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Evening star., 1939-07-18
The Political Mill
Critics Of Lending Bill, suspectins Another
Spending Program, PIon Rough Reception Of Measure

cessions and sells 1t of over
period OF years to home builders
and others who wish to live near a
main artery Of travel. Thus the
Government gets the unearned in.
crement and reimburses itself in
large part for the building of the
road"
The President argued that the
Government is entitled to the "un-
earned increment" which would
ordinarily go to the private owners
of land abutting new. superhigh-
way, and not the owners of the land,
whom he described as lucky few.
To Senator Byrd and other critics
of the Presidents lending bill, the
plan to have the Federal Govern
ment condemn land which the Gov
ernment, or aforementioned
corporations, is to use for business
purposes Is an entirely new wrinkle.
Under the plan, the Government, or
its corporations. would lease or sell
land for filling stations, hotels,
amusement places, stores of one
kind or another, all across the
country. If this is not placing the
Government in competition with
private business, they want to know
what 1t is. Furthermore, they con-
tend that the. use of condemnation
processes for taking land in excess
of what is actually needed for the
right of way of the proposed high
ways is not in conformity either
with the Constitution or public
interest.
Fear "Unlimited Powers"
The opponents of the lending
bill are now suggesting "alterna-
tives" for the various provisions of
the measure which would in effect
cut the total contemplated sum
down from $4,000 100000 to $780,
600, ,000 Furthermore, they intend, if
they can. to eliminate some of the
uses which it is proposed to make
OF this money. For example, the bill
proposes to make available $3.50 O00,-
900 to the Public Works Administra-
ton. They say that the loans to be
made from this sum will not be self
liquldating but loans to local gov
ernnents, which can already be
made from the r. F. C. or from
the public at low rates of interest
In addition. they urge that by set
ting up the Government corpora
tions to make these loans, the Presi-
dent will obtain unlimited powers:
that he could go ahead with the
Florida ship canal or the Passama-
quoddy hydroelectric project in
Maine, both of which have been
turned down fiat by Congress.
The plan to loan" $500 900 600
tor railroad equipment, critics of
the bill say, will mean vast extern
sion of the Federal power to go into
business-the business of building
and dealing in railroad equipment.
They take a crack also at the pro-
posed S5000000 900 to be loaned for
railroad electrification They say
it looks to be complete Federal
power system, when most of the
projects have to be taken over
as they predict they will. As for the
$500 900, 900 to be loaned to farm
tenants to purchase farms, they
say that while this program may be
partially self-liquidating, large losses
probably will be involved. The real
purpose back of this part of the
bill-aId other parts-they insist,
is to take control of appropria tions
away from Congress and invest the
spending power in the Department
of Agriculture and other Govern
ment agencies.
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Oklahoma QuodrupIets
Senator's Guests

The pride of Oklahoma-the Keys
quadruplets-were to be the lunch
con guests today of Senator Lee,
Democrat, of Oklahoma, in the Sen
ate restaurant.
The four girls-Mona, Mary, Leota
and Roberta-arrived here yesterday
and made a brief visit to Capitol
Hill. Since their graduation from
Baylor University the 24-year-old
girls have been appearing on radio
and concert programs. With them
is their accompanist, Alice Margaret
Hopkins of Hollis, Okla, the Keys
home town.
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Thief Goes Four, Takes
$420 and Family Car

