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Attention, Please! Weather and Markets FORECAST: Partly cloudy, scattered thnnder-showers today and Sunday; gentle to moderate southwest and west winds. TIDES: High, 5:23 low, 5:23 pjn. MAKKETS: Stocks, firm: bonds, If her; foreign exchange, steady; cotton, mixed; sugar, rawer; wheat, easy; corn, firm; cattle, steady; bogs, 15-25 higher. Average "highest temperature in Florida yesterday, 95 i t. -A "Phono 2141 batoro 10 a.m.' for Special Delivery "when you fail to receive your morning Journal.

The Circulation Department will greatly appreciate the continued cooperation of its subscribers. PHONE 1 4 VOL XLVI No. 79 I PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, SATURDAY MORNING. JULY 27. 1 940 PUBLISHED EYERY DAYf I CENTS Wavy Flier Is Ita lian Planes Ret id Gibraltar; British man French Ships Gov.

'Daniel Sees Election In First Vote DAIXAS, Jury 26P Gov. W. Lee OTJaniel, the hill-billy flour merchant of two years 1. wound up his campaign in the first. Democratic primary with the prediction he would be nominated tomorrow ever five opponents, Nomination tantamount to election.

Each of opponents, Jerry Sadler, ErnestO. Thompson, Mrs. Mimiam A. (Ma) Ferguson, Harry Hines and Arson B. (Cyclone) assured! the electorate they would bej In next month's run-off election with O'Daniel, who upset precedent two year ago by defeating 11 opponents In the first primary.

Rome Reports ENGLISH REFUGEES FIND HAVEN AT YALE- inety -seven English children, ranging in age from 1 month to 15 years, and 23 mothers, all from Oxford university families, have arrived at New Haven, under the auspices of Yale university and war th more college which have found homes for them in the homes of faculty members of those schools. The refugees are the first to be evacuated from England to America as a group. Some of them are shown in these two pictures as they left the train at New Haven. 1: Mercury Goes To New High Marks In Eastern Area Deaths Attributed To Heat Reach At Least 468 (By Th Associated Presal Use of U. S.

Vessels For British Children Approved in House WASHINGTON, July Legislation authorizing the use of American ships to bring children here from Europe's war zone, if the belligerents will promise safe passage, was approved unanimously today by the house foreign affairs committee. It acted after President Roosevelt said at a press conference that the United States had a deep desire to do aO possible to remove children from England, but that it would be a big responsibility to send ships for them without assurances that there would be no torpedoings. At hearings on the measure, witness after witness told the committee that there would be no trouble in placing refugee children in private homes here. Old Shipyards On Gulf Coast May Be Opened Knudsen Bares Plans, Reporting Progress In Defense Program By EDWARD E. BOMAR WASHINGTON, 3 uly 28.

jP) to put five "dormant" shipyards to work and to speed the production of varplanes and munitions of all kinds were disclosed today by William S. Knudsen in a guardedly optimistic report on the pace, of industrial phase of the defense drive. 1 The defense commission's chief of industrial production said that in the eight weeks since President Roosevelt created the Commission, Army and Navy contracts totaling $1,728,195,928 had been cleared. "We can be confident of a production machine capable of attaining the definite goal j. specifically stated in the request i now before congress for funds to equip completely a modern Army; of 2,000,000 men.

Knudsen said in an initial "progress report" 893 Planes Next Month At the same time, the tall, Danish-born president of General Motors counselled patience in expecting unduly quick results from efforts to gear industry to arms production. Plans for the production of 3,004 American warplanes a month for Great Britain, announced by Lord Beaverbrook. could not be realized for more than two years, and would require erection of 38 engine, frame and accessory plants, Knudsen told reporters; The entire American industry expects to turn out only 895 planes next month, aside from! small personal craft, he disclosed, and estimated it would be mid-1942 before the monthly production! rate could be increased to 3,000 planes, to be divided among American, British and other purchasers. He indicated that even then the 3.000 would hv elude some large commercial planes and would not be solely military craft. Shipyards Not Identified Meanwhile, Chairman Jesse Jones of the RfC announced approval of a $92,000,000 loan- to the Wright Aeronautical corporation to step up the production of high-speed Wright radial aircraft motors by 12,000 a year A new plant win be erected near Cincinnati.

