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Evening star., 1940-01-14
Scandinavia Leads S
In Pouring Military
Aid Into Finland
5000 Swedish Volunteers
Estimated There Now;
Recruiting Offices Busy
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 13-Men
and munitions are pouring into Fin
land and the most effective aid in
her fight against Soviet Russia Is
being given by Scandinavian coun-
tries.
Despite governmental attitudes of
neutrality, citizens and officials of
these neighboring nations openly
assert Finland is fighting a common
cause in preventing the westward
! sweep of Communism. .-.
Neutral observers estimate that
more than 5000 Swedish volunteers
already are on Finnish soil in ad-
dition to several hundred Norws-
gians. Last Thursday Copenhagen
sources disclosed that the first COM
pany of Danish volunteers had
landed in Finland.
| In Norway and Denmark. recruit
ing is not being carried on openly,
but willing volunteers experience no
difficulty in learning where to ap-
ply for service under the Finnish
colorS.
/ Recruiting Office Busy.
A recruiting Office in Stockholm,
Sweden, is doing a lively business
openly. Many adventures from the
United States and other countries
have enlisted with the Swedes.
Sweden makes it easy for the Off
GERS and men in her army to go to
Finland. They are released readily
for volunteer service Some of her
best officers have gone after resign
ing from the Swedish Army.
King Gustaf of Sweden in
speech to Parliament, which was
convened to consider vast defense
expenditures, expressed sympathy
for the Firms.
A similar expression of sympathy
was made by King Haakon of Nor
way yesterday in Oslo. The King
said the government would give
military training to men who
wished it-presumably to prospec-
tive volunteers for Finnish service.
Italians Reported Arriving.
! There are frequent reports of the
arrival of Italian volunteers in Fin
land. Despite Germany's stoppage
of a shipment of Italian planes con-
signed to Finland, Italian war ma
terials are said to be finding their
way north by other routes
Up to now military help has been
on much smaller scale than eco
nomic aid.
A central agency co-ordinating
collections in Sweden said volun-
tary gifts for Finland up to this aft
ernoon totaled 8,500,000 kronor
(about 81 ,991 ,00W.
Among Swedish workers it has be-
come customary to donate a days
work occasionally. Swedish farmers
have fallen into line-members of
one rural organization are now CIV
ing days supply of milk, so pounds
(See AID, Page A-9)
Evening star., 1940-01-14
New She'll Designed
To Enmesh Planes
In Steel Cables
BY the Associated Press.

Ordnance experts said last
night a new anti-aircraft shell,
designed to enmesh planes in
steel cables suspended from a
parachute, had been developed
In this country and might play
an important part in the Euro
pean war.
1t was released for sale
abroad after American Army
tests and the invention was un-
derstood to have been sold to
France.
The shell was described as
the standard 3-inch size. In
stead of bursting into flying
shrapnel at the normal maxi
mum altitude of five or six
miles, it releases parachute
trailing hundreds of feet Of
steel tape designed to foul the
propellers or ether parts of hos
tile planes.
The key to the invention was
said authoritatively to be the
means of winding the tape with
in the shell and Of releasing the
nose with the parachute from
the jacket. Hundreds of feet of
the tape were wound tightly
within the jacket in the army
tests.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Jan. 13.-The Soviet
Russian Army command declared
tonight that animal fear before
the prospect of a military bloc be-
tween Germany and the U. S. S. R."
had inspired what it described as
foreign reports that German mill
tary instructors were reorganizing
the Red Army. 1t said the report
was stupid, extraordinary lie"
The long statement asserted also
that only 900 Russian soldiers had
lost their lives in the Finnish cam
paign and these casualties were
due to the sudden cold which set
in, rather than to the action of
Finnish troops
On the other hand, the war re-
view issued by the Leningrad area
military headquarters through Tass,
official Soviet news agency, declared
Finnish troops have lost not less
than 1000 killed and wounded.
1t declared, further, that foreign
Evening star., 1940-01-14
By ]. A. OLEARY.

