Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1924, Page 1

) WEATHER. Fair tonigkt and tomor tonight, temperature ended at 2\ o.m. today. at 5 p.m. vesterday; 7:30 a.m. today. Fuil report on page 7. low Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 Intered as second-class matter post office Was| No. 29,118 near freezing. Temperature for twenty-four hours Highest, vest, row; colder 58, 40, at hington, D. C. SHENANDOAH SAFE IN HANGAR AFTER WILDNIGHT IN GALE; HIP 15 BADLY TORN None Is Injured, Landing of Giant Dirigible Reveals. Nose Battered and Upper! Fin Ripped Off in Escape. CAPTAIN SAYS RETURN PROVES HER HARDIHOOD Craft Was Blown to Staten Island When She Turned Into Teeth of | Storm and Fought Her Way to Field—Kept in Constant Touch With Land Stations by Radio. Ry Asso P KEHURST, Shenandoah, world, gur at clock J.. January 17.— largest alrship in poked her nose into her the naval air station at tiiis morning after coma g the most remarkable fight a clip of her type ever made. The ht was a fight against the most stubborn element of nature, a wind that blew at seve two miles an hour at time: This gale twisted the glant craft from her towering moor- ing mast 32 o'clock last night and swept her on a mad chase up the coast to Staten Island, New | + wh Capt. Anton Helnen, mand when she broke away, ned her nose into the teeth of the storm and maneuvered her back to her home port. Not a man in her crew of twenty- two was injured, mot a man was downhearted. E it was the fines ach was loud in his prai pride. They took it the en f their mates ched them drift away into the darkness. Ship Badly Torn. ship herself lay in her hangar | naughty schoolboy whose tru- had brought him ill luck. Her was battered and she was some- | what scratched up. A hasty inspec- tion showed that her front castells, or gas bags, had collapsed when she was torn away by the wind. The covering of her upper fin had been stripped off and wrapped around the rudder, making the craft exceed- fngly difficult to steer, while there was slight damage to her outer cov- ering, the material being rent nearly up, tu her nose. Capt. Heinen, who had Shenandoah built and who tried | out more than 100 other aircraft on their malden voyages, sald after he nded that without a doubt the' craft was the strongest een- | scted ship of her type ever made. | I do not believe any other ship In | which I have flown would have suc- through the gale she «id last night,” Le said. “There {8 not @ bit of doubt but what she will sue- sfully complete her polar region flight planned for next month. We will not likely experfence such a ter- rific storm as was raging along the Atlantic yesterdayv. If we do Sve can enough run around it. Under Control All Time. “We had the ship under perfect control within five minutes after t} nose cap was torn off. We rose 500 tect and continued flying at that ele- | wvation until reached the coast! near Summit, N. J,, when we went up to about 1.200 feet. “The fiying conditions were un- Iavorable, as. it was ralning hard. However, when we reached New York the weather cleared and we found we had reached the port side of the storm. We headed out over Staten Island and thenceforth nosed the ship " (Continued o age olumn 2., FISCAL PLAN DRAFT ADOPTED N FRANCE Measure Increasing Taxes 20 Per Cent Will Be Rushed e h 4 ke ancy seen the 11y we POLAR DASH BY BLIMP’S Moffett Will Command Shenandoah on Trip. Denby Jubilant. FEmerging safely from the worst gale ever encountered by any dirig- ible in the world, with only minor damage, the U. S. S. Shenandoah. “Daughter of the Stars,” has proved her worth as the greatest of all lighter-than-air craft and will un- dertake her exploration of the Artic} reglons next summer as originally planned for her. “She will make the journey and I will be with her from the time she leaves Lakehurst until she returns,” Rear Admiral Willlam A. Moffett, chlef of the bureau of aeronautics, and in complete charge of the flight, told The Star today. “She will never meet conditions that existed last night. Why, the strongest winds in the Arctic at the time we plan to go are only about thirty-five or forty miles an hour.” The Shenandoah stated, was torn away mooring by “The strongest wind ever withstood by any dirigible was fifty-five miles an hour” he declared. (Reference wasg made to the British R-33.) Bureau is Jubllant. The bureau of aeronautics today was jubllant over the splendid per- formance of the pride of the Navy. Secretary Denby, wreathed in smiles, errived at Admiral