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been $33,546.63. Senator VanNuys spent $6121.30 and Raymond Willis,

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preconvention expenditures as follows: Former Senator James E. Watson, $6100; Walter, F. Bossert, $5002.32; Oliver Starr, $1362.25, and

:- ‘Clarence Wills, $1886.45.

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v Mr. VanNuys reported contributions of $5138.65, making his ‘total personal outlay $982.65. Mr. Watson listed $2250 of his total $6100 as contributions. " Pour pages of the final report set

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tee investigators sent to Indiana on various charges of WPA politics, all; of which findings were made public before the election and termed without foundation in fact by the commitfee. The report was signed by Come Tex.), and Senators O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.), Walsh (D. Mass.), Harrison (D. Miss.) and White (R.Me.). Most important of its 16 recommendations were proposals: That Congress act to prevent further diversion of relief funds “from these high purposes to political ends,” and stiffen the penalties for abuses in this connection. « That Congress plug loopholes in

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of political funds from Federal employees. : ' That political contributions by interstate corporations be forbidden in primary as well as election cam-

aigns. That candidates be forbidden to promise work, money or other benefits in connection with public relief. That abuse of the franking privilege by members of the Senate and the House be restricted. The Committee reiterated that its staff had confirmed most of the politicssin-relief charges made by Thomas L. Stokes in The Indianapolis Times and other ScrippsHoward newspapers last summer after a tour of Kentucky. It recalled that Harry Hopkins

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. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (U. P)— Former Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan today began his duties as Attorney General of the U. S. while

President Roosevelt prepared to send his name to the Senate for confirmation. = ° Mr. Murphy conferred with his predecessor, former Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, who .ntroduced him to members of his staff. President Roosevelt was expected to ask early Senate approval of his

liberal as a member of his Cabinet. Generally favorable comment, with which both conservative and New Deal Senators greeted Mr. Murphy’s nomination, indicated that he would face little opposition. a Little opposition also was expected to the confirmation of former WPA Administrator Harry L. Hopkihs as Commerce Secretary. He was appointed afd sworn in to his new post a week ago. Despite severe criticism of WPA, Mr. Hopkins personally is well-liked on Capitol Hill and most Senators acknowledge his ability as an administrator. Delays Possible The general sentiment appeared to be that the President should have the right to choose his own Cabinet. However, some Administration opponents may attempt to block Mr. Hopkins’ confirmation in an effort to. bring: forth early the issue of WPA administration.

Senate Judiciary Committee, which must pass on Mr. Murphy’s appointment, if anti-New Deal forces should attempt to question at length the former Governor’s handling of sit-down strikes in Michigan. ; Mr. Murphy was sworn in at noon yesterday in the oval room of the White House by Associate Justice Stanley Reed of the Supreme Court in the presence of President Roosevelt and a group of prominent New Dealers. Also present was conservative Vice President Garner. Mr. Murphy took the oath of office on a Bible presented him by his mother 32 years ago.

LUDLOW INTRODUCES SIX NEW MEASURES

Purnell Loses Race for Sergeant-at-Arms.

It conceded itself to be baffled by what happened to $24,477 raised by C. G. Tachau of Louisville, ostensibly for the Barkley campaign. Mr. Tachau said he wrote a check for $20,000 of this in August, made out to “cash,” and left it with , his secretary for delivery to an unnamed person who would call for it

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The secretary, Alma Burg, said she delivered it to a stranger, but © “without knowing who he was or . taking any note of his description.” * Bank records showed, according to the committee that no check for $20,000 was ever drawn by Mr. Tachau. {And R. C. P. Thomas, - chairman of Senator = Barkley’s finance committee, said he received only $1000 or $2000 from Mr. Tachau. | {In Tennessee the Committee found _ instances where “intimidation and ; coercion” of Federal employees was indicated in behalf of senator-elect ° Stewart (D.) and his ticket. | Poll-tax receipts, it found, were , bought wholesale by friends of Tennessee candidates “for the pur- , fluencing votes.” WPA “labor and materials were used -in building and improving private drives and roadways in Tennessee, the Committee said, apparently “for the purpose of influencing votes.”

