Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1926, Page 2

2 *x [1PERSONSKILLED IN MIDWEST GALES, Scores Injured in Windstorms Accompanied by Heavy Rains and Snow. s ated Pr CHICAGO, ¥ ind scores injured 1 windstorms in the Middle —Eleven L re- tof hi Sweeping out of the Northwest and ray, the storms struck of the country. i by heavy rains and ity of miles an hour, incaleulable property loss destroved, t t: wnd telegraph lines “xas ¥ entral part 60 ildings teleph And traf nd were oded astern her, with n and ted by flu tern lak Weat . s ite was in ir white persons Lyson Yilled w 1s, Ohio, r blown s on the ago were flooded ting. Children from school. and afts or flathoats r markenng. orm ir: Ohie broken ic sngers were forced to wade . when caught on the fce in mail trucks a shor ¥ 1 factor e closed und spended ith R MOst evere Snow- vears. Families wers ts from the flood ai water was three feet the avenues storm in four rescued in Roackford. deep on one Th CIGAR ASHES ENLIVEN PARTY MARKING TAX BILL FINAL APPROVAL fnued from First Page) tnto the room and without any further formality the word “go” was Fiven (o the battery of photographers. | The President was not quite satisfied | ith the way*in which the witnesses +0 the signing were posed. He turned sbout and, frowning upen thetr ir- regular grouping and the distance | ¢ were to one side, directed them me closer,” to stretch out their And, as an added touch of ar- | su ed that the smaller gentlemen take positions in front and ones in the rear. This| P was not heard or un- derstood, because there was no front or hack line when the picture making started in earnest. There was only one line. Cigar Incident Amuses. In his hurry Senator Simmons had forgotten to relieve himself of a long, freshly lighted cigar with a bright hand around lt. During the shifting around in the grouping it so hap- pened that the North Carolina Sena- tor and his long cigar caught the most prominent place in the plcture h the exception of the President’s. r a few moments later fig. an amusing incident which n outburst of laushter the principals and the audience i was composed of the camera | and movie men and the score of news paper correspondents. It occurred the President was putting the fi flourish on the dotted line. Senator Smoot concefved the idea that the moment had arrived for some added action to the scene—a touch of human interest. Therefore he turned and shook hands with Representati: Green. who conducted the preliminary hearings on the tax revision bill and piloted the bill through the House. The Utah Senator, desiring to exemplify the non-partisan manner in which the tax biil was handled. then put h hand out to Senator Simmons. The lat- ter had been gazing cameraward and had not been watching this handshak ing, and was taken unawares. In hls ‘confusion he held out the hand which was tightly clutching the long cigar. Nefther of these gentlemen caring to take his eves from the cameras in front. was aware of the cigar figur- {ng in_the handshake until it was too Jate. The latter had long since been extinguished, and there was no burn- ing of flesh, only a little spililng of ishes very close to the neck of the President, who w unconsclous of all t was going and who looked up with g t rprise when he heard the »m the galle Declines to Move Flag. At the right-hand side of the Presi- dent’s desk stands a handsome silk American flag. It is never moved. 1t obstructed the view of severai of the cameramen today, but the Presi- dent declined to move the flag when thev appealed to him. The tax bill reached the White House vesterday afternoon. It was mmedtat nt to the Treasury De-. Necretary Mellon and his corps of experts to check up on it and to determine if it contained any technical flaws. It is understood that they completed their task in time to return the DLill to the White House last night. It was explained that the Presi- ent's reason for affixing the time of the signature to the bill was to avoid possible future legal tangles. 238,818 Dry Law Hearings to Date, Report of Agents ne. from which By the Assoctated Press. Prohibition prosecutions by the Department of Justice under the national dry act have totaled 238,- 818, E. M. Kennard, administratfve countant for the Department of 1stices, told a House appropria- tlons subcommittee in reports of hearings made public today. Of these cases, Mr. Kennard sald, 217.031 were criminal prose- cutions and 21,787 were civil suits. Collections of fines and civil judg- ments totaled $20,000,000. The wit- ness explained that the increase in civil actions had been due largely to padlock cases and injunction proceedings. Representative Tinkham, Repub- lican, Massachusetts, a member of the committee and one of the lead- ers of the wets, remarked that “people do mot seem to be taking warticulurly kindly to this law.” By Conaolidated Pre NEW YORK. February 26.