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Evening star., 1940-01-03
los 900 RedsRepotedMossed
For KoreIion Isthmus Drive
Seven Divisions Under New Commander
Ready for Big PUSH Soy Firms

have succeeded Gen. K A. Merets-
koff as chief of the Finnish cam
paign.
A light snow began to fall on Hell
sinki this afternoon.
Russia lost 400 tanks and $50 air
planes in operations against Finland
in December semi official news
agency reported.
The agency said Russia had used
more than 1000 tanks on the
Karelian Isthmus alone and added
AT the end of the first month
of the war we are able to state
the defenses in Finland remain un-
shaken and there has been found
new striking power with which
the enemy already has become &C
quainted
Despite violent attacks on the Ka-
relian Isthmus. Finnish forces were
reported to be holding the Manner
helm Line intact and inf1icting
enormous losses on the Russians.
The Russians were said to be dig
(See FINLAND, Page A-6.}
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Bv LYNN HEINZERLING,

nSSoStdttu IcSS AUlISspOIOtIl
HELSINKI, Jan. 3.-Irked by set
backs. Soviet Russia was reported
today to be massing seven army
divisions-about los 900 men-as the
spearhead for a major offensive
against the Finnish Mannerheim
Line on the Karelian Isthmus
Under a new Soviet commander,
the fresh troops were said by Finnish
sources to be ready for tremendous
push against the Finnish fortifica-
tions which have been described by
the Russians as comparable to Ger
many's Siegfried Line.
Previous estimates of Russias
manpoWer before the Mannerheim
Line were upward of 100000 men.
Authoritative sources have said Fin
land has 10000 combat troops op-
posing the invaders on all fronts.
Gen. G. M. Stern. hero of Russia S
Far Eastern west pocket war with
Japanese Manchukuoan forces in
1898, was reported on December 20 to
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Assemblies,
Facing Domestic
And Foreign Issues
Republicans to Map
Strategy in Porleys
, On Friday

The Seventy sixth Congress re-
turned to Capitol Hill today. pre-
pared to deal with momentous prob
lens of domestic and foreign af-
fairs and fully alert to the potential
influence of their actions upon ma
tional political developments in the
coming fall.
With unusual attentiveness they
listened in joint session in the House
chamber while President Roosevelt
reported on the state of the Union,
and of the world, indicated his de-
sires for extension of the controvers-
ial reciprocal trade treaty program,
for comprehensive national de-
fense program, for emergency taxes,
and for national unity of a spiritual
character.
In a broad sense most were un-
doubtedly in agreement with the
spoken objectives of the President
but there is no doubt of the serious
ness of their differences as to the
best approach to these objectives
In the opinion of many, this second
regular session of the present Con-
gress probably will establish no
records for harmony
G. o. P. to Map Strategy.
With the Chief Executive plan
ming to submit his budget message
to the legislators tomorrow, the Re-
publicans are planning to map their
opposition strategy in conferences
on Friday. The first indication of
this strategy was given in a pre-
session radio address by House
Minority Leader Martin from an
anteroom of the House chamber
Solemnly warning that the issue
of maintaining Americas peace in
the face of Europe's wars is the pre-
dominant one. Mr.. Martin pledged
the minority party to aid in this
objective. More pertinently he
added:
Our system of defense must be
adequate for national security; but
it must not become pawn in Eu-
ropes consuming cauldron of war
Nor will our people tolerate renewed
extravagant pump printing under
the cloak of national defense
Likewise Republicans in Congress
are pledged in this session, as we
were in the last, to approach all
legislation in spirit of fundamental
patriotism. We shall resist hasty
and ill-considered proposals which
promise only new burdens of taxes
and debt. We shall check those ex-
periments which promise only to en-
large and entrench an already op-
pressive army of Federal bureau
Gratis. We shall seek earnestly for
those solutions which are in har-
mony with the American scheme of
balanced government and the Amer
ican system of private enterprise"
Little Time in Preliminaries.
Converting promptly at noon, both
branches of Congress took relatively
little time in the preliminaries pre-
ceding their recess to await the 2
O'Clock joint meeting. On both
sides, chaplains led the lawmakers
in prayer that this Congress may
earn the right to stand underscored
in the life of this great country"
Roll calls revealed absences in
both branches. Seventy-two Sen
ators responded in the upper cham
ber; 1856 House members were pres
ent in the lower branch. Illnesses,
designations and deaths accounted
for most of the absences.
On the House side three new
(See CONGRESS, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1940-01-03
HitIer's Girl Friend
Lands in England
Under Bayonet Guard
Unity Freemon-Mitford Is
Reported Suffering From
Bullet in Neck
Ey the Associated Press.


