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Evening star., 1939-05-19

A reader can get the ans,Uer to any
question OF fact by Driting The Epe-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Haskin, director, Washington,
D. c. EseaSe incloSe stamp for reply.
Evening star., 1939-05-19

@. How old are Andersen's Fairy
Tales"?-J w. w.
A. The first copy of Hans Christian
Andersen's Fairy Tales was published
in 1853.
Evening star., 1939-01-29
Report of RooseveIt-Gurner
Relief Feud Hit by Bunkheud

The Senate followed the House
Friday in rejecting the President s
request for $875,0O0, 900 and voted
instead for the House-approved fig
ure of $725 ,000, 900.
There were reports Mr.. Garner
had been active in putting across
the smaller figure, and Senator
Adams, Democrat, of Colorado, who
led the floor fight for 1t, when asked
whether he appreciated the help the
Vice President had given him, said,
Eyes, I do"
With regard to suggestions Of anti
administration Democrats that the
relief vote amounted to test Of ad-
ministration strength in the Senate
and gave an indication of the grow
ing influence Of economy advocates,
Senator Bankhead said:
II cannot conceive that the Presi-
dent regards this (relieD question as
an issue of principle, as q line Of
demarcation between supporters OF
his administration and those who
feel undndly to him.
Evening star., 1939-01-29
BY the Associated Press.

Reports of differences between
President Roosevelt and Vice Presi-
dent Garner over the amount of the
emergency relief appropriation were
minimized in the Senate yesterday
by Senator Bankhead, Democrat, of
Alabama.
II am at a loss to understand why
some Of the newspapers assert that
there was an issue here upon this
question between the President and
the Vice President" declared Senator
Bankhead.
1T may be true, but I have seen
no evidence OF it. have not heard
the Vice President at any time ex-
press his opinion upon this subject.
He has certainly not here in any
open way, where I have been in cir
culation around the cloakrooms or
on the floor or in the lobbies, made
any open effort to line up or to in
duce or to persuade any member of
this body to vote any particular
number Of dollars into the relief
measure"
Evening star., 1939-01-29
Grand CouIee Dam Area
Menaced by Huge Slide
BY the Associated Press.


GRAND COULEE, Wash, Jan. %.
A gigantic slide, involving more
than 100000 cubic yards of earth
on the west shore of the Columbia
River, threatened the highway, rail-
way and buildings at Grand Coulee
Dam today.
The slippage, between the dam
and the engineers town, a short dis
tance down river from the dam
spreads in wide triangle from q
point high above the dam site high
way and extends to the surface OF
the river where it is about 1900 feet
wide. In the last few days the mass
has dropped feet at some places.
Grant Gordon, Reclamation Bu-
reau engineer geologist, who created
an ice dam to halt the famous mill
lion-yard mud slide at the opposite
end of the dam two years ago, is di-
recting the opening of 200-foot
shaft in an effort to trace the source
of water which is believed to be
causing the slide.
Mr.. Gordon halted the last ma ajor
slide by sinking refrigeration pipes
into the sliding mass Of loose earth
and freezing 1t solid.
Evening star., 1939-01-29
10000 Hunger-Mod Refugees
Stumble Exhausted Into France
Van of Million too Weary to Eat, too
Hungry to Sleep; Bobies Born in Flight
By CHARL. IS S. FOLTZ, JR..


frontier) JAN 28-Thou-
stumbled
before nsurgent army sweeping
through Catalonia almost without opposition
These thousands however only pfu vanguard OF horde
authorities at almost lOOUOOO VINO
the frontier by the nsurgent advance
week of tortured flight from homes
which
with unbelievable suddenness after
o greatest mgatons
of history under
the chain gateway
admitting throngs into France Sob
children and old hurled
themselves the border guards
collapsed the budding together against the sides OF
their santiy clad bodies from biting wind Ihe
Evening star., 1939-01-29
2Women, III, Saved
As Fire Destroys
Historic Home
Prince Georges ShowpIoee.
ThorpIond, Burns os
Hundreds Look On
(Picture on PAGE A-2.)

