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Evening star., 1939-04-14
Report by Ickes Opposes
Alaska for REFUGEES

Secretary of the Interior Ickes
made public yesterday q report of
departmental experts which seems
to discourage the possibilities offered
by the Territory Of Alaska as a sat-
isfactory refuge for immigrants
from European countries.
The report, which was only a pre-
liminary one, pointed out that lack
OF man power and lack of capital
now stand in the way of Alaskan
development. Mr.. Ickes emphasized
the department has no specific rec
ommendation to make for settle
ment plans since the problem in
wolves aspects of national defense
Evening star., 1939-04-14
Model Airp|ane Contest
To Be Held Tomorrow

Washington's miniature air force
real airplanes with up to 8-foot
wingspreads-is going to compete
again.
The Capital City Gas Model Air
plane Club. organized three years
ago by group of air-minded young
sters, is sponsoring a contest which
1t expects to be the biggest of the
year locally at Hybla Valley, Va, al
10 am. tomorrow. The Hybla Valley
Airport is maintained by Mount
Vernon Airways.
The models to be flown in en-.
durance tests, however, will not be
Evening star., 1939-04-14
Citizens Association
Backs Alien Curbs

The American University Park
Citizens Association last night in
dorsed the bill of Representative
Smith which would place broad re-
strictions on aliens and subversive
groups advocating the overthrow Of
the United States Government.
The resolution declared "abso-
lutely essential to the welfare OF
the Nation" the provisions Of the
bill specifying licensing of civilian
military organizations, registration
and f,ngerprinting of aliens and
mandatory deportation Of criminal
Evening star., 1939-04-14
and immigration completely beyond
departmental Jurisdiction.


The question Of opening up Alaska
to Jewish refugees and other minor
ity groups as a result of purges in
the totalitarian countries was raised
by Mr.. Ickes several months ago.
Since then, hundreds of inquiries
have been received.
Recent statements of the Gov
ernor of Alaska and of various civic
organizations of the Territory have
emphasized both the need of Alaska
for greatly increased population
and the importance Of adequate pri-
vate investment as a basis for such
settlement" the report said.
However, many obstacles were
emphasized in the report which
stressed the sparsity of the popula-
ton. the lack of adequate transport
Evening star., 1939-04-14

entered by the Capital City Club
alone. The Wing Wrappers, another
air model club, and individual con-
testants from Washington, Balti-
more, Richmond and otheer nearby
cities will compete. More than 100
entries are expected.
Prizes are being provided by Corrs
Model Supply Store, Longfellow
street and Illinois avenue NV.
Young Carroll Carter of Washing
ton, the present holder of the world S
record for gas model airplanes. will
be on hand to defened his title. Last
May he set the record, minutes
and 81 seconds.
Evening star., 1939-04-14
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, G, FRIDAY 1899

tation facilities and the difficulties
of agriculture. With two and q half
times as many males as females in
the country. the report stated the
character Of Alaska's white popvla-
ton does not indicate growth. Food
costs, it added, are way out Of pro-
portion to costs in this country.
Evening star., 1939-04-14
Poor Yield

ATCHISON, Kans. F.-Bean
Lawrence invested 800 In the soil
found it didn't pay.
While visiting q farm last fall he
lost purse containing that amount.
1t apparently was plowed under.
Recent rains uncovered the wallet,
holding only $40. A IS bill was
found nearby. He charged the rest
to erosion.
Evening star., 1939-04-14

Be your brothers keeper. He may
forget to watch the lights. Warn
him.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Boy Is, Invented 7eIevision,
Got Patent at Ia Hearing Told
Fornsworth Tells Monopoly Unit of Origin
And of Sending Dollar Mark as First Image

died and he was faced with the
necessity of supporting his widowed
mother and a newly acquired bride.
He found two California business
men who agreed to put up So 900 to
see if the invention was worth any
thing"
Within l8 months, he had spent
100000 advanced by other hackers.
Total developments cost to date, Mr..
Farnsworth testified, has been in
excess of 100000, and the in
ventors and hackers have not yet re-
ceived any returns.
First Demonstration in 1927.
In 1927, Mr. FarnsWorth was able
to give his first successful demon
stration of transmitting an elec-
tronic image.
The first image sent, he told the
committee with smile, was dollar
sign, which seemed to climax the
work when we could see the sign of
real money"
John A. Dienner, special assistant
in the Commerce Department, told
the committee Mr.. FarnsWorth held
the basic patent on television.
The committee heard testimony
yesterday that radio tube manufac-
turers have not savailed themselves
of an important invention in the
vacuum tube field. although it would
result in tube that would last
much longer and would require less
current.
Frank B. JeWett. president of Bell
Telephone Laboratories. Inc, said
the laboratories had developed an
improved vacuum tube for long
tSee MONOPOLY, Page ABB
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Police Double Guard
Over Chamber|ain's
Son After Bombinq
Explosion Damages Irish
Hotel Where Premier's
Kin Was Guest
BY the Associated Press,