—The United States Steel Corporation cele- brated its twenty-fifth birthday Thurs- For 25 years Judge Elbert H. ¢, chalrman of the board has been chief executive officer and a*domi- nant figure in world finance and in dustry.” Tonfght Mr. Gary will cele- brate his connection with the great of close friends at his home at 83 Fifth avenue. A score of hiographers, nters and character analysts have Qisputed for vears as to what made Judge Gary chalrman of the board of the United States Steel. The writer. the wife of a New York businessman and the clerk at the cheese counter | of & great grocery shop know. Difference in Dollars. two black broadtail coats q collars, two pairs of black rimmed glasses, two pairs of white kid gloves and two palrs of black pumps and gray stockings, and two small black hats entered a Fifth ave nue grocery. The only thing which differentiated the wearers were some 20 yvears In age and L o million dnlinrx,g e Ry The two shoppers sou counter “\‘\Lll:\\\mr;x'xfi-h is your finnan hadd “Iifty cents s “Very well I muci ese " That is $1.25 & pound.” “I want a pound of th: T, how do you man well 7' We wrap a dam, clof ound e map p cloth around it Why, that's fine. of it. " Now, I want some other| cheeses. You see, 1 am going have a little company ir tonight, and the shopper smiled with evident anticlpation. ~ “I think I -will have that plece of Roquefort, although it Today with bre ht the same take hY I never thought enterprise at a simple little guthering | portratt | .THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MRS. GARY REVEALS ONE REASON WHY HUSBAND IS STEEL HEAD Wife of Magnate, Unaware of Being Observed, Shows She Is Sharp Housekeeper, While Mar- keting for Anniversary Dinner at Home doesn’t look like the cheese sometimes on the English boats. much is it?” She was told at length the differ- ence in price between tha imported and domestic Roquefort, and thea de- nded Brie. You may think I'm spooting,” said the sulesman, “but, while T haven't imported Brie, I've something [ think vou'll lfke better. Let me make you a sandwich of It. The first shopper bit into the tasty sel and turned to the woman be. 1 pet How she said. “I think like to know what By the way, how it, too,’ fine, but I'd vou think of ft. much {3 it? She concluded her salesman asked 0 whom shall I have it charged “To Mrs. E. H. Gary, 858 Fifth ave. nu “Judge Elbert H, Gary?" asked the salesman, with obvious awe. “Yes, do you know him?” the answer quick as a flash. o, but I'd like to “Well, I'm sort of glad I know him myself. I think now I'll go see how much your imported sage is."" purchases and th ca Moral in Story. The other broaatail er had concluded . followed the wi “coat, whose | her own pur - of the stee 1wl watched he the writer, 4 if people thought 1 was picky and small because 1 asked what things cost. But I guess her husband knows what the things he buys in his husi. H ness cost, and I believe my husband does, t 1f she doesn’'t have to be ashamed of findin, ut that informa. tion, I don't either. So perhaps that explains one of the factors which has made and kept EY- bert H. Gary chairman of the board of the United States =1 Corporation. SKRZYNSKI AVOIDS TANGLE IN'LEAGUE Premier Touches Only Briefly on Demand for Seat on Geneva Body Council. By the Associated Prese *WARSAW, February 26—-Fremter Skrzynskl, on the occasion of the first reading of the bill to ratify the Lo- carno pact, touched only brefly on Poland’s claim for a permanent seat in the council of the League of Nations. He said nothing to indicate that Po- land was determined to Insist on the seat, but referred to the covenant of the ‘I/ague of Nations as implying that Poland should have membership in the council when Germany became a member. ‘The premier took an optimistic out- look of the approaching meeting of the league and said he hoped for a solution there for all difficulties and a victory for the ideal of peace. The only practical interpretation of article four of the league covenant, he as. serted, was that Poland should ap- pear on the league’s council with the same status and at the same time with Germany. Poland, the premier continued, wish ed to be there to reinforce those who regarded the league as the organiza- tion by which delicate issues could be settled in a spirit of fmpartiality and justice. He declared that Sir Austen Chamberlain, the British foreign sec- retary, was aware that Poland was collaborating loyally and sincerely in laving the foundation for the future peace of the world and that Poland's vital interests harmonized with Great Britain's peace plan, a fact that would enable Poland to pursue a policy of moderation. He denied that before signing the Locarno agreements he demanded cer- tain conditions, for instance, that Po- land should have a permanent seat in the leazue’s council. The moderation of the speech of the premier served to calm the excitement which had arisen over the German press campaign in connection with Poland’s claim for a permanent seat. PHYSICIAN’S SENTENCE IS REVOKED BY COURT Justice Bailey in Criminal Divison 1 today revoked the sentence of three years in the penitentiary