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OAKLAND TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, JUNE '15. 1943 STAR NOW ARMY INSTRUCTOR YA Fa Fight for I ts Life i Con re Senate Vpfes Funds for CAA Zoot Suits Laid to Jive a subcommittee's recommendation WASHINGTON, June 15. A RIOTS FORECAST IF JAPS IN ARIZONA CAMPS RELEASED LOS ANGELES, June 15. OJ.PJ- that'NYA be given to, year the" called for about $55,000,000. NYA, one of the depression-born llllllilliill kmK 1 '-ll llllilill carry on a limited program during the fiscal year starting July 1.

Instead, the full committee ordered WASHINGTON, June 15. (P The Senate passed a $226,476,358 ap relief agencies, was set up in 1935 to conduct industrial training schools In different parts of the country for youths of 17 to 24. It bare majority of the House Appropriations Committee carried to the floor today its fight to kill off the National Youth Administrating. Although several, other New Deal agencies have felt the heat of a congressional economy drive, only one has actually perished thus far, the Civilian Conservation Corps. By the vote of 17 to 16, the com- the agency liquidated not later than next January 1 and gave it $3,000,000 from unexpended balances of pre LOS ANGELES, June 15.

(U.R) Zoot suits are inseparably linked with hep-cat rriusic and jitterbug slangwa Grand Jury investigating last week's bloody street rioting was told today. Twenty youths, mostly 15 Recent zoot suit rioting in Los Angeles would fceem tame in comparison to race riots that would follow propriation bill for the State, Commerce and Justice Departments by voice vote today after an at- vious appropriations to wind up its also operated a student work program to enable needy persons, 16 affairs. 55 MILLION ASKED if Japanese evacuees are released to 24, to -remain in school. tempt to authorize the attorney "rnrTtee" truck from a Federal se iu giant DianKet salary in- to 17 yearstand00percgnt zootsuit clad, formed the first dele its entire fund except a n6minal curity agency supply bill yesterday mately $60,000,000, and for the new creases to assistant district attorneys was abandoned. The first over the liquidation- allotment was led ty Dies subcommittee, investigating Japanese relocation centers today.

Lin Orme, president of the Salt River Valley Water Users As Representative Engel who said he would resist any attempt to restore funds during House Justice Department proposal came after the Senate added $33,940,358 to House allowances for the Civil Aeronautics Administration, for the training of civilian rjilots for the sociation, testified as a member of debate on the bill. However, he said he expected supporters of the an Arizona-- delegation appearing before the con ressional group that agency to make a determined fight to save it in the Senate. gation to be questioned by jury members as they opened their inquiry. The witnesses had been rounded up by police officers from the "Little Harlem" district along Central Avenue. "They are all music-crazy." said one Negro officer.

"There isn't one who doesn't own a phonograph and the latest (records of the most, popular bands." All witnesses today affected the stuff cuff trousers, although some had left home their knee-length coats and appeared In open-neck Japanese, through thsir agents, had attempted to buy or lease land along Army. Senator McCarran acting for the Appropriations Committee, submitted an amendment mnmiimns to lOS'AKSELES 7 io aiiow raises for the assistant district attorneys, but later withdrew CALLED USELESS AGENCY Representative Grant Ind.) joined in the IJYA fight by labeling the agency "an unnecessary one that has outlived its usefullness and has become another tool in the hands of the New Deal social experimenters." it when it was denounced by Sen the fertile Arizona River valleys. "If the 30,000 Japanese now quartered in camps in this State are turned loose," Orme said, "nearly all of them will stay, and I predict there will be race riots as a result." Orme pointed out that one Japa' nese center, the Rivers Camp, was located about 20 miles from Roosevelt Dam along. the Salt River. ator Johnson as "an shirts or sweaters.

outrage." IIOLD ALL LINES' "Most of them do not know" any Engel's campaign to abolish what he has called "useless'' Federal agencies has won complete success to date only in the case of the we have to hold the ant clothing not tailored in the zoot suit manner." explained another policeman. "They would hate to be I inflation line against everybody else, we ought to hold the line CCC- another relief agency for youths. seen in any other attire, even if against Johnson de ttiey owned it. clared. While the House recently ordered "Some, since the unfavorable A others -be sabotaged." he would release 2,000,000 acre feet of water and cause a four times as great as the recent Ruhr floods.

He cited numerous incidents of Japanese activity in Arizona which, The- Senate tackled the appro discontinuance of the National Resources Planning Board and the publicity concerning the zoot suits. priation bill after handing the Ad ministration a jolt in the McKellar Farm Security Administration, the have discarded them for dungarees, which are the only other trousers they own." bill battle, Senate has refused to go along and legislation carrying funds for those Overriding a vigorous protest by President R.oosevelt, the chamber No female zoot suiters were under two agencies is tied up in conference between the two branches. subpena for today's inquiry. A few he said, might have been attempted sabotage. Last month, he said, three men attempted to enter a steam Diesel electric plant and exchanged shots with guards before they were driven passed 42 rS 29 yesterday a measur women showed up, but they were Capt.

