Evening Star Newspaper, April 24, 1928, Page 1

\WEATHER. (U.'8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight; tomorrow in- creasing cloudiness; not much change in temperature. ‘Temperature—Highest, 61, at noon today: lowest, 44, at 10 p.m. yesterday. Full report on page 9. C ¢ Foening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Late N. Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11 SR Entered as second clazs matt shingto or e WASHI GTON, D BSDAY, APRIL “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular e tion is delivered to Washington homes are printed. as fast as the papers Yelteirdly'{Circ_n_lution, 105,313 () Means Associated Pre: TWO CENTS. VESSEL LEAVES NORWAY TO REACH POLAR FLYERS; LINDY WILL AID BENNETT Boat to Proceed| Close to Wil- kins’ Base. AIRMEN SPEED | PLANE REPAIRS Two Must Travel 80‘ Miles by Sled to Get to Bay. Br the Associated Press. OSLO, April 24.—The steamer Mina, | owned by the Northern Exploration Co. snd at present at Honningsvaag, Fin- mark, Norway, has received a tele- graphic order to proceed as near Green bor, Spitzbergen, as possible to take Capt. George H. Wilkins and Lieut. Carl B. Eielson and their airplane to| Norway. | The Mina left today and may reach the mouth of Ice Fjord about Saturday The fivers are expected to reach Trom- | soe, Norway, early next week » Work of repairing the underpart of the airplane in which Capt. Wilkins and jelson flew across hitherto unexplored polar wastes was under way today at| Green Harbor. { Anxious to Leave. Capt. Wilkins was understood to be anxious to leave for Norway by steamer, | but whether the work of repairing the plane indicated that the men would at- tempt to fly over the ice which blocks their path to Europe was not known. Capt. Wilkins, writing his record of the | flight, was silent and so was Eielson as | Re labored on the plane. It did not seem possible that they | would fiy from Green Harbor, however, since the plane’s fuel was stated to have | been almost exhausted in the long flight from Point Barrow, Alaska. ! Must Travel by Sled. The explorers, if they embark by boat from Kings Bay, must travel there at Jeast 80 miles by dog sled. They may decide to wait until the ice is cleared from Ice Pjord, on which Green Har- bor is situated, as this would enable them to ship the plane more easily. In the meantime, they are living at the radio ‘“““s‘;.:.&fi is u;] l'loc'.hk? with food, and much of the . time indoors resting. PLAN ANTARCTIC TRIP. Wilkins and Eielson Outline Program. May Start in September. GREEN HARBOR, Spitzbergen. April 3¢ P —Capt. George H. Wilkins, scarcely landed from his great feat of fiying across the top of the world by sirplane, already is planning a new #ir venture, this time over the Ant- srctic at the other end of the world. The captain has received a telegraphic offer from Comdr. Richard E. Byrd, who also is planning an Antarctic ex- edition, to sell the Wilkins polar plane or the commander’s South Polar trip. 3 that he was unable to accept the offer as he him- self is planning a new expedition, this time to the South. He plans to start on his new venture #s soon as possible, probably at the be- ginning of September, and has roughly érawn up a program for the projected exploration. Beyond this he refuses to give out any information. Hopeful of Success. He said, however, that with such an excelient zirplane as that which carried him and Lieut, Carl B. Eielson across the Polar region from Point Barrow, #nd with such a glorious pliot as Eel- | won, he entertained the best hope of | Capt. Wilkins sald that he felt very comfortable at Green Harbor and ex- | pressed astonishment that he had found here regular comfortable Norwegian houses. s soon as he gets time he CAPT. WILKINS’ OWN STORY OF FLIGHT Arctic Flyer Made Every Preparation for Forced Landing—Clouds Shut Off View of Icy Wastes. BY CAPT. GEORGE H. WILKINS. By Wireless 1o The Star and the New Times GREEN HARBOR, Svalbard (Spitzbergen), April 24.