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U. S. Considers Sale 0f Old Naval Ships To Neutrals Unused Army Artillery Also Considered for Disposition Abroad By the Associated Press. The administration is considering selling old naval vessels as well as unused Army artillery to neutrals, it developed yesterday, after Presi- dent Roosevelt had confirmed that disposal of some surplus material was under study. Upward of a score of old destroy- ers, submarmines, mine layers and other craft already bear a “for sale” sign. Although outmoded for most modern naval warfare, they are considered comparable in military value to Navy aged craft which Great Britain has put back into service to combat submarines. Discussing the White House con- ference Thursday on munitions sales, Mr. Roosevelt told reporters he doubted this Government should sell surplus arms to Finland be- cause of the undeclared war with Soviet Russia, but mentioned no objections to sales to Norway and Sweden, neutral neighbors of the Finns. Without naming them, he said & number of neutrals had inquired about the possibility of buying sur- plus American arms. He went on to say that the Army had inherited from the World War a number of British 75-millimeter field guns wWhich are not so good as its 3500 French-design guns, and suggested they might be disposed of. He noted also that the War Department still has about 450,000 pairs of surplus shoes left over from the World War. As to ships, he said that in 1913 the Navy sold a number of Civil War craft, although many persons contended they should not be ad- Judged surplus. After the President’s press con- ference, Lewis Compton, new As- sistant Secretary of the Navy, min- imized, in talking with reporters, the likelihood that the Navy would care to sell any ships. However, official reports listed the old light cruiser Rochester, two destroyers, six sub- marines, a mine layer and nine other light craft for sale as of last June 30. Ramspeck (Continued From First Page.) District of Columbia have their full quota or are in excess. Termed Leech on Government. Representative Nichols had de- declared that “civil service is a leech on this Government and if not stopped will sap the blood from this, Government.” He said that the District has a quota of 197, but there | pay roll; and Maryland has a quota of 659 and 2,065 in the service. Representative Reese, Republican, of Kansas, a member of the Civil | Service Committee, offered an| amendment that no appointment | should be made in the future except | in the quota apportionment set by | | are 83857 from the District on the | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. SURRENDER IN FINLAND AT 30 BELOW ZERO—The caption approved by the British censor on this picture says it is an “authentic picture of Russian patrol surrendering to Finnish forces, taken by a Finnish officer on the northern front. B RUSSIAN DEAD PILED UP LIKE CORDWOOD—Some of the horror of the Russo-Finnish war is shown graphically in this picture of a pile-up of Russian soldiers killed in action on the Salla front and abandoned by c, their fleeing comrades. A Fin- nish Red Cross official surveys the 20 or more bodies, all of which were frozen stiff in the —A. intense cold. P. Wirephotos by Clipper Mail. In Daladier to Cap Congress and in accordance with civil service regulations—the Civil Service Commission already follows this principle. To this Representative Keller, Democrat, of Illinois offered an e’ amendment which both he and| Close of Depuhes Chairman Ramspeck explained had Secret Session been worked out in co-operation | with the Civil Service Commission. | gy the Associated Press. ;l:;;: hfiefr;see:;;:;;et RERascr PARIS, Feb. 10.—Today's secret 5 o debate of the Chamber of Deputies Woodrum Cites Hardships. on the conduct of the war will be On a rising yote the Nichols|followed by a public session and a amendment was approved 92 to 73.