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The Washington times., 1939-01-16

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of the Bronx, and to New York'S
Senators, went the Roosevelt
feeler about the ubiquitous
young brain truster who has
been his unofficial ambassador
to Capitol Hill. The reaction
was distinctly cool. AL raised
the question of whether Cor
coran could properly be consid-
cred a New Yorker and whether
he was a registered Democrat
and ever had voted.
Corcoran was at one time a
member of the Cotton law firm
in New York. So was John T.
Cahill, whom Corcoran himself
is pushing for the Hardy job.
Corcoran's Neu job?
The politicians see one big
consolation in the Roosevelt
wish to elevate Tommy the
Cork to U. S. Attorney. If they
could be perfectly sure that
F. D. r. had decided Corcoran
was a political liability and was
kicking him upstairs" they
would be inclined to go along
with the appointment.
Roosevelt has been told repeat
edly, that true or untrue, the
country believes that the cele-
brated team of Corcoran and
Cohen WELD a "backStairs" in
fluence in the White House and
that the effect is harmful.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
CITIZEN FORUM
PREPARES new
FIGHT TO VOTE
First 1899 Rally Will Be
Held at Press Club

The District will open its 1899
campaign to win the right to vote
with forum in the auditorium Of
the National Press Club at 8 p.
m. Friday, January 27, it was an.
nounced yesterday.
Invitations have been sent to
all organizations affiliated with
the Citizens Conference on Dis.
trict Suffrage. The forum will
be the first of four monthly dis.
cussions on the Government needs
of the District.
The meeting will be devoted to
a discussion Of the question: ITO
what extent should suffrage leg
islation now provide control of the
municipal government by citizens
of the District Of Columbian"
The forum is sponsored by the
Citizens Conference on District
Suffrage, which last year directed
the piebiscite, in which nearly
100000 persons voted overwhelm-
ingly for votes for Washington.
| Members Qe Congress were re-
minded yesterday in a letter from
Wilbur s. Finch, head OF the Citi.
zens' Conference, that District
citizens look to Congress for help
when the vote question arises.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

Joseph z. Kennedy SueSCS, d1Cc[
a swift and formal handshake
with the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt, gravitated to the Far
ley levee. And they noted also
that Farley had a smile and per-
sonal word for all, even the new
members of Congress, quite as If
they were his oldest friends. One
edged closer to watch the phe-
nomenon and to marvel at it.
AS she neared Farley she saw
the Postmaster General reach
out a friendly hand to a modest
little man who had just re-
minded Jim that he was a new
Representative from the West.
I'm glad to see you again"
said Farley Instantly. And
how is your Aunt Emma?"
Duck Spotlight
The ordinarily ebullient am
bassadOr to London, Joseph p.
Kennedy, is refusing to make
public appearances and duck.
ing the spotlight under direct
orders from the White House.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
WOMEN PLAN
PEACE DRIVE

While headlines echo with wal
and threats Of war, hundreds OF
women from many sections of the
nation will gather in Washington
Saturday to discuss long range
methods of furthering peace at
the fourteenth conference on the
cause and cure of war. The theme
is "Force or ReaSon?"
Some Of the most important dis
cuSSionS will center around the
revision of the neutrality act.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs
Carrie Chapman Gait, honorary
chairman Of the national commit
tee on the cause and cure of war
and Lady Dorothea Layton, noted
British peace leader, will speak al
the banquet next Monday evening
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
Boy, 9, Candidate
For Hero S Award

KLAMATH FALLS. Ore, Jan.
16 G.N.S0.-Nine-year-old Milton
Bergland is klamath Falls can
didate for some kind of hero's re-
ward.
While playing on the train
tracks the lad noticed a break in
the main line. He quickly ran and
told train officials that their rail
road is all broken down." InveSti'
cation revealed that a section eight
inches long had broken away. An
oncoming train was tagged none
too soon.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

