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Wee NRA' Approved With Jobless Pay Scale Washington, D. Aug. 4 (iP). The Senate Military Affairs Committee, overriding1 Republican protests all the way, tonight approved a bill setting up a super agency to direct reconversion from war to peace and establishing federal standards for postwar unemployment payments to discharged war workers. F.

D. Rs Best Asset Ss War, Dewey States By DICK LEE St. Louis, Aug. 4 Gov. Dewey revealed his belief today that the November election will turn on President Roosevelt's, ability to convince the people that his continuance in office is necessary for the winning of the war.

A Negro educator, Dr. William E. Taylor, dean of the Lincoln University Law School in St. Louis, emerged from the Hotel Statler after discussion of campaign plans with Dewey and declared: "He said that the best argument for the Democrats is that since President Roosevelt is in the White House and a war is on, the people should keep him there. He suggested that the best way to meet that argument is to show that the European war is almost over; that the war with Japan is under con Ilealuiy Baby of (NEWS fotol Ragged but happy young refugees from Nazi terror smile broadly on arrival yesterday at Hoboken, N.

en route to camp. 982 Refugees Arrive In N. Y. From Europe Nine hundred and eighty-two European refugees Poles, Italians, Dutch, French, Germans, Spaniards sailed into The measure was reported out by a 10-to-7 party-line vote with both Republicans and Democrats using proxies of absent members. Denounced as "NRA." The unemployment compensation section would fix uniform national rates for paying jobless workers based on 75 of their present weekly wages except that no payments could exceed: a week for a jobless worker with no dependent, $25 for a worker with one dependent; $30 for two dependents and $35 for three or more dependents.

This provision met solid Republican opposition. Earlier, the committee had approved, 10 to 7, Title I of the bill establishing an Office of War Mobilization and Adjustment with unprecedented advisory authority over production and manpower through the reconversion period. The Republicans denounced it as a proposal to set up a postwar "NRA." Free Vocational Training. The committee's action made the bill ready for floor action Tuesday along with the States' Rights Unemployment proposal. The unemployment section gives a proposed work administrator authority to provide six months of free vocational training for any worker in addition to $50 a month subsistence.

$75 if he has a family, New York Harbor late yesterday, safe after months and years of living in German-occupied countries, in ghettos and Discrepancies Bared In Vito Vote Reports The bitter dispute over Representative Vito victories in last Tuesday's primary entered a new phase yesterday when the Board of Elections ordered inspectors in one district to appear Monday morning to explain marked discrepancies in reports on voting results. The discrepancies were uncovered? CIO Defeated On Hatch Act By RUTH MONTGOMERY Washington, D. Aug. 4. A three-judge tribunal in Federal Court today upheld the constitutionality of the section of the Hatch Act which forbids government employes from taking an active part in political campaigns.

Members of the Dies committee hailed the decision, which is expected to provide ammunition for the House Committee on Un-American Activities, headed by Martin Dies in its demand that Attorney General Biddle prosecute 75 high-ranking government officials for alleged collusion with the CIO Political Action Committee during recent election campaigns. Dies Promises More Hearings. The case in question revolved around a suit filed in April by the United Federal Workers of America, CIO, requesting an injunction against the" Civil Service Commission to prevent its enforcement of the contested section of the Hatch Act. The suit also sought a judgment to have the court declare the disputed section unconstitutional. Meanwhile Chairman Dies announced his intention to return to Washington to supervise continued hearings and investigation in connection with his committee's charges that Mrs.

Eleanor Roosevelt, Several cabinet members and officials in "nearly every government agency" violated the Hatch Act by working with the PAC. Has No Eyes The birth of a "healthy, bright and intelligent," 8 Impound boy without eyes was reported yesterday by the Muhlenberg Hospital at Plainfield, N. J. The baby's eyelids were normal, "but the eyeballs were absent," the hospital announced. The American Medical Association said the condition, known as "anopthalmia," is uncommon, but not rare.

The association has approximately 10 cases on record. The child and mother were discharged at the end of the usual confinement period. and to provide transportation of workers to new jobs. It would give the new agency authority to formulate post-war plans, issue directives to other government agencies and review and eliminate their regulations; settle controversies between departments and other sweeping powers. Principal opposition centered on a provision for setting up a series of joint councils through the nation, made up.

of representatives of labor, agriculture and industry, to advise with a national production employment board on matters of production, employment and war contract terminations. -w- Ifl Free of Flier Jennifer Holt Los Angeles, Aug. 4 (TP). Jennifer Holt, screen actress daughter of film actor Jack Holt, won a divorce today from Major William M. Ritchey when she testified that the marine flier veteran of Guadalcanal "was contemptuous of my pampering myself and thought I should have as much fortitude as the soldiers on Guadalcanal." Trying to cook for him made her so nervous that they separated last Valentine's Day, she added.

ords in the district as a result of complaints from Kennedy and the Republicans that many signatures on Marcantonio primary designation petitions were forged. trol; and that the new President will be a peacetime President. Closing Blast at New Deal. Dewey, who had just completed two busy days with the other 25 Republican governors, spent the entire day with the party leaders of Missouri, home state of the Democratic candidate for Vice President, Senator Harry S. Tru man.

It was obvious that they regarded Missouri as a doubtful state the November tussle. The two-day session of the eov- ernors was officially closed today with a final blast at the Roosevelt Administration for its failure to consult tne heads of state governments during the last 10 vears. They demanded a remedy of that "costly misunderstanding." Gov. Dewey and his party left mis evening ior rawnng, in. i.

