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. TThererer News' I Whether Ifa la Berlin' or K Chicago, la Salens cr la . LaJbish Center, 1 Statenman . readers ' may always count '; Weather I ;- r ,kZ ' l r If'" F today "and Thursday J Biotlerately warm with low . homldlty. Max. temp.' Toes : day 82, iuln. S3. River -3.9 ft Northwest wind. . n . name u cempleta story. - :' hV:'hr:: ! r . : ' V " cauMoao 1651 NINETIETH YEAH Solera. Oraqon AVaaaaday Morning, July 241813 Pries) So Xiewsafcxada 5c No. 101 I I i J ( I : I r 1 1 N, f I . U v - I I I. I . I iVo BralmTriisters:- if" IsWi FBR Hits Bolters Eh tee Ear . J Paul Ylauter't Column A friend of ours Informs us of the recent Introduction or an un cle of his from Indiana, a g entle- m a n - Incidental- j near Wendell r tow n, t o t a e strange thenom- enem of totiehJt typing. This genile man from Jndl i i a had nerer had - occasion to watch a stenog rapher in action until one day he lv. dropped in at an attorney's office raJ H imw: to clear no a little matter. He had to wait and while he waited he watched the typist, who was bus ily transcribing some shorthand notes, her eyes on the notes" and her finsers flying. - He watched her for some, min utes, carefully and with an in creasing air of puzzled disbenei. Finally it .was more than he eonld stand. He got up and went orer to her. - "Young lady,M he aaid, "Do yon know what you're doing?" The stenographer was some what ' taken aback. "Why I think so, she aid. "Well, I donl't think so," the Indiana ancle 'said. "Vre been watching you for 15 mlnntes and you haven't looked at that there machine once. Our suggestion for a Whisker ino Stockade song is the Emper or's song from the Mikado: "My object all sublime I shall achieve in time To make the punishment fit the crime, The punishment fit the crime. And make each prisoner pent Unwillingly represent A source of innocent merriment, Of Innocent merriment.' Indian names1iave Iong ' fnler eatsd as, particularly those at Cbemawa where Raymond 'Afrald-of-hls-Tracks used to be a pretty good dash .man.-? Recently -we heard how some Navajo Indians got hep with a census taker. The Indians didn't want to ' be cen sused, but the census taker told them they woukl otherwise be listed as "chindee" or dead. That brought them in. But they made trouble. When the census taker came, to the two Inch long; space on bis blank for the name the Indian said: Maa-who-Walks-Uentnd Hit-Wagon." The enumerator finally con densed that Into the space. Then he pointed at the squaw. "What's her name," he said. "She BUnd-Daughter-of-Thlrd-Wlf e-of-Man-Who-Walks -Behind-His-Wagon," the re dm an said solemnly. One of our scouts reports that the best of the wisecracking traffic policemen are not bow rasing the "Where's the fire, bod?' gag on speeders. Tb really smart ones, we are told, rash up to the offending motor ist and inquire with grave con cern, "How are they coming? By land or by seaT . Change Cannery .Hour Exemption WASHINGTON, July - 23-JP)-The wages and hours administra tion eliminated certain exemp tions for canners of fresh fruits and vegetables today, but made some concessions to the Industry. Officials said a new order by Col. Philip B. Fleming, adminis trator, , becoming effective Octo ber 1, would: Increase the number of plants coming under the fair labor stand ards act by altering the present exemption for plants la towns of 1500 population or less "which ob tain their fruit and - vegetables from within a 10-mlle- - radius. (This change was made by re writing the definition of "area of production.") Raise from seven to ten the number of persons who may be employed in an exempt plant. Grant a partial exemption from the hour provisions for 14 weeks, In addition' to the present full ex emption for 14 weeks. Give fruit and vegetables in storage warehouses , a : 14-week partial exemption from tha hours provisions. ; , f Ralph Cake Heads Back; Plans Made WASHINGTON," July , S3 (JF Ralph Cake, Oregon's zepublieaa national committeeman, left