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Evening star., 1938-02-13
First US. Tenant Aid Cash BUYS
l8O-Acre Farm for Alaban,an

Under the farm tenant law, Con-
gress provided the first $10,000,o00 in
q long-range program expected to en-
brace many more millions, for assist
ing tenants and sharecroppers to ac-
quire farms. Agronomists contend
they will have the pride Of ownership
and will feel an incentive perpetually
to improve.
Langley will buy the 1S0 acres he
had titled as renting tenant, and will
have money to improve his house and
lands, and to pay some debts as well.
The Government will allow 40 years
for repayment Of the loan, at per
cent interest. Langley Is cotton
farmer.
Senator Hill emphasized the fanm
tenant program was not one designed
for the South alone, since ~ per cent
Of the Nations farmers own no land.
Evening star., 1938-02-13
HOUSE UNIT VOTES
HUGE RELIEF FUND
Subcommittee Approves S
$3.50, 900, 900 Request
of President.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Slump in business activity during
recent months made it Dirtu0lly
certain President would seek larger
appropriation for relief despite his
duowed purpose of reducing Fed
erdl outlays Boost in relief funds
has been strenuously ADVOCATED by
United States Conference of Mayors
and organized labor.
3: the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt's request for
$3.50, 100000 to provide reasonable
measure Of relief for recession vic
tins won speedy approval Of a House
Appropriations subcommittee late yes
terday.
After hearing officials testify the
money was needed Immediately to
provide work relief for 950,000 per-
sons. the subcommittee approved the
appropriation without any attempt
to reduce it.
Chairman Taylor, Democrat, of
Colorado said the vote was along party
lines. He added the bill would be
considered tomorrow by the full COM
mittee and would come up for House
debate either that day or Tuesday.
Officials Testify.
Secretary Of the Treasury Morgen-
thau. Daniel Bell, acting budget d.
rector; Chairman Arthur ]. Altmeyer
of the Social Security Board, and
other Federal officials testified before
the subcommittee.
Aubrey Williams, acting Works
Progress administrator, also told the
group the fund was needed to per-
nit the addition Of 100000 persons to
relief roles and to prevent the dis
charge Of 100000 others between now
and June /.
He said w. p A. had about $685.
600, 900 available for work projects,
but that the heaviest relief load would
have to be borne during the next
two or three months. The need is
particularly urgent, he said, in in
dustrial centers like Detroit and other
large automobile manufacturing areas.
Questioned as to how unemploy-
menS compensation payments would
affect the relief load, Mr. Altmeyer
told the committee only % States
and the District of Columbia were
making such payments at this time.
Thus far, he said, only about $10,-
100000 or $12,000,000 had been paid
out. Payments cannot begin in Mich
igan, he said, until next July unless
change is made in existing require
ments. They won't start in Ohio
until next January, he added.
We've got to look after these peo-
pie" said Mr.. Morgenthau. I'VE can't
let them starye"
Evening star., 1938-02-13
-Four on Ice Floe See Lights
Of Aid Ship 40 Miles A,uay
D, the Associated Press.

could see the coast Of Greenland from
her position at 71.36 degrees north and
17.20 degrees west.
The scientists position at 1890
pm. (4:30 am, E. 8. T.) was 71.37
degrees north and 2010 degrees west.
Both the ice camp and the ice
breaker were between Greenland and
San Mayen Island.
The scientists, who besides Papanin
and Krenkel include Astronomer Eu-
gene Fedoron and Marine Biologist
Peter Shirsho6. established their ice
camp near the North Pole last May a..
The Tainyr emerged from q storm
as two other icebreakers seeking to
rescue the scientists, the Murman and
the MurmanetA reported q gale had
halted their progresa
Evening star., 1938-02-13
~ the Associated Press,

MOSCOW, Feb. l2.-Hopes for early
rescue OF four Soviet scientists adrift
on an Ice foe were buoyed today as
the party discovered nat ice suitable
for airplane landings and caught
sight OF rays Of the searchlight Of the
icebreaker Taimyr 40 miles away.
Radio Operator Ernest Krenkel re-
ported the searchlight's rays were seen
from the noe this morning.
Planes aboard the icebreaker earlier
were being prepared for flight, after
the scientists. headed by Ivan Papanin,
radioed the discovery Of nat ice near
their noe as they drifted along the
east coast Of Greenland.
The Taiuyr ut 6:45 pm. tonight
(10:l6 an. :. q. T.) reported shs
Evening star., 1938-02-13
Special Dispatch to The Star.

