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THE SUN, BAIrOIORE. SUXVTAX MORXIXG, 'JULYi 3, DEBT BOOSTED An Artist's Impressions Of The Battlefield Of Gettysburg 75 Years After BAN ON PICKETS SPREADS CALL FOR BOYCOTT Strikers Roam New York' Asking People To Shun Jewelry Firm IH FISCAL PERIOD Jump In Receipts, Cut In Outlay And Use Of Gold Hold Sum Down Deficit Of $1,459,000,000 Is Smallest Reported In Eight Years Observe Injunction But Visit Times Square And Other Kcv Points By C. r. TRUSSELL H'oshington Bureau of The Sun Washington, July 2 Largest receipts in more than fifteen years, a $300,000,000 reduction in expenditures and the use desterilized gold combined to hold the increase in the national debt during the 1938 fiscal year, just ended, to 5740,000,000, the Treasury Department disclosed today. As it stands tonight, the gross public tiebt is $37,164,740,315.45, or about i per person.

New York Bureau of The Sunl New York, July 2 The Injunction issued in Supreme Court by Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo which forbids th picketing of all New York city stores of the Busch Jewelry Company ami its affiliates by two unions was obeyed in letter today, but squads of strikers ranged through the city entreating citizens not to patronize the chain. The strikers are members of the United Retail Employes' Union and the United Optical Workers' Union, both affiliates of the Committee for Industrial Organization. Thirty of them made their appearance in Times Square this afternoon carrying signs, and after splitting into three squads, they patrolled the area for several hours. They went back again in the evening and a leader of each group chanted "Boycott EuschV to curious theatergoers.

200 At Other Key Points About 203 more strikers operated at other "key points" in the city, they marched two abreast on Fifth avenu Although the Government overspent its 56.242,000,000 income by exclusive of debt retirements, this net deficit was the smallest reported "Kv-r-r 'x CHARLES JENNETT, 101 Old Forpe, JV. Y. Talking over the 15-year-ago battle. CAPT. ROBERT E.

MILES, 98 Company Ttoentu-irst Virginia Cavalry, SHatosrille, Va. in eight years. Still Below Last Year I The same report could have been made if today's compilations had in eluded the $65,464,950 applied to debts and had carried the gross deficit to TalesOf Yank AndRebel $1,524,713,000. This gross shortage would ha-ve been under that of the fiscal year 1937. IFrom a Staff Expenditures during the year ended and Seventh avenue between Four Correpondent Of the one hundred men in my company who got up In the morning, only Thursday midnight were, in round figures, $7,701,000,000, as compared with Gettysburg, July 2 Old men dote on sitting around telling tales of youths of the youths they were $8,001,000,000 in 1937.

For 1937 the net sixteen of us went to sleep on our deficit was $2,707,000,000 and in 1936 it seventy-five years ago. Some of the arms that night." Forrest's Teamster tales are true, some tall. was $4,361,000,000. The recently inaugurated spending He was official company forager lending recovery program is expected to carry the 19.19 fiscal-year deficit to a total lying between the 1936 and 193? teenth and Fifteenth streets at various times during the day. They made appearances in other main sections of th city and at the ferry entrances and the entrance of the Hudson Tubes.

la the Bronx they picketed the Ynke Stadium and In Brooklyn, Ebbels Field. Although the strikers had no parade permit there was no police interference, since none of the squads numbered more than ten or fifteen members. At the Yankee Stadium the pickets "So General Fonrst aends me with the Waltons In Oklahoma and ho told when he marched with Sherman to the sea. John E. Andrew Is 90 now and is Illinois State commander of the me: 'You stick with them and they will take care of And I stuck with G.

A. R. In '63, he was in Cincinnati and joined the Seventy-ninth Ohio them and now I'm taking care of them. figures. Receipts Analyzed The $6,242,000,000 of receipts for the fiscal year just closed went into the Treasury from the following sources and in such volume as noted: Infantry, of the Twentieth Corps, have been for five generations." It was erect, little Turner H.

Hall, 96, one of the few Negro Confederate under Hooker, in Sherman's army. Saw Shoac Running had been marching only a few minutes Increase Or before game time when a policeman Decrease Aa veterans, now of Hugo, Okla. reminded them that some persons "I was owned by Col. Hal Chambers Compared With Fiscal KfrcitiH Tmr lf37 miht think Jake Ruppert, owner of "Joe Hockett and I were foragers for our company. Joe's still living, too, Tnrnme taxes.S2.6S5.O0O.0O0 S4 77,000,000 the Yankees, was "unfair to the and he and Forrest and General Lee this was a-fore the war they had good understanding.

