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ly rising temperature. Temperatures
today—Highest, 24, at midnight; low- Most people in Washington have The
• est, 8, at 9:50 a.m.; 12 at 2 pin. gtar delivered to their homes every
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Closing New York Markets, Page 16.
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88th YEAR. No. 34,961._ THREE CENTS.
Brown's Plan
For Finn Loan
Being Revised
Satisfactory Draft
* Predicted After
Talk With Jones
BACKGROUND—
Aid for Finland since the Rus
sian invasiori has been forthcom
ing from the United States in
, the form of a loan from Export
Import Bank for purchase of
non-military goods and a presi
dential order, under which the
little nation's December 15 debt
payment was placed in Treasury
for congressional action. The
President recommended that
Congress consider further aid
through Export-Import Bank.
Last Wednesday Senate Banking
Committee postponed for iceek
consideration of recommendation.
By J. A. OLEARY.
A new compromise plan for ex
tending aid to Finland is expected
to be ready for introduction in the
Senate before the Banking and
Currency Committee resumes con
sideration of the question next week,
it was learned today.
Senator Brown, Democrat, of
Michigan, author of the original
. resolution for a $60,000,000 loan to
* the struggling Scandinavian repub
lic. conferred today with Jesse H.
Jones. Federal loan administrator,
and later made the following pre
diction:
‘‘I think we will be able to work
out something that will be satis
The Michigan Senator did not
* discuss the nature of the changes
that may be made in the proposal,
pending further conferences Mon
dav to draft a substitute.
There were some indications, how
ever, that it is likely to include a
compromise figure for the amount
of the loan.
Hopes Are Renewed.
After a preliminary discussion of
the subject Wednesday, the Senate
committee recessed until next Wed
nesday and invited Secretary of
State Hull to present his views at
that time.
News that a revised Senate reso
lution is being prepared gave re
newed hope today to members of
Congress who are anxious to work
out diverse viewpoints to clear the
way for some measure of real help
to Finland in its struggle to survive
as a democracy.
There are no indications thus far
that proposed aid to Finland has
provoked any concerted wave of op- I
position, judging from the mail of
Senators in charge of the subject.
Senator Brown's office has re
ceived to date not more than 100
letters, about evenly divided for and
against. On the theory that oppo
nents of any proposed legislation
* usually are more likely to sit down
and write to their Congressmen,
supporters of Finnish aid regard this
small volume of correspondence as
a favorable sign.
Most Letters From Individuals.
Nearly all the letters in opposi
rant t n Conn Dvati-n
been from individuals rather than
organizations. There was one letter
from a local branch of a labor union
in Detroit, voicing general objection.
Another was from an official of a
local unit of the Workers' Alliance
in Pontiac, in opposition.
The office of Senator Wagner,
Democrat, of New York, chairman
of the Banking Committee, estimated
that only about 200 letters have
come in, and that there are more
for than against. In this case, also,
it was estimated most of the letters
are from individuals. In contrast to
* this number of letters on the Finnisn
question, Senator Wagner's office
received 250,000 communications last
October when the neutrality bill was
being considered.
Possibilities of severing diplomatic
relations with Soviet Russia also
was being discussed today.
Agitation along this line was
Initiated yesterday in a resolution by
Senator Vandenburg, Republican,
of Michigan, calling upon the State
Department or the President to dis
close whether the Soviet govern
ment has been living up to its con
ditions of recognition agreed upon
in 1933. The resolution was referred
to the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, which is expected to ap- ;
proach the State Department on the
matter in the near future.
Senator Vandenberg told reporters
he was confident that if the Senate
approved his resolution, the infor
mation furnished in response to it j
would be such that action would be
forced on the question of severing
relations
Chairman Pittman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee said he
agreed with Senator Vandenberg i
that Russia had violated its 1933
pledges not to support political or
ganizations in this country and not
to interfere with the religious wor
ship of Americans in Russia, as w'ell
as it promise to pay for confiscated
American property.
iiv nao uuuciovuuu w uc ujj}a;ocu
to withdrawing American represen
tatives from Miscow, however, on
, the ground that such a step would
cut this country off from direct
sources of information within Rus
sia, while having little practical ef
fect on the prosecution of the So
viets' war on Finland.
