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Evening star., 1939-12-30
Comparison Of Body
With Fue|-Burning
Engine Held Erroneous
Columbia Professor Finds
Chemicals Are Like q
Seething Witches Brew
- the Associated Press.

- the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 30.-The familiar
old comparison of the body with
q fuel-burning engine was thrown
out the window today by an eminent
medical school professor, who de-
clared it was erroneous.
AS result of recent discoveries
textbooks on the subject will have
to be partly rewritten" DR.. Rudolf
Schoenheimer of the Columbia
School of Medicine told the organic
chemistry symposium of the Ameri-
can Chemical Society.
Contrary to classical conception,
the professor pictured the human
body as mass of rapidly reacting
chemical compounds.
THE chemical substances-pro-
teins, fats and carbohydrates-are
constantly changing like a seething
brew in witches cauldron,' Prof.
Schoenheimer stated, whether food
Is eaten or not.
THE experiments (made by DR..
Schoenheimer and his colleagues
proved that food taken into the body
merely enters into the great number
of complicated chemical reactions
already going on"
The hydrogen and nitrogen con-
tanned in the waste products of
digestion do not come directly from
the food eaten by an animal, DR..
Schoenheimer asserted, but from
mixture of the food material and
the substances already present in
the body.
Evening star., 1939-12-30
Glacial Age Landscape
Reconstructed for GeoIoqists

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 80 Lp.-The
landscape of the glacial age thou
sands Of years ago was reconstructed
today before the Geological Society
of America.
Prof. Kirtly F. Mather of Harvard
and two assistants, recalling the
great ice field that buried all
Canada and many Northern States,
described how two great lobes of ice
operated in the region just north of
the inner arm of Cape Cod in
Massachusetts,.
One lobe apparently lay in what
Is now Cape Cod Bay and the other
seems to have been headed for
Marthas Vineyard, Mather reported
In a paper prepared in conjunction
with DR.. r. P. Goldthwaite of Har-
ward and Prof. L. r. Thiesmeyer of
Lawrence College.
The lobes had been driven back
by mild weather and on readvanc-
ing under the reinforcement of a
cold period, had pushed up ridges
Of debris which the geologist calls
moraines.
The eastern lobe built its ridge, the
Sandwich Moraine, parallel to the
south shore of Cape Cod Bay. The
western lobe similarly left ridge,
the Buzzards Bay Moraine. along
the southeast shore of Buzzards
Bay.
Evening star., 1939-12-30
Income Tax Forms
To Go Out Wednesday
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated treSS.
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 30.-On the
heels Of Christmas bills, due in your
mail box Tuesday morning. Federal
income tax forms will be mailed
Wednesday.
N. B. Early, jr., collector of in
ternal revenue, will send out 1000
Federal income tax forms. The
mailing of these blanks, Mr.. Early
said, is merely a public service and
the failure to receive one will not
be q valid excuse for not filing.
Mr.. Early called the attention
of State employees and employees of
all cities, counties and towns and
other political subdivisions of the
State that they will have to file
Federal returns for the calendar
year Of 1899.
Evening star., 1939-12-30

continue to suffer persecution in the
north, pressure on foreign interests
in the Shanghai area has slightly
relaxed. Attacks on Americans are
no longer frequent. As bait for for
eign cooperation, the organizers Of
the projected new government in
Marking are making point Of their
desire to open friendly relations
with Occidentals who understand"
them.
The japanese believe that by ca"
joling or intimidating Western ma
tions into reducing or Withdrawing
their support from Chungking, by
further Tightening their blockade of
Chinese supply routes and by set
ting up q new and "enlightened"
Chinese government, they will be
able to Nquidate their China prob
lem in quick time and still retain
most Of the spoils Of victory.
Others are not 80 sure. Certainly,
the japanese are still far from their
objective. Chungking agrees with
Toxic that peace is, indeed, won
derful. But Chungking has shown
no appetite, 80 far, for the japanese
brand Of that article.
tcoeyTisht, 1889. bv ohisass DAILY
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Evening star., 1939-12-30
Bachelor Crop Here Declared
Good Bait for Leap Year

youngest of the Senators (the United
States Senators, not the Washing
ton baseball Senator's, Is q fine
talker and plays a bangup game of
table tennis.
Hoover, j. Edgar-Dark and hand
some. director of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation. The detective type,
however, and is apt to be out nights
q lot.
Murphy, Frank-Attorney General
Tall. wasp-waisted member of the
cabinet. Is courtly and gallant.
Tinkham, George Holden-Re-
publican Representative from Bos-
ton, who gets elected whether there's
a Republican or Democrat in the
White House; has a beard and
wealth; big game hunter himself.
There are a lot more, but this will
give the ladies an idea of the pos
sibilities. The salaries of this bunch
add up to about $6l 900 a year. That
will buy a lot of stockings and hats.
Evening star., 1939-12-30
j. ). Launches Probe
Of Mystery Plane
Wrecked in Florida
informant Asserts
Part Of Wing He Saw
Has Been Removed
By the Associated Press.