FOLKESTONE. England, Jan s.
Sentries with fixed bayonets guarded
the return to England today of
Unity Valkyrie Freeman-M Milford,
the peers daughter whose blond
"Nordic beauty charmed Reichs-
fuehrer Adolf Hitler.
Lord Redesdale, her father, was
waiting on the quayside with car
and ambulance when the Channel
steamer from Calais arrived shortly
before 4 pm.
His daughter had been carried
aboard the steamer on a stretcher
at the French port and she was ac-
companied on her journey home by
her mother, Lady Redesdale, and a
sister, Deborah Vivien.
Miss Freeman Milford was re-
ported to have been wounded
strangely in Munich. The Evening
News of London asserted surgeons
would operate to remove revolver
bullet from her neck.
Only members of her family were
allowed to talk to her on her re-
turn. She was reported too i'll to
talk coherently. Her father had
arranged for her to be taken to his
home by ambulance and had re-
tanned leading surgeons to attend
her.
Lord Redesdale had been waiting
at Folkestone for three days with a
luxurious ambulance in readiness to
take his 25-year-old daughter to
a hospital.
Il am not ashamed of anything
my daughter has done in Ger
many" he said. II know that all
she has done has been done because
she thought it would encourage
friendship between the two coun-
tries.
Many untrue stories have been
circulated. have even been called
a Fascist"
The Redesdale party had spent
the night at hotel in Calais. Miss
Freeman-Mitford's mother and sis
ter had gone to meet her in Switzer-
land and they reached the French
port yesterday.
Miss -Mitford's family
did not divulge the nature of her
injury, or illness. It was learned,
however, she was in such a weak
ened condition that she could walk
only a few steps unassisted.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Britain Removes Ban
On Hong Kong Shipping
~ the Assoc;ated press

By the Associated Press.
HONG KONG, Jan. 3.-Great
Britain today lifted a ban on ship
ping in this crown colony harbor
imposed yesterday as a necessary
defense measure" after an alarm
given for undisclosed reasons by an
offshore patrol.
Advices from Chungking said the
Chinese Peoples Foreign Relations
Association cabled President Roose-
welt yesterday, asking economic
measures by the United States
against Japan.
Evening star., 1940-01-03

To the Congress of the United
States:
AS the Congress reassembles. the
impact of wars abroad makes it
natural to approach the state of
the Union" through a discussion of
foreign affairs.
But it is important that those
who hear and read this message
should in no way confuse that ap-
proach with any thought that our
Government is abandoning. or even
overlooking, the great significance
of its domestic policies.
The social and economic forces
which have been mismanaged abroad
until they have resulted in revolu-
ton, dictatorship and the war are
the same as those which we here
are struggling to adjust peacefully
at home
You are well aware that dictator
ships-and the philosophy of force
which justifies and accompanies die
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Roosevelt and Sargent
ToOperute in California
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, Calf, Jan. g.
The insurance firm of Roosevelt &
Sargent, Inc, a Massachusetts cor
poration. has qualified to do busi-
ness in California.
James Roosevelt, son of the Presi-
dent, is a member of the company.
1t will be located in Los Angeles
Mr.. Roosevelt recently was one of
group OF directors who filed ar
ticles Of incorporation for ST.
900 900 motion picture company.
Evening star., 1940-01-03

sage to Congress today tollo10s:
tatorships-have originated in al
most every case in the necessity for
drastic action to improve internal
conditions where democratic action
for one reason or another has failed
to respond to modern needs and
modern demands.
1t was with far-sighted wisdom
that the trainers of the Constitu-
ton brought together in one mag
nificent phrase three great concepts
common defense" general well
fare" and domestic tranquility"
More than century and a half
later we still believe with them that
our best defense is the promotion
of our general welfare and domestic
tranquility.
In previous messages to the Con-
gress I have repeatedly warned that.
whether we like it or not, the daily
lives of American citizens will, of
necessity, feel the shock of events
Continued on page AS, column ~
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Head of South Carolina
Supreme Court Dies
BY the Associated Press.