(WOrId Copyright, 1880, By King Fe% ca.
t1res Syndicate, Inc: all rlEhts re-
serVed. Reproduction in full or In
part strictly prOhibited'
NVHE Frankfurter nomination
i came through sailing-but
there was a time when it might
have gone another way.
A certain Senator was pre-
pared to raise the religious issue.
He had accumulated some queS-
tionable documents seeking to
cast doubt on the ability Of an
Austrian Jew to take the oath
of office on the Supreme Court.
It seemed to be rather cheap
nonsense and the Senator prob
ably would not have gone
through with it, but the Senate
subcommittee feared the issue
because it was hardly a clean
one.
The subcommittee was called
hastily together, met in execu-
tive session, decided to advise
the Harvard professor to appear
here at once. AS announced,
the invitation was coupled with
the polite note 'if he chooses"
but Frankfurter'S local repre-
sentative, Dean AcheSon, was
advised by the committee to tip
Frankfurter on the situation.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
Faint Heart Wins
Him His Fair LADY

LISBON, Ohio, Jan. 16 Q.NS0
Faint heart never won fair lady"
it is said, but william R. \ orrow
of Carroll county doesn't believe
it. He tainted twice while obtain
ing license to wed Miss Margaret
Brown of Leetonia-first during
the preliminary questioning and
again before the license was ready.
The procedure was finished with
Morrow sitting il chair.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

Efforts were made to further
modify the plan proposed by
DR.. Hjalmar Schacht, presi-
dent of the Reichbank. Rublee
and Schacht are expected to
meet formally again tomorrow.
Meanwhile, it was understood
the United. States consular au-
thoritieS here had drawn at
tention Of the British Home
Office to the fact that any
German Jew granted an appli-
cation number for eventual
emigration to the United States
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
5000 TO Hear Eliot
AT Constitution Hall

With 5000 tickets already dis.
tributed, the address of Major
George Fielding Eliot, noted mill
tary expert, on national defense
was assured Of a capacity audi.
ence tonight at Constitution Hall.
Major Eliot's talk will be the
first in the annual series of Bron-
son Cutting Memorial lectures,
held in memory of the late Sen
ator Cutting.
Oscar L. Chapman, assistant
secretary of the Interior and a
close personal friend of the late
Senator Cutting, will preside at
tonight's lecture, which starts at
'8:15 p. m.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
Fends Off Threat

ALTHOUGH no previous Su-
"A preme Court nominee had
ever been invited to appear in
his own behalf (JuStice Stone
once appeared at his own re-
quest to clear up a Situatlon)'
Frankfurter came Immediately.
He graciouSly Tended off the
threatening development by tell
ing the Senators none ever took
an oath with less reservation
than he.
Immediately thereafter the
subcommittee unanimously ap-
proved the nomination.
NOTE-One of the scurrilous
documents in circulation around
the subcommittee was the in
famous Protocols of zion"
which first appeared as part of
the anti-Semitic props aganda
prevalent during the Russian
revolution, when the idea that
the Bolshevist uprisingS were
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

Is to camou-
flage the boys
so we Repub-
licanS C a MT
count them"
moaned a die
hard G. o. P.
The arduouS
chores of han
ding the New
D e a Is pub
licity are GER
tainly getting
poor old Char
lie Nicholson
down. All the
white . haired
press chief of
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
MOve to Palestine
Backed as Arabs
Picket Hotel