HAGERSTOWN, Md, Feb. IA
three-day hunt for Mrs. Goldie Mays,
IS, who disappeared from her home
here Wednesday morning, leaving her
10-day-old infant, ended this after
noon, when her body was found by q
hunter on q lonely mountain road,
near Mount Lena. She had died at
the wheel of the family automobile
as she sought to check the now Of
blood from wound in the arm, caused,
police said, when her car went into
q small ravine and partially over
turned.
Mrs. Mays fought to live, the officers
said, for she stripped of her stock
ings and twisted them In . tourniquet
above and below the wound. But she
apparently was too weak from exer-
ton to leave the car, said Deputy
Lester lsanogle. who investigated, and
her grandfather. william Golden. who
Evening star., 1938-02-13
MAN RESCUES CHILD
ATTACKED BY BIRDS
Kills One of Two Huge Creatures
Which Swoop Down on
Maryland Child.
N the Associated Press,

~ the Associated Press.
MAGNOLIA, Md, Feb. 12.-W. p.
Miley, q railroad conductor, reported
today two huge birds attacked q s.
year-old girl here and were driven on
only after he shot one of them.
Mr.. Miley said he was visiting the
home Of Joseph Ernestburger when he
saw the birds swoop down on Betty
Ernstburger, playing In the yard.
The birds were screaming, Mr.. Miley
said, their hooked beaks open and
their talons outstretched Is they dived
at the child. He said he seized q shot
gun and fired from q distance Of 1855
feet. The shot broke a wing Of one
Of the birds and the other new away.
Mr.. Miley said he fought with the
wounded bird for half an hour before
he managed to tie it up, and that he
finally killed it because it was SO
vicious. During the tight, he said, his
hands were torn by the birds talons.
He said 1t had wing spread Of 8 feet
and weighed about so pounds.
Evening star., 1938-02-13
COALITION URGED
BY VANDENBERG
Senator, Invoking Memory
of Lincoln, Would Sub.
merge Identity of G. 0.P.
By G. GOULD LINCOLN.

In far-hung effort to breath new
life into the G. o. p and to rally the
opposition to the New Dealers for the
coming campaign. Republican speakers
last night in many of the great cities
of the Nation invoked the memory of
Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday was
celebrated.
Outstanding in this blast of words
were the following:
A demand by Senator Vandenberg
OF Michigan for coalition" . po-
litical realignment, even II the iden-
tity of the Republican party must be
lost, to fight the cause of the "Ameri-
can system" against the "collectivism"
Of the Roosevelt New Deal.
A demand by Gov. Aiken Of Ver-
mont for entirely new and different
leadership of the Republican party
and his warning that a third party
would emerge if it were not forth
coming.
A bid by Chairman John Hamilton.
of the Republican National Committee
for the support of "Jeffersonian Demo-
Gratis" in the Republican war on the
New Deal, in which he pledged dou-
bic toast-to Jefferson and to Lincoln.
Gains Predicted This Year.
A prediction by Representative Mar
tin of Massachusetts,, chairman of the
Republican Congressional Committee,
that the G. o. P. will make substan-
tial gains in the House in the 1898
elections, and charge that the New
Deal administration. having built up
a political monopoly" now threatens
to expand into the domination of in
dustry and agriculture.
Other Republican orators on the
firing line included Senators Lodge of
Massachusetts,, Nye of North Dakota,
Austin Of Vermont and Bridges Of
New Hampshire and Representatives
Mapes of Michigan, Barton and Reed
of New York, Reece of Tennessee,
Stephan Of Nebraska, Tobey of New
Hampshire, Allen of Illinois and Brew
ster of Maine.
Frankly declaring that Lincoln
himself was coalitionist in the cam
paign of 1864 when he ran as a
candidate on the Union ticket, Sen
ator Arthur H. Vandenberg Of Michi-
gan predicted a realignment of po-
litical forces. The Michigan Senator
was addressing the Middlesex (Re-
publican) Club in Boston.
Coalition Predicted.
Forecasting a coalition similar to
that which swept Lincoln into office
in the dark days of the Civil War.
Senator Vandenberg asserted: I'VE
can win in 1888; we can win in 194O."
The issue, he said, was the preserva-
tion Of the American system against
the collectivism of the Roosevelt New
Deal.
If necessary, Senator Vandenberg
/N- ylI~@V ~ ~- = =
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BY the Associated Press.

