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I PAGE SIX THE HUNTSVILLE TIMES, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 25, 1940. Appropriations Set Peace High Chairman Challenges To Say Where Cuts Should Be Made WASHINGTON, Oct. (AP) Chairman Taylor of the CO101 House appropriations committee disclosed today that congressional expenditures and commitments since Jan. 1 had reached a peacetime high of $25,572,819,337, and challenged anyone to say where appropriation cuts should be made. Placing in the congressional recpanied of 15 a financial, summary "coopor categories of expenditures to show work of Congress this session, Taylor said: "I challenge those who criticize the total appropriations of the session to take this table and indicate to their constituents and other American people which of the 15 major categories of outlay they would eliminate." Taylor's tabulation showed that actual appropriations amounted to $16,920,627,477, with contract allthorizations of all kinds totaling $4,066,191,860, plus an additional commitment of $4,596,000,000 for a an navy.

The summary showed that 56 per cent of the actual appropriations or $9,114,345,921 -was chargeable to national defense and enforcement of the neutrality act, leaving about $7,000,000,000 for other functions of the government. The chairman figured that Congress had made appropriations and obligations for national detense amounting to $17,692,227,930. Taylor's aides disclosed that only once before in history had the total commitments higher than this year's total." That was in 1918, when appropriations totaled $27,092,094,720, and contract authorizations reached 027,441,362 a $36,119,536,082 total. Besides defense, other major items in Taylor's tabulation of expenditures this year: Agriculture, $1,091,360,950. Public debt interest, 000.

Relief, $1,489,120,357. Postal service, $833,843,084. Veterans' administration, 840,544. Mrs. Jeff D.

Luten of Waverly, was a visitor of Mrs. D. E. Kelly last week-end. Mrs.

Kelly returned home with Mrs. Luten for a visit. Mr. and Mrs. James Stewart recently visited his father, who is in Benevolent hospital in' Decatur.

Mrs. Ford, Wear spent the weekend at home in Decatur. Wear is teaching for Tom Wear, who is indisposed at his home. Mr. and Mrs.

Erle Phillips and W. B. Douglass spent the weekend in Birmingham and attended the Alabama Tennessee football game. Mrs. David Douglass and Mrs.

Erle Douglass attended the District U. meeting Tuesday. Mrs. Mary B. Phillips is suffering a slight illness at her home near Jeff.

Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Cole were visitors of Mrs. J. B.

Cole in Capshaw. Mrs. Cole returned home with them for a short visit. Mr. and Mrs.

Spencer of Meridianville were visitors of Mrs. Mary B. Phillips Sunday afternoon. Hurricane John Henry Wallace of the U. S.

Air Corps is visiting his parents here. Jeff James Baker of U. S. Navy is AL SMITH JOINS CAMPAIGN cratic party, spoke in behalf of nominee held in Brooklyn. Smith meeting.

Radio Operator Dies At His Post WSB Of Atlanta Delayed 39 Minutes In Getting On Air Today ATLANTA, Oct. 25 (P)- The voice of WSB, Atlanta Journal radio station, failed to reach the airways on schedule in the early dawn-because the man at the transmitter controls was dead. Harold Hudson 1 Kelly, 54, died alone beside the sending controls of the transmitter building. A DeKalb county coroner's jury said death was due to natural causes. The station, scheduled to open broadcasting at 5:30 a.

was delayed 39 minutes. The body was discovered by A. W. Shropshire, chief transmitter engineer, who investigated when the operator at the downtown controls failed to get a response. The station's chief engineer, C.

F. Daugherty, said Shropshire found the transmitter building door locked, and kicked it open to find Kelly's body on the floor. Daugherty said that apparently Kelly's last act was to begin filling out the station's daily log. He had begun this at 4:45 a. stating he had turned on the fillament to heat to heat the transmitter tubes.

About 1 half of the opening log entries had been filled. visiting his mother and sister. Mr. and Mrs. G.

N. Wallace spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. J. H.

Wallace. Mrs. B. F. Riddick has returned after a month's visit with daughter, Elizabeth, in New York.

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. St.

Clair and Betty Clair and Iva Mae Robinson were dinner guests of Mrs. Fannie Bragg Sunday. The Rev. Mr. Peek was dinner guest of Mr.

and Mrs. R. T. Blackwell Sunday. Miss Anita Bailes left Sunday for Birmingham where she has accepted a position.

Mrs. Minnie Foster has returned to Birmingham after an extended visit with Mr. and Mrs. B. F.

