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Evening star., 1938-04-20
D. D.J.|NVEST|GATES
FRANK|NG MISUSE
LAID TO RUSSELL
H. o. l. c. Counsel Resigns
Following Expose in
Congress.
'MILLION'LETTERS SENT,
HOUSE MEMBER SAYS
Recommended Judge Taylor as
Able Lawyer as He Quit
Federal Agency.

Department Of Justice officials
today began review of circum-
stances surrounding the use of the
mail-franking privilege by Horace
Russell, who resigned last night as
general counsel of the Home Own
ers' Loan Corp. following disclosure
that he had franked an undetermined
number Of letters recommending the
services of former associate.
Representative Church. Republican,
of Illinois, who made the disclosure
on the floor of the House late yester.
day, called on the Justice and Post
Office Departments to cooperate in
prompt prosecution of the Government
attorney for violation of the frank
ing law The law provides for a pen
atty up to $500 for each letter so cir.
tulated.
Spokesman for the Department Of
Justice said they already have referred
to the inspection service of the Post
Office Department a number Of the
letters and that the customary pro-
cedure is to await action by the Post
Office Department before making any
decision as to prosecution
Study of the case is proceeding under
Section 357 of Title l8 of the United
States Code, relating to use Of the
mails.
According to Mr. Russell, only sew
eral hundred Of the letters were sent
out. Representative Church. however.
stated on the House floor that they
must have "totaled million
Text Of Letters.
The letters which precipitated the
incident were in the form of an an
nouncement that Judge o. B. Taylor,
associate general counsel of the cor
poration, was leaving to engage in
private practice in this city. Written
on H. o. L. c. stationery and signed
by Mr.. Russell, the letter stated:
Judge Taylor is lawyer of great
ability and a man of the utmost tact
and possessed of a great capacity for
accomplishment. Having participated
in the direction of this staff these sew
eral years in Washington, he has
gained an Intimate knowledge OF the
United States Government, its de.
partments, agencies and bureaus As
a result, his success in private prac-
tice in Washington is assured. I am
sure that many Of us will be interested
to turn to him for assistance and sd.
vice in his capacity as a private
lawyer"
Dated April II. the letter also noted
that Judge Taylor will engage in
practice before the bureaus, commits
sions and department of the Govern
nent, as well as in the courts" 1t
closed with postscript to the effect
that Judge Taylors private Office ad-
dress is the Investment Building here.
Developments followed swiftly after
the Illinois Representative had COM
pleted his denunciation on the floor.
Chairman John H. Fahey of the H. o.
L. C.. informed Chairman Cochran
OF the House Committee on Expendi-
lures before the afternoon session adj
journed that Mr.. Russell was resign
ing Immediately.
Representative Cochran reported
that his committee previously had
sent copy Of one of the letters to Mr..
Fahey and asked him TO forward an
explanation of their being sent out.
On receiving word of Mr.. Russells
| /c..
Evening star., 1938-04-20
RUMANIA FASCISTS
PLAN new CAMPAIGN
Codreanu's Youth Groups Are
Ordered to Lie Low for Two
Months. However.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, Rumania, April 90
Rumania's nationalists, who pattern
their social and political movement
after Fascism, may show their hand
again within two months.
Their leader, Corneliu Zelea Co.
dreanu, is in jail for six months and
hundreds of his colleagues have been
arrested because the government dis
covered plot to capture King Carol
and set up Fascist state.
Persons close to Codreanu hinted
today, however, that the tiny cells
Of his principally youth
groups OF 10 to 20 members each
already had been given instructions
about their activities during this Gin
term of the eclipse" These orders,
it was said, were to remain outwardly
quiet for two months. while continu-
ing secret man-to-man membership
recruiting.
The government believed it had
cleaned up the problem of the Iron
Guard, original name of Codreanu's
band, which now calls itself the "All
for the Fatherland" movement. There
was fear in some quarters, however
that failing Codreanu would make a
martyr Of him and result in a rally
ing 70 his forces when the present
prosecutions are ended.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
Cooler Weather
Due After 1888
Record of SO

Cooler weather was promised the
District for tonight and tomorrow
after the mercury scared up to a new
high mark for the year of S6 degrees
at pm. today.
The Weather Bureau expected the
temperature to begin falling late to-
day, when light showers were forecast,
and to be much colder tomorrow.
The 86-degree thermometer reading
at pm. today was one degree above
the previous record high of the year,
recorded last Friday. and five degrees
above yesterdays maximum.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
Pickets in Fifth Year.

