Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1942, Page 5

House Quickly Passes Bill fo Give China §500,000,000 Aid Would Be Administered By Morgenthau Under Roosevelt's Direction With little debate the House unanimously passed and sent to the Senate today an authorization for a $500,000,000 appropriation to aid China. The fund would be administered by Secretary Morgenthau at the direction of President Roosevelt. Representative Fish, - Republican, of New York, and Majority Leader McCormack spoke briefly in favor of the fund in the brief debate, Mr. McCormack saying that “this is a vary important bill for the defense of China,” Few members knew how the money would be spent and, because of the need for niilitary secrecy, they accepted at face value statements by high-ranking administration leaders that this would be a psychological time to make available huge sums to help finance China's fight against Japan. Secretary of the Treasury Mor- genthau, one of five witnesses before a closed session of the Foreign Af- fairs Committee yesterday, was re- ported to have outlined in general possible allocations of the money. Subject to President Roosevelt's ap- proval, Mr. Morgenthau would have full discretion over its disbursement. ‘Would Give Funds. 1In & report to the House the com- mittee said that Mr. Morgenthau would be authorized to “loan or extend credit or give” aid to China up to $500,000,000 and added: “The joint resolution was deemed adequate to permit the Secretary of the Treasury to accept any di- rect or indirect benefit to the United | States as ample consideration for | either part or the whole of the as- sistance to be extended to China.” Yesterday the Senate entertained three economy suggestions from Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir- ginia, chalrman of the joint Con- gressional Economy Committee. On the House side, the Committee on Un-American Activities was re- ported considering sending a sub- committee to Puerto Rico and | Panama to investigate alleged Spanish Falangist strength there. Silver Act Stands. Also in the House a quiet move- | ment to kill the Silver Purchasing | Act of 1934 failed by a two-vote | margin during consideration of the | $1112,926899 Treasury and Post | Office appropriation bill. Proposed | as a rider, yesterday's legislative effort would have forbidden the | Treasury to pay salaries or expenses | of the Silver Division in the Treas- | ury. The move was initiated by | Representative Dirksen, Republican, of Illinois, who pointed out that | Secretary Morgenthau had described the silver buying program as “a | boner.” | Senator Byrd's formal proposals consisted of introduction of legis- | lation to.repeal pensions for mem- | bers of Congress as provided in re- | cent civil service retirement legis- lation, and of an announcement that his committee woujd inquire into the use of Farm Security Ad- ministration loans for payment of State poll taxes. The Virginia Senator also criti- cized National Youth Administrator Aubrey Williams for allegedly op- | posing efffforts of students of Hard- ing College, Arkansas, to return their N. Y. A. funds to the Government | for use in the defense program. Senators Bailey, Democrat, of North Carolina; Burton, Republican, | of Ohio and Johnson, Democrat, of | Colorado joined Senator Byrd in seeking repeal of the congressional | retirement plan. | The €lvil Service Commission as- serted, however, that the annual| cost probably would not’ exceed | $80,000. Chinese Paper Asks Use Of Funds to Fight Inflation By the Associated Press. | CHUNGKING, Feb. 4—“China will express her gratitude by hard fighting until victory is won,” the China Times said today in comment on American moves toward lending China up to $500,000,000 and Brit- | ain’s announced willingness to lend £50,000,000 ($200,000,000). Ta Kung Pao said: “Big as the | loans seem, bigger stili is our com- mon objective—to fight the Axis| until victory is achieved.” It suggested that the money should be used to decrease inflation and stabilize price levels. Sao Tang Pao, army mouthpiece, said “It is heartening to receive | news of the loans at a time when the first signs of an Allied offensive are emerging.” | The Catholic newspaper Social Welfare said: “The effect on Japan will be even greater than 10 capi- tal ships, a few hundred flying fortresses.” Hono.lulu Curfew liaised From 6 P.M. to 8 P.M. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, Feb. 4.—Residents | who have not set foot outside after dark since the Japanese raid of December 7 cheered yesterday as the military government raised the nightly curfew from 6 p.m. to 8 pm. Any one is permitted outside un- til 8 o'clock under the new regula- tions, providing there is no smoking and only flashlights with blue- tinted glass is used. The 6 p.m. curfew for use of automobiles was not changed. This was the first major step to- ward normal night life in Honolulu. Delivery of Night Final Edition The Night Final Edition of The Star, with two addi- tional pages of last-minute news, is delivered through- out Washington and nearby suburbs, together with The Sunday Star, month. This edition gives the latest developments of the day in International, Na- tional and Local news, with complete Financial Reports. Special delivery is made between 6 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. datly. ! 4 at 85c per ALBUQUERQUE, N. MEX.