Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1940, Page 1

Weather Forecast Rain this afternoon and tonight; low- esl tonight about 36; tomorrow mostly cloudy and somewhat colder. Tempera- tures today—Highest, 40, at 2 p.m.; low- est, 36, at 4 am.. From the United States Weather Bureau report. Full detalls on Page A-2. Closing New York Markets, Page 16. 34,979. 88th YEAR. No. Britain Begins Meat Rationing On March 11 Each Person Over 6 Allowed 37 Cents’ Worth Weekly By the Associated Press. LONDON, Feb. 6.—Food Min- ister W. S. Morrison announced today that meat rationing would begin March 11. Each person over 6 years of age will be allowed meat valued at 1 shilling, 10 pence (about 37 cents) per week. Children under 6 will be allowed half that much. | Mr. Morrisoh explained that liver, kidneys, tongue and other such meats and manufactured meat such | as sausage and meat-pies would | not be rationed. Restaurants Unrestricted. Ration restrictions will be modi- fied when desirable in the light of current supplies, he said, and res- taurants for the present will be allowed to sell meat without ration coupons. Rationing of butter, sugar, ham and bacon already is in force, since the major portion of these supplies are imported. Ham, bacon and butter have come largely from Denmark and now must run the German blockade. Most British meat is brought over- seas from Australia and Argentina. Prepare for Food Battle. Meanwhile, Britain and France shaped their national structures for unremitting battle of bread and meat this spring. Military experts believe food must be the war's main sinews, and that | exhaustion is the weapon which eventually will determine the victor. Military power of the belligerents is approaching the deadlock of equality, these experts said, obviat- ing Germany’s chances for a suc- cessful “Blitzkrieg” and giving broad modern significance to the epigram attributed to Napoleon, that an army travels on its stomach. The allies, who held a Supreme War Council meeting in Paris yes- terday, issued a communique that “the question of food stocks was notably studied,” and mentioned no other specific matters. Greater Sub Activity Expected. Naval observers saw in Germany’s aerial attacks on shipping a renewe effort to blockade Britain's imports of food and materials and looked for greater submarine activity. Fred Smith, general secretary of | the Amalgamated Engineering Un- ion, said after a conference on the armaments program with Labor Minister Ernest Brown, “It is the most ambitious program I have ever seen. It means an immense new labor force will be needed.” ‘To keep arms production in step with the calling of new comscripts, plans were under consideration for possible employment of as many as | 1,000,000 women, although this item ‘was not mentioned in the labor min- istry talks today. Finnish War Discussed. ‘The British Press Association said it also “can be assumed that the war in Finland took a prominent place in the discussions of the allied war chiefs in Paris. At the same time, reports circu- lated here that by the time the northern snows melt in May, Fin- land would have enough planes to check the invading bombers. Britain and France have stated several times that they were giving Finland substantial aid, but the amounts are military secrets. Britain May Give Death For Information Leaks Bs the Associated Press. LONDON, Feb. 6.—Prime Minis- ter Chamberlain told the House of Commons today that legislation pro- viding for the death penalty for the disclosure or leakage of informa- tion to the enemy was under con- sideration. He declared there has been no failure thus far to take vigilant precautions against leakage of in- formation. The Prime Minister's statement came as the government started a campaign against gossip with the slogan “Careless words may cost lives.” The Information Ministry plas- tered up posters urging discretion even in private conversation for . fear the enemy might obtain useful information from such sources. Proposals to Abandon Alcatraz Sidetracked By the Associated Press. Proposals for abandonment of Alcatraz Penitentiary have been sidetracked, apparently as a result of the current economy drive. James V. Bennett, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, told a House Appropriations Subcommit- tee the bureau had requested $6,- 000,000 for construction of a new reformatory for young offenders and for one other “maximum se- curity” institution, but the Budget Bureau had disapproved all but $452,000 for repairs of existing in- stitutions. Mr. Bennett's testimony, made public today, said Alcatraz could have been closed if the construc- tion had been authorized. Lord Tweedsmuir Suffers Concussion in Fall By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Feb. 6.