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Evening star., 1937-12-18
SIX STEPS GIVEN
TO END RECESSION
Senator Bridges Asks Repeal Of
Profits Tax and Labor
Act Amendment.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Bridges, Republican, of New
Hampshire, outlined yesterday six
steps to end the business recession.
among them being repeal # the un-
distributed profits tax and drastic
amendment" OF the capital gains tax.
In radio address he asserted the
Government should get "out of COM
petition with private industry in all
helds" and said he favored amend
ment of the Wagner labor relations
act 80 that the National Labor Re-
lations Board may arbitrate the dif-
ferences between employers and en-
ployes in an American manner"
He also urged adoption of "a sem
slbie plan to balance the budget in
the near future" and declared the
administration should stick to it in
stead OF making semi-annual prom
ises based on wishful thinking"
Repeal Of the Thomas imitation
amendment to the agricultural adjust.
ment act Of 1888, 80 that the vicious
threat of imitation might be removed ("
also was proposed by the Senator.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
CALMNESS PLEAsEs ROOSEVELT
Attitude Of Calm After Panay Incl
dent Is Pleasing.
ha AL tai prar

Attitude of Calm After Panay Incl
dent Is Pleasing.
BY the Associated Press.
White House aides represented
President Roosevelt today as being
gratif1ed at the calmness with which
the country and the press as a whole
have reacted to the bombing Of the
gunboat Panay
The Chief Executive was described
as being tremendously pleased be-
cause the people Of the country have
preserved an attitude Of calm thought
concerning the attack with no dispo-
sition displayed in any quarter to
leap to hasty conclusions or action.
The President feels, Stephen T.
Early. White House secretary, said,
that this attitude has been responsible
for preventing what in earlier days of
the country's history might have pre-
cipitated critical issue in interna-
tional relationships
In this connection, White House
official reiterated earlier statements
in other Official quarters that the
United States is not contemplating
naval demonstration in the Pacific
in connection with the Panay incident.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
VALLEY FORGE LIKELY
TO BE A COLLEGE SITE
University of Pennsylvania MAY
Put Proposed Freshman
School There.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VALLEY FORGE, Pa, Dec. ia
The bleak hills of Valley Forge, where
Washington's troops encamped 100
years ago tomorrow to begin six
months of suffering, may serve as the
background soon for an educational
institution.
The University of Pennsylvania an
nounced today that the freshman
college it proposes to erect there will
be dedicated to the ideals of Ameri-
car1sm and that principal courses will
be American history. Government and
English.
The school will stand as a memorial
to Gen, Mad Anthony" Wayne and
approximately $50 other early Uni
versity of Pennsylvania graduates who
served with Washington here in the
winter Of 1777-78.
Gen. Wayne was member of the
university's class in 1765.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
HOmestedders in Neu Mexico
Seek to Cire Land to Indians

boundary bill The measure would
add approximately a million
acres to the Navajo reservation-land
now "checkerboarded" in alternate
strips of public domain, homestead
lands and Indian holdings.
Heading the homesteaders is ener-
getic, widowed, 28-year-old Bessie
Lee, who gave up the battle to make
her lands productive when her hus-
band died after his lungs were FROST
bitten
Henry Taliman, chairman OF the
Navajo Tribal Council, and Howard
German, educated Navajo, are leading
the Indian movement
More than 5000 hungry Navajos
are now squatters in their immemorial
homeland" declared Mr. German.
Their neighbors are white home
steaders whose economic level in many
cases Is even lower than the Indians
The situation is aggravated by white
commercial non-residents" stock
firms whose herds Craze the mesas
without discrimination.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
ITAL0-U. S. TRADE
PACT is IN EFFECT
Temporary Commercial Agree
ment Is Signed in Rome to
Replace Old Treaty.

By the Associated Press.
The State Department announced
yesterday the provisions Of temporary
commercial arrangement between the
United States and Italy.
1t was signed in Rome and became
effective Thursday. The arrangement
continues in effect the most favored
nation treatment provided in the COM
mercial treaty OF February 26, 1871,
made at Florence The old treaty ex-
pired December Is and a new one is
being negotiated.
The United States agrees to accord
to Italy the benefits Of the minimum
tariff under the trade agreements.
Italy agrees TO grant the United States
INSTRUMENTATION treatment with
the exception of preferential tariffs
which Italy now accords Albania, Aus
tria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Yugosla-
via, which expire December 81. and
the preferential tariffs which Italy will
accord Austria after December 81.
Department officials said the tenn
porary arrangement grants the United
States something which this country
has not had from Italy in recent years
"A INSTRUMENTATION treatment
with regard to customs rates, import
quotas and exchange provisions.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
CHICAGO GRAIN
b the Associated Pres,


