Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and colder, with lowest tempera- ture about 20 degrees tonight; tomorrow fair. Fresh northwest winds, diminishing tonight. Temperatures—Highest, 35, at 11 a.m. today; lowest, 28, at 10 p.m. yes- terday. Full report on page A-9. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto services, ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION @h g Star Yesterday's Circulation, 118,877 New York Markets Closed Today. Cntered as second class matter f;m office, Washington, D. C. Wirephoto Service Inaugurated As News Pictures Are Flashed Over 10,000 Miles of Lines The Associated Press Enlists Latest Device of Modern Magic to Tell Complete Story. No. 33,117. } ROOSEELT STAD ON BONUS SPURS CONPROVIS TAL Congress Leaders Prefer Mutual Agreement to Veto Fight. V. F. W. CHIEF ANSWERS PRESIDENT'S ARGUMENT Van Zandt Maintains Lawmakers | “Will Be Final Arbiters of This Issue.” By the Associated Press. Talk of possible compromises on the bonus to avert a knock-down-and- drag-out fight was intensified among Democratic leaders in Congress today. | With President Roosevelt expressing plain opposition to full and immediate | payment of the $2,100,000,000 soldiers’ bonus and powerful blocs in Congress enlisted in a drive for just such pay- | . ment, leaders were making no attempt to discount the magnitude of the fight | threatening. Thougly the opinion of the White House on any bargaining efforts was ot disciosed, several leaders who did _‘not wish to be quoted felt the Presi- | dent had not closed the door on such attempots. They made no secret of thei?preftrence for a mutual agree- meyt rather than a veto fight. / Roosevelt Veto Expected. /Whether a compromise acceptable to Poth sides could be reached remained | for the future to determine. Many | / of those who have fought for veterans’ legislation in the past have turned thumbs down on a suggestion to cash the certificates for only those veterans in need. There remained little doubt in the minds of most legislators that Mr. Roosevelt would vetc full and imme- diate payment, according to the views he expressed yesterday. In reply to a letter from Garland R. Former, head of the American Legion post at.Henderson, Tex., the President said, among other things, that there was misunderstanding on the subject; the certificates were all the assets many veterans had to leave for their families. He denied payment now would speed recovery. Van Zandt Answers. James E. Van Zandt, national com- | mander of the Veterans of Foreign | Wars, contended the misunderstand- ing was on the part of the President. “While we respect the views of President Roocsevelt on this and other matters of policy,” he said, “we be- lieve that Congress will be the final arbiter of this issue.” Denying the President’s assertion that former veterans had been given preference in employment, he spoke of the “dire need of these men and their families.” Raps Texas Commander. Assailing Comdr. Farmer as “by no means representative of World War veterans,” Van Zandt said the Texan | “served less than two months in an | ambulance unit.” In Henderson, Tex., Farmer said: “It was a great compliment to this | post to hear from President Roosevelt regarding his stand.” Declaring the bonus “does not mean anything to me, for I have not made application myself,” he explained he had written the letter to the President in behalf of members of his post. Entering the National Guard in 1917, he said, he had served “only a short while” before being discharged as underweight, Auxiliary Head in Battle. Mrs. A. C. Carlson, national presi- dent of the American Legion Auxiliary, said there was ‘“pressing need” for immediate payment. She said that “in his statement that adjusted com- pensation money, if paid, would go to clear indebtedness and that 85 per tent of the veterans who die leave only the adjusted compensation certificates for their families, the President has pointed sharply to the pressing need for immediate payment of the certifi- cates.” Leaders in Congress, including Rep- resentative Byrns of Tennessee, Were expressing the hope that the bonus issue could be settled quickly. Though some contended the fight might be a close one, veterans' leaders were claiming enough votes to pass the measure even over a presidential veto, —_— SUICIDE IN FURNACE Father Finds Body of Woman Burned to Death. GREENSBURG, Pa., January 1 (#). =The body of 39-year-old Margaret ‘Werkman was found burned almost beyond recognition in the furnace of her home by her father late yes- terday. Authorities termed the case “suicide.” State police, summoned by Coroner H. A. McMurray, said last night after completing an investigation that the ‘women had been disappointed in love and that she threatened suicide some- time ago. SLUG DISCOVERED ‘While 10,000 miles of telegraph wire hummed