Moffett's office in the new Navy building about 9 o'clock this morning and extended his con- gratulations to the naval alr chief. Later he issued a statement outlining what was known so far at the Navy Department of the incident. He con- cluded with a paragraph disclosing the determination of the Navy De- partment to get the Shenandoah ready promptly for the polar expedi- tion she is to make this summer. “From all our information,” he sald, “it may be asserted with positive certainty that there is hardly a possi- bility that this ship will encounter in her arctic expedition any test so severe as that she has already met Admiral Mofret from her | successtully.” He also telegraphed his congratu- [1ations to the crew of the Shenandoah, who brought her back In safety after her wind-driven filght. Mrs. Denby, who christened the ZR-1 U. 8. S. Shenandoah October 10, was so great- ly impressed by the story of the night that ghe aleo sent her congratula- tions to the airship personnel. Critielam Diminisked. It congressional criticism of the proposed flight of the big airship to the north pole ever existed, the safe | return of the Shenandoah will tend to diminish it, in the opinion of R e {sentative French, republican, Idaho. chairman of the House appropriations |committee’s subcommittee on naval affairs. - “The Shepandoah accepted about the moss ‘severe test that could be congeived and she met it successtut® 1," Mr. Freneh sald. “Although tXere is a resolutlon pending in the House calling on the Navy Department for information as to the reasons for the proposed flight, it is my opinfon that members of Congress, generally, will regard last night's unscheduled fiight as evidence of the ability of the Shen- andoah to undertake and accomplish the polar voyage.” The Shenandoah was secured to the mast at Lakehurst Saturday and scheduled to remain in that position for 4 week. Valuable data on the ability of the ship to remgain fast by its nose already had been obtained by Charles P. Burgess, an aeronau- tical engineer on duty here, and who was aboard the dirigible with his in- | struments at the time the nose plate | tere loose. Thus, officers stated, val uable sclentific information concern- ing the ship was obtained while she { was being lashed back and forth by the gale. Safe in Her Hangar. This dispatch was sent to the Navy Department by the commanding offi- cer at Lakehurst today: “The Shenandoah is safely housed in hangar. Her battered condition is sufficient evidence of a wonderful plece of airmanship and judgment on the part of the officers and men on board. - “A rdetailed report of her condition will be made after a thotough exami- nation. In general her present con- dition is as follows: Gas cells de- flated, -large sections of outer cover gone from starboard bow, many holes in ‘outer cover, upper stabilizing fin collapsed, large hole in bow and col- lapse of upper fin made steering very difficult. 1t was learned at the bureau today that a great improvement in the (Continued on Page by Government. | i { 1 | | By the Associated Press. f PARIS, January 17.—The cham- ber of deputies today expressed confidence in the government by a vote of 394 to 180, refusing im- mediate discussion of an interpel- lation on the cubject of pensions. PARIS, January 17.—The French cabinet this morning adopted with- out important changes the final draft «f the government's program of fis- cal reform, Including the measure vroviding a 20 per cent increase’ in taxation. The legislation will be vresented to the chamber of deputies this afternoon by Minister of Finance De Lasteyrie. The government will insist that the financial committee of the chamber ieport out the bills immediately so that they can be brought before par- liament for discussion next Tuesday. One of the measures approved by the cabinet authorized the govern- -Juent to suspend by simple decree all imports, wherever from, that are not {Dots and Dashes Thrill Radio Fans, Spreading News of Periled Ships Air Cléared of Entertainment Four Hours to Myuifi»- cqtion of Many, and Broadcasters Are Besieged . For Cause During Distress of Shenandoah. While virtually all the broadcasting stations east of the Mississippi river remained silent about four hours last night as a result of S. O. §. calls from ships tn distress and the search for the Shenandoah, readers of the dot and dash had one of the most thrill- ing periods in their history. Distre: calls flashed through the air most of the evening. Some came from ships oft the Atlantic coast and