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Evening star., 1940-12-30
Ickes Urges
| Added Funds
FORD. G.. Parks

II Washington is to continue to
be known as lone of the worlds
most beautiful Capitals" Secretary
of the Interior Ickes today told
President Roosevelt "it is imperative
that additional funds be available
for the maintenance and operation
Of its parks and national me-
morials."
This recommendation was en-
bodied in the Secretary's letter
transmitting the annual report of
the Interior Department. The let
ter did not specify, however, the
extent of the additional funds DEEM
ed necessary
A brief survey of progress in parks
beTe was given. I'm the District of
Columbia" said Mr.. Tckes, "the Ma
tional Capital Parks system and its
appurtenances continued to expand
In areas and in services to the public
Work continued on the historic
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to de-
velop its unusual recreational po-
tentialities. Additional lands were
added to the George Washington
Memorial Parkway.
with these recent developments
and others pending as the fiscal year
came to close" said Mr.. Ickes. "the
park system of the National Capital
will be the largest of any city in
the United States.
IF Washington is to continue to
merit the distinction of being one
Of the worlds most beautiful Capt.
tails, 1t is imperative that additional
funds be available for the main
tenance and operation of its parks
and national memorials"
Evening star., 1940-12-30
Ten Persons Injured
In Traffic Accidents

Ten persons were injured, none
seriously, in traffic accidents here
and nearby yesterday.
Florence Mathews, 30, of 1916
Kramer street NE. was struck by
a hit-and-run driver while standing
in street car safety zone at
Georgia avenue and Quackenbos
street NV. At Walter Reed Hospital
she was said to have received q
possible skull fracture, a broken
thumb and abrasions
James p. Jackson, 80. of 1914 Fifth
street N. w. was struck by an auto
mobile at Georgia avenue and
Jefferson street NV. He was taken
to Walter Reed and later removed
to Emergency Hospital, where he
was treated for a broken arm and
head injuries. John H. Worncke,
56, Of 5315 Seventh street NV. was
injured slightly by the same car.
He refused treatment.
Others injured we're: Marguerite
Mcpherson. So, 2525 Ontario road
NV: Irene Henderson, colored, 10,
418 N street NV: Elmer Jackson,
colored, 70, 1l25 Third street NV;
Wilbur Groby, a, Maryland Park,
Md; Irving Thomas, 6, colored, 73
L street NV; Bella Friedman, %,
and Gerald Friedman Of IL Nichol-
son street NV.
Evening star., 1940-12-30
Fifty Cases Of Influenza
Reported al Training School

An outbreak of influenza at the
National Training School Tor Boys
was reported today. Fifty of the
400 students are receiving hospital
treatment.
The District Health Department
Immediately dispatched an investi-
gator to the school, at Bladensburg
road and South Dakota avenue NE,
to survey the situation. The school
is under the jurisdiction of the
Department of Justice.
1t was reported about rs boys
over period of several days have
been treated for influenza at the
school hospital.
The Health Department today
was making a careful study of the
situation in the District. 1t was
emphasized that there is no general
Epidemic
Evening star., 1940-12-30
D. C.-Meade Bus Service
Authorized byI.

The first direct public transporta-
tion service between Washington
and Fort Meade for nearly 5000 con-
struction employees working at the
post was provided today when the
Interstate Commerce Commission
granted Safeway Trails, Inc. per-
mission to begin an express bus
service Immediately.
The first bus will leave tomorrow
ut 6 am. from the company's ter
minal at Twelfth and New York
avenue NV. Ten round trips daily
will be made, this schedule to be
increased as necessary
A Ascent one-way fare and an so
. cent round-triP rate has been auth
orized by the I. C. C. The buses will
travel only to the Fort Meade gates.
Army officials having granted no
permission to enter the grounds.
The bus company said its request for
permission to enter the gates was
still pending before post officials.
Evening star., 1940-12-30
$4,000 Civilians Get
Pay at
Fort Meade in Week
Contonment Project
Slightly More Than
"a Per Cent Complete
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
FORT GEORGE G.. MEADE. Md.
Dec 30.-The civilian army of more
than $4,000 building tradesmen and
laborers doing construction work at
Furt Meade drew more than 81 ,OOO,-
900 in wages last week.
Working on Seven-day-a week
basis, this force brought the canton
ment project to a point where it was
34.2 per cent complete Saturday.
The 20O-building project was 10.4
per cent complete at the beginning
of the month
Temporary housing and mass
facilities are being made ready now
for approximately $500 Regular
Army troops who will be quartered
here for Today period in connec-
ton with their participation in the
presidential inaugural parade.
The trench detail of the laboring
force is putting in so miles of sewer
and water lines-enough to serve a
city of $4,000 and the requisite num-
ber of commercial Establishments,
places of amuSements and recreation
and religious buildings.
Seven miles of water mains and
five miles of sever lines have been
laid this month.
Twenty miles of roadbed are being
constructed to serve six principal
areas in the camp.
, More than 5000 carpenters and
1000 laborers are pushing the con-
struction of buildings
Evening star., 1940-12-30