| vote of confidence on the govern- When teller votes were demanded |ment of Premier Edouard Daladier, the amendment was approved 114 | parliamentary circles asserted. to 77. Then Representative Clifton| M. Daladier. it was learned, in- A. Woodrum, Democrat, of Virginia, | tends to speak at a public session‘ took the floor and emphasized the |immediately after the secret debate. great hardship that such an amend- | A vote will follow his address. ment could work on people who had | Eleven former Communists, who held their positions for many years | saved their seats in the Chamber by and who faced the prospect of hav- | resigning from the party, were ab- ing their jobs swept from under |sent today, having decided to leave them. He pointed out that the Dis- | the secret session for fear any “leak” trict, Maryland and Virginia were | concerning the discussions would be War Debate Today Premier Will Speak at | 80 much in excess of quotas because of World War conditions when people from distant States did not care to undergo the expense of com- ing long distances to take temporary positions—and emphasized that many in the District, Maryland and Virginia accepted the positions from patriotic motives. Representatives Nichols and Keller replied that not one of those who now hold Govern- ment jobs outside of the Civil Serv- | ice will be discharged. Before final action in the House on the bill, Representative Wood- rum demanded a separate vote on the Nichols “quota” amendment. It ‘was again approved 141 to 56. Later, Mr. Nichols said that those who now hold those positions will be left undisturbed, except that they will not be given civil service status | —and to get that they may take 8 competitive examination, while those blanketed in will be required to take a non-competitive examina- tion. Chairman Ramspeck gave his opinion that “it freezes into their occupancy of jobs people from over- quotaed States, who cannot be pro- moted or transferred.” Amendments Rejected. Representative Hinshaw, Repub- lcan, of California proposed an amendment to exempt all agencies which have already been tagged with an expiration or terminal date —which was defeated 88 to 73. Representative Boren, Democrat, of Oklahoma offered a motion to strike out the enacting clause—and argued on the alleged failure of the Civil Service Commission to adhere to the State quota apportionment.|= this was defeated, 91 to 74. Mrs. Edith N. Rogers, Republican, of Massachusetts ranking minority member of the Civil Service Com- mission, proposed an amendment which would require those blanketed in under non-competitive examina- . tions to take a competitive examina- tion before January 1, 1941. Mr. Ramspeck said this was an effort to #o by indirection what had already been voted down in the Reese amendment. It was defeated, 101 to 8 Representative Harter, Republican, of New York offered an amendment to require competitive examinations, but would allow 10 per cent for ex- perience, and the examinations would have to be held within a year. This was rejected by a voice Vote. Just before the final vote was ‘hken on passage of the bill, Mrs;. blamed on them. | Speed of Debate Criticized. | Mild criticism—and that rarely | gets past the censor these days—was | expressed in some quarters because | the Chamber of Deputies began its | present secret debate on the conduct | of the war without awaiting return | of members who are in the fighting forces. Concerning the speedy start of the discussions, now in their second | day, Premier Daladier said it was imperative to “drain the abscess” and get on to a decision which either would reinforce the Deputies’ confidence in him or replace him with somebody else. Deputies Took Initiative. The Chamber took the initiative in calling the secret meetings with- out a specific request from the gov- ernment. M. Daladier then insisted that the matter be cleared up by immediate sessions. A government communique last night said the first day’s talk, “de- voted to the organization of na- tional defense, resulted in profound discussions which proceeded without the slightest incident in an unani- mous sentiment of vigilant patriot- ism and French concord.” J. J. Hill, Grain Dealer, Dies LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10 (®.— John J. Hill, 93, once one of the Na- tion’s leading grain dealers and an outstanding figure in the move to stem the Chicago wheat market crash 37 years ago, died yesterday. Rogers forced a roll-call vote on & motion to recommit the bill with an amendment that before January 1, 1941, open competitive examinations must be given in accordance with the Civil Service Act and rules— which was again defeated, 212 to 112. All afternoon a hectic partisan political battle raged. Chairman Ramspeck bitterly assailed the Re- publicans, saying it was their real purpose to-refuse to extend the civil service until after the coming election in the hope that they could elect a President, win control of Congress and then blanket in an army of their own political patron- age appointees. Mr. Ramspeck said competitive examinations would cost about $6,- 000,000 and that not a single person would be separated from the Gov- ernment pay roll. ‘ AN .Shortly after that, while exploring Vofe of Confidence |Explorer Tells of 26 Days Captivity by Jungle Savages Dr. Moberg First White Man to Visit Wilds of Guiana By JOHN J. DALY. Stories of a strange land where a | white man had never before pene- | trated were brought to Washington | yesterday by Dr. Goesta Moberg, Swedish explorer, who made a study | of the Indians in the interior of | French and Dutch Guiana, near the Brazilian border, for the Swedish Royal Ethnographical Museum at | Stockholm. At the ethnological division of the | Smithsonian Institution, where many | of his prize exhibits are being ex- amined by the experts, Dr. Moberg | told how the Boschnegers (literally bush Negroes), natives of the Guiana jungles, had held him captive for 26 days and how he survived on | native bread and water for three | perilous days and nights. “Nevertheless,” Dr. Moberg said, “the result of my trip is good. It counts 1,600 ethnographical, zoologi- cal and entomological objects of dif- ferent kinds.” Those objects, rang- ing from poisonous darts to the sleeping and burial hammocks of the Indians are spread out in an office room on the top floor of the Na- tional Museum. Shot Rapids in Canoes. With seven Boschnegers, a strange brand of savages, who acted as pad- dlers of his two canoes, Dr. Moberg started from the port of Cayenne, on the Atlantic Coast of French Guiana, and worked about 400 miles up the Maroni River to places a white man had never seen. ‘To get there, in native canoes about 30 feet long and almost as narrow as an ironing, board, the explorer and his seven stalwarts had to shoot more than 50 rapids—all of them loaded with dis- aster. Only the skill of the Bosch- negers, whose ancestors escaped from slavery in the beginning of the last century, saved the expedition. Because the Boschnegers know every inch of the river and are familiar with most of the inland territory — all jungle-land — they have a contempt for the white man, according to Dr. Moberg. They come in contact with him as bearers of communication from the French penal colonies and even the colonies of the English and the Dutch just north of the Equator. Because they know that the white man in that part of the world is absolutely dependent upon them, they take every advantage, accord- ing to the explorer. If they want to do away with an enemy, all that is necessary is to tip the canoe and the victim is eaten alive by the strange fish that inhabit the jungle rivers. Abandoned by Guides. After he had gone past the last white man’s habitat, Dr. Moberg reached the strange territory he tells about—where only the wild men wander. He was 18 days on the way to the first Indian village. a tributary of the Maroni River, the Aruous River, the Eoschnegers left Dr. Moberg to his own resources —and it almost cost him his life. As an explorer who has been three times across the Sahara Des- ert and nine times across Africa, life in the great wild spaces is noth- ing new to Dr. Moberg. In his45th year, Dr. Moberg has been an ex- DR. GOESTA MOBERG. —Star Staff Photo. plorer since 1920, and says he never had time to get married. Unless the war in Europe gets a little too serious around Sweden, when he might be called to the colors, Dr. Moberg intends to go back this summer to the Sahara. One of his books—“The Land of Fear"—deals with the central point of the Sahara Desert, a place called Hoggar. He has written four oth- ers, “The Land of Adventure,” about the Sudan; “Among Touareg Chief- tains and Negro Sultans,” “On Ad- venture’s Path in Africa” and “With the French Foreign Legion.” Ten black scorpions and two cobras got into this explorer’s blankets and his pullovers during eight days in the Sahara Desert. With all that, he still believes the grandest life of all is to be far away from civilization. War Department Building Bids Being Studied The Board of Awards of the Pub- lic Buildings Administration had be- fore it today the low bids submit- ted by John McShane, Inc, of Philadelphia for construction of the first unit of the new War Depart- ment Building in the Northwest rectangle. Ten companies offered bids of alternating types. The McShane Co. bids on four types of exterior, any one of which the Government may choose, were: Sandstone, $4,377,000; limestone, $4,303,000; marble, $4,615,000, and precast _stone, $4,365,000. The George A. Fuller Co. of Wash- ington submitted a bid of $4,574,500 for limestone construction and the Charles H. Tompkins Co., also of this city, tendered a bid of $4,755,700 for the same type. Final decision in the award rests with Administrator John M. Carmody of the Federal Works Agency. The Otis Elevator Co. of Wash- ington submitted a low bid of $324,- 732 for elevators for the new unit. The building will occupy the northeast corner of the Northwest rectangle, bounded by Twenty-first, Twenty-third and C and E streets. Practically all of the site has been acquired and much of it cleared. Ground for the first unit is expect- ed to be broken in the spring. Pilgrims Streaming To Lhasa for New Lama's Enthronement | 6-Year-Old Chinese Boy Takes Place as Buddha's Vice Regent Feb. 22 | By the Associated Press. LHASA, Tibet, Feb. 10.