l6y Inc A68OClhtSo 1ACSos
JASPER, Ala, Feb. 12.-An Ala
bama farmer received today the first
Government check in q national pro-
gram designed to combat the tenant
sharecropper" system by helping
farmers to purchase land
Senator Lister Hill, Democrat, Of
Alabama presented checks Of $500
and 1915 to Wiley j. Langley, 58-year-
old father Of IL, for purchase and
improvement Of land he has titled as
q tenant.
I'VE open today an epoch in Amer
ican history" Senator Hill said,
- an epoch Of conservation and
reclamation. We are beginning new
pioneering, even as those other great
pioneers fought for and conquered
our land, We must work with and
preserve It,"
Evening star., 1938-02-13

ginia tags. said to be the death car,
was found in the Southeast section.
1t was bloodied and a headlight
smashed. apparently from the impact.
Killed by the careening car was
George w. Sutton, father Of George
o. Sutton, 7716 Fourteenth street NV.
Mr.. Sutton had served as attorney
general for Tennessee from 1892 to
1900. Returning from a New York
trip last night, he was out for a walk
when he was struck and hurled so
feet as he stood in safety zone at
Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth street
N. w. about 7 pm.
A short time afterward Charles r.
Doyle. 10. OF 821 I street Sc, was
bruised and shaken up when he was
knocked down bv a machine with Vir-
(See DRIVER. Page ALLY
Evening star., 1938-02-13
Body Found in Ocean.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Feb. IL UP.-
A body the police Identification Bu-
reau said was that of James Albert
Gardner, So, of Detroit was found to-
day short distance offshore, weighted
down with piece Of concrete tied to
the neck.
Justice Of the Peace Ralph c. Pole
said he believed the death was suicide
and probably would hold no inquest.
Evening star., 1938-02-13

MADISON, Wis, Feb. IL R.-Fed-
eral Judge Patrick T. Stone an
nounced today he would hear IN Madi-
son March % arguments on the
motions of Is oil companies and 80
executives to vacate the jury verdict
which convicted them Of violating
the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Evening star., 1938-02-13

e. the Associated Press.
Speculation that the administration
may be considering an important A.
nancial move continued yesterday as
the result Of a conference OF fiscal
officials.
At the Treasury 1t was hinted an
announcement might be forthcoming
today or tomorrow on the decisions
Of the financial experts who met
Friday.
The group included Secretary Nor
genthau, Chairman Mariner S. Eccles
of the Federal Reserve Board, Presi-
dent George Harrison of the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York and a
staff Of assistants.
Gold Move Possible.
Treasury attaches said they did not
know whether Mr. Eccles had been
present at another conference this
morning.
Among the possible steps on which
speculation centered were large Fed
eral expenditures to stimulate business
and "desterilization" of gold to ex-
pand the credit base.
Mr.. Eccles has urged publicly that
Federal spending be increased on a
large scale, while Mr.. Morgenthau
has opposed such action.
Eccles for "Desterilization."
Mr.. Eccles has advocated also that
all or large part of the Treasury's
$l,223 100000 of "sterilized" gold be
vested with its normal function of
providing credit base for the Nation.
This is gold which left foreign coun-
tries for the United States. The
United States, already possessed of a
huge gold supply deemed by many
experts far larger than necessary for
monetary uses, "sterilized" it.
1t did this by placing the metal in
q special inactive" fund and paying
for it with borrowed money, thus
neutralizing the normally infiationary
effect Of gold imports.
Evening star., 1938-02-13
Helen Keller &
Weeps at Shot
HFiIm Climax
By the Associated Press.