its meat has no effect on the favor
and is excellent for blackout
banquetS.
The experiments in producing
custom made fowls are not frivolous.
For instance, the work in fitting a
chicken out with that skin you love
to touch. Women who buy dressed
poultry will always pick chicken
with white skin, delicately touched
with pinkish- blue hue.
So the men at Beltsville have been
maintaining chickens in sumptious,
air-conditioned quarters trying to
see what diet they should have to
get their compilations right. BY
diet, they can turn out fowls with
nice. colleen feet or deep red combs,
The colored eggs developed in the
course OF nutritive experiments
They fed the chickens certain dyes
and found that the color was trans
mitted to the eggs They have
also developed by diet an egg that
is specially designed for poaching,
and another that is loaded with as
much vitamin A and D as cod liver
l8Hour Duty for Fowl.
One of the big problems to chick
en- growers is separating the baby
chicks by sex. Beltsville now is try
ing to work out an arrangement
with its fowls so that all male chicks
will be Matched with some Identify
ing characteristic, such as white
spots. They've been pretty success
full with this so far, and some day
the poultry industry will shout hal
leluljah over it.
They've got a flock of turkeys
which are routed out of their roost
about 8 am every day and put
to work under electric lights. They
want to find out if they'll grow
faster working the lS-hour day, and
the Beltsville people also have a
hunch that electric light may AFFECT
the turkeys glands and make them
fatter.
There's not much they haven't
done to fowls. They can make
them grow feathers faster and they
wake them up In the middle of the
night and make them give up their
eggs. Right now they are conduct
ing behavior STUDY on fowls. They
want to find out what makes old
hens act that way-something that
has been worrying lot of people
for a long time.
fNert.' So that your eggs niu
be in good company-Beltspille
bulls superhog to order.)
Evening star., 1940-12-30
Nine Insurance Firms
Received S1,978,653
From A. A. A. in 1888
OutIoys Of 81 900 or
More During Yeor
TotoIed S38. Az, ,685
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Congress learned today that $4,000
companies and persons received a
total of s3S .422. .685 in agricultural
adjustment payments of $1,000 or
more during 1898.
On the list were nine insurance
companies which collected S1.978.653
A report by the Agriculture De-
partment disclosed that the Metro
politan Life Insurance Co. of New
York received the greatest sum,
S346.773. Only other beneficiary in
the $500 900 class was the Equitable
Life Insurance Society of the United
States, New York, which was paid
S3O5 .491.
The list, Secretary Wickard ex-
planned yesterday, included only
about three-tenths of / per cent of
the 5,243,796 who received Govern
ment farm payments in 1888 Ap-
proximately % per cent of all pay
ments were less than $50, another
% per cent from $50 to $40 and only
lib payments in all were more than
$4,000.
Although the statute since has
been amended, the Agricultural Ad-
justment Act once required the de-
partment to transmit to Congress
the names of all persons who re-
ceived $1,000 for agricultural, range
and naval stores conservation pro-
grams. 1t did not cover payments
from s2l2.000 900 parity appropria =
ton and a s45 900 900 sugar benefit
fund.
Other Large Payments.
Other payments in excess of
SlOc OO0
John Hancock Mutual Life Insur-
ance Co, Boston, 1858 .322: Pruden-
tial Life Insurance Co. of America
Newark, s252,7l7; Travellers Insur-
ance Co. Hartford. Conn. s24e $50:
Union Central Life Insurance Co
Cincinnati, $l84,255; Federal Land
Bank Of Omaha, $l59,66S, State Of
South Dakota s148 1866 State OF
North Dakota. s132 62a: Mutual
Benefit Insurance Co., Newark, $751;
ASS: Northwestern Mutual Life In
surance Co, Milwaukee, s125 .676:
Equitable Life Insurance Co. of
Iowa, Des Moines, sis, 1884.
Among the largest private pay
ments were $85,028 to the King
ranch. Kingsville, Tex, $84, ,203 to
the J. G. Boswell Co. Corcoran,
Calf, and $685. to the Matador
Land g. Cattle Co.. Ltd, Denver.
The State of Montana received
500 ,329. the State of Minnesota. s44,-
002, and Mississippi State Penitenti-
ary, Parchman, Miss, s69,2le.
Payments in Maryland.
A payment of s3,828 to the Har-
rison Nurseries, Inc, Berlin, Md,
topped the benefits in Maryland
Total payments over 81 900 in Mary
land were S24,576.
Meanwhile, the Commodity Credit
Corp. announced it would not ex-
tend grower loans on unredeemed
1910 wheat and barley stored in
commercial warehouses when Gov.
eminent loans on those commodities
expire.
The corporation will take delivery
of such grain as full payment of
the grower borrowers obligation.
Latest reports show that about 221,-
000, 900 bushels of 1910 loan wheat
were stored in warehouses on De-
cember IT.
Grower loans on grain stored on
the farm will be extended, the cor
poration said.
Evening star., 1940-12-30

