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Letters Linking Dies And Pelley Forged, Says Committee Washingtonian Admits Faking Documents, Statement Reveals By the Associated Press. A Dies’ committee witness has testified, the committee announced after a secret session, that he forged letters purporting to link Chairman Dies with William Dudley Pelley, Silver Shirts leader. Excerpts from the letters were placed in the Gongressional Record of January 22 by Representative Hook, Democrat, of Michigan, who said they were signed “Pelley.” The latter’s organization has been termed a “Fascist” group by the Dies’ Com- mittee. The witness, a Washington man, was said in a committee statement last night, to have given the fol- lowing testimony: He was approached by ene Harold ‘Weisberg, who said that a “certain group” headed by Weisberg and Gardner Jackson of labor's Non- partisan League was seeking infor- mation to show collusion between Representative Dies and “Fascist groups.” - Offered $100 as Retainer. In return for such information, he said, Mr. Weisberg “offered to pay him $100 as a retainer and in addition to obtain for him a posi- tion in the Agriculture Department through the influence of Gardner Jackson and his contacts in the Government.” (Mr. Jackson formerly was em- ployed in the office of the consum- ers’ counsel in the Agriculture De- partment.) The witness then said he manu- factured the bogus letters, turned them over to Mr. Weisberg and re- ceived $100. His motive, in addition to the consideration, was said by the wit- ness to have been a desire to put Mr. Weisberg, Mr. Jackson and their associates “out on a limb.” The committee’s statement thus indicated that Mr. Weisberg and Mr. Jackson believed the letters to be genuine. Both Mr. Weisberg and Mr. Jack- son issued statements last night as- sailing the committee’s procedure in making public its account of the testimony without hearing from them. Both offered to testify. Inaccurate Attack Charged. Mr. Jackson said the committee statement was “full of innuendo and falsehood,” and Mr. Weisberg called it “a one-sided and inaccurate at- tack on me, based entirely upon the remarks of a self-confessed forger.” Mr. Jackson said he did not know the witness named by the committee as having forged the letters and “to the best of my knowledge I have never laid eyes on him.” In another development yesterday, Mr. Hook told newsmen he had re- fused to appear at a secret session of the Dies committee in connection with letters he said showed an asso- ciation between Chairman Dies and an “active collaborator” with the hristian Front. “I'll be glad to present this ma- terial when Martin Dies presides at the meeting he says he is going to call me before, at an open public session,” Mr. Hook said. Woodring Opposes All Press Censorship By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 31.—Even if this country were at war, Secretary of ‘War Woodring said last night he would oppose any censorship of the American press. Addressing several hundred writ- ers and advertising men at a grid- irdn dinner, the cabinet member declared: “I have sufficient faith in the loyalty of our American newspaper men to rely on their judgment in keeping the columns of the press free from anything that will give aid and comfort to our enemies.” Mr. Woodring asserted the Neu- trality Act “greatly lessened” the possibility of this country becoming involved in war, but warned “we cannot feign ignorance” of the trouble abroad or.of the issues in- volved. “We have strengthened our Army and Navy,” he said, “but armies and navies do not shield us from inter- nal deterioration. “We must also preserve the house of democracy against the termites of social, political and economic problems. “Though we can insulate ourselves from Europe in a military sense, we cannot hope to dwell unscathed Irom the social, moral and economic consequences of this second World War.” The cost of the waste of war is assessed not alone against the van- quished, Mr. Woodring continued, but “also with tragic impartiality against the victor and the neutral.” “There may be for us some imme- diate financial gain from war or- ders,” he admitted, “yet an inevi- table, tremendous economic loss in the readjustment period after peace.” Mr. Woodring closed his discus- sion of the European conflict by say- g: “Candor compels the observation that at the present moment there is nothing in the international situa- tion that justifies the belief in an early end of the war.” Cassini Divorce Case At Temporary Standstill By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 3l1.