Senate economy advocates began
making plans yesterday to try to
hold the total appropriated by this
session within President Roosevelt's
SO. .424, 900 900 budget figure.
Indications of this sentiment on
the Senate side came ON the heels
of action by the House Appropria-
tions Committee a few days ago, di-
recting its subcommittee to keep
each supply bill within the aggre-
gate amount recommended for the
several departments.
Taken together, these two de-
velopments gave rise to belief that
groups in both Houses will work
separately to avoid boosting the
budget total. even though support
ers of the Harrison resolution, passed
by the Senate. for joint congress
sional study of the entire budget
and revenue problem. conceded yes
terday that it is dead for this season.
Senator Adams. Democrat, of
Colorado, member of the Appro-
priations Committee, started the
economy ball rolling at that end of
the Capitol yesterday, when he said:
The battle for economy will be
based primarily on an effort to sus-
tain President Roosevelt's total
budget figure. The Presidents
budget estimates are the trenches
that have to be defended. It's 60
ing to be very hard fight, and a
determined effort will be made But
we all know the strength of indi-
vidual groups interested in specified
appropriations"
Adams Cites Relief Needs.
An unusual angle to the appro-
priation situation this year is that
in Congress who in the past have
taken the lead in seeking to scale
down spending have the Presidents
budget figures on their side.
Senator Adams, however, while
urging that the total recommended
by the President be made the CELL
ing, disagrees with the administra-
tion in one respect. He reiterated
the view he previously had ex-
pressed that some of the money rec
commended for increased national
defense be used to restore cuts made
in certain items for domestic relief.
Senator Byrnes, Democrat, Of
South Carolina, also an active MEM
ber of the Appropriations Commit
tee, commenting on whether ex-
penditures for the session would be
kept within the Presidents recon-
mendation, said last night:
Il would hesitate to make q pre-
diction this early in the session. but
the strongest influolce to bring
about that result is the certainty
that if Congress does not do that,
lSee RIIDGET ponn Ael
Evening star., 1940-01-14
BY LOUIS p. LOCHNER,
Associated Press Foreign CORRESPONDENT

BERLIN, Jan. 13. - Germany's
Jews, already subjected to extensive
restrictions, have received another
shock in calling for ration cards for
the period of January Is to Feb
ruary II.
They found that coupons for a
total of 125 grams (almost Az
ounces) of meat and all coupons
for podded vegetables-such as peas,
beans and lentils-were invalidated
as far as they were concerned.
They further were denied certain
general ration cards recently issued
to all other Germans to enable them
to obtain certain extras when the
Nazi regime finds itself able to grant
something beyond the ordinary daily
allotment.
From time to tinae, for instance,
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Sixth $l00, 900 Sent
To Finland for Relief
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-The Fin
nish Relief Fund today sent to Fin
land its sixth 100000 contribution
within five weeks for civilian aid,
former President Herbert Hoover,
national chairman, announced.
He. said reports showed more than
100000 Firms had been moved from
danger zones in large cities to the
safety of rural areas, but that 400,-
900 remained to be cared for.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Three Texas Life Termers
Slug Guard and Escape
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
BUFFALO, Tex, Jan. 13.-Three
term convicts slugged w. r.
Crane, penitentiary agent, and
escaped today as they were being
transferred to the State prison at
Huntsville.
The trio-Robert Lacy Cash, j.
w. Mann and Andrew Nelson
threw the unconscious Crane into a
ditch, drove his car to Buffalo and
seized another automobile at a
service station.
They were last seen speeding
through league.
Jack Wedemeyer, State highway
worker, picked up Mr.. Crane and
brought him to Buffalo.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Hata Reported Due
To Succeed Abe
As Japan 'sPremier
Konoye Also Pressed to
Take Lead in Crisis
Over U. S. Relations
By tie Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Jan. IA Sunday The
Japanese cabinet of Premier Gen.
Nobuyuki Abe resigned today, and
1t was reported reliably but unoffi-
cially that the war minister, Shun-
roku Hata, would be the new pre-
mier.
Abe's resignation was connected
closely with relations between Japan
and the United States.
He told the press he had resigned
because he feared complete agree
ment of views could not be OBJ
tanned" in connection with his
governments foreign and domestic
policies.
L have rendered the cabinet S
resignation as a group to avoid
possible stoppage of administra-
tive functions during this moment
of emergency" Gen. Abe said.
The prospect that Hata would be
premier arose after japanese Army
and governmental leaders, includ-
ing Abe and the war minister him.
self, apparently had failed to pre-
vail upon Prince Fuminaro Konoye
former premier and now president
of the privy council, to head the
government again.
Declared Self Ineligible.
Previously Gen. Hata had de-
clared his ineligibility because OF
tradition against active army men
taking Office.
Japan's 37th cabinet collapsed
after a stormy four and one-halt
months of life. Observers said the
main reason was the nations dis
satisfaction with what was re-
garded as the governments failure
to improve relations with the United
States.
Despite the cabinets announce
ment that the Yangtze River would
be opened to third power trade and
the settlement of numerous bomb
ing cases, leaders charged that
Gen. Abe had failed to placate the
United States.
The nation has hoped that jap
anese-A American relations would be
readjusted before the trade treaty
between the two nations lapses IL
days hence.
Hata Soldier Of Old School.
A soldier of the old school, Gen.
Hata is among the japanese who
have advocated prosecution of the
war in China until all "anti-Ja-
panese resistance" is ended.
He was placed in command of
japanese forces in the Shanghai
Nanking area in February, 1898, and
eight months later directed the
final push which brought the fall
of Hankow.
Japan is prepared to fight any
nation, not only the Soviets Union,
when all other means have failed
to protect her national rights and
interests" Gen Hata once an
nounced.
Early in 1899 he was recalled from
China and seven months later en-.
tered the cabinet as war minister
A graduate of the Japanese mill
tary academy, he is 81 years old
and comes of a family long con-
nected with the army.
The premiers resignation wa,
handed to Emperor Hirohito during
the course of an audience at the
imperial palace in mid-morning
The cabinet had met just previously
to formulate its resignation.
Last night, Gen. Abe saw Prince
Konoye and urged him to become
Premier again.
Gen. Hata earlier had appealed
to the Prince to form new cabinet
He visited him three times yes.
terday.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Belgium Speeds Troops TO Posts
On Report Of Germans Massinq;
Reds Rain Bombs on Finn Cries
Raid Precautions
Trials Today Are
Cancelled