Hoover Urges Gifts to Cut
Loss on Olympics Plans
NEW YORK, Jan. 19 (A*).—Herbert
Hoover suggested today that Amer
ican colleges, by contributions to the
Finnish Relief Fund, could reim
burse Finland at least in part for
the $8,000,000 which that country
spent in preparations for staging
the 1940 Olympic games. The for
mer President, who is chairman of
the fund, addressed the convention
of the Central Office for Eastern
Intercollegiate Athletics.
“I do not assume that we can
raise enough to return the full $8,
000,000,” he said, “but at least we can
send enough so that the men at the
front will know that their wives and
families are being cared for.” 1
* h
Finnish Batteries
Fight Off Red Raid
Upon Helsinki
Russians Battle Fiercely
To Protect Retreat
Of 40,000
U. S. RELIEF FUNDS proving a
godsend to Finnish refugees;
$600,000 already received spent for
food, clothing and shoes. Page A-S
SCOTLAND YARD PROBES muni
tions blasts fatal to five; suspicion
of sabotage denied In official state
ment. Page A-4
CANADIAN PREMIER TO AN
SWER Ontario’s criticism of war
effort; reply to be made at Parlia
ment opening Thursday. Page A-4
SWEDEN AND NORWAY SATIS
FIED with Red apologies for
bombings: Scandinavia divided on
more aid for Finland. Page A-4
BULLETIN.
HELSINKI. Jan. 19 0P(.—'The
Finns tonight reported capture
of ‘a few enemy positions”
northeast of Laice Ladoga and
the wiping out of a Russian de
tachment of five officers and 50
men near Kuhmo.
By the Associated Press.
HELSINKI, Jan. 19.—Helsinki’s
population spent an hour in air-raid
shelters this afternoon while anti
aircraft batteries fought off Soviet
raiding planes.
Fragmentary reports indicated
that the attackers failed to reach
the city, but dropped bombs a short
distance outside. Fires were visible
in the distance.
Detonations were heard at the
United States Legation at Gran
kulia, a town 12 miles west of
Helsinki, and the electric lights went
out there.
Repeated air raids are not fright
enin'; Finnish workers away from
their jobs. Minister of Labor Fager
holm said today. He said the work
res generally volunteered to stay
at their posts regardless of the raids.
Nevertheless the workers are or
dered into shelters except for key
men working in plants where an
interruption of operation for several
hours might do serious damage,
such as sugar refineries and glass
works.
Trained men exempt from mili
tary service because of age or physi
cal handicaps were being recruited
to take the place of military police
who have gone to the war fronts.
Fierce Battle at Markajarvi.
Stalked by knife-like cold, hunger
and Finnish skiiers, Soviet Russia's
Salla army—heretofore the most
successful of the war—was reported
fighting a fierce battle today at
Markajarvi to protect the retreat
of 40,000 men toward the Russian
border, still 50 miles distant.
Whether the main body of Russians
was engaged was not clear.
The terse Finnish communique
said, "Our troops have advanced 45
kllomters (about 28 miles) in the
C«11A «...
days. The enemy has been pushed
back from Joutsijarvl to Marka
jarvi, for possession of which fight
ing is proceeding.”
Foreign military observers read
into this statement a suggestion of
major developments in the early
future.
Deepest Drive Into Finland.
It was in this sector that the
Russians drove deepest into Fin
land, reaching a point only 18 miles
from the railhead of Kemijarvi,
strategic northern center that was
their immediate objective.
Finnish ski patrols, repeatedly cut
ting off Russian supplies, were cred
ited with forcing the Russians into
a retreat complicated by the se
verest winter in more than a half
century. Temperatures of BO de
grees below zero were common. ▲
temperature of 58 below was re
(See FINLAND. Faff A-IJ
Clippers May Shun
Bermuda if British
Censor U. S. Mail
Hull Hits Interference
Which Caused Delay of
Takeoff Last Night
By GARNETT D. HORNER.
