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VOL. LI. NO. 78.
Evening except Sunday.
TWENTY PAGES-500 N. BROADWAY OKLAHOMA CITY, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1940
HOME EDITION
PRICE, FIVE CENTS
Reluctance of Industry
New Freedom
Plea Due For
Take War Contracts
British Claim
Aids Wealth-Draft Drive
Senators Threaten
lower their individual $50,000
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sand men of a number of military classes.
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bombers before they had dropped their
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flying in close formation made "per-
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mander of the Red army in the war | reported by the high command, which
out raids of
guardsmen were "ill fed," and that
the army needed better communica- ; ritorles was announced in a note to
Exiled Bolshevik Leader Has Slim Chance
tion systems.
neutrals warning their shipping not to
l . S. Aid Seeks
To Survive Attack by ‘Trusted Friend'
W ay to Speed
Markets
Tuesday night R. A. F. attacks were
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dom of the villa, was known as Frank Jackson, an American, and
crew of three on the Fannie Insley
were
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Business’ I nless
Greece Bolsters Army,
Fearful of Invasion
Clouds, Warmer, is
Forecast: Panhandle
May Get Showers
Pruiett Calls $50,000
Bonds Outrage; Il Makes
Communists, He Says
Busy women know
how to use the . . .
attacks
Wales.
Still deeper thrusts into Germany were
forthcoming.
"As the nights grow longer," he
said, "so will the arm of our bomber
caused a poor showing by his troops.
He said that if the umpires had not
bombing attacks
German-occupied
much
s any
fracture at the Green Cross Emergency hospital had said that
if he lived for a few hours he might have a fighting chance.
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LONDON, Aug. 21.—(P)—
Individual German raiders, in
Dreschd, 36 years old, born at Teheran, Persia, of Belgian parents,
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Is set for next Wednesday before Pow-
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Stocks opened higher Wednesday.
Anaconda 20. up
Bethlehem Steel 764, up 1.
Chrysler 711. up ».
Com. Edison 30',.
General Electric 32*. off
Pennsylvania R R 19%.
Sears Roebuck 75%.
Southern Pacific 77.
Texas Corp. 35%, off
Un. Air 33 ,.
Western Union 17. up
Westinghouse Electric 97, up 1.
hurricane found an old Negro woman
in the loft of her Inundated cabin
with a 150-pound pig in her lap, she
explained:
"Ah bin t rough de storm of 1891
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feet" targets for both anti-aircraft
guns and fighter planes
British Extend Counter-Raids
Surgeons who performed an operation on Trotsky for a skull a record vote on a proposal calling foi
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Little Damage Reported
The greatest damage was reported
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Service
Mid-Morning
Army, Guard
Officers Clash
In V erbal War
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Situation Changes
Leaves Cancelled as Tension W it h Italy
placed against the group.
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Stranded Negro Takes
No Chance on Starving
BEAUFORD, S. c., Aug. 21—«
army had been hospitalized for res- and Albania were ready to defend Al-
piratory troubles caused by dust. diar- bania against "the Greco-British plan
But a 4 a m bulletin said that Trotsky’s condition was very
serious. He rallied slightly during the early morning hours.
Trotsky's mystery man assailant lay in the same hospital,
>ar Death, Assailant is W onnded:
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HOURLY TEMPERATURE
Alleged Reds
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ity of various methods proposed for
making some overage destroyers— per-
haps as many as 50 or 60—avallable
to the British navy, capitol sources
said. There was no official confirma-!
tion of this.
The question of sending destroyers
overshadowed the impending forma-
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Lee Lead* Attack
The move to link conscription of
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A new habeas corpus plea
for 11 imprisoned Communist
suspects charged with crimi-
nal syndicalism was drafted
to death so dis tune an ain’ mean
to starve ”
Still held in jail without charges
.gcnn... .are four other alleged Communists
"secondary J, .1” Two more who were questioned by (
The "total blockade" of British ter- Eherle and.the.police, were released. A
preliminary hearing for those charged
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burned 10 villages.
An official communique denied an
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big adventure because the cargo of was said to have an American wife. But he told Gen. Manuel
oyster shells destined for fertilizer Nunez, police chief, at the hospital, that he was Jacques Van Den
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her Gloucester, Va cottage when the
ately.
■ Eberle warned that further round-
’ ups of radical suspects are likely and
said six more individual charges un-
(UP)—Robert H. Jackson, attor-
I ney general, interrupts his vaca-
tion and returns to Washington
Wednesday for conferences re-
ported to concern the possibility
of selling or otherwise transfer-
ring United States destroyers to
Great Britain.
