The Archive · 1939

Bases to Be Speeded

Eight-Hour Day Suspended To Expedite Building

Washington, July 13.

President Roosevelt today ordered work to begin on naval and air bases at Palmyra, Johnston, Midway, Kodiak and Sitka Islands.

"The new Spanish State will be Spanish and is even now social programme," he graduate of Amherst College horst, Mass. He first came to Shanghai as a member of the staff of the National City Bank. While with bank he was keenly interested several ponies. He named his ponies after the Greek heroes of the Trojan Wars and that is how he came to The building of the bases is expected to take about five years, and Credits for the work were provided in the law signed on May 25.

In his decree today. -President Roosevelt emphasized that national defence interests called for the establishment of these bases at the earliest possible date.

He therefore suspended the eizhthour working-day law as far as it concerned work on these bases. He is fully within his rights in this action since he is authorized to pie MIN

Gen. Franco to Visit Rome Rome, July 13.

Accepting an invitation tendered al tea San Sebastian, July 14.

Count Galeazzo Ciano will confer lissimo Franco at the close of this second meeting. Count Ciano has already held a two-hour conference with the Generalissiro,—Havas. speci back to the United States, where he gave several lectures.

The last time he was in China, Mr. Tangier-Smith was engaged in hunting live specimens for the London Zoo and the British Museum. He was the only man to capture a golden haired monkey alive; this monkey died after he had sold it to the London Zoo. Of the five Pandas he captured one died in Chengtu, one died in London and the three were sold to the London Zoo. One iting of these latter is now being -displayed in Germany and France and is to be taken to the United States in the near future.

Mr. Tangier-Smith became ill while on an expedition in Chengtu during the latter part of 1997. He returned to London and specialists there told him that he had lung trouble and that they could do nothing for them. He then went to his home at London Island N.Y., and remained there until his death. He is survived by his wife and a sister in Land Island, and another sister in Springfield, Ohio. suspend the law in any case of urgency affecting national interests.—Havas.

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