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Smith, who Wendell L. Willkie during a political rally (left) and Willkie (right) got together Dixie Business Men Talk Defense Job WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (P)- Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and west Tennessee business men have been called by the United meet at Birmingham, 13 States Chamber of to Commerce, to discuss ways "to get the defense job done as quickly as possible with as little disturbance of ordinary peacetime activities as possible." James S. Kemper of Chicago, president of the national organization, will address the meeting, one of several to be held throughout the country. Negro General Is Army's First Other High Rank Promotions Announced Today By Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Oct.

25 (AP) nounced the promotion of Colonel President Roosevelt. today anBenjamin O. Davis to become the first negro general in the Army's history. Davis' elevation, to be brigadier general, was among a a number of high rank promotions which Mr. Roosevelt said were required by the increase of the Army.

Major General Delos C. Emmons, commander the GHQ air force, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, the same rank held by commanders of the Army Corps. In the Air Corps, in addition to General Emmons, the following promotions were announced: Brigadier 'General John F. Curry, air district commander, to be major general. Colonel Clinton W.

Russell, chief of staff, GHQ air force, to be brigadier general. Colonels John C. McDonnell, John B. Brooks, and Carlyle H. Wash, all wing commanders, to be brigadier generals.

Corps and division commanders promoted were: To be major generals: Brigadier General Walter K. Wilson; Brigadier General Ernest D. Peek; Brigadier General Fulton Q. C. Gardner (coast and anti-aircraft commander in Hawaii); Brigadier General Sanderford Jarman (coast and anti-aircraft commander, Panama Canal Zone.) To be brigadier generals: Colonels Forrest E.

Williford, Sandy Hook, N. Arthur G. Campbell, Virginia Beach, Robert C. Garrett, Portland, Me. Colonel Joseph A.

Atkins, now on the Army chief of staff, was promoted to be a brigadier general. Lieutenant Colonel Lewis B. Hershey, executive of the selective service system, was promoted be a brigadier general the Field Artillery. Colonel Davis, a brigade commander, and Colonel Jack W. Heard, commandant of the armored force school, were promoted to be brigadier generals in the cavalry.

A White House announcement said that the increased strength of the Army "makes necessary the organization and activation of many new units, and permits a large expansion of the air corps." "It increases manyfold," the announcement said, activities anar the size of our manufacturing arsenals and depots. This expansion cannot be carried out without proper leadership, and proper rank must be accorded to these leaders. The temporary promotions are essential to meet the requirements of the present phase of this expansion." The promotion of Major General Emmons to be lieutenant general as commander of the Army's mobile general headquarters air force brought a War department' announcement that the GHQ force would revert to a previous status directly under command of the chief of staff. In recent months, General Emmons had been responsible to Major General Henry H. Arnold, chief of the Air Corps, but with his promotion will outrank Arnold.

Colonel Davis, highest ranking of a relative handful of negro Army officers, has had 42 years of military service. A native of Washington, D. he is 63. He entered the Army as a first lieutenant of volunteers in a negro infantry regiment in the SpanishAmerican war. Mustered out in 1899, Davis re-enlisted and served two years in the ranks before being given an appointment 88 second lieutenant of cavalry.

Promoted to colonel in 1930, he now commands the 369th Anti-Air- took a walk from the Demothe Republican presidential for a cordial chat before the Production Up To 100 Per Cent Alabama Steel Mills To Run At Capacity, Beginning Today BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 25 (P)- Alabama steel mills, gorged with orders for national defense and from domestic consumers, ed their production rate today to 100 per cent of capacity. The new figure is the result of increased output of raw materials, a previous bottleneck for Birmingham steel plants. Operations had been at 97 per cent for several weeks, a record in itself. Business booked this week included an order for 75,000 tons of steel for shell forgings, placed with the Tennessee Coal, Iron Railroad U.

S. Steel subsidiary, and added to the hugebacklog already accumulated. Unofficial sources said business on the books would tax capacity of some plants through the first six months of next year, and would result in record-breaking output for virtually all mills through the first three months of 1941. Steel's new rate equals the pig iron production figure for most of 1940. Every blast furnace in state has been pouring iron for more than a year, except for brief intervals when repairs were necessary.