Jackson and other Justice depart-
ment officials will discuss with Frank
Knox, secretary of the navy. the legal-
Use the Want Ads to
Quickly Dispose of Any-
thing You Have to Rent,
Trade or Sell!
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county attorney.
A hearing on Prulett’s original ha-
beas corpus petition was postponed
twice Tuesday by George H Giddings,
district judge, to give Eberle time to
file the criminal syndicalism charges.
It was scheduled again Tuesday morn-
ing but, with the charges filed, the
questions raised in the petition are
now moot.
Maxham in New York
I Fred B Maxham, a twelfth person
charged, is reported in New York City.
Roosevelt has "wrecked his own cam-
paign" and "wrecked his party."
"Roosevelt could have nominated
schooner with which d’Arcy Grant
launched her feminine adventure in
the shipping trade some months ago
lay at the bottom of the Chesapeake
bay Wednesday.
Miss Grant, who sought thrills as
an "outrage."
Moman Pruiett, defense at-
torney. said he will dismiss his
original habeas corpus petition
and file a second action asking
district court to fix a "reason-
able and sane bond.”
having been severely wounded by Harold Robbins, head guard at
the fortified Trotsky villa in the Coyoacan suburb where the
attack was made.
The assailant, a trusted friend who had been given the free-
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Losses Chan ge
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Nazi Tactics
on Germany and
CAMP BEAUREGARD, La.,
• Thousands of busy and effi-
cient women make it a regular
practice to read the Want Ads.
They are quick to snap up
bargains In household goods ...
and as for getting a cook or
maid, they never bother around
with inquiries. They use an
Oklahoman and Times Want Ad
to bring them a crowd of ap-
plicants from which to choose.
You, too. will find it prefitable
to use Want Ads to dispose of
anything you have to rent,
trade or sell.
again being made and
territory, coupled
growing radius
New bombardments ot British air crrmihaistatndschzzear-ol ltwiused
He said "there were plenty of stom- l enter waters within 30 miles of Brit- ,
ach disorders because of insanitary ; ish coasts.
conditions of the camps and cook Virginio Gayda, authoritative Fas-
tents.” and that 763 men of his Red | cist editor, meanwhile said that Italy ■
women and seven men, by Paul Pow-
ers. justice of the peace, at the in-
sistence of John Eberle, assistant
section German
with diminishing Nazi aerial activity,
was hailed in London as an indica-
tion that the initiative has been taken
away from the German air force by
R A. F victories over massed at-
'This Stuff Makes Reds’
"The Idea of setting that
games, sold (he equipment furnished conceded British planes had carried
national guardsmen was "pitifully ob- ’ ‘ .
solete," that some of the national on Italian positions in Ethiopia.
said that
over England and
wealth and industry with a draft
। started Tuesday after publication of
the testimony by high army and navy
officials before the senate appropria-
tions committee on difficulties beset-
Ung the placing of government orders
for planes, guns and warship ma-
terials.
Senator Lee (D. Okla .) asked for
i Resting how transfer of destroyers
! could be accomplished legally without
congressional authority.
The plan would provide for trans-
1 fer of the warships to the army,
thence to a private corporation, then
to a neutral country, and finally to
Canada or Britain.
Congressional opponents of "short:
of-war” aid to Britain maintained
that specific action by congress is
clearly necessary. There was no in-
dication how the government lawyers
of British
others. In other
United States consulate here disclosed' It was learned that justice depart-,
and me and mah family ‘most, starve Wednesday it was understood au- , ment attorneys were studying close y
thoritatively the charge did not in- an informal opinion recently pub-1
I volve espionage. | lished by four prominent lawyers sug-
Wednesday in an effort to
squadrons lengthen and we shall
strike even deeper Into the enemy
vitals."
Despite partly cloudy skies the mer-
cury will crawl up near 90 degrees
here Thursday and scattered thun-
dershowers will take a crack at the
panhandle Wednesdav night, Harry
Wahlgren said.
He said these showers may dabble
here and there over the state during
the day Thursday, but Wahlgren
doesn’t expect any beneficial per-
formances from them Woodward re-
ceived .05 inch rain Wednesday night.
From its top of 78 degrees at 4
p. m., Tuesday, the city’s mercury slid
down to a low 64 at 7 ». m. Wednes-
day. Vinita was coolest in the state
with 50-degree low.
schooner off Tanger Island,
crewmen of the 78-foot vessel
saved.
