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F. B. |. Clerical Workers
Lose Civil Service Status

Several hundred clerical positions
in the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton which were brought under civil
service by executive order on Febru-
ary have been exempted once more
by President Roosevelt.
The order removing the workers
from the classified service resulted
from provision in the Justice ap-
preparation for 1910 prohibiting pay
ment of salaries to clerical employees
in the bureau having civil service
status.
The legislative restriction was
written in the bill after J. Edgar
Hoover, F. B. I. director. urged
against civil service for his en-
ployes at congressional hearing on
the ground that they we're serving in
a "confdential' capacity. The ex-
empting order thereupon became
necessary to clear the pay status Of
the workers.
The F. B. I. employees were in a
list of approximately 10000 brought
under civil service by President
Roosevelt in a move to expand the
merit system.
Fingerprint workers of the bureau
are under civil service.
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-Four Boys Save Another
From Quarry Wall
BY the Associated Press.

~ the Associated PreSs.
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa, July T.
After clinging an hour and q half
to the side of an abandoned quarry
100 feet above the ground, 15-year-
old Stuart Kanz, jr., grasped rope
tossed by companions and was
hauled over the top to safety last
night.
Leaving a picnic group, the boy
had attempted to scale the steep,
rocky wall. He was within IS feet
of the top when he found himself
stranded-unable to climb higher
because of loose sf1ale and unable to
get down because of overhanging
rocks.
A breathless crowd of IS watched
the rescue, effected by four boys
who obtained a rope from a farm
house and reached the top Of the
quarry wall by a path.
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mise, keep your eye on the boys
of the B brigade-Bricker Of OHIO,
Barton of New York, Bridges OF
New Hampshire. Baldwin OF Con-
necticut and even Barbour Of New
Jersey. Any one of these five has dis
tinct second-choice possibilities and
corresponding prospects for wee
presidential nomination on a ticket
headed by Vandenberg, Dewey or
Taft. Gov. Bricker is the likeliest
dark horse bet. depending, OF
course, on how much strength his
Ohio rival, Senator Taft, manages
to develop. Representative Bruce
Barton would command consider
able second string following IN the
New York and New England dele
cations If Dewey faded from the
picture. Senator Bridges Is an
avowed presidential aspirant, with
a miniature campaign on his be-
half under way. Connecticut Is
thought certain to present Gov.
Baldwin's name to the convention,
and New Jersey will seek recogni-
ton for its pivotal electoral vote
by asking either first or second
place for Senator Barbour, who
staged notable reelection come
back in l938
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Will MacLeish Give EN- Up?
DR.. r. D. w. Connor, archivist
of tho IJpiteS States pevpr mo-
bilized to obtain for the National
Archives the original drafts of the
Constitution of the United States
and the Declaration of Independ-
ence mainly because there was a
sort of gentleman's agreement not
to raid the Library of Congress.
where they are now deposited. as
long as Herbert Putnam was Ii
brarian. Now that Putnam has
made way for Archibald MacLeish,
Congress wonders whether trans
fer of the Nations most precious
documents may not be imminent.
Jim Preston, DR.. Connor's assistant
administrative secretary, is Just
back from showing Hollywood how
to screen the United States Senate,
so matters may move rapidly. Pres
tons pride and joy is the magnifi-
cent exhibit hall on the Constitu-
ton avenue side of the palace of
Archives, wherein it's always been
intended the Constitution and
Declaration should eventually rest.
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LoWden, w o. o d
and johnson did
at Chicago in
1920 - that Is,
eventually kill
each other OF.
Who will be the
Harding to walk
away with a dark
horse nomina-
ton is literally
a nag of a diff
ferent color. If
and when the
hour arrives for
another smoke
filled room con-
fab and Comnro-
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House Votes Permanent
Patent Office Force