—SCHOOL FOR BOMBARDIERS—Men of the EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¥ # 459th Ordnance Co. load a B-18 training ship with 100 pounds of training bombs containing one pound of powder for use by aviation cadets learning to be bombardiers. Here at the only bombardier training Air Corps advanced ftying school in the United States the cadets undergo intensive training conducted at high altitudes. A candidate for the school must first receive a 10-week course in military train- ing and allied subjects at an Air Corps replacement center before becoming eligible. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1942. Bomb sights used by the aviation cadets are closely -guarded. Here they are flanked by armed guards as they carry the sights (inclosed in zipper bags) to the plane for a practice bomb- On graduation from the bombardier school, where 500 hours of ground and air train- ing are completed in 12 weeks, the cadet is given a rating of aircraft observer, bombardier third class. Attached to a tactical bombardment unit of the combat command, he continues training ing flight. for qualification as bombardier first class. Landis fo Organize Independent 0. C. D. Publicity Division Mrs. Roosevelt's Secl;ion Revamped, With Three New Assistants With Mrs. Roosevelt’s section of the agency already revamped, the Office of Civilian Defense today was making further reorganizations aimed at giving the O. C. D. au- thority to issue its own news about itself. Executive Officer James Landis is studying names of persons from whom he plans to choose a head of the new O. C. D. information di- vision. That apparently would be independent of the division of in- formation of the Office for Emer- gency Management, which is the outlet for news about all agen- cies set up to deal with domestic, non-military phases of the war. Those include the War Production Board and the Office of Price Ad- ministraton. Dean Landis said yesterday at a press conference that when the re- organization is complete the O. C. D. will consist of six divisions—in- formation, civil air patrol, civilian protection, administrative service, community and volunteer participa- tion and a general interdepart- mental council. He disclosed that Mrs. Roosevelt will continue as head of the com- munity and volunteer participation division in the role of its “ener- gizer.” However, she is given three assistants to supervise the actual activities of the division. They are: Jonathan Daniels, editor of the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer, who will be in charge of program planning; Hugh Jackson, associate | director of the New York State Charities Aid Assbciatien, who will head the division of operations, and Miss Mary Dublin, formerly with the Tolan Committee to Investigate Defense Migration, who will be in charge of the survey division. Social Reform Denied. “We are concentrating on a war,” Dean Landis said in explaining his reorganization plan. He denied that he was converting the office into a “social reform agency.” He reported that some persons in the country “have not wakened up to do any- thing about the situation.” The chart of organization shown to newspaperman by Dean Landis provides for a director, a post now | occupied by Mayor La Guardia, who has' indicated he will resign from the O. C. D. Appointment of Melvyn Douglas, motion picture actor, as head of the arts council of the projected information division is the first step toward organizing that division, it was said. The division will in- clude other subsections to deal with the press, radio, moving pictures and display and a speakers’ bureau. Disagreement between Dean Lan- dis and the O. E. M. division of information, headed by Robert Hor- ton, was made known through the appointment of Mr. Douglas, whom the O. E. M. labeled chief of Dean Landis'’ own information office. Dean Landis said yesterday that the O. C. D. information director had not yet been appointed. Row Stirred in Congress. Reports that Mr. Douglas was getting the director’s post aroused controversy in Coggress, where Rep- resentative Ford, Republican, of California referred to him as “the man that public sentiment in Cali- fornia kept from taking a commis- sion in the National Guard on ac- count of his pink and red activities and his close association with sub- versive, communistic groups.” Representative Voorhis, Democrat, of California said Mr. Douglas was not a Communist and was fitted for the director's job. Dean Landis explained that the actor's duties | will be to head the council through | which will flow the output of writers, artists and theatrical people par- ticipating in the defense program. He will be paid on a “living expense” basis because other duties will pre- vent his devoting all his time to the Arts Council. Divisions already existing are the civil air patrol, headed by Maj. Gen, John F. Curry; civilian protection, headed by Maj. Gen. Lorenzo D. Gasser, and the community and volunteer participation group of Mrs. Roosevelt. The general inter- departmental council proposed by Dean Landis would be a consulta- tive group made up of representa- tives of the other divisions. It was assured yesterday that ‘Washington would share in the pri- ority allocation of auxiliary fire- fighting equipment under the $100,- 000,000 Federal appropriation for civilian protection. - Dean Landis said cities within 300 miles of the seacoasts, Atlantic, Gulf and Pa- cificc would have the priorities. Washington is 100 miles from the Atlantic Coast. Ardists fo Confribute |Vichy Government to Return To Paris, Reports Here Indicate Petain Believed Successful in Getting Partial Withdrawal of Nazi Troops By HELEN LOMBARD. War Art for District Civilian Defense Committee to Provide a skeleton Nazi