Two i'll women were carried to
safety last night as historic old
Thorpland, one of Prince Georges
Countys oldest Colonial homes and
once the center of Snow Hill Farm,
went up in flames.
They were Mrs. Psrry Boswell,
wife of the owner, who is one of
the county's leading citizens. and
Mrs. Hannah Waffle, Cherry Valley,
N. Y. mother of Mrs. Benjamin F.
Brandon, who, with her husband,
lived at the Boswell's home
1t was Mrs. Boswell and Mrs.
Waffle, both in bed with grippe on
the second floor, who heard the
crackle of the fire in the attic walls
between the original Thorpland,
built in 1747. and an addition con-
structed in 1854.
Mr.. Boswell and Mr.. Brandon
carried them to the first floor en-
trance of the house and they were
sent by ambulance to 5000 Rhode
Island avenue, Mount Rainier,
where Mr.. Boswell owns an apart
ment house.
Water Supply Lacking.
Because of lack of water supply
e-fighting units in lower Prince
Georges were unable to save the
show place of Southern Maryland
which last year was one of the homes
that attracted visitors in the gar
den tours of April. 1898. It is 10
Gated on the Largo-Upper Marlboro
road two miles from Upper Marl-
boro.
All three wings of the residence
burned to the ground within a few
hours after. the fire was discovered
at 7 o'clock last night. Only the
brick foundation and framework re-
manned. Flames lighted the sky for
miles around and brought to the
scene hundreds of motorists.
Mrs. Brandon was ascending the
steps with a tray of food for her
mother when she heard Mrs. Bos-
we'll and Mrs. Waffle call fire"
Mr.. Boswell almost had the fire
put out at one time with an ex-
tinguisher.
Fire companies from about a
dozen lower Prince Georges County
towns were summoned to the scene.
They soon exhausted their supply of
chemicals. There was no water line
at the home, and each truck made
repeated trips to neighboring creeks,
some as far as miles away, to
bring back water in buckets.
Mr.. Boswell, Mr.. Brandon and the
(See FIRE, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1939-01-29
Mother, Il, Given Oxygen
After Birth Of Baby
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, Jan. 28.-A 12-year-
old child-mother whose husband
must remain lin exile" until she is
16 gave birth to 5Ea-pound girl
today-and then was rushed under
an oxygen tent.
The girl, Jennie Renello Rota,
eloped to Valparaiso, Ind, last sum-
mer and was married to Frank Rota,
"a, but Judge Frank E. Bicek Or
dered them to live apart because
Illinois laws prohibit marriage of
girls under 16, even with parental
consent.
The baby was resuscitated and
placed in an incubator.
Maybe now they will let us live
together, Frank" the girl told Rota,
an unemployed shipping clerk, at
the hospital.
Jennie's parents, Mr.. and Mrs,
Anthony Renello. approved the mar
riage and the court ruled Jennie
can be remarked to Rota In Illinois
when she's 16.
Evening star., 1939-01-29
Fuehrer Expected
To State Attitude
On Big Questions
Importance is Attached
By Veering Of Reich
Political interest
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN. Jan. 28.-Chancellor
Hitler, celebrating six years OF
victory and surrounded by Nazi
pageantry, on Monday will tell a
waiting world from the Reichstag
rostrum where Germany stands In
the European struggle for power.
Great Importance is attached to
the event because it comes in the
very middle of what appears to
be a momentary veering or German
political interest from Eastern
Europe to Western Europe and
Africa.
Foreign Efforts Disliked.
Nazis have not liked what they
interpreted as efforts abroad to
influence the Feuhrer to take a
mild tone. An English peace mes
sage signed by 18 leading Britons
and broadcast last night in German
from London was denounced to-
night as an effort to give Germans
the impression that Greater Ger
many and its leaders are the
source of all the unrest under
which the world has suffered for
years"
Hitler will speak at pm. @ pm,
E. S. T) in the red-draped, flag
bedecked Kroll Opera House to the
worlds largest parliament-855 dep
uties-on the 9Th anniversary of
the Nazi Reich, and at IL pm. he
will review from his chancellery
balcony a repetition of jubilant
torchlight parade staged by the
Nazis on their hour of victory jan
uary 80, 1888.
1t is believed almost certain Hitler
in his review of six years of Nazi
successes will refer to strained re-
lations with the United States, and
probably conciliatory passages in
this reference.
Support for Italy Likely.
Important parts of the speech
are expected to be devoted to sup
port of Italy's clamor for Justice"
in Africa, to the victories of the
Spanish insurgents, and to the
French attitude in refusing to open
the frontier to aid the Barcelona
Government. Reassertion of Ger
manys colonial demands also is
awaited.
The entire country will be be-
tagged Moneay The day will
begin with ceremonious reveille in
army posts and by Nazi storm
troops and Elite Guard units at
am. At am. Propaganda Min
lister Paul Joseph Goebbels will
address GermanY'S youth.
Evening star., 1939-01-29
First Wirephotos OF Quake on
Page AS.
By EDMUND A. CHESTER

