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feet until approved by majority vote
Of the House and Senate.

feet until approved by majority vote
Of the House and Senate.
The pending question when the
Senate reconvenes tomorrow will be
the McCarran motion to exempt
from the Trade Agreement Act
products subject to excise taxes in
stead Of tariffs, such as copper,
lumber, coal and oil.
The trade agreement resolution
has already passed the House and
a final Senate vote would send 1t to
the President for signature, unless
some of the remaining amendments
are adopted. In that event amend
ments would have to be taken back
to the House. Administration lead
ers believe they will be able to put
the resolution through without any
major changes.
II the trade agreement fight ends
by Wednesday or Thursday the
Senate will turn its attention to
four appropriation bills that are
ready to be reported out of COM
mittee within a few days. Most
important of these is the Navy bill,
embodying a major part of the ad-
ministration's defense program. The
others are for the Interior Depart
ment, the legislative establishment
and the civil functions branch of
the War Department, dealing with
rivers and harbors and flood control.
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Indiana '2% Clubs
Income Tax Inquiry
Will End Shortly
Public Announcement
To Be Made, Revenue
Commissioner Says
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Guy T. Helvering, Internal Rev.
enue Commissioner, said yesterday
he expected the Treasury's income
tax investigation of Indiana's 1.-Two
Per Cent Clubs" would be con-
cluded shortly.
He added that there would be a
public announcement of the results
OF the inquiry, which has been pro-
ceeding for several months with
agents of the Internal Revenue
Bureau in the field in Indiana.
Discussing the investigation pub
licly for the first time, Mr.. Helver-
ing told reporters:
Il think it will be arranged that
when this inquiry is concluded we
will give statement as to its re-
suits"
The 1.-TWO Per Cent Clubs" were
formed in Indiana several years ago.
They get that name by reason of
the fact that State employees are
supposed to turn over to the State
Democratic organization 2 per cent
of their salaries. -.
The clubs were in existence dur
ing Paul v. McNutt's years as Gov
ernor of Indiana. Since reports that
an investigation was being made
have circulated privately and with
out any official comment for several
months, some of Mr. McNutt's S
friends in his current campaign for
the Democratic presidential nomina-
ton have charged that the inquiry
was an attempt to involve him. They
have also made private predictions
that the results of the Investigation
would show a clear record for him
in regard to per cent club opera
tionS.
Mr.. Helvering talked with re-
porters at the White House and
after he had been in conference with
President Roosevelt. He said the
Indiana matter was not discussed
with Mr.. Roosevelt.
Mr.. McNutt, Federal security ad-
ministrator, went in to see the Presi-
dent Immediately after Mr.. Helver-
ing left the Chief Executives office.
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B. & 0. Te|egrapher
For 50 Years Retires

w. P. Money, who has been a rail-
road telegrapher for so years, thinks
its just about time he retired.
photography is on the way out"
the 75-year-old railroad man said.
The day will come when it will be
abolished. Telephones and mechan-
ical printers are taking the place of
man power"
And so Mr.. Money, who became a
telegraph operator for the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad in 1890, will tap
his last key for that railroad today.
At 3 pm. he will retire to his farm
near Falls Church. Va, there to
do mot much of anything and
whole lot of good Bit"
Besides being convinced that teleg-
raphy is not a thing of the fu-
ture, Mr.. Money decided 1t was time
to retire to let younger men have
a chance.
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McNary Sees Voters
Supporting Foes
OF Trade Pacts
Declares Close BulIotinq
In Senote Does Not
End the Issue
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

