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Evening star., 1940-01-30

=, Inc minor disturbance that Was over,
the Upper Lake region Monday morning has
moved south -southeastward TO the South
ern Appalachian region. Stearns, KY,
1013.9 millibars go "a inchesl, and At
lanta, Ga. 1885 millibars co 90 inchesl
This disturbance has been attended by
light snow from Wisconsin and MICHIGAN
southwark to Tennessee and extreme West
ern North Carolina Fair weather has
prevailed over practically all other sec
tlonS. Pressure is relatively low and fall
ing over the Dakotas and Northwestern
Minnesota. Devils Lake. N. Oak. 1868
millibars (3O.O1 inches), and pressure re-
mains low over the Gulf of Alaska, Kodiak.
Alaska 9S9S milibars (2a23 inches).
Pressure is low also east and southeast
Of Maine. High pressure prevails over
the greater part Of the United States.
Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico and from
Southern Florida eastward over the ocean,
nehes i Mount Mount AYE iowa. osFs 1osss nSfo mii
bars (3O.3S inches): Nome Alaska, 1O.247
millibars (3O.26 inches): Sault Sainte
inches, and Key West, Fla. 1924 mill.
bars t3019 inches). There has been
marked rise IN temperature from Ohio
southward to Florida and in North Dakota
and Northern Minnesota. while the tenn
perature has fallen in the Southern Plains
States. the Northern Rocky Mountain re-
gion and the Lower Missouri and Missis-
sippi Valleys. There has been little change
in temperature in the Atlantic States
north of Virginia
Evening star., 1940-01-30
{. Of {. Directors Urge
Resources Agency

Creation of a Federal agency to
coordinate plans and projects for
development of natural resources is
recommended by directors of the
United States Chamber of Commerce
in a report just approved and made
public today.
The proposed agency would not
be a continuation of the National
Resources Planning Board, for which
Congress has so far refused new
appropriation. but it would exercise
certains functions of the board.
The agency's activities would deal
solely with natural resources OF
lands, waters, forests, minerals, par
ticularly In the West, and it would
render advisory assistance to the
States in reaching interstate COM
pacts.
The chamber suggests that the
agency be comprised of the Secre-
taries of War, Interior and Agricul-
ture, or their representatives, and
private citizens appointed by the
President from widely separated
areas, all serving on per diem basis.
The chamber also recommended
the State compact plan, rather than
Federal legislation, to control petro-
leum production, and took exception
to proposal for Federal control of
safety measures in bituminous coal
mines.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
By the Associated Press,


MOSCOW. Jan. 30.-A Soviet
saga OF the perpetual Arctic ice
ended on note of triumph today as
the Northern Sea Route Administra-
ton reported to Joseph Stain that
the icebreaker Sedoff, blasted from
the grip of polar foes. had been
brought safely home after drifting
at the top of the world 27 months.
The rescue was accomplished by
the 11,000-ton icebreaker Joseph
Stain after the Sedoff was carried
within 300 miles of the North Pole.
new record for ships, and then
drifted slightly southwark.
The Sedoff, in tow Of the Joseph
Sta lin, came back to Murmansk last
night to a flood Lighted wharf where
relatives waited to greet the crew Of
16, whom they had not seen since
the voyage began June Is, 1887.
Since October %, 1887, the Sedoff
had been helpless in the ice with a
broken propeller. Supplied with
food and fuel, Capt. K. S. Badigan
and his crew engaged in scientific
observations and had hoped to drift
across the pole.
Voyage of Rescue.
When perverse ice currents pre-
vented this, the Joseph Stain went
on an adventure packed voyage of
rescue, the official Russian news
agency Tass reported.
Comdr Ivan Papanin, head of
the Northern Sea Route Adminis-
tration said:
The sea met the icebreaker (Jos-
eph Stalin) with gale raging for
several days. At latitude 80 degrees
80 minutes, the ship encountered i'm
passable ice fields, the storming Of
which could have resulted in eXhaus-
ton of our coal supply.
I'VE confined ourselves to deep
accommodating, and proceeded to
Evening star., 1940-01-30
New Plea for RuIinq
May Go 10 Elliott on
Cafeteria Check-off
Disposition Of $156
Assessed .Non-Union
Employees Undetermined