here last night after conferring with Senator McNary on arrangements for the formal notification of Mc Nary'a nomination as rice presi dent. Plans for the ceremony, to be held at Salem, Ore., : were sot completed. - - Cake planned to arrive in Port land Thursday after conferring with Wendell Wlllkie, republican presidential nominee. In Colorado jyeonesday. - ' - illkie -PledgS; Concentration on -State 'Affairs ! Is Doubted i '. "- ' . ' : " . ir"-- - -" s' .; Burke. Hanes and Douglas Targets for Roosevelt r ; .By WILLIAM B. ARDERT J , I CHETJENNE,- Wyo.;r July Jl. (?VWendell U WUlkie told 11 Wyoming . republican leaders to night that if he w e r elected president "there woald.be no brain trusters. In back rooms writ ing - melodious . speeches." - .- i -: . Addressing a dinner of repub lican party workers from . every Wyoming eounty, the nominee as sorted! I "l Insist that the throttle hold of. big, government be removed from our, legislatures, our courts and our business. "I am determined that the leadership of the country shall not be resolved by. corporate wealth or by political wealth in the form of political machines, "This government belongs to the people, and we are going to return it to them." Willkle's dinner talk, after a visit to Cheyenne's Frontier Days rodeo, finished a day in which the republican candidate aimed his sharpest jabs at President Roosevelt and the new deal since coming west for a pre-campaign vacation. With 10 minutes to catch his plane for a visit to rodeos at Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah, Wlll kie pledged to a crowd gathered outside Consistory temple: "If you elect me president, I pledge you that this great democ racy never will be destroyed by Insidious attacks from within or above. ' "Join us In this great crusade, he urged. "We must keep lit this tore a or aemocracy. ..'4 . Earlier, while watching 'the rodeo Show, Wlllkie Jovially had observed 'that President '- Roose velt's comment en democrats who have announced support for him showed "that the- president is thinking of something besides the affairs of state." ; By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL HYDE PARK, N. T., July U.- (JF) President Roosevelt donned (Tern to page z, eoi. l ) Morse Criticizes Oust-Bridges Bill EUGENE, Ore., July M-VPh- Wayne L. Morse, dean of the Uni versity of Oregon law school and Pacific 'coast waterfront labor arbiter, tonight went on record opposing the congressional meas ure to deport Harry Bridges ! Morse wrote Senator W. H. King, Utah, that Bridges, coast longshore leader and California CIO director; had been exonerated by Dean James Landls of Harvard of charges of communism and opposition to the American form of government for which his (de portation was asked. , "I do not know of a more fair-minded, com petent judicial officer than Dean Landls,". Morse wrote. " -: Morse, sent, copies of .the. letter to Bridges and Miss Eleanor Fow ler of .Washington, . DC, chairman of the "Bridges defense commit tee,' at whose request ex pressed his views. - Coquille Union to AskFuU7ints rnbttiLtR Ore.f Julv 23-MPV- Coaullle plywood workers voted today to fall In with other Pacific coast unions and demand an In crease in minimum pay from 1 cents an hour to 70 cents. More than S00 smun wooa Products. company employes ap nrnTc) tin demands and voted to strike If the increase Is not grant ed within a "reasonanie Time. . Heat Death Toll Mounting ; Showers Cool Some Areas (By The Associated Press) -I Scattered ' showers cooled some utfvna of the nation Tuesday but most residents of the broad swelterbelt between the Rockies and the Atlantic looked ly vain for signs of relief. . 1 Pennsylvania, New s Tork and New England ; enjoyed a temper ate interlude irhile the midwest suffered anew , Jtrom nature's blitzkrieg. i f ,-.r : Deaths : attributed directly to the heat increased to 0 and the total of ; drownings rose ! to 16 6. t Fifty cases of exhaustion were reported i In : Washington. DC alotje, 1a the midst of SO degree weather. Nebraska recorded read ings in three figures for the seventh day in a row. Crops there showed the withering effects of the siege. - ... r i Some of the high temperatures were Pierre, ED, 111, Phoenix. 