By unanimous consent the House
yesterday approved a bill sponsored
by Representative Coffee of Wash
ington to provide a permanent force
to classify patents in the Patent
Office.
The House passed over without
prejudice a joint resolution spon-
sored by Chairman Keller of the
Library Committee authorizing the
selection of site and the erection
of the historic Columbian fountain
in Washington.
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only Senators to vote against the silver subsidy And
Republican
This regional solidarity
apprasing the solid force
factors The West thny
counts than Of all the members the House
is
the will cling pasonatey powers
upper including
providing
policies
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ing the areas now comprising Louis
lana, Arkansas. Oklahoma, Kansas,
Missouri. Nebraska, Iowa, the Da-
kotas, Montana, most of Minnesota
and portions of Colorado and Wy
oming. How much P. w. A., w. P.
A. or other United States dough the
Smith regime had to play with has
not been disclosed. Few men ever
came within the tolls of the law who
boasted such a string of academic
honors as trail after the name of the
accused L. S. U. executive He's a
Pd. B Of Valparaiso, B. A. of L. S. u,
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background
theless his staff admits that he following policy
sulaton acknowledged fields
and general economics No doubt the experts will have much influence
the Dewey
before
Altogether the the
that while unobtruve it is hardwokng welgased
Dewey himself number his candidacy
hat
Dewey determined and the would
limb to predict Dewey defeat would
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Navy Awards Contract
For Aircraft Engines
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
The Navy awarded yesterday a
$37l ,269 contract for aircraft en-
gines to the Wright Aeronautical
Corp, Paterson. N. J. Other con-
tracts included:
E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co.,
Wilmington, Del, explosives, $685.
325; Bethlehem Steel Corp, Bethle.
hem, Pa, $180,l20: Carbide & Car
bon Chemicals Corp, New York
City. ether, $67,815.
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McInerny Critically III

NEW YORK, July 7 CP.-Midtown
Hospital officials said last night
Joseph McInerny, president of the
American Federation of Labor's
Building Trades Department, was
critically ILL.," They declined to
! discuss the nature Of his illness.
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Club Hears Debate

john A. Reilly, president of the
Second National Bank, and Edward
j. Gainor president of the National
Associa ton of Letter Carriers, de-
bated economic questions yesterday
before the Cosmopolitan Club in the
Carlton Hotel. President Edmund
o. Carl presided.
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1881 1t was a
sit-down strike
W h ich is be-
Ieved to have
persuaded t h e
Supreme Court
to uphold the
Wagner Act and
G i've Congress
the power to
prevent paraly-
sis of the Ma
tion' S leading
industry.
T Cd a Y the
Federal Govern
ment, intruSted
~,+iz -~"y~, 10
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M. A. and Phi. D. of Columbia, Phi
Delta Kappa, member of the Ameri
can Academy of Political and Social
Science. Commander of the Italian
Order of the Crown and knight OF
the French Legion of Honor.
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apparently let the polls prove his avail
ability for the while he calmly gathers in the promises that
polls his His che political adv1serth man who
being his Managers the sWd old former Federal
Medae touch with
trial.
kind of makesh Dewey headquarters
that Medae heading dele
that authorized the
that contributions
although several individuals have already boasted they
among Deweys hackers.
his
ddacy must the statements of politician No
detail but the time
perhaps pushing Dewey Very likely
promised support him have returned
work for Dewey delegation Politics works
that
Arthur H. Vandenberg for example
active technique
be passive claimed authoritative
Republican South be
checkbook,
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The Capital Parade
Dewey-for-President Campaign Proceeds
Quietly, but Makes Real Progress

NEW YORK July NANAoAs he almost universally quoted
Thomas Dewey talks though the Republican presidential
nomination his already His confidence surprising
ever Tor the OF potent callers at his ONCE would convince
young that they already in the White House.
these last national committee
like have been thick around Dewey flies around
last week while the Governors Conference
tasted with important Governor at
morning meal with another Governor During
meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association
pubcs ocked step up his usual
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California, Oregon, Washington,
Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New
Mexico, Montana, Wyoming, Colo
rado, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma
these are the ingredients OF the solid
West, no longer woolly but still
politically wild. BY peculiar irony,
the two Senators from Nebraska,
the home-State of William Jennings
BRYAN of free silver" fame. were
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ate and the sill
verites, that the
Republicans had
o u t S m ar t e d
t h e m S e I've S.
Events have vim
di C a t e d this
judgment. T h e
great battle over
the monetary bill
ends with the
President getting
back, for another
two years, his
power to devalue
the dollar down
to so cents, and
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The second factor that the West regional
ton
mated by lanordsm and is great debtor region Railroads
utilities all combine to drain the dollars the
Coulee
exploitation
fromWa tariff
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HE opinions OF the uers this their
necessarily The Stars Such opinions are presented IN The
Stars effort to giDe all sides questions OF interest its
readers although opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
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Washington Observations
Another Harding Is Possibility If Vondenbere,
Dewey and Tuft Kill Each Other Off