American trans-Atlantic clipper
planes may quit stopping at Ber
muda unless the British cease in
terference there With the mail being
carried tar the plant*. Secretary
of State Hull indicated today.
The Secretary said he was not
predicting that this would happen,
but was merely speculating on pos
sible development* unless the con
troversy with Orest Britain could
be settled.
The British began censoring the
trans-Atlantic air mail at Bermuda
last night, while the State Depart
ment was still feeling keen disap
pointment at the English reply to a
protest against Interference with
American mails on surface ships at
It was understood tha{, a further
protest against the censorship at
Bermuda would be made- by this
Government. Mr. Hull said -today
that in correspondence with the
British on the general subject of in
terference with the ip&lls, this Gov
ernment already had made- suitable
reservations ; of . its rights against
any injuries or vielatiens^f -inter
national law. . - ■;
He advanced the possibility of
eliminating the Bermuda stop in
the trans-Atlantic plane service as
a last resort. ,
Pan-American. Airways is under
stood to have been making plans -for
flying directly to the Azores, island
possessions of Neutral,Portugal, so
as to avoid any stdps op British, ter
ritory in its trans-Atlantic service.
The checking #y a British censor
of the mails oft a Europe-bound
Clipper plane in Bermuda resulted
in an overnight delay of the plane's
schedule. . . . .
The Clipper remained at Bermuda
today. Pan-American officials said
they did not know host long it would
be held, up. Its schedule called for
a take-off at 3 pm.' for an overnight
hop to Horta and thence- to Lisbon.
Senator Borah
Is Believed on
Verge of Death
End Held Question
Of 'Minutes
And Hours'
The vigorous and dramatic career
of the dean of the Senate appeared
to be drawing to a close here this
afternoon, with the end only a mat
ter of “minutes and hours.”
While friends and family offered
prayers for his recovery, William E.
Borah of Idaho lay unconscious in
his apartment at 2101 Connecticut
avenue N.W., his strength “failing
rapidly.”
Word of the extreme gravity of
Mr. Borah’s condition was brought
to his anxioijs colleagues on Capitol
Hill by Senator Barkley of Ken
tucky, who had called on Mrs.
Borah. “There’s not a chance,” Mr.
Barkley said sadly. Earlier, Mr.
Borah’s office said he appeared to
be failing rapidly.
Mrs. Borah still clung to the
faith that some miracle would save
the life of her 74-year-old hus
band, who was stricken by a cere
bral hemorrhage in his apartment
Tuesday morning. The Senator’s
physician, however. Dr. Worth Dan
iels, son of the Ambassador to Mex
ico, could give her little encour
agement.
Mrs. Borah Fought Death.
Yet Mrs. Borah, whose independ
ence of mind has made her almost
as well known as her famous hus
band. recalls that in 1932 her own
life was despaired of when she was
stricken with parrot fever She
hopes that Senator Borah, whose
fighting ability is known to many
a worsted opponent, may also sur
prise his doctors.
Meanwhile, the "Lion of Idaho"
revived only at long intervals from
a deep coma, and his body was hot
with fever. Two special nurses at
tended him. day and night, and Dr.
Daniels called every few hours.
There was a constant stream of
callers yesterday and early last
night—old friends who slipped
quietly into the apartment, asked
a few questions and departed. The
muffled telephone brought messages
of sympathy and inquiry from all
over the United States.
Political foes as well as friends ex
pressed hope for the veteran Re
publican's recovery. President
Roosevelt called to voice his anxiety,
as did Senator Carter Glass, the
fiery Virginian who fought Mr.
Borah as vigorously in the historic
l4«fU9 of Nations battle in the
8enate as has the President in re
cant years on various issues.
Throughout yesterday and last
Ufjht the Senator seemed to have
Brttf glimmerings of conscious*
neqs. Boole times he called for his
wife and once he asked for his
Slippers, explaining he wished to
get up and go to the office.