101, Cabdron, Neb San Beroar dino, Calif., and Huron, SD, ICS, Rapid City, SD, 107, Luma, Arix., Americas May:; Take Mandate ; Over Colonies Insure verelgnty for . t'osr , Is Aim C co& Havana BoV alii New Rail p ty a Auxiliary to i ial at Panama ' HA vANA, - J a 1 y zSP)-The United States proposed today that all American republics Join In a mandate-' orer' European posses sions In the western hemisphere to' kep "their sovereignty invio lable until Europe's war Is orer pr eventually to give them lnde- penaence. . ' ' " - - . - At the same time, Bolivia was reported seeking a transconti nental ' South - American . railroad which would act , la , emergencies as an auxiliary to the Panama ca nal ' in moving ' troops' and' guns from. coast to coast. , . .The Joint trusteeship over Eu ropean colonies in the new world was envisioned ; to a draft af a convention offered less than a day after the conference of Amer ican foreign ministers opened. Broadly, It proposed: : 1. That the Americas act as trustees of the Euro-Dean nosaea- sions in this hemisphere. . - j. mat mandates over these possessions be temporary and that they be returned to their original sovereigns as soon as possible, or granted their Independence. . That the parent mandate commission to be set up make recommendations for anv military and naval protection deemed nec essary to protect the territories from an outside menace. In a resolution deaiamed to set as a stop-gap until the trusteeship is in operation, the United States foresaw the possibility that some (Turn to page t, eol. I) Funeral Thursday For David Drager Former , County Treasurer ; (files Suddenly; Here Over Sixty Years (Picture on Page S) David O. Drager, died about S, o'clock Tuesday morning of a heart attack at Jhia heme, 1710 Court street. The former Marlon eounty treasurer had called to his son-in-law, Alex Jones, and said that he felt ilL - Shortly after he asked that a physician be called. Drager served 15 years, until February of this year, as eounty treasurer and before that had two terms as county recorder. . He was born December 10, 1173, In Seneca, Kan,, tha son of A; W. and Sarah Ella Drager. The family moved to Roseburg, Ore., in 1879, and on to Salem in the same year,, settling on a farm In the Pringle district, where - he attended school. He also attended Salem public schools and Capital Business college. Drager farmed in the Mehama district and was employed at the (Tarn to page 2, eol. 7) Miltner Selected , Portland U Head ' SOUTH BEND, IndC, July IS (flVFro146111 . of three Catholic unl versIUes in the United States were named tonight by the .Rev. Thomas A. Steiaer, CSC, provin cial of the congregation of Holy Cross, at a community conference held at , the University of Notre Dame.'- . : . ; - : 4 The Rev. J. Hugh lO'Donnell, CSC, acting president of Notre Dame since January, was con firmed as president. -. . sThe? Rev. Charles C. Miltner, CSC, a member of the Notre Dam a faculty since 1813 and dean . of the college of arts and 1 a t ta x since 1923,, becomes president of Portland university, Portland, Ore. He succeeds the Rev. . Mich ael 3. Early. CSC, who assumes charge of the Holy Cross foreign missionary seminary at Washing ton, DC. r . i: and Faribault, Minn., -105, Miles City, Mon W i and North PUU, Neb., 104, Fresno Calif., Dodg-e City. Kan and Minneapolis, .103. Other elties recording 100 or high er included Raleigh,' NC. Omaha, Amarillo, Jaekson, v lllas Salt Lake and Madison, Wis. In Chicago the highest mark of the summer 1 5 waa register ed. For the first time within the memories of the warmest at taches, coats were removed ia the August federal court. -. Dnluth, .Minn., had a top of SO -a record for the year. : Downpours acallag up to SL25 inches 13 southwest Missouri and Tea JaeaYier falls la southeast- era Kansas s e nt some small streams out of their banks. Thun dershowers brought a brief re spite to parts of Oklahoma but skies cleared and 80 degree neat set la again later. . Temperatures " dropped to the 701 and SO's la Pennsylvania.' A (Turn to page 2, oL Manager Plan Ha.s Approval ) Of Committee Council to Be Selected at Large Would Make Policies, Propose Municipal Judge May Be . AppointiTe; i Charter 1 Drafting to Begin f Mayor W. W. Chadwick's ehar ter revision committee last night approved a subcommittee report favoring a council-manager form of governments -H ""'.