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94 NO. 263 WEATHER WAR LOOMS IN REGIONS WHERE DICTATORS RULE Borah Flays Those Who Would Destroy Constitution PEACE TO BE SOUGHT Admits Outlook Is Black, But Urges Pacifists To Carry On BOISE, Sept. -The "strongholds of war," United States Senator William E. Borah of Idaho declared in an address here tonight, are in those lands where the voice of the people has been silenced, constitutional government destroyed, and arbitrary power subdues a people's will." His address was given as a part of a peace program broadcast over nation-wide radio network. "Wherever the people are tree, where the voice of the people is heard, where speech is untramelled and liberty of action unchained, the cause peace advances toward realization," he declared.

"In the large sense, therefore, the cause of peace is the cause of free speech, of a free press, of human liberty, of constitutional government. Pacifists To Carry On "Some will think by reason of troubled outlook that neither speech nor song can at this time serve the cause of peace. "But however confused and disturbed all may seem, those who opwar will seek to carry on. posey cannot wipe out national lines nor efface national aspirations and we should not wish to do so. We cannot wholly submerge the national spirit or set boundaries to a people's, growth, and should not so.

We cannot reduce all nations or races to a common level, or even bring them to a common understanding, and it were a useless waste of time and energy to undertake to do so. "But in the common language of music, we can speak better nature of all peoples whatever to, then name or race and thus help to direct the course of governments along more peaceful lines. "It must never be thought that only those who write treaties and conduct negotiations in great emergencies are the sole servants of peace. All such efforts are fruitless without the support of the people to whose hearts and minds those upon this program would deliver a mes- sage. Governments No Help we look alone to the attitude and action of governments, the friends of peace might well despair.

But if we consult the wishes and deep desires of the people, there is just ground for hope. We cannot speak with certainty of other peoples, but knowing the sentiments of our own, we have a right to believe that the desire for peace was never so universal and profound as it is in the very hour of threatened war. "The strongholds of war are in those lands where the of the people has been silenced, voice, constitutional government destroyed, and arbitrary power subdues a people's will. Where intolerance fattens upon human misery, where race hatred is fostered upon human misery, where race hatred is fostered for selfish ends, where men are mere cogs In a soulless state machine, where personal government dominates the will of the people, there are the breeding grounds war. 'Peoples do not make They do They do not falsify records to justify theft.

Those who serve the cause of constitutional government serve the cause of peace and serve the cause of civilization." CALLES DENIES HE DISCUSSED REVOLT BEVERLY HILLS, Sept. Plutarco" Elias Calles, former "iron man" of MexIcan politics and at one time that country's president, came back from Honolulu today and insisted he had retired permanently from politics of his native land. "I understand that southern Calinornia is full of rumors that I may lead a revolution," said the man who long dominated the political affairs of Mexico. "I also hear reports that I am an exile here while this revolution is brewing. All these reports are untrue." Gen.

Calles, who lost his power when President Cardenas was elected, said he will remain here with his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Jorge Almada of Beverly Hills, for two weeks. "Then I shall return to my home in Mexico City," he said. Gen.

Calles admitted "there was much made of my meeting at Honolulu with former President Abelardo Rodriguez," and said: "No one should think anything it. We were not talking revolution. We were talking about the scenery, and in Hawaii the scenery is well worth talking about." BIRTHS EXCEED DEATHS PHOENIX, Sept. state board of health reported today that births exceeded deaths in Arizona in August by 412. The statement disclosed that 895 births and 383 deaths were recorded during the month The SIXTEEN PAGES Flays Dictation SENATOR BORAH TUCSONAN HAS HIGH BAR SCORE 11 From Tucson Are Successful in Legal Examination PHOENIX, Sept.

19 (P) The state board of law examiners announced today that 19 of 38 persons who took the examinations for admission to the bar of Arizona yast June passed the tests. The successful applicants will be admitted to the bar Saturday, September 28. Henry C. Diehl, of Tucson, was the high man of the class, making a grade of 82.25. K.