TAVERNIER, Fla, Dec. 30.-Mys-
terry surrounding the wreckage of
an airplane prompted Inspector w.
M. Hutchins of the Civil Aeronautics
Authority to start an investigation
today of the crash into the mud of
lonely Kard Point.
Mr.. Hutchins said markings of the
plane indicated it was of the Bib
bomber type. No crackup had been
reported here for a ship of that
design.
Justice Of the Peace E. r. Lowe
found fragments of one motor.
Parts of a safety belt and parachute
harness was nearby.
"A. c. order 9977, serial No. A151,
date built Feb. II, 1885," was on
a strip of metal. Justice Lowe re-
ported the plane was manufactured
by the Douglas Aircraft Co.. Inc.
A piece of the gasoline tank was
marked. Capacity 184 gal"
A fishing guide found the wreck
age Thursday and led loves party
to it yesterday. The guide said
part of a wing he saw when he
found the plane. half buried in mud,
had disappeared when he returned.
The wreckage is in an almost in
accessible area, 200 feet from shore.
Evidences 1t was q recent crash
apparently ruled out possibility it
was a plane that disappeared from
Orlando, Fla, in 1887 or the ship
abandoned In the Gulf Stream last
January by Hermilinda de Briones
Of Ecuador in her unsuccessful at
tempt to make a round-trip Miami
Havana fight.
Evening star., 1939-12-30
Age May Be Control
Factor in Influenza

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Dec 80 Up.
The Society of American Bacteri-
ologists heard today that age alone
might be a control factor In the
contracting of influenza while GER
tain nasal secretions possibly con-
stitute a first line of defense.
Three Ohio State University scien-
fists reported to the 41st annual
convention that experiments with
guinea pigs had showed resistance
to the disease progressive and that
the greatest susceptibility started
before birth.
The report was submitted by Her
man A. Dettwiler, N. Paul Hudson
and Dram C. Woolpert.
Thomas Francis, jr-, of New York
University's college Of medicine told
how washings of the nose and
throat were shown by experiments
to neturalize the effect of influenza
virus.
The society presented the 1899
Eli Lilly Award of $1,000 and a
bronze medal to DR.. John Graydon
Kidd of the Rockefeller Institute
for his research work on animal
cancer at its annual meeting last
night.
DR.. Charles Thorn of the Depart
ment of Agriculture was elected
president of the society as successor
to DR.. Arthur T. Henrici of the
University of Minneapolis.
DR.. o. T. Avery of the Rookie
feller Institute was named vice pres
ident and DR.. l. r. Baldwin of the
University of Wisconsin secretary
treasurer.
The society will hold its 1910
meeting at st. Louis, Mo.
Evening star., 1939-12-30
Virginia Council Urges
Use Of Merit System
By the Associated Press.