-K- ' -' Only a bare quorum of six of the 11 members of , the committee Were present when "the vote i was taken, but It was unanimous. ,i ' The report, submitted by a com mlttee headed by Senator Doug las McKay, recommends a system in which the city manager would be appointed by a council of sev en members elected at large. Tha manager would In turn appoint heads of all city 'departments ex cept the water department, which would be a separate entity. To Retain Civil Service, Proposed -; Members of the police and fire departments would be subject to present civil service regulations. . The civil service commission and the municipal judge would be appointed by the council. The committee delegated to draft a revised charter to Incor porate the city manager plan will begin work Immediately. - V. E. Kuhn Is head of the committee with Chris Kowltx, former city at torney, as technical adviser. It Is planned to hare tha char ter revisions la shape for tub mission to the council about Sep tember 1 In time for the council to study thenr preparatory to patting them on the ballot for the Novem ber elections. ' Committee members present at last" night's session .were Chair man O. K. DeWltt, V.: XL Kahn, Mrs. Gertrude F. Lobdell, John Carson, C F. French, Douglas McKay and F. J. A. Boehringer. Robert Utter,tone of the three ad visers,' was also present. .-. -. shire labor Dispute Peenewed IAN FRANCISCO. July !3-7PW A conference between waterfront employers and longshoremen over terms of a sew contract ended la disagreement today, and tha em ployers accused the stevedores of breaking off the negotiations. The longshoremen, members of tbe CIO International Longshore men's and Warehousemen's union, are the only maritime group which has not ' completed negotia tions with employes for a aew contract."': Since last September SO, when the previous contract expired, the longshoremen hare been . working under an. extension of tha old terms, - pending ' attempts to ar rive at- a new, agreement.'? t Employers, represented -by the Waterfront Employers "Associa tion of the Pccifie coast, 'asked in clusion , of guarantees sf 4kt union of a fair , day's work- and contract compliance. V' If a contract when made does not : give a fair, day's work or Is not complied 4 with, -we do not know Its purpose, said a letter to the longshoremen signed by F. P. Folse, president! of the employ ers.' : - .-, ! . Former Governor : Long Is Indicted NEW ORLEANS j July 3-0t Former Governor : Earl K. Long waa Indicted late today by the parish rrand Jarx en emoesxle ment ' charges involving payroll "deadheads' during the bitter February gubernatorial campaign. -; Indicted with, him were . three former members of the dock board and the former assiatant to the board's general manager. Three indictments, charging-em-besxlemeat and extortion to tha five men, some of- them among the most . prominent in the. city, were returned by the jury- whose investigation f a "special board payroll began after Governor Sam Jones took - office Mar 14, suc ceeding Long. - ; : -; , : Brooks PO to Be Ksijed. - WASmNGTON, J tt 1 T 2 3-t77 Applicatlons for- the postmaster ships at Brooks, and Gilchrist, Oregon, will be received until the elose of business August 1, the el Til service commission announc ed today. . . ' ' O ur . Senator v - - - Lc:!, ZA PAGEANTS MAMLtOTHi SETTING SHAPES UP Tliesa are tbe beginnings of tha Waldo hHIs, of mote la Salem's early