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Evening star., 1939-01-01
Bonkheod Is Forum Speaker

The coming session of Congress
and its problems will be discussed by
Speaker William B. Bankhead in the
National Radio Forum at 1O:30 pm.
tomorrow. The National Radio
Forum is arranged by The Wash
ington Star and broadcast over the
network of the National Broadcast
ing Co.
Speaker Bankheads address will
be delivered on the eve of the open
ing of momentous session of Con-
gress. For the first time in six years
the Republican party has made ma
terial gains. The Democratic party
in the last campaign and during the
last session was split into conserva-
tive and liberal wings.
Many issues of commanding i'm
portance are expected to come be-
fore Congress, including increased
national defense, a huge health pro-
gram, and the continuance of relief.
The w. P. A. has been under fire
continuously, and so has the. Ma
tional Labor Relations Act. In the
last election the farmers showed
themselves displeased with present
conditions. The problem of THE
Democratic administration leaders ts
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Chicago Cuts Diversion
Of Lake Michigan Wafer
By the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Jan. with no
ceremony. workmen at midnight
choked down Lake Michigan's flow
into the Chicago River, complying
at the New Years advent with a
Supreme Court mandate that re-
quired costly engineering project.
Night shift men at the Lockport
Power House downstream followed
routine orders to fix at 1900 cubic
feet a second the average diversion
Of lake water into the Illinois water
way.
Officials of the Chicago sanitary
district, who objected to the high
courts ruling and were able to COM
ply with 1t only by Federal help on
a s177,000, 900 construction program,
were not on hand.
Throughout 1893 Lake Michigan
diversion averaged 5000 cubic feet
second. The reduced flow was a
victory for Lake States other than
Illinois, which in long litigation
won their point that too much water
was being used to carry away Chi
cago sewage.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
PART FIVE.
Features.
Seven Killed, ; May Die,
In California Crash
3. the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SANTA ROSA, Calf. Dec. 81
Seven persons were reported killed
tonight in a head-on automobile COL
lision near Asti, on the Redwood
Highway.
DR.. Fred c. Whited of Mendocino
City, whose car was the third to
reach the scene, said seven persons,
five of them children, were killed
and two women and man were SC
badly hurt Il do not see how they
can live"
DR.. Frank E. Sohler Of Cloverdale,
who went to a Red Cross first aid
station near the scene. said at least
five persons appear to have been
killed"
DR.. Whited said woman scream
ing Il want my baby" lay across the
feet of a dead man near one of the
cars. Two women and a man ap-
peared to be still alive.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Two Children Hurt
Badly in Automobile
Accidents Here
Other Mishops
Bring Injuries
To Three

Two children were injured seri-
ously when struck by automobiles on
District streets last night.
Ten-year -old lie Roy Hager was
knocked down by a hit-and-run
taxicab as he was roller skating
near his home at 1903 G street NE
he was treated at Casualty Hospital
for q fractured left thigh, concus-
sion Of the brain and a possible skull
fracture.
William H. Gardner, 6, colored
2614 Stanton road Sc, was riding
a coaster wagon that Santa Claus
brought him when he was hit by an
automobile near his home. He also
suffered a possible skull fracture
conclusion and head lacerations
and was taken to Casualty Hospital.
Hobert w. Tritchett, 46, of 22O6
Thirty-first street Sc, received q
fractured jaw and lacerations on his
chin and knee when his automobile
hit power line pole at Pennsyl-
vania and Branch avenues Sc. He
also was treated at Casualty.
Frederick H. Lenly, 18, of 1925
ty-eighth street NV, was
hurled out of his automobile to the
highway when the machine skidded
and turned over several times on the
Chain Bridge road, near Vienna, Va.
He was taken to Emergency Hospital
with a brain conclusion and severe
cuts and bruises on the head and
shoulders.
Miss Susan Brown, "a, of 29l9 !
street NV. suffered a possible frac-
tured leg in a collision at Twenty
fourth and G streets NV. last night
She was treated at Emergency Hos
pital and sent home.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Neather Conditions I.axt a4

