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22 TELEPHONE CLASSIFIED ADS TO SUtter 2424 (East Bay, TEmplcbar 2424) bring thtm to Examiner Office Corntr Marktt and Third Sti. iMlUUULlC it1 -W -aa -4 A M.V..AT. tff. VOL. CLXXI, NO.

13 cccc SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, JULY 13. 1939-34 PAGES DAILY 5 CENTS, SUNDAY 10 CENTS JVSniTC A If II EXPLOSION AND ITALY STAHTS Ex-Communist Brands FIRE WREGKALIE III AFL Unites for Demand to Boost WPA Wage Scale nr. Act ive arry nrtages RANGER ALONG U.S.S. other in Re artv Threat by Duce Carried Out as Anti-Fascism Charged; U. S.

Vacationists Must Leave 200 Foot Section of Aircraft Carrier Swept; Seven Men Escape; Machinery Damaged Roosevelt, Congress Will Get Plea Olson Aides Fight SRA Transfer By The Associated Press ROME, July 12. Com-pulsory departure of all foreigners from their homes and vacation residences in Bolzano, Italy's frontier province Bar Beats Ban on Patriotic Teaching Rebels at Ending Own Americanism Work NORFOLK July 12. (AP) An explosion, followed by a solid sheet of flame, engulfed a 200 foot section amidship the Navy's aircraft carrier Ranger from water line to flight deck today and left" a tangled mass of bordering on Germany at the strategic Brenner Pass, was in full swing today on order of Witness Bares Name Alien Allegedly Used at Gatherings By HARRY LANG When Harry Bridges, in obedience to the rules of the Communist Party, had to take a name other than his own, for party records, he took the name of the mayor of San Francisco, of all people And that's why, on the records of the party, Harry Bridges is known as "Rossi!" That was just one of the highlights of the always astounding, often amusing testimony given at the third day of the Bridges deportation hearing on Angel Island, yesterday, by one John Lewis Leech, a painter and decorator from Los Angeles, who for five years was one of the highest burned machinery and a black charred hull in this portion Premier Mussolini. A communique issued today, three days after the first expulsions were ordered, stated that "political and military reasons Charges Against Anderson Will Be Aired A sizzling row within the Olson administration was in of the 735 foot vessel. By DICK PEARCE In one thundering shout the American Bar Association's Narrowly escaping death or By The Associated Press Leaders of American Federation of Labor unions, divided as to whether they should encourage strikes on WPA projects, got together yesterday on an appeal to Congress and President Roosevelt that prevailing wage rates be restored to WPA workers.

While thousands of Work Relief employes who had been on strike five days or more were prompted the move in a fight against anti-Fascism The com-j democratic assembly yesterday smashed an attempt to end serious injury were seven Navy enlisted men who, warned by the explosion, scurried to safety within the hull of the $30,000,000 teaching of Americanism. Faced with the necessitv of re- luvm woras inat wyers oy meir ter of the Interior. vessel, now at Norfolk Yard un the making last night as result of the Governor's an ducine its over-extended list profession are priests The announcement said the ac- dergoing minor repairs and over- haul, tion was taken in connection with'spai anj standing committees charged with teaching and lip-the Ovra, Italy's black shirt or-' JS holding Constitutional liberties. nouncement that he intends to remove the State Relief Ad EXHAUSTION AND SHOCK. i ku i 1 1 i 1 1 rJiui nuu being discharged under orders from WPA headquarters, officials of the AFL unions met in the The seven men apparently were anti-Fascism because of "the ac rnonry in a few important fields, ministration headquarters leaders of the party in the southern city.

Second Federal Witness Leech was the second Government witness in its drive to send Bridges back to Australia. With a vocabulary that might be the envy of many a college professor, this Los Angeles house painter laid down not seriously injured by the explosion or fire. They were given tivily of some elements from the assembly accepted most of a western nations resident In the' program of committee killing. national capital and discussed; from San Francisco to Los FINAL WARNING. "Let's don't haul down the flag," he concluded.

Young Paul S. Hannah of Washington, who only the day be- first aid treatment aboard the4 province of Bolzano." But when it came to a recommendation of death for its 17 year old committee on American Citizenship, the storm broke. CONCEDES GOOD WORK. fore had been elected president an array of answers that, the Government declared, linKed of the association's Junior Bar Bridges with the Communist Party, made him a member of Conference, reminded the assem-tu. National Centra C.nmmxHpc nf the nartv: and nlared him Ranger and their condition tonight was reported as satisfactory.