by tIIe ASSOClHteU PTeSS.
NEW YORK, Feb. PA shot rang
out in the darkness of a West Side
movie house today and Helen Keller,
blind and deaf all her life, wept.
1t was the tragic climax of the pic
ture, "Mayerllng the scene where
the Archduke Rudolph of Hapsburg
shoots his sweetheart before commit
ting suicide.
Il felt the shot and, although
couldn't see the picture. I knew what
1t meant" she said in an after -theater
interview, disclosing that she has
lately become an ardent movie fan.
Evening star., 1938-02-13
D. c. CIVIC LEADERS
TO ASK SALES TAX
AT HOUSE HEARING
z Per Cent Levy Sought as
Substitute for 3.Pojnt
Revenue Program.
COMMISSIONERS SLATED
TO BE FIRST WITNESSES
Federation Committee Awaits
Word From Nichols for Definite
Assignment Of Time.


Fiscal Affairs Subcommittee of
the House District Committee has
considered vdrious proposals for
raising enough reuenue tn District
to meet anticipated deficit, finally
deciding Tentatively on an income
tar, continuation of business priu-
Aege tar and a $1.75 tai on real
and personal property.
Evening star., 1938-02-13
ADMITS GUILT
Boy Wrote President Threatening
Letter, Signing Rivals Name.

ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex, Feb. II
F.-James Boney, 17-year-old Wat
rous, N. Mex, farm youth, pleaded
guilty before United States Commits
sioner Samuel Dazzo today to writing
an improper and threatening letter to
the President and signing the name
Of his rival in love.
He was held for action Of the Fed
eral grand jury.
Evening star., 1938-02-13
MAJOR FINANCIAL
MOVE EBYU.S.S SEEN
"0esteri|ization of Gold" or
More Spending Indicat-
ed by Conferences.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Administration retrenchment
policy, undertaken to place Federal
finances on sounder footing, has
been blamed In some quarters for
business recession on theory Gop-
ernnent spending was throttled be-
fore private industry could shoulder
the burden OF providing employ
r,ent. As result, President has
been subjected to strong pressure to
resume work relief projects on large
scale.
Evening star., 1938-02-13
JAPAN'S REPLY SPEEDS
PLANS OF 3 POWERS TO
BUILD GIANT WARSHIPS
Man Sought as Death Driuer
Surrenders after Six Hours
Former Tennessee Off.
cial Killed, Small
Boy Run Do,un.
BULLETIN.

Detective Sergt. Aubrey Tolson
said Martin Luthey Bray. jr., ad-
mitted at 3 am. today that he had
an accident at Sixth street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV. but
said he did not remember striking
any pedestrian. Police later were
questioning Bray's cousin, Ernest
A. Tobin, with whom Bray is said
to have ridden several hours be-
fore Tobin took him to the eleventh
precinct.
A six-hour manhunt for q hit-run
motorist, begun when a former Ten
nessee attorney general was killed in
downtown Washington. and intensi-
fed after several other accidents
caused by fleeing driver, ended early
today with the surrender Of a 3O-year-
old Virginia carpenter whose wife
gave birth to son only 10 days ago.
A small boy was one Of the victims.
The prisoner, who was held for
questioning at the first precinct, was
identified by police as Martin Luther
Bray, jr., said to be from Vienna. Va,
but who gave his address at the sta
ton as 2314 Park place Sc.
Police said Bray came to the eleventh
precinct after seeking out a friend,
Ernest A. Tobin. of the Park place
address, and telling him he was in
trouble" Later he was removed TO
the first precinct.
Bray's surrender came after practic-
ally all police scout cars were pressed
into service in the hunt and all OUT
lets were guarded to prevent his leav-
ing the city.
An abandoned automobile with Vir-
Evening star., 1938-02-13
Oil Cases Appeal Date Set.

