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Huey Long Pulls Another Long One
UNITED STATES WILL NOT INTERFERE NOW
Additional National Guardsmen Will Be Strike Duty
More Troops Sent
Aberdeen Section
To Maintain Order
(Bv The Associated Press)
ABERDEEN, July 8, —The second
battalion of the 161st Infantry of
the Washington State National
Guard, arrived here Sunday for
strike duty at the lumber mills.
The troops were sent by Governor
Clarence D. Martin at the requests
of Mayors of Hoquiam, Aberdeen
and Grays Harbor, and the county
sheriff who said that the strike sit
uation was getting beyond control
of local officers and state patrolmen
who have been here for several days.
The second battalian is composed
of guardsmen from Yakima, Walla,
Prosser and Pullman. Governor
Martin said that Uio same policy
will be maintained as the sending of
guardsmen to Tacoma—namely, to
give protection to men desiring to
return to work in the mills, which
are now in the tenth week of the
strike.
Transfer To State
Of Unemployables
Not Actually Made
fBy The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 8—Acknow
ledging that little progress had been
made of actually transferring “un
ployables” from federal relief to
the care of state’s relief, officials
today said that about four million
such persons were still on the fed
eral rolls, and of this number about
one out of every 50 persons is de
pending in whole or in part.
Federal relief activities are rough
ly the same as last December, offi
cials said. Administrator Hopkins
now plans to supply most of the
food and clothes required by unem
ployables even after they have been
returned to the care of local gov
ernments.:
There is little prospect of •them
ceasing to be a federal burden, un
til after the work relief program
has reached its peak, around Nov
ember 1st, it was indicated.
Money Applied For
By Bureau Fisheries
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 8, —Appli
cations for works funds received by
the Bureau of Fisheries included
$55,996 for the improvement of sal
mon spawning grounds and the de
struction of predatory enemies of the
salmon in Bristol Bay, and $10,107
for the reconditioning of Alaska
patrol vessels and the Pribilof Is
lands’ tender.
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HUEY LONG OBTAINS
ADDITIONAL POWERS
HIS SPECIAL SESSION
(By The Associated Press')
BATON ROUGE, July 8, —Huey Long Saturday laugh
ed off ineffectual thrusts by the opposition, as he prepared
to skim the patronage cream from his political enemies,
to be made possible by legislation of his twenty-six bill pro
gram, designed to put a virtual end to local self-government
in the state. It was already well on its way toward final
passage Saturday.
Long radiated good cheer as he directed his obediant
majority in the special session of the legislature called to
tighten his grip ou state’s politics. Standing out among the
1 bills is one placing all non-elective state and municipal offi
cers under a state _ivil service commission which will be
controlled by Long’s administration. Still another bill, will
clinch the senator’s hiring and firing privileges for state
school teachers.
Powers Granted Long By Legislature
BATON ROUGE, La., July 8. — The legislature in a
whirlwind special session approved twenty-six measures,
giving Huey Long virtually every remaining power in the
state.
The new laws took care of the odds and ends not act
ed on in six other special sessions held since last summer,
and left the state with almost no government except that
dictated by Senator Long, and a few rights given by Long's
organization.
Included are some of the bills passed:
Control of elections, Command of the army, Authority over
all non-elective government employees, supervisory powers
over all state parishes, Local finances. Hiring and firing priv
ilege over school teachers, Power to spend state money for
any purpose. This session like the three previous ones was
held while martial law existed.
Wiley Post To Fly
To Siberia By Way
Cape Prince Wales
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, July 8, —Wiley
Post said he planned to cross only
forty miles of open water on his
flight to Siberia this month.
Post explained that the air pass
age to Siberia would take the cour
se of the Pacific coast across nar
row Bering Strait at Capo Prince
of Wales.
He said if trial flights, to be con
ducted this week, were successful,
he would head North within ten
days.
Post is to be accompanied by bis j
wife and Fay Gillis Wells. The an
nounced purpose of the flight1 is to
map a route for a commercial air
line from Alaska through Siberia.
They also expeot to hunt bear while |
in the North.
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Morgentliau Tells
How Much Money
New Taxes firing
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 8, — Esti
mates that the wealth distribution
taxes could be levied so as to raise
from one hundred and eighteen mil
lion to nine hundred and on«?million
dollars annually, were submitted to
congress by Secretary of the Treas
ury Morgenthau, who told the
house ways and means committee
that the time would come to move
in the direction of providing suffi
cient income to “both meet current
expenses and make a substantial re
duction in the debt”.
“The treasury is concerned with
an adequate national revenue”, he
said, “and there are times of emer
gency when the treasury must fin
ance expenditures in excess of in
come by borrowing, which increases
the public debt.”
