Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1940, Page 1

Weather Forecast Cloudy and somewhat warmer, followed by light rain or snow tonight; tomorrow cloudy and colder; lowest tonight about 26. Temperatures today-—Highest, 36, Estublished in 1852 Most people in Washinglon have The at 1 pm.; lowest, 16, at 4 am, Closing New York Markets, Page 18. 88th YEAR. No. 34,974, New Red Drives Beaten Back, Finns Claim Salla and Petsamo Sectors Named; Pincers Tightened BULLETIN. HELSINKI, Feb. 1 (#).—Presi- dent Kyosti Kallio in an impas- sioned speech in a solemn final session of the war Diet repeated today Finland's offer to negotiate “an honorable peace” with Rus- sia, but said that Finland would not bend before “imperialistic aims.” CHAMBERLAIN REJECTS Laborite suggestion for inclusion of eco- nomic “dictator” in war cabinet. Page A-4 ECONOMIC WARFARE stirs fight today in British Commons; Labor demands appointment of new minister to co-ordinate efforts. Page A-4 GERMANY RULING in interest of Poles, Seyss-Inquart insists; con- quered must revise thinking processes, he holds. Page A-20 By the Associated Press. HELSINKI, Feb. 1—Soviet Rus- sia has attempted to revive her fal- tering campaigns in the Salla and Petsamo sectors above the Arctic Circle, but her troops were driven back by the Finns, a headquar- ters communique said today. At the other end of Finland, north of Lake Ladoga, the defense forces tightened their pincers on a stalled -ad disorganized Russian offen- sive, the high command announced, and threw back an attack on an un- named island in the lake. The communique, covering yester- day’s activities, said Russian losses were heavy in the attempt to take the island by crossing over the ice of the lake. 5 Elsewhere on the eastern front the Finns said there was “lively pa- trol activity.” The Russians killed “about a score of civilians” and wounded 40, the Finns said, in air raids yester- day on the “market town” of Ro- vaniemi. The Finns reported that they shot down two Russian planes during the day. Defense Lines Declared Holding. The Finnish command insists that its forces are holding defense lines decided upon immediately after the Boviet Russian invasion started two months ago. The declaration came from Gen. ‘Hugo Oesterman, commander of the army under Baron Gustaf Manner- heim, at his headquarters ‘‘some- where in Finland"—accompanied by reports of a flerce Russian aerial smash at the nerve center of North- ern Finland’s communications and a Finnish victory over a Siberian ski battalion. ‘Twenty-seven Red Army planes, attacking in waves, were reported to have bombed Rovaniemi yester- day, leaving 15 dead and 60 wounded. Among the casualties, ac- cording to the Finnish report, were children and nurses. A hospital was said to have been shattered by bombs. 150 Bombs Dropped. One hundred and fifty bombs were reported dropped on Rovaniemi, railway and highway junction in the northern “waistline” part of Finland, in the two-hour attack. The killing of 300 Siberian sol- diers, who had emulated the ski tactics which the Finns themselves have found so effective, was told of in dispatches from Danish war cor- respondents. The remainder of the600-man battalion was said to have escaped. The location of the clash was not given, but the Red force was iden- tified as the 3d Siberian Ski Bat- talion. Heavy fighting was reported still in progress northeast of Lake Ladoga, where Finnish observers said recapture of the Finnish town of Pitkaranta permitted encircle- ment of Russian divisions out to (See FINLAND, Page A-3.) Torpedoes and Bombs Sink More Vessels By the Associated Press. LONDON, Feb. 1—Sinking of the 4450-ton British steamer Ban- crest, formerly called Ambassador, and the Swedish freighter Sylvia, 1,524 tons, as the result of torpedo and bomb attacks was disclosed to- day. The Sylvia was bombed January 27 and the Bancrest was torpedoed. A French vessel, the 1,782-ton Honfleuraise, also was attacked, but reports did not say whether she was damaged or sunk. One member of the Bancrest crew was lost and 33 were saved. Reuters (British news agency) reported in an Oslo dispatch the sinking of the Norwegian steamer Fingal I, a vessel of 460 tons, off Scotland following an explosion. The crew of 11 was saved, it said. Fifteen Killed by Mine. COPENHAGEN, Feb. 1 (#).—Fif- teen of the crew of 23 lost their lives when the Danish steamer Vidar, 1,353 tons, struck a mine in the North Sea, according to an an- nouncement here today. It did not say whether the Vidar sank. Rubber Workers Strike For Raise in Mexico B: the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 1.