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PRESIDENT LIMITS - WORK-AID FUNDS 48 Per Cent Will:Be) Given on State and City P. W. A. Projects. By the Assoclated Press. Faced with the unharmonious ne- cessities of speed and the selection of low-cost projects, President Roosevelt is reported authoritatively to have limited work-relief contributions on State and municipal P. W. A. pro- Jects to a 45 per cent donation. The remaining 35 per cent; it was asserted in an informed gquarter, must come from private financing—or, pos- sibly, from the P. W. A. revolving fund, which can be used for loans only. The President’s decision, which, with other policies, means that prob- ably $2,000,000,000 of the works pro- gram will be carried out by Harry L. | Hopkins' Works Progress Administra- tion, coincided with the second birth- day of the Public Works Administra- tion. Checked Downward Trend. Secretary Ickes, claiming the old | P. W. A. program had been ‘“respon sible in no small measure” for im- proved business conditions, said P. W. A. had checked the downward trend | of construction activities in 1934. Of the initial $3,300,000,000 appropria- tion $2,525,000,000 has been spent and the remainder is obligated, he added. “Economists, viewing the results of the P. W. A. program,” he said in a birthday statement, “report that busi- ness has felt this stimulus. The in-| dustrial pulse has quickened and op- | portunity for private employment has | widened.” Meanwhile, Hopkins' assistants in- sisted that although the works progress program is to be organized on lines similar to the old Civil Works Administration, larger funds for ma- terials will make possible more useful projects. ~They said wages would average about the same as under C. W. A, where average cost was $850, includ- ing materials, on the basis of a year's employment. Thus far no P. W, A. projects, including $249,000,000 for the housing division and $1,620,000 in | mon-Federal allotments, have been | approved by the President, although they were recommended by the Allot. tnents Committee a month ago. Re. ductions in both types were considered probable. Projects Are Questioned. Mr. Roosevelt was reported to be | awaiting evidence that they could be completed within a year, and to be questioning as well the desirability | 6f some of the $1.280.000,000 of proj- | ects he has already approved. They average $2,000 per job, well over the | $1,140 average set for payments to labor and for materials for each man g;en work on a project. Projects ich have high material costs thus Pave been threatened. « Further modifications in the pro- am, it was reported in one in- ed quarter, likely will follow Hop- kins' conference with State works progress administrators tomorrow. HOOVER PROPOSES ~ NEW TRUCK ROUTE! Visualizes North-and-South High- | way Through Western National Parks. By the Assoclated Press. OGDEN, Utah, June 15—Former | President Herbert Hoover, still an en- | gineer, suggested an engineering proj- | ect which would revolutionize motor | travel to Western national perks, as he paused in Ogden today with his son Allan, en route from New York City to his home in California. He visualized a broad North-and- Bouth truck highway, from Glacier ¥ational Park, near the Canadian bor- der in Montana, through Yellowstone Park, into Utah and through Bryce and Zion National Parks and extend- ing to Grand Canyon of the Colorado in Arizona 3 “It would be a sort of national park belt line and one of the greatest roads | in the West,” he said. FLAMES INJURE 100 AT WEDDING PARTY an Fatally Burned While Car- rying Children From Five- Story Building. v the Associated Press. 3 NEW YORK, June 15—Trapped in 8 flaming building, one man was Burned fatally tonight, and at least 300 other members of a gay wedding flarty were burned or injured, many seriously. 4 Firemen were unable to say whether anybody failed to get out of the build- ing, a five-story structure known as the Mansion on the Lower East Side. Among those taken to hospitals in & serious condition were the bride-to- be. Pearl Sokolower, 21, and her Wrother David. The bridegroom, Louis &hein, 26, was slightly burned. 2 Screams of the terrified guests first drew attention of radio patrolmen and gdumm to the vietims' desperate ight. It was estimated 250 persons Were in the building. = Police said the dead man was iden- led as Paul Stricker, 23, of Brook- He lost his life after he had fhade several trips in and out of the Burning building carrying children to Glety. « Many members of the party became ic stricken and hung out the win- ws. Others jumped or fell to the iNFANTILE PARALYSIS © 'SETS MARK IN STATE #34 North Carolina Cases in 1935 Exceed Any Year to Date. Hy the Associated Press. % RALEIGH, N. C, June 15.