~ Vic nocVSiutCd ACoos
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 30.-A
merit basis for appointments, pro-
motions and tenure in classified
service of the State government was
recommended yesterday by the Vir-
ginia Advisory Legislative Council.
1T can be anticipated" said the
council in a report to Gov. Price on
q study of the personnel question,
that in Virginia we shall see the
development of a career service with
promotion from the ranks. Such a
system will be intimately connected
with the educational system Of the
Commonwealth, both in pre-entry
and in-service training.
1T can be anticipated that for
ward-looking policies will become
established concerning salaries, re-
cruitment, promotions, tenure and
conditions Of work in order that the
efficiency and morale of the service
may be improved. But the bill (rec-
commended by the counciD pro-
vides merely the minimum statutory
means for accomplishing these
things. The vigorous pursuit Of the
ends Is made q responsibility of the
Chief Executive and his department
heads"
Evening star., 1939-12-30
Student Union Kills
Resolution BRANDING
Soviet as Aggressor
Dies Committee Raped
As Attempting to Create
War Hysterio'
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MADISON, Wis, Dec. 3O-The
American Student Union called to-
day for a united undergraduate
campaign to keep the United States
out of war in a resolution that ig-
nored Russo Finnish hostilities, but
described Germany and Japan as
aggressors in other European and
Asiatic conflicts.
Despite pleas for consistency by
Joseph Lash of New York, execu-
tive secretary, and Molly Yard
Chicago, national chairman, dele
gates at the fifth annual A. S. U
convention followed the advice OF
their resolutions chairman, Herbert
Witt, New York, and rejected an
amendment to their peace program
designating Russia as an aggressor
The vote was 322 to 40.
One section of the resolution
stated:
I'VE declare that the war between
England and France on one hand
and Germany on the other is an
imperialist war, is not fight in the
interests Of democracy or the smaller
nations, but for markets and COL
onies. We find the causes of war
in German aggression and the long
standing British policy of appease-
ment in the hope of launching a
war against the Soviet Union"
The resolution termed the war in
the Far East as "a struggle of the
Chinese people against Japanese
aggression and for national inde-
pendence."
The resolution also condemned
the Dies Committee on Un-Amer-
ican Activities, which had declared
the A. s. q. "a breeding ground for
communism" The resolution stated
that the Dies Committee was lead
ing the drive to line us up with the
allies in the new world war by Great
ing war hysteria through unwar-
ranted attacks on progression. peace
and labor organizations ="
It also called attention to "the
rumor that bill is to be introduced
into Congress to outlaw the Com
munist party" and declared the
A. S. U. must fight against such
legislation.
The convention ends today with
election of officers.
Evening star., 1939-12-30
Rites Held in Manassas
For Noel H. Lynn, ST.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MANASSAS, Va, Dec. 30-Fu-
neral services were held today for
Noel H. Lynn, ST., 81, who died
Thursday at his home here. The
Rev. A. S. Gibson and the Rev. John
M. De Chant onciated. Burial was
in the Middleburg, Va, cemetery.
Mr.. Lynn was born in Aldie,
Loudoun County, March Is, 1877,
but had made his home in Manassas
for Il years.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Carrie
Walder Lynn, he Is survived by .
brother, Selmar Lynn Of Washing
ton: . daughter, Miss Marion Lynn,
and three sons, Noel. IT,: Wallace
and Nelson.
Evening star., 1939-12-30
New Year
(Continued From First Page.)

ception: Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld
of the Washington Hebrew Congre-
CATION, and the Rev. H. w. Burgan,
minister of the Hamline Methodist
Church.
The speakers-Dr. Mccartney,
Father Cartwright and Rabbi Ger
stenfeld-will discuss the joint
efforts of Washington religionists
to unite the purposes Of the 20 de-
nominational units identified with
the committees work.
The Navy Band will furnish music
and the choir of the First Congre-
gational Church will sing. The
services on the Capitol steps will be
held, regardless of the weather, DR..
Mccartney said. He invited men,
women and children Of all faiths
to gather to thank God for free
dom for religion and for religion for
freedom"
Holiday Plans Varied.
The plans of high Government
officials for the holidays we're varied.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt will
welcome the New Year on the second
floor of the White House, surrounded
by members of their family.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes will
be at his Olney, Nd, farm; Secretary
Wallace will spend the evening in
his apartment; Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau will be at his
farm near Ffshkill, N. Y; Secretary
of Labor Perkins and Postmaster
General Farley will be in New York
with their families and Attorney
General Murphy will attend q party
here.
Justice Stanley Reed Of the Su-
preme Court will participate In a
double celebration, for his 55th
birthday anniversary occurs simul-
taneously.
Evening star., 1939-12-30
Planes Over Britain,
France. Say Germans

BERLIN, Dec. 80 (P-Bad weather
failed to hamper aerial reconnais-
sance over France and England, the
German high command reported to-
day.
Its communique said:
Despite bad weather, German
scouting planes continued recon-
noitering over France and England.
"Quiet prevailed on the west
front.
"As previously announced in q
special report, a German U-boat
torpedoed q British battleship Of
the Queen Elizabeth class west of
Scotland"
Evening star., 1939-12-30
Virginia Traffic Toll
IS More Than in 1893
~ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Dec. 3O.-The 1899
motor death toll in Virginia stood
today at 755, IS more than during
all of 1888.
The latest victim was Mrs. Harvey
Smith of Richmond, who was killed
yesterday when the car in which
she was riding crashed against q
tree in Ashland,
Evening star., 1939-12-30
Qualities as Surveyor

FAIRFAX, Va, Dec. 80 (SpeciaD
Joseph Berry of Vienna yesterday
qualified as county surveyor for a
four r-year term. Mr.. Berry was re-
appointed several days ago by Cir
cult Judge Walter T. Mccarthy.
Immediately after qualifying, Mr..
Berry designated his son. j. Gilbert
Berry, as deputy county surveyor.
Evening star., 1939-12-30
Maryland Sales Tex
Measure to Be Studied
0y the Associated Press.