Fell In Bathroom.
The Senator fell to his bathroom
floor, where he was discovered in a
dazed condition by Mrs. Borah
Tuesday morning. Doctors could
not determine if the fall was the
cause or the result of the cerebral
hemorrhage. Early yesterday Mr.
Borah's condition tools a turn for
the worse. He appeared vaguely
aware, and then only at intervals,
of what was going on about him.
While his breathing was regular, his
temperature continued high.
Miss Cora Rubin, the Senator’s
secretary for many years, helped
to answer the flood of inquiries
which descended upon the Borah
household. Throughout last night
lights burned in the Senate press
gallery, where reporters waited bul
letins from the bedside of Mr
Borah. At 9:30 o’clock last night,
Miss Rubin telephoned:
‘"Hie doctor gives us very little
hope.’
At intervals last night and this
morning_reporters were informed
(See BORAH. Page A-5.)
35 Above at Juneau
JUNEAU. Alaska, Jan. 19 (>P> —
Alaska is definitely divided by the
weather. This territorial capital
enjoyed a 35-degree-above-zero tem
perature yesterday, but Nome, far
to the northwest, reported 22 below.
Ketchikan, in the southeast, re
ported 39 above, but at Fairbanks,
in the interior, the temperature
dropped to 5 above.
Scuttled New Deal
Bureaus Defended
By President
Chief Executive Hopes
Congress Will Supply
Funds Yet
BACKGROUND—
With Federal Government near
statutory debt limit of $45,000,
000.000, House Appropriations
Committee last Tuesday recom
mended slashes totaling $94,492,
166 in President's billion-dollar
estimates for independent offices.
Funds were denied National Re
sources Planning Board and Na
tional Emergency Council. House
followed in committee's footsteps
by striking out funds for third
Neto Deal agency—Council of
Personnel Administration.
By JOHN C. HENRY.
Expressing the hope that Con
gress will restore or otherwise pro
vide the necessary funds for three
New Deal agencies knocked out of
the Independent offices appropria-,
tion bill. President Roosevelt spoke
a carefully worded and detailed de
fense of each of the bureaus at his
press conference today.
Involved are the National Re
sources Planning Board, the Office
of Government Reports and the
Council of Personnel Administra
tion. Their total supply needs for
the fiscal year of 1941 were esti
mated at about $2,150,000. all of
which was deleted from the appro
priation measure.
In addition the House slashed
$75,000,000 from the Maritime Com
mission's shipbuilding authoriza
tion. Today the President said he
had not yet discussed the full im- j
plications of the maritime cut with
the commission but that he con- ,
sidered the other proposed savings
so small as to be far outweighed by
the value of the agencies involved.
Uniform Jobs Policy Sought.
For instance, he said, the Council
of Personnel Administration, asking
less than $26,000 for a full year's
operation, is creating a uniform
employment policy in Government ]
and aiming at operation of a merit
system rather than one based on
patronage and pulchritude.
Headed by a former Republican
Representative from New York
State. Fred Davenport, the council j
brings together all the Government
personnel officers, about 25 in num
ber, for co-ordinated and co-opera
tive employment policies.
At considerable length the Presi
dent likewise discussed the Na
tional Resources Planning Board,
originally down for an appropriation
of $1,060,000. and disclosed that one
of its major projects at the mo
ment is planning preliminary to the
settlement of the Columbia Basin in
the Pacific Northwest. When the
Grand Coulee Dam project is com
pleted, he explained, irrigated land
will be available for some 100.000
families, an estimated total of 500,
000 persons.
The new settlement of so many
people in such a great territory can
not wisely be permitted without pre
liminary planning of their needs
and occupation, he continued, with
advance consideration being given
to whether there should be a com
bination of agriculture and industry,
what lines of each, and so forth.
lUIUI* octu \(U»IUICU.