! Beautiful bronze receptacles for
them were provided in che original
building plans. They are in place.
but empty.
Royal Visit, But No Trade Treaty.
Those European royal visitors of
ours will begin to realize that their
welcome presence in our midst
doesn't necessarily butter any polit-
ical parsnips. George and Elizabeth
went home without any pro-Brit-
ish neutrality legislation tucked
away in their majestic luggage, and
now Olav and Martha of Norway
are about to leave these shores with.
out having heard of any progress
in the direction of a Norwegian
American reciprocal trade treaty.
The British and Norwegian cases
aren't quite identical. John Bull
wants neutrality favors from Uncle
Sam, which we won't grant. We
want a trade treaty for Norway.
which she won't sign. For more
than a year negotiations between
Washington and Oslo have been at
deadlock. The Norwegians crave
important tariff concessions on
whale oil, sardines. fish products
and their. other export staples,
while they're not enthusiastic about
lowering their own duties on our
farm produce and other stuff we d
like to market on a larger scale in
Norway.
Nazi General Tours Battlefields.
Lt.-Gen. Friedrich Won Boetticher,
German military and air attache
and pre-Hitler army leader, re-
Gently returned from one of his
periodical rides Of inspection across
the celebrated battlefields Of Vir-
ginia. No American soldier has a
more intimate acquaintance with
the terrain and tactics of the WASH
lngton, Lee, Jackson, Grant and
Sheridan campaigns. Gen. Boet-
ticher, like all German professional
military men, is keen student and
admirer OF the feats and strategy
OF both our Revolutionary and Civil
War commanders. Their lives and
careers have long been standard
subjects in the German War COL
lege and subordinate service schools,
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Dixie Fair Visitors in Town.
Senator Pat Harrison of Missis-
sippi, pleading his inability to at
tend a recent public function in
Washington, said that in addition
to the arduous committee matters
now pestering members of Congress
day and night. Dixie Senators find
much OF their time taken I'D with
visits from homefolk en- route to the
New York Worlds Fair. Pat himself
says that just as soon as the session
Is out Of the way, I'm going to fly
to places unknown. and will have my
hands pretty full then, too"
Louisiana Purchase.
Under Huey Longs lavish aus
pices, President James Monroe
Smiths Louisiana State University
had some $500 900 of public funds
squandered on it, or close to the
100000 which President Jeffer-
son paid Napoleon Bonaparte for the
vast region extending from Canada
to the Gulf of Mexico and includ-
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schedule OF about eight visitors q
day to nearly double that number.
Furthermore, many of these
potent Dewey callers do not leave
without saying the words that even
a man who is mot a candidate"
most likes to hear-"I'm for you,
and want you to count on me-
Indeed, Deweys local supporters say
that their man is having hard
time restraining friends in other
States, who keep writing in when
can we take the wraps off and 60 tt
6on,r hac o,ror,r oilfrro ,.d arr,aora
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the pre-conVention period, when
confidence ran as high at the AL
bany Executive Mansion as it does
now in the New York district at
torneys office. Curiously enough,
Dewey has even borrowed a pat
ented Rooseveltian technique for
his campaign.
He has. in fact, his own Moleys,
his Tugwells and his Berles. Like
the Roosevelt brain-trust, these
acader1,ic advisers of Deuyev'S ore
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the
nomc allegiance Silver only the emotional which the West
which Europe, is
debtors
desne
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farm benefit payments, veterans
pensions. w. P. A., P. w. A., Town.
send plans or what have you. With
out a steady flow of funds from the
East to the West. the West goes
bankrupt and when the West is
broke it makes political history, as
in 1896. 1912 or 1882
That is why the Republicans
voted $4OO 900, 900 of extra farm
subsidies. above the budget, and
fhot ic u,ly tho n n D cypportS
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Burglar Deposits Trunks

ALBUQUERQUE LP.-The bur-
glar who broke into Ben Ramirez S
home really gave police a puzzler
He deposited two trunks; took
nothing.
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| Republicans
Big Victory
Slips Away
6. 0. P. Outsmurts
Itself in Alliance
With SiIverites
By CHARLES G., ROSS.