which he (imposed last Friday on Edward B. Priess, a physician of Anacostia, who pleaded guilty to securing narcotics on prescriptions after his right to issue such prescriptions had been taken away. The court declared that on further consideration he had declded to send the doctor to jail for one year instead of requiring him to go to the pent- | tentiary. HORSE SHOW POSTPONED. The Riding and Hunt Club's horse show scheduled to be held at the club’s headquarters, at Twenty-sec- ond and P streets, at § o'clock this evening, was postponed by Rear Ad. miral Cary T. Grayson, president, when Melvin Hazen, secretary and manager, reported that the quaran- |tine on horses at Fort Myer, which were to have taken part in the ex- hibitions had not been lifted. Prominent soclety folk were to take part in the many events planned for the show. It was not known until a late hour that the Fort Myer entries would be unable to leave their quar- ters. Horses of Washington stables, also recently quarantined, have re. covered and the ban was lifted here recently. The horse show, it is expected, will be held in the near future. HOUDINI URGES BILL - TO CURB “MEDIUMS” IN SUBCOMMITTEE __(Continued from First Page) terrupted, Houdini challenged a ‘hose present glfted with ural sight and knowledge Mm what his mother called he was a boy. This infor not_yet been given The Bloom bill provides that person pretended to tell where or stolen goods may be found: nerson who, by game or slefght-of-hand, ~pretending, fortune telling or by any trick or other means, by the use of cards or other plements or instruments, fraudu- ‘ently obtains from another person sroperty of any description; any per- on pretending to remove spells or to sell charms for protection, or to unite the separated, shall be consid- sred a disorderly person. Any person violating the provisions of this law shall be punished by a fin> not to exceed $250, or by imprisoument not to exceed six months, or by both fine and imprisonment. “Ridiculous,” Says Gilbert. Representative Gilbert, Democrat, of Kentucky, offered a motion to ta- ble the bfil, declaring it to be a “ridiculous proposition and too trivial to_legislate upon.” Representative Hammer, Democrat, of North Carolnia, argued that it “would encourage every scoundrel in the District to go on with nefarious habits and pursuits.” Representative Bloom, Democrat, of New York, sponsor of the measure, said the bill had been held constitutional in New York. Houdinl emphasized that the bill is not an attack against spiritualism. Fraudulent mediums collect fortunes, he declared, and a medium could make no money under the guise of religion. He offered a long list ot names, commonly called a “sucker list,”” used by fortune tellers and me- diums, which contalned a number of Washingtonians. Houdini_ declared that he could come to the District of Columbia and get $200,000 or $300,000 frundulently in a year and not be touched by the law. “The District of Columbia s the only place where a person can be licensed for $25 to practice and black- mail the public,” he said. “There is not one legitimate one in the District of Columbia.” Spiritualists Oppose Bill. Dr. James P. Coates, representing the Spiritual Sclence Church of Wash- ington, vigorously protested the bill. Houdini was to appear later this afternoon before the Senate District committee, where he will testify in favor of a bill sponsored by Senator Copeland of New York. Representa- tives of the Spiritualist religion have informed Senator Capper, chairman of the committee, they will oppose the legislation unless it s so amended as o make sure it will not curtail or in- terfere with their religlous practices, H. P. Strack, secretary of the Na- tional Spiritualist Association, has sent Senator Capper the text of a pro- posed amendment, stipulating that the bill “shall not include, prohibit or interfere with the exercise of the spiritual functions or offices of any pries’, minister or accredited repre- sentative of any religion; nor to af- fect the practice of the religious be- lief known as Spiritualism * ® e~ Another letter to Senator Capper states that if the bill is not killed, it should be amended to safezuard the religion of Spirituallsm. This writer sald spiritualist mediums do not pre- tend to sell charms or remove spells, but do make prophecies. THREE DIE IN SHAM FIGHT. ] MAYENCE, Germany, February 26 #).—A French pilot, his aide and their mechaniclan were killed in a sham ot superna to tell im wren wation has “any iost any device. Hr battle today when their plane col- ‘ided with another of the maneuvering squadron. The crew of the other plane was able to make a safe landing. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, February 26.