They were old Taxes under Sfwijil Se but he was unable to get here. Well, we strikers" if they remained. After a conference the strikers withdrew to a curity Apt. 352.000.000 were nearing Savannah and the orders acquaintances. When the war came the distance of one block.

were that there was to be no shooting on the line of march. It was night and Promises Pretty Girls On Skates Samuel Sacher, attorney for the two Taxes upon carriers and their employes 150.000,000 4- 150.000,000 Other Internal Revenue 2.2S5.0OO.0OO P7.000.000 Customs 339.000,000 127.000.000 3-1 i seel la iieou Keieipts 209.000.000 1.000.000 colonel carried me with him, I was 19 and I was teamster for General Forrest. Yes, sir, I went with him all over Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, I happened to see a shoat running into the woods away from the road. 1 shouldn't have done it, I suppose, but unions involved in the strike, announced that today's happenings were "only the beginning." He promised that Louisiana all over. I brought my rifle up and sent a ball an elaborate campaign of puLlicity to "I took care of all hu.

luggage and further the cause of the strikers would his horses and mules. The Good Lord J6.242.000.000 JW8.0O0.0O0 Expenditure Increases As to general expenditures, increases commence Monday. right through him. I stuck my bayonet in him and slung him over my shoulder. must have been with me, cause I didn't This, he said, would include pretty get a scratch.

Mules stepped on me girls on roller skates and bicycles "It wasn't long before the guards once in a while when the bomb shells bearing "Boycott Busch" signs. A came a-running, wanting to know who went off, but that didn't hurt none. You torchlight parade on Wednesday night don't have to tell me General Forrest is being planned, another union offi did that shooting. Well, there I stood with that shoat over my shoulder, and I couldn't say anything just that I had Shot. 'You report to Colonel was the best Lee had.

I knowed it He cial revealed. Abe Silverberg, secre tary-manager of the ReUil Employes was too brave a man to knock out of local, added that handbills and sky the saddle. And I could teamster right He still the Start and Dart, during the year were piled, up as follows: Expenditures Increase Over TVpart mental 60.000,000 public Works fin- clutling rmtlie buildings, hish- bsts. rivers and heritors and flood control Oh. I TVA) 4M.n00.00ft lS4.ftOO.000 uencieiu-y.

2,000,000 Social Security Act wi.noo.ooo ias.ooo.oon National defense. tTH.OOO.UOD 11S.000.000 Veterans' administration 552,000.000 2.000,000 Civilian Conser W. H. TURNER. S4 Lebanon, Miss.

JOHN F. SMITH, 95 Clarion, Ind. the guard says to me. 'The colonel reads out his order. He writing also would be used in the now just like I did for him." boycott movement.

Really Embarrasesd Insist He's Friend Of Labor The reaction of Justice Cotillo to to GETTYSBURG, PA. Raymond Creekmore, well-known Baltimore artist and etcher, made these sketches yesterday on the Gettysburg Battlefield, where members of the G. A. Jl. and Confederate veterans are meeting in a joint reunion in commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the battle.

day's developments could not be ob "And there was once when I really was embarrassed. It was when I was vation, 325.000,000 4,000,000 with Sherman" another tale came that it was $36,425,000,000 on June 33, from a Union tent Interest on public debt 926.0O0.ono fi0.000.000 Refunds 100.OUO.000 44,000,000 Aged Heroes At Gettysburg 1937, and thus had risen by only $740,000,000, adding: "A boy and I were told to get some says: Tm supposed to string you up by the thumbs for two hours. You know the regulation against "Then he kinda loosens up a bit and says: 'How was that shoat, a nice fat And I says it sure was. So he tells his guard to string me up by the thumbs. 'But bring up those cracker barrels so be can sit on he says.

So I sat there about a half hour instead of hanging there, and then the colonel comes up and tells the guard to let me down. The colonel whispers as I go out: 'You say that was a fat shont? Well, be sure yon send mc over a haunch of it and don't do any more "This is a smaller increase than for any year since the period beginning Total $3,702,000,000 Offsetting these increases to the View Parade Of Successors food for the company and we went up to a fine-looking farmhouse. They had the biggest smoked hams and bacon sides I ever saw. Well, we filled our arms with them and hid them in tained tonight, but earlier the Supreme Court justice, who last fall was elected to his second full term with the support of the American Labor party issued a statement defending his injunction against the strikers. Justice Cotillo said: "I am more than ever convinced that I did the right "In due course, the heat stirred up by this controversy will die down, and when this is so, labor will find that I in still lis friend, as I have been fclncc my curly legislative days," Justice Cotillo continued, "I have tried to be a pathfinder Ja the sense of pointing out to responsible labor leaders that the only way for labor to get ahead is to follow the American way.