CHICAGO, Dec. is.-With public
participation in the wheat market
at a low ebb, wheat prices made onlv
fractional gains today in Response
10 reports Of more export busines,
overnight.
After an early dip all contracts rosa
above yesterdays close, but the pains
were held to less than q cent. Ruyinu
power was not aggressive and trade
was thin.
Reports of sale overnight of 900 00o
oushels to go to the United Kingdom
served TO revive hope that EXPORT
business in North American wheat
may be increasing. Yesterdays sales
totaled more than a million bushes
One commentator said foreign de-
mand has been stimulated by official
confirmation of the smaller Argen-
tine crop and reports that Russia has
a strong offering for deferred ship
ment.
Canadian offerings abroad have be-
come scarcer in view of an available
estimated remaining surplus as low
as 3o,OO0.00 bushels. Traders pointed
out that Canadian and American
wheat must be used in combination
with Australian grain to give desired
milling strength TO flour.
A pause in inquiry for Australia n
wheat and reported improved condj-
tions in Argentina the last 10 days
caused Liverpool wheat TO close prac-
tlcally unchanged after an opening
advance.
Corn and rye rose fractionauv with
wheat, while oats showed little change
A weak hog market induced selling
IN lard resulting in slight declines,
Around midsession wheat was !. -6s
higher, compared with yesterdays fn-
ish; May, s1as July, s6. and corn
was ss-3s higher, May. 5sA: July,
59as.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
By the Associated Press.

CROWN POINT. N. Mex, Dec. 10
Discouraged, weather beaten home
steaders proposed today to give their
land back to the Indians.
Several score work-hardened set
tiers met with blanketed Navajo in
a big pow-wow at the white man's
kiva here today. uniting efforts to
get the White Father in Washington
to buy up the high, wind-blown pla-
teau homestead lands and present
them to the Navajo
To the Indian, success would mean
a return nearer ''Dinetah"-the sacred
immemorial homeland of the Navajo
in North Central New Mexico.
To many a white homesteader, it
would mean chance to sell out lands
on which he has battled heat. drought
bitter cold, dying range and all the
pioneering vicissitudes.
The immediate goal of this unique
association of Indian and paleface is
passage in Congress of the Navajo
Evening star., 1937-12-18
FRENCH PLOT LEADERS
LIST REPORTED FOUND
Notebook Is Seized in Raid Upon
Home of Former Paris
City Employe.
Py the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
PARIS. Dec. ia notebook seized
IN raid on the home OF JACQUES
Percheron. a former city employe, was
said today by surete Rationale opera
tiVes to list the principal chiefs" of
the Comite Secret dAction Revolu-
tionnaire.
Investigators asserted that arms
and munitions Uncovered Thursday
in Paris garage had been delivered
under Percheron's supervision. They
also said he had been active in en-
rolling volunteers in France and North
Africa to fight in the Spanish insur-
gent armies
Pierre Proust, vice president of the
Wheat Comwittee of the Paris Grain
Exchange, was under arrest after Cas-
ton Ieanniot. owner OF the garage
tipped police that Proust was con-
nected with the establishment of the
arms cache.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
King Accepts Apology.

A king was visiting one of the cities
Of his empire, but instead Of being
greeted with a salute of cannon the
following address was read him: May
1t please your majesty, of all the cities
you have visited. none have a greater
zeal than ours. We know that we
should have greeted you amidst the
din Of cannon, but 1t would have been
impossible for us to do this for 18 rea
sons. The first, may 1t please your
majesty. Is. that We have not. nor ever
had, any cannon II am 50 per-
fectly satisfied with the first reason, /"
broke in the king. that I will excuse
the II Others"
Evening star., 1937-12-18
TWO STUDENTS KILLED

HARRISON, Mich, Dec. Is R.--
Three persons, including two Mich
igan State College students going
home for the holidays, we're killed
and two other persons we're injured
near here last night in an automobile
truck collision
The dead were Miss Elsie K. Fair
cloth, 20, college junior and daughter
of State Representative Ernest E.
Faircloth; Douglas w. Isbister, 20,
sophomore. and Mrs. Andrew John
ston, so, all of Onaway. Mich.
Jack Isbister, 20, Onaway, and
David B. Traselets 23, Rogers City,
were injured.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
Inquiries
Continued From First Page.)

