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Modesto News-Herald from Modesto, California • Page 11

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PAGB EIX- NCV. CT. Baby Gorillas Gift To San Diego Zoo COSIES PER BRITAIN. I They tcrt-jutifd nnd fuufiht until iW ovrriumeri-d them. now thf urn t'f arc In AiuerU-a licuml for ilm San iJlcju luU bruUt.

only 5 old weigh JVt 2 iht-y wt-igli jruitmti. 'sli--. wow fruiii Martin Juliiiwii, the i-xplt-rer. liy Ulcn Sorljips an.l lU'bcrl trtl lu the elly. Senator Would Have Pact Permitting U.

S. To Build To Treaty Strength Oct. five-year naval holiday Great ft Britain and Jajian while ihe United States continues 10 build her treaty navy is favcrcU by Senator Swanson of Virgiela. The ranking Democrat en tbe senate naval committee has proposed to President Hoover thai he negotiate such a treaty with the other two signatories of the London naval pact as a mvana of brining this country uj to its allotted-comparative strength. Swanson.

who in the past haa supported liberal appropriations for the, navy, ajd a holiday would be much more desirable than reductions in expenditures for the fleet Citing 1 what the world depression and govern menial deficits havn brought discussion of a naval holiday, the Virginian said: Equality Sought "The XJnitcd States, is at present, under the terms of the London conference, in agreement with Great Britain for equality In naval power and in agreement with Japan fc? a substantial ratio In naval strength of five for the United States and three for Jp.pan. "la order to get equality with Great Britain and this ratio with Japan, Great Britain and Japn consented to less naval construction until these ratios, were obtained by the United Etetea." Ho urged that this country agree a naval holiday with the proviso at its end the ratios of the London treaty should -have been reached. Meanwhile, as the navy department went forward with Its attempt to cut $61,000,000 from its 1933 estimated budget President Hoover's naval curtailment program won Its first Democratic support BY GUN Mil ONS.F.8IEI Accordin' To The Law YOU CANNOT TEAR A CHICKEN'S HEAD OFF PRICES VARY MARI Some Varieties Show Slight Gains, Others Lose Several Cents Stockton Mail Or.e Of Held After Eschiii.ge Of Shot: 111 a-. v.vH jn SAX FKANCi.SCO. Two liii-n v.v:v ur.v.r sv.J fc 'expenditures, also said he "hoped a naval holiday could be negotiated Inscriptions Fdr New Building Are Rolph SACRAMENTO.

Ooi. 6--(IP) '--Xnacriptloas to be placed on- the front of the new state building In IMS Angeles will be taken fjrom Governor Rolph's Inaugural address." The as selected hy carved, in panels at sides of the main entrance: "Let us face the. future 'with heads up and shoulders hack, looking; forward with serene confidence in the destiny of our state." ''What the wealth of the if those who have faltered by the wayside of life do receive the common charity to all men?" Espionage System At White House Revealed In Book PiibHcation Of Washington Merry Go Round Shows Up Attempts To Suppress Legitimate News In Fear Of Reaction Against Hoover By WALTER P. JONES By Special Leased Wlro 3 QACRAMENTO, Oct. tho publlcatlcn of tho Washington Merry A German inventor has con- struated-a small pump, built into a tlre3 at proper inflation.

There are" abqut 728Q.hospitals In the United States. Of. these 700 are in.New nnei Go Round, a book on affah-s and personages in the national capital vrritten anonymously by newspaper correspondents, serves no other useful purpose It. brought to public attention the White House espionage system that has existed for the past two years. Correspondents had resented attempts by President Hoovei-'s ERlOHAL FINANCE LTD.

ROOM 401, CALIFORNIA ILDG. SAN JOAOUIN PHONE. 1436 STOCKTON, henchmen to suppress legitimate news Tor fear that publication would react unfavorably upon tho administration, and stories were written mildly protesting White House "--I'rWfldent Dissected The smoldering resentment broke out into flamn when White HOUSE pressure brought about the summary dismissal of Albert S. Allen, Washington bureau chief of the Christian Science Monitor, for his alleged participation in tbe writing the Msrry Go Hound, one chapter of which is devoted.to the dissecting of Hoover in words that cave nothing to tlie imagination. The Merry' Go Round appeared Washington 'on.

Friday and on Saturday Allen got a registered letter from the editor of the. Monitor firing him. He was not given a chance to-affirm, or the report that he had written several chapters of the sensational book-a beat seller, by the way--he was summarily dismissed. Incidentally the. dismissal of Allen came a week 'after he says he Had -been complimented by the Monitor for excellent service in Washington during the Summer, and shortly after Theodore G.

Josilnv one of Hoover's secretaries, had appeared in Boston, home city of'the: Monitor, "on a vacation." White House Pressure Many of the correspondents were peeved at A'lcn when the 3oolc appeared because he was credited with having written the virile- chapter on the Washington press, as well as the devastating chapter on Hoover, but they on (he common enemy and opened up with 'big berthas''when Allen was fired due to White House pressure. The correspondents, -who pre- yoiusly had petitioned the National Press Club to name a committee to Investigate censorship at the White House and in other governmental departments, regarded thn Allen case as the last straw and they blew up. of Allen--and almost all the Washington correspondents are his close friends--are firm in the belfef," wrote George H. Manning! Washington correspondent of tho. Editor Publisher, "that his dismissal was brought about by his strictly independent and often critical writings in connection with White House news and particularly his outspoken alignment with Uje press in the recent controversy i with'the White House on the ques- ion of news 'censorship', which way akpn up by Editor Publisher in he issue of September 5, and con- inued in the issue of September 12.