That way is to pursue democratic methods, to be fair to all July 1, 1931. "It should be noted that although there was a net increase of $740,000,000 the amount of outstanding market issues of public debt securities decreased $378,000,000. Men Of Blue And Gray Receive Salutes Of Those Who Also Have Fought For Nation extent of $188,000,000 and bringing the net rise down to- $364,000,000 are decreases in expenditures in: Expenditures. Decrease. grlriiHtiral i-Jijstmrnt pro Emm tSW.OOO.W $11,000,000 Itntiroad Retirement Aet the hayloft.

We were hungry, so we went up to tho farmhouse and two of the purtlcst I ever saw were "This reduction was due to the fact there. "They asked us If we wanted some that $1,392,000,000 of gold held in the inactive (sterilized) account was trans ALFRED 1J. CHARLES (Continued rom Page 1) thing to eat and we said we sure did, (J 1 a re Admits Getting Licked ported) 6,000,000 Program For Today Gettysburg, July 2 (P) The program for the reunion of the Blue and Gray at Gettysburg tomorrow follows: 6.30 A. mass, Gettysburg College Stadium, 9 A. M.

Memorial services, Stadium. 4.30 P. M. Concert by the United States Marine Band at the Peace Memorial. 5 P.

M. President Roosevelt scheduled to arrive. 5.30 P. M. Unveiling of Eternal Peace Memorial.

The President will dedicate it Gov. George Earle of Pennsylvania will introduce him. 7 P. M. Band concert, 8 P.

M. Aerial demonstration. (Time is Eastern Standard.) vania, and Col. Frederick W. Manley, so they cooked us a meal.

Well, sir. ferred during the year to the working balance of the general fund. This en Other expendi they treated us so fine and fed us so commanding the Sixteenth Brigade. tures 2s.ono.ono abled the Treasury not only to reduce Senator Joseph GufTey and Rep well we were ashamed to go back in that hayloft and get those hams." S390.0O0.0O0 note of the addresses of Alfred J. Kennedy, national commander of the United Spanish War Veterans; of Scott P.

Sawyers, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; of Daniel Doherty, of the American Legion; of Harry H. Schaffer, national commander of the Jewish War and to seek no undue advantages. For Recovery And its borrowings in the market but to reduce the public debt in the hands of the public through the retirement of! "So you left them there just like Another with Sherman was Fred Buy, late of the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Illinois Regiment, now 94, of Danville, 111. "You don't get many of 'em to admit it, but I'll tell you I was in a regiment that got licked. It was at Rcsaca on the march to Atlanta.

Yes, sir, we Recovery and relief expenditures for they were?" he was asked. resentative Harry L. Haines were there with other members of the State and Federal Commission, sponsors of the anniversary. Maryland Represented Among the spectators and 'partici Treasury bills." Lists Contingent Liabilities the fiscal year totaled $2,264,000,000, a decrease of $815,000,000 as compared with the $3,079,000,000 expended in "Well, not exactly. We were too embarrassed to go back and get 'em in th3 daylight, ao we had to wait until Contingent liabilities of the Govern 1337.

ment in the form of guarantees as to it got dark. I sure didn't want them girls to see us doing that" pants in the parade were several large "What is exemplified at Gettysburg today," said Mr. Doherty, "could not These 1938 fiscal year expenditures principal and, interest on outstanding delegations from Baltimore and other were badly beaten, and we felt pretty bad about it. But that old Sherman. It wasn't till ten years later that I found out that he was just using us for a feint.

We were supposed to get licked occur anywhere else in the world but obligations of the RFC, the Federal Housing Administration, the IIOLC Inc. or Dec. Fate Of Liquor, A Secret in the United States. The reconcilia Maryland points. The drum and bugle corps of Champaign Post, No.

195, Veterans of Foreign Wars; the Ameri were as follows: Expended. Agricultural Mid $170,000,000 H'llff 6,000.000 Work rcllff a ad public and other agencies, amounted to ap' 4 $iofl. ono.oon tion and reunion of the men who fought here, the bitterness which has just to occupy the Johnnys' attention can Legion and the Morris Frock Post proximately $4,925,000,000 on Thursday, as compared with $4,743,000,000 a year ago. This shows a net increase of been translated into everlasting friend No. 42, of the Junior American Legion works 1.S4S.0O0.00O 791.000,000 Ani to borne while Sherman flanked em.