—Work- ers in every rubber factory in Mex- ico went on strike today demanding & 30 per cent wage increase. Fourteen companies were affected, including affiliates of at least two in the United States, Goodrich and General. The strike was called after a breakdown of last-minute negotiations between union leaders and management representatives un- der Labor Department supervision. Chester C. Davis Nominated for 14-Year Term President Roosevelt today sug- gested to Congress a shuffling of the Federal Reserve Board to permit Marriner S. Eccles to redeive a four- year reappointment and Chester C. Davis to be given a full 14-year term. This maneuver, which would en- able Mr. Eccles to continue his pres- ent post of chairman of the board for a limited term rather than the ordinary 14-year period, was made possible by the consent resignation of Mr. Davis from his present ap- pointment as a board member, thus leaving a four-year unexpired term available for Mr. Eccles, with Mr. Davis’ subsequent appointment. to & new l4-year tenure. At the same time, President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the nomination of Claude R. Wickard of Indiana to become Undersecre- tary of Agriculture in the place of M. L. Wilson, resigned, and of Grosvenor M. Jones of Ohio and Bruce Berckmans of New Jersey to be assistant directors of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- merce. Letters Outline Shift. The purpose and details of the Eccles and Davis shifts were out- lined in an exchange of letters dated yesterday between the Presi- dent and the two principals in- volved. To Mr. Eccles, the Chief Executive wrote as follows: “Since discussing with you my de- sire to have you continue as chair- man of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve system beyond February 1, 1940, I have concluded that the preferable way to ac- complish this would be for you to accept a reappointment rather than serve on a holdover basis. While the latter procedure may be per- Japan's Armed Units Seek $671,000,000 Additional for War Army Chief Accuses Soviet Of Border Violations; Warns Watch Continues ! By the Associated Press. and navy today asked Parliament to Approve a New seven-year arms pro- gram costing about $671,000,000, | after the war minister had declared the army “is not relaxing its watch” along Soviet Russia’s borders. The appropriation asked today for the “replenishment and reha- bilitation” of arms, would be in addi- purpose. The seven-year period would be- gin with the 1940-1 fiscal year. The appropriation also would be in addition to the China “war and do- mestic military budget” for 1940-41 which total $1,583,478,000. | Hata Accuses Russia. The request for the seven-year Gen. Shunroku Hata had declared that Russia had committed “scores of illegal acts” after conclusion of the truce on the Manchukuo-Outer Mongolia border. Admiral Zengo Yoshida, said the new funds were necessary to push the “China incident” and because “of the change in the international situation.” Gen. Hata made his charges against Russia in an address to the opening session of the Diet, following the foreign policy report of Hachiro Arita, foreign minister, who ex- pressed Japan's hope of putting her trade relations with the United States back on a treaty basis. Gen. Hata said illegal Russian acts had occurred on borders other than the disputed frontier between | Manchukuo and Outer Mongolia. Boundary Group Adjourns, The foreign office, meanwhile, issued a brief communique on the breakdown of ° Russian-Japanese negotiations at Harbin, Manchukuo. reporting that the Mixed Boundary Commission had decided to adjourn and leave the question of demarca- tion “to be decided at a later date. A total of 16 meetings had left the conferees still in disagreement. British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie was given Japan’s reply to the British note of Jan- uary 27 answering the Japanese protest against seizure of 21 Ger- mans from the Japanese liner Asama Maru. A foreign office statement said both notes would be published when the British had had time to con- (See TOKIO, Page A-4) Senafor Green Asks Probe 0f Wire-Tapping Activity By the Associated Press. Senator Green, Democrat, of Rhode Island, demanded today a Senate committee investigate wire tapping of public officials’ lines in Massa- chusetts, Rhode Island and Penn- sylvania. Senator Green told the Senate a “New York detective agency” had “sent its agents to tap the wires of elected public officials and private citizens” in these States. Within the past three months, Senator Green said, telephone wires leading into the “home of the Mayor of one of the largest cities in my State have been tapped and also the wires leading to the home and to the State office and to the private law firm of the attorney general of Rhode Island.” Besides wire tapping, Senator Green said he had been informed “these agents have preyed upon re- sponsible businessmen.” The wires to the home of Mayor Thomas McCoy of Pawtucket, R. I., were reported tapped last year. 3 @h TOKIO, Feb. 1.