—Merry Fahrney Cassini’'s divorce suit against her fourth husband, Oleg Cassini, came to a temporary stand- still today in a series of private con- ferences between counsel for both sides. Shortly after noon, the suit had not been resumed. Yesterday, the patent medicine heiress’ former butler testified he had seen her entertain three men on various occasions. The butler was a witness for Cassini, who is contesting the suit. Earlier, he had denied his wife’s assertions, saying he merely was reading a magazine and was clothed fully when she, Pickering and Robert S. Boyland, a friend, walked into his room. Meanwhile it developed that Le Grande Griswold, who had been named yesterday by the butler as one of Merry's intimates, had ob- tained s license to marry Vassilks Petrova, s Bulgarian beauty, Revealed by U. Discovery Mdy Mark Conquest of One THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Typhus Vaccine Hatched in Egg |Fight for More Funds S. Scientists Of World's Most Dreaded Diseases By THOMAS R. HENRY. A typhus fever vaccine “hatched” in hen'’s eggs, which is effeciive in protecting guinea pigs and may mark the beginning of the con- quest of one of the greatest scourges known to the human race, was an- nounced today by the United States Health Service. The last great typhus epidemic was in Russia in 1922-23. There were approximately 20,000,000 cases and the deaths were variously esti- mated at from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000. It is the scourge which almost invariably has accompanied wars up to the time of the World War, when there was no great outbreak. While this was attributed to better sani- tation, there is no evidence that it was more than a minor factor. All the armies were attacked by the so-called “trench fever” which be- longs to the same family as typhus and is spread by the same insect, but is much milder. It practically disappeared from the world with the armistice. The epidemic typhus, such as ac- companies wars, is spread by human lice. In the World War there were about as many of these as in any other, but the only serious war out- break was in 1915 in Serbia. There was an unexplained outbreak of about 4,000 cases in Chile in 1936. An outbreak in the present World War would be by no means im- probable, Public Health Service doc- tors say—especially if morale gets low, as must now be the case with the Russians in Finland. Once started an epidemic is difficult to stop and may spread through all the fighting foxces. One Vaccine Was Costly. There has been at least one effec- tive vaccine in the past but it has been far too costly to produce on a large scale. It is estimated that one man, working night and day for a month, might have produced enough of it to vaccinate 10 or 12 men. Another vaccine, cheaper to manufacture, used live virus of the disease. First produced by French doctors in Tunis, it resulted in sev- eral fatalities in the Chilean out- break. vaccine was produced by Herald R. Cox, a bacteriologist, and E. John Bell, a laboratory assistant, under the direction of Dr. Rolla E. Dyer, assistant director of the hygienic laboratory. The technique used was to incu- bate an egg for four or five days and then inject into the embryo some of the typhus organisms. The embryonic chick will live and keep on developing for a few days after this is done. As soon as it is dead the material within the eggshell is removed. The vaccine is then sep- The new Public Health Service | arated by means of centrifuging and drawing off certain fluids. Best results were obtained when only the residues from the yolk sacs were used. Guinea Pigs Vaccinated. Guinea pigs then were vaccinated. After more than a month they were given very virulent doses of the typhus fever organisms. Out of 106 vaccinated animals 82 were pro- tected completely. Sixteen had only one day of fever while eight had two days. Three of the vaccines used had been kept in cold storage for three and a half months before use and proved just as effective as those freshly made—a matter of vital im- portance in vaccinating entire armies or populations, as probably would be done if a virulent epi- demic broke out. The vaccine can be produced in almost any desired quantities in a few days and at an almost negligible cost. Mr. Cox and Mr. Bell got their idea from successfully “hatching” in hen eggs a vaccine for Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a malady distantly related to typhus. Hitherto manufacture of spotted fever vac- cine had been dangerous and costly. The United States has seldom been bothered with true epidemic typhus, such as has accompanied throughout history the armies and prison camps of Europe and cost far more, lives than all the gunpowder ever used in war. There is & milder American variation, enemic typhus, which is spread by rat lice, and of which there are frequent sporadic out- breaks. Tests with guinea pigs show, Mr. Cox and Mr. Bell say, that the new vaccine protects against this malady also, but not so well as against the far more deadly Euro- pean form. Practical Test Lacking. Thus far it has only been demon- strated, Dr. Dyer stressed, that the new vaccine works with guinea pigs. A man does not necessarily react in the same way, although guinea pig cures usually are found to apply to human beings. At present there is no typhus epidemic in the world where a practical test can be made on a large scale and it would be unreasonable to vaccinate a human being and then infect him with a deadly disease as an