—While the interest in the Detroit News-Wilkins Arctic expedition was primarily aeronautical, the principal object of the flight was to discover wheth- er the unexplored area of the polar seas islands existed on which a meteorological ~station might be placed. Our mon-stop flight served that purpose. From the experience I had gained, I decided that the machine for the job should be the lightest and fast- est one capable of covering the dis- tance. The Lockheed monoplane is ideal, with its refined design and superb workmanship, powered as it is with the world renowned Wright motor and equipped with all possible instruments for the pilot's aid in bad-weather flying. It is roomy enough to accommo- date emergency rations, polar sledg- ing equipment, navigational instru- ments and navigator. Plane Affords Snowproof Shelter. It is built of wood, capable of withstanding extreme conditions and rough usage, affording snowproof shelter on the ground, and supplying material for boats or sledges in an extreme emergency and furnishing fuel. Its wood construction has eliminated confusing compass inter- ference, as is the case with metal machines. The pilot’s instruments included two compasses, one fast-moving and one slow; two altimeters, turn and bank indicator fore and aft, an air speed indicator and the usual en- gine instruments for the navigator. These included one large ship's compass, an English air-force bubble sextant, “a pocket sextant, four special watches, drift indicator, course and distance calculator, nau- tical almanac, special charts and the American Geographical Society. iye 1o demonstrate the dwellings as | they are at Point Barrow, | congratulations which the | caplain has received s a telegram from | King Haakon Norwey. An expedi- | tion from ity, which 1s in here bring- il constr & snow hut like & bee bk e Bpitzergen population | < less station st Green Harbor | ed such a large pumber of s with questions from different ris of the world that chief of | station, &t the reguest of Capt Wilkins, h L out & message saying 0 the future chey will refuse W any questions regarding the Lost in Waste Land aid that when they landed i's Island, on th flight they did not Jus 48 thelr trict were v sald 1 be w i very well half miles long 4 Man's a i were for arbor, tie first of ‘the ! ive, | maurice y 1 explorers and s | mad (Continued on Page 3, Column 3. GERMANS CHEERED A SUPPLIES COME Koehl Stages Wild Dance of Joy When Relief Plane Lands. BY CHARLES J. V. MURPHY, Staft Correspondent of The Star and North American. Newspaver Aliance, with Alli- ance reliet plane. By Wireless and Land Wire to The Star and the North American Newspaper Allianoe. GREENLY ISLAND, Labrador, via Fogo, April 24.—The Star and North American Newspaper Alliance relief plane, officially representing the City of New York, dropped out of the Labrador skies here yesterday, carrying in its cor- ridor like fuselage the repair parts for which Capt. Koehl and Barop von Huenefeld have waited 12 days, Bernt Balchen, pliot of the relief | plane, a tri-motored ship, loaded to the hilt with supplies for the Bremen, brought it down upon mushy, melting ice as gracefully as a bird. It had scarcely touched the ground before the baron and the stocky, broad-shouldered pllot of the Bremen were dashing for its doors. “Ach, das Ist gut,” shouted the baron. His mouth was open wide in joy and the monocle trembled in his eye “Look, Koehl, look here,” he cried. He had the door opened and his eyes had fallen delightedly upon what the plane carried—a new propeller for the Bremen, a dozen cans of petrol, new wheels and other supplies—1,200 pounds of them. Stages Wild Dance. Koehl shoved his head into the fuselage, grabbed a can of petrol and lifted it 10 the ground. Then he clasp- sround the can, shouting and laughing almost hysterically. Not even parade of the.four of -us from the Al- liance relief plane correspondent — interrupted mazurka on the jce “You are such lovely fellows, such lovely fellows,” repeated the captain this In the long dsys he has been here |plane 1as been learning English iot for months did 1 think 1 shonld e wet away, end I want so much W iy my Bremen again,” he exclaimed Balchen, Ma). Fitz- |the 700-mile flight here. the Junkers mechanic lhd‘ that To Carry Serum to Sick Pilot in Quebec. BREMEN IS HELD ON ISLE BY GALE Ready for Take- Off on Ice. By (he Associated Press. CURTISS FIELD, N. Y, April 24— Col. Charles A. Lindbergh expects to fly to Quebec this afternoon with anti- | pneumonta serum for Floyd Bennett, aviator, who is critically ill in a nospital there. Lindbergh's plane was wheeled from its hangar at Mitchel Field, where he arrived last night from Washington, to the flying fleld here. Officials at the fleld said they expected *he Colonel to take off “within a few hours.” It was learned that a request had | come from Quebec to the Rockefeller Foundation in New York for the serum and the Rockefeller organization had appealed to the Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics to get quick transportation. Harry Guggen- heim, president, immediately asked Col. Lindbergh 1if he would fly with the serum to Canada. Rush to Flying Field “Sure I will. Let's go,” Lindbergh replied, and a rush was made for an automobile. Guggenheim and _Col. Lindbergh left New York for the flying field shortly before 2 o'clock with motor cycle police clearing the way. Bennett Is “Very Low.” QUEBEC, Quebec, April 24 (#).