—This | normally placid capital of the land of the “Lost Horizon" teemed today ;’wnh pilgrims coming from every quarter of Tibet for the enthrone- 'm nt of a new Dalai Lama, pro- visionally set for February 22. The center of interest was the | Potala, magnificent, storied 17th | century fortress-palace of the Dalai Lama. where a 6-year-old boy is scheduled to be installed as the 14th person to hold the title of “Budda’s Vice Regent on Earth.” Chief Candidate From China. The principal candidate of three for the post as Tibet's highest re- ligious and secular ruler is Lingerh Lamutanchu, or Lingerh the Divine Child, who came from the plains of Koko Nor, in Far Western China. The Chinese government has rec- ommended that he be chosen with- out the usual drawing of lots, and that the others merely be desig- nated “living Buddhas.” Gen. Wu Chung-hsin, China’s of- ficial emissary to the enthronement, was busy today attending audiences with Tibetan lay and ecclesiastical officials. He also visited three great monasteries outside the city to dis- tribute butter, tea and alms among the 17,000 Lamas who live in them. Boy Serene Amid Bustle. Lamutanchu, said to have been born at the exact instant the old Dalal Lama died December 17, 1933, was in residence at Norbhulingka, bejewelled summer palace of Tib- etan rulers. He was serene and complacent amid all the bustle, but appeared nevertheless to be brightly inter- ested in the proceedings. Political observers see his selection as a probable move strengthening China’s vague authority over Tibet. Bride, 13, Decides fo Quit Jail for Father's Home By the Asdociated Press. VINCENNES, Ind., Feb. 10—A 13- year-old girl who left school and her father’s home last month to marry a W. P. A, worker decided yesterday to return to both and not see her husband for three years. Dorothy Jean Harrell's decision was prompted by the filing of a charge of incorrigibility against her and officers’ plans to get a court order sending her to the home of her mother, Mrs. Ophia Halmke, at Bicknell. Mrs. Halmke and the child-bride’s husband, James Harrell, 21, also of Bicknell, are charged with giving false information in obtaining a marriage license for Harrell and the school girl. Harrell is in jail here. His bride refused to leave the jail to return to the home of her father, Homer Foster, until she was in- formed that the prosecutor of nearhy Pike County, where her father lives, had sworn out & warrant charging her with incorrigibility. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1940. Note that some of the Russians already have thrown down their rifles and some are without mittens on their hands—with thick snow on the ground and tem- perature at 30 degrees below zero. OSovieI Is Reported Hastening Defenses On Turkish Fronfier Fear of Allied Attack On Oil Fields Seen In Speeded Work By the Associated Press. ISTANBUL, Feb. 10.—Soviet Rus- sia was reported today pushing con- struction of fortifications on her Caucasian frontier with Turkey to defend her rich oil flelds against possible British-French-Turkish at- tack. Informed military sources said such information had reached the Turkish government. It was be- lieved to have been gathered by Turkey’s military intelligence serv- ice. Military Roads Being Built. According to these reports, several hundred thousand workers have been drafted by the Red Army to build military roads near the Rus- sian-Turkish frontier and strength- en border defenses. the Russian side of the line in an advisory capacity. Rumanian sources reported a few weeks ago Dr. Todt had inspected Russian works across the frontier from Cernauti, Rumania, which | many military experts regard as the | most likelv point through which allied forces might attempt to enter Poland. Germans’ Departure Speeded. ‘Turkey, meanwhile, was speeding the departure of 100 German tech- nicians dismissed from government advisory posts. Their discharge from the war and navy ministries, following Turkish | confiscation Thursday of the Ger- | man-owned Krupp shipyards on the | Golden Horn, was