F. Wolfe, Phoenix, was second, with 81, and. Charles B. Wilson, Flagstaff, was third, with 79.50. One woman of the three who took the test passed and will receive a certificate.

She is Bess H. Ryder, Phoenix. Others who passed and will be admitted to the bar are: Britton Bowker, Tucson; Maurice D. Brown, Phoenix; Joseph P. Claridge, Tucson; James E.

Flynn, Cottonwood: Albert Hesselberg, Tucson: Melvin Huffaker, Washington, D. William F. Kimball, Tucson; Frederick W. Lowery, Phoenix; Charles B. McAlister, Phoenix; Joseph W.

Meek, Tucson; Curtis C. Mowbray, Tucson; Harold R. Scoville, Tucson; William G. Thorpe, Tucson; Harold C. Warnock, Tucson, and Raymond R.

Wein, Tucson. ALL BUT FIVE ARE FROM UNIVERSITY All but five of the 19 persons whose passing of the state bar examination was announced in Phoenix yesterday are former students of the law college of the University of Arizona, a check last night revealed. Included In the list 1s Albert Hesselberg, a plain clothes officer in the Tucson police department. LIGHTHOUSE SHIP RUNS SANS SAILORS WASHINGTON, Sept. Eight miles off the Michigan coast, the lighthouse service has stationed a ship without a crew to perform all the functions of warning mariners of nearby danger.

darkness closes down, warning beacon flares in masthead, giving its regular flashes. A radio beacon starts sending steady signals. If it is foggy, two fog signals blare warnings. In a lighthouse on the shore line, the keeper has merely pressed button which started the signals going by radio. If the apparatus fails function, he presses another button which starts a second set of radio apparatus.

The lightship has been operating for six months in an experiment which will continue until Lake St. Clair--which separates Lake Erie fic rom Lake ice this Huron-is winter. closed to trafby Harold D. King, the lighthouse commissioner, said today it remained to be determined whether the operation of such ships was more economical than keeping a crew aboard to tend the apparatus. "If, after another season of experimenting with the St.

Clair lightship, it is found feasible and economical, we may equip one or two others," he said. HIGHWAY 79 OILING ASKED IN PETITION PRESCOTT, Sept. State Highway 79 association, meeting here tonight, resolution calling upon the state highway commission to include sufficient funds in its 1936-37 budget to complete oil surfacing highway 79 in its entirety. Another resolution adopted asks the commission to set up along the highway in its schedule five projects, with exception of oiling. These proposed projects are between Lonesome Valley and Bridgeport.

A third resolution urges the state engineer to caution contractors to give the traveling public more consideration during construction periods, thereby insuring public safety. Another resolution asks that highway 79 be designated as a United States route. Arizona TUCSON, ARIZONA, FRIDAY Educator Dies WILLIAM J. COOPER COOPER TAKEN EN ROUTE HOME Hoover's Education Commissioner Dies in Nebraska KEARNEY, Sept. Stricken ill while en route to his home in California, William John Cooper, 53, U.

S. commissioner of education from 1929 to 1933, died at a hospital here this afternoon. Cooper, former state superintendent of public instruction in California, suffered a stroke September 10 while on his way home with his wife. He appeared to be recovering but suffered a relapse. He was appointed to office by President Hoover.

He formerly served as a regent for the University of California and was widely known in the field of education. He leaves his widow and three children. The body will be taken to Berkeley, for funeral services and then to Oakland, for burial. Dr. Cooper was known internationally as an educator.

Since his service as commissioner of education, he was a member of the Washington, D. university faculty and also of the faculty of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. ALLEN SURPRISED AS NOE, MARTIN REVOLT NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 19-(P)- political coup executed early today by Lieutenant Governor James A. Noe and Wade O.