assisted by Mr.. Wilmer and Boy
Scouts of Troop 73. who previously
raised the colors
Robert Rothstein donated a COM
pletely equipped dental clinic to the
new building.
Other donors of rooms and drink
ing fountains included Mr.. and Mrs.
Garfinkle, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer, Mr..
and Mrs. Goldsmith, Mr.. and Mrs.
Goldman, Mr.. and Mrs I. S. Tur-
over. the Ladies Auxiliary of the
Home for the Aged, the Argo B'nai
Birth Lodge, Mr. and Mrs. Edward
c. Ostrow, Mr.. and Mrs. John M.
Safer, DR.. and Mrs. Nathan r.
Landes. the Amity Club, Mrs. Charles
Schwartz. Mr.. and Mrs. Max Gorin,
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton King, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Rosenthal, Mr.. and
Mrs. Bernard Danzansky, Charles S.
Frank and Nathaniel B. Aaronson.
Especially commended by Mr..
Cafritz for their work in the agency
were Mrs. Milton King, refugee
chairman; DR.. Alec Horwitz and DR..
Morris Wolf, Mr.. Goldsmith, Mr..
Turover, the Rev. Louis Novick,
Herbert A. Rich and Milton Nathan.
Evening star., 1940-12-30
Traffic Record

The traffic record. as revealed
at police headquarters. for "a
hour period ending at 8 am.
yesterday:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents. 43.
Motorists injured, 9.
Motorists arrested, 262.
Pedestrians injured. 5.
Pedestrians arrested for viola :
ton of pedestrian control reg
ulations, /.
Motorists arrested for failing
to give right of way to pedes-
trains, none.
The traffic record for 24-hour
period ending at 8 am. today:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 80.
Motorists injured, 7.
Motorists arrested, 1l8.
Pedestrians injured, 9.
PedeSrlanS arrested Tor VIOLA
ton of pedestrian control reg
ulations. none.
Motorists arrested for failing
to give right of way to pedes-
trians. none.
Killed in 1910 traffic. 80: BY
December 80, in 1899. 85.
Evening star., 1940-12-30
Income Tax Cut
Recommended
In Maryland
Commission Also
Asks lnstuIIment
Payments
By the Associa ted Press.