ascribed to ex- | posure of a Nazi plot for sabotage | and terrorism in the Near East. A Soviet warning to mariners that | minefields have been laid off Rus- | sia’s Black Sea ports was repeated by consular authorities with notice that it is now obligatory to take on Russian pilots inside Russian waters. Turkish military authorities have | said an allied attack on Russia’s oil | fields, among the most productive in the world, would be accompanied by combined fleet action, especially against the big oil port of Batum. Army Chief’s Meeting Reported. In this connection, significance was attached to a reported meeting | of British and French naval leaders | with Gen. Maxine Weygand, com- | mander of French forces in the Near East, and Lt. Gen. Sir Archi- | bald P. Wavell, chief of Britain's “Middle East” command. Turkish sources have stressed the military benefits that would result from seizure of the Caucasian oil fields and have declared the allies foresaw the possibility that, in the event of a British-French-Turkish attack, Russia might try to reach the Dardanelles to cut off access to the Black Sea. Enlistment of Arab sympathy for the allied cause was reported re- liably here to be the chief point of discussion in the meeting between Cairo. "Mysfical Voices’ fo Decide Third Term, Moley Says By the Assoctated Press. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Feb. 10.— Raymond W. Moley, ex-brain trust- er who became an administration critic, thinks President Roosevelt “will probably decide the third- term question as he has decided others—by listening to the mythical voices that come from the air.” “Mr. Roosevelt doesn’t know him- self whether or not he will run for a third term,” the Columbia pro- fessor told members of the Univer- sity Club here last night. “He will guess at the answer.” Mr. Moley added: “I am getting a little tired of hearing ‘is he going to run again?’ or ‘if not, who have the Demo- crats got?’ or who have the Republi- cans got?” “There are several capable men in both parties who could adequately fullfil the duties of the presidency. The presidency does not require a creature not of this world. It requires a man who satisfies pure- ly human qualifications, who will be finite and a moderator rather than a dictator.” Policeman Kept Busy With Traffic Crashes By the Associated Press. SOMERS, N. Y., Feb. 10.—Sent to investigate one highway collision, State Policeman Thomas Darby found four on his hands before he left the scene. Collision No. 1 involved a sedan and a truck on an icy curve, The sedan left, then a bus came along and hit the truck. Another truck later piled up against the bus and, while Darby was straightening that out & coupe hit the second truck. | They said Dr. Fritz Todt, credited | with a part in the building of Ger- | German Rule Best Poles Ever Knew, Says Nazi Governor Political Opposition Is Forbidden Luxury, However, He Asserts By the Associated Press. BERLIN, Feb. 10—Poland, in the words of her Nazi governor general, is being ruled with more considera- tion for social and material welfare than ever before, but political op- position “Is a luxury which cannot be indulged at present.” Hans Frank, governor general for the section of Poland occupied by Germany but not annexed by the Reich, reviewed charges from abroad against his administration, in an in- terview with 150 correspondents. Pamphlets issued by the Polish | government-in-exile in France md! by the Polish embassies in Rome and | Vatican City have charged Germany with a campaign of mass extermina- tion against the Poles and with a long series of persecutions. Frank denied that the Germans were “shooting priests, sterilizing Polish children, torturing Jews, or | executing students by the thou- sands,” remarking that “such fan- tastic accusations merely can make & philosopher smile.” Rigorous in Smashing Foes. Frank, a ruddy-faced lawyer of professorial mien, said he was rigor- ous in smashing any Polish move- ment or tendency which would weaken the administration or give | enemies of Germany a chance to| strike in the East. “Germany is at war, fighting for its existence,” he declared. “So it is not to be supposed that the Reich could extend liberties to the Poles greater than those enjoyed by the | population of England, France or | Germany. | “But those who assail me from | abroad should know * * * there is no hunger, there is not even any ra- tioning of bread as in Germany itself. They should know there is| not a single concentration camp in | all Poland.” In reply to charges from abroad that the Poles’ health has been