Martin, chairman of the Louisiana public service commission, apparently let down the bars in the old Long machine, and it is everybody for himself, While the Long lieutenants were squabbling over candidates for the ticket for the January election, Noe and Martin took the bull by the horns and formally announced for governor and United States senator, respectively. The announcement broke like a thunderclap over the Long camp and sent captain, Governor O. K. Allen, into a spin. At first he would not believe it, as he thought he had the machine under control and that a slate of candidates would be chosen in orderly fashion at a caucus.

But shortly after the announcements were made, both Noe and Martin walked into governor's office and told him facts. They the both left smiling and pleased, and Governor Allen left by a rear door. The governor plainly was shocked by the rebellion within the ranks, and other lieutenants expressed anger. A few hours later candidates for the lesser state offices almost fell over each other making their announcements. Governor Allen declined to make any statement.

GERMAN JEW PLIGHT GETS WISE PROTEST GENEVA, Sept. plight of Jews in Germany was brought before the League of Na- tions by the committee of Jewish delegations today in appeal that "the conscience of mankind will not tolerate that Jews should be degraded In this century as pariahs." Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, president of the committee of Jewish delegations, in the telegraphic appeal to Dr. Eduard Benes, president of the assembly, charged "cruel persecution and defamation of German Jews." Referring to anti-Jewish laws proclaimed by the reichstag Sunday, the message said: "Anti-Jewish legislation In the third reich represents a regression to medieval policy with regard to Jews, and creates in the heart of the Europe of the 20th century a new ghetto for the purpose of oppressing and dishonoring the Jewish people. the policy of the third reich destroys the basis of modern civilization and the League of Nations, as the embodiment of the and ideals pursued by the hopes noblest minds of all lands.

"We appeal to you and through you to the League of Nations, in the unshaken belief, the forces of right cannot fail to prevail, that the conscience of mankind will not tolerate that Jews should be degraded in this century as pariahs. "The struggle against the antiJewish policy of the third reich is a task incumbent upon humanity. Dailo MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935 LLOYD GEORGE BELIEVES WAR FORTNIGHT OFF Strong Action Must Be Taken to Avert It, Ex-Premier Says GIBRALTAR WARNED Il Duce Sets Up Body to Study Attitude of Neutral Nations Copyright, 1935, by Associated Press LONDON, Sept. dangerous situation in the Mediterranean, where Great Britain and Italy are massing instruments of war, absorbed capitals of the world and Geneva Thursday night. Crack ships of both nations, airplanes and troops were moved into strategic of the sea, some in close proximity.

Foreign military observers here, recalling the blowing up of the battleship Maine, called the situation a "powder keg" which any untoward incident could explode. Premier Mussolini, apparently determined Italy must be prepared for contingencies if she is to undertake settlement of the East Africa dispute, announced tonight, by an official decree, he was setting up a commission to effect a "formulation of legal measures" adjusting Italy's legal attitude under the international war code toward neutrals and belligerents. Britain Wants War? Well informed sources said the declaration gave proof again that Italy is ready to go forward in her expansion program under the sole leadership of 11 duce, regardless of difficulties. Italian newspapers openly said Great war. Official London remained silent but ships wants, in far off Chinese waters and the West Indies were involved as detenses were strengthened along the empire's vital life line to the Orient.

Geneva, having produced its plan of peace, eyed the Mediterranean and Rome, waiting for Premier Benito Mussolini to act. Indications were that Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia would accept the plan--that Premier Benito Mussolini would reject it flatly. The Italian will consider the subject Saturday. Markets of the world were sharply and variously affected. In Tokyo and Osaka the exchanges had the highest transactions in history on the strength of the war scare.

Wheat soared in Chicago. Dealings In London and Paris were depressed through nervous selling over the situation. Submarines Shifted Activity in the Mediterranean and adjacent points stood out. Italy shifted 12 submarines from Trieste to Naples because of Britain's movements. Other Italian war preparations Included an order for idle street car rails to be taken up becuase of a shortage of steel and men of the military classes from 1901 through 1914 who had been rejected from service on physical grounds called up for a new examination.