BY the Associated Press
SALISBURY, Md, July 18-Four
persons were left bound and gagged
In their home on Delmar road yes
terday as an armed and masked
robber took S420 from them and
escaped in the family car.
The victims were Mrs. Rose
Kirchner, her brother, Nicholas
Meglio, and her two children, Har-
riet and Edwin.
A four-State radio alarm was
broadcast by the Maryland State
police for the apprehension of the
bandit and the car.
The man. described as about % or
"a years old, wore a black mask
covering most Of his face, Mrs
Kirchner said; a black hat, Ions
overcoat and gloves.
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tlIIlt, re p OTCS u. Gould Lincoln.
come from administration sources
that the President is demanding en-
actment of this bill into law before
adJournment-even if neutrality
legislation has to be abandoned for
the time being.
Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Vir-
ginla was an early critic of the
lending bill. He contends, among
other things, that the bill is really
a spending bill, designed to make
1t possible for the administration to
dodge the $45 900, 100000 legal limi-
tation on the national debt, limit
which it is expected will be reached
by the close of the new fiscal year.
Under the lending plan, the Gov
ernment will lend" hundreds Of
millions of dollars to Government
owned corporations and these cor
porations will spend the money
He considers as entirely fantastic
the suggestion that the projects on
which the money is loaned" and
spent" will be found self
liquidating," He looks upon the
whole plan as another means of
placing the Government in competi-
ton with private business.
Eyes Highway Provisions.
The Virginia Senator has given
particular attention to the part of
the bill which seeks to finance a
federally constructed highway sys-
tem-a system of superhighWays
express roads, etc, traversing the
country. For this highway system
the pending bill provides S750,000,-
600. That, however, will be only a
starter.
In this connection, Senator Byrd
quotes from a message Of the Presl-
dent transmitting to Congress a re-
port of the Bureau of Public Roads
of the Department of Agriculture
now transferred to the Federal
Works Agency-on former Senator
Bulkley's superhighway bill, intro
duced in the last Congress. This
message of the President, under date
of April 81, 1889, Senator Byrd in
sists. reveals the real plans of the
President with respect to this Fed
eral highway system.
The report of the Bureau of Pub
lie Roads on the Bulkley bill, which
called for great highways, three run
ming east and west and three nortn
and south, showed that they could
not be self-liquidating; that the
eventual cost of constructing them
would be about $4,000 100000; that
the most conservative estimate" of
annual expenditures on these high
ways from 1945 to 1860 would be
Sl84 900 900 annually, and that in
come from tolls-at cent and half
a mile-would be s72,14O 900 a year
for the same period of years.
Presidents Suggestion.
But, Senator Byrd points out, the
President in his message of last
April suggests another way of the
Government raising money to meet
the cost of these superhighWays
For the President said in that mes
sage:
Il call the special attention of the
Congress to the discussion of the
principle of excess taking of land
for highways. lay great emphasis
on this because by adopting the
principle of excess taking of land
the ultimate cost to the Government
OF a great national system of high
ways will be greatly reduced.
Under the exercise of the prin.
ciple of excess taking of land, the
Government, which puts up the
cost of the highway, buys a wild,
strip on each side of the highway
itself, uses it for the rental of con-
Evening star., 1939-07-18
Spanish Glasses Sturt

Weekly classes in Spanish. spon-
sored by the Community Center
Department, will begin today at
7 pm. at the Thomson School.
Twelfth and L streets NV, with ad-
vanced. elementary and intermediate
groups being instructed by j. V. Nc
Call, translator for the Railroad
Retirement Board.
Evening star., 1939-07-18
All British Citizens
Quit Koifeng, China
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, July 18.-Domei (Jap-
anese news agency reported today
that all British citizens at Kaifeng,
North China, had left there because
of the anti-British campaign.
Offcial British sources said Chi
nese at Kaifeng had been ordered to
leave the Canadian Anglican
Church mission and Chinese inland
mission compounds and have moth
ing further to do with the British.
Evening star., 1939-07-18
Retreat League to Hold
Luncheon Tomorrow

The Washington Section of the
League for Laymens Retreats will
gather for the first monthly lunch
con meeting tomorrow at 1890 pm,
at the Hotel Willard.
A discussion of retreats will be
held at the meeting, which will be
presided over by DR.. M. darcy
Magee, president of the organiza-
ton.
Evening star., 1939-07-18

ton on Capitol
Hill. The more
t h e legislators
look into the
measure the less
they like it. Pre-
d / C t ions are
freely made by
Senators an d
r e pre- S e n t a.
tives that either
the bill will be
shelved or so
emasculated that
its authors will
not recognize it.
A t t he s q m e
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UItimotum Rejected

MOSCOW, July iS P.-The
Soviet Russian official news agency
last night declared Japanese de-
mand in "ultimatum form" regard
ing the rights Of Japanese oil and
coal concessionaries on Sakhalin
Island had been rejected without
consideration.
Evening star., 1939-07-18

festival, ar t y
leaders, both pro
and anti, in the
Free City await
report or other
developments In
his earlier two
hour talk with
Adolf Hitler at
B e r chtesgaden
His dip into the
Bavarian capi-
tai, where the
various m u s e S
d dispor t them
sc lv es m i i
music, laughter
onI fha Aou nf
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e German scientists the
which can replace butter with pulp product
They willing
eaetze but don't want to give the manufacturing
order comply with the Italian
food substitutes thousand OF
being to Italy
of their manufacture n hand
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so that double discount must be
made Yet the fact remains that the
Presidents choice of McNutt for
such an important post looks like
an undeniable slap at Farley. Farley
has made no secret of his intense
distaste for McNutt. Thus, poll
ticians throughout the country, who
watch for such signs, are bound to
regard McNutts sudden elevation
was a plain commentary on the
Farley Roosevelt relationship.
Evening star., 1939-07-18