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
CHILLAN, Chile (by airplane
courier to Santiago, Jan. %
Government officials battling hunger
and disease in the wake of Tuesdays
disastrous earthquake gave serious
consideration tonight to plan to
evacuate the city within "a hours
and consume the ruins by fire.
To those who saw the tired, grief
stricken men digging in the debris
of this former city of 10000, trying
hour after hour to retrieve bodies
from beneath tons of stone, the plan
to burn the ruins seemed the
sensible if not the only way out.
Upward of 10000 bodies are
buried in debris in the very center
of the city and rescuerS have been
able to uncover only about $500
since the quake leveled Chillan
Tuesday night. If 5000, instead of
500, workers were employed for full
time they would not be able to
remove the bodies for month.
(Chilean officials in Santiago
said a total death toll of $4,000,
of which 10000 was in Chillan
alone, was indicated in dis
patches from the quake stricken
region)
Stone Tightly Wedged.
Thousands upon thousands OF
tons of stone are strewn about,
much of it wedged so tightly that
dynamiting would seem to be the
only means of loosening it to per-
NIT digging by hand.
Meanwhile the danger of pesti-
lence increased and the problem of
food and water was still serious.
Medical men worked day and night
to prevent outbreak of disease, but
there were thousands of bewildered
injured persons wandering about the
streets with injuries only half
dressed or not dressed at all.
Many persons were wearing filthy
bandages which they failed to have
changed after receiving first aid
Wednesday.
The writer has talked to several
hundred persons in the last "a hours,
many of them among the once
wealthiest in the area, but he failed
to find one who expressed a desire
to continue to go on with life in
Chillan.
There was none of the usual "out
of the ruins will grow bigger city"
talk. These people are definitely
despondent and see very little fu-
ture for themselves here.
Center of Rich Section.
Chillan is the center of rich
agricultural section, but even this
years crops seemed doomed because
thousands of farm hands have been
killed, wounded or evacuated, leav-
ing an inadequate force for the
harvest.
The work of evacuation already
has begun, and the government is
taking steps TO prevent entry into
Chillan of any person now outside.
It became evident that first re-
ports of the number of dead in this
quake area of Southern Chile were
underestimates. There Is little
3See QUAKE. Page AID
Evening star., 1939-01-29
frightened by Lights
Of Seorchers, Girl, a,
Hides All Niqht
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
CONROE, Tex, Jan. o.
Four-year-old Betty Jean Gundy
was recovering from exposure
today after an all-night dis
appearance almost under the
feet of approximately 500
searcherS.
Betty Jean became lost while
trying to follow dogs chasing
rabbits.
She tearfully explained her
worst fright had been caused
by "all those men with lights"
But every time they got near
me I hid in the bushes and
stayed right quiet she said.
Evening star., 1939-01-29
Won Epp AssoiIs Critics
OF Reich Colony Claims

MUNICH, Jan. rs P.-Gen. Franz
Ritter Won Epp. governor of Bavaria
and president of the Reich's Colonial
Bund, said today it was "senseless
denial of the necessities Of life"
when Germany's claims for colonies
were identified with an attack on
the peace of the world"
Gen. Won Epp, striking theme
which many believed would be a
part of Adolf Hitler's Reichstag ad-
dress Monday, said in speech that
Germany had about reached the
limit of economic production, ex-
cept through further intensificetion
of efficiency, and that colonies were
an urgent necessity.
Evening star., 1939-01-29