Of1icials of the Welfare and Rec
reation Association, which operates
the cafeterias in Government build
ings, were expected to appeal again
today to Acting Controller General
Richard N. Elliott to pass on the
disposition of $l56 collected in an
enforced check-off against non
union cafeteria employees.
Mr.. Elliott, 1t was learned yester-
day, has declined to rule in the
matter.
The case arose out Of the recent
strike threat by cafeteria workers.
In negotiating a contract a year ago
with the C. I. o. Cafeteria Workers
Union, directors OF the association,
who are underoficials Of the Gov
ernment, agreed to deduct the
monthly dues of 81 assessed by the
union against its members, and
take like sum from the pay Of
non-union members and give 1t to
charity.
The directors sought to eliminate
that phase of the contract when re-
newing negotiations this year. but
gave in under threats Of strike by
the union when, it was reported,
John M, Carmody, Federal works
administrator, who was serving as
mediator, said that President Roose-
welt did not want a strike. The
money, whose disposition now is
sought, was collected from employees
who submitted to the check-of but
said they did not want their money
to 60 to charity.
Offlcials of the association are re-
luctant to discuss the matter, but
are said to feel that Mr.. Elliott did
not understand their case In refus-
ing to pass on 1t.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
RosenwoId Memorial
Services to Be Held

The Twelfth Street Branch of the
Y. M. c. A. will join in a national
memorial service to the late julius
Rosenwald Sunday at 4 pm. at the
"Y" William j. Trent, jr., adviser
on Negro affairs, Interior Depart
ment, is to deliver the memorial ad-
dress.
Mr.. Rosenwald, one time trustee
Of Tuskegee Institute, aided in con-
struction Of q Y. M. c. A. and 2
Y W. c. A. buildings for Negroes,
and his civic activities included
many acts of assistance to Negroes.
The public is invited to attend the
memorial service, for which DR.. w.
Napoleon Rivers, professor of French
at Miner Teachers College, is chair
man. Other committee members
are Mrs. Beatrice Butcher, Eugene
Davidson, DR.. w. T. Grady, Col.
West A. Hamilton, DR.. Jesse A.
Keene, M. Grant Lucas, Samuel D.
Matthews, Walker l.. Savoy and G.
Anthony McCane.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
80 Hills Roped Off
To Permit Children
To Sled Safely
Officers to Petrol
Them and Halt Traffic
Where Necessary

Thirty-nine hills have been roped
of by police to permit the children
of Washington to coast without
running a traffic hazard. Officers
will patrol the coasting areas during
the busy hours and all motor traftlc
it was said, will be halted where it
might endanger the coasters.
The American Automobile Asso-
citation urged parents to see that
their children use only the au-
thorized areas, in view OF the
accidents and fatalities which have
occurred when coasting is permitted
on unguarded streets. Hills have
been roped off as follows in the
outlying precincts:
Second precinct - Bates street
from No. IS to No. II NV; Fenton
street between North Capitol and
First streets NE.
Fourth precinct IN street from
Fourth to Union streets S.W, Ninth
street between C and D streets S.W'
Fifth precinct - South Carolina
avenue between First and Second
streets Sc.
Sixth precinct-Thirteenth street
between Kalmia street and Eastern
avenue NV, Holly street between
Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets
NV, Oglethorpe street from First
to Third streets NV, Piney Branch
road from Buchanan to Decatur
street NV. First street from Emer-
son street to Gallatin street NE,
Yorktown road and Colonial Village,
off Beach drive.
Seventh precinct-Klingle street
from Fifty-first place to Macomo
street NV, Garfield street from
Forty-fourth to New Mexico avenue
NV, w street between Thirty
ninth place and Huidekoper place
NV, Galena place from Potomac
avenue to Dorsett place NV, Ell
lott place Conduit road to Clark.
Eighth precinct - BrandyWlne
street from Forty-second to Forty
fourth streets NV, Morrison street
from Broad Branch road to Chevy
Chase parkway NV, Limeau ave-
nue.. Ellicott street to Broad Branch
road, Newark street, Thirty-thlrd
street to Highland place.
Ninth Precinct-Tenth street NE.
from Maryland avenue to G street
NE, Oates street NE. from Trinidad
avenue to Sixteenth street NE,
Twenty-third place NE. from Ben
ming road to E street NE, Queen
frnyY, 1NrinjH9 n
avenue to Sixteenth street NE.
Tenth Precinct - Eighth street
from Shepherd to Taylor street NV,
Irving street from Mount Pleasant
to Adams Mill road NV, Third
street from Allison to Webster
street NV.
Eleventh Precinct-High street
from Maple View place to Four
teenth street Sc, Hillcrest drive
from w street to Twenty-eighth
street Sc, Fourty-fourth place from
Reed terrace to Hillside drive Sc,
Fourty-fourth street from Eads
street to Hays street NE.
Twelfth Precinct-Newton street
NE, between Fourteenth. land
Eighteenth streets, Bryant street
NE. between Lincoln road and
Fourth street, Twenty-sixth street
NE. between Hamlin and Vista
streets, Central avenue NE. be-
tween Brentwood road and Carl
ton avenue. Thirteenth street NE.
between Irving and Jackson streets
Thirteenth Precinct - Twentieth
street NV. from Belmont road to
Kalorama road NV, Barry place
NV. from Georgia avenue to Ninth
street N. W., v street, North Capitol
to First street NV.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Patrick Henry Shrine
O. KID by President