BY tne Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Dec. 3O.-The
Maryland Tax Revision Commits
sion recommended to Gov. O'Conor
today that the States classified"
income tax be reduced on all types
of income.
In a report made public by the
Governor, the commission said it
had tentatively approved proposals
that the tax rate on ordinary earned
income be reduced from 2i2 per
cent to 2. and that on in, estment
income be cut from per cent to 5.
In addition, the commission pro-
posed that the income tax De made
payable in four inStallments and
that the time for filing returns and
Tor paying the first installment be
deferred one month-to April Is
instead of March Is. thus avoiding
the need of payment of State and
Federal income taxes the same
date
Immediate Application Asked.
These changes, the commission as
serted, should be made Immediately
applicable to cover taxes On 1910 in
comes payable in 1941.
The commission recommended also
that no tax be payable by any person
having less taxable income than the
amount of his allowable deductions
and personal exemptions.
In its report the commission re-
asserted its belief that an income
tax IF not carried to extreme is
sound in theory and regardless OF
the needs of the moment should
form a permanent part of the tax
structure of the State" and added:
The fact that real estate is now
bearing heavy tax burden and is
the chief source of local revenue
argues against any increase in or
dinary State property taxes and the
fact that very large part of the
States revenue is raised by special
sales taxes tsuch as gasoline, titling
considered.
Sales Taxes Hit Little Man.
TT is generally recognized that
sales taxes, especially general sales
tax (Such as the emergency gross
receipts tax adopted by Maryland
in 1885, but abandoned in the fol-
lowing year, exact larger
proportional contribution from per-
sons having small incomes than from
those having large incomes"
The report noted that the COM
missions studies had indicated a
trend away from sales taxes within
the various States.
Maryland, the commission asserted.
should continue its classified" tax
on grounds that a graduated tax
such as was proposed as constitu-
tional amendment and defeated by
the voters in le38-"may be carried
to extremes so that it falls only on
small group of taxpayers"
Flat Rate Preferred.
Because of the extremes TO which
the Federal tax has been carried We
are inclined to the view that a fat
rate classified tax is preferable under
existing conditions"
Reductions proposed in the present
levy. the commission estimated.
would result in net decrease OF
State revenue from the income tax
of approximately lips 900 and
decrease of about s375,000 in local
receipts.
The commission report on the
income tax was prepared by H. H.
Walky Lewis. Huntington Cairns and
Deputy Attorney William L. Hender-
son.
Evening star., 1940-12-30
Appeals Court
Hits Auto Club
Law Practice
UphoIds Opinion
A. A. A. Employees
Act Illegally

In an opinion affirming District
Court ruling, the United States
Court of Appeals held today that
the American Automobile Associa-
ton, by having lay. employees in its
Department of Claims and Adjust
ment perform functions normally
handled by lawyers, is Illegally en-
gagged in the practice of law.
Objection to such procedure was
made by the District Bar AsSocla-
ton, and District Court some time
ago enjoined operation of the De-
partment of Claims and Adjust
ment Today's decision modified
the lower courts ruling in certain
particulars.
Opinion by Judge Groner.
The opinion. written by Chief
concurred in by Associate Justices
Henry w. Edgerton and Fred M.
Vinson, said in part:
I'VE do not agree entirely with
the decree of the court below, but
we think appellant has gone be-
yond permissible limits and has
been unlawfully engaged in the
practice of law. From the beginning
to the end of the collection of
claims, appellant performs. by lay
employees, functions which are nor
maly exercised by lawyers and
which require their peculiar skill.
The consultation with members in
Un1uoc Innicinp oIH-inn m
>ehe merits of claim and the pos
sibility of urging it successfully. The
effort to collect actually does include
argument on the legal merits of the
claim.
We do not think appellant is
precluded from serving its men,
bers by lay employees with respect
to damage claims. But the
giving of advice prior to collection
of a claim and the urging of legal
propositions in discussions with the
person from whom collection is at
tempted does involve the practice of
law and may be performed only
by lawyers, who possess the re-
quired skill"
Decree Modified.
The appellate court said it
thought the District Court decree
should be modified, however, so as
to permit the execution. and filling
by laymen of claims in the Small
Claims Court, to permit the hiring
of counsel to represent members
where the interest of the members
as whole or of a substantial
number is affected, and so as not
to prevent appellant, through lay
employees. from arbitrating or pro-
curing the arbitration of its mem
bers' claims, or from simply pre-
senting claims of its members and
requesting payment without the
performance of any legal service"
The Bar Association, through
It's Committee on Suppression of
Unauthorized Practice Of Law. was
represented by Richard l.. Merrick,
committee chairman, and Attorneys
William J. Rowan and John D.
Sadler.
Evening star., 1940-12-30