After n airing distinguished
speakers condemn racial and re-
ligious bigotry. 1,500 Jewish lead
ers gathered from all parts of the
country for a conference at the
Mayflower Hotel voted approval
last night of plan to raise $780,
100000 fund for the aid Of Jews
in other lands.
The speakers were Solicitor Gen.
eral Robert H. jackson and Jan
Masaryk, former Czechoslovakian
minister to Great Britain and son
the first president Of the Czech
republic.
Meanwhile a telegram was re-
ceived by Rev. Anson Phelps
Stokes, canon of Washington
Cathedral, from Herbert Hoover,
stating the former Presid e n t
joined with other prominent per
sons in urging the United States
to create a haven here for child
refugees from Nazi Germany.
ARABS PROTEST
While the meeting was In
progress, a group of IA Arabs
picketed outside the hotel IN pro-
test against colonization Of Jews
in Palestine. The picketS, accord
ing to Peter S. George, of the Arab
National League, came here from
New York, Cleveland and Boston.
Solicitor General Jackson char
acterized the plight Of the Jew
as a challenge to "the Christian
conscience to make good the
promise of a national home in
Palestine" He declared many ma
tions were fearful their own
economy and polity might be dis.
rupted by extending a right OF
sanctuary" but added that in
Palestine, the logical refuge for
the prosecuted Jews" there is
room for more refugees than in
any other nation of the world.
RIDICULES ARAB CLAIMS
jackson said he cannot deny
that racial ill-will and intolerance
exist in America, but I can deny
they are American"
Masaryk said the Arab agitation
in Palestine was comparable to
the Nazi propaganda prior to the
Munich pact. He ridiculed the
idea that the Jews with 10000
square miles Of territory consti-
tuted a menace to the Arabs, who
have 1000, 900 square miles.
He made a fervent plea for toll
erance and love to vanquish the
hate running through the dictator
countries of Europe and added:
I'VE must hold up Palestine as
a star and a hope to those in
suited, lowly people. If we do
we will serve God and good"
DIR. SILVER REELECTED
The conference adopted a reso-
luton calling upon Great Britain
to lift temporarily the restrictions
now in effect, Limiting the Jewish
immigration to Palestine.
DR.. Abba Hillel Silver, of Cleve-
land, was reelected as national
chairman of the United Palestine
Appeal.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

did seriously
m a ke the
S u g g e stion
that his close
adviser, t h e
t o m o u s
Thom as @.
(Ton1my the
Cork Corco-
ran be named
U. S. At
torn e Y for
NJ a n haitian,
S u c c eeding
L a m a r
Hardy.
Both to Ed
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
Veteran Actress
Leaps 10 Death

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 16 Q.N.S).
Ollie A. Cameron, SO, a veteran
actress, today leaped to her death
from the roof of a 4-story hotel
in Hollywood. She was once a
musical comedy star and later she
owned her own stock company in
Quebec, Canada,
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
Civitan Ceremony

A large number of Washington,
Baltimore and Annapolis Civilians
will take part in the installation
of officers of the Richmond, Va,
club at Richmond January %,
George H. Markward, president of
the Washington club, announced
TO-DAY.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
HOUSETO VOTE
CONTINUATION
OF DIES PROBE
Foes to Concentrate
On Limiting Scope
BY WILLIAM S. NEAL

G.N.S.) The Dies un-American
activities committee, which pro
voked nationwide controversy, ap
|peared today to have won Its battle
for continuation Of its investiga
ton into Communist, Nazi and
Fascist propaganda.
Surveys of the House, it was re
ported, both on behalf Of the lead
ership and bitter foes of the com
mittee, show an unquestioned ma
jority for the continuation resolu
ton Of Chairman Dies CD Of
Texas.
SEEK TO LIMIT SCOPE
With the controversy over ex
tending life Of the committee fol
two years scheduled to near a
showdown with formal organiza
ton of the Rules Committee this
week, foes hoped only to clip the
wings of the committee.
In spite Of his criticism of the
committee, President Roosevelt
has made no open move to check
the new investigation. The only
possibility of smothering the com
mittee, foes said, is a ringing
denunciation of evidence received
by it during the summer and fall
in a formal statement Of the De
partment Of Justice.
$15O,OOO FUND LIKELY
The Justice Department investi
cation, however, is not expected
to be completed before the House
acts on the proposal Of the com
mittee for a new two-year lease
on life and a fund of $150,000.
Representative Coffee CD, o1
Washington, leader of the House
Progressive bloc" said:
I'VE will try to limit the
time of the committee and cut
down it's demand for money.
We object to the committee
being continued into the next
campaign year, when it would
be used to smear ProgreSsiveS
with the Communist label"
Representative Cox CD o1
Georgia, member of the House
Rules Committee. which will re
port on the resolution, said that
sentiment Of the House is over
whelmingly for continuation OF
the committee"
There won't be 40 votes
against it," said Cox.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