Girl Strangled In River Resort Old Lyme, Aug. 4 (JP). The nude, strangled and raped Doay ol pretty, black-haired Ida Elizabeth Sienna, 23, of Middle-town was found behind a billboard along the main line of the New York, New Haven Hartford railroad today by a gang of track workers seeking a shady place to luncn. Less than five hours later a grief-stricken sister, Angeline, made the indentification at a funeral home here where Dr. Lincoln Opper, Norwich State Hos pital Pathologist, performed the autopsy.

State police, headed bv Commis sioner Edward J. Hickev who sned to the spot in Sound View, a vaca tion section of this town not far from the mouth of the Connecticut River, said several voune men known to have been friendlv with the girl would be questioned immediately. The body was found lying face oown. une wrist bore a gold brace let, tne other a wrist 225th St. and Broadway became stuck just after 3 P.

MJ because heat expanded rails while it was open and traffic was tied up for 20 minutes on the Broadway-Seventh Ave. line. On the IRT at the Jerome Ave. and 167th St. station heat-expanded switches halted a I tram for 16 minutes.

And the Bronx Zoo came up with perhaps the most, unusual weather I casualty. Satan, the hooded vul ture, officially known as vulturl monachus, whose native habitat is I tba sweltering deserts of North I Africa and the Asian jungles, col-l lapsed in his cage, unable to take I New York heat. He was removed I to a basement and revived. P.S It was 38 degrees above I zero in Butte, yesterday I morning. rnjher pictures in center fpld concentration camps.

They came on a refugee ship from Italy, the first to bring Europeans from occupied countries to the United States, and they shared the ship with wounded American soldiers from the Italian fighting front. stayed aboard the unidentified ship in the Hudson River, waiting for completion of examination of every refugee befort they will be taken by train to Port Ontario near Oswego, N. to be cared for until the war is ended and they can return to their homelands. Baby Born in Truck. Among them is a three-weeks old baby, named International Harry Maurer, who was born in a truck that was en route to the port of embarcation.

Ruth Gruber, representative of the Department of Justice, who accompanied the refugees in the trip across the Atlantic, said they sang and danced on the deck of the ship. The wounded soldiers were brought up at nights to hear them sing, and heard the voice of Leo Mirkovitch, Jugoslavian baritone who sang with the Zagreb opera. F. D. R.

Advanced Plan. The plan to bring the refugees from Europe was advanced by President Roosevelt June 9 when he cabled Robert Murphy in Algiers to make arrangements for the transfer from Italy of about 1,000 persons divided as equally as possible among the occupied countries of Europe. They will be cared for by the War Relocation Authority during their stay in the United States and aided in their return to their homes. Hottest Aug. 4 (Continued from page 2) falo, 93, despite rain; Salt Lake City, 90, and Los Angeles, 89.

And apparently there was no relief in sight. The forecast for New York was for continued hot weather, with the temperature expected to reach between 93 and 97 today. Scattered forecasts from other parts of the country indicated that they again could expect to swelter. It was a discouraging forecast for New York, particularly as the Weather Bureau was predicting that the hot spell might last four or five days, each day getting progressively warmer. Whether the all-time Summer heat record for New York 102.3 degrees, set on July 9, 1936 would be threatened was more than the forecasters cared to say.

But plenty of other records fell. First to fall was the year's high, set July 8 and equalled July 27. Boils City at 96.3; More Due in the 3d K.D. of the 14th A.D. after an official canvass showed that Marcan-tonio, ALP, had won the Republican nomination in the new 18th essional District by 222 ballots.

Thomas Mal-lee. chief clerk of the Board of -J Elections, said the inspectors in the 3d E.D. reported to po lice that Ob ballots were cast in the Primary. The same inspectors reported 304 ballots cast in their returns to his office, Malice stated. Marcantonio, who also defeated Representative Martin J.

Kennedy, Democrat, won this district from the G.O.P. The inspectors gave Marcantonio 46 votes and listed 13 for Lieut. Robert C. Palmer, U. S.

Navy, the Republican nominee. They reported only two blank ballots" to police. Mallee said the inspectors' report to the board listed 243 blank ballots. In addition, he stated, 700 ballots were received in the district, although the Elections Board sent only 138 because there were 138 enrolled G. O.

P. voters. Decision Monday. Mallee's disclosures came after Palmer's representatives made an exhaustive study of Primary Day data, seeding possible grounds to demand a recount of the vote. Their decision will be announced Monday.

Marcantonio's. ALP backers charged the Republicans ran "a campaign of deceit and falsehood" in the district. District Attorney Frank S. Ho-gan is checking registration rec- Ar Vito That mark was 92 and it was toppled at 1:40 P. when the mercury, which had registered exactly 92 at 1 P.

shot up three points to 95. The same jump also toppled the previous Aug. 4 record 93 degrees registered in 1936. Throughout the day, the temperature in New York averaged 84 degrees, 10 above normal for the day. And for the year it has been a total of 394 degrees above normal.

Casualty at Zoo. Those figures are based on official temperatures. Thermometers at street level in Manhattan's canyons showed reading far higher than the Weather Bureau listed, and one thermometer on a window-sill outside The News Building registered 108 at 3 P. M. The heat caused two freakish subway tieups.

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