experiment. Even then, one case would not have much meaning. If equally applicable to men and guinea pigs, as the Public Health surgeons believe, knowledge of the vaccine, if kept secret, might easily mean the difference between victory and defeat for either side in the present war, despite improved mili- tary sanitation. The Public Health Service findings, however, are being published for the world. Women's Golf Commitfee Votes Tourney Changes Radical changes in the 1940 tour- nament setup for the women golfers of Washington were approved today by the Executive Committee of the Women’s District Golf Association at their first meeting of the year at the Columbia Country Club. Four major tournaments, includ- ing the one for The Evening Star Trophy, will find the fields divided by handicaps and played on two courses. Another tournament—for the Mrs. Frank R. Keefer Cup—will be limited to players with handicaps up to 25. At the same time Mrs. Robert A. Lacey, president, announced a list of committee appointments for 1940. Mrs. Frank Kramer of the Manor Country Club again will head the important Tournament Committee, In charge of the District team matches will be Mrs. J. C. Dale of Kenwood. Mrs. F. D. Letts of Chevy Chase {s named first team captain, while Mrs. Phelps Adams of Wash- ington is second team captain. Heading the intercity team will be Mrs. Bishop Hill of Chevy Chase, Mrs. W. L. Weible of Army Navy and Mrs. John Lever of Congres- sional head the Handicap and Prize Committees, while Mrs. R. L. Rose of Congressional is chairman of the Rules Committee. The report of the Executive Com- mittee now goes to- the various member clubs for final approval. Heretcfore the tournament fields have played on one course. S. E. C. Studies Setup Of 200 Businesses By the Associated Press. The Securities and Exchange Com- mission reported to Congress yes- terday it was analyzing the corpo- rate structure of 200 of the Nation's largest businesses in an effort to determine what problems might be solved by requiring Federal incorpo- ration. The commission's research, dis- cussed in its fifth annual report, stemmed from the Federal Mo- nopoly Committee’s inquiry. Among the questions for which it seeks answers, the S. E. C. said, were the extent of holdings by offi- cers and directors of equity securi- ties in their own companies and provisions for calling and conduct- ing meetings of stockholders, issuing securities, altering capital structure and changing by-laws. The commission expressed itself as favoring the formation within the National Association of Securi- ties Dealers, Inc., of smaller asso- ciations for brokers and dealers who specialize in particular types of se- curities, such as oil royalties or municipal bonds. George H. Earle Slated ['As Envoy to Bulgaria By the Assoctated Press. Senator Guffey, Democrat, of Pennsylvania said today the nomi- nation of former Gov. George H. Earle of Pennsylvania to be Minis- ter to Bulgaria would be sent to the Senate this week or early next week. Mr. Earle previously had been listed for assignment to Ireland. Senator Guffey said s change was made because Mr. Earle was ex- perienced in Balkan affairs. He was Minister to Austria before becoming Governor. Danes Fire on Plane COPENHAGEN, Jan. 31 (®—A Danish coastal battery fired a warg- ing shot when a German plane fi over Danish waters at Oresund today. The plane immediately left Danish territory. Landscape Architects To Inspect Capifal's Developments Society Tonight Joins Federal City Committee In Dinner to Planners An executive business session, at which it was forecast several im- portant resolutions might be passed, was to occupy members of the Amer- ican Society of Landscape Architects today in the last session of their three-day annual conference at the Mayflower Hotel. Following luncheon they were to make a field trip of the central Fed- eral area, museum exhibits, public parks, recreation centers, public and private housing projects, the new National Airport at Gravelly Point and other points of interest. Tonight they will co-operate with the Committee of 100 on the Fed- eral City of the American Planning and Civic Association in giving a dinner in honor of the National Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion at the Willard Hotel. Park Designing Emphasized. They heard yesterday that it is the :uty of landscape architects to proviue better designs for parks, par- ticularly county and State parks of the Rock Creek variety, so as to in- sure lower maintenance and opera- tion costs and more and wider use of parks by the public. This was suggested at a round-table discussion by three men, two of them at present members of the National Park Serv- ice, and the third a former member of the National Park Service. “Parks are the last thing to get increased appropriations and the first to take cuts in appropriations when an economy drive is on,” Con- rad L. Wirth, society member and director of land use, recreation and State co-operation for the Park Service, told them. Therefore, he added, parks must be designed so