Ranger officers said they suffered chiefly from exhaustion and shock. According to officers of the big plane carrier the circumstances surrounding the explosion and fire are a complete mystery. No conjecture was given as to the cause of the fire. Frederick W. Stinchfield of bly of the ever-growing number, t- Angeles.

The Governor coupled his announcement, made in Los Angeles, with the statement that Relief Administrator H. Dewey! Anderson will be given a public hearing in Los Angeles, probably-next week, on accusations of inefficiency. COMMENT REFUSED. The Governor was noncommit- ntit "ic," n.r.Hnnc attacking "KCUUtS UJ. U1C CACtUUVC tUUUUlUCC 1U U1U I au- of! of "ism" organizations attacking Minneapolis, former president the association and chairman of i the Government heatedly what should be done about the new relief law's requirement that WPA workers put In 130 hours a month for a "security wage" instead of working it out at the same hourly rates prevailing for similar private employment.

REPEAL URGED, Just before the conference voted unanimously to petition Congress for repeal of this requirement, and to lay its demands before President Roosevelt as well, Harry Van Arsdale, a spokesman for the Electrical Workers Brotherhood in New! York, shouted: the survey committee that recommended abolishment of the Americanism committee, con One officer at the Navy Yard ceded that it had done good work. cisco on several occasions. One of those occasions related by Leech was a Communist Party meeting at which the red tactics in the waterfront strike of 1936-37 were formulated and planned and Bridges, under the name of Rossi, assertedly spoke for a full hour on the importance of the Communist Party's rola in the coming water-front And then, Leech said, Bridges left before the meeting ENVOY RETURNED. At. the same time the Government announced a Cabinet change which brings Count Dino Grandi from the key post of Ambassador to Britain back to Rome to become Minister of Justice.

No amplification of the communique on the foreigners' expulsion was given in the press or elsewhere except for the statement of the authoritative newspaper Giornale d'ltalia that the or-denVesulted from "verification of the presence and activities of foreigners involved which do not reconcile themselves with the political and military necessities of the frontier territory." 2 AMERICANS OUSTED. Giornale said that "Great Britain has done much more," adding that Italy's action "does said that "$50,000 will probably "Only the other day In Madison Square Garden 22,000 persons cheered the name of the chancellor of the German Reich and booed the. name of the American he said gravely. The Junior Bar Conference is going to intensify its own Amer- tal on the merits of the murh tm.JXXPl mAph i' case and similarly, Doctor Ander- aboard the ship which may have son had no personal comment to been ruined by the blaze. If this was over, so he could sneak away without being identified make on the Governor's decision tne case W1" be impossible But, said his report: "We are not organized to improve the morals of the eoun-try; we have quite a task to improve the morals of lawyers and to guide the laws by which we are governed." To that he added from the platform: "That doesn't seem to be the job of the American Bar." But tall, white haired William favor the recommendation of a Communist.

i "nmgo at MUSI to Los tlme to move headquarters Anceles. Stinchfield committee that all of 'T the work be carried on by it, he LeeCn I CZfteS OpOtLlgnt Leech easily took the spotlight of the day. But there was ample indication! MED KOAR I1EARD-that the two announcements' Jjft muffled roar resounded from the water boded an impending -battle which! line of the Ranger amidship on will find the Governor on one, the starboard side. The roar was continued. "It needs the strength dignity of the American Association," he said.

Then President Frank J. and Bar Ho not signify total expulsion fromlL. Ransom of New York City, Italy of foreign citizens forced to I long a leader of the ABA, strode 4 side and Doctor Anderson and his follwed by flame which swept whole relief administration staff iine vessel amidship from the (Continued on Page 9, Col. 1) break off suddenly all their means to the front of the assembly and of living and activity, but in most! reminded the assembly in elo-cases involves only the transfer of) water line to the flight deck for "If Congress deserts the building trade unions, I suggest we strike every Government job in the country and not let a wheel move on any Job In which the Government has an Interest!" William Green, president of the federation, declared at the outset of the Washington meeting that the remedy for the new WPA wage regulations lay with Congress "rather than through Strikes on WPA projects." Later, he said in response to questions that he was unable to say who was responsible for the abandoment of prevailing wage rates on WPA work, but that the AFL would fix the responsibility eventually and "tell the workers of the Nation." a distance of approximately 200 feet. on the other.