— | Floyd Bennett, who contracted double pneumonia while on a relief flight to the disabled Bremen, was “resting some- what more comfortably, but very low" this morning. This bulletin was issued at the Jeflery Hale Hospital, where both Mr. and Mrs. Bennett are patients. Mrs. Bennett, who disregarded the advice of physiclans to join her hus- band, was reported much improved from the acute tonsolitis from w she is suffering. Bennett, who gained world-wide fame in 1926 when he flew over the North Pole as pilot for Comdr. Richard E. Byrd, was stricken {1l upon his arrival at Murray Bay last Friday as pilot of the Pord relief plane for the stranded German flyers at Greenly Island. He had left a sick bed in Detroit to make the trip. The physicians’ statement said Ben- nett was suffering from lobar pneu- monia, which had involved a large part of the left lung, and which was be- ginning to affect the right. The state- ment was signed by Dr. W. H. Delaney, superintendent of the Jeffrey Hale Hos- pital, and Dr. A. L. Barach, in charge of pneumonia research work at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York, who accompanied Mrs. Bennett here. Comdr. Byrd, who had selected Ben- nett as his second in command for his Antarctic expedition, left his home in Boston for iebec last night, Bennett was deprived of a part iIn Byrd's transatlantic flight in the mono- plane America when he was seriously injured a year ago In a crash of the plane during a test flight, under the guidance of its designer, Anthony Fok- ker. His injuries confined him to his bed for some time and when the America took off for France Bennett was forced to watch its departure on crutches, BREMEN STORM BOUND, Take-off at Greenly Island Is Balked by Storm, | By the Canadian Press LAKE BTE. AGNES, Quebec, April 24 —A report received by the Canadian Transcontinental Alrways here this morning said that the Bremen and the Pord relief planes were storm bound at | Greenly Island, | The message received by Robert Can- non of the company said that snow was falling and a strong northeast wind | blowing at the tny island where the | transatiantic plane made a forced land- | ing 10 days ago. | The Bremen was sald to have been |put in readiness for continuing its | flight to New York with the parts car- |ried to Greenly Island yesterday by the Ford plane. | Plane In Repaired. | Advices from Greenly Island shortly | ed the baron and the two danced madly |after midnight said satisfactory repalrs had been made and that Capl. Kochl, the | Baron von Huenefeld and Maj. Fitz- | maurice would take off at dawn for The flight w Lake Bte, Agnes would take about eight hours. Bpare parts o replace those damaged [in'the Iahding which brought % an end her ocean flight and fuel to carry the here were taken o Greenly Island by Maj. Fitzmaurice and Bernt Balchen in the Ford relief plane Walting here to sccompany the Bremen Lo New York is Clarence Cham- | \Craft Reported All| ANT IT LAY W\ VANRN | | MARINES BLOCKED ; ible Region Calls for Tortu- | ous Advance by Canoe. By the Associated Press. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April | American Marines faced a hazardous and difficult task today in wresting from rebel Gen. Augustino Sandino American gold mines he was belleved to have seized with their staffs. Fear was expressed for the safety of the cap- tured men. W. J. Crampton, customs collector at Puerto Cabezas, on the northeast coas reported two mines near the headqua ters of the Pis Pis River had been rob- bed by rebels. While neither Marine headquarters nor the American legation received further {nformation, it was believed that the La Tuz y Los Angeles an Bonanza were the mines seized. This bellef was strengthened by word of the capture from New York saying three weglan were prisoners. Seeking Supplies. Recent advices here, after Sandino captured the town of Sangsang on the Coco River, sald he was working toward the Pis Pis River region in order to obtain food, supplies, ammunition and dynamite. Sandino is {amiliar with the reglon, having gone to Puerto Cabezas to assist Dr. Juan B. Sacasa in his revolt last year. ‘With the rainy season beginning and making troop movements difficult, it is almost impossible to reach the