Weather Conditions Last "a Hours.
disturbance is centered about 81 de-
grees north latitude and so degrees west
mateiy 20. 70 inches. and movins North
eastward. while the disturbance that was
day evening has moved northward along
Hudson Strait. 1886 inches. Pressure
continues low over western Hudson Bay.
Churchill. Manitoba. 1894 inches. while
a slight disturbance is moving very rapidly
eastward over Southwestern Quebec. Doucet
29.76 inches Pressure is falling along the
North Pacific Coast. Langara Island
British Columbia. 29.14 inches high
pressure area is moving eastward south
Of Nova Scotia. Sable Island. 1928 inches.
while pressure is high from Bermuda
westward over the Southern States, Mont
eomery. Ala, 30.32 inches. A high pres
sure area is moving east-southeastward
over the upper Mississippi Valley. Charles
continues high over the Plateau region.
ing the last "a hours there has been
some light precipitation in the North
Atlantic States. the lake region. the ex-
the Gulf Coast while rains occurred along
risen rather generally in the North Central
States.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah clear at
Harpers Ferry late yesterday.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
10 Hurt in Wreck
Remain in Hospital
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLESTON, w. Va. Dec. 81
Twisted coaches of the George Wash
ington were hauled from the Chesa-
peake & Ohio Railroads main line
today while 10 of l9 persons injured
in the derailment remained in hos
pitals.
The shattered steel cars which left
the rails and smashed into a coal
train just before midnight last night
were started for Huntington, where
officials said they would be subjected
to minute scrutiny in an effort to
determine what caused the wreck.
H. E. Webb, divisional superin-
tendent, at the scene of the wreck
10 miles east of here, said that while
no definite word had been received
about the usual Interstate Com
merce Commission board of inquiry
the railroad would open one soon
at its Huntington shops.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Kansa; City Cleanup Now
Ordered by Governor
BY the Associated Press.

JEFFERSON CITY. Mo, Dec. 81.
Gov. Lloyd c. Stark brushed de-
tails aside tonight and ordered At
torney General Roy McKittrick to
start Immediately cleaning up
Kansas City"--bulwark of Stark's
No. l political enemy, Boss" Tom
Pendergast.
The attorney generals request for
100000 war chest to fight vice and
crime in Kansas City and st. Louis
was showed in the background as
Gov. Stark ordered him to use "the
available funds and the present staff
at your command"
The Democratic Governor sur
prise letter brought to an immedi-
ate head his order of a week ago
instructing the attorney general to
eradicate the blight of crime and
corruption from Kansas City" The
Democratic organization in Kansas
City, headed by Pendergast, has
been a powerful factor in the elec-
ton Of governors and senators.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Police Break Law
To axe Dying
Baby to Hospital
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Dec. 3l-Radio pa
trolmen looked down today at 49,
month-old Mary Ann Bell, dying
of the dread black measles. as her
father wept at word frora ambu-
lance drivers that a city ordinance
prevented her removal to a hos
pital.
Ordinance, hell" said Patrol
man Edward Callahan.
I'VE haven't time to read law
added his partner, John Canavan
as their car headed from Queens
toward a Manhattan hospital,
miles away.
Mary Ann died en- route.
Officers Callahan and Canavan
were placed in strict quarantine
their uniforms destroyed, and they'll
have to buy new ones themselves
barring special order from the
City Board Of Estimate.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Cut in Relief Fund
Condemned and
Supported
Woodrum Estimates
Need at $500, ,000, 900;
Alliance Disoerees

Agitation for reduction of Federal
relief expenditures and the shifting
of much of this responsibility to the
States stirred both support and con-
demnation yesterday, preliminary to
its early consideration by the new
Congress.
Most significant perhaps of the
expressions of opinion on the issue
was that Of Representative Wood
rum, Democrat, of Virginia, chair
man of the appropriations subcom-
mittee which ordinarily handles re-
lief measures.
Estimating the financial need at
only $500, 10000 to June 80, the Vir-
ginian indicated his belief that ad-
ministration Of relief should be de-
centralized as speedily as possible
and its control turned back largely
to the States and localities, reducing
Federal expenditures and removing
Federal political implications from
the picture.
Garner inspires Attack.
The fact that similar views are
known to be held by Vice President
Garner, person of power in shap-
ing the course of legislation, gave
rise to yesterdays attack upon the
plan by the Workers Alliance, W.
P. A. union
Accusing the Vice President of
heading a bipartisan reactionary
clique that seeks to undermine not
only the New Deal relief program
but also other important social legis-
lation, the Workers Alliance stated
its own position as follows:
/. We maintain that what politics
are in w. P. A. are the result Of the
political control of State setups by
State politicians.
3. No bipartisan boards car
change this situation. They will
only intensity political activities
What is necessary is that the public
through its representative bodies
and workers themselves be given
opportunity to make recommends
tions to local administrators on the
program. To keep politics out OF
w. P. A. we must keep politicians
out.
8. That w. P. A. or any relief setul
can be kept free from politica
coercion or other coercion by provid.
ing adequate machinery to guaran.
tee to the workers freedom from
discrimination. intimidation. or dis.
charge because of organizational OF
political Affiliations.
4. That politics in relief increase!
as the control becomes decentralized
Cites Roosevelt Estimate.
In placing his estimate of need a.
$500 900 900, figure lower than tina
mentioned by any other congress.
sional leader in recent weeks, Repre-.
sentative Woodrum pointed out tina
President Roosevelt had used thai
estimate some months ago.
Most of the pressure for revision
Of the relief administrative setur
is expected to come in connection
with the appropriation for the new
fiscal year beginning next July /. Ir
the meantime report on the extent
Of politics in relief is due from the
Senate Campaign Committee anc
further airing of the whole contro.
versy may crop out during Senate
consideration Of the appointment Of
Harry L. Hopkins as Secretary Of
Commerce.
Evening star., 1939-01-01