—Center- ing in the Eastern part of the State Hut slowly showing up in an increas- ‘ing number of Piedmont and Western unties, infantile paralysis is occur- ?I in North Carolina with greater equency this year than has ever Ipfore been recorded. » Nine new cases were listed today P give & total of 134 in exactly five and one-half months and exceed by dhe case the previous high total for any calendar year since the disease Hbcame reportable in 1917. «Eighty-five per. cent of the cases riported through Thursday occurred 18 children under 10 years of age, heaith department statistics showed. i THE SUNDAY Over 20,000 firefiies, caught by end of Japan, as they arrived by plane in Tokio. in the palace grounds so that the infant crown prince may enjoy them during the Summer season. FOULOIS PERJURER, ROGERS CHARGES |House Member Says Dern Should Have Removed Air Chief. By the Associated Press. Charges that Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, Army Air Corps chief, was “a liar and perjurer under oath” nd should have been relieved of his command, were made in the House yes- terday by Representative Rogers, Dem- ocrat, of New Hampshire. Secretary Dern, Rogers shouted. confirmed similar charges raised by a military subcommittee, yet “he imply administers a reprimand.” Rogers was chairman of that sub- committee, which a year ago yester- day recommended that Foulois be re- lieved of his position. After a four- months’ inquiry, the subcommittee accused the general of violations and evasions of law and Army regulations and ciency.” After a separate department inquiry {into the case, Dern Friday absolved Foulols of breaking the law in con- nection with aircraft purchases, but rebuked him for giving the subcom- mittee “exaggerated. unfair and mis- leading statements.” “Slap on Wrist.” Waving a departmental statement to the press, Rogers shouted to the House: “He (Dern) says to the prese: ‘It's just a little unethical’ and slaps him on the wrists and administers a rep- rimand to him. “He kicks men out of the service— Col. Williams, not a major general but & colonel—whom we found guilty of seeking a loan of a few hundred dollars, and while he confirms our charges he simply administers a rep- rimand.” “The gentleman is not inferring that the committee found evidence that Gen. Foulois is dishonest?” ques- tioned Representative Maas, Repub- lican, of Minnesota. “Yes, sir, absolutely; that he is a liar and a perjurer, under oath, before our committee time and time again,” Rogers roared back. Mitchell Case. His mention of Col. Alexander Wil- | liams referred to a recent court- martial which ordered Willlams’ dis- missal from the Army on charges of soliciting and receiving a loan from 8 tire tube salesman seeking War Department - business. Later, off the floor, Rogers said he was determined to take the Foulois case once more before the full Mili- tary Committee next week to see what further action, if any, might be taken against the general. Foulois is scheduled to end his fout years' duty as Air Corps chief in December. Quoting from a letter in which Dern advised the Military Committee of the reprimand, Rogers told the House “this man summarizes just what he said about Gen. Foulois.” Then he added: “We did not ask that he be kicked out of the service. We did not ask for him to be court-martialed. “We simply asked that he be re- moved as chief of the Army Air Corps. Gen. Foulois has had a splen- did record, a record as a soldier of distinction. Every man on that com- mittee was his friend, until he came before us and lied and perjured him- self time and time again.” “Here is a man, chief of the Air Corps, testifying under oath—'why,’ he said, ‘T have broken them (Army regulations) hundreds of times and I will break them again.' A fine ex- ample to set for the youth of this country who desire to enter the Army of the United States!” 6,500,000 Ride Subway. MOSCOW, June 15 (#).—Moscow's new subway carried 6!, million pas- sengers during its first month's operation, completed today. The engineers in charge said there had been mno accidents and the Muscovites had become accustomed to the new means of tion. About 150,000 use it daily. FIGHT THREATENS |Senate Committee 10 to. 4 “gross misconduct and ineff- | | chief of the bureau. children in Kyushu, in the southern They will be set free —Wide World Photo. SEATING OF HOLT for West Virginian Assum- ing Duties at 30. | By the Associated Press. | The Senate Elections Committee | yesterday upheld the right of Senator- elect Rush D. Holt (Democrat of West Virginia) to take his seat when he reaches the age of 30. The vote. 10 to 4. indicated a battle on the Senate floor when he presents himself for the oath of office. Members opposed to Holt's seating | held he had not attained the consti- tutional age requirement for Senate membership when his term began and that this disqualified him. They indicated they would submit a