that the most inex- pensive and yet attractive and use- ful types result, he said. “In Washington, our National Capital, we have spent great sums in beautification of our parks and we are criticized for not taking care of recreation for those who need it,” he said. “We are not meeting the problem of increasing leisure time as we should. We are just getting started. ‘The responsibility lies with us land- scape architects.” Mr. Wirth, Melvin B. Borgeson, & former member of the Park Service, and 8. S. Kennedy of the Park Serv- ice outlined for their audience some of the problems which must be looked into if the leisure time of the public is to be provided for. Urges Voice by Local Population. Earl Draper of the Tennessee Valley Authority pointed out that the character of the public to be served must be carefully looked into and that local populatjons must be given some say in the development and control of parks. Henry V. Hubbard, member of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, who summarized the discussion, told the landscape archi- tects to beware of too much special- ization in their fields, a procedure advocated during the discussion by several members of the soclety. “See that you remain lords of high decision rather than mere planters and.fit park development into a huge national and local pattern,” he said. b Yesterday the society empowered its Board of Trustees to draw up a list of the society’s membership for governmental agencies as & means of supplying s roster of accredited landscape architects. Shiffed to Senate By Farm Bloc Leaders Protest They Have Not Had Time To Study Slashes BACKGROUND— i Budget recommendations of President Roosevelt that Con- gress provide $460,000,000 in new tar revenue—in election year— touched off determined economy drive in House with result that all appropriation bills thus far considered by lower branch have been trimmed. Senate is expect- ed to modify most of revisions, to go along on others. By the Associated Press. Dismayed by demands for heavy cuts in agricultural expenditures, congressional farm leaders today hastily switched their principal fight for more money from the House to the Senate. Because of strong economy senti- ment they decided to let the annual farm appropriation bill go through the House without a wholehearted | attempt to add $225,000,000 for parity payments, but to seek its inclusion when the measure reaches the Sen- ate. ¢ | Nevertheless, they will try to re- store during the House debate other | slashes which the Appropriations Committee recommended yesterday. To that end, they talked of swapping support of relief and urban housing appropriations for votes from city members who ordinarily do not favor large farm expenditures. ‘The Appropriations Committee asked the House to vote $634,374,256 for all Agricultural Department ac- tivities next year—a total 20 per cent under the President’s budget esti- mates and 50 per cent below the funds for the current year. Items Deleted. Among the items deleated were the $25,000,000 farm tenant loan pro- gram, the $72,678.812 boost in auto- matic appropriations for surplus crop removal and $47975000—the money is in the bank—for benefit | payments to sugar growers. . House debate began only a few minutes after these slashes were | made, and farm leaders quickly pro- | tested they had not had time to! study the reductions. Chairman Jones of the Agricul- | ture Committee, who was on his feet all yesterday afternoon fighting the cuts, told reporters: ! “It's pretty bad to perform that | big an operation without letting us| see the patient until he is half dead | and proposing to bury him without | letting us see his face.” | Representdative Tarver, Democrat, | of Georgia and several other mem- | bers complained that the Appropria- tions Committee would make the farmer the “goat” of budget bal- ancing. But administration leaders and others well versed in congres- sional fiscal affairs cautiously pre- dicted the cuts would “stick.” "$283,000,000 in Economies. Some members served notice that if farm funds were to be slashed they would not support proposals to make loans to Finland or authorize a proposed $650,000,000 expansion of the Navy. The Appropriations Committee's action raised tentative congressional economies in one month to more than $283,000,000. It tacked a $154,- 555,263 saving onto previous cuts in other supply bills of more than $128,000,000. Some of these reductions may be overridden before the various ap- propriation bills finally become law. The Senate Appropriations Commit- tee decided yesterday to restore $39,- 000,000 of a $150,000,000 authoriza- tion for merchant marine ship con- struction which the House had de- leted. This did not alter the total of actual appropriations, however. Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina, disclosed late yes- terday that the committee had found a way to carry on the work of three of President Roosevelt’s new agen- cies for which the House refused to provide funds. He estimated Senate increases in the independent offices supply bill | aggregated about $38,000,000 since some items had been reduced below the House figure. This would bring the bill's total to about $1,138,000,- 000, or some $56,000,000 under budget recommendations and about $20,000,- 000 above the last appropriations to these agencies. $39,000,000 for Ships. Senator Byrnes said the $39,000,- 000 added for the merchant marine by the Senate group was needed to pay for ships already contracted for. He pointed out that the item was still $36,000,000 under budget recom- mendations, Senators said they cut more than $1,000,000 from the $27,900,693 voted the Civil Aeronautics Authority by the House; some $200,000 from the $97,266,000 voted the Civil Service Commission, and $40,000 from the $2,116,340 for the Federal Commu- nications Commission. The Senate group dealt with the three Roosevelt agencies eliminated by the House in three different ways. It voted $710,000 for the National Resources Planning Board, which is directed by Frederic A. Delano, uncle of the President, finding that Congress had authorized this agency under a 1930 act establishing a Federal Employment Stabilization Board. In regard to the Personnel Ad- ministration Council, President Roosevelt wrote Senator Byrnes he would “be quite content to have the separate item for the council eliminated if the Senate will add this amount to the -Civil Service Commission estimates.” Although civil service funds were reduced $200,000 by the Senate sub- POsY [ go to the President’s Birthday ball committee, Senator Byrnes said the commission would receive more funds than it did last year. Senator Byrnes said no attempt Was made to provide $1,055,000 for the “Office of Government Reports,” formerly known as the National Emergency Council, because “This will be handled in the regular relief bill when it comes along.” Boy, 4, Aids Birthday Ball PITTSBURGH, Jan. 31 (P).— Four - year - old Kenneth Young didn’t care if he was too young to here. He held a “President’s Birth- day party” all of his own. The guests, 15 boys and girls, contrib- uted a dime apiece for the infantile paralysis fund. Ca Von Starhemberg To Serve'With French Army WEDNESDAY, PRINCE VON STARHEMBERG. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, Jan. 31.—A decree pub- lished ‘today in the Official Gazette disclosed that Prince Ernst Rudiger von StarheMberg, one-time vice chancellor of Austria and leader of the Austrian Heimwehr, had been commissioned an infantry lieuten- ant in the French Army. The government accepted the Prince’s offer to serve against Ger- many for the duration of the war. The Prince, who headed an Aus- trian Fascist army before Germany's absdrption of Austria, asked the French government September 15 for permission to organize a special Austrian brigade. The Nazi government subsequent- ly deprived him of his German citizenship and confiscated his prop- erty, which included numerous castles and other estates in Austria Prince von Starhemberg, scion of an old Austrian family, supported the Heimwehr largely from his own funds and it became virtually his personal army. Though he fell from power some time before the an- schluss, the prince as vice chancellor had been a powerful advocate of closer Austrian relations with Italy to counteract German influence. Japanese Industries Face Huge Losses In Power ‘Famine’ Thousands of Workers Idle With Extension of Partial Shutdown By the Associated Press. TOKIO, Jan, 31.—Japan's self- imposed electric power “famine” reached a critical stage today, as manufacturers stood to lose millions of dollars and workers expressed be- wilderment over enforced 1dlen?s. The partial shutdown, egun yesterday for a proposed 14-hour period, was expected to continue in the industrialized areas of Kobe, Kyoto and Osaka, and newspa- | pers reported the order would be | applied in Tokio and Yokohama. | Domel, Japanese news agency, | said the commerce ministry would | announce tomorrow a 30 per cent | restriction on power consumption in | the Osaka and Kobe regions and a | 35 per cent cut in Tokio and Yoko- | February 10. Munitions Not Affected. Should coal be obtained in suffi- cient quantity at the end of that period, the agency said, restrictions would be eased. | Munitions and other war indus- tries, as well as communications and public utilities, were not affected | in the Osaka region, but the power reduction curtailed output of tex- | tiles, fertilizers, beer and food- | stuffs. Power in some factories was | reduced nearly 60 per cent below normal, it was said. Tokio and Yokohama have been operating an a partially reduced power for some time. The partial industrial paralysis was credited principally to delays imposed on transportation of coal by wartime demands on shipping, to- gether with drought whicn affected hydro-electric production. Jap- anese insisted there was no ques- tion by exhaustion of coal sup- plies. Tremendous Losses. Factories which turn out goods requiring uninterrupted processing such as chemicals, medicines, ceram- ics and glass faced tremendous losses. Movie houses were kept open only a few hours a day in the affected zones Candles were used for light- ing office buildings, and elevator service was halted throughout Osa- ka, Kobe and Kyoto. Industrial issues on the stock market .dropped. Japan, nearly self-sufficient in coal, obtains its chief supply from fields in the extreme southernmost islands of Kyushu and the north- ern island of Hokkaido. Health Insurance Urged for Workmen By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 31.