—Japan’s army | | tion to a total of $1,862,017,680, which | | already has been approved for thisi fund was made after War Minister | £ J WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION pening Sfar WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1940—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. K President Renames Eccles In Reserve Board Shuffle CHESTER C. DAVIS. Infernational Law Held No Bar fo U. §. Loans to Finland Advisers to Hull Give Information To Senate Group | BACKGROUND Rigid policy of the Ezport- Import Bank has been to loan money to foreign countries only for non-military trade purposes. This poliey was observed in orig- inal $10,000,000 Finnish loan, and President Roosevelt has informed congressional leaders that he favors similar restrictions on new Government aid. Meanwhile, privately financed and unre- stricted assistance may be ar- ranged. By J. A. O'LEARY. | Senate Foreign Relations Commit- tee today a further loan to Finland through the Export-Import Bank would not conflict with international law under present conditions. | Emerging from the second day of | executive hearings on the bill, sev- eral committee members said this | was the general attitude of the de- | partment, as presented by R. Walton | Moore, counselor, and Green H. Gen. Hata and the navy minister, | Hackworth, legal adviser to Secre- | tary Hull The committee adjourned at noon | without a definite time for recon- | vening. Chairman Pittman, who also is on the Judiciary Committee, had gone with that group to attend the observance of the 150th anni- versary of the Supreme Court, and | may decide later in the day when the committee will reassemble. La Follette Is Back. Senator Progressive, a member of the For- | eign Relations Committee, returned | to the Capitol today, but was not | ready to express an opinion on the bill, which merely adds $100,000,000 1o the credit of the Export-Import Bank, leaving it with discretionary authority to advance up to $20,000,- 000 to Finland for non-military pur- poses. The committee spent two hours yesterday afternoon going over all phases of the Export-Import Bank’s operations with Federal Loan Ad- ministrator Jesse Jones, in execu- tive session. Meanwhile, Senate Majority (See LOAN, Page A-4) Summary of Page. Page. Amusements, | Obituary _.A-12 C-4-5| Radio c-3 Comics .. C-10-11 | Society -... B-3 Editorials A-8| Sports .. C-1-3 Finance A-17| Woman's Page, Lost, Found C-7 C-6 Foreign Japan’s Army chie! charge illegal border acts to Soviet. Page A-1 Revived drives of Russians repelled, Finland claims. Page A-1 Chamberlain rejects econoruic “dic- tator” suggestion. Page A-4 Chamberlain trying to involve neu- trals, Nazis charge. Page A-4 Nazi rule is in interest of Poles, Seyss-Inquart insists. Page A-20 National Eccles renamed to Federal Reserve Board for 4 years., Page A-1 Oumansky and Hull silent after half-hour conference. Page A-1 Chief Justice speaks on Supreme Court anniversary. Page A-1 Vandenberg proposes six-member Foreign Trade Board. Page A-1 House farm bloc see defeat in fight for more funds. Page A-1 Senate group seen approving bill for loan to Finland. Page A- Dies group continues. Page A-2 Democrats may withhold decision on time of convention. Page A-3 ” \ | State Department officials told the | La Follette, Wisconsin | Court Dissents Token of Vitality In Hughes' View Chief Justice Speaks At Exercises Marking 150th Anniversary Disagreement over constitutional interpretations today was described today by Chief Justice Hughes as “a token of vitality.” ‘The Chief Justice spoke at a pro- gram commemorating the 150th an- niversary of the first meeting of the Supreme Court after Attorney Gen- eral Jackson had declared “law must be reviewed and rewritten in terms of current conditions if it is not to be a dead science.” The ceremony was held in the Supreme Court chamber as the court met at noon for the daily ses- sion. It was attended by members of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees and by a joint congres- sional committee which arranged the celebration. Earlier, this com- mittee, headed by Representative Bloom, Democrat, of New York, had laid wreaths on the grave of Wil- liam Howard Taft, in Arlington