—Lord Tweeds- muir, 64, Governor General of Can:da, suffered a concussion to+ day as the result of a fall. An announcement from Govern- ment House, however, said he was resting comfortably after the ac- cident. Carried Out With Di aviators bombed cities and towns far heavier death tolls than their against the Finns. heights for concentrated horror. mented with before. This is the Russian raiders’ syn- chronized and wholesale warfare on every section of a country and on \lcxvihans everywhere. To an un- | precedented degree the terror and | nerve strain of indiscriminate bom- bardment from the air is being ap- plied with diabolical method to an overwhelming majority of the na- tion’s men, women and children. Whether in Central Finland, or along the western coast, or in the heart of Lapland at a frontier junc- tion like Ivalo, there is no escape. The Red bombers are in the initial stages of a systematical dynamit- ing of an entire people. Its possible Influence upon the final outcome of the war is in- @h WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1940—THIRTY-SIX PAGES, *** Reds War on Finnish Civilians With Totalitarian Bombing No Part of Nation Is Immune to Forays abolical Method By LELAND STOWE, Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent. STOCKHOLM, Feb. 8 (By Radio).—In Finland, and for the first time in histery, totalitarian aerial warfare is being waged against the entire civilian population of a nation at war. In Spain Generalissimo Francisco Franco’s Fascist and Nazi with much greater intensity and Red imitators have yet recorded In Poland, too, Nazi air raids registered new . But in Finland something is ‘going on that the demons of aerial warfare have never experi- G x calculable. Obviously, the Kremlin is trying to shatter the morale of the Finnish people—to destroy their will to resist. The increased tempo of aerial frightfulness during the past week clearly foreshadows a steady heightening of “bombing pressure” upon every corner of the land. . No other peopje has yet been required to endure this kind of totalitarian torture. As yet Bolshevist bombers in Fin- land have nowhere approximated the peak of Nazi-Fascist destruction. But the Russians are operating on a scale which brings the aerial horror home to Finns everywhere. They strike 10 or a dozen important popu- (See HELSINKI, Page A-10.) Five Soviet Attacks, Aided by 100 Tanks, Repelled, Say Finns Russian Concentrations Of Troops Bombed, Army Reports Bs the Associated Press. HELSINKI, Feb. 6—The Finnish Army reported today that it had thrown back powerful new Russian attacks on the Karelian Isthmus in fighting lasting throughout the day and into the night. After repulsing the invaders as | terday, supported by more than 100 tanks and thunderous artillery preparation, the Finns through the ‘nlght used their air force to bomb | Russian troop concentrations | lighted by their camp fires, today's | The Russians succeeded in landing roops from airplanes by parachute |in far Northern Finland, the com- | munique said, but added cryptically | “thetr landing places are known.” There still was no confirmation of reports that the Russian 18th | division had been destroyed in the | Kitela sector. It was believed the division was surrounded and in im- minent danger of destruction, but that the Finnish troops were care- | fully avoiding any waste in man- | cold achieve the victory for them. Claim 22 Tanks Destroyed. The isthmus battle, which lasted from morning until midnight, oc- curred between Hatjalahdenjarvi and Summa, the Finnish communi- que said. The Finns said they destroyed 22 tanks. The army reported that Finnish troops northeast of Lake Ladoga re- pulsed “continuous” attacks on the Pitkaranta Archipelago and on the | shore of the lake, driving the enemy | off with “several hundreds killed.” Farther north, near the Arctic | Circle, the Russians were repulsed near Markajarvi in the direction of Salla, the Finns said. During the night of February 4-5, the communique said, the Finnish air force dropped bombs “on the enemy's troops encamped around their fires.” “In North Finland,” concluded the (See FINLAND, Page A-3.) Landslide Kills 19 GRANADA, Spain, Feb. 6 (). — Nineteen persons were killed and 11 houses were buried in the village of Fuentes de Cesna last night by a landslide loosened by recent rains. they made five infantry attacks yes- | army communique said. | | power, preferring to let hunger and | 150 Cars of Planes Cross France Going From lfaly to Finns Daladier’s Party Calls On Government to Help Finland Continue War By the Associated Press. PARIS, Feb. 6.