—Industrial legislation to provide workmen with insurance against sickness as well as accident injuries was proposed today by the American Federation of Labor. President William Green said the Federation’s Executive Council at workout “model” Federal-State legislation for submission later to various State Legislatures. Details of the proposed health in- surance program remain to be formulated, but the labor leader said they probably would embrace some system for employer-employe premium participation. “We feel that workmen are badly in need of insurance against natural sickness, just as they are against industrial accidents,” Mr. Green said, “and we believe such legisla- tion is entirely within the realm of possibility. “As it is now, an employe who gets injured while on the job may draw payments under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, but if he con- tracts a natural iliness while on that Bad weather may excuse & delay, but never an accident. j Job there is mo provision made for taking care of him.” 2 hama for' a 10-day period .stamng‘ its present meeting probably would | P JANUARY 31, 1940. Driver Goes fo Trial Second Time in Year On Homicide Charge Negligence Accusation In Traffic Fatality Heard in Police Court Ernest F. McKay, 39, of 1341 8 street S8.E., was brought to trial for the second time within the last year on a negligent homicide charge be- ;ore a Police Court jury late yester- ay. The case has dragged through almost“a score of delays, continu- ances and reassignments, including a first trial conviction last June 7 and a subsequent granting of a new trial motion on technical grounds by Judge Edward M. Curran. Mr. McKay, an attendant at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, was held by the coroner following the death of Miss Gladys Karr, 25, of 134 Eleventh street S.E., from injuries received December 18, 1938, in an automobile accident in the 4200 block of Ala- bama avenue S.E. in which Mr. Mc- Kay's car was involved. Victim Died Same Day. The victim was a passenger in & machine driven by Theodore Polling | of 5719 Fourth street N.W. Paul Moore, 5730 Third place N.W., and | Audrey Kettenback, 5110 Kamas! avenue N.W., also were in the car. The accident occurred about 1 am. | Miss Karr died at Casualty Hospital | the same day at 8 p.m. from cerebral concussion, compound fracture of | the left leg and shock, according to | the attending physician's report. Police investigating the accident said witnesses reported that the | McKay machine allegedly swerved to the wrong side of the highway, striking Mr. Polling’s car on the left front fender and radiator grill and throwing Miss Karr to the street. Both drivers were held for action of the coroner and Mr. Poll- ing was subsequently released. Mr McKay was arraigned before Judge Hobart Newman on January | 14, 1939, pleaded not guilty and | demanded a jury trial. He was re- | MOBILE, ALA.— CARNEGIE HERO — Theodore Bennett, a railroad boilermaker, has been awarded a Carnegie medal for heroism in saving the life of Charles von Gossett, a steeple- jack, in a 55-foot fall from a smokestack in Mobile. Direct- ly under the falling man, Ben- nett spread his arms and caught him. Von Gossett escaped with minor hurts, but Bennett was disabled for 10 weeks. —A. P. Photo. Mrs. Borah Surprised By $200,000 Estate Left by Senator Widow Explains She Had Never Examined Safe Deposit Box Senator William E. Borah, who | became an outstanding national | figure during his 33 years in the Senate, surprised his widow by leav- leased on $1,000 bond and the case | set for trial January 30, 1939. Eight | delays ensued, including continu- ances for both sides and reassign- ments on the court docket before the first trial was held June 6 and 7. days later. Argument on the mo- tion and continuances went on for two weeks with Judge Curran final- ly taking it under advisement. On July 7 Judge Curran granted the | motion and the case was con- | tinued for assignment. . Three Witnesses Called. i Four additional continuances | were granted before the second trial | opened yesterday. Assistant United States Attorney David A. Hart called three Gov- ernment witnesses to the stand yes- terday before the court adjourned. They were Dr. Christopher J. Mur- phy, deputy coroner, who performed the autopsy on Miss Karr's body; Mr. Polling, driver of the other ma- chine. and Paul J. Moore, a pas- senger in the Polling car. Both Mr. Polling and Mr. Moore | | testified the Polling automobile was “ | proceeding toward the city at 20 or 25 miles an hour when the accident | occurred. Mr. Polling said