(See LINCOLN, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1938-02-13
WEATHER.

70. 3. weather Bureau ForecASt)
Partly CLOUDY ana warmer today, fol-
lowed by rain tonight and tomorrow; cold
er tomorrow; gentle to moderate south
winds Temperatures yesterday-Highest
30. at 8 pm: lowest, 80, at 4 am.
Full report on Page Az.
Evening star., 1938-02-13

(See DEFENSE, Page A-5.)
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much We may Sympatnlze Win =
small nation" IF we are to fight,
1t must be on larger issues than that"
he added In reference to the crisis
over surrender of Czechoslovakia's
Sudetenland to Germany.
Man Of Peace
"I am a man Of peace TO the
depths Of my SOUL" he said. ARMED
conflict Is a nightmare to me, but
II I were convinced that any ma
ton had made up Its mind TO DOM
mate the world by fear Of Its force,
! should feel that 1t must be re-
sisted.
"Under such a domination, the
lives OF people who believe In liberty
would not be worth living"
Chamberlain, his voice choked
with emotion, spoke determinedly
OF the hope that peace might get be
saved In the frantic hour-to-hour
negotiations among European ma
tions.
war is O fearful thing he said.
land we must be very clear before
we embark on 1t that 1t Is really the
great issues that are at stake and
CONTINUED on Page 81
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CZECHS PREPARE
FOR GERMAN WAR
Preferred to Nazi DOmina-
ton; Regard Hitler Talk
as Conciliatory

Prague, Czechoslovakia. Sept. ~.
-(UP)-Czechoslovaks expected war
today and were ready for It at q
moments notice, preferring It TO
domination by Germany.
But they found some relief IN
Chancellor Adolf Hitler's latest
ultimatum, giving them until Sat
urday to cede the Sudeten area 10
Germany. When they stood In the
streets yesterday listening to the ra-
do broadcast Of Hitler's speech.
they had shouted:
$50 we have until Saturday 70
livel"
Before then, they had not known
at what moment German shells and
bombs might crash down upon them,
and they had lived day and night
for a week, keyed to the highest
tension.
Hitler's assurances that he was
not interested in those parts Of
Czechoslovakia where the German
population was no predominant.
and his failure to demand that Po-
land and Hungary be coded areas Of
the country. were interpreted here
as attempts to appease Great Bril-
tain and France and win their &C.
ceptance of his ultimatum.
Many Czechoslovaks had expected
Hitler to announce yesterday that
his troops were moving across the
border at once. After hearing the
speech, they considered 1t q little
conciliatory, although official opinion
was that the situation remained
perilously unsettled.
Continued on Page q
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LONDON ASSUMES
WARLIKE MEN
Guns Appear on Buildings;
Parks Scared By Shell
ter Trenches