cannot be. Under the pressure of
events, the New Deals politics of
principle" are tending to become op-
portunist. but McNutt's record is
stu remembered. Possibly McNutt's s
Establishments and promises will
convert the President and the men
around him. But, if the President
decides not to run and inclines to-
ward McNutt, there is still the for
tunate fact that labor, which will
Evening star., 1939-07-18
Japanese Navy Tactics Watched

The failure OF the Toxic conference will other
measures to be taken by the Japanese in other
emma Where British In
Japanese demand that Britain completely
oherwe Chang Kashek and
Britain
pound to refuse AS result of that
compelled
IN order to facilitate the end OF the cruel
me b IN Shangha and Hong Kong
a long siege from the Japanese ~ ' ~ ~
The inspection the Emperor Japan is considered
as 70 what the navy will do after this inspection
since there
oko hat portion OF the Japanese Navy
boneo
the
destination If the European Strengthened out it is
than likely that within the
sight Southern Borneo which
oil concessions OF a ' ~ A~''N
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Relations Com
mittee refused
to sanction a
policy Of inter-
n a tion a ! CO.
operation a n d
1 n i S e d on
"isola ton"
The decision
re a { e S to
W h e t n er the
President wishes
to appeal to the
country over the
heads of Sena-
tors, or whether
he will allow
American policy
Evening star., 1939-07-18
The Capital Parade
MeNutt Appointment Is Viewed as Slap at Farley
Choice Held FuIfiIIment of Promise
BY JOSEPH ALsOP and ROBERT KINTNER

Now that the dust has cleared
interesting reason being Offered for the incredible McNutt
appointment
mortal enemies that the President Farley becoming
in order to take Farley down
The sources of the story while usually most authoritative
Evening star., 1939-07-18

ddae would greatly
cannot be crown prince even the President wishes
1t remains to be how far himself" as
of in
with the President There
which he
wpaprA Alliance Inc)
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BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

President Roosevelt's new $780,
100000 lending" bill Ia contrac-
ton of his original $4,000, ,000, 900
proposals. meeting a rough recep-
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Neutrality
Reody-Mode
40 Issue
Roosevelt Is Fucinq
Decision Not Unlike
Wilson's in 1919
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

President Roosevelt is face to face
with a decision not unlike that
which President Wilson faced in
1919 when a hostile Senate Foreign
Evening star., 1939-07-18

HE opinions OF the rtters this page their oon
1hs stas Such opinions are presented IN TIE
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1939-07-18


Whle he certainly would
support the President
shown rebelious to
Some such words get back from
my holiday I'm emenl-
ber I'm American first of all he
could have said anything the the
may have reached the President And although
inconsistent
report happen especially Washington
Evening star., 1939-07-18

Germans have no illusions that as
soon as hostilities were to break out
in Europe, the British and the
French natives would occupy those
Islands, which are not in position
to offer any real resistance.
Because Of the shortage of raw
materials and the difficulty of OBJ
tanning the necessary foreign ex-
change to purchase them, Italy is
doing her best to manufacture as
many "ersaetze" as possible. 1t ap-
Evening star., 1939-07-18

And What
They Do
Donzis Awoits Word
On Forster's Talk
With Hitler
BY WARREN HAPGOOD,

While Albert Forster, peripatetic
district leader in Danzig, enjoys
himself at the current Munich art
Evening star., 1939-07-18

EHcy HaIHCaIn Lnat Japan has been
guilty OF an act of war. And here
Is how they argue: Japan claims
not to be at war with China-offi-
clally at least. Hence, Japan has
no right to blockade Chinese terri
tory. The British concession in
Tientsin is legally British territory;
consequently the japanese action of
preventing food from reaching the
British citizens in their own terri
Evening star., 1939-07-18
Worships Used in Smuggling

ACCORDING
washington
ammunition and propaganda leaflets to ~ -'
AS
tue African tribes with war 1884 that the British
discovered Dutch ship which
landing cases OF rnes and machine port
Southern Mediterranean
French and British supervision tramc ~ ~
In avoid and French naval no
he German government decided its
aterlal ana propsganda North Africa All the
German implements
war Thus the British admiralty knows
62 under command OF It. Haagen and U ISL
Kobe regularly
propaganda tracts and machine of the
The German activities
propaganda The islands the Archipelago Senegal
oeen recently 1ortlned
bases The Azores being prepared similar although the
Evening star., 1939-07-18