COLUMBIA, S. c., Jan. 3.-John
G. Stabler, 68, chief justice of the
South Carolina Supreme Court, died
here today, week after suffering a
paralytic stroke.
Before his elevation to the court
IA years ago he was a member of
the State Senate. His widow survives
hjr'.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
John W. Finch Resigns
As Mine Bureau Chief

BY the Associated Press.
John Wellington Finch resigned
yesterday as director Of the Bureau
Of Mines.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Summary Of Todoy's Star

F. c. c. urges consolidation of tele-
graph companies. Page A-13
Washington and Vicinity
Weather Bureau predicts low of IL
degrees tonight. Page Al
D. c. court sustains Black Tom
sabotage awards. Page A-3
Sports
Boxing sport held to be in worst
condition in years. Page Ala
College basket ball rated too fast
for high schoolers Page ALA
Texas Ags and Tulane seen as
Sugar Bowl foes again in 1941.
Page Ala
District sends formidable group to
U. s. pin stakes. Page Ais
Editorial and Comment
This and That. Page A-10
Answers to Questions. Page A-10
Letters to The Star. Page A-10
David Lawrence. Page ALL
Alsop and Kintner. Page Ali
Charles G. Ross. Page ALL
Frederic William Vile. Page ALL
Jay Franklin. Page ALL
Miscellany
Natures Children. Page B-S
Vital Statistics. Page B-5
Service Orders. Page B-6
Bedtime Story. Page B-H
Cross Word Puzzle. Page B-A
Letter-Out. Page B-14
Winning Contract. Page Bis
Uncle Rays Corner. Page BIS
Girl at the Front. Page Bio
Evening star., 1940-01-03
By JAMES E. CHINN.


BY JAMES E. CHINN.
At least 100000 persons in the
United States are identified with
subversive movements. the Dies
Committee told the House today in
report recommending that all
Government agencies unite in an
active campaign to 'repel these in
sldious forms of attack by foreign
powers.
The report charged that the Com
munist party and the German
American Bund are un-American
agents. But at the same time it
paid tribute to l3l 100000 Ameri-
cans. who. in spite of the efforts
of the Nazis, Fascists, Communists.
Self-styled SaviorS of America and
all the rest, and in spite of the
suffering and distress of 10 yeal S
of unemployment and depression,
are still as sound and loyal to
American institutions and the DEM
ocratic way Of life as they ever
were
Communist activities, the report
declared, constitute a violation of
the treaty the United States en-
tered into with Russia in 1888.
representative Dies. Democrat, of
Texas, the committee chairman, al
ready has announced he proposed
to introduce a resolution to break
of diplomatic relations with the
Soviet government on those grounds.
Navy Yard Not Mentioned.
The report, bearing the signatures
of all six members of the committee,
failed to mention either the WASH
ington Navy Yard or the Govern
ment Printing Office Documents
seized in raid on the Washington
headquarters of the Communist
party disclosed it had units in these
two big Federal plants. Six Navy
Yard employees were questioned by
the committee in executive session
several months ago following seizure
of these records
Neither did the report comment on
the committees action in making
fTnrfiruoI ~, Do~o
Evening star., 1940-01-03

Foreign
Two Swedish ships sunk by U-boats;
20 missing from one. Page Al
Russia reported massing 5000 for
isthmus drive. Page Al
Hitler's girl friend lands in England
under bayonet guard. Page Al
Money from U. S. finances I. R. A.,
Dali is informed. Page Al
Britain pigeonholes U. S. protest on
mail seizures. Page AS
Firms attack Red base at Al below
in Arctic. Page Al
Russian dead lie frozen in last con-
tortions in Arctic. Page Al
British and Germans in air fight
over Helgoland. Page Al
Ten more Turkish towns reported
leveled by new quake. Page Al
National
President cites U. 8. need for ma
tional unity" Page Al
Congress hears President; minority
broadcasts aims. Page Al
Dies report charges un-Americanism
taints 100000. Page Al
Three Republican leaders decline
Jackson dinner bids. Page Az
Labor act changes demanded after
court rulings. Page AS
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Million Called
Subversive in
Report
Communists, Bund
And Fuscists Seen
Losing Prestige
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
One OF most controversial in
Quiries eUer undertaken by Con-
greSs has been that OF special
House committee Investigating
un-American actiDitieS. Emphd-
sis OF group on alleged Comnau-
nistic sympathies OF NeW Deal
finally brought public rebuke
from President Roosevelt. Con-
gress rene,Ded appropriation for
committee last year and person.
mel 1Uas REVISED somewhat.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Ajax at Montevideo
For Fuel, Provisions
8, the Associated Press.

