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Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - April 24, 1939, Oakland, California Weather partly Cloudy and mild tonight and tuesday moderate West wind. Chabot temperatures maximum 61 minimum 47 rainfall last 24 hours .00 Normal Al it season year 19.34 Complete weather Brevort Pace h Tribune exclusive associated press wire photo United press Home edition vol xxx no. 114 5c Dally d Oakland California monday april 24, 1939 Loc sunday 24 pages . Demands Relief shakeup other new Deal units including lending agencies social Security Board come under proposal Congress gets tomorrow Washington april Complete overhaul of Federal Relief machinery was projected today in government reorganization plans drafted by president Roosevelt sub Mission to Congress tomorrow. It was reported four reorganization proposals would go to the Capitol. Threats made to lawmakers stir probes Home of budget Bill foes Laid to Relief group los Angeles april eral state and local authorities to Day began a sweeping investigation into a Neu kind of legislative in which members of 2000 pupils Start flights in air i Iner Iii. Matt i i lectures in plane teach rudiments of modern British warn Berlin to accept . Peace plea or face War . Sanctions Albuquerque n. Hex april up a flying schoolroom shuttled up and Down the sunny Bio Grande Valley today bringing to the first of nearly 2000 Albuquerque the workers Alliance assert edly re High school students a practical sorted to intimidation and picketing knowledge of the rudiments of trans if Vic House is told Washington april 24 Gen Hugh s Johnson told the sen ate foreign relations committee to j Day that if. As a Neutral nation. Senator Barkley of Kentucky the democratic Leader was at four Republican assemblymen s port aviation authority the statement in hrs p a Empi Fox any Leason to a belligerent nation by eco that Ision of i Enki agencies was contemplated. Other congressional leaders asking that their names not be used said Roosevelt had advised them he would Send to Congress j tomorrow these reorganization pro i Powals i plan to consolidate under a j new Public works Agency the spa the pea. The United states housing authority the Treasury s Public buildings division and the Bureau of Public roads. A similar proposal is contained in a measure sponsored by senator Byrnes the Senate delayed action on the Byrnes Bill today loan units merger plan to consolidate govern ment lending agencies. Hoppers face Poison Wall Volley town puts up barricade of Mash to halt invading pests Avenal april wings on the invading Grasshopper Host added menace today to the threatened onslaught of the insects on Trees and shrubbery in Avenal. Proposal to set up a new i citizens who set fire to 100 acres welfare Agency or Security of grass to the North to Block the Derson Agency to take Over activities id Advance of a from toe Bare to if Wetue legislation. Federal agents were expected to enter the picture because of a report by assemblyman Lee Bashore that 150 men and women who said they were workers Alliance members marched on his Home at Glendora and one woman on the committee told me they intended to Start a revolution unless they got what they wanted Bashore is a member of the Assembly Economy bloc that has succeeded at least temporarily in eliminating the Relief fund item from gov. Culbert l. Olson s record breaking budget. Ask separate item members of the bipartisan econ omy bloc seek to set up the Relief fund As a separate appropriation item in order to keep closer control on its expenditure by stale Relief administrator Hobson Dewey an Olson administration forces were Ketteman his planned to Enci rde Bureau of education and the pub the town with lice health service. Bran Mash. Deny picket lobbying and i Tion although no charges had been ing new Douglas Skyline of transcontinental and Western airlines which is cooperating in a youth aviation education movement designed eventual nation wide expansion to extend the frontiers of aviation personnel and knowledge. Publisher s plan the unique course of mass Educa Tion was prompted by Thomas h. Beck president of Crowell publish ing company and patterned after similar developments in the scandi Navian countries. First of what will probably be a full week of half hour flights started from Albuquerque s new Airport the largest in the United states. The first group of 20 students with a week s schoolroom lectures behind them took off in the 21-Pas Senger ship. They were accompanied by a hostess a n d a lecturer and equipped with ear phones tuned elimination Valley agricultural lands was emphasized by Stewart lock plan of duplicate ins government departments. The latter proposal it was maj cd Lor unification of government s scattered Law of Cement agencies. Barkely s discussion of Relief j their Speed and Range of destructive hangs bracketed the nya in that Ness. V Hill said they Lockwood conferred by Telephone no h would be grouped with with w. B. Parker state director of the social welfare agencies. J agriculture who was expected to Barkley told reporters that a half visit Fresno and Bakersfield today dozen Relief