history, mm their reprodacUoa ia j . wood, plaster and bmiap wlIL appear at tha state fairgroanda, sento of the city's Centennial pageant to be preseated the nights of Jaly SI, August l.SandS. Raiapa lead to several levels from sides and front. The yet-to-be-eovered skeleton of the highest hill in the background will rise 89 feet above ground level. Mass dance numbers will be performed on the giant foreground stage. Waldo Milk Lift Heads Rapidly , As Centennial Stage Is Erected Old Hi Wiring Job Okehed by Board SLify " Ctevenson Kesigns, Helen Spring Chosen to Succeed Her " Tha Salem school board last night voted to accept the wiring job at tha old high building after hearing William - Tlndula, repre sentative of tha W. R. Grassle com pany of Portland who directed tha work,' explain how . discrepancies arose between the contract and tha completed work. " . Principal point of controversy was the 4-inch conduit pipe which tha company Installed in place of tha 4-inch pipe specified In the contract and blue print. Tlndula showed that in his copy of the specifications,' which ' ha said ha followed m preference to the blae print,' a 4-lach pipe waa Indicated. . , (Turn to page X, coL I) Lato Sports BILVERTON, III y S3 By handing Jack Jill its first de feat, 1 to 1, B a O Transfer of Portland earned the right to play Albany la Wednesday night's third game.in the state semi-pro base ball tournament which moved to Silverton tonight ' from Portland. The Wednesday night games, will be Mantle Club ts. MeSlroy's, Reliable Shoe ts.- Battleground and B O Ts.'Albany. ,5- r, ; B a- Q "" " "r " -"' 4 1 Jack and Jill -Z - l.- J. Linde and Marr; Clow and w.';witke.r ir-y0-fOr: PORTLAND, Ore.; July SS-ffV-Portland and Seattle split a Pa cific Coast league doubleheader tonight - opening - a aeries of . 11 games in six days. Seattle won the opener. 4-1, and Portland the second gam e S-2, in two extra Innings.. f - The home towners scored two runs in the sixth Inning, of the final tilt to tie the, count at. 2-2. Webber and, SpeecQ then blanked opposing batters until the sched-aled-seven-innlng uaffair had reached the last of the ninth-' In that, frame .Portland's, rookie in QeldeTf Bob Bergstrom, doubled and reached third when Campbell, trying- to nab him off - second, threw? low. "Arland Schwah, an other Beaver newcomer, rapped a single to drive in Bergstrom with tha clinching run.- Seattle , 4 t 1 Portland : -'.'1 ' 8 '!.-1 Barrett and Campbell; Harrell and Annunxio. ' , " ' EeatUe " ,. 1 t 1 Portland , - " Webber and Kearse. Campbell ff); Speece and Annunxio. San Diego .;. . , ; , 4 1 Sacramento ' -f-14 .'. Newsome', Craghead (S) and Salkeld; Echmidt and Ogrodow-tkt- . " Los Angeles T., ' . 10 0 San Francisco ' 4 11 ' 1 . Welland and Holm; Dasso and Sprinx. ' Oakland 9 4 Hollywood , " IS 17 : 1 ; , Sal veson, Mulligan (S), John son (6) and. Raimondi; Arditoia, Tost . (8) and BrenzeL - i - American Associate -1 ; Toledo 8-S, Milwaukee 5-10. ' Columbus 5-3, Kansas C.iy 6-6. i, Louisville 4, St. Paul S. ; Indianapolis 4( Minnsapclls . 7. Setting One of Largest Ever Outside of Hollywood - Says Expert; 30 Workmen. Busy; Reality Is AchieTed; Xighting Is Complicated' - It takes many centuries mountain, but not so, the Salem Rising rapidly at the state tion of the Waldo hills, hills of tennial commission believes ting for Salem s 100th anniversary piece de resistance, the Wilderness to Wonderiand pageant. - While SO carpenters and labor ers were busy yesterday, rushing the pageant stage to completion. horsemen who will take part in the production were already ac customing their mounts to climb ing' the several ramps that will lead to the various vantage points in the hilly aetting. v ? The illusion of natural hills Is being created by shaping the ter rain from plaster-soaked burlap and chickenwire fastened to tim ber framing. The surface will be spray-painted with bine, green, yellow and red colors, halt a ton of paint in aU. ' r Tha setting for Salem's pageant will be one of the largest ever