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In Knoxville a former U. S. District Attorney was said by one Committee witness to have summoned postoffice employes to his office by letter to ask contributions to the campaign. Such a practice,

to solicitation for a political purpose in a Gcevernment building, which is a felony. | The Committee specifically said it found no evidence justifying any challenge of the right of either Sen-

« .ator Markley or Senator-elect Ste- , wart to take his seat. ‘ . | A favorite Pennsylvania device .., for raising money from WPA work-

ers was the sale of tickets to Democratic rallies. - Even women on ‘WPA projects were solicited to buy such tickets, at $1 and $1.50. So were unskilled highway laborers. It was “very apparent” to the Committee’s investigators “that an atmosphere of fear appeared to exist among all WPA employees” in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. | “In Illinois, evidence showed that 450 men were hired for road work : in Cook County (Chicago) shortly

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most of them were dismissed the - day following the primary election, that some 70 of these men did no . highway work at all” but “were in- . structed to go back to ther respective precincts and canvass them in behalf of the Horner-Courtney- . Lucas ticket.” These 450 men, the Committee said, cost $23,268, part of which money. l: In New Jersey, the Committee , found evidence of shocking frauds at a 1937 election in Hudson County land served: such a stiff warning |against these practices that ‘“‘only | minor violations of law” occurred in ithe 1938 polling. | Hudson County is the bailiwick jof Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey

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By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Senator VanNuys and Indiana’s new Congressional delegation, with its seven to five Republican majority, took the oath of office in the 76th Congress today. The Senior Senator from Indiana was accompanied to the rostrum for the oath taking in the upper chamber by his junior colleague and fellow Democrat, Senator Minton: While in the House all Congressmen were corn in en masse. . Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.) led the field in the mass production of new measures presented the first day. As he had previously announced, he introdueed bills and resolutions for his war referendum, munitions trade ban, undistributed profits tax repeal, $45 old-age pension plan, antilynching, naval holiday and disarmament conference and Virgin Islands government rummaking prohibition. Rep. John W. Boehne Jr. (D. Ind.) reintroduced his resolution of last session which would amend the Constitution to permit. the states to tax Federal salaries and require state employees to pay Federal income tax. The Indiana Republican ‘delegation decided at caucus last night to support Fred Purnell, former Hoosier Congréssman now an attorney in the General Accounting Office, for minority sergeant-at-arms. He was one of seven candidates; the new post went to Pennsylvania on the sixth ballot, with 95 votes for W. F. Russell, the winner and 28 for Mr. Purnell,

COUNTY PAVES WAY FOR $750,000 LOAN

The County Council today gave first reading to two ordinances that would give County Commissioners the authority to borrow $750,000 for county expenses until the June distribution of tax money is made. One of the ordinances would give authority.to borrow $400,000 for general expenses and the other would give permission to borrow $350,000 for the welfare Department. All loans would be repeid to banks next June. Upon passage of the ordinance, expected tomorrow, commissioners will ask for bids from local banks. The loans are made by banks on tax anticipation warrants and in the past an interest rate of only onehalf -of one per cent has been charged the county.

BOY, 14, IS KILLED WITH 15-CENT RIFLE

NEW ALBANY, Jan. % (U. P.) — Melvin Pierson, 14, is dead from a bullet discharged accidentally from a rifle he and another youth purchased for 15 cents. Pierson and Roy, Porter, I5, bought the gun after Pierson had been refused a .22 rifle for Christmas, it was said. The youths were

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slapping todsy as Senators and Representatives strolled the aisles. There was a cross-section of America in the packed galleries for a glimpse of an opening session that is a prelude to party-jarring political dispute.’ First ~comers—those

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public gallery doors. La Vice President Garner, who is calling signals for the prospective conservative bolt, gaveled the Senate to order. i Clerk South Trimble of the House pounded Representatives to silerce in the other Capitol wing but sho:tly surrendered his gavel to Rep. William B. Bankhead (D. Ala), reelected Speaker. The Supreme Court also met at rioon. | Copeland Honored

After the Senators were sworn in by groups of four, the Senate adjourned half an hour after it met as a tribute to Senator Royal S. ‘Copeland - (D. N. Y), who died soon after the end of the 75th Congress. Majority Leader Barkley (D. Ky.) announced that the Senate would meet at noon. tomorrow. Members will introduce bills and resolutions until 1 p. m. tomorrow, when the Senate body will march to the House chamber to hear President Roosevelt’s message in joint session with the House. | The honor of introducing Bill 1 in the House went today to Rep. Wright Patman (D. Tex) for his Chain Store Tax Bill, which failed of passage last session. Rep. Patman once before sponsored “H. R. No. 1’—thé Soldier Bonus Bill.