Military circles estimated 1,000,000 were affected. The authoritative Glornale D'Italia, discussing London's moves, said "there is already an open menace. There is, one might say, a deliberate wish for conflict." British activity, Reuters (British) news agency reported, saw the population of Gibraltar advised to get candles because "in the event of certain emergencies it may prove necessary to extinguish all lights throughout Gibraltar." David Lloyd George, prime minister during the World war, said (Continued to Page 16, Column 1) LA BELLE STILL IS AFTER BAER'S CASH SPECULATOR, N. Sept, (AP)-Max Baer said tonight that the Shirley La Belle whose attorney has announced he will reopen the young woman's $50,000 damage suit against the boxer was a girl he "knew but couldn't pick out of a crowd of two." Miss La Belle's suit, which charged Baer assaulted her in his Manhattan hotel room December 20, 1933, was filed a year and a half A ago but had not been pressed further after Baer asked a bill of particulars. Her attorney, Samuel J.

Seigel, announced last night he would seek a writ of attachment of the $300,000 which Baer is expected to receive as his 30 per cent share of the gate receipts of his fight against Joe Louis next Tuesday night. Associates of Baer at his training camp here said that they felt sure that the purse would be paid out in such a way that a writ would be ineffectual. fighter's manager, Ancil Hoffman, said, "I know Miss La Belle. She was one of a lot of girls I was always chasing away from Max' dressing rooms. She never got in that I know about." AFB DEFENDS AAA CHICAGO, Sept.

19-(P) The agricultural adjustment administration found a champion today in the American Farm Bureau federation, which ordered its legal counsel to prepare to defend the AAA against attacks of opponents Star SIXTEEN PAGES State Abandons Its Attack On Money's Political Ideas Testimony Concerning His Socialistic Theories Is Stricken by State's Attorney; Mrs. Mooney Testifies Edeau Statements Were 'Perjured' SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. timony of Thomas J. Mooney cross-examination to draw marked the habeas corpus Foresees War DAVID LLOYD GEORGE attempts to impeach the tesand sudden abandonment by the state of Its out the prisoner's radical political views hearing of the convicted Preparedness Day bomber here today. In one instance Assistant State Attorney General William Cleary obtained from Mooney the statement that he heard no word spoken when two policemen brought John McDonald, prosecution witness, to the labor leader's cell here for identification purposes shortly after the bombing of July 22, 1916.

Cleary then called Mooney's attention to his testimony yesterday in which he said he saw McDonald's lips move. "I saw McDonald's lips move but I heard him say nothing," Mooney replied. "After all, it has been 19 years since that happened. If you want to know exactly what I said you can go back to the original testimony." At another point Mooney named 8 date on which he said he received permission from a union head to organize the employes of the United railways here. Modifies Testimony Cleary then handed him a letter showing Mooney had, subsequent to the date mentioned, written a friend asking to intercede with the union head for permission to do the organization work.

Moone retorted that the date on the letter had been "tampered with," but modified his testimony as to the date mentioned in his preceding remarks. The convicted labor leader, now seeking freedom on the ground he was convicted on perjured testiin the afternoon and Rena mony, finished his testimony, early Mooney, was called. Mrs. Mooney, who was tried but acquitted in the bombing cases, struck at the testimony of Mrs. Mellie Edeau, prosecution witness in the original cases.

Mrs. Edeau had testified she saw Mr. and Mrs. Moone heading ward the explosion scene a few minutes before the blast. A hat worn by Mrs.

Mooney was one factor in the identification. Today Mrs. Mooney said the hat In question was unfinished on the day of the explosion and that she wore it for the first time the following day. Suit is Introduced A blue serge suit, with white buttons around the bottom of the jacket, was introduced in evidence. Mrs.