seen outside of movie lots by Roy Simmons, Hollywood expert who Is directing its contraction, he declared yesterday.; P. J. Runn ings, state . highway department artist, la assisting. Simmons. The pageant set will be ap- ; (Turn to page t, oL t) Salem's mill t a n t Centennial boosters, the Whlskerinos. held their; first kangaroo-court at State; and Liberty streets last night after -jamming their stock ade on wheels with offenders against Whiskerlno law. . , With Claude Stevenson and W. A. Chambers acting Inter changeably as prosecution and de fense lawyers and - Chief Long beard George Stackman as Judge the bearded citizens exposed . a number of prominent mtu.to speedy, bat efficacious Justice. : As Blitzkrieg (By The-Associated Press) Nasi Germany aerved notice on Great Britain Tuesday night that "weapons will speakT and neu tral reports from Belgium - and Holland indicated Adolf Hitler's promised, hlltxkrieg ; may come sooa. : - -; . . v-. Only Adolf Hitler and his clos est aide know when Germany will attempt the invasion of Britain, but there were these straws In tha martial winds: , . " -1. Definite and final rejection by the British of ;llitlers last chance'V peace appeal vvolced In his speech .to the German reich stag last Fridays HiUerhad Indi cated he would await Britain's answer before loosing his military might. " i ' - " 2. Word from central sources of "greatly increased activities" in Dutch, and Belgian dockyards and railways la the last few days, with Germany apparently concen trating military supplies In the lowlands, the Jumping off place for an lntaslon of Britain.' . - 1, More iatenea bombing ac -1 for Mother Nature to build a Centennial planners. fairgrounds is a represent historical note, that the Cen will provide a spectacular set Depored by Vets Compulsory Training Wins " Support of Men Who 4 Fought in '98 NJCWPORT. July S3-()-Ore-gon Spanish war. veterans asked Uncle Sam to taxe his scissors to the red tape in expediting .the current preparedness program - in a resolution passed today at the S Id annual encampment. ' Other resolutions asked compul sory, military training, registration of aliens, and deportation, for those who hare not complied with citizenship requirements. -' . ' Judd Stauffer of Eugene,' pres ent, - senior - vice-commander, was nominated for' .department com mander without opposition. Frank Fetfdergrass, Portland, was nomin ated -for senior, .vice-commander. 1 A - Newport delegation - asked that r this' 'city be made ' the per manent:; TJSWy," convenUon site. The convention met -here last year and no other city has bid for the 1941 conclave."; The question will be' voted on tomorrow. . ' The Military. Order of Serpents. TJSWy's fun organization, elected Francis M. Rich of Portland as grand gugn grandississimo, today; Sam Richmond Eugene,- grand daddo; Jack Cheney and Jacques Hanlon, both Keewport, , J. O. Howard Eugene, and John Sim mons, Klamath: Falls, "grand S and SKO. r Signal Looms tivities , by .both' Germany and Britain, with the nasis again raid ing Scotland and England and the royal air foree attacking aerial and Oil centers in Germany, t The British people learned they must pay a tremendous price for the war npoa "Hitlerlsm.' They were told by Sir Kingsley Wood, chancellor of the' exchequer, 'that they must par S ' P ut standard Income tax plus a sales tax which will cost them one-third of the wholesale value; of - such luxuries" as furniture and lip stick. - -r r'.i"-- - - . -t The British badget for tbe cur rent fiscal year, which ends next March SI. totals S,47.000.000 ($13,883,000,000). Of this 239, CCO.000 (J56,C00,O0O) will be raised by new taxes. The 'war now is costing the British' 2SS,0 00,000 weekly. From Berlin and the Balkans came word that Rumania, Bul garia and Hungary would lay their complex problems before the German forelsa minister, Joachim , Tura to page 2, col. 7) Defense Red Tap Men 21 to 30 To Be Chosen On First List Is Provided for in -: v- Revised Measure . ' All ; National " Guard Maj ; Be Needed to Train Otherg Asserted ... '' . v WASHINGTON, July ? 