The opinion was ventured in this
space some days ago, after the con-
summation of the deal between the
hard-money Republicans in the SEN
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BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Chances at this writing are
bright that Vandenberg, Dewey and
Taft at the Republican National
Convention In 1910 may do what
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Labor Board
Fails to Halt
Union Strife
Auto Strikes May
Prove Need for
Changes in Law
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Again the automobile industry
may furnish the reason for sig
nificant change in the regulation of
labor relations in America. Back in
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I'VE, the People
Senote's Silver Vote Reveals Emerqence
Of Solid West in National Politics
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

For three
that belt Of Conederacy of 1861
ana tended together
on But the South today far from solid 1t cracked
broken In the fierce bgoy while
10 the Democratic party under the New Deal is uneasy
While
for the New and
dollar
national politics and must be equality
North -
Extent of Solid West
There are le States in the solid West embracing
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Extent of Solid West

There l6 States in the solid
west OF the line Of the Missouri and the
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The Grand Determination

There rather Roosevetan flavor about Dewey The
egosm, smile distinct
his opnona these qualities recall the Roosevelt
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Delegates, Come to Ne

of work? Atogete Dewey ca1o
dacy has every appearance Of extreme prosperity
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West Needs Capital

national policies
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Fortifying Of AaIands
Supported by italians

BY the Associated PlesS.
HELSINGFORS Finland, May 6.
Italy was reported today to have
Joined Britain and Germany in ap-
proving a proposal by Sweden and
Finland to fortify the autonomous
Aalands, a group of Baltic Sea
islands which may vitally influence
Europes next war"
Soviet Russia was said heretofore
to have objected to the proposal,
contending that neither Sweden nor
Finland were strong enough to de-
fend the islands against aggression.
Seizure of the group by power
hostile to Russia would be menace
to Leningrad, her western port.
Straddling the narrow entrance to
the Gulf of Bothnia. northern ex-
tension of the Baltic, the Aalands
are so miles from Finland, which
has sovereign rights over the group,
and Is miles from Sweden, whose
language the islanders speak. They
were Russian until 1917, when Fin
land declared her independence.
Finland and Sweden. who quar-
relied after the World War over
who should control the Aalands,
think the start of a European war
would see a race between Nazi Ger
many and Soviet Russia to occupy
the group, carrying virtual control
of the Baltic.
Demintarized in 1921 by a League
Of Nations convention which guar
anteed the neutrality Of the islands,
they are regarded by the two Scan
dinavian countries as a provocative
temptation to third power.
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Big Defense Powers
For President Of
Poland Are Near
Lower House Committee
Approves Bill to Settle
Economic Problems
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
WARSAW, May 6.-The Legal
Committee Of the Sejm dover
House of Parnament) unanimously
approved today a bill granting spe-
cial powers to President Ignace
Moscicki.
It would give the President wide
authority to issue DEGREES on mat
tiers concerning national defense.
economics and finance until the
next regular session of Parliament
in early December. The measure
now will go to the Sejm and the
Senate.
Eugene Kwiatkowski, Vice Pre-
mier and Minister of Finance. told
the committee the main purpose of
the bill, which was requested by
the government, was to enable
prompt settlement of economic and
financial matters connected with
the defense Of the country.
He pointed out, however, that
the government was not resorting
to article 70 of the constitution
which allows the President auto
matically, without the permission
Of Parliament, to issue DEGREES
when the country is "endangefed.' ~
Poland as whole remained calm
while awaiting Germany's next
move following the rejection yes
terday by Foreign Minister Col
Joseph Beck of German. demands
for Danzig and sovereign right
of way between East Prussia ano
the, rest of Germany across the
Polish Corridor.
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% to Go to Conference
Of Zionist Bodies

Twenty-three Washington repre-
sentatives of Zionist organizations
will go to Old Point Comfort, Va,
next week end to attend the 18th
annual conference of the Seaboard
Zionist Region.
Washingtonians who will partici-
pate in q discussion of zionism in
the light 6f recent political events
will include Louis E. Spiegler, Rabbi
Isadore Breslau and Mrs. Raphael
Tourover.
The meeting, whic hopens Satur-
day night and continues through
the following Monday, will be at
tended by representatives Of Zion
list districts, Seaboard Region Ha-
dassah, Seaboard Zionist Youth Re-
gion, the Order of Sons Of Zion,
the National Workers Alliance, the
Jewish National Fund and United
Palestine Appeal Committees and
the Independent Order Birth Sho-
lom of Baltimore and its ladies' aux
iliaries.
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Gillette Forum Speaker
Farm Problem to Be Discussed
In Broadcast Tomorrow Night