Dy the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Dec. 30.-A
State sales tax bill, defeated at the
last Assembly, may make another
appearance in the 1941 Legislature.
A proposal that a sales tax be
studied as a revenue measure will
be considered at the January 10
meeting of the legislative council.
A bloc Of Is legislators of both
parties in the Lower House intro
duced q sales tax at the last Assem-
BY. proposing . 2 per cent levy on
retail purchases.
Evening star., 1939-12-30
BRIDGES
Continued From First Page.)

x1OA1l LOU S6CJ
mediately by the Harry Bridges De-
fense Committee in San Francisco
an organization which raised $4,000
for his fight against deportation.
as a vindication of militant trade
unionism. Mr.: Bridges himself said
he was "very happy" about the
finding.
Mr.. Bridges came to the United
States in 1920 to continue in this
country career in trade unionism
he started in his homeland.
On the West Coast he has been q
factor in labor activities since the
1884 maritime strike and work there
won him recognition as West Coast
leader for John L. Lewis militant
CLIO.
Australian Unionism Cited.
Dean Lands observed in his re-
port that when Mr.. Bridges left
Australia trade unionism there. on
the organizational and political side,
was more advanced than In the
United States.
The Labor Department began its
effort to deport him in 1888, but
after his arrest on q deportation
warrant In Baltimore formal pro-
ceedings against him were deferred
pending Supreme Court action on
another deportation case involving
Communist Party membership.
The Labor Department sought to
deport Joseph G. Strecker, an Aus
trian-born restaurant operator, In
Hot Springs, Ark, on the grounds
he admitted once belonging to the
Communist Party.
The Supreme Court ruled that
past membership in the party was
insufficient to deport Strecker, but
did not settle the question of
whether present Communist MEM
bership was grounds for deportation
Of an alien.
Evening star., 1939-12-30
Deputy Is Reoppointed

FAIRFAX, Va. Dec. 80 (SpeciaD.
Mrs. Ruth S. Clark has been re-
appointed deputy county treasurer
by County Treasurer L. M. Coyner.
She qualified yesterday before
equity Clerk John NJ. Whalen.
Evening star., 1939-12-30
Patrols Penetrate
Germans Lines,
French Report
Allied and Nuzi Planes
Reconnoiter After
Skies Clear
Py the Associated Press,

