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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-20
The Political Mill
Congress Revolt on New Deal Domestic Issues
Believed Unhealthy for Nation at War

Federal report on the Nichols
bill to create standing commit
tee of the House to deal with
aviation legislation.
Power Over Purse Strings.
More particularly. however, is
the House showing its independ-
ence of administration pressure
by its action on appropriation
bills. The so-called economy
bloc in the House, composed of
Republicans and anti-New Deal
Democrats, has functioned to re-
duce or to eliminate items of ap-
preparation recommended by the
administration for non-war Gov
eminent agencies. House men,
bers, indeed, have frankly de-
clared that they intend to use
their power over the purse strings
to cut Government expenditures
and to eliminate personnel in
Government agencies which they
consider detriment to the Gov
eminent.
In this connection, the House
Appropriations Committee has set
up a special subcommittee to in
vestigate charges against Gov
eminent officials, among them
those charges made by Repre-
sentative Dies, chairman of the
Dies Committee. This commit
tee has been preparing to investi-
gate charges by Mr.. Dies that SO
officials in important posts have
been communistically inclined, or
have supported the idea that only
a social revolution in the coun-
try can improve conditions.
The Rules Committee of the
House, that important body which
decides whether measure is to
be given special rule for its con-
sideration, was antagonistic to the
New Deal administration in the
last Congress. 1t is even more
SO today. Only two members of
that committee, which has a
Democratic majority. may be
counted upon to stand by the ad-
ministration. Obviously admin
istration leadership is in a bad
way.
New Revenue Measure.
The Ways and Means Com
mittee is today working on a new
revenue measure and the likeli-
hood is that either in the COM
mittee or in the House itself rec
concentrations Of the administra-
ton will be to a considerable ex-
tent ignored-not for raising
money but for the way in which
it is to be raised. This relates
both to the administrations ideas
about the manner in which in
come taxpayers shall be placed
on pay as you 60" basis and
on methods of increasing revenue.
There is growing demand for
a Federal retail sales tax-against
which the President turned his
face even before he actually en-
tered the White House and
against which he has set his face
ever since.
The attitude of the new Con-
gress has been brought about not
SO much by the legislative meas
ures which have been adopted
for which Congress has been re-
sponsible in the past-but by the
administration of those measures.
1t has been suggested that the
torrent Of criticism in Congress
may make the people lose faith
in the Government at a time
when that faith is particularly
essential-in the midst of a war.
Members of Congress retort, how
ever, that the reverse is true, that
the people are losing faith be-
cause Of the way the laws have
been administered. Whatever the
cause, 1t Is an unhealthy condi-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-20
Ry GOULD LINCOLN.

ny UOCLD LlN1OLN.
The new Congress met six weeks
ago with blood in its eye. Since
then the Democratic revolt on
domestic issues has mounted
The Presidents dramatic trip to
the war front in North Africa. it
was believed in some quarters,
might have served as a check on
the spirit of resentment against
the administration. Judging from
the recent happenings on Capitol
Hill, however, this has not been
the case.
The Senate thus far has had
only one inning, in which it
knocked the administration for a
loop. That was the case of Ed
ward j, Flynn. former Democratic
national chairman, whose NOM
lnation by the President to be
United States Minister to Aus
tralsa was to all intents and pur-
poses defeated by Democratic de-
fections in the upper house. The
nomination was withdrawn by
the President at the request of
Mr.. Flynn before it could be voted
on. but only after it had become
evident that a majority of the
Senate would decline confirma-
ton.
The House, on the other hand,
has several times slapped at the
administration - and there is
more grief to come. 1t has set up
several investigating committees
which are designed to clip the
wings of administration agencies.
One is the special committee to
investigate the Federal COMMUNE
cations Commission, charged with
abusing its power. Another is the
committee to inquire into any
complaints that the administra-
ton agencies, through the issue
OF regulations and rulings has
gone beyond the powers specif-
cally laid down in laws enacted
by Congress. The House, also.
gave another lease of life to the
Dies Committee on n-American
Activities which has been anath-
ema to the administration ever
since it first began its operations
in 1898.
Disney Bill Passage Seen.
More recently, the House Ways
and Means Committee has Or
dered Federal report on the
Disney bill which would nullify
the Presidents executive order of
October 3, 1912, fixing a s25. 900
limitation on salaries after in
come taxes have been paid and
certain other allowances for fixed
charges have been written off.
1t is expected that this measure
will be reported to the House the
first of the week and that it will
pass by large vote-despite the
tact that the President has twice
written to Chairman Doughton
OF the Ways and Means Com
mittee urging that this legisla-
ton be not attached to the bill
increasing the national debt limit
to $4,000, 100000. This is Just
what the Disney bill does.
The Hobbs bill to make
racketeering a crime, even If
those accused hold union cards,
hits at another Joint in the ad-
ministration's armor. This bill
is violently opposed by labor UNI
ions which have had the back
ing Of the administration for
years. The bill has been before
the House Rules Committee,
which is expected to give it the
right of way. The indica tons
are that other measures dealing
with the labor situation will fol-
low, and there is strong sentiment
IN Congress for their adoption.
Administration forces in the
House also were overruled when
the Rules Committee ordered a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-20
This Changing World
Nine. chione's P|eo for Chino Aid Is Expected
To Have Little More Thon Academic Effect