Mooney had Identified it as the one she wore on the tragic day. "May I ask the reason for introducing sult?" Cleary asked. "To impeach the testimony of your perjured witness, Mrs. Edeau, who testified she wore a different one," snapped John Finerty, of the Mooney defense, Mooney's testimony yesterday detailing his political beliefs was stricken from the record on Cleary's motion, to which defense attorneys made no objection. Mooney's statement that he was a "social revolutionist," believing the wealth of the world should be socialized, thus went out of the record.

Other statements removed from the record included his remark that "the President of the United States" held some opinions similar to his own and that they were reflected in the NRA and the move to organize workers by industries rather than by trades. One of Mooney's contentions Is that he was "framed" in the original case and convicted of the bombing because of his political beliefs. BEN BERNIE WINS DIVORCE FROM WIFE CHICAGO, Sept. a brief and private hearing, Ben Bernie, the orchestra leader, won an uncontested divorce today and then went aboard a yacht in the Chicago harbor to witness the wedding of a friend. The "old maestro" of dance band fame appeared unannounced before Judge Rudolph Desort and was granted the decree on his testimony that his wife, Rose Anzelevitz, of New York, deserted him in September, 1931.

The bill was filed Monday under Bernie's real name, Anzelvitz, and the band leader's identity went unrecognized. It was not until hours after the secret hearing that newsmen discovered the divorce had been granted. Mrs. Anzelevitz was awarded a settlement out of court, but attorneys, declined reveal the amount. MAN CHANGES NAME TO MOTHER-IN-LAW'S WHITE PLAINS, N.

Sept. 19. (P)-A novel request that the name of his entire family be changed to that of his mother family was granted Ralph L. Shainwald, New Rochelle, N. Y.

artist today by Supreme Court Justice Raymond Aldrich. The court decided that Shainwald will be known henceforth as Ralph Shainwald von Ahlefeldt. His wife and children fall heir to the same surname. The children are Ralph, Renee and Robert. The litigant acted on the wish of his late mother-in-law, who told him, he said, that inasmuch as she had no male issue she hoped her own family name might be perpetuated through her grandchildren.

An Independent NEWSpaper Printing the News Impartially PRICE FIVE CENTS KOENEKE CASE SELF DEFENSE, JURORS DECIDE Pilot and Parachuter Are Freed After Story Is Finished GRABBED CONTROLS Endangered Lives When He Became Violent, Witnesses Say ISLINGTON, Sept. 20. coroner's jury early today returned a verdict of "self defense" in the slaying of Leonard Koenecke, Brooklyn baseball player, in an airplane early Tuesday during a struggle with William Joseph Mulqueeny, pilot, Irwin Davis, parachute jumper. The verdict freeing the two air men came only a few minutes after the jury had retired. For several hours it had listened to testimony from many witnesses.

Shortly before the Jury retired, undisclosed details of events leading up to the fight in which Pilot William Joseph Mulqueeny and Irwin Davis, parachute jumper, engaged were related privately to Koenecke's brother, Herman Koenecke of Adams, Wis. Among the witnesses testifying tonight was Professor Josly Rogers, chemical analyst of the University of Toronto, who said, that his findings indicated Koenecke was in "excellent condition" for a quarrelsome streak to break out, if he had a tendency toward a violent disposition because of the "traces of alcohol found in his organs." Professor Rogers said there were traces of alcohol Koenecke's organs, though none in food in the stomach. He asserted this condition would naturally cause a man, it inclined to be "quarrelsome," to become "violent." Mulqueeny related the story of the wild air journey. He said Davis asked if he could accompany them from Detroit as he wanted to return a pair of goggles borrowed at Buffalo. The pilot asserted Koenecke had requested him to get a pint of liquor before taking off but he had refused.

He said Koenecke sat in the front of the plane beside him and soon after taking off had "grabbed the wheel and grabbed it hard." Mulqueeny said he ordered Koenecke into the back seat immedlately, and soon after the change in seats, looked around to see Davis and the ball player struggling. He said Davis yelled, "help me, Bill. Give her the gun and get down out of here." "I kicked the throttle as far down as it would go and started to look for a place to land," said Mulqueeny. "Davis was still yelling so I grabbed the extinguisher and let him have it. I don't know how many times I "hit him, but it was three or four times at least.