he ap- plied his brakes and pulled far to ‘the left side of the highway when | he saw Mr. McKay's machine swerve | toward the wrong side of the road, but was unable to avoid a crash. Mr. McKay's car, Mr. Polling said, was traveling at “a pretty fast rate.” He said the defendant’s auto started to swerve across the road when it was about 50 feet in front of his car. Other Passengers Injured. | Photographs and measurements |at the scene were made by Pvts. |L. Couture and C. Stickle of the traffic division. Five pictures were introduced in evidence by Mr. Hart. Mr. Moore corroborated Mr. Poll- ing’s testimony up to the minute of the crash. He said he “didn’t hear or see anything after a flash of | lights” over the radiator as the two jcars collided. He was semi- | conscious for a time thereafter. Mr. Polling’s arm was broken and the | other passengers in his car, in addi- | tion to Miss Karr, also were injured. Several other witnesses were to tsetify today when the trial re- sumed before Judge John P. Mc- Mahon, presiding judge of Police Court. Attorneys for Mr. McKay are F. Joseph Donohue and J. B. Flaherty. War to Increase Cost Of Flowers in Britain Spring flowers gge to be dearer in England as a result of the war. From the glamorous orchid to the humble daffodil the prices will rise to the highest point since World War I. Because of this the demand has fallen and small florists in Lon- don and elsewhere are selling fruit to keep in business. Growers blame the ministry of agriculture ban on flower cultivation when land is needed for food production and on the ban of flower importation. Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: In recess. Foreign Relations Committee con- siders loan to Finland and Japanese embargo. Appropriations Committee acts on $1,138.000,000 independent offices appropriation bill. House: Debates farm appropriation bill. Labor Board members begin testi- mony before Smith Investigating Committee. Ways and Means Committee con- tinues hearings on reciprocal trade rogram. Naval Committee continues study of fleet expansion program. TOMORROW. Senate: - Will take up urgent deficiency bill for naval armament and tax re- funds. Joint Forestry Committee hearing, 10 am. Conferees on railroad legislation, 10:30 am. House: Resumes debate on agriculture appropriation bill. ~ ‘Ways and Means Committee con- tinues consideration of reciprocal trade agreements, 10 a.m. consideration of fleet expansion pro- gram, 10 am. | Connecticut The defendant was found guilty | Senator and I always had a joint | terday afternoon in connection with on June 7 and defense attorneys checking account, and about four |the second annual filed a motion for a new trial three |or five years ago he gave me the | Church Social Work. Naval Affairs Committee continues | Eow Smith committee continues in- | sun ing her approximately $200,000 when he died recently. | “It was as much a surprise to me as it was to outsiders,” Mrs. Borah 18,000 Poles Executed By Germans, Exile Regime Charges White Paper Describes Forced Migrations In Bitter Cold By the Assoctated Press. PARIS, Jan. 31.—A white paper issued in Paris by the Polish gove ernment in exile reports the Ger- mans have executed 18,000 Poles of ell classes since the occupation of Poland. The white paper charged the Ger- mans with mass executions in the market places, destruction of Polish monuments and churches, and en- forcing the migration of thousands of persons from Western Poland to the interior in cattle cars during sub-zero weather. Jt said 30 children were frozen I.o death in a cattle car at Sandom- erz. (The German governor of Poz- nan, district annexed by Ger- many, said Monday he had no intention of forcing Poles to move, but that “several thousand who insisted on going to the so- called “governor's area” not yet annexed were being given facili- ties for departure as quickly as possible. (He said a firm administration was required at first because the Poles had freed convicts and asylum inmates, and that some 13,000 Germans had been tor- tured and killed as the Polish armies withdrew.) The Polish white paper is one of several issued by the government in exile and which it intends soon to publish in book form. “All these facts have been investi= gated scrupulously and verified,” the government stated. Play Depicts Activities 0f Neighborhood Councils A play, “Neighborhood Councils in Our Town,” depicting activities of the Neighborhood Councils of the ‘Washington Council of Social Agen- cies, under whose auspices it was said today at her apartmept, 2101 avenue N.W. “The key to his safe deposit box.” Mrs. Borah said, however. she never had occasion to examine it and did not give it & thought until the Senator died. In the safe deposit box, which was opened by Miss Grace Heil- man, the Senator’s personal secre- tary, the will was found to have been written by hand on paper from | a Senate tablet. It left “everything | I have to my beloved Mary.” Mrs. Borah was named sole executor. There were no witnesses. A postscript to the document re- quested “Dear Mary” to