minor- | ity report recommending the seat be | declared vacant. Wednesday Birthday, Holt plans to offer himself to be orn in Wednesday, his 30th birthday ! anniversary. The committee report | hoiding him qualified at that time | will be submitted then, Senator George (Democrat of Georgia), chair- man, said. “The interpretation of the vote,” George said, “is that the 10 Senators recorded in favor of seating Mr. Holt | are of the opinion that he may be | seated if he is 30 at the time he elects to present himself, and that his age at the date of his slection or at the beginning of his term is not control- ling.” Challenged by Hatfield. Holt's right to take his seat has been | challenged by former Senator Hatfield (Republican of West Virginia). His case is the first in the Senate’s history in which the seating of a person | | elected to that body has been chal- | lenged on grounds of insufficient age. Those voting against Holt's seati were Hastings (Delaware), (California) and Austin (Vermont), Republicans, and Connally (Democrat of Texas). Connally reserved the right to alter his opinion on further consideration. WEATHER MAN DENIES CUTTING CRASH BLAME| No Evidence of Appreciable In- accuracy in Forecasts, Bureau Chief S8ays in Roper Reply. By the Associated Press. Denial of liability of the United States Weather Bureau in the crash of a T. W. A. air liner near Atlanta, Mo, May 6, was made in a formal statement yesterday by W. R. Gregg, Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico and four others were killed in the crash. Friday Secretary of Commerce Roper, in a formal report, said “contributory causes undoubtedly were inaccurate weather forecasts” from both the Weather Bureau and company meteorologists. T. W. A. of- ficials blamed the crash on inac- curzte weather forecasts. Gregg said, “bureau reports have been carefully checked, and there is no evidence of any appreciable inac- curacy in them.” NOVA’S HEAT BEATS SUN Russian Astronomer Says New Star Is Hottest Body. MOSCOW, June 15 (#).—The hot- test body in the universe is the new star Nova Herculls, discovered last December by a British amateur as- tronomer, Prof. Boris Voronsoy Veliaminov of the Moscow Astronom- ical Observatory asserted today. He said months of study had con- vinced him the temperature of the new star was six times that of our sun. Prof, Velanfinov predicted that after another month the new star would begin to recede from view, Schumdnn-Heink, on Birthday, Sings at By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif,, June 15.—Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, observed her 74th birthday anniversary today | by attending the wedding of her granddaughter and singing one of her best-loved songs, “Calm As the Night.” As her last note died away in the hushed church, Mme, Schu- mann-Heink burst into tears. Her granddaughter and namesake, Miss Ernestine Schumann-Heink, was married to Ensign Henry Peterson Rumble, United States Navy, at noon in ths flower-banked Mission Congregational Church. Namesake’s Wedding Rev. Willis L. Goldsmith performed the ceremony. The bride wore a white satin gown with a full-length train and carried a bouquet of gardenias and lilies of the valley. Her sister, Miss Zelde Schumann-Heink, was maid of honor. ‘The bride was given away by her stepfather, H. Irving Vernier of this city. Ensign Arnold F. Schade, United States Navy, was best man, and six other young officers in white dress unjform acted s ushers and formed an arch of crossed swords for the Hills | bridal party to pass under when they ehurch, 3y ) REDUCED UTILITY PROGRAM SOUGHT Congressional Ghiefs to Ask Roosevelt to Take Less Than Abolition. By the Associated Press. New information raising fresh doubt of their sbility to jem W :w fl abolishing ry” utitity companies yesterda; .~ l::flnunp;ym 4 chiefs to ask President Roosevelt if he would be satisfled with something less than abolition. As they reached that determination, both House and Senate were forego- ing their usual Saf y recess to speed other “must” measures on the President’s program. The Senate worked its way through a batch of minor amendments to the social se- curity bill, the House was rushing through miscellaneous measures to make room for the nuisance tax exten- sion and A. A. A. amendment meas- ures tomorrow. Sentiment Closely Divided. ‘The new information was a closely guarded survey of sentiment in the House on abolition of utility holding companies. It was learned authorita- tively, however, that the poll showed sentiment "so closely divided as to presage & stiff battle when the issue is brought to the floor. Since the Senate by only a one- vote margin—45 to 44—defeated an amendment to regulate instead of abolish holding companies, there were clear indications that the President himself would be asked what he pre- ferred. Some