President Roosevelt today ap-
proved the Senate bill by which the
Federal Government would be au-
thorized to acquire the estate Of
Patrick Henry in Charlotte County,
Va.
It was understood the legislation
would provide for the property, now
known as Red HILL" becoming a
nationally-maintained shrine, some
what on the order of Mount Vernon
and Monticello.
AS it passed the Senate, the bill
authorized an appropriation OF
$125,000 from the Federal Treasury
for acquisition of the property. The
House, however, reduced the figure
to 100000 and the Senate subse-
quently concurred in this reduction.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Robber Takes Purse
From Apartment
OF House Member
Woman Relatives Of
Representative Mansfield
Chase CoIored Bandit

A well-dressed colored man early
today entered the second-floor
apartment of Representative Joseph
j. Mansfield of Texas and stole a
pocketbook while the family was
in adjoining rooms.
Mr.. Mansfield was in his bedroom
dressing and the family were in
the dinette playing bridge when
the man entered the apartment,
crossed the living room and took
the purse from chair at the en-
trance to the dinette The apart
ment is in Wakefield Hall, 2l01 New
Hampshire avenue NV.
Mrs. Bruce Mansfield, daughter
in-law of the Texan, saw the robber
as he was leaving, but paid no heed
until he turned and quietly said,
Don't say word Mrs. Mansfield
screamed and rushed toward the
intruder. She was joined by Mrs.
Richard P. Dorsey, daughter of Mr..
Mansfield and owner of the purse.
Pursuers Eluded.
The two women pursued the man
down a back stair and several blocks,
but were eluded near Fourteenth
and T streets NV. Meanwhile. Mrs.
Corinne Earle, Mrs. Mansfeld's
mother, called police.
She said she had trouble getting
a response and that ''it was nearly
an hour before the officers arrived" :"
The purse contained more than
$l2 in bills and personal effects,
which included drivers permits,
keys and a pair of glasses. Mrs.
Dorsey, who lives in Baltimore. Md,
was here for weekly visit with the
Mansfields.
Two housebreakings and two purse
snatchings yesterday netted thieves
Sill, it was reported to police. Nor
ris Pollyekoff, owner of drug store
in the 4400 block of Conduit road
NV, reported the transom of a rear
door was jinmied and goods valued
at STOP taken.
The articles taken included $50
Cdl lOllS VI SlSd1 ClICS, paw WOl Ill VI
cosmetics, $75 worth of narcotics. "a
wrist watches, IL dolls and other
items.
S4OO Taken From Drawer.
Marguerite EtZler, resident man
ager of the Glenmont Apartments,
1885 Third street NE, yesterday re-
ported her apartment entered with a
duplicate key and $400 in bills taken
from a dresser drawer. Part of the
money was rent collections, she told
police.
Two colored boys snatched a purse
containing 81 from Mrs. Nora Bald
win of 1926 Second street NE. while
she was walking in the 1900 block Of
Kirby street NV. She reported the
boys struck her She was treated at
Homeopathic Hospital for shock and
q bruised scalp.
Ruth Minovech of 1725 New Hamp-
shire avenue NV. reported to police
she unsuccessfully chased a young
colored boy several blocks after he
took her purse, containing So and
personal effects. She was walking in
the 1900 block of r street NV. when
robbed.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Coast Guard Battles
Ice in Ship Lanes

BOSTON, Jan. 80 LP).-New Eng
lands coolest January in 20 years
drew to close today with the Coast
Guard struggling to keep shipping
lanes ice-free in the face OF con-
ditions reported as growing worse"
and with little immediate relief in
sight.
Temperatures during the night
dropped to below zero throughout
most of the sections Northern
States, with Northfield. VT, record
ing the lowest-16 below.
From Maine to Narragansett Bay,
the Coast Guard pitted its vessels
against the resistance of grain ice,
thickening in various sections to be-
tween and IL inches.
Earlier in the night, the Faunce
broke open a path for the steamer
Martha's Vineyard and freed the
four -masted Canadian schooner
Lillian E. Kerr from the ice of Vine
yard Sound, and towed her into
New Bedford.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Judge W. c. MottineIy
Buried in Leonurdtown
Special Dispa tch to The Star.

