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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-12-20
Imports May
Be Controlled
For. Defense

Washington, Dec 20.--(AP)-The
possibility of import control by the
United StatcS-a hitherto unlocked
tor step in foreign trade regulations
aroused considerable speculation
today.
The first guarded hint that any
such idea was under consideration
came from Colonel Russell L. Max
we'll, administrator Of export control
during a review of the work done by
his siX-months old agency in prevent
ing vital defense materials from be-
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-12-20
EloahQh
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy with rain near the
coast, occasional drizzle or light
showers in the interior this after
noon and tonight. slightly war
mer in the mountains tonight;
Saturday cloudy.
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Evening star., 1940-01-30

mile and amiably answered the
questions of Charles Barry, N. B. C.
representative for the Mile O. Dimes.
who has broadcast from the stand
on an average of four times a day
and frequently as many as eight
times in one day during the cam
paign.
Also represented at the stand yes
terday were the District Health De-
partment, Abbott Vocational School,
Riggs National Bank, Lovejoy
School. Office of Government Re-
ports, Tru-Blu Beer Co., the Demo-
cratic National Committee, the
Washington Gas Light Co.., the
Washington Post of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, the Y. M. c. A. and
the Filipino Executive Council.
Harold Pease, exalted ruler of the
Elks in Washington, brought his Or
ganization's contribution to the
stand while the Elks' Boys Band
played.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Man Who Started Out on Boat
Hitches Home on BIimp
Thumbs Ride to Return to Work After
Ship Is Trapped in Boy Ice

ice beside the ship when the blimp
dropped down. He was waving a
frantic thumb in the hitch -hiker's
gesture. The blimp came down on
the ice, and Mr.. Vellines jumped
aboard.
The nine crew members and Capt.
Dan Crane elected to stay on the
ship. They had some food, which
had been dropped earlier by Navy
plane. and, unless the wind and tide
combined, there seemed no danger
that the Lillian Anne would be sunk.
The boat is the biggest of hun
dreds of ships that are trapped in
the ice which covers at least half
the surface of the bay and has
choked every creek and river flowing
into it.
The Patuxent River is frozen
across solidly right down to the
mouth. Great fields of ice are
drifting down the bay and present
menace to all but the largest
steamers. Only one or two big boats
were visible in the bay, battering
oAlSA way VAlAOOSll lAlC lCC llOCo.
Some Open Water.
There is some open water, which
was ruf1ed yesterday by a gentle
wind that made it look like grained
leather. Oystermen are kept ashore,
and the ice has made it impossible
for most in the region to earn their
livelihood.
Lighthouses are surrounded by
patches of ice. and their tenders
have been removed. Buoys, chan
mel markers and duck blinds have
been ripped loose and lie on top of
the ice.
1t is a desolate, lonely stretch,
and citizens who dunked their toes
in the bay last summer would shud-
der with horror. All the escene
needs to make it look like the real
Arctic is a couple of divisions of
Russian soldiers in full retreat.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Soviet Bars Polish Relief
Offers, Hull Tells Congress

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary of State Hull advised
Congress today that he was "in-
formed" that Soviet authorities had
not permitted any relief organiza-
ton ito even send representatives"
into Russian-occupied Poland.
Secretary Hull wrote Chairman
Bloom of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee in connection with legis-
lation to provide $10,000,D00 to
SIS 100000 in Federal funds for food,
clothing and medical supplies for
the Poles.
Secretary Hull said his advices
were that the Soviet authorities had
forbidden relief organizations "to
make inquiries as to the welfare of
the inhabitants or as to their needs.
AS to German-occupied Poland,
the Secretary asserted. the German
government was permitting outside
relief organizations to operate in
association with the German Red
Cross.
Evening star., 1940-01-30

or laboratory facilities. One can
not blame them.
In such areas also costs of con-
struction are generally low and
many loacl materials can be used.
1t is my belief that with the as
sistance of the Work Projects Ad-
ministration the cost of building
and equipping a 100-bed hospital
can be kept down to between $780,
600 and 100000. This means that
we could build so such hospitals
for between $7500,000 and $l0,000,-
600.
This is not an ambitious project.
This principle should not be ex-
tended to Government gifts to
communities which are financially
able to build their own hospitals.
1t is an experiment in the sense
that the Nation will gain much ex-
perience by undertaking such a
project.
At the very least it will save lives
and improve health in those parts
OF the Nation which need this most
and can afford it least.
Evening star., 1940-01-30