oS the ASSOCIATED PreSS.
MONTEVIDEO. Jan. s. The
cruiser Ajax. flagship of the Brit
ish South Atlantic squadron. ar
rived here today with Uruguayan
permission to stay 48 hours to re-
fuel and obtain provisions.
The Ajax. one of the victors in
the naval battle with the German
pocket battleship Admiral Graf
Spec, entered the harbor after sail
ing past the hulk of the destroyed
German warship, lying in the mud
of the River Plate offshore.
Achilles at BuenOs Aires.
BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 3 [P).-The
British cruiser Achilles entered
Buenos Aires Harbor today for a 49,
hour stay for adjustments necessary
after being at sea for a long period
Evening star., 1940-01-03

Continued on Page A, Column l.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Text of Roosevelt Message
Appeal Made for Unity in Combating
Tactics That Plunged Europe Into War

The tert OF the Presidents to Congress today oos
Congress United tatohips-have originated
Evening star., 1940-01-03

(See CONGRESS, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1940-12-04

Mrs. Hannah Kettlewell. who
at 102 made her first fight and
broadcast about it, has died in New
castle-on-T Tyne, England. aged los,
leaving 81 descendants in five gen.
erations.
Evening star., 1940-12-04
By the Way
Beth Blaine

Of last week ends
festivities enjoy somewhat less formal and far
social life the early Of the week Mrs Philip Maher
Chicago who has been visiting Mrs Ffoke Dewey We saw her
Monday night William Emseys and completely
looks and her winning Mr.
Mae who weknown architect In chicago has mace frequent
trips his
who all also delighted to meet his pretty wife
o Elmsleys dinner, which small and
great looking particularly and sognee
Mrs Makers black with bands of leopard fur
about the neckne and the short sleeves and wide belt
the leopard pale embroidered
and Countess Lasock with her
good-ooking husband the Polish Embassy
taeta wonderful shade which for want Of
better word shall call rust +,
and
Drew beautiful with
sved hgh-necked bodice black wide skirt made Of
alternating hamecolored ta and black velvet Mr. and
Anthony Rumbod Pe without
in upstairs drawing which
looks the Potomac River the Key Bdgeand
amazing aryland outskirts with its myriad
Eme
rightly think begued with that
remained in the location
After parties seemed restful
an a cocktail
good did afternoon the Arthur
chntz curtains
ddbits. Base Sibou there
wool frock with hat-of
children
thing chic William MacCracken Sterling
Larrabee from the hunt country spottswood White State
Department Christopher
Bramvels Comdr and Mrs William Heard she always
smart this time in al-green wool and Griffith Warfed
Other parties and Mrs Nathan SCOTS dinner
the night
afternoon her Sidney
necicut Singluf
their daughter
Fathers
Club January 2 which will be a costume party
Evening star., 1940-12-04

York. Mr.. Garreau-Dombasle had
his Offices in New York, but was a
frequent visitor in the Capital and
during his spare moments he has
taught himself to paint, expressing
longing since his childhood. Two
years ago the art director for the
French pavilion at the Golden Gate
Exposition saw some of his work
while visiting in New York and
asked for several of the paintings
for the French exhibit at the San
Francisco Fair. Since that success
M. Garreau-Dombasle has taken
more courage and offers 25 pictures
in his present exhibit. The majority
are flowers with numbers of land
scapes reminiscent of his visits to
Charleston, S. c.. Cuba and Cali
fornia. Also there are scenes from
the Catskills and the Connecticut
hills.
During the 13 years he was con-
nected with the Embassy M. Gar
reau-Dombasle spent his Sundays
and other free afternoons or early
evenings during the summer with
his brushes and paints. He has had
no formal training but the constant
practice of painting flowers-because
he had no difficulty getting flowers
to pose on short notice-and land
scapes has developed his talent.
Rachmaninoff Recital
Heard by Large Audience.
Constitution Hall was filled last
evening for the recital of the great
Rachmaninoff who gave several en-
cores at the close of the program but
did not satisfy the audience. Many
of the socially prominent remained
in their seats until attendants started
to move the piano. Mrs. Roberts,
wife of Associate Justice Owen j.
Roberts, was among those at the
concert and the Chief of the Division
of International Communications
and Mrs. Thomas Burke were with
a small group in a box. Others at
the recital included Mrs. Henry
Parsons Erwin and Mrs. David st.
Pierre Gaillard. Mrs. William How
ard Taft, Miss Grace Dunham Guest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward H. Droop, Mrs.
James Haley, Mrs. Huron w. Lawson,
Mrs. Eugene Byrnes. Mrs. Kenneth
Watson. Mrs. Edwin M. Watson and
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hewitt Myers
who had guests with them in their
box,
Evening star., 1940-12-04
Envoy to Attend
PLAY in Baltimore