others were sent out in order to clear the ether for interrupted communication with America’s glant dirigible which had broken from its moorings for an in- national pecessities. Amnother pro- vided for economies in the publlc services alone of 1,000,000,000,000 france. he ~government plan provides foughly for increased revenues of 7.000,000,000,000 francs and reduction in expenditures of 1,000,000,000,000 francs, balancing the recoverable budget, which is inciuded in the or- dinary budget. The expenditures iff| so-cailed recoverable budget were theoretically met by German repara- - tlon payments, but in practice had boen, met by juesns, ] voluntary cruise in the teeth of a gale. 3 WOR, at Newark,.N. J., ‘was one of the few radiophone stations along the Atlantic seaboard which was operating last night. Its only broad- ‘oasts were brief reports on the posi- tion of the Shenandoah. Listeners-In Worried. Thousands of listeners-in, unable to understand the silence of the broadcasting stations, literally bom- a sixty-clght-mile wind. | U -guese dowps WASHINGTON, IS ASSURED SAFE RETURN MEN SAY CAPTAIN'S CALM SAVED SHIP - INFACE OF DEATH {Heinen Refused Sand&ich, Saying He Would Breakfast at Home at 6—He Did. By the Associated Press. LAKEHURST, N. J, January 17.—A |full-blown pride in the gale-tossed Shenandoah radiated from every man of the twenty-two who rode out last night's mad storm in the alr Levia- than as they left their beds in the| hangar today. “What a ship, man, what a boat she | Thus did from Capt. Heinen down to the lowllest seaman, epito- mize the achlevement of their ‘craft. “It was a rough ride, but a good one,” declared Charles P. Burgess, a civillan member of the bureau. of aeronautics in Washington, who was aboard to observe the ship's. behavior, under mooring strain. And he voiced the sentiment of his mates. “Did you ever hear of any ship go- ing to sea in a wind blowing seventy-five miles an hour?" he asked pridefully, “a ship with a hole in her bow, two compartments filled with water and half of her steering gear torn away, and then come back into port? “Men Were Wonderfal." “Really. it was magnificent. Every man aboard behaved wonderfully. After the first flurry of surprise when the Shenandoah broke loose the men did their work just as calmly as they do on any ordinary flight The only difference wag that we were undermanned, and everybody had to do_ better than double duty.” The same pride In crew and bat-| tered ship was evinced by Lieut. Commander J. M. Deem of Memphis, Tenn., the chief engineer. ‘The boys were splendid,” he said, “just as splendid as the ship. She! never would have made 1it, stanch and gallant as she {s, had it not been for the mep aboard. “Before a minute had passed—and the first minute was a mad thing that brought us face to face with death— the engines wers humming away and the men about taeir duties as calmly as though it were just an ordinary irip on_a bright summer mornin One man was at each of five of #he six engines doing the work iy | done by three. Get Ship Und: “The rest of it mad minute was spent in ing the ship under con. trol ap#” putting the wind at our bagks. Then, after we had the lurch- #ig bag straightened out as much as possible, we tried to ascertain our damage. But it was impossible. No man could walk atop the bag in that wind. He would have been blown ten miles off. “The first hour was the Worst— you know what they say about t first 100 years! Wo had the devil's lown time, with our damaged steer- {ing equipment, to keep her headed properly. - The wind was not only man-sized, but ‘it was crochety and fickle, first how! ng out of the south- { east, then jumping wt us from the | south, veering to the southwest, and | finally, at the time we landed blow- iing from the west. “We kept her low, between 500 and 1,000 feet up, because the wind was blowing harder the higher we got. | The elevating rudders were nof dam- aged. She's a great ship, a great Ship. We never knew before just how great she was" Tt was just an incident In the day's | work to L. K. Coleman of Fort Worth, | Tex., chief machinist's mate. He was| almost surly about it when asked of his experiences. Says He's No Hero. “What you trying to do? Make a| hero of me? There's nothing to tell | sbout. We had a good enough trip, and {f there's any talking to be done it'll have to come from the fellowe with the gold braid.” Everybody agreed that Capt Heinen was responsible for the orderly . ef- ficlency of the crew in the face of imminent death. They told of his