Anderson, himself, said the move would cost $195,000 of money allotted to relief. Doctor Anderson would not these citizens to other Italian re- Copy' of PaintingiHughes May Begin workmen near the scene of gums noi so near me frontier." Foreigners ordered to leave the comment, one way or another, on the feasibility of the Governor's plan to shift the headquarters, The other developments were these 1 Examiner Dean James M. Landis ruled that the trial will be continued on the island at least for the present overruling the plea of the defense forces. 2 The Bridges group secured a subpoena for Stanley Morton "Larry" Doyle, anti-Red investigator and attorney who has been active here and in the North. The Bridges group claims that Doyle is the spearhead of the prosecution attack although the Government did not plan to use him as a witness.

3 Counsel for Bridges demanded perjury action against Maj. Lawrence Milner, who at Tuesday's hearing admitted giving false testimony at a syndicalism trial in the Northwest five years ago. Dean Landis informed the defense that such action must be taken in the United States district court or submitted to the district attorney. Milner, after concluding his testimony, was held here under subpoena, but the defense was uncertain what action would Hop Next Week Proves a Raphael province included two Americans, Miss Dorothea WTatts of Newport, R. and her mother.

Other Americans believed to be vacationing in the province in the explosion expressed the opinion that leaking gasoline spread on the water near the hull of the Ranger had ignited. Capt. H. E. Kays, U.

S. captain of the yard, who rushed to the Ranper nnnn ronnrt nf v.n merely allowing himself to be quoted to the effect that he is "conducting a very thorough in cluded the Rome consul general vestigation into ail phases of the fire, said- Va dn nt bn, I Graham H. Kemper, and his wife; Believed Work of Master; Found in Colombia Home plan." However, it was learned defi was resnnnsihlp fr Jack C. Hodgson, United and are at a loss at this time to'futates rmy fnd air attadie at nitely that he is giving serious TO SEE ROOSEVELT. the embassy here, and his wife study to these indisputable fac- After half a rlnpn cnonlforci and child, make a statement." SECOND IN 8 MONTHS.

had demanded that the confPr.itors which we'Sh heavily in favor CHICAGO, July 12. (AP) An Noted Flyer Plans New Round World Speed Flight Howard Hughes, millionaire sportsman-pilot, will take off on i projected round-the-world stratosphere flight some time next week or at the latest, the week following, it was reported last night. ence's resolution inning a San Francisco as the relief foreign new en Additional Pag 6.) old painting, its surface cracked and chiDPed but its rich colors quest that AFL building median- headquarters of the State: The explosion today was the second to occur aboard an aircraft carrier within the last eight les who participated in strikes 1 ban Francisco is geo against the WPA wage regula Ruth Etting, Mate montns. Some time ago an ex graphically close to the center of the State, cutting the expense of travel and communica tions be restored to their jobs, plosion rocKea me new carrier Green promised that he would undimmed by time, was identified today as the work of the immortal Raphael or one of the masters of his time by Leo A. Marzolo, restorer of canvases for Chicago Leave for Europe tion between this cityjr he Enterprise, sending several men to the hospital and inflicting considerable damage to the vessel.

NEW YORK, July 12. (AP) Blues Singer Ruth Etting and He will follow substantially the same course he pur county organizations. 60 PER CENT IN SdC 2 San Francisco is be taken. Leech took the stand after his affidavit had been introduced and continued his testimony throughout the day. Admits Per jury That affidavit is certain to bring defense claims that Leech has perjured himself too but Leech and the Government took the wind out of the defense sails by anticipating that move.