ters relating to hospital and other
public health services.
Localities Must Help.
Projects proposed for considera-
ton should be submitted by respon-
sible public authorities and should
include assurance that adequate
maintenance will be provided. Ap-
proval of projects should be pre-
ceded by careful survey of existing
local hospital facilities and needs.
Standards for organization, staff
and continuing operation should be
established by the surgeon general,
with the advice of the Advisory
Council A competent hospital staff
and satisfactory standards of serv-
ice should be required, including
medical, surgical and maternity
service. When indicated, special
provisions should be made for the
care of the tuberculous. In many
areas of the South the present acute
needs for the care of Nego patients
also should be met.
I suggest that these hospitals be
simple, functional structures, util-
izing inexpensive materials and con-
struction methods. The facilities
of the Federal Works Agency
should be utilized in the planning
and execution of the hospital prof.
ects. Title to these institutions
should be held by the Federal Gov
ernment. but operation should be
a local financial responsibility.
recommend to the Congress that
enabling legislation for this program
be enacted and that a sum of be-
tween s7,5OO,000 and $4,000, 900 be
appropriated to the Public Health
Service to inaugurate the program
during the next fiscal year.
Substantial Returns.
I am confident that even this lin
tied undertaking will bring substan-
tial returns in the saving of lives,
rehabilitation of workers and in
creased health and vigor of the
people.
This suggestion is not renewal
of the public works program through
the method of grants in aid. The
areas which I have in mind are
areas so poor that they cannot
raise their share of the cost of
building and equipping a hospital.
Yet I believe that many Of such
communities have enough public
spirited citizens with means and
enough citizens able to pay some
thing for hospital treatment, to care
for operating costs of hospital,
provided they do not have to pay
for its original construction and
equipment, or to pay annual inter-
est and amortization on borrowed
money. Treatment in such a hos
pital would, of course, be available
to men, women and children who
literally can afford to contribute
little or nothing toward their treat
ment.
Costs Are Low.
One of the important difficulties
in such areas at the present time
is that young doctors hesitate to
practice general medicine or surgery
because Of the utter lack of hospital
Evening star., 1940-01-30

full committee should recommend
parity payments for another year
If the certificate plan is not adopted
I'm view of the recommendation
of the budget" Secretary Wallace
said, II can hardly make state
ment there; but I would like to
suggest this, that you need only
consider the certificate plan in case
you are thinking of making parity
payments.
Other Taxes Suggested.
IT would suggest that you might
consider, in your informal conversa-
tions with the Ways and Means
Committee, the desirability of vari-
Gus other types of methods of rails
ing revenue; maybe the manufac-
turers sales tax or the luxuries sales
tax"
Secretary Wallace said that "the
other great groups-here you have
labor; it does not have to come to
Congress every year and have its
collective bargaining power vail
dated. Here is business, it does not
have to come to Congress every
year and have its powers validated
or the tariff.
But agriculture has to come
to Congress every year and say,
Please, Mr.. Congress, do you have
enough money this year to give us
parity payments?'
UAor;o,,1t,,ro tharaforo cows aifhor
may these other folks come around
every year or else let us
have a basis whereby we are not
subject to the shifting winds of po-
litical sentiment"
Secretary Wallace told the COM
mittee that the 1925, 100000 Con-
gress appropriated last year for
parity payments would result in
about IS per cent parity income,
compared with 735 the year before,
and that only $212, ,000,0 900 would be
required to attain rs per cent in the
next fiscal year.
Secretary Wallace declared the de-
partment was not yet convinced that
its new stamp plan of disposing Of
surplus commodities was superior to
the old method of direct Govern
ment purchases and direct dona-
tions to needy.
Trade Agreements "Help."
He asserted, too, that the admin
istration's trade agreements pro-
gram has helped but not completely
solved" the farm problem.
Other statements before the COM
mittee included theSe:
/. r M. Evans, A. A. A. admin
istrator, recommended that crop
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Mile o. Dimes
Continued From First Page.)