Pis Pis section from the interfor. There are no roads and the tralls have become almost impassable. It will be necessary to send Marines up the Prinzapolka River in small Indian canoes known as pitpans, the only craft that can as- cend the dangerous rapids of the stream. Where the river becomes impassable, they will have to make an overland march of two or three days to the min- ing reglon, which is about 150 miles in- coast. This march will be a_hazardous mr through a tropical jungle. t is belleved that additional Marines must be sent to the east coast either from the United States or from the in- terjor or Nicaragua, since Sandino has moved to a new and undeveloped coun- try which is almost inaccessible. One of Richest Mines. The La Luz y Los Angeles mine has been worked for more than 20 years and is considered one of the richest in Nica- ragua. President Diaz, who worked in the office of the mine aboul 20 years eastern section, portation mine continued, however. San Prancisco last June after extracting and seizing what gold he could. All mine material of any value was either carried away or destroyed. Bandino is regarded as a falr mechanic, having worked In mines in Honduras and Mexico, two American mines as he did the o last June, §t will be a great econom loss to the country, since few Nica- raguan mines are working at a profit. Those held tdentified by D, Watson Fletcher New York, one of the owners of the La Luz Mine, are: Harry P. Amphlett, British “superintendent; George B Marshall of New York, assistant su- perintendent; L, B. Milberry of Woods- ville, N. H.: Roy Burley, also an Amer- |fean, and Peter Peterson, a Norweglan, | whose sister lives in Brooklyn | Phones Kellogg. Capture of Mines in Inaccess- | 24— | two | al Americans, an Englishman and a Nor- land from Prinzapolka, on the east | Should the rebel leader destroy these | ngo, said It was one of the best in the | and at '] | hours; Most Nicaraguan mines were closed | down during the last three years be-| Ocmulgee River was cause of the revolution and poor trans- | La Luz and the Bonzana | Sandino destroyed the San Albino | mine belonging to Charles Butters of | | | Mate Became Jazz |Crazy, Man Says, So BY SANDINO COUP Judge Gives Decree By the Associated Press. PERTH, Australia.—Jazz has been accepted by a judge as a ground for divorce. “We were quite happy” sald a bank clerk petitioning for a decree, “until my wife got an awful craze for dancing. For a time she went jazz mad.” The judge in granting a decree said he was satisfled that jazz had totally estranged the couple. The decision has astonished legal circles here. FOUR DIE AS FLOOD HIS DN STATES Rivers Break Banks in Six Commonwealths—Floridans Flee Homes. By the Associat ATLANTA, Ga, 24.—River banks in parts of six Southern States had vanished today beneath Spring torrents that shot toward a crest al- most overnight to isolate scores of towns and villages and cause millions of dollars damage. Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Missis- sippl, Arkansas and Tennessee felt the scourge of rising waters in the order named, with Florida presenting the most serfous flood spectacle in the evacuation of Caryville. More than six hundred residents fled hurriedly as the Choctawhatchle Valley inundation caught them almost unawares. They recelved food and shelter at Bonifay, 50 miles away. Four Persons Die. Partial reports from isolated areas showed that four persons had met death, one a schoolgirl who stepped on a live wire at Bradenton, Fla, and three negroes who perished in Panther Creck, Ala. The torrent that had its inception in almost unprecedented rains of last week end today had demora- lized rallway and highway traffic and uprooted thousands of acres of Spring crops. Georgla appeared to have borne the brunt of damage. Cordele reported four rallroads into Florida and Alabama paralyzed and all highways blocked. Eight and a half inches of rain fell at Blakely, now isolated, flon yivester reported $100,000 crop, rallrond damage; the 1'; feet above flood stage at Macon. Motltrie reported the worst rain in 30 years, while Pel- ham counted tornado damage. At Al- bany Flint River had risen 5% feet and was approaching 35-foot stage. At Americus utilities plants were Strug- gling to repnir damages and the water supply at Milledgeville was menaced. Alabama Towns Isolated. Many Alabama towns were isolated, including Andalusia and Castleberry, where three passenger trains were marooned. Milstead, near Montgomery, the capital, reported that the Talla- poosa had risen 15.6 