2Z-UPH Compulsory military training moved a -long step nearer reality ' today when the senate military 'committee approved a revised Burke-Wadsworth bill- providing" for A. registration of 42,000,000 men, of whom 1,500,000 would be drafted in the first year, f ' Details 'remain to be : worked out. but in the main the measure calls for: " lj Registration of all males be tween 18 and 6 4. " f ' 2. Actual conscription of about 1,500,000 men between 21 and SO during the first year, starting Oct. I, 140. There are an estimated II, 500,000 between these ages. 3. A training period of one year for those selected. 4. Base pay equal to that of the , lower grades of the ' regular armed forces, starting at 121 a month. ' ' i , " 5. Later draftees to be chosen from the 21 to 45 sge groups. Senate May Act. on BUI Next Week Senator Sheppard (D-Tex), chairmaa of the committee, pre dicted the measure would be ready for senate , consideration next week. Sheppard did not an nounce the committee vote, bat said there were "few dissenting" voices. - - y j . .-; . In' explaining the measure to re porters. Brig. Gen. W. E. Shedd, assistant chief of. staff, said the men would be classified for ex emptions br local boards, similar to the World war draft boards. Men with families, he said, or men employed in national defense work would be placed In deferred groups. . ; , The war department ' contem plates that youths between 18 and 21 and men' between 45 and 4 would be available for home de fense service. Legislation provid ing this probably will be submit ted to congress later. -I The Job of training the draft ees, Shedd said, probably would require the ; services . of the en tire national guard. He added, however, that mobilization of the guard would require other legis lation. ; The committee measure would not interfere with voluntary en listments in the army, navy and marine corps. Men eligible for tha draft also could volunteer for the one-year training period. - It -world conditions' become worn, General Sbedd said.-" we might hare to. train more The president would have authority under the act to determine the age groups to be registered and the ages and numbers of men to be actually trained. After a year of training, a draftee would be assigned to a reserve unit for 10 years, or until he reached 45, and would be subject to additional training: - . ' ' - It was apparent that the legis lation would encounter some op position in' the "senate. President Roosevelt and ranking army men have endorsed selective service, but a number' of senators have voiced objection. i ' - Senator Vandenberg' (R-Mlch) told reporters today he was not convinced that "our ordinary re liance on volunteers" would fail to supply enough men for the armed forces. , - ; The house naval committee fa vorably reported a J298.351.DOO measure authorizing naval pub lic works projects which virtually complete authorizations under tha $4.800,000,000 -t expansion pro cram giving the naiton a two ocean fleet.- Chairman Vinson (D Ga) said the measure profialy would reach the house floor lion- day. 5 -...,; v.'".' . : . - ...(.. . .. r Roosevelt Denies Red Gross Rimar ; ' ! HYDE PARK, "N. T July 22. SAj.TTnnf f Jplal . rflsorti have rahod President Roosevelt tLat perhaps half of Denmark's cattle, pigs and .poultry are being ' slaughtered for German use and thai ''fifth ieoliimn,-ef forts are being made to sabotage the Am- erican Red Cross' drive, tor iuess . for European relief work. v . If - the reports from' Denmark are true, tbe president said at b'a press conference, it naturally vonM ttm a tirpttv eerlous thlnx for the Danish people. He said tbe ilea cross caa ea vised tim tt&i foniewhat vazae letters frcra- all over the United States shoved evidences cf a Tum or that relief sur plica Intended . for :auf ferera In lu u r o p e wre' reachLns German and Iullaa E-I itary hands. . llr. RooseTelt labeled tils rum- or completely acd utterly vz founded - r