The few available roads run
perpendicular to the British lines
of communication. Moreover,
Gen Wavell, who now has had
the experience in that area, real
ICES that malaria and other en-
demic diseases would decimate
his troops more than the fire of
the japanese.
The rainy season in that area
lasts about seven months and
the intervening dry season is
never actually dry.
These are the great difficulties
which confront the British COM
mander in chief in the Far East
VINO has to rely for a major push
on British and American troops
rather than on the Indians I'M
Ger his command.
OF course, We are now able to
send some assistance to China by
air But the quantities are of
little consequence. Moreover,
the japanese were compelled to
give up the offensive in the
Southeast Pacific mainly because
1t was too costly for the expected
results.
4 Japs Seek Easy Fronts.
They now are able to concern
trate on other fronts which
might yield easier victories and
they stand to lose fewer warships
and transports than If they con-
tlnued to but their heads against
Admiral William Halsey's forces.
Like the Nazis, the Japs must
start feeding new victories to
their people, For political and
military reasons the Toxic gen.
eral staff is not likely to tackle
the Russians in Siberia.
Some surprise raids against
Midway, Alaska or even Hawaii
might be expected if the high
command thought such opera
tons could be performed without
much risk. But a campaign in
China might prove very fruitful
at present.
The japanese had withdrawn
between five and seven divisions
from China when they thought
they could take the Solomons.
cut our lines of communications
with Australia and eventually in
wade that continent. Some of
these troops have been lost;
others have ended up at Rabaul.
There have been recent indica-
tions, however, that the strength
OF the Rabaul garrison-which at
one time was set at seven divi-
sions-has been reduced lately.
Since the evacuation of Guadal-
canal reports have been received
by the Allied high command that
the japanese troops from that
area are being sent westward.
There also has been increased
shipping activity between the
japanese isles and the Japanese
controlled mainland in China.
All these facts seem to indicate
that the japanese high command
may begin an about offensive
. against China before more assist
ance in war materials reaches
Gen. Chiang's fighting armies.
Nine. Chang could not dwell
on these purely military consid-
erations in her. appeal to the
American people because the
address had to have an emotional
tinge. But military men in
Washington are nervous lest the
Japs decide to strike at China
with more violence than ever be-
fore.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-20

Turn trash into cash and use ii to
smash the Axis. Collect that junk
metal now.
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Congress in Brief

BY the Associated Press.
Senate and House:
In recess until Monday.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Federal Prisoners
Increase Production