II SHIPS REPORTED SUNK dur
ing 10Th week of sea war; Britain
Is main loser with IL; 40 lives are
lost. Page A.
FRANCE AND SPAIN conclude
pact to stimulate trade; perma-
nent collaboration is inaugurated,
says announcement. Page "A.
NEUTRALITY ZONE SAFE
GUARDS topic at Rio meeting;
delegates of seven American ma
tions to convene tomorrow Page
AT,
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC
FACTORS in war overstressed
says Eliot, finding peril in political
and economic elements. Page
AT.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Senate Economy Bloc
Maps Fight 10 Stay
Within Budget
Preventing Any Boosts
Beyond Presidents
Figures Set os Goal
BACKGROUND


President RooSeuelts budget
for 1941, totaling s8,424,191 900,
Uhtch is halt billion dollars under
1910, provided more money for
Army, N1py, Coast Guard, F. B. l.,
Social Security, interest on public
debt: less money for relief. farm,
benefits. public Dorks, Federal
jobs, c. C. C. and N. Y. A. pro-
grams. and a prospective deficit
OF s1,716 900, 900 eUen if s460 ,00O,-
900 neW tdIeS for defense are
lepied. House economy policy
already has sliced $1,000, 900 of
first deficiency bill.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
|nsta||ment Payment
Of D. T.. Income Tax
Gains Favor on Hill
McCooch Will Present
Plan to Commissioners
At Meeting Tuesday
FIRST INSTALLMENT of series
explaining all details of new D. C..
income tax Page B-1.