north, west and southwest of Marking.
conquered capital of Republican
China. and were believed threatening
70 dominate other Chinese cities.
Inhabitants of Hankow, great mid
land industrial center 400 miles I'D
the Yangtze from Nanking, and Cam
ton, main seaport of the South. ex-
pected Japanese attacks.
Conquerors Cheered TimidIy.
commanders of Japan's army and
navy made glittering entry into Man.
king yesterday. even to the accom-
paniment of timid cheers of Chinese
who hoped that the horrors of two
weeks war, fire and looting would be
ended.
Urgent appeals to Shanghai for doc
tors and medical supplies came from
IA American missionaries who re-
malned In the abandoned capital
throughout the siege and still were
attempting to alleviate the suffering
Of inhabitants.
An authoritative Chinese source dis
closed that Sun Fo. President of the
Legislative Yuan Zone of Republican
China's five governing councils, had
1own secretly to Moscow several DAYS
ago. This source did not disciose>Su
mission.
All Survivors in Shanghai.
W&h tie arrival of the United States
gunooae Oahu, sister ship of the
Panay, under convoy of japanese
warships yesterday the last of the
survivors had been brought back to
Shanghai. Interest centered in sew
eral versions Of the attack.
1t. j. w. Geist of Altoona, Pa.
Panay engineer officer, said Japanese
planes and Japanese moter boat
machine-gunned the Panay and small
boats taking her survivors ashore. He
said they fired despite an American
nag painted on the side of the shin
from which the motor boat attack
came.
Capt. John Mender of the Standard
OH tanker Meiping, said japanese
with hxed bayonets prevented his crew
from abandoning ship while Japanese
planes repeatedly bombed her.
Colin Macdonald. correspondent ,of
the Times of London, said CharlesfL
Ensminger of the Panay crew, slightly
wounded aboard the Panay, suffered
fatal injuries after leaving the gun
boat. Macdonald said the survivors
saw two Japanese Army landing boats
20 10 the Panay and some soldiers
board her.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
Different Gods.

If the question were put to an
ancient Greek or Egyptian or Baby
lonian, as to the reason for the ex-
istence Of various religions in the
world, he would have failed 10 under
stand what the question meant. II
was perfectly natural to him that
every country had different religion
for the countries were different and
therefore the gods were different.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
THREOT TO FATHER
IS CITED BY HOLT
Senator Opposes Naming of
0ne.Time SchooImaster
to U. S. Job.
~ tie Associated Press.

By Ire Associated Press.
A Senate committee heard Senator
Holt, Democrat, of West Virginia, as
sert yesterday that his one-time
schoolmaster should not be appointed
to Federal position because 20 years
ago he had urged that Senator Holt's
father be shot
Dramatically the young Senator told
the committee of sitting in a high
school auditorium in Weston, w. Va,
and of hearing Roy Yoke denounce his
father, DR.. M. S. Holt, for opposing
entrance of the United States into the
World War.
He said Mr.. Yoke told the assembly !:
"Old Doc Holt should be stood up
against white wall and shot until his
blood stained the wall"
Unable to Recall Statement.
Mr., Yoke, who was appointed act
ing internal revenue collector for West
Virginia last November on the rec
ommendation, of Senator Neely, Demo-
crat, of West Virginia, told the COM
mlttee he was unable to recall making
the exact statement attributed to him
by Senator Holt. But he added:
don't want to convey the i'm
preston I didn't critici: DR.. Holt. I
did express the thought of the great
majority of citizens of our part of the
State at the time"
He denied an assertion by Senator
Holt that he had instructed Weston
High School teachers to give Holt a
fanlng grade. He also denied the
Senator's charge that he had con-
ooned actions of mob which stoned
Senator Hollis parents. injurins his
mother. He said that on another oc-
casion L did talk with some people
VINO threatened your home and wanted
10 TAR and feather your father 1
tolo them not to do that"
Reads Editorials.
senator Nicely read into the record
newspaper editorials and news stories
OF the World War period. which in
cluoed assertions that DR.. Holt had
said he sent his oldest son to South
America to avoid war service.
Senator Holt replied:
This is raising the question of pa
triotlsm by trying to make it appear
my brother avoided war. He served in
the engineers and had good record,
although my father opposed war"
Senator Nicely told the committee
ne mad no doubt that Mr. Yoke deliv-
cred "a severe attack" ON DR.. Holt.
out expressed belief 1t was due to war
FEELING prevalent throughout the Ma
tion at the time.
The committee which heard the tes-
tlmony is considering whether the
senate should confirm Mr.. Yoke's ap-
pointment.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
NETTlET0N is ELECTED
TRANSPORT CLUBS HEAD
Crabbe, Bryson and Shaw Also Sc.
lected by Organization at
31st Annual Session.