No single regular department of
the Government is qualified to map
such an .extensive project, with all
its economic and social aspects, he
said, whereas one agency like the
Planning Board can call on all
Government information and devote
itself to shaping up a comprehensive
picture.
Millions of dollars in savings and
in Improved economy would result
from such planning, he Insisted.
Similar planning may be applied to
other ^ developing sections of the
country, he said.
Of the Office of Government Re
ports, asking (1,055,000, the President
remarked that its most devoted
users are members of Congress. In
any event, he added, the voluminous
reports available to the Government
must be co-ordinated to be of real
value.
Making no criticism of. congres
sional opposition for its treatment
of the agencies, the President point
(flM ROOSEVELT, Pag* A-8.)
K
Few Germans Captured,
Allied Command Says
Bt the Associated Press.
PARIS, Jan. 15.—Following up a
flurry on the western front in which
the allied high command reported
capture of ‘a few prisoners," this
morning’s communique said:
"Nothing to report.”
Last night's official announcement
said prisoners were taken when a
German detachment was repulsed in
an attack on a French outpost in
the Vosges Mountains.
BERLIN, Jan. 19 UP).—'The Ger
man supreme command issued the
following communique today:
"No special events."
New C. C. C. Program
To Swell Recreational
Facilities Here
Use of Enrollees for
Development Work to
Increase Usable Areas
aALKLrKUUND—
Recent series of articles in The
Star comparing parks and recre
ation facilities of five other cities |
with those of Washington showed
great development has been ac
complished elsewhere by relief
labor and that C. C. C. has done
far more and better development
work than in Washington, where
five C. C. C. camps are sta
tioned.
By RUDOLPH KAUFFMANN, II.
An expanded C. C. C. program for
the development of active recrea
tional areas in the District which
may place Washington on a par
with other American cities in regard
to community recreational facili
ties was announced today by In
terior Secretary Harold Ickes.
Erection of shelters and com
munity buildings by C. C. C. camps
detailed to the Office of National
Capital Parks will be started by
next fall, Seoretary Ickes an
nounced.
Areas on which the C. C. C. en
rollees are to concentrate their
work in the future are those des
ignated among various playground
school and park properties as com
prising the District recreation sys
tem. •
At the present time approxi
mately $165,000 worth of C. C. C.
work is going forward in these
areas in a series of projects in
stituted since the transfer of C.
Marshall Pinnan, former superin
tendent of National Capital Parks,
to the superintendency of Zion and
Bryce Canyon National Parks in
Utah.
The present program, National
Park Service officials said today, is
more than twice as extensive.
Ready for Use by Summer.
According to Secretary Ickes’ an
nouncement many areas in the rec
reation system will now be develop
ed to a stage where they will be
usable during the coming sum
mer. Among those on which all fa
cilities, with the exception of ap
propriate structures, will be com
pleted by summer are Chevy Chase
(Lafayette School) Recreation
Center, Taft Recreation Center,
Howard Playground, Takoma Rec
reation Center, Banneker Recrea
tion Center, Rose Park Playground
and Turkey Thicket Playground.
Until recently maintenance and
work on naturalistic areas bad
been the major part of the work
done by the five C. C. C. camps
assigned to the Office of National
Pfl ni t.01 Porlrc fSAoratonr Tolrao’
statement said.
For instance, the enrollees had
been sodding the Washington
Monument Grounds, cleaning up
trash and pruning in the planted
areas along the Mt. Vernon Me
morial Highway, maintaining open
air sheds and comfort stations and
cleaning up flood damage. Man
power has been scattered as enrollees
in small squads kept up rather than
developed the Washington park
system.
From now on, the announcement
said, this type of work will be
(See RECREATION Page A-5J
Food Shortage in Mexico
MEXICO CITY, Jan. isT (JPf.—A
food shortage was reported today in
several ports along the Gulf «f Mex
ico as a result of a stevedores’ strike
which tied up river traffic in part of
the State of Veracrus.