on Capitol Hill read an inti- mation of what the President would reply in remarks made yesterday by Chairman Rayburn of the House In- terstate Commerce Committee after a talk with the President, He pre- dicted some sort of bill regulating holding companies would be enacted this session. Some folks on Capitol Hill termed | it significant that Rayburn said “regulation” and not “abolition.” After that conference Rayburn went back to another subcommittee session, asserting the utilities bill would be put before his full commit- tee tomorrow and be ready for House action next week. | Forecasts were that whatever the committee did there would be a clear- | cut House vote on the question of | abolition vs. regulation. T. V. A. Plans Discussed. Coincidentally, plans were discussed to put through a bill broadening the powers of the Tennessee Valley Au- thority. That also has passed the Senate, but was tabled by the House Military Affairs Committee and all | efforts to get it off the table have tailed. There were two suggestions: First, that the Senate add the T. V. A. to | some other major bill and send it to the House again; second, that Chair- man McSwain, Democrat, of South Carolina, introduce a new bill and see what he could accomplish by agreeing to let the controller general have audit control over expenditures by the T. V. A. The way, meanwhile, was being smoothed for other “must” bills. A survey of the House showed the Wag- ner labor disputes bill, aiready passed by the Senate, would get & substantial majority. — e FLOOD DEATHS REACH 13 IN TEXAS STORM Winds Add to Havoc in Senmtral and Southwestern Parts of State. By the Associated Press. AUSTIN, Tex., June 15.—Roaring winds joined flood waters tonight in a devastating attack on Central and Southwest Texas, which left at least 13 persons dead and scores missing. Losses to crops and property forged into the millions of dollars. As cloudbursts - fed the floods, a twisting wind dipped into a small community near Kaufman, splintered a farmhouse and killed Elmer Burns, 48. Three other occupants reached a storm cellar before the wind struck. Houses and bridges were washed away in the racing streams, Five persons were dead at Del Rio. A.J. Mitchell, farmer near Italy, was drowned with his wife and their two small children. Two were drowned at Kenedy and one at Victoria. Laredo reported train service para- Iyzed. Three special trains of Rotarians from the United States, bound for the international convention at Mexico, D. F., were held at Laredo, while two more were held at Nuevo Laredo, across the Rio Grande. Each train carried from 140 to 150 delegates. Among those marooned at Laredo was Ambassador Josephus Daniels, re- turning from Washington. He ar- rived here on & regular train. CONSERVATION LAUDED BLI IN COLLEGE TROUBLE Rensselaer Polytechnic Acting President Addresses Alumni as Hicks Leaves. By the Associated Press. TROY, N. Y., June 15.—As Gran- ville Hicks, ousted English teacher, Jeft the campus today with a warning that Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has not heard the last of his case, Acting President Edwin 8. Jarrett said: “If we are condemned as the last refuge of conservatism let us glory in it.” Jarrett was addressing alumni about the same time that Hicks, an assistant professor with liberal po- litical views, took his departure. “In my opinion,” Jm:::l dechre& “as the rs pass time vindica us junt’:: surely as the past has a) of us.” The alumni, at their annual meet- ing prior to the 1935 commencement, adopted a resolution upholding the acting president’s action. Hicks' contract was terminated sev- eral weeks ago because of what Jar- rett said was & need for retrenchment, FARM SALES DOUBLE Federal Land Banks Report 100% Increase Over ’34 Quarter. An increase of 100. per cent in farm TROPS MOBILIZED “Family Picture,” an oil painting by Max Beckman, modern German artist, was ome of the pictures given by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, jr., to the Museum of Modern Art. portion of her extensive personal collection. ENGLAND ENTERS NEW ARMS RACE Surprise Order Calls for 8 Battalions for Anti- Aircraft Defense. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 15.