TRALEE, Ireland, Jan. 19.-Police
today doubled the guard over Frank
Chamberlain, son of the British
Prime Minister, after an apparent
attempt on his life in bomb ex-
plosion that damaged a hotel where
he was guest.
Mr. Chamberlain, 25, was not hurt
by the blast, which shattered hun
dredS of windows, blew an 8-foot
hole in a wall inclosing the hotel
yard and shook two persons from
their beds in nearby building.
The tall, bespectacled young man
set out Immediately after breakfast
on a hunting trip,
An increased force of uniformed
Irish Civic Guards dogged his steps
in this stronghold of the outlawed
Irish Republican Army, which is
blamed for series of explosions
in England Monday and Tuesday.
Police worked on the theory that
the army also was responsible for
this blast.
Three detectives had accompanied
Mr.. Chamberlain since his arrival
here Monday on a vacation in Ire
land. He lives in Birmingham,
England. The hotel where he was
staying is across the street from
the police barracks.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
France Grants Permit
For u. 5. Air Service
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
The State Department announced
today the French government had
granted the United States six
month permit for one or more
American air transport companies
to operate transatlantic air serv-
ice to France for passengers, mail
and goods
The American Embassy was in
structed January to request the
permit of the French government
Assurances were given by the State
Department that Immediately on
the issuance of the temporary per-
NIT this Government would be will
ing to enter into negotiations with
the French government for. a recip-
rocal air transport agreement.
Unofficial information at the
State Department was to the effect
that several American companies
are planning service to France
this coming spring. Prominently
mentioned are the American
Airways and the American Export
Airlines, Inc.
Arrangements have already been
made with Great Britain, Canada
and Ireland for a north trans-At-
lantic airline
Evening star., 1939-01-19
FHehouse Fire
| Sounds Own Siren
To Save BuiIdinu

A fire at the Riverdale, Md, fire.
house early today sounded its own
alarm and probably saved the new
$4,000 structure from destruction.
Volunteer firemen were awakened
at 1:30 am. by the shrieking of the
siren atop the building. No one
was on duty at the time.
The fighters discovered smoke
coming from the secondf1oor WIN
doWs and began unwinding the
hose from the trucks in the build
ing.
Fire Chief John Gum said the
fire, starting in wastepaper bas-
ket in the auditorium on the sec
ond floor, had burned through the
wall and the floor and short-cir
cuited the siren connections.
Earlier in the night. the Snyder
Farmer Post of the American Le-
gion at Hyattsville had held meet
ing in the auditorium Chief Gum
estimated damage at about $500.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
BY the Associated Press.


The stranger-than-fi fiction story of
how a 14-year-old high school boy
invented the basis for modern tele-
vision went into the records of the
Monopoly Committee today
The narrator was Philo T. Farms
worth of Philadelphia, who con-
ceived and patented the first means
of television broadcasting without
use of moving parts.
Now in his early 30s, the farm boy
who had his idea fairly we'll de-
veloped'' when he was 13, told the
committee television service would
be available ito the American home
before very long" and would be
superior to that now provided in
England and Germany.
Mr.. Farnsworth told how he OBJ
tanned his first technical training at
II, when he was placed in charge of
a farm lighting system in Idaho
Within year, he said, the rough
idea for "electronic" television had
taken shape in his mind
Has Cost $l,OOO,OOO So Far.
In 1922, with only modest high
school library" and static machine
in the high school physics laboratory
to work with, Mr.. FarnsWorth con-
tlnued, his day dream" first took
shape as an actual invention.
A year later, the slight, mild
hammered witness said, the Farms
worth family moved to Provo, Utah,
where additional laboratory facilities
enabled the inventor to complete
what has become the present sys-
tenn of television.
In 1926 Mr.. FarnsWorths father
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Loyalists Repu|se
Insurgents West
Of Catalan Capital
Defy Rebels Blockade
In Effort to Bring
$4,000 to Aid
BACKGROUND