an electrifying refrain 38 newspapers in 25 of America's larger cities today blazoned their pages with magic pictures heralding a new epoch in journalism—the inauguration of Associated Press wirephoto service. There was nothing magic about the pictures themselves. It was in the transmission of them across thou- sands of miles of wire, with the speed | of telegraphed news, that newspaper- | dom marveled today—and mused upon its implications for the future. The first photograph to be wired from Washington when the conti- nental network of wirephoto lines was opened this morning was a picture of the Capitol, framed with boughs coated with last night's sleet. In less than 10 minutes this ordi- nary news picture, snapped by a Star photographer, had been received in negative form in two dozen cities and a few moments later positive prints of it were in the hands of editors of WASHINGTON, D. C, Turn to page A-5 for a full page of Wirephotos, illus- trating news events from distant cities of the continent. the 38 Associated Press wirephoto papers. Even while the ice-coated Capitol likeness was being flashed to distant points, the receiving machine in the wirephoto room on the third floor of The Star building was recording a negative wired across the continent. The telegraphing of pictures began at 3 am. without ceremony, but was hailed later today over Nation-wide 1adio networks. A first-hand descrip- tion of scenes in the wirephoto labo- ratory here was broadcast by the Co- iumbia Broadcasting Co. this morning. Frank B. Noyes, president of the Associated Press, was to explain the new service to the Nation over a coast- to-coast network of the National Broadcasting Co. at 2:45 pm. In an address prepared for the broadcast Mr. Noyes characterized wirephoto as “a momentous event in ! American newspaper history—perhaps the most important development in (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) INWOMAN'S LUNG Mrs. Katherine Briscoe, 51, Dies of Mysteriously In- flicted Wound. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, January 1.—A small piece of metal was found last night in the lung of Miss Katherine Briscoe, who died of a mysteriously inflicted | wound at her home. | Coroner Ferdinand C. Link described the bit of metal as “a small lead sub- | | stance resembling a bullet.” X-ray photographs taken by Dr. Howard J. Maldeis, city post-mortem physician, revealed the solid particle lodged in %mlddie of the right lung. He said it ‘would take some time to determine exactly what the object was. X-Ray Pictures to Be Taken. Miss Briscoe's brother, City Council- man Philander B. Briscoe, had an- nounced earlier he would have X-ray photographs taken of the body. An exploding bullet or other sub- stance in the furnace had been ad- vanced as possible causes of the mortal | wound Miss Briscoe suffered in the cellar of her home yesterday. Shortly after she had gone to stoke the furnace Miss Briscoe ascended the cellar stairs of her home, in an exclu- sive residential section of the city, and, pausing in a hallway, said: “‘Something struck me in the chest.” Her brother-in-law, Rear Admiral William S. Pye, noticing that a| sweater she wore was stained with blood, put a pillow under her head as she sank to the floor. Before a physi- cian arrived she was dead. Pyrite May Have Exploded. One theory was that she was killed by a bullet. Coroner Link said it was possible she had been struck by an exploding pyrite in the furnace. Miss Briscoe had put coal into the furnace a minute before her death. No trace of explosives were found in the ashes, however. Miss Briscoe had been in good health and spirits, police were told. They were informed also that no shot had been heard and no one had been seen in the cellar. No weapon was found. J. J. MURPHY ILL Spanish War Veteran Officer’s Condition Critical. TIFFIN, Ohio, January 1 (#).— James J. Murphy, 55, of Washington, quartermaster general of the United Spanish War Veterans, lies in a criti- cal condition in Mercy Hospital here. Murphy was stricken with a cere- bral hemorrhage while visiting friends here over the holidays. — BODY OF U. S. MAN FOUND Identified by Cubans as “Prof. . William Stute.” HAVANA, January 1 (#).—Author- ities at nearby Mariel have reported fishermen had found a body floating on the sea. The dead man was iden- tified as Prof. William Stute, an Amer- ican who had been missing for a week. Authorities were unable to identify the man further or say from what part of the United States he came. They could not fmmediately ascertain the circumstances of his drowning. Rider Saved as Mule Plunges “Qver 1,000-Foot Cliff—It’s Lie By the Associated Press. Chicago, January 1.