Employment in the steel 1 mills also is at record levels, with the Tennessee Co. alone listing more than 27,000 persons as regular workers. Carol Appeals To Washington Asks Intercession With Spain For Himself And Party WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (AP)Former King Carol of Rumania appealed to the United States government today to intercede in behalf of himself and members of his party now held under detention in Seville, Spain. The king's request was transmitted to the State department by the American legation in Lisbon, Portugal, after Jean Pangal, former Rumanian minister to Portugal, had asked the legation to forward the appeal to President Roosevelt.

State department officials had no immediate comment to make on the request, or on what action, if any, this government might take. Carol, his friend, Madam Magda Lupescu, and Ernst Urdareanu, former minister of the palace in Bucharest, were placed under virtual arrest Tuesday, and are under guard at hotel in Seville. Tommy Kennel Bright Prospect For Auburn BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 25 (AP) -Word is around that Auburn has a 180-pound freshman in Tommy Kennel, who is going to show 'em all some speed when he gets promoted next year. And Coach Johnny Meagher tells the story of how Tommy, who hails from Elgin, happened to land on the Tigers' campus.

It seems when Meagher was a lot younger he used to carry papers for Tommy's father. So, when Tommy was ready for college a year ago, Meagher invited him down. He accepted. ATLANTA, Oct. 25 (P)- -Inactive National Guard officers who are not inducted into federal service due to physical disability or failure to report when called will lose their military status.

Adjutant General Marion Williamson, who made the announcement yesterday, following receipt of War department orders, said that officers who decline induction will likewise be dropped from their positions. craft Coast Artillery regiment of the New York National Guard. The War department said that as brigadier general, Davis would command a brigade of the Second Cavalry division, which is yet to be formed. Officials said it would be composed of negro troops. 4P MONTGOMERY, Oct.

25 (P) -A far-flung Red Cross preparedness for national defense was drawn before the Alabama Red Cross today by James L. Fieser, Washington, in charge of organization's domestic opera: tions, who declared: have work to do." "With world momentarily flung back into the dark, ages," he said, "with wholesale slaughter of fellow human beings across both the Atlantic and Pacific, membership in the Red Cross is of paramount importance. xx xThe Red Cross has great duties, opportunities and responsibilites. If a supreme test comes it must not complacently rely upon other Maginot lines." Fieser addressed the annual meeting of the Alabama Red Cross, preparing to launch its roll call November 11. Around 400 Red Cross workers from chapters throughout the state assembled here.

"Our people now look at the smoke and turmoil and misery, war produced across two oceans, the speaker said. "They now prepare, mobilize and go about their business, determined to rally around the flag with the old spirit. "Some one has said that n8- that are tough, those that can take tions a that survive will be those I it. America has the man power and resources, the making of an enduring people. We are rediscovering the spirit of patriotism and will combine moral power, man power and giant power of our machine age to preserve the nitch of modern civilization which we occupy.

"With 16,000,000 young men enrolling for military service, with the certainty that military establishment will grow to a million and a half as speedily as plans can be worked out, with new cantonments in- prospect, new bases developing in Alaska and on the islands of the Atlantic Pacific, with increased mobility of our army and navy units, we must awaken to the fact that the Red Cross must grow." The International Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies have new problems "now that total warfare is the order of the day," Fieser said. "Attack now is wholesale between peoples of nations involved. Innocent children are cannon fodder." Emphasizing the need of the Red Cross to grow, he declared: "The roll call will show how many of us wish to be ready with the Red Cross. Every man and woman of good will in America must have opportunity to join. Joining the Red Cross in times of what may be our greatest emergency comes close to good The Alabama roll call will be directed by Stone Crane and Mrs.

Beatric Vines, national Red Cross representatives for this state. German Agent Investigated U.S. Grand Jury On Trail Of Manfred Zapp, Foreign News Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (P)-A federal grand jury is investigating the activities of Manfred Zapp and the "Transocean News Service," which Justice department officials said he needed. Attorney General Jackson said yesterday that the jury here was directed to investigate "possible violations of the federal agents registration act of 1938" by Zapp, the agency and others whom he did not name.

The act requires agents of foreign principals to register with the State department, and provides penalties for failure to register or for false statements when registering. Trans-Ocean has no connection with any American news service. Zapp said in New York night that he knew nothing of any investigation of the concern. He said the agency was a German organization with headquarters in Berlin and branches in most of the, served world's large newspapers cities, and throughout that the United States with news received in New York wireless, and then forwarded by mail. Jackson said the material to be presented to the grand jury came from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and "such additional evidence as may exist in the material" from the Dies committee.