emiling calm and his unfailing assur- ance that all would end well. Edward F. Douglas of Baltimore, one of the four men In training for Army dirigible work who were aboard, told of offering the captain a sandwich. “‘No thanks. says he; ‘if T eat now it'll spoll my breakfast appetite. I'll | have breakfast at § o'clock, and I'll eat it at home, too’ That's the kind of a fellow he i i trol. i | | tions as to the reason for their in- activity or resolved that their re- celving sets were out of commission. Hopes for the acquiescence of WRC to the plea for a silent night in Washington vanished to an almost imperceptible point when that sta- tion recelved hundreds of telephone calls from within a radius of 200 miles of Washington inquiring into the cause of the four-hour shut-down. The air cleared for SOS signals about 6 pm. and broadcasting was not obened again until about 10:45 p.m. by WRC. The- telephoning began shortly after 8 o'clock, the hour scheduled for that station to begin its evening program, and up to the time Announcer Bruce Lum was finally heard, both tele- phones were ringing constantly. Another telephone in the station that is not listed provided communication with the naval communications office. Staff Made Weary. Early in the evening the regular staff was wearied from answering telephone calls and making _the monotonous announcement that “thi air was cleared for S80S signals,” and two artists who were to havi tertained WRC's audlence were pre sed into service to explain the shi g e W t—— L S l " WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION B, BALDWIN'S FORGE | STARTLAST FIAT Conservative Votes Banded | in Futile Hope—Macdonald Assured Fairness. By the Assoctated Press. LONDON, January 17.—The country | watched today the opening of "‘ei final scene in the life of the Bald-, win government: The introduction in the house of commons of labor's “ac' mnufidence” motion Former Premier Asqulth, leader of the reunited 1igersT party, announced in the housg-4f commons today that he VQM in favor of the labor amend- et expressing “no confidence Baldwin government, and woi all his friends to do the same. Notwithstanding the bellef that overthrow Is inevitable, conservative | whips are doing thelr utmost to keep | the party at full strength, esreclklly; for next Monday's crucial vote: The latest effort of the opponents of a laborite government is an ap- peal to Winston Spencer Churchill to take the lead agalnst Ramsay Macdonald and his followers. The Dally Mail prints prominentiy anl| anonymous letter asking Mr. Church- il “at this moment of pecullar and unprecedented peril for the| country™ to re-enter the arena as “a leader around whom the champlons of constitutional government could raily.” Meanwhile it is said that labor may rely on benevolent treatment from another quarter. Prime Minister Baldwin has already undertaken tol withhold “factious opposition” to Mr. Macdonald’s government when it is established; and the support of He: bert Asquith and Lioyd George Is as- sured him. Now, according to the Westminister Gazette, the Federation of British Industries. powerful a. soclation of the leaders of big bus ness—is prepared “to do what is in its power to assist the labor gov- ernment, provided the latter do not govern the country in the interests of any one class.” PLANS BOLD POLICIES. MacDonald Will Seek Direct Deal- ing With France. By Radio to The Star and the Chicago Dally News. Copyright, 1924. LONDON, January 17.—Friends ‘ot Ramsay MacDonald declare emphat- ically that he intends taking a bold line of action in dealing with France when and ‘if he becomes premier. It is asserted that he will seek an early personal conference with Premier Poincare. Several questions, including the status of the Rhineland separatist movement, must occupy Mr. MacDon- ald’s attention in arranging Great Britain's relations with France. He believes firmly in making each issue clear. Evidences exist of labor's intention of using publicity to secure the moral support of the European nations as well as those across the Atlantic. One method tried out by labor mem bers of parliament in the past un- doubtedly will be used in the future —that of sending non-diplomatic missions to the various caplitals to investigate all issues upon which disputes have arisen between diplo-, matic representatives. BRITISH RAIL MEN TO WALK OUT SUNDAY Strike to Follow Refusal of Union Workers to Accept Reduc- tion in Wages. | By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 17.