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I VINSON BILL’S POSITION
! Sometime between the opening day
f the session on January 3 and Jan
ary 13 the membership of the House
/ill have before it a bill for payment
>f the bonus. The ' ayes" and ' nays"
if the'435 Representatives will be
■ecorded either on the Patman bill
>r the Vinson bill.
The Democratic leadership of the
House has been and will be from
low on in serious conference to de
ermine which bill will be voted on
first. Politicians are laying odds
'.hat the first vote will come on the
Vinson bill. Their predictions are
based on:
1. ’Representative Dougton of
North Carolina, chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee, and
his authority.
2. Action of the American Le
gion convention this year in St.
Louis calling for payment of the
bonus without inflation.
3. That the House will past
the first bonus bill presented
whether the author be Patman
or Vinson.
BYRNS GETS PETITION
Stated bluntly, the Democratic
leadership in the House (where such
legislation as the bonus must orig
inate) is out to beat the Patman
itgs to the draw.”
There's a petition on the desk of
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HOPE LESSENS
IN SEARCH FOR
LOST AVIATOR
Royal Air Force Bombers
Report Fruitless Hunt
for Kingsford-Smith
i
RANGOON, Burma. Nov. 12. ■
j Crews in planes seeking Sir Charts
Kingford-Smith, famous world flier
missing on a flight from England
to Australia, reported the search to
be virtually hopeless.
Two Royal Air Force flying-boats
today arrived from Singapore Straits
Settlement after a fruitless search
over a wide area oft the coast over
the Bay of Bengal.
The hunt is still continuing.