London, Sept. 27-(Up)-Air force
men started mounting anti-aircraft
guns in central London today as
Great Britain put its gigantic war
preparations plans on a 24-hour q
day basis.
At the height OF the mid-morn-
ing traffic, air force trucks arrived
at Westminster bridge, just beside
the houses Of parliament. One gun
was mounted at the foot Of the
heroic statue Of Queen Boadicea,
another midway along the bridge.
Anti-aircraft guns were moved
into position In Hyde Park, near the
kings palace, and were mounted at
Charing Cross bridge.
Barracks of the crack household
guards regiment were sand bagged
The war office forbade news pho
tographers to publish or to send
from the country photographs de-
plotting guns. air raid trenches OF
other mobilization scenes including
the farewells to soldiers by relatives
It was rumored that the army
would take over the great Croydon
Continued on Page ~
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Fenway Country Club, White
Plains, N. T., Sept. 27-(UP)-They
raced into the home stretch OF the
longest golf tournament Of the year
today, and up out Of the pack came
Sammy Snead and jug McSpaden
TO hold . thin. one-stroke margin In
the fight for $4,000 first prize money
In the l0S.hole Westchester tourna-
ment.
McSpaden and Snead, steady as
ducks In a mill pond, stood together
at S6l after 80 holes Of this tourna-
ment that Is q long, cruel test OF
nerve and muscle. Their cause will
be made or broken under gray skies
this afternoon when they set out for
their final 10 holes. Snead, long
overdue for q hot streak out here at
Fenway, shot the morning Is In IL;
McSpaden In 70.
An unknown rose up to challenge
them--a lanky, fresh-faced kid
named Chandler Harper, Portsmouth
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Hope For Agreement
Seen In Hitler Note

IT am now going direct to report
to the prime minister. I cannot say
anything beyond that fact. I do not
know If I shall return to Germany"
In reference to the possibility that
Hitler demand for immediate ac-
zion and Czechoslovakia's firm stand
might be reconciled by using a Brit
Ssh legion in the Sudetenland, 1t
was learned that the president of
the British legion, Maj. Gen Sir
Frederick Maurice. had goneto Ber-
lin by airplane on Sunday night
with the consent of Chamberlain.
Presented Proposals
He was understood TO have put
certain proposals to Hitler under
which, II an agreement were reach
ed, the British legion would offer
It's services as an impartial neutral
cody In the areas concerned. Maui
rice returned to London Monday
night and handed Hitler's reply to
Chamberlain.
The British legion. composed OF
World War veterans, Is Q counter
part Of the American Legion.
Chamberlain speech. It was said
probably will be broadcast IN Ger
Continued on Page ~
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New Orleans, Sept. 27-UP)-
The New Orleans Item Tribune TO-
day blamed the weather bureau for
the deaths Of hundred in New Eng
lands recent hurricane by failing
TO give tidal wave warnings.
The failure was inexcusable, the
paper said, in view of previous In
formation assembled giving the
United States Weather bureau &C.
curate data on what could be ex-
pected from such q wind that rip
ped through Long Island and into
the New England States.
"An the information needed to
make such a forecast had been
available to the bureau for years"
The newspaper said. "In a series Of
publications beginning 20 years ago,
DIR. Isaac Monroe Cline, formerly
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Delay Impossible Wires
Hitler To Roosevelt

Adolf Hitler cabied 10
solution Of the Sudn German problem
the Czech
to want war"
reply President Roovets appeal Hitler said ne must
spite his peaceu eMortS
shared the presidents opinion OF the terrible con-
oil q =,
Htles justify the Naz position
the Sudeens advanced
Nuremberg The reply was onsdereu
be moderate In tone. ,.,....
Hitler might not even reply TO fresioeh
Roosevelt not published here
Hitler began expressing appreciation OF Mr.
that Woodrow wilson's
principles that Germany thus was
OF them
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Weather Bureau Blamed For
New England Hurricane Deaths

principal meteorologlst at New Or
leans, set down the relation between
the movement Of the center Of a
tropical storm and the tides upon
the neighboring coasts. In his book.
Tropical Cyclones, DIR. Cline con-
solidated all the data which he had
collected as q major part Of his
life's work. The weather bureau
would not sponsor his book because
his theory Of the movements OF
winds in q hurricane differed from
the official theory"
Because the hurricane which
struck New England had swept up
the Atlantic coast In an almost d.
rect line from the south, the paper
charged the weather bureau should
have known tidal wave would fol-
low, and so have warned the resi-
dents in its path.