—A strike of British locomotive men, who have re- fused to accept the reduction in wages authorized by the rallway wage board, will begin at midnight on Sunday, ac- cording to an announcement made this noon. = PREMIERS TO MEET. ROME, January 17.—Premler Mus- solinl_and M. Pachitch, the Jugoslav remier will meet the first week in ebruary_in Venice, according to foreign office circles, to conclude the- fume agreement. Signor Mussolini has postponed the Italian cabinet meeting set for February to January 81, inasmuch as the pact must first be <abln ening THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, . dangers - Star. 1924 —FORTY-TWO = PAGES. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” Star’s carrier system ‘covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 97,187 TWO CENTS. THE Tw CHEERFUL CHORUS. Yy ig in Man’s Lung Two Years | Dislodged When His Feet Are Tilted Operations Failing, Physicians Resort to G'.'avuy, Clearing Lungs and Cough Expels Two-Inch Stick. J. Linton. Rigg, twenty-nine years . son of an Episcopal clergyman “room, Md., vesterday coughed up a cedar twig which he had swallowa two vears and two months ago while laughing at a quip from a.friend with whom he was riding horseback in Virginia. The _twiz had worked its way dewn to the bottom of a lung, and this fact, accompanied by the fact that its dislodgement was the result of a treatment consisting of raising the feet of the patient until his head was considerably lower than his heels, is regarded by physicians at { Emergency Hospital as an accom plishment which will occupy a separate and distinct page in medical higtory, Mr. Rigg today wae jubilant at his loss. He told his own story. while slitting up at the hospital “1 was riding with @ iady down ir Virginia near Warrenton,” he said, “exactly two years and two months ago, when we passed under a cedar |with a coughing spell after this treat- | tree. 1 swept up my hand and grab- bed a dead twig, which I placed be- Woman on Jury Panel Is Excused, Due to Swearing By the Associated Prese. PORTLAND, Ore., January 17.— Mrs. Loulse Palmer Weber, promi- nent society and club woman of Portland, was excused yesterday from the January jury panel “be- cause she swore profusely in the circult court room,” according to attaches of the court and Mrs. ‘Weber's own admission. Mrs. Weber, it was sald. was excused at her own reauest. “I make no denial that I swore,” Mrs. Weber said, after a confer- ence with Judge Tazwell and the other jurors. “I swore like a pirate, and there was justification for it If the men of the jury are permit- ted to smoke the cheapest clgars they can buy until the air is blue and to epit all over the place I think there was nothing very wrong in my swearing. 1 don't know any law against it. I asked the judge if he did, and he said he didn't.” DAWES COMMITTEE IN PRIVATE SESSION Assistant Experts Delve Into Mass of Documentary Data on Ger- man Finances. By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 17.—The experts of the first committee investigating into Germany's financial condition and resources spent the morning in private conference under Chairman Ctarles G. Dawes, while their as- sistant experts continued to delve into the mass of documentary in- formation placed at their disposal. Under the direction of Rufus 'C. Dawes, chief of staff of the expert ssistants with the American delega- n, the American assistant experts have already gone through many high piles of documents, but still have a formidable bulk of documen- tary matter before them for exam- ination. BUBONIC PLAGUE TERROR STRIKES VOLGA AREA Disease Threatening Astrakhan Districts—Commission From: Mos- cow Hopes to Stem Advance. MOSCOW, January 17.—The bubonic plague has leaped over thé borders of Asla into extreme southeastern Europe and is threatening the As- trakhan district, according to the Moscow Workman's Gazette. ~ Ninety' plague spots have been dis- covered, says thé newspaper, and a ‘horde of plague-infested rats | spreading: the epidemic along the mouth of the Volga. A commission has been created to combat the plague en my teeth after 1 etarted laughing at something which the lady sald and swallowed twi ' t \\int down my bronchial tube lana, as have just dlscovere lodged itself in the bottom of my lu The day after swallowing it,'I had several bad falls from the saddle and | tha 1 was completely ex- h | the icians believed I had pneu- Since then I have had several operations and had tieatment for va rious_ailments of the bronchial tubes !and lungs. “I am