—Five thousand Hars were turned loose on a helpless public today, and the worst was none too good for them. They were lean from a year's train- ing for the annual tournament of the Burlington (Wis.) Liars’ Club, and when they stripped for action the lies ‘were pretty barefaced. California weather braggarts, of course, led all the rest in numbers, but they took no prizes home. The judges, home-trained them- selves in the prevaricator’s art, passed up the embellished tale of Esther Anderson, McKeesport, Pa., that her grandfather’s boyhood tintype had grown a full beard when found in the attic recently. They voted the medal for world's champion liar, which hasn't : i STEEL CHALLENGE OF N.R.A. IS SEEN Legal Battle May Result in Collapse of Talks for Labor Truce. By the Associated Press. As a result of the collapse of negotiations for a steel labor truce, observers foresee a legal fight which mey find the United States Steel | 51, member of an old Maryland family, | Corp. carrying a challengs to the | Tecovery act up to the United States | Supreme Court. an order for elections to determine collective bargaining representatives at the Duguesne. Pa., and McDonald, | ©Ohio, plants of the Carnegie Steel Co., | 8 subsidiary of United States Steel. | Steel officials already had made known | they would not surrender pay rolls for the purpose of making up eligi- bility lists for such elections. Act Held Unconstitutional, When petitions for elections came before the board, the corporation contended the recovery act was un- constitutional and that employes had an opportunity to choose their repre- sentatives at elections of officials of the employe representation plan, which American Federation of Labor men call a “company union.” The order for the elections marked , the break-down of negotiations for a | six-month truce between the steel leaders and the A. F. of L. steel union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. Union ' leaders wanted “majority rule” under | which representatives chosen by a majority of workers would represent all, while the Steel Corporation offered . to recognize the Amalgamated as rep- Tesenting its members if demands for | elections were dropped. Desired Truce Not Reached. The White House recently took a hand in the negotiations, but the de- sired truce could not be reached. Charlton Ogburn, counsel to the Amalgamated, called on U. S. Steel officlals “to carry out their promise made last Summer to the steel board to co-operate with the board.” MILLION FIGHT TO SEE ROSE BOWL PARADE Normal Winter Tourist 'l'l'a!fieiI Swollen Beyond All Bounds for Game Today. The Steel Labor Board has !ssued! By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 1.—Every road, highway, byway and country lane leading from Los Angeles to Pasadena was in a traffic jam today, ! as 1,000,000 persons fought their way to the route of the Tournament of Roses parade and a second wave of | 85,000 struggled toward the Rose Bowl, where foot ball teams from Ala- bama and Stanford universities meet. The normal Winter tourist traffic was swollen beyond all bounds, with! every major hotel in the two cities re- porting all available space taken. —iag FISHING TUGS SAFE Fear for Lake Vessels Dispelled With Arrivals. HARBOR BEACH, Mich, January 1 (#)—Fears for the safety of two fishing tugs, reported missing on Lake Huron, were dispelled today with the arrival of both boats at Harbor Beach. The Vern T. was towed in by the Coast Guard patrol boat Cardigan. The Roamer, the second of the two trade value, to Verne L. Osborn of Centralia, Wash., who had told of “I was nonplussed for the nonce,” said Osborn, “but when we were with- in 10 feet of the bottom I recovered my wits. ‘'Whoa, there,’ I shouted. “The mule was so darned well trained he stopped dead in his tracks. 1 got off and dropped gently the re- maining few feet.” boats owned by W. C. Thomas of Unionville, Mich., reached port under its own power. No 5:30 Today Because of the holiday there will be no 5:30 or Night Final editions of The Star Today. Night Final subscribers will receive the Regular Edition, lof part of the Lindbergh ransom TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1935—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. DRSS RERERSIL FOR HAIPTHANN TRAL I PROGRES Jersey Calls All Members of Legal Staff to Go Over Evidence. COUNTY ENGINEER WILL BE FIRST TO TESTIFY Betty Gow and Col. Lindbergh Will Be Among First Witnesses Called by State. BULLETIN, NEW YORK, January 1 (#)— . Lloyd Fisher, associate counsel for Bruno Richard Hauptmann, said today he would invite John Hughes Curtiss, Norfolk, Va., boat builder, to testify for the defense in Hauptmann’s trial on a chdrge of murdering the Lindbergh baby. By the Assoclated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J,, January 1.