Knudsen said the additional shipyards to be pat to work in building a two-ocean Navy were located en the Pacific and Gulf coasts, but he actually identified plants at Seattle and Los Angeles. In his statement, amplified at his first press conference, Knudsen reported: Concerning warplanes, there is "every indication the industry will be able to reach an annual production of 23.000 completed craft by July 1, 1942. Leading manufacturers have been summoned to a conference here Tuesday on prospective new contracts. Tank Contracts Let Details of a contract for 9.000 British-designed Rolls-Royce motors for the United States and Great Britain' are still being negotiated with the Packard Motor; Car company, of Detroit. The Allison Engine company, Indianapolis, has met difficulty In obtaining machine, tools for production of the only high-power, liquid-cooled aircraft motor now made in thia country and is torn-ing out only 65 motors in July, bat expects to complete 130 in Aogast and to step op the rate to 400 a month by November.

Contracts for light tanks, have been let. Knudsen said, but heavier tanks have been redesigned in view of European war experience. He stressed that "months of efforts" must be expended upon design alone. A contract already has been awarded for a powder plant to turn out 200,000 pounds of powder daily beginning 10 months hence, he added, wheras lt was seven months after the start of the World war before the first such plant was contracted for. He also predicted that a contract would be ready shortly for a shell loading plant.

8naH 'Arms Plentiful As to small arms and ammunition, it was said that "no serious problem" exists. The Army's Springfield, armory expects to be turning out at least 500 automatic Garand rifles daily by October 1 and to double this rate by early spring. In food products and motor (TURN TO PAGE Killed, Another Seriously Hurt Lt. Von Weller Dies After Plane Falls Near Old Corry One Navy flier was killed, another seriously hurt and a third was saved by a parachute leap in two airplane crashes north of Pensacola yesterday afternoon. Lt.

(jg) Harold Von Weller, Corry field instructor who was; married to Miss Virginia Pace in Pensacola three years ago. died 45 minutes after, his training ship fell three quarters of a mile west of Old Corry field at 4:15 pjn. Von Weller's student, Cadet John W. McNichols, 23, of 1314 North Foinsettia place. Los was removed to the naval hospital where officers said his condition was serious but not Immedi ately dangerous.

Described by officers as not losing control but seeing ft slipping away from him while flying alone and In the same general vicinity 30 minutes later, Cadet Richard E. Fleming, 24, of St. Paul, took to his chute and landed safely two miles north east of Stump field off Palafox 4 highway. Witnesses said Von Weller's airplane appeared to have gone Into a flat spin at an altitude of about .200 feet Just after taking off. Blades of the propeller were bent, indicating the motor was still running when the crash occurred.

One propeller blade was flat, leading some to believe something might have gone wrong' with the adjustable pitch mechanism. Both fliers, safety belts secure, bad to be extricated from the wreckage, which did not catch fir. Von Weller's right foot and McNichols left foot were neany severed 'and both appeared to have suffered Internal injuries. Lieutenant Von Weller, a native of Albany, Oa, had Just returned from duty at the Charleston Navy yard, where he had been working out of the Norfolk station. -KurvH-nr include his wife: his mother, Mrs.

H. J. Von Weller. 531; Broad street, Albany; two brothers, Philip, living In Columbia, S. and George, of Albany, and a sister, Harold Taylor of Albany.

The body was being held at Waters and Hib-bcrt last night pending funeral arrangements. Two Are Hurt In Auto Crash Car Hits Marker At and Cervantes Joe E. Durden, 33, and Robert Croft, 19, were injured when a ear driven by the latter hit a street marker at and Cervantes street. Croft, who was driving, said he tried to avoid a collision with another car. Both were taken to Pensacola hospital In a Waters and Hlbbert ambulance.

Durden had a broken nose and possibly a skull fracture. Russian Warships At Oil Port to 'Parade' LONDON, July 23. The Moscow radio said tonight that Russian warships in the Caspian sea bad been concentrated in the oil port of Baku In preparation for "a naval parade" Monday. Large-scale naval neuvers Just have been completed, the radio added, by Soviet naval forces on the Amur river In eastern Siberia. The Weather SUN.

MOON AND TIDES FOR TODAY Sunrise. a.m.: sunset. 4:44 p.m.; moonrise. 11:41 p.m.; xnoonset, p.m.; nxt phase of the moon, new niooiv, 3rd; high tide. 6:23 a.m.

low iMm, 5:25 p.m.; hipjh and low tides ar 25 minutes earlier at mouth of iViwaiH-l bay; and 65 minutes latr at Escambia treetl. TEMPERATURE Accumulated deficiency this month to date, 30; accumulated deficiency thia year to date, S.ST: highest of record thia time of year, lowest of record this time of year, T. RATXFALL-Total for this month to p.m., 17.74; normal for July, S.77; accumulated excess thia month to date. ll.SS; total for thia year to date, 4S R0; accumulated exceso thia year to date, 15.69. BAROMETRIC PRKSSURR a.m., 30.06 101S.0 mo: :3 Srt.OO 1015.S mo, HTMIDITY (Tcoterday) a.iru, 12: 13 noon, CS; p.m..