InSurgent campaign against
Barcelona to end ciuil iUar began
last month. Since then large
chunk of Catalonia has fallen to
attacks By Gen. Franco. GoUern-
nlent has mobilised all available
manpo1uer for defense OF proui-
sional capital. Fate OF Catalonia
may De decisive for LoydliSts, be-
cause it has only remaining high
Uay links Nth France, important
source OF supplies.
By the Associated Press.
HENDAYE. France. Jan. 19.-
Catalonian militiamen fought of in
surgent thrusts In the mountains
west OF Barcelona today while the
government sought to run a naval
blockade to rush reinforcements
from the idle Madrid front.
Twelve thousand Madrid troops,
the first contingent of 10000 the
geographically divided government
hoped to shift to the hard pressed
Catalonian fronts, were reported al
ready at sea.
They were said by advices reach
ing the French border to have en-
barked last night at Valencia,
whence the other $4,000 were ex-
pected to leave shortly.
An undetermined number of in
surgent warships, three of which
yesterday shelled government lines
northeast of Tarragona, were ordered
to intercept the transfer.
Insurgent and government man.
power in the battle for Catalonia
has been about evenly matched, with
about 100000 on each side. The in
surgents, however, hold a decided
advantage in planes, artillery and
other equipment.
Late government bulletins said
strong resistance was developing in
the rugged hills in front of Igualada
which was believed to be a kew
point in the governments mystery
Notifications blocking Generalissimo
Francisco Frances path to Bar
celona.
Ragged columns of retiring militia
men were said by these dispatches
(See SPAIN. Page A-3D
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Entombed Miner Dead
As IS Diggers Reach Him
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SCRANTON, Pa, Jan. 19-The
body of a 21-year-old coal miner,
buried yesterday by rock fall at
nearby Jessup, was recovered today
by a rescue crew of IS which had
toiled with little rest for 18 hours.
The young miner, Michael An
brasko, was trapped by a roof cave
in when a mine car overturned and
knocked down a supporting pillar.
Five companions, including a 16-
year-old boy. escaped. One, Car
men Stambone, 26, was saved after
being covered by debris for more
than an hour.
Fellow workmen and volunteers
striving to reach Mr.. Anbrasko were
Handicapped by recurring falls and
the lack of adequate lighting facili-
ties. They were guided only by the
flare of their miners lamps as they
labored throughout the night.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Storm Hits VuIcania;
One of $50 on Liner
Tells Of Hysteria
Another Vessel Breoks
In Two OFF Azores;
81 Seomen Soved
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. Histories of
hysteria and near panic among 800
passengers on the Italian liner Vul-
cania, struck by a furious storm
which slienced its radio off the
Azores on Tuesday. were told today
when the ship reached port.
THE steamship New Orleans
radioed the Mackay Radio Co.
today that the motor tanker
Jaguar had broken in half about
200 miles southwest of the Azores
last night. Thirty-seven were
rescuedl
j. M. McClelland, publisher of the
Longview (WashD Daily News, said
at least six passengers were injured
and scores bruised as the Vulcania
wallowed in mountainous seas.
The waves crashed over the top
of the ship, breaking windows on
the top deck" he said.
The hurricane struck at 1890
O'Clock, just at the lunch hour, and
all we could do was sprawl on the
floor and try to hang on. The wind
reached velocity of l25 miles per
hour.
I'VE never expected to live
through it. There was general hys-
terra. Women tainted and screamed.
Everybody was praying"
Mr.. McClelland said the radio an
tenna was torn away soon after the
blow struck
Ninety per cent of the passengers
were sick" he said. Some of the
stewards tried to crawl along the
floor to serve hot broth and food, but
it was like climbing the face of cliff
going up and down.
THE storm came up suddenly, and
found the ship totally unprepared.
Furniture crashed and flew around,
hitting people"
Capt. Nestore Martinoli, comman-
der of the Vulcania. disputed aSSer-
tions the wind reached 125 mp h.
He said ships instruments recorded
a peak of IS m.p.h. on Tuesday
morning, when he was forced to re-
duce his speed to dead Slow
Ford F'rick, president of the Ma
tional Base Ball League, returned on
the liner with Mrs. Frick. He mini
mized the danger as recited by many
other passengers.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Streets Remain lev,
With More Cold
Predicted
Weather Bureau Sees
Drop to 20 Degrees
By Tonight