ton of reciprocal trade agreements
some of which have not resulted in
benefit to agriculture It is probable
the new farm program will have to
be compromise between the views
Of those who favor centralized con-
troll and those who believe agricul-
ture is entitled to the benefits of the
present law without its obnoxious
and apparently unavoidable control
features. find increasing sentiment
among farmers for a change to the
domestic allotment plan instead of
trying to force Government control
Of production and marketing down
the throats of the farmers.
Under this plan, the Government
would insure farmers the cost of
production, plus reasonable profit
for that part of the crop yield re-
quired domestically. If surpluses
were produced, they would have to
be disposed Of abroad. at whatever
prices were obtainable. I believe it
would be within the province Of the
Government to organize and finance
export corporations to handle ex-
portable surpluses.
Extremes in Arming Opposed.
While I will support reasonable
national defense program, we must
guard against going to extremes in
the international armament race.
With regard to the social security
program, we ought to work out
amendments so that the old-age re-
serve fund will not pile up to the
original unnecessary estimate OF
$47, 900 900 900, based on the full
reserve principle I am glad to note
that the advisory council of experts
recently recommended some modi-
f1cations in that general direction.
tcepyrisht 1889. by the North American
yeVspapw Alliance. ms.)
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Thousands in New York
See Woman Fall to Deuth
B, the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. Dec. 31.-In view of
thousands of New Year celebrants
converging on Times Square. an at
tractive young woman VIII" police
said was brooding over her Z ther's
drowning four years ago. plunged to
death from a sixth-foor window of
the Hotel Victoria tonight.
She was Angelina Arvelo, "a, of
Caracas, Venezuela.
Police said she and her family
were in their suite discussing plans
for the girl to enter a clinic for
treatment when the girl left the
room saying she wanted to write a
letter.
Pleasure-seekers jammed the spot
after the body dropped on the side
walk in the midtown theatrical
center, half block off Broadway.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Six Hurt in Crash

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va, Dec. 81
(PJ.-Mr. and Mrs. James w. Blincoe
of Knoxville, Tenn, were in New
Altamont Hospital here tonight suf-
fering from injuries in the head-on
crash of two automobiles l mile east
of Elliston.
Their 6-year old daughter escaped
injury in the crash which brought
slight injuries to four Negroes, occu-
pants of the other car.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
80 Killed in Barcelona
By Insurgent Bombers

BARCELONA, Dec. 81 (P.-Two
squadrons of insurgent bombers
raided the center of Barcelona to-
night, killing 80 persons, of them
women, and wounding 90.
Government pursuit planes went
aloft to combat the raiders and
one Of the insurgent craft was be-
lleved to have been shot down over
the Mediterranean.
Five bombs dropped at one street
corner. smashing several automo-
biles. Others landed near the Ritz
Hotel. where several members of
League of Nations committee super
vising withdrawal of foreign volun--
teers are living.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Rebels Announce Y ::
Two New Successes
In Catalonia Drive :
Highway to France Is
Twice Cut in Heavy
Fighting, They Soy
BACKGROUND