neglected, including reports ufsY typhus outbreaks, he said, “German | medical services in a few months| gave free inoculations to 720,000 | Jews, Ukrainians and Poles—a pro- digious feat in medical administra- | tion. “Never in modern times has there | |been less typhus than now in | disease-ridden Poland.” s A-3 Brifish Warplanes Rise to Meet Ship Believed German Sinking of Two Nazi Subs Claimed as Price for Beaverburn Sinking By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 10—British fighting planes went up today to intercept an unidentified plane, be- lieved to be German, which appear- ed off England’s east coast. In the war at sea torpedoing of the Canadian Pacific freighter Beav- erburn was a victory that apparent- ly cost Germany two submarines. The admirality announced late last night a single British destroyer had sunk two U-boats as they attempt- ed to attack a convoy. The announcement followed state- ments attributed to an officer of the destroyer, which escorted a rescue ship to a west English port with survivors of the 9874-ton Beaver= burn, sunk off Southern Ireland, ap- parently Monday. Scottish Steamer Sunk. The admiralty did not say when or where the fight occurred or iden- tify the destroyer. It was disclosed, however, the 5406-ton Scottish steamer Chagres, another member of the convoy, later was sunk by a mine. The report brought total German submarine losses to an unofficial total of ‘at least 40, half or more of the number believed in operation at the start of the war. Germany broadcast last night a report by its official news agency, DNB, that eight British or British- convoyed ships had been sunk or totally wrecked by German planes yesterday, and that one German plane had been lost. Six Ships Attacked. British fighters shot down one German bomber yesterday and re- ported two others had been dame aged. British sources said only six ships were attacked, only one hit directly, and none sunk. The Brit- ish have disputed previous German claims that 32 British or neutral ships ‘were sunk in air raids last week. The British contended their planes were markedly superior to the ate tackers, saying that since January 1 ten German bombers had been shot down along the British coast without the loss of a single defend- ing craft. Torpedoed 10 days ago, the 8,096« ton Netherlands tanker Ceronia limped 400 miles to a British port May Not Listen to Radios. Confirming that discipline was to listen to radios or depart from the prescribed paths of rectitude as | laid down by Germany. | “Because it is not military prac-| | tice to restore prisoners before a war | | has ended,” Frank said, only a few | | Polish prisoners of war have been | returned from Germany. | His government is not persecuting | Jews, he declared, and has no spe- | {cial attitude toward the Jewish| | problem. | Asserting that thousands of Jews from Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Rumania and Russia have applied to enter Poland, Frank said incom- despite a hole amidships “big enough for a train to pass through.” 1 i | strict against litical opposition,| A lifeboatman, describing the voy= many’s Siegfried Line, had visited | prauk aid Boles wers not permitted | age last night, said the two ends of the ship were held together only by twisted wreckage, but the crew | managed to bring her in. More Ships May Defy Blockade. Naval sources at Rio de Janeiro predicted yesterday that some of the 11 German merchant ships still in Brazilian ports would attempt a dash to Germany soon through the British blockade. Since January 5 six German mer- chantmen have stolen out of Bra- zilian ports and have not been re- ported since. They include the Koe= nigsberg, which sailed from Beie: the Sao Paulo, from Cabadello; th ing Jews were not being sent to Wolfsburg, from Recife; the Bahia, such regions as Lublin, and that| {rom Sao Salvador, and the La Co- “not a single Jew has left my capi- | Funa and Santos, from Rio de Ja- Gen. Weygand and Gen. Wavell in | tal at Krakow.” | He said he did not know whether Lublin or some other area ever would be set aside as a Jewish state, but that he saw no objection to such a | plan. | “Where the newly-arrived Jews | go is largely decided by the Jewish | communities,” which are operating | freely in every region, he said. | At the will of Hitler, Poland is to | remain “the home of the Jews,” the | Governor said, adding that by tradi- tion it seemed more Jewish than | other European states. Not a Part of Germany. It must be remembered, however. the area is not a part of Germany and has not been annexed as has | the Poznan