J
to sleep.
Others grabbed feverishly at great
hunks of bread handed out by emer-
gency relief kitchens and gnawed at
them ravenously Most of them had
not eaten for two and three days.
There were a few mothers carry
ing babies which had been born
along the roadside while great guns
roared in the distance and war
planes dropped their loads of bombs
nearby. There were young Gala
lonian girls prematurely aged, their
tattered rags smeared with freezing
mud.
An estimated 10000 crossed the
frontier today About half were
legal refugees passed by the
French boarder control machinery.
The others crossed the frontier
along smugglers trails in the snow
covered Pyrenees through the 5000
foot-high pass, Prat de Molo, 25
miles west of LIE Perthus.
Many Deserters Found.
French frontier guards found
many government deserters who
brought their arms across the from
tier. They were disarmed and
placed under heavy guard until the
government at Paris decides what
to do with them.
TN Paris it was understood
French authorities had decided
in view of the increasing num-
ber of Spanish government troops
seeking refuge in France-to dis
arm and intern all such men,
but not refuse them entry.)
These armed soldiers were the
real menace of the situation. De-
feated and cut off from help, they
had only one way of escape-into
France.
In Catalonia there are estimated
to be nearly 100000 government SOL
diers, and French authorities said
they might attempt to fight their
way across the border when they
found they could no longer resist
the insurgents.
AS the first deserters came across
the border they were asked if they
wanted to go into insurgent Spain.
Some few said they did, and we're
started back by way of Hendaye.
The great majority, however, said
they preferred concentration camps
in France.
Troops Rushed to Border.
French authorities rushed between
1000 and 5000 troops to the border
to help control the refugees. The
prefect of the border department,
Raoul Didkowski, was ordered to
let only women and children and
old men into France, but he replied
French troops would have to be en-
powered to use their guns if men
OF fighting age also were to be
barred.
The French troops deployed along
the bottom of the mountains of the
unmarked Pyrenees frontier, where
they disarmed deserters who crossed
into France.
Late today the road on the Span
ish side of the frontier at lie Perthus
was blocked for six miles with a
triple line of trucks, cars and
wagons abandoned by their drivers,
who trudged the rest of the way to
France with whatever they could
carry.
From the heights at LIE Perthus
the road from Figueras, Is miles
to the south, was jammed with a
moving stream of refugees afoot
which extended to the horizon.
Above were clouds of smoke from a
thousand refugee camp fires.
No Room for Cars.
No cars travelled the road. There
was not foot of highway left open
for miles. The son-in-law of Span
ish President Manuel Azana and
the chief of the presidential proto-
col, with a Spanish deputy, tried
(See REFTJGEES pooe Az
Evening star., 1939-01-29
Frunkfurter Will Take
Court Seat Tomorrow
nv the ASsociofed preSs

BY the Associated Press.
Felix Frankfurter came to the
Capital yesterday ready to take his
seat on the United States Supreme
Court tomorrow.
The 56-year-old law professor, who
taught at Harvard since 1914, will
take the oath of Office at the out
set of the Monday session.
Justice Frankfurter has rented
temporarily furnished house in the
$500 block of Prospect avenue NV,
in Georgetown.
Evening star., 1939-01-29
DR.. Clarence 7. Wilson
Reported Near Death
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated PRESS.
PORTLAND, Greg, Jan. 2S.-Dr
Clarence True Wilson, Sc, lnterna-
tionally famous prohibitionist and
founder of the Temperance Board
of the Methodist Church, was near
death in a hospital here tonight.
Suffering from uremic poisoning
which followed heart attack and
q stroke several years ago, the noted
churchman was taken from his sub
urban home to hospital today. He
was unconscious most of the time.
Evening star., 1939-01-29
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The House Committee on Un-
American Activities is about to be
continued for another year, with
s1OO,oO0 put at its disposal by the
House.
Representative Dies, Democrat, of
Texas, chairman of this committee
which stirred the ire of the Roose-
welt administration during the last
campaign, has been given assurance
that special rule providing for
continuance of his committee will be
reported by the House Rules Com
mittee either this week or next.
The Rules Committee is slated to
hold MEETING tomorrow, and it is
possible action on the Dies resolu-
ton will be taken then.
House Democratic leaders, it was
learned last night, have come to the
conclusion that resolution to ex-
tend the life of the Dies Committee
cannot be headed off. For that
reason. it is believed the contest
against the co..Linuing resolution
has practically been abandoned.
Measure Is Compromise.
The resolution which will be re-
ported is in measure compromise
although Representative Dies does
not regard it as such. His original
resolution provided for continuance
of the committee for two years,
with $15000O to be placed at the
committees disposal.
The resolution providing for con-
tinuancc of the Committee on Un-
American Activities will extend the
life of the committee for just this
year" said Mr.. Dies There was
opposition to having the committee
continue into 1940-an election
year. But I say it makes no diff
ference, that when January, 1910
rolls round, the life of the COM
mittee will again be extended
The Texas Representative pre-
dicted that when the resolution Is
brought to a vote in the House
there will not be more than 80 votes
cast against it.
Dies Denies Charges.
He denied that the committees
investigation was directed in any
way against the administration, al
though New Dealers, including the
President, have assailed the COM
mittee's methods. Mr.. Dies insisted
that the New Dealers had been
foolish to take such position
against the committee since it was
interesting itself only in un-Ameri-
can activities. particularly the ac-
tivities of Communists in this
country.
"They (the New Dealers) have
attacked the committee and me.
said Mr.. Dies. Il have fought back
I have used their own tactics, I have
gone to the people, and IS per cent
of the people are with the COM
mittee."
Chairman Dies and his committee
were scored by the President last
summer because they permitted
witnesses to testify disparagingly
about Frank Murphy, then Governor
of Michigan, seeking to align the
Governor with Communists.
Since then Mr.. Murphy has be-
come Attorney General. The De-
partment of Justice, under his di-
rection, IS going into the matter Of
un-American activities, but Repre-
sentative Dies insists the depart.
ment is not getting very far and
is largely interesting itself in the
witnesses who appeared before the
Dies committee.
The Texas Representative believes
Evening star., 1939-01-29
w. P. A. Bill Passes
Senate With Drastic
Politics Restrictions
Fate of Amendments
Now Rests With
Conferees
BACKGROUND