—The shipment through France of some 50 carloads of Italian-made airplanes for the by sources close to the government. The planes previously had been | halted in Germany by Nazi authori- ties. They then were returned to Italy after being released by Ger- many, and finally rerouted through France. Daladier Party Urges Aid. Premier Daladier's Radical So- cialist party today adopted a reso- lution calling upon the French gov- ernment “to take all necessary meas- ures to permit Finland to continue to fight and win” her war against Russia. The Radical-Socialist parliamen- | tary group, meeting in the Cham- ber of Deputies, linked the out- come of the war in Finland with that in Western Europe. | The resolution said the party | considers “the definite defeat of the Soviet aggression against Finland | will hurt our enemies in their mili- | tary power as well as in prestige.” | Press Urges Finnish Aid. The French press stressed a de- | sire to aid Finland quickly on the ‘hee!s of the fifth British-French | Supreme War Council session, at | which the Finnish-Russian War was | reported to have been discussed. Some newspapers carried an inter- view by the Havas (French) News | Agency with Risto Ryti, Finnish Premier, in which he declared, “the quickest aid is the most effective.” They gave no light, however, on | any possible allied decisions con- cerning quicker shipments of air- | planes and munitions to the embat- | tled Finns. | The paper L'Ordre said: “If aid ils going to be given to Finland in | the spirit of saving her, it will be | necessary to act with very great speed.” | The British and French have said | several times they were aiding Fin- {land, but the extent and exact | nature of the help have been kept as military secrets. Allied Council Meets. The Allied Supreme War Council, meeting for the fifth time since the | beginning of the European conflict, was reported last night by the war ministry to have reached “complete (See PARIS, Page A-4) ’ BULLETIN. BALTIMORE, Feb. 6 (®.— Ludwig Lewisohn, Jewish author, and Miss Edna Manley were married today after the cere- mony had been halted tempo- rarily by a woman who asserted she was his “wife,” his muse, his soul” and mother of his 6-year- old son. Bv the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Feb. 6.—A woman who said she was Ludwig Lewi- sohn's common-law wife caused postponement of the Jewish au- thor’s wedding to Miss Edna Manley today by rushing into Har Sinai Temple Center with her 6-year-old son and announcing “this wedding must not take place.” Miss Thelma Spear arrived at the center with her son Jimmy and her lawyer, Bernard Sandler of New York, a few moments before Mr. Lewisohn was to have taken Miss Manley, Rochester (N. Y.) newspa- perwoman, in marriage. Mr. Sandler told Rabbi Edward L. Israel, who was to have per- formed the ceremony, that Miss Spear had been Mr. Lewisohn’s common-law wife for 16 years and that Jimmy was the author’s son. “I am willing to give him his freedom, though I love him with all my heart,” said Miss Spear. “But first he must marry me. Then I promise to let him go to Reno for a divorce.” Recognized in Maryland. Common-law are rec- ognized in Maryland, but not in New York, Mr. Sandler said. He asserted bigamy proceedings would ‘Common-Law Wife' Blocks Wedding of Ludwig Lewisohn It was the second time within a week that the marriage had been postponed. On Thursday the 58- year-old, twice-divorced author and his 31-year-old flancee appeared in court to ask that Maryland's 48- hour marriage license law be waived in their case. 5 But it developed that the attor- ney in Miss Manley's divorce ac- tion against Stanley Casolare of New York had neglected to file the interlocutory decree until two days after it was handed down by the Supreme Court at Rochester, Nov- ember 2, 1938. Since the divorce was not to be- come final until 15 months later, and because the lawyers had been tardy in filing the decree, Mr. Lewisohn and Miss Manley could not have been wed until February 4 at the earliest. Inscription From Book Cited. As soon as Miss Spear appeared on the scene, Mr. Lewisohn and his bride-to-be hurried upstairs. The inscription from Mr. Lew- isohn’s “Creative America” was read in an effort to prove he recognized Miss Spear as his wife. It