S. TELEGRAPHIC OBSERVATION Yatera :30 p.m. Jiljrh Low Bala Atlanta 7 Birmingham 94 7S Hoaton 95 Buffalo ST. 'htco Ft. Worti .......93 9 IVnver 77 SI Huron St Jkoii ille ..74 ft Kansas City .97 9 I initio ...93 95 Memphis ....90 93 Meridian ,...94 97 Miami 94 Mobile 93 Montgomery ..91 .9 New Orleana 99 New Yorlc iklahcm City ..91 94 PENSACOLA .87 94 73 71 7 44 SI 74 79 74 78 74 71 7S 7 7S 79 7 78 THUMB NAIL WAR PICTURE (By The Aaaociated Preaa LA LINE Spain Italian planes bombard Gibraltar twice in less than 24 hours; Britons say no casualties, bat Spanish reports say at least four killed, 37 wounded and docks and shipping damaged; Italians assert troops panicked.

LONDON French sailors prepare own ships to fight beside British: navy; Nazi planes lash at ships in Irish waters for first time; British claim 28 German planes destroyed in Thursday's fierce fighting. BERLIN Germans declare four British merchantmen totalling 34.004 tons sunk in addition to 63,000 i tons claimed Thursday, Hitler outlines plan for reorganized Balkans to Rumania leaders with prospect Rumanian to lose morel territory, this time to Bulgaria, and Hungary. TOKYO Foreign office spokesman predicts "very great" reaction to possible U. S. embargo on scrap iron and oil shipments to Japan, GENEVA Formal death of league of nations political body marked; with resignation of Joseph Avenol.

secretary-general. British Utilizing French Ships As Nazi Raids Grow Heavy Ship Losses In Raid on Convoy In Channel Admitted LONDON, July 28 Britain and the Frenchmen under her flag manned Itor sea tonight a powerful squadron of French man o' war to meet the new and spreading menace of 1 flotillas of marauding Nazi torpedo; "motor boats, attacking in Britain's: waters with clouds of German bombers. The admiralty, in the careful language of the "silent services," disclosed that "a number of French ships of varying sixes are now being manned and prepared for sea' both by men of the "free Frencli naval forces" and by British seamen. At least one of these, it disclosed, already has been operating "successfully. This new coup of Winston Churchill's "fight to the end" government was disclosed while the admiralty acknowledged the loss or crippling of half of a 21-ship convoy before combined Nazi air and torpedo; boat attack in the English channel Attack Off Ireland Moreover, the German bombers struck for the first time today at a convoy off the coast of loyalist northern Ireland.

Britain's vulnerable back door. Shore watchers saw fighting between the ships and the while British fighters sped to the scene. One German plane appeared to have been shot down, Anti-aircraft guns went Into action tonight in Wales and southeast and southwest England after enemy planes were heard. Heavy explosions were heard near the southeast coast. Gunfire and explosions also were heard near the mouth of the Thames river.

Intent on sapping the basic strength of the German air force, th RAP again blanketed Germany's industrial areas with bombs Thursday night. Oil storage dumps in half) a dozen cities were reported set afire, fourteen airdromes in Germany and Holland were blasted and plane factories, docks, blast film aces and other military objectives were bombed. The raids cost the British five planes, Britons Seek Return Of Women to Hongkong HONGKONG, July 27. (Saturday) (Leaders of the British community here 'petitioned authorities of the Crown colony today to abandon their scheme for compulsory evacuation of British women and children. Asserting that removal of families was unnecessary and caused "untold misery and discomfort," the petition 1 urged the return at.

government expense of 4000 women and children already removed. Most of these are in Manila. Costa! Rica Proposes Strict, Ban on Aliens HAVANA. July 23. Costa Rica placed before the conference of American foreign ministers to day a proposal that all American governments close their frontiers and deny the right-of assembly to "inhabitants, nationals or foreigners'" who seek to foment disorder in any American nation when such acts have ista their goal t.e propagation of subversive ideologies in another ination.