The issue of Editor Publisher of September 12 contained a letter to he editor from Mr. Allen, indorsing he movement for breaking down censorship on Washington newa. "Some go so far aS to say that is' a direct connection be- Mr. Allen's dismissal by the 3oaton newspaper and the presence Massachusetts ou vacation of Theodore G. Joslin, White -Houso secretary and former Washington correspondent." Carlisle Bargeron, writing in the Washington Post, said the dismissal of Alien "is of more than passing nterest because of its possible bearing on the espionage atmosphere that has prevailed over tho mtion's capital for the past two years." Telephone Tapping? "Whether there ia anything to it or not," said the article, "it is amaz- ng tho number of people here, in our official life and on tho fringe, vho sincerely bolicvo their tele-, hones are being tapped.

They mow what they are talking about, hey insist; they can hear'the click. And they relate ha4r-raiaiug in- tances of being shadowed. "Why, at the last session of con- gross nerves got to the point of vhere senators were reporting that heir offices has been rifled, their apern gene over and the office left disarray. "It was right remarkable the day the book (Merry Go Round) tame out the energy with which ho administration went nbout fimi- ng out who was responsible for it. constituted one of the secret ervice's assignments for several days and there is not the slightest I Should Worry I Have One of Thoso Big Husky Dependable I BATTERIES They Always Start- LOW IN PRICE Complete Service Gondyrnr Tires, Marvel mid Stabler Qtrhiirolnni, A (J Oil I'lllvrs, A Spark VIliRs, tins, Oil, re.

I g. Slirailomclcrs, Slnrlm. 101.5 Street Phono 1106 tion knows not alone on.i "nut the several a hflioved to have had to do with the book. "In fact, the admin IK tratfon's! chapter or not and I do not know, that is responsible for that widespread feeling that espionage is rampant." Articles in similar vein, denouncing the attempts of the White House to terrorize the press into silence, except on news approved by tlie president, appeared in other eastern papers. In a letter to the writer a Wash- Mulagas inixco fwernis to the v.viral a i a for a chiclu-n is im- ctniH; Kod Malagas brought in a fOuifonable iun.

off ernu idm awneia iliut the A uiiil of S63 were ordered i i way of rin'Mnx i a leading in tlie state of if.iiu-, shipments now ac is by i i i tiicm compared laft year to dak'. To Get More Distinguished License Mortnn Jors To T--IW Mortun did not iiko ihla fowl; f-ct of Business and immediately io tlie law. lie had Uie arrested fnr i i i 'on his chicken cruel and inhumane: 'irvutment- evidence at the trial dis- Whether the chnnsje will be nmdn! notified Morton to keep his epends entirely upon the annwrrs! out of ni3 ca atch or received the lawmakers. 1 they would be killed; that he killed Their present license plates differ tlie chickens to prevent them from from the garden variety hy bavin? or green letters. The destroying the peas.

The court, however, found that new plates would have had a needlessly crue! preceding the letter as in the raso niaimer towards the chickens, to of all others with the exception of i wit: by killing thorn, and that the licenses sponsored by Gov- 'therefore he had violated the stets rrnr.r Rolph. against cruel and inhumane treatment of animals and etc. The dfifondant, the court ruled, the chickens, jwnen lie found them in his pea events of thu day or to Rive should have caught and im- newspapermen reports of those pounded them, and then notified important negotiatiuim. owner thnt he could Imvn his "One hoard member, pressed forjchickens when hu paid the damage they did to his pecs. Whether belligerent Oscar was satisfied to adopt this peaceful methoci nf protecting his garden, And so c5 i louver press ospion-: ihe i-eccrd does not disclose, age and censorship! The court, however, has information after a long session of the board, angrily declared 'What the board does is none of the newspapermen's business'." ington correspondent said: "They are so panicky in (he White House that they tiro literally terrorizing- the press.

wcr-k Hoover called them in and proposed what would to an absolute censorship. v. O'Connor of tho shipping hoard. nritnani "Friday tho INS broko the story-and other members, have buffeted instead of ki of tho Uhito House asking for cen- reporters, refusing to comment on when IIP fniim SUB figures beer workers a Newton (ono of Hoover's secretaries) spent must of Saturday call- Ing 1 In individual correspondents nnd denouncing them for writing thn story. "It is (ho most extraordinary sit nation you ever heard nf; an outsider nils no Idea of tho pull of.

torrorizatlon that exists here. Hoover is desperate und in their frenzy thny are slashing nut Hko imid- mcn." Another article In tho Editor Publisher by. George H. Manning deals with the petition to the press cluh for a committee "to study the question of official silence on public questions" and relates how Secretary Joslin "suggested to the cor- rospondenta that they should 'consult with this office' (the White House) before writing stories i touching on the world financial and unemployment crisis." "Correspondents also have been complaining bitterly." this Manning article, "about I titude of members of UK; Unitrd States Shipping Board, pai-ticulai-ly in connection with the recent slot- ics of the attempt by Paul Chai man to get the board tn tnko bad? control of tho United States lines, llcportrrs IStiffrtcd "Despite the fact that many millions of dollaras of money is invested in the operation of the United States Linen. Chniiman T.

With the friendly warmth of the human voice TELEPHONING is so direct. To friends in other cities--to the folks "back chums who are traveling--to young people away at school or college. You talk to the person you want to reach, and get an immediate answer. It's fast. It's clear.

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