is not necessarily assured of
receiving the visa.
More than half the appli.
cants, it was estimated, fail to
fulfill the required conditions
and qualifications.
Great Britain's attention was
called to this situation because
of an apparent tendency to
grant some 10000 Jews tenn
porary entry into England on
the umption they will
eventually be allowed to enter
the United States simply on
the basis Of visa applications
made in Germany.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
Mack Gordon Wed
To HOLLYWOOD Girl

YUMA, Ariz., Jan. 16 QNS0.
Mack Gordon, song writer, and
Elizabeth Massey, 81, Of Holly
wood, were married here today
They arrived by chartered plane
and a short time after Judge
Henry G.. Kelley had performed
the ceremony, the wedding party
returned to Palm Springs. where
the noted songster has been spend
ing the winter.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
Justice Brandeis
Doinq Very Well y

Recovering from an attack OF
the grippe, Associate Justice Louis
D. Brandeis was doing "very we'll
today, according to his physl'
clans, who reported that all the
S2.year-old liberal needs is rest be-
fore returning to his duties on the
highest tribunal.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

the national committee did last
week end was to attend the
Jackson Day dinner, play
dominoes until 7:30 a. m,
then shoot 18 holes over the
mountain-goat course at the
Washington Golf and Country
Club-and at the luncheon table
challenge any member to play
another 18 holes in the after
noon.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

MarveIs Of Marine Life. First Of .
series of color pages by william
CrOwder, distinguished naturalist and
marine artist. in which he pictures
life in the deeper parts Of the sea in
all its cOlOrful aspects. A frOnt-pag0
feature in The American Weekly, the
magazine distributed with next Sun
days Washington Herald Times.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

The wounds of the famous
purge that failed are not all
healed. Bitterest Of all is Sen
ator Walter George Of Georgia
and his i'll will is repaid with
interest by F. D. r.
When he was in Warm
Springs, the president sarcast-
ically asked a Georgia reporter
if King Walter" intended to
drop by to see him.
And the White House has mott
fled Georgia New Dealer Law
renee Camp, unsuccessful candi-
date against George, to pick a
collector of customs for the
State and declared Georges
man will positively not be
named.
New York politicians are not
going to like 1t but the cold
fact iS fbof prncidaOt Roosevelt
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

"You mean time wounds all
heels" cracked back nosurren-
der New Dealer.
Poor Charley MicheLson
First of the new spruce green
uniforms for the CCC have ar
rived in the Capital. THE idea
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

James A. Far
ley. For three
hours the Ad-
ninistration'S
G e n i a | Jim
held court in
t h e r e d
R 90 m, t h e
center Of an
eager and ad-
m i E ! n g
throng.
The society
reporters duly
n o ted tn e
S p e e d with
W h ich t h e
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

To Kennedy-and to our
Paris ambassador, William C.
Bullitt, and to our ambassador
to Germany, Hugh Wilson, now
on duty at the State Depart
ment-has gone the diplomatic
suggestion from F. d. r. that
they refrain from public utter.
anceS while here.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

The old-ne antiNew Deal Democrat pouring the
goose-grease in the Capitol corridors last week.
personal attack among Democrats ended with the
purge campaign" he declamed "Sience like poultice
has fallen soothe the bruises Of the primaries Yes indeed
+ina heals all wounds"
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
Farley LiOnized