— The State called a dress rehearsal today of the court room drama in which it will attempt to send Bruno Richard Hauptmann to the electric chair for the slaying of the kidnaped Lindoergh baby. All members of the State’s legal staff went to Trenton to review their mass of evidence in a conference that is, as far as is known, the last preliminary to the opening tomorrow of the trial of America's most celebrated criminal case. An official source said the program for the conference included a fina# questioning of witnesses regarding evidence they will place before the Hauptmann jury. Hauptmann himself sat stoically in his cell, seemingly apathetic to the fate that awaits him, whether it be acquittal or conviction of the most widely-storied kidnaping and slaying of the century. Roberts to Be Witness, ‘The first witness, it has been indi- cated authoritatively, will be Walter Roberts, Hunterdon County engineer, who will place before the jury a word picture of the terrain involved. Roberts is expected first to describe the home of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh in the Sourland Mountains, near Hopewell, whence their infant son was taken the night of March 1, 1932. The engineer also will tell of the roads in the vicinity of the Lindbergh estate, to show how the kidnaper could have reached the scene, seized the child and made his getaway. Betty Gow, the comely Scotch nurse- maid of the child, who crossed the ocean to testify, will recount how she put the child to bed in his crib in the second-floor nursery, and how she looked at the crib a short time later to find the child gone. The alarm she gave, first apprising him of the loss of his son, and the initial steps he took to notify police, will be described by Col. Lindbergh. Mountaineers to Testify. Then will follow other vital testi- mony, telling of the arrival of the first policeman on the scene, the find- ing of the ladder, with one rung bro- ken, leaning against the wall, and reaching to the nursery window, dis- covery of footprints in the mud around the base of the ladder and the finding of fresh automobile tracks on the road. The State will introduce Sourland mountaineers, who have alleged they saw Hauptmann, or a man closely re- sembling him, in the vicinity, prior to the kidnaping. ‘Through the several weeks, from the time the child was kidnaped, to the time its body was found a few miles away, in the underbrush by a roadside, the State will carry the story, telling of the futile ransom negotiations and the payment of $50,000 by the Lind- bergh intermediary, Dr. J. F. “Jafsie” Condon, to the supposed kidnaper. ‘The story will reach a climax in the arrest of Hauptmann, for possession I money. JUDGE ASKS JURORS TO CONVICT WOMAN Recommends Action in Case of Californian Accused of Slay- ing Husband. By the Associated Press. MERCED, Calif., January 1.—Con- viction of Mrs. Bertha Talkington, ac- cused of murdering her husband, was recommended by the judge here in an unprecedented procedure made pos- -sible by a new criminal law. Superior.Judge E. N. Rector, a vet- eran of 40 years on the bench, made the recommendation last night before the jury was sent to bed after failing to report a verdict. Mrs. Talkington is charged with fatally shooting her husband, L. I. Talkington, Watonsville barber, last October. ENGLISHMAN HANGED FOR KILLING OWN BABY Young Mother, Convicted in Same Case, Glets Life in Prison After Pleas. By the Associated Press. LEEDS, England, January 1.— Frederick Rushworth, 29-year-old farm hand, was hanged in Armley b‘mwn today for the murder of his He was convicted with Mrs. Lydia | Binks, 24-year-old domestic, of bury-. ing their child alive. Both were| sentenced to death, but the woman's sentence was commuted to life im- prisonment after thousands joined. in petitioning the home office that she be granted clemency. —— Paraguayau Victory Reported. ASUNCION, Paraguay, January 1 (/) —Paraguayan forces in the Chaco, it was officially reported, have scored a victory in the Ibibobo sector, slay- ing 600 Bolivians and taking 2,000 prisoners, : |ning and the ’WELCOI.A E! | HOPE YOULL BE D To MEAS FoLo 34 was! \S N N \ N Y N\ EARTH HELD SOLE ABODE OF HUMANS Living Creatures Must Get Oxygen From Rocks Bil- lion Years Hence. BY THOMAS R. HENRY, Staff Correspondent of The Star. PITTSBURGH, January 1—The earth alone in the vastness of the | solar system is the probable abode of | life. Its two closest neighbors, Venus and | Mars, appear to represent the begin- end of the process through which this world is passing, according to the evidence presented before the American Association for the Advancement of Science here last nigit by Dr. Henry Norris Russell of Princeton University in his presiden- tial address. The earth, however, is probably a billion years from the beginning and at-least a billion years from the deso- late ending, when, if any living crea- tures remain, they must set up enor- mous plants for the electrolysis of oxygen from rocks to keep the fires of life burning, Prof. Russell said. Oxygen, he