—Great Britain today stood with all other leading European nations in approving the building up of national defenses as | an integral part of any European | peace system. The new national government's de- | clared policy of “no pacts without parity” was emphasized by ihe war office’s surprise order for the immedi- | ate creation of eight battalions for anti-aircraft defense. | Britain’s new stand on armaments | leaves only the smaller nations at Geneva still maintaining the thesis that disarmament must go with secur- ity. They have insistgntly reproached the larger powers for abandoning treaty pledges. | No voice has been raised in Ger- | many, Italy or Russia against military i expansion measures, while the recent financial crisis in France failed to| bring any effective criticlsm of the policy of spending about one-fourth of the budget on national defense. Similarly, England'’s Socialists found their opposition to the recent trebling | of an air defense force carried no weight. Anglo-German naval talks, which it is hoped will 1 at least to a European naval agreement, enter their final phase Monday, with agreement already reached on the principle of granting Germany a fleet 35 per cent of Britain's under-age tonnage. | This would make Germany the ! world’s fifth naval power, closely press- | ing Prance for fourth place. LAST INSULL CASES CLOSED BY COURT| Federal Judge Says Order “Clears Ledger” for Utility Ex- Magnates. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 15.—A formal “finis” was written at the end of the long Insull court record today. United States District Attorney Igoe appeared before Federal Judge John C. Knox and moved to quash the last of the cases involving the former utility barons—the bankruptey law violation case against Martin Insull. Entering the order, the jurist remarked: “Well, the ledger.” Judge Knox departed for his New York home shortly afterward. One of his final acts was the order- ing of directed verdicts of acquittal | yesterday in the trial of Samuel In- sull, Samue} Insull, jr, and Harold L, S8tuart, Iinvestment banker, on charges of transferring assets of Cor- poration Securities Co. in anticipa- tion of bankruptey. —_— COLOMBIAN ENVOY TO SEE BOND GROUP Committee Will Discuss Debt Problem With Minister to U. 8. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 15 (#).—The executive committee of the Colombian Bondholders Committee announced today it will soon discuss the ex- ternal debt problem of Colombia with the Colombian Minister to the United States. It was disclosed that representa- tive of the committee has discussed the situation with the president of the republic. Talks with the Colombian Minister, who has been designated by his gov- ernment as official representative, will cover the national and nationally guarantéed bonds, including the bonds of the Agricultural Mortgage Bank. Any agreement that may be reached by the commitiee with the Minister will be submitted to bond- holders for approval. Robbers Get $25,000 in Gems. CHICAGO, June 15 (#).—Two robbers slugged William Lewy, New York diamond merchant, in the lobby of the Pure Oil Building here today and escaped with $25,000 worth of unset diamonds, he reported to police. Lewy was left unconscious on the lobby floor as the robbers ran to & waiting automobile and fled. Two Disappear From Boat. SEATTLE, June 15 (#).—Leland I guess that clears last night. | Gulf. washed up ‘on today, the EDWIN P. MORROW. EDWIN P. MORROW, EX-GOVERNOR, DIES Was Nationally Prominent inG. 0. P. Circles—Daugh- ter Lives Here. By the Associated Press. PRANKFORT, Ky. June 15—Ed- win P. Morrow, former Governor of Kentucky and nationally prominent | in Republican politics, died unex- pectedly of a heart attack here today. He was 58 years old. “Howdy Ed" to Kentuckians, who delighted in his silvery-tongued ora- | tory, he was one of the bluegrass State’s most fig- ures. Morrow, who was Governor from 1919 to 1923, was siricken at the home of & cousin, Mrs. John G. South, after returning this afternoon from 8 mass meeting of Franklin County Republicans. Complaining of a tired feeling, he colorful political had lain down and death came to | him as he slept. Morrow and his wife, Mrs. Catherine W. Morrow, whose home was at Somerset, Ky., had been residing at the South home since last Winter and were preparing to move to Lexington, where he planned to set up a law office. After leaving the governorship, Morrow became a member of the Fed- eral Railway Labor Board and later of the Railroad Mediation Board. In addition to his wife, he is sur- vived by a son, Charles Robert Mor- row of Chicago; & daughter, Mrs. Joseph Horgan of Washington, D. C. s twin brother, Col. Charles H. Mor- row of the United States Army, Fort Niagara, N. Y.; three‘other brothers, Tom, Sam and Boyd Morrow of Som- erset, and a sister, Mrs. Cale Port- wood of Texas. FIRST THREADS DRAWN FOR OAKLAND BAY SPAN Wheel Slips as Governer Leaves Platform, But Cranes Quickly Replace It. SAN FRANCISCO, June 15 (#).