said: “The preparation of this anthology would have been impossible with- out the aid of Thelma, my com- rade, stay, wife, and now the mother of my son. The child, sitting on Miss Spear’s lap, was nervous d the discus- sion. Once he said: “I might like Miss Edna better.” “You can see he is just being be instituted against Mr. Lewisohn if he married Miss Manley, ! ) & nasty,” Miss Spear told reporters. Then she asked Jimmy whether he loved “Not today,” sald the child. ) Finnish Army was disclosed today | Bombing Wave Sweeps Britain; . R. A. Blamed Irish Feelling Runs High as Two Face Gallows Tomorrow | By the Associated Press. of bombings, attributed to the Irish Republican Army, swept England today as the govern- ment of Ireland sought to stay the scheduled execution of two L R. A. men in Birmingham to- morrow. Explosions from bailoon and acid type bombs used previously by the I. R. A. in its campaign of terrorism shook London’s crowded Euston Railroad Station, the Birmingham General Post Office and the post office in Manchester. At Liverpool an attendant found an incendiary bomb in the main hall of the general post office and pre- vented an explosion by submerging it in water. Four were hurt In Euston Station, two in Birmingham, none in Man- chester. As feeling ran high in Ireland | LONDON, Feb. 6.—A new wave | JIM, '™ NoT "$aviNG. after the British government's re- fusal last night to grant reprieves to the condemned men, John Du- lanty, Ireland's high commissioner in London, was instructed to see Prime Minister Chamberlain today the pair To Be Hanged Tomorrow. The two men, Peter Barnes and James Richards, are scheduled to be hanged tomorrow in Birmingham for their part in a bombing in Coventry last August 25, in which five persons were killed. The guard around the Birming- |or to stage a bombing of the jail |as a gesture of defiance. Special units of Scotland Yard to press an appeal for clemency for | ! ham jail was redoubled against any | |effort to save Richards or Barnes | 'Richard D. Hunt D. C. Realty Man, Killed by Truck Struck on Baltimore Boulevard; Was Member Of Old Maryland Family | man and member of an old Mary- land family, was killed |early today by a 12-ton trailer- 3truc\< on the Baltimore boulevard near Waterloo, Md. iversed in I. R. A. tactics supervised a watch in key post offices for fur- ther bombings. Special precau- tions were taken in railway luggage | rooms, where numerous bombs were | planted last summer. Feeling reached a pitch recalling {the atmosphere surrounding the hanging of three Irish Republicans for the killing of a police sergeant in Manchester in 1867. The trio became known as the “Manchester martyrs.” A postal investigation disclosed Birmingham was posted just after last night's announcement that Home Secretary Sir John Anderson would not interfere with the execu- tions. Today's Irish government appeal |to Mr. Chamberlain came after | many mass meetings in Ireland in recent days demanding reprieves. With refusal of these last night, the bombings followed today. Tom Barry, a Cork Irish Repub- | lican leader, telegraphed Prime Min- ister Eamon de Valera of Eire today asking him to request four-day re- | prieves to enable him to place before |the home secretary in London “proof” that the men were innocent. Reprieves Urged in Dublin. The British government announced its refusal to grant reprieves for the two condemned men after a huge mass meeting in Dublin the night before had urged reprieves “to avert the risk of extinguishing all hope of enduring peace between Britain and the Irish nation.” The Euston station was crowded. In it were many soldiers on leave. One of those injured was detained at an eye hospital for injuries about the eyes, while the others were treated for abrasions and shock. Flames followed the Birmingham post office explosion, but were ex- tinguished quickly. The blast was heard in the street and drew a large crowd. Joseph Hewitt, 29, acquitted of murder in the Coventry blast, was freed today on charge of conspiracy to cause explosions, possessing ex- plosive and causing an explosion. The prosecution offered no evidence against him, Barnes and Richards were sen- tenced December 14, receiving the first death penalties in the I. R. A. campaign of terror against the British. The I. R. A. bombings began in January, 1939. The organization is outlawed in Ireland, opposed by the De Valera government because of its (See IRISH, Page A-3.) that the bomb which exploded in | | He was identified tentatively } identification was completed later | by his