Spanish insurgents, after MANI
months OF stalemate on north.,
eastern front, nine days ago oe-
gan concerted driue against Bar
ceIond, Catalan capital ana pro-,
Uts'ondl seat OF Spanish eouern-
ment. Their progress has oee7,
slo1O but steady against the
loydltsts' little Mdgtnot ltne.~
Gen. Franco, rebel Leader, is
thro,Ding all his forces into cam
pdign to cut road from loyalist
Spain to France.
By the Associated Press.
HENDAYE, France, Dec. 81
Spanish insurgents announced two
fresh successes today in the ninth
day OF their drive against Barcelona,
the government capital.
The insurgents, estimated at more
than 100000 troops, reported they
had cut in two places the strategic
Lerida- SEQ de Urgel highway lead.
ing to the French border after heavy
flghting northeast of the Balaguer
bridgehead.
1nsurgent Generalissimo Francisco
Frances headquarters at Irun also
announced the occupation of the
village of Cubells. miles SOUTH
west of Artesa and on main high
way leading into that so-called
gateway to Catalonia" -
Aims to Cut Communicat tions.
The immediate objective OF the
campaign appeared to be to cut OF
Barcelona communications with the
French frontier.
The insurgents possessed or had
under heavy artillery fire 81 miles
Of the vital Lerida-Seo de Urgel
route, which is part Of the main
road from Zaragoza to the frontier
town OF Puigcerda in the Pyrenees
Mountains. &
Loss OF the highway would leave
government forces only one main
route connecting with France-one
Which skirts the Mediterranean
coast.
To capture Cubells, the insurgents
executed quick maneuvers despite
freezing weather Insurgent d.
visions, based at Balaguer-on the
Segre River a few miles northeast
OF Lerida-blocked the highway
from the south in an advance to the
northeast.
Camarasa Forces Cut Road.
Forces operating in the Camarasa
sector between Balaguer and the
crossroads town of Artesa, also cut
the highway, border dispatches from
the insurgents stated.
Artesa was said to be hard pressed
and thanking movements made its
fall only question of time" an in
surgent report said. From Artesa
the insurgents would gain a principal
route northeast through the Py-
renees to the frontier which is a
Barcelona lifeline for supplies.
Government dispatches said, how
ever. that counter-attacks yesterdav
against the center of the insurgent
army definitely had slowed the O.
fensive.
The government asserted thst
losses among Frances crack Aragcil
and Navarrese troops were unusually
heavy, with some units "decimated.
In the southern sector of the Cal
alonian battle front, insurgent div
slons which had occupied the village
OF Granadella attacked government
mountain strongholds in the rugged
area above the Tarragona provincial
/ boundary.
Evening star., 1939-01-01

sion of Congress
depends 8 o m e.
W h at upo n
events as they
develop and de-
pends to q large
extent upon the
reco m m e n d a.
tions made by
the President. I
do not wish to
anticipate tn e
reco m m e n d q.
tions of tn e
President, either
in his annual
message or any
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Weather Report

Dlstc OF CombiaGeneray colder todav
mostly northwest ~
MarylandFar and slightly today tomorrow increasing
cloudiness slightly warmer. e
vrgnia-Fa slightly colder tonight increasing
coudiness.
West Virginia colder in north portion
today increasing cloudness r
Evening star., 1939-01-01

into existence in
1888 with the
country ready to
try anything IN
the hope of
turning the tide
of q e preston,
and the New
Deal was born.
The Seventy
sixth Congress,
which takes the
s t &C at the
t hres h old o I
1899, marks the
b e 6 l n n ing OF
another distinct
and equally mo-
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Irish First Lady Dies

DUBLIN, Dec. 81 tP).-Mrs.
Douglas Hyde. wife of Ireland's 78-
year-old president, died today at
their private residence at Ratra,
County Roscommon.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
BY ARTHUR CAPPER, !

The curtain is about to rise on
the most important session of Con-
gress in six years.
The Seventy-third Congress came
Evening star., 1939-01-01
BY ALBEN w. BARKLEY,

united states Senator From Kentucky.
1t is impossible at the beginning
OF q session to foresee all that might
be done or left undone before the
session ends. The course of any ses-
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Record Until 10 PM Saturday

Record Until 10 PM Saturday
Hishest. 46. 8 pm. yesterday Year
ago A..
Lowest, 26. 4 pm. yesterday. Year
ago 81
Record Temperatures This Year,
Highest. As. on January /.
Lowest. 49, on January /. &C
Weather in Various Cities, -'-
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Congress Program Discussed
BorkIey Predicts Constructive Session;
Copper Calls Recovery Big Task

The problem tacn ghe legislation
them outlined here by the majority leader the for
the Democrats and BY outstanding Independent Republican
member OF the Senate o has long been regarded spokesman
for the farm States.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Telephone Co. Workers
Get Service Awards