—War. has been declared by Russian moonshiners on the government vodka monopoly. Since the government decided to manufacture and sell 40 per cent vodka to the public the state authori- tles have confiscated tens of thousands of illicit stills in the villages, but the peasantry seem more determined than ever to combat the government's “legal” vodka with their own home brew. Russian home brew is called “samagon.” It can be made and sold at one-half the government price for vodka The samagon moonshiners are oper- ating throughout Russia. In the Ukraine alone more than 1,000,000 il- licit stills have been confiscated. In each village groups of citizens are Lime and Tobacco “Jazz Up” Vodka Made Like Moonshine by Russians designated by the local populati distill sufficient spirits fo¥ lrc)-cal' r?enedt; Their product, while not as pure as standard vodka, is considerably stronger and cheaper, and therefore appeals much more to the peasants’ palate and purse. The peasants “fazz" their vodka by adding tobacco, lime and other ingredients. Millions of tons of grain and rye are used annually by the peasants and professional moonshiners to make samagon. This is one of the reasons the peasants have been so reluctant to part with their wheat crops to the government. Failing to gather suffi- clent grain from the farmers for ex- port abroad, the government in conse- quence has been forced to seek rev- enue In other directions. That is one of the reasons why the Russian crown Jjewels are now being offered for gale; | Socialist deputy, Matteott, which has | they were cracking the safe in the ROSSI QUITS TALY | INMIDNIGHT DASH Reported in Nice—Plans to Expose Matteotti Murder and Mussolini’s Hand. By the Asnciated Pre PARIS, February 26.—The Nice cor- respondent of the Quotidien, antl- Fuscist paper, says thut Gen. Cesare Rossi, former head of the Fascist press bureau in Italy, arrived tHere early this morning after a wild filght by automobile from Rome to Genoa and thence by motor boat to Nice. Gen. Ross! was named in connection with the kidnaping and murder of the been made an issue by the opposition parties in Italy. He was imprisoned for a time. Released, under survel- lance, he forced to elude the po- lice in making his midnight dash out of the country. The correspondent says Gen. Rossi intends to_expose in France all the violence of the Matteott! affair and others, which he claims, were inspired by Mussolini The Quitidien and other Left organs in Paris for some time have been con- Qucting un anti-Fascist campaign. GIRL PHONE OPERATOR o P RTH, Tex., February 2. —Phe pluck and quick wit of a young night watchman and & girl telephone operator disrupted the plans of @ bundit gang at Aledo, just after mid- night and as a result a robber is badly wounded and police today were close on the trail of his two com- panions. Tom Grey, 28, the watchman, dis-| ercd the men breaking into the! ns' Bank and notified the phone operator. The girl advised authorities at Fort Worth and Weatherford, and | called out every one in the town that she could arouse by the telephone. The three men were surprised as bank, the lights of the automobiles of the approaching Fort Worth police giving them their first warning The bandits made an attempt to escape and in a running fight with a posse of citizens, led by Grey, one of them, Ed Winton, 27, Wichita Falls, was shot down. He was taken to a hospital, { The other two are belleved to be wrrounded by the posse MRS. JOHN B. LEE DIES. Mrs. John Boykin Lee, widow of John Boykin Lee of Baltimore, died of pneumonia at her residence, 1909 Nineteenth street, vesterday. She was the daughter of Humbertson and Mrs. Lelia Skipwith and the granddaughter of Sir Peyton und Lady Jean Skip- with. She leaves her daughter, Mrs. Lelia Skipwith Buer, wife of Col. Joseph Adams Baer, U. S. A, and one grand- daughter. Funeral services will be held in Christ Episcopal Church, Baltimore, t time to be announced later. More testimony in favor of creat- ing a department of education in the Federal Government was given before the joint Senate and Housa committee on education and labor. The interstate commerce commit- tee resumed hearings on the Dill bill to give the Secretary of Com- merce broader powers in control- ling radio. Houdin}, the magician, was sched- uled to testify before the Senate District committee this afternoon in support of the Copeland bill to restrict the business of fortune tell- ing in Washington. The military affairs committee held an_executive session. Col. W. B. Greeley, chief forester of the Department of Agriculture, testified before the public lands committee on the Stanfleld grazing biil. ‘A subcommittee of the judiciary committee considered nominations for office in executive session. House. The House today ordered 41,000 coples of the tax law printed. It passed an omnibus pension bill and then continued consideration of the railroad labor board bill. Houdini witness before judiciary subcommittee of the House Dis- trict committee on bill to regulate fortune telling. Traffic Director Eldridge witness before subcommittee of streets, highways and traffic of the House District committee, and will ap- pear at a special hearing Monday morning, when the new traffic law will be drafted. Fourteenth street extension BllI, carrying improvements