Republicans immediately snapped
up the debt reduction idea. Repre
sentative Jenkins, among others, ob- ,
jected to ithe proposed taxes as hav
ing no substantial effect on the debt, j
Douglas Fairbanks
To Do Business At
Hollywood so Fast
y C
(By The Associated Press)
VANCOUVER, B. C„ July 8 —As
Douglas Fairbanks flew south Sun
day night for conferences with bus
iness associates in Hollywood, Lady
Sylvia Ashley, a member of his
South Seas cruise, speeded East by
rail tn Quebec where she will board
a steamer for England.
Fairbanks flew here Saturday
from Hollywood for a week-end fish
ing trip which however, was pre
vented by rains.
Fairbanks sa'id he would go to
New York in a few days, after com
pleting business in Hollywood. He
■stated bis plans, beyond th. .. ere
indefinite.
Pirates Rob The
Patrons ( 9*. imhling
Barge Off ("oast
(By The Associated Press)
LONG BEACH Calif. July 8,
Five pirates boarded the luxurious
gambling barge "Monte Carlo” last
night and chained the crew—escap
ing with what Ed Turner, owner
of the boat, estimated to be thirty
two thousand dollars in cash and
jewelery.
The barge was at anchorage eight
miles off shore. The loot consisted
of twenty-two thousand in cash and
ten thousand dollars in jewelery.
New II. S. Army
Bomber Is Nearing
Readiness Boeing
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, July 8, — Believed to
be the world’s most formidable aer
ial weapon, a mystery bombing plane
built for the United States Army,
is nearing completion here, behind
locked doors, in the Boeing Assem
bly hangar.
The giant bomber is expected to
be flown about July 10th, for the
first time and then ferried to Day
ton, Ohio, about the middle of Aug
ust, for further tests.
Strict secrecy has surrounded the
construction of the plane, which is
reported to have a wing spread of
a hundred and five feet, powered
with four, seven hundred horsepow
er motors. It is to be equipped
with machine gun emplacements,
and a huge bomb compartment. It
was said to pleasure 70 feet ill
length.
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UNITED STATES IS TO
TAKE NO ACTION VIA
F4MOUS PEACE PACT
(Bv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 8, — The United States, in eff
ect, rejected tonight the plea of Ethiopia that this country
invoke the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, in an effort to settle
the Italo-Ethiopian dispute.
Following a conference between President Roosevelt
and Secretary Cordell Hull, the State Department sent a
quick reply to Haile Selishie, Emperor of Ethiopia, through
the American Charge D’Affaires at Addis Ababa.
The note made clear that this country would take no
immediate part in any Afro-European tangle. It further
states that the United States was gratified that the League
ir. Notions has given its attention to tue^euntroversy, and
added that the U. S. was loath to believe that either Eth
iopia or Italy would seek to settle a dispute by other than
pacific means. It made no mention however of any possible
action by this nation.
Barrow Residents
Anxiously Waiting
Arrival Sehooner
(By The Associated Press')
POINT BARROW, July 8, —Re
sidents here are anxiously awaiting
the arrival of the Schooner C. S.
Holmes and other ships, as the food
supplies are running low.
White residents are not suffering
to any extent, although they are get
ting tired of too much fish in their
diet. Some of the natives are re
ported to have exhausted their sup
plies but are living off of game and
fish.
Ice conditions at the present time
are favorable. The Holmes is ex
pected to arrive at Barrow in about
a week.
Schmelling Gains
Decision In Bout
Uzcudun Of Spain
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, July 8—Max Schmell
ing, former world’s heavyweight
champion gained a twelve round
decision over Paulino Uzcudun of
Spain, Sunday, but disappointed
65,000 of his countrymen who ex
pected him to win more decisively
than was the case.
Schmelling who weighed 192 and
a half found a tough, game, adver
sary who took everything he had
to offer in the way of long distance
punches and while wading in to
register short powerful body blows.
Udcudun weighed 203 pounds. Max
claimed he was fouled in the 6th
inning, which he said, sapped his
strength, so that he was unable to
give is usual power to his punches, j
Italy Stepping Up
Troop Actions To
African Frontiers
(By The Associated Press)
ROME, July 8, —Italy stepped up
its concentration of troops action in
Africa over the week-end.
Some observers predicted that
warfare between Ethiopia and Italy
would result before the rainy season
ends in September.
The Blackshirts division increased
its strength from 12,000 to 15,000
men—four divisions complete, with
another ready soon. More than three
thousand soldiers and officers are
enroute to Africa. Three ships sail
ed during the week-end, and other
transports are ready at the docks
for more.
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Canadian Wheat
Board Bill Is Now
Established Law
(By The Associated Press)
OTTAWA, July 8, —The Canadian
wheat board bill became law to
night, having been passed by both
houses of parliament and approved
by Governor General Lord Bess
borough.
The measure in its final form diff
ered little from the compromise bill
drafted in committee and gives the
government board power to fix pric
es and to dispose of all wheat both
the old and the new field. The pro
posal advanced by the liberals to
limit the operation of the law to this
year was not, however, included in
the final statut.e Monopolistic feat
ures of the legislation as first pro
posed were eliminated and the grain
exchange will continue to function.