Cabinet Shaken Up

Preceding this Congress was a last-minute ‘Cabinet shakeup which supplanted Attorney General Cummings and Commerce Secreiary Roper—two old-line Democrats— with young and enthusiastic New Dealers. The Senate shortly is expected to confirm former ‘WPA Administrator Hopkins as Commerce Secretary and former Governor Murphy of Michigan as Attorney General. These changes make the Cabinet overwhelmingly New Deal. There was a curtain-raiser display of majority harmony. Democrats went into the 76th Congress led by the New Dealers who captained the 75th: Senator Barkley (D. Ky.) in the Senate and Speaker Bankhead and Rep. Sam Rayburn (D. Tex.) in the House. ;

Martin Chosen Unanimously

Senate Republicans continue under Senator McNary (R. Ore). The New House Republican leader is Rep. Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts. He succeeded Rep. Bertrand H. Snell (R. N. Y). who retired from Congress. His only opponent for the post, Rep. James Wadsworth (R. N. Y.) withdrew, allowing Rep. Martin's unanimous election at a caucus last night. Democratic discord was almost inevitable unless Mr. Roosevelt consents to alter the New Deal course. Democratic legislators = anxiously sought a harmony program. They have been warned from within their own ranks that the majority party must function effectively to prove in a dictator-ridden world that democracy is no mere ideal and that unity is essential if the Democrats are to win the 1940 national election. Political cliques have formed and were growing. There were new minds in Congress and changing issues. Conservative | Democrats rallied around the Vice President. New Dealers huddled against ate tack. Republicans saw the sun again. The national political representatives of the people were gathering here to deal with ills at home and abroad, some hoping to become the next President and all alert to play a big part in determining the man. An anti-third term resolution is expected in the Senate within a week. The third term storm may be mere wind or a hurricane. But it is charged with political lightning despite the fact that President Roosevelt’s =ublic utterances have discounted his being & presidential candidate again. : ; This Congress was selected Nov. 8. The New Deal-Democratic front was reduced in that polling. Republicans gained 81 House seats and eight in the Senate. Minor leftwing parties were all but annihilated. :

One Seat Vacant

Mr. Roosevelt attributes these reverses largely to local issues. Conservative Democrats, angerec. by Mr. Roosevelt's efforts to defeat some of them, and the rejuvenated Republicans interpret. the November election as a mandate to modify the New Deal. The Congressional war will be fought along that line. There are 69 Demccrats, 23 Republicans, two Farmer-Laborites, and one Progressive and one Independent in the Senate, and 261 Democrats, 169 Republicans, two Progressives, one Farber-Laborite, and one American Laborite in the House. One seat in the House is vacant, for a Democratic district.

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Congressmen Turn Toward Texan as White House Allows Freedom.

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By RAYMOND CLAPPER Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Congress returns in high glee with sundry announcements from assorted memsbers that the rubber-stamp days are over, or will be just as soon as the Senate okays President Roosevelt's two favorite New Dealers for the Cabinet.

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‘hardly ever, will it take orders from Mr. Roosevelt again. A new era has dawned. Mr. Roosevelt has ordered his bill drafters to put away their pencils. Congress will write the laws now. Tommy Corcoran hereafter is supposed to obtain permission before using the White House telephone to give orders. We are back to the real American way. The dictator in the White House has had his teeth pulled. Let him bark. He can’t bite any more. Congress has broken its chains and is free again. ; So, with a new sense on dignity and power, new Senators and Representatives are learning about their duties. Older members are instructing them in the ways of Congress, introducing them to the free mineral water, to the barber shops where the new Senators will have their names fixed in gold letters on their private shaving cups.

Some Think About Laws

They are learning how to arrange péirs so they can play golf on good days without losing their votes, how to ring three times for the elevator, and how to put their nephews, inlaws and offspring on the Congres=sional payroll, First lessons in

grabbing pork are being given and some of the more serious-minded members are thinking about ime portant legislative business. Congress has the ball. But something else is developing. Even as new members are told tha they don’t have to pay any attention to the President now, they are being tipped off that Vice President Garner is the real boss. They are being ushered into his presence to be looked.over. The seat of power has been moved from the White House to the Vice President's chamber. So they say. Even Cabinet members are calling to cultivate Mr. Garner. The first question that new Senators and Representatives now ask themselves is, «What would Jack Garner want me to do?” | Mr. Garner, elected to stand by as an understudy for the President and to while away his time by presiding over the Senate and, voting in cases of a tie, has become practically a rival to the President for leadership at Washington. Congress, having thrown off one boss, seems eager to take on another. All of this is said in no disrespect to Congress. Representative government is, as every believer in democracy must believe, an essential of popular government. But leadership also is an essential of the whole animal world, including humans.