Prospect of temperature rise
sufficient to melt treacherous ice still
present on many Washington streets
and sidewalks appeared remote to-
day. with the Weather Bureau pre-
dieting 20-degree weather by tonight.
The mercury declined steadily
from high of SO degrees shortly
after midnight yesterday to a "a
degree low at 6 O'Clock this morning
A change of only few degrees was
noted during the forenoon
The forecast called for fair and
slightly colder weather tonight with
increasing cloudliness and slowly
rising temperature tomorrow.
Streets Hazardous.
Meanwhile, the icy veneer on
streets and sidewalks continued to
prove hazardous for motorists and
pedestrians.
Rufus Burrell. SO, of Packman,s
court S.W.. suffered severe head in
juries when he was struck at Wis
consin avenue and Warren street
NV. by a car which skidded on
the slick street.
Patsy Pearson, 81, colored, was
taken to Emergency with a frac-
tured left leg after she fell on the
front steps of her home at 1903 Sixth
street NV. Also treated at Emer-
gency was Gertrude Jackson. So,
colored, 1918 Florida avenue NV,
who received a possible fractured
wrist in fall near Tenth and D
streets NV.
A sheet of snow and ice, falling
from the roof of a house, struck
Betty May Jones, IL, of Alexandria
as she was on her way to Jefferson
School yesterday. The girl was
treated at Alexandria Hospital for
head injuries.
Bus Careens Into Ditch.
More than IS students at the Lee
Jackson High School in Fairfax
County narrowly escaped serious in
jury yesterday when a bus in which
they were riding careened of the
ice-coated highway and plowed SO
feet in a slushy ditch.
Sergt. R. H. Lester of Virginia
State police said the bus was forced
from the road by a beer truck oper-
ated by Lester F. Mcdaniel of Alex
andria. The latter was charged with
reckless driving.
Meanwhile, physicians at the
Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hos
pital were fighting to save the left
eye of James Patton, 10, of Hern-
don, Va, injured when a sled run
ner tore into his face after a spill
near his home. Doris Cockerill
II, of Floris, Va, was pierced in the
leg by a sled runner in a similar
accident.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Coolidge Concert
On WMAL

The Coolidge Quartet will
broadcast from the Library of
Congress over WMAL tonight
at $3.50 pm. The quartet
will play excerpts from "Di-
vertimento," for violin, viola
and cello, by Mozart.
The concerts are sponsored
by the Elizabeth Sprague
Coolidge Foundation in the
Library of Congress and the
broadcastS are arranged
through the cooperation of
The Star and the National
Broadcasting Co.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Senate Subcommittee
Fails 10 Decide Size
OF Fund for ", p, A.
Foes of $3.50, 900, 900
Cut Strengthening
) Their Lines
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Economy driue in House cut
s150,000 900 of the S875,O00, 900
asked by President Roosevelt to
continue w. p A. 1Uork-relief
program through June 30. Ad-
ministratton officials and Others
haze urged Sendte to restore tuH
amount, tChich is held necessary
to preuent drastic cuts of needy
from w. P. A. rolls.
With Senate opponents of the
$3.50, 900 House cut in the w.
P. A. fund strengthening their lines,
the Senate Appropriation Subcom-
mittee which has been considering
the relief bill failed today to reach
a decision on the amount to be al
lowed for the remainder of this
fiscal year
The subcommittee, headed by
Senator Adams, Democrat, of Colo
RADIO, recessed until tomorrow morn
ing after celebrating on other
features of the House bill.
&sASoAA "AlAASI AS1iolol 4&Oll, OClllO-
crat of West Virginia, a vigorous
critic of w. P. A.. challenged Presi-
dent Roosevelt's contention that if
the reduction in the relief fund
stands. needy persons would suffer.
This reduction in the relief fund
is not question of starving peo-
ple," the West Virginian asserted.
They can be taken care of within
the relief appropriation by remov-
ing from the relief rolls the poll
ticians and the well-to-do and put
ting the starving people in their
places
Prevailing Wage Asked.
Before the subcommittee met this
morning Senator McCarran, Demo-
crat, of Nevada urged the group to
put back in the bill the prevailing
wage principle. That principle has
been followed in prior relief acts,
but the House adopted an amend
ment to this resolution against
wage differentials of more than 25
per cent in different communities.
Senator McCarran took the lead
several years ago in fighting for the
prevailing wage rule on the ground
that departure from it on work re-
lief projects would tend to pull down
wage standards in outside employ
ment.
With the subcommittee not meet
ing again until tomorrow, the relief
bill may not be ready for the Senate
until Saturday or Monday.
Senator Norris, Independent, of
Nebraska yesterday joined Senator
Borah, Republican, or Idaho in urg-
ing thai the appropriation be raised
from the s725,000,000 approved by
the House.
Senator Burke, Democrat, of Ne
braska indicated he would support
the $875,O00,000 figure recommended
by President Roosevelt, and Senator
DoWney, Democrat, of California
announced support of the larger
sum.
But Senator McNary of Oregon,
the Republican leader, predicted
that the House figure would be ac-
cepted despite efforts both to raise
and lower it. Economy advocates
still were calling for a further re-
duction
Adams Sees President.
Chairman Adams conferred with
Mr.. Roosevelt for more than an hour
late yesterday. Afterward, Senator
Adams said he did not have the
(See RELIEF, Page A-3J
Evening star., 1939-01-19
U. S. Accepts New Envoy
Selected by BruziI
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The State Department informed
the Brazilian Embassy today Carlos
Martins Pereira Souza would be
acceptable as Ambassador to WASH
ington.
Charge dAffaires Mario da Costa
Guimaraes, who received instruc-
tions late last night to ascertain
this Governments viewpoint, was
notified today the new envoy would
be acceptable
Pereira Souza, now accredited
to Belgium, has been in Brazil on
leave of absence He was expected
to arrive here in March or April.
Mario de Pimentel Brandao, the
present Brazilian Ambassador to
Washington, sailed recently for .
rest In Switzerland, on leave Of
absence,
Evening star., 1939-01-19
RubIee Sees Schucht
On Jews Emigration
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associates preSS.
BERLIN, Jan. 19.-George Rub
lee, American executive director of
the Intergovernmental Refugee
Committee, conferred for several
hours today with Reichsbank Presi-
dent Hjalmar Schacht on plans for
emigration of German Jews.
Mr.. Rublee was accompanied by
two American assistants, Robert
Pell and Joseph Cotton, jr.
They were expected to see
Schacht again tonight for further
discussion of his plan making ex-
pansion of Germanys foreign trade
condition of German aid for
Jewish emigration.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
, sta1 corresnondent ~ Thu Star