By he Associated Press
Federal penal institutions sharply
increased their output of war goods
in the u months ending June 80
James V. Bennett. director of the
Federal Bureau of Prisons, reported
yesterday.
Articles manufactured for the
armed forces were valued at sl8..
789 l60. compared with sl3,532 36s
in the preceding II months.
Mr.. Bennett called the recorc
remarkable" since the population
Of Federal institutions is steadily
declining.
The splendid production record i.
attributable almost entirely to the
cooperation of the inmates them.
! selves he said. Since Fedora
Prison Industries Inc. is now work.
ing almost exclusively on orders fol
the Army. Navy Coast Guard anc
Maritime Commission. the inmate!
voluntarily stepped up their working
hours until the average work week
is between 50 and Sc hours
Federal Prison Industries. Inc.
operates all manufacturing facilitie.
/ in Federal institutions.
AS result of increased produc.
ton. the average annual wage OF
inmates increased from S164.02 tc
1921.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Mrs. Roosevelt Talks
To Nurses Tuesday

Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt will ad-
dress the closing session of a two
day annual meeting of the Graduate
Nurses Association and the League
of Nursing Education of the Dis
trict, at 7:3O pm Tuesday in the
Departmental Auditorium. CNlsti-
tuition avenue between Twelfth and
Fourteenth street.
The annual meeting will open with
a business session of the private
duty section at pm. tomorrow in
the Emergency Hospital Nurses
Home.
The Graduate Nurses Association
will hold a business session at lO:45
am. Tuesday at the same place
A Red Cross luncheon is scheduled
at 1890 pm. Tuesday at the May
flower Hotel.
The League of Nursing Education
will meet at the Emergency Hospital
Nurses Home at 2:30 pm. Tuesday
to hear the reading of a paper on
"Anaesthesia Refrigeration by DR.
Emil Hildebrandt. This meeting
will be followed by business ses-
sion.
Guests of honor will be 1t. Col
Ida Danjelson. assistant superin-
tendent of the Army Nurse Corps;
Capt. Sue S. Dauser, superintendent
of the Navy Nurse Corps: Miss Mary
Beard, director of the American Red
Cross Nursing Service: Miss Lucille
Petry. director of nurse education
United States Public Health Service
and Mrs. Walter Lippmann, national
director Of the Red Cross volunteer
nurses aides.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Restrictions Fail to Reduce
Montgomery Whisky Sales

houses. He explained that the re-
strictions were intended merely to
assure that county residents could
obtain their share Of the liquor
stocks.
While it was anticipated that
sales would drop after the order
became effective, the fact that pur-
chases have continued at their pre-
vious level indicated more county
residents are taking advantage of
the restrictions to purchase liquor
Dispensary officials said they did
not know whether any further re-
strictions would be imposed
1T all depends on whether our
supply of liquor is cut by the whole
salerS," one official said.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Arlington War Fund
Still $27,785 Short;
|5peedup Urged

With only $2O,715 of Arlington
County's War Fund quota of S48, 500
obtained. r. Wade Pearson, cam
paign chairman. yesterday urged
volunteer workers to speed up COL
lections and complete the canvass
ing of every home in the county be-
fore the drive ends Thursday.
In announcing that only AZ per
cent Of the quota had been reached,
Mr.. Pearson pointed out the loss to
the community If agencies depen-
dent on the fund were to function
at partial capacity.
The 1914 budget of $57.250, an
nounced yesterday by the Committee
on Budgets and Admissions, is as
follows: Board of Public Welfare
$4,000; Instructive Visiting Nurses
Society, s9,99O; Social Hygiene
Board, $1,000; Bureau of Nursing
Service, s2,230: Boy Scouts, $3.50;
Girl Scouts. $500; Negro Selective
Service Committee for Recreation
5000; reserve fund, $4,000; Office
$3.50, and the War Recreation
Center, $4,000.
The War Recreation Center, which
came under war fund ALLEGATION only
last year, after being supported by
local business concerns and civic
organizations, plans extension Of its
program to seven-day week. w. A.
Richardson, county recreational di-
rector said yesterday
Servicemen's dances will continue
to be held over week ends, Mr.. Rich
ardsOn said. and the remainder of
the week will be given over to recre-
ational programs for children and
adults
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Gillette to Address
Montgomery Club