Cemetery, as well as eight other members of the court buried in this vicinity; similar exercises were con- ducted at 58 other graves in various parts of the country by special com- mittees. Difference Not Strange. Chief Justice Hughes said that sometimes the court faces questions of intense public interest, “dividing the opinion of lawyers as well as laymen.” “However serious the division of opinion,” he added, “these cases must be decided. It should ogcasion no surprise that there should be acute differences of opinion on diffi- cult questions of constitutional law when in every other field of human achievement, in art, theology, and even on the highest levels of scien- tific research, there are expert dis- putants. “The more weighty the question, the more serious the debate, the| more likely is the opportunity for | honest and expert disagreement. “This is a token of vitality. It is fortunate and not regrettable that the avenues of criticism are open to all whether they denounce or praise. This is a vital part of the democratic process. “The essential thing is that the| independence, the fearlessness, the | impartial thought and conscientious | motive of those who decide should both exist and be recognized.” Function to Maintain Balance. “It is the unigue function of this court,” the Chief Justice declared, “not to dictate policy; not to pro- mote or oppose crusades, but to maintain the balance between States and Nation through the maintenance of the rights and duties of individuals.” The Chief Justice said the Amer- ican people “have again and again evinced the sound instinct which leads them, regardless of any spe- cial knowledge of legal matters, to | cherish as their priceless possession the judicial institutions which safe- guard the reign of law as opposed | | to despotic will.” In emphasizing that the law must meet the needs of the times At- torn (See P] COi Pittman Warns Against | Yielding fo Japan | B> the Associated Press. Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as- serted today that if the United States yields to the “present threats” of Japanese officials, there will be no end to its abandonment of the rights of American citizens in the Far East. Senator Pittman obviously was angered by a statement of a Tokio spokesman that the granting by Congress to the President of dis- cretionary power to restrict Ameri- can exports to Japan would be con- sidered a “serious affront.” The statement was made by Yaki- chiro Suma. foreign office spokes- man, in commenting on legislation which Senator Pittman is advo- cating. “It is strange, indeed,” Senator Pittman told reporters, “that a dele- gation by Congress to the President of a discretionary power enjoyed by the executives of practaclly every government in the world should be considered an affront to Japan.” Today’s Star Conference of political liberals idea is revived. Page A-3 Efforts to curb power of U. M. W. officers fail. Page A-12 Washington and Nearby. House hearings on D. C. institutions planned Saturday. Page A-1 Welfare and Recreation unit gets $107,700 tax refund. Page A-13 Aged benefit payments begin for Capital residents. Page B-1 Five persons rescued in two-alarm rooming house fire. Page B-1 Bondy makes plans for sale of 5-cent milk to needy. Page B-1 Editorial and Comment This and That. Answers to Questions. Letters to The Star. David Lawrence. Alsop and Kintner. G. Gould_Lincoln. Lemuel F. Parton. Constantine Brown. Miscellany. Bedtime Story. Cross-Word Puzzle. Furor over alleged attempt to halt | After Dark. Hull and Oumansky Talk for Half Hour; 'Silent on Details ‘Current Affairs’ Discussed, Says Soviet Envoy By GARNETT D. HORNER. Soviet Ambassador Constantine A. Oumansky discussed “current af- fairs” with Secretary of State Hull today in a half-hour conference which Mr. Hull declined to describe as satisfactory. Neither the Secretary nor the Am- bassador would reveal to reporters any details of the matters under dis- cussion. Mr. Oumansky would say only that he sought the appoint- ment on his own initiative to dis- cuss “current affairs,” adding he could not answer any other ques- tions. Secretary Hull was asked at his press conference immediately after his talk with the Soviet Ambassador if he could say whether the conserva- tion was satisfactory. He replied he would rather not undertake to pass on that at this time. Secretary Hull announced that William C. Bullitt, Ambassador to France, had been summgned to Washington for consultation. He said Mr. Bullitt planned to leave | Paris Saturday and would remain here only a short time. Not On Special Mission. The Ambassador is being sum- moned home for a general exchange of information and not on any spe- cial mission, Mr. Hull said. Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassador to Great Britain, who returned to this country in December to spend the Christmas holidays with his| family and report to President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull, still is in the United States. Mr. Hull said today he understood Mr. Ken- nedy planned to return to London this month. Another American diplomat well informed on current European af- fairs, Joseph E. Davies, who re- turned in December from his post as Ambassador to Belgium, now is working in the State Department as a special assistant to the Secre- tary. Mr. Oumansky declined to say whether he had brought to Secre- tary Hull anything in the nature of a protest against pending action for & Federal loan and other aid from this country to Finland, although it was understood this subject was not brought up. Mr. Hull would say only that his talk with the Soviet Ambassador was of a general nature, with no de- cisions of any kind involved. He said he did not know whether any formal diplomatic communications would re- sult from the conference. Envoy Kept Waiting. The Ambassador arrived at the State Department promptly at noon, when his appointment with the Secretary was scheduled, but was kept waiting in an anteroom for 15 minutes before being shown into the Secretary’s office. It was re- called that the American Ambassa=- dor to Russia, Lawrence A. Stein- hardt, was kept waiting for days when he sought appointment with the Russian foreign office while the American freighter City of Flint was being held at Murmansk. The meeting between Secretary Hull and Mr. Oumansky began cor- dially enough. Newspapermen who were seeking to question the Am- bassador of the nature df his visit as he walked down the corridor noticed he took off his glasses as he entered Mr. Hull's office and walked forward to shake hands smilingly with the Secretary, who arose from his desk to greet him. This was the first time Mr. Oumansky had called on Mr. Hull since the Ambassador returned last fall from a visit to Moscow. King George Is 1l LONDON, Feb. 1 (A—King George VI is suffering from a slight cold and is confined to his room, it was announced officially today. Bulletin BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 1 (#)— German sources said today that they had learned the German escort ship Altmark, which ac- companied the pocket battieship pene- MAYBE SPRING 15 JUST AROUND THE CORNER. Ll 1] ey Jobs Not Open For 2 Weeks, but 2,000 Wait in Line By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—“Listen, | lady,” the officer pleaded, “there’s no jobs today. If you want to wait, you'll have to stand here two whole weeks. Your feet'll get sore.” The lady at the head of a two- block line of more than 2,000 men and women job-seekers eyed him | | grimly. | | “I'll wait,” she said. “I've been | here since 6 o'clock this morning. | | Nobody's going to get my place!” For hours, a dozen police roved | up and down the line informing the standees that application blanks for | 220 jobs as census takers in Jamaica, | Long Island, would not be ready until February 15. But nobody budged. Toward noon, | iv.he line began to lengthen. Hearing Is Called For Saturday Night On D. C. Institutions House Group Hopes Mrs. Roosevelt Will Be Able to Appear Then Hearings on conditions at several District institutions recently the subject of surprise visits and crit- | icism by Mrs. Roosevelt will open | Saturday at 8 p.m. in the caucus | room of the Old House Office Build- ing in the hope that she will be able to appear herself at that time as the first witness. | An official invitation to Mrs. Roose- | velt was issued by Chairman D'Alesandro of the Public Health | Subcommittee of the House District Committee to describe at the hear- ings the conditions she found on | her trips to the District Home for the Aged and Infirm, the Receiving Home for Children and the Indus- trial Home School. Meanwhile, at the District Build- ing the Commissioners accepted re- sponsibility for failure to seek funds for a new building and improved services at the Receiving Home, but promised to try to get the problem before the congressional appropria- tions committees. Representative D’Alesandro said he was anxious to have Mrs. Roosevelt as the first witness at the hearing because of her knowledge of the three institutions. Should Mrs. Roosevelt decide to appear, it will be the first time the wife of a President has testified be- fore a congressional committee. She attended several sessions of the Dies committee