pointed out, is almost identical with life itself and the other planets, with the possible exception of Venus, show very little of it in avail- able form. In the beginning, Dr. Rus- sell explained, it is certain that the earth was very hot and the gases which formed its primitive atmos- phere, their molecules excited to great speeds of motion by the great tem- perature, must have escaped to outer | space. This left a globe with prac- tically no atmosphere at all. Oxygen Forced Out. But all the time it was cooling and solidifying. As its heavier elements “froze,” oxygen an dother gases were forced out of them. But this time the earth was cool enough so that their molecules could not attain speeds great enough to overcome the planet’s gravity and escape. Thus the world attained a new and permanent at- mosphere and the stage was set for the coming of life. “The present rich supply of oxy- gen,” Dr. Russell said, “appears to be a by-product of terrestrial life it- self. The earth may be regarded as an intensively vegetated planet from whose atmosphere the greedy plants extract the remaining residue of car- bon cioxide so rapidly that if it were not returned to the air by combus- tion, respiration and decay the whole supply would be exhausted in a dec- ade or so. Oxygen removed from the atmosphere by these processes is returned by the plants.” So none of the life-giving oxygen actually is wasted by breathing and life might go on forever except for another, and unnoticed, phenome- non—the combination of oxygen and jron. As iron compounds are exposed to the atmosphere by such processes as rock weathering they form combi- nations with oxygen and never re- turn it. In the billion-odd years dur- ing which this process hag been going on iron may have captured twice as much oxygen out of the atmosphere (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) CARDINAL BOURNE, 73, DIES IN LONDON Archbishop of Westminster, Foe of Soviet, Succumbs With Only Nurse at Bedside. By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 1.—Death closed the career of Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, early to- The 73-year-old prelate died of heart disease. Ever since his return from a visit to the Vatican in 1932, he had been in ill health. His condition became critical last Saturday. The churchman’s last public ap- pearance was at Christmas day serv- ices in Westminster Cathedral. London, Cardinal Bourne's birth- place and scene of his rapid rise in the Catholic hierarchy, still was shouting its welcome to the New Year as the prelate died. Only his nurse was at his bedsids e. In recent years the prelate had fre- quently denounced the attitude of t Russia Sovief toward religion. He urged Catholics throughout the world to seek to improve the situation of ussian Christians. Bn was expected Cardinal Bourne would be buried beneath the altar of Gelilee Chapel at L] Capital Man Dives Into Four Mile Run To Rescue Motorist J. Richard Dietrich, 1907 Thirty- seventh street, included in his New Year festivities early today a swim in Four Mile Run. Dietrich was driving along low- er road from Washington to Alex- andria about 4 am., when the car ahead of him skidded on the icy pavement and plunged into the creek. Dietrich dove in, wrestled with the door of the sunken automobile, and extricated J. William Devers, chief stewart at Lawton Reformatory, who was unhurt. Devers went to work this morn- ing as usual and Dietrich went home to ward off possible con- sequence of his Midwinter swim. LENTENGY BANNED ON 1354 CAR TAGS 2,000 Autos Temporarily “Benched” as Deadline Is Passed. Failure of motorists to observe timely warnings as to the absolute deadline at 8 a.m. today on use of | 11934 automobile tags, found 2,000 | cars temporarily “benched” this| morning, despite the fact 4,000 sets | were issued yesterday in a last-min- ute rush. New Year revelers were permitted to drive unmolested last night, but Assistant Supt. of Police L. I. H. Ed- wards announced no leniency would be shown after the deadline hour. Issuance Record Set. Employes of the office of the direc- tor of vehicles and traffic set a new record yesterday for the amount of tags issued in any four-hour period, and announced, after a check-up, 112,600 sets of 1935 tags had been issued up to the close of business. Traffic Director Willam A. Van Duzer declared there would be no extension of the life of last year's s. More than 980 warrants for traffic violations were served during the tag issuance period, with over 600 still being held. Removal Today Ordered. Automobiles will have to be removed from the streets after 6 p.m. today, if tags have not been changed. Strict orders have been given to enforce the no-extension ruling, which is the first for several years. Scarcity of tags apparently created thievery last night, when 1935 tags be- longing to William J. Dowling, 1221 Randolph street, were stolen from the back seat of his automobile. TEXAN SLAIN WHILE SON IS HELD IN COOK’S DEATH County Treasurer Mysteriously Killed, While Police Link Youth to Second Murder. By the Associated Press. SHEPHERD, Tex., January 1.