explaining all details of new D. C.
income tax. Page B-1.
The move to make Washington's
new income tax payable on the in
stallment plan. rather in one sum
March Is. will get definitely under
way at the District Building early
this week, with indications from
Capitol Hill that some reasonable
plan to split the payments would be
favored by members of Congress
who are in key posts to handle Dis
trict affairs.
Engineer Commissioner David Nc
Coach, jr., said he would lay a plan
for installment payment before the
Board of Commissioners TUESDAY
In response to protests from vari.
GUS business interests that one full
payment might cause unnecessary
hardships-and perhaps have effect
on general business conditions-Col
McCoach prepared to ask prompt
action by the Commissioners.
Might NAoASC AAtCICSts
He said he would ask considera.
ton of a plan under which only
half of the income tax would be re-
quired on March Is, permitting a
second installment during Septem-
Der. This would be, however, with
the proviso that those who take ad-
vantage of the split payment be re-
quired to pay 2 per cent interest on
the delayed portion.
From Capitol Hill came several
indications that a recommendation
from the Commissioners would meet
with favor, if not too drastic.
Chairman King of the Senate Dis
trict Committee indicated he woulo
90 along with any proposal of this
kind if it has the commissioners
approval.
Nichols States Views.
Representative Nichols, Democrat
of Oklahoma, head of the Fisca.
Affairs Subcommittee of the House
District Committee said:
IF it can be shown that payment
of the entire tax on March Is is
unduly burdensome, I will vote fol
remedial legislation
Mr. Nichols said he is strongly
opposed to any major changes ir
the law until it has been established
in the courts that the District has
the right to tax Government EN-.
ployes who vote and pay taxes in
the State from whence they came
He vigorously opposed the income
tax bill as drawn at the last seS-
sion of Congress.
Dirksen, Bates for Plan.
Representative Dirksen, ranking
minority member of the House Dis
trict Committee, said he sees nc
reason why the local tax cannot
be paid in installments as is the
Federal income tax. He declared
however, his approval would be con-
tingent upon the Commissioners
finding feasible way of working
out such a plan.
Representative Bates, Republican
of Massachusetts, another member
of the House District Committee
said he would be willing to intro
duce bill to put the installment
plan into effect if no "insurmount.
able difficulties" are found at the
District Building
Under present law, the District
assessor. Edward A. Dent, is granted
the right, in individual cases, Il
permit extension of time for pay.
ment, up to six months, but pro-
vision of the present act requires
(See INCOME TAX, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Reorganization
Provides New
Health Officer
D. c. Heads PIon to
Give Post to One of
Federal Officials
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Grifenhdgen and associates,
Chicago municipal experts, made
surrey OF District municipal set
up at instance OF Representative
Kennedy OF Maryland. Recon-
mended II departments under
city manager. Wave OF protest
against disturbance of independ-
ent Board OF Education and pub
lie library trustees brought q
reUamped plan introduced at
closing OF session last July. Dur
ing summer bill studied by Com
missioners lD1lo noU haUe sub
n1itted o1Dn plan,
Evening star., 1940-01-14
New Deal Has Plan
For Postwar Peace,
Based on Freer Trade
Wilson's Idea Of Political
Settlement Junked for
An Economic One
By BLAIR BOLLES.

The White House is developing
an ambitious plan to make the
world safe for peace and prosperity,
once the European war has ended
plan in sharp contrast with the
ideas which President Wilson and
Col. House were framing Is years
ago for the salvation of Europe
from falling victim to future bel
ligerency.
A good many hints about this
plan have been dropped in public
during the first two weeks of 1910
by President Roosevelt himself and
his two cabinet officers most inter-
ested in foreign affairs, Secretary
of State Hull and Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace.
Mr.. Roosevelt is putting his whole
emphasis on the need for uni
versal devotion to laissez-faire eco
nomics by the earth's nations in
their commercial relations with one
another. The Administration S
philosophy is that international ills
are rooted in economics. Secretary
Wallace has even gone so far as to
assure the House Ways and Means
Committee that the Fordney-
McCumber tariff of 1922, helping
to isolate this country commercially
from the world, is the root of the
war of 1899. International freedom
of intercourse will eliminate indi-
vidualistic trends toward extreme
nationalism such as the totalitarian
states represent, according to the
argument.
Economics Instead of Politics.
Mr.. Wilson approached the solu-
ton of the problems of mankind
as focused by the World War by
political and chronological path.
He thought the cure for the causes
Of war could be found in self deter
mination of peoples and in a League
of Nations to arbitrate without guns
the political differences of nations.
Mr.. Wilson, a political scientist
himself, considered economics sub
servient to politics, and his League
of Nations showed a devotion to
the political status quo. Mr.. Roose-
welt considers economics of para
mount Importance and has given
evidence of willingness to consider
the status quo less than inviolable.
The economic conception of the
worlds woes also takes into consid-
Grafton the Republics deep-seated
prejudice against political entangle-
ment in the affairs of Europe. The
present administration sees in its
plan a means of erasing the intense
and widespread nationalism of the
1930s without any possibility of the
United States being committed tc
| mn a
Evening star., 1940-01-14

tSee TRADE, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1940-01-14

tContlnued on Page A, Col. -
Evening star., 1940-01-14

(See HELSINKI, Page A-9D
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Weather Forecast