But all this egastic The
enforce her rights not have
insult British
can do whatever they to do it. |
Evening star., 1939-07-18
This Changing World
Britoin's Position Unlikely to Benefit
BY Discussion Of Tientsin Affair
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Nobody in Washington surprised at the dic Japanese
pourpares the settlement
pc great and pleasant surprise these conversations
sort OF an agreement The betting they won't The
reason why they anything Japanese
want them Wv ~~F"N wa
Evening star., 1939-07-18
For Want of Better

For Want of Better
The Presidents decision
spur OF the In both the
with incredulous asonshmen both
making almost
the moment when the pushing Indanan House
problematcal
other factors stated have influenced First of all
the Federal Security had
chairman OF the Social Security Board blackbaed
OF Labor Perkins
men the security Department
Dykstra
place No other really promising ~
Then the President vague nromie
TO McNu him Philippines ioh IN
ms return McNutt was known able and shame
administrator He
IN ms pocket and had announced that he would
1or hld term He practical
among the Presidents eutenans
organizer jim Farley
by the c. o. which ,rnis
And So apparently he offered ob snapped IN lie
trout after May fly 49, 'E-N ~ "p ANo
No Crown Prince
Mercifuly enough the
Quite
Evening star., 1939-07-18
No Crown Prince

Mercfuy enough the White group states that McNutt
not crown prince quite emphacay Farley saus
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Radio Time Table

Jack Benny, the perennial winner of first
place as the radio comedian in radio polls
will come to the air Sunday night at $3.50
over KOMO when he brings his galaxy of
artists with him to heckle him and be
heckled in return.
Football games of importance to be broad
cast Monday, New Years day, are: KMO,
East-West game, las; XVI, Orange Bowl
classic issouri-Georgia Tech) at IL a. M;
KJR, Sugar Bowl contest Tulane and Texas
A. & M at IL a. m. and the real treat for
westerners, Rose Bowl contest between U.
S. c. and Tennessee at l As over kJR.
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Today With Webb Miller
In the Frozen Finnish War Zone
BY WEBB MILLER

Continued From Page one)
the spearhesd directed toward
Viipuri.
The Russians had succeeded in
repairing the Leningrad-Viipuri
railroad. which the Firms tore up
when they voluntarily retired to
the Mannerheim defense line dur
ing the first few days Of the war.
Now the Russians were using 1t
TO concentrate their troops.
The Firms right wing was an
chored to the Gulf of Finland. II
was thanked by the heavy coastal
batteries Of Koivisto island, some
with 10-inch guns. These guns
could be turned inland, so as to
enfilade the Russian line in event
of an advance.
knowledge that the guns were
a menace was the explanation for
determined efforts in recent days
to knock out the island batteries.
More than 500 big air bombs had
been showered on the island so
far without putting the guns out
of action.
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Films believed that II Russia
essayed the dramatic para
chute-troop maneuver which 1t
was first to develop, Russian
troops who speak Finnish
would be sent down by para
chute In Finnish army uni
forms.
Tens of thousands of men and
women in Russia have been spe-
cially trained for this work. On
one visit I made to Moscow I saw
more. than 1000 men dropped
simultaneously. At other such
demonstrations small tanks have
been dropped.
Once planes dropped a para
chuted band, whose members
played music as they descended.
So far in the Finnish war use of
parachute troops had been inn
practicable because the vast for
ests did not permit landings. Now,
however, the lakes were frozen and
the Firms believed Russians might
try to land men on the ice of
larger lakes.
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PURDY CLUB TO STAGE
WATCH PARTY SUNDAY

GIG HARBOR-The Purdy I'M
provement club will stage a public
party New Years eve at Purdy
clubhouse. Men members will be
IN charge of refreshments.
The Busy Bees, Burley's All
club, will hold a meeting and New
Years party Saturday afternoon
at the Anderson clubhouse. Mrs.
Katherine Anderson is the groups
leader. Officers for the coming
year will be elected and the years
work outlined.
Mrs. Carl Camper, who recently
underwent major operation at a
Tacoma hospital, is convalescing
at the home of her son and daueh-
ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Camper, at Purdy.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. G. Dunn of
Gig Harbor are parents of a
daughter born Wednesday at Gig
Harbor hospital.
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WHITMAN PROFESSOR
GETS PHYSICS MEDAL