CHICAGO, April 20.-A persistent
band of men and women marched to-
day in their fifth year of picketing
the fashionable Edgewater Beach
Hotel.
The demonstration which started
April 20, 1884. was believed to be the
longest picketing campaign in the
history of American labor.
A wage dispute precipitated strike
and subsequent picketing.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
R0CHESTER'S 4.DAY
PRODUCE STRIKE ENDS
Truck Drivers Prepare to Resume
Work, Assuring Merchants Of
Fruits and Vegetables.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, April 20.-
Rochester merchants were assured
supplies of fresh fruit and vegetables
today when produce dealers and un-
ion truck drivers ended q four-day
strike.
With about 100 produce truck driv-
ers returning to work as soon as pos
sible, fresh fruits and vegetables
which have been standing on railroad
sidings since the strike was called
Friday midnight will be freed.
The adjustment marked the first
major stride toward peace in the
labor controversy which has throt-
tied heavy hauling and practically all
delivery in the city for more than
four days.
The tentative agreement embodies
= 48-hour week, time and half for
overtime above 4S hours, but not above
any eight-hour day, and an Scent
an-hour increase for helpers and . q
cent increase for drivers, bringing
wages to $25 and $28 q week.
More than 900 truck drivers In other
classifications remained on strike and
scheduled further conferences today.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
President Roosevelt
To Speak Tomorrow
AT OAR. Convention

President Roosevelt will make
his first appearance at a con-
vention Of the Daughters of the
American Revolution tomorrow.
when he plans to speak briefly to
the delegates In Constitution Hall.
His decision to address the
convention was made today when
he found he could be at liberty
tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Previously, he had rejected an
invitation because of the press
Of other affairs.
Once before, in 1896. the Presi-
dent planned to address the
D. A. r. visitors, but the death
of Louis Howe, his secretary,
forced a cancellation Of the
plans.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
Cargo Movement From Puerto
Rico Prevented Third Day.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, April 20
R.-Striking clerks and stevedores,
demanding complete unionization Of
steamship company ofice personnel,
today prevented cargo movement for
the third successive day.
r. A. Nadal, speaking for the
steamship lines, declared the strikers
failure to return to work was in VIOLA
ton Of an agreement to arbitrate the
issues which caused the 11ve-week
longshoremen's strike Of last January
and February. Negotiations have
been In progress for two months.
Evening star., 1938-04-20

BACKGROUND
Purge carried on in SoDtet Rus
STA since 1884 has hit collective
farmers, Uith many being expelled,
and euen executed, on charges OF
sabotage through refusal to main
tain polume OF production. Result
has been further falling of In out
put OF farm, products.
By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, April 20.-The Soviet
purge OF collective farmers was ordered
stopped today.
An order signed by Joseph Stain,
as secretary Of the Central Committee
Of the Communist party, and Vyaches-
laff Molotof1, chairman Of the Council
Of Peoples Commissars, declared much
harm had been done by mass expul-
sions of peasants from farms for trivial
reasons on the pretext of purging the
farms of hostile elements.
The Communist leaders accused
provincial officials of bureaucratic
and warned them they
would be tried as criminals unless un-
warranted expulsions cease.
Ousting OF peasants from collective
farms means starvation, the order said,
adding that such action only created
hostility to the Soviet regime.
improvement Promised.
Two other orders, issued with the
apparent intention Of inspiring COL
lective farmers to strive for bumper
crops, promised them better condi-
tions
One required that at least 60 per
cent Of the cash income Of farms must
be disturbed among the farmers. The
other ordered tax evasions by indi-
vidual peasants stopped.
The government found that col
lective Farm Boards had been spend
ing funds excessively on buildings and
other capital investments, as well as
for administrative purposes.
As a result farmers in some prov
inces failed to receive any cash ir
1897. Others received only % to 81
per cent Of their farms cash incomes
This caused peasants to seek worl
elsewhere, which in turn forced The
collective farms to hire workers from
outside.
Spring Grain Sowing Lass.
Spring grain sowing is tagging more
than 100000 acres behind the ares
planted last year.
Although the anti-purge order fail.
ed to mention this lag, it was believed
intended to speed up the sowing, a,
well as to hasten other preparation,
for the 1898 crops.
The anti-purge decree revealed tina,
many families have been expelled from
farms because heads of families fount
employment elsewhere.
Individual peasants have been bene.
fitting from privileges not shared by
collective farmers. the government
said. They escaped from "a require
ment to deliver taxes in kind to the
government, such as meat, horses and
personal service on roads.
Hired Out Is Farm Hands.
Furthermore, the government de-
clared, they hired out as hands on
collective farms at wages higher than
the earnings Of collective farmers.
1zvestia, the government news
paper, reported that only 14.352,000
hectares (about IS, ,463, 1872 acres) have
been sown so far this spring, as COM
pared to 19,711,0 900 hectares (about
48. 1881 acres) a year ago.
Spring sowings thus far cover only
II per cent Of the area scheduled for
planting. The delay was explained
partly because Of unfavorable weather
IN many provinces, the newspaper
asserted, but much of the lag was
blamed on failures to repair tractors
and faulty operation of collective
farms, for which local officials were
held responsible.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
AUTO PLUNGE KILLS
WARE PROBE COUNSEL
Algernon R. Clapp Dies as Car
Drops go Feet From Bridge
in Philadelphia.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, April 2o-Alger.
non R. Clapp, AZ. socially prominent
attorney. was killed early today when
his automobile plunged 60 feet from q
Schuylkill River bridge in northwest
Philadelphia to the tracks of the
Reading Railroad.
In 1925 Clapp was counsel to q
United States Senate committee in
vestigating the nomination and elec-
ton Of the late William S. Ware, who
was refused seat in the Senate.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
POISONED ALCOHOL
IS FATAL TO Three
Nine Other Inmates of State
1nfrmary Are Missing at
Tewksbury, Mass.
BY tie Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
TEWKSBURY, Mass. April 90
Three inmates of the Tewksbury State
Infirmary were dead, a fourth was dy-
ing, after drinking poison alcohol,
Supt DR.. Lawrence j. Kelly announced
today. Eight or nine other inmates
were missing, DR.. Kelly said, express
ing the belief the missing men partook
of the poisonous liquor and that they
might have collapsed in woods in the
vicinity of the institution.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
Summary Of Today's Star