Intermittent light rain today, rain and
warmer tonight; tomorrow rain and
colder followed by clearing. Tempera-
lures yesterday-Highest, 80, at 2 pm;
lowest, 80, at midnight.
From the United States Weather Bureau report
Full details on PAGE Az
Evening star., 1940-01-14

(See BUDGET, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1940-01-14

(See BELGIUM, Page A.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-16
Yankees on
Market for |
100000
Which Mems
Outfit Hordly
Will Be Sold

NEW YORk--The New York
Yankees are for sale, but it will
take around $1,000, 900 to buy
them, and nobody with that kind
of cash has come along.
The greatest baseball club in
history is on the market, a fact
rumored ever since the death Of
Col. Jacob Rupert Jan. ID last
year. but brought into the open by
another of the many false reports
that the Yankees had been actual
ly sold.
George Rupert, brother Of
the late colonel, and Edward
Barrow, presiden Of the
Yankees, were quick to deny
that the club had been sold,
or would be sold TO n syndicate
headed by Gov. Francis p.
Murphy Of New Hampshire.
Barrow is not one of the execu-
tors of the estate. 1t is under
stood that he owns but one of the
5000 shares of the capital stock
in the Yankees. He is, however. a
trustee Of the estate.
George Rupert, reached at his
Florida winter estate, said that 1T
might be several months or longer
before the Yankees are sold. Such
deal requires considerable time.
There Ia no immediate prospect Of
a sale"
With the Yankees would 60 their
far flung farm system. the most
productive In baseball today. Its
nine minor league clubs include
two Glass AA outfits, the Newark
Bears of the International league
and the Kansas City Blues Of the
American Association.
The property also includes
the Yankee Stadium, which Ii
assessed at $4,000 for tax
purposes. The New York
American League franchise In
estimated worth $1,000, 900,
and the present Yankee player
roster, S1,500, 900.
No accurate estimate of Col.
Ruppert's estate will be available
until the audit of his vast prop
critics are completed. A source
close to the Rupert interest places
1t between s4o,0oo,O0o and $780,
600 900. II II Ia so million more
than $4,000, 900 in state and about
SOS, 900, 900 in federal inheritance
taxes must be paid,
Col. Rupert and Col Tillinghast
Huston purchased the club for
$3.50, 900 in 1918 and baseball men
laughed at them. Eight years later
Rupert bought out Huston for
81, SOC, 900. In the "a years he
headed the club Rupert paid
more than $4,000, 900 for players
alone.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-16
Vikings Grab
Puget Crown
Puydllup Captures
Second Holt Title

PUYALLUP-Champions. tried
and true. are the Puyallup Vikings
today after defeating Enumclaw
Tigers. 1888. at Auburn last night
to take the Puget Sound confer
ence second half basketball cham
pionship.
Puyallup had previously cap
tured the first half title after
. piayoff game with Enum-
claw and last nights triumph
gave TIE Vikings the all-sea-
son crown won by Jimmy
Ennis Buckley MountAineers
In 1889.
The Vikings opened with a rush
and were never headed. Buck Bu-
chanan, only senior on the start
ing lineup, scored Puyallups first
five points.
Fred Strankman and Gail
Bruce, Puyallup's two all-con-
ference players, proved their
worth. Bruce scored 10 points
the first half while Strank-
man got his evenings total Of
Is In the last half.
The score by quarters was lis,
23-13, and 1923. 1t was a rough
game with four Enumclaw PLAYERS
leaving the battle the last period.
PuvnIluD (Agl Enuuelaw faal
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-16

Rudy York got their first
home runs or the season yes
terday when the Tigers de-
feated the Dodgers, 1913.
Schoolboy Rowe, making his
first start of the season, shut
out Brooklyn for two innings
hut allowed three singles In
the third.
Los AN ELES, CaL-The
White Sox and the Cubs meet for
the second game of their Chicago
series today with Pitchers Charley
Root. Larry French and Vern
Olsen pitted against Bill Dietrich
Harry Boyles and John Rigney.
The Cubs beat the Sox. 14slT
yesterday.
ELAND. Fia.-The st
Louis Cardinals hoped to break q
five-game losing streak today b,
beating the Detroit Tigers. The
Cards could produce only two
extra base blows in a dozen hit,
yesterday in losing to the Bostor
Bees, "a.