very happy today, you see, because there has -been a bit of af- lemma as to what caused my troubles. We knew the twig was there, but ruy_photographs failed to show it | That twig nas cost me hundreds of | donar: |~ Mr. Rigg came to Emergency Hos- | pital for his latest treatment shortly |after Christmas. Staff physicians de- | cided to try tilting the patient for | twenty-minute periods with his head down ‘and his beels up. This resulted in flulds draining out collected in the |lung. Yesterday, Mr. Rigg was selzed | ment, and up came ghe twig. It was | two inches long. FORD WL DEFINE HS SHOALS OFER Statement to House Commit- tee Promised by Next Tues- day, Says Kahn. Chairman Kahn told the House mili- tary committee today that he had been assured a “clean-cut statement” would be forthcoming from the Ford interests by next Tuesday defining thelr present attitude toward Muscle Shoals. Mr. Kahn also announced that all bids for the project should be in by that time, as the committee was de- termined to speed action. The chairman’'s statement with ref- erence to the Ford bid was prompted | mittee members as to whether Mr. Ford now desired to obtain control of the properties. He said he had communicated with the Ford inter. ests and had been definitely told they would_outline their attitude. O. C. Merrill, executive secretary of the federal power commission, told the committee Mr. Ford would be able to generate at Muscle Shoals one bil- lion kilowatt hours of the “cheapest power produced anywhere, not even excepting Niagara Falls.” Double Plan in Bid. He also said the Ford offer was the only one submitted calling for both power development and nitrate man- ufacture, although he had heard other offers for nitrate production would be submitted. Congress, in considering the pos- isibility of obtalning additional bids, {he said, should be guided only by the {@esire to obtaln more advantageous offers. He indorsed the Dickinson bill to give the power commission jurisdiction over the Muscle Shoals plant and opposed & lease for more than fifty years T, S MANDAMUS SUIT AGAINST GEN. WOO0D IS DISMISSED 1 Philippine Supreme Court Says Accounting Is Solely Up to Governor. A l By the Associated Press. “MANILA, January 16.—The insular tsupreme court, in dismissing the |mandamus proceedings brought by {democrata party leaders to compel Governor General Wood and other offi- clals to reveal details of the expenditure of the $500,000 annual independence fund, says that whether such an in- spection should be granted les en- tirely ' within the discretion of the governor general. ‘The decision holds that “if the gov- ernor general should deem it advis- ble to exhibit vouchers to the peti- ioners or public in order that the taxpayers may know in what man- ner the funds were expended, that is A on-£or bim to-decidey _ by doubts expressed by several com- | Associated Press To-Get Last Type Set by Mr. Harding Dy the Assoclated Press. SEATTLE, Wash., January 1 President Warren G. Harding's last bit of hand-set type—set while visiting in the office of the Fairbanks (Alaska) News-Miner, during his trip to the territory last summer—will be presented to the Assoclated Press at its annual meeting in New York city, April 12, aacording to a message re- celved here today from W. F. Thempeon, editor and publisher of the Fairbanks newspaper. Mr. Thompson is bringing the type from Alaska, and will turn it_over to William Allen White, editbr of the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette. Mr. White, he sald, will present the type to the Associated Press. TAXBILL ATTACKED /| FROM NANY SDES | 1 ! Trade Board Delegates and Automotive Firms Submit Protests to Congress. | were heard today by the House ways and means commlittee, while a va- { rety of projects proposing modifica- tion of the Mellon revision plan were under discussion among various groups in both Senate and House. Special consideration was given by the commlttee to the tax on future tradings on produce markets. Campbell, representing the Chicago Board of Trade, told the committee that the tax was driving the Chicago graln market out of existence and constituted eventually a sales tax on | farm produets. | L. F. Gates of the Western Grain Exchanges committee declared trade ‘m grain products was being driven | farmers, to Canada, increasing the burden of and deseribed the Chicago of the tax. Auto Tax Attacked. Representatives of automobile man- ufacturers and associations directed a new attack on the tax on motor ehicles, tires, accessorfes