The heaviest of these attacks,
which the British said were
modelled on "hit andl run” tac-
tics. was concentrated on the
southeast coast, but numbers of
single raiders also were reported
Interfered several times, his Blues
would have been driven back across
the Red river in less than a day.
Marching Discipline Poor
Brees told the national guard of-
ficers that their men had been given
allowances over regular troops "in the
matter of performances," but now
that a year s training for guardsmen I
is assured, "these allowances will not I
be overlooked in the future.”
Some comment:
Lieut. Gen. Stanley D. Embick, 3rd
arinv commander—"The troops showed
progressively smoother functioning
but the marching discipline was poor,
troops and vehicles bunched and ex-
posed soldiers who neglected to take
cover.”
General Blanding—"In the first
night operations we encountered trou-
ble from unit commanders ignoring
orders and trying something on their
own. Until we get rid of such offi-
cers or teach them something we will
have trouble."
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He told Gen. Nunez also: "I
would give my life blood for
Trotsky.” It was reported that
Dreschd had disagreed violently
with Trotsky in recent weeks on
the "fourth international”
which Trotsky had organized to
oppose the “Stalinist" third in-
ternational.
It was said that Dreschd was the
son of a Belgian diplomat. He
speaks English and Russian as well as
French. He is about six feet tall. is
of average bulld, has short black hair
Bombers ‘Raid’ Manhattan Six huge United States bombers of the general headquar-
ters force at Riverside, Calif . roar over lower Manhattan
en route to Mitchel field. Long Island. They were to proceed Wednesday to Ogdensburg. N. Y ,
for the finish of the 1st Army maneuvers In the background are the Brooklyn, Manhattan
and Williamsburg bridges and the New York navy yard <Wirephoto.i
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NORFOLK. Va . Aug 21 — (P— The
58-year-old onetime West Indian |
tacking methods.
There was virtually no German air
, activity over England between mid-
night and dawn, but British bombers
attacked German vital war centers on
the continent anew Tuesday night
* and early Wednesdav.
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»Xy Th R0t tanistrsrihsh plotlToxnsanavcnomna.New MexIco, An- resident, in Greece__
insitreatribtlairsihchtr, air secre- । Kruegers opponent in the games Landon Says Roosevelt
tary, told the house of commons MalorGen Albert Blanding Florida .. wrecLea H;. p,ri.
national guardsman commanding the -i5 • I << ht <1 III* l drlY
Blue army, said a lack of co-opera- WICHITA. Kan., Aug. 21 L(_
tion on the part of unit commanders "I Alr M Landon. 1936 Republican
presidential nominee, says President
Impatient Nazis Seek
To Speed Hungarian Deal
TURNU-SEVERIN, Rumania, Aug.
21.—(P)—Nazi impatience with Hun-
garian-Rumanian delay in settling the
thorny Transylvania dispute was seen
in the disclosure that a German "ob-
server" will arrive here Wednesday to
participate in the conference of Ru-
manian and Hungarian delegates.
It was further reported that the
talks, which reached a deadlock Tues-
day. may be resumed Wednesday in-
stead of late in the week aa orlginallv
planned when Hungary's chief nego-
tiator returned to Budapest to confer
with his government.
Designers for $200,000
Building Forget 1‘hones
, DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 21.—(P)—
Dallasites have proudly watched com-
pletion of their new $200,000 adminis-
tration building at Love Field airport.
It is practically ready for dedication.
• But Wednesday James W. Aston,
city manager, is doing some hasty last
minute remodeling.
' He ruefully announced that speci-
fications for the buildings had not In-
cluded conduits for telephones.
A I HENS, Greece, Aug. 21.—(P)—The Greek army
cancelled all leaves for officers and men Wednesday and a
responsible spokesman said “we will not be caught by sur-
prise if Greece should be invaded."
Only Tuesday, in the third move to strengthen the army bonds which were branded
within a week, the government called to arms several thou-
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21—
(PP)—Demands that wealth
and industry, like manpower,
be conscripted for national
defense shifted senate debate
into new channels Wednes-
day.
The agitation for a "total"
Japan Arrests American
Greece's precautions have been taken amid growing ten-
, , . sion with Italy precipitated by Italian charges Greece was
an apaprent change of tactics, responsj|)ip for the assassination of Daut Hoggia, an Al-
were reported Wednesday to banian. Greece has denied any responsibility.
be carrying out widespread'------♦ official circies maintained
The others al! in jail are Robert
Wood, Mrs Wood. Alan Shaw, Eli
Jaffee and Elizabeth Green, charged
jointly Max Sparer Mr. and Mrs. J.