President Roosevelt encoun-
tered first rebuff of current ses-
sion OF Congress Dhen House
several weeks ago cut his request
for w. P. A. relief funds from,
sS75,000 900 to s725. .O00, 900, auotd-
ing roll call on the issue. House
1Das sustained by the Senate FRI
day, the Uote being II to 46 on
a motion to restore the original
estimate,
Evening star., 1939-01-29
Chile May Burn
Quake Ruins 10 Bar
Threatened Disease
10000 Bodies Believed
Buried in Tons of
Broken Stone
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Devastating earthquake struck
Southern Chile Tuesday night,
totally destroying to1Dn OF Chill
Ian and rdsing large part Of i'm
portdnt coast city OF Conception.
Full reports OF number OF dead
haze not been possible in uie10
OF difficulty of ercauatins ruins.
Evening star., 1939-01-29
Dies Committee
To Get 100000
To Garry On
Chairman Assured
Of Added Funds
For Probe
BACKGROUND

6AI n oNOCND-
Dies committee 1Das set up by
House last year to Investigate
subpersiUe actiuities in this coun-
try. Methods OF group in the
handling of witnesses Uere as
sailed by President Roosevelt
after testimony criticizing Coo.
Frank Murphy's handling OF
Michigan sit-do1Dn strikes of
1887. Chairman Dies frequently
was en,broiled in controversies
NTH Secretaries Ickes and Per-
kins.
Evening star., 1939-01-29

(See UN-AMERICAN, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1939-01-29
Weather Forecast

Rain today and tonight, probably ending
tomorrow morning. slightly warmer to-
day; colder tomorrow, much colder to-
morrow night. Temperatures yesterday
Highest, 3S, at pm; lowest, 81, at
am. Full report on page Az.
Evening star., 1939-01-29

(See REFUGEES, Page A-50
Evening star., 1939-01-29

(See FIRE, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1939-01-29

.(See W. p. A, Pagge A-5)
Evening star., 1939-01-29
Chamberlain Calls on Hitler
For Contribution to Peace in
Reichstoq Address Tomorrow
Likens His Stand
To That Taken
By Roosevelt
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
NelU tension in Europe has
been created By Germany'S eye
ing Souiet RuSSia'S Ukraine and
ItalyS loud clamor for French
territorial concessions. Prime
Minister Chamberlain iDent to
Rome January 11-14 for CONFER
sationS 1Uith Premier MnSSolini.
France and Italy haze recently
been increasing their armed
forces in Africa and the Red Sea.