Howard County editor will oppose
Tydngs Page Al
100000 waterfront Identification
project gets under way. Page B-1
Amended racing bill before House Dis
trict group today. Page B-1
Connally to press auditorium authori-
zation at this session. Page B-1
House District Committee votes to kill
racing bill. Page B-1
Lisner estate valued at $3,790, ,484, ex-
ecutors declare. Page B-1
Hearings ordered on D. G. fair trade
legislation. Page B-1
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-10
This and That. Page A-10
Washington Observations. Page A-10
Answers to Questions Page A-10
The Capital Parade. Page ALL
David Lawrence. Page ALL
Dorothy Thompson. Page ALI
Constantine Brown. Page ALL
Lemuel Parton. Page ALL
SPORTS.
Buddy Myer, again fit. appears to
be in for big season. Page Ala
Huge turnounts indicate banner year
for baseball. Page ALA
College boxing enjoying big boom
at Wisconsin University. Page Ais
George Washington U. coach fears
loss Of gridmen. Page Ais
New British Walker Cup golf policy
blow to caste system. Page Ais
Masons headline opening tonight Of
w. G. D. A. tourney. Page A-16
MISCELLANY.
Shipping News. Page AS
Natures Children. Page BIS
City News In Brief. Page BIS
Vital Statistics. Page BIS
Bedtime Story. Page Bis
Letter Out. Page Bis
Crossword Puxzle. Page Bis
Contract Bridge. Page BIZ
Evening star., 1938-04-20
Reading
Advertisements

Careful housewives follow the
offerings of Washington Stores in
planning their expenditures.
The Star is the daily guide in
thousands of homes, as the great
est variety and best items are
found in its columns.
Evening star., 1938-04-20

AIuuScIAcIICS D.1o ftdOlO ------ d.
Comics --B-16-17 Short Story Al
Editorials A-10-11 Society -----B-3
Finance 49, ALT Sports - A-14-16
Lost & Found Bill Woman's Pr. Alb
Obituary 49, A-12
FOREIGN.
Stain DEGREES end to purge of Soviet
farmers Page Al
Franco, stopped around Tortosa, aims
at Valencia. Page A
French cabinet weighs Daladier's &C
tive foreign policy. Page Al
Chinese repulsed, take final stand in
Shantung. Page Al
Chinese bidding for help Of Northwest
Moslems. Page Al
10 Britons on way to survey U. S.
plane production. Page A
NATIONAL.
Gerard terms lobby probe nothing
short of disgrace" Page Al
Gov. Martin speeds West to halt spe-
cial legislative call. Page Al
President and fiscal advisers discuss
utilities spending plans. Page Al
Four left dead by North Idaho and
Canadian floods. Page AS
Revised wage-hour bill attacked in
minority report. Page Al
Foes charge Earle got loan from bene-
flciary Of contract. Page AS
Cheap politics" charged in McNutt
palace" row. Page Al
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
d. A. r. officer charges subversive in
fluences In Government. Page Al
Woman physician beaten by colored
thug. Page Al
Justice Department starts study of
Russell franking case. Page Al
Group Health assailed and defended;
probe urged. Page Al
D. A. r. support on foreign policy ex-
pected today. Page A-6
Evening star., 1938-04-20
insult Returning.