The Minister of Luxembourg ard
Nine. lie Calais are going to Balti-
more today to be the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Theodore Marburg, former
United States Minister to Belgium
and to attend the first performance
of Mr. Marburg's play The Story
of Soul, to be presented by the
Johns Hopkins University Players
at the Baltimore Museum of Art
tonight
While Mr.. Marbug was in Bel
GUM he was in a position to follow
events in the neighboring Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg and write in
blank verse a three-act play based
on the tragic story of the late Grand
Duchess Marie-Adelaide Of Luxem-
bourg.
Evening star., 1940-12-04
Informal Parties Mark
Social Calendar Along With
RachmaninOff'S Recital
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Downs
Hosts at Tea and Cocktails;
Mr.. and Mrs Close Entertain

Informal parties marked the calendars
social the
great Rachmaninof piano
1t was to celebrate the hosts birthday that
their home Down in Mclean Va supper party
followed the
of crepe front which
otoned all the way down. and with this wely
Mrs Russell Bennett mother
while bar downstairs provided
At Dinner
His Britannia Majestys Ambassador the
guest of honor dinner which
Mrs Ralph William Close their legation
In the included the Secretary
F. Reed Admiral Attorney
General Mr. Homer Cummings the
Alanson
Atache Of the Canadian Legation Mrs Bode the Military
Federal
Boderick Macarand Randolph
Evening star., 1940-12-04
Dinner Series
Is Being Given
At Essex Home

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Essex, who
have been giving a series Of small
dinners at their home in Church
street this season, entertained last
evening in honor of Admiral Harvey
H. Christy. The other guests were
Col. and Mrs. H. H. Sheen, Mrs. C.
c. Calhoun, Mrs. Zorelda McCon-
nell and Col. Ralph Ferris. They
will entertain again December 49,
Mrs. Essex, who was Miss Eva
Jane Stewart of the Eastern Shore
of Virginia, is noted for her South
ern hospitality and her dinners of
the real old Virginia tradition. She
is sister of DR.. Harold j. Stewart
whom she expects for visit during
the Christmas holidays.
Evening star., 1940-12-04

r. G. CaSeys and EsSexeS
Also Hosts at Parties.
The Australian Minister and Mrs.
Richard G. Casey also were dinner
hosts last evening, but their party
was unofficial and quite informal
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Essex, who
have been hosts at a series of small
dinner parties this season, enter
tanned again last evening, their party
being in honor of Rear Admiral
Harvey H Christy.
Their other guests included Col.
and Mrs. H. H. Sheen, Mrs C. C.
Calhoun, Mrs Zorelda Mcconnell
and Col. and Mrs. Ralph Ferris
Mr.. and Mrs. Essex will entertain
at dinner again on December 10.
Among parties scheduled for the
future are the tea which Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Royal Eason In
gersoll will give for their debutante
daughter, Miss Alice Jean Ingersoll,
Saturday, December IA The party
will be from 30 to o'clock in their
home at 3009 Cathedral avenue.
Other parties on the social CAL
endar include the luncheon which
Signora Brambilla will give Saturday
at the 1925 F Street Club; the cock
tail party which the former Ru-
nanian Financial Counselor and
Nine. Boncesco will give that same
day; the one Mr.. George Renchard
will give Friday. and the party Mr..
and Mrs. John Delattre- -Seguy will
give Sunday.
M. -Dombasle Shows
Paintings in New York.
The former Commercial Counselor
of the French Embassy, M. Maurice
Garreau-Dombasle, who held his
post for 13 years and resigned in
September, made his debut as an
artist when an exhibit of his paint
ings was shown in the Bignou Gal
lery on Fifty-seventh street in New
Evening star., 1940-12-04
Members and Wives
Attend Reception
OF Cosmos Club

A reception was held Monday eve
ming at the Cosmos Club for men,
bers and their wives. The ladies
were given their first opportunity
to see the club rooms. There were
about 700 guests.
Heading the receiving line was
Mr.. Louis H. Simon, vice president
of the club, who acted as host in
the absence of Mr.. William McClel-
Ian, president, who is out of the
city. Others in the line were Mrs
Simon. DR.. L. A. Adams, former
president of the club, and Mrs.
Adams, Mr.. George E. Fleming,
treasurer, and Mrs. Fleming, Dr.
Charles S. Piggot, secretary, and
Mrs. Piggot.