A prediction by Senate Republi-
can Leader McNary, of Oregon, that
members Of Congress who fought
to require ratification of reciprocal
trade agreements will be sustained
at the polls in November, drew a
prompt challenge last night from
ADMINISTRATION supporters.
Referring to the Senate's rejection
Of the Pittman amendment, that
would require submission of all fu-
ture trade pacts to the Senate, to
be ratified by q two-thirds vote,
Senator McNary said:
THE close vote on the Pittman
amendment for ratification of the
treaties does not end the issue.
The battle will continue without
abatement in the various States
and, IN my opinion, will in Novem-
Der show popular approval of the
attitude Of Republican members of
Congress, and of those Democrats
who supported ratification, by a
representative part of the country.
While the first skirmish ended in
defeat, it will mean victory In
November"
Senator Minton of Indiana, Demo-
cratic whip, met the prediction with
this reply:
Nobody in the Senate will lose
his seat because of a vote against
the Pittman amendment. I think
the general sentiment of the coun-
try is in favor OF the trade agree
ment program"
Norris Welcomes Battle.
Senator Norris, veteran Nebraska
independent, who Joined with 43
Democrats in defeating the ratifi-
cation amendment, welcomed the
suggestion that the trade agree
ment battle will 60 on in the ap-
preaching campaign. Forty-one
voted for ratification.
Il sincerely hope it will be an
issue in the elections" said Senator
Norris. Il am sorry to say that
every Republican, including the
Farmer-Labor and Progressive
AASAAA0CAo ., SOUCU 1O1 CIlc dl1cIlOIlcnC,
which would have killed the trade
agreement program.
If 1t is to be an issue, I welcome
it. We were standing by a Repub-
Ican principle" the Nebraskan
added, recalling that Republican
leaders of an earlier period in polit-
ical history sponsored trade reci-
procity.
While discussion of the ratifica-
ton issue went on, administration
leaders made plans to obtain final
Senate passage by Wednesday of
the pending resolution, continuing
the Trade Agreement Act for three
years.
Although amendments are still
pending to require some other form
OF congressional approval of future
agreements, administration spokes-
men are confident OF defeating these
moves, as they did the Senate rati-
flcation proposal on Friday.
OMahoney Has Amendment.
Senator O'Mahoney. Democrat, of
Wyoming has an amendment await
ing action this week, under which
new agreements would not take ef-
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Coal Shippers Lose
Fight for Freight Cut
y the Associated Press.

BY tne associated PRESS.
Producers and shippers of btu
minuous coal from Southern West
Virginia. Virginia and Eastern Ken
lucky lost yesterday their long fight
for lower freight rates on coal ship
ped to Hampton Roads, Va, for
transshipment by vessel.
BY a vote of six to five, the Inter-
state Commerce Commission re-
jected the plea of the Property
Owners Committee, representing the
producers and shippers, for a re-
duction of about so cents a ton.
The commission also found mot
unreasonable" the charge of cents
a ton for dumping coal from cars
into vessels at Hampton Roads.
Complainants contended high
freight rates were an important
cause, if not the principal one, for
the decrease in the movement of
bituminous coal into New England
The defendants chesapeake &
Ohio, Norfolk & Western and Vir-
ginian Railways argued, on, the
other hand, that the decline was not
due to freight rates, but to the in
creasing demand for coal substitutes.
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District Court Justices
To Receive SO Motions

Consideration Of about 50 motions
that have accumulated during the
Easter recess will be given by two
District Court justices tomorrow.
Justice Daniel w. O'Donozhue.
who relinquishes Criminal Court No.
2 for the coming term, will preside
IN Motions Court and is scheduled
to hear some "a motions tomorrow.
Justice F. Dickinson Let's, who has
been sitting in Motions Court, goes
to Criminal Court No. 2
Justice Jesse G. Adkins will cit
temporarily tomorrow in Motions
Court, returning to his regular as
signment Of hearing civil Jury cases
thereafter. Justice Adkins is sched-
uled to hear some 20 motions.
Tomorrow will be a busy day
around District Court for vet
another reason - preparations to
swear In a new justice, David A.
Pine. who has been United States
attorney, and to induct into office a
new district attorney, Edward M,
Curran, who has been a Police Court
judge.
ce-designate Pine will be
sworn at 10 am. Tuesday. Mr..
Curran is to take the oath of Office
at 3 pm. Tuesday.
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be: April 8, Dr. L. NJ. Thompson. as
sistant national director of first
aid, life saving and accident pre-
vention service, American Red Cross,
"First-Aid Supplies and How to Use
Them: April IS. DR.. r. E Dyer,
chief of the division of infectious
diseases, National Institute of
Health, Public Health Service,
Spotted Fever and Typhus";; April
%, Ralph w. Foster. director of the
department of physical education.
Central Y. M. c. A.. Values OBJ
tainable Through Exercise and
Sports" and April 20, DR.. w. T..
Harrison. senior surgeon, United
States Public Health Service, Hay
Fever, Asthma and Other Allergic
Disorders"
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La Guardia Favors
Making F. B. |. School
Police West Point
New York Mayor Would
Expand Academy Into
'ReoI College, Course