the contributions of their precincts
on the line.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission sent $165 to the stand short
ly before noon. The money was
collected under the supervision of
John B. Switzer.
Delegations by the hundreds Wis
tied the stand yesterday to get their
contributions on the track before
the deadline. During one 15-minute
broadcast more than $500 in dimes
poured onto the track.
Sports Interests Swell Fund.
The final sports program last
night accounted for another $500.
Major contributions, resulting from
sports benefits for the campaign,
came from Severine Loefner, owner
of the Washington Eagles, who con-
tributed $97; Joe Turner, who pro-
NOTED the benefit wrestling match,
$50, and Goldie Ahearn, who pro-
NOTED the benefit prize fight, $55.
From the bowling organizations of
lllC SlCy Cd4lC pow, DAOuSllt W CllC
stand by j. w. Wood, superintendent
of the Lucky Strike Bowling Alley
and president of the Metropolitan
Washington Bowling Alley Op-
orators Association. An estimated
$1,000 was brought to the stand by
sports groups during the campaign
The competition between the War
and Navy Departments concluded
yesterday, with Navy just 81 behind
the War Department. The COM
bined total amounted to some $500.
Final reports were also made yes
terday by the Agriculture and State
Departments and Jesse Jones, Fed
eral loan administrator, brought
more than $500 from his agency.
Colored Schools Contribute.
Another substantial gift came
from the children in the tenth divi-
sion of the public schools. Repre-
sentatives from the 13 colored
schools in the division each pre-
sented a bagfull of dimes, accumu-
lating total of $12540. The
leading school was the Garrison,
with $26.
Screen Stars Dorothy Lamour and
Elsa Manchester visited the stand
yesterday, greeted a sizable crowd
as they added their dimes to the
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Husband and Wife Win
Ph. D. Degrees
BY the Associated Press.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa, Jan. 80
A couple who met over laboratory
test tubes at Pennsylvania State
College three years ago will don cap
and gown tomorrow night to receive
the first doctor of philosophy degrees
ever awarded to husband and wife
by the school.
They are Francis William Choir
mock and Charlotte SchWeitzer Choir
mock, whose romance blossomed in
the nutrition laboratory of the col
lege's department of agricultural and
biological chemistry while they were
carrying on related research in vita
minis and bone formation.
Since completing their doctoral
studies and theses last September,
both have been engaged as research
workers in the graduate school of
medicine of the University Of Penn
sylvania. Their research there deals
with clinical problems in medicine
Mrs. Chornock works only part time
giving the rest of her time to house
hold duties.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Weather Bureau Denied
Funds for Second Unit

A $250,000 appropriation for the
second unit Of the proposed Weather
Bureau Building had been slashed
from the Agriculture Department
appropriation measure when it
reached the House today although
a similar appropriation was ap-
proved for construction of the first
unit of the extensible building.
Contract for the first unit will be
let within the next two months,
Comdr. F. w. Reichelderfer, chief
of the Bureau, told the House APP
preparations Committee Total cost
of the building, exclusive of equip
ment, is estimated at $815,000.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Presidents S Message
Text of Communication to Congress
Asking RuroI Hospital Program

President Roosevelt's message to
Congress today on hospital con-
struction follows:
To the Congress of the United
States:
In my special message to the
Congress on January %, 1899, I
expressed my concern over the in
equalities that exist among the
States as to health services and re-
sources with which to furnish such
services. With that message I trans
mitted the report and recommended
tions on national health prepared
by the Inter-Departmental Commit
tee to Coordinate Health and We'll
fare Activities and recommended 1t
for careful study by the Congress.
Conditions described year ago
are substantially unchanged today.
There is still need for the Federal
Government to participate IN
strengthening and increasing the
health security of the Nation.
Therefore, I am glad to know that
a committee of the Congress has
already begun a careful study of
health legislation. 1t is my hope
that such study will be continued
actively during the present session,
looking toward constructive action
at the next. I have asked the
Inter Departmental Committee to
Coordinate Health and Welfare
Activities to continue its studies.
Asks Rural Hospitals.
In order that at least beginning
may be made, now propose for the
consideration of the Congress pro-
gram for the construction Of small
hospitals in needy areas of the coun-
try, especially in rural areas not
now provided with them. Hospitals
are essential to physicians in giving
modern medical service to the peo-
pie. In many areas present hospital
facilities are almost non-existent.
The most elementary health needs
are not being met.
The provision of hospitals in the
areas to which I refer will greatly
improve existing health services, at
tract competent doctors and raise
the standards of medical care in
these communities. The new hos
pitfalls should serve the additional
purpose of providing laboratory and
other diagnostic facilities for the
use of local physicians, as well as
accommodations for local health
departments.
The proposed hospitals should be
built only where they are most
needed; they should not be con-
structed in communities where
public or private institutions are
already available to the people in
need of service even if these institu-
tions are not up TO the highest
standards. To insure proper loca-
ton and good standards of opera
ton, approval of hospital construc-
ton projects should be given by the
surgeon general of the Public
Health Service, with the advice of
an advisory council consisting of
outstanding medical and scientific
authorities who are expert in mat
Evening star., 1940-01-30
By ALFRED TOOMBS.