for Walter Reed Hospital reservation, favor- ably reported from the subcommit- tee on streets to the House District committee. Action on several other street biils deferred pending hearings. Engineer Commissioner Bell an- nounced to subcommittee on streets that estimates for appropriations for putting guard rails on three dangerous bridges will be sent late today to the House appropriations ttea. cmé';?r:mmee on public buildings and grounds consider legislation for extension of Capitol grounds to Union Station Plaza, but took no lc;\l::mulxure committée holds reg- ular meeting in executive session, but takes no action on national arboretum. This committee starts hearings next Tuesday on agricul- tural rellef legislation. Subcommittee of House appro- priations _committee _continues hearings this afternoon on Dis- trict budget for the next fiscal year, with Maj. U. S. Grant, 3d, officer in charge of public buildings and parks, as principal witness. ‘Appropriations committee, after executive session, reports State, Justice, Commerce and Labor De- partments appropriation bill, carry- ing a total of more than $80,000,- 000, Naval affairs committee contin. ues hearing on bill providing for equaljzation of rank. Foreign ' affairs committee con- siders several measures. Military affairs committee con- tinues hearing on Department of Natfonal Defense. Merchant marine committee con- tinues hearing on proposed con- solidation of certain bureaus in the Department of Commerce. Judiciary committee, in executive sesslon, continues consideration of impeachment case against Judge English. Education committee continues joint hearing with Senate commit- tee on education bill. * Committee on pensions holds hearings on legislation for pen- eloning veterans of Indian wars. FEBRUARY 26, 1926 PRESIDENT COOLIDGE SIGNING TAX REDUCTION BILL Standing behind the President, left to right: Representative John N. tive John Q. ANTITRUST CASES SUBJLTOF PROBE Quiz by House Committee on Justice Department Meth- ods in Prosecution. By the Associated Press. The course of the Department of Justice {n anti-trust ame in for sharp examination the Ho appropriations committee, which dr ed the appropriation bill for t enforcement branch of the ( ment, it was shown today in accounts of hearings made public by the com mittee After F. special assistant to the Attu ral, had testified that $465.000 of the $300,000 recovered by the Government in such cases last year came from furniture manufac- turers indicted in Chicago, Chairman Shreve declared one of the manufac- turers who pleaded gullty had acted on the advice of the Government, al though he knew nothing of any price- flxing agreements. Mr. Myers sald he never knew an instance where the Government acted as counsel for a defendant. “Word got to him that it was the best thing to do,” continued Mr, Shreve. “Is it not a fact that all of the big fellows slipped out and the lttle ones came in and pleaded gullty? “To the best of my knowledge that is not true.” said the witness, to which the chairman replied that the surrender of the lesser defendants looked “‘rather like intimidation.” Mr. Myers pointed out that thers| a man t3 that there contesting which was nothing compelling plead guilty. He added were some 50 companies the case and demanding a trial they would get “very promptl He said 41 anti-trust cases had been under investigation during the vear. — TAX BILL IS SIGNED; MOST REDUCTIONS IN EFFECT AT ONCE First Page.) (Continued from struction notice on a perforated sheet is an exact duplicate of ‘computation of tax,’ which, properly filled in, must be detached and affixed securely to the firat page of the taxpayers original | parking return to be filed with the collector | mi of internal revenue for the LAXPAYer's | gion bas taken up by mall with its | district. ’ “A slip—'special notice to taxpay ers'—will - accompany form flling corporation returns, attention to the change in ra 1214 per cent to 13 per cent, methods of determinnig depletion with respect to fncome derived from mines, oil and gas_properties, etc. “Corporations filing returns on the basis of the calendar vear 1925 must pay 24 per cent of the tax on the firs: and second installment dates and 2( per cent on the third and fourth in stallment dates.” Amount of Reduction. The amount of reduction in taxes paid during this calendar yvear unde- the new bill is estimated at the Treasury at $387,611,000, while the amount of reduction for the mnext fiscal year. ending June 30, 1927, expectad to be somewhat smaller, o 319.000,000. The loss in revenue ir the succeeding fiscal year known as 1928, it is hoped by officlals, will be still less, as the expected increase in prosperity from reduced taxes and relinquishment of funds to active en terprise under lower surtaxes may bring a constantly increasing revenue into the Federal till. The loss in revenue for this fiscal year, énding June 3. 