Clark Gable, flying iilm star, takes the waist gunner's post in a Flying Fortress at a post in England, where he is gunnery instructor. He has been making films for instructional purposes and has made at least one bomber raid over Germany. A.P. Wirephoto. by Senator McKellar Tenn) to mothers or sisters of the youths.

require confirmation of most Gov "There have been no zoot suit ernment workers drawing $4500 or away. A high tension wire was San Diego, Portland Sect tie, Vancouver, B. G. Please male your reservations earlyl Call Twin Oaks 1681 UNITED AIR LINES 1940 Broadway more a year. Administration hopes to head Jt struck with a rifle bullet.

Five Japanese were found fishing in Roose girls among the Negro population that we have been able to discover," said another officer. "We officers who have patrolled the district for Mexican Rightists Blamed in Zoot War MEXICO CITY, June 15. (JP) Senator Vidal Munoz charged yesterday, upon his return from the oir now are pinned on the possi velt Dam lake as July 31. bility, it could be pigeonholed In 1942. OPA HEADS DEFEND TEXTILE some House committee.

8 DEMOCRATS OPPOSED years do not know of any zoot suit styles for girls that could be so designated." Credir Men Elect United States, that elements of the Sinorquistas, the Mexican rightest Although Roose veft said its pas The witnesses all had expressed ST. LOUIS, June 15 P) Robert willingness to testify voluntarily. sage would "lay all of us open to the charge that we are playing politics CODE BEFORE CONGRESSMEN G. Trospe? of Greensboro. N.

Start of the investigation came as was elected president of the Na group, had a hand in the recent "zoot suit" trouble in Los Angeles. He said similar trouble was averted in Chicago after the Mexican consul there asked the expulsion of alleged Sinorquistas. the Navy lifted a stringent out-of-bounds order prohibitng sailors. tional Retail Credit bureaus today. Arthur Henning of Sacramento, with the war program," only eight Democrats voted against the bill.

Among its 34 Democratic supporters were Administration followers like WASHINGTON, June 15. (U.R) years in this industry and I think marines and coastguardsmen from spending their leaves In the area. was elected a director. Top Office of Price Administration I qualify as an expert. Except for Guffey of Pennsylvania, Grei fn'cials today defend textile regu a few minor faults OPA's work shirt regulation is a good order and laUont before a House sub-commit- Rhode Island and May bank of South IB-lima V1J lw, Carolina.

ee which already has asked for an equitable one. Transport Strike OPA's "complete reorganization. Asked by Rep. Charles A. Halleck I Senator McCarran Nev.) said jhe would call up next the measure Price" Administrator M.

Prentiss Ifid.) what he personally I carrying appropriations for the Brown was expected to continue Hits War Plants thought of "restrictions which put every manufacturer into the same I State, Justice and Commerce De OPAs case for regulations placed I partments and ask approval ofan groove, Fleming replied that "if over hosiery, work-clotnes ana heavy underwear makers and dis bringing Civil Aeronau an emergency measure and I be PITTSBURGH, June 15. VP) i tics Administration pilot trainees lieve industry should co-operate tributors. If he is unable to appear, Strikes of A.F.L. transportation workers in two western Pennsyl into active duty status in the Armv for the good of the cause. Bernard F.

Haley, who heads OPA's textile and leather division, will GL encourl 4321 Broadway, San Pablo, 16th The $33,940,358 proposed by the VBut how would you feel as a rep Appropriations Committee would resentative of industry if there was testify. vania industrial cities today obliged thousands of war workers- to thumb rides, double up with others owning automobiles, or fall back on shanks mare to get to their jobs. an attempt to make this sort of Maximum price regulation 339, provide for the training during the next fiscal year of 8648 student regulation permanent? Halleck in which bases ceilings for rayon hos- pilots, a number that McCarran es quired. ery on minimum standards devised nmaiea woum produce 7200 in The Johnstown ration board said by OPA was necessary, Haley said "If it were for all time," Fleming said, "I would fight it tooth and structor course graduates for the upplemental gasoline coupons yesterday, because "innovations Army nail." ave driven hosiery prices skyward would be issued to war workers to alleviate conditions as a strike of 300 bus and street car operators, affect- The general price freeze, in ef fect before issuance of the new or Worker Wins Hearing ng a population of 250.000 in the der May 15, had failed to control prices, Haley said, because manu Johnstown area, entered its third day. Machinists Face Trial by Union On Wage Freezing facturers added new features to Disregarding a recommendation their hosiery "for which there were ST of their International union officials.

historic prices and which per Flowered Waffle Pique Jumpers Sam Robert today had won a War Manpower Commission pledge of a hearing on his charges that his wages have been illegally frozen at mitted them to advance their rates members of the A.F.L. Amalgamated Association of Street Railway and Charges of "conduct unbecoming Names of individual firms who a union member against 14 machin Lush two-tone blue, pink, or yellow flowers splash the bodice resorted to this practice and who motor coach employees there said they gave a "decidedly no vote" ists who returned to work at the may have deteriorated quality of a level which deprives him of em ployment. Robert, 60, acting as his own at merchandise under the order were and skirt or these crisp white waffle, pique Dutch girl pockets with plenty of room! Sizes 12 to 18. (Joan Kenley white t. i-: no I lii.i-; equested of Haley by Rep.