By Stan Correspondent OF The Star.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 19.-The
brains of some of the countrys fore
most citizens are getting bigger as
they get older.
Such men as Alvan Macauley,
president of the Packard Motor
Co.; Maj. Gen. johnson Hagood, and
Leonard P. Ayres, Cleveland banker,
testify in letters to DR.. Ales Hrd-
licka, editor of the American Jour-
nal of Physical Anthropology, pub
lished at the Wister Institute here,
that their heads have been in
creasing in size for the last 20
years, as determined by increase
In the size of hats they wear. Dur
ing this time their hair has been
getting thinner.
The most logical explanation, DR..
Evening star., 1939-01-19

ATLANTA. Jan. 10 (P). - The
birthday anniversary of Gen. Robert
Z. Lee was observed today in States
of the old South from Virginia to
Mississippi.
Banks and some public offices
were closed. Patriotic societies and
schools held memorial exercises.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Boby Girl Survives;
Twin Brother Dies
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. ia baby
gifl weighing l pound 1534 ounces
was born in General Hospital early
today to Mrs. Bernardo Lopez, 38.
The baby was placed under an
oxygen tent and the hospital said
her condition was satisfactory. A
twin brother weighing 2 pounds
ounces died.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Brains, if Used, Keep Growing,
Suys HrdIicku, After Hat Study

Hrdlicka holds, is that there is an
actual increase in the size of the
brains of men engaged in constant
intellectual activity. The expanding
brains push the skull outward. The
skull is naturally thinner in men
with big brains to start with, DR..
Hrdlicka says. and so responds to
the pushing more easily.
It is we'll known to brain special
lists, he says, that a tumor on the
brain causes the skull to bulge out
wards in ks immediate neighbor-
hood. In the cases of these intel
lectual leaders, he believes, the whole
brain acts like "a generalized tumor." !"
Twenty years ago, writes Banker
Ayres, he was an officer in the
Army, 80 years old. He still has his
(See BRAINS, Page A-14.)
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Bailey Assai|s
Hopkins for
Political Talks
Says He Will Not Vote
On Nomination, Put
Before Senate
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Top man in the ddministra-
TONS relief program for more
than 5 years, Harry L. Hopkins
10as eleudted to q place in the
cabinet last month through his
appointment as Secretary of
Commerce. Senate committee
consideration OF appointment has
centered principally around re-
ported misuse OF relief funds for
political purposes and Mr.. Hop
kinS' ability as administrator.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Roosevelt Asks
Reciprocal Tax
Exemption End
March IS DeodIine
Set to Avoid 3-Yeor
Retroactive Action
BACKGROUND

About S65,000, 900, 900 in tar
exempt public securities are nolU
outstanding. In addition, Fed
eral, State and local governments
cannot noU tar the incomes OF
one another's employees. For
nearly a quarter OF a century
economists and public officials
hare giuen lip serpice to the idea
OF ending these immunities, but
concrete action thus far has been
delayed.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Lees Birthday Observed

lSee TAXES, Page A-4D