j. G. Nettleton. general agent for
the Pennsylvania Railroad, was elected
president of the Washington Trans
portation Club at the organizations
3lst annual meeting last night at the
Raleigh Hotel.
Other officers elected were p. r
Crabbe, general agent, Chicago, Bur.
hngton & Quincy Railroad, first vice
president; @. L. Bryson. freight and
passenger agent, Central Vermont
Railway, second vice president, and
o. E. Shaw, general agent of A. H.
Bull & Co., Inc, secretary treasurer
Evening star., 1937-12-18
FORBES TO TOUR SPAIN
Ellery sedgwick Will Accompany
Him Through Franco Area,

NEW YORK, Dec. 1s Wv
Cameron Forbes. former United States
AMBASSADOR to Spain and cousin of
president Roosevelt, said yesterday he
would make a tour of insurgent Spain
during January at the invitation of
the Franco government"
Ellery Sedgwick, editor of the Allan
tic Monthly, who is accompanying Mr..
FORBES, said they had been offered
certain privileges"
Evening star., 1937-12-18
TIBER WATERS RECEDE
AFTER WEEK OF FLOODS
Danger of Further Rise Is Past
as Sunny Skies Are Forecast
for Next "a Hours,
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ROME, Dec. 18.-Fair weather after
a week of almost continuous rain to-
day promised Rome and the valley of
the Tiber River release from disas-
trous floods.
The river, which had risen to with
IN few feet Of the top Of walls built
70 years ago to hold it to its course,
dropped slowly. Oficials considered
the danger of q further rise past, as
sunny skies were forecast for the next
"a hours.
Damage was believed to total s3.-
100000 to s4,o0o.000. Thousands had
been driven from their homes by the
Iloer's fioodwaters and soup kitchens
and temporary shelters were estab-
lished to care for them.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
ITALY FIGHTS PRICE RISE
More Rigid Control Exercised by
Cooperative Committee.

ROME. Dec, l8 P.-Italy was EN-.
oarked today on a program of more
rigid price control to check the risins
cost of living.
The Central Cooperative Committee
after an exhortation by Premie,
benito Mussolini, voted sharper con.
troll Of the prices of necessities.
IL Duce told the committee, at q
special session yesterday, that ECO
nomic discipline to protect the pur.
Chasing power of the masses was in.
dispensable to Italy's program TO,
economic self-sufnciency.
Evening star., 1937-12-18

FITS. Contracts are not required bv
the House bill.
Would Impose Control.
Cotton provisions of the two bills
are expected TO be a major point of
controversy in the conference COM
mlttee. The Senate measure would
impose strict control next year. but
the House bill would delay restrictions
until 1899.
In addition, the Senate bill would
hoerahze present cotton loans and
subsidies and the House bill would
make no change
For wheat, the Senate measure
provides controls over farms producing
more than 100 bushels for market, but
the House bill sets 200 bushels as the
minimum. Few differences are ex-
pected on tobacco and rice sections.
Both measures would continue ex-
lsting soil conservation payments, but
tne Senate bill would divert IS per
cent of the present conservation funds
70 make parity payments to farmers.
Parity payments are based on a
formula calculated TO level up the
buying power of farmers with that of
workers in industry.
Under both bills. the Agriculture
Department would hold secret refer
enda among farmers before certain
marketing quotas could operate. This
provision Of the Senate bill applies to
corn and wheat, while the House bill
applies to cotton. tobacco and corn.
Vice President Garner appointed
Senate members of the Conference
committee last night, and Speaker
Bankhead designated the House mem
oers soon after the House met TODAY.
Ihey were: Chairman Jones Of the
agriculture Committee and Repre-
sentatlVes Doxey, Democrat of Mis-
slssipl; Fulmer, Democrat of South
Carolina: Hope, Republican of Kansas.
and KinZer, Republican of Pennsyl-
vania.
Senate Committee Members
Senate members are Smith Demo-
crat, of South Carolina, chairman Of
the Agriculture Committee: McGill.
Democrat, of Kansas: Pope, Demo-
orat, OF Idaho; Frazier, Republican,
OF North Dakota; Hatch, Democrat,
OF New Mexico; Bankhead, Democrat,
OF Alabama, and Capper.
while the Senate was closing its
long debate, the Agriculture Depart
ment estimated the Nations farmers
would receive ss,5oo,ooo, 900 of cash
income this year.
This total, forecast despite surpluses
and sliding prices, would be the big
sest since 1929 and would be about
double that of 1882.
The Senate vote on the bill follows.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
YULE BONUS VOTED
United Typewriter & Adding M
chine Co. to Give Cash.