Special Dispa tch to The Star.
LEONARDTOWN. Md, Jan. 30
Funeral services were held here to-
day for William c. Mattingly, 78.
Judge of the Orphans Court OF ST.
Marys County for the last "a years.
Judge Mattingly died Sunday.
Requiem mass was celebrated in
St. Aloysius Catholic Church by
the Rev John Gipprich, pastor, with
burial following in the church ceme-
terry.
Member of a prominent St. Marys
family, Judge Mattingly was an
undertaken here. He leaves his
wife, Mrs. Bessie Abel Mattingly;
four brothers, Joseph, George, An
drew and j. F. Mattingly, all of
Leonardtown, and seven children
by a former marriage, Mrs. Leila
NJ Hodges and Mrs. L. M Church.
both of Washington; Mrs. B. B.
Dove, jr.; William D.. Charles and
Joseph C. Mattingly, all of Leonard
town, and Robert Mattingly of
Washington.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Icebreoker, Blasted From FIoes.
Safely Home in Soviet Port
Sedoff Is Towed Into Murmunsk After n
Months Of Drifting at Top of World

Barentsburg, where we bunkered
and again sailed northward. On
January 3, the Sedoff crew saw the
beams of our searchlights. Two days
later, the twinkling lights OF the
Sedoff cleaned in the darkness Of
the Arctic night.
For 10 days our flagship stub
bornly and methodically, now by
frontal attack, now by fianking
movements, forced its way through
three-year-old ice. We experienced
the strongest e-jamming on jan
uary II and IL. The ship passed
with credit this severe trial.
Next day the ice conditions
changed, and on January Is we
approached the Sedoff."
Freeing Vessel . Task.
But freeing the trapped vessel was
an even greater task, he related.
THE Sedoff," he said, was frozen
into a cup of ice weighing several
thousand tons. -" But by heating
the hull and blowing up the ice, we
gradually freed the ship Of part Of
the ice.
With great difficulty the flagship
forced its way toward the edge of
the ice Thick towlines could not
stand the unbearable strain, and
burst one after another.
THE ice cup finally was torn of
only on our way to Barentsburg."
Leaving that Far Northern port
January IS. I'VE sailed in a narrow
corridor between two cyclones" said
Papanin, land we had to steer
a complicated course, frequently
changing it depending upon move
ment of the cyclones. BY the end
of the fourth day we saw the MAIN
land. A few hours more passed, and
we moored at Murmansk.
The Sedoff began its strange voy-
age with two other ships. the Sadko
and Malygin, but these freed them
selves in April, 1898.
Evening star., 1940-01-30

said, however, that the low tempera-
lures might lessen the danger of
white peach scale next season.
Highways in Virginia were mostly
passable. although dangerously icy
in some localities. In Maryland
drifts had blown back behind crews
clearing many secondary roads,
while virtually all main highways
remained open.
In some sections Virginia high
way maintenance crews were
scraping soft snow back on the
highways to be packed over rough
ice frozen on the pavements. This
method of improving the surface
has proved successful in Northern
States, it was said.
Richmond city schools were to
open tomorrow after weeks sus-
pension because of the cold. The
school term will be extended a week
into June Meanwhile, country
schools in many Maryland and Vir-
ginia communities remained closed.
To Take Milk by Plane.
Fresh milk for a dozen babies on
ice-locked Smith Island was to be
flown there today by Fred Ennis,
owner of the airport at Salisbury,
Md. Mr.. Ennis, who flew to the
island yesterday, said there were
plentiful supplies of staple groceries,
including canned milk. but mothers
wanted their infants to have fresh
milk.
In Virginia Game Commission
Chairman Carl H. Noting said game
wardens had been instructed to au-
thorize sportsmen's groups and
farmers to distribute feed for quail
at the expense of the commission.
1--WE expect sportsmen to do all
they can without assistance" Mr..
Noting said, but beyond that, the
commission will reimburse them
for the price of the feed upon pres
entation of the proper vouchers"
The quail, it was said, are hav-
ing difficulty foraging with snow
blanketing most of the State. Game
authorities said that deer as a rule
can obtain their own food under
much worse conditions.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Supreme Court RuIinc
Seen as Shaping New
Sales Tax Policies
UphoIds Levy on Goods
Delivered Directly in
Interstate Commerce