last December, but oniy in the role of spectator. To Ask “Consideration.” While promising to ask congres- sional consideration of the problems, the Commissioners did not go so far as to suggest they would ask funds for a new Receiving Home, deferring final commitment on that point. The city heads are barred by executive order from sponsoring N. L. R. B. Won 72% 0f Appealed Cases, Madden Reports Says Record Is Better Than F. T. C.’s 50% and 1.C.C.'s 60% BACKGROUND— Assertions of dissension on National Labor Relations Board and alleged partiality of field officers toward C. I. O. have been aired during hearings which special House Committee began in December. Committee, headed by Representative Smith of Vir- ginia, was empowered to investi- gate the Wagner Act and recom- mend any necessary amendments. By CARTER BROOKE JONES. J. Warren Madden, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, today told the House committee in- vestigating enforcement of the Wag- ner Act that the board’s rulings had been upheld by the courts in 72 per cent of the cases appealed—a better record than any other Federal agency has made. He compared the board's record with those of the Federal Trade Commission, which had 50 per cent of its decisions approved by the courts, and the Interstate Commerce Commission, with 60 per cent, ac- | cording to figures placed in evidence. There were 18 cases in which the jurisdiction of the board under the interstate commerce clause of the act were upheld and one in which it Star delivered 1o thelr homes svery evening and Bunday morning e THREE CENTS. Farm Bloc Sees Defeat in Fight For More Funds House Group Plans, However, to Battle For Major Items BACKGROUND— For economy’s sake, President Roosevelt’s budget message omit= ted request for farm parity pay- ments.. House Appropriations Committee went still further, cut his request for $788,929,519 funds for the farm program by $154,- 430,263. Problem is how to please farmers in election year without displeasing - -whole populace by raising tares. Parity payments are an integral part of Secretary Wallace’s theories of governmen- tal aid to agriculture—providing income equivalent to that of 1910-14. By the Assoctated Press. House members from farm States decided today to put up a battle for several major items dropped from next year’s farm appropriation bill, but they agreed their efforts prob- ably were doomed to defeat. The last-ditch stand for a full schedule of farm expenditures for next year is expected to be made in the Senate after the House has passed the bill late today or tomor- TOW. Representative Ferguson, Demo- crat, of Oklaloma, sponsor of to- day's strategy meeting, said the group would support an amendment by Representative Pace, Democrat, of Georgia for restoration of the single largest item cut out of the bill by the House Appropriations Com- mittee—$72,678.812 to supplement other appropriations for surplus crop disposal. There Were numerous expres- sions, however, to the effect that this move was certain of defeat because | of the parliamentary situation in the House. Want §75,000,000 Restored. The Appropriations Committee knocked the fund out of the bill on the ground that Congress had not previously authorized that expendi- ture. Fiscal authorities claimed that on that technicality they could block an effort to restore it. ‘The group, composed of more than |40 members from 22 States, also agreed to attempt to reinstate other | items totaling about $75,000,000, mostly for farm tenant loans and | benefit payments to sugar growers. | Chairman Jones of the House Ag- riculture Committee said the “tem- ! per of that House” was such that | an effart to add $225,000,000 for farm | parity payments would be futile. The Appropriations Committee Tuesday approved a bill carrying a | total of $634,374,756, compared with | the current appropriation of $1,301,- 340,315, and with budget estimates of $788,929,519. Fight for Parity Payments. Meanwhile, Chairman Smith of | the Senate Agriculture Committee | told reporters he would make a vig- | orous fight to have parity payments written into the Agriculture Depart- ment appropriation bill. “This administration has asked was _denied “The record of the decisions of the Supreme Court,” Mr. Madden said, “shows there were 12 decisions in | which board orders were enforced without modification and there were two in which the board orders were enforced with modification and there were two in which board orders were denied enforcement.” ) Claims No Enforcement Authority. A recent decision of a United States Circuit Court of Appeals, re- versing a board decision in the In- land Steel case, called the board “prosecutor, judge and executioner,” and Mr. Madden said: “We have no authority to enforce our orders. We must go into the Circuit Court for an order enforcing our rulings.” “I think the courty decisions will show the fairness of our field offi- cers,” Mr. Madden added. The board’s legal staff has been subjected to severe criticism during the hearings. Mr. Madden said of it that of 250 persons, all but 36 had considerable legal experience before entering the Federal service, and 21 of the 36 had some such experience. 