wife, Mrs. Helen Hunt, an em- | ploye of the Washington Loan & | Trust Co. | Mr. Hunt, who had served as a | captain in the Army during the | | World War, had run out of gas and was pushing his car toward a nearby filling station at the time of the acci- | dent. Slipped From Behind Car. Police said he stepped from behind | his car directly into the path of the {lumbering truck, which was driven by Preston T. Hill, Temperanceville, Va. Mr. Hunt'’s body was hurled 50 feet by the force of the impact. The driver summoned police im- mediately from the nearby Water- loo substation, and Mr. Hunt was | pronounced dead on the scene by a physician who lives nearby. In the dead man's pocket was found the cap to his empty gaso- police said, and visibility was poor on the fog-strouded highway. Family Prominent in Society. Mr. Hunt had real estate holdings which he managed in nearby Mary- land. His family has lived in Mont- gomery County for many genera- tions and has been prominent in society. He had been married once before and was divorced some years ago. His first wife is now Mrs. Arthur Condon. Two sons were born of that marriage, Lt. Richard D. Hunt, jr, U. S. N, former White House aide who is now o duty on the West Coast, and Fregerick Hunt, commercial attache to the Ameri- can Legatior in Bucharest. Other survivors include his mother, Mrs. Hughes Oliphant of the Ontario Apartments; his sister, Mrs. Margaret C. McGraw, and a brother, Henry J. Hunt, 3d, for- merly judge of Orphans’ Court in Rockville and now in charge of auto licenses in Montgomery County. Congressional Leaders Confer With President Democratic congressional leaders discussed the legislative situation with President Roosevelt at the ‘White House today, but declined to comment later on any decisions which might have been made. Those attending were Vice Presi- dent Garner, Senate Majority Lead- er Barkley and House Majority Leader Rayburn. {Reich Won't Mediate ,In Russo-Finnish War By the Associated Press. BERLIN, Feb. 6.—The German government can see no basis for mediation in the Russian-Finnish conflict, it was authoritatively indi- cated today after the Reich’s envoys to Moscow and Helsinki had come to Berlin to make personal reports. Authorized sources said that even Finnish President Kyosti Kallio’s declaration last Thursday that Fin- land was ready to make an “honor- able peace” offered no concrete basis for action by Germany. Germany, now as before, is keep- ing aloof from the northern conflict, it was stated, although of course Russia is the Reich’s special friend. Plans for the huge exchange ‘of Russian raw materials for German industrial goods cannot be carried out efficiently, informed sources said, unless better communications are obtained between the two countries. A major difficulty in transporta- tion has been the difference in the gauges of Russian and German rail- roads, making it impossible to use the same equipment on both roads. Press Strike Hits Santiago as publishers met to hear proposals end a strike based on demands Summary of A Page. Amusements, Obituary _.A-10 B-18 | Radio .. ..B-13 Comics B-16-17 | Sports . A-12-14 Editorials . A-8| Society . _. B-3 Finance A-15| Woman’s Page, Lost, Found B-13 B-12 Foreign ‘Totalitarian bombing covers Finland with ruins. Page A-1 Roosevelt receives committee lead- ers. Page A-1 Five Soviet attacks, aided by tanks, repulsed, say Finns. Page A-1 50 carloads of Italian planes go via Prance to Finns. Page A-1 76 of crew of 77 on sunken Canadian ship saved. Page A-2 Gandh! pessimistic on settlement with Britain, Page A-4 Hungary and Bulgaria irked by Balkan entente policy. Page A-4 National Pelley, surprise witness, gives Dies “clean bill of health.” Page A-1 Democratic committee members visit Roosevelt today. Page A-1 Leiserson charges “fantastic,” Witt tells House probers. Page A-2 Roosevelt cites statistics in defense of New Deal’s record. Page A-3 Washington and thm D. C. real estate man led when hit by truck. Page A-1 Three-year-old Leslie Lee Ross suc- Richard D. Hunt, 56, real estate | instantly | through cards in his pockets and the | line tank. The car showed no lights, | 1M TiReD OF mfiu‘éfl(‘ufm whose illness had caused men of | science to search the world for a cure, is dead. She slipped into a coma shortly after 10 o'clock last night and suc- cumbed & few minutes later to the rare disease for which no remedy |1s known—leukemia. | Thus ended a valiant battle| against hopeless odds, in the course | of which the State Department and the governments of two warring | nations