1 ''
D. C. Moves to Aid
Distribution of 5-Cent
Milk to the Needy
Producers Vote Today
On Agreement for
Marketing Area
District government officials today
moved to put in effect as soon as
approved the 5-cent-milk-for-needy
provision in the Federal-sponsored
milk marketing agreement for the
Washington area, which was to be
voted on by the Maryland and Vir
ginia Milk Producers’ Association at
2 o'clock this afternoon.
Commissioners Allen and Mc
Coach expressed their approval of
the low-cost milk idea, but withheld
formal action until a complete dis
tribution program is worked out.
Detailed studies were begun
meanwhile by Robert E. Bondy. di
rector of the Board of Public Wel
fare, with a view to early action by
that body.
Represent 1,19* Producers.
Directors of the producers' asso
ciation, who were to meet in Silver
Spring, were to vote in the name
of the group's member farmers,
numbering 1,190 of the 1,400 dairy
men whose cows produce the milk
that Washington drinks.
Association approval, which was
generally believed to be forthcom
ing. means approval of the agree
ment which was issued yesterday by
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace.
It becomes effective if 75 per cent
of the farmers vote in favor.
The milk handlers in Washington
will vote on the agreement, too. but
whether they approve or not, Secre
tary' Wallace and President Roose
velt can issue the agreement—fixing
milk prices to be paid by distributors
to farmers—as binding.
Under a general program putting
into effect the low-cost milk provi
sion. the milk for needy families
would be distributed from depots in
various sections of the city. Mr.
Bondy said he had been in confer
ence with D. M. Reed, acting chair
man of the dairy section of the Ag
riculture Adjustment Administra
tion, on costs of depot operations.
Chicago Average $485.
The welfare director said he un
derstood that in Chicago, where
such a program now is in opera
tion, the average cost per station
as $485 a month, including the costs
of W. P. A. labor used in distri
bution. rent, light, fuel, refrigera
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vvw, * »*v- urvtugv uuuiww Ul
quarts distributed daily at each de
pot is 1.000, he continued, making
a breakdown of administration
expense of about 1.6 cents per quart.
Mr. Bondv explained that he had
been unable to determine whether
W. P. A. enrollees or persons on
private relief w'ould be eligible for
the low-cost milk without being cer
tified by the Public Assistance Divi
sion of the Welfare Board.
He said there are only 6,500 cases
on public assistance rolls at present,
and roughly 3.500 of these are in the
old age and needy blind categories.
Judging from experience in Chicago.
Mr. Bondy said he doubted whether
the aged and blind could or would
be able to visit the depots. This, he
added, is one of the problems to be
worked out.
Dunn Handles Referendum.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
named C. I. Dunn as the agent in
charge of the farmer referendum
on the agreement. Mr. Dunn an
nounced today that all ballots are
returnable in self-addressed envel
opes postmarked not later than
11:59 p.m. next Tuesday. Ballots
are available at Room 2726, South
Building, Agriculture Department,
and in the offices of the country
agricultural agents at Frederick,
Md., and at Warrenton, Va.
The steps after the referendum's
completion are the issuance of the
agreement as an order of the Fed
eral Government and the appoint
ment of a Washington milk market
ing administrator by the Secretary
of Agriculture to act as a Federal
overseer of the agreement's pro
visions. The agreement contem
plates no control over the retail
price of milk.
The agreement provides that the
farmers will accept $1,995 a hun
dredweight for milk destined to
be distributed at low retail cost to
persons on relief and W. P. A. rolls.
The Federal Government is pre
pared to subsidize this program
through the -Surplus Commodities
Corp. If the District government
(See MILK. Page A-3.)
I
Bitter Cold Hits
East and South;
8 Above Here
Chesapeake Bay
Faces Ice Blockade;
Zero Due Tonight
Midnight ___24 7 a.m_10
1 a.m-22 8 a.m_10
2 a.m_19 9 a.m._..10
3 a.m-18 10 a.m..8.8
4 a.m._15 11 a.m_10
5 a.m_13 Noon_10
6 a.m_11 1 p.m_12
The bitterest cold wave of the
winter penetrated deep into the
Eastern half of the United States
today, sweeping over Western New
York with a storm that approached
blizzard proportions.