agencies would be to help Farmers and businessmen in organizing a counter attack on the the More serious threat to san levelled against them. The gov Boih to one Lect ii s microphone error s office announced that Clar ence Moll head of the state Bureau of criminal identification merged into a new unified Relief oem. There a ill be some Central control said i Wood state entomologist who Adol the Vised Farmers that warm weather had been asked to would develop wings on the grass m the probe. I hoppers by the millions increasing then he said spokesmen made three demands on him. For original plan they were the Relief item be retained intact m the budget As proposed by governor Olson. Insects. Ranchers in the Coalinga area or ill Relief activities the senator mixed bran and carried it to Points But declined to say what Agency of principal infestation by fleets of v Ould exercise it. Trucks. Flax Barley wheat and cot asked whether the president i ton were threatened nomic stud ties. We committed an act of War against the former Aba administrator now a newspaper columnist added that if we want to invoke the instrument of War in european affairs let s do it with everything we have. War is a struggle to the death he advised the committee that the Only Safe course this nation now was to rely upon its own strength and pursue an Independent course dangerous period this is a dangerous John son said. But we Are still very Strong. Our safety lies in Reliance upon ourselves. It is of course True that if we make economic War with a threat of military War in an Alli Ance in we May Stop War. It is by no Means certain. The threat of our tremendous economic strength m 1917 did t Stop Germany. Tary War. There we had to get into Mili Assurance that Inis and Twa s two Way radio communication system Between the cockpit and ground stations a to All but a few of the students we would have bought a War. No it was their first experience i body can deny that. It is a strategy will Stop War now. It is a thin and Uncertain Chance. But if it did t Stop War one thing is certain and virtually All their first time in a modern Airliner. Interest keen the airline personnel headed by Twa s chief Pilot Otis Bryan had its hands full dealing with questions on vertical pitch propellers torque and matters of extreme technical nature. Relief Money be disbursed miss satay. The hostess Between by the state exclusively with the 58 counties having no part in the work. Passage of the governor s Relief and budget Bill As Ould bring All Relief activities under some existing Federal depart an area of 10 ones 0ng and five ment Barkley said that it would be Miles was reported Movin a horde of tiny hoppers covering originally presented. If we re going to clean up this possible to unify Relief activities Down from Foothills near los Banos. Without placing them under a de j in Merced county. Most of the in sects were less than three eighths inches Long but had moved 60 Miles Barkley disclosed the reorganization proposal after the regular Mon i from the scene of infestation near Day conference Between president i Coalinga. Roosevelt and his legislative leaders. I Roosevelt will act. Barkley said i agriculture unions under provisions of the recently in 3 i a Bill. The measure permits the presi Dent to reorganize government agencies by submitting to con Gress which became effective in 60 Days unless they Are disapproved by both houses of Congress to cover All units to of situation in Bashore 49th District representative said i d just As soon have it Start Here. Leader of the delegation threatened to bring an army of 000 pickets to my Home next sat Urdaz unless i ceased my present stand on the Sra Issue. Meets threat periods of shepherding excited charges remarked with a Broad smile these children need a Mechanic a hostess i should have gone to an engineering school All of the students making the flight were required to bring written permission from their parents. The project Hart the approval of the City school Board the United states of fice of education and the civil aeronautics association. Meeks kidnapping i next saturday but that the follow officials of the California state ing saturday i would be and to Industrial Union Council and Oil bring his army then he said he workers International Union issued would. A request in san Francisco today the Only Protection i want or ask i ail members of the . Unions i is forewarning enough to get my Yuba City. April 24 kidnapping trial of Robert Grimes j 24, and his brother Ollen 30, a Hopes to do Cash carry a magnificent Gamble on a hair line Chance favor repeal meanwhile. Two witnesses recommended to the House foreign affairs committee the repeal of exist in neutrality legislation. Quincy Howe new York writer urged Freedom of action on foreign policy. James Martin Miller of washing ton a former Newspaperman and former member of the diplomatic service urged repeal of the Neutral Ity act on grounds it is an absurd i and dangerous thing to play with general Johnson said he thought it would be simply sufficient to have a Short act authorizing the president to proclaim danger zones m foreign wars and then let the statute