— Two threads of cold-drawn steel, each about the thickness of a lead pencil, were stretched from a great spinning wheel here today to form the first permanent suspension link of the $75,000,000 San Prancisco-Oakland threads will be drawn together to make the huge cables from which two-mile- long suspension spans will be swung between San Francisco and Yerba Buena Island. Gov. Frank P. Merriam and an official party had just left the anchor- age platform when a wheel carrying the first wire thread slipped dangled in midair. Cranes quickly set the wheel back into position. and | engage in such transactions as it had 8he gave the museum a large —A. P. Photo. SUEZ HELD KEY 10 AFRICAN PEACE Observers Believe Problem to Ethiopia Is to Be Left to Britain. By Radio to The Star. GENEVA, June 15—The effort of | the League of Nations to keep the peace between Italy and Ethiopia will | be won or lost, not at Lake Geneva, | but in the Suez Canal. observers here | believe. The resolutions for peace, | passed by the League Council on May 25, were a formula determining nothing in themselves, it is felt, and the problem of restraining Italian im- | perialism from war is to be left to | Great Britain. While Benito Mussolini continues to dispatch troops, attacks Great Brit- ain in & press campaign, insists that the League keep its hands off and ridicules the appeal of Prime Minis- | ter Stanley Baldwin to respect world | opinion, ordinary diplomatic pressure | will be inadequate. British earnest- | ness as a champion of the league sys- tem consequently will be demon- strated. it is argued. if and when the British close the canal by which Mus- solini gets troops and supplies to the “war” gone. Not Unfriendly Aet. Under the league system this step is not an unfriendly act by Great Britain. Article XX of the covenant of the league says that league mem- bers agree that i{ any member “shall, before coming a member of the league, have undertaken any obligation incon- sistent with the terms of this cov- enant. it shall be the duty of such { member to take immediate steps to procure its release from such obliga- tions.™ { This would enable the council, in | | the event of hostilities, to propose | that Great Britain suspend the agree- ment of 1886, whereby the canal is kept open to all countries not at war. Claim No Alternative. There is no alternative to this de- | cision, according to League opinion. | unless Great Britain and the League | resign themselves, as Mussolini sug- gests, to the idea that where Africa is concerned rules of international con- Guct are off. But to “resign themselves” is no defense of Ethiopia, and the British foreign office feels that “a strong League” can save the British from en- tering an alliance system by enabling her to cast her weight at the council table in the eleventh- hour. This community of interests of national government politicians and permanent officials at the foreign office is par- alleled further by the fact that in the Ethiopian question British inter- ests lie along the path of “morality,” since Lake Tsana, which serves as a Teservoir for the Blue Nile, gives Great Britain a vital interest in the country. (Copyright. 1935.) MORE TROOPS DISPATCHED. Two Italian Ships Depart for East Afriea. NAPLES, June 15 (#).—The steam- ers Monte Bianco and the Mouni stiled for East Africa today with troops and supplies. The steamers Quirinale and Argentina sailed for Cagliari, Sardinia, to embark troops, communications experts and special- ized workmen. Bl s R T. V. A. TO FIGHT POWER RULING IN U. S. COURT| By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, June 15.—The case in which the Tennessee Valley Authority seeks to overthrow a decree volding its contract to take control of certain Alabama Power Co. transmission lines will be placed before the Pifth United States Circuit Court of Appeals Mon- day. The case has attracted national at- tention because of a recent ruling by Judge Willlam I Grubb of Atlanta that the T. V. A. had no right to INTROLLEY STRIKE Governor Acts After Fatal Omaha Riot-—Nearly 100 Others Hurt. By the Assoeisted Press. OMAHA, Nebr, June 15.—Martial law, invoked late today to quell violence growing out of the prolonged strike of street car employes, ap- parently had little effect on the surg- ing street crowds tonighi—except there Wwas no violence reported. Grim faced young soldiers, nervous and trying not to show it at their first, experience with martial law, were appearing on the streets in ever in- creasing numbers as the 1,800 men of the Nebraska National Guard mobil- ized and marched on the city, Street cars, operation of which had caused riots on three successive nights, with one man dead and almost a hundred wounded in various degree, were removed from the streets at 7:30 p.m., Central standard time, All Street Cars Halted. Acting Gov. Walter Jurgensen had ordered all street car movement halted and all liquor dispensaries closed, saying the strike sympathizers needed “no stimulation.” ‘The company removed the cars to- night, but said they expected to re- sume normal service tomorrow. Crowds surged on the streets, but were in a carnival mood, sharply con- trasting with the sullen crowds which clashed with police on previous nights. Officials Call for Aid. The State authorities intervened