Temperatures sank below zero in
Michigan, Ohio. Maryland, Ken
tucky, West Virginia, and Pennsyl
vania. and freezing temperatures
were recorded in every State in the
South, the Associated Press re
The temperature here plunged
from 24 degrees at midnight to 8.3
at 9:30 this morning, the coldest
weather recorded in the District
since February, 1936. A bright sun
had forced it up to 12 at 1 o'clock.
Washington is expected to shiver
in zero weather tonight, the Weath
er Bureau predicting a continued
drop in temperature late this after
noon. Tomorrow probably will be
fair with only a slight rise in tem
perature. officials said, and the cold
wave witl continue Sunday.
Cold, Driving Wind Here.
A driving wind—in gusts of from
10 to 25 miles an hour—accompanied
the mercury's downward plunge
here. Fluffy snow fell for a short
time this morning, the Weather
Bureau recording half an inch. Tha
wind kept the open streets fairly
clear.
Sub-freezing and near-zero Tem
perature threatened to choke Ches
apeake Bay with ice.
Two ice breakers were hard at
work in both the upper and lower
portions of the bay, trying to keep
shipping lanes open
Capt. William E. Robbins, chief
inspector for the State Conserva
tion Commission, expressed belief
fast-forming ice again would close
Cambridge Harbor and adjacent
waters, where a number of oyster
boats are ice-locked.
The Baltimore municipal ice
breaker Annapolis radioed from the
mouth of the Sassafras River that
she was assisting the Ericsson Line
steamer Cadwalader.
“Ice is very heavy and forming
fast," the Annapolis reported.
Meanwhile, a second icebreaker,
the Latrobe, proceeded to the lower
channels to render what assistance
she could to vessels battling the
noes.
Potomac River shippers reported
little trouble from ice thus far, but
expressed apprehension over pros
pects of a continued cold wave
choking the channel, particularly
in the Indianhead and River Point
areas.
A sturdy tug broke a path before
dawn today from Georgetown to
Hains Point for a Lone Star Ce
ment Corp. barge, but had no dif
ficulty cutting through the ice. Of
ficials observed that the ice still is
loose from the thaw several days
ago.
Slight Traffic Tie-Up.
Arlington Memorial and High
way Bridges were opened longer
than usual for the ice-breaking
tug. causing slight tie-ups in early
morning traffic moving into the city
from nearby Virginia.
One overnight weather casualty
reported to police was Henry Ash
ton, 18. colored, 1522 C street S.E.,
whose clothing was set ablaze by a
fire he built to keep warm on a road
side in Falls Church. Va. The youth
wras treated for leg burns at Emer
gency Hospital and transferred to
Gallinger in an undetermined con
dition.
Emergency crews of the Capital
Transit Co. were dispatched to car
track switches throughout the city
before daybreak to keep the mova
ble connections thawed and in work
ing order.
In all, 500 extra workmen were
sent out to facilitate movement of
buses and streetcars. Eighteen trucks
sanded streets used as buslines and
(See WEATHER, Page A-&)
| Depositions to Be Made
In New Farnsworth Plea
Seeking to secure his release from
Atlanta penitentiary, where he i^
serving four to 12 years on a charge
of revealing national defense sec
rets to a Japanese, John S. Farns
worth former United States naval
officer will cause depositions to be
taken here Monday, it was learned
today.
Farnsworth has secured a writ of
habeas corpus from Federal Judge
E. Marvin Underwood of the Dis
trict Court for Northern Georgia
and preparations are being made
for the taking of the despositions.
As now planned, they will include
those from Attorney Richard L.
Tedrow. Washington lawyer, who
represented the former lieutenant
commander for a time here, and
Justice James M. Proctor of Dis
trict Court, who presided at the
proceedings which resulted in
Farnsworth’s sentencing.
Representing the Federal Gov
ernment here will be Assistant
United States Attorney John W.