The National Police Academy,
started under the direction of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation five
years ago to train selected members
Of State and local police forces in
advanced police methods, should be
expanded into West Point for
policemen" Mayor Fiorello H. La
Guardia of New York said yesterday.
Smaller communities could draw
their ranking officials from grad
yates of the school, he told men,
bers of the 18th graduating class
OF the F.. B. I. academy who re-
>eived diplomas on completion of
their 12-week course of instruction.
Addressing the 36 graduates from
Is States and the District of Colum-
bia, Mayor La Guardia pointed out
that the training and promotion op-
portunities of the smaller COM
munities naturally are restricted,
and that if the work of the academy
could be expanded to the point
where 1t is'a real college" it would
create 3 pool" of skilled police Off
GERS available for service where their
knowledge would be decided asset.
Warns Against Politics.
The New York Mayor also warned
against the injecting of politics in
police administration, and expressed
the belief that he had eliminated
this factor so thoroughly in New
York that mo future Mayor of the
city will dare to disturb" his work.
THE New York City police de-
partment is now 100 per cent police
and 0 per cent politics" he asserted.
The furore that has swirled around
the F. B. I. lately because of the
Spanish Loyalist arrests in Detroit
. and on the subject of overlapping
was touched on both by Attorney
General Jackson and Director j.
Edgar Hoover of the F. B. I.
Mr.. Jackson declared that he
would not allow any one in this
department to be made a scapegoat
for carrying out his instructions in
good faith"-the reference appar-
emily being to the fact that the
F. B. I. was directed to serve the
Detroit warrants by former Attorney
General Murphy, now a member of
the Supreme Court, and that the
wire-tapping was on orders of for
mer Attorney General Mitchell.
Summers Also Speaks.
Mr.. Hoover reiterated his former
statements that he had opposed
law to legalize ire-tapping evidence
adding parenthetically that it was
sponsored by the Treasury Depart
ment-and adding that the F. B. I.
had resorted to this practice "only
IN cases Of extreme emergency in
volving the protection of human life
or the apprehension of the vilest of
criminals
Another speaker was Chairman
Summers of the House Judiciary
Committee, who emphasized the
duty of his policemen hearers to
uphold the dignity of the law and
protect American institutions.
mo people ever lost their liberty
who were fit to be free" he said.
Joseph T. Wirth of the United
States Park Police was the sole local
graduate. President of the class
was c. w. Woodson, jr., of Rich
mond, lieutenant of Virginia State
police. The Rev. Peter Marshall,
pastor of New York Avenue Presby-
terian Church, gave the invocation,
and the Rev. Robert S. Lloyd, S. j.,
director Of the Monresa Retreat
House, the benediction.
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Hidden Motives Charged
In Newark Airport Fioht
By the Associated Press.

0y tuc hSSOCldLeQ freSS.
Senator Barbour, Republican, of
New Jersey charged in a minority
report filed with the Senate Com
merce Committee yesterday that
secret understandings and hidden
motives" influenced decision of the
Civil Aeronautics Authority to make
La Guardia Field, New York, a CO.
terminus with Newark, N. j., for
airline flights.
Senator Barbour urged the COM
mittee, which will take up the ques-
tlon Tuesday, to order an investiga-
ton OF the Authority's decision.
Previously, Senator Clark Demo-
crat. OF Missouri, chairman of a
subcommittee numbering Senator
Barbour among its members. had
f1led a majority report advising
against any such investigation On
the ground that Newark supporters
had failed to establish partiality on
the part of the c. A. A.
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10 Vessels Are Sunk
In Goth Week Of War
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Ship losses took a decided drop
during the 30th week of the Euro
pean conflict despite predictions that
sea warfare would be quickened by
a new wave of German U-boats
and a British submarine campaign
against Scandinavian ore shipments
to Germany.
Reports showed that 10 ships, of
80, ,399 gross tons, were sent to the
bottom. OF the 10, S were neutral
and only 2 sinkings were blamed
on submarines. The previous week
showed Is losses.
Losses for the war to date rose to
498 ships of 1,668,775 tons. Loss of
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tomorrow in the
Central Y. M.
c. A., 1885 G
street NV, in
the first Of five
lectures in April
in the current
series of health
lectures u n d e r
the auspices of
the "Y." His
subject will be
Modern Meth
DDS of Care for
Venereal Dis
cases."
Other speakers
dl1rinn Anil mill
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Baptist Churches
Become Picture Hobby
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROANOKE, Va-About Is years
ago, when the First Baptist Church
here was preparing to put up new
building, Mrs. Marshall Nininger
started collecting post card pictures
of Baptist churches all over the
country. with the idea of getting
suggestions for types of architecture.
She's still collecting the pictures,
and now has about 100. They're
hard to get. She still lacks pictures
from New York or Cincinnati. The
prettiest card is a hand-painted one
from Martinsville, SIS miles away.
Another shows the oldest Baptist
church in America, at Providence,
r. l., built in ITS.
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Nail Ends Match
In Hen and Egg
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BEDFORD, Va. Mrs. Gladys
Mckinley killed a hen and found in
its craw an eight penny nail short
about an inch. While preparing
breakfast the next morning, she
dropped an egg into the skillet and
heard the sound Of metal. It was
the point of the broken nail she
had removed from the hen the day
before.
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life mounted to 3,770 and 1,548 per-
sons have been reported missing.
A dramatic episode was the voy-
age of the crippled German prison
ship Altmark from Josingfjord, Nor
way, to Kiel, Germany.
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DR.. vonder|ehr 70 Speak
In " Lecture Series