"Our National Farm Problem"
will be discussed by Senator Guy
M. Gillette, Democrat, Of Iowa In
the National Radio Forum tomorrow
night.
The forum is arranged by The
Star and is broadcast over . Nation
wide network Of the National Broad
casting Co. It is heard locally ct
$50 O'Clock through Station WMAL.
A member of the Senate Agrt-
culture Committee, Senator Gillette
has long been regarded as q stanchI
legislative friend of Americas farm
ers.
He has sponsored numerous meas
ures aimed at relieving the hard
pressed farmers and has been work
Ing for enactment OF some OF MS
bills before adjournment.
Recently he was successful IN
getting through Congress q measure
reducing from S to 3z per cent the
interest rate on farm loans.
He has been q persistent advocate
of the plan to change the manner
Of marketing farm products and has
fought to increase the domestic
market by introduction OF new uses
Of farm products.
At present he has legislation pend
ing designed to amend the sou
Conservation Act in respect to the
,,ses at diverted acreage, and with
S.~..~. T.,rer IN co.allthor OF IN.
Other Bill to amend the Packers and
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Firemen Rescue 4 Children
In Smoke-Choked Building

-Four small colored children were
rescued from a smoke -choked build
ing at 1902 Ninth street NV. by
11remen yesterday.
Firemen responding to an alarm
at 1900 Ninth street NV. found
a stubborn blaze. Exploring the
building. they found a staircase
leading to the house next door.
In a room which flremen said
was locked on the third floor of
this house were the four children.
They were frightened by the noise
and the smoke but apparently were
otherwise unharmed when the res
cuers arrived.
Participating in the rescue were
Lieut.. E. c. Poole, Sergt. G. w.
Donohoe. Pvt. G. A. Cramer and
Pvt. Harry Poulsen, a rookie fire.
man attached to No. Engine Com
pany.
The children gave their names as
Ell Brown, 4: Mary Brown, 6; Joseph
Brown, 2, and Jane Brown, /. The
f1reswas brought under control after
a short time.
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Overheard Sailor,
Nearly Rescued,
Is Killed by Shark
~ tie Associated Press.


NORFOLK, Va, May 6.-The
story OF an overheard sailors death
among sharks In the Gulf Stream
while almost within the grasp OF
rescuers was reported to British
Consul James Guthrie today by
the skipper Of the freishter Hun
cufie.
Crewmen Of the British ship
bound from Galveston to Newport
News, said she was several hundred
miles southeast Of Cape Henry
Wednesday when q freak wave rose
out Of the moderate to rough seas,
crashed over the bow and swept
storekeeper James Heagan over
board.
Mr.. Heagan was a powerful SWIM
mer, his mates said, and was making
good progress toward the ship as
she hove to. A ufebuoy was tossed
oversize and he headed toward It,
apparently In good condition. Mer
moved to the davits to lower q
ufeboat. Then they saw sharks.
A few minutes later, Mr.. Heagan
cried out, threw up his arms and
sank as II jerked.
Two other vessels Joined in the
search and crutsed about with the
Hunclif1e for four hours but NO
further sign Of the man was seen
crewmen reported.
Mr.. Heagan came from Stafford
near Liverpool, England.
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Washington College Of Law
Debaters Win Prizes

Winners of the annual Gold Medal
Prize Debate of the Freshman Class
of Washington College Of Law, held
last night at 1000 G street NV,
are Carl Estes and Jeanne A.
Gaines.
Other participants in the debate
were o. Blanche Carroll. John w.
Gardner, Francis M. Divilio and
Alexander E. Sedgewick. The sub
ject argued was Resolved, That
Congress Should Prohibit the Export
Of Arms and Ammunition and Raw
Materials for the Production Of
These"
Miss Carroll, Mr.. Estes and Mr..
Gardner argued in the Affirmative
and Miss Gaines, Mr.. Divilio and
Mr.. Sedgewick, the negative. The
Affirmative side won.
/ The six debaters were chosen for
the contest by preliminary contests
in various debating sections of the
class.
The gold medal prizes will be
awarded to the winners at the
annual commencement exercises.
Rebekah' 8. Greathouse, faculty
adviser on debate, presided and
judges were Representative Earl r.
Lewis Of Ohio and Carl s. Mccarthy
and Elizabeth e. Benson, local ct.
toeueys.