had co-operated in seeking | a means to save the child’s life. i The child, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Edward Ross, was taken | to the hospital about three weeks | | ago atter she failed to rally from a | cold. Doctors there discovered she was suffering from leukemia—a dis- | ease which originates in the bone ! marrow and causes the white blood | | corpuscles to multiply and destroy | | the red corpuscles. | No cure is known, but the parents | and the girl's uncle, N. G. Tayman, an engineer, refused to give up hope. ‘They induced the State Department to send a query to Germany about & cure supposed to have been dis- covered there. The British and the Germans of- fered assurances that if such a cure existed they would give it clearance through the war zone. But the | State Department was informed Established in 1852 Most people in Washington have The Star delivered to their homes every evening and Sunday morning. 3-Year-Old Leukemia Victim Dies as Cure Search Fails Leslie Lee Ross, 3, the little girl| | LESLIE LEE ROSS. that the cure did not exist and the | last hope was destroyed. | “Perhaps,” doctors at the hospital said today, “the interest aroused by this case will cause more research to be done and result in the discov- ery of a cure.” The child’s father is a statistical clerk in the Federal Works Admin- istration and lives in Cheverly, Md. Party Leaders Visit President, buf Learn | Nothing of Plans Third-Term Sentiment Strong, Some Party Chiefs Tell Roosevelt ROOSEVELT CITES economic sta- | tistics in defense of New Deal’s | record. Page A-3 ~ By G. GOULD LINCOLN. President Roosevelt received the members of the Democratic National Committee at the White House to- day—but gave them no information ;bout a possible third-term candi- acy. While the President said nothing about running again, some of the committee members frankly told him the sentiment in their States ;ns overwhelming for his renomina- lon. ¥ Among them was Gov. O. D. Johnston of South Carolina, who said he told the Chief Executive: “Just leave everything to us in South Carolina and we’ll draft you.” The National Committee was headed by “Genial Jim” Farley, its chairman, as it gathered for the reception, which took place in the President’s offices. A mumber of Democratic State chairmen accom- panied the members of the National (8ee DEMOCRATS, Page Today’s Star sent to i age A-4 D’Alesandro promises full hearings on Blue Plains. Page B-1 ‘Tuberculosis group to consider fund request tomorrow. Page B-1 Tydings hits efforts to open milk market to outsiders. Page B-1 ‘Welware workers’ unionization move under way. Editorial and Comment This and That. Answers to Questions, Letters to The Star. David Lawrence. Ah?vu‘ll? Kintner. i Lincoln. Lemuel Parton. Constantine Brown. Sports Conn confident he will beat Louis for heavyweight title. Apostoli’s flop rated ring’s history. Page Terry admits Glants lack title class, but sees improvement. Page A-13 Cunningham, McCluskey again make all-America track team. Page A-14 Federal employe tax bill Senate | manner as the stamp plan for dis- Miscellany City News in Brief. Vital Statistics. Wallace Announces Stamp Plan to Give Clothing fo Needy Cotton Goods Program For Relief Families to Start in Six Weeks By the Associated Press. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace announced today that a stamp pro- gram for distributing cotton goods among needy families would be put into operation on ‘an experimental basis within six weeks. . The program, using normal trade channels, would operate in the same tributing surplus food among fami- lies on rellef. Mr. Wallace said cities for the cotton program would be chosen from among 43 already se- lected for the food-stamp plan. As in the food-distribution sys- tem, the Government will issue stamps good for purchase of cotton goods at regular retail stores. The Government and local relief agen- cies would redeem the stamps from the retailer. Eligible persons could buy cotton stamps in an amount approximately equal to their present expenditures for cotton goods . For each 1 dol- lar’s worth of stamps purchased they would receive 1 dollar’s worth of free stamps, giving them twice the buying power they otherwise would have. The purchase stamps are to be given in color and the free ones brown. Money for the program will come from $13,500,000 appropriated the last Congress for subsidization of domestic consumption of cotton goods among the needy. Those eligible to participate in the cotton program will include all per- (See