The odyssey of Charles Vellines
%, who started out 10 days ago on
weekend boat trip, had ended to-
day. Mr.. Vellines hitch linked a
ride home on a blimp.
He was the man who was rescued
yesterday from the freighter Lillian
Anne, ce-locked in the white wastes
of the Chesapeake Bay. And 1t was
not privation which put Mr.. Vel
lines in a spot from which he had
to be rescued but fear of his boss
angry eye.
Mr.. Vellines, who is a civilian en-
ploye of the Naval Air Station In
Norfolk, started out on the Lillian
Arile from Norfolk a week ago Fri
day as the guest of William Gate
wood, owner of the ship. He was
going to take a ride to Baltimore
and back over the week end.
Runs Into Trouble.
But during the snowstorm last
Sunday the Lillian Anne ran into
trouble. The steering gear broke,
and she went aground on a sand
bar off Adams Island near Point
No-Point, on the Eastern Shore of
Maryland.
Efforts to get the vessel off were
futile, and ice began to form around
her. Days went by, with Mr.. Vel
lines and the crew staring hopeless
ly at the ever-growing field of ice
around them.
Yesterday there came a report
that the crush of ice was breaking
the ship up, and the blimp Enter
prise set out from Washington to
rescue the crew. When the enter
prise reached the spot it found the
Coast Gard cutter Mohawk stand
ing by.
Gives Blimp the Thumb.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
| Wife Wins $201
In Suit Against
| |Porents-in-LoW
Hr the Associated A Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEDIA, Pa, Jan. 30.-Attractlve
Mrs. Hazel Schrader, Is, was award
ed $201 salvage" today for the
wreckage of her houseboat romance.
A jury of six men and six women
decided Mrs. Schrader was entitled
to that sum for her parents-ln-
laws interference in her married
life with Fred Schrader, 28, on
Home, Sweet Home, a houSeboat.
Mrs. Schrader testified in her
alienation of affections suit that
her husband left Home, Sweet
Home, anchored in Darby Greek, at
the persuasion of his parents, Anna
and Christian Schrader.
1T was worth it," Mr.. Schrader's S
mother said when the jury gave its
verdict.
Evening star., 1940-01-30

insurance, applied to wheat for a
year, be extended to cotton. He
said applications for insurance on
winter wheat have increased 263 per
cent over the first year. Bad
weather conditions forecast a deficit
for the Government on wheat insur-
ance for the second successive year,
he added
2. Asked by Representative Can
non, Democrat, of Missouri, whether
continuing surpluses of wheat and
cotton did not suggest further
acreage reductions, Mr.. Evans said,
"On both cotton and wheat would
question the advisability of fur
ther reducing the acreage because
it would result in a severe adjust
ment to the number of people who
are producing those crops at the
present time"
3. DR.. W. w. Alexander, admin
istrator of the Farm Tenant Act, in
dicated that land-purchase loans to
.enants had been successful finan-
cially, saying that as of July Is,
1889 borrowers had repaid more
than the total payments due"
4. Edward A. O'Neal, president Of
the Farm Bureau Federation, tell
ing the committee that parity
prices alone can restore farm pur-
chasing power" recommended parity
! appropriations of $807 900 900.
The Agriculture Department be-
lieves it could eradicate Bangs dis
ease, scourage of cattle, within 10
years if all the States co-operated.
DR.. John r. Mohler, chief OF the
Bureau of Animal Industry, told
the subcommittee that in cooper
ating States the infection had been
reduced from IA per cent to % pei
cent, and a decade would see the
disease stamped out If the present
rate Of progress continued.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Appropriations
Continued From First Page