Emblems in recognition of lengthy
service we're awarded to William L
Richards and Henry H. Cooper. en-
ployes of the Hyattsville Office of
the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co. of Baltimore, L. H. Cheek
manager Of the Office, announced
yesterday.
Mr.. Richards received a four-star
emblem in recognition Of 20 years
service, and Mr.. Cooper was award
ed a two-star emblem for 10 years
Poland Is importing huge guam
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Program 10 End Tax
Uncertainty Facing
Business Urged
George and Harrison
Advocate SimpIified,
long-Term Policy
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
With public debt approaching
$4,000, ,000,0O0 and the Govern
n1ent facing huge derctt at
end OF fiscal year June 3, 1889,
tar reDiSton looms certain as or
ounised business cldmors TOR bet
ter budget balancing ana less
punitive and retormatory tar
alton. Treasury officials hdDe
been consulting business groups,
but congressional suocomm,rrees
haze not made preliminary stud
les. Present corporation tar
schedule empires In 1889.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A long-term tax program in
tended to eliminate tax uncertain
ties faced by business In planning
future industrial development was
advocated yesterday by Senator
George. Democrat, Of Georgia and
seconded by Chairman Harrison,
Democrat, of Mississippi of the SEN
ate Finance Committee.
Senator George, member of the
committee, said he believed the
adoption by Congress Of simplified
tax policy which business could be
reasonably assured would last S or
10 years was the first essential"
step toward industrial recovery.
Senator Harrison said II am for
fixing our tax structure so that 1t
will cause the least fear and uncer-
tainty on the part Of business"
Sees Practical Problems.
He added, however, that he recog-
nlzed there were practical problems
to be considered in formulating q
long-term policy that might be
changed by future administrations
Senator George said he felt that
settled business conditions depend
on stable tax act.
I am not overstating the thing
when I say that nobody now knows
how our tax laws affect business
transactions" Senator George said.
Business can't figure these laws
out and, with all due respect to the
Treasury's experts, the Treasury
can't either. This confusion and
uncertainty is the basis of timidity
and uncertainty on the part of busi-
nessmen."
Some business leaders, testifying
recently before a finance subcom-
mlttee, said they preferred slightly
higher taxes to the uncertainty in
Volved IN the amount of tax likely
to be assessed under present laws.
Higher Taxes Inevitable
In this connection, Senator George
said that higher taxes are "inevi-
table"
THE Federal Government ought
to be put on a pay-as-we-go basis"
he declared, "and If we are to get
away from deficit financing, we have
got to increase taxes"
He said this might be done in one
OF three ways-by imposing new
taxes, increasing present rates or
broadening the tax base to bring in
persons not now paying Federal
taxes. Or, he said, combination of
these three methods might be at
tempted.
Urging complete repeal of the un-
distributed profits tax, which was
amended drastically by the last Con-
gress, Senator George said he be-
heved that changes made necessary
in corporation levies would call for
the writing of an entire new tax
bill in this session.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Readers Guide
and
News Summary
The Sunday Star, Jan. l. 1889.
INN SN6s
Main NeUS Section.


Foreign.
Dictators hope for new strength to-
gether in 1899. Page Al
Rebels announce new successes In
Catalonia drive. Page Ar
Syrian Parliament urges revolt
against France. Page AS
Soviet court enacts scene recalling
story of Ruth. Page A
National.
President continues domestic silver
price at 6464 cents. Page Al
Rescuers fight fire and gas in mine;
men alive. Page Al
Secretary Perkins warns labor lead
ers truce is necessary. Page Az
Long-term tax program urged by
George and Harrison. Page Az
Woodrum favors decentralization of
relief administration. Page Az
U. S. opposes Japans "new order
program in East Asia. Page Al
Washington and Nearby.
Fraud and chiseling charged in D.
c. relief. Page Al
Ickes launches drive for traffic safety
in Capital parks. Page B-1
Miscellany.
Travel. Page A-9
Obituary. Page A-10
Smashing the spy ring. Page b.
Vital statistics. Page Dill
THE Holy Terror" Page Dill
Sports.
Griffmen to test As in big attempt to
rebuild team. Page ALL
Julius Singer, Lorraine GULL annex
top Star pin prizes. Page ALL
1888 furnished its quota of stirring
sports events. Page A-12
Texas Tech to beat Gaels appears as
best bowl wager. Page Alb
Scalzo, who fights Transparent here,
mas title outlook. Page Ala
Buying of yearlings still is turf's big
gest gamble. Page A-15
Evening star., 1939-01-01

Poland Is importing huge guam
titles of copper.
Evening star., 1939-01-01

River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah clear a
Harpers Ferry late yesterday.