organization will be left behind to supervise the work of the Gestapo-trained Frenchmen. ‘While no definite date has been set for Petain’s “trip” to Paris, ne- gotiations have gone far enough to mention late March or early April and to place the names of Admiral Francois Darlan and Pierre Laval in the new cabinet which will be ;’or:zd immediately after his ar- val. ‘The cost of Berlin's concession to ‘Stream’ of Posters to Instruct and Inspire Outstanding artists and art or- Reports of a semi-official character haye reached Washington to the effect that Marshal Henri Philippe Petain is about to achieve one of his dearest ambitions. The release of the French prisoners and the removal of the Vichy regime to Paris have been the chief | of state’s two main preoccupations. Marshal Petain is veiled in diplo- matic phrases. One important clause, however, is being mentioned by Sir Samuel Hoare: The French fleet will henceforth be active in the Med- ganizations of the District will aid the civilian defense program of the | National Capital in making posters | standing of prominent members of - and in similar work, according to a | the Vichy regime, was informed by volunteer program announced to-| Petain's envoy to Madrid, M. day by Col. Lemuel Bolles, District | Francois Pletri, that negotiations civilian defense director. | between Berlin and Vichy are now His announcement followed the Sufficiently advanced to justify organization of & District Com- | moving the new government back to mittee on Wartime Art Activities,| the ancient capital of France. headed by David E. Finley, direc- |~ One of the chief difficulties, ac- tor of the National Gallery of Art.| cording to Vichy spokesmen, of sell- Preparation of a “stream” of in- | ing the Petain regime to the whole of structive and inspirational posters| France, has been the line of de- will be begun at once by commit- | marcation between occupled and tee members under the supervision | unoccupled France. of Richard Lahey, principal of the| The 26,000,000 Frenchmen outside art school of the Corcoran Gallery of Vichy France have been heartily of Art, it was announced by Com- | resentful of the unequal living con- missioner John Russell Young, de- | ditions existing between the two fense co-ordinator for this area.|zones and of the difficulties of éndi{lz thls efl?r& will be the pro- | passing from one to another. uction of paintings, prints, silk | Paris “Worse Than Dreary.” screens and | 3 en works in other media, u‘ According to s hign-ranking re- was said. | tired American Army officer, who To Illustrate Pamphlets. | Services of the artists and thelr | ArTived in Washington a few weeks students also will be used in the |20 after 20 years' residence in illustration of civilian defense | France, conditions in Paris are pamphlets, Col. Bolles said. | worse than dreary. There are only In general the committee will| four ambulances for the whole met- be divided into two general classes: | FOPolitan area. An emergency call) One, for work by established ‘n_;h answered within 12 to 24 hours. ists in various fields, and, two, for |Butter is $10 a pound on the black work done by students down | bourse (bootleg market) and is| through very simple work by chil- | unobtainable elsewhere. Food dren. | controlled at the source and there | Mr. Finley has named John §.|Is no general exchange of products | Thacher, executive officer, Harvard | between the different sections of the University, Dumbarton Oaks Re- | country. | search Library and Collection, as| Al this is making the temper of executive secretary of the Art War | the French people unpredictable. Committee for Washington. —_—— Attend Meeting. ‘Those attending the session at | which the plan was adopied in-| cluded: Anne Fuller Abbott, Abbott School | | BOSTON BULL: child grievis l BRINDLE i cl grieving | for pet. Reward. Call Dupont 2142 CAl —Speedsi and _attachments. Sheridan st. n.w. of Fine and Commercial Art; Holger brown and 1457." Lost i Cahill, W. P. A. art program; Wil- 'v?cfl,'i'z‘}f,fr"snffifi'e'fi Pnr’{“{'}le‘?fl %.org‘ 15 liam H. Calfee, Washington Artists’ |3 2435 REWerd ©* 3 5 Guild; Olin Dows, Office of Civilian TvEnTt"‘y ark, | Defense: J. V. Herring, Howard | Greent University Art Gallery; Mildred GLISH SETTER, Holzhauer, W. P. A. art program; m?zed nose, black ea 8 | Sheffield Kagy, Washington Print | Jicinity N. Cug!!ol_.al” nd N. Hampshire | g : rew 7645. Makers; Richard Kenah, District | gvs ';.Km:lnAhmnf | Restaurant Tuesd; W. P. A. art program; Mr. Lahey, Corcoran Art School; Rowland Lyon, | o Society of Washington Artists; J. Bernard McDonnell, District O. C.| D.; Hirst Milhollen, Society of | MANC Washington Etchers; C. Powell Minnigerode, Corcoran Gallery or" Art; Elizabeth Muhlhofer, Society | 5o of Mipiaturists, Painters, Scuiptors | FOLICE £O%. Sitck &2 and Engravers; Henry W. Olson, fé:’q“:o}:z"nmu T Landscape Club; Seward H. Rath- - - S - 'l)%unP W'nrsl';lngmnr}”:‘ur ?oxr Club; :n‘g}‘“m'.f'.‘n‘é"r'.i%;. hrr;lvmc'-'n' m:fifi'«':‘ 3 . 'olman, ational [useum ; s AL E. Law Watkins, Phillips Gallery Art | SMALL BROWN PURS . Phone_Wisconsin HESTER TERRIER, biac! Reward. Phone Taylor 7 . in_taxi coming to 10th ound 6:45 pm. Tuesdsy. and O . Pay v ray, male_small oid. Reward. MI_4930_ with_money and near Belmont st. School, and Mrs. Margaret Yard | Reward. Columbis [ S, shell-: d, lost Sunday Tolr G the Yard School of AR | SPRCLACLE, RS I, TR e = ant: reward. CO. 3136. = H H 'ALLET, bro initialed it Capper Will Discuss FeD et Bucxingham bus; reward. 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