The new Congress Swarmed
into the White House for the
annual congressional reception
last week and the lion Of their
hour was Postmaster General
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
Behind the News By Paul Mal2on

the moderate program submitted
by the President, but in working
out that program they certainly
have assumed there would not be
a war.
Thus they are betting their
money against the possibility
and that is the side the odds
favor by a to l.
NOTE-Only noticeable doubt
cast on this deduction is the
wholly unsubstantlated ''umor
that the President has q supple
mental arms program in mind to
announce later.
Hitler, Mussolini and the
Mikado are reported in the high
est fiscal quarters to be harder
up for foreign exchange than
ever before. Likewise the best
of foreign reports indicate their
people have had ali the war
they want for awhile.
X
OutUits Friends
HARRY HOPKINS has never
III before been accused Of be-
ing a politician. He has been
charged with trying to be one
as WPA administrator, but the
politicians still looked upon him
as a social worker. After his
Senate appearance, however, the
elected astute are ready to vote
him into the Loyal Order OF
the Friendly Palm (no fiscal
implications intendedD.
The coming Commerce Secre-
tary not only slipped himself
out of the moose Of his own
WPA difficulties by announcing
he would not perform them
again, but he outwitted politi-
cally his own congressional ad-
herentS. Three Congressman
who wanted to help him tried to
get him to agree it was not he,
but Mr.. Hoover and the Repubi-
cans, who were responsible for
initial relief because they in
stituted the FERA.
No, said Mr.. Hopkins, if any
stigma attaches to WPA, let me
bear it.
Imagine Democratic Congress
men being dull enough to let
Republicans get credit for in
stituting relief!
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
$2O,OOO,0OO Aid for Refugees
Is Urged at Conference Her
HALF OF JEWS PLEAS
TOENTER u. S. DENIED

BERLIN, Jan. 16 QN.S). The tangled problem Of
facilitating emigration of Jews from Germany given
and intensive study by George Rublee Washington at
torney and his feowmembers Of the international refugee
committee
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
War in Spring

0EVERAL persons who have
~ seen Mr.. Roosevelt lately
have come away saying he would
not be surprised If there is a
European war in the spring, or
even that he expects it. Sub
rosa stories out of Congress hint
that Ambassadors Kennedy and
Bullitt expressed the same view
there.
These repeated conversations
do not ring true. If Mr.. Roose-
velt expected a spring war and
offered no more self-protection
than in his preparedness mes
sage to Congress, he could be i'm
peached. (Not single recon-
mendation he made was pro
posed to be carried out by
Spring0
Truth of the situation seems
to be that the Administration
politicians have gotten slightly
involved in their own promotion
publicity for arm; expenditures.
They want Congress to think
there might be a war so Congress
will be docile in acceptance Of
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
SENATORS QUIZ
HARRINGTON ON
RELIEF NEEDS
Hint Second Cut, This
Time to 600 Million
BY ARTHUR HACHTEN

(T.N.SJ Though set against
granting more than $725 900 900 to
carry on the WPA until June 80,
q Senate Appropriations Subcom,
mittee today began consideration
Of q batch of restrictions provided
in the House bill.
Col. Francis Harrington, new
WPA administrator, and his chief
aides were called before the sub
committee in secret session to pre-
sent the reasons of the Admins
tration for asking $875, ,000, 900.
A survey of Senate sentiment
indicated q fight will be made to
slash the House figure of $725, COO,
600 to $500, 100000 However, the
consensus was that the Senate Will
60 along on the larger amount.
PENALTIES DRAFTED
With many anti-New Deal Demo
Gratis and all of the Republicans
in an ugly mood over the alleged
participation Of WPA personnel
in the senatorial campaigns last
year, the die seemed to be set
for insertion of stiff penalties in
the pending appropriation for
WPA officials or employees who use
their positions to influence votes.
AS the bill was passed by the
House, it carried a prohibition
against any of the money going
to any WPA worker who attempts
to influence another WPA worker
in his voting for candidates for
public office. In the Senate, a
drive was under way for restric-
tionS designed to bar any one con-
nected with the WPA from politi-
cal campaigning.
FELONY PROVISION
Believed certain to go into the
measure was a recommendation
of the Sheppard-Senate campaigns
investigating committee, to make
it a felony, instead Of misde-
meanor as in present law, for any
person by means Of fraud, threat
or discrimination to deprive any
one of relief on account Of race,
religion or political affiliation.
There seemed to be a lot Of sup
port behind recommendation Of
the Byrnes Senate committee on
unemployment and relief for Ian
guage in the work-relief bill to
make it unlawful for any person to
offer anyone employment or IA
vors on relief as reward for politi-
cal activity for or against any
candidate for public office.
Likewise, believed certain to go
into the bill, was the Hatch amend
ment, which would make it un-
lawful for any person employed
in an administrative capacity in
the relief forces to use his official
authority to influence an election
Of any public official.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