Senator Gillette. Democrat. OF
Iowa, will address the Montgomery
County Woman's Democratic Club
at the annual meeting November
Is. A slate of officers to be voted
on at the meeting has been chosen
by the Nominating Committee.
The slate follows:
For president, Mrs. Roger Shaw
Rockville; first vice president, Miss
Laura Gilliland, Chevy Chase; sec
ond vice president, Mrs. Edith P
Allnutt, Rockville third vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Ralph A. Wells, Silver
Spring; secording secretary. Mrs
James Christopher. Bethesda cor
responding secretary. Mrs. Townley
Gamble, Silver Spring; treasurer
Mrs. Eloise Graham, Glen Echo;
parliamentarian Mrs. Robert Poole
Silver Spring, and auditors. Mrs
Alice Lyddane. Takoma Park and
Mrs. Morgan Allies, Chevy Chase.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
| Virginia Paroles
| ; Generations
OF Same Family

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Nov. 6.-The State
Parole Board has granted three
generations of the same family
the youngest only few months Ole
a new chance at freedom.
Up for the boards consideration
this week at the State Farm fol
Women in Goochland County came
a family group consisting of a
colored woman in her SOS, her two
daughters. ages Is and l9. and al
S-month-old baby born to one of the
girls shortly after her committal to
the farm.
The three women, sent to the
farm as the result of cutting affray
in a Northern Neck county a yeal
ago on charges of manning, were
eligible for parole Their prison
records had been good and they hac
no previous offenses. The board con-
cluded Parole Director William
Stands Meacham said, that three
generations in prison are toe
many"
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Election Of School Board
In District Recommended

A recommendation that the Dis
trict Board of Education be elected
rather than appointed was adopted
at a recent meeting of the Mary
land Congress of Parents anC
Teachers in ToWson.
The congress also urged that tut
ton fees at the three Maryland
State Teachers Colleges be elimi.
mated and that every encourage
ment be given to young people to
enter the teaching profession.
Other resolutions adopted called
for ratification by the States OF
the child labor amendment to the
Constitution, opposed employment
OF mothers of children under ID
years OF age until all other sources
of labor have been exhausted and
advocated use of Federal funds Ito
equalize educational opportunity
among the several States"
Mrs. Stanley G. Cook. Indian
head, was reelected president.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Georgia May Nominate
ArnaI| for Presidency
E. the Associated Press.

FL the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Nov. 6-The Atlanta
Constitution said tonight the name
of Gov, Arnall probably will be
placed in nomination for President
at the next Democratic National
Convention"
The paper added, And the
Georgia party, eager to give Georgi-
ans on far-flung battlefelds an op-
portunity to vote in next years pri-
mary probably will close its entries
two months earlier than customary"
These two important develop
ments," the Constitution declared,
were disclosed by Chairman J. Lon
Duckworth today as he prepared to
call a meeting of the State Demo-
cratic Executive Committee"
The CONSTITUTIONS story said
"Arnall would be Georgia's favor
ite son in play for better patron
age treatment for this State at the
hands of the national party
Evening star., 1943-11-07

coming nearer to meeting the de-
mand.
Public education on the need for
war housing also has helped to ease
the situation, as has the lifting OF
eligibility requirements for tenancy
war housing is now open to persons
who lived in the area before July
l94l, to single persons and to family
men earning more than S2.600 a
year.
Mrs, Adams said that because of
Alexandria reputation for hos
pltalitv built up during the World
War A great many men and women
in military service come to the center
not only to be housed. but to be
directed 10 homes where their
fathers lived during the World War
Not all these results are met. but
the center has managed to keep
many families together. One such
case was the wife of a man working
IN q defense construction Job who
was on her waV out of the city be-
cause she had been forced to live in
a trailer with three small children.
She passed the War Housing
Center and as a last resort. came
in and told worker her problem.
A home owner that same day had
asked the center to find a family
who would look after house in
return for living quarters, so two
problems were solved.
The personnel of the center. who
serve the public from am. to pm
on weekdays and from 10 a m. to
pm. on Sundays, are encouraged
by the number Of persons who make
a point Of coming back to thank the
workers for their interest and their
helm
Evening star., 1943-11-07