1926, has not been acurately estimated, but officials predict that it may be somewhere in the neighborhood of $200,000.000. leav- ing a Treasury balance at the end of the year. Both President Coolidge and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, however, have warned that inordinate expenditure bevond the amount_al- ready in prospect for this fiscal ar, including some approved administra- tion measures now in Congress, might throw the Treasury into a deficit. In other words, Congress has been warn- ed to be cautious in throwing addi- tional expenditures on the Treasury in the form of new legislation for the immediate future. Meantime the Bureau of the Budget is driving away at the formation of its 1 per cent club, to enlist all Gov- ernment activities in a campalgn to save 1 per cent on expenditures for the remaining three months of this fiscal year, to assure a balanced budget. LOWEST SINCE WAR. directing Bill Wipes Out Emergency Levies. By the Associated Press. As finally approved the tax bill down income taxes to their Present. Many lowest level since the World War and - wipes out virtually all the miscel laneous excise and occupational war levies. Of the $387,000,000 reduction in the | | | | | | | | | | te from |ard and uniform parking signs. America Uses Silk Hose and Exports Cotton Ly the Associated Press After satisfying the demands of the flapper and the more conserva- tive needs of her family, United States shipped 6,4 dozen palrs of fulllength stock- ingse, roll tops and socks, valued at $19,774,633, to foreign countries during 1925, These figures, mi public to- day by the Commerce Department, showed, however, that the Ameri- can flapper's counterpart abroad is not smitten particularly on silk, more than two-thirds of the total exports being made up of cotton hosiery. DEPLORES MATERIALISM, EVEN IN CHURCH TODAY Percy M. Hughes Declares Greed for Worldly Things Hurts Virtue of Religion. on this earth can onl when we belleve in Hughes, superintendent of school yracuse, N. . and former assistant superintendent of schools here, sald at the noon day Lenten services at Keith's Theater today. “There {s even too much mate- rialism in the church,” Mr. Hughes sald, “and this greed for worldly things is destroving the virtue of the Chris- tian religion Mr. Hughes added that God fs will- ing to come to us if we let Him, and that if we trust in Him He wiil aid us jn all walks of life. Percy S. Foster presided at today's exercises and Rev. W. A. Lynch pro- nounced the invocation. Bishop Harry St. George Tucker will speak at the services Monday. “Life complete Percy M PARKING SIGNS_ngDIED. Fine Arts Body Expected to 0. K. Uniform Designs Soon. The Commission of Fine Arts, at the request Traffic Director Eld- ridge, has made a special order of business of his request to indorse the {ming, Colorado, signs submitted to the com. |ZoNa. Utah, two members. sion for approval. The commis- members in other cities the matter of 1120 for | indorsing the designs drawn up in the office of the traffic director for stand. An early indorsement is expected. Federal tax total, more than $200, 000,000 will represent a saving to per | sonal income taxpayers. Under the new schedule a married man with tw. children will have to make $4,300 be fore he is subject to income taxation Personal exemptions are increased from $1,000 to $1,500 for single per- sons and from $2500 to $3,500 fo married persons. The normal rates are reduced from 2 to 1 per cent on the first $4.000 of taxable income from 4 to 3 per cent on the next £4.000 and from 6 to 5 per cent on th ramainder. Surtax rates, now rang ing upward to 40 per cent, are scaled down so that the new maximum is 2( per cent. Taxes Repealed Outright. These miscellaneous excise and oc- cupational taxes are repealed out- right: . Automobile trucks, automobile tires and parts, jewelry, cameras and lenses, photographic films and plates, firearms and ammunition, except pis- tols; automatic slot machines, mah- jong sets, works of art, brokers, bowling alleys, pool and billiard tables, shooting galleries, riding academies, automobiles for hire, tobacco manu- factures, oplum dispensers, yachts, except foreign-built hereafter pur- chased; stamped levies on deeds and | various legal papers. The tax on passenger automobiles Is cut from 5 to 3 per cent; that on admissign tickets costing 75 ‘cents, in place ofthe present 50-cent maximum; varying reductions are made in the tax on virtually all grades of cigars, and the tax on_alcohol is reduced | from $2.20 to $1.65 per prcof gallon. Stock Tax Repealed. The capital stock tax is repealed and the flat corporation income tax is increased from the present 12% per cent to 13 per cent on taxes paid this year and 131 on taxes paid hereafter. The gift tax is repealed and inher- itance taxes are reduced. The inher- itance maximum rate becomes 20 per cent in place of 40 per cent. The pres- ent 25 per cent credit for amounts pald in State {nheritance taxes is in- creased to 80 per cent, The only new tax in the bill is a levy of one-tenth of a cent a gallon on cereal beverages. Most of the provisions go into effect