DR.. R. A. Vonderlehr, assistant
surgeon general Of the Public
Health Service, will speak at 8 pm.
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Alitt|e encouragement
Brings !, 10000 Pigs

Ey the Associated Press.
BERN.-Switzerland has won the
battle of the pigs.
Several years ago the federal
authorities began campaign to en-
courage farmers to raise enough
pigs to meet the requirements of the
land-locked confederation.
Recently the Federal Statistical
Bureau published the results of
nationwide pig census showing that
there are now 100000 pigs in
Switzerland, compared to little more
than million in 1897. National
requirements are 1,050,0OO each year.
Switzerland imports no more pigs.
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Buenos Aires, Argentina, is build
Ing a new subway and extending
others.
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American school supplies are to be
introduced into Egypt.
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Losses by nations includes vessels:
Britain 2 France 2 Germany 5 Norway 56 Sweden 81 Den
mark 49, Netherlands 25 Finland
Belgium g. Lhuana g. Yugosavia Soviet Rumania
Latvis. l.. Tota-498
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Losses in War at Sea
By the Associated Press
"A. P. Photo.


The following box lists
Soth week OF the March "a to March 3o inclusive
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A National Confederation of Stu
dents being organized in Cuba will
have nearly $4,000 members.
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system Of public regulation Of trade
and monopolistic practices, the
commission has demonstrated the
Importance Of safeguarding Ameri-
can business and the consumer from
the forces which would impair the
functioning Of our competitive sys-
tenn"
Among the contributors to this
special issue are recognized authori.
ties In the field Of Federal regula.
ton, including Huston Thompson,
former Federal Trade Commissioner:
Robert Z. Freer, member Of the
present commission; Gilbert H.
Montague, noted authority on the
antitrust laws: w. H. 8. Stevens.
former assistant chief economist of
the commission; Prof. Milton Hand
Ter Of the Columbia University Law
School, and Prof. James r. Dawson
and Prof. Oppenheim Of the George
Washington University Law School.
Articles cover the commissions
activities in the following fields:
procedure and practice, administra-
tive law aspects, regulation of unfair
trade practices and restraint Of trade
practices, administration Of the
Robinson-Patman Act, trade prac-
tice conference rules, activities Of
the economic division, investigatory
and enforcement activities, and the
Export Trade Act.
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1O0-Mi|e, 2-Way Mobile
Radio Antenna Announced
~ the Associated Press.

By the ASSoclateo FreS&.
PALO ALTO, Calf, March O.
Development Of a mobile antenna
making it possible for motorized
units with small transmitters to
maintain long distance, two-way
radio communication was az
nounced today at Stanford UNI
versity.
It was said the new instrument
would widen the transmitting range
Of mobile units to more than 100
miles and perhaps farther. Re-
liable two-way radio communication
heretofore has been restricted to q
few miles.
The device was perfected by Prof.
Frederick E. Terman, head of the
Electrical Engineering Department
and radio expert; Millett G. Morgan,
graduste engineer, and w. c. Hilge-
dick, radio engineer for the National
Park Service.
One outstanding advantage of
the new type, the developers said.
Is that it will transmit radio waves
over mountains and other natural
obstructions which hampered other
varieties of portable antennae.
This handicap was declared to be
q major drawback to field oper-
ations under emergency conditions.
The perfected article operated
successfully across the radio dead
spots" of Lake Mead area above
Boulder Dam.
Evening star., 1940-03-03
New Language Course
At National Academy