—The fatal shooting of Charles Clark, 52- year-old county treasurer, puzzled offi- cers here today, while the official’s son was charged with murder in con- nection with the slaying of Frank Laverine, 30. Clark was found shot to death in a beer parlor he operated, while Lav- erine’s body was found in a ditch near the place. Laverine was employed as & cook at Clark’s establishment. Sheriff R. D. Hollingshead blamed the shooting of Laverine on an argu- ment over the affections of an 18- year-old girl. Murder charges were filed against Clark’s son, Tyrus, and Clarence Lowrie, a Livingston tailor. Officers said they believed Clark had been killed while Tobbers, Guide for Readers Page. N ;‘\ \\ \ | the concentrated effort of police to | | prevent casualties. | (P) Means Associated Press. GRL 18, ISKILLED INHEAD-ON CRASH Nine Others Are Injured as| Result of New Year Accidents. The death of an 18-year-old high} school girl and serious injury of two | of nine other traffic victims last night added tragedy to the new year despite Miss Irma Crouch, 1913 Pennsyl- vania avenue, was killed instantly and | her twin sister Audrey and three male | companions injured in a head-on col- lision in the 2300 block of Bladens- | burg road. Both girls attended West- ern High School. Leaving a party at the Kennedy- Warren Apartments to pick up a girl friend the group collided with an- other automobile driven by Stanley H. Hirst, 34, chief petty officer, attached to the Naval Air Station, Anacostia, | ba Irma was killed when her head shat- tered the front windshield. Driver Slightly Hurt. John K. Hillers, 19, of 238 Pirst street southeast was driving the car. He received but slight lacerations and bruises to the head and right eye. The girl's sister was treated at Provi- dence Hospital for leg injuries and released. Passing motorists rushed Irma to Emergency Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The sisters resembled each other so | closely that it was impossible to tell which had been killed until Audrey recovered from the shock and was able to tell her name. Hirst was being held pending a coroner’s investigation. Hillers was released by police. Others injured in the crash, which occurred not far from where Traffic Policeman Raymond Sinclair was killed Friday, are Earl F. Yingling, 20, of 714 Nineteenth street, and Russell F. Murphy, 17, of 3517 Thirteenth street., Yingling was released after treatment at Providence Hospital, while Murphy remained at Emergency Hospital in an undetermined condi- tion. Meantime the all-time traffic fatal- ity record here reached 135, when Louis Brown, 56, of 1320 Tenth street died yesterday in Sibley Hospital from injuries received when struck by an automobile November 2. Two Seriously Hurt. Charles B. Falbush, 61, of 3607 Fourteenth street, and Emma Lewis, 38, of 4912 Grant street northeast, were the seriously injured persons. Falbush, police said, was struck by a street car while crossing at Four- teenth street and Spring road, re- ceiving head lacerations, while the Lewis woman was struck by an auto- mobile while crossing the street near her home. Police said the automo- bile which struck her was driven by John R. Jones, 21, colored, of 1092 Rosedale street northeast, inflicting lacerations to the face and possible internal injuries. Both were taken to Garfield Hospital. Other victims, less seriously injured, are: William Shreves, 31, of 123 Thir- teenth street; Edwin Beall, 17, of 147 ‘Tennessee avenue northeast, both treated at Casualty Hospital after an accident at Kentucky avenue and C street southeast, and Sergt. George L. Adams, U. S. A, injured when his car skidded into a telephone pole on Queens Chapel road. He was treated at Walter Reed Hospital for head in- juries and lacerations to the face. Some Returns Not Yet Recelved TWO CENTS. 6.0.P.INHOUSE TOPRATLOSSES ON COMMITTES Snell Indicates Places Will Not Be Given Up With- out Protest. AGREEMENT IS CLAIMED ON LINE-UP IN SENATE Holt to Wait for Birthday. Roosevelt Busy—Budget Mes- sage Slated Monday. By the Associated Press. Democratic leaders, mustering their strength today to put the Roosevelt program through the Seventy-fourth Congress, opening Thursday, found House Republicans fighting any at- tempt to cut the G. O. P. strength in committees that will consider major measures. Senate plans have been made Sen= ator Robinson of Arkansas, Demo- cratic leader, said he and Senator Mc- Nary of Oregon, Republican ~hief, had effected a tentative arrangement to give the majority party two more members on a number of committees and the minority