Clar torney, filed suit against the WMC ence Brown Ohio). last night to a return-to-work proposal. An all-day conTWnce yesterday failed to settle a ssHt of 50 A.F.L. Amalgamated bus drivers at Mc-Keesport who protested a cut in last week. Today Federal Judge rayon ut'pe uiuuse, suicnmg trim, Previews testimony that practical Louis E.

Goodman postponed industrialists had been given no hearing when P. Blaisdell, area Redwood City plant of the National Motor Bearing Company, in compliance wfth War Labor Board orders, will be heard Friday night by a special committee San Francisco Local 68 of their union. In instructing the 40 machinists called out by the union in mid-May to return to their jobs, the Wl-B promised "every protection at its disposal" to those who complied. A spokesman for those who re WMC director, promised a quick voice in the formation of OPA textile regulations were discounted by work schedules necessitated- by the ODT curtailment of gasoline review of the case. Robert charges he was classified Peasant "Jumpers of crease-resistant cotton butcher linen in white or pastel with gay flowers embroidered on pockets and front! Big pockets, full, full skirt.

Sizes from 10 to 16.. 10.95 It's Kahn's for Sportswear, Second Floor Peter Fleming of Solent Solent. New York work shirt maker and the. agency's consultJkit for the in- in a $6.04 per day wage bracket and After ignoring a reduced mileage that as a result employers will not proposal for two weeks and con-. hire him as a shipyard time checker, ustry.

nuing their old runs the driven a trade at which fie says he is ex I have never written a book and walked out yesterday. perienced, because the union scale have never gone to college," Flem- turned said that they had not been given copies of the formal charges filed by union officials. i is $7.74 per day. ng asserted, "but I have spent 13 Sentence Passed Gas Ration Theft Willard W. Prentice, 29.

an Oak land butcher, was fined $500 or ven an alternate of 90 days in the ounty Jail when he appeared in San Francisco today before Federal Judge Michael J. Roche on charges illegally trading in gasoline ra tion coupons. Prentice, who lives at Z05R Web ster Street, pleaded guilty to pur chasing 4000 and coupons for 5 cents each and selling them for 10 cents each. Glade E. Mammah of 160 Lake Street, assistant superintendent of transportation at Richmond Shipyard No.

3, who is accused of stealing-the coupons and selling therri to Prentice, has pleaded not guilty and faces trial. Rubber Broker Dies NEW YORK, June 15. (P) Fred B. Peterson, 07, cude rubber broker and former director of imports with the War Trade Board in World War died last He was born in Rook ford, 111, 4, f. jmyl.

8 'tiTi MW 0 RT IB LE 1 1 I JVll 1 Now they're tailored, now they're elegant! Add jewel-like; -Izjfltl iSill W'VS cut steel buckles made in France, $2, or $3 a pair, or 'Sg fftiih liV VtSfA frn'''TO ll '1 elegant ribbon bows, 50c a pair, to your classic Tango Cta3Ly--Vf DEFENSE AID WILL RETURN TO POLICE JOB AT EL CEKRITO EL CERRITO, June 15. Ed Smith, 6 -f IltfA k-. 11 C4 Ww .1 puiiiLii: i uu ii iidvc uieiiy bnoebjio Cditn your DUDiit 5 eye! assistant co-orinator of Civilian De fence and a former member of the hfi i vH if Ir.i' I a Jt 1 -I i'X' lllV A 1 Foot-EJttering Tango Pumps in sljining black i'Jl ill fa I'' leather or velvety black suede. Closed or open tcfes; "high SvjPj. i 'fcs' 1 I or medium heels.

Sizes. 4 '2 to 10, width 4A to 6.95 a pr. iW' El Cerrito Police Department, will return to police duties for a two-month period beginning July 1. His special police service during the vacation period was authorized last night by the City Council, which ordered that the duties of assistant co-ordinator be turned over temporarily to Chief of Police Raymond R. Cheek.

Smith" will receive the same salary $200 a month that he has beeir given, in the Civilian Defense job. The council also authorized a request fur bids, to be opened on July 6, for paving and repaying portions of Cutting Boulevard norm of San Pablo Avenue. The road, sections of which are both paved and dirt, has been damaged by heavy truck traffic. Other action included the adoption of a resolution declaring weeds to be nuisance. withCauthoriza- tion fop the posting of Notices ott vacant lots throughout the city.

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