101 Cases Decided by Courts. Mr. Madden was asked: “How many cases have been finally de- cided by the courts?” The board chairman said 101. Most of them involved the question whether the board had jurisdiction under the interstate commerce clause of the Wagner Act. “In how many cases have the (See INSTITUTIONS, Page A-2) Questions for the 1940 census on American families’ finances and other private affairs @endanger the rights of the individual” and are unjustified, Senator Tobey, Repub- lican, of New Hampshire charged today. He read in the Senate a letter he sent to Secretary of Commerce Hop- kins calling attention to the like- lihood that census takers not only will be members of one political party and in most cases loyal party workers, but also residents of the communities they will work in. “Therefore,” Senator Tobey wrote, “it will be most embarrassing to the individual, and a severe hardship, to require him, as you do under the questionaire, to tell his neighbor received income of $50 or more from sources other than money, wages or salary. “In view of the W. P. A. scandal (See LABOR BOARD, Page A-3.) Census Questions ‘Endanger Individual’s Rights,’ Says Tobey Further ground for this apprehen- sion is based upon the fact that the owner of a private home is required, under the terms of the question- naire, to reveal to his politically- appointed neighbor whether or not his home is mortgaged, and if so, the amount of the mortgage, how regularly he is making payments on his mortgage and whether the mort- gage is held by an individual or business concern.” Earlier in the letter, the Senator said that the Sheppard Senate cam- paign investigation of 1938 showed that W. P. A. records “were not kept in confidence, but, in the State of Kentucky, for example, lists of all W. P. A. workers were copled from farmers to curtail their acreage,” he | said, “and has promised them parity | (pre-1914) prices in return. It is | legally and morally bound to give them parity " | Senator Russell, Democrat, of Georgia termed the action of the House Appropriations Committee in slashing the farm measure to $634,- 374,756 as “atrocious and unpardon- able.” “They eliminated items which | they know will have to be restored | in order to dump the responsibility on the Senate and clothe them- selves with the self-righteous robes of economy,” Senator Russell said. Wallace Hits Action. Secretary Wallace yesterday as- sailed the House Committee action | with a statement that the proposed | $154,000,000 reduction under budget estimates would inflict “a grave in- | justice” on farmers and would | imparr industrial activity and em- ployment. Although telling reporters he did | not wish to criticize efforts toward | economy, Secretary Wallace said | that an “interesting” political is- sue would be raised unless the cuts were restored. “l want to put the farmer on guard against attempts of some congressmen to scuttle the farm program,” he said. “I would ask the farmers this question when they went to vote, ‘Which way are you most likely to be taken care of in 1941?"" ‘The House listened yesterday to pleas of farm leaders for restora- tion of funds deleted by the com- mittee. Leading the drive, Chair- man Jones of the Agriculture Committee contended the tariff has unbalanced the relationship be- tween industry and agriculture and that it is necessary “for some sort of action to be taken to bring back the balance.” Representative Taber, Republican, of New York told Mr. Jones that unless the budget is balanced, “we are going to bring down upon agri- cuiture and the rest of the country complete wreckage.” The Senate arranged to act on the $57,541,300 deficiency bill, already trimmed about $3,000000 under budget estimates by the House and t.le':: Senate Appropriations Commit- Gordon Grgduation On WMAL The Gordon Junior High School graduation exercises will be repeated for the radio audi- ence at 4 o'clock over WMAL. This is another in a series of junior-high broadcasts spon- sored by The Star with the co-operation of the Nationsl Broadcasting Co. and the Board of Education,