Despite the order restricting
whisky sales In Montgomery County
dispensaries to county residents,
liquor sales during the first week
of operation under the ruling have
been about AS large as before, ii
was learned last night.
The order. isued Tuesday by the
County Liquor Control Board. was
intended to stop "raiding" OF the
county liquor dispensary system by
out-of-County purchases from as
for South as North Carolina.
At the time, Beryl English, mana
ger of the dispensary system. en-
phasized that the order did not i'm
ply there was any shortage of sup
plies in the county liquor ware
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Housing Center in Alexandria
Solves Many Personal Problems

A young man walked into the
Alexandra War Housing Center re-
Gently for advice on how to tell his
Ilandlady he was moving.
He had found the room through
the center and wanted to know how
to break the news to his motherlv
landlady of his impending marriage
Another day young woman. Just
out of hospital and wobbly. came
in search of room A member OF
the staff took her in taxi to a
suitable room and helped to get her
settled.
These are two examples of the
interest that the center, a Gov
ernment agency under the National
Housing Agency, finds time to take
in its clients.
Since its recent move to new
quarters in fabricated house in
the 100 block of South WASHINGTON
street-AleXandrias S most central
location-the business of the War
Housing Center has doubled. More
than 100 persons a day, IS per cent
OF them military personnel, visit
the center in search of housing.
While the greatest demand is for
small furnished apartments. the
scarcest type of listing the ma ajor-
lty Of clients have been placed sat-
lsfactorilv in rooms. in units in war
housing projects or in houses con-
verted under the lease-conversion
plan.
With more husbands and sons
going into the armed forces, home
owners have become more anxious
to Go their part by opening then
homes to war workers, and the Su-
pervlsor, Mrs. Mary Louise Adams
said she finds the supply of rooms
Evening star., 1943-11-07
tuberculosis Authority
To Address Doctors Here

DR. Paul P Mccain, superin-
tendent of the North Carolina Sani-
torium for the Treatment Of Tuber-
culosis. will address the District
Medical Society at 8:l5 pm. Wed
nesday on The Role of the Privat.
Physician in the Broad Program fol-
Control Of tuberculosis in the Com
munity.'
Dr.. Mccain formerly was presi-
dent of the National tuberculosis
Association His presentation will
be discussed by 1t. Col. Esmond r
Long. chief of the medical branch
in the Once of Surgeon General of
the Army, and by DR.. A. Barklie
Coulter, director of the Bureau OF
tuberculosis of the District Health
Department. The program is spon-
sored by the District tuberculosis
Association.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Registration Scheduled
For Rifle Course

Registration for instruction in
rifle Workmanship will be held a,
8 pm. each "Wednesday at Bladens-
burg High School. Capt. Louis A
Day of Co. 938, Maryland Minute
men. which is sponsoring the rife
school. announced yesterday.
Capt. Day said the school pro-
vides preinduction training for pros
pective members of the armed forces
and has been approved by the Ma.
tlonal Rife Association and the Wa,
Department. Glasses meet from :
to $50 pm. each Monday at Nc.
kinley High School here.
Those completing the six-Week
course will receive certificates ISSUED
by the rife association.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Mrs. Brecht Christens
Tanker Wellesley

Mrs. Raymond C. Brecht. 13 West
Maple street, Alexandria. wife Of a
Time Magazine correspondent here,
christened the tanker Wellesley at
launching ceremonies yesterday at
the Bethlehem-Sparrows Point Ship
yards at Baltimore.
In recognition of continued high
production, Maritime Commission
official presented gold star to the
shipyards at the launching cere-
mony, which was attended by con-
tingents of WAVES, WACS, SPARS,
women marines and about 1000
SparroWs Point workers. The yard
won the commission M pennant
in February.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Sunday Service Parties
Planned in Alexandria

Open house for servicemen will
be held at 7:30 pm. every Sunday
beginning today, at 500 Wolfe
street, Alexandria, under the joint
sponsorship of the Army and Navy
Committee, the Jewish Welfare
Board and the Jewish Youth Or
ganization.
Chairman of today's program is
Miss Louise Rose She will be
assisted by the Misses Annette
Rumshin. Shirley Lehman, Sylvia
Morokner and Gertrude Brown
Miss Sylvia Blackman will be in
charge of next Sundays program
while Miss Anna Fagelson will be
chairman November 2l.