The Board of Directors of the United
Typewriter g. Adding Machine Co.
yesterday announced . Christmas
bonus for the concerns "a employees
here, regardless of terms OF service.
W. H. Wolowitz, president, stated the
bonus amounts will range up to $25.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
Reich Cuts 2 Inches
Off All Shirt Tails
For Saving in Cloth
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN, Dec. l8.-The eco
nomic ministry yesterday ap-
proved . plan to shorten shirt
tails to save cloth.
All shirts made after January /
will be 2 inches shorter fore and
aft. The average German shirt
now Is j37.4 inches long in front
and 39.4 behind.
1t was estimated several mil
lion yards Of cloth would be
saved. since the Reieh's shirt
production is 30,000,000 a year.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
ENEMY DECLARES PEACE
is UP TO SEVEN POWERS
Only q. S., Britain and Russia
Can Attain Raw Material Sc
curity, He Tells Institute.

By the Associated Press.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, Dec. l8.-
Peaceful relations among the seven
nations rated as world powers would
largely solve the problem of world
peace" in the opinion of DR.. Brooks
ENEMY, director of the Foreign Affairs
Council Of Cleveland, Ohio.
DR.. ENEMY told the final session of
the Institute of World Affairs here
last night that of the seven powers
only the United States, Great Britain
and Soviet Russia could attain raw
material security in peace or war.
"A fourth power, France" he said.
can be relatively secure so long as
its friendship with the British Empire
Is maintained. The remaining three
powers, Japan, Germany and Italy, are
in the last analysis at the mercy Of
the other four powers in so far as raw
material supplies are concerned"
Evening star., 1937-12-18
Congress
Continued From First Page.)

grams to each member asserting the
bill was highly Objectionable.
Representative Fitzgerald, Demo-
crat, of Connecticut told reporters
this communication had been followed
up by representatives Of the Fedora
ton calling Congressman of the floor
just before the crucial vote He termed
the pressure terrific"
The A. F. Of L. had indorsed a rigid
40-hour week and Accent minimum
hourly wage. The Committee Of In
dustrial Organization, on the other
hand, advocated the administrations
more flexible program despite its
many limitations"
A factor which swayed some mem
bers, colleagues said, was sentiment
against imposing new restrictions on
business during the current recession.
Unprecedented Opposition.
The legislation encountered unprece-
dented opposition in the House from
the time it was recommended by the
Labor Committee in August. Repub-
licans and Southern Democrats on the
Rules Committee combined to prevent
its consideration at the last session,
and the deadlock was broken only
after. 218 members had signed a petit
ton forcing the measure to the floor.
Throughout the debate, which be-
gan Monday opponents contended the
bill would destroy industries below the
Mason-Dixon line, give Federal Of
f1ciak life and death" powers over
small business men. ard prolong the
current economic unrest. Southerners
gave the rebel yell" when the vote
was announced.
More than so amendments were pro-
posed in the last two days, but rela-
lively few were adopted. As it stood
just before it was sent back to the
committee the measure would have
empowered a single administrator In
the Labor Department to Ak minimum
wages of not more than 40 cents an
hour for firms in interstate commerce
and to establish work week or not
less than 40 hours.
Similar Standards in Senate.
The bill approved by the Senate
provides for similar standards, ad-
ministered by an independent five
member board
The housing bill, up for considera-
ton today, had so little advance op-
position - except as to details - that
Majority Leader Rayburn forecast q
vote by nightfall.
The Senate committee has not COM
pleted its study of the housing bill,
but Democratic Leader Barkley was
hopeful it would pass before adjourn
nent, tentatively set for next We'd
nesday.
Senator Barkley said he thought
there was a good chance an agreement
would be reached to postpone discus
sion OF the anti-lynching bill until
January and thus permit final action
ON the housing program. An earlier
agreement had placed anti-lynching
after the farm bill on the Senate
docket.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
Toxic
Continued From First Page.)

States to the affair. Government
members were said to be worried.
Notes from the United States Gov
ernment on the Panay sinking we're
discussed together with terms Of
Japans reply, outlined by Hirota.
The cabinet meeting was understood
to have completed preliminaries for
a meeting to be held next Tuesday
or Wednesday of the cabinet and
imperial headquarters in the presence
of Emperor Hirohito.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
Vote ON Wage-Hour Bill
By the Associated Press.

This is how House members voted
last night to send the wage-hour bill
back to the Labor COMMITTEES.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
Son Born to Mrs. Ted Healy.

CULVER CITY, Calf, Dec. 18 A).
"A 1O-pound son was born to Mrs.
Ted Healy, wife of the screen come
dian. last night. Mrs. Healy is til.
former Betty Hickman.