BALTIMORE, April 20 (P.-Samuel
insult of Chicago, former head Of the
vast insult utilities empire, will arrive
Saturday from Europe aboard the
Baltimore Mail liner City Of Newport
News.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
Plane Crash Kills Five.

LYON. France, April 20 R.-Fve
persons were burned to death today
when an army plane crashed while
participating in . group flight from
B1on to Marignane.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
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Classified Advertising

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cover Washington and nearby
Maryland and Virginia, that it is
almost certain you can secure
what you want or dispose of what
you do not want through a Clas-
sified Advertisement in The Star.
Evening star., 1938-04-20

profits and capital gains. Senate
measure abandoned both theories
II tauor OF fiat rates.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
The special Senate committee which
and relief exploded a bomb today in
the battle between President Roose-
welt and the Senate over the new
revenue bill
Senator Brynes, Democrat, of South
Carolina, chairman of the committee,
submitted preliminary report declar-
ing for passage of the Senate bill abol-
ishing the undistributed profits tax
and materially modifying the capital
gains tax.
The report said enactment of the
Senate e-approved corporation income
and capital gains taxes would be "ex-
ceedingly helpful" In making jobs for
the Nations 100000 and more un-
employed
These taxes, imposing fiat rates on
corporation income and capital gains,
have been approved by business and
condemned by the administration.
President Campaigning Again2.
President Roosevelt is exerting all
the pressure he can against these pro-
visions in the Senate tax bill. The
deadlocked conferees of the Senate
and House have recessed until Friday.
Administration leaders are desperately
trying to work out compromise.
The first recommendation made in
the report on unemployment and re-
lief by Senator Byrnes and his COM
mittee deals with the revenue bill.
The report says:
THE committee is Of the opinion
that the enactment Of revenue legis-
lation along the lines contained in the
Senate bill will be exceedingly helpful
at this time"
This report pointed out that repre-
sentatives of the major industries, ap-
pearing before the committee, spe-
officially recommended that Congress
either repeal or modify the tax on un-
distributed profits and modify the tax
on capital gains.
More Jobs Are Seen.
"The Senate has passed the revenue
bill repeating the first-named tax and
modifying the second, which bill, if
enacted into law, will. according to the
testimony of those industrial leaders
result in encouraging capital to expand
industry and provide jobs
The special Unemployment Commit
tee was appointed last August and
made an extensive investigation of
conditions in this country. Senator
Byrnes pointed out in his report that
early in its deliberations it became ap-
parent to the committee that pro-
nounced recession in business activity
had set in. Beginning in September,
1887, large numbers of the workers
employed in the industries and busi-
ness establishments of the Nation had
begun to lose their jobs"
While the Senate committee placed
particular emphasis on the need for
passing revenue bill calculated to
restore business confidence, it did not
limit itself to that one recommended
ton. The report continued:
THE committee, however, does not
believe that the permanent solution
OF the unemployment problem is quite
so simple, and, therefore, intends to
pursue its inquiry in the hope that as
q result of further study it can make
recommendations broader in scope"
The committee is convinced, the
report said, that in the existing emer-
gency alliance must be had with the
(See TAXES, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1938-04-20

tic gesture to the world by scrapping
thousands of tons Of new vessels at
a cost of several millions Of dollars
until she is certain that other nations
mean what they say
Forces of Discomfort.
Concerning the need for vigilance
within our borders. Mrs. sisson added:
Forces that make for chaos and
discomfort have been particularly
active during the past year. A Ma
tional Defense Committee worthy Of
the name must be cognizant Of these
subversive influences that have pene-
trated even into agencies of the Gov
ernment, and have attempted to gain
control of the power which. in the
last analysis, rules this free country
public opinion.
They have attempted to enter the
ranks of that great American institu-
ton, the American Federation of La
Dor, hoping to use its numbers and in
fluence for their own ulterior ends. It
Is cause for rejoicing that American
labor on the whole will have nothing
Of radical dictatorship and chooses to
fight for its Just rights standing up,
and not in the posture Of Riley's boy
In June.
Even the attempts to build a pow
erful American Labor Party in the
hope Of further drawing class distinc-
tions and stirring up class hatreds
falls by the wayside. American labor
has its own ideas Of the American
way.
Hears Siren Voices.
1T is an alien thought that would
urge tho building Of an American po-
litical party on the basis Of occupa-
ton and economic status rather than
through varying PHILOSOPHERS Of gov
Evening star., 1938-04-20
Hears Siren Voices.
STRIKERS BAR SHIPPING