COTTON, Page A-3) Postal Clerk Accused Of Pilfering Dimes Charged with pilfering dimes in- Carta took money from a letter addressed to the President and madiled by a Brooklyn (N. Y.) man. It was said the letter contained 10 dimes as tha sender’s contribution to the March o’ Dimes birthday drive. Another letter, postmarked | declared. | done.” (P) Means Associated Press. THREE CENTS. Pelley Appears Before Probers, Denies Dies Link Silver Shirt Leader Denounces Letters As Forgeries (Picture on page A-3.) By the Associated Press. Willlam Dudley Pelley, leader of the Silver Shirt Legion, dropped in on the Dies commit- tee today after months of silence to give its chairman, Represent- ative Dies, Democrat, of Texas, “an absolutely clean bill of health” with regard to charges of “collusion” between Mr. Dies and himself. The slender, goateed resident of Asheville, N, C., who had long been hunted by the committee, sur- rendered to Robert Stripling, clerk, for service of a subpoena and then went before a closed session of the committee to tell what he knew about certain letters, allegedly forged with his name, which re- cently were brought forth as evie dence of a connection between Mr. Dies and the legion chieftain. A few minutes later Pelley talked with reporters. “I'm giving Martin Dies an ab- solutely clean bill of health,” he “I admire the work he's Letters Called Forgeries. He declined to discuss his brief testimony before the Dies Commit- tee directly, but members told newsmen he had declared the let- ters purporting to link him to Dies were forgeries. From the Dies Committee room, Pelley marched over to a hearing being held by a Rules Subcommit- tee on whether the letters should be ordered expunged from the House record. They were placed there: by Representative Hook, | Democrat, of Michigan, during an attack on Mr. Dies and the com- mittee. Calmly puffing on a pipe, he said after he had been sworn in that “None of those letters were written by me, or signed by me.” “I don’t know anything about them,” he added. The letters, addressed to David Mayne of this city and bearing the signature “Pelley,” to link Chairman Dies with the chief of the Silver Shirts. The Dies Committee held several closed-door hearings after Mr. Hook’s action and announced that Mayne had admitted forging the letters in' order to sell them as ma- terial in a campaign- against the committee. Mr. Hook, however, has consistently declined to accept them as forgeries and 'withdraw them from the Record on that basis. As an upshot of this seeming | stalemate, both Mr. Hook and the Dies Committee turned to the Jus- tice Department to look into the | question of forgery and, meanwhile, the Dies and Rules Committees con- tinued their own inquiries. There the matter rested when Pelley put in his unheralded appear- ance shortly before noon today. He had been sought by the committee for many months. Pelley declined to tell reporters where he had been since the Dies Committee looking for him, but he said he had been in Wash- ington for the last 48 hours. He emphatically declared he went be- ro]r‘e the committee “entirely by my- ‘When he appeared before the sub- committee, Acting Chairman Starnes of the Dies Committee—the chair- man has been ill in Texas—an- nounced to the subcommittee that Pelley had “voluntarily submitted himself” and “we immediately placed him under subpoena.” Mr. Starnes said Pelley had been questioned by the Dies group .only as to the authenticity of the letters. To Remain Under Subpoena. He added, however, that Pelley would remain under subpoena and would be questioned soon at an open, public hearing about his ac- tivities and those of his organiza- tion. He said Pelley would be asked about various charges that had been made against him, particularly by the Dies Committee’s own investi- gator, Robert Barker. - Mr. Hook entered the Rules Sub- committee hearing about the same time as Pelley and remarked audibly to friends: “It's funny they can find Pelley now, isn't it?” ‘When Pelley was questioned about Mr. Hook's placing the letters in the Congressional Record, he grinned and observed: “I think he was just played for a sucker, don’t you?” He denied he had ever corre- (See DIES, Page A-3) Ascot Race Meeting In June Canceled By the Associated Press. LONDON, Feb. 6.—The Ascot au- thorities today announced the can- cellation of the June race meeting, hich annually brings together Brit« ain’s best horses in such classics as the Ascot Gold Cup, Ascot Stakes and Royal Hunt Cup. "Bulletin Ship Flashes SOS NEW YORK, Feb. 6 (#.—The