I. Whidden, Mr and Mrs C. A Lewis,
and L. D. Gillespie, charged separ-
from the industrial Midlands, where for lack of discipline, lack of co- !
several bombs hit a thieklv-populated operation, untidiness and inef- 11 a I v Claims Air
residential and shopping area, killing ficiency at the war games here. 1 aT AT
one woman and injuring several —
fought a losing, battle, against a.wind Utility Seeks S 100.000
that toppled both masts and sank me i / 7
The From Former Executives
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 21—(PP)—Recovery
of an alleged political slush fund "in
excess of $400,000" is sought in a suit
filed by the Union Electric Co. of
Missouri against four of its former
major executives.
Asserting the money was paid out
without its knowledge, the company
named Louis H Egan, former presi-
dent: Frank J. Boehm, one-time $45,-
000-a-year executive vice-president;
Albert C. Laun, lobbyist. and Oscar F.
Funk, ousted comptroller.
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over the midlands, the Welsh
coastal areas and northeast
England.
one armored division were unishment up to 10 years in the
massing along the Albanian penieentiarrants anhenktragcr ““
frontier. that makes these red Communists
Government quarters took cogniz- running around the country.”
ance of Italian press attacks on the Bonds of $50,000 each were placed
country. including charges that bands ngainst each of the 11 persons, four
of Greeks had Invaded Albania and
WJAYNOKA, Aug. 21.—(Special.)—Few Oklahomans know it,
V but the state has a miniature—and slowly spreading-
desert just as hot, dry and desolate as the Sahara or any of
the others.
The sand dunes south of Waynoka stretch about 10 miles
in length and are a half to a mile wide in the widest places.
They have been formed by sand blowing from the Cimarron
river over a period of years, perhaps centuries.
In its slow movement, the sand covers all vegetation, even
large trees. In some places, the tops of telephone poles sticking
2 to 15 feet above the dunes may be seen, marking an old line
which extended along the first road built years ago.
The encroaching sand has twice forced removal of the
road eastward until th* present U. S. highway No. 281 was
survey and now most of the two old roads has been obliter-
ated.
Oldtimers say the dunes have moved about a half-mile
north and east since opening of the "strip" in 1893. Some of
the dunes are more than 100 yards long, with steep 20 to 60-
foot slopes.
They have become a coasters' paradise, for washboards,
tubs and sheet iron sleds.
NEW YORK Aug
draft of the country’s eco-
nomic and human resources
developed after disclosures
that the armed services were
finding it difficult to obtain
defense necessities because of
tax-profits laws, and the
higher bids of Great Britain
for war material.
House Bracket Is Wider
There was a prospect of even
further complications on the
conscription issue, for house
military committee members In-
dicated that they were ready to
give formal final approval to
compulsory service legislation
covering a much broader man-
power bracket than present sen-
ate proposals contemplate.
The Burke-Wadsworth compulsory
. service bill, as amended by the sen-
ate, would limit registration and pos-
sible service to men from 21 years of
age through 30. The house version
tentatively approved Tuesday by the
military committee, proposes regis-
i tration of all men between 18 and 65,
with active service limited to those
between 21 and 45.
Oklahoma City Times
Paid Circulation Greater Than Any Other Evening Newspaper Published in Oklahoma
(Evening Edition of The Daily Oklahoman.) Entered at the Oklahoma City Oklahoma. Postoftice as second elate mail matter under the art of March 3, 1879
■ Escaped German Prisoner
Stay Be Heading for U. S.
. SOMEWHERE IN ONTARIO, Aug.
21.—(P)—Police investigated Wednes-
day the possibility that a 28-year-old
German naval lieutenant who escaped
from a northern Ontario internment
camp Monday is in Toronto or headed
for the United States border.
Home guards and mounted police
continued, however, an intensive
, search of the area around the camp,
indicating belief there was still a
chance the fugitive, Werner Koche,
might be hiding in that vicinity.
rescue party in the recent TOKYO, Aug 21—(P,—An Amer-
ican. George Holland Jr., an emplove tion of 'be Canadian-American de-
of the Standard-Vacuum Co at Yok- fense hoard and acquisition of western (
ohama, has been arrested on a charge hemisphere air and naval bases from
not immediately made public, the Great Britain.
Italian troops, including at least bond for a crime that carries
Single Bombers Sent
Over to Cut Targets;
English Extend Raids
To
Ship Transfer
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The complaints, which cropped out Victorv Sets R lock ad.