and repair parts. Roy F. Britton of the Ameri- can Automoblle Association, Carey Quinn of the Automobile Body Build- ers' Aesociation and George C. Dona hue of the Empire State Automobile Dealers' Association asked removal or reductlon of these levies. No other citizen pays so many tax s on one articie as the motoriat, Mr Britton said. He called attention to th> state, clty and driver's license re- quired in many places, and the state gasoline and registration fees charged in many sections. The Treasury has sent to Repre- sentative Garner of Texas, ranking democrat on the ways and means committee, a partial estimate of prob- able receipts under the democratic tax revision program. The figures were not made public by Treasury officia! |and Mr. Garner did not indicate to- {day ‘whether he would give them out. | i C. OF C. ASKS CHANGES. | | Mellon Proposals. its public _hearing on proposed re- ductions in tax rates, a new of the revenue act was made pub- lic .by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. a report of a special committee wh s to be made the basis of a re: endum vote of organizations afili od with the chamber. touch upon a ministrative as weil as rate pr visions of the law and are, broadly, Secretary Meilon. They include mal and surtax rates on |incomes to an extent equal In its results on revenue to a large part of the surplus anticipated at the end of the fiscal year” a ‘reasonable differential between earned income |and ther income”-and repeal of war | excise taxes confined to particular businesses. Amendment Is Sought. An_amendment to the Constitution “permitting non-discriminatory taxa tion reciprocally between the federa government and the states of incomes derived from future issues of securi- ties made by or under the authority of federal and state governments” also is suggested, and establishment “independently of the bureau of in- ternal revenue” of a board of tax ap- peals is favored. The commissioner of internal reve- nue, it says, “should be freed of all duties with respect to the prohibition act and the narcotic act,” and should be directed “to decentralize admini tration as rapidly and as far as po. siblé” Tt also recommends that Co gress authorize the flling of a tenta- tive return on the present due date with a right to file a final return not more than three months later, and that 2 joint committee, with members from both houses of Congress and Tepresentatives of the public, federal taxes, simplification of law for the income tax and improve- ment in administration.” Proposes Change. Representative Ramseyer, republi- tance taxes and adding a gift tax to prohibit evasion. The gift levy, he suggested, should be slightly lower than the inheritance tax. Chairman Green of the committee, crat, New York. he thought broader exemptions under the income taxes would be allowed. Mr. Jacobstein had suggested that mony s&pent for hospitals and gdoctors’ bills be de- ducted from income tax. — . PARK BILL PRESENTED. Chairman Reed of the House Dis- trict committe today introduced a bill at the request of the District Com- missioners which would authorize them to accept certain land which Charles C. Glover recently signified his desire to contribute to the Na- tional Capital for park purposes. The Reed bill also glves authority to the Commissioners to accept any ad- ditional contiguous land which the owners may care to contribute. The Glover tract and other adjacent land would become part of the park system of the District and would be own as the Glover parkway aad Chil- Further petitions for tax reduction | Philip | i i 1 A short time there- | Grain Exchange as depressed because |* i 1 Agrees in Main, However, With| While the House ways and means | committee went forward today with | list | of recommendations for amendment | {in agreement with the proposals of | 1 to be! created “to make a thorough study of | 4 reformatory farm as has been urged e ! can, Iowa, advocated doubling the| present graduating scale of inheri-| told Representative Jacobstein, demo- | WORK ASKS CHANGE IN REORGANIZATION OF HIS DEPARTMENT Proposes New Scheme Cre- ating Five Main Divisions to Govern Activities. MUCH ENLARGED BUREAU OF EDUCATION SUGGESTED Public Works Section .Vital Step in New Alignment, Interior Head Holds. Secretary of the Interior Work pro- posed a new scheme for the reorgan- ization of the Interlor Department today before the joint congressional committee on the reorganization of the government departments. Declaring that the department id have four assistant sec Dr. Work proposed the fol | Ing main divisions: 1. Bureau Bureau Bureau 4. Burehu 5. Bureau of education of public work of territorial affair of public lands. 