(See D. A. r., Page A.6.)
Evening star., 1938-04-20

(See RUSSELL, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1938-04-20
Special Committee
Oh Jobless Drops
Bombshell.
PRESIDENTS WISH
SNUBBED IN REPORT
Abolition Is Seen as Aid
in Putting 100000
Back to Work.

BACKGROUND
Conference deadlock oUer ReU-
enue Act OF 1888 has eristed since
last Wednesday. At first meeting OF
conterees, letter 1pdS received from
President Rooseuelt asking approval
OF House bill ,Dhich ,pould retain in
modified form present theories OF
taring undistributed corporate
profits and capital gains. Senate
measure abandoned both theories
II tauor OF fiat rates.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
WEATHER.

70. g. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Light showers and cooler this afternoon
or tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy and
much colder; moderate to fresh northwest
winds. Temperatures today-Highest, 81,
at 1:15 pm; lowest, SIS, at 4 am; So at 3
pm. Full report on page Az.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
STAIN DEGREES
END Of PURGE Of
SOVIET FARMERS
Harm to Peasants by Mass
Expulsions Is Cited
in Order.
TRIALS ARE Threatened
TO PROVINCE OFFICIALS
Greater Share in Cash Income
From Crops in Collectives
Also Promised.

BACKGROUND
Purge carried on in SoDiet Rus
STA since 1884 has nit collective
farmers, Uith many being expelled,
and euen executed, on charges OF
sabotage through refusal to main
tain polume OF production. Result
has been further falling of In out
put of farm products.
Evening star., 1938-12-27
Apartments Are Pitketed
On Connecticut Avenue

Picketing of a fashionable apart
ment house at 2101 Connecticut
avenue NV, was inaugurated today
by the Building Service Employees
Union as result of a dispute with
the management.
James Kimbell, president of the
union, an American Federation of
Labor affiliate, declared that five
months of effort had failed to gain
any offer of increased wages or
shortened working hours from the
H. L. Rust Co., operators of the
building in which live numerous
prominent persons including Sem
ator William E. Borah Of Idaho.
Mr.. Kimbell said the staff was
100 per cent unionized and that he
planned to call the employees out
IN strike tonight or tomorrow morn
ing If no offer to negotiate is re-
ceived. The union has been asking
an eight-hour day and wage in
creases Of $40 per month.
Oncials Of the realty firm de-
clined to comment.
Evening star., 1938-12-27
Hopkins Discusses Job Drive
With Business Leaders
Reaction Is Favorable and Fairly Definite
Methods Could Be in Operation by Spring

productive private work to as many
as possible of the Nations more than
10000 900 jobless.
The drive would be designed to
take advantage of what some con-
slider developing "era Of good feel
ing" between Government and busi-
ness and also of improving busi-
ness conditions, by creating a re-
employment psychology among en-
ployers, 1t was said.
Some well-informed persons said
business leaders who had studied
the plan professed to see in 1t con-
siderable merit as a means OF dil ect-
ly attacking the unemployment
problem.
Methods for conducting the cam
paign are said to have been de-
veloped into fairly definite pro-
gram, so 1t could start within few
(See HOPKINS, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1938-12-27
France Is Attacked
Anew by ItoIy's Press

ROME, Dec. q (P.-Formal
French notice that not an inch OF
Frances territory in Africa or any,
where else would be ceded to Italy
drew new attacks today in the
Fascist press.
II Messaggero asserted France her.
self had upset Mediterranean equi-
hbrium in the negotiation of a yet
unratified treaty with Syria which,
the paper said, gave France notable
advantages and privileges of a mill
tary character"
The treaty was designed to termi-
nate Frances Syrian mandate and
establish Syria as an independent
country. The French Ambassador
sent a note to the foreign Office yes
terday refusing Italy further col
onial grants. 1t was reply to an
italian communication holding in
valid the 1885 Italian-French agree
ment on positions in North Africa.