ment scientists produce new models
for the animal and vegetable king
doms with a facility that sometimes
surprises themselves.
The quest for the better fowl has
been one of Beltsville's most spec
tacular successes. They've got Just
about everything in the bird line
out there-chicken whose meat is
jet black; turkeys who have to work
an l8-hour day; eggs which pack
more cod liver vitamins than the
undersea population of the many
harbor.
Their best known creation is the
streamlined turkey-a Thanksgiving
bird that was bred small enough
for apartment house ovens, But
the full story Of the streamliner has
not yet been written.
Double Cross for Turkey.
The turkey was developed to weigh
around 8 or 10 pounds and was
prescribed for small families who
objected to having turkey la king
for 13 straight days after Thanks
giving. Beltsville scientists got
themselves some small turkeys,
crossed them with big turkeys which
had good meat, recrossed, double
crossed and finally came up with
the kind of bird you could get in
a sport-model ice box.
But the food samplers down at
the Department of Agriculture who
sink their critical fangs into the
new models which are produced at
Beltsville had a complaint about
the streamlined turkey. 1t didn't
have enough white meat.
So the boys in the Wonderland
of Agriculture reared back and
passed another miracle. They put
the specified amount of white meat
on the Streamliner. It was pretty
simple; They just found breed
white meat and introduced this
strain. Now they are about ready
to go into production.
If you're interested in big drum
sticks. they've discovered how to
build them. They turn their birds
loose in big inclosrre and make
them run around lot. This builds
up their legs.
High Light for Blackout Banquet.
They can put out a chicken which
carries almost all white meat, or
one that has nothing but dark meat.
The fowl with the jet black meat is
called a White Silkie, because of its
white feathers. The inky color of
Evening star., 1940-12-30

duties January to Col. w. H.
England, who has been assistant
chief economist.
DR.. Walker was born here. He
is the author of various books and
papers on economics and is mem
ber of many societies and orders
related to this science. He is the
holder of the Czechoslovakian Cross
of Knight of Order of White Lion.
He has been with the Federal Trade
Commission almost since its or
ganization in 1915.
For the future he says he has no
plans, desirous only to get back
my health"
His successor, Col England, is
veteran of the Spanish American
and World Wars. Both he and
DIR. Walker have played leading
role in many of the commissions
investigations, including those into
utilities. motor vehicles, agricul-
tural implements and national
wealth and income.
Evening star., 1940-12-30
Sofe-Crocking Attempt
Is Called Amuteurish

What police termed part of a
very amateurish" gang of safe
crackers attempted unsuccessfully
last night to batter open the safe of
the Savoy Theater, 5000 Fourteenth
street NV.
Having made their way into the
building through a side door, they
apparently became discouraged after
hammering few times at the safe
and fed.
Evening star., 1940-12-30
DR., Walker 10 Leave
F. 7. T.. tomorrow

When DR.. Francis Walker closes
his desk tomorrow afternoon to
retire as chief economist Of the
Federal Trade Commission, more
than a century of outstanding work
in the field of economics which
has been carried on from father
to son, starting with his grand
father, also will close.
DR.. Walker, who is 10 and in
failing health, will turn over his
Evening star., 1940-12-30
Bond Concert

BY the United States Army Band
in the band auditorium of the Army
War College tomorrow at 7:30 pm.
Capt Thomas r. Darcy, leader;
Earl Hubner, assistant leader.
PROGRAM.
March. Progress" -Geiger
Rhapsody, "Rhythms OF Rio."
Bennett
Poetic scene, Sea Garden Cooke
Silhouette, Cripple Greek"
Struggled
From THE Southern Mountains"
Waltz, The Skater" - Waldteufel
March, THE Orange Bowl"
Hillnoee
Evening star., 1940-12-30
Gen. Moeruder Ordered
To Duty at Fort Devens
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Brig. Gen. John Magruder has
been relieved from assignment to the
War Departments general staff, ef-
fective January s, and ordered to
Fort Devens. Mass. for duty with
the LIST Division.
Evening star., 1940-12-30
Women Robbed

Clara Bowser of 1862 Twenty first
street NV was robbed at Nine
teenth and N streets NV. last night
of her purse by man who threat
gened her with a butcher knife,
according to police She said she
handed over her purse, ontsining
$ll, and fled.
Evening star., 1940-12-30
6. A. R. Reception

The annual Grand Army of the
Republic New Year reception will be
held from z to 1 pm. Wednesday at
the Grafton Hotel. The Star had
enormously reported yesterday that
the reception would be held TO-
morrow.
Evening star., 1940-12-30
Aroentinu Has Air Boom

Although only 2.13O passengers
arrived and departed from Argen-
tina by steamer in recent month
air travellers for that period totaled
C26