~ the Associated PreSS.
PARIS, Dec. 30.-French patrols.
tracking German units through
western front SHOWS in American
Indian fashion. penetrated German
lines in forays east of the Moselle
River today, military sources re-
ported.
Opposing patrols engaged in brief
clashes resulting in the capture of
at least one German officer and one
non commissioned officer, the re-
ports said, as the French learned
new details of the German strength
and equipment.
Sharp cold, near the zero mark
numbered other military activity on
the ground. but clearing skies after
the snowstorms brought the aerial
forces of both sides into recon-
naissance action The general staff
said no air battles had been re-
ported.
Sub Sinking Reported.
The sinking of a German sub
marine by the combined efforts of
a French warship and British bomb
ing plane was reported today.
French sources said the warship
was escorting a merchant convoy
when it detected plane overhead,
but was unable to read the crafts
wireless signals. Finally the plane
dropped smoke bombs.
Racing to the spot where the
bombs fell, the ship dropped depth
charges. A few seconds later, the
account said, a disabled submarine
rose to the surface but went down
again obviously beyond repair"
No date was given for the sinking.
European Federation Hinted.
France winds up 1889 with plans
to spend almost five and a half
billion dollars-all to be raised by
loanS-to wage war in 1910 and with
hints from her premier of some
kind of European federation after
the war is finished.
Premier Daladier in presenting
the 1910 budget to the Senate yes
terday asserted that the French
British economic union was open
to all' and added:
"A new Europe will have a larger
organization than that which has
existed so Ear, increasing exchanges
and perhaps envisaging federate
bonds among the various states"
A clause in the military expense
bill published in todays official
gazette after completion of parlia-
mentary approval authorizes eight
ministries to contract expenditures
for war purposes during 1910
totaling $5,480, Az 900.
A first three months installment
Of 81, ,208 ,614, 900 was approved.
Budget for Whole Year.
The clause covering the whole
year stipulates that the ministries
may contract the following expendi-
lures:
War, $s05, ,6ls, 900; armament, ST.
920,3l4,OOO; navy, $685., $4,000; air,
s., ,225, ,058,0 900; colonies, $18,788, 900
agriculture, $3,o80. 900; public works,
l6,06O, 600, and merchant marine,
$46, zoe, 900.
The entire sum Finance Minister
Paul Reynaud has announced is to
be obtained by public subscription
to national defense bonds.
The civil, or ordinary. budget
amounting to nearly SLIGO, 900, 600,
which was approved by the Chamber
Of Deputies unanimously today with
only slight notifications, will abb
sorb all the government revenue
raised by taxation, M. Reynaud
told the Senate recently.
Evening star., 1939-12-30
Hoover Carries Drive
For Aid 10 Finland
Into Northwest
Urges U. S. Suspension
Of Debt Payments in
Minneapolis ToIk
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. -
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 30.-suspen.
sion of Finland's war debt payments.
was urged last night by former
President Hoover in an address,
marking the first large meeting In :.
the Northwest for Finnish relief. :.
Mr.. Hoover, in charge Of the ma
tional Finnish relief fund drive, told
a crowd estimated at $500 that IL
ever there was q case In history
where a creditor should show his
own decency by suspending pay
ments our Nation should do 1t now
for Finland" y
The former President stressed
that Finland alone Of Is debtor ma.
tions has paid every installment and
that, despite that country's present
troubles, it made one of its pay
ments to the United States only
two weeks ago.
New Low for Civilization.
"Civilization struck a new low
with the Communist attack upon
peaceful Finland" Mr.. Hoover as
serted. 1T is a sad day to every
decent and righteous man and
woman in the world. Whatever its
terrible vicissitude may be, the soul
of this intrepid race cannot be-
crushed by an oppressor, for Fin
land-the people of Finland-will
not die" :
Emphasizing that the fear Of in
vasion by armies hangs over billions
of people in the Old World, Mr.. Hoo
yer said There is the sickening
fear of fire and destruction to in;
nocent people from the air. There
is the dread fear of hunger and
famine. There is the fear of pesti-
lence. And with these four horse-'
men of the Apocalypse now comes
the fifth, even as dreadful. That
is the fear of all liberty loving peo.
pie of the sweep of Fascism, Nazi.
ism and their blood brother, Com
munism, with their armed agrees
sion against free men. With them.
comes destruction of all the world
has builded of justice, of law, Of
freedom to worship, Of freedom of
thought"
Gov. Moore Raps Russia.
JERSEY CITY, Dec. 80 (P.-Call-
ing for support of the Finnish relief
fund, Gov. A. Harry Moore of New
Jersey last night called Russia q
bloody, Goddess monster"
I'VE glory" he declared at rally,
lin the fact that they (the Finns)
'are hurting back this bloody, God
less monster. pray, as you do, that
the Firms may be successful.
The Russians consider ethics only
as they best fit their own scheme
of things.
ut is fitting that New Jersey
should come to the aid of the Films,
who were among the pioneer set
tiers Of this State In 1888"
Evening star., 1939-12-30
BY A. r. STEELE,

q AAASoAAo Va CAVCAAAAS LACA uO@
minions in the Orient. However,
the weight of the China milestone
must first be reduced, somehow.
So a quick peace in China is
the cardinal Japanese objective
quick peace without the sacrifice of
fundamental gains. To bring 1t
about, the japanese hope first to
establish a suitable atmosphere.
They are seeking to win the friend
ship of hostile Western powers and
to show the Chinese that 1t is USE
less to count on foreign Intervention
as an ultimate solution for their
troubles. Into the peaceful setting
to be created will be introduced the
new regime of Wang Ching-wei.
Through him Japanese planners an
ticipate a settlement will finally be
arranged with the Chinese govern
ment at Chungking.
Efforts Centered on u. g., Soviet.
Japan is focusing her present ap-
peasement efforts on the United
States and Soviet Russia-the two
powers best able to challenge her
overlordship in Asia. These good
will maneuvers, the Japanese wish
fully think, will help to spawn dis
couragement among the Chinese
and stimulate the desire for Sino-
Japanese peace.
Yet, while Toxic actively woos
Uncle Sam and Stain, she takes
her good time about reciprocating
British and French overtures. The
japanese theory Is that the di1i-
culties of Britain and France in Eu-
rope and their fear Of q Sovet-Jap-
anese- German alignment will bring
them around eventually to real
istic" view of the New Order in East
Asia. Let them stew In their own
Juice for q while, say the Japanese,
and perhaps more can be extracted
from them in the long run.
The soft-pedalng Of anti-foreisn-
ism is another-and perhaps tenn
porsry-development In the armyS
poaco o6endv0. Whllo the 1eiash