5. of public health. e based this scheme upon the no adoption of the proposed cation and welfare. e bureau of education should b greatly enlarged. Public Works Vital. ration of the bureau of pubii he continued, is one of the most important steps that can be made in the whole reorganization, The assistant secretary of this bu- reau, he indicated, should be a civil- ian engineer. His proposed bureau of territorial affairs’ would take in the adminis- tration of Alaska, Hawaii, the Phil- i es, Guam, Forto Rica, America; and the Virgin Islands. The administration of Alaska, he aid, should be in the Interior De- partment Under the For: bureau of public lands Ihe would .group the general land of- fice, Indian affairs, the park servic reclamation bureau, geological sur- vey and coast and geodetic survey, the latter now under the Department of_Commerce. Dr. Work expressed the opinion that the forest service “seems to be an attachment of the Agriculture De- partment.” declaring that the protec- tion of the forests and reforestation are closely akin. - “I think the forest service is prob- ably where it belongs” Dr. Work sald. ‘Wants Health Bureaw. The Secretary said the surgeon gen- eral of the health service would be the ex-officlo assistant secretary of the proposed bureau of public health Dr. Work threw out the suggestion that it might be well if the compen- sation features of the Veterans' Bu- Teau were given to the pension bu- reau and its hospitalization work to the public health service. Dr. Work said he could see no ne- cessity for the proposed “‘department of education and welfare,” provided the present bureau of education is ez~ larged. Dr. Work aiso presented scheme of reorganization, whic would divide tke Department of the Interior into three main division those of public works, iands and te titorial affairs. He indicated to committee, however, that of the two pians presented by him he preferred he one makin for five bureaus, Postmaster New who ap- peared before he committee, spoke trongiy against the proposal to change the name of the Post Office anothe he neral The recommendations, embodied in | Department to “department of com- Tost Office Department has by that name since w have been a government.” he s He suggested advisability (reating an administrative as to take the place of the present con- fidential clerk to the Postmaster | municats | “The Leen know! “revision of the nor-|General. individual | Mr. New said he “advised most stren- uously against the proposal to piace the postal inspectors under the bureau of investigation of the Department of Justice” Mr. New ended by declaring, “All I want is to be let alone.” Engineers will be. heard tomorrow morning on the proposed bureau of pub- lie works. It is probable that the Sec- retaries of Agriculture and Commerce will be heard urday morning, and the Attorney nerul Monday It seemed likely today that the hearings will be terminated next week. |MT. WEATHER SITE FOR PRISON UNLIKELY Mrs. Willebrandt Tells House Com- mittee She Considers Place TUnfavorable. The government property at Mount Weather probably will not be used for either a woman's penal institution or at hearings befroe the House judiciary committee. The bills providing for establish- ment of both these institutions have been favorably acted upon by th committee and are awaiting co sideration in the House. They would leave the selection of sites to & commission. Mount Weather as a probable site for either institution. however, has been practically cast in the discard was learned today. Several members of the committee are vigorously op- poked to the placing of either fnsti- tution on this site. Mrs. Mabel Wal er Willebrandt, assistant attorney general, told the House judiciar committee -that she did not consider Mount Weather a suitable site, and that practically ended the chances for location of either institution at that place. PINCHOT COAL BILL REJECTED BY PEPPER Senator Pepper, republican, Peni- sylvania, has returned to Gov. Pla- chot, the anthracite bill drawn by the governor. The senator sald he dld not desire to introduce the meas- ure, since he might not be able to give it _his wholehearted support. Gov. Pinchot has held several con- ferences with Senator Borah, repub- lican, 1daho, on the anthracite situa- tion ‘and it is probable Mr. Boral willsponsor-the -bill-in the: S~ i 7/