Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1936, Page 13

BATH DEFENS FUND A ASKED $98,263,500 Increase Sought From Parliament by Three Services. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 9—Three British defense services asked Parliament to- day to increase their budgets $98,- 263,500. Supplementary estimates filed in the House of Commons asked these amounts over funds already approved for national defense: Alr services, $58,500,000. Army, $33,000,000. Navy, $5,295,000. In addition an increase of $1.468,- 800 in the funds for munition factories ‘was requested. (Although the supplementary esti- mates were filed only today, they in reality merely bring the defense| budget fo the figure estimated by | Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain last April. At that time | he said at least £20,000.000 ($100.000,- 000) additional would be required for defense purposes.) Baldwin Wins Job Debate. Commons began consideration of the estimates after a fresh victory for | the Baldwin government last night in debate on unemployment. The conservative majority defeated, 359 to 139, a motion of domestic policy Wwhich in effect was a vote of confi- dence. The Labor resolution was de- signed to call attention to what was described as governmental reluctance to deal with the “grave and earnest problem of hunger and want in the | midst of plenty.” The new requests provide for the Navy’s 1936 program to be increased by two cruisers, one flotilla leader, eight | destroyers, one aircraft carrier and four submarines. The new craft are an addition to & program already calling for five cruis- ers, nine smaller vessels, one aircraft carrier and four submarines, besides two capital ships to be laid down early in 1937, The supplementary naval estimate issued last April allowed $1,015,000 for each of the new battleships, to be spent during the current financial year. The | new estimate, however, revised the | expenditure, allowing $2,016,800 for each, In an accompanying statement, Sir Bamuel Hoare, first lord of the admi- ralty, said each of the new ships would | be about 5,000 tons. New Ships to Cost $55,075,000 The total cost of the additions to the sea fighting forces was estimated at $55,075,000, of which only $750,000 will be expended during the current financial year. Since a previous supplementary esti- mate issued for the navy appropriated 851,500,000 additional, the fighting force demands were increased $149,- 763,500 since the introduction of the budget. The new askings would raise the total defense budget from $865,005,000 to $963,268,500. The army supplementary requests cover $28,070,000 for remedying de- ficiencies in the military defense serv- ice. Special measures in connection with the Italo-Ethiopian War were -estimated to have cost $6,260,000, but is BADRASH | This is typical of the savings in other branches of the serv- ice enabled the entire army estimate | to be limited to $33,000,000. THE EVENING STAR, Runaway’s “Kidnap” Story Fools Police and Reporters Nine-year-old Robert Lawson, who aroused Montgomery County police yesterday with a tion,” is shown here talking over the hoazr with Policeman Charles T, Barnes. By a Staff Correspondent ot Tne Star. ILVER SPRING, Md., July 9.— Hardened police and newspaper- men fall “hook, line and sinker” for the stirring tale of abduction spun yesterday from the fertile mind of a 9-year-old boy, but it proved to be a hoax. Officers launched a probe for some clue that might lead to the arrest of the child’s captor, reporters thumped out stories on the case and cameramen snapped pictures of the boy in all sorts | of poses. Then—and not until then—was it discovered the youngster was a charge of the District of Columbia Public Wel- fare Board who had run away from a | foster home, and that the labors of police and press were in vain. With tears streaming down both | cheeks, the boy, Robert Lawson, finally | admitted he had become dissatisfied and wanted to see his mother, Mrs. | Gabriel Lawson, who lives in the 1600 | block of Tenth street, Washington. Picked Up by Motorist. | A mortorist, Mrs. Phil Darling of | Silver Spring found Robert wandering | along the Seventh street pike near Glenmont shortly before 1 o'clock yes- ' | terday afternoon and brought him to the local police station after he had | startled her with his story. 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A short time later officers Jcarned Robert had run away from a boarding home near Wheaton just & short time before he was found by Mrs. Darling, The boy’s friendly manner and keen mind captivated officers on duty at the station and they entertained him with various forms of amusements, and even allowed him to write on the station typewriter, until time came to return to the Wheaton home, where he lives. * A—13 and treated the youngster to a round | of ice cream before his foster mother |tne magistrate. called for him. Organ Refuses to Stop. A policeman heard a barrel organ in busy Liverpool road, Islington, Eng- ! land, and asked Albert Darby, who was | in charge of it, to move on. But the | organ kept on playing and did not ||| move. Albert was again told to move | on, but, said the policeman, he became | ‘The press, too, proved quick to for- | abusive. 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