Destruction At Powerful Rode Germany Continues Attacks on Shipping, Claiming Huge Toll (By The Associated Press) Gibraltar, Britain's classic symbol of durable strength, suffered two heavy bombardments yesterday by Italian planes aiming at the fortress arsenal and at warships based in the harbor. t- The British were silent on the extent of damage to their position on the great rock that Is the in-ereasingiy-important key to eon- -trol of the Mediterranean, but Stefani, official Italian news agency, told of panic In the streets, with soldiers plunging into the sea to escape fires started by bombs in the Friday morning raid. Reports from la Line and Algeci-ras, Spanish towns nearby, said four persons were killed and 37 injured in the first raid and that casualties mounted when the Italians returned at 11 :15 p.m. (5:15 pjn. Friday).

Reports from these cities also aaid the Gibraltar radio transmitter, arsenal docks, 'water tanks and a hotel were damaged and that oil on the waters indicated a ship may have been hit. French Hoist Colors aharn Inrrnu In fee afta-Va on the rocky redoubt which Spain has vowed she must regain, came as French sailors in England hoisted their own tricolor beside Britain's white ensign, to go to sea against speedy German torpedo boats which are raiding English coastal waters. Britain did not disclose the number of French ships ready for ae- lion, but more, than tofl French sa Mup aa auvw SJL srw asm bU lish ports. As fast as "free Frenchmen," opposed to their country's armistice with Germany, can bo assembled they will take to the sea. French pilots also are fighting beside the British.

Tazi air bombers for the first time yesterday struck at shipping convoys off the northern Irish coast. Britain's "back ddbr" is her weakest defense point due to Erie's refusal to permit British defense farces on her soil. -British airmen believed they shot down one of the German plane -in the Irish fight. Rumania Held Enemy Britain's apparent answer to Rumania's seizure of British oil properties came last night when the Rumanian ministry of marine disclosed Britain's naval forces seized three Rumanian ships at Port Said, Med iterranean gate to the Sues canaL Two oil tankers and a Rumanian freighter were taken by the British, and the German radio said Rumania had retaliated by seizing 18 British boats the Danube river. Thai, after eleven months war in which Romania has been or less exempt from the rigors of Britain's blockade, ah Joins; a long list of countries Britain apparently considers is directly aiding Germany's war machine.

planes sank or fired four British merchant men totaling 34.000 tons near Brighton, English south coast resort yesterday in addition to tons claimed sunk by air bombs in Thursday's channel raid. Britain admitted losing five ships totaling 5,104 tons and that another five were damaged. But she claimed a "bag" of 28 Nazi planes in the fighting Thursday, and two more today. Hitler Studies Balkans RAP bombers who raided Germany's industrial districts early yes terday morning claimed they set afire six oil storage depots and bombed many other military objectives, Adolf Hitler, in his mountain retreat at Berehtesgaden, conferred with the Rumanian premier, -Ion Gigurta and Foreign Minister Mihail ManoUeses) on his plans for reorganizing the BsTVsns deemed certain to include further Romanian territorial concessions. Bulgaria and Hungary probably wiU benefit from Rumania's dependence on Oermany following Russia's seizure of Bessarabia and northern Bucovina.

Germany, for its part, needs tranquilly in the-Balkans while she fights Britain. In Tokyo, a Japanese foreign office spokesman said Japanese reaction to a United States embargo on scrap iron and oil shipments to Japan "wiU be very great," if it occurs. President Roosevelt has signed an order requiring licenses for those shipments. He has power to curb them whenever he deems it desira- In Havana, Secretary of State Hull attempted to reconcile Argentina's opposition to the question of Pan-kmerican mandates over European' possessions in this hemisphere. Clothing folk Arrive Here For Annual Outing Softball and Bowling Teams tojSee Action During Sojourn Pensacola white sand, lazy blue surf and mlldlyf treacherous sun burn are being endorsed over to 340 clothiera this morning, who arrived here yesterday for their annual weekend outing on the Gulf COast.