The National Academy Of Broad
casting, 20l7 s street, Is offering q
new course in language pronuncia-
ton for announcers and singers
under Mrs. Maria v. Delgado.
The course is being offered this
year, according to Miss Alice Keith,
director Of the academy, in answer
to demand on the part of students
preparing to be newscasters and an
nouncers. With such widely diver
gent types of names as Koivisto,
Braakensiek and Trautmansdorf ap-
pearing In the headlines daily, Miss
Keith, said announcers and public
speakers are having to familiarize
themselves with foreign and geo.
graphical names as we'll as musical
terms.
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Outlay Of $3.50, 900, 900
In U. S. H. A. Proarum

Building materials and equipment
for the current program Of the
United States Housing Authority
will entail an estimated outlay of
$3.50. .000. 900, the agency announced
yesterday.
In addition to this large sum
flowing directly into the building
industry, it was estimated there
will be another $225, ,00o, 900 put into
the pay envelopes Of building trades
workers.
Humanizing statistics, the agency
said the more than 1000 900 900
building bricks to be utilized in the
construction of low-rent housing
projects are sufficient to build q
wall spanning the continent from
New York to San Francisco. Other
estimated materials are 400 900 900
feet OF lumber, 100000 tons of
sand and gravel, 5000, 900 barrels of
cement, 1,500,000 gallons Of paint.
230, 900 900 Ineal feet of structural
hollow tile and 100000 tons Of gyp-
sum plaster.
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Honor Society Formed
At National University

National University now has an
honor society formed last winter by
eight students and with a present
enrolment of 20.
The group is known as the Apex
Honor Society and its members are
being drawn from the ranks of those
who have reached q least their
Junior year and have been distin-
guished in some activity. It is the
only organization Of its kind ut the
university, it was stated.
The eight charter members who
founded the society are p. Baxter
Davis, Carl I. Garrett, William H.
Harper, jr.; Richard F. Kitterman,
Gordon B. Knight, Edward M.
Smith, Mark II. Smythe and Francis
q. Yeaman, all seniors.
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Hemisphere. It was founded early
In the 18th century. She finished
her course in 1882, the only woman
law student in her class.
Worked on Newspaper.
After that she invaded another
masculine field-journalism. She
was q reporter in Mexico City, and
Mr.. Duhart, who was her assistant
managing editor at that time, is
now her immediate superior.
"She did regular reporting-any-
thing-not just women's features, /"
he said.
About two years ago diplomacy
captured her interest. Passing the
diplomatic examina tions, she served
first as third secretary at the Mexi-
can Embassy In Paris.
A native of Morelios, Mexico. she
Is Of Spanish and Tarrasca Indian
descent. Her father, BENJAMIN
Baez, now deceased, was q federal
employe.
Evening star., 1940-03-03
6. W. Law Review
Contains Extensive
F.T.C. Work Survey
Commemorative Issue
Will Be of Press
Tomorrow

What Is described q the most
comprehensive review and Appraisal
of the work Of the Federal Trade
Commission ever brought together
In one volume Is contained in q
commemorative issue Of the George
Washington Law Review, which will
be OF the press tomorrow.
This special issue Of the Law
Review marks the silver anniversary
Of the founding Of the Federal Trade
Commission, presenting . SYM
postum on its Is years Of admins
trative control of American business.
Special editor for the issue is DR..
8. Chesterfield Oppenheim, associate
professor Of law in the George
Washington University Law School.
Noteworthy among the commits
sion's achievements he lists the cor
rection Of false and misleading ad-
vertising and Of Misrepresentation
practices generally, as well as the
numerous investigations made by
the Commissions Economic Divi-
sion that have led to significant
Federal legislation.
Despite the "unfriendly climate
OF business and legal opinion con-
fronting the commission in its
formative years" when it was looked
upon as a "trespasser upon the his
toric privileges Of free business
enterprise" today, Professor Op-
penheim concludes, "the commission
has won the confidence Of the Con-
gress, the courts and the public"
AS to its future. he predicts: IF
the commission continues to COM
mand the cooperation recently
shown by Congress and the conf
dence Of the courts and the public,
such as 1t now has, there is every
reason to believe that it will con-
stantly reappraise its own policies,
refurnish its work tools and correct
errors as they are discovered. AL
ready woven into the fabric Of our