Ten years later I found that out, and me thinking all the time we were licked." Two Total 212 Years ship these are true Americanisms." Must Keep Out Other Isms 000.000. were in the line of march. By special busses and private auto or in the form of prop and un owner 240.000.000 58,000.000 General Moseley Slated For Retirement Sept. 30 Commander Of Fourth Corps Arei, Atlanta, Has Been In Service Forty-Three Years Washington, July 2 (aT) Army orders issued today announced the retirement September 30, of Maj. Gen.

George Van Horn Moseley, commander of the Fourth Corps Area, Atlanta. General Moseley, a native of Evans-ton, 111., will reach the retirement age of 64 on September 28. Maj. Gen. Stanley D.

Embick, now on duty at the War Department as deputy chief of staff, will succeed him. General Moseley's retirement wilt end a forty-three-year military career which included service in the Philippine insurrection and the World War. He had charge of the supply section of the A. E. F.

general staff at Gen. Totals I2.204.OOO.0OO $815,000,000 This Americanism, he went on, is the dermining of the Un.ted States from within, that will overthrow that very And from the Confcrcdate camp. "We saw this boat out in the river and we thought sho' 'nuf it was a Yankee gunboat So we crept up and swam out our guns ready. I pulled up over the side and was ready for anything. But shucks, it weren't no Yankee gunboat.

There was just a man and his wife aboard and five gallons of likker. Yes, suh, we let the man and his wife alone, all right, but I ain't goin to tell you what happened to that likker." The Government's interest in the net assets represented by loans and other investments of governmental corporations and credit agencies amounted to form or government which v.e Know C. W. Eldridge, who spent ten years mobiles about one hundred members of the American Legion, headed by Bruce Bair, department commander, and about the same number of members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Income Tax Boosts Receipts More than one-half of the increase in general receipts came in the saddle in the cavalry, saw plenty $4,014,000,000, a rise of $125,000,000, as of action around Vicksburg with the from income taxes, although these compared with a year ago. headed by Charles Peters, department Second Maine.

He was in the regular army before the war, and he chased commander, arrived in time for the exercises. Harry Vogelstein, State com renegades and cattle thieves in the West and Johnnys in Mississippi, But those weren't his best stories. The one he mander of the Jewish War Veterans, had about twenty-five members of his Insulted Grant likes better than all occurred just this morning. only kind of "ism" for this country. He warned that other foreign "isms" should be kept "from our shores." "At this critical moment in the history of the civilized world," said Mr.

Squyres, the grandson of Confederate soldiers, "we in America are gathered at this final reunion of the Blue and Gray to announce to the troubled world that our people are united as one in their loyalty to the principles of a representative democracy exemplified by the Stars and Stripes the flag of our country. Call For United Front "We ask our people in the name of those whose memory and whose sacrifices we commemorate in this final joint' reunion of the Blue and the Gray to hold a united front against those subversive forces of imperialism "I went around to the camp barbar John J. Pershing's headquarters La France. The Great Game of Politics By FRANK R. KENT and appreciate in the form cf the Constitution of the United States." Jewish Leader Speaks Mr, Schaffer also had his definition for an American.

"From the earliest Colonial days to the present time," he said, "Americans of all faiths, of all creeds, if they truly merit the term are of the same stripe as those who fought for the Stars and Stripes or the Stars and Bars here in 1863." He called attention to the presence in the reviewing stand this afternoon of Daniel Harris, 93, of Brooklyn, N. "the only Jewish survivor of the Civil War, the last of the 8,000 men of Jewish faith who participated. "His presence here today provides a dramatic answer, as well as a living refutation of the calumnies and slanders against the patriotism of his people. These men who are assembled here today have demonstrated that the hates and rancor of men can be shop to get shaved," he said. "While I was sitting there I looked over at the next chair, and I said 'Hi, youngster, ho i old are and he says: 'I'm So I says: 'You're just a baby.

I was 107 une 29. unit on hand. 1863 Record StlH Stands After the regular army hsi put on its show, cavalry, infantry, artillery, anti-aircraft battery, tanks, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion brought up the rear with their gaudy uniforms, their blaring bugles, booming drums. All told, there were a lot of folk in town today. But the record for numbers hereabouts established seventy-five years ago still stands.