In a decision expected to have
great influence in the future on
State and municipal sales taxes, the
Supreme Court today stood COM
mitted to the principle that such q
levy may be applied to merchandise
delivered directly to local buyers
from out-of-State distributing
points, without violating the COM
merce clause of the Constitution.
The So decision, handed down
yesterday as the court returned from
a two-week recess, was rendered in
connection with a challenge directed
at the 2 per cent sales tax levied by
New York City to finance unemploy- .
ment relief, and was among num-
Der of important matters disposed
of by the court.
One ruling upheld the right of the
Federal Communications Commits
sion to fix the order in which appli-
cants for permits to operate broad
casting stations should be heard.
Another tax ruling reversed a Su-
preme Court decision of four years
ago and sustained legislation taxing
bank deposits of Kentuckians main
tanned outside the State at rate
five times greater than assessed ON
deposits within the State The law
had been fought on behalf of the
estate of the late John B. Madden,
noted Lexington horseman.
The court also reversed previous
decisions and broadened the field
Of estate taxation in ruling that an
estate tax may be imposed on the
remainder interests" of trusts cre-
ated for the benefit of others after
their life interest had been de.
Quoted. 1.
The New York tax was challenged
by the Berwind-White Coal Co., the
Felt-Tarrant Manufacturing Co.,
and A. H. Du Grenier, Inc, another
manufacturing concern. They make
deliveries from establishments in
other States on orders placed
through New York agents, and the
New York Supreme Court had set
aside tax assessments against them
on the ground that they constituted
burden on interstate commerce.
Deny Commerce Burden.
The decision of the court, read
by Justice Stone, declared equal
ity is the theme" of the New York
tax, and defining the elements of
State tax that would burden
commerce, denied it had such i'm.
plications.
"Foyns of State taxation whose
tendency is to prohibit the COM
merce or place it at disadvantage
as compared or in competition with
interstate commerce, and any State
tax which discriminates against the
commerce are familiar examples Of
the exercise of State taxing power
in an unconstitutional manner be-
cause of its obvious regulatory effect
upon commerce between the States"
the court said But it was not the
purpose of the commerce clause to
relieve those engaged in interstate
commerce of their just share of State
tax burdens merely because an Incl
dental or consequential effect of the
tax is an increase in the cost Of
doing business"
Joined by Justices McReynolds and
Roberts in the dissent, Chief Justice
Hughes said that the fact that the
tax is non discriminatory does not
mean that it is not unlawful.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Experimental Farm
Moving Funds Denied
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The House Appropriations Com
mittee today denied Department
of Agriculture request for $500 900 to
start work on moving the Arlington
County tVa) Experimental Farm to
the vicinity of Beltsville, Md.
The committee said the expert
mental farm was established by act
of Congress in 1900 and it was not
within the committees province to
recommend a chance. The depart
ment now operates a huge expert
mental farm near Beltsville.
The entire merger program. de-
partment officials estimated, would
cost S3.2OO,OOO.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Red Cross Organizing
Swimming Class

Glasses in first aid and swimming
both open to the public-are being
organized by the District Chapter
of the American Red Cross.
The first-aid class will be held
at the Chapter House on Tuesdays
and Thursdays from 7:30 to $50
pm, with Sidney r. Gould instruct
ing.
The swimming class will be held
at the Shoreham pool Mondays and
Wednesdays from 8 to 8 pm. Start
ing with beginners, the class will
become more advanced as the
weeks 20 hT.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
GoIIinger Patient Leaps
To Death From Window

A 32-year-old colored man, Jesse
Freeman, leaped to his death from
a third floor window yesterday at
Gallinger Hospital after breaking
away from nurse who tried to
hold him back.
He was admitted for treatment
several days ago and late yesterday
rushed to the window and knocked
q screen out. Marion Regan, the
nurse, was making her rounds when
she saw Freeman and grabbed his
bathrobe and called for help. Po-
liceman R. E. Turner Of the 1lth
precinct, who was on duty there,
rushed to the nurses assistance. but
the robe ripped and Freeman
dropped to the ground.