stantial amount of reduction under
the budget estimate.
Many functions have been elimi-
mated in their entirety and reduc-
tions have been effected in the
greater portion of the individual
items covering the departments
regular activities" it continued.
"It cannot be denied that they
will diminish the benefits to agri-
culture resulting from the various
activities under research of the kind
which has been provided for in some
instances over a period dating back
almost to the beginning OF the de-
partment."
Budget estimates for forest protec-
ton and management were cut
s2,l2O, ,485 to 10,OO0, 900, but the COM
mittee explained that the Forest
Service would be permitted to reallo-
cate the proposed appropriation
without regard to yardsticks set up
by the Budget Bureau.
The committee also chopped
81 SOC, 900 off of budget estimates OF
$40 100000 for construction of forest
roads and trails. The committee S
report said the reduction would
eliminate only proposed new con-
struction of about 245 miles.
Farm Price Index Up.
Meanwhile, administration farm
officials were heartened today by the
disclosure that farm prices had
started the new year at the highest
level in two years.
The Agriculture Department said
the index of farm prices advanced
3 points between id-December and
mid January to reach 80 per cent OF
the 1904 level.
This index was 5 points higher
than year earlier and the highest
since mid-January, 1898. Nearly all
groups of commodities participated
in the advance.
While prices received by farmers
nearly equal those of the 1910-l4
period, prices which farmers pay fol
other goods are % per cent higher
the department reported. Conse-
quently, farm products have only
84.5 per cent in the purchasing pow
er in terms of non-farm goods and
services that they possessed in the
pre- World War period.
During Secretary Wallace's testi-
mony before the subcommittee, he
was asked by Representative Tarver
Democrat, Of Georgia whether the
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Marine Selection
System 10 Be Probed
By Senate Group
Session on Friday Will
Study Methods Of
Making Promotions
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Chairman Gillette announced to-
day that Naval Affairs Subcom.
mittee would begin an investigation
into the Marine Corps merit system
of promotion at a session Friday
morning.
Chairman Walsh Of the Naval
Committee said he had asked q
group headed by Senator Gillette
to look into complaints that the
numerical restriction of officers
available for membership on the
Marine Corps Selection Board was
such that the board personnel was
known year in advance.
Senator Walsh explained that
there were only 13 officers whose
rank in the Marine Corps made
them eligible to membership on the
Selection Board of six, which picks
the officers best qualified for ad-
vancement from colonel to brigadier
general and from brigadier general
to major general. These six may
serve only one-year terms, when
they must be replaced by six others.
THE situation is such that officers
seeking promotion know a year in
advance who will be on the board
and who to pull strings with" Sena-
tor Walsh said. ALSO, the men on
the board, in selecting officers for
advancement, must compete with
those same officers later for further
advancement. Some of us think this
is a bad situation and should be
changed"
Senator Walsh said that in his
opinion making Navy officers elig-
ible for membership on the Selec-
ton Board might offer a solution.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Britain to Reply Soon
To II. S. on Blockade

LONDON. Jan. 30 (P).-Informed
sources said today Brltain's reply to
the United States note reserving all
rights to buy German exports despite
the British blockade probably would
be forwarded in about a week.
The note, these sources said, will
defend the British blockade as con-
forming to international law, con-
tending that Germany violated the
laws of sea war and that the block
ade is a repriSal.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Franklin T. Miller, 81,
Once Hoover Aide, Dies
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEWTON, Mass, Jan. 3d.
Franklin Thomas Miller, ST, one
time assistant to Herbert Hoover as
Secretary of Commerce, died yes
terday.
War time director of the Division
of Construction in the Department
of Labor, he retired in 1927, after
serving as publisher of architectural
and engineering magazines.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
II Die in Burma Riot

RANGOON, Burma, Jan. 80 (P).-
Rioting between Hindus and Moslems
went into it's fourth day IN some
districts of Burma today, unchecked
by more than 600 arrests. Twelve
persons already have been killed.