feet and was surg- ing higher. A Chattahoochee River highway and - | bridge under construction at Columbia risoner by Bandino, as | of | was washed away. Several hundred persons were reported driven from their homes at Brewton when two creeks spread over the to All roads In southern Alabama were practically impassable, while several (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) 'H. T. TATE NOMINATED In 5 hours, | !4 inches fell in 24| POLITICIANS WATCH OHID PRIARIES | Fight on Hoover Candidacy Holds Principal Interest as | Three States Vote. | By the Associated Press. | "with presidential primaries on to- | day’s political calendar in three States |and the Territory of Alaska, the fight in Ohio for delegates to the Republican convention held chief interest, largely | because of its bearing on Herbert | Hoover's candidacy. Due to a lack of contests, the balloting. in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts attracted less atten- tion. In Ohio one slate of 51 delegates is pledged to the Commerce Secretary; the other, since the death of Senator ‘Willis, has shown leanings toward half | & dozen Republican presidential possi- bilities, including Lowden and Dawes. Pomerene Is Favored. ‘The Democratic organization of 48 delegates in Ohio is committed to former Senator Atlee Pomerene for first choice. It had opposition in only two districts. Pennsylvania will have uninstructed delegations of 79 delegates at Kansas City and 76 at Houston, while the Re- publican delegates from Massachusetts will number 39 and the Democrats 36. Only a few contests were to be settled today at the polls in either State. Although Alaskans will have no vote for President in November, the Republi- cans in the Territory resorted to the primary system to select their two delegates to Kansas City, with the Democrats going through the formality of ratifying a slate of six delegates pledged to aurpon Gov. Smith. Involved in the struggles which came to a showdown today is a fight for control of the Republican slate or- ganization, with Hoover supporters aiming to oust leaders who have been active in opposition to the Commerce | Secretary. Ohio Democrats United. In contrast with the strife in the Republican camp, Ohio Democrats have had little friction. The organi- zation slate of 48 delegates to the Houston convention, being voted on to- day, is committed to support of former Senator Atlee Pomerene at the outset of balloting. No names are listed on the Democratic residential ballot, vhile on the Republican are the names of Hoover, Willls and Olin J. Ross, & Columbus lawyer. Little interest has been taken In the preferential balloting because its result will not be binding on the Re- | publican delegates. In fact, despite the interparty war- fare centering around Hoover's candi- dacy, there has been considerable apathy on the part of the voters, and a rather light vote today, even among | Republicans, had been forecast Hoover supporters and foes alike were confident of capturing a majority of the delegates. The Commerce Sec- retary was expected to poll his heaviest vote in the larger cities, such as Cleve- land, Cincinnati and Toledo, while op- position to him appeared most pro- nounced in the rural sections. { |WOMEN FACE RIOTING CHARGE IN MINE AREA Fifty-One Arrested Satuiday Must Give $500 Bond After Demonstra- tion for Workers, Says Official. By the Associnted Press ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohlo, April 24 Prosecutor Paul V. Waddell today de- cided to place charges of rioting in- stead of breach of the peace against | 51 women arrested Saturday, when they 3 marched on Belmont County Jail pro- the imprisonment of six men testing STEWART ADMITS HE GOT §T3500 IN CONTINENTAL DEAL Indiana- Oil Magnate Tells! Senators He Did Not Want Profit. | | SAYS HE ESTABLISHED | TRUST FUND WITH MONEY | Made Sinclair and Standard Com- | panies Beneficiaries—Still Faces Contempt Trial. | | \ | | | | By the Associated Press. Finally relenting in his determination to defy the Senate Teapot Dome com- mittee, Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the baard of the Standard Oil Co. of | Indlana, testified today that he received | a total of $759,500 from H. 8. Osler, president of the Continental Trading Co., but that the money was not used by him personally. Instead, he said, a trust fund was created for the Sinclair Crude Oil Pur- | chasing Co. and the Standard Ofl Co. of Indiana, each to receive one-half of the securities. Last Saturday, however, he told the committee, the directors of his