Leadership Necessary

Britain, birthplace of representative government, nas developed parliamentary leadership to @& point of greater power than exists in our system. The Prime Minister is all-powerful, with no constitution or Supreme Court to stand in his way so long as he holds his majority in Commons, But he can be overthrown at any time. Leader-

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The 76th Congress assembling today faces far-reaching pains) deled since the

for military and naval expenditures probably will be broken. Indications that sharp Congres-

Isional scrutiny will meet the de{fense program have appeared de-

spite strong sentiment among returning Senators and Representa-

|tives for adequate preparedness. |Republicans have charged that the |Administration seeks to divert attention from domestic reverses by

booming the war drums.

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ascends the rostrum of the House

to deliver in person an annual message of which the most vital section is expected to deal with the alarms of war spreading around the world.

12,000 Planes Indicated

Unless advance indications fail, that message will outline the course Mr. Roosevelt proposes that the nation follow in meeting threats from rising international tensions. This program, as thus far outlined, is expected to fall in two phases: 1. Sharp increases in American arms preparedness, featuring a defense budget of $1,300,000,000 to $1,500,000,000. This will provide a vast air armada of up to 12,000 planes, possible .construction of two superdreadnaughts of 45,000 tons, revitalization of regular Army forces and expansion of aviation manpower. 2. Vigorous prosecution of the licy of ‘continental solidarity,” designed to isolate North and South ‘America from the dangers of aggression in Europe and Asia. -

Conflict Qver Methods

Congress meets in a mood which expected to reflect strong suprt of the underlying tenets of the Administration program. Chief conflict is anticipated over details of the method whereby Mr. Roosevelt proposes to strengthen the U. S. defense structure and its diplomatic ramparts. One likely point of disagreement will be any suggestion of change in present neutrality and arms embargo legislation which might be designed to free the President from statutory restrictions in the international field. Administration antipathy to what it regards as haltering of its diplomatic techniques through automatic operation of the Neutrality Act has long been evident. It was thought _likely that the new Congress may be asked to make changes which would enable ‘the United States to add economic force to moral pressure already ‘exerted against aggressor nations.

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control, whereas under democratic leadership the people retain their right to make a change by stipulated and peaceful methods. . Congress can’t function without

leadership. Having thrown off Mr.

Roosevelt, it turns instinctively to the next strongest leader—Mr. Garner. : Thus as Congress opens Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Garner are rivals for the real leadership in Congress. Mr. Garner’s influence arises out of the confidence which the House and Senate membership has in his judgment. He has no patronage with which to reinforce his control, and he does not have opportunity, the President does, to carry his case to the country and to seek the support of public opinion. Mr. Roosevelt has a great variety of weapons which are denied by position to Mr. Garner. : Both are masterful politicians and the struggle for supremacy between them—no matter how much buttered over with polite gestures —is going to be one of the great shows of 1939.

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personal testimony of the three defendants. An official told the United Press he expected the trial of all 22 principals to last only two or three days. : The official news agency, in a dispatch which apparently foreshadowed the line of evidence to be against Niekisch, said: ° “Long before 1933 Niekisch antagonized National Socialism and from Adolf Hitler's ascent to power until his arrest he combated the political and economic aims of the National Socialist state, indulging in foul vituperation against leading personalities of the reich.”

Hearing Yut Ahead

Originally the trial of Niekisch and the other principals was set for next week. At a conference at the Ministry of Justice yesterday, however, officials for some reason decided to start it today. It was decided also that the trial should be in two parts. Niekisch and two others were selected as the first defendants, charged with leadership in the alleged treason | plot. Nineteen others are to be tried later. Less serious charges, such as preparing handbills attacking Adolf Hitler, cabinet ministers and other prominent Nazis, are to be considered first. Then the court is to consider charges that Niekisch and his alleged supporters plotted a reign of terror as part of which they prepared to make attempts on the lives of leading government officials. There was some surprise when it was made known that German newspapermen would be admitted at some parts of the principal trial. Usually trials before the so-called “People’s Court,” instituted by the Nazis, are secret.