In the affidavit Leech asserted that a Communist Party group made him swear that he never knew Harry Bridges was a member of the party. But Leech said that he swore falsely that time because if he had not made the statement, there would have been danger to himself and his family. It was believed the ship would her hiihani1 MvrT AMpmwn Art Institute. The art treasure Marzolo have to be placed in drydock to sailed for Europe today to spend sued a year ago when he estab determine whether her plates lished the aerial globe girdling! Sacramento, a tremenaoi imnortant factor when the the remainder of the summer. They sailed under the name "Mr.

agreed its value would exceed $100,000 was examined under a fluoroscope at Henroitin Hospital. The painting, called 'The Ma discuss this with the President. "I refuse to believe," the AFL chieftain said, "that the President of the United States would stand for discrimination against workers because they quit their Jobs to protect their rights." Spokesmen for the WPA in Washington said dismissed strikers would not be barred from the rolls forever, but would have to obtain re-certification from local tgtncies as being in need of relief. Whether they would have to go to the foot of the list of those waiting for WPA jobs or receive places higher up would depend, were buckled by the heat of the flames. Any details in the possession of naval officers were withheld pending an official investigation by a board of inquiry.

record of 91 hours 17 minutes but he may depart this time from either Los Angeles or San Diego instead of New York. and Mrs. Harry M. Allen." A California judge has Alma Alderman's $150,000 alienation of affections suit against Miss Etting under advisement. donna of Bogota," 25 by 30 inches, Cl islature is in session.

3 Moving the headquarters to the South would be vastly expensive, since it would entail transferring all the accumulated records, and all the office equipment now used in the headquarters here. The Governor, in announcing in Sources close to the flyer re Much of Leech's testimony under the guidance of Chief vealed that he has abandoned his. Government Counsel Thomas B. Shoemaker's questions, was was found by Santiago Martinez Delgado, professor in the University of Bogota, Colombia, in the home of one of Bogota's oldest families. original intention of attempting to complete the flight without a U.

S. Orders Six Children of American Mother Deported stop. Los Angeles that the move would (Continued on Page 4, Col. (Continued on Page 8, Col. 1) COAST WHITE HOUSE Burlingame Chateau Proposed Acquisition by the Federalf on West coast visits and as a FOREIGN RELATIONS But We Won't Go Visiting By ARTHUR "BUGS" BAER an amazing revelation of the program, purposes and methods of the Communist Party in the United States.

For five years Leech studied in Communist schools for the last several wreeks, under the tutelage in Los Angeles of two instructors direct from the Lenin Institute in Moscow, he swore! These men taught the "Communism of Marx, Lenin and Stalin," and although they used the names of "Edwards" and merely "Bob," they were Russians, and not American citizens. "I know that the Communist Tarty of the United States, no matter what it may claim, is only a unit of and affiliated with the Third Internationale," Leech swore. "I know that it aims at the complete overthrow of the United States Government by force and violence, and the substitution of a Soviet Government here. Its aim revolution, and by revolution I mean the complete destruction by means of warfare of our social structure and the substitution of the Communist Soviet. It has no hope of conference building for public of Government of the famed "Caro-lands Chateau" in Burlingame as NEW BEDFORD July 12.

(AP) American born Mrs. Achiel Martens was traveling back to Canada today with her six Canadian born children ho were ordered by immigration officials to leave the country because they had overstayed six months visitors' permits on which they entered in 1935. Mrs. Martens' compliance with the orders separated her from her second husband, who Is employed in a New Bedford textile mill, and her two step-daughters, 11 and 8 years old, who will keep house for their father during her absence. After proceeding to St.

John, N. Mrs. Martens said she expected to return to the United States with her children if the United States consul grants them the necessary visas and without them if the visas are denied, Step-Sister Winifred, 11, described the other children as "awfully sad" over leaving their home and friends in New Bedford. A friend with an automobile provided transportation to Canada. ficials.

The bill is in line with the suggestion of the Burlingame Chamber of Commerce that the ninety-six room mansion in the Hills Everything Is being held over until next winter like a derby hat in a check room. a summer White House was proposed yesterday in a bill introduced in Congress by Rep. John Z. Anderson. Foreign Relations Committee has asked our foreign relations not to visit our next family reunion.

That postpones a brand of neutrality that was something like playing touch tag with a porcupine. The bill would authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to "in borough hills, once owned byj Mrs. R. H. Schermerhorn, daugh- ter of R.

H. Pullman of sleeping: car fame, be acquired by the Government. In the meantime America will not play the role of innocent bystander with wool In his teeth. vestigate the desirability of acquiring" the chateau for use as headquarters for the President.

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