company were consulted and it was decided the fund should be turned over to the Sinclair Purchasing Co., in which the Standard has a large inter- ! est. Stewart was pressed hard by the committee after his initial statements, Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Montana offering Treasury witnesses to show that some of the Continental bond coupons were in his account in a Chi- cago bank. The oil man would not agree that this had been proved. Did Not Want Profits. The witness agreed that the bond transaction between himself and Osler was not of the “usual” kind. On sev- eral occasions, he said, Osler had given | him securities, which finally totaled the amount he mentioned to the com- mittee. This was done, he declared despite the fact that he told Osler he did not want to share in the profits of the Continental. | The Continental was formed to buy oil from the Humphreys interests of Denver for $1.50 a barrel. It sold the oil to Sinclair and Stewart Cos. for $1.75. Stewart, Harry F. Sinclair, H. M. Blackmer and James E. O'Neil were mentioned as guarantors of the Conti- nental's contract. Blackmer and O'Neil are in Europe and have refused to re- turn here to testify in the oil cases. At the end of his testimony Stewart insisted on replying to the queries which he had turned a deaf ear to on the for- mer . He"could ot recall ever having discussed the transactions with Sinclair and knew nothing about the bonds except those about which he had testified, he said. Indictment Still Stands. | Although Stewart has made his peace | today with the Senate by answering the questions of the committee, he still faces trial on an indictment charging him with contempt of that branch of | Congress. Senator Walsh, committee prosecutor, exphined today that the oil man had purged himself of the charge so far as | the Senate was concerned. | The indictment in District Supreme Court, however, it was explained, still stood, and in order for it to be made & dead letter it would have to be nolle prossed. There was no indication that this would be done and that Stewart would be spared the necessity of a trial | here on May 21. After agreeing to answer the commit- | tee as he took the stand this morning, | Col. Stewart, replying to a direct ques- (Continued on Page "2, Column 4) REEr s LEWROT N TLTY HRE, WTAESS SHYS Former Senator Paid $20,000 for Opposing Resolution That | Caused Power Probe. i | | | | i | By the ed Press 1 The expenditures of the jolnt com- mittee of Natlopal Utilities Associa- tions were inquired into today by the Federal Trade Commission, which is investigating the financing of power companies by direction of the Senate. Payment of $20,000 to former Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, who appeared as counsel before the Senate interstate commerce committee, in opposition to the Walsh resolution which authorized the inquiry, was testified to by Ira L Grimshaw of New York, assistant di- rector of the joint committee The witness sald that $10.000 was paid Lenroot last year and that a sub- sequent payment of $10,000 was made | March 16, 1938 Collected $100,000. Under questioning by Robert E. Healy, chief counsel, and Commissioner Edgar A. McCulloch, Grimshaw testified that the joint committee, which was or nally organteed tn 1 had been re ganized June 1, 1937, and within a few | {tain to be reported SMALLER TAX GUT IS DECIDED UPON BY SENATEE. 0.P. Republicans on Finance Committee Favor $210,000,- 000 Reduction Only. STILL $10,000,000 ABOVE MELLON SUGGESTED MARK Repeal of Estate Levy and Increass in Admission Levy Exemption Is Proposed. By the Associated Press. Revision downward of the $290,000,000 tax reduction bill to 0,- 000,000 was decided upon today by the Republican majority of the Senate finance committee. The $210,000,000 program was laic before the committee by Chairman Smoot on behalf of the Republicans. who have a majority of 11 to 9 on the committee. The Democrats, who are urging a $300,000,000 reduction, took it u:der consideration, and another meet- ing will be held Thursday, when t. majority group expects to revise the b: as proposed today. Would Cut Corporation Tax. The Republican program follows: Reduction of the corporation tax from 13! to 121, per cent; loss, $82,000,000. Roeop;g‘l, of the autoniobile tax; loss, $66.