Begins With Youth

Niekisch began his political career in the Socialist Youth Movement. This organization split after invasion of the Ruhr by the French in 1923. Niekisch joined a faction which abandoned the Socialist doctrine of pacifism in favor of militarism and the idea of a GermanRussian alliance against France. Niekisch and his followers welcomed the Nazis, believing they would adopt his ideas. It became clear that Hitler based his policy on a “drive to the East.” Niekisch was sent to a concentration camp in 1934, and his newspaper was suppressed, because of its increasing tendency to criticize Nazi foreign policy. Niekisch was released after six months but was rearrested early last year on the charge that he indulged in treasonable and terroristic activities during 1937,

Smash Arab Uprising

As Daladier Confers

TUNIS, Jan. 3 (U, P.) —Police today smashed scattered Arab demonstrations ‘which threatened to mar an exchange of pledges between Premier Edouard Daladier and Sidi Ahmed, bey of Tunis, to hold this key outpost of the French empire against any foreign attack. Crowds of Pan-Arab nationalists were dispersed by mounted police as Premier Daladier left the Bardo Palace after his first meeting with the bey. The nationalists’ program calls for a greater degree of self government. The demonstrators sought to unroll banners demanding amnesty and liberation for their leaders who were imprisoned after disturbances here last April when scores were shot by French police during a demonstration. Two demonstrators were arrested outside the bey’s palace where thousands of pro-French demonstrators broke through police cordons singing French anthems and army songs. At the same time a mass meeting was held in the Italian colony.

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Arrest of British

{Consul Confirmed

BURGOS, Spain, Jan. 3 (U. P.)— The arrest of Ernest Golding, British pro-consul at San Sebastian, and his wife was confirmed today by the Nationalist News Agency. The agency said they were seized while attempting to flee to Pasajes and board an English freighter. No reason for the arrests . was given, but it was assumed that they were in connection with the incident in which papers relating with the insurgent plans for offensives were found in the bag of Harold Goodman, British vice consul at San Sebastian. | m—— /

New Central China . Jap Chief Named

Senator Key Pittman

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, (U. P)— Chairman Key Pittman (D. Nev.) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee proposed today that “the United States “ostracize” Japan if hat nation continues hostile acts toward this country. He did not explain what form the ostracism should take, but said he did not think Japan.would declare war against the U. 8. as a result of moral sanctions. «Japanese statesmen are too intelligent to declare war against the United States,” Mr. Pittman said. “They know and we know that they do not intend to cross-the Pacific to attack.”

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Franco Reports Advance

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BURGOS, Spain, Jan. 3 (U. P)— Rebel military headquarters announced today that their armies had advanced to the right bank of the Segre River, within rifle range of the strategic city of Artesa. The fall of Artesa is “imminent” the announcement said. Other troops, the dispatch said, captured the villages of Rubio Abajo, Rubio De Medio and Rubio De Arriba, continuing their advance along the left bank of the river toward Artesa. : Other insurgent dispatches to the frontier said that Artesa had been encircled by Franco troops. Meanwhile General Francisco Franco concentrated the greatest air force of the Spanish civil war in a determined effort to smash the government's Catalonian defense lines. With the Loyalists ' claiming to have inflicted many thousands of casualties and slowed the great insurgent offensive to a crawl, General Franco was understood to have gathered at least 600 airplanes on the Segre front in a new effort to patter down the strongly fortified main defenses against which he has been hurling probably 300,000 men. Powerful squadrons of Nationalist airplanes hammered at the Loyalist lines to clear a way for tanks as the offensive was resumed this morning.

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In-Peru Trade Meet

LIMA, Peru Jan. 2 (U. P)— United States diplomatic and consular agents from six South American countries met at the embassy today for a conference which was reported designed to study means of improving United States trade in competition with Europe's totalitarian powers. : The meeting was attended by United States officials from Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Peru. An official statement said it was for study of subjects .of political, economic and social interest in United States relations with Latin America. Reliable sources, sald

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TOKYO, Jan. 3 (U. P).—Lieut. Gen. Otozo Yamada was hamed commander of Japanese forces in central China today, to succeed. Gen. Shunroku Hata. The change was interpreted generally as meaning that large scale military operations in central China were considered to be at an end and that emphasis would now be put on administration problems. Yamada formerly was commander of the 12th division. Recently he has administered the Nanking area.

Soviet Orders Five Ex-Police Executed

MOSCOW, Jan. 3 (U. P.)—Five former officials of the Soviet secret police, was ordered executed today. They were convicted by a military tribunal at Kiev of illegal arrests and extorting criminal confessions from innocent persons. Several of the defendants testified they compelled victims to sign confessions they belonged to Fascist youth organizations. .

ATLANTIC AIRLINE OPENS LONDON, Jan. 3 (U. P.).—Regular weekly airplane service between England: and Canada was announced today by Imperial Airways. Probably starting in May, the service will be extended to the United States as soon as the company obtains permission to land at Port Washington, New York. :

PORTABLE X- RAY ANNOUNCED

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