Hunting Permit Ruling Is Made $1 License For County Person Lives In, Not Voting Place MONTGOMERY, Oct. 25 (AP)A sportsman may obtain a $1 hunting license only in the county where he actually lives--not necessarily where he votes, Atty. Gen. Thomas S. Lawson held today.

While a state license, costing $3, may be obtained in any county by a person who has lived in the state for six months, Lawson informed Probate Judge G. H. Howard of Elmore county that he could not issue a $1 county license to a man who voted in Elmore but lived in another county. In another ruling, the attorney general said employes of the new Jefferson county hospital were subject to the county's civil service law. He told County Commissioner Henry W.

Sweet, however, that interns, resident physicians, studenta technicians and student nurses would be exempt. The Mobile county register in chancery was informed in a third opinion that he should collect a fee of 25 cents each for signing 14,000 city of Mobile funding and refunding bonds, the fee to be covered into the county treasury. THE GOOD EARTH GIVES SHELTER IN AIR RAIDS--Life in war-time London has taken on some of the primitive aspects of the cave-dweller period. Here are some of the people who have fled from their homes at the sound of air raid alarms, and have taken refuge in a subway far below the surface. Huddled together in relative safety, they are trying to make themselves as comfortable as possible for the night.

Lowdown on Hollywood I Told By Jimmy Fidler HOLLYWOOD-Wot's this anent Frank Capra's "Life of Doe," which started as pacifist preachment, being switched to ganda? Standby for an Anatol vehement war Hopkins reconciliation. When Mae West does that coast-to-coast p. she'll draw 15 grand per week, plus percentage, a new high for any vaudeville attraction. NY tipsters scoff at that George Raft-Norma Shearer rumorance -they claim inside info that George has never even asked his estranged missus for a divorce. Wot's this about Charles Boyer touring NY nighteries without his The Tailwaggers should a medal on Liz WhitWith tickets bought and her luggage actually aboard a Honoship, she called it all off to nurse a prize police dog through a dangerous illness.

Understand Charlie Chaplin will tarry long enough in New York, after that big premiere, to dicker with state producers who are proposing a footlight venture. want to be trouble makers, but it might be a good idea for Mary Pickford to watch Her Man -Jane Withers sayd Buddy is The aforesaid Rogers, by manship, is yacht-shopping. the by, trains for Dallas 1 this week take delivery on a new plane. MGM is mulling plans to screen the exciting life story of General Pershing. That was quite a "show" Paulette Goddard and Anatole Litvak put on for gapers in a local nite spot the other Does Claire Trevor's jaunt to New York, to talk stage roles, mean that she's at threats last to carrying out the longstanding quit Irony: Vine Street headquarters for Candidate Wendell Willkie, frequently panned as the representative of big money interests, displays a 1906 flag with only 45 stars--because the campaign chest lacks funds for an up-to-date model.

Dolores del Rio, after stalling for months in the hope of getting a decent Hollywood break, has finally signed with Mexico City ducers for, the star role in "Santa," most lavish production ever attempted below the border her Bette New Davis, who's been farm, 1 lolling on Hampshire planes in today to start rehearsals for airshow appearances on the 13th and 20th. Which reminds us that your pal Bob Hope has been Auto Show. Faye, who's inked for p. Francisco's Alican been taking lessons in sea (wo- Wot's this anent Warner Brothers proposing screen tests to tennis champ Bobby Howtime-does-fly note: That blonde pretty working as Betty Fields' stand at Paramount screendom's is Virginia Corbin, once ace child star. Orch leader Horace Heidt has purchased the huge King Charney ranch in San Fernando valley, and will establish permanent residence there.

Cecil B. De Mille will loan his schooner, Seaward, to Paulette Goddard for a week's cruise following her current NY appearance at "The Great Dictator" premiere meanwhile, rumors of a rift in the Chaplin menage grow more specific and convincing. Neighbors of Betty Grable will be interested to know that the stunt-flying pilot who cuts aerial didoes daily over her house is Jackie Coogan. Arline Judge, who used to say such unkind things about Hollywood, is now determined to linger here for a real comeback try. Add embarrassed men: Clark Gable.

Seems he bought a trick new camera, spent two hours mugging all the horses on the ranch, and drew a complete blank -because he neglected to release the shutter. There were 212 separate and distinct religious bodies listed in the United States by the last Federal church census in 1926. The present standard length of rail on American railroads is 39 feet. Outfit family in Stale for tall! It takes but a moment to open a credit account here and you may take months to pay for your purchase. Come in and see our fine Style assortments.

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