I put him out." The pilot moved nervously in his seat and sobbed slightly as he told of striking the ball player. Other witnesses told of the plane's circular course as it attempted a landing, and a youth, Wilfred Blake, said he could hear the crash of the landing from his home three-quarters of a mile away. Some of the testimony of another witness was interrupted by officials present. "There are a number of ladies present," said E. J.

Murphy, counsel for the airmen, "and I do not think this should be disclosed here." The testimony related to statements given by the fliers to police concerning Koenecke's alleged actions in the plane just before his death. ISADORA'S DAUGHTER MARRIES ATTORNEY NEW YORK, Sept. Duncan, adopted daughter of the late Isadora Duncan, and Sherman Skinner Rogers, an assistant corporation counsel here, were married today by Supreme Court Justice Alfred Frankenthaler. Mrs. Rogers a dancer and dancing teacher, is 35, Rogers, 36.

The bridegroom is the son of Mrs. Robert Cameron Rogers of Santa Barbara, Calif. His marriage to Miss Shirley Behr of Santa Barbara in 1927 ended in a Paris divorce four years later. The bride is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.

Ernest Grimme of Hamburg, Germany, and is one of six pupils to whom Isadora Duncan gave the legal right to carry on her dancing tradition under her name. MRS. FDR DISLIKES DANGEROUS ESCORTS NEWBURG, N. Sept. -Mrs.

Franklin D. Roosevelt dislikes police motor escorts because of the danger of injury to members of the escort. Declining Police Chief Fred offer of aid here, Mrs. Roosevelt was quoted as saying: "When there is an escort, it is so easy for someone in it to get hurt." Police Chief George Dobbs of Croton was thrown from his motorcycle and seriously injured while escorting Mrs. Roosevelt several months ago.

COPPER MINING TO TAKE JUMP REST OF YEAR Beckett Announces That Phelps Dodge Will Increase Work 25 PER CENT IS GAIN Bisbee, Other Camps Will See More Men at Work In Mines BLAST AT CANAL SET OFF BY FDR Greatest Waterway Since Panaman Is to Be Done by 1941 OCALA, Sept. thundering blast, touched off by President Roosevelt, tore out the first hole in the route of the GulfAtlantic ship canal today while Senator Fletcher (D-Fla.) predicted ultimate completion of the greatest waterway undertaken by the United States since the Panama canal. Hundreds joined in a cheer as a geyser of dirt was hurled high into the air from an impulse started at the touch of a telegraphs key in Roosevelt's home Park, New York. Fletcher told the Jubllant Floridans they would live to see ships of every nation push through the $146,000,000 project, saving two and a half days sailing time between Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic ocean ports, Representative Green (D-Fla.) said the President would finish project and it would be named the "Franklin D. Roosevelt canal." Some $5,000,000 in work-relief funds has been alloted to the venture.

Ocala, thriving as the result of operations already begun, closed up shop and hundreds of citizens thronged to the site of the celebration, where some of the 2,000 relief workers already employed had cleared a portion of the right-ofway. They saw in Roosevelt's participation a promise he planned to press completion of the 200-mile sea-level route. Breheon Somervell, United States army engineer in charge of construction, has estimated he could use a maximum of 25,000 workers by finishing the project in six years. To south Floridans worried over possible damage to the state's underground water supply Senator Fletcher gave assurance their farms and groves would be protected. Various organizations in the lower part of the state have fought the canal bitterly, claiming it would be nothing more than a "big drainage ditch" to draw off vital moisture and contaminate what was left with salt water.

HAUPTMANN WAS IN CUSTODY YEAR AGO NEW YORK, Sept. year ago today the world was galvanized by the news that the kidnaper of Charles A. Lindbergh, had been found and arrested. Pale, enigmatic Bruno Richard Hauptmann on that day was thrust into the garish spot light of public attention, which still fastens upon him on occasion in the death cell at New Jersey state prison, where he awaits execution upon his conviction of murder for the kidnaping. Today, 12 months after he was arrested, Hauptmann is fighting for a new trial in an appeal from the jury verdict at Flemington.