two less. This. it was said, would be in line with the increased majority f~r the Democrats. Such a move in ..any cases would give the Democrats more than a 2-to-1 preponderance on cor= mittees. Though a similar step has been discussed among House members, leaders made no announcemen’. Repe resentative Bertrand H. Snel! of New York, probable choice for minority leader, has indicated he would pro- test such action. Budget Message Monday. The President, despite the holiday, worked on his program. Lictle ine formation about it has yet reacned Capitol Hill. After the presidential message Friday—which is expected to deal with aims and principles in gene eral outline—the budget message Mon= day will reveal how much spending is contemplated. Aside from the bonus, administra= tion leaders indicated they see few signs of any revolt that would threate en seriously a White House leadere ship. Talk of possible compromises to avert an out-and-cut veto fight om the veterans' bonus was intensified. Organization problems absorbed the leaders today. Senate chiefs tentae tively decided that after Congress meets they may take up the disputed proposal to have the United States join the World Court and cousider it un&l other legislation is ready for dee The House was ready to start grinding out appropriation bills. But it first faced what looked like a pos- sible “free-for-all” fight over the floor leadership. Representative Byrns was cone ceded the speakership chair, but the majority leadership was still at issue. Lea Is Big Facter. Supporters of Representatives Banke head of Alabama were predicting vice tory in the Democratic caucus to=- morrow. But Representative Lea of California, after receiving the indorse= ment of his State’s delegation of 13, said that since the South has the speakership. the West or North should get the other high post. Seve eral others also are in the fight. Organization on the Senate side was only a formality. Both present leaders—Robinson for the Democrats and McNary for the Republicans— were safe. Even questions of seating, which had threatened trouble, were getting ironed out. Rush D. Holt, Demo- cratic Senator-elect from West Vire ginia, said he would comply with the advice of veteran Democrats to stand aside until June 19, when he reaches the constitutional age of 30. Seat Contest Forecast. Senator Cutting’s Democratic oppo- nent, Dennis Chavez, said he would carry the seat contest to the Senate. Cutting’s certificate of election means he will be sworn in on the opening day, if he arrives in time. After that it would take a two-thirds vote to remove him. The Democrats had agreed not to make a point of the absence of a cer= tificate for Senator Austin, Repub- lican, of Vermont, whose papers cane not be ready for a week. Awaited with more interest than anything else was President Roose- velt's recommendations on relief. Leaders called this the paramount is- sue, though not so controversial as the bonus. With Legislatures of many States meeting this month, congressional chiefs were anxious to get the relief problem out of the way so the State lawmakers could tackle their part of the burden before adjourning. Athlete Kills Father. BALTIMORE, January 1 (#).—El. mer Hyer, 15-year-old high school athlete, early today fatally wounded his stepfather, Bernard Wietheger, in what he said was defense of his mother against her husband’s abuses. Two Dawsons Change Minds And Ask Nice to Divide Jobs BY JACK ALLEN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., January 1.— The Dawson patronage problem, or the question of “who's going to be what” under Maryland's new Repub- lican administration, is right back where it began Saturday night. It appears that, after all, Gov.-elect Harry W. Nice will have to act as um- pire in the game of Dawson vs, Daw- son over the position of Secretary of State. The two cousins, Walter W. Daw- son and Thomas L. Dawson, have re- versed the stand they took yesterday and have tossed the issue squarely into the lap of their benefactor. Nice announced Saturday night he would appoint one of the cousins to the State position and the other to ;'he office g p‘counldm to !.hlcnll‘ryllnd- ational Park Planning ‘Gommission, 1 He said the decision as to “who's going to be what” rested with the two cousins. Thus the Dawsons put their heads together and out came the formal statement yesterday that Walter was to be the Secretary of State, while the legal work of the park and plan- ning body would be handled by Tom. And so the matter stood until last night. A second parley was then held in the House of Dawson and the cousins amicably decided that it would be better to leave the verdict to Gov.- elect Nice. Nice was reached by telephone ep he agreed to take the problem the cousins' hands and set matter, with indications tp instead of Walter would b of State after & m P >