that
the men organised and operated a
boat line for the purpose of ship
ping liquor into the United States.