Cars and busses furnished by the Pensacola coach company will take their first loads early this morning and by well before noon will have displaced the entire party from the San Carlos hotel to the waterside. Bussell Gill, manager of the Pensacola beach and casino, has made available all facilities there for the enjoyment of the visitors. Lunch will be served from concessions and casino between i dips and beach Sport. A dance orchestra which accompanied the colorful retinue on its trek from Mayfield, the home of the large garment concern for which the vacationists workv will supply the music for a dance in the casino tonight- Pensacolians will attend this as regular Saturday night casino partyf The clothiera last night terminated a activity, lessened by the thermometer, with a fish fry at Spearman's Brewery and a dance later In the evening at the San Carlos! hotel. Arriving at 1130 a jn.

at the Frisco terminal, oars and busses met the excursionists and took them to the hotel. Thereafter, many parties took ithe afternoon to explore the city of five flags and vicinity. Their championship soft-ball and bowling teams staged short workouts and the i dance orchestra waa heard overs station WCOA. Pensacolians, widely Ing their coming and alive to talk of the brass band and pretty drum majorettes who were to lead them Into town, were disappointed yesterday. The heat, however, prevailed and the carnival aspect of the outing had to go by the boards.

A spectacular end to things will be provided I Saturday night at 7:30 at Legion field where the 1939 natlonalf champion soft' ball team, of the Merit clothing company, will trade blows with an all-star Pensacola; team. The field ha been trimmed down to regular Softball diamond aize. McMurrain Called To Active Duty As Navy Instructor i 8. B. McMurrain, local contractor, has been called up to active daty in the United States Navy.

It waa annomnced i yesterday. McMurrain, a lieutenant in the Navy reserve, win be an instructor at the Pensacola Naval station. He was a World pilot and became a lieutenant In the regular Nary after the war, resigning in 1928 to enter the contracting easiness In West Palm Beach. He has been in Pensacola tor 19 years and at a member of the firm of Ful-gnum and McMurrain, Britain Will Broaden Blockade to Neutrals LONDON, July' ,26 (Jpy-Great Britain baa decided to reinforce her economic blockade of all German-dominated Europe by rationing the trade of neutral countries "to the bare minimum necessary to their existence," 1 was reliably reported today. The British it was said, would make "virtually impossible re-export of goods to German-occupied territory through neutral channels.

The details will be announced early next week and wRl be implemented "very soon." it was said. Machine Gun Firing Wound Up by Guards Machine gun firing of the Georgia national guardsmen, in camp at Fort Barranca was completed yesterday. The guardsmen will break camp Tuesday. Imprisonment For Draff Dodgers Is Provided in Bill Measure to Be Ready For Study in Senate By Early Next Week WASHINGTON, July 26 Congress approached a history-making battle" over compulsory military training today as the senate military affairs committee agreed upon final details of a measure granting the president broad powers to conscript an army from among 42,000,000 men. Chairman Sheppard (D-Tex) said the senate bill, revised to meet war and Navy department suggestions, should be ready for conslderatioaearIy next "week.

One the-Tcomntfttee's 'final acts, was to insert penalties of five years In prison and fine for "draft- dodgers At the other end of the capitol, 4yor Fiorello La Guardia of New York city and Owen Young, Industrialist, told the house military committee they favored compulsory training while Norman Thomas, presidential candidate of the Socialist party, protested the peacetime conscription proposal as 'getting Hitlerism without Hitler!" Under the senate committee's bill the organization which would conduct registration and selection of conscripts would be headed by a "director of selective nominated by the president and confirmed by 'the senile. Local selection boards, similar, to those set up under the World war draft law, would handle the bulk the work. The committee also completed a section designed to retain jobs for men after they had completed the 12 months training. This would make it an "unfair labor practice" for an employer to refuse to rehire a conscript "unless the employer's circumstances have so changed i as to make it impossible or unreasonable to afford such re-employment. Chicago Gunmen Take One Victim Four Gangsters Fire Into Parked Auto CHICAGO, July 2S.

Two men were shot, one fatally, by four unidentified gunmen who fired Into an automobile parked in front of a crowded food store on West 95th street -today. Police Identified the men tentatively as John McCloud, shot in the head with, shotgun slugs. and James Ryan, SO, who was wounded in the back. Witnesses said about a. doasen shots were fired.

Pellets crashed through the window of the food store, wounding Peter Mannos, 40, an employe, and endangering near-: ly 50 customers. Police Sergt. Joseph Gooch said the attack was a typical gang shooting. The gunmen escaped. Quit; for anyone to forecast the outcome of the presidential election' now.

"I'm going to keep my mouth shut until the country cools off," he says. MADISON, Wis. Dr. Glenn Frank, chairman of the Republican program committee, announced he was willing to accede to supporters requests that, 'ne seek the Republican nomination for the U. S.

senate. WASHINGTON, July 28. Secretary Wallace, disclosing today that he intends to step out of his cabinet post to campaaign for the vice presidency, issued a heated denial of what he termed "loose charges" Ne tv Mother nature turned more heat on the eastern part of the nation yesterday, sending temperatures to new highs for the season in some areas. New York residents watched the mercury soar to 94.3, topping the previous high of the season, 91, reached June 4. A heavy shower brought temporary relief later yesterday.