district, he said. | “We have our own currency, the | by main force despite the fact that ‘the former Polish government skip- | ped off with the gold reserve. “We have our own customs, even against Germany. We are carrying out the main features of the old Polish trade treaty with Bulgaria. We hope to make a trade treaty | with the Reich, and I guess I know | enough about the inner workings of (the Reich’s economy to wangle a good deal for Poland.” Many government positions, in- cluding 19,000 police jobs, are filled | by Poles, he reported. Lack of an army makes a saving whereby the government can pay old Polish pensions and support a social program, Frank said, with the comment that “Poland under Ger- man administration isn’'t going to | make war on any one, so she doesn't need an army.” 500 Czech Leaders Seized by Germans PRAGUE, Feb. 10 () .—Reliable reports that 500 to 600 leading Czechs have been put into “protec- tive custody” by German authori- ties were interpreted in political cir- cles today as a step aimed at pre- serving order. Among those reported arrested were Joseph Thruhlar, leader of the Sokol (national Czech patriotic movement), Premysl Samai, chan- cellor of Czecho-Slovakia under President Thomas Masaryk, and about 120 former officers of the Czech Army. Most of those held were said to be Prague residents. G. W. U. Club to Repeat: ‘Our Town’ Tonight Cue and Curtain, student dramatic club of George Washington Univer- sity, will present a repeat perform- ance of the Pulitzer Prize play, “Our Town,” at 8:30 o'clock tonight at the Western Presbyterian Church, 1906 H street N.W. The club’s presentation of the play on January 12 and 13 was so enthusiastically received by students and faculty that a third “command” performance was scheduled. ‘The cast includes Ernest Paine, Nancy Morgan, Clinton Braine, Shirley Cox, Keith Adamson, Wil- liam Darnall, Betty Gresn and Margie Beall. The play is directed by Floyd Sparks. Representative Jenks of New Hampshire, whose State is the 'lo- | value of which we are holding up | neiro. The 11 remaining are: The Nor- derney, at Belem; the Uruguay, at | Recife; the Antonio Delfino, Maceio and Bollwork, at Sao Salvador: the | Wakama, at Rio de Janeiro: the Barbitonga, Dresden and Windhuk, at Santos, and the Montevideo and Rio Grande, at Rio Grande. ‘Woman Who Fell Off Train{ In Tunnel Recovering Miss Marie Murphy, 34, of Cleve- | land, Ohio, who had a close brush with death yesterday when she tum- bled off a train passing through a tunnel into Union Station, was re- | ported recovering today at Emer- gency Hospital. Dr. William Marberry said her | condition was good this morning. Miss Murphy was on a train bound ‘;lor Florida which was passing | through the tunnel into the station. While walking toward the back of the train she was thrown off, ap- parently through a door which was unlocked. After rolling along the right of way for some distance, she picked herself up and walked half a mile through mud and cinders to.reach the tunnel entrance. She was given first aid and sent to | the hospital. Senate Confirms Earle, Gray and Dreyfus Former Gov. George H. Earle of Pennsylvania was confirmed with- out delay by the Senate yesterday as Minister to Bulgaria, for which President Roosevelt nominated him a few days ago. At the same time, the Senate ap- proved David Gray of Florida as Minister to Ireland; Louis G. Drey- fus, jr., to be Minister to Afghanis- tan as well as Iran. The reappointments of Marriner 8. Eccles and Chester C. Davis as members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board like- wise were confirmed. Question Box Follows Pictureat Y. M. C. A, A motion picture, “Builders of To- morrow,” one of a series of adult educational pictures under auspices of the Central Young Men’s Chris- tian Association, was shown last night in the building at 1736 G street N.W. As customary in the series, a “question box” was conducted fol- lowing the picture. Last night's speaker was Dr. Robert E. Ansley of the Vocational Guidance Division, National Youth Administration, who answered questions propounded by those who saw the picture. Byrd Near South Pole ‘The American Antarctic Expedi- tion flagship Bear was reported yes- terday to be near the South Mag- netic Pole on a 600-mile cruise in quest of scientific knowledge. A message to the Navy from Rear Ad- miral Richard E. Byrd, retired, leader of the Government's expedi- tion, reported the veteran cutter rode out two 70-mile-an-hour gales cale of “Our Town,” will be & guest ttfluwmmurz. off a forbidding coast lacking har- bvnorphcuwk.n:hc.