- Repeal of the estate tax, $7,000,000. Revision of the surtax rates on in- comes between $18,000 and $70,000, loss, $25,000,000. Increase in the exemption allowed corporations from $2,000 to $3,000, loss, $12,000,000. Increase in the exemption under the admission tax from 75 cents to $3, loss, $17,000,000. Repeal of the taxes on wine and cereal beverages, loss, $1,120,000. The program knocks out the House provision to allow a reduction in the corporation tax to apply retroactively on incomes for the taxable year of 1927. It does provide. however, that the proposed cut in the surtax rate should apply retroactively on last vear's income which is payable this year and which would mean the re- turn of $25,000,000 to individual tax- payers on this year's taxes. Restores Club Dues Levy. ‘The Republicans also decided to re- store the full rate of 10 per cent on club dues, which the House voted to cut in half, saving $5,000,000 in re- ductions under the House bill. The program also restores the full rate of 2 cent asked on transfers of capi- stock, involving $8,000,000, and the tax on produce excl sales, involv- ing $3,000,000, which House voted to _repeal. The $210,000,000 plan, which is cer- to the Senate by virtue of the united support of the Republican majority of the commit tee, is $10.000.000 more than Secre- tary Mellon declared the Treasury could stand in reductions. The Republicans ignored Mr. Mel- lon's appeal for retention of the 3 per cent automobile tax, which the House also voted to repeal, and they cut the corporation tax only 1 per cent, m- stead of 1!5 per cent, as by th> Secretary. ‘The program also knocks out the House provision for a graduated scale of rates on corporations with incomes under $25,000. . SISTERS LEAP TO DEATH WHEN TRAPPED IN FIRE Baby, Five Years Old, Is Third Victim of Brooklyn Blaze. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 24.—Two panic- stricken sisters leaped to their deaths and a child was suffocated in a fene- ment fire in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn early toaay. Miss Annie Stalloni, 22, oldest of children, leaped from a third-floor w dow and was impaled on a picket fence. Her sister Eleanor, 14, jumped from a window. She died soon after reaching a hospital. The child suffocated was Angelo Bardera, 5 years old. The parents of the girls were in a serfous condition from the smoke in- haled. The fire spread so rapidly th: occupants of the upper floors were trapped until firemen effected rescues with ladders. More than a score were treated at hospitals or by police sur- geons. HANDFUL OF MEXICANS HOLD REBELS AT BAY 600 Besiegers of Cueramaro Driven Off by Federals After 10 - Hours' Defense. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, April 24 —Dispatches from Irapuato today said a handtul palice and volunteers held 800 rebels at bay for 10 hours when they attacked the town of Cueramaro, State of Guanajuato. Federal forces arriving on the scene put the attackers to fit killing 40. The insurgents, led by Aristeo Pedr & Catholic priest. and their colonek Gabnino Alvares and Jesus de la To attacked at midnight Sunday. Ma Louls Arias personally led the he loss, FOR U. S. TREASURER | We were Just w few black dots on & | berlin, New York-to-Germany fiyer, snd [ sen of dce, with the low-bung, pasty | Edward Kelly, representative of Mayor | pwell of Greenly Isand o the back- | Walker, They flew here from Hart- | Wd. But W us wll U seems as If | ford, Conn., to give Baron von Huene- ad met wl the erossronds of he | feld, Capt. Koehl and Ma). Fitzmaurice making bimset per- | workd. The baron with his long, gray e wnd pilot them 1o Mitehel end becoming wmore! cost, ever wo much ke the former + trous- | Crown_ Prince, his monocle and snow- | aid was W double can Trigeration done i extreme cold | IOUn we | defense. At one time the attackers tered the town and burned sev | houses. At 10 o'clock Monday morn | federal troops arvived Pedrosa, & pleturesque insurg leader, was belleved to have been of those stam. MARINE FLYER ESCAPES AS PLANE WINGS BREAK By the Associated Pross. months had collected more than $400.