Temperatures jumped as much as 22 degrees in some eastern Pennsyl vania cities in six months-, setting rec ords for the summer. The season's record at Boston was tied with 91. A 90 degree heat forced many per sons to abandon work before noon at Wheeling, W. Va. The hot wave also dipped into the South- Virginia had the hottest day of the summer with temperatures ranging from 97 at Richmond to 99 at Danville.

Norfolk, on the Atlantic coast, had the hottest July 25 since 1875 with 99. The New port News Shipbuilding and Drydock company announced that all but "emergency work would be suspend ed because of the intense heat, Cool winds and scattered thun-dershowers in some sections brought moderate temperatures to the heat-stricken middle west generally, and the forecast called for continuation of moderated weather. Deaths attributed directly and In direct! to the have reached at least 468, not counting fatalities from lightning. Of the 468, the heat was blamed for 218 deaths. Drownings totaled 250.

94 HIGH HERE Pensacola's temperatures ranged from 78 to 94 degrees here yesterday. The day's average was five degrees above normal. Former Minister Of France Faces Charges VICHY, France, July 26. Jfy An announcement from Rabat, French Morocco, today said that proceedings had been opened against Georges Mandel, former minister of interior, on a charge of plotting against the security of the state. tMandel went to French Morocco about the time of the French capitulation to Germany.

Paul Reynaud, then premier, wished to set up a refugee government in North Africa to carry on the war against Germany). Mexican Oil Workers May Fight on Program MEXICO CnT, July 26 (Pi The petroleum workers union called together today representatives of its 32 sections to map its opposition to President Cardenas' decree reorganizing the government-administered oil industry. In same quarters there was talk that the union eventually might call a strike. een These farmers would and should vigorously resent any attempt to use them or the program for politi-' cai purposes." Wallace also said that regulations governing AAA payments to farmers for the 1940 crop year were drafted months ago, and "nothing that secretary of agriculture does now can affect the amount of such The secretary said he planned to resign or take a leave of absence from his federal post as soon as. he begins active campaigning, which will be shortly after he is formally notified of his nomination in late August.

Compromise Seen On U.S. Plan For Foreign Colonies Believe Argentina's Objections to Be Met at Conference HAVANA, July 26 A compromise which would maintain continental solidarity on the controversial question of European possessions in the western hemisphere appeared nearer tonight after a meeting of the peace commission of the conference of 21 American foreign ministers. A aub-committee of the peace committee, headed by U. S. Secretary of State CordeU Hull, will meet tomorrow with Leopold Melo, head of the Argentine delegation and the chief objector to proposals for a joint mandate for threatened European possessions In the Americas.

A meeting of the full peace committee tonight was brief. That indicated to some observers that the Argentine delegation might be waiting to hear further from its government on how far it might go in joining the other American republics in measures to keep European colonies in the new world out of unfriendly hands. On leaving the session. Secretary Hull would say only that he was hopef uL One Argentine said be thought progress was being made. Earlier today a three -point compromise solution of the problem posed by Argentine's lone opposition to the United States proposals for i an American! trusteeship over the European colonies in the western hemisphere was Indicated when members of the peace sub-committee agreed on recommendations.

Navy Recruiting Office Open Today The Navy recruiting office will' be maintained all day today in the courtroom of Justice of the Peace R. L. Kendrick, it was announced yesterday. that the vast AAA set-up would be used as a "political machine." 'Asserting that the charges show an "amazing ignorarifce" of how the farm programs are carried on, he said in a 600-word statement: The triple-A programs are administered in the counties by farmer committeemen, elected by their fellow farmers. These men 'are not in the employ of the federal government; their limited expenses are paid by their neighbor farmers, and many of them serve at a real sacrifice.

Some of the committeemen are Democrats, some Republicans, and some members of other parties or members of no party. Democratic Pa rty Wallace to (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON Secretary Wallace to quit agricultural post to campaign for vice presidency; denies AAA will be used as. political machine. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Wendell Willkie's managers are reported considering formation of a new party, such aa a "Democratic Unity Party, to enable! Southern Democrats to vote for Wlllkie and yet retain their Democratic regis-tration.

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