Lay Down the Rule that ships or goods or even lives of americans risked in those ones must proceed at their under no circumstances will we go to War to protect or avenge them. Timidi Woupio. Of be Quai of Teduie a would treat belligerents alike it would tend to keep us out of War on the same theory that Cash and carry sir Nevile Henderson British ambassador to Germany Lias been ordered to return to Berlin and simultaneously Herbert von Dirksen German ambassador to great Britain has been sent Back to London. Both were recalled during the Slovakia wire photos. European War hangs on Hitler s Reich Stag speech leaders declare situation Graver than of sudeten Meeks was re in agricultural areas affected by the Grasshopper infestation to Aid in the because of the president s rear j Light against the pests. The request a animation plan the majority Leader j was issued by Louis Goldblatt Sec wife and kids away from Here be fore trouble starts. But 1 Don t anticipate any Trou ble. This move is undoubtedly just said the Senate would delay action rotary of the Industrial Union coun another pressure stunt by agitators on saturday also men and women pickets who said they were work ers Alliance members marched on the Homes of assemblymen Charles on a Bill by senator Byrnes d., s. A to consolidate existing Relief agencies. Barkley said the president s order tomorrow would cover All agencies i included in the Byrnes measure. These Are the spa the pea the i near Noldo cotia tiered acc. The nya the Bureau of Public i j1 roads and the Public building Divi Napa april 24-the annual in Sion of the Treasury. I Vasion of caterpillars into Napa Mother warned cil and j. C. Coulter International representative of the Oil workers Union. Caterpillar invasion sued today in Superior judge thur Coats court. Unless District attorney Lloyd Hewitt Calls an additional witness whom the Grimes Brothers said they joined at Roseville August 30 or to Board a freight Southern Johnson said that if the committee would not accept his suggestion is of legislation then he would favor Cash and carry provi Sion devoid of any discretion to Dis Criminate against any nation at War. If neither of those plans were a a in Una in succeeded by an emergency Rearma-1 with the Rome Berlin axes ment program which is costing the taxpayers or More a year. Importance of War and Navy ad-11 aah Sqq ministration and Ohhet rearmament and is not connected with extreme tendencies. Ministration program May be further emphasized this week when Chancellor Hitler utters Germany s reply to Roosevelt s april 15 peace plea. Hit Ler will speak on april 28. The conflict Between another Post Swanson who is a political strategist of Long experience. There appears to be less basis expecting an Early vacancy in the War department which is headed by Secretary Harry h. Woodring. Both service departments have grown to importance now become so pronounced and evident that that German says in Ber urged red Cross Washington april Norman h. Davis american red Cross chairman urged an increase of 1 we tort sep today As a Token of the organization s resolve to be prepared All Lin must be expected to have a i reporting present membership at reel Impact in Washington. Davis told nearly 3000 ruling postponed on mayor Hague Washington. April the supreme court postponed to Day until at least next monday a decision on whether mayor Frank Hague had violated the cons Titu barring . Meetings in Jersey City. Oral arguments will Start before the nine justices late today or to Morrow on constitutionality of milk marketing agreements the new Fields new Revenue. York and Boston areas under the 1937 agricultural marketing agree ment act. The supreme court agreed today to review a decision upholding penalties assessed by the California vehicles owned by the Richmond creameries inc., of Wilmington. The film started reorganization proceedings in 1936 but did not apply state License tags the Britain s largest peacetime budget he will introduce in the House of commons tomorrow his awaited annual budget estimates. Because of enormous rearmament expenses the total budget the 1939-40 financial year is expected to be about As against 000 the past year. Sir John was expected to ounce increases in luxury and May even boost the already Steep income tax to get increased i venue. Tie income lax is now. 5 shillings sixpence in the Pound or 27 v4 per cent. Taxes on tobacco Tea sugar gasoline and a Levy on have been suggested As Down Roft crashes plane three Hurt a sudden downdrafts of air was blamed the crash of a biplane into a Mountainside Alpine Springs 25 Miles Here in which three Enow the temper and tone of his reply i delegates at the annual red Cross Creamery vehicles until february injured seriously. Are particularly important on this occasion because Congress is in the process of revising our neutrality legislation. Convention that they must work to 27, 1937. The department then re i the plane burst into ump make the red Cross worthy of i fused to Issue he tags because the struck the slope but the ideals of in founders and did not the Tami to Dullege of Jot if Tim i

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