when officials of city and county re- quested aid to maintain peace follow- ing Priday night's climatic battle be- tween police and strike sympathizers in which one man was killed and more than 35 others were injured. Mayor Roy N. Towl of Omaha and Sheriff John Hopkins of Douglas County had telegraphed Jurgensen: “Situation in Omaha beyond con- trol of local authorities. Hundreds are arming and planning attack on car barns and business establish- ments. One killed and 90 injured last night. Police and, sheriff’s force wholly inadequate to cope with the situation, intervention of National Guards forthwith imperatively neces- sary to prevent serious loss of life and property. We hereby respectfully request such intervention in time to prevent ritoing tonight.” Their plea was relayed to Gov. | Cochran, who had attended the con- ference of Governors at Biloxi, Miss. He answered with telegraphsd in- structions to summon the military. Paul and Jurgensen announced they would not permit street cars to operate In* the troubled zone—the South Omaha area, iurgely populated by stockyards workers. There it was that the riots of the last three nights occurred, each grow- ing in violence. Military Court Set Up. Paul announced a military eourt would try rioters, warned women and children out of the riot sone, and sald tear gas would be discarded in favor of regular war gases to quell any trouble. One of the first tasks set for the military was closing up all Nquor supplies. Wednesday night trouble broke out in the South Omaha district when strike sympathisers sought to prevent operation of the cars. The outbreak was repeated Thursday night and then FPriday night, after additional police were sworn in, came the most serious engagement. In addition to the death of John Duster, 24, & milk driver, two other men—William Tietsort and Dewey McCoy—were in a critical condition from wounds. The rioters also burned six trolley cars. PEACE PROPOSALS DRAFTED. ‘TOLEDO, Ohio, June 15 (#).—Off- cials of the Electrical Workers’ Union at the Toledo Edison Co. framed a new set of proposals tonight as s basis for negotiations to end their strike, ‘Working against the threat of a general walkout in Toledo, Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor, iate today telephoned E. D. Bierets, international president of the Electrical Workers' Union, suggesting he fly here to take part in negotia- tions. A short while later Oliver S. Myers, business agent of the local union called a committee into session to discuss a set of conditions understood to have been outlined or suggested by Bieretz. Although it appeared a basis for settlement might be reached tonight. McGrady adjourned a general confer- ence of irterested parties, scheduling & later meeting to receive Myers' plan, which would be subject to ratification by the electrical union membership, proposed in ‘the contract with the power company. Army Planes to Stage “War” In Mock Defense of San Diego By the Associated Press. MARCH FIELD, RIVERSIDE, Calif., | plani June 15—The entire first wing of Uncle Sem's' new general headquar- ters air force will be concentrated here for - spectacular tactical test beginning Tuesday. = Pinal preparations were made today. New airway methods will be tried out in the three-day meneuvers. The “enemy” theoretically will have concentrated a ground force just be- low the Mexican border and estab- lished a powerful bombardment avia- tion base in lower California near the All avaflable tactical ships of the in command, was to test the ef- ficieney of two service squadrons, the 76th of Rockwell Pleld and 64th of March Fleld—whose job it would be to feed and lodge officers and men in time of war, and keep ships in con- dition, No flights are planned from % Henry M. Arnold. ned primarily morning divide, the “enemy” simulating attack on San Diego and the defend- ing group trying to drive them out. Al 60 planes will par- It would be incorrect to say that all highway accidents are caused by the reckless acts of motorists. Not in- frequently one finds & pedestrian or cyclist who “dares you to hit him,” or takes foolish chances on the erroneous theory that the responsibility is all with the motorist and that he is fully aware of this obligation to drive care- fully. Such folks can be just as stub- born, thoughtless, or careless as the motorist. It all depends on the per- son, of course. Safety on our high- ways is a co-operative effort in which a1l users of the road share. ‘The use of the highway is a priv- ilege conferred by cities and States on the theory that those who would enjoy it will show good sportsmanship and observe essential safety precautions. It may take two people to make a quarrel, but often just one can cause n accident. A high degrse of alert- ess and & spirit of fair play must be m:n: oll times by motorists and 4