On; those first three days of July, 1863, (there were about 160,000 who met here. Of them a score or so are back to help "Now, that's something you'll never hear of again Side by side in barber chairs two boys who are 212 years old." rom Page 1) levies produced $58,000,000 less than their estimated yields. The marking total receipts of the Government, was $79,000,000 less than President Roosevelt had estimated in his budget message of January 3 last Customs receipts fell $56,000,000 below estimates, but taxes under the Social Security Act were approximately $33,000,000 greater than had been anticipated. The increased Treasury outlay on account of refunds of taxes occurred as the result of an appropriation cf $40,561,886.43 for return to certain States of portions of Federal employers' tax collected under the Social Security Act. Jumps In Relief Items Increases in items classified as recovery and relief during 1938 over 1937 included: In Interest ratp on morteK hi-lil by tht Federal Farm Mortiraif Corpo-rmion and Federal Land Manka $12,000,000 KpclauiHtlon projwts 10,000,000 11 ml Electrification Administration 28,000,000 Payment to the Commodity Credit Corporation to rc-Ftore the amount of capital Impairment of that ageucy.

9t.2S5.4W Discussing the $37,165,000,000 gross public debt, Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, pointed out 0PESA STAR AGAIN IS BRIDE Edith Mason Weds W. E. Ragland, Wealthy Chicago Broker Woodstock. July 2 Edith Mason, Chicago, grand-opera star, and William E. Ragland, wealthy Chicago broker, were married in the City Hail here today.

Police Magistrate Grant Nolan, who performed the ceremony, said the couple departed immediately for a short honeymoon- in Wisconsin. It was the fourth marriage for Miss Mason and Ragland's second. She gave her age as 47. He is 48. our country has so resolutely rejected there was no real alternative.

They will have a very different feeling in a While Eldridge was telling about his camp birthday, James Edward Winning, late of the First West Virginia, but now living in Eldridge's home town of St Petersburg, came up He's got a cane to prove it To prove that he, Eugene Merrick, Los Angeles, at 84 is the youngest member of the G. A. R. He'll show it to you and tell you about the time he insulted General Grant. He was 12 years old in '65 when he joined General Stedman to clean up behind Sherman.

The lad was in Savannah trying to get some sleep. "I had laid some logs down on the ground and covered them with mosi for a bed. It was raining pitch forks. I had just turned over when two men in oil skins came up. One had a slouch hat on and a big cigar sticking out of his mouth.

He told me to get up and I told him to get away. Then I told him some more things about where he could go. "So he says 'Orderly, arrest that man. Well, sir, I didn't waste time getting up. The orderly says, 'But, General, the boy didn't know who you were.

The oil skins cover up your 'I suppose they said General Grant, 'go on to sleep sonny." A.D.C. fight to force them to vote against a Maryland Democrat whose crime is swell the present, less formidable, for congratulations. He celebrated his. in the past, to the end that these United States may continue." Along the same line spoke Mr. Kennedy: i "The United Spanish War Veterans; learned from you, my comrades, the only 'ism they know, You taught us by war and examp'e crowd.

Competition among the' drum and ninety-first birthday in camp June 30 dissolved through a desire for mutual understanding and an exemplification They Never Ran bugle corps and parading units this afternoon was won by two V. F. W. posts: the White Rose Post, No. 556, of tho Ideal of a true brotherhood of man." "They will tell you that the Ninth DEATHS New York Heavy Artillery never ran." of York, and the Earl Aurand Post, No.

1086, of Harrisburg, Pa. what it meant to love an4. respct cur country and the nobla flag which flies over it You have carried on through that he did not blindly follow the President. When to all this is added the basic fact that the Negroes who constituted so much of the Roosevelt majority are debarred from the primaries, there would seem slight reason for fear on the part of Mr. Tydings' friends.

Perhaps when the President's amateur political advisers think these things over they may conclude that their confidence is not as well based as they thought. Caroline Tax Rate Reduced Denton, July 2 MP Caroline these many years a vUant spirit, of, county's taxpayers got a 1-cent reduc Their Americanism Praised Under the arc lights in the stadium patriotism, Americanism, and above IKeceii'ed too late for CUittificatiml urii kTk uiy a. bkkt.C. hclovi'cl ilsiiirbtor of Kroilrrlcfc iinl ltiTlii Ourrrky. Ktmenil from tnr lat North ColllimMon svfinif.

on dav aftprnoon a o'clock. Interino iu Oak Hill Cemetery. Alfred E. Stacy, 92, speaking. He is from Syracuse and is the only former commander-in-chief of the G.

A. R. living east of the Mississippi. "I was wounded twice at Cedar creek. We fought hard there, all right all, the spirit of humanity We are go tonight the veterans of 1861-65 heard the younger service men extoll their tion on their real estate tax rate for the coming year, despite increases in several levies.

The new rate is $1.22 per $100 valuation. ing to see to it that nothing happens type of Americanism. It was the key in the forms of attacks from without,.

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