part of a Jewish conspiracy was
in vogue. A book by that title
appeared in 1919 in Germany,
but in 1921 the London Times
proved the book an impudent
forgery. Encyclopedia Britain
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
DR. SILVER RE.ELECTED

The conference adopted a reSo
luton calling upon Great Britain
to lift temporarily the restrictions
now in effect, Limiting the Jewish
immigration to Palestine.
DR.. Abba Hillel Silver, of Cleve-
land, was reelected as national
chairman of the United Palestine
Appeal.
The Omaha guide., 1939-09-02

Troians have lost only one game
in three years.
Starting his fourth year on the
coaching staff at State IS james
Arthur Moore, Director of Ath-
letics who recently received his
Ph.D. from the University of Gin
e;nnati.
Virginia State College Football
Schedule-1939
Oct. 7 Bluefield, at Bluefield, va.
Oct. 1s johnson c. Smith at Ell
trick. Va. Oct. q Howard at
Washington, D. c.; Oct. Is Open;
Nov. 4 Virginia Union at Ettrick,
Va; Nov. II Shaw at Ettrsck, Va;
Nov. Is A g. T at Ettrick, Va;
Nov. 25 Hampton at Hampton,
Va; Nov. 30 Thanksgiving Nor
gan at Baltimore, Md; Dec. 3,
Morris Brown at Atlanta, Ga.
All games at Ettriek, Rogers
Field, Virginia State College
called at 2 P. NJ. j. A. Moore, Di-
The Omaha guide., 1939-09-02


arguing both Tor ana against Inc
museum, as a result did the pest
business OF the fair.
MRS. Lewis ilVes IN a battered
farm mousse near Marshai' MO
She says she mas peen painting
slnce she was SIX anu won d O'i
cago World iaif AWARD lor !"
handpalhtea pillow.
More than ioo entered 1he sOa'e
FAR contest a reclining "uue'
offered by kooeft ufaham' Wni'e
OF Kansas CITY, was haileu ny 0it
tics and visitors as d oop
sensation, but not sehsa'iohai
enough
Mrs. Lewis used aluminium shei-
lac for the painting OF such SUD
ordinate deta'is as "inumii,
blades, a pillow, a pitch FORK II
other Instruments OF her "fafm
Life which made a striking CON
trast against the figures III OIL
The Omaha guide., 1939-09-02
SUCCESS STORY CONTINUED
WITH BROWN TAKING
NEW JOB

You might call this an Akron
success story-one on the career
of Raymond R. Brown, resigned
Asst Executive Secretary Of the
Association for Colored Communi-
ty Work, who leaves Monday to
take over an important social ser
vice post in Omaha, Nebraska.
The climax of his career, as it
relates to Akron, came yesterday
when more than $50 Akronites
gave him a surprise farewell at
the Associations headquarters,
1919 Perkins st.
Leonard K. Firestone presented
the departing Secretary with a
wrist watch, gift of the Board of
Trustees, and Horace Stewart,
representing the colored Board of
Directors and staff, made the
presentation Of an elaborate desk
set.