COLUMBUS, O.-Benjamin II.
Brown, professor emeritus Of ply
sizes at Whitman college, Walla
Walla, Wash, was awarded the
oersted medal for notable contri-
buttons to the teaching of physics.
The award was made by the
American Association of Physics
Teachers in convention here. The
association said that Brown "ex-
erted great influence as a teacher
at Whitman college for 30 years,
sending out from this small college
a large number Of students who
have since distinguished them
selves as physicist and engineers"
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. SERIAL STORY
BIaCkOut
BY RUTH AYERS
Copyright. 1899. NEA Service, Inc.

Continued from Page 81
by the crowd, she waited for Vim
cent as the minutes dragged.
Afraid she might have missed
him in the jostle. Mary made her
way to the purser's office. 1t was
nearly an hour before she moved
up to the window.
Has Mr.. Vincent Gregg come
aboard ?" she asked the harried
Britisher.
He made an expert search
through a pile Of documents.
His ticket isn't here, Miss
Seeing her disappointment. he add
ed consolingly. There's still an
hour before sailing"
Mary rushed back to the gang
plank, a thousand fears mocking
her. When a double blast of the
ships whistle announced only a
half hour remained before sailing
she realized there was only one
thing to do. She was not going
to cross the Atlantic on the Mo-
rayia alone
Turning, she fought her way
through the swarming crowds.
Look smart there, Miss" lug
gage carrier warned as she tripped
over a mound of baggage. Picking
herself up, she finally gained the
companionway and the three flights
to D deck.
Quick" she cried to the gray
clad girl in her cabin. Give me
my bags, I'm not sailing. Hurry"
One glance about the cabin and
Mary realized that Anna Winters
had faithfully kept her promise to
unpack Mary's belongings.
"oh, I'm sorry, Miss Carroll. I
have everything put away"
Help me get them together
again" Mary sobbed. I've got to
get off this boat"
Then sharp and clear in the pas
sage came the stewards call, All
ashore that's going ashore" Beat
ing gongs sounded louder.
For a minute, Anna Winters was
too taken aback to make an utter
ance.
Then, as she flew to the cabin
closet, she became all sympathy.
oh" she stammered, I'm so
sorry. Your fiance hasn't come
aboard ?"
'No-something's delayed him.
I won't sail without him. We are
going to be married-very soon.
If he's had to stay behind, I'm 60
ing to stay, too"
From the closet, came armfuls
of Partisan Mary's trous-
seau. There was a sudden inter-
ruption in the furry of this frantic
packing with a sharp knock on the
door. Brusquely, the steward
called-"All visitors ashore"
Mary let the lovely gowns slip
from her hands. There isn't
time" she said. II don't dare
wait"
Without a backward glance or
a goodby, she ran out of the cabin
and into the passage. The crowds
had thinned. Farewells were over.
Even so, the twisting stairs seemed
endless as Mary raced the three
flights.
When she reached A deck, the
gangplank was already in the air,
pulleys easing it shorewards. For
a minute, Mary was so stunned
she could only watch as the last
tie between her and Vincent van
ished. Then her startled cry
brought steward to her side.
What's wrong, Miss ?"
I've got to get off. I'm not
sailing"
He understood the emergency at
once. IF we're quick, you can
catch the third class gangplank be-
fore it's lifted. Come with me-"
ITO Re Continuedl
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Sunday
s AM.

KIN Radio Gospel
League
KVI-West Coast Church
X o MO News. SOS.
Melodies.
K JR-Dr. enyo ms
Church OF the Air.
KIRO-Church-
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MOnddy
z A. NJ.

lKMO-News: 7:45. Sun
rise Salute.
XVI - Bob CARED. Re-
porting: 7:45. Studio.
K o NJ O-Musical Clock:
7:45. Sam Hayes.
KJR-News.
K l r o = Newsreel. 7.45,
Step Ahead
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IL NOON

x MO Church; 1915,
Meditation.
KVI-N. Y. Symphony.
& o MO - Choir: l2:lo.
Strings.
KJR-Orchestra.
K ] r O. Church: 1918.
Symphony.
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KMO-voice OF Prophecy:
ea45. Canary Chorus
KNl-Maior Bowes.
KOMO-Srudio
kJR-SoUthernairea