- | 000, established an office 1 Washing- ton’ and increased its personnel and activities 1t opposed Government or municipal | ownership of utilities, but had not con- ducted any specific fight against the Muscle Shoals project, he said. He add- ed that the committee 18 made up of | representatives of the Natlonal Eleetric Light Assoclation, the American Elees | tric Rallway Association and the Amerl- | cAn Gas Assoclation, but that it is “lm"l‘u"m‘ through contributions from the larger publio utility concerns. | TIENTSIN, O oapt The Tlat of cantributing concerns 15 | Jatam 1 CAore aited otaine Marby headed by the Insull fnterests of Ohi- | Corps, narrowly escaped injury today CARO WIth §61,7530. The second largest | when the wings of his plane buckied contributor i the Eleotric Bond and | while he was flylng over a Marine Share Co. group of New York, amount- | hrigade review r Ing to 960904, | Wwas & member of a Marine | who participated in mine disorders near here “The Belmont County prosecutor sald | he had definttely decided to file the | more serfous charge against the women | and that they would be released on $500 bond. He planned to file the charges late today, and expeoted tm- mediate arralgnment. COMMUNISTS SHOW GAIN. Advance 25 Per Cent in Strength in French Elections, PARIS, April 24 (P galned approximately 25 per strength in the national election of Sun- | day over that of 1024, returns 1‘1\“\:"“‘ today showed. They polled about 875, 000 votes in 1934 and this year they polled 1,064,000, The Soolalist vote of this year was 1,609,000, about the same 1019, when | the Soclalists last voted as a party. Mr. Fletcher sald that as soon as he learned of the sejzure he talked to Sec- | retary Kellogg by telephone from New | York and_was assured that everything (Contintied on Page 2, Column 7.) “THE PENALTY” & “Golden Rule” Film ‘ Produced by s had W be G without gl Federal Employe for 20 Years| Named as Successor to White. d “The rellef plane made the 500-mile flight from Beven Islands, where 1t had (Continued on Page 3 H. Theodore ‘Tate was today nomi- | { nated to bo treasurer of the United Btates by President Coolidge, to suc- ceed Frank White, who recently re- signed that office. Mr. Tate has been asslstant tresurer since January, 1922 Twenty years ago My, Tate bogan his service for the Government in the office of the auditor for the Treasury Department. He wan transferved to the treasurer’s office in 1013, Prior to entering the Government service he had been for elght years connected with the office of the Houthern Rail- rond 0 this eity Mr. Tate 1s a native of Rutledge, Tenn., where he was born December 26, 1876, When he was about 21 years old he moved to Morristown, in the rame Btate, and has maintained his voling residence there ever since, wihieh contrast The Evening Star To further traffic safety is being shown today along with the regular program at the wnd two together and getting five, came | o the prompt concluston that the girl was being kidnaped by a man who was | ment heard shout it nolding her tghtly with one arm and | With the woth ont, Geraldine was | attempting with his free arm o stifle CHICAGO, Apri) 24 Geruldine Me- | Laulhiin, sge 4, had s oth pulled yes- | terdey and the entire Police Departs | — - Corps aviation detachment which was 8ix in Fishing Crew Killed. n“unulmf. stunts over the race course. ddenly the wings of his buckled PONTEVEDRA, Spain, April 24 () Ll gl g Six members of the crew of the fish- when he was less than 800 feet from the ground. He jumped overboard with In" bark America were killed and ten [ his pavachute and landed n & moat others injured by an explosion of a|The unplioted plane crashed near the boller. The aceldent occurred while | erowds which were watching the ex- the vessel was on the high seas, hlbllfi; ers of Tendees Iskin bots | steined spats, and Koehl beside himself Yor such outdoor exercise ss he cares| (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) sccepts smilingly snd peruses, dlsposing | l_{ d of '}‘;‘mv Jater. Me puls in most of the | an fey working berd ingoors Vager Lo Visit Norway Inis pipe wnd reading. As he i of Nor- | yy e Asws wegian origin, he loves 1) Lulk the Jan- guege, and the people have found he Setaifis the dislect of his fathers, sl going W Norway for the first Lime 10 y,,56)ed into the tonneau of her father s | her erles for help cet the members of his family “hete |00y car Bhe was erying Justly, | Police were notified and & message s o see the birthplace of his grand- | 4 her father, Joseph MeLaughlin, ai- | 1o watch for the kidnaper was sent to perents Ani ‘l»mwm 1 ense the pein by holding ‘rvur police station. One witness had definite e % take Every morning et b he re- | - $i2 ol eetves bunches of \elegrams b £ o kerchief Over Girl's Mouth to Eas : wys e " Toothache Sets Police After Kldnapcr Fielsom, 0 rpends most ol | PRI g e Ien ® wfa smoking ) his parents were born in nerica. He is delighted et the ides | Avenue Grand H Wilkine hae not snnounced handkerchie! over her mouth | thie license number, When 1t was traced 645 Pa. Avenue S.E. T Mbliaed ou Page Column 2 Inquisitive bystanders, l“mu twe ' 1he police learned the truth, - Radio ‘I"‘i'uu.r.uh{ ‘-l;ngc 33 & 1