immediately on signature of the bill by the President. The Income tax re- ductions will apply to the payments due March 15 of this year and there- | momentous change. f arner, Senator Reed Smoot, Representa- on, Representative Willlam R. Green and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. URGES CONTINUING POLICY ON EXPORTS | Dr. Klein Tells Subcommittee Trade Is Now Facing Serious Crisis. By the Assoclated Press. Dr. Jullus Klein, director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- merce, told subcommittee in testimony made pub- a House appropriations | #h1¢! | | i | grade crossing CTION DEFERRED ON CROSSING BILL Opposition of Property Own- ers on Michigan Avenue to Be Heard. A Action on the grade-crossing bill the Stalker subcommittee on highways and trafic of the District committee today in order opportunity may be given number of protesti heard. Chairman Zihlman of the House In trict committee emphiasi t is one of the most expens tentlous of the grade-crossing ures. Engineer Commissioner sald that the oppos! comes f the property owners along Mich avenue whose property will be wre damaged and who feal that thes without hope of adennat~ ramy. ticn from a condemnation fury. The subcommittee o: able report to the full mittee on the bill for wi street northeast bet Myrtle streets. Reasons Explained. Survevor IHazen explained committee the reasons for the posed legislation and the efforts tha have been made in the past w have been prevented by the faet here is not suffictent p abutting egainst wh the costs can he assessed is now 40 feet wide, and the 1 vides for widening it to 60 f Hazen said that no oppo: been heard and that only a fs buildings are affected, but that m permanent structures ars soon t erected. Representative Gasque, Democr of South Carolina, eald, “If we o ever going to widen street should do it now.” The subco: tee deferred action on the bl open up a small street betwee Georgia avenue and Ninth stree until a hearing could be held. A prr test has been reccived from the Washington Railway and Electri Co. asking to be heard. The Rittenhouse and Quackenbos street bills were also discussed and action deterred Engineer Comm! sioner Bell explained that Congress has provided for an under-grade crossing of the B. & O. tracks ar Van Buren street and that eve: there 1s to be a similar u at Quackenbos stre according to highway pl No Immediate Need. There is no immediate or pressins need for a third crossing between these two at Rittenhouse stree which he considers would be supe He also pointed out that grade is not right for sewera Michigan avenu: 1eas £ llc today that “the export trade of | Rittenhouse street. the country faces a serlous which urgently requires continuance of the encouraging policy followed since 1921 " “The outstanding problem,” he ex plained, “is the coming conflicy for forelgn markets attendant upon the economic recovery of our Furopean competitors. Every one of our over- seas rivale has launched a most ag- gressive drive against our export mar- kets, and the pressure of these cam- paigns is aiready being felt by our exporters in many important trade centers, especially in Latin America and the Far East. “A further factor of our rapidly expanding overseas economie interest, which makes imperative the steady development of our trade intelligence | service, is the growth of American in- vestments abroad. which are now { about $9,500,000,000, exclusive of gov- ernmental war loans. slightly over $2,500,000 war." Dr. Klein sald the world-wide data which Congress in March, 1923, au- thorized his pureau to collect on the rubber and cbffee industries “was di- rectly contributory to the evident suc- cess of the present campaign against rubber and other monopolies, which has already brought down the price of crude rubber from over $1 per as against 0 before the | pound on December 1 to 66 cents.” REGIONAI DIVEVONV | | IN I. C. C. FAVORED; BILL IS REPORTED | (Continued from First Page.) Idaho, Nevada, Ari- Pacific group—Washington, Oregon, California, one member. ’ There is no attempt in the bill to change the terms of the present mem. bers of the Interstate Commerce Commission of seven years' duration. | When their successors are appointed, or they are appointed to succeed | crisis | Col. Bell committee 3 contended, and the su ed with him. that the exis'ing grade cross much more urgent thar put crossings where the: e ! now needed. The Citizens' Adv “ounci] has notified the District com | mittee that it favors the prope crossing ut Quackenbos street Commissioner Bell s { he probabiy has | these undergrads | thinks they should | prefers to get spect: ssings when be done, 3 c auth { Congress for any to give sment roads. Chairman Zihlman Bell regarding the supplying a seweras Eastern Star Home, that at present -he that section of the District make sewerage service to the que: MISSING GEMS FOUND. Sought for Found on Woman. A claimant is wanted by the po for several articles of fewelry fo in possession of Mary Brovnt. allas Anderson, colored. 