$29,000 TELEPHONING PROBED IN HEARING SEATTLE, Sept. government in the Coplin mail fraud trial today delved into the use of telephones by salesmen contacting prospective purchasers of Arizona Comstock mining stock. in 1933. Use of telephones cost Alexander S. Coplin and company $29,000 in three months at Reno, D.

E. Haddock, district sales manager Bell Telephone company at Reno, told a jury trying 15 defendants. DOUGLAS, Sept. G. Beckett, vice president and general manager of nounced today that producDodge corporation, antion of the company's Arizona copper mines will be increased 25 per cent for the balance of the year.

The announcement was described as one of the most important actions toward general reopening of the state's major copper produoing properties, all of which have been practically idle since the depression forced the red metal to rock bottom prices. It came close on the heels of the reopening of the Inspiration Consolidated Copper company at Inspiration, which today began recruiting 500 men to make repairs in preparation for resumption of production within 50 days. The Increased production schedule of Phelps Dodge, according to Beckett. will go into effect immediately at the Copper Queen branch in Bisbee, New Cornelia at Ajo and United Verde at Jerome. The present production of all Phelps Dodge copper mines in Ariwas placed at 15,000,000 pounds monthly, This will soar to nearly 20,000,000 pounds when increased activity is inaugurated.

8,500 Employed The Copper Queen, New Cornelia and United Verde mines now are employing approximately 3,500 men, or about 1,000 more than the aver. age number working at this time last year. Production at the New Cornelia was resumed September 1 after summer shutdown of two months. One thousand men went back to work at that time. More men are being employed the Douglas smelter of Phelps Dodge, where new furnace and boiler are being installed.

Copper production in Arizona will reach the highest figure in several years when the Inspiration mine begins 'production within the next two months. T. H. O'Brien, general manager of the company, announced that the mine's $7,000,000 leaching plant will handle 7,000 tons of ore daily, about 35 per cent of capacity. 7 UVX Being Repaired The United Verde Extension smelter at Clemenceau is undergoing repairs, and indications are that it soon will be placed in operation.

Nearly 1,300 men are at work in the Copper Queen branch at Bisbee, and the Douglas smelter has increased its working schedule from five to six days a week and has enlarged its payroll. Approximately 600 men went back to work recently at the Magma Copper company in Superior after repairs had been made to the smelter. The Miami Copper company, another big producer, has been leaching much of its ore in recent months under a new process devised by F. W. MaClennan, general manager, making possible the recovery of metal from unusually low grade ore.

The company also has increased its number of employes. S. TO KEEP WORLD SAFE AGAIN: HOBSON SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 19. -(P)-Threat of war between the United States and autocratic forces of the world was hurled at United Spanish war veterans by one of their heroes at the closing session of the 37th annual encampment here today.

Rear Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson, retired, said he foresaw war between constitutional democracy, upheld by the United States, and autocracy, represented by Communism, Fascism and imperial Japan. Scott Leavitt of Great Falls, Montana, was elected senior vice commander. Saratoga Springs, N. Y. was named as the 1936 convention city and Robert S.

Cain of Pittsburgh, was elevated to mander-in-chief after his unanimous nomination yesterday. At the final session of the lary this afternoon, Mrs. Irma Hill Vogel, Pontiac, was elected president. Other chosen included Mrs. Grace Alexander, Phoenix conductor.

AUGUST GAS TAX TOTALS $265,951.10 PHOENIX, Sept. derived from the state gasoline tax in August amounted to 951.10, it was announced today by the motor vehicle division of the state highway department. Gross collections totaled 940.40, but refunds amounted to $59.989.30. Of the amount collected the state will receive $186,165.77 and the counties $79,785.33..