send the Senator’s scrapbooks of newspaper and magazine clippings to the Borah Foundation at the Univer- sity of Idaho. The foundation was started by Sol Levinson of Chicago with a contribution of $60,000. The will now is being probated in Idaho, and the amount which Mrs. Borah will receive will not be known until after deduction of State and inheritance taxes, and payment of outstanding debts. She explained that her husband had several paid-up insurance pol- icies which had matured. The sale of their home in Idaho also went partly toward making up the estate. | Senator Borah never traveled | abroad and during his long career | in Washington did not live on an | elaborate scale. It was not thought generally, however, that he had accumulated a substantial estate. Mrs. Borah plans to remain Washington most of the time. “After 33 years,” she said, “Wash- ington is really like home. I love the people of Idaho and will always look forward to spending my vaca- tions with them.” in Bing Crosby in Hospital HGLLWOOD, Jan. 31 (®).— Crooner Bing Crosby is in a hos- pital while his doctor decides if thei pain in his side is appendicitis. presented, featured a “church and | the community” program, held yes= Institute of | The institute, sponsored by the Social Welfare Department of the | Washington Federation of Churches, met both in the morning and afternoon in Foundry Methodist Church. At the early afternoon session | the Rev. G. H. Bennett, pastor of Wilson Memorial Methodist Church, said the Protestant churches of Southeast Washington have been |able to render wider service through co-operation with neigh= | borhood councils and other agen= cles. He is chairman of the Southe east Church Council. The Rev. Dr. Andrew R. Bird, pas- tor of the Presbyterian Church of | the Pilgrims, in an address said | a special problem confronts many* Protestant churches, especially those | in the downtown sections, in dealing with neighborhood matters, be- | cause membership is drawn from many sections of the city. The day's program was brought to a close with a memorial service for Clarence Phelps Dodge “in rec<" ognition of the inspiration and leadegship which he gave in the field "of Christian social service.” The Rev. J. Hillman Hollister, pas= tor of the Chevy Chase Presby- terian Church, presided at the memorial service. { Murder Confession | Fails to Obtain Meals When two men “confessed” to the murder of Jaime Lozada in the Estancis San Romano Depart= | ment of Rio Negro, police of Uru- guay were puzzled. One Santos was the first to admit guilt and soon afterward Leon Freydenberg de- clared in Montevideo that he killed Lozada. Given the third degree, Freydenberg finally admitted that he had “confessed” because he wanted to be placed in prison where he could sleep and get three meals a day without having to work. Weather Report (Furnished by the United District of Columbia—Fair and States Weather Bureau.) continued cold with lowest tempera- ture about 15 degrees tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness and some- what warmer; light variable winds becoming gentle to moderate southerly tomorrow. Maryland—Fair and continued cold tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness with slowly rising temperature. Virginia—Fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly colder in south portion tonight; slowly rising temperature tomorrow. West, Virginia—Fair, somewhat colder in south and east central por- tions tonight; tomorrow cloudy and somewhat warmer; colder Friday. The disturbance that was off the Geor-g- gia_coast Tuesday night is moving rapidly east-northeastward over the ocean. with center this morning about 500 miles east- owest about 1, (2970 inches) . A minor 'disturbance is_moving southeasiward over Minnesota. tional Falls, 1.011.2 mill inches). and pressure remai; Southern Alaska southeastwa ern California, Kodiak, Alaska. bars (29.04 inches). and Eureka. 1.011.2 millibars (29.86 nches) An area of high pressure that extends from the lower -Lake region and New York south- Generally fair t for light Florida xh Dakota. Minnesota and the Southern Appalachian reion. The temperature has fallen in the lower Lake regi e Ol ., Tennessee and portions of the G nd South Atlantic States. while there has been a marked rise in_temperature in the Missouri and ex- treme upper Mississippi Vallays and the Lake Suverior region Report for Last 21 Hours. Temperature, Barometer, Y!‘flll’dly—- degrees. inches. pm. 2 1 1 o 5 2 7 2 3 Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest. 33, 3:50 p.m. yesterday, Year . 40. S5%owest, 13, 8:15 a.m. todsy. Year ago. Record Temperature This Year. Highest, 55, on January 14. Lowest. 7, on January 29. idity for t 24 Hou: (From noon yesterday to noon E"'"" 84 per cent, at 5:50 west. 40 Der cent.’at noon River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear at Harpers Ferry: Potomac clear at Grea ay. T Tide Tables. (Purnished i tates Coast Beoftie Buver ) Today. 12:88 41 rs. today.) a.m. today. today. 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