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bombers did little damage, first re- and national guard officers Tuesday „e, ", ,, — <1 ,
British experts pointed out the Oer- Mm nenedad ACrhursternggone y to ne intensity in the Mediterranean
B mans migt I have deci TexAs. ( mmander Wednesday as Italy launched a “t tal
of tactics to avoid heavy losses suf- of the Eighth corps area, that na. I blockade" of British territories in that
fered during massed raids with large t tonal guard commanders had let region and Stefani, the Italian news
formations of planes. , their men maneuver without their agency, reported A furious air-sea
The British admitted it was dirfi-shirts, and sometimes with no clothes battle in which it said seven British
cult to get the individual German except shorts. . Plancs were shot down
■...... nen. .. , Time and place of the battle were
mhev said masses of planes or Frid. that,? ., 1 orime examp If not disclosed but Stefano's corre- '
heY ______— Lo.Pane o‛ lack of discipline, occured when spondentsaid an Italian air squadron
aunational.guard truck.ran over a had attacked large British warships
sole reef EM aroad.„The,.victim protected by lighter vessels and a
gineero U S am" en-squadron of planes. with "considera-
Emeen5-S army. ble" effect.
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Major Gen. Walter B Krueger. com- bases on the island of Malta were
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 21 ' UF -Leon Trotsky, exiled Bolshe-
vik war lord, lay in a hospital Wednesday with a 1 in 10 chance
of surviving an assassination attempt by a trusted associate whom
Trotsky's entourage now suspected of being an operative of the
Russian secret police.
stood on the legal question.
H ind Ends Girls' Hope
Of Being Ocean Trader
anyone he desired," Landon said in an
interview here "Instead he permitted
his cohorts deliberately ot sabotage
the aspirations of every other eligible . ... . .
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up 01 unch : Dec 9.25-24. up .03- 02;
1 March 9 13. up .01; May 8 96. up .02;
Leon Trotsky as he appeared August 7 at Mexico City when he told
a press conference that an attack made on him sho / before then had
been inspired by Josef Stalin, ( Wirephoto.)
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finance the defense program if con-
scription of manpower is ordered.
Senator Pepper (D. Fla.), who said
he was "definitely in favor of the
principle" of Lee's amendment, an-
' nounced that he favored empowering
. the government to require Industry to
I produce necessary' defense equipment
with the understanding that manu-
facturers would be protected against
loss and permitted a "very small"
profit
Outbid by Britain
The testimony of navy and army
officials cited during the debate was
to this effect:
That many industries found It
more advantageous to deal with Brit-
ain because of statutory limitations
on the profits they could make on
army or navy contracts: that the
profits limitations were not uniform
for both services, giving the army
more freedom; that some manufac-
turers were hesitant either to accept
defense orders or to undertake the
necessary plant expansion until amor-
tization. profits and tax uncertainties
had been ended.
This testimony prompted Senator
McKellar iD.. Tenn.) to suggest in
committee that “we had better use a
little force" to have industry accept
defense contracts.
Lee's 'Borrowing' Plan
Senator Russel <D.. Ga.) comment-
ed : "I guess we will have to con-
script business."
Senator Lee, offering his "forced
loan" proposal, told the senate it was
not a tax measure but a "method of
borrowing money in proportion to
people's ability to lend."
Voicing approval, Senator Ashurst
(D. Ariz.) asserted that it was "per-
fectly constitutional to draft men as
well as to draft money” in peace time.
He urged that Lee also "give some
attention to the question of drafting
income."
Senator Wheeler (D.. Mont.) told
the chamber that "if we are going co
have a peacetime draft of men there
can be no reason under the sun why
we shouldn't have peacetime con-
scription of wealth."
Walsh Purpose, Delay
He said he wanted to see “some
of these influential New York lawyers
who have been advocating peacetime
conscription of men squirm" when
confronted with the issue of conscript-
ing wealth. He predicted that "none
of these great newspapers" favoring
conscription of manpower would sup-
port conscription of wealth.
As a vote approached on a pro-
posal by Senator Maloney (D., Conn.)
to delay conscription pending a fur-
ther trial of voluntary enlistment.
Senator Walsh <D., Mass.?, chairman
of the senate naval committee, said
he would propose an amendment to
make conscription operative only after
an "act of war" against the United
States.
He urged that the nation concen-
trate first on building an invincible
navy, air force, and anti-aircraft de-
fense before attempting to create a
large army.
Mounts and Rome Presses Charges
Of Athens Activitv in Albania
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