35 vears old, 113 Ninth street yesterday afternoon b Detectives. Baghy King and Dennis Claimant Jewelry i Myrphy. The worhan, it is alleged, ranging to dispose of the jewelry s claimed to have found near Seve: nd K streets. Included in the list s a ring set with 25 dia ¢ a bar pin set with seven diamon valued at $700 each. Other articles include a pin, brooch and bracelet, valued at $700. The detectives arrested the woman and are holding her at the house o detention while they are trying the owner of the jewelry. Danish Composer Dies. themselves, the appointments are to | be made with the geographical repre. sentation in mind. Furthermore, the bill provides that 7 of the 13 commis. sioners shall be appointed from the same political party, and that not more than one commissioner shall be appointed from one State. The sal. arfes of the commissioners are fixed | at $12,000 a year. Under the existing law there is no provision for regional representation Wisconsin, for example, has two com. missioners, and a third, appointed from the District of Columbia, hails also from Wisconsin. At present two members of the commission are from Wisconsin, John J. Esch and B. H. Meyer. Commis- sioner Esch's retirement expires in 1827, and Commissioner Mever's later. Under the terms of the biil Mr. Esch would be ineligible for re. appolntment, as not more than one commissioner may commise ¥ be appointed from The Pacific t group now has two members, C. B. Altchison of Ore. gon and J. B. Campbell of Washing. ton. Commissioner Alftchison's term expires in 1928, and the bill provides that the Pacific Coast group shall have but one representative. The Mid. dle Atlantic group has at present three members of the commission— Frederick 1. Cox of New Jersey; Frank McManamy of the District of Colum. bla, and Thomas F. Woodlock of New York. The appointment of Mr. Wood- lock has not vet been confirmed and has been reported adversely by the Senate committee. “The very structure of the Govern- ment,” said Senator Smith in his written report on the bill, now sub- mitted to the Senate, “is based upon local self-government and local repre- sentation in the general Government.” Principle in Other Uses. This principle, he said, is made effec- | tive through the representation of the | | compact that one commissioner wa States in_ Congress, in the appoint- ments of Federal judges, and in some | of the boards and commissions created by Congress, among them the Ship- ping Board. “Under the provisions of the pres- ént transportation act,” the report pointed out, “the new policy of con- solidaion is to be undertaken. This is beyond doubt the most imporiant and serious matter that has aricen In regard to transportation. Tt wiil affect profoundly and vitally the entire shipping interests of the coun- try, and each section should be repre- | tending from . February 16 (@) uller, Denma foremos: cal composer, died today, aged 7 His operating works 1 * and “Spanish Stude: reglonal representation on the com mission, the report suid “The vastness of sur territory and the varled forms and character of our articles of freight. the fed topography of the country, the dif- fering degrees of developnient in the several parts of the country, the dif ferent degrees of possible de mnt, the presence of actual #nd pc tential water competition ‘n the form of river, lake and ocean transporta tion make it th» more fimperative that there shall be representat the semi-judicial body, the Inte Commerce Commi o Attention was called to the fact that tte commission itself has divided the country in what is called rate making groups. Sections Unrepresented. Since the establishment of the co: mission the report pointed out t not a represe! tive of what is kno as the intermountain groups of State was on the bhoard until 1914, wher Commissioner Hall of Denver was | pointed. Since the expiration of th term of Commissioner Clements Georgta in 1917 there has been prac {tically no representative on the com | mission of the Southern States, ex the Atlantic to the state Pacific. The report continued: “In makini | UT apportionment of members as con | talned in the bill the committee had | regard to the territory and the pecullar problems incident to the respective grouns provided therein. “The transportation problem of the New England States is €o nearly un!- form and the territory is so small and <hought sufficlent to represent that group. The same was thought to be true of the Pacific group. “The lake group was given three be- cause there was considerable difference In the problems and conditions in this territory, in addition to its being a ter- ritory of high density of frelght ton- nage and raflroad mileage as well as lake transportation. “The other groups were given tiwo each.” While the bill will recetve strong support in the Senate, it will also sented on the commission during this | meet with some oppositlon, but prob. Discussing further the ably more in the House than in the * need of Scaatc, it WA said tedag.