Fihelly, while Farnsworth will be
represented by a new counsel, John
F. Finnerty of New York City, and
previous counsel George S. Hawke
of Cincinnati.
In his latest petition Farnsworth
raises several additional points. It
will be his third habeas corpus
proceeding. He also carried his
fight to the Supreme Court, which
last year denied him a writ of
certiorari to review previous court
decisions unfavorable to him.
Previous writs of habeas corpus
were discharged and Farnsworth
was remanded to the penitentiary.
K
Maki, Finnish Runner;
To Visit U. S. Soon, VV
TAISTO MAKI.
—Wide World Photo.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 19 — Reuters (Brit
ish news agency) said in a Helsinki
dispatch today that Taisto Maki,
holder of five world running records,
had been slightly wounded by a shell
splinter at the front. He was ex
pected to recover quickly, Reuters
said.
Maki, accompanied by Paavo
Nurmi, whom he succeeded as the
world's leading distance runner, was
scheduled to leave Finland within
a few days for a tour of the United
States in interest of the Finnish
relief fund. Plans called for Maki
to work out for several weeks on the
West Qoast and then 'roeet Amer
ica’s leading distance performers
in a series of track meets.
The slim Finnish runner holds
world records from 3,000 to 10,000
meters, the majority of them set
within the last year.
The Finnish Consulate in New
York and Dan Ferris, secretary of
the Amateur Athletic Union, said
they had no information of any
change in Maki's plans. Mr- Ferris
said the consulate had informed him
today Maki and Nurmi would leave
Helsinki January 23, flying by Clip
per from Lisbon on January 27 and
arriving in New York on January -29.
of Today's Star
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Foreign
Helsinki fights off Russian bdmbing
raid. Page A-l
British strike again at Nazi bases in
North Sea. Page A-l
Can hold Reds for whiter, Finns’
commander says. , Page A-2
Army beleaguers canton. Chinese
officials declare. Page A-2
Scotland Yard probes munitions
blasts fatal to five. Page A-4
Mackenzie King to answer Ontario
war criticisms. Page A-4
Scandinavia satisfied with Red apol
ogies for bombings. • Page A-4
National
Clippers may skip Bermuda in cen
sorship protest. ‘ Page A-l
N. L. R. B. chief trial examiner takes
stand second day • Page A-l
Brown preparing Finnish aid com
promise plan.. . Page A-l
U. S. relief funds proving .a god
send to Finns. Page A-2
Gamer weighs plans -to -enter Ohio
primary. Page A-S
Grady faces further guts oh trade
pact extension. ' Pxge A-5
War game defenders • await attack
from sea. .. Page A-S
Washington and Noarfey. ,
Senator Borah -reported .weakswing:
■megee fload MUa. Pege A-1
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Commissioners in favor of milk
agreement. Page A-l
New C. C. C. program to swell D. C.
recreation facilities. Page A-l
New library plans to be studied by
. Pine Arts group.. Page B-l
Recommendations taken up to map
ohild program. Page B-l
Children.in Democracy Conference
hears attack on liquor. Page B-l
Editorial and Comment
This and That. PageA-10
Answers to Questions. Page A-l#
Letters to The Star. Page A-l*
David Lawrence. PageA-11
Alsop and Kintner. Page A-11
Frederic William Wile. PageA-11
Jay Franklin. PageA-11
Charles G. Ross. Page A-ll
Sports
V. P. I.-Terp contests start busy
college week end. Page A-20
Roosevelt on spot in basket ball
twin bill tonight. PageA-2e
Columbia, Washington not to hold
invitation golf. PageA-2l
Okl-Umers to roll in intercity duck
{ pin tourney. Page A-21
Miscellany
Vital Statistics. Page A-7
Service Orders. Page A-7
City News in Brief. Page A-13
Girl at the Front. PageB-12
Bedtime Story. Page B-l*
Cross-ward Punle. Page B-l*
Letter-Out. Page B-l*
Winning Contract. Page B-19
tJnclf Ray’s Comer. Page B-l*
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